Chapter 3276 Zhao Liren, who can't be provoked

Zeng Bu also changed his face: "Your Majesty, the minister knows that Wang Shu has been alone with Zhao Liren, and His Majesty has a close relationship with Zhao Liren when he was in the palace, and even His Majesty's fiefdom Duanzhou is also run by Zhao Liren, however, Your Majesty ascended the throne, and the local festival town supported troops to enter Beijing, which is an extremely bad precedent." No matter what excuse Zhao Liren has, but escorting the tributary envoys into Beijing will not require 4,000 Suzaku troops.

Didn't he, Zhao Liren, once lead twelve attendants to dare to face 30,000 Tubo people? He also buried 30,000 Tubo with extreme cruelty, so it is inevitable that he will be suspected of bad intentions based on the number of troops he brought, and now he Zhao Liren will not be able to get rid of the intention of threatening the imperial court - the minister can give an order: order Liangguang to appease the Jingluo Zhao Xing to untie his sword and land on the shore, and accept the consolation of the imperial court. ”

There was still a stalemate in the palace, and the envoy entered the palace to report: "Doctor Tong, Zhending stayed in Han Zhongyan and knocked on the palace to ask for a meeting." ”

"Xuan", Xiang Queen Mother answered first.

Han Zhongyan ran all the way into the political hall, and when he saw the Queen Mother, he howled and cried - this was to mourn the emperor, and after he cried a few times, he held back his tears, bowed his hand to the little emperor, and congratulated the new emperor on his accession to the throne, and then said: "The minister asks for four things, saying: Guang Ren'en, open the way, go to suspicion, quit using soldiers, please accept the queen mother and Your Majesty." ”

Empress Dowager Xiang did not hesitate: "Accurate!" ”

Han Zhongyan once again surrendered his hand: "Therefore, Wen Yanbo, Wang, Lv Dafang, Liu Zhi, Han Wei, Liang Tao, Sima Guang, Lv Gongzhu, Sun Gu, Fu Yaoyu, Zhao Zhan, Zheng Yong, Wang Yansuo, Fan Zuyu, Zhao Yanruo, Qian Xian, Gu Lin, Zhao Junxi, Li Zhichun, Lv Dazhong, Xian Yu, Kong Wuzhong, Yao, Sheng Tao, Zhao, Sun Jue, Du Chun, Kong Wenzhong, Zhu Guangting, Li Zhou, Zhang Maoze, Gao Shiying, Sun Sheng, these thirty-three degraded officials or degraded Lingnan, or their descendants were disgraced and were chased away from their former favors, please Your Majesty and the Queen Mother to recover their favor." ”

"Accurate!" Xiang Xiang promised the Queen Mother.

"Among the degraded officials. Only Su Shi and Su Zhe still exist, please reinstate the Queen Mother! ”

Xiang Xiang said to the Empress Dowager with a pleasant face: "Han Qing doesn't know that Po Xian has been recovered, and the holy decree has been sent to Zhao Liren on the edge of the Yellow River. According to Han Qing's meaning, plus Su Zhe may as well. ”

"This is not enough", Han Zhongyan replied loudly: "The late thirty-three officials will also announce the world immediately." ”

"Accurate!"

Han Zhongyan knocked without a crown: "The minister is respectful, Zhang is in charge of the government, and for seven years, he likes and wows." Wanton prestige, disaster to the world, courage to harm the virtuous, dare to kill, face great changes, set big things, harbor conspiracies, for dissent. Please dispose of it. ”

Zeng Bu sighed: "Zhang Xiang has been in power for a long time, so he will not do harm." It is also a taboo for the imperial court, speaking of which, it is time for the imperial court to change its appearance. Han Gong, His Majesty knows what is wrong, and yesterday he was the envoy of the mountain mausoleum. ”

The prime minister is responsible for the burial of the former emperor's mausoleum, which is rare in previous dynasties, and this kind of behavior also shows that the new emperor began to be suspicious of this domineering old man, which is also the vague hint that Zeng Bu just now - Zhang Du has been in power for too long, so it is not a scourge, and the new emperor must guard against him when he ascends the throne.

