Just when Wang Mingzhi was dealing with disaster relief affairs in Qixia County, a meeting was being held in the Daxia Political Affairs Hall.

In the official office of the political affairs hall, Shi Zhong held a thick stack of folds in his hand, all of which were due to the ineffective disaster relief of Prime Minister Wang Mingzhi, which caused the victims to be unable to eat, and caused turmoil in the capital and endangered the society of Daxia.

After arranging disaster relief in Qixia County, Wang Mingzhi led his entourage all the way to Jiankang Mansion, passing by Xinhe Town, Qixia County, he did not see the relief porridge shed of the official house, on the contrary, they were all refugees who fled north in the relief of the people.

The town is a refugee relief point, and I saw seven or eight porridge sheds built in the open space in front of the temple in the north, close to the official road, gathered tens of thousands of refugees from all directions, and there were long queues in front of each porridge shack.

Wang Mingzhi looked at it, and it was the same as the last time he saw it, the porridge shed of Jiankang Daci Temple, the porridge shed of Tianying Palace Taoist Temple, and the porridge shed of the Gan family, the Lu family, the Xie family, the Di family and several large Jiankang households, but Wang Mingzhi looked at it twice, but he did not find the porridge shed of the government.

Wang Mingzhi's eyes became cold, he didn't say a word, and rushed towards the capital twenty miles away with more than a hundred guards and soldiers.

Soon, they arrived at the south gate of the capital, there is also a relief point outside the south gate, the refugees are crowded, surrounding the poor more than 20 small porridge sheds, more than half of them are the Gan family, everywhere you can hear people's scolding and children's cries, but still can not see the official figure.

At this time, several refugees recognized Wang Mingzhi and shouted, "It's Prime Minister Wang!" ”

Dozens of refugees stepped forward to surround Wang Mingzhi and cried, "Prime Minister Wang, help us!" We only ate one meal in two days, and we didn't have any money on us, so the government didn't care if we lived or died! ”

The grief of the villagers made Wang Ming's heart sad for a while, and he hurriedly comforted everyone, "Fellow villagers, I, Wang Mingzhi, will definitely help everyone, let's go to the city!" I'll buy grain and rice for everyone! ”

He took out a few ingots of silver, and let two personal soldiers lead dozens of people into the city to buy rice, and the villagers thanked them for their kindness, and at this time, dozens of people surrounded them to complain, "Prime Minister Wang, we fled from Suzhou Mansion, we came to the capital with great difficulty, just looking forward to the court to give us a way to live, but the government doesn't care whether we live or die, we have several old people who have died of weakness and illness in the past few days, it's too chilling!" ”

Wang Mingzhi arched his hand to everyone: "Ladies and gentlemen, I will definitely urge the government to increase disaster relief, not only in the capital, but also in the states in the south of the Yangtze River and in the capital, this is my Wang Mingzhi's promise to everyone, if I can't do it, I Wang Mingzhi will have no face to be the prime minister of Daxia again!" ”

There was a cheer all around, Wang Mingzhi knew that it was not enough to just promise, and the difficulties of these refugees in front of him had to be solved, so he urgently ordered twenty personal soldiers to return to the capital to withdraw all the silver taels from the family and buy grain and porridge.

At this time, the anger in Wang Ming's heart was almost uncontrollable, and the horse rushed to the city gate, and several forbidden troops defending the city did not dare to stop the fierce Wang Mingzhi, and flashed to the side, Wang Mingzhi led the army to rush to the imperial city with a gust of wind.

Wang Mingzhi first went to the official office of the Taishi Jia Ru, and he needed to urge Jia Ru to help the refugees as soon as possible, and some ineffective officials in the Jiankang Mansion must also be dismissed on the spot.

"Prime Minister Wang, this afternoon, the Taishi convened a meeting in the political hall, I'm afraid I won't be able to come back until later."

"Where?"

"It seems to be in the Zichen Palace, and the Taishi has gone to the Zichen Palace!"

Wang Mingzhi bowed his hand to the eunuch, "Thank you!" ”

Wang Mingzhi turned around and walked in the direction of Zichen Palace.

