Chapter 173 State affairs are not secret, causing great disasters

Because the era name "Baoqing" was drawn up by Shi Miyuan's party, there was a dispute in the court over whether to continue to use this era name, and the ministers had their own opinions, and then drafted several era names that they thought were suitable and presented them to Zhao and Ju for choice.

Zhao Heju's eyebrows jumped, he didn't pay attention to the matter of the year name, but when he thought that this era name would continue to appear in various places that needed to be recorded, his heart moved again.

"Shaoding, Duanping......"

The two era names also appeared in front of him, and he shook his head, picked up his pen, and wrote two more words on the paper: "Yan Huang".

The reason why he chose this era name is very simple, it is necessary to cultivate national consciousness and national consciousness in the hearts of the people of the Great Song Dynasty. If there is modern nationalism, there is a modern country, if not, for the people in the country, the barbarian invasion is just a change of dynasty.

"Yan Huang?"

For the Son of Heaven to choose this era name, the ministers have other ideas, "Yan Huang" in some doctrines, for the ancient three emperors and five emperors, especially in the "Book of Shang", the Yellow Emperor is even more respected as the emperor of the three emperors, this is the ancient saint and wise king, who has made great contributions to the world. The Son of Heaven named "Yanhuang" as the name of the year, which also means that he boasts of his achievements. Therefore, they have no objection to this era name, and newspapers such as "Weekly" published articles signed "Zhao Yi", worshipping Yan Huang as the first ancestor of humanity.

On the nineteenth day of the first month of the first year of Yanhuang, just after the carnival-like Lantern Festival, on the streets and alleys of Lin'an City, as well as on various newspapers, there was a news: following the recruitment of a large number of craftsmen in Changlong Textile Factory, all weaving workers only need to pass the test to enter the factory.

Previously, the name of Changlong was very loud in the silk and satin world, and everyone knew that this was actually the silk weaving workshop of Liuqiu, and now it not only opened its business to the Great Song Dynasty, but also changed the "field" to the "factory". This made Lin'an peers panic, the competition had overwhelmed them when they were in the flow before, and now they moved to Lin'an, and the pressure of competition was even greater.

And what worries Luo Weaving Workshop even more is that the wages offered by Ji Changlong are extremely rich, divided into nine grades, the primary one is apprentices, and the monthly salary is also one and two hundred Wen, which is enough for warmth. The highest class is called "craftsman", and the salary is even more staggering, which is a full ten - but Ji Changlong also said that only two such craftsmen will be recruited at most.

A faint storm is brewing.

However, at this time, everyone paid the most attention to the news of Cui He, who was newly worshiped as the governor of the government, it is said that he had resigned from the post of participating in politics, but the Son of Heaven had already expected that a total of three groups of envoys were sent, the first batch of envoys left on the front foot, and the second batch of envoys followed. Under such grace, no matter how strong Cui He's heart is to retreat, he has to go out of the mountain, otherwise he is afraid that he will be ridiculed by the world for selling his reputation.

On the twentieth day of the first month of the first year of Yanhuang, he arrived in Lin'an, according to the rules, the Son of Heaven ordered the ministers to greet him, although Cui and the above table excused, but when he came to Lin'an outside the city, he still saw from Ge Hong, Xue Ji below, the important ministers of the whole dynasty were waiting here.

This is not only the etiquette of visiting the governor, but the prime minister, which makes Cui He extremely frightened.

"Your peers are like this, how dare Cui?" He gave his hand again and again, not arrogant at all because of the special encounter of the Son of Heaven, he was a small Lang official, and he also clenched his fist when he saw it: "With the wrong love of the Son of Heaven, temporarily live in this position to wait for the Magi, and the Qing should be encouraged." ”

"Choi Sang-gong is too modest." Everyone was in a cold noise.

Hearing that he was called "Xianggong", Cui shook his head and smiled bitterly, although since this dynasty, he has often been called a Xianggong in political affairs, but he did not dare to accept it. Looking at the ministers who welcomed him, he felt extremely strange in his heart, and he just wanted to turn around and leave.

This Lin'an is a treacherous place, within a year, Shi Miyuan and Xuanyi have already fallen, will he become the third?

And the official family is very young, but heroic and wise, since he fell into history, the country has undergone many drastic changes, Cui He as a bystander, can see farther than the ministers of the court, but no matter how he ponders, he can't figure out what the official family wants to do. He could see that the layout of the Son of Heaven was extremely bold, whether it was reversing history or seizing Xu, it was a brilliant move, but the ultimate intention of these layouts made him wonder.

It's just that Zhongxing Da Song, the Son of Heaven can do it now.

"Cui will go to see the Son of Heaven first." He sighed secretly, then pulled himself together and said to the ministers who greeted him.

Zhao Heju is also very interested in his newly appointed head of the ministers, in the later history he knows, he only said that he is a famous minister, and he has a very famous proverb, so that Zhao Heju is very happy, and feels that it can almost be compared with Wang Anshi's "the sky is not enough to fear, the words of people are not enough to be compassionate, and the law of the ancestors is not enough to be observed".

