The entire Hanyuan Hall was quiet at this time, and none of the hundreds of court officials spoke out loudly, and everyone understood that Zhao Ziliang was not only worried about encountering the same fate as Huangfu Weiming, Wang Zhonghe, and other people, and simply resigned from all official positions, but also because he was afraid that he was already disheartened, and he was treated unfairly and degraded repeatedly, what could be a bigger blow than this? Now it's okay, people don't play, let you play by yourself!

There was silence in the hall for a while, but soon it was like a vegetable market, and hundreds of officials began to chatter. Pen fun and pavilion www.biquge.info

This is Prime Minister Cui Yuan standing up and saying loudly: "Your Majesty, Zhao Ziliang is too presumptuous, Your Majesty's will is to let him go back to Chang'an to preside over the affairs of Tubo, not only did he not obey the edict, but he also resigned from his official position, and threw his face to His Majesty and the court, how can he be so arrogant?" Please Your Majesty decree to cure Zhao Ziliang's crime of disrespect! ”

Prime Minister Zhang Hao stood up and said: "Lord Cui, your reason is a bit far-fetched, now that Zhao Ziliang has resigned from all official positions, there is no official position in his body, there is no saying that he will not obey the edict, so how can he talk about the crime of disrespect?" Unless His Majesty re-issues an edict to appoint him to an official position, it's hard to say whether he is willing to accept it, people don't want to be an official, you can't force him to be an official, right? ”

Cui Yuan said angrily: "According to what you say, is there nothing the court can do about him?" Let him be so rampant and unscrupulous? ”

Prime Minister Fang Xuan stood up and said, "Lord Cui, what you said is a bit heavy, right?" Is it rampant and unscrupulous to be an official that people don't want to be? What kind of logic do you have? Don't always put a hat on someone's head! Also, now An Qingxu still has seven or eight hundred thousand rebels in his hands, and these people are eyeing the rule of the imperial court! Why can't you tolerate a man who can lead an army into battle? Now that he is willing to surrender his military power, this should be thankful for you people, why can't he go home and rest, why should he kill them all? Do you have to force Zhao Ziliang to be willing? ”

Cui Yuan suddenly shouted when he heard this: "You fart, when am I going to force Zhao Ziliang to rebel?" You are talking nonsense! Your Majesty, the ministers are all for the sake of the court, and there is no personal selfishness! ”

Xuanzong was already very shocked by Zhao Ziliang's resignation, and now these ministers are arguing, which makes him even more upset, so he slapped the imperial case on the spot and got up and said angrily: "Enough, that's all for today, retreat from the dynasty!" ”

The main hall was suddenly silent, and the ministers were stunned to see Emperor Xuanzong angrily walking away, and they all guessed that Zhao Ziliang's resignation and departure had hit Xuanzong very hard.

Since Zhao Ziliang is willing to hand over his military power, he is unwilling to come to Chang'an, and would rather resign and return to his hometown to farm, why is this? As long as you are not a fool, you can guess that Zhao Ziliang is worried that he will be persecuted, he has already developed a sense of distrust of the court and the emperor, if it is an ordinary person, the emperor and the court must not care about this, but Zhao Ziliang is not someone else, his weight is too heavy, and the top generals of the military have lost trust in the emperor and the court, so what about the generals and the army below? What does this mean? Everyone shuddered at the thought of this!

Xuanzong felt extremely lost, he walked into the imperial garden in a state of confusion, sat down in a pavilion and did not move, and the eunuchs and palace maids could only fan him constantly.

Yang Yuhuan quickly learned from the mouths of the eunuchs that the emperor was in a bad mood and hurried over.

"San Lang, what's wrong with you? What happened? ”

Xuanzong came back to his senses and said: "Zhao Ziliang has written to resign and return to his hometown!" ”

"Oh······ What the? Please quit and go home? What do you mean? Didn't he lead troops to quell the rebellion in Luoyang? How can you resign and return to your hometown in a good way? San Lang, what the hell is going on? ”

Xuanzong sighed: "Ten days ago, the courtiers thought that now the overall situation of counterinsurgency has been decided, the rebels are just grasshoppers after the autumn, and it won't be long before they jump, it just so happens that now the negotiations between Tubo and my Tang Dynasty on the border trade have reached a deadlock, Wei Jiansu, Cui Yuan, Cui Lian and Miao Jinqing and other prime ministers suggested that Zhao Qing be transferred back to preside over the affairs of Tubo, and let Wang Chengye replace him to command the army to continue to quell the rebellion, I also consider that the military power in his hands is too large, of course, I believe in his loyalty, but it is difficult to ensure that he is not instigated and coerced by his subordinates, So I also agreed to the proposal of Wei Jiansu and Cui Yuan and others to give Zhao Ziliang an edict to protect him, I didn't expect things to turn out like this, hey······"

Yang Yuhuan was a little angry and said: "San Lang, you are the emperor, you can't listen to all those ministers, they all have their own political interests, who knows what calculations they have in their hearts?" You have good intentions in making this holy decree, but have you thought about what Zhao Zi's conscience will think? You have killed so many loyal ministers and good generals in front of you, and it is reasonable for him to worry that he will repeat the mistakes of those people in Chang'an! ”

Xuanzong seemed to have been hit hard all of a sudden, and he now knew that the feeling of not being trusted was so bad.