The little emperor spoke: "Is Qing willing to go to comfort Zhao Liren?" ”

Han Zhongyan shook his head: "No, Zhao Liren is currently on the verge of going berserk." The minister's residence is not far from the Yellow River, and I heard that Zhao Liren practiced continuously every day, and the cannon rumbled, and the sound shook for ten miles. I also heard that he had begun to unload the cannon from the ship and set up a base on the shore, but the minister thought that there was Fan Pure there, and it was difficult for Zhao Liren to advance an inch, but at present, Zhao Liren did not leave the warship an inch, or advanced or retreated. Intentions are unpredictable. Therefore, the minister thought that the top priority was to invite Zhao Liren to go ashore to accept the consolation, so as to show that the court had no suspicion - the minister recommended Chen to appease him, and recommended Fan Chunren to return to the court to participate in politics. ”

Gao Yu leaned over and whispered, and the little emperor interjected sullenly: "Chen has a close relationship with Zhang, and this person was originally recommended by Zhang as an official." ”

Han Zhongyan knocked again: "Originally, the minister thought that Fan Chunren could take this position, but Fan Chunren was already in Shunbaozhai, so Fan Chunren would not go." Chen Daodao's articles were admired by the people and the court, and the ministers watched the court all over the court. Only this person can make Zhao Liren have scruples. ”

Fan Zhongyan had four sons. The eldest son Chunyou, the second son Chunren, the third son Chunli, and the fourth son Chunren, among the four sons, the second son Chunren is the most accomplished. At that time, Zhezong briefly served as a governor of the government.

When he was a teenager, Chunren loved to read, and his father recruited many talented young people, such as Hu Ming, Sun Fu, Shi Jie, etc., and Chunren had close contacts with them, and studied together day and night. In the dead of night, when his friends had rested, they were alone, lighting oil lamps and reading under mosquito nets. This has been the case for a long time, so that Fan Chunren's white mosquito net has been smoked black.

When Fan Chunren became a high-ranking official after becoming famous, his wife specially took out this mosquito net, often educated his children, and said: "This black mosquito net was blackened by your father when he used to study in the mosquito net, and you must study as hard as your father did." ”

Fan Chunren, who became an official, was a clean official who cared about the suffering of the people, like his father. When he was the county magistrate in Xiangcheng, he learned that the local people were influenced by traditional customs and never raised silkworms to weave cloth, so few people planted mulberry trees. If he wants the people to become rich, he must grow mulberry, raise silkworms, and develop the economy. However, the common people were afraid that planting mulberry trees would not make money, so Chunren sent some prisoners with less serious circumstances home to plant mulberry trees, and reduced their crimes according to the amount of land that would make them survive by planting mulberry trees. Since then, the common people have also learned to plant mulberry trees, and finally benefited a lot.

Han Zhongyan proposed such a candidate, and he had served as prime minister, and Zeng Bu also agreed: "In this way, Fan Chunren and Chen are indeed feasible." ”

The little emperor asked again: "Who can replace Gao Zunhui?" ”

Han Zhongyan replied: "The Cao family can come out of the door alone." "Gao Zunhui is the general of the Gao family, Zhang Dunli, the commander of the concubine of the little emperor, belongs to the Zhang general, Zhao Xing has a close relationship with the Zhang general, and let the Zhang general send a person to ensure that Zhao Xing is not too excessive. Han Zhongyan suggested that the Cao family replace Gao Zunhui with someone out of the door. I also thought that the little emperor was more at ease with the children of Jiangmen, and let the Cao family replace Gao Zunhui, even if Zhao Xing could not be stopped, the imperial court could also understand the dynamics there in time.

Zeng Bu asked again: "Lord Han leaves Zhending, there is no one in Zhending, who can succeed him?" ”

Han Zhongyan shook his head: "Although I left Zhending Mansion, Zhending does not need to succeed. If Zhao Liren really wanted to make trouble, Gao Zunhui couldn't stop him. None of the 30,000 Tubo people stopped Zhao Liren, and Gao Zunhui couldn't do it. Therefore, it would be in vain for the imperial court to send people again.

