Emperor Xinde and Dai Gao were chatting as usual. Dai Gao still played the role of supporting actors, and praised the emperor very comfortably everywhere. The monarch and ministers were in harmony and the atmosphere was extremely harmonious.

However, behind the seemingly harmonious relationship, both the monarch and the minister knew that there would not be too many chats like this in the future. Dai Gao held power for more than ten years, and now he handed it over intact. His request was to escape unstoppably and spend his old age in peace.

Emperor Xinde knew this well and was quite satisfied with this result. After all, the court was like a chess game. As a person who mastered the chess game, Emperor Xinde led the chess game to this point. The key point was that Dai Gao's cooperation was required. If Dai Gao was unwilling to withdraw and was greedy for power, with the power he had in his hands now, it could easily cause great trouble.

Although for Emperor Xinde, no matter how hard Dai Gao jumped, he could not jump out of his palm, Emperor Xinde was a person who paid great attention to face. Because Dai Gao's counterattack made him lose face, he could never bear it. Everyone was happy with this result now.

Emperor Xinde threw out the key figure Lu Zheng, staring at Dai Gao, as if he wanted to see Dai Gao see through at first sight. Dai Gao was very surprised. He never expected Emperor Xinde to entrust such an important task to Lu Zheng.

First of all, the deputy envoy of Tongzheng and Tongzheng, although the real power is not large, he contacts the center of the court every day. The transmission of memorials and the communication between all parties of government orders is the responsibility of Tongzheng and the chief minister. Lu Zheng can contact the prime minister of the cabinet at this position, learn the knowledge of governing the country at close range, and accumulate experience.

Going down, Lu Zheng can understand the six ministries, Dali Temple and the Censorate. It is no exaggeration to say that the operation of the Dakang Empire, the state machinery can be fully visible. This is a very precious opportunity for Lu Zheng.

Generally speaking, the position of the Tongzheng Department of the Capital City needs to be served by a calm minister. Now the Tongzheng Department of the cabinet is Su Xinghai, the Grand Secretary of the Cabinet, and the actual person who is responsible is actually the Deputy Envoy of the Tongzheng Department. Generally, this position also needs to be served by a reliable and steady old minister. Only in this way can the smooth operation of the imperial center be ensured.

But now Emperor Xinde actually asked Lu Zheng, who was only young and old, to do this job. It has to be said that his preference for Lu Zheng is really incredible.

What shocked Dai Gao even more was that Emperor Xinde actually planned to let Lu Zheng serve as the guard of the city defense camp. The city defense camp is the military equipment to guard the palace. Although the main responsibility of the city defense camp is to be responsible for the defense around the palace, the city defense camp is the only two armies within the nine gates of the capital. Generally speaking, the guard of the city defense camp must be the person most trusted by the emperor, otherwise once a change occurs, the safety of the palace and the emperor will be endangered.

In such an important position, the powerful people in the capital were broken in order to compete for it. It is no exaggeration to say that whether it is the crown prince, the king of Qin or the king of Qi, they used all the methods they used to get this job. Dai Gao was in power for so many years, and he did not dare to have any delusions easily.

Now, Lu Zheng actually got this important job, Dai Gao was a little worried. With Lu Zheng's young age, could he stay in such a position?

Dai Gao had countless thoughts in his mind, but in the end he didn't say a word and remained silent. He knew that Xinde's words were a test of his attitude towards Lu Zheng.

Such a temptation made him very embarrassed, because the story between him and Lu Zheng is now known to everyone in the capital, and the conflict between the two is irreconcilable. But in the near future, Lu Zheng will become his son-in-law again. One day in the future, what will be the relationship between Lu Zheng and Dai Gao?

Dai Gao could not be too intense because that would make Xinde feel that Dai Gao was acting. He could not show strong support for this, because that would make the emperor doubt whether there was a tacit understanding between Lu Zheng and Dai Gao. Therefore, after weighing the pros and cons, Dai Gao chose to remain silent.

The facts proved that his choice was correct. Emperor Xinde was very satisfied with it. This time he came to the door in a mistress and got what he needed. The trip was very perfect, and things were faster and smoother than he thought.

Now there is only one opportunity. Dai Gao proposed to retire and then Emperor Xinde approved it. From then on, this treacherous minister who had been in charge of the government for more than ten years could finally leave the power center of the Dakang Dynasty. Dai Gao's departure will usher in a new situation in the Dakang court, and the leader of this new situation is still the emperor.

Emperor Xinde had already set a framework for this situation. This was a symbol of his power as the emperor. He could decide how to make this game of chess in the Great Kang Kingdom. He used Dai Gao to use treacherous ministers as the country, ensuring that he was transcendent and secular, his power would not fall behind.

For more than ten years, he has devoted himself to cultivating immortals and refining elixirs, ignoring the government's affairs. Dai Gao made decisions and controls all the big and small things in the court. However, the rights in Emperor Xinde have never been lost. Just like now, he wanted to change his way to plan the court. He could easily deprive Dai Gao of the rights in his hands.

