Gentleman's infighting
Liang Jian is very satisfied, what he wants is this kind of result, he can't say the best! He didn't give Teng Zongliang a chance to explain again, and immediately disappeared. At the same time, Zheng Jian, the boss of Shaanxi Fourth Road, also impeached Teng Zongliang for embezzlement of public funds. 20 days after Fan Zhongyan went to the "Answering the Edict of Chen Shishi", and on September 23, before the official start of the Qingli New Deal, Teng Zongliang was demoted to the prefect of Fengxiang.
What about Liang Jian? He didn't go back to Kaifeng, but ran to Linzhou on Hedong Road, and he went to find Zhang Kang's problem...
Who is Zhang Kang? It is the person who was ordered to rescue the entire Hedong Road of the Great Song Dynasty! Without him, the Song Dynasty would have lost the vast territory around Fengzhou, not to mention that he defeated the invincible Li Yuanhao! But from the perspective of the Imperial Observatory, it's useless! No matter how much merit you have, you must also check whether you are very "greedy" and whether your hands and feet are as unclean as Teng Zongliang?
In order to save space, I will not go around the bend and go straight to the point. At that time, almost everyone knew that this kind of "corruption" was checked one by one! The guards of the Great Song Dynasty border have a large amount of money whose whereabouts are unknown! If you check again, you can also find that they have a lot of gray income!
The earliest example is Chong Shiheng in Qingjian City, he was investigated during the war, if he hadn't protected him, he would have been removed from his post and investigated! At that time, he was very moved, and said to Pang Ji, "Shiheng's heart is like an iron stone, and now he is crying for Xianggong", and he was forced to this! Where did he get his money? Qingjian City does business independently and does not pay taxes to Kaifeng, isn't this digging the corner of the Song Dynasty? So where does the money go? If you want people to go to the battlefield and die, you have to pay for it! The little silver given by the Song Dynasty officials was not enough to buy a bowl of wine to drink, so why should people give you their lives?
Therefore, Teng Zongliang and Zhang Kang were not clean, they had to use various means to get money, and then send the money to their subordinates. In this way, we can mobilize those Great Song generals who only recognize money and don't have much consciousness! For examples, please refer to how Zhang Kang succeeded and how Liu Ping failed: the Song army on the battlefield can squeeze to the main general to ask for money!
Seeing this, you should know how despicable the people of the Yushitai and the Jia Chang Dynasty are, this is completely concealed and confused. I want to kill the donkey before I unload the mill. The war alarm has not been completely lifted, and he is thinking about how to harm his own people!
Liang Jian took a turn on Hedong Road and collected Zhang Kang's "incriminating evidence" before returning to Kaifeng. The task is successfully completed, and the first step is to stink your party leader, so that His Majesty the Emperor can clearly see what the so-called gentlemen have done.
The official record is that Emperor Renzong was furious, and the key was that he was distressed. The more people who died, the more sad he became. At the same time, the treasury of the Great Song Dynasty was empty, and the emperor's private money and inner treasury were also taken out as military expenses. Tighten your belts to feed you soldiers, but you dare to take my money to fill your pockets! The angry emperor's brain was racing rapidly, and the events of many years ago suddenly became clear: Teng Zongliang? It's familiar! Back then, I was only close to my sisters in the palace a few times, and this person once wrote "Your Majesty lives in the deep palace every day, lingers in the feast, is tired of being tired in the court, and decides to do things like not hanging the holy arms" to say that I am a little pervert who is overindulged and dizzy.
The more I think about it, the angrier I become, someone! Send people to continue to the northwest to investigate and carefully study the issue of Teng Zongliang. Treat it as a model! But it's really sad, as soon as he gave the order, the Yushitai was also full of spirits and wanted to do a big job. As a result, Mr. Liang Jian suddenly hung up... This chief prosecutor who dug up the embezzlers Teng Zongliang and Zhang Kang somehow did he get too excited? Overworked? Or do you know that you are ashamed of doing things that lack virtue? I don't know what to do, anyway, I quickly fell ill and died quickly, and I went back to being a person completely.
However, all the people in the Imperial Observatory are strong-willed and good comrades. What is a dead person? Immediately, someone stood up and took over from Liang Jian. They pounced on the northwest and asked Teng for a ledger of all his expenses since taking office. Honestly hand it over!
