325. Drama against political opponents is a great invention
Not to mention that the two Japanese envoys were intriguing and discussing how to explain when they returned to China, in Bianjing, Zhou Quan could finally breathe a sigh of relief. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
The matter of war bonds is simple to say, but it is not easy to operate, and if he does not dispose of it himself, it will definitely be difficult to manage it by relying only on a bunch of waste from the household department.
Not to mention that Wang Huang, the head of the household, openly opposed the crusade against Japan above the court, if it weren't for Zhao Ji's intention to keep him to play a leading role, he was afraid that he would have been arched down by Cai Jing long ago, lest this uneducated and unskilled person miss a big thing.
At this point, all the plans have been drawn up and the first step can begin.
However, Zhou Quan also understands that the conquest of a country is not an overnight thing, and the plan starts at this time, but the real war will definitely have to wait until a year later.
This is still based on the premise that the plan is actually implemented, and with the execution ability of the Great Song bureaucracy, Zhou Quan is not optimistic about this.
He stayed in Beijing until March, and several times he wanted to leave, but he was left by Zhao Ji, every two or three days, Zhao Ji always called him back, even if there was nothing to do, he would let him accompany him in the imperial garden to enjoy the music and watch the play, or watch polo football.
This is both a show of grace and a restraint.
However, above the official title, Zhao Ji was not stingy, and his rank was not promoted, but Zhao Ji appointed Zhou Quan to a new official position: the Great Song Dynasty Donghai system envoy was involved in Goryeo, Japan, and Liuqiu affairs, and always promoted the Donghai City Shipping Division and supervised the Donghai tax.
This almost handed over the entire East China Sea trade to Zhou Quan's management, making Zhou Quan's title of "King of the East China Sea" confirmed.
was promoted to grace, but did not let Zhou Quan leave, which has a deep meaning. For Zhou Quan, there are not many secrets in the palace now, and soon he will know who is pushing the matter.
Wang Hao, taking the opportunity, once said to Zhao Ji: Cai Jing is inside, Zhou Quan is outside, the two are each other's inside and outside, and they are afraid that the power of the country is no longer in the hands of the officials.
At this time, because of his bad relationship with Cai Jing, Wang Hao was quite famous for a while, and many people in Shilin were cited as public opinion leaders. But Zhou Quan knew that this person spoke sharply, but in fact he had no ability to do practical things, and he could move Zhao Ji, but it just happened to be Zhao Ji's desire.
Since Cai Jing's reinstatement, he has done too many things and been too successful, which has made Zhao Ji feel threatened, and even Zhou Quan has been suspicious.
I have to teach Wang Hao a little lesson, it's not a chance to overthrow him now, and I also need someone in the center of the capital to confront Cai Jing, lest this old traitor really regard himself as his disciple.
Therefore, when he and Zhao Ji were enjoying the acrobatics in Yanfu Palace on this day, Zhou Quan looked disdainful: "Official, what is so good about this kind of drama?" Besides, now that the Great Song Dynasty is changing with each passing day, such miscellaneous dramas are not very beneficial, and watch me put a drama and act it with the officials! ”
Zhao Ji was overjoyed when he heard it: "The Qing family still knows how to make plays? ”
"Although the minister does not understand the text, he has a full understanding of the world, in and out of the play, it is all about the world, what is the difficulty of making up a drama...... Please borrow it from the official family, and it will be available for His Majesty to see in five days! ”
Zhao Ji agreed, Zhou Quan glanced around, and then said with a smile: "Please also invite Wang Shangshu to watch at that time!" ”
Wang Hao suddenly felt a chill in his heart, and always felt that Zhou Quan's words had a deep meaning. He lowered his head and pondered for a long time, guessing in his heart that it was about his own words that Zhou Quan knew.
