Song Jiu smiled bitterly, this is a real misunderstanding. He didn't like Zhao Pu, and he also used his wrist, that is Hezhou. But it was in the shadows, and no one in this era had the ability to put it on the table and say that they were dealing with Zhao Pu.

If it weren't for himself going south, a lot of things had happened, he had always maintained a non-salty and indifferent relationship with Zhao Chengzong, and he had said many "good" suggestions, but Zhao Chengzong didn't listen. But in public, Song Jiu still didn't want to offend Zhao Pu.

Let's ask how many people in this world dare to openly confront Zhao Pu. Yes, look at what happens to them.

Some ministers had a look of pity in their eyes.

Hezhou is fighting for each other, that is a matter of the younger generation, Zhao Pu can't directly intervene, that will make people have a view that they don't have a stomach. Hezhou also occupies the reason, treats the people well for private purposes, treats the public transport tax, and is conducive to the research of national technology.

But offend Zhao Pu directly, don't think that there are no loopholes, if you have the intention to find Song Jiu's loopholes, there are still loopholes. It was difficult for Zhao Pu to kill Song Jiu, but if he wanted to send Song Jiu to Shamen Island, he could probably do it.

Yet who dares to say?

After the banquet is over.

Each had different thoughts and sat back to see how Zhao Pu retaliated.

However, no one thought that this was Zhao Pu's most brilliant future.

What happened in the past two years has exceeded Zhao Kuangyin's bottom line again and again. Song Jiu prevaricated and said a word, because of the Analects, none of the ministers spoke, and Zhao Kuangyin saw it in his eyes. He thought of all the things in the past, the death of Chai Zongxun, the fact that the hall post was better than the book, and the third division in the second half of last year used all his strength to collect only 100,000 stone grain. As a result, the people of dozens of northern prefectures were hungry at the end of the year, if it wasn't for Song Jiu writing a letter to Guangzhou, if it wasn't for his own urgent transfer of Shaanxi grain. There could be big trouble this spring, what's the deal?

Even in the eyes of the governors of various states and counties, there is only Zhongshu, and there is no emperor like him.

However, Zhao Pu gradually became a big tail, and Zhao Kuangyin moved extremely carefully. First, an edict was issued, and fifteen officials were never replaced. It is advisable to order the officials to be in the former seniority, and to select 15 members who are knowledgeable about official affairs, have good behavior, and have no violations, and have their names to play. When the difference is compensated, it is still three years and replaced, if there is no violation, its order is to be removed from the court. The judge of the clerk was removed from the county order.

This hall official refers to the highest-ranking official serving in the political affairs hall under the Zhongshu Sect. It is divided into the rear officials of the Zhufang Hall and the rear officials of the five-room public affairs hall. The duties of the officials of the chambers are to inspect and review the official documents of the business handled by the officials, the chief secretary, the recorder, and the chief officer; The official of the five-room official hall is to transfer the official documents submitted by each room to do the most difficult check-and-audit.

Their names are officials, but they are actually officials.

However, in terms of their powers, they have more power than many officials, and they can be said to be the prime minister's most important right-hand man.

There is absolutely no problem with this edict, and these old officials have been in charge of many important government affairs for a long time. But it didn't move up, but it took a long time. They must not want to forge ahead. But with their qualifications, serving as county magistrates, general judgments in various states, and judicial secretaries and county lieutenants are enough. Replace them and add fifteen minor officials who have not violated the rules or made major mistakes, which will add fresh blood to Zhongshu.

The edict was issued in front, and the back let Jiang Xuanyi, the lieutenant of Wude County, bid farewell to Meizhou, and served as the rear official of the hall, and joined the army with the new Chengzhou record Ren Neng, the former Pi County Ling Xia Dechong, and the former Sanyuan County Lieutenant Kong Chongzhao entered the Zhongshu as the rear officer.

Still no problem.

But as soon as these officials were replaced, Zhao Pu was equivalent to cutting off his shoulder and breaking his thigh. Therefore, Zhao Pu raised an objection, Your Majesty, you can replace a group of court officials, but you can't replace all of them. When they first arrived, they were not familiar with the affairs of the Chinese book, and if they were all replaced, the Chinese book would be paralyzed. As soon as Zhao Pu objected, it was full of power, and the internal liuquan of the ministry was preparing to continue to elect the rear officials, but when he heard Zhao Pu's opposition, he didn't dare to choose again. Therefore, only Jiang Ren and Xia Kong were selected.

