Bianjing. Imperial. Metropolitan Hall. The capital hall is also called the middle hall, and in the future it should be called the State Council 1.

It's a pity that the Great Song Dynasty Zhongshu in this period is bloody, and most of the rights of the State Council are now in the hands of Zhang Fangping, the third envoy. And Chen Zhizhong, the new Zhongshu Menxia Pingzhangshi, is to put it bluntly, a half-blood organization minister and president of the Supreme Court. That's pretty much it.

However, in theory, Chen Zhizhong was the highest-ranking prime minister of the Great Song Dynasty, so according to the rules, now that March is approaching, it is necessary to collect a lot of materials and organize them into documents to prepare for the annual summary of the Great Song Dynasty.

This document needs to be read out by Chen Zhizhong at the annual court meeting and presented to Emperor Zhao Zhen as in the government work report.

The rules are probably like this, but most of the information that needs to be summarized is in Zhang Fangping's hands. In the past, when Pang Ji was there, of course, Zhang Fangping sent him to the middle hall. But now, Chen Zhizhong, a half-blooded good old man, how could He De let Zhang Fangping run over to report?

"If I go to see him, there is a bit of a price drop, and the rules are wrong. If he doesn't go, he will pretend to be stupid, so he won't send it over, and now the big court will start soon, how can the old man go to the court to make a summary without his three divisions? ”

In the middle hall, Chen Zhizhong muttered to himself, and said dissatisfied: "And that Liang Shi, he didn't take the initiative to send the report of the Privy Council." Zhang Fangping's head is big, don't talk about him, does he Liang Shi have to pretend to be a cow in front of me? ”

The henchmen sweated for a while. The East Mansion and the West Mansion are forced to come from it, once Pang Ji leaves office, and now the shopkeeper of the two mansions is divided into two people, and the prestige of the old Chen Xiangye is not enough, so now the situation of scattered sand is inevitable.

"Xianggong, the current situation seems to be intentional on the part of His Majesty. If there is a problem in the report work of the middle hall, it is your responsibility to investigate it after all. The Privy Council didn't talk about it, and Liang Xianggong seemed to want to report it separately, and Yu Institutional Law also said the past. However, the report of the three divisions cannot be delayed, and it is better for you to take the initiative to meet Zhang Xiang. A confidant strategist said.

"That's all there is to it."

Lao Chen can't help it if he is not convinced, it is difficult for the emperor of the Great Song Dynasty to be the prime minister, and it is easy for the prime minister to do it. No matter how stupid Lao Chen is, he understands that the old man worships the prime minister during this period, and it is clear that he is out to take the blame, where is he doing things. These people are obscene, and when it comes to doing things, there are obviously a large number of people who are more ruthless than me......

When he came to Zhang Fangping, Chen Zhizhong was startled. I don't know what kind of wind is blowing, the emperor happens to be in this place, but he didn't wait for Lao Zhang or Lao Chen to see him, Zhao Zhen ran over in a hurry, and the emperor seemed to be particularly anxious to see the "inside data" before the court, so that he knew it?

"The old minister has seen the official family." Chen Zhizhong hurriedly gave a salute.

At this time, Zhao Zhen's body was not too good, and his energy was obviously not enough, so he didn't talk much, and nodded slightly to sit down.

Lao Chen sat down obediently.

Zhao Zhen looked at Zhang Fangping and said: "Zhang Qing don't want to sell Guanzi, hurry up and tell me about the situation of Huangyou's five years in advance, so many things happened last year, I know that it won't be too good, and I want to be mentally prepared in advance, so as not to catch the court off guard." ”

"It's not good, really."

Zhang Fangping said this, but his expression was not sad, he picked up a newspaper in his hand, lowered his head and said: "Kaifeng Mansion is still the first in terms of fiscal and tax revenue, with a slight increase over the previous year, but the increase is limited. ”

There was nothing wrong with this, and it was also expected by Zhao Zhen, so the emperor nodded slightly.

Zhang Fangping continued: "The Daimyo Mansion ranks second, but the growth rate is more gratifying than the previous year, more than one percent. ”

When Zhao Zhen and Chen Zhizhong heard this, they smiled, because this was unexpected by them.

Of course, Zhao Zhen couldn't answer in Chen Zhizhong, so he lowered his head without any sense of existence.

Zhao Zhen said with a smile: "Zhang Xianggong wants to sell Guanzi, and quickly tell me the inside story, why has it increased so much?" ”

Zhang Fangping said truthfully: "All because of the agricultural and animal husbandry policy of Hebei to make the rich Bi has achieved initial results, the range of land reclamation and land increase is not low, in the case that the people can be relatively full, there will be new demand, the Daimyo Mansion as the center of the northern commodity economy, the demand of the two roads in Hebei has gone up, and the financial and tax revenue of the Daimyo Mansion will naturally soar." ”

Zhao Zhen high-fived and exclaimed: "Guo is the pillar of the dynasty." It seems that the first transfer of the Great Song Dynasty this time is none other than his wealth. ”

Zhang Fangping shook his head and said: "The official family is not in a hurry to say that he is dead, he is rich and unruly, and treats many court decrees as waste paper, and there are many problems." He mainly relied on the unique Daimyo Mansion, and the size of the Daimyo Mansion was destined to make him the most conspicuous. But it's actually ......"