Next, the chess game he wanted to lead was no longer a treacherous minister who was the country, because now his sons have grown up, and these sons have all their abilities and can just restrain each other. The game that Emperor Xinde wanted to play changed from "treacherous ministers who are the country" to "scholars"...

Emperor Xinde was a very conceited person. His arrangement claimed to be seamless and few people could understand his intentions. In fact, this was not the case.

The ministers around him are not as easy as others, especially ministers like Dai Gao and Lu Changhe who know him well. After these two ministers have learned about his intentions, they will inevitably reveal their intentions.

Let’s not talk about other people, Lu Zheng has fully mastered all this, and it is inevitable that Lu Zheng can take the lead in many things.

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After a private visit on a mini-server, the next drama was very simple. Emperor Xinde didn't mean to delay the decision for a long time, and he always acted neatly.

The first thing he did was to give Lu Zheng a marriage. The emperor gave marriage to his ministers was a supreme honor to his ministers. And Lu Zheng was given a marriage, which was of great significance.

First of all, this shows that Dai Gao has accepted the gambling and lost. Lu Zheng has become the new top scholar. As the prime minister, he cannot go back on his word. However, as the prime minister, Lu Zheng seems too domineering to marry his daughter in this way, which makes him very embarrassed. In this case, Emperor Xinde acted as a peacemaker in it and gave Lu Zheng a marriage, which undoubtedly made Lu Zheng and Dai Gao both face.

The emperor gave the marriage, and the great news, the Lu family did not dare to neglect it. After receiving the news, they immediately prepared a generous betrothal gift to the Prime Minister's Mansion. Lu Shanchang led Lu Qian to visit Dai Gao himself. The Dai family accepted the Lu family's betrothal gift, and the marriage was finalized.

This marriage is destined to become a legend in the great prosperity of the government and the country, Lu Zheng's extraordinary talent, Dai Xiaojing's appearance of shady flowers, the romance of the two of them who have made their lifelong decisions in Fayuan Temple, and the amazing struggle between Lu Zheng and Dai Gao, the father-in-law and son-in-law. These things are filled with all kinds of fantasies just by thinking about them!

After the marriage was granted, Emperor Xinde arranged for the prince to supervise the country, granted the King of Qi as the Grand Governor of the Five Army Governor's Office, granted the King of Qin as Prince Ruizhu, and traveled to the six cabinet departments.

Before everyone in the capital could come back from this news, Dai Gao asked for an order to resign from the position of prime minister and return home. Emperor Xinde criticized the "accurate" of the redemption! Dai Gao went to serve as prime minister and returned home after retiring. The emperor once again issued an order to appoint Zuo Jie as the chief minister.

Zuo Jie became the successor of Dai Gao as a dark horse, and Zuo Jie's identity was well known to everyone in the capital. He was the mentor of the King of Qin and the absolute backstage of the King of Qin's Mansion. He served as prime minister, and the King of Qin was like a tiger with wings. In addition, the emperor had already given an order that the King of Qin could participate in the government affairs in the future, which undoubtedly uncovered all the constraints on him. From then on, the sky was high and the birds could fly, and the sea was wide and the fish leaped.

The shocking news is not over yet. After Zuo Jie served as the chief minister, the emperor issued another imperial edict, and the imperial edict arranged for the new undergraduate first-class candidate, Lu Zheng, editor of the Hanlin Academy, to regain the fifth rank. At the same time, Lu Zheng was appointed as the deputy secretary of the Tongzheng Department, and Lu Zheng was appointed as the garrison of the Beijing City Patrol Battalion. The patrol battalion was a military officer of the fourth rank. No one had held this position specifically before. Generally, the commander of the imperial guards or the royal emperor's confidant prince, uncle, and marquis were also appointed.

As the new top scholar, Lu Zheng was both civil and military, and actually occupied two very prominent positions. This was really shocking. Everyone in the capital knew that Lu Zheng would be valued, but when the imperial edict came out and the news spread. After everyone saw Lu Zheng's official position, everyone still felt that Lu Zheng's holy favor was too high.

Since the founding of the Dakang Dynasty, except for when Taizu was granted a title of meritorious officials, no one has been appointed as the fourth rank in his twentieth year. Lu Zheng can be said to have made history.

Within two days after the emperor's imperial edict was issued, Xiyuan received no less than twenty memorials, all of which were oppositions from various ministers to Lu Zheng's high position. The memorials stated in these opposition memorials were diverse, but no matter what the truth they stated, these truths were all very reasonable. If you really analyze these memorials carefully, you will definitely be defeated by the refutation in the memorials.

However, all the memorials were kept by Emperor Xinde. Emperor Xinde asked Eunuch Feng to bring a sentence to all the ministers: "The emperor said that since the founding of the Great Kang Dynasty, there has never been a single winner of the three Yuan before Lu Zheng."

With this sentence, the court and the country suddenly became silent. The emperor's words were really heartbreaking. Who among the ministers in the court did not pass the imperial examination? To put it bluntly, everyone is a scholar. Putting aside the official positions we hold now, just from the identity of a scholar, what are scholars comparing? Of course, the imperial examinations are compared!
Chapter completed!