After only a moment, the screaming stopped abruptly, and there was a dead silence outside the yamen.

Su Shi didn't have time to stop Tyson's behavior - he could stop it, but at this time, Su Shi was not guarded, and when it was quiet outside the yamen, he took off the goldfish bag, silver ribbon, and so on from his belt, and gently put it on the table, turned around and smiled at Li Zhiyi, and said embarrassedly: "Brother Li is involved, I didn't expect that Brother Li didn't sit long." ”

Li Zhiyi smiled bitterly, and after a while, he clapped his hands with a smile: "With Zhao Liren, the big money master, I can't be poor, why bother Brother Su." ”

After a while, the officials of Dingzhou rushed in, and Tyson also dragged Wang Guangzu in, Zhao Xing's eyes widened, stared at Wang Guangzu and asked: "How to arrange the solution, is it from the regimental training prison camp, or from the government service." ”

Wang Guangzu replied inarticulately: "Obey Lord Zhao's arrangement!" ”

Zhao Xingyi waved his hand: "Then come out of the servants." Su Gong went on the road alone, and I was responsible for arranging the family, and I personally took the family to protect the family by land, and Su Gong walked by water...... Since I was on a business trip from the government officials, I also sent a few people to take care of them along the way, telling the government officials when to go and when to stop along the way, and listen to my people's arrangements......"

In order to save his teeth, Wang Guangzu promised everything. And after the consolation envoy delivered the edict, the rest of the things had to be arranged by the local government, and he couldn't intervene at all.

Zhao Xing stayed in Dingzhou for a few more days, then personally escorted Su Shi all the way south, and arranged for Su Shi's family and Liao Xiaoxiao and others to slowly march to the Yellow River crossing by land. He and Su Shi took the nearest road to the Yellow River, and after getting on their own boat on the Yellow River, they headed all the way to Bianjing.

In April, Cai Jing was reinstated and appointed as the head of the household. On the same day, Zhao Xing's ship arrived in Bianjing.

Zhao Xing originally planned to arrange for Su Shi's ship to go south along the Grand Canal, and then send a ship from Hangzhou to Yingzhou, but waited until Bianliang. Finding that the imperial court had a new will, Zhang Shangying, the right speaker who returned to the court, suspected that the punishment of the imperial court for degrading the minister of Yuan was too light, so he decided to increase the punishment: Su Shi was stripped of his post as a bachelor of the Ming Palace, demoted to the Sima of the Jianchang Army, and placed in Huizhou (residential surveillance). At the same time, Liu Zhi, a bachelor of the Guanwen Palace and a doctor of Taizhong, was stripped of his bachelor's title and demoted to Zhihuangzhou. Su Zhe was demoted to Zhiyuan Prefecture again, Fan Zuyu, a bachelor and attendant of Hanlin, was demoted out of Zhishaanzhou, and Fan Chunren, the right minister, was dismissed from Zhiyingchang Mansion.

The officials given by Wang Yansuo, who stayed behind in Zhending Mansion, were also pursued. He was demoted to Leizhou and died on the road shortly thereafter at the age of fifty.

Wang Yansuo painted plums. The style is Xiuyi, and the crown is called the "two kings". When he was 19 years old, he became one of the three "top of the three yuans" of the Northern Song Dynasty.

The entire 3,000-year history of China. There are only 15 "three-yuan and first" people. However, over the years, there have been no less than one million people who have passed the high school entrance examination. In the Great Song Dynasty, 400,000 people participated in the scientific examination every year, and the maximum number of scholars was no more than 300, and the minimum was less than 100. Therefore, the difficulty of "three yuan and first" in the Chinese examination is equivalent to "one billionth", or even one in 10 billion.

Before his death, Wang Yansuo was the first to advocate the view that "the country must not give up an inch of land to outsiders", and as a result, China gave birth to an idiom: not an inch of land.

Wang Yansuo is not dead yet. But Zhao Xing, who had just arrived in Bianliang, didn't know any news. All he knows is what is in front of him. Su Shi was right in front of him, and he accepted the court's derogatory will on the ship. The herald carried two decrees. One is Su Shi's new derogatory order, and the other is to greet Zhao Xing to report to the palace of senior administration and accept the emperor's question. It seems that the imperial court also knew that it was Zhao Xing who protected Su Shi along the way.