The Daimyo Mansion and the Zhending Mansion were the two gateways to the Liao State. One is in the north of the Yellow River and the other is in the south of the Yellow River, but since Zhao Liren is sitting at the mouth of the Yellow River, do we still need to be afraid of the Liao? Even if we send one person to Zhending, he can't stop Zhao Liren, is there any need to guard against Liao, so why should we bother in vain? It's better to send a civil official, preferably someone who is dispensable, and someone who can make Zhao Liren feel that he is dispensable. That's enough. ”

The so-called "can make Zhao Xing feel dispensable", that is a tactful statement, in layman's terms, it is "waste dim sum" and "pure waste wood". Han Zhongyan meant: Zhao Xing is at the critical point of soaring. The imperial court sent a "famous waste wood" to Zhending, which made Zhao Xing feel bored and disdained to be angry with him.

Gao Yu leaned over again and whispered, and the little emperor recommended: "Zhang Shangyingke!" ”

Zeng Bu slapped his thigh and agreed: "This person is good, this person is no more, no less, just right." ”

Zeng Bu deeply admired the wisdom of the little emperor at this time, but he didn't know that when the little emperor thought of Zhang Shangying, he thought of Gao Yu's explanation to him a few days ago. Therefore, he imitated the employment strategy of the Empress Dowager. ^^^^

Zhang Duxiang has been in charge of the court for seven years, and the court is controlled by him, and the most important dog leg is Zhang Shangying, sending Zhang Shangying can not only reduce Chaozhong Zhang's henchmen, but also let this person go to make trouble for Zhao Xing...... Or, let Zhao Xing find trouble with this person - isn't he Zhao Laohu good at causing trouble, let's give him one and let him have a boring time. That's all right?!

As we all know, Zhao Xing is extremely dissatisfied with the New Party personnel, and some strange words pop up from time to time in Guangdong, Zhang Shangying, a sycophant, also spared no effort when persecuting Su Shi.

After Zeng Bu echoed the little emperor's suggestion, he guessed that the little emperor's requirements had been met at this time. He bowed his hand and asked again: "I beg Your Majesty to give an order immediately." Send a consolation envoy to preach the consolation. ”

The little emperor was also refreshed this time, and nodded lightly. Gao Yu stepped forward and waved his hand to write an edict in Su Shi's handwriting, Zeng Bu saw this handwriting, stared at Gao Yu deeply, and asked, "Lord Gao, can you go with you?" ”

The little emperor preemptively replied: "I plan to send Gao Qing to serve as the envoy of Zhending soldiers and horses later, what does Zeng Qing think?" ”

After all, the little emperor couldn't hold his breath, as soon as he said this, he leaked the heavenly secret, and all the people present were treacherous and cunning bureaucrats, and they immediately understood - it turned out that the little emperor really had a connection with Zhao Xing, and the key figure was this Gao Yu, and Gao Yu's handwriting to Zhao Xing was a code. At this moment, the little emperor would never let such a key figure leave his side in order to keep in touch with Zhao Xingdi.

But Zeng Bu did not tear his face to expose the truth, and the Empress Dowager Xiang was very satisfied with this treatment, and she immediately ordered Han Zhongyan and Zeng Bu to be shot on the left and right. summoned Jiang Qiu and Jiang Zhiqi to reinforce. Jiang Zhiqi replaced Zeng Bu as a privy envoy. At the same time, he also ordered Fan Chunren to be summoned to the court as the prime minister, and exiled Liu Jieyu and his former favored ministers, the ears and eyes of the palace in Zhangdi, and the eunuchs Hao Sui and Liu Youduan......

The palace sent a series of envoys to the north and south non-stop. When the ministers heard that Fan Chun arrived at Zhao Xing, he easily took away five hundred soldiers, which made the court relieved half of his heart.

