In the city of Qingzhou, after the southward migration to escape the war in the summer, the few people left naturally couldn't keep Zhao Gonglian, who had made up his mind, and could only cry tears and grief and scold the traitors in the court, so that a good official like Hou Ye wanted to do something for the country and the people, but he couldn't do it, and he couldn't do it.

Seeing that the Hou Ye, whom he respected and loved, resolutely left, many people were useless and cried, and immediately packed up their stalls and left their work to go home to take care of their bags urgently......

Joke.

The reason why his family is still in Cheongju City, which is dangerous and population depressed, and his livelihood is difficult, in addition to being nostalgic for his homeland, is because Hou Ye is here in town.

Without Hou Ye, what are you doing here?

Waiting to die?

The people of Cheongju only trusted Hou Ye's ability and character. Hou Ye did not protect Qingzhou, so the people did not dare to pin their lives on the remaining government personnel, nor did they trust the ability and quality of any minister sent by the Great Song Dynasty to take over the management of the town. Even if it was the prime minister of the dynasty who was talented and the strong generals selected from the Western Army who could fight to take over Cheongju together.

They only trust and rely on Hou Ye here, and they did not follow the trend in the summer to defect to the pirates because the Great Song Dynasty still has Hou Ye's loyalty and support, and there is hope.

Hou Ye is gone. Then Qingzhou and the Great Song Dynasty have nothing to be nostalgic for.

At this time, the unsmart ones quickly escaped, did they still wait for Liao Kou to hear the news of Pegasus to kill and take revenge on Cangbei, who had long hated Cangbei?

The officers and soldiers patrolling the streets also blew up when they heard the news.

Although it did not go away with a mess like the common people and immediately collapsed, showing the discipline, well-trained and military resilience of the Cangbei Army, it was also full of grief and panic. They will not block the Hou Ye and shout like the people, but they are just habitually waiting in line on the side of the road and calling for the marshal with tears.

But the loyal and brave soldiers can't keep the heart of the Hou Ye leaving, and they won't force their own marshals to leave angrily.

They understand the grievances of the marshal, and they also feel unjust for the marshal in their hearts, and they also feel that the marshal's loyalty to the Song Dynasty over the years is too worthless.

But someone dared to stop it, and it was very arrogant.

Emperor Zhao Ji placed many officials and generals in the four military states of Cangbei, especially in Qingzhou City, and monitored and controlled Zhao Gonglian from all aspects of military and political affairs.

One of them is the inspection of the Imperial History King Kaidao, who was specially stationed in Cheongju.

It was this person who was arrogant and forcibly stopped Zhao Gonglian.

This guy was sitting in his own public room in the yamen, drinking tea and sitting idly, and suddenly got the news when he was bored, not like other monitoring officials sent by the emperor such as Meng Dingguo, the deputy general of the Qingzhou army, who was just shocked and at a loss for a while, but a burst of ecstasy, feeling that a great opportunity to make great achievements and show his loyalty and ability to turn the tide to the imperial court had come.

He put down the tea bowl and jumped up from the chair with a bang, and didn't look at the tea that was spilled everywhere on the table, regardless of the delicate and expensive teapot that he loved was smashed to the ground and shattered, he swept out of the yamen with his robe and legs, grabbed a horse and rode at the yamen, and the flying horse chased after him, and blocked Zhao Gonglian's horse head in time in front of the south gate.

"Wen Chenghou stopped."

This guy roared, and under the sad and indignant gaze of the city gate army and the surrounding people, he also shook the imperial historian's robe very magnificently on the horse, and the majestic horse blocked the front.

Xiao Li Guanghuarong, who was guarding Zhao Gonglian's side, looked at the arrogance and excitement of this little imperial history, knowing why this guy was like this, and was so disgusted that he wanted to vomit.

On the other side, the guard Changjiao's eyes stared coldly at this guy behind the hooded helmet, and the big hand subconsciously tightened the treasure knife he was carrying, and he couldn't wait to rush up immediately and smash the face of this arrogant villain.

Zhao Gonglian smiled calmly, glanced at Wang Kaidao, and said with a smile: "After resigning all the power and glory given by the imperial court, I am no longer a marquis." “

"Okay."

Wang Kaidao shouted loudly and shouted: "Zhao Gonglian, this official asks you, if you don't do it, even if you are not a courtier of the Great Song Dynasty, you are still a subject of the Great Song Dynasty, you must abide by the rules and regulations of the Great Song Dynasty, right?" ”

Zhao Gonglian smiled, but did not respond.

He didn't bother to deal with such a villain.

Jiao Ting impatiently pointed at Wang Kaidao with a big knife, and shouted fiercely: "We are in a hurry to go back to our hometown to reunite with our relatives and live our favorite comfortable people's life, and we don't have time to listen to you being blind here." What do you want to say, say it directly, Shao Teniang's sour words and vinegar songs are a waste of time and delay our journey. ”

Wang Kaidao was frightened by the pointed Sen Leng Dadao and Jiao Ting's ferocity, but then he felt that the other party did not dare to kill him, he didn't have to be afraid of anything, and he was so angry that he came up again.

