The Yellow Crane Tower is full of scholars from Jingxiang and Jiangnan counties, and although all kinds of discussions are full of southern and northern tones, the adults bow to the grand event, and try their best to speak the official dialect of Zhongzhou, and everyone can hear it clearly. Someone chirped in a low voice: "Chen Dong himself advertises that he is clear in science, but he marries a Bianliang singer as his wife, which is really hypocritical." In my opinion, compared with Mr. Jingdong Hou, who is consistent in his words and deeds, he is a complete villain. The other praised him and said: "Brother Tai is really as wise as a torch, and he can see through the true face of this hypocrite at a glance." ”

His words aroused the dissatisfaction of others, and a middle-aged man in white at the next table shouted: "Rare and strange, blood spurts!" His voice was so loud that it drew the attention of the people around him, and he laughed with the people at the table.

The people who slandered Chen Dong looked at each other, and the people who had been before them muttered in a low voice: "What is horizontal? A thief for one day is a thief for life, and a prostitute is a prostitute. If Chen Shaoyang wants to be the prime minister, he should divorce this prostitute first! His words fell into the ears of others, and someone slapped the table and said, "Villain, is this to force someone to kill his wife?" I think you were sent by Cai Jing's traitorous party to make trouble! At the beginning, Chen Dong married back to a beauty with the help of Zhu Sen, although he was laughed at by Cai Li and other traitors, which made Zhao Zhifu, Qin Hui and other old Qingliu dissatisfied, but most of the young scholars who studied too much were both envious and admired, not only did not decrease, but increased his prestige. The views of the people of the Science Society and other traitors on this matter are even more clear. Hearing that the previous few people were similar to the traitors, several scholars were furious, stood up, and were about to do it as they spoke. In this Ezhou city, after all, there are more scholars towards Chen Dong. When the original society made trouble in various places, it instigated the people to kill people. Under the turbulence of the crowd, the previous few people did not dare to make a mistake, and immediately hurriedly checked out and left.

After looking at the people who spoke before with disdain and leaving, Liu Wengu shook his head and said: "Mr. Shaoyang is a real celebrity, Zhu Zhulin became a good thing in the past, a beautiful thing that caused a sensation in the capital, and it became so filthy in the mouth of those filthy people just now. Sure enough, the Buddha is a Buddha in his eyes, and the dung is dung in his eyes. Hearing him say the indecent word "dung", Jia Yuanzhen frowned, Ma Yuan wiped his fingers with some wine and wiped it on his ears, and sighed exaggeratedly: "Poor ears, ears, after listening to this dirty talk, I really have to wash it." ”

After the commotion just now, the building calmed down again, and everyone continued to talk about the election of the prime minister. At this time, a scholar pretended to be mysterious and said: "Have you heard about the rumors about Mr. Yuanzhi recently?" The location in the lobby of the Yellow Crane Tower was very densely arranged, and although he lowered his voice, the people at several tables next to him still heard it.

"What rumors?" The matter involved Zhao Xingde, and several soldiers who joined the Baoyi Army couldn't help but prick up their ears.

The man looked left and right, and said in a lower voice, "The fact that Mr. is a clan may be true." ”

"Nonsense!" The other person's voice was a little louder, "Pretending to be a clan is the crime of framing Mr. Yuan Zhi by the traitorous party!" ”

Xu Guodong, Liu Wengu and the others looked at each other, their faces were in disbelief, Ma Yuan shook his head disapprehantly, since the person mentioned the rumors, he wanted to show off, and continued with a smug face: "This matter is a long story, you don't know that Mr. Zhao's great-ancestor is Zhao Wendinggong, who wrote and engraved the righteousness of the Five Classics in the time of Ruizong, right?" ”

"Huh? How can this be? Everyone was surprised, most of them didn't know, and some people thought, "Although the surname is also Zhao, haven't you heard that Duke Zhao Wending is a clan?" The suspicion on his face became even heavier.

Song Ruizong reigned for a total of forty-one years. It was Song Mingzong who failed in the Northern Expedition and had to negotiate with the Liao State after "Xinglong Peace", and died of grief at the age of only forty-seven, which was passed down to Song Ruizong. Ruizong's dynasty is an era of famous ministers, under the threat of Liao and Xia, the Manchu Dynasty civil and military are working hard, some people advocate learning from the law of the Xia State to reform the old and new, some people advocate or adhere to the ancestral system, but also buried the foreshadowing of the old and new party struggle in the three dynasties. However, the party struggle in the Ruizong Dynasty was generally a gentleman's dispute, and Zhao Wendinggong was also a leading figure in the old party.

"Here is the real secret," the man said mysteriously, "Do you know that Zhao Wending is highly respected and has known Zongzheng Qing in Jingde for three years, right?" "This sect is one of the nine qing, specializing in the affairs of the sect, although Zhao Wending's life is not clear to everyone, but it is easy to find out, thinking that it is impossible for that person to talk nonsense on this, the person listening next to him will deal with it graciously.

