The first poisonous scholar in Daxia, starting from the abdication of the prime minister

The Gu and Lin families returned home with great honor, and the whole house was filled with joy.

However, Gu Jingzhi was not as optimistic as imagined.

He found that Zhou Quan had already begun to find ways to check and balance him, and he was not very angry about this.

However, when he saw the former Juren Cong in the cabinet, he became secretly wary.

According to the information passed on by the secret guards recently, the girl Qingxuan who was once met in the Eastern Palace is very likely to be granted the title of Imperial Concubine. If the national mourning had not yet passed, I am afraid she would have been granted the title by now.

And Mr. Cong is Qingxuan's father, the man who used to be in Yunzhou and whom Gu Jingzhi always thought had a lot of problems.

Now that he has been promoted to the cabinet to assist Gu Jingzhi and the other two in handling cabinet affairs, Gu Jingzhi vaguely feels that this person is not simple, especially since he has connections in the harem. As long as he has a little bit of advice, he will probably have a hard time in the future.

If Zhou Quan wants to fight them, he naturally cannot win at the moment, but if they keep doing something behind the scenes for a long time, it will be a headache.

He couldn't follow Cao Cao's example and directly take control of the entire palace. After all, this was Qiao Shuwan's son.

In fact, this is indeed the case.

Zhou Quan was well-behaved in the first few years after he ascended the throne, but as he grew older, his intention to rule the country himself became more and more obvious.

Four years passed unknowingly, and Zhou Quan had reached the age of coming of age. Recently, the disputes in the court became more and more obvious, especially that Cong Juren, who was promoted from the fifth rank to the third rank in just four years and served as the assistant minister of the Ministry of Revenue.

It seems that this person has been mixed up with Wei Zhen for a long time.

As time went by, with Wei Zhen and Cong Juren in the Ministry of Revenue, Gu Jingzhi's control over the Ministry of Revenue was weakened again.

Fortunately, Gu Jingzhi did not do nothing during these four years.

The Ministry of War became more and more stable in his hands. During the four years after he took charge of the Ministry of War, he also figured out the use of gunpowder and formed a new hot weapons army... the Shenjiying.

However, the Shenjiying was still very mysterious to the outside world. The court only knew that there was such a unit but had never seen its true combat power.

Zhou Quan's fear of Gu Jingzhi mainly stems from the fact that the Gu and Lin families produced three generals.

Lin Chong and Lin Feng were also transferred back to the capital in recent years, commanding troops in the capital camp. Gu Huanzhi was not bad either. He was appointed commander of the city defense camp based on his military achievements in the battle with Li Yue in the northwest four years ago.

This is why Zhou Quan was afraid of Gu Jingzhi.

Gu Jingzhi did not hide this at all. He had already noticed Zhou Quan's fear, but he would not be foolish enough to hide his shortcomings like he did when Emperor Wen was in power.

When Emperor Wen ascended the throne, all the old generals in the court were present, and he himself ascended the throne as the old prince, so his power was already stable. Unlike Zhou Quan, there was a power vacuum for several years.

Gu Jingzhi has now experienced three dynasties and will not foolishly pin his fate on others.

He and Qiao Shuwan have formed a tacit understanding that Gu Jingzhi can seize power in the court, but Zhou Quan cannot be stopped from taking power. Moreover, no matter how the two confront each other, there must be room for maneuver in the end.

After all, Gu Jingzhi had to take into account the relationship between him and the Qiao family, so he only arranged a few of his own confidants. Although the number of his disciples in the court was increasing, it was not excessive.

After rushing, Zhou Quan finally got the crown.

After Zhou Quan was crowned, the cabinet, in coordination with the Grand Council and the empress dowager, began to transfer government affairs, military power and the imperial seal.

Gu Jingzhi did not intervene in this matter, which made Zhou Quan and Qiao Shuwan feel relieved. Zhou Quan was already very worried about Gu Jingzhi. Although Qiao Shuwan believed in Gu Jingzhi, she was still a little anxious.

However, seeing that Gu Jingzhi did not interfere in these matters at all, the court ushered in a brief honeymoon period.

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This honeymoon will eventually pass.

After Zhou Quan came to power, it was not known whether it was because he had been suppressed for too long or because the influence of his inner circle was too strong, but in any case, Gu Jingzhi felt that the conflict between him and Zhou Quan was increasing day by day!

The girl named Qingxuan was the favorite in the harem for a long time. Over the years, this woman gradually grew up and had the feeling of a charming concubine. At least, in Gu Jingzhi's opinion, this person was as charming as Wanzhen.

The key is that this woman is quite teasing. Even when the Queen entered the palace last year, she was suppressed by her. Zhou Quan was so coaxed that he even wanted to skip the morning court. After all, when he was not in power, attending the court was almost a decoration.

However, things were completely different after he took power. Under the instigation of this woman, Zhou Quan began to reveal his ambition. After all, as an emperor, especially an emperor after taking power, he was always thinking about doing something.

However, after Zhou Quan's previous ideas on governing the country were gradually brought out, contradictions in various aspects of the court began to emerge.

If Gu Jingzhi had not insisted on forcing Zhou Quan to retreat, who knows what chaos would have occurred.

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After all, Zhou Quan is the emperor. He cannot defeat Gu Jingzhi openly, but he keeps using tricks in secret.

So, in the southwest of Daxia, Zhou Quan sent Gu Jingzhi away on the pretext of supervising the rotation of guards and inspecting the border.

After all, he was the Minister of War, and this was within his scope of responsibility. Although he could have refused and sent someone else, Zhou Quan had already mentioned him, and they had not yet fallen out, so he had to consider the emperor's face in the court.

Even Empress Dowager Qiao Shuwan hinted that Gu Jingzhi might be able to take shelter for a while to avoid unrest in the court.

In fact, this was Zhou Quan's plan.

If Gu Jingzhi inspects the border and supervises the rotation of guards, it will take at least three months to go back and forth. These three months are enough for Zhou Quan to do a lot of things.

Despite Qiao Shuwan's repeated assurances that she would not disrupt the political situation, Gu Jingzhi had no choice but to accept the order and leave the capital!

Without Gu Jingzhi's direct confrontation, Zhou Quan felt that he was capable in the court again with the support of Wei Zhen, the deputy minister. As Gu Jingzhi expected, Zhou Quan began to place people in the court under various pretexts just one day after he left.

Either they would seize on some minor faults and directly dismiss the officials and replace them with their own people, or they would promote them in public but demote them in private and replace some people.

He was quite restrained at first, but when he saw that Prime Minister Wei Xuan seemed silent, he gradually grew bolder.

Of course, Wei Xuan would not be so stupid as to watch him mess around, especially later on, when he found that Zhou Quan's behavior was becoming more and more outrageous, so he found the Queen Mother Qiao Shuwan and joined forces with his former staunch allies to suppress Zhou Quan's influence.

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It seemed as if God particularly loved to test Daxia. Just as Daxia's national strength was gradually increasing and it was finally about to achieve its heyday, problems arose at the border again.

It's not a big deal in itself, but recently some of the children of powerful people, while training at the border, have gone to plunder those foreign tribes.

In response, the foreign race naturally expressed resistance, but the children of the powerful and wealthy were fearless, and the matter became more and more serious, and finally they defected to Beili.

War seems to be coming again!