Chapter 684: The Lost Saint

Zheng Lang continued to think again.

You can't make the best judgment without putting out everyone's mind. This is also the magic weapon that he successfully managed the two governments for more than four years. Of course, part of the reason is that the country has many disasters and difficulties, and it has turned disasters into disadvantages, and the state has not only not seen a deficit in its revenue and expenditure, but has accumulated a surplus year by year, and it is impossible to do it if someone else does it. So they forbearance together, until the fourth year of Huang You, the country was in good condition, and Wang Juzheng began to find trouble for himself. Fortunately, Nong Zhigao had a seizure and took the initiative to ask for his life to go south, otherwise he would have ended up like Gao Ruone and Wen Yanbo.

Think carefully about what happened during this time in history.

From what happened in that period, we can deduce everyone's thoughts.

thought of one more thing, Zhao Zhen's protection of Di Qing, after Pang Ji went down, Wang Juzheng impeached Di Qing, and even threatened Zhao Zhen that if Di Qing was in Xifu, he would not do it in the imperial history. Zhao Zhen said that if you don't do it, don't do it, Wang Juzheng went down. couldn't stop Wenchen's attack, so he rushed forward one after another, and once again promoted Wang Deyong to be the privy envoy, and the two privy envoys shared Di Qing's attack. And both of them are military generals, Wang Deyong can be a privy envoy, why can't Di Qing be a privy envoy. The two prime ministers of Xifu divided their powers again, and reluctantly suppressed the sound of attack again.

There is also an intention to let Di Qing learn from Wang Deyong's way of advancing and retreating, but he doesn't know the art of advancing and retreating, and he can't be qualified to be the prime minister of Xifu. Although Wang Deyong is not as meritorious as Di Qing, he is a family of the founding heroes of the Song Dynasty or a family of the founding heroes of Taizong (if the founding heroes of the Song Dynasty are divided, they are divided into two lines, the first is the Zhao Kuangyin line, such as Shi Shouxin, Wang Quanbin, Murong Yanzhao, including some Wenchen. For example, Wang Pu of the Taiyuan royal family, who knew the current affairs when the imperial robe was added, the second was Zhao Kuangyi, Pan Mei was half, Cao Bin, Gao Qiong, Wang Chao, and the Yang family, etc., so Yang Ye died tragically, and Pan Mei was demoted. Wang Yu was executed, and Yang Ye was strictly speaking a military general of Zhao Kuangyi's department. The former is more powerful, but not as loyal as the latter. So the latter family is more expensive. Most of them are military generals, and there are few records, and you can also see the clues of their dignity. For example, Wang Pu's grandson Wang Yiyong not only married a princess, but also served as the prime minister for more than ten years, and was as stable as Mount Tai in Xifu, or related to each other, such as Wang Deyong's sister who married Ge Huaimin. Or many generals are from these families, and they cannot be underestimated, they are the top wealthy families of the Song Dynasty. Wang Anshi was in a hurry to change the law, and Zhao Ji was young and bored. The two of them are reckless of the consequences, it doesn't matter if they offend a few heroes, the inevitable result of reform, but the two of them are reckless and offend these top giants. So Empress Dowager Cao, Gao Taotao strongly opposed. Not only are these two women opposed, but the power behind them is extraordinary, and it is also one of the important reasons for the failure of Wang Anshi's reform).

The two got along and let Di Qing see and learn in person.

This is what happened before Zhang Guifei died. As soon as Concubine Zhang Guifei died, Zhao Zhen was sad, depressed, and his wisdom declined, and he never saw any wise means to protect Di Qing anymore, but only rudely rejected Wenchen. These Wenchen are not afraid of heaven and earth, and they can't use brutal means, the more they refuse to fight back, the more powerful they become, and Di Qing's sorrow begins.

After sorting it out, Zheng Lang replied with a letter without mentioning Di Qing.

Enlighten Di Qing by himself, that is a dry spit, if Di Qing encounters Wenchen's attack, he still can't think about it, it is incurable.

Q: Does Pang need someone to continue to be in charge of the two governments in the country now?

