Chapter 45: The meeting that really decided the fate of the Great Song Dynasty

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And Wang Anshi's home looks too shabby, even if he is rich now, the gate of the governor's mansion is not as good as the back door of the Yun family, but the chrysanthemums in the courtyard have given Wang Anshi a face.

Su Shi returned to Beijing from Huangzhou the year before last, and it was a must to visit Wang Anshi, when Wang Anshi was not at home, he found that Wang Anshi had an unfinished poem "Yongdai" on his desk: "The west wind passed through the garden last night, blowing down the yellow flowers all over the gold." ”

Su Shi couldn't help laughing sarcastically, and thought: "Yellow flower (chrysanthemum) dares to fight against autumn frost, it is the most durable, and it will dry up and rot as you grow old, and it will not fall petals." I didn't expect the famous Wang Anshi to even have this common sense? These two lines of poetry are pure nonsense. ”

So he put pen to paper and continued the sentence: "Autumn flowers are not as good as spring, and the poet said carefully." "Ridiculed Wang Anshi.

Su Shi was worried that the master would come back and make an embarrassing scene, so he said goodbye to the housekeeper and left.

Later, Su Shi returned to Huangzhou to take up his post, on the day of the Double Ninth Festival, when he and his friend Chen Ji often came to the back garden to enjoy the flowers, they couldn't help but be surprised, and found that the chrysanthemums were blown by the west wind, and they were covered with gold everywhere, and they were actually falling petals. Then he realized that his criticism of Wang Anshi's Yongju poem was wrong.

Chen Ji often looked at him in surprise and hurriedly asked the reason. Su Shi talked about continuing the poem "Yongdai" for Wang Anshi. Chen Jichang said: "Chrysanthemums generally do not fall petals, but Huangzhou is special, chrysanthemums are petals." Everything has its peculiarities. Su Shi realized that he had humbly admitted his mistake to Wang Anshi for the continuation of the poem.

Wang Anshi has a humble heart and doesn't take this matter to heart, but Wang Yan cares very much, and he loses face in front of Yun Yue and Su Shi on weekdays. When he seized this opportunity, he was willing to let it go easily, and the whole world said that it would reduce the status of the Wang family, so he planted Huangzhou chrysanthemums in his yard, and invited literati and ink writers in Beijing to write poems and paintings whenever the chrysanthemums began to fall petals.

In this kind of scene, Su Shi's ugliness will be mentioned again and again. If you want to forget, you can't forget it, and Wang Milling also gave this party a special name called "Gleaning Meeting", specifically satirizing Su Shi's shallow knowledge and needing to regain his past knowledge and learn again.

At this time, although it was only early autumn, the yellow chrysanthemums in the courtyard had already opened up sporadically, and after being welcomed into the house by Wang Anshi, Yun Zheng deliberately stood in front of the flower garden and looked at those yellow chrysanthemums and sighed: "I only hope that at this time next year, Brother Yuan Ze can continue to hold a collection meeting here, compared to life." Personal honor and disgrace really can't be put on the table. ”

Wang Anshi's face is very bad, the hair on the sideburns has a hint of frost, Wang Yan is seriously ill, and the blow to him is very big, he originally wanted to rely on this smart son to inherit his mantle, and now, Wang Yan is only twenty years old, and he is already terminally ill. This makes him feel like a knife, how not to break the liver and sausage!

Listen to Yun Zheng say this. Knowing that there must not be the slightest sarcasm in his words at this time, he said to Yun Zheng painfully: "Yuan Ze, this kid is not very broad-minded, but he will be depressed when there is anything, the original Xiangguo Temple Elder said that as long as Yuan Ze can open his mind, he will have at least ten years of yang life." It's a pity...... Alas! ”

Yun Zheng was silent, took a brocade box from the monkey's hand and handed it to Wang Anshi and said: "There is medicine stored at home, and this three-hundred-year-old ginseng is the most, hoping to relieve Yuan Ze's pain a little." ”

Wang Anshi pushed the brocade box back to Yun Zheng and said: "For Yuan Ze's illness all these years, the hundred-year-old ginseng given by Yunfu has never been cut off. Wang is grateful for this, it's a pity that the medicine doctor doesn't die of disease, Yuan Ze is now exhausted, and it is no longer the function of the medicine stone to save it, such a natural material Baoyun brother should be used for other purposes! ”

Yun Zheng said gloomily: "Is it really a lack of skills?" ”

Wang Anshi nodded painfully, but invited Yun Zheng into the living room to talk.

Yun Zheng picked a yellow chrysanthemum and pinned it to the placket, and said angrily: "The flowers and chrysanthemums in the garden are golden, and there are lonely bushes that are like frost. It's still like today's song banquet, and Pulsatilla enters the juvenile field......"

Wang Anshi burst into tears and said: "At this time, there is no power to return to heaven, and it is in vain to break the liver and intestines, Brother Yun, please enter the hall to speak." ”

Yun Zheng walked into the hall and saw that Pang Ji, who arrived first, had already taken a seat, and there were Han Qi, Wen Yanbo, Ouyang Xiu, Lu Dazhong, Zeng Gongliang, Ding Du, Han Yanshou and others around him, compared to himself, he was the latest to come.

After the confession, Yun Zheng sat down and didn't talk much, he believed that these people came to Wang Anshi's house today in the name of visiting the sick, and there would definitely be some explanations.

Many times the affairs of the Great Song Dynasty are resolved in a few words on such occasions, because there is no emperor here, all kinds of negotiations can be put on the table in a bright and bright way, no matter whether it is an inch in or a retreat, such a scene is not uncommon here.