After worshipping in the Daqing Palace, according to the custom, Cui He wanted to enter the palace to thank him. He was led to the Qinzheng Hall by the chamberlain, and Zhao Youju was waiting for him with a smile on his face.

"Minister......

"Cui Xianggong, don't be polite, Xianggong is older, everything is simple." Seeing that Cui He intended to bow down, Zhao Heju immediately waved his hand, and there was already an attendant who mixed Cui with him, and then moved him to a seat.

"The ministers are blunt, the cows and horses have long teeth, and for some reason they were chosen by the Son of Heaven, and they are in a high position." Cui He is not a formal person, he sat down and said: "The official family Longen, although the minister dies nine times, there is nothing to repay, so he can only bow and die." ”

"Hehe, Cui Xianggong is still polite." Zhao Heju smiled and said, "I have something I want to ask Cui Qing, but I don't know if it's true or not." ”

"Your Majesty, please ask, the minister knows everything."

"It is said that Cui Qing has a motto, which says, 'No desire to kill yourself, no wealth to kill your children and grandchildren, no political affairs to kill the people, no academics to kill the world and future generations.'" I don't know if it's true or false, what is its canon? ”

"But it was seen by the minister from the "Fuzhai Manlu", and the minister changed it slightly." Cui He's heart moved, he had always heard that this son of heaven didn't like to read very much, but he even knew his motto, and it was obviously a lie that he didn't like to read.

"I worship Qing to participate in politics because of this motto." Zhao Youju said with a smile.

Cui He was silent, the words of the Son of Heaven solved the doubts in his heart, and finally understood why he was in his remote hometown, but the Son of Heaven wanted to pull himself out one after another.

"I know that Qing is very good at getting along with people, I am young, sometimes it is inevitable that I will be angry, and I will offend the minister, Qing is by my side, always exhorting, I will feel at ease."

Cui He got up and bowed down and said: "The minister is frightened, and he is willing to serve my emperor." ”

"I don't come with you, to tell you the truth, I don't like to ban what he learns with a family." Zhao Youju didn't help him up this time, just told him to get up, and then restrained the smile on his face: "The princes of science in the court, every time they take Zhu Han'an's words as a yardstick, they reject him from learning, it seems that this Zhu Zi is worthy of eternity, just like Zhong Ni." ”

Listening to the Son of Heaven's criticism of science, Cui He can only be silent. Zhao Heju glanced at him, and he didn't think much of himself: "Cui Qing, you must already know that Xuan Xuan is going to the throne, right?" ”

Cui had already heard clearly along the way, and nodded when he heard the words, but he still refused to speak.

"Do you think what Xuan Xuan did was right or wrong?"

"The minister does not lie about the right and wrong of the minister, the minister only has his own heart." Choi Yo finally spoke.

Zhao and Ju laughed, but secretly cursed "old fox" in their hearts. Cui He's words not only did not criticize his predecessor, but also indicated that he would be different from him, which really made Zhao and Ju have no gap.

He didn't expect that his position as the Son of Heaven alone would be enough to make an old guy like Cui who had been floating in the sea for forty years be submissive, as long as he was less yang and yin, then he would be a good candidate for slaughter.

According to the practice of the Great Song Dynasty, when the ruler enters the palace to thank him, there should be a reward in the palace, and this reward is extremely rich. Cui He entered the palace empty-handed, but when he came out, he brought two carts of goods, including gold yuan from Liuqiu, silk and cloth, which he calculated by himself that it was worth four thousand yuan. He did not bring the two carts of goods home, but went directly to the household department, and handed over the two carts of goods to Wei Liaoweng for disposal.

"The gift of the Son of Heaven cannot be resigned, so it is accepted; Cui Mou is involved in politics, and there is a monthly reward, which is enough for wealth and nobility, and there is no need to accumulate this surplus wealth, seek trouble for his descendants, and dedicate it to the treasury, which is right. ”

His words were immediately published in the weekly magazine by "Liang School", and when he heard it, he was moved, and praised the Son of Heaven for his wisdom and wisdom, and the proper selection of people, and Cui He's really prime minister's bearing.

Then there was good news from the north, although the emperor of the Jin State Wanyan Shouxu was to denigrate the envoy Wugu Sun Hongyi, but he still signed the letter of state, the new alliance between the two countries was officially determined, and the Great Song Dynasty became the brother of Jin for the first time. The envoy of the Great Song Dynasty, Hong Zhikui, did not fail in his mission, and after sacrificing the imperial tomb in Bianliang, he was on his way back to Lin'an.

In everyone's opinion, now that the Great Song Dynasty is thriving, ZTE is just around the corner. However, at this moment, a shocking event occurred in Lin'an.

Following Changlong's textile mill, it is planned to be built in the Wulinfang area of Lin'an North, where there are many workshops, and it is close to the canal wharf, so the transportation is convenient and fast. To build the factory, they brought in large quantities of cement and red bricks from the Lin'an cement kiln and piled them up on the side of the site, while infrastructure workers from Liuqiu and local masons were digging the foundation for the house. On the 26th day of the first month of the first year of Yanhuang, when they started work as usual, suddenly a group of people broke into the construction site, saw things and smashed things, and almost instantaneously, smashed the construction site to pieces.

