And Cai Bian wanted to keep filial piety for Wang Anshi, who died in the first year of Yuanyou, so he delayed for a year to catch up with his brother, and was demoted to Hainan in the third year of Yuanyou to take over the position that Gao Zunyu had left after leaving.

Cai did die of illness in the degraded office, and the reason why he was demoted was ostensibly because of several poems that were considered to slander the emperor, which was called the 'Chegaiting Poetry Case' in the history books of later generations.

This incident was exposed by Cai Qu's enemy, Wu Chuhou.

Speaking of which, Cai did suffer, and this matter was his own reason. When he was young, Cai did learn from Wu Chuhou to do fu, so Wu Chuhou can be regarded as one of his teachers. However, later, Cai did gain power, and at that time, the prime minister, Wu Chuhou asked Cai for help, wanting to get a certain official position.

Unexpectedly, Cai did not pay attention to Wu Chuhou's request at all. On the contrary, it was Wang Qi who promoted Wu Chuhou to Dali Cheng. Wang Anli and Shu Kang attacked each other in the court, and at this time handed over to Dali Temple for trial, Wu Chuhou knew that Wang Anli and Wang Jue had a good relationship, but Shu Kang was Cai Qu's person, so he caught a mistake of Shu Kang, that is, Shu Kang has been illegally stealing public lamps and candles.

This matter is not big or small, but when the two officials had a dispute, it was undoubtedly a fatal blow to the tainted official. Therefore, Cai did secretly send someone to plead with Wu Chuhou. As a result, Wu Chuhou of course ignored Cai Qu, a student who turned his face and didn't recognize people.

Because of this incident, Cai did want to drive Wu Chuhou away from the court several times, but he did not succeed because of Wang Jue's obstruction, but Cai Cheng has been obstructing Wang Jue's plan to promote Wu Chuhou.

Later, Cai did finally find an opportunity.

After the death of Song Shenzong, Wang Jue was appointed as the envoy of the mountain tomb, and Wu Chuhou was in charge of the music. But at that time, Wang Jue himself was already seriously ill, and it didn't take long for Cai to take over Wang Jue's position, and he used his position as a mountain envoy to finally drive Wu Chuhou out of Bianliang City. First let him be the commander of the Tongli Army, and then he was transferred to the Hanyang Commander to remember the name of the place.

Wu Chuhou was very resentful of this matter, but at this time, Wang Jue was dead, and Sima Guang, Wen Yanbo and Lu Gongzhu looked down on Wang Jue and his henchmen. This Cai Qu's enemy naturally can't return to the center.

If you don't die, you won't die, this famous sentence in later generations is very appropriate to say that Cai is indeed very appropriate.

It didn't take long for Cai to be demoted from Bianliang City, and he was first appointed as the governor of Chenzhou. Soon, he was reappointed as the governor of Anzhou. Suddenly falling from the phase to the magistrate, Cai has always been arrogant and has a very strong desire for power, and his mood at this time can naturally be imagined. In the midst of depression, when he visited the Chegai Pavilion in Anzhou, the beautiful scenery of the mountains and waters made him sweep away the depression in his heart, and he wrote ten quatrains in one go.

What a quatrain!

Traditionally, every year, there is a Jingjiang Xiang army in Anzhou, part of which should be garrisoned in Hanyang, and Cai is resolutely not deployed. On the surface, Zhizhou's official position is greater than that of Zhijun, but the relationship between the two is not that of superiors and subordinates. Cai did this, which is undoubtedly a big violation of the rules.

Under the resentment, Wu Chuhou used these ten quatrains to bring Cai down to the ground.

Therefore, speaking of this matter, Cai was indeed demoted to Lingnan although it was an inevitable outcome. But Wu Chuhou did not make a mistake, the only mistake was that he once again used the poetry of a civil official to rectify his political enemies.

The impact of the Wutai poetry case has not yet dissipated, and Wu Chuhou's action is undoubtedly to trigger another literary prison.

After that, Cai was indeed demoted to Lingnan and died in the degraded place. Wu Chuhou also achieved his goal of revenge on Cai Qu, and was also promoted to the governor of Weizhou. However, he did Wen Yanbo and Lu Gongzhu such a big favor. Then why didn't the two Zaisukes promote him to the center?

