Chapter 21: Seeking the Good Wood and Returning to the Holy Crowd (10)

'The farce can be over. ’

Looking at the colleagues around him who had suddenly calmed down, Li Gefei thought.

There are three percent of the officials in the middle of the court, and there are three of them, and they are silent, as if the imperial history platform before noon dinner, the imperial history does not speak, and everyone will not even have a cough.

Just a moment ago, the Shen Jiayuanzi, who was quite famous in the eastern city of Kaifeng Mansion, was still very noisy, and a group of imperial historians who always had a black face outside were gathering together, talking loudly about their recent goals.

"Shen Kuo will probably not be able to sleep this night."

A moment ago, under the moon, some people covered their mouths and chuckled, and some people made noise. The private garden open to the outside world is not as frequented by idlers as ordinary restaurants.

Wang Zhongzheng set off from Beijing, and it was not even a day before he took over the errand from the Queen Mother, and he was on the road only one night.

Wang Zhong is so diligent that many people see what they want to see. A group of imperial histories that originally wanted to wait and see, but they couldn't help it at once. In one day, there were more than ten copies of the bullet stamps handed to the desk of the imperial case.

Everyone knows that the Queen Mother is not obedient to Han Gang, and if there is anything unsatisfactory, she will immediately deny it.

Judging from Shen Kuo's several defeats to Tingtui, as well as cases such as Li Nangong's failure to become the head of the third division, the Queen Mother has her own ideas.

Now, Han Gang wants to recommend Shen Kuo again, if from the perspective of the Queen Mother, this is a move to challenge her prestige several times.

At the beginning of the country, Zhao Pu was the prime minister. Several times he recommended a person as an official in front of the emperor, but Taizu never allowed it, and even tore up the recommendation seal handed by Zhao Pu after the last time. But the next day, Zhao Pu pasted the torn chapter and handed it over again, and Emperor Taizu had no choice but to finally agree to Zhao Pu's request. But after this dispute, how much love is left for Taizu to Zhao Pu? Emperor Taizu's opinion of Zhao Pu did not change from those jars of gold.

Maybe today's Queen Mother has to rely on Han Gang in many places, and she also has to remember the old feelings of quelling the palace change, but these feelings can be compared to the love between Taizu and Zhao Pu? The place that needs to be relied on can be compared to the mastermind who plotted for Taizu and seized the throne?

"Han Gang is so domineering, of course he must let the Queen Mother know that there are ministers in the court who are not afraid of power."

"Even if he has the merit of being the first to advocate the suppression of barbarians. But the official has become the prime minister, and what does it make if the credit is much, everything is only in the Sacred Heart. ”

Li Gefei didn't want to come here to listen to people's nonsense, but there were always people who wanted to pull him out of the palace - at least he could be strong, and when something happened, he could also use it to top the cylinder.

Gong Yuan's careful thinking, Li Gefei could see it, but he didn't check it for a while today and got on the thief ship by mistake. When I came here, I could only sigh that I was still smart and confused.

Anton, who belonged to the same ranks, did not come at all, and Zhang Dan had already moved his mind to get him out of the woods, and Anton was now trying to leave in a dignified way, and did not intend to make any more extraneous branches, and all entertainment was put off.

And Gong Yuan is the vanguard of Taichung. Hearing that he had visited Zhang Dian some time ago, Li Gefei originally guessed whether he had received Zhang Tun's life, but after listening to what Gong Yuan said to the outside world, he couldn't hear that he had the support of a privy envoy. With Li Gefei's understanding of Gong Yuan, if there is really Zhang Dun's support, his actions will only be more arrogant.

With such members, it is no wonder that the prestige of the Imperial Historical Observatory is getting worse and worse.

Li Gefei also met Zhang Shangying, who had returned to Beijing last month.

Zhang Shangying sighed over there, now Yushitai is a weasel cub, a litter is not as good as a litter.

When Zhang Shangying was in Taichung, he also fought for the prime minister's criticism of the privy council, although he suffered a lot of losses several times, and now he can only serve in other states, but after all, he has a great reputation in Shilin, and in Yushi Taizhong, his name is even more thunderous - how many people take it as a warning, or ridicule him for being a pig, and he will only rush forward with his head bored, but he does not know how to move the camera.

Li Gefei didn't know what to say about those colleagues who had low eyes, when it came to moving the camera, Zhang Shangying was more than one and two points inferior to Han Qi and others, and today's Yushitai is not even half of Zhang Shangying's level.

Fortunately, this arrogant uproar only lasted until the news of the great victory in the southwest passed through the streets and alleys and spread to the garden.

The royal historians looked at each other: "Why did you win so quickly?" ”

Dali is a big country in the south, and its territory is still above Jiaozhi, and the road is more tortuous. Quickly beat Shimenfan, that is because Shimen Pass is too close, and it will be there when you get out of Fushun Prison. But it's a long way to Dali, and it's hard to go deep, shouldn't you be steady? When attacking Jiaozhi, Zhang Dian was in Guizhou, and Han Gang was in Yongzhou, but he was a soldier for a whole year. No matter how good Kumamoto and Huang Shang are, can they compare to Shangzhang and Han? How in the blink of an eye, it swept the territory of Dali.

Li Gefei watched coldly for a while, and then got up to make it convenient. When he came back, he hadn't returned to the place where he was drinking, but he unexpectedly found that Gong Yuan was talking to someone under the tree in a low voice.

"Su Xiangzhishi is not far away, and Kumamoto has only been in Beijing for a few months, and the Queen Mother will still turn Shen Kuo away?"

