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Shao, the imperial envoy, went to the Wen family to verify whether what Wen Hefu said was true, although he used a deceitful way, but after Wen Yanbo was silent for a while, he actually admitted that he used to say that Liu Zhi was Sima Zhao; inadvertently matched Wen Jifu's confession.

Wen Yanbo is a ninety-year-old man, old and fine; Wen Jifu was detained, and Shao suddenly arrived, perhaps this in itself made the old fox smell something unusual;

When Shao accused him of hurting people behind his back and secretly scolded Liu Zhi for being Sima Zhao, Wen Yanbo suddenly went the opposite way and admitted that he had indeed scolded Liu Zhi for being Sima Zhao; In this way, the new party has become somewhat passive.

The two cases of Wen Jifu and Zhang Shiliang were originally a perfect echo, but now they are a bit of a fly in the ointment, and after receiving the report, Zhang Dian immediately ordered Zhang Shiliang to be tried, and this time there is no room for mistakes.

In the Tongwen Pavilion, the same main hall was also presided over by He Shikuan and Zhang Shangying, but Zhang Shiliang was not as lucky as Wen Jifu, as soon as he was dragged to the hall, He Shikuan did not ask a word, and first ordered to kill 20 people.

When Zhang Shiliang was beaten to the point that his skin was broken, He Shikuan asked coldly: "Zhang Shiliang, do you know the crime?" ”

Zhang Shiliang cried and shouted: "My lord, the villain really doesn't know what crime he has committed, please be gracious!" Ask for your kindness......"

"Huh? You, the eunuch who brought disaster to the country and the government, at this time you still want to deny it, the official asked you, you and Chen Yan are both the servants of the Chongqing Palace, and the Empress Dowager Xuanren trusts, and has been rampant for many years. Ding Wok knife and saw let this eunuch try again! ”

Zhang Dian dared to kill Chen Yan blatantly, what concerns would he have about him Zhang Shiliang?

Wen Jifu is a civil official, He Shikuan still has some scruples when he is tortured, he Zhang Shiliang is a eunuch, in the eyes of civil officials, it is not a good thing, and the execution is not discounted at all.

Looking at the torture instruments that filled the hall, Zhang Shiliang was almost frightened, and at this time he couldn't care much more, and said miserably: "My lord, the villain is wronged, during the Yuan You period, the villain and others did often contact Lu Dafang, Su Shi, Liu Zhi and other important ministers, but it was not a conspiracy and rebellion!" ”

"You two chamberlains, who have frequent contacts with the ministers of the DPRK and China, are you not a conspiracy and rebellion? It's not really recruited! Say! ”

He Shikuan's beard was slight, and his voice was amazingly loud, and that momentum alone could scare the faint into paralysis.

Zhang Shiliang knew that if he didn't say it, he would only be tortured to death, so he had to say with difficulty: "My lord, spare my life!" The villain frequently contacts the ministers of the court, but the empress dowager has to deal with too many political affairs every day, and when discussing politics with the ministers in the court, she is often at a loss, so let the villain and other important ministers contact with the important ministers of the court, and inquire in advance what the ministers will report the next day, so that the empress dowager has a preparation in her heart, so that the handling of political affairs will be smoother and more thorough. ”

When He Shikuan and Zhang Shangying heard this, their faces suddenly looked weird, Gao Taotao, who was praised by the old party as the female middle school Yao Shun, was actually a political idiot, and he had to rely on such ridiculous means to deal with daily political affairs! That's really ...... Strange stories through the ages!

That's great! Go on!

He Shikuan was shocked, and then Sen Ran asked, "Zhang Shiliang!" During the serious illness of the Empress Dowager Xuanren, you were estranged from the eunuch Chen Yan from China and abroad, separated the royal family, abused your power, stole state weapons, issued orders without permission, and all kinds of crimes were monstrous! Come on! The great torture waits until he is recruited! ”

The officials under the hall immediately pounced like wolves and tigers, pulled Zhang Shiliang and pressed it on the torture instrument; scared Zhang Shiliang so much that he was incontinent when he urinated, and he stinked for a while. …,

He shouted to the heavens and the earth: "My lord! The villain is wronged! The villain was only in charge of recording at the time, and the imperial seal was in the hands of Chen Yan, he did abuse his power and issue holy decrees indiscriminately, but this has nothing to do with the villain! The villain also admonished Chen Yan at that time, adult, the villain is wronged! Ask for your kindness! Ask for your kindness! Ah.......h

It wasn't until Zhang Shiliang screamed in pain that He Shikuan ordered the suspension of the execution, which made Zhang Shiliang feel like he was escaping, and the whole person collapsed to the ground.

