In those days, Emperor Xi was afraid that the military commanders would centralize the power, so he distributed the military power to the commander's office of the Five Armies and the Ministry of War.
The Commander-in-Chief of the Five Armies has the power to command troops but not to mobilize them, and the Ministry of War has the power to mobilize troops but not to command them. The Commander-in-Chief of the Five Armies and the Ministry of War controlled each other and were not under each other, and everything was only under the command of the emperor.
As an official, it is natural to understand what you want. The emperor is afraid of centralization and collusion between the two. Even if it is to make the emperor feel at ease, he must maintain a distance from the face. It stands to reason that Duke Zhen Guo and the Minister of War should have never communicated with each other. On the surface, they did not communicate with each other, but this did not prevent the two of them from communicating in private.
Back then, at the time of the late emperor, when Duke Zhenguo was commanding the army, Miao Jie, the minister of military affairs today, was a vanguard officer under his command. Although Miao Jie rose step by step, it did not erase the original love. Therefore, although the two always disagreed on the bright side and quarreled in the courtroom, they still had a tacit understanding in private.
Therefore, in order to clean up Yan Ting, Duke Zhenguo borrowed the hand of the Minister of War.
This day, the two walked on the palace road out of the palace.
The distance between them was about ten feet apart, which did not hinder the communication between the two.
"Your son-in-law is back?" With gray hair and beard, and a thin physique, the Minister of the Ministry of War looks like a bad old man. He is dressed in a crimson embroidered crane and fills the child's court clothes, and holds a jade fluorene in one hand. said.
Duke Zhen also wore a red robe with a unicorn patch embroidered on the front and back of his chest. He hummed lightly and did not turn his head.
The Minister of War was very curious, and couldn't help but lean over a little, "You cheated your son-in-law, aren't you afraid that your daughter will know?"
Duke Zhen Guo stared, but did not speak.
"Okay, I know you've always been domineering, but I'm just curious why you want to clean up your son-in-law, and you're still so rude!"
"It's up to you! Take your time!"
The Minister of War was a little aggrieved. It was he who dispatched Yan Ting to the border, and it was he who dispatched him back.
This dead old man has been dead for decades, and he still has this bear temper!
He is also a temperamental person, and snorted: "Don't come to me next time if you have anything, it's not good for you!"
Duke Zhen glared at him, he must be furious, with thick eyebrows and tiger eyes, his aura was terrifying, and ordinary people were naturally afraid. But the Minister of War has been fighting with him for decades, so how can he be afraid of him.
The two stared at each other, looking at each other.
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On the palace road not far behind, a group of civil and military officials gathered together and whispered.
"Look, look, Duke Zhen Guo and the Minister of War have quarreled again."
"It's not the first day that the two of them quarreled. They quarreled in front of His Majesty just now!"
"Yes, after arguing in front of His Majesty, come out and continue arguing. Do you think the two of them will fight?"
"Probably not, this is still in the palace."
An older person said: "It's not that I haven't fought in the palace! That's a year..."
The man started talking about the ancients.
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Although Duke Zhen Guo's eyes are bigger than those of the Minister of War, there is a saying that small eyes focus on the light. After all, he was defeated, slowed his expression, and hummed: "Family affairs."
Well, that's an explanation.
Old and young, this Minister of War is majestic in front of people, and majestic at home, and it is only in front of this old friend that he can show some other expressions.
In this life, people will always encounter all kinds of things. For people like them, external things are never a problem, and only family affairs can give them a little headache.
Thinking of the incompetent young son at home, the Minister of Military Affairs felt a toothache and said: "Okay, don't take it too seriously, and you will be quiet. Your son-in-law seems to beg Chen Shilang, and Chen Shilang mentioned a sentence in front of me. , I ignored him. I was thinking at the time, shouldn't he be your old husband? "
There seemed to be ridicule on the face of Duke Zhenguo, but he disappeared again.
The Minister of War continued to talk, "You old guy is not a person, do you just want people to beg to you? Is it interesting, play like this..."
Duke Zhen Guo ignored him, patted him on the shoulder, and strode away. He was very strong, and the minister of the Ministry of War's body-thinning board was shaken by him, and he almost didn't fall. A group of people over there looked nervously at this side, for fear that the two would fight. The Minister of War here was scornful, Nima, I thought it was back then, I'm old now, but I can't help you, a reckless man.
After that, he jumped up with a vigorous posture that did not match his age, pointed at the back of Duke Zhen Guo and said, "You old man, wait for me!"
Everyone wiped their sweat, but fortunately, they didn't fight! These two are a lot older and still so 'naughty'!
***
Yan Zhi was not in the mansion, and when he was found by the mansion, he was drinking with friends outside and got very drunk.
The servant said that there was something in the house and the old lady asked him to go back, but he didn't dare to delay, so he came back quickly.
His expression was slightly drunk, and his brain was still a little confused. When he saw the gloomy face of the old lady when he entered the Rong'an Hall, he was suddenly shocked, and all the alcoholism disappeared.
In his heart, he secretly hated that he should go back to the room to clean up, lest his aunt smelled the alcohol smell, but he leaned over with a smile on his face, respectfully greeted him, and said hello to Yan Ting next to him. .
"Mother, I don't know what to do with my son?" Yan Zhi asked from the old lady's side. This distance is considered a very close distance, and Yan Zhi's attitude has always been like this.