After the turn, Zhang Fangping said: "There is one person whose increase is more eye-catching than him, and that is Han Qi, the Hedong transit envoy. The growth rate of Taiyuan Mansion is better than that of the Daimyo Mansion, close to half of it. ”

"Han Qi ......" Hearing this name popping out again, Zhao Zhen frowned.

The emperor has an expression, and as a subordinate, of course he has to cooperate and say something. But Chen Zhizhong, the prime minister, was a nest, and he didn't even know what the emperor was thinking now, so of course he couldn't cooperate. So he had to look at Zhang Fangping as if asking for help.

Lao Zhang was quite satisfied with Chen Zhizhong's attitude, so he continued: "The official family must remember that it was the defeat of Haoshuichuan back then, and now that the matter of the Chen Department has not been completely decided, Han Qi's problem makes the official family embarrassed? ”

Zhao Zhen nodded slightly and said, "It's still Zhang Xianggong who understands my meaning better." That Chen Department is a trouble now, and if you deal with him, now that Han Qi has done something, it will make Han Qi embarrassed. If you don't deal with it, Di Qing, who made trouble with him, is so miserable now, I always feel that this bowl of water is not even. ”

Zhang Fangping said: "The benevolence of the official family is my great Song blessing, but there is no need to think about it. The bowl of water in your heart will never be even. If I dwell on this, I will no longer be able to do anything. For example, Han Qi has made meritorious contributions this time, how did you come about his substantial growth? ”

"I'll hear it." Zhao Zhen said.

Zhang Fangping said: "It's all because he is challenging the bottom line of Liao, in the disputed place on the Song-Liao border, he pushed forward the land and immigrated to open up the wasteland and farm. Originally, the court was in the dark, but Fu Bi wrote a letter to the former prime minister Pang Ji and privately impeached Han Qi for his blind actions, so the minister only knew. Later, under the discussion of Pang Ji and his ministers, in order not to worry the official family, and in order not to publicly anger the Liao State, he privately scolded Han Qi for not being allowed to do it, and not to ruin the results of the Lanyuan Alliance of Kou Zhun Game because of small losses. “

After Zhao Zhen heard this, he was really taken aback by the extremely unrestrained Han Qi, who was so cold-hearted.

Damn, although this is equivalent to increasing arable land and resources for my Han family, it is also a danger of triggering a national war. Zhang Fangping's evaluation is correct, it is normal for Fu Bi to not get used to him, this is indeed a bit of a big loss.

However, Han Qi likes to be radical in this way. It can be seen from the fact that he supervised the army in Shaanxi and presided over the battle of Song and Xia. At that time, the young and vigorous emperor would be bewitched by Han Qi's active attack tactics, but after the failure of Haoshuichuan, coupled with the precipitation and calmness of these years, it is obvious that Zhao Zhen also understands that Fan Zhongyan's set is right, even if he makes money, he must divide the time and talk about strategy.

The biggest headache for Zhao Zhen is that although Han Qi is a little more unrestrained, Fu Bi is not a good thing. A while ago, Fu Bi personally wrote to Zhao Zhen, accusing Han Qi's method of supervising the army of "killing people".

Yes, Fu Bi said that Han Qi was more angry than Di Qing, and he Han Qi cut down too many ruffian officers when he was supervising the army in Hebei, and as a result, the mood of the Hebei Road army was very big, and later, he Han Qi patted his ass and slipped to Hedong to pull hatred, and the mess in Hebei was handed over to Fu Bi.

Fu Bi is not a fool, so if Fu Bi wants to settle the mess left by his predecessor, it will be difficult.

This is the contradiction between Fu Bi and Han Qi. In Zhao Zhen's eyes, their eldest brother didn't talk about the second brother, he said that Fubi was pure, and he didn't necessarily have fewer officers than Han Qi.

These guys are more unrestrained than the other, and they can't even say anything. As soon as they talked about it, they gave all kinds of dead advice, all kinds of resignations, and all kinds of discouragement. Zhao Zhen is really afraid of them like this, which is why Zhao Zhen is more and more dissatisfied with the discipline of this group of literati at this age, and then especially loves Di Qing, who is surprised by bones.

It's a pity, according to Zhao Zhen's meaning, originally planned to promote Di Qing to the privy envoy after the great victory of Quy Nhing. However, although he won the war, Zhang Fangping's guy was not a good thing, so he went to masturbate Di Qing, and as soon as the news leaked, Bao Zheng jumped out.

Now Di Qing, who was supposed to be a privy envoy, was beaten by them together, and the work of the Privy Council was handed over to Liang Shi, who didn't know anything.

In this way, the good news that had been growing everywhere became a political problem in Zhao Zhen's heart, and it was a little boring. I don't have much interest in the future, and I feel a little tired.