Zhao Kuangyin was forced by Zhao Pu, and if Neiliuquan didn't report the number, he couldn't replace Zhao Pu's subordinates with these officials. In a fit of rage, he summoned the old hall official Liu Chonghua and other four people to the palace, and said directly, you hall officials are unauthorized to the power of the book, most of them are treacherous and lawless, I hope that you will change your evil to good, and you will have no fault when you are old, and I will give you the official position of county magistrate, if you continue to be like before, I will be severely punished.

This is the first round.

Zhao Kuangyin made a move, but let Zhao Pu come over, and the two had a draw.

Seeing that the two began to fight viciously, Liu Xigu, the governor of the political affairs, that is, when Zhao Kuangyin talked about the meritorious heroes after ascending the throne, he was sandwiched in the middle, saying that he was very uncomfortable. Your Majesty, I can't afford to offend your old man, Zhao Pu, I can't afford to offend your old man, I have been on the table four times, and I have asked for advice because of my foot disease. Zhao Kuangyin is displeased, I use you to share Zhao Pu's power, so I agreed, and I took him as the head of the household department.

The second round begins.

Zhao Pu was in the timber business, and under his leadership, many officials were also in the timber business. Li Shouxin was edicted to supply the treasury and operated timber for the state in Qin and Longjian for the imperial court. Seeing that it was very profitable, he embezzled the country's money and silk to run a timber business for his own family, making a lot of money.

What the newspaper said was very simple, and the substitution was told by his subordinates, that is, Zhao Kuangyin issued an edict to return him and replace him with someone else, but his subordinates poked out Li Shouxin's embezzlement of public funds to do business. But why did he replace Li Shouxin at this juncture, and why would his subordinates sue Li Shouxin?

The reserve envoy is not a petty official anymore, will Li Shouxin be stupid when he sits in this position? He had just arrived in Zhongmu County, heard about it, and knew that things were not good, so he wrote a letter to his son-in-law Qin Zhoutong sentenced Ma Shi and hanged himself. Zhao Kuangyin sent Si Xunlang Zhong Su Xiao to investigate. After Su Xiao went down, he was unceremoniously arrested and arrested, including the letter that Li Shouxin sent to his son-in-law, which was also found out. Zhao Kuangyin wanted to pardon, but Su Xiao disagreed. So Ma Shi abandoned the city and beheaded him, and his family was more widely implicated, many families went bankrupt together, and the public funds embezzled by Li Shouxin were finally recovered. Zhao Kuangyin Dayue, with Su Xiao as the right counselor, sentenced the affairs of Dali Temple, sought to move the left counselor, and supervised the taxation in Beijing.

Therefore, the hundred officials were shocked, and no one dared to run the Qinlong timber business anymore.

did not move Zhao Pu, but this spearhead was clearly aimed at Zhao Pu.

The second shot has just subsided. The third shot began again. The left and right military patrol institutes in the capital, the pawn division is pressed, and the old dental school of Kaifeng Mansion is selected. Divide their duties. went to mourn and was imprisoned, and the first edict was changed to a scholar. The latter sentence is no problem, Guan Jian is the previous sentence, the seven words of the previous sentence, the old dental school of Kaifeng Mansion.

There is no way, Zhao Puwei is too big to fall, and Zhao Kuangyin is in the deep palace. In the past, it has been through two lines of central nervous system, one is Zhao Kuangyi, and the other is Zhao Pu. Zhao Pu's central nervous system has a problem, so he can only try to reopen the nerve of Kaifeng Mansion.

But Zhao Kuangyi continued to pretend to be cowardly.

The fourth shot was fired again.

This is another story of practicing the salary and trying the courage.

Lei Dexiang impeached Zhao Pu and was demoted to Shangzhou as a secretary to join the army, and the former Shangzhou governor had a good relationship with Lei Dexiang. Zhao Pu was displeased. transferred his cronies Xi Yu to Shangzhou. Xi Yu made things difficult for Lei Dexiang again and again, and Lei Dexiang was miserable and said some resentful words. Xi Yu was furious, and happened to hear that Lei Dexiang had an article that wrote some words that were not very satisfactory to the imperial court, and secretly sent someone to obtain it from the Lei family, so as to put Lei Dexiang in prison and prepare to dispose of it.

Is this sinful?

No!

The Song Dynasty did not prosper the literary prison, and neither did the Tang Dynasty. Either Su Dongpo's Wutai poetry case suffered a little, but he was only locked in a cell for a few days. Then Wang Anshi demoted Su Dongpo to Huangzhou, still ate and drank and had fun, and wrote the same way to the east of the river. If there is a literary prison, at least Bai Juyi and Du Fu can die thousands of times.

