Du Jia and the Tang monarchs and ministers returned to their homeland, and Su Taiwei escorted more than 100 prisoners including Tian Hu and Tian Leopard, and returned to the capital in a mighty way.

The news had already been sent back, and Emperor Daojun was overjoyed, and specially sent all the officials led by Taishi Cai Jing to go out to greet him to show his favor.

Cai Jingjing went, Tong Guan, Brother Qiu and Yang Jian and others naturally couldn't help but go, they didn't expect this operation to be so smooth, and it took less than a year to sweep away the gang of stubborn bandits Tian Hu who had been entrenched in Jizhou for as many as seven or eight years, which is a good thing for the country, but it may not be for them, it is conceivable that in the future, Su Yuanjing's status will definitely be improved, and the officials of Qingliu are also rising, and it is impossible to overtake them in one fell swoop.

But His Majesty's will cannot be violated, Cai Jing and the others can only pinch their noses and lead the team out to greet them, and they have to pretend to be smiling - they can not give Su Yuanjing face, but they dare not give face to Emperor Daojun, in such a happy day, a few of your important ministers are sad and bitter, is it a swollen matter? Don't you want to see the victory of the official army?

Although they are traitorous ministers, but in the final analysis, they still rely on pleasing His Majesty the Emperor to get the favor, once they anger Huizong, they have no good fruit to eat, although they are very powerful, but rebellion does not exist at all, don't think about it in this life, since the founding of the Song Dynasty Taizu released the military power after the cup of wine released the military power, even the military generals are difficult to hold the military power, let alone these civil officials, just the hundreds of thousands of Jin troops in the capital are enough to destroy them a hundred times.

Emperor Daojun was very happy to see Su Taiwei and them come back, and after verifying that Tian Hu and the thieves were in good shape, he asked them all to be put on death row and publicly executed in a few days, so as to show the world the strength and strength of the imperial court.

Then the emperor let the emperor arrange a royal banquet for Su Taiwei to celebrate their achievements, and all the top and bottom of this trip were rewarded, and Su Taiwei was crowned the crown prince Taibao, ranking in the position of the third duke, and he could sit on an equal footing with Taishi Cai Jing.

At this moment, all the officials of the turbid stream couldn't sit still, they felt such a crisis for the first time, and they were even more anxious than when the Western Xia Kingdom invaded before, after all, the whole country suffered last time, and no one was happy, and this time it was just the people of the turbid current faction who were uncomfortable, and the people of the clear stream were all elated, rewarding meritorious deeds, what kind of line is this.

What's more, in the past, the turbidity current faction has always suppressed the clear stream, and there are four people such as Cai Jing, Tong Guanqiu, Brother Yang Jian, etc., and the clear stream is barely supported by Su Yuanjing alone, if it weren't for the fear of the third party, such as the old and small races, the forces such as the slight and slightly related forces, and the balance of forces above the court, they would have suppressed all the Qingliu faction with a single force.

But now the situation is not right, this year, Qingliu's strength has developed faster and faster, it is to catch up, they haven't figured out how to clean them up, this time Su Yuanjing came back from the expedition to the Jin Kingdom, and it turned into the third prince of Taibao, which is worth it?

It's like you've been riding a horse before, and your neighbor can only walk, you naturally have an invisible sense of superiority in front of him, but one day you suddenly find that the other party is riding an elephant directly, this kind of psychological gap is not comfortable.

Therefore, it was easy to wait until Emperor Daojun and the officials of Ziqingliu dispersed happily, and the pain and awkwardness of the officials of the turbidity stream were not to mention, except for Cai Jing who could sit firmly at the banquet, the rest of the people from Tong Guan, the number two person, had to personally go to toast Su Taiwei, and they had to say a lot of New Year's greetings, otherwise Emperor Daojun would definitely be unhappy, and it was not reasonable to agree, after all, now Su Taiwei has added Taibao, and his status is above them, and he has made a great contribution and returned, If they sit still, then tomorrow the court will have to be impeached and killed by the officials and historians!

After the dismissal, they immediately went directly to Cai Jing's mansion to complain, and Cai Jing also knew that he had already arranged a sumptuous banquet waiting for them, but whether it was fine wine and food or fairy beauties, they could not arouse their interest.

After drinking a glass of wine casually, Brother Qiu immediately said: "Enxiang, rank, everyone has seen today's things, these sour Confucians want to do things, especially that Su Yuanjing, everyone is on an equal footing on weekdays, although the urine can't go to a pot, but it's still respectful to us, it's good today, the big thorn sits over there, we go to toast in person and don't say stand up and take it, I'm bah, what's something, if it's not for the fear of making the saint unhappy, the official will directly splash the wine on his face, see what he is proud of!" ”

Several people knew that Gao Yu was just addicted, and they didn't say anything, Tong Guan sighed angrily: "What Master Gao said is right, to say that Su Yuanjing is a trivial matter, with our identity the original liquid does not need to be as knowledgeable as him, but this guy came back this time to be ranked as the third prince, and the same as Enxiang, those minions are also chicken dogs ascending to heaven, seeing that we will inevitably seize a large number of positions in the future, I am afraid our life will be difficult." ”

Yang Jian said even more anxiously: "Enxiang, your old man is a veteran of the Three Dynasties, when you are the master of the court, hurry up and think of a way, these guys completely want to shake our roots, although there is some friction between our faction, but it is just an internal problem, let's solve it by ourselves behind closed doors, but we must not let outsiders take advantage of it." ”

At this time, Cai Jing smiled bitterly and said: "What several adults said is extremely true, but who would have thought that Su Yuanjing's trip would be so smooth?" Don't be surprised if the old man said something that he didn't like, Lord Yang, you took the forbidden army to fight Natian Tiger a few years ago, didn't you return with a feather at that time? If you had taken this house at that time, where would it be your turn to get this scenery today? ”

It turned out that Yang Jian had led troops to fight Tian Hu a few years ago, but he was bought by Tian Hu with a lot of money, and then he casually beat a few other mountain forces and did a perfunctory thing, which of course caused the dissatisfaction of the rest of the turbidity bosses.

Yang Jian's face was red when he was asked, he himself had a ghost in his heart, so he naturally couldn't make a sound.

Tong Guan still has a great view of the overall situation, so he came out to play a round and said: "Enxiang, this matter has passed, and Lord Yang already knows that he is wrong, and the enemy is currently in the background, we still need to discuss countermeasures." ”

Yang Jian also hurriedly confessed and said: "The previous things were all the greed of the lower officials, and it was all the fault of the lower officials, Tian Hu's family had a total of about two million pieces of filial piety, and I took them out to hand over to a few people, but what the privy councillor said was extremely important, the top priority is to suppress those sour Confucians first." ”

(End of chapter)