He is very close to the old lady, so close and casual that he seems to be the old lady's biological son, but he is usually very polite, and he will never be jealous because he is treated differently from the second and third.
It's hard to keep the balance. As of today, Yan Zhi has done a good job, even if he looks like a playboy who does nothing and idles all day.
The old lady's originally gloomy face softened a bit when she saw this, and she thought about the important matter of her own son in a flash. After all, Yan Ting was more important to her, so anger prevailed.
"Who is smiling with you, you unfilial son, tell me honestly, have you caused trouble outside recently!?"
Yan Zhi subconsciously thought that his mother-in-law's anger was a joke, but when he looked at it again, he was shocked again, his body reacted faster than his brain, and he knelt down at the old lady's feet.
He cried and said aggrieved: "Mother, what's the matter? Where do you start!"
Both 'mother' and 'mother' are names with the same meaning, but mother is much closer than mother. As soon as Yan Zhi was born, he was raised by the old lady's side, and he was called 'mother' since he could speak. After decades of calling him, even if he grew up and became sensible in the future, other people who were also concubines would call him mother, but he never changed his tune.
The old lady neither agreed nor disagreed with him for not changing his words, so he called him that for decades. When the other concubines, the old Houye, died, they split up, but this concubine named Niang stayed with him. After all, she was the first son she raised, even if it wasn't her own, after raising the first son, she gave birth to two sons in a row who was worried about the children at that time, and it was a lie to say that she had no feelings.
"You spend all day wandering outside, making friends. I never told you about you. This time, tell me honestly, did you cause any trouble outside?"
Yan Zhi felt a little resentful in his heart. From childhood to adulthood, you didn't care about eating, drinking, and having fun, or even condoning it. What the hell is this selling? ! Following him, he thought about the old lady's rare anger, and Yan Ting who was sitting beside him, and was shocked.
"My son didn't cause trouble outside, mother, believe me!"
The old lady's eyes were puzzled, and Yan Ting's expression was not obvious.
"Really not?"
"Really not. When did my son lie in front of you since he was a child? You have to believe your son!" Yan Zhi's expression was serious, and there was a bit of grievance in his expression, and he only swore three fingers to the sky.
As for Yan Zhi, the old lady still knows a lot about it. Although she is a little slick on weekdays, she is really filial. The big house has no other income on weekdays, and only relies on the monthly records of the house to live. Unlike the second and third, one has a title, the other has her subsidies, and there are many dowries for his daughter-in-law.
When Aunt Pei saw someone serving food, although she did not directly instruct her, she also acquiesced in it. After all, although the big room lives in the mansion, it is not her own after all. The old lady will not and will not allow the big room to be treated the same as her two biological sons.
Even so, Yan Zhi was a little more lenient, and he brought some things to honor her. Things are not worth the money, but what matters is the heart in them. You must know that even if the second and third are her own sons, this has never happened. Of course, it's not that they are not filial, but that they didn't expect to come here.
The second child has a heavy responsibility, and the third child is a sullen gourd. Although this boss is not his own, he will be under his knees every day, and over time, the stone heart will be warmed up.
The old lady looked a little embarrassed, glanced at Yan Ting, and said: "It's not that my mother doesn't believe you, but that something happened at home, what's wrong with you outside the past two years, and who you've been with, let's talk about it one by one. "
Yan Zhi likes to pretend to be stupid and be good, so it depends on the time. Of course, this is not the time to play stupid and be good. He was a bachelor, so he told what he had done in the past few years.
This Yan Zhi's identity is not high, and the identity of the eldest son of Hou's concubine can only be handed over to people who are similar to his identity. On weekdays, apart from being almost Mao, other free time is to drink tea and drink with a group of friends, spend a lot of money, and occasionally gamble for a small amount of money. Play with prestige.
Yan Zhi also confessed that he even said such a private thing as wrapping up an outer room.
Just as he was talking, he heard a scream from outside, and Xue Shi rushed in with lightning speed.
"Wow, Yan Zhi, you are a jerk, how dare you keep an outer room outside!"
It turned out that the old lady asked Yan Zhi to talk, and the servant found the courtyard of the big house. Who knew that Yan Zhi was not in the mansion. At that time, Mrs. Xue kept her mind, and when she heard that someone came to report that the uncle had gone to Rong'an Tang, she also came. After he came, he was about to let the maid call in, when he heard Yan Zhi's voice in the corridor.
This was unbearable, and regardless of the rules, he rushed in directly, threw himself on Yan Zhi and began to fight.
Yan Zhi didn't react, so Xue Shi jumped on him and scratched his body twice, and when he touched his cheek, he knew that there was a lot of luck. He didn't care that his mother and brother were in front of him, so he slapped Xue Shi with his backhand.
Xue Shi was slapped to the ground by his slap, Xue Shi was also savage, crying even more loudly, and went up to fight him again, every bite without a conscience.
All this happened in an instant, and when the old lady reacted, the two had already scuffled together. She was so angry that she slapped the little girl on Luohan's bed, "Everyone is dead, so hurry up and pull them away."
The maids and wives outside the door rushed in immediately and moved Xue's family away.
Xue threw herself in front of the old lady's feet with snot and tears all over her face, and howled, "Mother, you have to call the shots for me, Yan Zhi's heart and liver were eaten by dogs. , he actually took care of the outer room outside..."
Yan Zhi stood beside him, scolding the shrew while touching his face.