Now, whoever can sit in this position must be a close confidant of the official family.
Dai Feihe: "..."
I received news from my master last night, asking him to continue to provide constructive suggestions to Kong Chong.
Could it be that he was referring to Gu Mingjue's promotion?
"Sir, if Your Majesty wants to mention Gu Mingjue, there must be a reason that can convince the ministers. Has Gu Mingjue made any impressive political achievements recently? He suddenly became a close confidant of the official family. I haven't heard of it!"
Kong Chong is depressed here.
When did Gu Mingjue become a confidant of the official family?
The more he thought about it, the more he felt that Gu Mingjue had most likely used the secret letter to test him.
As for what to test.
Huh, what else can I do? Test whether he is loyal to the court and whether he is a trick of Xixia.
"Fengxi, do you think the person who came that night was sent by Gu Mingjue?"
Dai Feihe said: "This is really possible. After all, Gu Mingjue has been the prefect for so many years. Besides, his father once served as the minister of Guanglu Temple. It is not difficult to raise some powerful subordinates."
"Yes, his wife is Han Qi's sister."
Sometimes my own imagination is really terrible, just like Kong Chong.
When it comes to Han Qi, he has other speculations. He speculates whether Gu Mingjue is looking for an opportunity to help his brother-in-law rise to the top. His brother-in-law is now the deputy privy envoy.
"That Fengxi, go back, I still have things to do!"
Kong Chong stood up and walked out quickly. When Dai Feihe came out, he saw that the direction Kong Chong left seemed to be heading to that inconspicuous small courtyard.
Dai Feihe returned to his yard as if nothing had happened.
After thinking about it, he got up and walked out. Unexpectedly, when he arrived at the yard and was about to go out, Commander An suddenly appeared.
"Commander An, are you going out?"
Commander An nodded: "Yes, are you going out too?"
"Yes, I haven't been out for many days and I plan to go for a walk on the street. How about we come together?"
A hint of surprise flashed across Commander An's dull face, and he immediately responded: "Okay."
Dai Feihe put his hands behind his back, stepped out of the house briskly, and walked to the street. Looking at the pedestrians coming and going, Dai Feihe said: "The last time I came out was when the new examination results were announced. It was so lively."
"Kyoto is becoming more and more lively. I remember when I first came to Kyoto 20 years ago, it was not so prosperous."
Commander An was very emotional when he said this.
Dai Feihe had been in the Kong Mansion for four years and was not very familiar with Commander An. This was the first time he heard him take the initiative to talk about his affairs, so he asked: "Who is Commander An from?"
"My hometown is from Tianshui County."
"Commander An is from Tianshui County? What a coincidence, so am I!"
Commander An didn't expect to meet a fellow villager here, and he couldn't help but feel a little moved on his face.
Tianshui County is a small and poor place.
Those who worked as officials in Tianshui County basically did their job perfunctorily, and had to leave that ghost place as soon as the three-year political examination was over.
And not many in Tianshui County can pass the exam.
After I passed the exam, I didn’t want to go back.
So in Kyoto, it is really rare to meet a fellow student from Cheng Ji.
The two of them immediately became close to each other and chatted. When they were feeling thirsty, they looked up and saw the Chunfeng Teahouse. Commander An pointed at the teahouse in front of him: "Brother Fengxi, why don't you go in and have a sip of tea and take a rest?" Rest."
"This feeling is good, let's go."
The two walked into the Chunfeng Teahouse hand in hand. When Commander An turned around, Dai Feihe winked at the waiter who greeted them.
The guy nodded slightly to show that he knew.
After serving the tea, he immediately ran to the backyard: "Shopkeeper, Mr. Dai is here."
Yang Junsheng asked: "Is he alone?"
"No, there is another person. Judging from Mr. Dai's appearance, he must be following Mr. Dai on purpose."
"okay, I get it."
Dai Feihe and Commander An were sitting near the window, Commander An was facing the door, and Dai Feihe was facing the small door leading to the backyard from the tea house.
"This tea is really good."
Commander An nodded: "This is also my first time coming to his house. It's really good."
"Just now, Commander An said that you came to Kyoto twenty years ago. You must have been young at that time, right?"
"Yes, when I was twenty-two years old, my father was originally a bodyguard. Unfortunately, he died on the way to escort a noble man to Kyoto. My mother couldn't bear the blow and went every two months. The only thing left in the family was I am alone, so I came to Kyoto alone."
"Then why did Commander An enter the Kong Mansion?"
Commander An smiled lightly: "This is a long story."
Dai Feihe drank the tea in one gulp and said, "It's okay anyway, Brother An, I'll just talk about it."
Commander An also drank the tea in his cup and refilled himself with another cup. He looked out the window and his thoughts drifted away.
Commander An's full name was An Shunming. He came to Kyoto in the second year of Tiansheng's reign. At that time, the official family had just succeeded to the throne for two years and had no real power in their hands. Everything was controlled by the Queen Mother Liu E.
The prime minister at that time was Ding Wei.
Ding Wei was a Jinshi in the third year of Chunhua. He was smart, intelligent, and versatile. He was also good at divination, chess, calligraphy, painting, poetry, and music.
When he was an official in his early years, he did a lot of things that benefited the country and the people.
At that time, there was also a joke about Prime Minister Ding Wei circulating among the people. It was said that the late emperor and his concubine went fishing together to enjoy the flowers. They fished for a long time without catching any fish. He was very unhappy, so he frowned and said nothing.
At that time, the ministers didn't know what to do. Only Ding Wei ran over with a smile and wrote a poem: "The orioles are frightened and the phoenix chariot flies through the flowers, and the fish are afraid of the dragon's face and are too late to take the bait."
Wow, Zhenzong was very happy when he heard this.
I think Ding Wei is too good at it.
This also laid the foundation for his subsequent promotion.
But Ding Wei, who was full of talents and served the country and the people, forgot his original intention after he gradually rose to the top, and only catered to the emperor. People called him the "Five Ghosts" together with Wang Qinruo, Lin Te, Chen Pengnian, and Liu Chenggui.
In this way, he still took the position of prime minister.
But he did not know how to restrain himself. Not only did he encourage the late emperor to build many Taoist temples, he also lied that he was a descendant of Ding Lingwei and built Xianyou Pavilion and Xianyou Cave in his garden to pretend to be gods and ghosts.
Even so, he still held the position of prime minister for seven years.
After the death of the late emperor, Ding Wei used his position to modify the content of the "Edict" and blame Kou Zhun for the death of the late emperor.
And used this as an excuse to eliminate all ministers in the DPRK who had a good relationship with Kou Zhun.
He also colluded with the eunuch Lei Yungong and stipulated that important governors should be sent to Ding Wei for inspection before being sent to the inner court, thereby achieving the purpose of controlling the government.
Lei Yungong was the governor responsible for building the imperial mausoleum according to the regulations, but he and the judge Si Tianjian were in prison and moved the caltrop cave without authorization.
All these are serious crimes of decapitation.
But he deceived the superiors and concealed it. If someone hadn't risked his life to expose it, the Queen Mother and the officials would not have been kept in the dark for much longer.
Fortunately, the Empress Dowager found out about it in the end, and she removed him from the position of prime minister and demoted him to the position of Sihu of Yazhou to join the army. All four of his sons were demoted.
