Chapter 33: Outsiders and Idlers Busy (5)
"Han Longtu drove out to Wen Xianggong?! It's a real deal. ”
"Really?"
"The uncle of Liu Xiaoyi's brother-in-law next door to my house saw Han Longtu come out of the government with a black face at that time."
"Liu Xiaoyi's brother-in-law's own uncle? …… Doesn't Wuda sell cooking cakes? How did he see it?! ”
"Don't the people in the yamen eat cooking cakes?"
Originally, the fact that the officials of Henan Prefecture did not go out of the city to greet the new capital transfer envoy has become the most discussed news in Luoyang City, and the focus of the most attention, everyone wants to see how the whole thing will develop next. And further development is indeed in line with people's expectations.
Han Gang came to visit the door every other day, and after a quarter of an hour, he came out of the palace. If it was a low-grade petty official who came to visit, Wen Yanbo could leave him for a quarter of an hour to speak, which was already very face-saving, but Han Gang was the transfer envoy of the capital, and it was really unimaginable for a Longtu Pavilion bachelor with a purple gold fish bag to get such treatment.
Now there are rumors in Luoyang City, of course, Xiao Han, who will not serve as a transfer envoy, came to visit, and after discussing with Wen Xiang, he got up and said goodbye. There was no drama at all, and certainly no one would be interested, and the statement was quickly drowned in the tide of rumors, and disappeared in the blink of an eye.
Now there are rumors that Han Gang was driven out by Wen Yanbo. Not only did someone pat his chest and say that his brother-in-law's uncle next door was doing business outside the government at the time, and he saw Han Longtu come out of the yamen with a blue face, and even the story of how Wen Yanbo and Han Gang started to argue in the hall at that time and how they quarreled was made up.
The most outrageous legend is that after the most Lu Dynasty, Wen Xianggong dropped the cup, and a group of sword and axe hands - no, it was a group of officials who swarmed out and invited Han Longtu out. The whole set of stories is made up with noses and eyes, and the witnesses are listed one by one, from the officials of Henan Mansion to the passers-by on the street, and then to the entourage around Han Gang, which makes people have to believe it.
And at the same time, Han Gang rejected the proposal of the subordinates in the division and was not ready to immediately check the accounts of the Henan Mansion Treasury The rumor spread out of nowhere.
Han Gang is good at soothing the people, and he is also benevolent, and everyone knows the Tao in Luoyang - more than 10,000 Hebei refugees were sent to repair the Yellow River embankment in the Luoyang section, and 3,000 people ran away at once, and the rest cried and shouted that the imperial court would send Han Gang to preside over the work. As for Wen Xianggong, he was known for his decisiveness. So the rights and wrongs of this, the people of Luoyang have their own judgments.
As a result, the dramatic rumors of intense conflict spread more widely than the actual truth. Anyway, in addition to the parties in Luoyang City, there are also a few well-informed people who can get accurate news on both sides, and they basically heard the news from word of mouth.
In the eyes of many people, the two families of Fucao can be regarded as a mortal enemy, how things will develop next, how many people in Luoyang City are looking forward to it as a rare show, but Zhao Ji, who is far away in Tokyo, never wants to see this scene.
Knowing that the whole of Henan Mansion had not come out to welcome Han Gang, Zhao Ji was already very annoyed. Han Gang's envoy should know from the word 'envoy' that he represents the Son of Heaven - at least nominally now - as the envoy of the Son of Heaven, Wen Yanbo, an old minister, relies on the old and sells the old, how can Zhao Ji not be angry.
It's okay to do this, as long as it doesn't interfere with serious things, Zhao Ji is not intolerant. But only two days later, Han Gang came to visit the government office, and he came out in only a quarter of an hour, when Han Gang was the magistrate of Henan Prefecture? The time Han Gang went to the palace to meet him, didn't he Zhao Ji stay at least an hour to come to the monarch and minister to ask right, Wen Yanbo was good, and he was bigger than him.
Zhao Ji did not doubt the authenticity of this matter, after all, Wen Yanbo is an old minister, he has been in the officialdom for decades, and it has been more than 30 years since he ascended to the stage, so he should not make such a mistake no matter how he thinks about it. But in the reports from Luoyang that Zhao Ji received yesterday and today, almost every letter mentioned this matter, but the statement was a little confusing.
Xijing Luoyang Henan Mansion is not far from Tokyo City, and the whole thing is too loud, that is, the day after the incident, the current Emperor of the Great Song Dynasty saw the report of Luoyang and officials at all levels who have the right to play secrets in the Chongzheng Palace.
Zhao Ji, who is far away in Tokyo City, is very well-informed and can get accurate information through various channels such as walking and bearing. But the problem is that the information he gets is not only true and unmistakable, but a mixture of truth and falsehood. Today's Great Song Emperor is not clear which of the so many conflicting news is the truth.
There are several people arranged by the imperial court to bear in Luoyang, but they are all hearsay, and the news that comes back is many and miscellaneous, plus the secret performance of seven or eight local courtiers, many of which tell contradictory stories, and the truth needs to be dug up by Zhao Ji himself - basically the information on Zhao Ji's desk is often like this, just like whether the wasteland on Xihe Road was only one hectare or 10,000 hectares, Wang Shao, Han Gang and Li Shizhong, Dou Shunqing quarreled for half a year, and the envoys sent by the court to confirm opened their eyes and said nonsense, and finally relied on the sand tableAt the same time, it was confirmed with the actual output.
