When Yang Daosi arrived at Liu Jie's house, the person who greeted him was not Liu Jie himself, but his third son, Liu Guanghui.

"See the glory of Yang Xiangguo."

"My dear nephew, when did you come back?"

Yang Daosi was quite surprised. Liu Guanghui served as governor of Yangzhou as a political advisor. Without the permission of the imperial court, he could not return to Fengjing casually. Although he was ill at home, Yang Binglin would inform Yang Binglin immediately about matters related to the official department.

In the recent personnel transfer in the Ministry of Personnel, there is no relevant information about Liu Guanghui. Could it be that he returned to Beijing privately? This is not a trivial matter.

Liu Guanghui explained: "I returned on my father's orders."

"Where is your father?"

Liu Guanghui's face looked a little gloomy: "My father is ill and cannot welcome Yang Xiangguo in person. Please forgive me."

"I see. Take me to see your father quickly."

Yang Daosi nodded, and then he understood why it was Liu Guanghui who went out to greet him and not Liu Jie. After all, the two of them didn't want to be superior regardless of their seniority, seniority or status. Yang Daosi came to the Liu Mansion in person, and Liu Jie had no

If Dao didn't come out to greet him in person, it turns out he was ill.

When he saw Liu Jie, Yang Daosi was shocked. Is this skinny man with a sallow complexion still Liu Jie?

"Brother Ziqi, I haven't seen you for more than a month, why are you like this?"

Yang Daosi cried out in shock. It had been a long time since he had seen him. The once high-spirited and energetic left prime minister had turned into this. How could Yang Daosi not be extremely surprised?

Liu Jie raised his hand and motioned Yang Daosi to sit down, and then sighed and said: "Yang Xiangguo need not be so surprised. Before I went to Momeng Grassland, I was already feeling a little unwell. After returning to Fengjing, many old problems recurred.

, I can’t even suppress it even if I want to.”

Yang Daosi nodded. Liu Jie was the same age as him. Strictly speaking, he was a few months older than him. An old man in his seventies had traveled thousands of miles to go to deserted and cold places like Mongolia.

, it’s not easy to come back alive after all the hard work.

Liu Jie chuckled and said, "The courtiers all thought that you and I were just pretending to be sick. Who knew that I was really seriously ill at home?"

Yang Daosi shook his head and said with a bitter smile: "Liu Jie, you are like this, and you don't forget to make fun of me. It seems that you won't die for a while."

Liu Jie smiled and said pointedly: "Yang Daosi, do you regret it now that you didn't take action immediately to cut off the source of the whole incident? Now, I'm afraid you can no longer control the situation.

."

At this moment, the two of them were talking very openly. In the past, whether it was Yang Daosi or Liu Jie, their words were very subtle and tactful, and they would not call each other by their names.

Yang Daosi remained silent for a while, then raised his head, glanced at Liu Guanghui, who was standing next to Liu Jie, and asked softly: "It seems that you and the emperor have already reached an agreement."

There was a hint of pride on Liu Jie's face: "Yang Daosi, you and I have been fighting for so many years, and I have always been suppressed by you. If I can beat you this time, I will have no regrets even if I die."

Yang Daosi said in a deep voice: "Liu Jie, what exactly does the emperor want to do?"

Liu Jie said: "Yang Daosi, it's not what the emperor wants to do, but what exactly do your Yang family want to do?"

Yang Daosi remained silent. After the Prime Minister of the Political Affairs Hall, Hong Zhi, the Minister of Rites, and Wang Fu, the right minister of the Ministry of Rites, successively retired from their posts, the emperor originally intended to let Qin Anming take their place. Yang Daosi and his political power were initially at odds with each other.

There was no other intention, but when Yang Binglin instigated some ministers to petition Zhao Zhi, hoping that he could take over the post of right minister of the Ministry of Rites, but was rejected, Yang Binglin ignored Yang Daosi's persuasion and colluded with Yang's party.

Many ministers impeached Qin Anming and expressed strong opposition to his replacement as Minister of Rites. Zhao Zhi had no choice but to ignore the matter for the time being and let Qin Anming participate in political affairs and the Ministry of Rites.

The position of Right Minister entered the Political Affairs Hall, and the position of Minister of Rites has been vacant for more than a year. Although this matter finally ended with Zhao Zhi's compromise, Yang Daosi and even Liu Jie met several times.

Seeing Zhao Zhi, he tried to defuse and downplay the incident, but the effect was obviously weak. Zhao Zhi was already more suspicious of Yang's party and even Liu Jie.

Zhao Zhi needed the stability of the court and did not rush to take action. That was because the Battle of Longyou was imminent and he needed the cooperation of Yang Daosi and Liu Jie. The Battle of Longyou finally ended perfectly and the Huang Cun Incident broke out. Zhao Zhi finally found his At the breakthrough point, there was an excuse to take action, with the intention of reorganizing all the forces in the court.

Liu Jie obviously wanted to persuade Zhao Zhi to deal with Huang Cun's matter gently at first, but was obviously rejected by Zhao Zhi. Liu Jie finally had no choice but to do the next best thing, and reached some disagreements with Zhao Zhi on the condition that he would report his illness and stand by and watch. The well-known agreement, Yang Daosi suddenly saw Liu Guanghui today, and he already understood that the agreement between Liu Jie and Zhao Zhi was probably closely related to Liu Guanghui.

The reason why Yang Daosi followed Liu Jie and also reported illness at home was that although he saw some of Zhao Zhi's intentions and tried his best to resolve them, in the end, he found that he was powerless at all. His position in the court was There was even more embarrassment. Some of the words he said and some of the things he did were no longer supported by the Yang family. For example, as Zhao Zhi got older, the struggle for the position of prince became more and more intense. Many ministers began to stand in line and choose to support their own princes. The Yang clan is also the same now. Yang Daosi is nearly eighty years old. How many years can he live? Within the clan, Yang Binglin is now the most vocal and has won many ministers of the Yang clan. If his ideas and methods of doing things are inconsistent with Yang Daosi's, once Yang Daosi strongly suppresses him, it will inevitably lead to the split of the entire Yang family, the country and the family. Yang Daosi finally chose the latter. In this way He didn't want to see the result. Unfortunately, people in the world couldn't help themselves. There were many things that Yang Daosi thought well, but in the end, he could only do nothing.

Liu Jie glanced at Yang Daosi, who was deep in thought, and said silently: "It seems that the emperor has already made a decision on his choice for the crown prince."

Yang Daosi remained silent, as if he had not heard Liu Jie's words, but his brows furrowed slightly as he sorted through the recent events in the court in his mind.

After Hong Zhi and Wang Huao retired, many people started competing for the two positions of Minister of Rites and Right Minister of Rites. Yang Binglin failed and fully supported Yang Yu, the left minister of Rites, to take the position. Zhan Taiyi Huan fought for it. Seeing that When things couldn't be done, he was transferred to the left minister of the Ministry of War and found another way. Now it seems that Zhan Taiyi Huan has completely turned to Zhao Zhi, and Zhao Zhi is ready to support him in his rise to power.
Chapter completed!