Chapter 5: The Dawn of Winter (12)
'Cai Jing?! β
Hearing this name, Wang Hou's heart skipped a beat.
It's like thunder.
Wang Hou's eyes suddenly changed, and he stared at Cai Jing up and down.
is not young, looks good, and I don't know if it is because people are in good spirits on happy occasions. From the look in his eyes, it can be seen that he is a decisive person.
Just a Taiwanese official, he forced Zaifu to have to swear by a curse. Even though many Kansai scholars who pinned their hopes on Han Gang hated him to the core, they couldn't help but admit that Cai Jing was indeed capable and did what Wen Yanbo and Wang Anshi couldn't do.
Han Gang was so out of shape, Wang Hou had never heard of it, let alone seen it. In the opposite case, there are many ways to know.
However, Cai Jing himself can be regarded as ruined, and under Han Gang's full counterattack, it is impossible for anyone to retreat.
It's just that Han Gang couldn't be promoted to prime minister, just in exchange for Cai Jing's sinking, which is still a loss-making deal.
If there is a chance, he can cut off the shackles that bind Han Gang, and Wang Hou will not let it go no matter what.
The two companions behind Cai Jing, one on the left and one on the right, were tightly clamping Cai Wei, and they were looking at Wang Hou nervously.
Wang Hou understood their feelings. The Yanei who arrested the prime minister's family is the remnant of the traitorous party, and Cai Jing doesn't know how many empty wishes he made to them. But the man was still in his hands, and before he could hand it over, the enemy who seemed to be robbing the merit came. also led more than a dozen wolf-like guards.
But Cai Jing himself, his eyes glanced to the left, to the right, and then looked back again, not a little fear.
Wang Hou's teeth immediately gritted.
Han Gang's rise to power is good news for all generals from the Western Army system. It is great news for Wang Hou. His own son is still the son-in-law of the Han Gang family. The father-in-law became the prime minister, and the son-in-law certainly rose to the top.
If Cai Jing can be killed, Han Gang will no longer be restrained.
In the past, what did you have to worry about, but now that you have helped the crisis twice, which one can still say the first half of the sentence?
But now it's not the place!
Wang Hou began to hate the dense population of the capital. Although the number of pedestrians on the street is not as good as before, there are still a lot of them, many of them are looking at this side, so many pairs of eyes are staring, there is no chance to start.
If he had taken a step earlier and blocked Cai Jing in the alley, he would have dared to do it immediately.
He came here to find Cai Jing.
Regardless of whether anyone in Cai Qu's family defected to Cai Jing, he and Cai Qu did have a kinship. As long as the thing is hacked to death with a knife, and the person is dead, it is no problem to plant the blame.
At this juncture, who would dare to cry out for Cai Qu's relatives?!
But in front of everyone's eyes, even if Wang Hou was full of murderous intent, it was inconvenient to do it in broad daylight.
Perhaps seeing the hesitation in Wang Hou's heart, Cai Jing had a smile on the corner of his mouth.
"I wonder who the general is?"
ββ¦β¦ De'an Wang Hou. Zhao Hao and Cai Qu rebelled, and Wang Hou sent an edict to beg for thieves, which was precisely for Cai Qu's henchmen. β
Hearing Wang Hou's self-introduction, Cai Jing's face changed in an instant, but when Wang Hou looked at the past again, he could only see a smile on the corner of his mouth, and the previous change seemed to be an illusion.
"Cai Jing has seen Shangge."
Cai Jing saluted Wang Hou for a long time, although his current official position is under Wang Hou, and he is depressed, but the Jinshi of the right brand does not need to be too humble to the military attachΓ©.
As soon as you can hear Wang Hou's name, you will know that he has not yet taken office. Cai Jing obviously still knows a lot about the personnel of the imperial court, and he doesn't know where he got the news.
"Cai Qu's father and son are ambitious, and they disregard the deep kindness of the imperial court and blatantly rebel, even if Jing and Cai are close to each other, they dare not go along with it. Today, Cai was indeed defeated, and when he saw the thief fleeing, he tied him up and came to join the official. β
Hearing Cai Jing's conversation, Cai Wei struggled violently, but held it firmly for Cai Jing's companion.
