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Daojun Emperor Zhao Ji sat on the dragon chair, and his face was already smiling.

Recently, good news has been spreading, and Zhao Ji has also become comfortable.

After the Xuanhe reform, he didn't hear the good news until the beginning of the third year, and Zhao Ji, who had been depressed for two years, finally got rid of the previous depression, so as soon as he received today's good news, he announced it to the ministers.

"Ladies and gentlemen, I just received the news that Song Jiang of Dongping Mansion has accepted the imperial court's recruitment, and so far, the thieves in Jingdong and Hebei have been eliminated, which is a gratifying thing."

Although the scale of the Songjiang Rebellion was not large, he was too close to the important places in Gyeonggi, and the impact was still not small, the most important thing was that he went around to fight, invaded a wide area, and lasted for a long time, which was the first since the founding of the Great Song Dynasty, and even the influence of the large-scale Fangla was not much worse.

Now that it has finally been calmed down, this joy is still worth saying, so the ministers spoke one after another.

Of course, those remarks were nothing more than singing and reciting virtues, praising Emperor Zhao Ji for his wisdom, the decisiveness of the court, and the direction of the army, which put down the rebellion in only two months. Among them, there are also some critics of Song Jiang, saying that he didn't know the current affairs before, and when he saw the court moving seriously, he saw the opportunity to act and surrendered quickly, otherwise he would die without a place to be buried.

And so on, there are a lot of good things to say, and they are basically Zhao Ji's sycophants.

Zhao Ji is a person who likes to listen to good words, but now that everyone is trying their best to flatter, he is naturally overjoyed, and his mouth can't close his smile.

He said happily: "Song Jiang's scourge has been eliminated, half of my thoughts have been reduced, and there was also news two days ago that Fang La's disaster has been controlled, and the next step is to launch a counteroffensive, and it is not far from eliminating Fang La." ”

The news of the conquest of Fang La had been obtained a few days earlier, although it was not as good as eliminating the scourge of Song Jiang, but it was also good news, and the courtiers were just as excited.

Following Zhao Ji's words, the ministers boasted again.

If you don't measure yourself, sooner or later you will be captured and die; Your Majesty's wise decision must be as you wish.

Happily accepting this praise, Zhao Ji was overjoyed and asked, "Ladies and gentlemen, how should Song Jiang deal with it?" ”

As soon as these words came out, the court was immediately speechless.

Song Jiang is a person who was recruited, even if he was not before, at this time he is on the same status as the officials of the imperial court, that is to say, as long as the will of the imperial court, he is the minister of the imperial court, and together with those present, he can work with the court.

In any case, it is one thing to eliminate the scourge of Song Jiang, but it is another thing to work with the same dynasty, who would want to work with a former traitor?

This is a strange phenomenon, which I thought was wonderful before, but once it was close, I realized that it was not reasonable to get over it at all.

The ministers are like this, and so is Zhao Ji, who is the emperor. It's just that on this occasion, no one will say anything backtracking, after all, agreeing to Zhao'an is the intention of the imperial court.

Besides, there is still Fang La watching over there, if Song Jiang's affairs are not handled well, once it is used by Fang La, it is very likely to cause passivity in the southern battlefield, which will not be fun.

Therefore, it is inevitable to arrange a position for Song Jiang, but the position is big and small, and the matter is important, and what position is assigned to him is the most important.

Under normal circumstances, it is enough to arrange an idle clerical job for Song Jiang, but no matter how idle he is, he will also appear in the court, for this kind of person who has a fierce image in everyone's minds, no one wants to see him more, so it is good to drive him out of the court.

Of course, this is what most people think, and there are still people who have different considerations, and that person is Cai You, who is being favored by the Holy Grace.

Cai You said: "Your Majesty, the minister has a suggestion. ”

Although Cai You is Cai Jing's eldest son, his fortune is not because of Cai Jing, but because he grasped his own opportunities.

When Zhao Ji was still the king of Duan, Cai You tried to make friends with him. At that time, Cai You was a supervisor in the Beijing Tailoring Academy, but he was only twenty-two or three years old, and every time he went to the Tailoring Academy, he could catch up with the courtiers to retreat from the court, so he calculated the time to come out, so that he could meet Zhao Ji, the Duanwang of the next dynasty.

So, every time King Duan went down to the court, he could see a young man with beautiful eyebrows who was a few years older than himself dismounted and stood on the side, humble and polite, and amiable to watch. King Duan asked the servants on the left and right, which family the young man was the son of, and replied left and right: "It's Cai Chengzhi's son." So Zhao Ji wrote down his person in his heart.

When Zhao Ji succeeded to the throne, Cai You was naturally reused, Zhao Ji first gave him the rank of Jinshi, and then he was promoted year by year, successively serving as a bachelor of Longtu Pavilion, an envoy of the Huaikang Army, and a scholar of Xuanhe Palace.

Just when Gao Feng was appointed as the governor of the state, Cai You was appointed as the deputy privy envoy, and he was in charge of the Privy Council with Wang Huang, who was the privy envoy, which was already the central department of the imperial court.

It's just that Cai You is different from Cai Jing, he has no talent and no virtue, he gave him a position but didn't think about dealing with government affairs, he only knew that he was around Zhao Ji to discuss the Taoist change, and acted in the market ** to invite favor, in order to fight for power, he even turned against his father.

Now that Cai Jing has stepped down, there are two people in front of Cai You. One is Wang Huang, who is serving as a privy envoy at this time, and is also the position that Cai You is targeting. However, Wang Hao may become the prime minister next, and there is little conflict with Cai You, so Cai You did not pay attention to him.

It wasn't put on Wang Huang, so where did he put it? Of course, it is Tong Guan, who is currently in the limelight. Tong Guan has led the army for more than ten years, and has many military achievements, and this time he was appointed as the Xuanfu envoy, responsible for exterminating Fang La, once the matter is completed, he will inevitably be appointed as the privy envoy, so that Cai You's idea will not succeed.

For this reason, he stepped forward.

"Your Majesty, I have heard that Song Jiang is brave, leading more than 1,000 people to fight in more than ten state capitals and coming and going freely, it can be seen that it is not in vain, the minister thinks, since Song Jiang is like this, why not let him lead his troops to conquer Fang La, if he wins, it is the best, so that the harm of Fang La can be removed, if he is not victorious, he can also ask him for the crime of ineffectiveness, so isn't it the best of both worlds?"

This suddenly sounds very reasonable, it can be described as a plan to kill two birds with one stone, which not only hit Fang La, but also pushed Song Jiang to the edge of the fire pit.

When Zhao Ji heard it, yes, let these two people fight, but the two hidden dangers can be eliminated.

Just as he was about to agree, he suddenly heard a person next to him shouting: "Your Majesty, this matter must not be done." ”

When everyone saw it, they couldn't help but be surprised, it turned out that it was their own people from the Lao Cai family who stood up to oppose it.

Cai You, Cai You's third brother, because the second child has long since died, is actually Cai You's eldest brother. Cai Yu's official residence is a scholar of Baohe Palace, and he is Cai Jing's spokesperson in the court, so his words are very weighty.

I didn't expect him to stand up against it, and everyone wondered.