Teng Zongliang's reaction was very overwhelming: account books? Well, this thing can be had, should be, seems to be, where has it been put recently? Oh! Found it, please see, everyone, this pile of ash is all in...
He burned all the fires! Destroying evidence on the spot, is there a more arrogant provocation than this?
However, the people of Yushitai were not angry, they quietly packed up the ashes, returned to the capital, and reported the case to the emperor was the most important thing. This time it's a bigger result!
Now analyze Teng Zongliang's forgiveness, why do you want to do this? Lose your marbles? No! From this incident, it can be seen that the people of Yushitai are not "people" Teng Zongliang is extremely sad and angry, Lao Tzu fights with his life, you enjoy Qingfu in the rear, and now you are safe, and you actually come to wear small shoes for me for a few small money! Which of your wages and favors is not more than my tens of thousands?
In a fit of rage, I burned the ledger, I can't tell, so I won't say it! Do whatever you want! In fact, the Yushitai side also knew it, so they were indifferent.
When the case returned to Kaifeng, Fan Zhongyan couldn't sit still, and he vouched for his life: Teng Zongliang and Zhang Kang had never embezzled public funds, and when they spent money, every soldier watched, and the money was spent in the sun, not in his own pocket! The emperor listened quietly, what he was thinking, no one could see ...
On the other side, Wang Gongchen, the boss of Yushitai, sneered: The evidence is conclusive, Teng and Zhang are not greedy? Especially with a bad attitude, the account books dare to burn. In the long run, where is the law of the land? If everyone follows suit, how will we still work? Your Majesty, if you don't act according to the law, I won't be going to work from today onwards!
Renzong is still thinking about it, in the eyes of the Great Song monarch, money is generally similar to dung. Since Zhao Kuangyin, he has thrown it out casually and took the initiative to throw it out, lest the courtiers don't want it. This is just tens of thousands of roots? But he's been pondering... During this period, Fan Zhongyan and Wang Gongchen pinched you to the death, driving the two major systems of the Junzi Party and Yushitai to be in dire straits.
On January 8, the 4th year of Qingli (1044), Emperor Renzong's thinking finally came to fruition: Teng Zong belittled Yuzhou. Zhang Kang was demoted from the deployment of the deputy capital to the jurisdiction of the deputy capital.
On the 12th, Zhao Yuanyan, the eighth son of Zhao Guangyi, the eighth uncle of Renzong, and one of the prototypes of the Eight Sages of the folk tale, died.
At this time, there was a rebellion in the barbarian region of Guangxi. Ou Xifan and Ou Zhengqi uncle and nephew pushed the barbarian chieftain of Baiya Mountain to become the emperor. On the 13th, 500 rebels captured Huanzhou. On February 10, the news reached Kaifeng, pouring cold water on the heads of the gentlemen of the New Deal. What is the party fighting for? Send someone to put down the rebellion! On the 15th, Wang Zhaoming was sent to Yizhou to quell the rebellion.
But the party strife in the court did not stop with a small rebellion. Wang Gongchen really gave himself a big vacation and didn't come to work" Teng Zongliang has conclusive evidence of corruption, and the nature is bad, and he is only demoted by one level, and he can't convince the public. It must be lowered again. Otherwise, I will resign" Driven by him, the entire Yushitai was boiling, and the situation was warmer than when Empress Guo was deposed, and Lu Yijian did not enjoy the impeachment of the entire Yushitai. So Teng Zongliang was demoted again and relegated to Yuezhou (that is, Baling County), which is a good place, on the verge of Dongting Lake, and there is a historical building waiting for him to rebuild...
Goshidai won? But immediately, Wang Gongchen led all the personnel of the Yushitai to quickly retreat: everyone retreat immediately! Beware of the fire at the city gate and the fish in the pond!
The Gentlemen's Party suddenly became angry, and its ferocity made the people of Yushitai ashamed. Look at people. It's mixed up in the frontier, and it's directly guys, it's the army that goes out-
This time the infighting of the Gentlemen's Party is complicated. It all started when a city was to be built, called Suluo. Someone wants to repair: Zheng Jian is deployed on all four roads in Shaanxi. Specific repairers: Liu Hu, Dong Shilian. Someone is against Xiu: Yoon Su.