Zeng Bu went out of the palace, and the old servant who was waiting at the gate of the palace raised a glass horse lantern to greet him, and explained attentively: "Xianggong, just now with Sheng Xuan's Ma Mengde came to the palace gate to ask, and after asking us that we are Zengfu's family, he left this glazed horse lantern, saying that it was dark, and the Guangnan transfer envoy gave Xianggong a bright lantern so that the adult could illuminate the road in front of him."

Xianggong, this person speaks strangely, but this horse lantern is really exquisitely made - there is a wick inside, with fierce fire oil as the burning material, and the outside is a glass windshield, which will not be extinguished in the event of a strong wind, which is really a good thing to illuminate the road. ”

Zeng Bu smiled: "Bright light! Interesting! It's so interesting! I just went to the Privy Council. said that Zhang Xiang went home alone just now. When Zhang Xiang left the palace, had that Ma Duguan met? ”

The old family members who can be trusted by Zeng Bu are also old and sophisticated, and he replied meaningfully: "I have seen it, that Ma Duguan asked one by one, and only after knowing that we were Zengfu's family members, did he leave this bright light, and Zhang Xiangdi's family was also there at that time, but they sent out only this one lantern, and nothing else." ”

Zeng Bu immediately understood, and he commanded, "Light the lamp." Send someone to tell Ma Duguan, that I understand what he means, and thank him for his kindness. ”

When he got into the sedan chair, Zeng Bu smiled slightly, and said in his heart: "Zhao Liren does things, and then his hands are constant." Now that he is making one move after another, looking at the situation, he knows the dynamics in the capital well, and he doesn't know what he plans to do next-is to further enter the court. Or retreat to Lingnan and make a south with peace of mind

The order in the palace was urgent, and it was too late to rush from Route 6. Zhang Dunli, the commander of the horses, temporarily used his personal connections to rent a loach speedboat from Ma Mengde and drove from the Liudongshui River to the eastern tributary of the Yellow River. When boarding the ship, Yushi and Zuo Zhengyan Chen Fangcai heard that Han Zhongyan had served as the left minister, and stomped his feet and said in annoyance: "Han Zhongyan is a relative of the country, and such a person has set a bad precedent as the left minister. From now on, I am afraid that the emperor's relatives and relatives will be all over the court. ”

Chen was ready to get off the boat and enter the palace to persuade him. Zhang Dunli grabbed him and suggested gently: "Lord Chen, it is a big deal to comfort Zhao Li's talents, so we should hurry up and follow the order." ”

Chen stomped his feet and said: "It's still too late to advise at this moment, the holy decree has not yet been announced to the world, and when the appointment is announced tomorrow, it will be too late." And Zhao Liren stopped at the Yellow River, and as soon as Fan Chun rushed over, he gave up five hundred soldiers - where is this rebellion. Is there such a rebellion in the world? Therefore, Zhao Liren's matter is not in a hurry, and the entry of relatives into the dynasty is a major event that will affect thousands of generations, how can he not be in a hurry? ”

Zhang Dunli calmly persuaded: "When the new emperor ascends the throne, people's minds are determined. Guangnan is the world's most taxed place, but now Guangnan soldiers and horses are divided into north and south, and they are pressed on the left and right of the Beijing Division, no matter what Lord Zhao's intentions are. Lifting the blockade of Caogong is the right thing to do. Master Chen. If the tribute is a day late, the court will be in chaos. And the entry of the relatives into the dynasty is a small chaos, a later chaos, between the urgency, and I hope that Lord Chen will be discerning. ”

Chen pondered for a moment, sighed, and re-boarded the boat. ^^^^

When this group of people arrived at Zhending Mansion, they first received the news that Gao Zunhui had died. Everyone was shocked into a cold sweat, hurriedly speed up the footsteps, hurried to the Daimyo's mansion, now at this time stranded in the center of the Yellow River Zhao Xing also seems to have encountered a dangerous situation, on the opposite river, a group of Liao soldiers to gallop, some Liao soldiers have ridden horses and waded to the shallow water, it seems to be planning to forcibly board the boat, looting.