He is not very afraid, after all, what he said is dedicated to the public, unlike Li Bangyan and Zhu Mian who offended Zhou Quan for personal reasons, Zhao Ji will definitely defend him. And Wang Hao felt that if he was beaten by Zhou Quan because of this incident, maybe Zhao Ji would be more convinced of his loyalty.
Five days passed, and Zhao Ji sent people to Zhou Quan several times during the period, and Wang Hao also spent a lot of effort to inquire, but he didn't know what was being played in this play.
When it was time to act, they found that the stage was a little unusual, with a curtain in front and a background wall in the back. Before the start of the play, behind the curtain, someone shouted: "In the late Eastern Han Dynasty, there was Wang Fu, who was one of the ten permanent servants, arrogant and lascivious, very unbearable ......"
Zhou Quan's rehearsal caused a lot of sensation, and Zhao Ji liked to be lively, so he recruited all the people close to him and packed this small theater.
At this time, Wang Huang was also in the list, and it was located on Zhao Ji's side, when the confession of "there is a Wang Fu" came out, everyone was smiling, and "one of the ten permanent servants" reported it, and it was even more snickering. Wang Hao himself is like sitting on pins and needles, even if he is restrained, he is also angry at this time.
"Wang Fu" is his old name, because it has the same name as the traitorous eunuch Wang Fu in the Eastern Han Dynasty, so it was changed to Wang Huang by Zhao Ji, and Zhou Quan is clearly laughing at him in this play.
After the confession was completed, the curtain opened, and everyone saw a mansion, and a bald monk came up and saluted: "The poor monk Zhishen is a monk in Luoyang, the Han Dynasty, and lives on the side ......of Wang Fu's house."
This is a story, the monk Zhishen lives next to Wang Fu's house, the Wang family is extravagant, the white rice at home is poured directly into the ditch, Zhishen feels sighing, can not bear to waste, then go into the ditch to dig it, get a number of white rice, stored in the temple. Later, the ten permanent servants were defeated and killed, Wang Fu's family escaped by luck, but they were hungry and almost starved to death, came to the temple to beg, Zhishen recognized his person, and used the white rice stored in the temple to cook porridge with it, Wang Fu's family ate a lot of money, only to feel that the world is delicious, nothing more than this.
The story is very short and there are not many lines, but those servants played it vividly, especially the one who played Wang Fu, as soon as it came out, everyone looked at Wang Hao and laughed, even Zhao Ji couldn't help laughing: This person is actually seven points similar to Wang Hao.
This is actually a drama, Zhou Quan's literary level is limited, so he can only make up a story and let people act it. However, the mode of drama has never appeared before, especially with the curtain as the background and the addition of narration, which is still refreshing to everyone.
But after this drama came out, the focus of everyone's attention was Wang Huang's reaction.
Wang Hao's face was already gloomy in the play, if it weren't for Zhao Ji's presence, he would have left the table.
"Official, Zhou Quan insulted me!" As soon as the play was over, he couldn't wait to complain to Zhao Ji.
Zhao Ji disagreed: "Everyone has said it, it is the Eastern Han Dynasty Wangfu, it has nothing to do with you, don't think about it!" ”
Although Zhao Ji also knew that this was Zhou Quan pointing at Sang and scolding Huai, but so what, even if Zhou Quan really pointed at Wang Hao and scolded, he could only talk to the mud.
"Official, time is in a hurry, and the prince is not very satisfied with the drama that has been arranged, so the minister has a new play, which will be rehearsed in seven days, and then the prince will be invited to watch it?" Zhou Quan said with a smile.
Wang Hao was already able to confirm at this time that this was Zhou Quan's revenge on him, where did he respond, and shouted: "You can't use the name of Wang Fu again!" ”
"Okay, I promise not to use Wang Fu." Zhou Quan said with a smile.
