The weather is slightly cooler, and it is September as heavy as a hook.

This year, the Double Ninth Festival, which is the ninth day of September in the seventh year of Jian'an, seems to be calm. Because as early as a few days ago, Tongquetai officially issued a notice, saying that it will be the second day after the Double Ninth Festival, that is, in mid-September.

On the same day, an extra court meeting will be held. At that time, in addition to the military camps of various departments and temples that must stay behind, all officials under Ye, who have a rank of more than 600 shi according to the old Han system, or a so-called grade of seven or more, can participate.

Go to court meetings and speak openly.

For the officials in Ye, this temporary and rare imperial meeting seemed to be a matter of course.

Because as Yizhou was resolved so quickly in a way that was beyond everyone’s expectations, many plans and policies both internal and external to the Yan State became out of date. In addition, there were also other issues such as the autumn harvest harvest summary, the upcoming mid-September Ye

The university's archery science strategy, the sudden confrontation between Yushitai and Jing'antai... and so on are the major events that need to be faced. In the Yan Kingdom, Yan actually controlled ten of the thirteen states of the original Han Dynasty.

In half of the situations, it seems particularly important.

To put it bluntly, it all depends on Xu Yuanzhi.

You know, although everyone knew before that the so-called "overthrow of the Han Dynasty" that Yan Gong privately gradually and unconcealed was becoming a certainty, but before Yizhou was captured in this way, this thing was still a

It is something that exists in imagination and requires a specific amount of time to complete...

But who would have thought that the internal power struggle in Yizhou would have reached such a low level? Who would have thought that a young swordsman, leading twenty people into Shu, under the banner of Duke Yan, would conquer Yizhou with little fanfare

Woolen cloth?

But once Yizhou was easily acquired, everyone suddenly woke up. It turned out that the day of overthrow of the Han Dynasty was right in front of them.

Under this situation, almost everyone, from Duke Yan himself to all parties in the government and the opposition, were caught off guard and were forced to reveal their old ways by the situation.

After all, people are restless, and everyone is trying to take advantage of the last opportunity to express their demands.

Back to the present, when the Yan Kingdom was founded, Gongsun Xun himself was just a Duke of Yan, not a king. In addition, he was born as a martial artist in Liaoxi, and he had always been unscrupulous, so he did not have any grand etiquette... However, when the three provinces

When hundreds of powerful bureaucrats from the Four Stages, Six Ministries and Twelve Temples gathered together in the open space in front of the main hall in the middle of Tongquetai, most people could not help but stand in awe, and arranged themselves in order out of bureaucratic instinct.

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To put it bluntly, these hundreds of people are actually maintaining the operation of the center of the world. No one can deny the significance of the existence of these hundreds of people, let alone themselves?

Among the queues at the censor's desk without the serious official, the middle censor Shiyi was wearing the standard Liao brocade official uniform. The chest and hem of the cyan official uniform were embroidered with white pheasants, which represented the person's fifth rank and civil official status. He wore a

The Erliang Jinxian crown, with the black ribbon bronze seal of the six hundred stone salary rank, is in a position second only to the two Yushi Shaocheng.

He did not look particularly serious like the two censors in front of him, nor did he whisper to each other like the young seventh-grade censors behind him. Instead, he looked at the entire scene in front of the palace with a calm and calm gaze.

In the open space in front of the palace, the most eye-catching ones are of course Prime Minister Jia Xu, Prime Minister Shen Pei on the left, and Lou Gui, Prime Minister on the right. The three of them are wearing specially gifted purple robes with the image of unicorns, and they are standing in a casual posture.

The person at the front was laughing and talking about something in a low voice, seemingly unconcerned with the complicated situation and political trends in front of him.

After three people, on the right is a group of high-ranking officers who have just gained the title of marquis and happened to be stationed back in Ye, or simply transferred back to Ye. These people are also embroidered with unicorns, but they are just the red Liao brocade robes of ordinary officials, but

They had no scruples, laughing with each other, and chatting with the three prime ministers in front of him from time to time as usual... Among these people, there was Zhang Liao, whose accumulated merits had reached the Han Dynasty standard of 10,000 households, and some who only had 2,000 households but were appointed as central protectors.

Yang Kai, who holds an important position in the army, Tian Yu, a one-eared man with a household of three thousand households, and another important minister who has never said anything but stood silently, Gao Shun, who has an annual salary of eight thousand households.

As for the position to the left behind the three prime ministers, the situation is a bit complicated.

