The holy decree urgently sent to Zhao Zhuang was not delivered by the eunuch this time.

Because these eunuchs are not good at equestrianism, and they can't withstand the fierce bumps and tosses, and this holy decree is delayed for a while for fear that it will cause irreparable disasters and huge losses, so the special forbidden army communication soldiers, that is, the so-called Hongling urgent envoys and the elite cavalry guards selected by the secret spy department jointly undertake the task, change horses without stopping, and rush to the Pegasus like a fateful thing, and I don't know how many horses died on the way before the holy decree was sent to Cangzhou City at the fastest speed that the Song Dynasty could do.

This can be done, thanks to Zhao Gonglian's opening of border customs and the new horse policy, so that the post stations along the way can be equipped with more and better galloping horses for transfer.

At this time, Su Taiwei was sitting on a powder keg that had been lit by the fuse, distraught and worried that he would be blown to pieces at any time, and he was waiting to be restless for a moment, and when he received the holy decree, he unceremoniously immediately unfolded it to see what the content was.

If the imperial court still fooled a fool without knowing the severity of this time, he would never have passed on this decree.

What are you going to do?

Go to see the resentful and cold faces of Zhao Zhuangren, and accept rude ridicule?

The last time I went, with Zhao Gonglian's deep cultivation and magnanimity, and because I tried to restrain my anger in the past friendship, I tried to pay attention to etiquette and decency, but I couldn't suppress my disgust and impatience with the court and said rudeness.

Indeed, the imperial court itself messed around to cause national danger and close people's affairs.

Why did people ignore the catastrophe of their own family, first go for it, first forced them to go bankrupt step by step, bereaved their relatives and lost their people, and built up debts, and then not only refused to reach out to help, but also continued to make things worse, and the imperial court that wished that people were all extinct could solve their problems?

All the ministers of the court are gathered together, and it is not that there is no one.

People can be said to have sacrificed everything they can for the court, but the court is so ruthless and shameless, what is the overall situation, can you talk to others?

Of course, conventionally speaking, you have to do whatever the state wants you to do, and if you want to die, you have to slip away, and there is no reason or reason to talk about it.

Even if your family is in great trouble, you have to take care of the country wholeheartedly, first be loyal to the king and the court, and have to work hard and die of resentment.

But Zhao Gonglian just dared to do it so hard, and there was no.

The imperial court wanted to trick others into setting a lesson for the world, but they were forced to condemn themselves by the reality that was more cruel and terrible than the predicament they faced.

Since the compromise has been made, since the majesty of the imperial court cannot be applied to others, and people have already had a way to retreat, they are afraid that they are not afraid of the prestige of the imperial court, so why doesn't the imperial court sincerely and generously invite people to go out of the mountain, and end this situation as soon as possible in one step, and also lose a little face of the imperial court and invite less embarrassment, and can quickly minimize the bad impact of Zhao Gonglian's resignation, which is only limited to Cangbei, and the imperial court has less losses and embarrassment?

The court and the emperor didn't know what they were thinking.

Grinding and grinding, turning things upside down, trying to kill others and trying to use others, doing all kinds of stupid tricks, ridiculous, incurring extremely bad effects and losses, I really don't know what to do.

Su Taiwei is this kind of troubled and emotional mentality.

What he didn't know was that in history, the Northern Song Dynasty court was so ridiculous when it faced the fierce Jin army, and finally took the initiative to find death. The bad evaluation of Tang turtle and Song snot in later generations is not based on those wild history legends.

It can be said that at the end of the Northern Song Dynasty, there was no worst, only worse, and there was no more shameless and spineless than the Northern Song Dynasty of all the orthodox dynasties in China.

Vanity, arrogance, cowardice, incompetence, and the essence of the country, as soon as it encounters a fatal national crisis, it will inevitably be this kind of stupid and funny performance.

Fortunately, this holy decree is finally willing to play affordably, showing the sincerity of the imperial court.