This time Zhao Xing did not resist the decree, he readily accepted the will, and turned his back on the people, he instructed Cheng Shuang to escort Su Shi to Hangzhou: "Outsiders from the Zhuangzi of the Jews opposite the Jasmine Courtyard can't enter, you send Su Gong to rest in that Zhuangzi, and the two messengers are settled—no matter what, keep Su Gong, and wait for the next news from me." ”

Cheng Shuang nodded yes, Wan Qiyong understood what Zhao Xing wanted to do, he sighed, and said: "Shuai Zilian will go with Su Gong for the time being, the adults have to deal with all aspects in the capital, I am here, so I can have a discussion." ”

Zhao Xing then turned to Li Zhiyi and asked with a smile: "Uncle Duan (Li Zhiyi Yu Uncle Duan), I plan to ask the imperial court for a place to shoot as an official, Uncle Duan might as well wait at home, and when I finish dealing with the affairs of the imperial court, I will come to Uncle Duan to get together." ”

Li Zhiyi raised her face to the sky, thought for a while, and sighed: "The officialdom is sinister, where is the place where my generation stays, I understand the kindness of leaving people, and let me rest for a while." ”

The so-called "place of finger shooting" refers to a kind of official appointment system in the Song Dynasty, the Song Dynasty has an eight-way fixed system: Chengdu Fu Road, Tongchuan Fu Road, Lizhou Road, Kuizhou Road and Guangnan East Road, Guangnan West Road, Fujian Road, Jinghu South Road, these eight places belong to the poor countryside of the Song Dynasty, generally learned people do not like to go there as officials, in order to make up for the lack of officials, the imperial court allows local supervisors to appoint the Central Plains and local elected officials at will, called "finger shooting".

Originally, in history, the only thing Li Zhiyi, the "second love poet in the world", who had ever done anything in his life, was Su Dongpo's subordinate officer, because of Su Dongpo's recommendation, he served as a general judge for half a year, and since then, the party struggle has become more and more fierce, Li Zhiyi has been contaminated with Su Dongpo, the backbone of the old party, and no one has hired him since.

However, Zhao Xing has already made a heart against the sky, he knows that although Li Zhiyi is a little disheartened now, he still wants to be an official after all. And now the dispute between the old and new parties has just begun, and there can still be a name for doing things, and when the party struggle becomes more and more expanded, at that time, even if Li Zhiyi wants to come out to be an official, no one dares to use him.

He is here to rebel against the sky, and now start with Li Zhiyi.

Zhao Xing insisted and said: "The land of the Eight Roads is not all a place of smoke and miasma, Uncle Duan, rest assured, I, Zhao Liren, will not treat myself badly, follow me, I will definitely not eat or drink badly." ”

Li Zhiyi smiled lightly and replied: "I believe this, just look at the people on the road, still don't get tired of eating, don't get tired of being fine; Dwelling, to be clean, to be clean, to be beautiful, I know that leaving others is not a person who treats himself badly. That's it, I'll wait for the news of the departure. Do you know where I live? ”

"Know", Zhao Xing nodded. Li Zhiyi must have lived with his brother Li Zhichun, who was the governor of Kaifeng at the time.

The rules of the Song Dynasty were that officials were demoted and could not return to Beijing unless they were called. So Su Shi couldn't stay even when he arrived in Bianliang City. After Zhao Xing bid farewell to Li Zhiyi, he said goodbye to Su Shi on the dock, and led the congren slowly to his home in the capital, which is now Ma Mengde's home.

The wharf of Daxiangkokuji Temple is still noisy. The common people did not feel the bloody battle on the heights of the court, they still worked at sunrise and rested at sunset. At the beginning, Zhao Xing was fascinated by this bustling scene of market life, and he once stayed in the shop by the dock, obsessively enjoying the street scene all day, and did not feel bored. But now he looks at it again. It feels like watching a movie, and I always feel that there is a layer of curtain, giving people a feeling of unrealism.

Ma Mengde is still so busy. When Zhao Xing arrived, he was not in the house, and I heard that he had gone out to inspect the store, and his neighbor Ma Xiucai was still a showman. It's just a little old after a few years. He met Zhao Xing on the street and immediately started chatting enthusiastically. There is a presentation from him. Zhao Xing smoothly lived in Ma Mengde's house. Almost all the family members in Mamond's mansion have changed. His eldest son Ma Rong still remembered Zhao Xing, and when he heard Zhao Xing's arrival, he hurriedly greeted him in the middle hall, and sent someone to invite his father home by the way.