Zichen Hall was originally used for the Son of Heaven to hold a small court meeting, but since Suzong ascended the throne, in addition to the first year after using it a few times, Chai Xinyuan put the meeting place in the Taiyi Palace, after Qiqi ascended the throne, after Jia Ru requested the Queen Mother, it was used for political affairs hall discussions.

Today, at the invitation of Prime Minister Shi Chong, Jia Ru temporarily held this political meeting, and in addition to Wang Ming, Jia Ru, Cao Lei, Yang Jieliang, and Shi Chong all participated in this court meeting.

The fuse of today's court meeting was the impeachment of Prime Minister Wang Mingzhi by a large number of imperial historians and other officials who did not know the truth for their ineffective disaster relief, and finally passed a resolution of 3 to 0 to remove Wang Mingzhi from the post of left prime minister and retain the position of minister of the political affairs hall.

This is the result of mutual compromise, at the insistence of Cao Lei, the political hall failed to remove Wang Mingzhi from the position of minister of the political hall at the same time, and the corresponding Cao Lei did not insist on voting against, and finally Cao Lei abstained from voting when the other three voted in favor.

Wait for Wang Mingzhi to arrive at the Zichen Palace. Everything has become a certainty, Jia Ru has entered the inner palace, reported the resolution of the political hall to the empress dowager Xie Daoqing, and asked the emperor Qiqi to use the seal.

The next day, the Holy Decree issued an edict to remove Wang Mingzhi from the position of left prime minister, and reappointed Wang Mingzhi as the Guangdong Road Propaganda and Support Envoy and the Minister of Political Affairs. Shi Zhong was reappointed as the left prime minister, and Chen Yizhong, the envoy of Guangdong Road Xuanfu, entered Beijing and served as the right prime minister.

Wang Mingzhi's dismissal was undoubtedly like a boulder falling into a pond, which caused huge waves in the government and the opposition, and the reason for Wang Mingzhi's dismissal was that the disaster relief was ineffective, which obviously could not convince the public.

And some officials who have participated in Wang Mingzhi, after understanding the cause and effect, although they didn't say anything, they were actually quite ashamed in their hearts, knowing that they had become pawns in high-level games.

Wang Mingzhi's dismissal of the prime minister was the result of the concerted efforts of the spokesmen of the family, the magnates, the big landlords, and the giant businessmen in the imperial court, and it was neither reasonable nor reasonable to take the lives of the victims at the cost of Wang Mingzhi's trip to Fujian, where the drought was most severe, and finally at the cost of a prime minister's resignation, which made people have to give birth to some kind of conspiracy theory speculation.

Wang Mingzhi's dismissal as prime minister is undoubtedly a major setback for reformers and civilian officials, especially Chen Yizhong, a prominent member of the Jiujiang family, who replaced Wang Mingzhi as prime minister, which made the ministers of the government and the opposition worry a lot about the future. Now the important ministers of the imperial court are further inclined to the noble family.

Wang Mingzhi left the capital at night, did not alarm anyone, at night, the south gate slowly opened, Wang Mingzhi and several entourages rode through the urn city, towards the city gate, he finally looked back at the capital, his heart was full of ambition and melancholy.

At this moment, there was a sudden sound of horses' hooves from behind, and a cavalry passed through the inner city gate and galloped towards the urn city.

"Brother Mingzhi, please stay!" Someone shouted from behind.

Wang Mingzhi stopped the war horse, he heard the voice, but it was Cao Lei calling him.

An inexplicable feeling suddenly surged in his heart, and his nose became sour.

After a while, Cao Lei rode a horse and galloped over, restrained the war horse, and said with a little dissatisfaction: "Why did my brother leave Beijing at night?" ”

Wang Mingzhi sighed, "The imperial court requires me to leave the capital today, I have to pack up during the day, I have to go through the formalities of going to work, and I can only leave the capital at night." ”

"But fifty miles west from the city gate into the mountains, deserted, not even a place to stay, if you encounter thieves, the consequences are unimaginable, the king of Xiangyang under the protection of many guards have encountered attacks, didn't the Wang brothers think of the potential danger here?"

Wang Mingzhi's face changed, of course he understood what Cao Lei was secretly referring to, it was not a thief, but someone would pretend to be a thief to assassinate him.

