"Du Chong doesn't know the crime." Looking at Zhang Chengbo sitting on the main seat, Du Chong replied proudly.

"You? burned the baggage, fled from the battle, and plundered the place...... Are you not aware of your sin? ”

"The prime minister once said that if you don't dig the river, if the court punishes you, you deserve it. Do you want to go back on it? ”

"You? If you don't wait to dig the river, you will burn the grain and leave, which is really unreasonable. ”

"When the minister said this, he wanted to regret it and should not be responsible." Du Chong said, "I'm afraid that I can't be fair, I have already written to the court, let the court judge right and wrong." ”

This is already Zheng County, and you can go back and forth within a day from Bianliang, Du Chong arrived a day first, and he thought that he had already sent the watch seal to the court.

Under the nose of the imperial court, Zhang Chengbo didn't want to leave a reputation for domineering. He said hatefully: "Okay, wait for me to write to the court and let the court deal with it." ”

The imperial court has received three stamps: one is the impeachment of Du Chong for digging the Yellow River by Zhang Suo transferred by Huyan Geng, one is the impeachment of Zhang Chengbo for interfering in military affairs, resulting in the loss of Xiangzhou, and the other is the last to arrive, Zhang Chengbo participated in the impeachment of Du Chong for escaping from the battle, and he should be punished.

Zhang Suo is a servant of the imperial history, his bullet seal went to the imperial history platform, and was directly delivered to the emperor, and Zhao Chen first saw this bullet seal. He was studying to be an emperor, so he kept this bullet seal in the middle first.

On the day of the early dynasty, Zhao Chen was silent and waited for the ministers to perform. The deacons still played a few things that were not painful and waited for the emperor's imperial approval.

Zhao Chen saw that no one mentioned Du Chong, nor did anyone mention Zhang Chengbo, Zhao Chen endured for more than an hour, and finally couldn't help itchy, and said: "Hebei West Road to appease the envoy, the palace servant Shi Zhang participated in the impeachment of the Xiangwei to appease Du Chong, the Qing family can know the reason." ”

Hearing this, Huang Qianshan looked up at Li Gang.

After they received the seal that Zhang Chengbo and Du Chong attacked each other, Huang Qianshan made a difficulty.

Zhang Chengbo served as the transfer envoy of Hebei Liangludu, Du Chong first served in Cangzhou, and then fled to the Daimyo, they together with Wang Boyan and Huang Qianshan, during the siege of Jingkang, gathered under the banner of King Kang Zhao Gou, all of them were the advisers of the Generalissimo of Hebei, and they were all Kang Party in a broad sense.

Whether it is recommending Du Chong to succeed Zong Ze as the pacification envoy, or recommending Zhang Chengbo to serve as the imperial envoy to raise the big river and go to the river to patrol the sky, it is Huang Qianshan's efforts to strengthen the strength of the Hebei Gang. In Huang Qianshan's view, there are himself and Zhang Chengbo in Zaizhi, Du Chong and Zhang Yiqian on the Hebei front, and Wang Boyan in the southern wealth, and a closely connected "Hebei Gang" has been formed.

When Zhang Chengbo took the opportunity of the inspection to eradicate Hu Yangeng, the Hebei Gang became an insultable force from the middle book to the locality, from the civil servants to the generals.

But unexpectedly, the seal handed over by Zhang Chengbo was not an impeachment of Hu Yangeng, but an internal conflict with Du Chong.

Zhang Chengbo and Du Chong's seals were handed to the capital through the Yintai Division, and the four governors in Beijing saw the two seals almost together. When Li Gang saw these two seals, he remembered the report sent by Hu Yangeng. He asked Huang Qianshan: "Huang Zuocheng, do you think this matter is right and wrong?" ”

Huang Qianshan was speechless for a while, and then said, "Li Xianggong, take a step to speak." ”

When the two arrived outside, Huang Qianshan said: "Zhang Youcheng and Du Anfu are all ministers, they must misunderstand, I should persuade them to endure each other for the country." ”

Li Gang said: "Zhang Youcheng can raise 500,000 yuan within a month, and he is recognized as a capable minister, Du Anfu may not be, he first lost his name, and then abandoned Xiangzhou......"

"Xianggong," Huang Qianshan almost pleaded, "Hebei West Road is lost, all rely on Du Chong's support, no matter who is right or wrong, it is not appropriate to recall Du Gongmei back to Bianliang." ”

"What is Huang Zuocheng's opinion?"

"Let Hebei East and West Road fulfill their duties, and everyone will endure each other for the country." Huang Qianshan mentioned Hebei East Road, which means that he will not pursue Zhang Yiqian's matter, and let Hu Yangeng and Du Chong fool around together.

Li Gang thought about it, at the moment, the Hebei marshal could not be easily changed, he promised Huang Qianshan that this time he would suppress it first, and then make plans when the Jin soldiers retreated.