Gao Ruone's improper recommendation of ministers is not serious, and his subordinates opened the way to beat the people to death, and handed them over to Kaifeng Prefecture for strict investigation. But Zheng Lang asked Pang Ji if he could guarantee that he would not make mistakes, that his family would not make mistakes, that his family would not make mistakes, that all his relatives would not make mistakes, that all his relatives would not make mistakes, that all his subordinates and disciples would not make mistakes, that all his subordinates would not make mistakes, that he might ensure that his clansmen would not make mistakes?

In the end, he vaguely said that he should believe in the wisdom of the emperor.

Don't argue with Liang Shi, maybe Liang Shi will succeed now, but the time will not last long, Your Majesty will definitely come to your senses, as long as one or two Yanchen are attacked, they will be able to fall immediately, and there will be no time to make a comeback. This sentence was not said in the letter, and Pang Ji's wisdom does not need to be said.

The letter soon reached Pang Ji's hands.

When Pang Ji saw it, cold sweat soon flowed down, and he also thought of one thing.

Qizhou scholar Huang Fuyuan caught a few thieves and deserved to be rewarded according to the law, but Huang Fuyuan wrote and said that I don't want to reward money, and I used this skill in exchange for an official. Pang Ji had a nephew, Taoist Zhao Qingzhen, who was bribed by Yuan with the hall officials, and wrote a letter to Pang Ji to say good things for Huang Fuyuan. Pang Ji didn't take it seriously, and now that the country has been flooded with officers and soldiers, how can he reward officials indiscriminately. So Huang Fuyuan ran from Qizhou to the capital, and sneaked into the courtyard to find Pang Ji's reasoning privately. Pang Ji said angrily, whoever is bribed by you, who you go to and send him back to Qizhou. But Huang Fuyuan was not convinced, and publicized it everywhere, and a bold little official played and exposed Zhao Qingji's bribery case. Pang Ji was helpless, and arrested Zhao Qingzhen and the Qizhou official to Kaifeng Mansion for interrogation. The confession did have this, and according to the law, Zhao Qingzhen and the officials were stabbed outside the mountain for the crime of sitting on stolen goods. The official Han Jiangyan Pang Ji secretly authorized the Kaifeng Mansion to kill Zhao Qingzhen with a cane, and because of his kinship, he should be punished by the Privy Council, not by the Zhongshu himself. This incident also alarmed Zhao Zhen, and asked Kaifeng Mansion, and the answer of the Kaifeng Mansion official was very simple, it turned out that Zhao Qingzhen relied on Pang Ji to be his uncle, and he spoke disrespectfully in the court, and he had to be punished. This is a manifestation of not being afraid of the powerful, and Zhao Qingzhen was honest after the fight. It is estimated that he and the two officials were reprimanded with a rod, stabbed in the face, and then mismatched, and died halfway through the road under one injury and one shock. Besides, this little case, why do you need to kill people.

The matter was revealed.

But really reveal the past? The case that Gao Ruone was implicated in has also passed for a long time, and it has been revealed, but when it is turned over, Gao Ruone has stopped looking for the moment.

Sitting in Zhongshu Province, holding the handle in his hand, he smiled bitterly for a long time.

What to do with yourself, Zheng Lang didn't say anything, but said everything, thinking of this, he sighed, found Zhao Zhen, and said: "Your Majesty, Han Qi has been transferred back to the capital, there are no important ministers in the northwest, and the Khitan will suppress the rebellion in the north, and the situation in the northwest will have some changes." Yunchen went to the northwest to get the right idea. ”

"You are the Prime Minister......"

"For the country. What about the Prime Minister? Dedication to duty and service to His Majesty is what a minister should do. ”

"This ...... If this is the case, I will approve it, and let you go to Zhiyanzhou as Tongping Zhangshi to preside over the affairs of Shaanxi. ”

"Thank you, Your Majesty." A cold sweat broke out on Pang Ji's back, as Zheng Lang expected. Otherwise, the emperor would not have agreed so quickly, but fortunately, he arrived at the place like this. Not only did the actual title not be damaged, but also made a clear name. Otherwise, it may be tossed and infamous.