After a while, Cheng Xia was the first to rush to the ground, and when he saw Zhao Xing, he hurriedly shouted: "Oh no, no, Seventh Uncle." Why did you still come to the capital at this time? Zhang Xianggong has hated Shigong to death. I'm thinking about how to torture my master. Because I had studied with my teacher for a few days, I didn't like to see him in the yamen. If it weren't for the fact that I had learned arithmetic from Uncle Seven. The people in the yamen helped me again, and even I couldn't stay. ”

"If you can't stay, you will leave", Zhao Xing replied calmly: "I came to Beijing this time, if Xianggong Zhang still remembers the old affection, I will ask for a foreign appointment." If he doesn't miss this love, I will definitely go to Guangzhou, now at home in Hangzhou, there are few people in Huangzhou, if you think the signs are wrong, let a person who is happy to quickly get you a resignation form, and slip quietly. ”

Cheng Xia hesitated for a moment, and finally was a little reluctant: "Seventh uncle, I am now in charge of the financial statistics of Jingdong Road and Jingxi Road, this job cannot be taken by ordinary people, and it is estimated that I will not be able to move for a while." ”

Zhao Xing sighed: "Little child, you will never understand the cruelty of politics. These people fought only for their own victory, and they did not hesitate to die for it. What is your little importance, your seventh uncle and I are in full swing with the Tangut people, they don't want to withdraw...... Forget it, children are still simple. I'll go back and talk to Zhang Xianggong about you. However, to be on the safe side, it is best to send your wife and children home.

Remember, in case something happens, don't run home, run to Mizhou, I'll say hello there, and he will send you to sea when you run to Mizhou. When you get to the sea, it is my land, and I will arrange for you to hide. ”

Cheng Xia replied incredulously: "Seventh Uncle, it's not that serious. I heard that you won a great victory in Huanqing, and it was spread all over the capital, saying that you had a plan to fight all the grass and trees, that you led 10,000 people to resist the Jingning Military Division alone, and that you were Han Xin in the world, and that you had unpredictable means, why are you so pessimistic about the future......"

Cheng Xia couldn't go on when he said this, because Ma Mengde rushed to the mansion with Zhang's son Zhang Yuan......

As soon as Zhang Yuan saw Zhao Xing, he first explained enthusiastically: "Liren, these days my father sent me to greet Uncle Ma every day, to ask about your situation, the day before yesterday I heard that the post envoy said that you have entered Beijing, my father is very happy, this morning sent me to the dock to wait for your news, and asked me to invite you to come to the house as soon as I see the virtuous brother of the departed person." Leaving people, the memory of saving lives in the past is unforgettable, please accept it as a brother first. ”

Zhao Xing returned the salute expressionlessly, and then greeted Cheng Xia, who couldn't dodge: "Brother Wengu, this is my student, Cheng Xia, the sister-in-law of the Cheng family, he is in charge of the household department, you can see you." ”

Zhang Yuan greeted Cheng Xia coldly: "Oh, I've heard of it." I heard that you have also read it with my teacher Su Gong, it turns out that you are still a brother of the human clan, when you are free, we will get close. ”

After Zhang Yuan said this unintentionally, he turned to Zhao Xing again: "Leave people, go quickly." My father withdraws everyone today, just waiting for the virtuous brother to come to the door, let's go quickly, don't let him wait for a long time. ”

Zhao Xing hummed, explained a few words to Ma Mengde, and ordered everyone who came with him to rest and sleep, and he called Tyson to go with Zhang's help.

Zhangfu, main hall.

Zhang was now in style, he sat in the empty hall, motionless as Zhao Xing walked in, the latter bowed to him silently, and then stood solemnly with his hands crossed, silent for a long time.

It was Zhang who broke the silence first, he let out a long sigh and sighed, "How can this be? How so? I remember that the old man degraded the countryside at the beginning. No one is willing to associate with the old man, the old man and his sister-in-law are seriously ill, and they are begging everywhere, but everyone is closed. The only way to leave the big man is to open the door of the castle and accept the old man as a guest.

The old man still remembers that visit. It's like yesterday: the cherry blossoms in the jasmine garden are blooming, the jasmine flowers are overflowing, and you stand under the cherry blossom tree and tell the old man that I have not only violated these rules...... Afterward. You introduce the old man to the castle's top gate stone, and promise to help him train a team of musketeers...... The words are still in my ears, why have we become so angry today? ”

The warmth of what Zhang said, Zhao Xing's face was still expressionless. He crossed his hands like a clay puppet and stood there without saying a word.

