After returning to the mansion, Zhang Xuan rested for three days and spent a rare relaxing time with his family. However, he knew that there were mountains of memorials in the court that he had to approve them himself, so Zhang Xuan had to take back his comfortable and leisurely mentality and returned to Ziwei Palace early on the fourth morning.

Zhang Xuan's Regent's Room was actually a small hall called the Vermillion Bird Hall. The main hall was divided into two floors, and the lower floor was a dozen offices, divided into four or five rooms with screens. Zhang Xuan's Records Room, Du Ruhui's office was also on the first floor of the main hall. In fact, more than a dozen assistants who were all Du Ruhui, each of them had their own division of labor.

The inner hall is a meeting hall, with large tables placed where thirty people can discuss military and political affairs.

The second floor is Zhang Xuan's official room. The area is smaller than the hall below, but it is also very wide. The outermost floor is placed with the world's sand table, three zhang wide and five zhang long. It is made up of eight independent small sand tables. In addition to the military room where the sand table is placed, there is also a small meeting hall. This is the place where Zhang Xuan receives important guests, and the innermost is Zhang Xuan's official room. In fact, there is also the third floor. The third floor is the place where Zhang Xuan rests and sleeps, and is a private place. Most people are not allowed to enter.

Zhang Xuan's official room was very simple and refreshing. Against the wall were rows of bookshelves filled with various books and drawings. There was also a bronze squat beast incense burner in the corner of the wall. It was breeze of blue smoke, making the whole room filled with a faint sandalwood. Apart from the bookshelf and incense burner, there was only a wide desk in the room with pen, ink, paper and ink.

At this time, Zhang Xuan was sitting at the desk reviewing hundreds of memorial books piled up like a hill. The scrolls were divided by Du Ruhui according to category and importance. A small note was posted on the memorial. Du Ruhui wrote the main content of the memorial in the simplest words. This was the biggest test of the military talent in the memorial room. He needed to understand the essence of the memorial content and then express the essence of this content in the shortest words, so that Zhang Xuan would not be lost in the complex memorials.

Zhang Xuan reviewed more than twenty memorials in one breath. At this time, a guard at the door reported: "Your Highness, Su Prime Minister, Pei Prime Minister and Wei Shangshu of the Ministry of Personnel, asked for a meeting!"

"Let them go up the second floor!"

The guards went down. Soon after, footsteps came from the stairs. Su Wei, Pei Ju and Wei Yunqi walked in one after another. Zhang Xuan stood up to meet him and smiled and said, "There are too many things to do. I haven't had time to visit everyone. Thank you for your hard work during this period."

Seeing that Zhang Xuan's room was filled with memorials, Su Wei apologized: "Your Highness has so much trouble, we are still here to disturb you. I really feel sorry!"

"This is wrong. Are the three of you really here to visit?"

Everyone laughed and sat down in the small meeting hall. One of them served tea. At this time, Su Wei winked Wei Yunqi. Wei Yunqi understood and bowed and said, "Today we are mainly here to discuss with His Highness the new candidate for the Secretary of the Shangshu. Cui has confirmed to be transferred to Beihai County as the prefect. Who should take over the position of Minister of Works? I hope His Highness can clarify this."

Zhang Xuan smiled and asked, "How to arrange it according to the previous convention?"

Su Wei, who was next to him, said: "There is no specific appointment practice. You can be transferred from the local area, transferred from another ministry, or promoted from the headquarters. Generally, people will draw up several plans and then the emperor will choose. Of course, most of the time it is decided by the late emperor himself."

Su Wei's implication is that Zhang Xuan can designate the candidates for the Minister of Works by himself. They are all smart people. Knowing that the dismissal of Lu Zhuo and Cui Huan was the result of the King of Qi's far-sightedness. The King of Qi needs to consider the balance of power and the balance of aristocratic families, and he must have had a suitable candidate long ago.

Zhang Xuan pondered for a moment and said, "I'm still considering being promoted from my headquarters. Li Chun, the Minister of Works, made great contributions to the Eastern Expedition with the army this time. I'm considering promoting him to the Minister of War. What are the opinions of the three?"

The three of them looked at each other and found that the King of Qi wanted to promote Li Chun to the Minister of Works. Everyone knows Li Chun, who has not much knowledge, has been a middle- and low-level official in Dushui Supervisor and the Ministry of Works for a long time. When they were promoted to the Minister of Works last year, everyone was surprised that this person had no background and no qualifications. He was good at building bridges and canals, and he was actually promoted to the Minister of Works. It is really puzzling. Now he is promoting him to the Minister of Works again, and the three of them are a little unacceptable.

