In the early morning of spring, the air is cold.

The mount under the crotch was panting for white air, and Cai Cheng, who was rushing to the court, put on a silk jacket under the official robe, and put on a somewhat old but well-textured cloak outside, but his hands and feet were still cold.

"Hold on, it's early today."

Hearing the voice and seeing the person coming, Cai did bend down on the horse, and saluted each other with the second person in the Dongfu today, "As a Taiwanese admonition, I have to be early." ”

Wang Qi lifted the reins and slowed down, and the Yuan Sui beside him immediately spread out a crack in his mind, and Cai Cheng leaned over the horse knowingly.

When Cai Qu came up, Wang Jue leaned back slightly: "I finally couldn't see the impeachment of Han Gang yesterday." ”

Wang Jue said thoughtlessly, but Cai did smile clearly: "After all, the business is important, and you can't delay it for others." ”

Wang Qi nodded and agreed: "It's really important. He asked again: "Han Gang should be able to do something, right?" ”

"Of course, it's not difficult for Han Gang. Xianghan Caoyun is not much, only one million stones a year, which is exactly the number of grain in Jinghu, and the upper trace of Jiangxi Jiangdong goes to Jingxiang instead. Cai Qu's point of view is completely different from the day before yesterday, "Jinghu's grain gang goes to Beijing, don't make a detour to Yangzhou, save thousands of miles, save a lot of time, even if you rely on the track in the middle, you can also save a lot of freight." ”

Wang Qi sighed with emotion: "So the Son of Heaven wants to protect him." ”

Cai did laugh: "If you stare at Han Gang again, Wutai can be broken in his hands." ”

Although the Son of Heaven punished the officials who impeached Han Gang very severely, the supervision of the imperial history who were willing to moths to the fire would not be reduced much - originally the Son of Heaven chose the imperial history, and he chose to be stunned - in fact, it is also an honor to speak out, as long as he has impeached important ministers, he will be capital in the future, which proves that they are loyal to their duties and are not afraid of power.

But in such a situation, things will be in trouble - not Han Gang's trouble, but Cai Cheng's side is in trouble.

In case something happens to the person who arranged for Lu because of the impeachment of Han Gang, all the planned plans will be disrupted. But it doesn't work to stop it, Cai Qu himself will be implicated as a traitor, in order to be reasonable and let the officials below keep a low profile, Cai Qu didn't bother to speak.

Wang Jue and Cai Qu walked together, and the officials on the road saw Wang Jue's flag, so they immediately avoided the side of the road, and in the dark early morning, they couldn't see whether it was one person or two people under the escort of the ruling yuan. I'm afraid no one thought that there was a private connection between Wang Qi and Cai Qu.

Of course, the two people who walked side by side were not considered the old party, but they were not the new party—although Cai Cheng himself looked a little similar—but wherever the Son of Heaven preached, they would follow, and perhaps it would be more appropriate to call it the imperial party.

Relatively speaking, Wang Qi behaved closer to the emperor and obeyed the Son of Heaven. Cai is indeed going to play some small tricks, such as impeaching Wang Anshi in the old days, such as now insisting on the new law and showing his independent personality, but at the same time, he is actually hoping to meet his wishes and make the Son of Heaven satisfied - compared to Shen Kuo, who is all about learning and political acumen, his wrist is many times stronger.

And Han Gang is the same kind of person in their eyes. If you are separated from the new party, you are inextricably linked with the old party, and you are not attached to either side, and you only please the Son of Heaven. As long as the current Supreme can be satisfied, the status is as stable as Mount Tai - of course, Han Gang's method of currying favor with the Son of Heaven is to accumulate credit, which is different from anyone else. Cai really doesn't feel that he needs to learn from Han Gang, and he doesn't think that he can learn it, but as long as the results are the same, the means don't matter.

After walking a few steps, Wang Qiyou asked out loud: "Deng Wenbo and Shangguan still want to protect Dali Temple?" ”

Cai did answer the question: "Huang Lu is a person who is upright and outspoken. ”

Wang Jue nodded, and also jumped to speak, "In the Xiangzhou case, it was a capital crime, Chen Anmin didn't know how to introspect and treat the crime, but he was bold enough to bribe the legal department. Wen Jifu and Wu Anzhi should be punished for their involvement and corruption of national law. ”

"The words of participating in politics are just public opinion."

In the Xiangzhou case, three criminals were sentenced to death on charges of robbery and homicide. However, according to the subsequent review by the Criminal Court, this was a case of wrongful conviction and the two accomplices were deservedly sentenced to death. But at this time, the accomplices have all been executed, and it is too late to recover. In the event of a human life, the nature of this miscarriage of justice becomes very serious, and the officials involved in the interrogation can by no means be resolved by dismissal.

Chen Anmin, who was trying this case at the beginning, his sister, who was a little far apart, was the biological mother of Wen Yanbo's son Wen Jifu, and Wen Jifu was Wu Chong's son-in-law. In order to eliminate the disaster, Chen Anmin asked Pan Kai, who was involved in the case at the time, to bring money to Beijing for activities, and on the other hand, he mobilized his own relationship to seek peace.

And this matter gave Cai Cheng a handle. The case of Xiangzhou is small, but the bribery of the legal department is a big matter. Cai really wanted to go up, but he was afraid that things would not make a big fuss, so he arrested a number of high-ranking officials and entered the Yushi Terrace, and Wen Jifu and Wu Anzhi were implicated.