Zhang sighed. Wave your son to the side. Then he continued: "The old man has studied your political achievements in the past few years, and found that if you look into it carefully, you have indeed violated many rules - in Michigan, you amended the horse protection law, and in disguise, the people of Mizhou will always have tens of thousands of good horses overnight. Jing Gong (Wang Anshi) did his best that day, and the people of the world complained, and the imperial court only added 20,000 war horses, and they were all war horses on paper. And you don't need the people to shell out a fortune. He was willing to raise 30,000 war horses.

People say you're good at making something out of nothing. The Baoma Law was originally a bad government, and even Cai Jing spoke freely about reinstating the Exemption Law, the Qingmiao Law, and the Yuanfeng Imperial Examination. Abolish the Ten Branches of the Law, but don't dare to touch the Law of Baoma, even the world-recognized evil law, you can come up with means to make the people consciously and voluntarily follow it, such means, I might as well too.

I think that at the beginning, when the departed person was degraded by me, he still pinned high hopes on me, for what, isn't it just so that we can practice the new law freely today? If you are willing to stay in the court to help me, the officials of the three ministries and six provinces are at your disposal, and if you are willing to go to the place to implement the new law for me, all the roads in the world will be chosen by you. What do you think? Leaving people, whether it is a grand ambition to achieve Kunpeng's ambition, or a relegation to Lingnan, a lifetime of depression, all in your thoughts. ”

Zhao Xing was still expressionless, as if he hadn't heard Zhang's words, Zhang held back his anger, picked up a copy of the seal and said: "Cai Yuanchang (Cai Jing) has a suggestion that Su Zizhan should be demoted to the deputy envoy of the Ningyuan Army, and he should still be resettled in Huizhou. ”

Su Shi was originally demoted to the Sima of the Jianchang Army and resettled in Huizhou; Now he has been demoted to the deputy envoy of Ningyuan Army, and he is still resettled in Huizhou. The official position of the former "Sima" is actually not as high as that of the latter "deputy envoy of the festival", but the former one is a real position and has a good fortune; The latter is a fictitious title, and he will not be given a salary, and he will also be placed under residential surveillance.

Zhang saw that Zhao Xing was still expressionless, and continued to press: "The imperial court has decided: Qin Guan will be stripped of his post as a pavilion inspector for the crime of shadowing Su Shi, and will be sent to supervise the state tea, salt and liquor tax. Zizhan's famous monk, the monk Liao Zi, was deprived of his degree for the same crime and forced to return to the world. ”

Zhao Xing's heart ached: Zhulian began, originally the Great Song Dynasty could be said to have no Zhulian policy, such as the eldest brother of the Lu brothers, and the younger brother Lu Dazhong can still be in the border town as the head of the place.

But now, Zhang has pushed the Great Song Zhulian policy to the extreme.

In a sense: at this moment, the Great Song Dynasty is dead.

The original "Humanistic Great Song", the tolerant and open "Gentleman Great Song", has been declared extinct since this moment.

Next, the Great Song Dynasty entered the era of party prison.

The party prison is not based on the political interests of the state and the nation, but "if you do not join the party, you will be punished" -- if you do not join my party, you will not agree with my ideas, and I will not care how well you govern the locality, how heroic you are in resisting aggression, and whether the things you do are beneficial to the country and the people, as long as you are not a member of our party, you will be rectified to the death.

Zhang is warning Zhao Xing: Although Zhao Xing has never expressed a political attitude and never participated in court battles, the local governance is good, and the military is also very accomplished...... But these are useless, as long as Zhang wants to punish his crimes, "shadow attached to Su Shi" is the crime.

Why did Zhang repeatedly demote Su Shi to Huizhou for resettlement? Zhao Xing knew that this was because of Su Shi's cousin Cheng Zhengfu.

Cheng Zhengfu is both Su Shi's cousin and Su Shi's brother-in-law. Su Shidi's sister Banniang has been reading poetry since she was a child, and she can write poetry and writing. When he was young, he married his cousin Cheng Zhengfu. But after Banniang married into the Cheng family, her in-laws always disliked her and often abused her. The second time, Banniang gave birth to a son and became seriously ill, but the Cheng family did not treat her. Her parents had no choice but to take her back to her parents' home for treatment. The condition had just improved, but the in-laws asked the teacher, blamed Banniang for not fulfilling her daughter-in-law's filial piety, and robbed her of the baby, so that Banniang was sad, the old illness relapsed, and died of hatred. Su Shi's father announced that he would sever relations with the Cheng family, and the two families became enemies from then on.

