Chapter 018: The Road Ahead is Difficult
Sure enough, but why?
Thinking that at the beginning, from the drought in the sixth to seventh years of Xining, when Zheng Xia took the picture of the displaced people he drew himself and dedicated it to him, if it hadn't been for the heavy rain in the next few days, he would not have dismissed Wang Anshi, who had always insisted on changing the law. Now, the change has stopped, and Wang Anshi is also far away in Jiangning, but the Yuanfeng reform presided over by Song Shenzong himself has only been carried out for most of the time, but such a celestial phenomenon has appeared.
Could it be that I really did something wrong?
Thinking of this, Song Shenzong felt a burst of breathlessness, and felt blood churning in his chest, as if blood was surging to his throat, followed by a burst of dizziness in his head, and his body felt weak for a while, and he almost fell to the ground. He also held back the breath in his mouth so that he didn't spit out the blood.
Fortunately, there was the loyal Shi Deyi standing beside him. Shi Deyi kept staring at the side, carrying a pair of dragon boots in one hand, and when he saw that Song Shenzong's face had changed and he was unsteady on his feet, he immediately stepped forward to help him, which avoided the emperor's accident.
"Your Majesty, hurry up and go back and lie down, you must take care of the dragon's body!" After supporting Song Shenzong, Shi Deyi said softly.
With Shi Deyi's support, Song Shenzong returned to the imperial collapse weakly.
This is, that Taishi Bureau Order is a little old man, at this time, his three souls are missing, and the six gods asked without a master: "Your Majesty, minister...... The ministers are terrified, and they are really ...... I really don't know what to do next? ”
As soon as the words came out, the faces of the officials under him changed greatly, are these old immortals confused, they are people from the Taishi Bureau! This kind of thing, if he doesn't take the initiative to admonish, the official doesn't even ask, he just pushes two, six, five, doesn't he know what he said?
In fact, that Tai Shiling is the real officialdom old fritter. At this time, no matter what you say, it's wrong! It's really better to leave an impression of stupidity and incompetence on the official family, this matter is very important and extraordinary. If he said the wrong thing, no one would come forward to save him, and there was a real chance that he would die this time.
After hearing this, looking at the trembling officials and eunuchs of the Taishi Bureau below, Song Shenzong felt a burst of anger in his chest, and at this moment he was full of emotion in his heart, "You old immortal don't know what to do?" Did I know? You are the Taishi Bureau Commander appointed by me personally! ”
Could it be that I am really a faint king?
Otherwise, these ministers under him are not traitors like Lu Huiqing, or such wine bags and rice bags in front of them? At this moment, presumably those civil officials in the court, especially the conservatives led by Sima Guang, must have made a falling out.
But this time, where will they point the finger?
"Report! Your Majesty! It was the little yellow door just now, and he timidly reported: "Yushi Lin Guofu asks to see Your Majesty!" ”
Lin Guofu's request to see was just the beginning, and then, from the entire imperial history platform to the imperial history Zhongcheng, down to the ordinary imperial history, all the imperial histories of the three courtyards gathered to ask to see Song Shenzong.
Among them, the purpose of the conservative imperial history is very clear, of course, they will not oppose the Yuanfeng reform presided over by Song Shenzong himself like idiots, but directly criticize those reformers, and ask His Majesty to completely abolish the new policy and drive all the important figures of the reformers out of the court.
The recitals on the Imperial History of the Reform School are a bit scattered.
Since Wang Anshi resigned for the second time, and Lu Huiqing, the anti-bone boy, completely turned against each other, and the reform faction lost its pillars, Cai Qu and Zhang Dun. The Cai brothers lacked prestige and did not accept anyone, resulting in a lack of unanimity within themselves. Some have to ask for Gao Zunyu to be severely punished, some still want to dig deep into the Wutai poetry case, some even want to impoverished Lu Huiqing, the anti-bone boy, and even have the same purpose as Lin Guofu - to kill Cai Dao, a demon boy.
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At this time, Cai Dao didn't know this, and was in a hurry to rush back to the inn.
When he first arrived in Bianliang, of course he didn't know the way back to the inn. But Cai Ban has this ability, this kid was trained by Cai Dao to become a living GPS, of course, the premise is that the place you want to go must be the place you have been, otherwise you will also get lost. Cai Dao understood that he was a few small people and rode horses, and it would be bad if he asked for directions and let people take them into the black ditch, so he would rather take a detour along the way than ask for directions.
Now, it will hurt those spies who are following Cai Dao and his party.
These people are all ghosts in the ground, but they really can't figure out what the other party is thinking, these children are obviously the first time to Bianliang, and they didn't ask for directions along the way, just taking them around in circles, it's really unpredictable.
In addition to a few royal roads, the streets of the entire Bianliang City are seriously encroached upon, and the Fang market in the Tang Dynasty has long been broken, and the price behind the prosperity is congestion. In the process of marching, the two horses did not dare to let go of their speed at all, and from time to time there were many bear sons and beggars circling around them. Of course, most of those bear children are just curious, and among those beggars, they don't know how many people beat their minds again.
