Article 463 The Stratagem of Forgiveness
This blow is too wide, if Zhang Dian is the prime minister, he is understandable to do this, but now he is only the prime minister. offending people like this is very hateful.
However, Zhang Dian is such a person, and he is such a character.
Although he is a little overbearing, he is a meritocracy, as long as he is like-minded and talented, but if he is a person without talent, even if he is his relatives, he will not be allowed to get an official position.
Everything is in full swing, and Bianliang City shows a thriving spiritual outlook under the concerted efforts of the important ministers of the law reform faction. However, Cai Dao knew that this was only temporary.
Han Jin, after all, he is already old, and no one expected that he would not be able to stay in the position of prime minister for a few years.
is alone, and can hold real power as before, can Han Jin still be dissatisfied?
I'm afraid that there will be infighting among several of his own generals within the Fa-changing faction.
Before the Western Xia Kingdom sent troops, this situation could be temporarily covered up.
But Zhang Dan's domineering character, Cai Jing, Cai Bian and Zeng Bu are not good friends.
But this is not something that Cai Dao can worry about, after only seeing the bewitching palace maid beside Zhao Xu, he rarely enters the palace. Even, after winning that bet, Cai Dao never entered the palace again.
After all, this is an internal matter of Zhao Xu's own palace, Cai Dao is not one of those sour Confucians, even the emperor's own family affairs have to be involved, he has no such habits. However, Zhao Xu did favor the palace maid surnamed Liu a little too much.
Since Zhao Xu became in power, this palace maid Liu has been promoted from a small royal attendant to a beauty, and recently from a beauty to Jieyu. For Cai Dao, a traverser, her beauty is really ordinary, but she looks too charming. Moreover, if you are a country aunt, the pi shares are too small, even if you can have children, it is not easy to give birth.
Cai Dao is really unimaginable, is this the curse of the Chai family to the Zhao Emperor, Zhenzong's heirs are difficult, Renzong can't support his son even if he gives birth to a son, and now, Zhao Xu began to covet women at a young age, which is really a blessing for the community! This Liu Jieyu doesn't seem to be a good character, and there is a chance that she will compete for the queen's throne.
Who let the current Empress Meng be the Empress Dowager Gao Taotao for Zhao Xu, since entering the palace, she has a halo of disgust.
But Cai Dao sighed at most, as long as the Empress Dowager Xiang was abolished, even if Zhao Xu died childless like Renzong, didn't Concubine Zhu De give birth to a son to Song Shenzong?
No matter how bad it is, it is a hundred times stronger than the great calligrapher and painter of Song Huizong.
Just when Cai Dao was looking for an opportunity to plot this matter, Zhang Dian took the first step.
However, this time Zhang Dian came up with this idea a little badly.
The initiator of this incident was the criminal forgiveness who had already taken office in Shouzhou, Huainan Road. After being demoted, he stayed in Bianliang City, and after Zhang Dian returned from Baiyun Temple, Xing Shu thought that among the ministers of the Fa Reform Sect, Zhang Dian was the most senior, the most prestigious, and the most likely to be the prime minister, so he immediately fell to the other party.
In order to gain Zhang's acceptance, Xing Shu devised a poisonous plan that he thought was complacent—borrowing one of the crimes of the original conservatives and the Empress Dowager to depose Cai Qu—and plotting to depose Zhao Xu and set up Zhao Hao, the king of Wu, and Zhao Hao, the king of Yi, two younger brothers of Song Shenzong.
This incident was in a uproar at the time, and there were different opinions, and even in later generations, it seemed to be blamed on Cai Qu.
Maybe it was, because the two younger brothers of Song Shenzong might have coveted the throne and promised Cai Cheng some benefits. Let's ask, the courtier of the Great Song Dynasty doesn't want to be like Han Qi and become the lord of the two crown princes?
But some people also say that in fact, it is no one else who wants to abolish Zhao Xu and let Zhao Hao and Zhao Hao inherit the unification, it is the Empress Dowager Gao Taotao herself. Because, when Zhao Xu first started, he didn't know how to hide his true thoughts, which had already made Gao Taotao, Wen Yanbo and Lu Gongzhu realize that this child admired his father very much at that time, and his political tendency was also inclined to the reformers.
How could such a young monarch reassure Gao Taotao, Wen Yanbo and Lu Gongzhu! So, Gao Taotao and them conspired to abolish Zhao Xu.
However, this matter was discovered by Wang Qi and Cai Qu, and Wang Anshi, who was far away in Jiangning at that time, was still alive, and Di An also led a large army to suppress the Baojia rebellion in Hebei.
Under all kinds of obstacles, Gao Taotao and the two prime ministers had no choice but to give up, and could only hope that Zhao Xu's thoughts could be corrected by brainwashing. As a result, many well-educated people were selected, and Cheng Yi was one of them.
But Zhao Xu has been precocious since he was a child, he is brave and determined at a young age, how could he be affected by this kind of little trick to affect his ambition.
However, at that time, Zhang Duan was busy with the affairs of the three divisions and couldn't take care of this matter, and Xingshu was demoted to Shouzhou by Zhao Xu.
At this time, Zhang Xuan, who had his hands free, conspired with his henchman Shi Huang Lu, the servant of the palace.
How they conspired and how they told Zhao Xu, Cai Dao did not know. However, judging from the information he has now, this big case that will shock the government and the opposition involves many people, including Sima Guang, Fan Zuyu, Wang Qi, Gao Zunyu and his son Gao Shichong.
Zhao Xu originally didn't plan to discuss this matter with Cai Dao.
But Zhang Duan seduced another person, so that Cai Dao found an opportunity to discuss the matter with Zhao Xu.
This person is Liang Shicheng.
In the original history, Zhao Xu's personal eunuch was He Sui, but because of the first meeting, this He Sui didn't know how to lift, and he actually offended Cai Dao, and was driven away from Zhao Xu's side by Song Shenzong early.
Such a eunuch, Gao Taotao, who monitored Zhao Xu very strictly, naturally would not let He Sui return to his original position.
By the time Zhao Xu became pro-government, when he wanted to find this original cronie, He Sui had already turned into a handful of loess.
As a result, Liang Shicheng had this opportunity and got his current status. In his heart, he is naturally grateful to Cai Dao. Not only did Cai Dao abolish He Sui, but also because of the incense relationship between the two of them in the nursery school, which allowed Liang Shicheng to contact Zhao Xu, the prince at that time, early on.
If Zhang Duan wants to achieve this goal, he has to find an inside line in the palace, and that Liu Jieyu is very effective in talking in front of Zhao Xu. But Zhang Duan didn't want to provoke this palace maid who was rising very fast at this time. So, I found Liang Shicheng.
Liang Shicheng agreed on the surface, but he felt that this kind of thing was too fatal, and if he easily mixed in, it would be difficult to guarantee his life, so out of caution, he went to test Zhao Xu's meaning of Concubine Zhu. Unexpectedly, the emperor's biological mother, who was treated harshly by Gao Tao, was opposed.
came to Cai Dao to discuss, also because of Concubine Zhu's suggestion, although she did not personally raise this son, but she knew this son's temperament best. Concubine Zhu knew very well that she couldn't persuade Zhao Xu in this matter, not to mention, she was still just a concubine. Now it is the Empress Dowager Xiang who is in power in the palace, and she will definitely oppose this matter.
Unexpectedly, Liang Shicheng heard Cai Dao say a sentence, "These two people are stupid!" ”