In fact, Li Gang is an outstanding figure among their neutrals, but in the end, they have not won it over, one can have two, Li Gang rarely has a literary name, and the people of the time promised that he will inevitably enter the political hall in the future.

In the second year of Zhenghe, when he was twenty-nine years old, Hou Jinshi and the first, in just three years, he did the supervision of the imperial history and the imperial history of the palace of power, and he was promoted so quickly that people at the time thought that he must have an unlimited future until he was forty years old, and he would inevitably be called a prince by the world, but Li Gang immediately lost his official position as soon as he wrote a note discussing the mistakes of the government and government.

At that time, Zhao Ji had been on the throne for more than ten years, and his position was firm, and he began to come out with the means he enjoyed excessively......

Countless strange tricks were taken out, and at that time, the court and the central government pretended not to see it because of the aftermath of the Yuanyou Party Monument, and Li Gang's guy said bluntly, and he slapped Zhao Ji in the face in the middle of the compromise.

The first dismissal, Li Gang was not chased since his birth, and after three years of qualifications, he finally returned to the dynasty and gave him a too often Shaoqing, an idle official who edited the history of the country.

It stands to reason that the first dismissal, even if you Li Gang still has a lot of blood in his chest, he has the will to take the world as his own responsibility, and it is easy to come back, so he should work his qualifications and chase back the time he lost before, and when he is fifty years old, it is not a political hall, after all, this person has a literary name and a reputation, Zhao Ji reprimanded him for three years or recalled him to use it, thinking that if this guy's temperament is sharpened, he can be useful.

But I didn't expect that less than two years after the return to the dynasty, Li Gang wrote again in the first year of Xuanhe, and said that don't look at the current Da Song Dynasty with flowers and brocade, and the appearance of cooking oil on fire, but the inner bag is full of holes, and there are great hidden dangers buried everywhere.

The southeast should be done fiercely, the people of the south of the Yangtze River are unbearable, the financial embarrassment of the DPRK and the central government, everywhere is difficult, the first year of Xuanhe Yellow River flood caused the Bianhe River to burst, the reason is that when the river is repaired every year, the three divisions can not allocate money, the Great Song Dynasty military affairs are slack, except for the Shaanxi Zhulu, other places are absolutely unusable, and the Shaanxi Zhulu Western Army, also gradually has a tail of the big trend.

Li Gang also keenly noticed the war between the Liao State and the Jurchens in the north, and predicted that the Jurchens would inevitably be a disaster for the Great Song Dynasty in the future, and they must take measures on the roads of Hedong Road in Hebei, and prepare for the future, these places are in need of money, and the court and the central government are in great embarrassment, the source is that Zhao Ji enjoys excessively, and asks Zhao Ji to abandon the southeast and Yingfeng, stop Huashigang, abolish Genyue, chase the officials, and repair the military equipment to cope with future changes.

This slap in the face turned out to be several times more ruthless than the time in the fifth year of Zhenghe, Zhao Ji played a concert, there is no doubt that he was angry, speaking of which Zhao Ji was also a little aggrieved, what stopped the flower stone gang, abolished Gen Yue, chased the officials, and stopped the palace room construction, all of which were said in private, as if as long as Zhao Ji did this, the Great Song Dynasty would suddenly be governed, the country was stable and stable, and people from afar naturally came to serve this, as long as the words were not clearly spoken, Zhao Ji had always pretended not to hear.

Zhao Ji is indeed extremely able to spend money, the southeast should be Feng and Huashi Gang, the whole chaos of the Great Song Dynasty's wealth and wealth of the southeast Zhulu is also a fact, and he uses people absurdly and easily, often bypassing a mature bureaucratic system to do his own thing, destroying the normal operation of the Great Song Dynasty's ruling system, making national affairs, even the important ministers can not be responsible, and finally can only be attributed to him Zhao Ji according to likes and dislikes to judge, although the weight of the monarch's power can be called unprecedented in the Great Song Dynasty for a hundred years, but it has shaken the entire ruling foundation of the Great Song Dynasty, these are facts.

