"Zhang Fangping!" When Di Yong heard this name, he couldn't help but admire it in his heart.

This elder of the three dynasties of Song Shenzong, the eldest who was appointed as the deputy prime minister as soon as Song Shenzong took office, really didn't expect that Cai Dao, a child, would be able to know this person and recommend him. Speaking of which, the Minister of Civil and Military Affairs of the Manchu Dynasty, even if Sun Jue did not go to Chang'an Mansion to serve at this moment, but stayed in Bianliang City, he was not as good as this Zhang Fangping, this candidate is really too suitable.

Zhang Fangping, the word Andao, the name "Le Quanjushi", was a native of Nanjing, Tianfu in the Great Song Dynasty. Nanjing Yingtianfu, one of the four capitals of the Great Song Dynasty, is not the Nanjing of the later generations, but the southern Shangqiu of the river, and the location of the feudal town where Zhao Kuangyin, Taizu of the Song Dynasty, was appointed as the envoy of the German army in the Later Zhou Dynasty, and it was called Songzhou in the Later Zhou Dynasty, which is also the source of the name of the Great Song Dynasty.

In terms of the geographical location of his hometown, Zhang Fangping does not belong to the traditional territory of conservative ministers. On the surface, Zhang Fangping does not belong to the conservative or the reformers, and more importantly, the minister who is also resolutely opposed to the reform of the law actually had a bad relationship with Sima Guang before Wang Anshi changed the law.

At the beginning, when Song Shenzong had just ascended the throne, he was qualified to serve as the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, Zhang Fangping, as the governor of the political affairs, and Sima Guang, who was the Zhongcheng of the imperial history at the time, was opposed. After Sima Guang took office, Zeng Gongliang suggested abandoning Wang Anshi, but Zhang Fangping actually thought it wouldn't work.

This is the entanglement between Zhang Fangping himself and the two factions of bigwigs. It's just that because of Wang Anshi's change, Wang Anshi himself doesn't like this outspoken old guy, so Song Shenzong let Zhang Fangping Zhishi stay at home, and he is already seventy-six years old, so he doesn't know if he can handle government affairs. However, apart from him, Song Shenzong really couldn't think of any other more suitable candidate.

If you really want to send Zhang Dun to Hebei, you have to fry the pot.

As a result, Song Shenzong drafted an edict appointing Zhang Fangping as the general judge of the Daimyo Mansion, and specially acted to strictly investigate the smuggling matters on the Song-Liao border. Don't look at the general judgment This official position is not big, but in the locality, sometimes it is more in charge than the official of the seal.

In the next few days, Song Shenzong wanted to involve Wang Jue in this matter, but this slick old guy actually kept pretending to be sick, and somehow kept asking for leave at home. This is according to Cai Qu's wishes, which is just convenient for him to arrange personnel.

The official positions of the new science and technology scholars were also temporarily frozen, and the candidates nominated by these upstarts, as well as the reformers and conservative ministers, gathered in front of Cai Qu's desk. Cai did not retire, but most of the destinations of these people sent to Fuzhou and counties were decided by him alone, and he also bought face for Zhang Dun and Cai Jing.

After all, one of them is also a deputy prime minister, and the other is the current Kaifeng Mansion Yin.

Among the new science and technology scholars, there is one person who is an exception, that is, the champion Huang Shang, who is also from Fujian. In order to protect him and prevent this champion of the new department from being involved in this political whirlpool, Song Shenzong personally summoned him and personally appointed him as the county magistrate of Jinxi County.

For this reason, Song Shenzong also specially explained to Huang Sheng and asked him to take care of Fang Zhongyong within his responsibilities by the way. For this, Huang Shang himself also readily agreed, although Fang Zhongyong's reputation was stinked by Wang Anshi, but this legendary prodigy is still a pity.

Because Wang Qi did not care about political affairs, Cai did agree to the appointment.

The edict allowing Cai Dao to purchase grain along the canal in the name of Zhao Maid, the king of Yan'an County, was also expedited to him. This time, however, Dean set out from Bianliang City a few days after the edict was issued. In the past few days, Song Shenzong has been repeatedly questioning him to protect what Cai Dao saw and heard along the way, and recorded it in detail.