Among them, there was Wang Xiu, the envoy of the finance desk who was silent and bowed his head; there was Han Dang, the envoy of the privy desk who almost left the queue and joined the queue of the generals and marquis; and Jing An, who looked up at the sky, thoughtfully

Tai Zheng envoys Xi Zhong...these three are also red-robed Qilin officials.

After all, the so-called Qixiang, like the superior marquises of the founding military, are naturally superior to civil and military officials, and are higher than ordinary officials.

And if you look to the left along the opera line, you will see the Yushitai queue!

Yes, the Yushitai and the Jing'antai queue, the target of his massive attack, are next to each other. It's no wonder that the two Yushi Shaocheng are so serious. It's because the opera loyalists are not far in front of them, and they

But there is not enough reliance.

Shiyi glanced at several truly outstanding civil and military figures, and sighed rarely. He knew in his heart that these people, as long as Yan Gong gave orders, would make their choice without hesitation, regardless of civil and military skills, regardless of reason, regardless of ability, regardless of right or wrong.

Blind obedience... This is also the reason why Yushitai had such a great reputation in Yexia before and had a strong sense of presence, because facing a de facto founding monarch, a figure who was destined to be compared with the ancestors of Emperor Qin, it was really difficult to

Very few people have the courage to speak out about the other person's fault.

But Tian Yuanhao and Yushitai dare to do this!

In fact, since returning from the labor reform in the north, Shi Yi, who has served as the middle censor (senior censor), only has special respect for two people. One is Tian Yuan Haotian, who does not care about his status as a subordinate and vigorously promotes himself to be the middle censor.

The other one is Duke Yan who dared to take the initiative to set up a Yushitai to supervise himself before the world was settled.

After thinking about this, Yi Fu turned his head and looked behind him.

After the sequence of three provinces and four departments, there is the queue of six departments. These six departments are directly under the three provinces, and together with the four departments, they constitute the core power collection of the center. The people here, especially the chief ministers of the six departments and the left and right ministers, such as

Wei Qian, Cui Min, Gao Yan and others are either calm and calm, or eager to try... Obviously, for these people, they may not be as comfortable as those who were born in Yuancong in the first three rows, but they also enjoy this new experience.

Talent development and respected status under the system.

Shi Yi knew very well what was going on. To use a fashionable new term after large-scale marquis awards were made on behalf of households with money, this was the sharing of dividends after Princess Yan took the initiative to transfer power... In the Later Han Dynasty, the position of the three princes

It is extremely high, and enjoys the power of personnel recruitment, but cannot hold a permanent position, nor can it directly control the actual power of running the country; while the Shangshutai holds the de facto central power, but its position is extremely humble, and it often requires additional posts to gain dignity.

Relatively speaking, Yan Gong not only returned to the early Han Dynasty and transferred the actual power of the prime minister, but also made important officials in the central government agencies such as the minister and the minister worthy of their name... The minister is the second rank, second only to the minister.

Qixiang and Zhoumu! The minister is of the third rank, so he might as well be at the same level as the county governor!

There are even rumors that in the future, with the end of military control in the Central Plains and the complete takeover of the four southern states, the imperial court is likely to take the opportunity to divide large counties on a large scale, lowering the county guards to the fifth-grade level. Then the ministers and ministers will become even more noble... and by doing so

, judging from the situation, there will not be much resistance from the local level, because there will be many more state pastors by then, and compared with the one-third possibility of being upgraded to state pastors, those large county governors will probably be more likely to be promoted to state pastors.

Willing to take the risk of changing to a smaller county.

Speaking of which, this is also a different type of restructuring bonus worthy of its name.

State pastors were not permanent in the past!

Although the governor of Liubaishi actually holds the power of a state and is respectfully called Fang Bo, if possible, who wouldn't want to serve for a few more years and be promoted to a first-class state pastor?

Shiyi thought of this and looked back at Xin Ping, Xun Chen, Peng Miao and other acquaintances who were in the back of the six-army formation, but couldn't help but sigh. It turned out that, taking advantage of the height advantage of the front row of the Yushitai,

He looked back and saw his benefactor, Kong Rong and Kong Wenju, ministers of Taichang Temple.

The reason for this is not to say that Kong Rong's Taichang Temple has any special status among the Twelve Temples... If we really want to talk about the special status, it is obviously responsible for the overall management of documents, and the Huangge Temple where archives are stored has more status. This is because Huangge Temple

In his early years, Qing Wang Xiang was the chief bookkeeper of Huangge in the palace of General Yan Gongwei, specializing in recording confidential texts. Today, he still directly serves Duke Yan in the cabinet. And because of Wang Xiang's existence, this institution has become the largest among the twelve temples in history.

A temple that is close to the core power.