Back to what is happening in Luoyang now, the news can be boiled down to two categories, one is that Wen Yanbo was rude first and then rude, and ordered soup to send guests after saying two sentences, most of the reports that Zhao Ji got said so; In addition, there are a few reports, which say that there is no such thing, Han Gang left on his own after visiting the Henan Mansion, among which there are also accusations that Han Gang himself intends to retaliate and is impatient to check the Luoyang Mansion Treasury - this recital, Zhao Ji lost it after reading it, Han Gang did not say that Wen Yanbo was not half a sentence in his recital, and Li Nangong, the deputy envoy of the transfer, also had the right to play secretly.
On the second day after arriving in Luoyang, Han Gang wrote a foldback and said his preliminary plan, which clearly stated that he was going to check the money and grain in Ruzhou and Tangzhou first, and as for the supervision of the prefectures on the former Jingbei Road, Han Gang said that he planned to temporarily hand it over to the transfer judge to deal with it in accordance with the previous order, hoping that Zhao Ji would approve it. In the recital, he did not mention the situation that the people of Henan Mansion did not come out to greet him. And this time the matter was in an uproar, and Han Gang also didn't say anything, not even the secret music, it seemed that he wanted to calm things down.
Who to believe, Zhao Ji can generally judge. Han Gang's past recitals were all about facts, and he never accused anyone except to evaluate whether his subordinates were talented and virtuous. As for Wen Yanbo...... In the past, Han Gang was not blamed, but this time he prevented his subordinates from coming out to welcome Han Gang, and none of them denied it in the newspaper, and those who helped Wen Yanbo speak only ignored it.
Zhao Ji was very annoyed, he sent Han Gang to do the right thing, not to fight with others. He knew that Wen Yanbo didn't like Han Gang, but was it difficult to maintain the bearing of the prime minister? But this incident also happened, no wonder Wen Jifu dared to write a letter to bribe the criminal official of Dali Temple.
Zhao Ji couldn't help but wonder if he had overdone some of the personnel arrangements for the two governments recently. The prime minister and the privy envoy are both opposed to the change of the law, although they just want to ease the atmosphere of the court in Xining's ten years, which is full of contradictions, but now it seems that I am afraid that people have misunderstood their own ideas......
Zhao Ji's eyes became cold. Raising his hand, he took out a copy of the stack of pieces that were ready to be left behind, and opened it, this is the piece of impeachment of Wu Chong's son Wu Anzhi. Pick up a few words with a red pen and put them on another stack of pieces that are ready to be turned back to the Chinese book - no one should be mistaken now!
The matter of Tokyo City has been decided, but the matter of Luoyang is a little tricky. Wen Yanbo is an old minister, a veteran of the three dynasties, and even one of the heroes who supported his father Yingzong as the emperor's heir, so he can't help but give him a decent - maybe this is the reason why Wen Yanbo has no fear - although Zhao Ji has already made up his mind, he still has to send someone to confirm this matter first.
"Li Shunju." Zhao Ji turned around and called out to the Imperial Medicine Academy standing beside him, "You go to Luoyang tomorrow." ”
Li Shunju hesitated for a moment, and did not immediately respond to the order, but asked: "Dare to ask the official family, why did you go to Luoyang?" ”
Zhao Ji was stunned when he heard this, but immediately reacted. This matter cannot be investigated openly, otherwise it will become a battlefield where the two factions attack each other, and after the trouble reaches the extreme, no one will care about the truth or anything, and they will all drive the opponent off the stage like a fighting. Zhao Ji didn't want to make too much trouble about this matter for the time being, otherwise the matter of Xianghan Caoqu would inevitably be interfered with, and he had to find a suitable name.
The Emperor of the Great Song Dynasty thought for a while, but several excuses were not suitable, and Li Shun stood like a stake, and did not think about it, from his heart, he did not want to go to Luoyang and jump into the whirlpool.
"Official." A tall, stout eunuch standing below suddenly spoke.
"Tong Guan?" Zhao Ji glanced at the attendant who had been very honest and obedient in the Chongzheng Hall for the past two years, "What do you have to say?" ”
Tong Guan hurriedly bowed his head and bent over, and said, "Zheng Guogong's birthday is approaching." ”
Zhao Ji's eyes lit up, he forgot that Fu Bi's birthday was coming. According to the customary story for many years, the birthday of the prime minister or the former prime minister, the Son of Heaven must give things to show his favor. Fu Bi, Wen Yanbo, and Wang Anshi can all be rewarded by Zhao Ji on their birthdays.
For example, Wen Yanbo, he became the prime minister at the age of 42 and has been for more than 30 years. Birthdays are the norm to receive four gold-coated and engraved silver pots have accumulated to more than a hundred. When Zhao Ji heard that he had a birthday, he listed more than 100 gold-coated and engraved silver basins in the hall, which made the guests who came to celebrate his birthday envious.
Now that Fu Bi's birthday is approaching, it is fair and honest to send an envoy to Luoyang, and by the way, it will not cause too much turmoil if he asks about the current affairs in Luoyang.
"Li ......" Zhao Ji wanted to instruct Li Shunju about this, but he stopped as soon as he spoke, and instead called the chamberlain who had just come up with a good idea in His Royal Highness: "Tong Guan, Fu Bi's birthday is approaching, this time, you will go to Luoyang and say hello to me." ”