There are only two people who are holding Cai Wei, and they may be the only remaining servants of Cai Jing's family.
Seeing the team of just three people, Wang Hou became murderous again, and took the three of them together, as long as he found an opportunity, he could take care of these three people...... No, four. Wang Hou won't let Cai Wei talk a lot afterwards.
Wang Hou squinted his eyes and said with a smile, "It is a great achievement to catch the traitor Cai Wei." Cai Jing, you take Cai Wei and Ben Jiang for a trip. If it is later confirmed that he has merit, the court will not be stingy. β
With the heads of Cai Wei and Cai Jing, the credit in exchange for the Queen Mother is enough to plug the mouths of the accompanying Banzhi and fill their stomachs.
But Wang Hou's smile and words, in Cai Jing's eyes, obviously did not have any attraction.
"That's very good." Cai Jing nodded, "Cai Jing is about to send this thief weapon to the imperial city, but he is afraid that the thief party will take people." There are upper cabinet guards, that's the best. β
Cai Jing's attitude made Wang Hou angry, did he really regard him as a guard?
All the way to Xuande Gate is a thoroughfare, and the royal street is full of people, and of course it can't be done if you want to.
But...... Wang Hou looked left and right, and became depressed again.
are all the guards who haven't used their hands yet, but they are pro-soldiers in Kansai, and they can surround and tie up a few people together without their own eyes. I don't care about an order from myself, let alone murder and arson, and I don't need to explain much at all.
But after these squads heard their orders, could they do it? Will Cai Jing and his minions escape one or two after they do it? What's more, can they arrest Cai Jing and Cai Wei without alarming outsiders and get them to a place where no one is around?
"Give two horses to these two strong men."
Hearing Wang Hou's order, the Ban Zhi were stunned for a moment, and then exchanged colors with each other for a while, and only then did the two youngest Ban Zhi get off their horses.
Wang Hou really has no confidence in these classes.
Needless to say, his guards will take the initiative to give up the horse to the Cai family's family and hold Cai Jing hostage who has a mount.
Cai Jing frowned slightly, obviously knowing that Dao Wang Hou's plan was there.
And Wang Hou is also worrying, how to make his subordinates smarter.
"The king's court!"
"Go to the Cabinet!"
Suddenly, he heard someone shouting from behind, and Wang Hou turned around when he heard the sound, only to see a team of cavalry coming from behind.
There were two officers in the team, he knew one of them, and the other was very strange, he seemed to have seen it, but he had no impression.
When the two approached, they saluted Wang Hou,
"Huang Shang has seen the upper cabinet."
"Zhang Biguang has seen the upper cabinet."
Wang Hou immediately replied, "I am ordered to rebel, and I have no time to be polite, so I hope that Mian Zhong will not be blamed." β
After going to Beijing, Wang Hou only saw Huang Sheng once, but Han Gang's first assistant when he was in Hedong left a deep impression on Wang Hou, and he also knew that Han Gang was trying to promote him.
Returning the salute to Huang Shang, he looked at another official and asked, "Who is this ......?" β
"This one is the judge of Kaifeng Prefecture......"
Huang Sheng was introducing Zhang Piguang to Wang Hou, but his eyes widened suddenly, and his mouth was wide open.
He saw two unexpected figures in Wang Hou's team.
"Cai Jing! Cai Wei! β
Zhang Piguang and Huang Sheng exclaimed at the same time.
"It's Cai Jing."
Cai Jing had a calm demeanor and saluted the two, "Cai Jing and Wang Shangge have just caught this thief and are about to send it to the imperial city. β
Huang Sheng and Zhang Biguang looked at Wang Hou suspiciously.
Wang Hou immediately shook his head, Cai Jing obviously wanted to muddy the water, but unfortunately he was not greedy for this credit, "Wang Hou just saw this Cai official escorting Cai Wei out, what is the inside story, Wang Hou doesn't know at all." β
"Oh......" Zhang Biguang lengthened his voice, "Didn't you follow the cabinet?" β
Cai Jing's face changed slightly, but he was still calm, and said in a loud voice: "This thief was desperate and rushed to Cai Jing's house, but Cai Jing has always only known loyalty to the master, so he arrested this thief and sent him to see the official." β
"Who knows if it's true or not?" Zhang Biguang sneered: "In my opinion, it's a pretence to escort this thief out of the city." β
"Upper Cabinet, can you testify against this person?"