Word got out. Many ministers were surprised.

Liang Shi didn't react for most of the day, he was ready and ready to go, but he didn't expect that his trick was useless, and Pang Ji took the initiative to retreat.

Succeed in getting his wish, according to the seniority, the privy envoy will replace the prime minister, but Di Qing is a military general, that is impossible. Next, it was Liang Shi, and the edict was then issued, in order to sentence Chen Zhizhong of the Daimyo Mansion as the official department and Pingzhang. Liang Shi, who is in the middle of the matter and the governor of the political affairs, is the servant of the ministry and the Pingzhang matter.

is only half of the success, he became the prime minister, but it is two prime ministers, Chen Zhizhong was transferred back to the capital as the prime minister again, and he is still above Liang Shi. In the early dynasties, Di Qing stood in the first place in the west, Chen Zhizhong in the east was the first, and Liang Shi was still in the second place!

Fu Bi, Wang Yaochen and the others looked at Liang Shi and smiled tacitly.

As for Liang Shi......

No one cares about Liang Shi's feelings, and most of the people who manage them laugh at him in their hearts.

Then another big event happened in the capital. Zhang Guifei.

For this beautiful girl, many ministers hated her in their hearts, including Bao Zheng, and they couldn't drag her out of the palace, like Shang Yang and the two beauties, forcibly let her become a female Taoist priest.

So the history books commented on Zhang's family: The concubine loves Risheng, enters and exits the car Yuhuachu, and is quite invasive. Try to use red umbrellas and increase the number of guards; There is a division to play a product of green, and the guards are quasi-normal. The emperor abides by the law, no matter how big or small, he pays for the extension of the proposal, where the palace prohibits interference, although it has been given, or it is in the middle; The concubine is fortunate to be less than that, but she can't be in order.

Fortunately, he said a word of conscience and did not mess with the government.

In fact, this is not the case, in recent years, the Northern Song Dynasty has suffered from internal and external troubles, and disasters have been repeated. As a mediocre emperor, it doesn't matter if you turn a blind eye, as a Ming monarch, how much pressure will there be when you see this kind of phenomenon.

And the ministers of the court and the central government are not very powerful, let them intrigue and fight, let them play tricks and use the pen, that generation is not as good as the Zhao Zhen Dynasty, but how to make the Song Dynasty richer and stronger, there are few capable people. A capable minister, Lu Yijian made the scholars and doctors discredited, and half of the powerful minister, Pang Ji, stepped down soon after the prime minister.

Zhao Zhen's own three sons died early, and he was humiliated by the Khitan and Western Xia successively, and there were not many happy times. Zhang's is not only beautiful, but also empathetic, it is the appearance of Zhang's that gave Zhao Zhen a rare happy time, and it is also Zhao Zhen's peak moment, so that the country has been plagued by disasters, Nong Zhigao's rebellion, these bad things have appeared one after another, but the Song Dynasty has survived safely. This is the source of motivation that Zhang gave Zhao Zhen.

Many ministers said in their hearts that Concubine Zhang Guifei died well and died well, but Zhao Zhen was very sad and said a word to the left and right: "In the past, the palace guards entered the palace at night, and the concubine came from the palace when she heard the news and stood up to defend me. In the rain palace, the concubine stabbed her arm and wrote a bloody message. And these are unheard of at home and abroad......"

It is said that Zhang Guifei is not good, but what she does, do the ministers outside know?

After saying sobing.

From this moment on, Zhao Zhen gradually went downhill. After Zhao Niannu went crazy, Zhao Zhi went downhill completely, and the ruling was not fine-tuning, but getting by, and letting the scholars toss back and forth, the appearance of the Song Dynasty was still very bright, but under the toss of the scholars, it finally left a mess and gave it to future generations.

The first saint of the Song Dynasty began to get lost.

