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Not long ago, the Jin State sent Si Ra Xilu and Da Di Wu as the chief and deputy envoys, carrying the letter of state, and crossed the sea to Dengzhou.

Wang Shizhong, the governor of Dengzhou, immediately sent people to escort Si Ra Xilu and Da Diu to Bianliang City, Tokyo.

Zhao Ji ordered Zhao Liangsi to be responsible for greeting and reception.

Slaxilu and Da Diu were dazzled by the bustling street scene of Bianliang City - they were shocked to see such beautiful houses, such beautiful goods, and such beautiful women for the first time, and they were deeply attracted by the material civilization of the Great Song Dynasty.

Zhao Liangsi led them to the Xianjing Temple for a banquet - it was relatively secluded and would not attract attention.

After the meal, Zhao Liangji arranged for Si Ra Xilu and Da Diu to stay in Tongwen Hall as envoys of the Goryeo Kingdom.

Tongbunkan is located in Anju Lane outside Liangmen, and is a pavilion specially used to receive the envoys of the Goryeo Kingdom.

Three days later, Slaxilu and Dadiu entered the palace as envoys of the Goryeo Kingdom to meet Zhao Ji.

Si Ra Xilu and Da Diu conveyed to Zhao Ji Wanyan Aguta's greetings to Zhao Ji, and officially handed over the credentials of the Jin State to the Great Song Dynasty.

The general meaning of this letter of state is that not long ago, Zhao Liangsi came to visit with the imperial pen, asking to recover Yanjing and the land under its jurisdiction in the future, and transfer the silver silk originally handed over to the Khitan to us, which we agreed, but after raising troops, the people from other places who ran to Yanjing were not within the scope of the promise, and if the Gui Dynasty did not send troops to attack the Khitan in the future, then we could not take Yanjing back on the grounds that we promised.

Wang Hao was very smart, and he soon discovered that in the state of Jin, there was only Yanjing and the state city under his control, and there was no Yundi and the state city under his control, let alone the area around Pingluanying.

Wang Hao hurriedly explained to Zhao Ji: "The sixteen states of Yanyun are the seven states in front of the mountain (i.e., Yandi) plus the nine states behind the mountain (i.e., Yundi), in addition, the areas of Pingzhou, Yingzhou and Luanzhou, the mountains are undulating and dangerous, which can be used as a strategic barrier to defend against the Jurchens in the future, and cannot be given to the Jurchens. ”

At this point, Zhao Ji knew that he had made a big mistake, and he hurriedly said: "I don't know that there are so many sayings in the sixteen states of Yanyun, I have always thought that the land of Yanyun is Yanjing and the state city under its control, so my codex only says that I want Yanjing and the state city under its management. ”

Wang Hao immediately comforted Zhao Ji and said, "Your Majesty doesn't need to worry, let's call Zhao Liangsi first to ask what's going on." ”

After Zhao Liangsi was summoned to the palace, after hearing the reason why Zhao Ji summoned him into the palace, he immediately explained: "Official, regarding Xijing and other Kyushu behind the mountain, the Emperor of the Jin State also verbally agreed, however, he said that he would wait until they captured the Liao lord before making the delivery, and I also pointed out to them that the three states of Wei, Ying, and Shuo were the closest to the Great Song Dynasty, and the Jin army was not allowed to arrive, and our Great Song Dynasty could also send a large army to occupy these three states first, and then slowly negotiate with them for the other six states behind the mountain." ”

Hearing Zhao Liangsi say this, Zhao Ji and Wang Hao secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

However, Wang Hao quickly asked again: "What about the three states of Pingluanying?" ”

Zhao Liangsi replied: "I have also asked them for these three states, but they said that these three states were already Khitan before Shi Jingjiao ceded the sixteen states of Yanyun to the Khitan, and they were not the hometown of our Great Song Dynasty, so they did not agree to give these three states to us." ”

Wang Hao frowned, blamed Zhao Liangsi and said, "Why don't you fight with them?" ”

Zhao Liangsi couldn't say anything about his suffering, so he could only sneak a glance at Zhao Ji.