Seeing this, Deng Runfu wanted to make a big deal small, and didn't want to make too much trouble, giving the Son of Heaven a feeling that he was fighting against each other, but it was not conducive to the new party, and Cai was indeed a threat to Deng Runfu, he had long wanted to take the opportunity to suppress Cai Qu - the Taiwan officials have always said that they are headed by Zhongcheng in the imperial history. Cai Qu, as the head of the court, only has Deng Runfu on his head.

But Deng Runfu didn't know that there was an agreement between Wang Qi and Cai Cheng.

Cai Qu and Wang Qi talked a few words very succinctly, reiterated their respective attitudes, and immediately separated. The two served as the ruling and speech officials respectively, and their friendship was not good, even if they met and chatted for a couple of sentences, they would be exhausted, and if they talked too much, it would be difficult for the Son of Heaven to explain.

And the tacit understanding has already been formed. Wang Qi wanted Wu Chong's position, while Cai did stare at Deng Runfu's position, and the combination would be mutually beneficial, so naturally there was no need for unnecessary temptation.

Cai Qu left the team of dozens of consuls, looked at it a few more times with envy, thought about it, and knocked on the saddle to look at the dark and gloomy west, with a little smile on his face: "Han Gang should go to Luoyang, Wen Yanbo will not be in a good mood recently, and some of them give him a headache." ’

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Han Gang had already arrived in Luoyang City.

As the transfer envoy of the capital of western Beijing, he has the responsibility of supervising the officials of Jingxi 1st Road - so the yamen at the level of the road, the Jinglu Division, the Transfer Division, the Mention of Prison and the promotion of Changping, are all called the Supervision Department - the 'envoy' after the official name shows that he represents the Son of Heaven to supervise the western part of Beijing, and his status is of course one level higher than that of the normal Zhizhou.

Wen Yanbo of Henan Mansion was sentenced to ignore Han Gang, this is normal, if Wen Yanbo is coming out of the city, Han Gang will even have to take a detour into the city to avoid him. The patriarchs of the three dynasties, the former prime ministers, the crown princes, the senior scholars of the palace and the Duke of Luguo, this gift is only qualified by the Son of Heaven or the two palaces, and even the queen and concubines are not qualified, let alone Han Gang.

However, Henan Prefecture could not be judged, military judges, jiedu judges, and recorders could not join the army, Henan magistrates could not come out, and there was not even a scene where the local fathers and elders went out of the city to greet them, so things were inevitably done a little too much.

Han Gang's entourage was angry one by one, his staff member Fang Xing, and more than a dozen of his fellow disciples who had defected to his tent were all blue with anger, this dismount was too dark.

But Han Gang can't complain to the Son of Heaven about this, as long as Wen Yanbo casually takes an excuse that he is busy with official business, he can easily prevaricate in the past, even if the Son of Heaven knows that it is a lie, he will still help him, the old minister, to give a perfunctory treatment, and none of them can cure the crime. is like sacrificing the imperial history before, just to give Han Gang an explanation; At this time, Han Gang's face will be sacrificed to give Wen Yanbo, the veteran, a face.

Fortunately, it was not completely impossible for anyone to go out of the city to greet him, and Li Nangong, the deputy envoy of the transfer, took a subordinate of the transfer department and waited for Han Gang's arrival at the delivery shop ten miles away from the city.

Jingnan Road and Jingxi North Road have just been merged, but the Caosi Yamen of the two roads has not yet been merged, and there is only one Hangang in the transfer envoy, but there is one in the south and one in the north, each with one person.

Li Nangong, the deputy envoy of the transfer, went out of the city to greet Han Gang, and when he saw that no one from Luoyang Prefecture and County came out, he immediately complained in his heart. The subordinates below also changed their faces.

Han Gang became a transfer envoy and a bachelor of Longtu at a young age, this opportunity, Wen Yanbo is far from being able to compare, he is young and vigorous, where can he swallow this idle breath. Wen Yanbo didn't give Han Gang any face, so Han Gang would definitely have trouble finding Wen Yanbo, they were caught in the middle, but they had to suffer hardship.

At that time, Li Zhongshi, who knew Henan Mansion, had a personal enmity with Fu Bi, so he couldn't get along with Fu Bi in a different way, and even sent a clerk to the door to urge him to exempt him from money. Later, Li Zhongshi was transferred, but the subordinates and officials who were driven by him could not be transferred, and I don't know how much suffering he suffered from the rich family.

When they got closer, Li Nangong and the others found that Han Gang's entourage were all angry, and they all chuckled in their hearts and shouted that it was not good. But when they looked at the young officials in purple robes and gold belts around their waists in the middle of the crowd, they didn't look angry at all, smiling and not knowing what they were saying, as if they were appeasing everyone.

Li Nangong led the officials of the Transshipment Division to Han Gang, and bowed to Han Gang in unison. There were quite a few officials in the transit department, more than 20 people, except for the two or three who stayed behind, and all the rest came out to greet them.

Han Gang had already dismounted, saluted Li Nangong back, and asked all the subordinate officials to get up, so he pulled Li Nangong on the horse very closely.

Li Nangong peeked at Han Gang's face, carefully avoided dangerous topics, first praised Han Gang's past achievements, and said: "The two roads in Jingxi have recently merged, and the affairs of the Yazhong are waiting for Long Tu to mention. The lower officials have already sorted out all the books and account books, and when the dragon map arrives, they can start to check it. ”

"There is no urgency. Presumably Chu Lao also knows," Han Gang affectionately called Li Nangong's cousin, "The Son of Heaven does not think that Han Gang is young and shallow, and he is specially transferred to take charge of the Jingxi Cao Division, but he just sees that Han Gang has a little gain in civil engineering matters, and as for the affairs of the Cao Division, Chu Lao and the capable people must work hard." ”