The man in the shadow of the tree couldn't see his eyebrows, and his voice was muffled to hear him, and he couldn't tell which colleague it was. But that's right. Su Song will not be able to become a celebrity, and Kumamoto will enter the Privy Council, only from the perspective of the balance of the court, Shen Kuo's appointment is inevitable.

"Where would the Queen Mother think so much!" Gong Yuan retorted sharply.

In the eyes of the courtiers, maintaining a simple balance of power between the court and the central government, the Queen Mother can do it, otherwise there would be no refusal of Li Nangong's appointment of the three envoys, but the deeper power operation, the Queen Mother is still too far behind. Otherwise, Su Song and Han Gang would not be in charge of the political affairs hall, and Zhang Dian and Zeng Xiaokuan would be in charge of the Privy Council, what kind of balance would this be?

"It's not Emperor Xizong." Gong Yuan said in a low voice.

It is widely recognized that compared with Renzong and Yingzong, Emperor Xizong can definitely be regarded as a sharp-armed monarch. The change took effect, and Wang Anshi was kicked and replaced by the obedient Wang Qi. On the one hand, he suppressed the old party that was in the way, and on the other hand, he suppressed the new party that was attached to Wang Anshi, until he was surrounded by obedient imperial parties and could honestly and obediently continue to implement the new law he wanted. With Emperor Xizong's heart and methods, if it weren't for the sudden wind disease, the next ten or twenty years, until he died, the ministers of the court would not have had a good time.

If you compare the Empress Dowager with Emperor Xizong, the gap between them cannot be calculated.

"How?"

"The bullet is also on, how can I return it? So far, you can only advance and not retreat! ”

Li Gefei sneered silently, Li Lingzhi was stunned to this point, what else is there to say? Maybe Gong Yuan is very suitable for doing other things, but he is still too far from being a strategist.

Slowing down, Li Gefei quietly left. In a few days, most of them will have to go out of the city to see them off.

Li Gefei suddenly became distressed, the baby daughter at home became more and more difficult, and I don't know if Lu Dao has time to make two farewell poems.

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Shen Kuo stayed awake all night.

When I woke up in the morning, I looked in the mirror and could barely recognize who the person in the mirror was.

The sunken circles under the eyes were blue and black, and the eyes were bloodshot. The wrinkles are a little deeper, and at first glance, I am more than ten years old.

Looking at the glass and silver mirror, an impatient voice came from the inner room, "Are you ready?" ”

"Alright, alright." Shen Kuo hurriedly put down the mirror and asked someone to come over to help him get the court clothes, and he hurriedly freshened up.

As soon as the bead curtain hanging at the door of the inner room rattled, the middle-aged beautiful woman lifted the curtain and came out, her willow eyebrows hung high, and she was angry: "It's not okay?!" ”

Shen Kuo was most afraid of the step-room Zhang, urged his subordinates to tidy up their clothes, wiped his face with a hot hand towel, wiped it again with a cold hand towel, rinsed his mouth with medicinal water urgently, and said loudly, "That's good, that's good." ”

"What's the panic?!" Zhang waved off the scrambled maid and came up to help change her clothes in person.

Shen Kuo's body immediately stiffened, like a frog being targeted by a snake.

Zhang glanced at her husband coldly, snorted, but didn't say anything more, straightened up his clothes, and said, "It's yours, it's yours." In terms of merit, who are you worse than? Without your hard work outside, can Han Xianggong be so proud? It's been three times, and I don't see him intervene to help each time, until the road is almost repaired, and then I nod. How rare is such an opportunity, if you can't choose it today, do you expect him to be kind next time? ”

After tying the belt to Shen Kuo, Zhang raised his slender fingers and poked Shen Kuo's head, hating that iron is not steel: "You still want to work hard to make wedding dresses for others?" ”

"For the husband understands, for the husband understands." Shen Kuo nodded repeatedly. Regardless of whether he really understood or not, in front of him, the 'good wife', Shen Kuo always only nodded.

"Ugh." Zhang sighed, stepped forward and gently straightened Shen Kuo's clothes, straightened and smoothed them: "After today, you will be able to have a cool umbrella, and you can also be upright, and tomorrow, who will dare to say that you are a Renren?" ”

Shen Kuo smiled bitterly, even if he has monstrous power, it is difficult to block the mouths of the world, but Zhang's words still touched him, "Madame, don't worry, your husband understands." ”

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"Saving? What's going on with you?! ”

Outside the Xuande Gate, Han Gang shouted to Shen Kuo in surprise, even the dimness of the morning sun could not hide the embarrassment on Shen Kuo's face.

"Xianggong." Shen Kuo arched his hand and smiled bitterly, "Today's event, no matter whether it is success or failure, Shen Kuo doesn't want to do it again." ”

"Rest assured. This time it was completely solved. Han Gang Ha said with a smile, not caring at all about the gaze cast by the monitoring imperial history under the city gate not far away.

The crows on the side of the Imperial Tower, Han Gang kept them just because they were not in the way, they were harmless to humans and animals, and sometimes, they could also come in handy. If you really want to start biting, you will naturally be killed with a stick.

A famous minister with a vote in his hand arrived at the Xuande Gate one after another, some came up to greet Han Gang, and some stood aside with self-determination. The votes in their hands determined Shen Kuo's fate and the stability of the court in the future.

In a few moments, as soon as the city gates opened, the court meeting was about to begin.

I've waited too long for this not very important matter, Han Gang...... Can't wait.