Pang Ji coughed lightly and said first: "The Liao people first launched an attack in Pingyuan Village, this is the first time that the Liao people broke the Song Liao Pingping Dingtai agreement, how should we deal with it, we must come up with a charter today." ”

Han Qi sneered: "What else can be done, Yun Zheng is still in the capital and is unwilling to leave, and there is no coach in the northwest, how can we fight back?" How? ”

Yun Zheng sneered: "Don't think that you can spew blood here, what evidence is there that the bandit leader of the White Lotus Society and Feng An disappeared to prove that it was me Yun Zheng who did it?" I am also seriously unhappy about this, and if I were to find this troubled man, I would have cut him in two! ”

Wen Yanbo looked at Yun Zheng and said: "The situation in the northwest is staggered, extremely complicated, the Western Xia, Liao, and the Great Song Dynasty are entangled there, why don't Yun Shuai take office as soon as possible to prepare for the upcoming Northern Expedition, Di Qing has everything in place." ”

Yun Zheng looked at Han Qi and said: "Restrain your subordinates in Pingyuan Village, ask them not to easily provoke border provocations, don't think that after arming them with gunpowder shells and war horses, they will be invincible.

Han Gong, I have always wanted to ask one thing, since Yun is the secretary of the military department, why does he not have any binding force on the soldiers and horses of your Hebei Province, these days I have issued three warrants in a row, asking them to keep to themselves, why is no one willing to listen? Do I have to tear my face and engage in military law? ”

Zeng Gongliang interjected: "Yun Shuai, the matter of Pingyuan Village is a trivial matter, if Yun Shuai thinks that they are disrespectful, just deal with it according to military discipline."

A certain family is just strange now, Yun Shuai used to be the first in every war, why did he stay in Tokyo now in the face of war and have nothing to do, what is the reason?

If Yun Shuai thinks that he can't dominate the Northwest Battlefield, please say it as soon as possible, and we can choose a general to go on the expedition as soon as possible! ”

Ouyang Xiu frowned and said: "The Northwest Coach is Yun Shuai, this has been set a long time ago, and now it is a big taboo to change generals in battle, and the old man does not agree." ”

Wang Anshi nodded yes, he also very much agreed with Ouyang Xiu's opinion, the war in the northwest is the most complicated, the three kingdoms have heavy troops there, except for Yun Zheng, he doesn't think anyone can be qualified for the position of commander there.

Then he said to Yun Zheng: "Yun Shuai's delay in not moving out is there another hidden situation?" ”

Yun Zheng glanced at Wang Anshi, patted the armrest of the chair and said: "I haven't left the Western Xia Jingshi yet, the northwest is still peaceful, and this is not a good time for me to dispatch."

I have long said that it is easy to capture Xijing of the Liao State, but it is too difficult to consolidate the results of the war, and when the Great Song Dynasty and the Liao State fought with each other, it happened to be the time when the evil wolf of Western Xia picked up the cheap, therefore, in the northwest land, it was definitely not my Great Song who launched the first wave of attacks. ”

Ding Du asked: "In Yun Shuai's opinion, how likely is it that he didn't hide Pang to launch it first?" ”

Yun Zheng shook his head and said: "It's very difficult, this time I ordered Yun Yue to kill his son-in-law and the envoy of Western Xia in Tokyo, and I wanted to use this method to force Wuzang Pang to march first, but I didn't expect this person to be able to endure to such an extent, and there is still no action until now." ”

Han Qi sneered and said: "Hugh wants to make an excuse for your brother to kill his son-in-law, if the old man didn't hide the slander and suffered such humiliation, he would rather send troops to attack the Great Song Dynasty first!" ”

Yun Zheng spread his hands and said: "I'd rather not hide Pang to attack the Great Song Dynasty first, and wake up those of you who think that you can come to the aid of Pang without hiding it, in this way, after the situation is clear, I will lead the troops to the north."

I repeat, any idea that you can be trusted without hiding a false is extremely dangerous, and this thought must be completely removed from our minds, only in this way can we have the possibility of victory in the Northern Expedition. ”

Pang Ji frowned and said, "Yun Shuai thinks that if Xixia didn't hide Pang, it would be bad for my Great Song Dynasty?" Think he'll stab us in the back while we're fighting the Liao? ”

Yun Zheng nodded and said, "That's right!" ”

Wang Anshi said embarrassedly: "Yun Shuai, such an assertion must have enough arguments to be made, and the credibility of saying it with such empty words and white teeth is very low. ”

Yun Zheng smiled: "Because that's what I think." ”

Wen Yanbo looked at Yun Zheng in surprise and said, "Yun Shuai means that if you don't hide and choose to march into the Liao Kingdom from Montenegro, you don't plan to attack the Liao, but you will choose to raid the Western Xia?" ”

Yun Zheng said with a smile: "What the privy envoy said is very right, that's what I plan, as long as there is a chance to sneak attack in the northwest and not hide the false Pang, I will definitely not let it go!" ”

Pang Ji said: "In this way, the one who picks up the cheap will become the Liao State, which is not in line with our overall plan." ”

Yun Zheng sighed heavily and said: "In fact, the current Liao State is no longer in any danger to the Great Song Dynasty, and this expedition, the sixteen states of Yanyun will definitely be able to go down in one go."

The only thing that worries us is that in the past five years, we are recuperating and recuperating, and the Liao State continues to be corrupted, while the Western Xia is aggressive, not only successfully defeating the Uighurs and expanding their power to the land of the river, but also accumulating hundreds of thousands of capable warriors in these five years.

Therefore, the greatest threat to the Great Song Dynasty is not the Liao State, but the Western Xia, and before the attitude of the Western Xia people is determined, I will definitely not go to Yanmen Pass to increase the possibility of war between the Song and Liao! (To be continued.) )

PS: Chapter 2