Zhao Ji knew that it must be because he didn't write clearly that Zhao Liangsi couldn't win it over.

Therefore, Zhao Ji opened his mouth and said: "This can't be blamed on Zhao Liangsi, it's all blamed on me for being nonsense for a while, I have always mistakenly thought that Yanyun lost land, that is, Yanjing lost land, how can this be good?" ”

At this time, Tong Guan walked in from outside, and he said, "The officials don't have to worry, just send envoys to the Jurchens and explain them in detail." ”

So, Zhao Ji, Wang Hao, Tong Guan and others discussed it and decided to send Ma Zheng, Ma Kuo and his son to go again.

In addition to being busy discussing with Jin Guo to clarify the areas to be recovered, Zhao Ji and others were also busy using the excuse of changing guards to transfer the Hebei Forbidden Army and the Northwest Forbidden Army, and at the same time they were busy gathering grain and grass materials to prepare to go north to recover Yanyun.

It was in such an environment that Zhao Ji summoned Cai Ying to Jingshi, but he did not have time to summon Cai still into the palace, after all, the little Cai Yi was not worth mentioning compared with Lianjin's extermination of Liao and the recovery of Yanyun's sixteen states.

Cai still came to Tokyo this time, seeing Zhao Ji is only one of the purposes, and it is the smallest one, Cai still has a few more important things to do, such as operating Lu Chuanbian to know the Jinwu army, such as operating Wang Sheng, Gao Shidan, Zhai Jin and others to transfer to the Xingde army, like transferring the Xingde army and the Jinwu left army, and so on......

Therefore, Zhao Ji was not in a hurry to summon Cai Ji, and Cai Ji was not in a hurry to see Zhao Ji.

During this period, Cai still began to dredge up relations.

First of all, the relationship between Cai and Cai is still dredged, to be precise, the relationship that should be consolidated is Cai You and Gao Yu - the former is currently the only favored minister of Zhao Ji who can compare with Wang Huang, often he says one sentence, which is equivalent to hundreds, thousands, and tens of thousands of sentences spoken by others. The latter is Cai Zhen's current direct top leader, and although he has no right to decide, he has the right to speak, at least he can still propose.

Secondly, Cai still began to dredge the relationship between Tong Guan, Deng Xunwu, and Zheng Juzhong - at this time, Tong Guan, Deng Xunwu, and Zheng Juzhong were in charge of the Privy Council, Deng Xunwu was the privy envoy of the Privy Council, and Zheng Juzhong was the privy envoy of the same knowledge, and Tong Guan was to mobilize the Western Army and the Hebei Forbidden Army to change guards, and the power he currently had in the Privy Council was greater than that of Deng Xunwu and Zheng Juzhong.

In addition to dredging the relationship between the Privy Council, Cai still had to dredge the relationship between the Ministry of Officials and the Ministry of War.

All in all, because he wanted to swallow the Xingde Army, because he wanted to open up the relationship for the promotion of the soldiers of the Jinwu Army, and finally obtained a team that could follow him wholeheartedly, Cai still began his own journey of dredging and bribery.

Actually-

Some things are cumbersome to say, but after they are really done, it is not so difficult, especially when your status has reached a certain height and there is a huge force behind you.

To make a long story short, under Cai's investment regardless of the cost, the Privy Council soon issued an order for the transfer of the Jinwu Left Army and the Xingde Army, and the officials promoted Wang Sheng, Gao Shidan, Zhai Jin and others to their official positions, and the Ministry of War allowed Wang Sheng, Gao Shidan, Zhai Jin and others to be transferred to the Xingde Army.

But—

It is not that everything goes according to Cai Ying's wishes, and the matter of Lu Chuan Bian's transfer to Zhijin Wujun is not going so smoothly.

Cai still doesn't know how Lu Chuanbian offended Wang Hao, Wang Hao just refused to let Lu Chuanbian go to Jinwujun, and seemed to have made up his mind to send Lu Chuanbian to Tanzhou.

Later, Cai still asked Lu Chuanbian to ask, and then he probably knew the reason.

