Volume 3 Mending the Cracks in the Sky Chapter 4 The Big Wedding (4)
In Bianliang City, from the Nanxun Gate to the front of the Xuande Building Royal Road, it is already a scene of flowers before the wedding of King Yan.
Bianliang Street, or green bricks or granite paved streets. These days are sprinkled repeatedly, and the street streets are refreshing and pleasant. And the garbage in the city has also been cleaned up by the organization these days. Originally, Bianliang was a city that was too clean in this era, and it was renovated like this. It's like a diamond that's been scrubbed to sparkle.
The weather is also the most spring-like time, through the city Bianhe River like a jade belt, through the bright and shining world of the first shape of the city. The willows of the river are still around, and the greenery lingers.
Starting from the Nanxun Gate, the residents on both sides, but all on the second floor, are covered with flowers transported from the four towns, some guys with a few copper in their waists, and also hang down colorful satin from the upper floor, colorful, dazzling. And to both sides of the royal street in front of the Xuande Building, the brocade screen step barrier was opened, and the Shu brocade collected in the forbidden was hung up like this, which was simply like a cloud.
The rich and noble atmosphere of the Great Song Dynasty, even after the unprecedented palace change, is still full as if it is about to overflow.
Downstairs in Xuande, Jun Rongzhi and others are standing in their respective positions, and they are playing and drilling. Many Bianliang idlers watched from afar on the periphery of the Jinping barrier, and from time to time they pointed and burst out with a good sound.
In addition to the Jinping step barrier, the front class of the forbidden halls is also freshly dressed and densely clothed, and they have long been on alert. Since Zhang Xian took charge of the royal front classes and mentioned the Imperial City Division, Xiao Yan of the front of the palace has carried out a major blood change without hesitation, and there are more than 200 people in the mink hats. And the forbidden royal front classes are straight, although there are many odd numbers. However, the actual establishment is not large. For example, the number of people is considered to be a large number of golden gun class straight. The real establishment is only a hundred or dozens of people, plus more than 100 years of Chengping, and the vacancy has also eaten the heads of the royal classes. More than 200 mink hats were inserted into it, and the forbidden middle was basically firmly controlled.
It turns out that these guards in front of the palace, even if they are on duty, are also merry idlers, standing and sitting. Holding a golden gourd and a lance and other ceremonial guards are too heavy, and then they are all changed to look good. However, the new squad of straight-minded men who have begun to change their shifts on both sides of the royal street two days earlier can be seen among them who are scarred on their faces, whose weathered color has not diminished, and who are tall, strong, tough, and simple. The armor is dressed in the thickest and does not cut corners. Standing with a lance, his body is slightly tense, he can react to an attack at any time, and the kind of fierce aura that has been killed in battle exuded from his body is like a real thing!
There are them here to take the lead. Those retained guards didn't dare to be lazy anymore, and Rao didn't have that kind of fierce spirit. Still try your best to stand straight with your chest and belly protruding. Such a strict guard, coupled with the existence of the guards of the former mink hat who exuded a sinister atmosphere, made the people of Bianliang who were watching the excitement around them retreat far away from the Jinping step barrier and did not dare to come forward.
In addition to the fact that these new imperial classes are a bit scary, the people of Bianliang are still very enthusiastic about this big wedding. Clean up the city, decorate the decoration, and hire how many idlers in the city. It is also very rich to give Zhizhi, anyway, Xiao Yan pays for it, and the person who handles it is not distressed to spend it. After Zhao Kai ascended the throne, he is still a little embarrassed and embarrassed, changing the Yuan Jingkang, and the suburban sacrifice to heaven and earth has not been carried out. Preparing for Xiao Yan's wedding in this way is equivalent to holding a suburban sacrifice for the people of Bianliang except for officials and doctors. Even among Xiao Yan's own new army, there are also rich rewards that are urgently being issued. And the officers and soldiers of the New Army also took turns to leave the camp on vacation, adding a lot of business to the somewhat depressed Bianliang market after the February Second Palace Change. Among the wine shops, there are many ordinary people and freshly baked soldiers of the Bianliang Shenwu Changsheng Army who toast to Yan Wangshou.
However, such a lively scene, in the eyes of many people, is extremely dazzling.
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Jun Rong's direct music crossed the Xuande Building and went straight into the Dongfu Festival Hall. In the side hall of the festival hall, the two people who were kneeling and sitting upright both showed indignant looks.
