The second year of Kaiyuan, on the fifth day of the third month.

Li Xun glanced around and saw that it was Xiaochao today, but there were many people coming. All seven prime ministers in the Political Affairs Hall were here. This was a very rare thing since Zhao Xun ascended the throne.

Different emperors have different attitudes towards court meetings. For example, Zhao Zhi does not put many things at court meetings, but gathers the main ministers together. In the mode of a small meeting, everyone discusses and sets things down. The benefits of doing this improve work efficiency and does not have to go through so many procedures. Therefore, Zhao Zhi often only has a court meeting once a month, and sometimes, it has not been held for several months. Moreover, Zhao Zhi has a habit of coming up early during court meetings, sitting there alone, watching ministers enter the hall to make detailed observations.

Zhao Xun is different. He will wait until all the ministers are in office before he finally appears, and then put all the big and small things at the court meeting for discussion and decisions.

Different styles are also due to different abilities.

Zhao Zhi has a great control over the Zhengshi Hall, so many things can be decided directly through discussions between the Prime Ministers of the Zhengshi Hall. When they really come to the court meeting, Zhao Zhi came up with a proposal. The Prime Ministers of the Zhengshi Hall took the lead in expressing their support. What else can others say? Therefore, it is obviously unnecessary to take the matter to the court meeting.

This also shows that after Zhao Zhi united Yang Daosi and Liu Jie, the three of them took control of the political affairs hall, it was equivalent to controlling the entire government. Such a situation had both advantages and disadvantages for Zhao Zhi, but in the early and middle stages of his imperial career, this situation outweighed the disadvantages.

Zhao Xun could not control the Political Affairs Hall. Even the left prime minister Li Zhong, who stood on his side, sang against him in many things, let alone other prime ministers. Since he could not control the Political Affairs Hall, Zhao Xun could only put all the political affairs in the court and let more ministers participate as much as possible. After all, as an emperor, no matter how big the power is, Zhao Xun always occupies an orthodox reputation, and most court officials still stand on his side.

There are two main topics today, one is the rebellion of the Qiang people in Zhezhou, and the other is the issue of Lingnan.

Both things are about military affairs, so today's main spokesperson should be the minister in charge of the Ministry of War, and Li Zhong was in charge of the Ministry of War. He should be the one who should be the one who started the Ministry of War. However, he did not take care of the Ministry of War very much on weekdays. Although he had his own ideas about these two things, he was not very clear about many of the details. Li Xun looked at the daily affairs of the Ministry of War and was very clear about the details of these aspects. So in the end, Li Xun started to discuss the matter after the court meeting began.

Li Xun held the memorial in his hand, which contained detailed information about the Qiang people in Zhezhou and Lingnan. As long as the court meeting began, he would immediately stand up and speak.

But what Li Xun didn't expect was that when Xiao Lezi shouted that the meeting began, as soon as the voice fell, Li Xun was about to get up to speak, but Lu Zhongxun, the left assistant minister of the Ministry of Rites, immediately stood up.

"I have reported to the emperor, my minister, Lu Zhongxun has made a statement."

Zhao Xun looked at Lu Zhongxun, frowned immediately and said, "What's the matter?"

Lu Zhongxun took out the memorial, presented it with both hands, and then said loudly: "The Minister of Personnel and Right Prime Minister Yang Daolin, who is old and sick, has few courtships, and has no benefits for the country, so he should be a scholar."

As soon as these words came out, the civil and military officials in the court suddenly became noisy and talked a lot.

Xiao Lezi took the memorial, returned to the imperial court, and placed it in front of Zhao Xun.

Zhao Xun's expression became ugly. He glanced at the memorial and said to Lu Zhongxun: "The officials' call for scholars seems to have nothing to do with the Ministry of Rites, right?"

Lu Zhongxun bowed and said, "Your Majesty, Wuzong's restructuring has clearly stipulated that if the Prime Minister of the Political Affairs Hall is over 70 years old, weak and sick, absent from the Political Affairs Hall meetings many times, or if he has not participated in the Political Affairs Hall for more than half a year, the Ministry of Rites has the right to speak out and persuade him to leave."

After Lu Zhongxun finished speaking, Pei Shichang, the Minister of the Secretariat, stood up and bowed and said, "Emperor, he is planning his own affairs in his position. Yang Daolin is nearly 80 years old and weak. Moreover, since he ascended to the position of Right Prime Minister, most of them have been recuperating at home and unable to fulfill his responsibilities as Right Prime Minister. This situation has been more than two years. How important is the right Prime Minister? It is related to the stability of the government. Yang Daolin is obviously unable to comply with his health and is not suitable for continuing to serve as Right Prime Minister. I beg the emperor to issue an edict to order him to serve his scholars and live his life."

Zhao Xun opened his mouth, but in the end he didn't say anything. He wanted to refute Pei Shichang, but when he spoke, he couldn't say anything. What could he say? Could it be that when Yang Daolin was the first to become the right prime minister, he did a lot of things and stabilized the government. Only after he succeeded to the throne, did Yang Daolin become what he is now?

How could Zhao Xunqing feel when he said these words?

Li Zhong frowned and was about to speak, but was pulled by Li Xun beside him. Li Xun shook his head at him and signaled that Li Zhong should not speak at this time.

The reason why Li Zhong wanted to speak was that the rebellion of the Qiang people in Zhezhou was already very urgent. Several counties were captured and tens of thousands of people were killed. The scale of the Qiang people's rebellion had grown to nearly 30,000 in just a few days. This situation was very serious. The theme of today's court meeting should be to discuss how to mobilize troops and suppress the rebellion. Now Lu Zhongxun and Pei Shichang stood up and intervened, leading the direction of the matter elsewhere. How could the right prime minister stay or leave? Once it was endless and time was delayed, the matter between the Qiang people in Zhezhou and Lingnan was not decided. Should we wait ten days before the next court meeting decide? At that time, we really don't know how bad the situation in Zhezhou would be.

Li Xun dissuaded Li Zhong because he was not suitable for speaking now.

Li Zhong is the left prime minister. Yang Daolin is really going to retreat. He is the left prime minister, so Li Zhong is the biggest beneficiary. When he speaks at this time, he agrees. It is a villain's face, which makes people disgusted and opposes, and it will also give people a hypocritical feeling. So no matter what Li Zhong says, he will not get it well. Since that is the case, don't talk.

Li Xun looked at Pei Shichang at this time, and the latter's eyes also looked at this side. The two of them looked at each other with smiles and nodded, but what the smile represents is probably different.

The Pei family is an old family of the Jin Dynasty. It has been passed down for a long time and is no worse than the Yang family. Since the founding of the Jin Dynasty, it has been very prosperous, with many talents and always occupying a very important position in the court. However, when Wuzong dynasty was in power, Wuzong suppressed the aristocratic families with powerful means, and the Pei family was the first to be affected. In this process, he suffered heavy losses and was completely expelled from the core of the court.

Although the Pei family suffered heavy blows and heavy losses during the Wuzong period, as a family clan that has been passed down for many years, the family's heritage is strong after all. After nearly a hundred years of development, the Pei family flourished again. When Zhao Zhi just succeeded to the throne, there was a place for the Pei family among the prime minister of the government affairs hall. For some reason, the time was very short. The Pei family withdrew from the core of the court. There were very few people in the entire family who served as officials in the central government and were all not very important official positions. However, in the local area, the Pei family developed rapidly, with more than ten officials at the state level. For example, Pei Shichang served as the governor of the local government for many years, and his political achievements and reputation have always been very outstanding.
Chapter completed!