But purely when it comes to money, Zhao Ji spends so much, the royal family uses only seven or eight million yuan a year, and he has to pay the inner money once every three years to reward the world, but there is a war on the border, and the reward soldiers are mostly paid by the inner treasury, and the three divisions are supported but there are difficulties, and ask Zhao Ji to send the inner treasury, no matter how much Zhao Ji has, he can give a certain amount, he is not stupid, the world is his, as long as there is always money coming in, it should be spent, he hides the money in the inner treasury every day to count and play?

It's true that extravagance is more than the previous generation, but you scholars, and even the generals of the forbidden army, who is not very arrogant? A southeast should be enshrined, how many people stick it on it to receive benefits? Zhu Mian is not just a son of heaven who should be worshipped by him, a figure in the court, who Zhu Mian has not embellished? And once every three years to reward the ministers, you scholars, scholars, no one has ever understood the financial difficulties of the imperial court, saying that you don't want it, why do you just use this money to hold on to me?

All kinds of problems in the Great Song Dynasty are accumulated over the past hundred years of institutional defects, coupled with the increasingly fierce party struggle after the middle period, it is really not his fault Zhao Ji alone, these deep-seated things, with Zhao Ji's cognition, will naturally not be as clear as later generations, but he also has a way to deal with it, that is, to double the extravagance, double the self-restraint with meritorious deeds, and create a prosperous era in the hands of the Great Song Dynasty in his hands and promised, anyone who wants to burst this bubble on this, he Zhao Ji is unforgiving.

Li Gang hit this muzzle again, Zhao Ji was not polite to him, you don't have to retire and return to your hometown to recuperate, go to the remote place of Shaxian County, Nanjian Prefecture to supervise taxes.

The so-called tax supervision is some complicated and trivial things and the responsibility is heavy, but where the tax is insufficient, there are punishments for the scholars, it is an out-and-out evil official, and the officials of Nanjian Prefecture are all officials who are pointing at the shooting, and they have always been officials who are insufficient to take office, and they have always been caught by the local government, for fear that no one will come to fill the vacancy, and they will be promoted and transferred in the future, and most of them will be in this place.

Although Li Gang is a native of Nanjian Prefecture, for the Great Song Scholars, especially those who have served in the center of Bianliang, it is already a heavy punishment to be demoted to this place.

Li Gang is undoubtedly a neutral party on the political spectrum, and he hates Cai Jing's generation who came to power and does things, and these talented and arrogant people who are suppressed by Cai Jing in the world all expect Li Gang to be able to rise again in the future, play a role in turning the tide, and reorganize the dynasty, and the important thing is to let them, the party members, hold the role of the central power of the Great Song Dynasty.

Don't look at Geng Nanzhong at the moment as a first-class figure in the banner of the rise of the old party, but when Li Gang was still in Bianliang, Geng Nanzhong had to retreat in front of him, but Li Gang had wasted his time because he had degraded back and forth several times, even if he had sat in the privy position before, there was no threat to Geng Nanzhong, on the contrary, Li Gang had to use them to realize his ideals and ambitions.

Yuwen Xuzhong is also a little relieved, after all, if some upright people can be introduced now, the dirty things above the court have also been reined in, and now Geng Nanzhong is relieved on this, and it can be seen that the pressure on the prince is too great, King Jia is too aggressive, Yang Ling is stirring up the storm in Bianliang, and I don't know what will happen in the future.

I saw Geng Nanzhong throw out a list, Yuwen took it and took it, and when he saw the first name, he was surprised and delighted, "Brother Rulin!" ”

After Yuwen was shocked, he looked at Geng Nanzhong and hesitated: "Brother Daoxi, Mr. Rulin, is it possible to return to Bianliang at this moment?" ”

Geng Nanzhong's face is very ugly, Yuwen Xuzhong is also a little uncomfortable, they are the rising stars in the old party, after Li Gang went out to know Hebei Road, among the capital, there are few people who can pass the two of them, and this so-called Rulin brother is that Zong Ze Zong Rulin, Zong Ze's reputation is much more than Li Gang's fame, once he returns to the court, with his reputation, with his qualifications, with his legendary experience, he will definitely be the hope of saving the time for the people in the party, and this influence, It is likely that it is not limited to their party.

