Chapter 070: The Great Reckoning
The next day's Shuowang Dynasty, Yang Yi as a Liupin Beijing official, also had the honor to participate, in the Manchu Dynasty civil and military, although Lu Dafang and others were released, but if the number of people counted the old party is still more than the new party, especially Yang Yi's lower-level officials in the class area, all around him are old party officials, for him, a new party member who can no longer be new, everyone avoids him, Yang Yi before and after there is obviously a gap, making him look very abrupt, Yang Yi secretly laughed at himself: At least don't worry about lack of oxygen!
At present, the new party mainly holds some important positions, just like the two armies are fighting, the new party holds some key strategic fulcrums, while the old party still has a certain advantage, but this is enough to support the new party to launch an all-out war!
At the beginning of the court meeting, Guo Jinzhang, the palace attendant, immediately went out of class and threw out the first topic of the day: to investigate the matter of ceding the northwest four stoppers to Western Xia during the Yuan You period.
Guo Jinzhang ignored the change of color of the old party in the palace, and said loudly: "Your Majesty, the four cities of Mizhi, Jialu, Futu, and Anjiang are the cities that the first emperor exhausted his efforts and countless border soldiers exchanged for flesh and blood, Sima Guang and others in order to eliminate dissidents and attack the old ministers of Yuanfeng, they took the initiative to cede the four cities in order to appease the two hundred thousand soldiers and civilians in Yongle City, and the souls of the two hundred thousand soldiers and civilians in Yongle City were not cold, and the souls were not dispersed, but in exchange for the more arrogant arrogance of the Xixia people, they repeatedly committed crimes in the northwest of our country, burning, killing and looting all kinds of evil, and even a hen of the Liang family, the Empress Dowager of the Western Xia, dared to raise 100,000 troops to commit crimes, Now that the offense and defense are in different positions, the military and civilians in our northwest are miserable, and Sima Guang and his ilk are naked traitors! If this kind of national thief is not severely punished, how can there be heavenly justice? How to comfort the soul of the first emperor in heaven, how to comfort the hundreds of thousands of souls who died in battle? ”
Guo Jinzhang's voice echoed loudly in the Golden Palace, sonorous!
Among the old party, including Lu Tao in the matter, Zhu Guangting, the right counselor, and Liang Tao, the left secretary of Shangshu, everyone knows that the time has come for the new party to settle the general ledger! The sound of the horn is so deafening, the momentum is so violent, nine years of resentment broke out at one time, like a frenzy! And it's going to sweep the world.
Will we be able to block this wave of fierce attacks from the new party, which will affect the fate of all the people of the old party? So no matter what, they must face each other, Zhu Guangting came out of class first, and shot back violently: "Imperial Envoy Guo's words are ridiculous!" It's just a desire to add to its sin, why bother without words! Since Xining, I have a five-way defeat in the summer before the Great Song Dynasty, and 200,000 soldiers and civilians in Yongle City were lost, and their vitality was greatly damaged, and they could not continue, and the imperial court returned the four cities, so that the Western Xia surrendered, and the two sides called off the army, giving me a chance to breathe in the Great Song Dynasty, so that the people of the world could recuperate, what is the crime? ”
"Nonsense!" Zhang Shangying suddenly shouted, and refuted it: "Although the Five Roads of the Xia Dynasty have failed, the Western Xia has suffered more losses than my Great Song Dynasty, and before the four cities are returned, my Great Song Dynasty has been in an offensive posture, how can I say that there is no way to continue?" ”
Zhang Shangying is full of spirit and has a loud voice! Coupled with a fierce attitude, standing on top of the court is like a lion who only wants to eat people, Yang Yi at the back of the column can't help but sigh, among the new party, there are really a lot of cattle! On the fierceness, Yang Yi has a sense of shame.
