Xin Ran heard Emperor Ningzong say that the matter of the Northern Expedition would not be considered for the time being, and hurriedly said: "No, Your Majesty, if you just wait for a favorable opportunity slowly, the Central Plains of the Northern Expedition will not know what year and month it will be, and if this matter is put aside for a long time, everyone will slowly forget about this matter, and it will be difficult to do it when the time comes." Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ”

Emperor Ningzong listened to Xin Ran's words, and said with a slight smile: "Xin Aiqing, you are still young, there are some things in the court, you still don't understand, let's not talk about this matter for now, what I want to ask you is that you broke into the imperial study late at night this time without being called, what is the matter?"

Xin Ran said: "The grass people broke into the inner hall at night this time, shocked the holy car, and hoped that Your Majesty would forgive the sins, the grass people came this time, there are two main things, the first thing has been echoed by Your Majesty, the main thing is to hope that Your Majesty will prepare early, succeed in the Northern Expedition as soon as possible, and restore the old capital; ”

"I still know about Shi Miyuan, and now I am using him as a phase, and some people in the court are not convinced, so they often maliciously slander Shi Aiqing, Xin Aiqing, don't fall for them", Emperor Ningzong said.

Xin Ran hurriedly said: "Your Majesty, these things are all seen by the grass people. ”

So he told Emperor Ningzong what he saw and heard in Shi Miyuan's mansion one by one.

After hearing this, Emperor Ningzong was silent for a while, as if he was thinking about something, and then said: "Xin Aiqing, you are as loyal and patriotic as your father, so I won't hide some things from you, so let's talk about this matter in the court with you from the bottom of my heart;

I am the Great Song Dynasty, since the southward migration, the population and economy controlled by the imperial court are incomparable with the past, the national strength is greatly weakened, and the Jin State opposite us is indeed a country that is increasing in strength, especially their cavalry, so that my Great Song Dynasty is invincible, after I ascended the throne, I followed the advice of Lord Han to launch the Northern Expedition failed, the national strength was greatly reduced, and I was unable to fight with the Jin State again, so I can only negotiate with the Jin State to end this war, and Shi Miyuan You may have heard that he has always advocated peace in the imperial court, so in this case I can only reuse Shi Miyuan and let him do this thing, of course, I really didn't misunderstand him, Shi Miyuan did successfully complete the peace agreement between the two countries that I confessed;

As for Lord Han's death, I am also very sad, it's just that this Jin man said that one of the prerequisites for the armistice and peace agreement was that Lord Han who launched the Northern Expedition must be executed, just like that, I also resisted the pressure, did not do so, and even Lord Han's official did not go to recall, what you said Lord Han was killed by Xia Zhen under Shi Miyuan, it is not true at all, after Lord Han was killed, I immediately sent Dali Temple to investigate the case, and also arrested Xia Zhen, as a result, Dali Temple reported that someone disguised himself as Xia Zhen and killed Lord Han, which really had nothing to do with Xia Zhen, so I ordered him to be released, although I am not a Ming Jun, but I can't wronged a good person。 I thought about this matter carefully, it must have been that Jin Ren saw that I had never killed Lord Han, and it would not work to exert pressure, so he came to secretly, so he secretly sent a killer to disguise himself as Xia Zhen to kill Lord Han, as for Shi Miyuan, I forgive him for not having the courage to murder Lord Han, who was still the prime minister of the dynasty at that time;

And what you said about Shi Miyuan's collusion with Queen Yang in the harem, in fact, it is also nonsense, this Shi Miyuan is the queen's godfather, so Shi Miyuan is a relative of the emperor, and Shi Miyuan helped Queen Yang when she was down, and now they often move around is also very common, which shows that the queen is a good person who does not forget the old kindness, and I didn't say anything, I dare to say this, in this palace, there is no concubine who can understand my joys, sorrows and sorrows like Queen Yang, so the relationship between me and the queen has always been very good, When I got better, the queen herself lost a lot of weight, so the queen is not as bad as Aiqing said, and the harem is a place with a lot of right and wrong, the queen is the master of the harem, sometimes it is inevitable to take care of who is not careful, others will resent her and slander her, this kind of thing, there are all dynasties, Aiqing, you are familiar with history, you know at the time, these harem feelings, should not be talked about with you in detail, but today you and I fell in love at first sight, plus your father's sake, so I don't shy away from anything in front of you. Therefore, I can tell you unmistakably that although the queen is not as good as the eldest grandson queen of Tang Taizong, she is definitely a virtuous and virtuous lord of the middle palace;

Regarding this Shi Miyuan's party and personal affairs, I can tell you that Shi Miyuan is the head of the hundred officials, and many of the major national policies formulated by me must rely on Shi Miyuan, the prime minister, to supervise the implementation of the hundred officials, and to do these things well, if he does not have a few cronies to assist him, he will not be able to get things done, Aiqing's father was also an official in the imperial court in the past, and there should be a few subordinate officials with cronies. So this does not mean that Shi Miyuan is forming a party for personal gain. The principle of employing people has always been to use people without suspicion, and do not use people who are suspicious. Since I have entrusted the affairs of this court to Shi Miyuan to handle, if I even have to take care of the matter of him cultivating a few cronies, then how can he, as the prime minister, establish his prestige in the court. “

When Xin Ran heard Emperor Ningzong's words, he was a little speechless, and thought: "Everyone in the court knows that these two people are in cahoots, but in the eyes of the current emperor, one is a good wife and the other is a loyal minister, which is really ridiculous. His Majesty the Emperor usually lives in the Ouchi Palace, and he doesn't know anything about the situation outside, so these two people are blinded. No matter how much I say now, I'm afraid the emperor won't believe it, and if I say too much, I'm afraid that it will arouse the emperor's disgust and suspicion, so I can only get real evidence to expose their crimes later. “

Thinking of this, Xin Ran said to Emperor Ningzong again: "What Your Majesty Xu said is reasonable, let's let time test who is right and who is wrong between Your Majesty and Your Majesty." “

"Look, Xin Aiqing still doesn't believe what I said," Emperor Ningzong said with a smile again.

Xin Ran said: "It's serious. “

Emperor Ningzong said: "Qing is talented, Aiqing's father was also an official of the imperial court, I want to give Aiqing an official position, I don't know if Aiqing is willing to serve me in the court." “

Xin Ran heard Emperor Ningzong say this, and hurriedly said: "Thank you for Your Majesty's love, the grass people are used to being free and easy, and the grass people are only willing to share your Majesty's worries outside the temple and contribute to the court." “

"In this case, I am not reluctant, I will give you a gold medal, if there is anything in the future, you can come to see me at any time, I am a little tired now, our monarchs and ministers will talk about this today, you can kneel down", Emperor Ningzong said.

When Xin Ran heard the emperor say this, he hurriedly kowtowed again, bowed down to take the gold medal, bid farewell to Emperor Ningzong, left the palace, and went straight to Chen Wenduan's mansion.