Later, Zheng Renjie lived in seclusion in his hometown in Taiyuan. When Liu Zhiyuan was in charge of Hedong, Guo Wei often visited Zheng Renjie's house. The two often talked all night long. Whenever Guo Wei asked him questions, he could always answer them fluently and lucidly. Guo Wei admired him very much and thought he had talents in the world.
After Liu Zhiyuan proclaimed himself emperor, he appointed Guo Wei as the privy envoy. Guo Wei immediately summoned Zheng Renjie as his staff and think tank. Including when Guo Wei pacified Hezhong, many strategies were planned by Zheng Renjie.
After Guo Wei became emperor, he repeatedly promoted Zheng Renjie, first as envoy to the guest province, and then as deputy envoy to the privy council. In the future, Zheng Renjie will continue to be promoted, but by this time, we have already seen the clues. Guo Wei, the "deputy envoy to the privy council", used his direct military advisers to check and balance Wang Jun.
Li Chongjin
Guo Wei's nephew, the end of the play.
Xiang Xun
I once dreamed of traveling to the end of the world with my sword and seeing the prosperity of the world. When Xiang Xun was a teenager, the elegant way of saying it was "suave and negative" and he liked to do chivalry and righteousness. In today's popular way of saying it, he didn't do his job properly and often got into fights. At the age of twenty, he made a major decision in his life: find a big brother and follow him around.
At that time, Liu Zhiyuan was stationed in the east of Hedong and was recruiting troops, buying horses, and gathering grass to gather grain. So Xiang Xun happily picked up his bags and came to Liu Zhiyuan's kiln.
Xiang Xun knows the basic interview etiquette very well. In order to leave a good impression on the leader, Xiang Xun dressed up carefully, bathing and changing clothes. When he went out to clean up, he was just a little fresh meat, so he was spotted by a group of gangsters...
The gangsters didn't want to rob sex, they wanted to rob money, because they concluded that the handsome guy in front of them must be a rich man, a second generation rich man. The gangsters followed him all the way, hoping to find a remote and uninhabited barren mountain, the kind of place with beautiful mountains and clear waters where it was not surprising to sing folk songs, to seek money and kill people.
Xiang Xun noticed something strange, so he sold his only donkey on the way (Shihuiguan), bought good wine and meat, paid homage to the local snakes, and asked them to protect him.
Eaters have short mouths, and takers have short hands. The local leader agreed to his request and sent several of his subordinates to accompany Xiang Xun, and finally arrived in Taiyuan without any danger.
When Xiang Xun passionately promoted his talents to Liu Zhiyuan, he was met with failure. I don’t know whether it was due to a deviation in his political stance or because his vertical depth was not fully recognized. In short, according to the "History of the Song Dynasty", "With "The ancestors of the Han Dynasty refused to accept him", but God will never starve him to death. Although Xiang Xun did not get Liu Zhiyuan's favor, he unexpectedly attracted the attention of Guo Wei, so Guo Wei kept him by his side, often confessing affectionately and making love to him. Long talk.
"A guest at Zhou Zu's door", he became Guo Wei's confidant from then on.
After Guo Wei became emperor, he promoted Xiang Xun to the rank of palace envoy. On paper, the official position of the palace envoy is to manage the back garden of the palace. In fact, this is a typical "direct lineage envoy", just like the "Xuanhui envoy" and the "Imperial City envoy". The rank is not high, the salary is not high, and the work responsibilities are not high. It is not important, but it controls the palace to a certain extent, so it must be held by a trustworthy comrade. Usually it is held by the emperor's "Yuan Cong" cronies and direct confidants.
Xiang Xun was first appointed as the envoy of the palace, and then as the envoy of the imperial city. When Liu Chong invaded the south of Hedong, Xiang Xun defeated the greater number with less, annihilating more than 300 people and capturing 100 alive, severely defeating the spirit of the Hedong army; As the commander-in-chief of the army, he participated in the battle to pacify Murong Yanchao in Yanzhou.