Just as Zhang Shiliang was slackening, He Shikuan suddenly slapped the startled wood and shouted: "Say! The Empress Dowager Xuanren couldn't take care of things for several months, and she didn't return to her majesty until she died, and let a eunuch in Chongqing Palace steal the imperial seal and oppress your majesty, what did she want? Say! Does the Empress Dowager Xuanren plan to abolish the current majesty and set up a new monarch? ”

Zhang Shiliang was stunned for a moment, and immediately grabbed the sky and shouted: "The Empress Dowager can't be falsely accused!" The villain has never heard the words of the Empress Dowager to abolish the establishment of the present! My lord, the Empress Dowager can't be falsely accused......"

"Come on! Wait for me to be tortured! ”

For Zhang Shiliang, He Shikuan is indeed exhausted, but unfortunately, no matter how much torture He Shikuan inflicted on Zhang Shiliang, Zhang Shiliang will not let go, that is, he does not admit that Gao Tao has the intention of abolishing Zhao Xu.

Gao Taotao may not have clearly agreed to the minister to abolish Zhao Xu, but because she had long predicted that Zhao Xu's pro-government would return to the new policy of Shenzong, this can be said to be intolerable to her, coupled with her behavior of not letting go of power until death, it has to be suspected that she does have plans to abolish Zhao Xu;

Otherwise, Zhao Xu was eighteen years old at that time, and she had already been married, and after she was seriously ill and could not be a director, there was no reason not to return to Zhao Xu;

Perhaps, she just thought that her condition was still the same as the previous few times, and she thought that she still had time, so she didn't have time to abolish Zhao Xu.

He Shikuan and Zhang Shangying did not get the final result they wanted from Zhang Shiliang, so they had to truthfully report to Zhang Dun, and the New Party suddenly faced a serious crisis again.

If you don't get the desired result, you can't pursue Gao Tao's crimes;

If you can't hold Gao Tao accountable, you can't abolish the Queen Mother;

Once Zhao Xu has an accident, the imperial power will eventually fall into the hands of the Empress Dowager Xiang;

At that time, the new party will die without a place to be buried, the new policy will be trampled on the ground again, and everything that the new party has worked hard for will become a flash in the pan.

To this end, Zhang Dian convened another meeting of the core of the new party to discuss countermeasures; Zeng Bu, Cai Jing, Cai Bian and others all participated in this private meeting, but the results were disappointing, everyone still did not come up with any good ideas, and everyone hurriedly dispersed with a heavy heart.

Zeng Bu's mansion is located in Xingguofang, and Suining Wangfu is very close, in the high-walled compound, the New Year's lanterns left by the festive meaning is still there. The courtyard of the Lang Pavilion in the house, the water pavilion and the platform, everywhere exudes the atmosphere of seclusion and elegance, and there is a word hanging on the wall of the study: Confucianism is far away from Qi Jixia, and the words are close to the west of Han Jingxi.

The Zeng family is worthy of the praise of this word, counting from Zeng Bu's grandfather's generation, in the past few decades, the three generations of the Zeng family have produced a total of nineteen jinshi.

In this era when everything is inferior, only reading is high, this is a very remarkable thing, his brother Zeng Gongnian is just weak and famous all over the world, and in later generations it was listed as one of the eight masters of the Tang and Song dynasties.

After Zeng Buzhong Jinshi, he first served as an official in the local area, and then was favored by Han Wei, who was then the Yin of Kaifeng Prefecture, and entrusted with an important task, Emperor Shenzong opened the curtain of law change, Zeng Bu was recommended by Wang Anshi, and Lu Huiqing participated in the formulation of the law of green seedlings, auxiliary service, armor protection, and farmland, and became one of the main backbones of the new party;

However, in the seventh year of Xining, under the pressure of the old party and Gao Taotao and others, Shenzong's heart to change the law was shaken, and he ordered Zeng Bu to thoroughly investigate the city change law. …,

Wang Anshi and Lu Huiqing therefore believed that Zeng Bu intended to obstruct the implementation of the city change law and demoted Zeng Bu to Raozhou.

Speaking from the bottom of his mind, Zeng Bu's conclusion on the market change law is very fair.

However, Zeng Bu, as one of the backbones of the New Party, could not have been unaware of Wang Anshi's intention to implement the law of change in the city and be eager to accumulate wealth;

At that time, the external strategic situation of the Great Song Dynasty had been so bad that it could not be worse, the Liao State in the north was aggressive, and what was even worse was that the Tubo of the Qing Tang Dynasty had made peace with the Western Xia, and once the two were allied, the Guanzhong of the Great Song Dynasty would become the enemy in the back, and Sichuan and Shu would probably be finished.