Among the two men, one was in his forties, with a strong and tough appearance, three long strands of hair meticulous, and a neat and impeccable crown and belt. Although the eyes are smaller, they are brilliant and sharp. At first glance, you can tell that he is a person with a strong heart and cannot be shaken.
Geng Nanzhong, who has been defeated in the princelings, also has such a temperament. However, those who really have experience can see that Geng Nanzhong's rigid and strict attitude is mostly pretended to be pretentious, but this character is really from the heart, and the form is outside.
This person is none other than Li Gang.
After twenty years of losing the name, he returned to the capital, but he was bumped into the palace change in the second ban on February, and Zhao Ji went to the throne. Xiao Yan didn't mind still giving him the position of deputy head of the West Mansion. But Li Gang was resolute, but walked around in private, running for Xiao Yan, the chaotic minister and thief in his mind.
But any character like Li Gang is too clear about the real view of right and wrong. There is no room for a little twist of power. And in terms of rigidity, it is similar to Geng Nanzhong. It's just that Geng Nanzhong's rigidity is for his own own plan, while Li Gang's rigidity is for what he thinks is right.
(In real history, Li Gang was reused several times because of the hope of the world, and during the first Kaifeng defense war, Li Gang ascended the city to supervise the battle with the title of envoy.) In the end, he was dismissed by opposing the quest for peace, in fact, with the extremely weak military strength of the Great Song Dynasty at that time, it was not a good thing to seek peace and retreat from the Jurchens. As long as the Song family cheers up to nourish his vitality, there may be no day of revenge. Li Gang's resignation this time has raised his reputation to a higher level. Under the noise of the clear stream, Li Gang was reset again. It is really a bit unreasonable to squeeze out the so-called surrender faction to the center of the Xuanfu system in Hedong and Hebei, and there is such an important position that is squeezed out to master almost all the divisions of the Qin King in the Great Song Dynasty, and finally the main force in the field, plus the land of several roads in Hedong, Hebei, and the military and political affairs are decided in one word?
After Li Gang took up this dispatch, he tried his best to promote the battle of Taiyuan, regardless of the fatigue of the army. Hedong, Hebei was ravaged by the Jurchens once. Households fled. Supplies are struggling. He kept urging the armies to go out of the division, and vetoed the correct construction of the division. The Song army was put into the slaughterhouse of Hedong one by one, and the soldiers were defeated and killed in the division, which made the silver art not famous. Although there are also the main factors for the various tricks of the Bianliang Center to make a big death, Li Gang's short career in charge of the army also has its unshirkable responsibility.
The last time it was used was after Zhao Gou crossed to the south, and Li Gang was reused again. Li Gang recommended Zong Ze to stay in Tokyo, and set up Hebei Zhaofu envoy and Hedong economic envoy. In order to recruit the rebels of the two places to be strong. And with its prestige, it reorganized the regular army of the Great Song Dynasty in Jianghuai, Tokyo and other places, and built the Shuai Mansion. This is all quite the right move. However, Li Gang still didn't know how to turn around at all, and almost sprayed his colleagues in the center at that time, and in the process of reorganizing the army, he killed too much, which provoked the heart of the imperial camp army. As a result, he was removed from the throne again after 77 days, and has never been reused again. At the turn of the two Song Dynasty, Li Gang, who was the hope of the world, Liang Xi did not come out, and Nai Cangsheng He. But Li Gang's personality and ability are flawed. It's true that I can't afford the heavy responsibility of saving the sky and mending the cracks in the sky, of course. This is also the words of a family that inevitably seeks some blame, Li Gangzhi's loyalty, uprightness and solemnity, is still a model admired by future generations - Oscar press)
On Li Gang's side, there was an old man in his sixties who was much older than him and his hair had turned white. Green robe and leather belt, long feet and head are worn upright, and they have the color of wind and frost far away from the rivers and lakes for a long time. In the temple in the minds of the ministers and doctors in the world, in the Bianliang East Mansion, there is still a slight sense of restraint.
Li Gang took this old man who looked like a subordinate and came at the call of Cai Jing, the master of the East Mansion.