When Su Taiwei saw it, he immediately breathed a sigh of relief and frowned,

At the same time, I couldn't help sneering and mocking in my heart: What did you do earlier? It's because I knew this was the case, so why bother in the first place?

He felt that he could have a good talk with Zhao Gonglian this time, so he hurriedly rushed to Zhao Zhuang again.

But what he encountered was cold water.

Zhao Gonglian gave face, but still came forward to greet him warmly.

But as soon as he mentioned the content of the holy decree and the holy grace, Zhao Gonglian smiled and asked lightly: "Stabilize the situation in the Western Road and even the Western Army area?" ”

"Funny people telling jokes, huh? To appease the world, especially to appease the hearts of the people in the northwest, only a king can have that ability. Only a king would dare to do that. ”

"The court is not joking. Honesty can't be done. ”

"I don't have that ability, and I don't dare to have it. If I naively try hard, I will be looking for death if I succeed or fail. ”

"Lord Taiwei, you are also an understanding person. Don't you see that the court had to back down in a hurry, but didn't forget to set me up? ”

"Even if it is a generous king, it is only a temporary contingency. I dare to say that if I go out to be an official without knowing the depths and fail to meet the expectations of the court, I will die. If I meet the expectations of the imperial court, I will only die faster. The sooner I saved the Great Song crisis, the faster I died. I'm only going to be worse if I'm full. ”

"One hundred thousand taels of silver? A million taels of gold and a reward of 10,000 taels of gold? ”

"Hehe, don't say that you have to fulfill the expectations of the imperial court to fulfill them. What if you cash it out right away? “

"When I run out, I'll be wiped out, and what's not going back to the court?"

"What if it's a reward of billions? That's still the court's. Everything is empty for my house. ”

Su Taiwei was dumbfounded, and after thinking for a while without saying anything, he woke up, and couldn't help but sigh heavily, and didn't try to justify.

In front of an understanding person like Zhao Gonglian, if he argues too much, he will only arouse ridicule and disgust, and he will be humiliated in vain.

Before, he was too anxious and too excited, and he was not used to carefully pondering the holy decree with the old spicy experience and experience of officialdom, but he didn't expect these for a while.

"Your Excellency, please come back."

"Please reply to the Holy Lord, just say that Zhao Gonglian is ashamed, unable to be loyal to the imperial court to shoulder this heavy responsibility and expectations, and even more unable to reverse the crisis of the imperial court."

"You know your own business. I'm not the material to turn the tide. But there are such talents in the imperial court, and there are quite a few. Among the princes of the DPRK and China, there are many people with great ambitions and talents, and there are many capable officials who have buried their grievances. These officials often complain about their ability and ambition to govern the country and secure the country in their banquets or private chats on weekdays, but unfortunately they have no chance to turn the tide. The Holy Lord Zhang Hui has a good eye for people and picks out a group of capable ministers, and these people should be rewarded with the opportunity to show their ability to make things happen. ”

"In this way, the world can be safe. All the princes have a will. Monarchs and ministers get along. What else is there to worry about? Naturally, everyone is happy. ”

"Anyway, I will never dare to step into the dangerous officialdom that I don't understand. The imperial court wanted to solve the problem and found the wrong person. Sorry for making another empty trip. ”

Su Taiwei had no choice, so he could only go back empty-handed, but he also fought hard, and he wanted to come to Zhao Laoer's house to write another report to the capital with pen and paper.

He wrote it in front of Zhao Gonglian, and wanted Zhao Gonglian to see what he wrote to understand his beauty and sincerity.

It's a pity that Zhao Gonglian avoided it and didn't show up, he didn't even come out to send it when he left, he didn't care what he wrote, and he also showed his attitude of cutting off any contact with officialdom, and he would be a farmer in the future and work hard for ordinary but more long-term survival.

During this period of time, the six divisions of the Western Army successively had turmoil in the hearts of the army and the people, although there was no collective defection like the Zhijia army, but the situation was more critical.

At this time, the capital was already in a hurry.