As mentioned earlier, one of the major weapons of the Song Dynasty against Western Xia was the walled fort policy. He continued to repair cities and build forts, and gradually moved the defense line forward until he ate the territory of Western Xia little by little. This later proved to be very effective, and countless lands of Western Xia were swallowed up by the Song Dynasty!
So the construction of Shuiluo City should be a good thing? What can be said to make the "gentlemen" infighting? There's a lot of articles in it. It should be analyzed from both internal and external aspects. Let's talk about it first: this involves the location of Shuiluo City. Shuiluo City is on Jingyuan Road. The Battle of Haoshuichuan and the Battle of Dingchuan Village took place here. I believe you should be familiar with these place names. Let me list these place names from north to south: Dingchuan Village, Sanchuan Village, Zhenrongjun, Yangmu Longcheng, Haoshuichuan, Langgan City, the capital Weizhou City... So where is L.A. Water? What makes people speechless is that Shuiluo City is nearly 50 kilometers south of Langan City, and it is still southeast of Weizhou City! It's the big rear of the big rear! What is the need for you to cultivate?
It's just such a city that can be repaired or not. The Gentlemen's Party has been pinched to the death, and even the army has been dispatched, what is it for? This starts with the "internal" reason, that is, the relationship between the gentlemen and bosses.
Zheng Jian wants to repair, because he is Fan Zhongyan's real descendant. They are brothers-in-law. They all married the daughter of Li Changling, a famous scholar of the Song Dynasty. It's also similar in temper. And repairing the city, this is Fan Zhongyan's ultimate strategy, he just wants to use this trick to drag Li Yuanhao to death. The adage is that it is better to drip sweat on a construction site. Never wander into a group fight with the Tangut people in the wild!
Yoon-so objected because he was Han Qi's descendant. Before the Battle of Haoshuichuan, he also lobbied Fan Zhongyan for Han Qi. The common ideal of him and Han Qi is to eliminate the vitality of the Xixia people, kill a few more, and naturally there is no threat, why bother to build so many small villages? What's more, if you build one place, you have to defend one place, the forces are becoming more and more scattered, and if the Tangut people break them one by one, we will die even more ugly!
To sum up, each has its own reason. How do you tell what is right from what is wrong? Good water river? Han Qi in the main battle was defeated. But he also had something to say, until this time, Fan Zhongyan had never confronted Li Yuanhao head-on, how could he be sure that his set was right?
Han Qi who never admits defeat! A careful analysis will reveal the key point in him: simplicity! Just one word "right" within the Gentlemen's Party, just like the later Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, it has never been able to distinguish who is the boss and who is the second! Yang Xiuqing has always been a leader in religion and military affairs, so he naturally cannot surrender. Han Qi too. Whether it is official position or self-confidence, he is not under Fan Zhongyan, why should he be low and small? Just because you have high morals and a beard? Joke!
It is said that this is also Fan Zhongyan's own sin, and he can't live. You are so good that the supreme leader of Lu is not right, after the defeat of Dingchuan Village, the emperor let you lead the northwest, you have to pull Han Qi to be promoted together, and a level-level cadre is born in the air, do you know that Lu Dao can sometimes kill people by being modest?
It's too late to know the Tao now! Han Qi, a "gentleman" (well, he is also a New Deal figure, can be regarded as a gentleman) used villain methods at the beginning of the internal struggle.
He didn't use the old cliché of reasoning in books, but reminded the emperor: Your Majesty, now that the northwest is peaceful and there is no longer a war, is it still necessary to keep some wartime measures? If all four roads are deployed, it is necessary to withdraw as soon as possible, otherwise it will become a common practice after a long time, and it will really become a super festival. Renzong immediately understood: Aiqing said it well, this is a fundamental national policy, withdraw!
So on the 21st, the deployment of the four roads in Shaanxi was withdrawn, and Zheng Jian was sent to the Yongxing Army. He can't take care of the affairs of Shuiluo City anymore. The decision-making power is in the hands of Yin Zhu, the governor of Weizhou.
