Chapter 171: Storm
On the same day that Meng Heng arrived at the imperial court, Jia Rudao, the prefect of Lin'an Prefecture and a scholar of Fuwen Pavilion, said that now that the drought has been solved and the earthquake has eased, he asked for the repatriation of 800,000 displaced people outside Lin'an City to return to their original hometowns, leaving only the families of 50,000 regiments of soldiers trained by the General Division of the City and a small number of ordinary people to reclaim 300,000 mu of farmland outside Lin'an City, and at the same time to donate 200,000 mu of farmland to the emperor, and all the production will go to the inner treasury.
Emperor Lizong Longyan was happy, and gave Jia like a goldfish bag and a purple robe.
At the end of June of the second year of Jiaxi, Meng Heng reported the success document and asked for the merit document again.
Liu Ting, the commander of Xiangyang who was attached to Mongolia, resolutely looked back and attached to the Great Song Dynasty, and the Song army stationed in Xiangyang thought that Jianghai should be internal, and the 300,000 Song troops who attacked Xiangyang City should be combined with the outside, and Xiangyang City went down in a battle.
In the battle, the Song army ambushed more than 30,000 Mongolian soldiers, captured more than 20,000 prisoners, nearly one million stones of grain and grass, and countless gold and silver artifacts and silk and satin.
The Mongolian general Zhang Rou, who was stationed in Caizhou, commanded more than 100,000 troops and could not rescue, so he had no choice but to retreat to Caizhou again. Shi Tianze, the general of Zhending, Hejian, Daimyo, Dongping, and Jinan Wulu Wanhu, led 50,000 cavalry and 150,000 infantry troops to 200,000 from Kaifeng Mansion to the south to aid Caizhou.
When the news came, the Great Song Dynasty was shocked again.
June of the second year of Jiaxi, for the weak Great Song Dynasty, was destined to be the January of the Nine Heavens of Ice and Fire.
On the same day that Meng Heng's document arrived, Jia Yidao, the prefect of Lin'an Prefecture, went to the table again, asking the emperor to delay the purchase of grain for the people of the world, and at the same time said that more than ten people including Zheng Mingxuan and Liu Chengcheng, who were wealthy merchants in Lin'an, were grateful for the benevolence of the saints, and were willing to provide 500,000 stones, 500,000 taels of silver, and 10,000 horses of silk for the imperial court, so as to relieve the worries of the saints and reward the meritorious soldiers in the battle of Xiangyang.
Zhao Yun Longyan was happy again, and at the request of Jia Yidao, a straight scholar of Fuwen Pavilion, he issued an edict to reward Zheng Mingxuan, Liu Chengcheng and other more than ten wealthy businessmen who had contributed to the country (300 households). When the news came out, it naturally caused the government and the opposition to shake again, and countless people in the entire Lin'an Mansion looked sideways.
This is the first time that someone can be a mere businessman from the imperial court and the emperor himself issued an edict to confer knighthood, although it is only the lowest baron, and there are no three hundred households, but it is also the first time that the Great Song Dynasty has opened the world since the founding of the country.
Also on the same day that Jia Nidao wrote the book, dozens of officials, large and small, such as Qiao Xingjian, the prime minister of Zuo, Li Mingfu, the governor of the Privy Council, and even more than a dozen Taiwanese imperial historians, expressed their admonitions at the same time, opposing Jia Nidao's words that he would not buy grain, and at the same time strongly opposed the practice of awarding merchants Jia with knighthoods with money and other things.
Regarding the impeachment document of Qiao Xingjian and others, Jia Rudao did not make any response.
Two days later, dozens of officials, large and small, including Shi Songzhi, the right minister, Yuan Fu, a scholar of the Guanwen Temple, Li Shao, the emperor's attendant, Zou Yinglong, and Xie Jubo, the household attendant, were opposed to Zhao Yun's issuance of the meeting at the same time.
When the news came out, there was an uproar from top to bottom, and Qiao Xingjian finally fell ill at this time.
