Chapter 202: Prime Minister of Fish Head
Li Zhang's words can be described as heart-wrenching, if outsiders hear it, it may bring him death, but Zhao Zhen was very moved after hearing it, because he knew that only Li Zhang would say these words to him, whether it was the ministers outside or the people around him, I am afraid they did not have the courage.
I saw that Zhao Zhen pondered for a while after listening, and finally calmly asked Li Zhang again: "Cousin, you are the person I trust the most, now I want to ask you to tell me, what should I do?" ”
"Don't listen, don't listen, don't watch, don't watch, don't do, don't do, let yourself grow up peacefully, your biggest advantage is actually your age, the eldest lady is getting older day by day, and you are growing up day by day, as long as the time is up, it's yours or yours, no one can take it away!" Li Zhang patted Zhao Zhen on the shoulder at this time and said seriously, for Zhao Zhen now, doing nothing is the best choice.
"Good! I listen to my cousin! Zhao Zhen nodded heavily at this time and said, although in the eyes of others, Li Zhang is Liu E's relative, but in Zhao Zhen's opinion, Li Zhang is closer to himself, and sometimes people's feelings are very accurate, which is why Zhao Zhen trusts Li Zhang so much.
Li Zhang also felt Zhao Zhen's trust in him, which made him also nodded with emotion, and then said with a smile: "Not only do you need time, but I also need time to grow, and when our brothers grow up, it will definitely bring a huge change to the entire Great Song Dynasty, and then you will also become the greatest emperor in history!" ”
Li Zhang's words also made Zhao Zhen feel a sense of enthusiasm, young people are good at this, it is very easy to be instigated by the beautiful future drawn by others, but unlike others, Li Zhang can not only draw a good future prospect for Zhao Zhen, but also have the ability to help him realize it, but before that, they still need to wait patiently.
Because of the name of "Tiansheng", there were endless quarrels in the court, but the most fierce opposition was not Wang Zeng, but Lu Zongdao, who was then Zuo Yude and Zhilong Tuge, was also one of the prime ministers, and Wang Zeng was also a deputy prime minister.
Speaking of this Lu Zongdao, his experience is also quite legendary, because other people's promotions may depend on relationships or ability, but Lu Zongdao's promotion is based on a meal, and there is a very interesting little story in this.
Many people in later generations said that the Great Song Dynasty officials were the most generous, and this statement was not right, because the upper-level officials' Yulu was indeed very generous, especially the prime minister, relying on Yulu alone was enough to live a very luxurious life, for example, when Kou Zhun was the prime minister, he feasted guests at home every day, and his life was also quite extravagant, until someone admonished him later, which made him change his extravagant life and donate most of his Yulu, but even so, the Yulu left behind still made his life very rich.
However, compared with the upper-level officials, the low-level officials of the Great Song Dynasty are still not high, for example, Lu Zongdao was in the secretary and supervisor at that time, and the Yulu was not very high, and he likes to drink, so he often goes to a tavern to have a few drinks.
On this day, when Lu Zongdao was drinking, suddenly a chamberlain in the palace came, because Zhao Heng, who was still alive at the time, summoned him to draft an edict, but Lu Zongdao went full of alcohol, Zhao Heng asked him where he was drinking, and he also reported it truthfully, which made Zhao Heng very angry, because the Great Song Dynasty stipulated that officials were not allowed to drink in public, and Lu Zongdao obviously violated this regulation.
However, Lu Zongdao defended himself very calmly, he said that his income was not high, and he couldn't afford expensive wine vessels, so he could only go to the tavern to drink, and when he went to the tavern, he would also take off his official uniform, plus the tavern was very remote, and no one knew him at all, so he didn't affect the image of the official because of drinking at all.
For Lu Zongdao's defense, Zhao Heng was not angry, but admired him quite a lot, so he promoted him to be an official, which also made Lu Zongdao finally find a path suitable for himself, when Zhao Heng was in power, he put forward opinions to Zhao Heng almost every day, and even the matter of Tianshu was blatantly opposed.
But the strange thing is that Zhao Heng has always admired Lu Zongdao very much, even if he didn't adopt his opinion, he never punished him for this, and when Zhao Heng died, Lu Zongdao was also the minister of Tuogu.
Lu Zongdao has an upright personality, whenever he doesn't like things, he will definitely go to the book to admonish, and he is never afraid of offending people, and it is precisely because of his temper that he is also known as the "fish head prime minister", the so-called fish head has two meanings, the first is that the word Lu is the fish head, and the second is that Lu Zongdao's temper is like a fish head, which is not cooked and chewed.
With Lu Zongdao's temper, he naturally disagreed with Liu E's "Heavenly Sage" year name, and also quarreled with Wang Qinruo, Cao Yong and others who supported Liu E in the court, he had an upright personality and was able to speak well, as a result, Wang Qinruo and Cao Yong were scolded by him and did not dare to speak, it is said that when these two people met Lu Zongdao outside, they would even deliberately bypass him, so as not to provoke the fish-headed prime minister.
However, no matter how fierce Lu Zongdao quarreled, he could not change Liu E's determination, and in the end, the year name "Tiansheng" was forcibly set, and after the New Year, Liu E officially declared this year as the first year of Tiansheng.
For the battle in the court, Zhao Zhen has always obeyed Li Zhang's advice, not listening, watching or doing, and leaving everything to Liu E's disposal, and even some Lu Zongdao personally ran to see Zhao Zhen, but was rejected by Zhao Zhen, which made the court a little disappointed, after all, even the emperor was not on their side, no matter how much trouble they made, it was useless.
Li Zhang returned to the crown after the Chinese New Year, while planting his own potatoes with peace of mind, on the other hand, he supervised the training of the musket battalion, now the musket can be produced in batches, and in order to ensure the quality, he will make the musket craftsmen into several groups, each musket is produced, will be engraved with the corresponding mark, if the musket has a problem, the team that made the musket will be severely punished, of course, if the quality of the musket is excellent, the corresponding team will also be richly rewarded.
In February, it is about to be Zhao Heng's sacrifice day, according to the rules, Zhao Zhen, as a son, naturally wants to go to the imperial mausoleum to worship, and when he passed by the imperial village, he also specially called Li Zhang to accompany him, because Liu E is busy with government affairs and can't get out, Miaoyuan is a woman, and generally daughters are not allowed to participate in this kind of memorial ceremony, so this time only Zhao Zhen came, and Li Zhang had been waiting for this opportunity for a long time, because he had something to go to the imperial mausoleum.