I only heard Zhang Shangying refuted one after another: "Besides, Sima Guang and his ilk hope to seek peace by cutting the land, but the result is counterproductive, the Xixia people are attacking every year, and even a shameless woman dares to raise troops to enter the country, Sima Guang cut the land to seek peace, how can he get a little peace?" The four cities in the northwest were originally a strategic place for my Great Song Dynasty to resist the Western Xia, and now they are ceded out, which is clearly to give people a sharp blade, so that my northwest soldiers and civilians will be killed. If he is allowed to live for two more years, I am afraid that he will dare to cede even Tokyo City! Your Majesty, if these thieves are not severely punished, there will be no justice to the country! There is no way to conquer the world! It must be punished severely! ”
Zhang Shangying's last four words were shouted through gritted teeth! The sound is like a bell, deafening!
The controversy in the hall continues, among the old party, Lu Tao, Liang Tao and others appeared one by one, and the solidarity of his subordinates rose and fell one after another, and there were many timid silences, no matter what Sima Guang's original intention was, it is an indisputable fact that cutting the land did not exchange for peace, Zhang Kai won 100,000 to 100,000, not only was it useless, but he was kicked to the south This is also a fact, this kind of behavior is fatal to the morale of the northwest!
Now many generals only seek self-preservation, as soon as the Xia army comes, they have retreated into the city, but they want the city not to be lost, and let the Xia army kill and loot outside the city, and dare not fight! Because to go to war is to provoke a side provocation, and if you win, you are guilty, and if you lose, you are even more guilty!
In the end, Zhang Dian appeared, and the new party's fierce words made the old party argument beyond measure, and the 11 responsible persons headed by Sima Guang and Wen Yanbo were quickly listed, and the new party accused Sima Guang and other most important responsible persons of 'blackmailing and recklessness,' and Sun Jue, Wang Cun, and other coerced followers were charged with 'secretly ignorant and unscrupulous.'
Zhao Xu has long been too lazy to listen to the following arguments, the evidence in this matter is conclusive, the facts are clear, there is no need to argue, he has always had a good impression of Fan Chunren, but in this matter, Fan Chunren does bear a certain responsibility, how can he favor one over the other? Yu Guo, Yu Min, Yu Shenzong Emperor, and the soldiers who died in the Northwest, no matter from which point of view, the crime of ceding the Four Cities must be investigated!
Zhao Xu was silent for a long time, and finally expressed his attitude: I agree that this matter will be dealt with severely!
As soon as he expressed his position, the matter was determined, and it was only necessary to determine the specific crime of the responsible person after the formal 'judicial procedure'!
Then Cai Bian immediately went out of the class and proposed to rebuild the "Records of Shenzong", Zhao Xu did not hesitate at all, and immediately agreed, he was an admirer and follower of Emperor Shenzong, and the old party negated the reform that was to deny Shenzong, and to deny Shenzong was to deny him.
In this matter, Zhao Xu did not give the old party the slightest opportunity to argue, and immediately ordered Cai Bian to concurrently revise the national history and preside over the revision of the "Records of the Divine Sect".
The attacks of the new party are wave after wave, wave after wave! As if there was no end, just when the old party was beaten and dizzy, this time there was no need for his subordinates to come forward, and the imperial envoy Zhongcheng Huang Lu personally went out to work and proposed to investigate the former Prime Minister Cai Qu's debasement of Lingnan to death.
After the refinement of Zhangdun, in this matter, they pursued a deeper level of investigation than when they discussed in the Prime Minister's Mansion last night, and directly hit the core of the old party: First, is Cai really doing an anti-poem in Chegaiting? Second, even if Cai is indeed guilty, will he die if he is not forgiven for his crimes? Third, what's the shady story about this? By whom? What is the purpose?
The third point is the perfect part of Zhangdun, the sword is pointed directly at the empress dowager, and the profit is incomparable!
Shouting out that the mountain can be moved, the immovable thing in this state is Gao Taotao, and the only one who has the ability to force the prime minister to death in Lingnan is Gao Taotao, who listens to the government!