The name of the master of the East Mansion is really not a joke at this moment. Cai Jing is expected to be eight years old and then become a Feng woman. After the unprecedented weakening of the monarch's power and the birth of Xiao Yan, a rooted Nangui martial artist, Cai Jing, who was sitting in Dongfu, lived up to the hopes of the world's ministers and doctors! Xiao Yan is not able to meddle in this political affairs for the time being, but he still has to give Cai Jing enough respect. And now the new official family in Yanfu Palace, who does not look like a human monarch, in the eyes of the world, I don't know how much worse it is than her husband!
And discerning people can also see clearly, with Cai Jing's current status, as long as he firmly controls the East Mansion and is the hope of the ministers and doctors of the world, no matter whether Zhao Ji is restored or Zhao Kai is supported in the future. This power has already competed with the monarchy, and even surpassed it. And the residual shade accumulated by Cai Jing is enough for the Cai family to develop to the point of being a high-ranking family in the Wei and Jin dynasties and a generation of beautiful officials. Don't think that the power of the scholars and scholars exceeds that of the king, and they will not go on the road of monopolizing the power of the Wei and Jin families. The so-called imperial examination is still a means used by the monarch when he was in power.
On the contrary, it was Xiao Yan, the king of Yan, if his position was stable, it would weaken the authority of the Eastern Mansion. People of Cai Jing's status will never be allowed to live in Dongfu for a long time, and even form an important force that can threaten Xiao Yan's powerful position.
Don't look at Xiao Yan and Cai Jing now that they look respectful of each other, they must break up in the end. It's just a matter of who makes the first move, and what the timing is.
And at this moment, it seems that the time that belongs to Dongfu has quietly arrived.
Li Gang and the old man sat on both sides, and Cai Jing was on the head. Compared with the previous two years, Cai Jing is a little older. When he went to the throne, he looked so old and weak that he was about to die. When Zhao Ji reactivated his financial management while taking precautions, Cai Jing only entered the East Mansion on the fifth day, and he was completely old and undriven. But now sitting alone in the East Mansion, everyone is the only one, and the world's corporal doctors are returning to their hearts. Cai Jing no longer has that old appearance, he enters the Dongfu Council every day, and sometimes even stays here, and he doesn't even return home. Sitting there is no longer a description of dying in the next moment, but the back is straighter, and after sitting for an hour or two, it is not very obvious that he is tired.
Power is always the best aphrodisiac for men.
While Li Gang and the old man were waiting silently, Cai Jing had been listening leisurely to the faint sound of music outside. I don't know how long it took before Cai Jing smiled and said lightly: "Emperor Yan Wang, for more than a hundred years, there has never been such a grand event in the Heavenly Family. For more than 100 years, the Heavenly Family has never had such a horse as King Yan............"
Finally waiting for Cai Jing to speak, Li Gang snorted angrily: "Gang is often reversed, why not!" Where is Shang Di Ji? But it's this thief who oppresses the heavenly family! Sitting on a strong army, opening a mansion and building a festival, coercing the king, and now changing the emperor, is it to do reckless things in the future, and to seal Zen again? The dynasty is now in turmoil, the disaster of Jiangnan Vegetable Devil is gone, the tax is halved, and the household registration is withered. And in the war against Liao, the roads in Hebei have been exhausted. The DPRK and China are short of financial endowments. The banknote law has changed and the people are not making a living. There is also the rise of the Jurchens in Haidong. It's not a great enemy who was strong before the abyss! There is also Xiao Yan's generation. If the prime minister doesn't deal with it anymore, will he really have to watch the collapse of the society? ”
Li Gang sprayed people, and sure enough, anytime, anywhere, as long as he was given this opportunity. He is an orthodox scholar and scholar, and he has a clear name and is expected to live up to the world. Honesty and honesty are indeed the outliers among the scholars and doctors at this moment. However, he was deeply wary of the disaster of the five generations of feudal towns, and he was unclear about Xiao Yan's background and had strong soldiers. The troubled times that mess with state affairs and force the king are really hated to the extreme. Once you open the spray, there is no door on the mouth.
