Chapter Twenty-Eight: One Loyalty Covers One Hundred Ugliness
Calming down, Zhao Xin's heart immediately rose with deep fear and uneasiness. It's the instinct of kings.
Suspicious, restless, sensitive.
Extremely sensitive and uneasy about anyone or anything that may threaten their own security and self-interest.
In particular, Zhao Xin's current environment and his own weakness have exacerbated his sensitivity and uneasiness.
After all, he has no one and no power now.
And in the imperial city, there is even Yang Huaimin, who wears a pair of pants with Wang Shouzhong's brother.
What does Yang Huaimin do?
Those who do intelligence, those who do spies.
What if this dog thing poisons itself or spoils itself?
Although it is said that according to the Great Song system, it is impossible for Yang Huaimin to do it.
But what if?
For the king, this reason is very sufficient.
The Han has a belly slander, and the future generations have no idea.
Therefore, Zhao Xin knew almost immediately that he needed an experienced minister who could enter this Spring Fang and could protect him closely!
So, a name came to mind almost immediately.
"Xia Shouyun!"
"I want to summon Xia Shouyun back to Beijing immediately!"
Xia Shouyun was the former minister of Zhenzong's palace, and when Zhenzong was still King Xiang, he was already a guard by Zhenzong's side.
After Zhenzong ascended the throne, Xia Shouyun was reused, and was first sent to Suizhou and Lingzhou to monitor Li Jiqian.
Later, during the Tanyuan Alliance, Xia Shouyun was even more disguised, mixed into the Liao army camp, and found out that the Gaoyang Pass of the Great Song Dynasty deployed the Zhitianxiong army Kang Bao descendants did not surrender, but scolded the Liao people for their heroic sacrifice, so he was more trustworthy for Zhenzong.
The official position was continuously improved, from the deputy envoy of the East Ayajin to the Privy Council, he undertook the decree and supervised the three classes, and later moved to the former division of the palace to command the envoy and appointed the envoy of the national army.
After Zhao Xin's father ascended the throne, his favor did not decrease.
In the second year of Baoyuan, due to the urgency of the Western affairs, Xia Shouyun was appointed as the envoy of the Xuanhui Southern Yuan to lead the deployment of Shaanxi and the pacification envoy of Shaanxi Jingluo, and was fully responsible for the battle against Yuan Hao.
It's a pity that Xia Shouyun, except for loyalty, the rest can almost be said to be useless.
However, there is a saying in later generations: one white covers a hundred ugliness!
It is better for a king to have one faithful minister than a hundred capable but disloyal ministers.
And Xia Shouyun's loyalty to the Zhao family is irrefutable.
He is the kind of person who will not hesitate to raise his sword to kill himself even if the Zhao family tells him to commit suicide.
Yuzhong has been carved into his bones and has become his instinct.
Therefore, even if Zhao Xin has never seen Xia Shouyun, when he encounters danger and perceives uneasiness, he will immediately think of this Xuanhui Southern Courtyard envoy.
Why?
Because Xia Shouyun is absolutely reliable, absolutely loyal, and absolutely trustworthy!
He was not so much a minister of the state as a retainer of the Zhao family.
However, if he wants to summon Xia Shouyun back to Beijing, he is now unable to catch it.
Because last year, Sanchuankou was defeated, Xia Shouyun immediately took the initiative to take all the responsibility for the defeat, and even ensured in front of the king with his personality that Liu Ping and Shi Yuansun did not surrender to thieves.
This saved the Liu and Shi families, but also made Xia Shouyun a live target.
Public opinion in the government and the opposition and the corporal doctors in the world criticized and wrote.
So, even Zhao Xin's father couldn't keep him.
In July last year, Xia Shouyun dismissed as the envoy of the Tianping Army Festival, and sentenced Danzhou to his own official, at this moment, this once majestic Zhao retainer should be recuperating in Xiangzhou.
Then he died of illness a year later in Zhending, and was posthumously presented to the lieutenant, and he was loyal, which is very appropriate.
Therefore, it is very inappropriate for Zhao Xin to recall this loyal minister back now, given his age and identity.
It will also make Qingliu unpleasant.
After all, Xia Shouyun is now a traitor in the eyes of the world, and the culprit who corrupts the country's major affairs.
Zhang Shixun, Wang Hao, Chen Zhizhong, and others, who were also dismissed because of the defeat at Sanchuankou, frantically threw all the pots to Xia Shouyun.
It seems that all the faults are Xia Shouyun alone, they are innocent, but they mistrusted Xia Shouyun.
Therefore, this matter is not suitable for Zhao Xin's country.
He also did not have the power and ability to recall Xia Shouyun from Xiangzhou to Bianjing.
Except for the power conferred on ministers of this level, only the king can have them!
"It seems that I have to find a way to let my father do this......" Zhao Xin thought in his heart: "I can't express my attitude directly......"
Directly saying that he wants to transfer Xia Shouyun back to Beijing will hurt his image.
He is a Heavenly Saint King, how can he appoint his own retainers like the True Sect?
Nepotism, where is the holy king?
If he had been an adult, he might have been fine, but he was too young.
Therefore, a glorious image is his best and greatest talisman and power.
Therefore, he could only hint and guide his father, so that the official family thought that it was his own thoughts and will.
But it's a bit more cumbersome to do.
Fortunately, Zhao Xin's father, the official family of the dynasty, has the biggest characteristic of nostalgia and affection.
Otherwise, how could he be Renzong?
Therefore, after thinking about it for a while, Zhao Xin already had an idea.
However, he had to wait until his father came to see him.
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It was only two hours after Zhang Cairen left Chunfang, and Queen Cao of Yanhe Hall heard the news and immediately brought someone to see Zhao Xin.
As soon as they met, the queen hugged Zhao Xin and sat on the bed, looking left and right, as if she was afraid that Zhao Xin would lose arms and legs.
It's just that this posture also made Zhao Xin see it.
This Empress Cao also has the possibility of using him as a tool!
Why?
In this spring workshop, there are many people, and Queen Cao is like this in public, isn't it clear that she told the ministers and officials of the two mansions that Zhang Cairen bullied Shou Guogong!
She's desperate to make things bigger!
Zhao Xin was also helpless, so he could only let Queen Cao perform.
But he understands that everything is too much.
Especially now, he is still too young, so he can't help but give others a way to live.
Because, if he doesn't give someone else a way to live, then someone else may not give him a way to live.
So, when Queen Cao's performance was about to begin, Zhao Xin hugged the queen mother in a timely manner, half coquettish and half admonished: "Why is Niangniang so anxious about Erlang today?" When Zhang Niangniang came today, she didn't see such a nervous as Niangniang? ”
When Empress Cao heard this, she was stunned for a moment, and immediately smiled: "Because Erlang is the heart and liver of the mother!" ”
This is another pun, saying that it was for Zhao Xin, but in fact, it was shouting to the Great Song official from the air.
This made Zhao Xin speechless for a while.
Because he knows very well that in fact, Empress Cao's throne is not dangerous at all.
No matter how favored Zhang Cairen is, he can't be the queen, and he can't be the queen mother!
Why?
Her father and ancestor are not the righteous brothers of Taizu and Taizong, and they are heroes from the dragon.
Among her brothers and nephews, none of them had ever served as a commander in the front of the palace, or as a commander of the horse infantry army in the guard's army.
And the Cao family, there are people in every generation, at least those in-laws who have been the commanders of the three ya.
In the Great Song Dynasty, the queen and queen mother without the support of the forbidden army couldn't sit still for even a day!
Those veterans who have existed for five generations have 10,000 ways to kill those who don't follow the rules of their game.