There are two reasons for this,

The first and third prime ministers Wang Qi is really too embarrassing, so that the people who take up this position later are ashamed to mention him, so they naturally despise those ministers who defect to Wang Qi.

Second, attacking civil officials with poetry is a taboo for civil officials.

Just like Cai Dao said in front of Song Shenzong, 'I am a great Song Dynasty, and the country is established by literature, and the emperors of all dynasties treat literati preferentially. If the meaning is taken out of context from his works, it is said that his people are rebelling, setting this precedent, and if this goes on for a long time, who else dares to continue to write poems and lyrics.

In the Wutai poetry case, Su Shi's conviction was not in those poems, but because Su Shi had complaints and questions about the new law, and he should directly discuss this matter with Wang Anshi and the emperor, instead of complaining about these problems in letters and poems in private like him.

Therefore, Wu Chuhou's approach once again opened the Pandora's box of text prison. The scholars and doctors in the court were afraid and disgusted with him from then on, and Wen Yanbo and Lu Gongshu were also civil ministers, so naturally they would not promote this villain.

Soon after, Wu Chuhou also died in depression.

In fact, when Wu Chuhou impeached Cai Qu, he could completely use the fact that Cai Qu privately detained the Jingjiang Xiang Army guarding Hanyang to impeach him. In the bullet chapter, it is accused that Cai Qu detained the soldiers without permission and plotted against him, and these criminal evidences are also Cai Qu's own death, and others have nothing to say. What's more, Wen Yanbo and Lu Gongshu have also been looking for excuses to demote him to Lingnan.

It's a pity that Wu Chuhou just touched this taboo between civil officials.

Zhang Dian is much luckier than Cai Qu and Cai Bian. In the first year of Yuanyou, he was demoted out of the capital together with Cai Qu, and at this time, just in time for his father to pass away. No matter how much Wen Yanbo and Lu Gongshu hate him, they can't stop Renlun from being filial piety. Moreover, his father is different from his father-in-law, Cai Bian is lying in front of Wang Anshi's grave, and he can only keep filial piety for one year at most, but Zhang Dian has escaped the tilt of conservatives for three years.

Later, although Zhang Dian was also demoted to Lingnan, at this time, it was already Lu Dafang, Fan Chunren and Su Song Bingzheng, these three ministers were relatively lenient to the ministers of the reform faction compared to Lu Gongshu and Wen Yanbo.

Moreover, Zhang Dian has always been bold, he is a native of Fujian, and he once gave way to Jinghu South Road, and he is quite accustomed to the weather in the south. Therefore, he is more accustomed to the weather in Lingnan than Cai Qu.

This is the fundamental reason why Cai did die in the degraded center, but Zhang Dian, Zeng Bu and the Cai brothers were able to survive in Lingnan. Of course, Zhang Dian and Cai Jing went to Lingnan, and Cai Bian went to Qiongzhou, Hainan to take office, all thanks to Cai Dao's blessings, and they suffered a lot less on the road and in office. At the very least, when they take office, they no longer have to trek through mountains and rivers to Lingnan as before, but can take Cai Dao's sea ship directly from the sea to reach the office.

Cai Bian took all this for granted, but Zhang Dian and Cai Jing were very grateful to this junior.

Zeng Bu didn't have such good luck. Although Cai Dao and Zeng Gong have a very good relationship and can be said to be like father and son, Cai Dao is very disgusted with Zeng Bu.

Therefore, after Zhao Xu really took power, he did not belittle these conservative ministers in the DPRK and China at the first time, but issued an order at the first time, and first sent back all these important ministers who were demoted to Lingnan.

The edict did not specify in detail the specific official positions of these people, but those who knew knew knew that the little emperor was planning to settle accounts and correct the chaos after the autumn.

All of a sudden, the people in Bianliang City who heard the news immediately became even more panicked.

Fan Chunren and Su Song are not too afraid, the two of them are used to being lonely ministers, so after dealing with political affairs from the court, they have always been closed-door, and the two of them have not continued to ask Zhao Xu for resignation.

The result of everything depends on the little emperor's own decision.

Although the three prime ministers, including the late Empress Dowager Gao Taotao, actually knew Xiao Zhao Xu's attitude towards them, but in retrospect, when Wen Yanbo and Lu Gongzhu were in power, they did go too far.

The Empress Dowager died suddenly, and the situation changed suddenly, so that they were in such an embarrassing but irreparable state as they are now.