Standing among the crowd, Di Renjie looked at Pei Xingjian and asked again: "What do you mean is that if the teacher wants to leave the position he wants, no matter how I check, I will only get the results they want?"

Pei Xingjian nodded and said, "Maybe it is a result that Li Chengqian, Changsun Wuji and his teacher want."

Di Renjie took a deep breath and sighed.

Pei Xingjian patted Di Renjie on the shoulder and said, "Senior Brother, you also know that the power in Jiangnan is not so easy to deal with. Li Chengqian is not Li Shimin. When the teacher deals with the five surnames, Li Shimin was there, and the teacher also successfully caused the five surnames to fall down. Li Shimin needs the five surnames to fade out of the court, and the teacher wants to deal with the five surnames. Only then can the two sides get along. The power of the four great men in Jiangnan in Jiangnan is no different from the five surnames. This time, Li Chengqian is not Li Shimin, who is sitting on the throne."

"Li Chengqian will not help the teacher. If it is not good for the teacher, Li Chengqian will even push it."

After Pei Xingjian finished speaking, Di Renjie calmed down his emotions and said in a low voice without any expression: "I'll go back to Dali Temple first."

Pei Xingjian stood in the crowd, looking at Di Renjie's back for a long time, but he didn't move. After thinking about it, he turned around and walked towards his home.

Gu family

At night, Gu Qing sat in his yard and looked at the stars in the sky after having dinner. Hearing the footsteps, he turned to see Di Renjie.

"Teacher, I haven't fallen asleep yet." Di Renjie sat next to Gu Qing and said.

"I can't sleep." Gu Qing continued to look up at the stars in the sky.

Di Renjie also looked up at the starry sky and said, "The starry sky is so beautiful."

"Yes, you can't see such a beautiful starry sky in my hometown." Gu Qing said.

"The teacher's hometown must be very beautiful." Di Renjie lowered his head and said.

"No matter how the world changes, only the starry sky will last forever, but the starry sky will change. It changes very slowly. Sometimes one or two stars will fall, and sometimes some stars will change their positions, but these changes are very subtle. No one will know about the vast starry sky because the stars are too small in the starry sky, so small that people will not care about it."

"Teacher, do you have to deal with the Jiangnan forces?"

After saying that, Di Renjie regretted it. Maybe he shouldn't have asked that.

"To be honest, I don't want to make trouble like this." Gu Qing also said, "But the benefits are right in front of me, and if I don't fight, they will fall into the hands of others."

Di Renjie said again: "So do you have to fight for it?"

"The general trend of maritime trade has been established. Waterways are the core of transportation in the Central Plains today. Whoever masters the waterways will master the maritime trade."

As Gu Qing spoke, Di Renjie could feel the affirmation in his words and asked again: "Even if the teacher leaves the position of Prime Minister, he still has to fight for it, right?"

"What's wrong with you today?" Gu Qing sat up and looked at Di Renjie.

"Nothing?" Di Renjie shook his head and said in disappointment: "Teacher, sometimes as a disciple, I am very proud. The teacher won a battle outside the pass, and the teacher was frightened by the border countries. The teacher became a powerful minister below one person and above ten thousand people. The disciples were very proud. I am a proud person, and I also like this pride. The disciple really hopes that the teacher can continue to sit in the position of prime minister. Even if he doesn't go to court, it doesn't matter if he doesn't care about state affairs."

"Then I will become the most useless prime minister in the world." Gu Qing couldn't help but smile.

"No one will say that." Di Renjie shook his head vigorously, "No one will think so, and no one will deny the teacher's past achievements."

"The position of prime minister is not important to me, nor to the Tang Dynasty. He is a useless existence. If this position is very important, then after all my efforts over the years, I will be wasted on the changes in the court. The system of prime minister has been criticized, and it has been in turn with emperors and courts, and it has taken over the government affairs with one hand. The power of prime minister is too great."

"It's like Lu Buwei?" Di Renjie said.

Gu Qing nodded, "Of course there are good ones, just like Guan Zhong, Xiao He, and Zhuge Liang, they are all outstanding people of the generation, but how many people can be Guan Zhong, and how many people want to be Lu Buwei?"

"It's only been three years since the teacher became a prime minister." Di Renjie said.

"Yes, it's only three years. The history books in the future will record that I am the prime minister with the shortest reign and the lazy prime minister." Gu Qing said with a smile: "If someone really said this, I would be quite honored, at least I am a very unique one."

"Even if you lose your position as prime minister, do you have to deal with Jiangnan?" Di Renjie said.

Looking at the boy's lost expression, Gu Qing smiled and said, "I know what you are thinking. The Xie family's case is now being investigated. You are afraid that you will find something related to me, but you don't want me to leave the position of the prime minister? You are afraid that the things you found are enough for me to abdicate, right?"

"Have the teacher done anything to Jiangnan?" Di Renjie asked again.

Seeing that Gu Qing did not answer Di Renjie, he continued, "Teacher, Pei Xingjian said that he did not want the teacher to abdicate, and I don't want to. If the teacher abdicates because of the Dali Temple case, I will feel guilty for the rest of my life."

"It's okay, check it out. I've never done anything." Gu Qing said to Di Renjie: "These are my truths. Just check it out with confidence."

"Really?" Di Renjie asked.

"Really." Gu Qing said: "I know that the old fox Changsun Wuji, who left Chang'an, was a little surprised to me, but I don't know why you are under such great pressure."

Di Renjie explained: "Because when Changsun Wuji left Chang'an, he had a conversation with Li Chengqian, which Pei Xingjian saw with his own eyes. And this time Li Chengqian seemed to have concluded that the teacher would leave the position of prime minister, and Changsun Wuji also definitely concluded that the teacher would leave the position of prime minister, so Changsun Wuji left Chang'an. I think all this has to do with Changsun Wuji!"

Recalling the conversation with him before Changsun Wuji left, Gu Qing smiled and said, "It seems that this time Changsun Wuji left Changan not only put a lot of pressure on the Jiangnan family, but you even feel it. Speaking of this time, I will deal with Jiangnan. The old fox Changsun Wuji understood my intentions at a glance. Before he left, I accompanied him all day. Di Renjie, this matter is not as complicated as you think, and there are not so many conspiracies here."
Chapter completed!