Seven days later, the show began as usual. This play is more complicated, the general plot is that a poor man named Wang Ming in the Tang Dynasty was appreciated by a woman and married, and the woman tried her best to send him to study for the imperial examination, and she raised his old mother in the cold kiln. And this Wang Ming was the first in the imperial examination and was appreciated by the examiner, so he abandoned his wife, married the daughter of the examiner, and was promoted all the way. However, the chief examiner was at odds with the prime minister of the DPRK and China, and Wang Ming betrayed the chief examiner, switched to the prime minister's disciple, and frantically attacked his father-in-law and the chief examiner. Later, the prime minister wanted to reuse Wang Ming and let him be the head of the household, but he was stopped by the emperor, but he sent his wife to sue the emperor before he died, so that the emperor decided that this Wang Ming was a person who betrayed the lord and could never be trusted and reused.
This time the story is longer, and some people laughed at first, but after seeing it, no one laughed, and everyone looked at Wang Hao with a little strange eyes.
Wang Huang's character will be clear, this Wang Ming still refers to him, and the matter of the master and the prime minister refers to He Zhizhong and Cai Jing, the whole story will reveal the overturning of Wang Huang's political position.
At this time, Wang Hao's face was not only gloomy, but bloodless, and his eyes were full of hatred when he looked at Zhou Quan.
"How, what does the prince think of this play, can you still watch it? If you don't like it, I'll make up another drama and invite the officials and princes to watch it? Zhou Quan said with a smile.
"Minister...... Ministers beggar! Although Wang Hao hated, he didn't dare to argue with Zhou Quan face-to-face, so he could only kneel down in front of Zhao Ji and cry bitterly, wanting to gain Zhao Ji's sympathy.
Zhao Ji's expression was a little strange at this time, and when he looked at Wang Hao, his eyes were a little more vigilant.
Although Wang Hao secretly monitored Cai Jing's words and deeds, it was from his secret order, and there were other people who had served on such tasks before, but the plot of Fang Cai did remind Zhao Ji.
Wang Hao appreciated He Zhizhong, and as soon as he took refuge in Cai Jing, he wrote to He Zhizhong that he had 25 major crimes, and he just wanted to kill He Zhizhong. He was promoted by Cai Jing to the position of the head of the household, but he beat Cai Jing's small report behind his back and sued Cai Jing for his black state. Such characters, using the emperor's evaluation of Wang Ming in the play, are "ungrateful, capricious, betraying relatives and abandoning the Lord".
How can such a person be trusted and reused?
"Wang Qing doesn't have to be like this, Zhou Qing is just joking with you......" Although he felt a little strange about Wang Hao in his heart, Zhao Ji comforted him in his mouth, and helped him up with his own hands, and then glanced at Zhou Quan: "Zhou Qing too, why do you always tease Wang Qing?" ”
"Look around, who else can I play tricks on me except the prince?" Zhou Quan was also happy to take this matter as a joke, laughed, and pointed to the people present.
Zhao Ji also looked around, and then smiled dumbly.
In recent years, he has promoted many fortunate ministers, such as Li Bangyan, etc., who are relatively young, but most of these people do not have a good relationship with Zhou Quan, as long as Zhou Quan enters Beijing, they will find an excuse to go out of Beijing, so as not to be tossed by Zhou Quan.
So beside him, the younger ones are enough to toss Zhou Quan, it seems that there is really only Wang Huang, in addition, people like Cai Jing and others are already old, Zhou Quan accidentally them off to death, that is really troublesome.
In addition, Zhao Ji also thought of one thing: Wang Hao said that Zhou Quan was Cai Jing's henchman, and Zhou Quan's attack on Wang Hao was a traitor, and it seemed that he regarded the other party as a competitor in front of him.
In this way, it is nothing more than a palace competition for favor.
"Although Qing is a joke, but it must not go unpunished, so let's hear that Wang Qing wants to buy a homestead, and this cement will be released by Qing!" Zhao Ji said.
This is a stick raised high, but gently put down, everyone knows, Zhou Quan is rich and rivals the country, punish a little cement, what is it? (To be continued.) )