After pacifying Yanzhou, Xiang Xun was transferred to Shaanzhou to assist Guo Wei in controlling the western hub.
Among Guo Wei's direct team, the most promoted and important person is his adopted son Chai Rong.
To be precise, we should still call him "Guo Rong" now. At the end of the Five Dynasties, due to various reasons such as taboo avoidance, many people would have more than two names, such as Xiang Xun, who later changed his name to "Xiang Xun" to avoid Chai Zongxun's taboo. "Gong"; Li Jun (Li Rong) who avoids the taboo of Chai Rong; Guo Chong (Guo Chongwei) and Cao Ying (Cao Wei) who avoid the taboo of Guo Wei; Zhao Shangjiao (Zhao Yuan) and Zhe Congruan (Zhe Cong) who avoid the taboo of Liu Zhiyuan Far away); Dewey (Du Chongwei), who avoids stone and treasures the most noble things...
In addition, the popular culture of raising children during the Five Dynasties also made many people become "house slaves with three surnames". This is the case for Chai Rong. He is the nephew of Guo Wei's wife, Empress Chai. He was adopted by Guo Wei as his adopted son in his early years, so he assumed the surname "Guo". When he became emperor in the future, he changed his surname back to "Chai".
The principle of this book is to follow the crowd and sit on the same bench as the masses. That is to say, call him by the name by which he is best known,
Since all of Guo Wei's heirs were unfortunately killed in the Xiao Qiang Incident, Chai Rong, his adopted son and nephew, became increasingly favored by Guo Wei. When Guo Wei went south to the "Qingjun side", the person who took on the important task of staying in Weizhou was Chai Rong. Generally speaking, the post of staying in the capital or the headquarters of the revolution is the exclusive position of the heir to the imperial throne.
After Guo Wei entered Bian, he immediately promoted Chai Rong to the governor of Chanzhou. Today, Chanzhou has become one of the important towns in relations with the Liao Dynasty. Until the Northern Song Dynasty, the forward positions of the Central Plains and Khitan had long been moved from Dingzhou and Zhenzhou to The southern advance reached Chanzhou, so there was only the famous "Chanyuan Alliance" in the Northern Song Dynasty, not the "Calming Alliance" or the "Youyun Alliance".
Guo Wei's promotion of direct line invasion caused a strong backlash from Wang Jun.
Wang Jun's backlash was also rough. He directly mentioned two people - Yan Qu, a bachelor of Duanming Palace, and Chen Guan, a privy bachelor, and asked them to succeed the prime ministers Li Hub and Fan Zhi.
As the name suggests, "Privy Council Scholar" refers to the establishment of the Privy Council and is under the management of the Privy Council. The "Duanming Palace Scholar" was established during the Mingzong period of the later Tang Dynasty and was responsible for translating memorials for the emperor. The person who applied for the establishment of Duanming Palace Scholar at that time was The powerful minister An Zhongjiao, and his position at that time was privy envoy.
Now, Wang Jun, the privy envoy and Tongpingzhangshi, nominates Duanming Palace bachelor and privy direct bachelor as prime minister to replace Li Hub and Fan Zhi promoted by Guo Wei. It is obvious that he is replacing the emperor's party members with his own party members. This wave of operations has no technical content.
Guo Wei was very unhappy, so he said to him: "The prime minister is the highest-ranking official of the central government. How can he change it at any time? Let me think about it."
This sentence already gave Wang Jun a lot of face, but Wang Jun refused and insisted on Guo Wei ordering a replacement on the spot. From the morning to noon, Wang Jun's words became more and more intense, and his tone became more and more arrogant. He was not begging the emperor, nor was he discussing with the emperor, but ordering and informing the emperor. You have to agree even if you agree today, and you have to agree even if you don’t agree!
It happened that that day was the Cold Food Festival, so Guo Wei used this as an excuse and said that I haven't eaten yet and we can discuss it after the Cold Food Festival holiday.
Only then did Wang Jun retreat bitterly.
