Yan Sikong naturally has only his birthday today.

As the Censorate of the Censorate, he was one of the three auxiliary ministers. If he had a birthday, it would be a major event that caused a sensation in the court and the public. All civil and military officials would go to Yan's mansion to celebrate their birthday.

Chen Kuan just said casually, with the purpose of hinting at these prime ministers and asking them to go to Yan Mansion together. These people are all smart and can understand them at a glance, so they naturally should follow them.

Several prime ministers came out of Yong'an Gate together, got into a sedan chair at the Yong'an Gate, and walked towards Liushufang near Yonglefang.

The Censor Yan Shouzhuo was not very rich, but he could only be considered a family of middle-aged people. Therefore, even if he reached the position of Sikong, he still could not live in Yonglefang, but could only settle down in Liushufang.

However, Liushufang is not too far from the Imperial City. Not long after, the four prime ministers from Shangshutai arrived at the gate of Yan's mansion. After the servant informed the four prime ministers that they had arrived, Yan Sikong immediately greeted them in person and bowed to the four prime ministers.

"Several prime ministers arrived, Yan was in a hurry to welcome him."

Chen Kuan took the lead and returned the gift, and said with a smile: "Yan Sikong is welcoming. Today is Yan Sikong's birthday. I am the same as the dynasty, so I should come to celebrate."

Yan Shouzhuo frowned slightly.

It is indeed his birthday this month, but it is still six days before today. If one prime minister remembers it wrong, it is understandable. There is no reason why the four prime ministers remember it wrongly together.

He reacted very quickly and reached out to pat his forehead.

"Oh, I've been busy with the government these days and I don't mention it. I almost forgot that today is my birthday."

"It's going to be sunset now, and I'm afraid there's no time to hold a birthday party."

Chen Xiang smiled slightly: "There are too many people but not beautiful. I'm here to celebrate Yan Sikong's birthday, wouldn't that be nice?"

Strictly wait and make a gesture of asking.

"Several prime ministers are here, and the Yan Mansion is honored."

Soon, the four prime ministers and Yan Shouzhuo, a total of five people sat down in the study of Yan's mansion. The servants of Yan's mansion arranged the wine and food, and the five of them sat next to a low table and raised their glasses to drink together.

After drinking a glass of strong wine, Yan Shouzhuo looked at the four people left and right, and spoke in a deep voice: "You guys come hand in hand, don't you know?"

The four slaughter looked at each other, but the left prime minister Chen Kuan was the first to put down the wine glass in his hand and glanced at Yan Shouzhu lightly.

"Sikong hasn't noticed something is wrong in the past few days?"

Yan Shouzhuo frowned slightly and shook his head: "Never."

Chen Kuan looked around and asked at the other three prime ministers: "Where are three?"

The new right-handed prime minister Cheng Yi frowned and said, "Something is wrong. Someone has written to me."

Chen Kuan took a deep breath and spoke slowly.

"I am different from my masters. I am from the Ministry of Rites. I have been a minister of the Ministry of Rites for many years. I have served as the chief examiner of the spring exam for three times. There are many students in the court."

The Ministry of Rites is different from the other five departments. The other five departments are affiliated with the Shangshutai, but the Ministry of Rites is somewhat transcendent and directly belongs to the emperor. Because the Ministry of Rites is in charge of scientific research, there are countless disciples and old officials of the Minister of Rites, so there is a rule that the Minister of Rites will not be appointed as the minister of Rites.

Chen Kuan has been a minister of the Ministry of Rites for more than ten years and has also served as the chief examiner for several terms.

In other words, if he passed the Jinshi class in the class where he was the chief examiner, he could be regarded as his student. In the future, he would have to be with his own teachers in the court, otherwise he would be a traitor.

Therefore, this diligent prince is in the court and the country, and has a wide connection.

Moreover, he joined the Shangshutai and succeeded Zhang Qu. In other words, in the eighth year of Taikang, he had already become the prime minister of the Great Jin Dynasty. In the past few years, his disciples have each gained a lot of benefits, so naturally they are all concerned about this master.

Nowadays, his students are almost all in the yamen of all vocational departments in the capital.

This is the act of the civil servant group to join the group. There are only five prime ministers in the Shangshutai, but the interests network woven by their master-apprentice relationship, fellow townsmanship relationship, and fellow subject relationship is very large. These five people can at least affect 60% or 70% or even more civil servants.

Chen Kuan took a deep breath and closed his eyes slightly.

"These dukes are old ministers of the three dynasties and have worked together for many years. I don't beat around the bush and just say something."

He glanced at these people and said, "In recent days, some people have been looking for some old things."

Chen Kuan lowered his eyebrows and said, "It's not just me who are checking my old accounts, including the old accounts of the old men here in their early years. It seems that the man also wants to come up with it and recalculate it."

As he said that, he looked at Yan Shouzhuo and said lightly: "It also includes Yan Sikong."

Yan Sikong frowned.

"I am a censor, I am a censor and have been a censor all my life. Where can I get any old accounts?"

"Then I have to ask Yan Sikong himself."

Chen Kuan sighed: "I remember that Yan Sikong was not a Beijing official in his early years, but a censor responsible for supervising local governments. Maybe he was a little confused with the local officials at that time?"

Yan Shouzhuo's face turned darker and his brows became deeper.

In his early years, he was the censor of Jiangnan East Road. At that time, he was in his thirties and walked on the local area. There were too many temptations before him, so he would inevitably make some mistakes.

However, after he was transferred back to the capital and became the Shaoqing of Dali Temple, he became much more restrained in his work for the future in the officialdom and basically no longer took anything on the surface.

It was all about the Chengde Dynasty as the inspector and censor...

Thinking of this, Yan Sikong looked up at Chen Kuan and smiled bitterly: "Chen Xiang, there are no outsiders here. Since you have found my mansion, you can just say anything."

The sound is heavy.

He slowly spoke: "It should be... the people in the palace are checking."

"Their target is very obvious, mainly Yan Sikong and me, and all the brothers in the Shangshutai are among them, but they just check it out."

Chen Kuan slowly breathed.

"Now, that person's meaning is clear."

Yan Sikong first widened his eyes, then looked at Chen Kuan, and said in disbelief: "What Chen Xiang means is... who is checking?"

"Someone has already gone to Jiangnan East Road."

Chen Kuan glanced at Yan Shouzhuo and spoke slowly: "It's already very clear, it depends on how Yan Sikong deals with it?"

“There are two options in front of us now.”

Chen Kuan said slowly: "The first choice is to take the lead in giving up while the person has not obtained the evidence yet, and directly write to ask the person to take charge of the power, and then write to resign. Although the official position cannot be preserved, his life may be safe."

Speaking of this, he laughed at himself: "Of course, it depends on whether that person is a benevolent lord, and whether Marquis Jing'an will return to Beijing in the future, and whether he will let us go."

After saying this, the other four people present changed their expressions.

It is not certain whether the emperor is a benevolent monarch, but the Marquis Jing'an is not a good person, and he is still a vengeful person. If you offend him, he will bite him back. With the extent to which they offended Marquis Jing'an that time, if they lose their official position, they may not be able to protect their lives!

Yan Sikong's face was gloomy and gloomy. After a long time, he looked up at Chen Kuan and said in a stern voice: "Chen Xiang, what about the second way?"

Chen Kuan was silent for a while, then raised his glass to take a sip of tea.
Chapter completed!