Cai Jing was invited by Zhao Ji to serve as prime minister for the fourth time, which really gave some people expectations, and they hoped that Cai Jing, who had rich experience in governing and had achieved good results, could help the general of the building to fall and turn the tide.

But Cai Jing was 80 years old at this time, and he was "blind and unable to write, and unable to kneel on his feet".

It is impossible for such Cai Jing to be competent for the heavy work of the prime minister.

Therefore, all the documents that need to be signed by Cai Jing are handled by Cai Jing, and even the affairs of the previous dynasty are replaced by Cai Juan.

Cai Xuan, who had not been reused before, suddenly felt the power, or the power of the prime minister, who was above 10,000 people under one person, and couldn't help but be a little fluttering, and even a little arrogant and arrogant, and didn't take anyone in his eyes, including Bai Shizhong, Li Bangyan, Cai You and other rulers.

Moreover, every time Cai Qian went to the court, the attendants greeted him and whispered, and dozens of officials hugged the papers, making a particularly big show.

Cai Xuan's behavior caused strong dissatisfaction among the ministers.

Among them, the most dissatisfied are Bai Shizhong and Li Bangyan, who are the rulers, but have almost no rights to handle any official affairs, and they can only handle affairs according to the documents issued by Cai Xuan.

And even more dissatisfied with this is Cai You.

Cai You was not only dissatisfied, but also unable to tolerate his useless brother stepping on his head.

Although the ministers of the DPRK and China are afraid of Cai Qian like a tiger, Cai You is not afraid, he does not take Cai Qian's little brother in his eyes at all, and he has been secretly looking for strong evidence to get rid of this little brother.

And if you get rid of Cai Xuan, you can force Cai Jing back, and he Cai You will have hope to climb to the throne of prime minister.

Cai You has coveted the prime minister's throne for a long time - he is not satisfied with being the prime minister, and the prime minister is his ultimate goal.

Li Bangyan and others also took the opportunity to fan the flames at this time, trying their best to provoke the contradictions between Cai You, Cai Jing and Cai Juan, and they hoped to use Cai You's hand to combat Cai Juan's arrogance.

That's right.

At this critical moment, the powerful ministers of Zhao and Song turned a blind eye to the many crises facing the country, and all their minds were focused on infighting, seizing power and competing for favor.

At this time, Zhao Song's situation was extremely bad.

After the joy of getting Yanyun passed, Zhao Ji Junchen was stunned to find that because they had not paid attention to the governance of the Yanyun region before, the current Yanyun region had become a heavy burden for them in the Great Song Dynasty - all the supplies of the Yanyun garrison and government agencies, especially food, had to rely on the Zhao Song court to solve the problem.

There was no way, Zhao Jijunchen could only order Hebei, Hedong, Jingdong and other places to transport grain to the Yanyun area (especially to Yandi), and let the officials of the Transshipment Department of several roads find a way to ensure the food supply in the Yanyun area.

And the officials of the various transportation departments apportioned the amount of grain needed in the Yanyun area to the people.

The key point is that due to the lack of transportation forces, the officials of the various transportation departments also specifically asked the people to transport grain to Yanjing for payment.

In other words, it's not enough for you to just hand over the grain, you have to send the grain to be handed over to the area designated by Yan Yun.

In this way, the transportation cost is naturally huge.

Often, in order to transport a stone of grain to Yanyun, the freight along the way will cost more than a dozen or even twenty stones of grain.

This has brought great distress and even disaster to the people.

In addition, since the fifth year of Xuanhe, Hebei, Jingdong and other roads have experienced famines year after year, and the harvest is extremely bad.

As a result of these species, Hebei, Hedong, and Jingdong are starving everywhere.

People who can't survive can only go up the mountain and fall into the grass.

As a result, a number of anti-donation storms or peasant riots broke out in various places.

These bandits or rebels, ranging from a few hundred to tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands, rose one after another.

The influence is relatively large, Zhang Wanxian in Shandong, with a number of 100,000; Zhang Di in Shandong, with more than 50,000 people; Gaotuo Mountain in Hebei Province, which claims to have 300,000 people; The other twenty or thirty thousand are innumerable.