Shi Quanbin guessed the emperor's intentions, please use the imperial ceremony to treat the funeral in the imperial palace, so that Zhao Zhen can love it, and gather like things, in fact, Zhang Guifei is usually not evil, and the eunuchs and palace maids in the inner palace are approachable. When I entered, I knew that Zhang Weiji was still very sober, and said that what we eunuchs said didn't count, and we had to ask the prime minister.

Shi Quanbin found the ministers and told Zhao Zhen's regret, Wang Gongchen and Wang Zhu and other ministers thought about it, anyway, people are dead, why bother with a nickname, all attached to Shi Quanbin's discussion. Chen Zhizhong disagreed, but he couldn't speak, so he had to nod his head, and the proposal was passed. Then the edict of the close ministers and the clan were all laid in the imperial hall, and the class was moved to the east of the palace. He specially dismissed the court for seven days and ordered Liu Xin, the governor of the government, to be the guardian envoy. Quan Bin and Liu Baoxin of the Imperial Pharmacy were the guardians of the capital. The etiquette is that Shi Quanbin and Liu Xin conspired to deal with it, and Wang Zhu played it. First, there was a division to ask the king of Jing (the king of the eight sages) to decorate the dynasty for five days, and some people said that the day was increased, and the judgment was added, which was to add seven days. Servant Shi Lu Jingchu said that the concubine should drop out of the dynasty for three days. The ceremonial officer wishes. Let the grace pass through the king of Jing, and do not show the world.

Not reported.

Zhao Zhen gave the nickname Gongde, and Sun Wei said: "The four queens are all virtuous." From the temple also, now Gongde Zhi, what is the law? (It means that you can't be as virtuous as your ancestors.) Otherwise, it will be a mess of generations) and Zhang Guo Erhou did not hear about it, although this crime of the courtesy official was ridiculed by His Majesty, and it must not be changed. ”

He and the servant Shi Wuxian, the palace servant Yu Ximeng, etc., all asked to make up for it, and the governor Guo Shenxi asked for a long report, all of which were not for a reason. So he changed his name to Wen Cheng.

Zhao Sun Wei read the book of mourning, and Sun Wei played: "Empress Zhang Mu is mourned, compared to the funeral, and acts are all officials of the two systems, and now Wen Cheng is a posthumous (an unofficial queen)." It is not permissible for the ministers of the two governments to act against the edict. ”

Before Zhao Zhen set up the book of mourning, he talked about the previous rules and etiquette, and said: "If you can read the book as a minister, but you can't let the minister read the book as a privy deputy envoy." ”

Lao Sun suddenly toughened, and Zhao Zhen had no choice but to roll his eyes. I had no choice but to let Chen Zhizhong read the book.

Sun Wei was annoyed, I can't read a book of privy envoys, and it's against etiquette, how can you, a dignified prime minister, read a book of mourning for the queen, and said angrily: "This is an excess." ”

It's a bit of an exaggeration, but Chen Zhizhong has changed.

Floating and sinking in the sea. It's all changing. Zheng Lang is changing, it can be said that Zheng Lang has become thoughtful, or it can be said that Zheng Lang has become afraid of trouble.

Fu Bi is changing, becoming taciturn, less sharp, but not as taken for granted as before, these two changes have a good side and a bad side.

Pang Ji has become the best, the old spicy Mi Jiang, the older he gets, the hotter he is, and the more he can make a difference.

But many ministers became afraid of things and a little flattering, including Chen Zhizhong, Ouyang Xiu, Wen Yanbo, Han Qi, the older they are, the worse their morality is.

Sun Wei is not a good official, and he still can't get used to the actions of Chen Zhizhong and Wang Gongchen, especially the act of reading the book, so Chen Zhizhong and others hate it. Sun Wei doesn't look good, let's also learn from Pang, save you from messing with me, I will take the initiative to go down, and I can also take a clear name and leave, and strive to be dismissed. Awarded the bachelor's degree in Hangzhou. Zheng Lang arranged the Buddha in Hangzhou in order to suppress the occupation of the temple.