As soon as the chapter was perfected, the nature of the matter changed completely, from holding the ministers of the old party accountable to the responsibility of Gao Tao, the core of the highest power of the old party!
If you want to know whether Cai Qu wrote 'anti-poems', you must first look at the content of his poems, Cai Qu knew Chen Zhou from the prime minister, and soon changed to Anzhou. When he was touring the Chegai Pavilion, the scenery of the mountains and waters made him feel depressed, and he wrote ten quatrains in one go.
The second of them: paper screen, stone pillow, bamboo square bed, tired hands throwing books, long afternoon dreams. Sleep into a solitary smile, a few fishing flutes in the waves.
Song 5: When the wind shakes the ripe fruit, it smells and falls, and the raindrops and flowers are also fragrant. The bottom of the leaf is out of the nest and the yellow mouth is noisy, and the small fish are busy in the waves.
Song 9: Xishan seems to see Songyun, and every day it looks like a new color. I heard that the peach blossom rock side stone, there were immortals in reading.
Hanyang Zhijun Wu Chuhou and Cai did have old grudges, so they seized the opportunity to write to the imperial court, misinterpret them at will, and go online indefinitely.
thinks that the second Cai Quzhi laughs with bad intentions, "Fang Jin's court is clear, I don't know what Cai is laughing at?" ”
The fifth song is a satire on the use of newcomers in the imperial court, and Cai does boast of his old qualifications.
The ninth song slanders the current Queen Mother, comparing it to Wu Zetian.
These charges are not worth refuting at all, when will Da Song not even laugh? The old party degraded Cai Qu to death on such a ridiculous charge, and as soon as this matter was mentioned, the anger of the new party in the court was completely detonated! They all stood up and demanded that the original culprit be severely punished, and the crusade was like thunder!
Lin Xi, a scholar in the middle school, directly used the sentence "At the beginning of the curtain, the old traitor was in the country, and he was placed in the way of words, so that the first dynasty was slandered, but the hatred of the monarch and father, and there was no righteousness of the son", directly pointing to Gao Tao as 'the old traitor and the country', the wording is fierce, the language is sharp, and it is impossible to add more!
Everyone knows that the actual reason for the derogation of Cai Qu at the beginning is that Cai Qu is the leader of the new party, and these 'anti-poems' are just an excuse found at random. There's no reason why I'm going to belittle you to death with just an excuse!
It's good, now the new party is back!
Can the new party also find an excuse to demote the old party to death? If you do the first year of junior high school, can it be that others can't do the fifteenth?
In this matter, the old party was irrefutable, but Zhao Xu hesitated!
Zhang Dian and the others had already pointed the sword at Gao Tao's throat! Speaking from the heart, what happened in the past nine years, coupled with his father's life's hard work, he also hated Gao Taotao, but in any case, Gao Taotao was his grandmother after all, and the people's family still paid attention to the ugliness of the family, not to mention the royal face, how could he ignore it?
Regarding the incident of Cai Qu's debasement to death, because Zhao Xu did not nod, it was not approved at the court meeting.
After the dispersal of the dynasty, Yang Yi routinely went to Baowen Pavilion to treat Zhao Xu, and when he finished taking the pulse, Zhao Xu suddenly asked: "What does Yang Qing think about Cai Zhen's matter?" ”
Yang Yi replied without moving: "Your Majesty, the minister doesn't dare to say it, as the so-called disaster comes from the mouth, Cai Xianggong is not far away." ”
"You! Ahem...... You also blame me for not overturning the case for Cai Qu, right? ”
"Don't dare!"
