Chapter 29: Jia Rudao's inner world

At night, Lin'an began to float snowflakes again, the snowflakes were not big, sparsely sprinkled on the ground, and then turned into snow and flowed on the ground.

There are no other boats on the West Lake except for Jia Yidao's insect boat.

The lanterns on the insect boat were still hanging high, and it was brightly lit in this silent and dim night, and unlike usual, there was no singing and dancing of warblers on board, nor was there any noisy drinking. From a distance, it looks like a lifeless ghost boat parked in the lake.

In the room in the middle of the big ship sat Jia Nidao and a middle-aged literati in his forties dressed in a light cyan robe, this middle-aged literati had a dark face, a burly appearance, a righteous and awe-inspiring eyebrows, and a murderous aura unique to a soldier all over his body.

The middle-aged literati was none other than Li Tingzhi, the Yangzhou envoy who came to Beijing to report on his work.

Li Tingzhi is both civil and military, once in the jinshi, and later appreciated by Meng Hui, served as a senator in his account, in charge of confidential writing, after Meng Hui's death, left a will to recommend Jia Yidao to replace himself, and recommended Tingzhi to Jia Yidao, Li Tingzhi in order to thank Meng Hui for the kindness of the encounter that year, personally escorted his coffin to be buried in Xingguo (now Jiangxi), and regardless of the retention of everyone, immediately resigned and returned to his hometown, mourning for Meng Heng for three years. Later, Jia Rudao guarded Jinghu and appointed Li Tingzhi as the senator of the preparation department. Five years ago, Li Tingzhi was recommended by Jia Rudao to be in charge of the Lianghuai system and the secretary, and served as the Yangzhou system envoy and the military department.

Meng Hui has the grace of knowing Li Tingzhi, and Jia Rudao has the grace of helping Li Tingzhi.

Li Tingzhi said that he came to Beijing to report on his work, and after reporting to the Ministry of Officials, he went to Jiafu first.

The two sat opposite each other at a drinking table.

Jia Rudao personally dipped Li Tingzhi in a glass of wine and said: "Xiangfu (Li Tingzhi), since I said goodbye five years ago, you and I have aged a lot. ”

Li Tingzhi raised his glass and said: "Xiangye, since the handsome left, if it weren't for Xiangye's support, Xiangfu is still a white cloth now, this glass of wine will first respect Xiangye's promotion, and do it first." ”

Jia Rudao also drank it all, and said: "Xiangfu, you don't have to be so polite, to say something from your heart, for so many years, I am with you, in order to completely let go of my heart, in peace, this big ship is very lively, smoky miasma, and now it will be so clean when you Xiangfu arrives." ”

Li Tingzhi picked up the wine jug, poured a full bottle of wine for Jia Rudao and said, "Xiangye, you are too uplifting Xiangfu." ”

Jia Rudao drank it all in one gulp: "It's not a lift, Xiangfu, you are qualified, it's just the two of us tonight, you don't have to be humble, come and do it." ”

"Yes, Xiangye."

"Brother Xiangfu, don't call me Xiangye tonight, I'm six years older than you, the old man is older, you can call Brother Shixian, like, just like when you listened to orders under the big handsome's tent."

"Okay, Brother Shixian, it's better for Xiangfu to be respectful."

"Well, it's been nearly twenty years, when I was under the big handsome's account, you and I were all in high spirits, alas, time is so fast, it's gone in a flash. Brother, drink wine and eat vegetables. ”

"Brother Shixian, please."

Both of them drank well, glass after glass.

"Brother, in the past five years, you have always found all kinds of excuses, that is, you are unwilling to go to Beijing to report on your work, why did you suddenly remember to enter Beijing this year?"

"Brother Shixian, the new emperor has just ascended the throne this year, and Yu Li should also come to meet His Majesty, this is one of them."

"And the other two?"

"The second is that I came specifically to talk to Brother Shixian."

"Haha, it's rare, if my brother has anything to say, just say it."