Cao Lei said again: "I have asked Di Bo to send a team of cavalry to escort Brother Wang to Guangzhou, and when I arrive in Fuzhou, there will be someone to greet him there to ensure that Brother Wang is safe and sound all the way!" ”

Wang Ming's heart was moved, and he arched his hand and said: "Thank you for the care of Grandpa Guo, Wang Mingzhi should be remembered in his heart!" ”

"Brother Wang, take care, I believe we will have the opportunity to fight Yan side by side."

Wang Mingzhi nodded, "Helian Muye is treacherous and untrustworthy, and it is more difficult to deal with than his brother Helian Kuo, I hope that Grandpa Wangguo will protect himself well, and it will also save my life in Great Xia, take care!" ”

After speaking, Wang Mingzhi turned his horse's head and urged the horse to rush out of the city gate, and a team of more than 100 cavalry also followed closely to escort Wang Mingzhi to the south.

Hearing the causes and consequences of Wang Mingzhi's resignation, Gan Tang did not feel depressed, the tragedy of history is not caused by some accidental factor, it is the inevitable result of years of accumulation, and it will not be reversed in a short time, but he is struggling to push the giant wheel of history, so that it is slightly biased to that side on the original trajectory, maybe it is that sentence, if it is not broken, it will not stand.

At noon, in the South Gate Taixue Wai Shesheng Teahouse, Di Bo walked quickly into an elegant room, there were four people sitting in the elegant room, in addition to Gan Hu, the other three were Taixue Wai Shesheng Lu Mengxiong, Peng Mingzhi and Chen Fu.

Seeing Di Bo walk into the room, the four of them hurriedly got up and saluted, "See Di Tong's system!" ”

Di Bo smiled and waved his hand, "Let the four of you wait for a long time, please take a seat!" ”

Gan Hu and the other four sat down, and Di Bo also sat down on the main seat, and smiled at Lu Mengxiong: "How many students in Taixue now support the change of the law?" ”

"If you don't count the inner life, there are more than 20,000 people who are inclined to change."

"Actually, I invited the four of you to come over, it was entrusted by a friend, originally my friend should have come in person to meet with everyone, but he was seriously injured a few days ago, so he ordered me to come and meet with a few people, and there is one thing to discuss with a few people." Di Bo pondered and said, "How many people know that the imperial court has just deposed Wang Mingzhi as the left prime minister?" ”

Lu Mengxiong and Chen Fu glanced at each other and shook their heads together, "We have never heard of this matter. ”

Di Bo sighed, "For this year's drought, the political affairs hall first appointed Wang Chengxiang as the disaster relief ambassador, and then used the time when Wang Chengxiang went out to Fujian to supervise the disaster relief, some officials of the political affairs hall secretly arranged for officials from nearby provinces not to release grain and porridge to the victims. It is not that they are unable to resist the disaster, but when the victims of the disaster fluctuate, suddenly a large number of officials folded bullets to impeach the prime minister Wang Cheng for ineffective disaster relief. All this was arranged by some people a long time ago, and the deep-seated reason was that the reform proposed by Prime Minister Wang Cheng touched the interests of most officials in the imperial court. ”

"What is the attitude of the official family and the Queen Mother?" Lu Mengxiong asked.

"The official family has always been indifferent to government affairs, and the Queen Mother has listened to slander and removed Wang Mingzhi from the post of prime minister."

"Does the Di system hope that the Tai students will come forward to prevent the imperial court from retracting the edict to depose Prime Minister Wang?"

Di Bo shook his head, "More than seventy percent of the officials in the imperial court are not in favor of changing the law, and the Tai students alone can't stop it, I just hope that the Tai students can stand up and express their attitudes publicly, and I believe that millions of people in the capital will also support you." ”

Chen Fu asked: "Why do we believe you, you are also the top nobles of Great Xia, and you are the future concubine, why can't you enter the palace to explain the situation to the Queen Mother and withdraw the edict to Prime Minister Wang?" ”

Di Bo nodded: "Your reaction was really calculated by the prince, and even the questions you asked were the same as what the prince said to me." The prince asked me to ask you, do you remember a few people who discussed the Tao with Shi Zui and Li Mo'an, the leaders of the Inner Shesheng Ten Days ago? ”

Peng Mingzhi stood up excitedly: "Why don't you remember, where is he?" We have searched for him in the past few days, but we can't find him. Does the Ruler know who he is? Where is it? ”