Zhao Ji hurriedly read this report, and saw that Zhao Gonglian still hadn't been transferred out, and listened to many important ministers below angrily talking about Zhao Gonglian being too arrogant, obviously he was not a subordinate, and he should be killed, and the fear and anxiety he suppressed in his heart suddenly turned into anger, but it was not at Zhao Gonglian, but these so-called ministers of the Pillar State who could only play tricks.

He patted Su Taiwei's recital and asked the ministers: "It is said that Zhao Gonglian thinks that he is powerless to reverse the crisis, but he also thinks that there are great talents and ambitions in the court who are far beyond him and can come forward to turn the tide." I often hear that some courtiers criticize at banquets or in small talk at gatherings, saying that there are so many talented people in our court, and he is not the only one who is young and capable of doing great things, complaining that there is no stage for talents and ambitions but no stage to display, and blames the court for not giving him a chance. Okay, now that the opportunity has come, I don't know which wonder can worry about me? ”

The ministers slandered Zhao Gonglian and said that he should be damned, but he knew the content of the song from the prime minister, and it was expected that the emperor would hate Zhao Gonglian so much that he would talk about attacking it, but he was really clever in slapping the horse's ass to please the emperor, but who knew that it was slapped on the horse's hooves and slapped in the wrong position and at the wrong time. When the emperor asked, he suddenly stood there in embarrassment.

Zhao Ji still has the leisure to enjoy his favorite sycophants in the past at this time.

He is only anxious to solve the crisis, as long as someone can stand up and resist the collapse of the day to solve his problems in time, is there a use in playing nonsense and touting it?

He also knew that these people didn't have Zhao Gonglian's ability and courage to come forward, but at this moment, he couldn't suppress the fire, and slapped the table and asked angrily: "Why are they dumb?" ”

"A genius who always complains that he has no chance to be too talented, why doesn't he seize the opportunity to stand up and prove himself at this time?"

Dafa is a fire, but fire can't solve the problem.

Zhao Ji showed his cleverness and rare decisiveness again, put aside the useless arguments, hateful jealousy and nonsense suggestions of the ministers, dictatorship, and issued an order: order the household department to immediately honor the reward promised to Cangzhao before, add a lot of cloth and food materials, and order all of them to be sent to Liangshan as soon as possible to collect......

In other words, his decisiveness was inadvertently influenced by Zhao Gonglian's foundation when he was a secretary.

Su Taiwei looked at the thatched house three times, and Pegasus came to Zhaozhuang.

At this time, the defecting soldiers and civilians from the farthest west had also arrived at the Cangzhou coast and were taken away by pirates in a blink of an eye.

Zheng Juzhong cowered in the city, not only did not dare to send troops to intercept, but also feared that these arrogant and murderous traitors would go crazy and destroy other state cities, and stormed into Cangzhou City to kill and rob, one by one they were so nervous that they were so nervous that they were so nervous that they were going to see the defectors ignore the city, and they passed by here and slaughtered some local ruffians who didn't know how to die along the way, and they got on the boat and left quickly, and they high-fived and congratulated themselves on their lives and escaped again, and breathed a sigh of relief with joy.

And this time, Zhao Ji recovered some of the mentality of favoring Zhao Gonglian in the past, and finally got rid of hypocrisy, at least hiding the calculation and hatred and murder, and the words in the will changed the previous solemn and modest but false politeness, just watching the anger of Su Taiwei at that time, he waved his pen in the hall and scolded Zhao Gonglian in the vernacular for being filial piety, and he was not filial to his father and elders who should be honored, that is, disloyalty and filial piety....... Finally, I asked angrily, do you want to watch me being laughed at by these bastards in the court?

Su Yuanjing was overjoyed to see that Zhao Gonglian was not only willing to read the holy decree this time, but also was moved after reading this holy decree, and it was not the same as the previous two times.

There's a door.

In the end, the emperor knew Zhao Gonglian best, and in the end he moved this former No. 1 favorite minister.

On the Liangshan side, there is money and things, and they will collect it immediately, and they will collect it quickly, so it doesn't matter if it comes from the imperial court or where it is, and no matter what reason it comes.