Wang Hou shook his head, "The first time we met, we never intersected, how can we guarantee it?" β
"I am the Kaifeng Mansion judgment and the light, and the edict is against the thief." Zhang Biguang pointed at Cai Jing: "Catch them together." The mansion is waiting at the government office. Whether it is a merit or a crime, after the Dafu has tried, it will be known. β
The attack was even more decisive and crisp than Wang Hou.
Several soldiers around Zhang Biguang pounced at once, dragged him horizontally and vertically, and ripped Cai Jing off his horse.
Cai Jing originally wanted to publicize his identity and protect himself from being able to smoothly send Cai Wei to the official for reward, and he also specially wore an official robe. successfully suppressed Wang Hou, but he didn't pay attention to Zhang Piguang, and he didn't care how many people around him testified.
Zhang Piguang's eyebrows danced, and his face was flying. Originally, it was just to please Han Gang's cronies and give him a ride by the way, but he never thought that a big gift fell from the sky, and Cai Jing and Cai Wei were arrested together.
It doesn't matter if Cai Jing is rebellious or not, he entered Kaifeng Mansion, what confession do you want?
Don't torture either, just Cai Wei, you will never let Cai Jing go.
When the time comes, Shen Kuo will not do the matter of pushing the boat down the river?
Even if Shen Kuo doesn't do it, Zhang Piguang also wants to do it.
Wang Hou looked around a little nervously.
Zhang Biguang laughed and said in a low voice: "What are you afraid of?" With Cai Jing's reputation, who will say more for him? β
Huang Sheng tugged at Wang Hou's sleeve, "Shangge, you are not in the capital, so I don't know." Cai Jing framed Xianggong at the beginning, which of the people in the capital didn't want to eat meat? If you shout Cai Jing here on the street now, you will be sure that there are stones and bricks thrown over. β
Wang Hou listened, turned his head and looked at Cai Jing carefully. I didn't think about it, but now that I look at him, my face is blue and pale, and I am actually still afraid.
"I actually frightened this thief."
He scolded in a low voice, otherwise why wait until no one is there and just start.
Cai Jing was pulled off the horse, his official hat was kicked away, and even the official robe on his body was torn, and he was tied up in a blink of an eye. When I wanted to shout, I immediately got a heavy kick in the stomach, and I couldn't make any sound.
As a traitor's clan, he is also the object of Cai Wei's defection. Even if there is a credit for the counterattack, it may not be able to get the understanding of the imperial court.
Cai Jing's dependence is that the remaining Zaisuke want to leave a tool to restrain Han Gang in the court. Wang Anshi and Han Jiang will not watch Han Gang escape from the shackles, and they can become prime ministers, powerful ministers, and even reckless rebellious ministers without any scruples.
But this is still a risky move after all, a forced move, and after all, it is still necessary to gamble with your life.
Therefore, Cai Jing wants to escort Cai Wei to the Imperial City openly, if the world sees him sending Cai Wei to the Imperial City, even if Han Gang wants to poison him, even if Cai Wei wants to bite back, the Zai Fu will help him Cai Jing tide over the difficulties.
But what he didn't expect was that the road would be so difficult.
"Don't let any of them go." Zhang Piguang shouted loudly and asked his subordinates to arrest the two servants together, and their confessions were just right to nail Cai Jing to death.
He whispered to Wang Hou and Huang Shang, "Han Xianggong has the talent of passing through heaven and earth, and he has the merit of Kuangji Zhao, so he should have been promoted to the prime minister a long time ago." It's a pity that he was frustrated by this thief. We have to solve problems for Han Xianggong. β
When did Zhang Biguang defect to Han Gang? Or do you see the current situation and present your name to Han Gang?
From the time when Zhang Piguang was the first to write a letter and admonish and invite the two princes out of the palace, he knew that this person was good at speculation. It's just bad luck that I bumped into a calf protector Queen Gao.
As long as Cai Jing is gone, the post of prime minister is just a matter of searching for things for Han Gang, and there is no scruple at all. The great gift offered by Zhang Piguang can be described as extremely heavy.