In the face of the ever-spreading civil unrest situation in the north, Zhao Ji hurriedly adopted a two-handed policy while worrying - one hand was to issue an edict to appease, and the other was to suppress it by force.

In the first month of this year, Zhao Ji sent Li Zun, a doctor from Chaosan, and Zhu Dingguo, a Fengyi lang, to Hebei Road and Jingdong Road with his own imperial pen edict to appease thieves and displaced people in Tang, Deng, Ru, Ying, and other places, and adopt preferential policies such as releasing prisoners, reducing taxes, and awarding officials.

Soon, Zhao Ji sent a seventy-seven-year-old minister, Hong Zhongfu, as an envoy to Hebei, Jingdong and other roads to appease thieves and homeless people.

Hong Zhongfu was anxious to succeed, so he gave the thieves a large tax exemption, and did not mention the tax exemption for the good people.

Seeing this, the people jumped up and rebelled as thieves in order to get the opportunity to be exempt from taxes.

As a result, more people rose up.

Yin Xu Churen of the Daimyo Mansion, after learning about these situations, hurriedly played and said the disadvantages.

Hong Zhongfu then dismissed the official and returned to Beijing to serve as the palace envoy.

While sending officials to appease, Zhao Ji secretly ordered Liang Fangping, an attendant, to lead the army to the conquest.

After Liang Fangping received the order, he ordered Yang Weizhong, Liu Guangshi, Xin Xingzong and other generals to go to encircle and suppress Zhang Wanxian, Gao Tuoshan and Zhang Di.

Zhang Wanxian and more than 50,000 other people were soon surrendered by Li Xiaochang, the deputy envoy of Jingdong Transport.

Gao Tuoshan led the people to fight on Hebei Road, as well as Qingzhou, Mizhou, Yizhou, and Xuzhou on Jingdong Road, and was defeated by the combined forces of Yang Weizhong and Xin Xingzong, and Gao Tuoshan himself surrendered.

When Zhang Di led the crowd to besiege Junzhou (later Jun County, Henan), he was defeated by Liu Guangshi, and Zhang Di himself was killed in battle.

It's a pity that Zhao Song pressed the gourd to float at this time, and the rebels couldn't finish it.

The seventh year of Xuanhe was an extremely unusual year for Zhao Ji, and it was also an extremely unusual year for the Great Song Dynasty.

In the first month of this year, a major earthquake suddenly occurred in Hedong, Shaanxi and other places, and houses collapsed in many places, causing serious casualties and property losses.

Soon, a large number of displaced people migrated in Lianghe, Jingxi, Zhejiang, Huanqing, Suining, Jingyuan and other places.

In order to prevent the recurrence of civil uprisings, Zhao Ji hurriedly sent his inner servants to Hedong and Shaanxi to understand the situation, and ordered local state capitals to provide emergency relief and comfort the people.

At the beginning of February, Zhao Ji heard that there was a great hunger in Yanshan, so he immediately issued an edict, requiring 500,000 grains of rice to be transported from Beijing to Yanshan, and ordered Meng Kui, a waiter of the Ministry of Works, to go to the measures in person.

Meng Kui led the fleet to set off from the Beijing Division, and went north along the river, from Baoxin Shatang to the Lu River, and then arrived at Yanjing.

But—

This batch of grain was military rations, and the purpose was to ensure that the soldiers of the victorious army and the victorious army would not starve.

However, you must know that not only the Song army was starving in the Yanyun area, but the people were so hungry that they had no chance of survival.

This also led to the fact that the Great Song Dynasty was extremely unpopular in the Yanyun area, and people either fled from Yanjing, or entered Yanshan and fell into the grass.

At this time, Cai Ying, who was far away in Liaodong, suddenly made a move, and he set up a large number of soup kitchens to relieve the victims of the Great Song Dynasty on the Jiaodong Peninsula, Huating County, Dongguan County, Hainan Island, and other places where trade with the Great Song Dynasty was made, and at the same time set up immigration points to accept Han people who were willing to go to Liaodong without restrictions.