Don't ask Xi Yu what kind of guts he has, let's see what happens to Yao Shu. At that time, Zhao Kuangyin didn't want to touch Zhao Pu, so he only borrowed his guilt and cut his nationality to take care of Lingwu, which satisfied most of Zhao Pu's wishes. Lingwu was the later Western Xia, Yinxia, and was really relegated to the Great Northwest.

But Lei Dexiang also has a son named Lei Youlin. He is a mover, and he has failed the provincial test many times, thinking that Zhao Pu deliberately suppressed it. Whether there is such a thing or not, it may not be Zhao Pu's permission. But there must be, at this time, there is no implementation of the name test, no matter who is the chief examiner, who dares to recruit him as a jinshi, want to find a draw! After his father's accident, he continued to travel with a group of literati friends as if nothing had happened. There is also a scholar at the door of his house, called Wang Dong, who participated in the Spring Festival together, the same year, but in fact it is not the same year, if Lei Youlin also won the Jinshi, then it is called the real same year, he did not win, Wang Dong was in. Wang Dong later moved to the secretary Cheng, he stammered to Wang Dong, Wang Dong didn't think of anything else, seeing that he didn't have much to do, he was free all day, the relationship between the two was good before, just like Zhu San and Song Jiu, so he entrusted him with more family affairs. Hu Zan, Li Kedu, and others have been in office for a long time, and they are Zhao Pu's confidants, so they are very powerful, and if others want to do things with them, they must give generous gifts to do it. Once, Wang Dong asked Lei Youlin to come back in place for half a collar of gold.

In ancient times, gold and silver were generally cast into strips, that is, a gold bar and silver bar, which was also called a collar of gold and silver. Later, this weight was made into a standard weight, the standard weight of a collar of gold and silver is fifty taels, and a half collar is twenty-five taels of gold. At this time, gold was still very expensive, not counting the Song Jiu family, and for ordinary officials, half a collar of gold was still a lot of money. Lei Youlin asked strangely: "Brother Wang, what are you doing with so much gold?" ”

"I want to give it to General Hu."

General Hu is Hu Zan, his military official under Zhao Pu, so he is called General Hu.

Wang Dong stammered Hu Zan, just wanting Hu Zan to say more good things in front of Zhao Pu. In the past, Lei Youlin also went in and out of Hu Zan's house, and even gave some small gifts to Wang Dong. Wang Dong didn't think of anything else, so he said it. When Lei Youlin heard that the opportunity had come, he said: "Brother Wang, leave it to me, you are the secretary, go to General Hu's mansion, it is too conspicuous." ”

Wang Dong agreed.

Including Hu Zan, he didn't think of anything else, he didn't kill people too much, could it be because Lei Dexiang impeached Zhao Pu, so they beheaded their family all over the house, plus Lei Youlin was very careful, Hu Zan was somewhat sympathetic, so he gradually became friendly with Lei Youlin.

Therefore, after the case, these officials embezzled and took bribes, and they took the blame for themselves, but the people of the time did not approve of Lei Youlin, and his motives for avenging his father were good, but the means were also low.

Not long after, Lei Youlin finally got what he wanted. With the line of Wang Dong and Hu Zan, Lei Youlin's social circle is expanding, and he has a relationship with Bo Liu Wei, the acting head of Shangcai County. Liu Wei is an acting official, according to the regulations of the Song Dynasty, all acting officials must be more than three terms, no mistakes, and then with the three valid proofs, submitted to the Ministry of Officials for approval, can be regularized. But at this time he ran into a problem, and one of the files was lost. Liu Wei's eldest brother Liu Yu is a jinshi. Forged a certificate for him and presented it to the ministry. Guan Jian's certificate needs to be stamped with an official seal, and Liu Jinshi is so good that he not only forged the certificate. Official seals were also forged.

What is the crime of forging official seals?

Look at Song Jiu stamping his petty official seal on the ticket, and the fake ticket will disappear automatically immediately. That's a capital offense.

Because they were friends, the Liu brothers didn't hide it from him, and Lei Youlin also knew about it.

I heard a news from Hu Zan again, Wang Quanbin Pingshu, Bashu was in chaos, and the court selected good officials to govern Shu. also chose Zong Zhengcheng and Zhao Fu to go to Xichuan. Zhao Fu saw the chaos in Xichuan, greedy for life and afraid of death, and didn't want to go. So he said that he was sick and begged Zhao Pu to say good things, but Zhao Pu really sheltered him and didn't let him go.

These three are enough.

Lei Youlin made some moves from the court. I vaguely saw that the emperor was dissatisfied with Zhao Pu. Therefore, he beat the drum and sued Hu Zan and Li Kedu, the officials of the court, for accepting bribes, and it was Zhao Pu who shielded him; Liu Wei forged official documents to gain office, which was deliberately approved by Zhao Pu; Back then, Zong Zhengcheng and Zhao Fu should have been sent to Shu, but he pretended to be sick and couldn't go, which was also connived by Zhao Pu.