It is normal for Shi Songzhi to stand on Jia Nidao's side, but now without Yu Tianxi's support, Jia Nidao is even more important to Shi Songzhi. Anyone knows Lu Dao, as long as Jia Nidao is not trying to rebel, Shi Songzhi will also stand on Jia Nidao's side; However, what Yuan Fu, Li Shao, Zou Yinglong, and even Xie Jubo did made everyone in the government and the opposition smash their glasses.
Yuan Fu, Li Shao, and Zou Yinglong are the representatives of the school of science in the court today, although they have not paid homage to the prime minister, but because there are really a lot of students in the school of science under their disciples, and the three of them are all the emperor's attendants, they are extremely close to the emperor, and they seem to be a force that no one in the court can ignore.
However, everyone also knows that the Lixue faction is an ally of Qiao Xingjian, the prime minister of the left. Since they are allies, how could they suddenly leave Qiao Xingjian to help Jia Yidao speak in such a situation at this time?
Okay, they are just opposing, and they are not explicitly helping Jia Nidao to speak, but the goal of Qiao Xingjian's impeachment and opposition is very clear, isn't it Jia Nidao? Opposing Qiao Xingjian's proposal, in another way, isn't it just supporting Jia Yidao? Not long ago, Yuan Fu and the others had never met each other with Na Jia Nidao. The two sides have fought several times in the court, but Jia Rudao has never given face to Yuan Fu and others, how can he say that it has changed now?
If it is said that the defection of the people of the science school has already made the people in the government and the opposition smash their glasses, then the actions of the new household servant Xie Jubo are really even more puzzling and intriguing.
What kind of person is Xie Jubo, who doesn't know the way as long as there is a little common sense in the government and the opposition? That's the uncle of today's queen mother. At the beginning, it was this old man who sent the queen mother to the palace and handed it over to the queen mother.
The queen mother has been concentrating on worshipping Buddha in the palace all these years, as if she is a transparent person, and even the Xie family is very low-key. Although the Xie family, including the brothers and brothers of the queen mother, all serve in large and small official positions in the court, they rarely interfere in political disputes, of course, this may also be because their status is not enough to interfere if they want to.
The most important thing is that Xie Jubo was promoted from the palace servant to the actual household servant, and now he is the actual leader of the household department, and he is still strongly recommended by Qiao Xingjian.
But now it's good, but these uncles of the queen mother turned their faces and beat them upside down in the blink of an eye, and they didn't think about repaying Qiao Xingjian's strong recommendation, but they directly stood on Jia Yidao's side, how could they not surprise and lose their minds?
Surprised and suspicious, it finally made some people calm down and start to think quietly about the things that have happened these days, thinking about the causes and consequences. What's happening these days is more informative than the changes that have taken place over the past decade or so.
At this time, some people find that no matter how much they think about it, they find that no matter how they think about it, they can't get around a person. That person is the one who has no reaction to the impeachment of the dignified Jae, who has not reacted from the beginning to the end, and who is calm and somewhat frightening...... Jia Rudao.
Thinking about it a little more carefully, it seems that since this uncle did not die, the court of the Great Song Dynasty began to shake wave after wave.
Qionglin Banquet, Seyuan Poetry Club, Meng Heng's assassination, Guifei Niangniang's assassination, Huizhou earthquake displaced people besieged the city, disaster relief, and now the dignified Zuo Prime Minister put down his face and united Taiwan to jointly impeach, it seems that every thing, no matter how it happens, how it changes, in the end, there is only one person who can laugh the most, oh, and the people around this person.
One thing or two things may only be luck or coincidence or even the emperor's favor, but a series of things are connected in series, and even in the face of a fatal situation such as disaster relief and lack of food, the joint impeachment of the left prime minister and Taiwan, he can still laugh to the bottom of the worst, and even make the dignified ruler lose face after the most reckless, and have to live in retreat to recuperate, can this still be luck?
Thinking about the gentle smile on the face of the elegant young man I saw every time I was in the early dynasty, and then thinking about what happened in the past six months, everyone was shocked in their hearts.
Turning over the rain and clouds in a silent place, are such characters really only the age of a weak crown?
Just when everyone was still frightened by all the things that had happened in the past few days, Jia Rudao, who was the protagonist of the storm, quietly left Lin'an City without anyone knowing.