"Then forgive Xiangfu. Brother Shixian, now my Great Song Dynasty internal and external troubles, the Mongols have long had the heart to destroy me, although its iron cavalry can not be said to be invincible, but far better than our army, three years ago Liu Cheng surrendered to the enemy, most of the Sichuan has been lost, and the Yangtze River that our dynasty relies on has also lost an upstream section, but our dynasty is not unable to fight, the key is in the DPRK. Back then, when the big marshal left, he left this burden to Brother Shi Xian, and for twenty years, alas, it was just ...... It's just that Brother Shixian has become Jia Xiangye...... is no longer the respectable and admirable Jia Shixian at the beginning. Li Tingzhi said hesitantly.

After listening to this, Jia Rudao didn't speak, but only drank three glasses of wine in a row before he sighed and said, "Brother, I understand what you mean." When Wu Qian and Ding Daquan were the left and right prime ministers, the first emperor Lizong was dissatisfied with all their measures, so he crowned me as a young master and summoned me to the court. I was very ambitious and wanted to make a difference and become a generation of celebrities. Alas, after entering the court, I realized that this step by step in the court was terrifying, and there were traps everywhere. From time to time, Yan, Ma, Ding, and Dong colluded inside and outside to seize power. The first emperor was indecisive, employing people without believing in them, and wanted to get rid of them without directly edicting them, so he used me as a spear, pierced Wu, Ding and others, and asked me to prohibit eunuchs from interfering in politics and relatives from gaining power, so I offended many ministers in the court and people in the harem, although I made the inside and outside solemn, but I also became the target of the public. Brother, you know that I came from the account of the marshal Meng Heng, and there are many factions of generals in the DPRK and China, although the marshal has repeatedly performed miraculous feats, but it has also made many generals unhappy, and I am also young and vigorous, and I can't tolerate the slightest disrespect for the marshal, so these generals also oppose me. Five years ago, when the treasury was empty and a large amount of land was concentrated in the hands of the landlords, the first emperor ordered me to implement the public land law, which used the term to limit the price to buy the excess land in the hands of the big landlords, abolish the peace tax, and use the rent of grain as military salaries to enrich the national treasury. It was also promulgated throughout the country in a narrow-mouthed and wide-bottomed manner to alleviate the super-exploitation of the poor. These measures were originally beneficial to the national economy and the people's livelihood, but they aroused the dissatisfaction of the bureaucrats and landlords, who were already at odds with me, and hated me even more at this time. ”

Jia Rudao paused for a moment, seemed to remember a lot of past events, drank another glass of wine and continued: "At this time, I can only follow the first emperor closely, I know that only the first emperor can protect me thoroughly, and the first emperor is gradually inseparable from me, constantly giving me power, what young master, young master, privy council history, prime minister and so on. ”

"Then Brother Shixian should use the power in his hands to advance the emperor's words, and rejuvenate my dynasty."

"Brother Xiangfu, what you don't understand, what is a companion like a tiger, the first emperor gave me so much power, but he began to distrust me."

"Why is that?"

"In his later years, the first emperor not only became more and more indecisive, but also became suspicious, after the Mongolian Kublai Khan retreated north, the first emperor thought that if Gaozong was in the past, he would rule by dividing the river, so he only read the book of science, ignoring the government and politics, what was the revival of our dynasty, and there was no interest at all."

"The first emperor is like this, Brother Shixian should persuade more."

"Brother, it's not me saying you, although you are all-round in civil and military affairs, you don't understand the heart of the emperor, the way to be a minister lies in figuring out the heart of the king, in order to be invincible. From ancient times to the present, there are several emperors like Emperor Taizong of the previous dynasty, who can tolerate the advice of Wei Zheng. Alas, come, let's drink. ”

Li Tingzhi has been fighting enemies outside all the year round, how did he know that this court is so complicated, and while he was thinking about it, he heard Jia Yidao continue: "Xiangfu, do you know Wushisan? ”

"Of course I do."

"People are subject to change, and this power is like smoking five stones, and it's addictive."