Fortunately, Xiao Cai's Mansion and Gaosheng Inn are both in the west of the outer city, so there is no need to bypass the city wall or several rivers in the city. The Gaosheng Inn is located near the Tielin Camp, in the southwest corner of the Dailou Gate.
In a blink of an eye, it was past noon, and only then did they see the shadow of the Gaosheng Inn from afar, and everyone knew the destination of this trip.
At this time, Cai Dao broke out in a cold sweat on his head, and he was already so hungry that his heart was close to his back. After all, children are children, even if the spirit is an uncle, but the body is still too small, it digests quickly, and it consumes a lot in the morning, and eats little, so it is not surprising that this situation occurs.
As soon as I arrived at the door of the Gaosheng Inn, I saw a figure at the gate suddenly rushing over. Cai Dao fixed his eyes and saw that it was a little confused little girl, at this time she seemed to have been greatly wronged, while whining and crying, she hugged Cai Dao's thigh tightly, and refused to let go. To put it mildly, Cai Dao finally calmed the little confusion.
It turned out that the two Han went to deliver food to Cai Dao, leaving the little confused here alone to take care of the family. Although Xiao Confused has been to many places since she was a child, she is a girl after all, and she is very afraid of life. Just an hour or two ago, a team of wolf-like officers and soldiers broke into the Gaosheng Inn and took away all the shopkeepers. Naturally, I also asked about the little confusion.
Fortunately, when these soldiers heard that this little girl was actually a kid who dared to scold the emperor for being a faint monarch at the court meeting, they immediately ignored her.
Now, in the entire Gaosheng Inn, Xiao Confused has become the only two big living people among them.
The group was just about to return to the small courtyard they rented, but they were stopped by the shopkeeper of the Gaosheng Inn who suddenly appeared outside the gate.
"Shopkeeper, what do you mean?" Cai Dao couldn't figure out what the other party meant, but he paid for three days. This inn is not doing well at this time, so you shouldn't push him out as a customer!
"Guest officer, I'm sorry! The small shop really can't greet all the distinguished customers, this is the remaining two days of rent, you count and collect. "The shopkeeper now knows that these children who were attracted by those military masters yesterday are not the little god of wealth, but the terrible Yama!
No, an hour ago, all the shopkeepers in the Gaosheng Inn were taken away by the soldiers, and the specific reason was not told. This shopkeeper is an old Bianliang who has accumulated years, but he recognizes the other party's outfit, that is the person of the Imperial City Division! There was only Cai Dao in the inn, and the shopkeeper heard early in the morning that one of the shopkeepers said that before dawn, the child who was the first to do it was taken away by the people of the Imperial City Division.
Now that the owner is back, the shopkeeper himself has become the commander of the light pole, can he not be afraid?
"The shopkeeper, if you don't let us stay in the hotel, then you have to let us take our luggage! What do you mean you're standing in the way here? By the way, what about the shopkeepers? Cai Dao was also very helpless, how could he just arrive in Bianliang, like a lost dog. I can't return home, and now even a small inn can bully myself, but there is no way, who makes him unofficial and unpositional, he can't use power to suppress people, and he can only passively accept it.
"Of course, but you don't have to go in and let your subordinates clean up." The shopkeeper replied with a smile, and that's what he meant when he stopped here. The heart said, you are embarrassed to ask the shopkeeper, it's all because of you, and now I am the only one left in the entire inn.
This plague star only stayed for one night, and he caused the entire innkeeper to be imprisoned; Now, as long as you are not blind, you can see the vision in the sky, and it is impossible to say that it has nothing to do with this calamity. Anyway, there is nothing to do, the shopkeeper has been staring at this little girl, once Cai Dao comes back, he must stop him, and resolutely cannot let this disaster star enter the store.
Let Cai Ban accompany Cai Basket to go in to pick up their luggage, the shopkeeper has a big heart, and he has been nailed to the door of the inn, as if he is not worried about the two boys stealing the things inside.
There was really nowhere to go, so Cai Dao had to continue to ask: "By the way, shopkeeper, are there any Taoist temples or temples around here?" ”
The Gaosheng Inn was in the southwest corner of the outer city of Bianliang City, near Tielin Ying, and if it hadn't been for Cai Dao, it would have closed shortly thereafter. It's just that Cai Dao doesn't know these at the moment, if he does, maybe he will buy this inn directly.
"But there are two of them, Wanshouguan and Mencius Temple, both of which are near here, and they are easy to find." Driving a group of children out of the inn, the shopkeeper was also a little unbearable, but for the sake of his own life, he could only do this, but if there were people in the store, he would arrange for someone to bring the group of children to those two places.
They had a lot of things, but they were all packed up very neatly, so it didn't take much effort to see Cai Basket driving the small carriage, and Cai Ban led the rest of the Dian horse out.
Instead of continuing to greet the shopkeeper of the Gaosheng Inn, he arranged for the little misty and his sister to get into the carriage, and he and his two men rode together and rushed to the Mencius Temple in the direction indicated by the shopkeeper.