In fact, the strength of this complaint is not as strong as his Lao Tzu.

However, the times and the situation are different, and Zhao Kuangyin can't change the official of the court. The resentment in my heart can be imagined. After hearing about it, he immediately sent the Imperial Historical Observatory for interrogation, and these are all facts. After the interrogation, Zhao Kuangyin immediately issued an edict and sentenced Liu Wei to death; Wang Dong and Zhao Fu were dismissed from office; Hu Zan and Li Kedu were dismissed from office and their property was confiscated. With Lei Youlin as the secretary of the province.

Two of them have been missing.

The first is Zhao Kuangyi, Lei Youlin has been planning for a long time, and it must have nothing to do with Zhao Kuangyi. The second is Song Jiu, and Song Jiu also disappeared.

With this excuse, Zhao Kuangyin Zhao Zhao Governor Lu Yuqing and Xue Juzheng were promoted to the capital hall and discussed political affairs with Zai in order to share Zhao Pu's power. In fact, at this time, Zhao Pu still had a glimmer of life, that is, Lu Yuqing. Zhao Kuangyin decomposed Zhao Pu's power to Xue Juzheng and Lu Yuqing, not counting on Xue Juzheng, he was the former minister of Zhou, and the person he really counted on was Lu Yuqing, a hero of the hegemony, a generation of good officials, only in his forties, and it was the time when he was rich and strong. However, Lu Yuqing disappointed Zhao Kuangyin.

He said to Song Jiu that I am not Zhao Pu's person, but I do have a good relationship with Zhao Pu. Or he didn't figure out whether the three of you were really suppressed or fake suppressed. Continue to look at Zhao Puma.

That is, the state affairs continue to be in the hands of Zhao Pu, and it has not reached the situation that Zhao Kuangyin wants. Zhao Kuangyin asked Lu Duoxun, Lu Duoxun went south to the Southern Tang Dynasty as an envoy, this person wants to be knowledgeable, talk and talk, and shoot with Li Yuhe. And the attitude is polite, not as arrogant as the Song envoy before, so he talked with Li Yu very happily, and when he parted, he sent someone to Li Yu to say that our Song Dynasty is cultivating the chronicles of the world, and the only ones in the history museum are the states in the south of the Yangtze River, can you give me a copy of each state and let me take it back?

As soon as it was a trivial matter, Li Yu immediately sent his subordinates to rush to copy it overnight, so as not to delay Lu Duoxun's departure. This stupid hat, as long as he sends someone to copy it, Lu Duoxun will wait for half a year. Tired a group of small officials in the Southern Tang Dynasty to death, Lu Duoxun easily wiped out the topography of the nineteen states in the south of the Yangtze River, the distance and proximity of the garrison, and the number of household registrations.

From the time, Zhao Kuangyin valued Lu Duoxun more. Zhao Kuangyin asked, Lu Duoxun replied: "Your Majesty, outside the East Water Gate is the affairs of the Ya, the minister does not speak, the Qin Long timber minister does not know, the minister does not speak, the minister only says what the minister saw in the capital, Zhao Puguang ruled the mansion, encroached on the private house, it was a first-class prosperous place in the city, the private house was crowded, but the Zhao house was wide enough to manage the vegetable garden, and used the empty barrier land for private trade, and the mansion shop to seize the people's profits. The other ministers don't know. ”

Lu Duoxun did not wronged Zhao Pu, these Zhao Kuangyin used to go to Zhao Pu's house often, and they could see it.

But he said it a few times, Zhao Kuangyin has been hesitant, so Zhao Kuangyin asked another person, Li Fang, Fang said: "The minister's secretary is edicted, and the minister does not know." ”

Zhao Kuangyin was silent.

What is silence, there are two kinds, the minister is right, Zhao Kuangyin doesn't want to admit it, so he can only be silent.

There is an even more terrible one, the minister said it wrong, and Zhao Kuangyin couldn't refute it clearly, so he was silent.

Li Fang's is not the former, but the latter.