As soon as he pointed at Jiao Ting, he opened his mouth and scolded: "You cheap"

"Cheap mom. Do you want to die? ”

Jiao Ting didn't have the habit of listening to people's scolding, and he interrupted Wang Kaidao's arrogant scolding with a roar, urging him to immediately go forward and teach this guy a lesson. was so frightened that this guy rode his horse back again and again, and he didn't dare to scold people anymore. Jiao Ting didn't have to chase after him, snorted disdainfully, and shouted: "Jiao Ye, I said, if you have a fart, let it go, if you don't fart, get out of here." ”

At this time, Gao Jiguang, the commander-in-chief of the state, Lord Tongju, and Meng Dingguo, the deputy general, and other military and political officials finally arrived, accompanied by his own soldiers and some officers and soldiers.

With his colleagues to echo and the support and protection of force, Wang Kaidao, who was in an embarrassment and was in a dilemma, suddenly became more confident and regained his vigor.

He wisely stopped fighting with guards like Jiao Ting, and only stared at Zhao Gonglian to talk about things.

A vulgar martial artist can be wild regardless of it, but Zhao Gonglian can't treat him like this, no matter how he says it, he has to be decent and even decent.

"Marquis Wencheng, our officials of the Great Song Dynasty are not just words. You don't have the approval of the Imperial Court. Now you are still the prefect and the marquis, and you have the responsibility of guarding the border, even if you don't care about the sin of leaving your post without permission, you are the emperor's grace, so young you are the lord of the county marquis, the scholar of Longtu Pavilion, the second-grade member of the dynasty, and the more practical duty of the feudal officials who led tens of thousands of troops, let me ask who in the hundreds of years since the founding of the Great Song Dynasty could obtain such a high status, glory and power at your age? Who in the DPRK today can compare with your gains? How can you make such a casual decision, say that you will not do it, and then throw off the heavy responsibility of guarding the border gates, live up to the expectations of the saints, and leave your hands behind? ”

This guy also seems to understand, it is not possible to play arrogant, I am afraid that I can't get the gang of fierce gods under Zhao Gonglian, so he cleverly changed his clever words to appease and fool people who want to keep people first, and then the driver detains Zhao Gonglian and waits for the court to deal with it.

But those words, at least on the surface, made sense.

The civil and military officials surrounding all agreed with the voice.

"Yes, yes. Wen Chenghou, (Dashuai) (Adult) What's the matter, we can discuss it slowly. Is there anything that can't be solved? Why do you act so hastily? Such impulsive actions are not a good thing for the Cangzhao family and subordinates, and for all our subjects in Qingzhou, right? ”

There are those who are sincerely retained, those who are cooperating with Zhao Gonglian in acting, and those who want to calculate Zhao Gonglian with hypocrisy.

Wang Kaidao stood on the commanding heights of morality and righteousness and accused Wen Chenghou, who was boundless in the past and no one dared to commit a crime, and he was also echoed by everyone, and he couldn't help but be very proud.

Zhao Gonglian was unmoved.

He smiled faintly, no longer glanced at Wang Kaidao, turned his head and slowly glanced at the dense officials gathered at the south gate, as well as some of the soldiers and people, and after a natural and rapid silence, he hugged his fist slightly to the main official Fang Wei headed by Tong Ju and Gao Jiguang, and said with a smile: "What this Wang Yushi said just now is very reasonable. ”

Wang Kaidao became even more proud when he heard this, and he had a tendency to shake his head with his beard on his horse.

But I heard Zhao Gonglian continue to laugh and say: "However, it is precisely because Jun'en is too thick, the pressure of power and glory is too great, Gonglian is too young and shallow, and his ability is limited, so I feel that this official is increasingly powerless, and I really can't bear the heavy responsibility, lest I spoil such a major responsibility, endanger or even hurt the majority of subjects and soldiers here, and live up to the expectations of the saints, so I am determined to retire as soon as possible and let the court send capable people to take over, lest I miss the wealth and power and spoil the country's major affairs and cause irreparable consequences." ”

As soon as they heard this, Wang Kaidao and the others were so blocked that they rolled their eyes.

Zhao Gonglian still has to hurry, so he didn't have the leisure to talk too much here, and said, "You have also seen it." I've been letting go of military and political affairs for so long, and everything is running as usual in Honshu. This means that my role here is insignificant, with or without me. I'm relieved to go. “

"Maybe I'm not in the way, you can use your talents to the fullest, and this state can be better. Right? ”

"Since the country is full of talents, there is no need for me to be involved in officialdom, without me, Da Song can be better. And the remnants of my family, who are in debt, who love my family, who are loyal to my family, and always repay with their lives, are in trouble and urgently need me to go home and lead them to find some way to survive through the crisis, and my grandmother needs me to go back to soothe my grief and get through this hurdle in front of me. So why should I waste my time and energy to be an official and abandon my family? ”

"The country, the country, the imperial courts of all dynasties have always emphasized that only when there is a country can there be a home, and all the people in the world should give up their homes for the country; At the very least, it is said that the country is one, emphasizing that for the country is for the family, and it is worthwhile, deserved, and necessary to pay for the country. There's nothing wrong with that. And I only understand today that if my home is gone, what is the country? “

"Let me ask, which official and big man in the court today is willing to sacrifice his family for the country?"

