Wen Yanbo's words were close to a threat, and Zhao Ji was secretly angry.

If there is a royal history in the palace, it is rare to stand up and reprimand...... Just like Zhang Dian is doing now, "Wen Yanbo is threatening the Son of Heaven, and there is no king!" There is a division to punish the crime at the moment! ”

Zhao Xuan ignored Zhang Dian's words, and asked Wen Yanbo with cold eyes: "What does Wen Qing think about Hehuang's establishment of the Economic Strategy and Pacification Division?" ”

Wen Yanbo didn't care about the anger of the Son of Heaven, "The minister is the reserve Zaifu, what is there to discuss in the court?!" Since His Majesty feels that the minister has no right to deliberate, how can the minister stand in the court? ”

He walked to the middle of the main hall, knelt down, straightened his back, and looked at Zhao Ji without letting go: "The old minister is useless, he has been in charge of the secret courtyard for several years, and he can't make His Majesty obey the heavens and people, and follow the right path of the ancestors, that is, it will not help the court, and he will be ashamed of the first emperor, and he will have no shame to stay in the court." Minister...... Please go out and go to the county! ”

Zhao Ji frowned, Wen Yanbo is blackmailing? A little suspicion made his tone very unpolite: "Wen Qing is in charge of the Privy Mansion, and he has made many achievements over the years. The decisive battle of Hehuang is just around the corner, how can the cardinal mansion be presided over by Wen Qing. ”

Zhao Ji's words made Wen Yanbo's heart cold, the words of the Son of Heaven were expressing his attitude, and Hehuang Tuobian could not object, it seemed that the matter was irreparable. He kowtowed again: "The minister is old and weak, and the affairs of the secret academy are complicated, and it is already too much work, and I also ask Your Majesty to choose another meritorious." ”

Wen Yanbo insisted on resigning, but Zhao Ji couldn't tell whether it was true or false, but he was calculating the stakes in his heart.

While reusing Wang Anshi, he has always kept the most fierce opposition Wen Yanbo in the court, just to maintain the balance in the court, but now with Feng Jing and Wu Chong, the two rulers who are not in harmony with Wang Anshi, Zhao Ji feels that he no longer needs Wen Yanbo to stay in the court.

As a veteran minister, Wen Yanbo does have a prestige that ordinary ministers can't match, just like the iron pillar of the town at the mouth of the river, and can suppress the hearts of the people in some emergencies. But now, Wang Anshi has been able to replace the ability of the old and important ministers to calm people's hearts when the court is turbulent.

At the beginning of this year, the Khitans sent a letter to intervene in the war situation on the Hengshan side. At that time, Zhao Ji was in a panic, and it was Wang Anshi who gave him a reassurance. Although Wen Yanbo disdained the coercion of the Khitans, he also took the opportunity to let Zhao Ji withdraw his troops from Hengshan.

Compared with the two, Zhao Ji's role in Wen Yanbo is also underestimated, but according to the usual example, he still has to say something to retain, "Wen Qing is the ruler of the three dynasties, and I am left and right, and the support of the Qing family is indispensable." I will not agree to the resignation of the Qing family! ”

Wen Yanbo made a fuss, and the deliberations of the Chongzheng Palace could not be discussed, and after bowing to Zhao Ji, all the important ministers returned to their respective yamen, while Wen Yanbo went out of the palace and went home to write his invitation to the county.

After the deliberations ended, Zhao Ji did not leave Wang Anshi today, and only left Wang Qi, who participated in political affairs.

In the huge Chongzheng Palace, in addition to dozens of fresco-like guards and chamberlains, only the monarch and the minister are left.

Zhao Ji kept his face calm and didn't speak. Wang Jue didn't dare to speak first, and hung his head in panic and waited for the Son of Heaven to speak.

After a short time, Zhao Ji broke the silence, "Wang Qi, do you think I shouldn't promote Han Gang?" ”

"As His Majesty said before, Han Gang has meritorious service and cannot be rewarded. However, he is still young and has been an official for too short. If you use it too fast, you may have to worry about the future. Wang Qi said as he looked at Zhao Ji's face. Seeing that Zhao Ji's expression suddenly cooled down, his heart tightened, and he immediately reversed the direction: "Putting Han Gang on the cusp of the wind and waves is not the way to treat heroes preferentially. In the humble opinion of the ministers, it is better to reward according to merit to show the prince of the court. And the matter of Han Gang's entry into Beijing to face the saint was put on hold for a while, and it was also guarded against Mu Xiu in the forest. ”

Zhao Ji's face became good-looking, and Wang Qi said that he had spoken to his heart, and the way to deal with it was not bad.

Promotions still have to be promoted, and uneven rewards and punishments are taboos in the imperial court. But for the time being, don't let Han Gang come to Beijing and pull him to the cusp of the wind and waves, which is indeed not a good thing for him. Too young court officials, with shallow qualifications, are easy to become the target of public criticism. If Han Gang is attacked too much, it will definitely affect the decisive battle of Hehuang next year.

Han Gang disappeared for the time being. Although it is said that it is necessary to see His Majesty when selecting people to change officials, but this time of His Majesty's meeting, no one can say that it is wrong if Zhao Ji wants to drag it out for a while.

Wang Qi rarely had the opportunity to stay right, but he refused to let go of such a good opportunity, and further suggested to Zhao Ji, "Your Majesty, next year's Hehuang War is imminent, and the elites from all walks of life in Kansai will gather in Hehuang at that time." Although Wang Shao and Gao Zunyu are, their tastes are too humble now, and they are not enough to convince the generals......"

"In Wang Qing's opinion, is that to set up a strategy to appease the Division?"