In the first year of Shaosheng, Cheng Zhengfu was in charge of the Guangnan East Road Mention Criminal Law (in charge of the justice, prisons and supervision of the prefectures under his control), and the chapter demoted Su Shi to Huizhou, which was made after obtaining the military information of the Western Xia and the Liao State. The latest intelligence shows that the Liao people have just defeated the Tatars, and the Tanguts made Zhao Xingzhang toss a lot last year, and at present, these two countries have no spare strength to launch an attack. In this way, the purpose of sending Su Shi to Dingzhou was frustrated.

Zhang knows Su Shi's skills, if the Liao people and the Xixia people don't attack the land, there will be a year of relaxation, who knows what Su Shi will govern Dingzhou, maybe Su Shi is on the front line, but because of the blessing of misfortune, he has achieved a great military feat. And this prediction seems to have become a reality after Zhao Xing arrived in Dingzhou - Su Shi's golden idea and Zhao Xingdi's implementation means, only a few months, Dingzhou has taken on a different look. So Zhang had to come up with other ways to kill people with a knife, such as transferring Su Shi to his "enemy" Cheng Zhengfu, hoping to get rid of his political enemy Su Shi by Cheng Zhengfu's hand.

Zhao Xing was about to cry out loud when he was sad there, Zhang Xinhua patiently waited for Zhao Xing to answer, he knew that Zhao Xing would open after all

After a long time, Zhao Xing smiled, and he said: "As soon as Po Gong is in the South China Sea, the world does not dare to Xiaohuizhou...... In the next wish, I used Zhang Laozi's affection in the past and the friendship with Brother Wengu in the past, in exchange for Zhang Laozi's promise: Huizhou! ”

Zhang's face sank, and he said dissatisfiedly: "You can choose the counties and counties in the world, but you can't choose Huizhou!" Huizhou can't, I've chosen it separately. ”

"If I were to choose again a thousand times, my choice would still be two words: Huizhou!" Zhao Xing was also stubborn, and he insisted.

Zhang was a little angry, he took on the posture of an elder, and said angrily: "You are not calm now, I won't tell you, go back and think about it, retreat!" ”

Zhao Xing gave up his hand, and the words of farewell still shook the chapter, Zhao Xing said: "Seeing that Huizhou's scenery is about to be famous all over the world, how can there be no self for such a beautiful scene?" Zhang Laozi doesn't need to be persuaded, if I have to make a choice again, even if I repeat it a thousand times, I will still have two words: Huizhou. ”

After Zhao Xing left, Zhang stomped his feet in the hall and said: "It's okay to meet a stubborn person like Su Laopo, how can I meet Zhao Liren, this pair of masters and apprentices, they actually take suffering as pleasure and rush to the poor place in Huizhou." ”

Cai Jing's figure flashed behind the hall, and he shook his head when he saw Zhao Xingyuan's back, and his expression couldn't tell whether it was admiration or jealousy. After a while, he arched his hand at Zhang and persuaded him: "Xianggong, I have worked with Zhao Liren for a year, and I know this person's temperament, this person is a loyal and righteous person, once he intersects with people, he can't wait to take out his five livers and six organs." Therefore, this person can be described as more than honest, talented, and poetic-but the overall situation is insufficient, and he is dead-eyed.

According to the lower officials, Zhao Liren can be regarded as unambitious, only loyal and righteous, and this harmless person is also. Guangnan and Fujian are poor and evil, and if they are put in the wild, they will not harm the overall situation. It's better to let him go to the place, and pass the limelight on this matter, and then show his kindness and righteousness, and end his kindness, and after two or three years, he will experience some training in the place, and the teacher's derogatory things will also cool down, and the Xianggong will transfer him back to Beijing again, just to be a helper. ”

When Zhang heard this, his face softened, he thought for a moment, and nodded slowly: "Zhao Liren's current qualifications, entering the pavilion is indeed a bit lacking, it is not a good thing to go to the place to practice, wait for two or three years later, and when I clean up the court, I just transfer him back and use his strengths...... But Huizhou can't, Huizhou is absolutely not. ”

Zhang Yuan arched his hand and interjected: "Father-in-law, I see that Zhao Liren has been looking blank since he came in, I know very well that the virtuous brother is tenacious, and it is difficult to change once he makes up his mind, but do we have to use him?" ”