"Hey······ Is I really that terrible? ”

After thinking about it for a long time, Xuanzong summoned Zhao Hanlin and issued an order to Zhao Ziliang, in order to reward his merits, he gave him 1,000 households, 3,000 acres of fertile land, 1,000 taels of gold, 200 horses of silk and satin, a bucket of Dongzhu, and a box of jade and jade.

Things have come to this point, it is useless to regret it, Xuanzong can only hope that Wang Chengye can fight a few beautiful battles after taking office to prove that his decision is not wrong, otherwise, I am afraid that the situation will be difficult to clean up. However, Wang Chengye has just taken office, and it is not enough to take the initiative to attack the rebels.

At the end of July, Zhao Ziliang and his entourage returned to Mulberry Village, their hometown in Jiangling, but they didn't expect that construction was being carried out next to the village.

After more than ten years of wind and rain, the original brick house has long collapsed and cannot be inhabited, so Zhao Ziliang can only ask the soldiers to clean up the collapsed house and temporarily set up some tents next to it as temporary shelter.

In view of the fact that Mrs. Meng was eight or nine months pregnant and could not sleep on the ground, and could only live in the carriage temporarily, but she could not live in the carriage all the time, Zhao Ziliang asked his soldiers to buy timber and invited carpenters and masons from several surrounding villages to immediately build some small wooden houses on the foundation of the original house, and lived in these small wooden houses before the county king's mansion was built.

Due to the help of the soldiers, plus carpenters and masons, a big courtyard house was built in only ten days, this courtyard is all built with wood, the roof is covered with wooden boards, spread a layer of tarpaulin and then covered with red tiles, the double-layer wall made of wooden planks is brushed with tung oil for rain and wind, although the cost is larger, but this wooden building is beautiful and generous, but also durable, the key is to build quickly.

It was only dried for a few days, and the tung oil on the brush dried quickly, Zhao Ziliang immediately asked everyone to move in, this large courtyard has more than 100 rooms, there are three courtyards, Zhao Ziliang and Mrs. Meng and some maids live in the third courtyard, the soldiers and Du Fu live in the front two courtyards, and the chief of the guard, Nuer, is responsible for safety.

These days, Yao Zhiyuan, the warden of Jiangling County, came to invite Zhao Ziliang into the city for a banquet three times and five times, Zhao Ziliang refused the other party's banquet on the basis of wanting to build a house.

"Come on, come on, Lord Jun, the lower official will give you a drink!"

Yao Zhiyuan, the county guard, took a drink and said to Zhao Ziliang: "The county prince, the lower officials have also heard a little about the affairs of the imperial court, and it is not to blame that the county prince resigned in a fit of anger and did not do it. The prince of the county is our Jiangling people's clan, once upon a time, the prince of the county was responsible for the rise and fall of the world, what kind of courage is this? This time, the prince can return to his hometown with honor, all the people of Gangneung are very happy, there is a prince on the ground of Gangneung, some small crumbs, bandits, and rebels dare not be presumptuous here! ”

Yao Zhiyuan is very good at talking, at least Zhao Ziliang is very comfortable to listen to, and immediately touched a glass with him, and said: "I, Zhao, am only afraid that I will have to live permanently when I return to my hometown this time, and there will definitely be many times in the future when I need my parents to take care of me!" ”

Yao Zhiyuan hurriedly said: "The prince of the county is serious, this matter is easy to say, as long as I, Yao Zhiyuan, am still an official here, the prince of the county can only say anything about it!" ”

Speaking of this, Yao Zhiyuan repulsed left and right, and whispered to Zhao Ziliang: "Lord Jun, I don't know anything else, but I know that Wang Chengye, the original general of Yulin, has never fought at all, and I heard that he was almost captured when the rebels entered Chang'an, and escaped to Fengxiang with his men and horses, so that he would be the commander of the army?" To be honest, Xia Guan didn't have much hope for him, this person could keep the previous achievements of the county prince It would be very good, Xia Guan deduced that if Wang Chengye couldn't deal with the rebels, the situation would be difficult to clean up, and the court was afraid that the county prince would be used! ”

Zhao Ziliang smiled and said, "Who can say for sure what will happen in the future?" By the way, Lord Yao, if there is any news in the imperial court, please ask Lord Yao to send someone to say it, or if there is any palace report, please send someone to send a copy, what do you think? ”

"That's a good thing to say!" Yao Zhiyuan thought for a while and said: "That's it, it's better for the county prince to send a personal soldier over to work part-time in the county guard mansion to be a small leader of catching fast, if there is any news, the county prince can also know at any time, the palace report or something, the lower official will send someone to copy it and send it to the county prince immediately after it is copied!" ”

Zhao Ziliang happily agreed: "Okay, it's decided!" ”

In fact, Zhao Ziliang does not lack channels to get the news, but the official channel has its own peculiarities, which can mobilize the resources of the post stations along the way at any time, even in the scorching heat and severe cold winter, the news can be delivered quickly. (To be continued.) )