"It is said that during the Ruizong Dynasty, the first queen of the official family, Fu Bo, returned to heaven, because the official family has no heirs. The official family has not been established, and the concubines in the palace compete for favor, and the official family has passed the golden mouth and jade words, if the concubine gives birth to the prince first, she will be established as the queen of the main palace. However, at that time, Cao, Zhu, and Liu were all very powerful, and they did not have a dragon species, and if the other concubines were pregnant, they must try to break her, sometimes forcibly knocking down the fetus, and sometimes even killing two corpses. Over time, the official family is over forty years old, and there has been no prince, and the people in the court are panicking, and Zhao Wendinggong, who is serving as Zong Zhengqing, is also worried about this. At this time, a eunuch in the palace suddenly asked someone to find Zhao Wendinggong. It turned out that there was a concubine who realized that she was pregnant, and she saw many bloody lessons in the palace, so she had to turn to this eunuch for help. ”

The rumor rumor has the talent of a speech book, and he told this palace secret story vividly, and when he heard it, someone suddenly patted the case: "Who is this concubine?" Could it be that it is a relative again? "Since ancient times, eunuchs and relatives have been the enemies of scholars, and when they heard that they were all here, everyone thought about their relatives. The hereditary generals of Xijing, Hedong and Hebei are quite powerful, and in order to win over these generals, the officials of the past dynasties have married the Cao, Yang, Zhe and Liu families, so Qingliu is also full of vigilance against these generals.

The eunuch took pity on her, and temporarily helped her hide it, but her body gradually became heavy, and she couldn't hide it for long, and was finally discovered by a noble concubine, although the eunuch was loyal, but she couldn't fight against the mother, and tried her best to save the life of the concubine, fortunately, the time was delayed, and the concubine died after giving birth to the child. The official family has never known about these things, and the harmful concubine Niangniang is also pregnant, and she is even more favored by the official family. The eunuch had no choice but to secretly take the child out of the palace and hand it over to Zhao Wendinggong, Zong Zhengqing, begging him to protect the child, but asking him to be a witness, if there is a chance in the future, to give the child the opportunity to recognize his ancestors and return to his ancestors. Later, the concubine Niangniang gave birth to a prince and was made the queen as she wished. And Zhao Wending didn't want to do much, so he regarded this child as his own and raised it himself, this child was the later Zhao Gongbu, and Zhao Gongbu was Zhao Tixin's father of Zhao Shi. ”

Hearing this, everyone suddenly let out an "oh" sound, and someone sighed, "In this way, Mr. Zhao is really a clan, not only that, if according to Ruizong's golden words, if the concubine hadn't been poisoned at the beginning, I'm afraid Mr. Zhao should be ...... now" He looked left and right, pointed to the sky with his hand, and did not continue. The other person pretended to groan and said: "With Zhao Wending's person, I think this matter is eight or nine points credible." Next to the approving said: "Exactly, when Zhao Wending Gong Jin told Ruizong to 'agree on the frontier and fight forever', didn't he just want the world to be troubled?" ”

This rumor involves the secrets of the palace, and Zhao Xingde, who is famous, is the party involved, which inevitably aroused everyone's curiosity, and they didn't even discuss the question of who was the prime minister, and whispered the truth of the rumors.

Ma Yuan and Liu Wengu were born in Taixue, and they had a much deeper understanding of the behavior of the courtiers and the situation in the court than ordinary scholars, and at this moment, the eyes of several people were puzzled and strange.

"There's something strange about this," Ma Yuan shook his head, "it can't be true." ”

Jia Yuanzhen also nodded: "This rumor is full of flaws, Zhao Wending, as Zong Zhengqing, how can he hide the identity of the prince." If he is the leader of the clear stream, he must go straight to the palace to meet His Majesty. If this matter is true, don't say that the vicious concubine is a dead word, even Cao Liu Guoqi has to apologize. He snorted disdainfully, "These people are shallow, should they be obedient?" Such shoddy rumors would be believed? ”

Liu Wengu shook his head and pouted at the people next to him: "Whether you believe it or not, people believe it." ”

"There is no wind and no waves, this matter is strange," Xu Guodong looked solemn, put the teacup on the table, and said in a low voice: "Someone wants to deal with Mr. Zhao." Ma Yuan and the others looked at each other and nodded in unison.

There are more and more scholars from various states and counties gathered in the city of Ezhou, and all kinds of strange rumors are spreading more and more, and the most talked about is the secret of Zhao Xingde's "clan". When it reached Chen Dong's ears, Chen Dong just laughed it off and said to others: "Those who are clear are self-purifying, and they are not strange, and their blame is self-defeating." ”

As the date for the election of the prime minister approached, the situation gradually became clearer. With the help of donations, the Lishe controlled about 40 prefectures and counties, and persuaded some local gentry, Chen Dong was already able to firmly occupy the position of the fake prime minister, and the people from the prefectures and counties of Jingdong saw this situation, so they retreated to the second place, seeking the position of fake governor for Hou Huanyin, Chen Dong of course agreed, in this way, in the more than 100 states and counties that "respect the Son of Heaven and do not obey orders", there are enough eighty or ninety prefectures and counties that have stood on his side, which can be called the expectation of the public. In the previous month, the competition for state and county schools secretly provoked by the Science Society also brought a large amount of silver income to the government treasury of Ezhou. Under the confrontation between the two, the number of county students donated to the county increased by more than 3,000 people, and this alone has enriched the treasury of Ezhou with more than one million yuan of money and grain in a short period of time.