Not only that, Cai still sent an amphibious army to capture Jizhou Port, and then set up a large number of soup kitchens on Jizhou Port to relieve the victims, and at the same time set up immigration points to accept people who are willing to go to Liaodong without restrictions.

Cai still made a sudden move, which frightened Zhao Ji and his ministers, and they thought that Cai was still going to invade the Great Song Dynasty.

Zhao Ji hurriedly sent Cai Maung and Cai Tong to Liaodong to inquire about Cai Ying's tone.

Cai still didn't talk nonsense, and directly said to Cai Maung and Cai Tong: "You go back and tell Emperor Zhao that this king has no intention of invading the Great Song Dynasty, but only when he saw that the Han people were not making a living, he just came out to save the people. ”

Cai Maung and Cai Tong went back to talk to Zhao Jiyi.

Zhao Ji suddenly felt extremely ashamed, he felt that Cai was still humiliating him and Da Song!

Zhao Ji called Bai Shizhong and Li Bangyan and asked, "Do you think what Cai still said is true and false?" ”

Bai Shizhong said: "The minister thinks that Cai is still saving the people is fake, and the immigrants are real." ”

After a pause, Bai Shizhong said again: "Although when Cai still went to Liaodong, he brought with him a lot of Han people, Khitan, Xi, Bohai, and Zubu people, but the most people in Liaodong are still Goryeo, and Cai still naturally hopes to move the Han people to dilute the Goryeo people and consolidate his power." ”

Zhao Ji said: "In this way, let's stop Cai from immigrating?" ”

Bai Shizhong wanted to say: "Stop, what do you do to stop it?" Liaodong was angered, and a large army was sent to attack the Song Dynasty, and the Great Song Dynasty had to be leveled in one fell swoop, don't forget, Liaodong is an existence that no one dares to provoke when they come to Jin. ”

Bai Shizhong gave Li Bangyan a look.

Seeing this, Li Bangyan took over and said, "Your Majesty, the relocation of the victims in Liaodong is also a good thing for our Great Song Dynasty. ”

Zhao Ji asked: "How do you say this?" ”

Li Bangyan said: "Now that various places are suffering, food is in short supply, and the imperial court has no accumulated grain, it is really unable to help the victims one after another. ”

After a pause, Li Bangyan continued: "In this case, Liaodong's removal of those victims is to save our Great Song Dynasty, at least to help our Great Song Dynasty quell the popular uprising. ”

Zhao Ji frowned and said, "But if you connive at this matter, won't you sit back and watch Liaodong become stronger?" ”

Bai Shizhong organized the language and said: "Now that the two countries of Jinxia have jointly invaded the cloud land of our Great Song Dynasty, the worst situation is that if our Great Song Dynasty does not handle this matter well, I am afraid that we will face the attack of the two countries of Jinxia, in this case, if Liaodong is our ally of the Great Song Dynasty, our Great Song Dynasty can be invincible." ”

Li Bangyan hesitated for a moment and said: "Your Majesty, the king of Liaodong is originally our Han people, and he has an incense relationship with our Great Song Dynasty, and you and the king of Liaodong are not outsiders, you can make good use of these to win a strong reinforcement for our Great Song Dynasty." ”

Bai Shizhong said: "Since there is a lack of Han people in Liaodong, and my Great Song Dynasty is suffering from being unable to deal with these disaster victims, it is better to send people to send these disaster victims to the immigration office in Liaodong, make good friends with Liaodong, and win-win for the two countries." ”

The more Zhao Ji listened, the more he didn't feel good, so he sent Bai Shizhong and Li Bangyan away, and then called Cai Jing.

After Cai Jing entered the palace tremblingly, Zhao Ji looked at Cai Jing, who had aged to this extent, and suddenly regretted letting Cai Jing regain his appearance.

Zhao Ji also heard that Cai Juan, who was in power, was wanton for profit, rewarded and punished in an orderly manner, sent envoys out of all directions, begged for interviews, and recommended those who liked it, otherwise he would be impeached, and the Chinese and foreign gentry would all look sideways.