The officials and forbidden soldiers who escorted the money and grain to Liangshan only saw the joy of the Liangshan mud legs receiving something, and they happily shouted one by one, "Now there is money to eat." Maybe Liangshan can be redeemed as well...... These bureaucrats didn't know what they were thinking when they looked at this scene, but their faces were serious and gentle, but their eyes were dark and cold.

When the forbidden ships followed Liangshan to lead the ship into the water, they carefully recorded the waterways along the way to facilitate the entry and exit of Liangshan, so it is needless to say.

It is nothing more than a preparation for the post-autumn accounting.

What they don't know is that when the deliberately cut reeds grow next year, the vast Liangshanbo will become another water maze, and it is impossible for people who have not lived here for a long time to really feel the way in and out.

Moreover, what Liangshan relies most on to guard Shuibo is not a complex waterway. If the officers and soldiers come to encircle and suppress, no matter how many warships and troops come, they will only be sent to death.

Zhao Zhuang, Zhao Gonglian read the holy decree, and hurriedly went to the inner house with an excited confession.

It didn't take long for the old grandmother to come out again, but this time she didn't have the calm and satisfied smile she had last time, her face was stiff, and her eyebrows showed anxiety and sadness.

After the polite greeting was over, the old grandmother said bluntly.

"Lord Taiwei, I think you can also see that my stupid grandson has been plucked up with enthusiasm again by the sincere will of the Holy Lord. But the old body can't let him out. ”

A strong wave of his hand prevented Captain Su from opening his mouth,

The old grandmother said again: "The money, food, and materials for the reward, the court was generous this time, but the old body unceremoniously said that this is the reward that my Cangzhao family should have deserved, and it is not much, it is not a heavy reward, and the old body is not very moved." ”

"My grandson is too stupid, still too young and vigorous to be afraid. The old body has lived for 60 years, and he has endured all the hardships in this life, and he has seen a lot of the difficult ways of the world and the warmth and coldness of people, and he knows that people's hearts are sinister. Mainly, the facts have proven that my grandson is not suitable for officialdom. ”

"Whether the saint is sincere, or a momentary scheme. It doesn't matter. The human heart is alive and changes all the time. A man's mouth is but two skins, and if you say it today, you can say it tomorrow. Emperor Chrysostom, but the emperor can't get rid of human nature, and the words he sends are also changed with the needs of the environment and the change of mood. The emperor is true to his word, but it does not mean that it is permanent and will not change. When he was in power, he could self-deny, become the first emperor, lose control of the power, and the descendants could choose flexibly according to the needs of the situation. In short, I can't let my grandson become an official again, and be a fool who died in that unpredictable nest of right and wrong. ”

"As for the money and grain, if the court feels that it is a loss, it will go to Liangshan and take it back."

"Don't worry, there will be no less, and there will be no tricks. Although my naughty little grandson is not a weapon, he is very filial and obedient, and he has always been very generous, and he treats money as nothing, which is a bit of courage and responsibility. As long as my two good grandchildren are still alive and well in front of me when I die, I can close my eyes and go underground to see his grandfather. ”

The old lady said this very sincerely, and she really thought so in her heart.

When Zhao Gonglian heard this, his eyes suddenly turned red, and he knelt down in front of the old lady and choked up: "It's all the grandson's unfilial piety, which makes the old ancestor have extra worries and bother." ”

The old grandmother touched the eldest grandson's bald head dotingly, smiled and said softly: "Don't say stupid things stupidly, stupid children. ”

"My Cangzhao family can have a good offspring like you, grandma and I am happy, this life is not in vain, no matter how much heart you have, you should have more heart. Grandma, I do. It's a great blessing. Others want to have it, and they want to bear this worry, but this heart is not that blessed. ”

The grandparents and grandchildren enjoyed the family affection there, full of warmth. Su Taiwei was as anxious as an ant on a hot pot.

finally said that Zhao Gonglian was moved, but he was easily stirred up by the shrewd old lady, how can this be?