Whatever the reason, it is a fact that Dean distributed the money to the forbidden army under his subordinates, so Song Shenzong considered the safety of the Jingshi and the difficulty of Zhang Fangping to deal with smuggling on the Song-Liao border, so he sent the previous team of forbidden troops who protected Cai Dao to the Daimyo Mansion with Zhang Fangping. Even if Zhang Fangping completes the task in the future, these people will never be able to return to Beijing.

Therefore, this time, when Dean set out again, he again led the other two groups of forbidden troops towards the canal. One of the forbidden troops was to take over the protection of Cai Dao, while the other team of forbidden troops was to escort the precious treasures and books that Cai Dao had looted from the Wa Kingdom, as well as Cai Dao's entourage to enter Beijing first, after all, the twenty boys adopted by Cai Dao were too young to continue to run with Cai Dao.

In this era, no matter how fast the ship is on the sea than on land, it also takes time.

Cai Dao wanted to buy grain, but at the moment, he didn't have enough copper money in his hands. The copper coins in the treasury were distributed among the places along with the temporarily appointed overseers. Therefore, Di An, together with the new team of forbidden troops, also escorted Cai Dao's 500,000 yuan in cash that he temporarily borrowed from Song Shenzong's inner treasury.

This is Cai Dao's request to Song Shenzong when he asked Di'an to send a letter to Beijing. He has a lot of copper coins in his hand, but this problem of time difference can only be solved by the officials of the Great Song Dynasty.

This time, the reason why Song Shenzong agreed so readily.

On the one hand, it is because what Cai Dao is doing can not only gain a lot of popularity for his son Zhao Maid, but also essentially alleviate the suffering of the people because of the cheap Gu and the peasants, in the final analysis, Cai Dao is not doing things for the sake of their Zhao family;

On the other hand, the treasures and books that Cai Dao plundered from the Wa Kingdom were worth more than 500,000 yuan. If it weren't for Cai Dao's young age, Song Shenzong would have handed over all the cash in his inner treasury to Cai Dao, so what's the matter?

500,000 copper coins seemed to be a huge fortune, and there were more than a dozen ox carts escorted by the two forbidden armies of Dean alone. It wasn't that there were no bandits or horse thieves who wanted to fight these carts along the way, but as soon as they saw Dean and the two brightly armored forbidden troops, these gutless bandits immediately died down.

In other places, Cai Dao did not know whether the actions of those temporarily appointed superintendents to purchase grain by relying on Chang Ping were smooth, and he could not control it, he could only do what he could do well. is worthy of his conscience.

What he didn't know was that in order to absorb the problem of improper employment of people when Wang Anshi implemented the new policy in the past, UU Reading Books .net After Cai Qu discussed with Zhang Dun and Cai Jing, he sent a fine work around each of the superintendents of the imperial history, and their own people, once any of them made a mistake, or were bought by conservatives, local officials, and gentry, they would be taken down by them immediately.

As for the conservative candidates, they chose to stay by their side and let the fine saku stay by their side all the time, recording in detail the process of collusion between these people and the local authorities, and trying to get evidence of their bribery.

In fact, Song Shenzong was not completely relieved of these people recommended by the conservatives and the reformers, he asked Shi Deyi to send people from the Imperial City Division to secretly monitor all the supervising imperial histories, which naturally included Cai Dao himself.

From the time Dian received the letter to enter Beijing, to the time he led the two teams of forbidden troops to join Cai Dao, it took a total of half a month, and if these copper coins were not transported, the time would definitely be shorter.

Cai Dao chose the place of confluence to be Shuibo Liangshan.

At this time, there were many bandits and bandits all over the country in the Great Song Kingdom, but there were not as many as in the era of Huizong of the later Song Dynasty, and the fertile land of Shuibo Liangshan quietly became a borderless land. There are some people cultivating on it, but all of them are displaced people who have fled the famine in the past, and they have no household registration at all, let alone the field register of this large piece of land.

During this period, Cai Dao had already spread the news that the crown prince had sent envoys to purchase high-priced grain around the canal.

After getting the news, the people and landlords around them were like sharks smelling blood, regardless of whether there were cattle or not, they pulled their carts one after another, and after getting the news, they rushed to the shore of Shuibo Liangshan overnight.

The reason why Cai Dao chose this place was for the sake of safety, he still had those precious treasures and books in his hands, and the forbidden army under his command was too small, so he had to buy food and protect his own safety.