And now Lin'an people also know the habits of cement, and they don't forget to pour water in the cement bags piled up in one place when they leave, but in half an hour, the construction site has destroyed them in a mess. When the officers of Lin'an Mansion arrived, they had already fled far away, and none of them were caught.

Among them, there is naturally a greasy existence, but for Ji Changlong, they have no evidence and cannot be blamed, and, more importantly, when the group left, they also threatened to smash things this time, and next time they will smash people together, and they will "go back to Liuqiu" for Ji Changlong.

As soon as this incident came out, the weekly magazine was silent about it, but a tabloid made a big noise, telling the cause and effect of the incident, and the spearhead was pointed directly at Liuqiu.

When Zhao Jingyun saw this tabloid, he couldn't help but be stunned.

Most of the information used in the tabloids came from his booklet, and he remembered that booklet in Wei Liaoweng's place. Wei Liaoweng came back after meeting the Son of Heaven and said that the Son of Heaven had praised him, but asked him to keep what he said secret first, and then publish it after there was a solution in the future. But only a few days later, this thing appeared in a tabloid, if the Son of Heaven knew, how would he deal with himself!

He summoned the scribe to ask, and then looked for his own manuscript, and was sure that it had never flowed out, knowing that the problem might be Wei Liaoweng, so he hurried to see Wei Liaoweng.

Wei Liaoweng had not yet seen the tabloid, the only newspaper he read was the "Weekly", after hearing Zhao Jingyun's words, he was frightened, and he was busy reading the tabloid, only to see that the evidence listed on it was eighty percent similar to Zhao Jingyun's.

"Man Qing, you really haven't seen this to others?" Wei Liaoweng's face immediately turned as black as the bottom of a pot, and he naturally knew what kind of trend he would suffer if this matter was exposed.

"It's true that the students never showed it to others." Zhao Jingyun replied affirmatively.

Wei Liaoweng frowned tightly, and took out the booklet from his bookshelf, and sure enough, the booklet was still there, and there was no trace of it.

"This is strange, could it be that someone else is also investigating this matter?" Wei Liaoweng said in surprise.

"Teacher, can anyone come to visit Teacher these days?"

Wei Liaoweng's heart moved, Cui He came to his house the day before yesterday, sat in the study for a long time, and remembered that he turned over Zhao Jingyun's pamphlet at that time.

In addition to Cui He, Zheng Qingzhi and Qiao Xingjian also visited him the night before yesterday, as well as Ge Hong and Yue Ke - in addition to Xue Ji, almost all the important ministers of the court have come to him these days. His mansion was cramped, and his study was used as a meeting hall, so he was led to this study.

And because it has just passed the New Year, he has a lot of household affairs, and almost everyone has some time to be alone in the study.

But these people are all important ministers of the court, so they naturally know where that booklet is important, and how it can be passed on!

Wei Liaoweng thought for a long time, and then said to Zhao Jingyun: "Manqing, you don't have to mention this matter to anyone, if someone asks, just push it on the old man." ”

"Teacher!" Zhao Jingyun looked at Wei Liaoweng in confusion.

sighed slightly, this disciple of his own is patient and bloody, can do practical things, as the official said, the future is limitless, no matter who leaks the content of this pamphlet, don't implicate him. Thinking of this, Wei Liaoweng patted Zhao Jingyun on the shoulder: "Manqing, you just have to rest assured, the Son of Heaven is wise, you have your own arrangements for handling this matter, you go back first." ”

After sending Zhao Jingyun away, Wei Liaoweng immediately summoned a carriage and hurried to the palace, only halfway through, he met the envoy sent by the Son of Heaven to edict him. He asked the envoy what was the matter with the Son of Heaven, but the envoy kept his mouth shut, obviously it would not be a good thing.

It was still Jigutang, and as soon as Wei Liaoweng entered here, he saw the tabloid on the table. He took a deep breath, took off his hat and knelt down: "The minister is guilty." ”

Zhao Heju originally turned his back to him, and only turned around when he heard his voice, and when he saw him like this, his anger not only did not fade, but became stronger.

"Wei Liaoweng, you give me a good explanation, I wait." He stared at Wei Liaoweng coldly.

Anger made it almost difficult for him to control himself, and he tried his best to rebuild on the basis of not all destruction - that would be too harmful to manpower, material resources and culture, and he hoped to guide history in a completely different direction, an era in which the descendants of Yan and Huang could raise their eyebrows and not leave the impression of pig's tail and pigtail and servile knees to other civilizations, but there was always someone who wanted to force him to come up with thunderous means, and this person could be Wei Liaoweng - although he did not approve of science, But he is still very relieved of Wei Liaoweng's uprightness and loyalty.

"The minister also found out about this." Wei Liaoweng didn't mention Zhao Jingyun: "Presumably, the minister lost the secret, the minister is guilty, please punish the official heavily!" ”

Note 1: Cui He's motto can be seen in "The Case of Song and Yuan Studies", and I personally feel that it is very free and easy, and I like it very much.