These small actions can't hide from Fan Zhongyan, and he is also actively trying to find a way. But there are not many solutions. Who made him above board, so there was only one way left to go to the book and talk about things. After several efforts, the emperor finally sent Yu Zhou Xun and Zhou Weide to the northwest on March 12 to investigate the field.
The investigators ran non-stop to the northwest, and while they were still halfway there, there was an accident at the construction site of Shuiluocheng. Yin Zhu immediately sent someone to inform Liu Hu and Dong Shilian: Stop building the city, pack up your things immediately, and you two will come to Weizhou City immediately and report to me! But the order was invalid, the construction site was in full swing, and the work was even happier...
Yin Zhu was furious, and named a big man who killed the entire northwest: Di Qing was deployed in the deputy capital of Jingyuan Road! You immediately take someone to Shuiluo City and arrest those two lawless bastards who despise their superiors!
So Di Qing killed the past and arrested Liu Hu and Dong Shilian. Yoon so threw two colleagues of the "Gentlemen's Party" into prison on the spot, accused of disobeying military orders, and beheaded them on a public basis!
The matter was really big, and when the central investigators arrived, although Liu and Dong's heads had not yet fallen off, they were almost unrecognizable. I don't know how much torture I endured in prison. Dong Shilian can barely use his pen and write a chapter for the emperor. explained the construction process of Shuiluo City in detail, and also revealed the old bottoms of Yin Zhu and Han Qi.
Haoshuichuan was defeated, you don't know what to do, right? Han Qi has been emphasizing how correct his orders are, and it was all Ren Fu's own initiative that led to such a miserable defeat. But that's not right! I have proof! Before the war, Han Qi and Yin Zhu sent people to survey Haoshuichuan, which was the main battlefield they chose! Especially after the fiasco, Yin Su also wrote two articles "Min Zhong" and "Confession", hum! Literally, you can see that he has a weak heart! To die for the country is to be loyal, and you are needed to "Min"? Since ancient times, only the emperor can use this word, such as Tang Taizong's failure to conquer Goryeo, and after returning to China, he built "Minzhong Temple" to commemorate the soldiers of the Eastern Expedition, where did you come from the qualifications of a border minister? "Falsehood"? Hum! If you don't have a heart, you can identify a ghost! The court didn't reprimand you, who are you doing this?
After the last time, Dong Shilian asked the central commissioner to examine the injury. After all, he is a civil official, and the degree of abuse is limited. But the military general Liu Hu was miserable, and when he was caught by Di Qing, he put on a heavy flail of more than 40 catties, and after he was imprisoned, he was even more miserably plotted, and he was covered with injuries.
But these Yoon-so don't admit it! He pledged not to punish the two men. Covered in wounds? Pure lies! What is the truth? Liu Hu died of a head ulcer shortly after, what kind of injury should this be?
In this way, the city of Shuiluo was temporarily suspended. Whether it was Teng Zongliang's embezzlement case or the Shuiluocheng bloodshed case, they all ended with Fan Zhongyan's defeat. Yushitai is a head-on confrontation, Shuiluocheng is a fire in the backyard, and the outside must first be inside, in order to achieve this goal, Fan Zhongyan has both soft and hard, and envy and power, which can be said to have tried his best. But as a result...
What is hard is that he firmly stands on Liu Hu's side. Said to the emperor: At the beginning, the repair of Shuiluocheng was an order for the deployment of the original Shaanxi Four Roads. When Yin Su asked him to stop, there was an argument in the court, and it was not wrong for Liu Hu not to obey the order. What's more, Liu Hu is a famous general at the border gate, and the country should cherish it very much, so he will be executed, be careful to chill the hearts of the border soldiers!
The soft thing is that Fan Zhongyan chose to compromise. He gave Yin Su a big face, and suggested that the emperor transfer Yin Su to the capital, directly from the pavilion personnel to the two systems, and become a high-ranking official second only to the two prefectures.
But he thought beautifully. The same shadow will reflect different shadows in different people's hearts. Yin Su rejected his "good" intentions: Fan Fuzi, I really can't imagine that you will also play tricks! Transfer me to the capital and become a subordinate of the two governments, can you justifiably manage me? Especially to promote me, only half a level worse than Han Qi, let us divide internally, like Han Qi and you. Is it this kind of intention? (To be continued......)