As for Kong Rong, the reason why he stood out was because he was standing in front of the twelve temples and couldn't keep his figure steady. He kept wandering left and right, moving up and down, and for a while he stared at the purple and purple unicorn queue in front of him.

He was so entranced that he turned around and chatted with the other temple ministers, and then almost moved to the front of the six troops... When he looked up from a distance and saw Shi Yi, he nodded directly from a distance, seemingly in front of him.

What to remind.

Seeing this shape, Shi Yi was even more helpless, but could only pretend not to notice, and then looked away from the surrounding areas of Kong Rong, such as Gongsunyu, the minister of Zongzheng Temple, Zhao Ping, the minister of Weiwei Temple, Wangyi, the minister of Taipu Temple, and Sinong Temple.

Qing Fengfang and others passed by... but in the end they met Guo Tu, the Shaoqing of Banyin Temple.

By the way, Guo Tu is indeed quite capable. He was originally rejected by Jiang Ren and almost all the important ministers under Yan Gong, including Yan Gong himself, because of his character issues... However, this man returned from labor reform.

From the beginning, he was able to regain a foothold by publishing his own legal annotations, and then he was able to calmly join the official position during the collective pardon and appointment before Duke Yan went to the Central Plains; this is not counting, until the beginning of this year, there will be more people

This time he wrote a letter to discuss many matters involved in revising the laws of the Yan Kingdom. In the end, with his excellent legal knowledge, he was favored by Zuo Prime Minister Shenpei, and formally participated in the revision of various laws of the Yan Kingdom. With this great achievement, he became a

He is the one with the highest official position among the people who were demoted.

The two of them looked at each other for a while, and some strange emotions akin to tacit understanding arose in Ziyi's heart... This is really strange, because Ziyu's character is generally recognized as upright, just like Guo Gongze.

His character is generally known as shameless, so how could the two of them be in tune with each other?

Finally, after inexplicably looking at each other, Guo Tu suddenly raised his lips to a corner beside him. Shiyi looked at him and discovered that he was probably one of the top seven people in the meeting, or even the top five with real political influence.

, that is, Dong Zhao, the shepherd of Jizhou, wearing a red unicorn robe!

At this time, the famous fat black man was smiling and leading the prefect of Wei County and others to stand in the farthest corner and observe everyone.

As for the fat and dark Dong Gongren, behind him were a group of white-horsed followers standing upright. The latter almost completely obscured the Zhangshui River in the distance.

Shiyi was confused in his heart, as if he didn't understand Guo Tu's instructions for a while, but he had already thought about it and didn't care about it, so he turned around and waited silently.

Just like that, Shiyi waited for a while, but suddenly he saw a person coming out of the palace. It was Ma Dai, the righteous guard. He saw him standing in front of the palace. After everyone was solemn, he raised his voice and announced:

"Your Highness has ordered that today is a special court meeting. Everything should be kept simple. There is no need to perform big rituals or be too strict with your manners. All you need to do is enter the palace in order and sit down to discuss matters!"

The whole place was silent, and after giving the order three times, the palace door behind Ma Dai was completely opened by a group of sword-wielding followers. When Ma Dai turned around and held the sword, he entered and stood at the foot of the palace. Jia Xu, the leader, and all the civil and military personnel

They also became completely serious and entered one after another!

As the imperial censor, Shi Yi was one of the first people to enter the palace. As soon as he entered the palace, he immediately noticed two particularly conspicuous things:

The seat that naturally belonged to Lord Yan actually had a nondescript and huge white tiger skin on it! The huge tiger head protruded from under the table, almost frightening one to death!

Those who knew, understood that this was a military officer from the county around Duke Yan, and he liked these nondescript things; those who didn’t know, thought he was in the stronghold of Zhang Yan, the former Zishan thief!

The other one is also a seat, specifically the chairs set up on the left and right in the middle of the hall... Of course most people only have futons, but the first three rows of civil and military seats have stools, especially the first row, with a total of eight on the left and right.

The Taiwei chair is particularly eye-catching.

Shiyi was filled with emotion, but he quickly lowered his head, followed Yi Cong's guidance and came to the table with his name on it, and sat still.

Suddenly, as hundreds of people entered in an orderly manner without any ceremony, Yan Gong and Sun Xun, dressed in black clothes and holding the broken blade in his arms, suddenly came from the back of the palace. Ma Dai, who was standing at the foot of the steps, had no time to say anything.

In a word, Prime Minister Jia Xu, Qixiang, and Jizhou Shepherd Dong Zhao stood up in a hurry and led all the civil and military officials to bow to Duke Yan in common courtesy.
To be continued...