When Cai Jing was in power before, he was also the object of Li Gang's opposition. However, the situation is easier, at this moment in Li Gang's mind, Xiao Yan, the thief, is more than a hundred times more dangerous than Cai Jing, and the current enemy is to work for Cai Jing, and he is not straight. Previously, Li Gang contacted his colleagues in Dumen. Plan how to deal with heroes like Xiao Yan. Li Gang is naturally not the kind of clear stream waste that he can't just say he can't do, except that the specific command of the operation is a painstaking hand. In other respects, the ability is quite extraordinary. Naturally, he would not be stupid enough to lead a group of scholars and scholars to confront Xiao Yan, who had a strong army, and dragged Bianliang to die in the fire. It was keenly discovered that in order to deal with Xiao Yan, who had soldiers, it was necessary to seize the Western Army, the largest military group in the Great Song Dynasty. And volunteered, willing to pacify the town of Shaanxi, regardless of which way. After completely grasping the Western Army in his hands, cooperating with the central Cai Jing and others, it was enough to overturn Xiao Yan. For this reason, he also specially found Yuwen Xuzhong, and wanted to act with him in Shaanxi with this rare thinker-like figure.
Although the plan was good, it was held down here by Cai Jing. This makes Li Gang not very resentful, although he knows that he generally did not act as strongly, but today he sneered at Cai Jing with his feet, and you also have a share in the corruption of state affairs, but it is something that Li Gang has completely done, and this is a matter of ridicule in private, which can be regarded as Mr. Liang Xi giving face to his husband.
Cai Jing smiled slightly, as if he didn't hear that Li Gang had piggybacked him. Just said softly: "Hedong Wu Yuanzhong has a letter." ”
Li Gang suddenly perked up: "How? ”
Hedong Wu Min, although he has been vaguely regarded as Xiao Yan's party, sold himself to take refuge in a neat and neat way. But suddenly a letter came, and Cai Jing solemnly mentioned it, which means that Xiàn's affairs in Hedong have an opportunity to take advantage of!
Hedong is now one of Xiao Yan's fundamental powers, and there are even more old Shenwu Changsheng troops entrenched. Shaking the old Shenwu Changsheng army is shaking the foundation of Xiao Yan's power. Wu Min is in Hedong, no matter what, he can always get the most timely news, and this news may be able to determine the final outcome of the unprecedented change in the situation in a hundred years!
Cai Jing didn't mean to fish for Li Gang's appetite, for an old man of his age, time was very precious. In the middle of the festival, I heard his unhurried explanation. Li Gang and the old man listened attentively and carefully, for fear of missing a sentence.
The Shenwu Changsheng Army sits in Hedong, although he doesn't dare anyone. But Wu Min is in a position of appeasement, taking care of civil affairs, and doing his best to transfer supplies for the Shenwu Changsheng Army. It's not that I can't find out the inside story at all. Moreover, Yunnei has become a pot of porridge, and the eastern edge of the river is full of transshipment refugees, no matter how secret things are, they can't be hidden for a long time.
Wu Min suddenly discovered that Xiao Yan had long since stopped waiting for the court's orders, sent troops north, and mastered the states of Yunnei. This is no better than the land east of the river, and the Great Song Dynasty official An Min's governance, which is completely a territory where he can mobilize a qiē resource with a word! There are even rumors that it is Yandi, Xiao Yan seems to have mastered a piece of territory, operated his own military horses, and is faintly the emperor of the local soil. And the officials of Yandi Fumin selected by the Great Song Dynasty, because the center was in a mess, except for Zhuozhou and other places near Zhulu in Hebei who already had a hard time to take office, the election officials in other places further north were still nesting in Hebei, and no one took care of them for a while.
Yunnei Yandi together is the sixteen states of Yanyun that the Great Song Dynasty has shouted for more than 100 years, and the Khitan people have maintained a strategic advantage over the Great Song Dynasty according to this. And Xiao Yan spread it several times, and inadvertently had the intention of running the sixteen states of Yanyun into his own domain. Although the sixteen states of Yanyun are now ruined, there are still good horses and elite soldiers from the north who have experienced the test of war. And Xiao Yan presided over the financial planning in the center of Bianliang, and even took all the belongings of the Jiangmen family from the forbidden army in the capital. It can continuously send food, general salaries, and armor soldiers to the Northland military horses.
Xiao Yan has such a strong strength, even if there is no palace change on the night of February 2, Xiao Yan also has the strength to flip the Great Song Dynasty in the years to come!
Wu Min joined Xiao Yan. It's also a last resort. One has no way out in Dumen. His life is basically over. And now it's on the territory of Xiao Yan in Hedong. Once there is something untamed indicated. Or dare to reach out and hinder Xiao Yan's actions. Xiao Yan, who has already had five generations of strong feudal affairs, why not hesitate to report that he died of a violent illness in Hedong? In Bianliang City, didn't Xiao Yan dare to kill a person's head?