But there is another drawback that has not been dealt with, that is, Zhejiang vulgar monks, many women like to have sex with monks, Sun Wei sexual violence, after coming to Hangzhou to hear about it, send someone to investigate, as long as it is caught, these lewd monks and women will be caught and raped on the spot, and they will be beaten in the court, and the women will parade the streets, and the monks will be mismatched. With anger, many monks fell under his gun, and for a time the great monks of Hangzhou were honest together, and their bodies were uncomfortable, so they had to jerk off at the Bodhisattva and solve their own physiological needs.

The two bigwigs asked to step down, Zhao Zhen took the third envoy Tian Guo as the privy deputy envoy, and saw Wang Juzheng leading the ministers to impeach Di Qing, with Wang Deyong as the privy envoy, to escort Di Qing, but at this time Zhao Zhen was interested, and he didn't like to think about the problem.

After thinking about it, he saw that the water conservancy project on Guangnan East Road was about to end, so he transferred Yang Cha back to Beijing to serve as the third envoy.

Zheng Lang couldn't stand in the way of Yang Cha's promotion, and made a request to Zhao Zhen to transfer Yandu to the south. Zheng Lang received another letter from Fan Zhongyan.

Since the beginning of spring, Fan Zhongyan has been very ill and completely unable to handle government affairs, and the youngest son of this letter, Fan Chun, that is, the son born to Fan Zhongyan and Mrs. Ru, wrote it on behalf of him. He was only eight or nine years old, but he wrote very impressively, at least ten times better than the one when Zheng Lang first came to the Song Dynasty.

Among the four sons of Fan Zhongyan, this son is the worst, he is okay for politics, quiet and inactive, but he did a wrong thing, when he knew Qingzhou, he discarded some of the Western Xia fortresses occupied by the Song Dynasty, saying that these are deep in the summer realm, difficult to defend and easy to attack, and must not be abandoned. It seems to make sense, in fact, these fortresses are nails pierced into Western Xia, and once they fight back, they will play an irreplaceable role. After discarding, Western Xia did not have these nails, and they could attack and retreat, and they had to worry a lot. However, compared to other officials, he is a very good official.

The letter says something.

There are two saints in the Zhao Zhen Dynasty, one is Zhao Zhen, and the other emperor has achieved this point, which is not easy. The second is Fan Zhongyan, whose life is spotless, with a beginning and an end. Both of them are deficient, Zhao Zhen is shorter than the military, and Fan Zhongyan is too broad, but he is impeccable in moral exercise.

Fan Zhongyan was lost very early.

After the failure of Qingli's new policy, he had a conversation with Lu Yijian, which made him feel deeply, but the more he thought about it, the more he didn't understand, and he didn't fully agree with Lu Yijian, and what he did was definitely not right, so how should he govern the country? It's not Zheng Lang's road, I originally thought that it seemed that Zheng Lang was taking another way out, carefully observe and think, no, Zheng Lang said four mantras, tolerant and adjusting, advancing with the times, straight and gentle, simple and not arrogant. However, it is not the standard of governance.

Later, when Zheng Lang was in power, he had to pay careful attention to it, and Zheng Lang focused on a tune.

It has nothing to do with standards, and this tune is very difficult, and it cannot be controlled by those who are not talented, and ordinary officials cannot do it at all.

Maybe when Zheng Lang was alive, he could make the Song Dynasty richer and stronger, but once he died, many drawbacks would arise one after another.

And he also discovered a truth, so far Zheng Lang is in the bureau, and he is not aware of this problem. Although he was very tired and hard, he was working as a firefighter for the Song Dynasty.

Because of this loss, after Fan Zhongyan changed the sentence to Dengzhou in the northwest, he never saw any twists and turns in his performance. This was not a year or two, but several years. Unfortunately, no one has noticed this phenomenon.

When writing this letter, I didn't expect Zheng Lang to give an answer, it was a kind reminder.

Because he was seriously ill and his thinking was not very clear, Fan Chun was young and could only be responsible for recording, and the letter was a bit messy.

Zheng Lang looked at the letter, but thought deeply, what does Fan Zhongyan refer to as a way out? (To be continued.) If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for recommendation and monthly passes, and your support is my biggest motivation. )