Seeing this scene, Chen did not dare to move on. Zhang Dunli was born in a family of Jiangmen, and Tong Guan, who came with him, was also powerful, and the Cao family who came with him was also a troublemaker. The three of them turned over and entered Shunbao Village to visit Fan Chun, at this time, Fan Chun was bored, and when he saw these two people coming, he was overjoyed: "The place is just right, the old man still has five hundred soldiers on hand, but unfortunately there are empty soldiers and no generals - Zhang Juma, Cao Juma, these five hundred soldiers are all for you, you go to the shore to disperse the Liao soldiers, rescue Zhao Liren and landing." ”

Tong Guan had already drawn the knife in his hand, he hurriedly walked a few steps forward, no one followed, and turned back, and heard Zhang Juma ask Fan Chun gently: "Master Fan, Zhao Xing Zhao is still on the boat?" ”

Fan Chun was infected by Zhang Dunli's unhurried attitude and replied: "Exactly! Zhao Liren said that he didn't dare to board 6 unless he was ordered by the edict, so he stayed on the ship all the time. Yesterday, his brigade had begun to move towards the estuary, and there had been several large ships that wanted to tow the two stranded ships, but unfortunately they could not do so. Later, Zhao Liren and Shuai Meizhou each led half of the commanded men and horses to board two stranded ships, but I don't know what the current situation is. ”

The hesitant Chen was also under the protection of the forbidden army at this time, panting into Shunbao Village, those forbidden troops - that is, "armed actors" - pale, infected Chen Ye pale, he forced a calm ask: "Master Fan, how long has this situation lasted in front of you?" ”

As soon as Chen's words fell, two military horns sounded from the two stranded ships, one after the other, and then a rough voice floated on the shallow river: "Troops, check the guns!" ”

Chen's face changed: "It's not good, it's a new national funeral, Zhao Liren shouldn't provoke privately." ”

Zhang Dunli said unhurriedly: "It's too late, Zhao Liren has been provoked." ”

Sure enough, Zhao Xing's voice sounded: "Bullet!" The armies were divided into two strata lines. into five columns......"

Immediately afterwards, a loud voice sounded on the other ship, and in addition, a long whistle sounded in the bellies of the two ships, and with this whistle, many small portholes were pushed open in the belly of the ship, and countless black tubular objects came out of the portholes, and some vague words came from them-shotguns...... Ruler...... Flat ......

As soon as Chen stomped his feet and opened his mouth, two roars had already sounded on the two stranded ships. covered the voice in Chen's mouth—

"Fire!"

With this command, a roar resounded through the heavens and the earth. The sound of huge platoon guns continued, and after the platoon gunshots rang out, a louder rumbling sound came from the belly of the boat, and the entire river was shrouded in gunsmoke and fire.

After the first round of artillery sounded, the accuracy of the shooting was not very high, and only a few Liao people who were slightly close to the warship were hit by bullets. The rest of the Liao people shouted and urged their horses to run towards the shallow water area by the river. Amid the rumbling of gunfire, Chen calmed down. He squinted his eyes and looked at the warships in the water, and said leisurely: "I often hear that Zhao Liren likes to set off firecrackers at people in the South Seas to scare them into submission...... Master Fan, this is Zhao Liren's demonic explosive team, right? I've heard that you're desperate to get three thousand people from him, these demons? ”

Fan Chun glanced at Chen, because at this time, the Suzaku musketeers who stayed in the Shunbao village had already assembled and were guarding behind the minister with guns, but Chen didn't care. He didn't look back at all, while looking at the warship stranded in the river, he said leisurely and smugly: "This firecracker is loud enough, well, louder than the firecrackers set off in the New Year......

In fact, although the northern branch of the Yellow River was cut off in this era, it was still impossible to look at this famous river with a modern eye. In the Song Dynasty, it was still a big river with turbulent waves.