So during this time, after discovering that Xiao Yan's strength was far beyond his imagination. Wu Min has already tried his best to cooperate in government affairs and logistics, and he is much more active and attentive than before, as if he is a high-ranking official with qualifications as a follower under Xiao Yan.
The Hedong Shenwu Changsheng Army rode left and right, and marched north. In addition to the thousands left behind, more than 10,000 people in elite armor were mobilized to go out of Yanmen. The accompanying war horses, pack horses and other livestock were doubled, and there were 30,000 or 40,000 soldiers and civilians. Although the mobilized people were all paid on a daily basis, the money was all out of Xiao Yan's pocket, and the grain and horse materials were also transferred from several big official warehouses in Bianliang, the people of Hedong were not subjected to much harassment because of this winter war.
With such a big financier as Xiao Yan, Wu Min didn't have to put much effort into the most difficult and troublesome matter of raising money, goods, military salaries, and food. However, tens of thousands of people were mobilized to accompany the army, and it was necessary to organize the transfer of almost the same number of people in Hedong Province. Isn't that easy?
And Wu Min put a lot of effort into it, and led the staff team to run around Hedong in the cold wind and dripping like ice, and handled the supply of this huge army in an orderly manner.
In the first two years, the Western Army raised more than 100,000 Yan. The high-ranking Tong Guan is in charge, and Wang Qinliang is in the center and fully cooperates. The logistical support army is still in a mess. Hebei Zhulu was in an uproar, and there were many broken homes among the people. The reason is nothing more than a few points, a large army of more than 100,000 people should respond, compared with the Hedong Shenwu Changsheng Army to the north, that is an order of magnitude difference. The difficulty process is also ten times worse. The second is that there are a lot of people, and they are all newcomers, everyone wants to get a vote in the 60 million base of the Yan military expenditure, and they want to eat more if they are intrigued with each other, and they will naturally lose. The third is that Cai Jing, who has always been in charge of the central financial affairs, has been removed, and there is no such experienced old bureaucrat in charge of the general check, and even intentionally or unintentionally hindered, so it is natural that the logistics of the war against Yan should be unfavorable.
Wu Min, on the other hand, was single-minded, and the Hedong Shenwu Changsheng Army that received the supply did not have as many bad habits as the Western Army had cultivated in a hundred years. Unexpectedly, with a logistics organization that is not known how many times smaller than the war of Fayan, the affairs of supporting the army are quite brilliant. Even if there are objective reasons, Wu Min's personal ability is really quite good, and he can be regarded as a qualified and diligent bureaucrat.
Since Wu Min wanted to supply the army, he had to run ahead, and the Yanmen camp went to it. Naturally, there are more and more inside information about Xiao Yanhedong's layout, and the information is coming more and more quickly. During the busy time, the news in the cloud kept coming, and it was naturally collected by Wu Min, who had a heart, in time.
Thousands of Jurchen military horses ventured deep into Yunnei, and Wu Min didn't take it too seriously, thinking that it was something that belonged to the scope of the Hedong Shenwu Changsheng Army. After walking through several large camps, how could Wu Min not see that Hedong Shenwu often won the army, the elite soldiers were high, and the soldiers were happy when they heard the battle? There is a kind of sharpness of a strong army. It is not as good as the so-called strong armies such as the Western Army, which is actually quite deep in twilight. Moreover, the soldiers in Yunnei, Wu Min also knew to some extent, and he could understand by looking at the geography of the soldiers that Yingzhou was not in a narrow place, and these thousands of Jurchen lone soldiers either had to continue to go back over the mountains and mountains, or they would have to be annihilated in the land of Yunnei. It is difficult to shake Xiao Yan's layout in Hedong Yunnei.
But it didn't take long for the latest military information to come out, and the two large camps that had been left in Yanmen, Ulzhou, as well as the garrison of Taiyuan Mansion, had to be transferred to the north to join the Yunnei battlefield.
Yingzhou has fallen into the hands of the Jurchens! And the main force of the Jurchen Zonghan army in Xijing Datong Mansion is heading south!