People are used to standing in high places, and if they go down a little more, no matter how beautiful their hearts are, they are always unhappy, Geng Nanzhong glanced at Yuwen Xuzhong, but he cleaned up the gloomy mood that mentioned Zong Ze just now, and his expression was faint, as if he was saying something that had nothing to do with him: "That's right, only Zong Rulin can rely on us the most!" ”

What kind of person is Wen Xuzhong, he was shocked by Geng Nanzhong's words just now, he didn't turn the corner for a while, but now he calmed down a little, and immediately patted his leg and said, "Isn't this the truth?" Mr. Ru Lin is expected to return to Beijing! ”

Zhao Ji is the monarch who has reigned for 20 years, and the weight of the monarch's power is the peak since the Song Dynasty, and he has practiced a set of balanced means for the king to use people.

Although Cai Jing was reinstated this time, he did not forget to use people to contain him Originally, he was pinning his hopes on Liang Shicheng, but this hidden minister was really a little unlucky, and he folded a lot of prestige in front of Yang Ling, and his favor was greatly reduced.

Now that Zhao Ji has been in power for 20 years, his legitimacy is beyond doubt, and he has no scruples about reusing the old party doctors, even if the one on the Yuanyou Party Monument is useful, he will use it when he says it.

The difficulty now lies in the fact that the old party scholars and doctors have been suppressed for too long, and there have been talented generations, and there is no way to push out any weighty people to check and balance Cai Jing and stabilize the situation.

And now the situation is indeed too chaotic, after the war against Yan, the situation has changed greatly, the original pattern has been broken, and it has not been established, and there is no one to take care of things everywhere, a chaotic scene.

Cai Jing only cares about his financial affairs, and it is difficult to cover the sky with other things, there is only Yang Ling in the cardinal mansion, Zong Ze is deeply disappointed, once he is recalled, it is very likely to be able to calm the situation and make the court situation safer.

No matter from which point of view, the possibility of Zong Ze returning to the dynasty has increased greatly, Yuwen nodded in the middle, putting aside the idea of stealing the limelight for Zong Ze, if Zong Ze can return to the dynasty, it is indeed the best news for the people in their party.

There is a convention in Chinese history that whenever a celebrity is born, there will be a vision from the sky, before Zong Ze was born, his mother Liu, once dreamed that there was a violent thunder and lightning in the sky, illuminating his body.

Although the Zong family is poor, but there is a tradition of farming and reading heirlooms, his father Zong Shunqing is a rural intellectual, Zong Ze has participated in labor with his eldest brother Zong Wo since he was a child, and he is literate under the teaching of his father and ancestors. Gifted and intelligent, Zong Ze was diligent and studious, and laid a good cultural foundation since he was a child.

There, Zong Ze's vision expanded, heard and witnessed the Song Dynasty's corruption and foreign enemies, germinated the ideological ambition of saving the country and saving the people, less than 20 years old Zong Ze resolutely left home to go out to study, lasted more than ten years, as many as dozens of places to study, he not only studied carefully, studied the "ancient classics", but also applied what he had learned, inspected the society, understood the people's feelings, tirelessly pursued the way of governing the country, and gradually saw clearly that the rectification of the rule of officials is the key to solving political corruption;

At the same time, seeing the repeated invasions of the Liao State and the Western Xia, he also had the idea of settling the border and serving the country, so he carefully studied the military books and practiced martial arts. In this way, Zong Ze quickly grew into a young man who was knowledgeable, both civil and military, and full of ideals and ambitions.

In the sixth year of Yuanyou, the Song Dynasty held the provincial examination and the palace examination, and Zong Ze, who was 33 years old, passed the liberation examination, traveled thousands of miles to the capital Kaifeng to take the provincial examination, and Zong Ze passed the provincial examination (Ministry of Rites examination) and entered the palace examination.

It was in the first exam in the world this time, as soon as Zong Ze debuted, he became the most declarative person among his peers, Zong Ze wrote more than 10,000 words in disregard of the word limit during the palace examination, and vigorously stated the disadvantages of the times, and also criticized the court for believing in Wu Chuhou's false accusations, and exiled Cai Qu, thinking that "the disaster of friends began here".

This was Zong Ze's first appearance in politics, which fully reflected his strong demand for the elimination of maladministration and his courage and determination to fight against evil forces. The chief examiner "with his straightforward words, afraid of the purpose", put Zong Ze in the "last subject", and gave him "the same Jinshi background", although Zong Ze failed to be at the top of the list, but after all, he passed the imperial examination and began to enter the official career. (To be continued.) )