Pei Ju advised Zhang Xuan: "The position of the Secretary of the State Council is not small. In Chang'an, if the Secretary of the State Council has the title of Pingzhangshi, he will be the prime minister. If His Highness thinks that Li Chun is capable or makes meritorious, he can be the prefect of Xiong County or serve as the chief official of the temple supervisor. However, the old minister of the Minister of the Ministry of Works believes that his lack of qualifications will cause great controversy and will damage His Highness's prestige among all officials. Please think twice!"

Su Wei also agreed with Pei Ju's opinion and said to Zhang Xuan: "It is not easy for everyone to be an official. In terms of talent, no one is much worse than anyone else. Why can he improve, I cannot improve? Everyone has an account in his heart. In this case, if people want people to convince themselves, there must be a rule. Qualification is the rule recognized by everyone. Your Highness asked the old minister and Pei Gong to be prime ministers. I think your Highness is this qualification, followed by influence. For example, Lu Zhuo and Cui Huan are indeed not qualified, but they are both Shangshu and everyone has nothing to say. One is the head of the Lu family in Fanyang and the other is the head of the Cui family in Qinghe. The influence of the two major families convinces everyone.

But Li Chun was not from a noble family. In the memory of the old minister, he only achieved the position of a doctor. Of course, it is not impossible to be appreciated by His Highness and be promoted by an extraordinary amount. However, such things cannot be many, and they cannot appear repeatedly in a person. Otherwise, it will be a breaking of the rules. The bad influence it has in the officialdom will completely offset the gathering of people brought about by the victory of the Goguryeo Battle, which will make people feel heartbreaking. Please listen to your highness for a little bit of the heart."

The firm opposition of Pei Ju and Su Wei made Zhang Xuan feel really uncomfortable. He looked at Wei Yunqi again, hoping to get Wei Yunqi's support.

Wei Yunqi pondered for a moment and said, "I think that your highness intends to promote Li Chun to promote engineering. If this is the case, he will serve as the military weapon supervisor, or as Pei Xiangguo said, he will serve as the prefect of Xiongjun. This is more appropriate. But if your highness feels that he should be promoted to the Minister of Works because of his meritorious service, then I think it is not necessary. Your Highness can give him a title, which is more in line with the reward for military merit. Your Highness thinks twice!"

Wei Yunqi did not mention the Minister of Works at all, but his meaning was clear, and he also opposed Li Chun's appointment as Minister of Works.

If Su and Pei still had some prejudice from the previous dynasty, Zhang Xuan would not listen, but Wei Yunqi was working hard with him to start a business, and he was the confidant who knew him the most and trusted him the most. Now even Wei Yunqi is opposed, Zhang Xuan had to carefully consider the decision he made.

Zhang Xuan had no choice but to nod, "Okay! I will consider the new candidate again. You can also draw up a few plans to see which one is more suitable for the Ministry of Works or the Ministry of Works to serve as the Minister of the Shangshu."

Seeing that Zhang Xuan finally gave in, they were both overjoyed. The appointment of Shangshu was the power of the regent, and they could not interfere, but they did not want Zhang Xuan to destroy the rules of the officialdom. Fortunately, Zhang Xuan was humble and accepted their advice, which made Su Wei and Pei Ju secretly relieved.

At this time, Su Wei stroked his beard and smiled, "I have a plan, your highness can consider it."

"Prime Minister, please tell me!"

"Since your highness intends to let Lu Zhuo be the prefect of Jiangdu, can Chen Leong be the Minister of Rites? Chen Leong's qualifications are enough. Secondly, regarding the candidate for the Minister of Works, the Wei-Chen Leong, recommended the Prime Minister of Luoyang, Lu Chu. Of course, he has not come yet, but the old minister thinks he is more suitable for this position than Li Chun."

Pei Ju cursed in his heart that it was his idea to ask Lu Chu to be the Minister of Works. It was obvious that Lu Chu was the most suitable one in the center of the court, but Su Wei took the lead and took away his ideas.

Pei Ju hurriedly said, "Your Highness, the old minister also wants to suggest Lu Chu to be the Minister of Works, so that he can appease the dissatisfaction of the gentry in Hebei, but he may not agree to let Chen Leong give up his military power."

Su Wei smiled and said, "This is just a choice for him. Since we want to compete with Chang'an for Jiangdu, we must do our best to be sincere and take the position of Minister of Rites. I think this is the greatest sincerity."
Chapter completed!