It turns out -

This is still Cai Jing's responsibility.

At the beginning, Zhang Shangying was the prime minister, but because of his lack of ability, he made the Northern Song Dynasty court a mess, and Zhao Ji moved the mind of restoring Cai Jing, who had already been a minister, so he sent an envoy to reward Cai Jing with the jade ring in Hangzhou.

After Wang Hao learned of this, he praised Cai Jing's political affairs one by one and attacked Zhang Shangying.

Cai Jing served as the prime minister again, grateful to Wang Hao for helping him, so he appointed Wang Hao as the left counselor, to the matter, the imperial history of the Cheng, Wang Huang from the school secretary to the imperial history of the Cheng, it took only two years, this is all thanks to Cai Jing's appreciation.

Since then, Wang Hao has become one of Cai Jing's protégés.

At the beginning, Wang Hao did his best to do things for Cai Jing - he relied on He Zhizhong to be promoted, and in order to let Cai Jing dictate power, he discussed the twenty crimes of He Zhizhong.

But later, Wang Hao's official rose faster and faster, and there were signs that he was not under Cai Jing's control.

The most obvious thing is that Cai Jing and Zheng Juzhong do not agree, but Wang Hao is good friends with Zheng Juzhong.

Cai Jing was very angry because of this, so he transferred Wang Hao to serve as the secretary of the household department.

At that time, when the youth was not in charge, Cai Jing wanted to use the lack of state funds as Wang Huang's crime.

Soon, because the forbidden army of all classes was not rewarded as scheduled, they went to the Zuozang Treasury to make noise.

After Wang Hao heard about it, he posted a big list in front of the army, promising to reward them on a certain day in a certain month, and everyone dispersed after reading the list, Cai Jing's plan was not realized.

But although Cai Jing failed to beat Wang Hao to death with a rod that time, it also made Wang Hao feel a lot of fright, so that Wang Hao quickly threw himself into the name of Liang Shicheng and sought the protection of Liang Shicheng, so that he was saved from being cleaned up by Cai Jing again, and finally replaced Cai Jing.

Wang Hao always kept in mind Cai Jing's suppression of him, and was determined to find an opportunity to settle accounts with Cai Jing.

However, although Cai Jing has already become a leader, Yu Wei is still there, the key is that the power is still there, so that Wang Hao can't move Cai Jing at all.

On this basis, Wang Hao can only settle accounts with Cai Jing's minions.

And one of the people who helped Cai Jing deal with Wang Hao at that time was Lu Chuanbian, and Lu Chuanbian was still the one who charged.

It is precisely because of this that as soon as Wang Hao came to power, he demoted Lu Chuanbian to the third division and became an idle post, especially disgusted with hatred, Wang Hao recently prepared to transfer Lu Chuanbian to the bitter cold Tanzhou.

Knowing that this was the case, Cai still had a headache.

If he had known that the grievances between Lu Chuanbian and Wang Hao were so deep, Cai still would not have made a big deal to operate Lu Chuanbian to go to Jinwujun with Cai Jing.

It was only at this time that Cai still understood that Cai Jing, an old fox, was helping himself, and he clearly wanted to use his own hands to rescue Lu Chuanbian and save Lu Chuanbian's political life.

To be honest, Cai still hates this kind of being at the mercy of others.

But first, the political resources in Cai Jing's hands are too rich, so rich that Cai still wants to inherit these political resources in Cai Jing's hands, even if it is only a small part of them.

Second, after coming into contact with Lu Chuanbian, Cai still found that this Lu Chuanbian was really suitable to be a "leader" for himself through careful observation and careful testing.

Therefore, in the end, Cai still pinched his nose and admitted that he was calculated by Cai Jing, and was ready to find a suitable opportunity to visit the only person Wang Hao was afraid of and the only person who obeyed his words - Liang Shicheng.

A few days later, Cai Maung, who was entrusted by Cai to meet Liang Shicheng's godson Liang Bingcong, brought back news to Cai still and said: "Sixth uncle, Liang Yanei invites you to go to Fanlou for a gathering in the evening. ”

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