"Counting back from Cai Jing, who brought disaster to the country and the people, can you tell me which of the prime ministers is so open-minded?"

"They are all talking empty words and lies with red mouths and white teeth, and asking others with empty truths and high-sounding words, but they always put their family before their country and their own people, and they don't do anything if they suffer a little loss. Or it's none of his business, he doesn't have a backache when he stands and talks, he likes to watch others sacrifice for the country, and snickering as an unlucky fool. ”

"Since the bureaucracy has such a mentality, then the correct principle of the state has become sour. It was only then that I realized that the kingdom is made up of families. Only when there is a family can there be a country. “

"Now my family can't afford to contribute anything to the country. There are countless talents in the imperial court, and I am not needed. My grandmother is looking forward to my return home to serve her old man. I'm also the only one in my family who can be counted on. Since ancient times, loyalty and filial piety have been difficult to achieve. At this juncture, I tell you that I, Zhao Gonglian, choose to be filial rather than loyal first. ”

Zhao Gonglian said very loudly in the words of filial piety and then loyalty, there is nothing wrong with the reason itself, it is just a pure personal choice, and it has nothing to do with morality and illegality, but no official will say this publicly, and no one even dares to say it publicly.

In the era of loyalty and patriotism, saying this is equivalent to great rebellion, and will be sprayed into a sieve by moral Confucians, and drowned by the spittle stars of countless scholars who want to be officials and want to go crazy. If these are nothing, you don't care, you can not care, but when the emperor hears it, he will definitely attract the emperor's jealousy and hatred, you want to be an official, and the emperor will never let you get your wish. You are an official, then you go home and do your filial piety, don't think about glory and wealth. If you don't care about this, then be careful that people come from heaven in their homes and suffer inexplicable lawsuits. If you are very talented, very prestigious, and charismatic, then you will fly into trouble, be careful of you and even your head.

Therefore, these words shocked all the officials, some of them looked shocked, and some of them sneered.

But no matter what everyone's attitude is, Zhao Gonglian doesn't care.

Don't worry.

He stroked the head of the horse that he loved BMW, looked around at everyone, and said slowly: "My grandmother is anxious and sleepless day and night, and her body is not safe, and she urgently needs me to go back to serve. I can't wait for the imperial court to procrastinate in approving the resignation, so I can only hang up the seal and leave. I have explained the reason and the reason. If you understand, let me go. If anyone is unwilling, they insist on blocking it, or they secretly have some ulterior motives and want to show credit to the court for asking me for sin. Huh,"

Zhao Gonglian smiled, but his voice changed suddenly: "I, Zhao Gonglian, have gone home and fulfilled my filial piety." Those who dare to stand in my way, don't blame me for being unruly and ruthless. ”

These words shook the officials again.

Meng Dingguo came to Qingzhou from the palace guard generals because of the emperor's secret decree, if Zhao Gonglian had any changes, he could immediately arrest Hou Fu Manmen and go to prison or even kill him directly.

Zheng Juzhong, the prefect of Cangzhou, also has this secret purpose of capturing or directly destroying Zhao Zhuang, Cangzhao's hometown.

There is also a way to inspect the royal history king, and the secret decree is in the arms like Meng Dingguo, and he has never left his body since he arrived in Qingzhou, so as to be ready to show up at any time.

At this time, this guy was eager to make meritorious contributions, and he wanted to show his majesty immediately, and his hand was already stretched into his arms, but he was not stupid, he knew that he couldn't do anything, and he needed to lead soldiers and martial artists to cooperate, and his eyes were on the main general Gao Jiguang.

But Gao Jiguang ignored him, just frowning and pondering something.

looked at Meng Dingguo again, and gestured frequently with his eyes, but his eyes were almost blind, and Meng Dingguo was not decided.

Meng Dingguo is a rough martial artist, but the mind does not mean simple.

The so-called abnormal reason for the emperor to allow him to do it, he felt that it was inappropriate to put it on Zhao Gonglian.

People didn't rebel, they didn't rebel, they didn't secretly contact anyone for any misdeeds, they didn't do anything to harm the interests of the court, they just abandoned all the credits, and they were very resolute and simply didn't want the future of officialdom to be rare, rich and glorious, but determined to go home and fulfill their filial piety. Filial piety, this can also be regarded as an abnormality?

If you don't admire the power and are willing to do filial piety for the grass people, this noble and touching act is also an anomaly, then there are too many people in the world who value filial piety and should be killed?

It seems that there is nothing wrong with the behavior of people who dare to prevent others from going home to fulfill their filial piety, even if it is illegal, it is understandable.

Meng Dingguo was a person who adhered to the Chinese Confucian tradition and was loyal to the emperor, so he won the emperor's trust, but when he suddenly encountered this matter, there was a conceptual obstacle.

He was a little confused.

Of course, this conceptual barrier is not the main reason why he didn't do it.

He was a martial artist who was accustomed to acting by force.