For a standard scholar like Wu Min, characters like Xiao Yan are the natural enemies of their origins. When Xiao Yan has enough strength, Wu Min and the others may still forbear and act for Xiao Yan. And Xiao Yan's strength has been developing like this, and he may not really take refuge wholeheartedly, and he will not be the first to persuade him to enter the table one day.
But when Xiao Yan's strength foundation was shaken, how could Wu Min not be interested in activities?
In a keen sense that Xiao Yan has encountered a big crisis, if the Hedong Shenwu Changsheng Army is defeated, then Xiao Yan is in the clouds and in Yandi. How to lay out the center of the Bianliang. It has become water without a source. Rootless wood. Wu Min immediately reported the true inside information of Hedong Yunnei that he had mastered to the husband who was now the only one relied on by the scholar group. The previous grievances between Qingliu and Cai Jing were basically regarded as floating clouds.
And has been dormant in Bianliang, and even contributed to Xiao Yan's wedding, and was regarded as Cai Jing, the husband who was a little afraid of Xiao Yan, was the most important and detailed after receiving this. After the most accurate information, he finally showed his fangs slightly as the representative of the group of Wenchen Doctors.
After Cai Jing slowly finished saying Wu Min's return, Li Gang and the old man both showed shocked expressions and were speechless for a while.
Who would have thought that Xiao Yan had already preliminarily mastered the sixteen states of Yanyun, and when he was in Bianliang, he was already in the world when he was manipulating such a cheap industry as a ball market to flatter Zhao Ji! After the change of the second house in February. Jumping to become the king of Yan, is it a fluke?
Such a hero. The Great Song Dynasty has not been encountered in a hundred years! is to go back to the Han and Tang Dynasties, comparable to Zhu Wen and others, it is also worthy of the same rank, and even surpassed!
Cai Jing looked at Li Gang and the old man who couldn't hide their shock, smiled slightly, picked up the ginseng soup on the table, took a sip, felt that the entrance was a little cold, frowned and stopped drinking.
Xiao Yan is a son who is fierce and diligent, and he can fight his way out of a desperate situation, which is the reason why he can get to his current status. However, the foundation is too shallow and the expansion is too fast. Both in charge of Hedong and Yandi are arranged, why rush to grab Yunnei? According to Wu Min, in the early days of going north to Yunnei, there were thousands of elites under the banner of the Liao people. How good should this force be if it can be withdrawn from Hedong and transferred to Bianliang? After operating so steadily for several years, infiltrating day and night, maybe there is really a deep-rooted and unshakable trend, even the old man, at that time, he had to change his door and plan for future generations............
It can only be said that this Xiao Yan has not really turned the luck of this Great Song Dynasty over............
Cai Jing thought about it heavily, but he sighed slightly, Bianliang has been up and down for decades, how many people have seen the building collapse? From famous ministers to heavy generals, even kings such as Zhao Ji, heroes such as Xiao Yan. There are always weaknesses of one kind or another, and in the end, I can't survive this old man.
In the silence, Li Gang suddenly stood up and said loudly: "Nanlaizi is suddenly eager to handle the affairs of Emperor Shang, and he must want to support the royal conquest!" If the three kings in Yanfu Palace do not come out, the saint and the prince will also be coerced by this son from the south! This situation is urgent! Prime minister, please stand in Shaanxi, take charge of the Western Army, and support the DPRK Bureau! ”
Wu Min is a clear-eyed person, Cai Jing is a clear-eyed person, and Li Gang is a clear-eyed person. And how are those generals of the Western Army not clear-eyed people? They are just waiting to see the situation, waiting for the best opportunity to join the Korean dispute in order to obtain the greatest benefits. They and Xiao Yan also have a natural competitiveness, Wenchen and Doctor always have to use them, Xiao Yan's murderous aura is not relentless, and it is enough to continuously expand the Shenwu Victorious Army to replace them!
It turned out that what he was afraid of was nothing more than the Hedong Shenwu Changsheng Army and the Bianliang New Army, which became a stable corner, and Xiao Yan held the auspicious three treasures of the Zhao family from Taishang to the abolished prince to the three kings. There are soldiers to be soldiers, wealth to be wealthy, and names to be famous. And the most fundamental reliance, the Hedong Shenwu Changsheng Army has a reputation for being undefeated since it became an army, and the remnants of the Liao army have been defeated and lost by the Western Army, and the strong soldiers of Shaanxi have become strong soldiers of the three roads. And Xiao Yan led the Shenwu Changsheng Army to break Xiao Gan, defeated the Jurchens, and went against the current to seize Yanjing, destroying the last resistance of Yelu Dashi in one fell swoop. Which is the light yì that can be challenged?