Moreover, Cai Qian also imitated the Ying Fengsi set up by Wang Huang to create a Xuanheku-style tribute division, which can be regarded as collecting a lot of finances, but it has not been able to solve the current practical difficulties of the Great Song Dynasty at all.

Cai Juan's arrogance and wanton made Cai You extremely angry, and he secretly stepped up his search for evidence to get rid of Cai Juan.

The hard work paid off, and Cai You finally found strong evidence in a book written by Cai Qian called "Poetry of the Western Qing Dynasty".

In this book, Cai Qian dared to quote the remarks of Su Shi and Huang Tingjian, which is the evidence of the crime - Zhao Ji issued an edict not long ago, explicitly prohibiting the quotation of Su and Huang Wenji, otherwise it will be considered a violation.

At the same time, Cai Qian had a bigger handle that was seized by Bai Shizhong and Li Bangyan, that is, Cai Qian used his power to promote his brother-in-law Han Yu to serve as the head of the household.

Bai Shizhong and Li Bangyan impeached Cai Qian in the previous dynasty, accusing him of stealing power and abusing power for personal gain.

Cai You was even more vicious, and he even suggested to Zhao Ji that Cai Qian be executed.

Zhao Ji then ordered Cai Qian to be exiled.

Cai Jing hurriedly entered the palace to beg when he heard the news, and Zhao Ji saw Cai Jing's face, so he exempted Cai Qian from the punishment of exile, ordered Cai Qian to be suspended, and revoked Cai Xuan's birth edict.

After experiencing Cai Sui, Zhao Ji was already very disappointed in Cai Jing.

Look at Cai Jing's decrepit appearance again.

Zhao Ji thought to himself: "Am I doing something wrong, can such an old man save Da Song?" ”

Zhao Ji felt that today's decrepit Cai Jing was no longer the Cai Jing who led the Great Song Dynasty to prosperity and strength in the past.

Zhao Ji retracted his thoughts and said: "Cai is still setting up a large number of soup kitchens on the Jiaodong Peninsula, Huating County, Dongguan County, and Hainan Island to relieve the victims, and at the same time set up immigration points to accept Han people who are willing to go to Liaodong without restrictions, and also sent troops to capture Jizhou Port in our Great Song Dynasty, and also set up a large number of soup kitchens to relieve the victims, and at the same time set up immigration points to accept Han people who are willing to go to Liaodong without restrictions. ”

What made Zhao Ji very angry was that Cai Jing even agreed with Bai Shizhong and Li Bangyan's views, and said that he could send King Yi Zhao Yan or King Qi Zhao Mo to Liaodong to visit Zhao Mijin, Zhao Fujin, and Zhao Fujin, which meant that Zhao Ji would recognize Cai Yi's son-in-law.

Zhao Ji felt that Cai Jing's idea for him was to humiliate him, no one in the world knew that Cai still robbed his woman Li Shishi and stole his three daughters, if he admitted this kind of thing, where would he put his face as an emperor?

Zhao Ji thought badly, thinking that Cai Jing and Cai are still surnamed Cai and are a family, and Cai Jing must be happy to see Cai still grow, in that way, the Cai family not only has a strong foreign aid, but also has a basis for advancing and retreating, and in the future, the Cai family will not be an official in the Great Song Dynasty, but can also go to Liaodong to be an official.

The key is that Zhao Ji feels that Prime Minister Cai Jing has an unshirkable responsibility for the current situation of the people's misery, at least he is powerless to change this situation.

Zhao Ji also believed that it was Cai Jing's incompetence and inability to save the people of the Great Song Dynasty from fire and water, so that Cai still took advantage of the loophole and could lead a large number of Song people to Liaodong to complete self-growth.

All in all, Zhao Ji is very disappointed in Cai Jing!

In this case, Zhao Ji hopes that Cai Jing will take the initiative to resign, give up the position of prime minister, let a capable person serve as prime minister, and change someone to lead the Great Song Dynasty out of the current predicament.

However, Cai Jing is very obsessed with power and obsessed with power, and Cai Jing has been pretending to be crazy and stupid for Zhao Ji's hints, not giving a response, and refusing to hand over the power of the prime minister......

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