"What are you not afraid of? Before you enter the office, you dare to dismiss Zhu Guangting, don't you dare? Say, I forgive you for your innocence! ”
Yang Yi thought for a while and said: "Your Majesty, one of the reasons why there was a Wei Zheng in the former Tang Dynasty and was featured in the history books is precisely because the former Tang Dynasty lacked a minister like Wei Zheng who dared to make a direct admonition, which made Wei Zheng's light particularly dazzling; And I, the Great Song Dynasty, have set a policy of not using words and sins since the founding of the country, so most of the ministers dare to speak up and discuss the gains and losses of the king;
Emperor Renzong even wiped the saliva sprayed on the face of the minister, and accepted the correct opinion of the ministers on the other hand, don't think that this is Emperor Renzong's cowardice, let alone think that Emperor Renzong does not know how to punish the minister's sin, and the minister has nothing to say;
In fact, this just shows that Emperor Renzong is extremely lenient and benevolent, and it is precisely because the royal family has this atmosphere of not being able to speak and sin, that even the lower-class scholars have been able to retain their unique personality and dare to put forward various academic remarks, so that the achievements of the Great Song Dynasty in academic and other aspects far surpass those of the former Tang Dynasty, showing a trend of a hundred flowers blooming.
It is precisely because of this that the minister dared to refute Zhu Guangting's absurd remarks as a scholar. Your Majesty, the matter of Cai Xianggong is a typical 'Wen. Word. If the case is not overturned, this road will surely flourish in the future, and the consequence will be that the government and the opposition as a whole will lose their voices, and everyone will be in danger, worrying that disaster will come out of their mouths.
And the overall integrity and personality of my Great Song Dynasty will sink, from the atmosphere to conservative, from agitation to obscenity, everyone only knows that only the only thing is to be servile, both internal and external, Your Majesty, if you want your Great Song to be such a Great Song Dynasty, Cai Xianggong's matter, Your Majesty can ignore it. ”
After listening to Yang Yi's words, Zhao Xu was silent again, making a difficult decision in his heart.
On the other hand, since Cai Qu's matter could not be passed at the court meeting, the reformists led by Zhang Dian immediately had a serious sense of crisis, because everyone understood that no matter how talented and ambitious you are, if you do not have the full support and absolute trust of the monarch, it is tantamount to a pipe dream if you want to do something.
But Zhao Xu hesitated because of his high-mindedness, what can the new party do in the face of this big crisis? You can just run to Zhao Xu and say: Your Majesty, your grandmother is heinous, you should not hesitate to knock her to the ground with us and step on her a few more times!
It stands to reason that no one would dare to do this, but it turns out that there are many strong new party bulls!
There are really people who dare to do this, and the right Zhengyan Zhang Shangying scattered the dynasty and called all the backbone of the reformists such as Zhang Dian and Li Qingchen, and went straight to Baowen Pavilion.
Because of Yang Yi's words, Zhao Xu was still making the final ideological struggle, at this time Zhang Shangying and others entered the Baowen Pavilion, just bowed down, Zhang Shangying said awe-inspiringly: "May Your Majesty not forget the time of Yuan You, the time of Zhang Xiang do not forget the time of Hangzhou, the time of An Tao do not forget the time of Xuchang, the time of Qingchen, and Zeng Bu do not forget the time of Heyang." ”
Yang Yi, who was standing on the side, couldn't help but be stunned, Zhang Shangying's words are indeed strong enough, in other words, Your Majesty, have you forgotten what your grandmother did to you during the Yuan You period? You've been a marionette for eight years, you've sniffed the butts of those ministers for eight years, have you forgotten? We can't forget the pain of a good scar!
This is not an ordinary sentence, this is a super bomb, and it detonated Baowen Pavilion in an instant!
Listening to Yang Yi's words, Zhao Xu, who had already begun to waver, did not hesitate at all, and the responsibility of the four cities in the northwest still had to go through the "judicial process", but Cai Qu's case was immediately implemented in a strong way;
Lin Xi, a scholar from the Zhongshu House, wrote the draft edict, Lu Dafang, Liu Zhi, Su Zhe, Wang Yansuo, etc., as long as the ministers who participated in the Chegaiting case at the beginning, none of them will be left behind, whether they have been released or are still in the court, they will all be degraded! No mercy!
;