Fortunately, he kept a hand on this trip, and he also kept it in accordance with the holy will, and at this time, this trump card can be revealed, and this reward has to be added.

"Someone, bring the box up."

"Yes, sir."

With this respectful response, the personal servant hurriedly ran out of the house.

After a while, the two servants who had entered the village with Captain Su took out a box-like thing from the carriage and came in from the outside, and they really carried it in.

The flat wooden box looked ordinary, and it shouldn't be heavy, but the two servants were young and sturdy men, and it was still very difficult to carry the box together.

The hidden anxious look on Taiwei Su's face disappeared, and he looked at the box, revealing a look of confidence mixed with other complex emotions, and smiled respectfully at the old grandmother who was immersed in the dual emotions of happiness and sadness: "The old lady has seen people and is wise and unparalleled. I know what worries you. The Holy Lord has known that he has favored the honest and virtuous brother for so many years, and he also knows what your ancestors and grandchildren will worry about. It's not."

He pointed to the box, "The Holy Lord has carefully prepared this for your family to solve the worries of the Cangzhao family. ”

In the surprised eyes of Zhao Gonglian's ancestors and grandsons, the two servants opened the box with the gesture of Taiwei Su.

Suddenly, under the reflection of the sun, a large piece of golden light reflected from the box.

It's really a big piece.

Inside the box is a whole gold plate.

After the two servants took it out with difficulty, they saw that this rectangular gold plate was two feet long, more than a foot wide, and more than an inch thick, like the lintel of a wealthy royal house. To the rise of the family, all kinds of great achievements over the years, as well as the court's loyalty to the king, are listed in great detail, showing that the emperor and the court are clear in their eyes and loyalty to Cangzhao, and have not forgotten that there are many words, so they occupy a large place, and this gold plate is so big.

The most important thing is that the foothold is indicated: the merit is in the community, the benefit is in the future, no special commendation is not enough to praise its merits, the special punishment is not on the Cangzhao Manmen, although the rebellion can also be forgiven, avoid death, the grace of heaven is vast, this is the eternal system" The words are extraordinarily large and conspicuous.

This is a death-free gold medal, and a real gold medal, oversized.

Taiwei Su looked at the stunned and moved grandfather and grandson, and said with a smile: "Old Taijun, Brother Gonglian and Virtuous, the Holy Lord confessed to the official that no matter whether the Brother Gonglian and Virtuous Brother agree to go out again or not, the money and grain will not be recovered, and the gold medal will be used to avoid death to stay in Zhaozhuang, showing the integrity of the Zhao family, and ensuring that Cang Zhao will be peaceful as long as the Great Song Dynasty is in one day." ”

When the old grandmother heard this, she looked at the eldest grandson who was so excited that she burst into tears, she couldn't help but close her eyes, sighed softly for a while, didn't say anything, and turned around slowly back to the inner house with a sad face under the support of Yahuan......

Captain Su finally completed the task, and when he went back, he was relaxed.

When his staff hidden in the carriage heard the details, he couldn't help but sigh with emotion: None of the Cangzhao family members are simple characters, which is really amazing.

For the cronies and staff who have been with him for decades, Su Taiwei does not hide what he says.

He squinted his eyes and bearded and said, "Lao Tzu has clouds, and the sound is loud." Elephants are invisible. This Zhao Gonglian is ah. “

"He served as the chief official of the border pass for several years, and never spoke out about the major politics of the court, if it were not for the fact that his family was too eye-catching, and his achievements at the border pass were too fast and dazzling, I am afraid that the people in the court would have forgotten him long ago. This kind of power is far from being as powerful as the Ninety-Five Supreme sitting on that place! ”

"What is this?"

"This is the true majesty of an emperor. Zhao Gonglian is not the emperor of the imperial court, but he has already become the emperor of the people's hearts. It's a pity that he is not the prince of the dynasty. Otherwise, what else is there to worry about in the Great Song Dynasty? ”