Song Shenzong, one of the most promising monarchs of the Song Dynasty, Wang Anshi, proposed that the sky is not enough to fear, people are not enough to be compassionate, and the laws of the ancestors are not enough to abide by the outstanding prime minister, who are such two people, and the new laws formulated are all aimed at accumulating wealth and strengthening the army;

The Qingmiao Law, the Errand Service Law, the Equalization Law, and the City Yi Law are mainly aimed at a financial character, while the Baojia Law and the Baoma Law are aimed at a military character, and they have not even had time to carry out pilot projects, and they are so eager to implement them in such a hurry, are they in a hurry to scrape the country empty, just to pay salaries to the huge bureaucratic contingent? Or is it to fill your pocket? Could it be that this is the true face of Emperor Shenzong and Wang Anshi?

Peel back the fog of history, and you will find that Song Shenzong and Wang Anshi put aside the rule of officials and focused on accumulating wealth and strengthening the army, which is nothing more than a rush to reverse the increasingly bad strategic situation from the outside.

From Wang Shao's Pingrong strategy, the Great Song Dynasty opened the curtain of the opening of the Xihe River in the fifth year of Xining, and on the shore of Dongting, Zhang Dian was also using troops against the southern rebellion of the mountain barbarians, sweeping more than a dozen states, and the Great Song Dynasty was fighting on both sides at this time, and the war was to burn money.

At this critical time, Zeng Bu, as the backbone of the New Party, was forced to come up with the conclusion that the City Change Law was a matter of 'holding the government hostage and annexing things';

It is true that the city is changing the law and the government is engaging in monopoly, but why did Wang Anshi do this, Zeng Buhui is not clear?

From this level, Zeng Bu's assertion seems fair, but it betrayed the New Party, and Wang Anshi belittled him.

The reason why Zeng Bu was re-approved by the New Party was that Sima Guang later asked him to preside over the revision of the Military Service Law, but he sternly refused, resulting in being demoted again and regaining the approval of the New Party.

But his speculative nature is difficult to completely eliminate after all, and today's private meeting of the new party has given everyone a strong sense of crisis, and Zeng Bu's feeling is particularly strong; As soon as he returned to his house, Zeng Bu immediately called his staff member Shi Manshu to the study.

Seeing Zeng Bu's gloomy face, Shi Manshu asked in a low voice, "Xianggong, but there is another war ahead?" Didn't Yang Yi already negotiate peace with Liao? ”

After Han Zhongyan was demoted, Zeng Bu took over as a privy envoy, so Shi Manshu had this question.

"Definitely! Ten times more serious than the resumption of fighting ahead. Zeng Bu 1510 told the whole story.

Shi Manshu's expression immediately became solemn when he heard this, indeed, as Zhao Xu's health became worse and worse, the case of Wen Jifu and Zhang Shiliang was the only hope for the new party, once this move failed, if Zhao Xu died, the imperial power would undoubtedly fall into the hands of the Empress Dowager, if she didn't think of a countermeasure as soon as possible, I am afraid it would be difficult to get out of the way.

However, before he figured out Zeng Bu's thoughts, Shi Manshu didn't dare to offer plans indiscriminately, so he cautiously asked, "What are Xianggong's plans?" ”

Zeng Bu's face was cloudy, and he was making a difficult decision in his heart, betraying the new party again, which he was unwilling to do, for the first time there was a high-sounding reason, and it was reasonable;

If he comes back a second time, Zeng Zeng will definitely be in the wind for ten miles, and I am afraid that neither the new party nor the old party will be able to see him.

However, seeing that there is a fire pit in front of you and jumping down, and it is not done by a wise man, this is a dilemma, difficult!

"If you have time, Manshu, you might as well go to Wang Xu's mansion and walk around, I don't need to say anything else!"

Zeng Bu suddenly said this, Shi Manshu was a little contemplative, and couldn't help but be amazed by Zeng Bu's decision;

It is no secret that Wang Shu had a close relationship with the King of Suining, and the King of Suining was the most favored by the Queen Mother;

Zeng Bu and Wang Shu were on the line at this time, so he answered the line with King Suining, not only did not have to bear the notorious name of betraying the new party, but also tied up with the Empress Dowager Xiang, this move was extremely delicate;

Once Zhao Xu died, the Empress Dowager Xiang struggled to support her, and she also urgently needed someone to support her, so that Zeng Bu could easily grab the merit of supporting her, and she could survive this serious crisis.

"Don't worry, my subordinates must act cautiously to avoid leaking the news!"