"Your Majesty!" Wang Qi has always been good at figuring out the holy will, and since Zhao Ji has already expressed his attitude before, of course he will not twist it with the Son of Heaven. What's more, he also wanted to share the work of the temple's planning: "The ministers please set up a pacification department in the land of Hehuang, Wang Shao is the envoy of the strategy, Gao Zunyu is the deputy chief of soldiers and horses, and the high-ranking officials show their prestige!" ”

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Outside the house, the snow was falling, and the middle of winter had already fallen on the river.

Han Gang sat on a chair, and the fire was blazing next to him. Holding a book of Han in his hand, he slowly flipped through it. In the silver cup at hand, there is half a cup of feta cheese, which is warm with a sweet and sour aroma.

Footsteps suddenly sounded outside the door, and Wang Shao pushed the door and walked in. Looking at Han Gang's leisure, he smiled and said, "Yukun, you are so comfortable." ”

Han Gang hurriedly jumped up and saluted Wang Shao.

Wang Shao waved his hand, motioned for Han Gang to sit down, sat opposite Han Gang, baked his hands on the stove, and said, "Wen Yanbo went to Heyang." ”

"Your Majesty or let him go?!"

Wang Shao nodded, "Before leaving, he also promoted Sikong and Hedong Jiedu envoys." …… This is already a phase. ”

In the official list of the Northern Song Dynasty, there is no title of prime minister, but many official positions can refer to the prime minister. Needless to say, this is a title that only the real prime minister has in the political hall. And the names of Shizhong and Sikong can also be said to be prime ministers, but they have no real positions. The title of a prime minister, plus the title of the envoy of the festival, is the prime minister, and the position of the train is still above the prime minister, but it is basically a consolation prize given by the old and important ministers after they are cleared out of the court.

"Didn't Xianggong Wen invite himself?" Han Gang asked, Fan Zhen and Fu Bi in front of them, after being kicked out of the court, they all grew old one after another. Wen Yanbo also went from his sixties to seventy, and this time he was invited out of the temple, and those with a bigger temper should have put the fold of saying goodbye to the old man by the way.

Wang Shao shook his head, Wang Anshi's letter to him did not read: "Han Zhigui [Han Qi] did not tell the old man, and Fu Yanguo [Fu Bi] also first sentenced Ruzhou before asking for resignation." Wen Yanbo will probably have to wait a few more years, maybe he can make a comeback. ”

"Xianggong Wen is really old and strong!" Han Gang sighed from the bottom of his heart, Wen Yanbo has been fighting with the New Party in the court for several years, which can be regarded as hard work, and now after going out, he still has the idea of making a comeback, and this resilience is worth learning from these juniors.

"Yukun, you can be promoted to the court this time, thanks to the absence of Wen Kuanfu's obstruction."

Han Gang smiled: "That's right. ”

After this martial victory, Wang Shao continued to be promoted, Gao Zunyu continued to be promoted, and all the officials and generals who participated in the battle this time were subject to Tianlin. And Han Gang finally got rid of the bad luck of being rewarded for meritorious service, first because of his merit, he was promoted to the judge of the Anhua Army, and then he was transferred to the official with the special decree of the Son of Heaven. Because the judge of the festival degree is the highest level of selection, once the official is transferred, it is not a Beijing official, but a court official.

The selection and the Beijing official are nominally at the same level, but the position of the official is different, so when the official is transferred, the high-level candidate will not be transferred to the low-grade Beijing official. Instead, he was promoted to the next rank and promoted to a higher level of Jingguan. It's just that when he reached the level of the highest-level Jiedu judge, there was no corresponding rank of a higher rank among the Beijing officials, so he was directly transferred to the court official of the eighth grade.

- Zhongyun, the crown prince of the eighth grade, that is, the last level of court officials.

This is Wang Shao's position two years ago when he served as Qin Feng's chauffeur Yiwen, and now Han Gang is on it.

But Han Gang's current position is not under Wang Shao at the beginning, and he is now also the Jiyi script of the Jingluo Pacification Division - the newly established Xihe Road - and at the same time the Tongyuan Army who changed his name to Gongzhou, that is, to stay in Longxi County, not Wang Shao's previous Wusheng Army.

A few days ago, the reward that came from the capital was completely different from what Wang Shao and Han Gang expected.

Han Gang once thought that the imperial court's treatment of Wu Shengjun was just a name change. The better situation is to maintain the establishment at the army level, and the worse is probably to change it to a city or wall, which is subordinate to Tongyuan, which is equivalent to the establishment of a county.

Wang Shao hopes that Han Gang can preside over the reorganized border city, so that he can rely on this appointment and smoothly transfer to the official.

But the actual situation was unexpected, and the imperial court's disposition of Wu Shengjun was actually promoted to a state-Xizhou. And the original Tongyuan Army was also promoted to a state - Gongzhou.

"Maybe the good news said a little too much." After Wang Shao got the edict, he said this to Han Gang in private.

The actual control area of the official army at the edge of Taoshui is actually only a small piece around Lintao, with Nanguan Fort and Beiguan Fort as the boundary, and the west is only to break through the camp built by Mu Zheng and build a small village against Taoshui. Most of Taoxi is still in the hands of Mu Zheng. As for Wusheng North, Bao Yue was cleaning up each other's Tibetan tribes with the army of the Yu Zang family, and they were in a mess.

But in the good news presented to the imperial court, these were gently covered up with Spring and Autumn brushwork.

Therefore, the newly established Jingluo Pacification Division is the Xihe Jingluo Pacification Division, that is, the Wusheng Army, which was renamed Xizhou, is the core, and the Hezhou that has not yet been captured is counted.

The meaning of the name is that there is no room for failure. Once Hezhou can't be captured, the face of the imperial court will be lost, and the Xihe Economic Strategy Division will not end well.

"Yukun, this Gongzhou matter depends on you." Wang Shao said.