Why do you want to ask Li Fang, because of Li Fang's history. In the second year of Qiande, that is, the first imperial examination of Song Jiu, Zhang Zhao and Tao Gu were in charge of Chunqiu. Tao Gu falsely accused Cui Song of asking Li Fang for the Donggi Order on behalf of his relatives in the matter, citing Zhang Zhao as evidence. Zhang Zhao said that there was no such thing, at that time, Zhao Kuangyin intended to support Zhao Pu to take the throne, and suppressed the power of the old ministers of the Later Zhou Dynasty, Tao Gu, as Zhao Pu's cronies, was Zhao Pu's power and power, and he also had to support it. Therefore, he was displeased, and demoted Li Fang to Sima of Zhangwu March, Cui Song to Baoda Marching Division, and Zhang Zhao forced three chapters to invite the old.

Li Fang and Zhao Pu have a grudge.

That's why Zhao Kuangyin asked Li Fang. Of course, there is another possibility, that is, Li Fang is speaking fairly. But what's more, Li Fang was promoted as an official of the two systems, and he actually bowed to the officials in the back of the hall, coupled with what happened in Ke Yan, Li Fang was not a direct official in Zhao Kuangyin's heart.

For what to say this, there is no other reason, and I am afraid.

If Li Fang beats Zhao Pu's small report this time, it will be better, and if Lu Yuqing dares to divide Zhao Pu's power, then it means that there will be more ministers who dare to confront Zhao Pu under his own reminder, and Zhao Pu will not monopolize power. But none of these ministers dared to say it, including Lu Duoxun, at most he said that he had ruled the mansion in Guangzhi, and he didn't dare to say Longqin timber, and he didn't dare to say Hebei, so he made a few ruthless moves, what effect did he have?

Zhao Kuangyin had no way to use Zhao Pu anymore, so he directly issued an edict to dismiss Zhao Pu as the envoy of the three cities of Heyang and the Tongping Zhangshi.

In fact, the matter could have ended here, Zhao Kuangyin had serious suspicions in the face of Zhao Pu's former power, and had serious doubts, and even thought that Lu Yuqing was Zhao Pu's person, and repeatedly knocked on the side, Lu Yuqing had no choice but to ask for dismissal due to illness, and he was dismissed as Shangshu Zuocheng. Zhao Guangmei is the envoy and servant of Yongxing Jiedu, Zhao Dezhao is the envoy of Shannan Xidao Jiedu Tongping Zhangshi, Xue Juzheng is the servant of the door, Shen Yilun is the servant of Zhongshu and Pingzhangshi, Shi Shouxin is also servant, Gao Huaide Wang Xianqi and Tongping Zhangshi, Lu Duoxun is the governor of Zhongshushe Ginseng, Chu Zhaofu is the privy deputy envoy, and the emperor's brother Zhao Kuangyi is the king of Jin and servant, and he is in the class of all ministers.

Looking at the promotions of these people, you can see the intentions of Zhao Kuangyin, Zhao Kuangmei and Zhao Dezhao are still playing soy sauce, but one is the third brother, the other is a son, and his own family. Although Xue Juzheng is an honest man, he is not very close to Zhao Pu. Shi Shouxin can now be regarded as a relative of the emperor, Gao Huaide and Wang Xianqi are sons and daughters, and they all have a common characteristic, the main figure in the release of military power with a glass of wine, and the mastermind of the release of military power with a glass of wine is Zhao Pu. Lu Duoxun has always been unrelated to Zhao Pu, and so has Chu Zhaofu. Not to mention Zhao Kuangyi.

The reason is very simple, that is, to completely wash away Zhao Pu's influence.

An era finally came to an end, and when Zhao Pu left, he said that outsiders said that the ministers talked lightly about the emperor's brother Kaifeng Yin, and the emperor's brother was loyal and filial piety.

That's not ridicule, Zhao Pu didn't think of what happened later, if that's the case, with his scheming, he would get the biggest fruit before Lu Duoxun, why bother to make a farce of the Golden Plaque Alliance? This is fear, afraid that Zhao Kuangyi will also be like him, forcing him to death......

Because of this sentence, he left a way back, so he was able to make a comeback later, although Zhao Pu at that time was far from the current Zhao Pu, but no matter how deep Zhao Pu's power and scheming skills in the future, there may not be a good ending in history. Because in addition to Ludoson, there is another person.

The most terrifying person in the Song Dynasty is not Wang Anshi, not Zhao Pu, not Sima Guang, the really terrifying person is the first person in three hundred years, Fan Zhongyan!

Because of its flawless morality, it is really terrifying, even if it is a capable minister like Lu Yijian, a master of power and strategy. Song Jiu is not as good as Fan Zhongyan, and he may barely be regarded as a miniature version of Fan Zhongyan, and in some aspects, he has a greater role to play in the country than Fan Zhongyan.

Zhao Pu left the capital, the yellow leaves are flying, and autumn is coming. Song Jiu can finally breathe, but the Song Dynasty will welcome the heaviest page of history. (To be continued......)