The Western Army has simply raised military horses in the past few decades, and Fa Yan has already injured his vitality. If you act rashly, you will lose it again. Will there be any good end?
But this time it was different, Xiao Yan's main force and the Jurchen battle, far away in the clouds. Xiao Yan not only did not transfer this army of soldiers and horses that could be put too far north back to Bianliang, but also went out to conquer Hedong and even Yunnei in person. Isn't this the best time to get your hands dirty? Tens of thousands of Bianliang's newly trained military horses have not been taken too seriously by the Western Army. The Yongning Army will also come in handy at that time. As long as Xiao Yan crosses the Yellow River, wants to retreat and is blocked by a big river, wants to enter the Western Army on the third route to join the Yongning Army, and the Bianliang Center and Cai Jing and others respond, what will Xiao Yan do if he is undefeated?
It's just that this is said to move the Western Army, and it must be fast!
Li Gang immediately figured out all the qiē, and immediately got up and asked for his life!
Cai Jing looked at Li Gang's angry appearance, and also got up tremblingly, and saluted Li Gang solemnly: "Bo Ji is loyal and courageous, strong and sensitive, and the old man is not as good as ............ There is Bo Ji to contribute to the Chaogang, why worry about the great Song Dynasty, why worry about the cracks in the sky and not make up for them? It's just that Bo Ji is too famous. If it is in the name of pacifying the system, he went out of Shaanxi. Then Nanlaizi must be on guard. That's when it's a little tricky. ”
Li Gang raised his eyebrows and said angrily: "Why do you need to appease the position of the system? What can a student do if he walks in vain? ”
Cai Jing still shook his head slightly: "Bo Ji bears the hope of the world, even if he is white, his every move is as bright as the sun and the moon, so how can Nanlaizi not value it?" ”
Li Gang had a slight anger on his face, and forced himself to suppress his fierce temperament, and his tone was a little cold: "Does the prime minister still have to stand by and wait for the opportunity?" ”
If Cai Jing dared to say that. Li Gang dared to leave with his sleeves and went to Shaanxi to do his own thing. The general of the Western Army, don't you know him Li Liangxi? If Nanlaizi dares to stab himself, he is letting the people of the world see his true face clearly, and what will he do if he is undefeated from now on?
Cai Jing was still smiling, and his tone was even a little flattering: "Boji, Mr. Liang Xi, Liang Xi Gong!" The old man and you, don't move lightly, you have to perfunctory this son from the south. When I went to Shaanxi, I let Zong Wu hurt his party. He was recommended to you to the court. Can't Liang Xigong still believe it? ”
Li Gang was stunned, turned to the old man beside him, and the old man also stood up and silently saluted Cai Jing: "The official power is thin and the responsibility is heavy, but I am afraid that I will be entrusted by my husband." ”
This old man is Zong Ze, who is in his early sixties this year.
At the age of thirty-four, Zong Ze took the Jinshi examination and appeared in the political arena of the Great Song Dynasty for the first time. The palace examination articles and other new jinshi are all written with flowers, singing and dancing. Zong Ze wrote a 10,000-word book in the palace examination, clearly pointing out that since Wang Anshi changed the law, the Great Song Dynasty has formed a partisan rivalry. Whether it is the so-called new party that continues to fly the banner of Wang Anshi, or the old party Qingliu who is busy counteroffensive and calculating, it is not a good bird. The battle between Wang Chuhou and Cai Qu was even more dog-eat-dog, which simply refreshed the lower limit of the party struggle in the Great Song Dynasty.
After the 10,000-word book was sprayed, the Zongjinshi, who almost wiped out all the princes in the court, was naturally demoted to the bottom and given the same Jinshi background. Since then, he has been up and down for decades.
From the eighth year of Yuanyou to the first year of Xuanhe, Zong Ze's eunuch career was to go around between states and counties, and the official had never entered the court for more than 20 years. Never served in the center. If it is other scholars, even if they are ambitious when they are young, they will be the same dust as the light and dust, and they will be reduced to a vulgar official.
