Gengzi (twelfth) in the leap second month of the first year of Yuanyou.

The penultimate day before the Cold Food Festival.

Xing Shu was personally escorted out of the mansion by Cao Huan, Cao Yi's son.

"Stay at the left prison door!" Xing Shu handed over his hand.

"I'm sorry, go slowly!" Cao Huan bowed again.

Until he watched Xing Shu's figure on horseback disappear into the street.

Cao Huan then turned around and returned home.

"Have you been sent away?" Cao Yan walked out of the room with the support of his maid.

"Um."

Cao Huan stepped forward, supported his old father, sent the maid away, then supported his old father and walked to the yard to sit down.

"Sir, is it true what Uncle Xinghe said when he came to visit today?" Cao Huan still doesn't believe his ears.

When Xing Shu came to visit, he didn't ask for gold or silver from their family, nor did he ask for help from their family, but he came specifically to offer benefits.

This is incredible.

Cao Yi laughed and said, "Do you think that Uncle Xinghe represents himself?"

Cao Yi pointed his finger at the sky.

"He is doing things according to orders!"

Cao Huan swallowed. Although he had thought of this possibility, wasn't it too bizarre?

If the emperor wants to reward the Cao family, he can just issue an edict.

Going around in such a big circle, what are you trying to do?

So, he asked: "If this is the case, what is God's will?"

Cao Yi shook his head and said, "How do I know?"

Accompanying the emperor is like accompanying a tiger. It is difficult to guess the emperor's thoughts.

What's more, the current one is nothing like the officials of the Zhao family in past dynasties.

Not only is he young and mature, but he is also well versed in political tactics.

More importantly, everything he has shown so far is completely incomprehensible.

You say he is close to the old party?

To this day, half of the governors in the capital are left by the late emperor.

The former prime minister Cai Que received an unprecedented honor for a minister - to go out of his hometown as a prime minister and personally preside over the opening of Quanzhou port.

This is the highest honor for a minister.

Except for the direct descendants of Confucius who are allowed to serve in Jeju when they become officials, only Han Qi, the Duke of Han Wei, has this honor so far in the country.

Cai Que's treatment was even higher than that of Han Qi back then.

Because Han Qi was in Xiangzhou, he was just trying to appease Sangzi.

However, Cai Que clearly had the mission of opening the port, and also had the task of sorting out Fujian's tea and salt laws.

As long as he can handle these things, Cai Chizheng will have thousands of families in Fujian to become Buddhas.

Three to five generations of the Cai family in Quanzhou will inherit this legacy.

But you want to say that he is close to the New Party?

That's not likely.

He treated Sima Guang with great respect, calling him his guardian, and treated Wen Yanbo with great courtesy. It was he who suggested that Wen Yanbo be granted the title of Pingzhang for important military affairs.

Other old party ministers also received promotions and titles with His Majesty's favor.

Feng Jing was the military governor, Han Wei was a scholar of Zizhengdian, and he knew Henan Prefecture, and Zhang Fangping was the military governor...

Unfortunately, Cheng Hao passed away. He wrote a personal letter and gave a Shinto tablet saying: Mr. Mingdao.

Cheng Yi, a commoner, was specially given to Jinshi to serve as a storyteller for Jiying Hall and treated him with the courtesy of a disciple.

Not to mention, veterans like Lu Gongzhu and Han Jiang were willing to help.

This is what happened in the court.

The same goes for other things.

Let’s take this current matter as an example.

On the one hand, he pretended to be nonchalant, as if he didn't care at all that others owed him money.

But what about actually?

Those who paid back the money were given secret recipes and were invited to the Liao Kingdom to purchase other goods.

I have no idea what kind of medicine your Majesty is selling in his gourd.

Cao Yi thought about this and said, "Let's take a look!"

“The truth will eventually come out!”

He has experienced four dynasties, and time has taught him that everything will come to light as time goes by.

"Do you want to remind me?" Cao Huan asked carefully.

Cao Yan immediately glared at him: "If a minister meddles in the affairs of the Tian family without permission, once he is discovered, it will be disloyal!"

Disloyal people don’t need it!

This is the consistent characteristic of several generations of emperors.

The current one is no exception.

Cao Yi knew very well that a family like theirs.

In fact, it is a mascot, a clay sculpture painted with gold and powder in the temple.

Since the death of his sister, the status of the Cao family has been like this.

In other words, if the Cao family wants to continue to be prosperous, they must play the role of mascot and be a good clay sculpture.

Mascots and clay sculptures in temples all have one characteristic - they don't speak, they only let people look at them.

Cao Huan lowered his head and said weakly: "But, those are all relatives!"

Those are all the sons and daughters of the Cao family.

Cao Huan couldn't bear to watch them fall into the abyss.

Cao Yi smiled: "Relatives?"

"What do you want with so many relatives?"

"Rebellion?"

Cao Huan quickly knelt down and said, "How dare you, my son?"

"If you don't dare, then don't treat them as relatives."

"If something happens to them in the future, please come to them. In case I'm not here anymore..."

Cao Yi stared at Cao Huan and said seriously: "You remember!"

"Be reconciled to those who deserve to be divorced, scolded to those who deserve to be scolded, and despised to those who deserve to be spat on."

What if that person is not Emperor Ming of the Han Dynasty, but Emperor Zhang of the Han Dynasty?

Then quickly shrink your neck and pretend to be dead.

But be sure not to leave any allusions about "the emperor was drunk and beat Cao's relatives".

…

Xing Shu visited five relatives in a row.

The last family is the Li family, which is also the smallest and weakest family among the relatives.

The Li family is the foreign clan of Renmiao’s biological mother, Queen Zhang Yi (Concubine Li Chen).

The most prosperous period of the Li family was the Renmiao period.

Renmiao's favor was endless. It not only allowed Queen Zhang Yi to attach the temple to the real temple, but also conferred the titles of Queen Zhang Yi's brothers Li Yong and Jiedushi, and even conferred the title of Li Yonghe's son Li Wei on his eldest daughter Princess Fukang in order to make the Li family

Live forever with the royal family.

However, man's calculation is not as good as God's calculation.

There were problems with this marriage from the beginning.

Although the Prince Consort Li Wei was very talented and learned, he was even more outstanding in painting.

Despite her ugly appearance, Princess Fukang was unhappy with the marriage on the first day she married Li Wei.
To be continued...