At present, the deepest part of the Yellow River's Beishui River channel is two meters deep. plus up to two meters of silt. And Zhao Xing's warship was stranded in such a deep river, you can imagine how huge the body of this warship is.

The sea vessels that passed through the Great Song Dynasty were about 500 tons, which is also confirmed by the results of modern seabed salvage, but the two stranded ships that Zhao Xing took had a displacement of 700 tons, which was obviously larger than the Song ships.

Five hundred years later, Western ships barely reached a displacement of 500 tons, and China had already stepped into the ranks of 500 tons in the Song Dynasty. However, most of the Chinese ships of this era also had obvious Chinese characteristics, that is, the ratio of length to width was too small. It resembles a large round wooden barrel. But Zhao Xing's two warships were among them. It does not know what material to use for the keel, so that the ratio of length to width is close to fusiform. With a distinctly streamlined sense of line.

Amid the sound of artillery, Chen looked at the giant boat stranded in the river, only to see that the two warships were nearly more than 100 meters long and only more than 10 meters wide. Standing on the shore, the underwater part of the warship appeared extremely narrow, and in the sound of the cannons, the hull seemed to be very unstable, shaky, and very jolting - this is also the reason for the low accuracy of shooting on the ship.

If you look up along the waterline, you can see shells and oysters under the waterline at the bottom of the boat. These sea creatures stopped abruptly at an obvious white mark on the hull, on the white mark, the hull of the ship appeared very clean, and the paint was very bright, even Chen, a person who did not know how to sail, knew that the white line was about the original waterline of the warship.

The gaze extends outward along the waterline, and you can see the footprints of the Liao soldiers on the opposite bank.

The slope of the large river that was cut off was very gentle, and the riverbed of the Liao people was very dry when the land was unrepaired and exposed to the outside for a year, and the Liao soldiers came along this shallow slope to harass the warships - this is also the customary tactics of the Liao people, who often deliberately made loud noises and made arrogant actions before and after the target, attracting the Song people to open fire first, and then attributed the responsibility for the exchange of fire between the two sides to the Song people. This time they were the same, but in fact, they couldn't get together at all, and the deep mud not only trapped the warship, but also protected the warship from being approached by the Liao.

Above the waterline, about one meter high, there are rows of portholes, one porthole at every horizontal interval of about one meter and a half, and above the portholes, on the deck of the ship is a female wall similar to a city wall. But the women's wall on the ship is only about knee-high for a person. Due to the existence of the female wall, several people on the riverside could not see the movement on the deck.

The deck was now filled with gunsmoke, and the white smoke was like a ball of cotton wrapped in the upper part of the ship, and only the orders of the officers could be heard in the smoke. After a while, the sound of gunfire stopped slightly, the smoke dissipated partially, and the people on the shore were now putting the boat down on the hull, everyone could only see that the crane on the boat was lifting the boat down, and the boat was under the boat, covered by the huge hull, and the people on the riverside judged by the password that it was about Zhao Xing who gave the pursuit order and ordered the soldiers to chase those Liao soldiers in small boats.

According to the gunpowder power of the Song Dynasty, it was impossible to hit the Liao soldiers on the shore. This caused Zhao Xing to open fire on the warship, purely to hear the sound. Chen said that Zhao Xing was amplifying the artillery battle, which was an appropriate description.

Generally speaking, the Khitans like to use the tactic of first provoking the enemy, then retreating from the horse to lure people to chase after them, and then returning to the horse to eat the pursuers. At first, the Liao soldiers provoked Zhao Xing to move for this purpose, but Zhao Xing seemed to respond too enthusiastically, and even ate the bait happily, and happily sent out the pursuers - Chen, who was standing on the shore, was not optimistic about this pursuit, he looked at Fan Chun, hoping that he could stop it.

Fan Chun is also a militant in his bones, and he frequently shook his white head for Zhao Xing's actions to show his appreciation. Before the others could reminisce, the middle-aged man next to Zhang Dunli first exclaimed: "It's not good, Zhao Liren's guy is going to catch up with the other side, it's a disaster!" ”

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