But in the ups and downs of more than 20 years, Zongze has done a great job in every term. Later, he became famous. However, the generation that controls the center is not as good as the generation, even though Zong Ze has the name of the world's first good official, but he is still pressed to circulate in other states, and he has never had the opportunity to show his strengths.
In the blink of an eye, Zong Ze reached the age of sixties, and at this age, no matter how Zong Ze took the clarification of the world as his ambition, he was also a little cold. Farewell to the old man and return to his hometown, retreat to Donghua, and write books. The house leaked and rained overnight, and he was accused of contempt for Taoism when he lived in the countryside, which stepped on the tail of the current Daojun Emperor, and suddenly it was a disposition of the arrangement that fell on his head, and he rushed to Bazhou for resettlement. I don't know who Zong Ze has offended.
Zong Ze suffered like this, but he became famous. The so-called New Party headed by Cai Jing has also been in control for decades, and too many Qingliushi doctors who are unhappy in politics have exchanged letters with Zong Ze, who is already an old man. And Zong Ze compiled and managed the "Gu Nan Fu" and "Rebuilding the Yinghui Hou Yiji Temple", which were sung all over the world. It seems that the sixty-year-old man of the sect was only discovered by the corporal doctor of the world at this time. It's nothing more than some people who have been unhappy in politics for a long time, and they complain through the really unlucky person Zong Ze.
However, there are many complaints like this, and Zong Ze, who has been forgotten by the world for a long time, has some reputation in his old age, although he is not as good as Li Gang, and he has reached the point where no one in the world knows the king in the group of scholars. And Li Gang corresponded with Zong Ze at that time, and he felt that he was like-minded, and he was engaged from then on. After the center decided to use Li Gang, Li Gang also recommended Zong Ze to join the court as soon as possible.
When he entered the court, he was encountering Xiao Yan's palace to seize power, and Zhao Ji went to the throne. Li Gang's fierce temperament naturally never entered the court as an official, but ran outside to contact this son from the south. Zong Ze followed Li Gang and could only follow him.
In the days of running and contacting in Bianliang, the world really got to know Zong Ze. Although he is already old, his local experience has made him deeply familiar with the world, able to endure the complex, and far-sighted. Zong Ze also used to be a county lieutenant, fought vegetable demons in Longyou, fought bandits, and was no stranger to military affairs. And he has a calm temperament, how many times have he persuaded Li Gang to act too violently and resolutely. Cai Jing, who has been silently watching Li Gang behind his back, how can he not look at a figure like Zong Ze? This is a person who is worthy of heavy responsibilities, much more reliable than Li Gang, who is too impulsive. What's wrong with being a little older? The old man is still eight years old this year, and he is still working tirelessly to control the center of the Great Song Empire?
This time, Li Gang and Zong Ze were summoned to report confidentiality. But for the specific use of people, Cai Jing is still ready to keep Li Gang as a signboard, and give it to Zong Ze for specific actions.
The people in the court who have enough weight, Xiao Yan must be firmly eyed. The henchmen around him, Xiao Yan also stared at him firmly. At this time, it is not appropriate to send anyone out of the town of Shaanxi. And sending a small official to judge the state capital of Shaanxi regardless of which way, even if Xiao Yan has eyes in the back of his head, he won't notice it, right?
As long as Zong Ze brings the name secretly given by Cai Jing to talk about the Western Army, are you still afraid that the Western Army will not buy it, and are you afraid that the Western Army will not see such a great opportunity?
Cai Jing's appreciative gaze fell on Zong Ze. The old eyes were full of ardent anticipation. But Zong Ze stood silently and didn't say a word for a long time.
Li Gang waited for a while, and finally couldn't help it, and said sharply: "Zong Rulin! You go to Shaanxi, you are worthy of a great responsibility, and the public is very relieved! Since then, the ambition of his life can be spread. With such a clarification of the world's opportunity, do you and I have to cower in the face of things? If there is anything to worry about, you can say something! If it's just because I'm afraid of the son from the south, it's a certain person who doesn't know anyone! ”
Coupled with Li Gang's two pressing gazes, Zong Ze finally stopped being silent and threw himself to the ground: "The lower official dares not to accept the order." ”
Cai Jing finally smiled, raised his voice, and looked like an old man of this age for a while, where is there still an old man of this age?
"It's so good, my generation is working together, where can't we get rid of this troubled Nanlaizi!" (To be continued......)
PS: Shenzhen returned from a meeting and worked hard to update.