Subsequently, Li Gang obtained the consent of He Li and Sun Fu, and the two seals were temporarily left in the capital hall. If none of the governors mentioned it, the matter would have passed. But unexpectedly, Zhao Chen mentioned it in the court.

Li Gang saw that Huang Qianshan was looking at him, so he stood up and said calmly: "Du Chong wanted to dig the river and flooded the Jin soldiers, but it was indeed a thing, and he thought that he was blocked by Zhang Yu. ”

"Why did Zhang Zhengzhi stop it?"

"It's hard to say how many Jin soldiers can be drowned in the river digging in Xiangzhou, and the people on both sides of the Yellow River will be displaced."

"According to what Li Xiang said, how many people will be harmed by the strategy of digging the river?"

"On both sides of the great river, the people suffered."

"Victimized? How many people? Zhao Chen was serious. This was originally a young man who was not familiar with government affairs, so he asked casually, but Li Gang was stumped.

Li Gang is a famous minister, but the reason why he is famous and admired is because of his integrity and uprightness, not because of his ability to govern affairs. How many people will be displaced by digging up the Yellow River? This is an engineering problem, far beyond what the "general affairs" of the Song Dynasty could achieve.

Seeing that Li Gang was actually asked, Zhao Chen came down to his senses: "If you dig a river in Xiangzhou, how many golden soldiers can you drown?" Didn't Xianggong ask? ”

Huang Qianshan felt that it was an opportunity: "The minister has advice. ”

Zhao Chen turned his head: "Aiqing, please speak." ”

"The minister thinks that it has been used since ancient times to lead water to attack the enemy. Although the number of enemies killed and civilians killed is not clear, the flooding of the Seventh Army is here and should be feasible. It can be quickly ascertained by Du Charge. ”

"If a river is dug up, the people will suffer." Li Gang said angrily, "How can Huang Zuocheng use this unkind plan. ”

"Li Xianggong, the one who flooded the Seventh Army was Guan Yunchang, and the sage praised him, Guan Yunchang has the righteousness of the Spring and Autumn Period, how can such a strategy used by a benevolent and righteous person be unkind?"

Li Gang was still arguing, and Zhao Chen said: "Li Xianggong, I thought this was a clever plan. Zhao Chen's face lit up: "Li Xianggong can ask Gyeonggi Province to visit and see how many people have been harmed, and then move them away." ”

Huang Qianshan said: "Your Majesty is benevolent, just let the people move away, and the news will leak." ”

"What does the ruling think?"

"There is a saying in Du Chong's seal, 'It is necessary to achieve a famous Guan Yunchang with countless nameless Guan Yunchang'."

"It's not right." Zhao Chen drank to stop Huang Qianshan.

Li Gang thought that things had taken a turn for the better, so he slapped his ass on the back: "Your Majesty Shengming." ”

Zhao Chen said: "Guan Yu is a courtier after all, how can he be famous?" It should be 'with countless nameless Guan Yunchang, to achieve a famous Liu Xuande'. Speaking of this, Zhao Chen stood up: "Back then, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty had a plan of Ma Yi, but it was unsuccessful, if I ordered troops for the first time, I would be able to flood the Seventh Army, and the feat would far surpass that of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty." ”

Li Gang found that the situation was wrong, didn't he say that Zhang Chengbo and Du Chong impeached each other? How did it become a plan to dig the river? Li Gang advised: "The move of digging the river is unkind, and once it is implemented, it will greatly lose the support of the people."

Li Gang didn't notice the recent changes in Zhao Chen, Zhao Chen's mind was full of imitation of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty and revenge for the revenge of the ninth generation, as for the people, "Li Xianggong is too worried, when Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty raised horses, he killed his sons, and now the people only remember to seal the wolf." As long as I really destroy the gold thief, the people will only remember my clever plan to flood the gold soldiers. ”

The emperors of the Zhao family, regardless of the previous generations, starting from Shenzong Zhao Zuo, all had the fault of negligence, they did not care about the life and death of the people, but when they had a more important goal in their hearts, they did not realize the impact on the people at all. For example, Zhao Ji's Huashi Gang, he just thought that they were some useless stones that would not cause damage to anyone, and he was by no means intentionally instructed Zhu Mian to force the people to go bankrupt.

Similarly, Zhao Chen was fascinated by the exploits of "surpassing the Han Dynasty", and he had no time to consider the problems of the people. All in all, the emperors of the late Northern Song Dynasty made some harmful decisions because of their lack of administrative experience, and the root cause was "stupid" in a certain aspect, not really bad.

As a 14-year-old boy, he had no idea about the impact of digging up the Yellow River and the harm it would do to the people. Li Gang couldn't care less, if he didn't stop him, the infamy would spread for 800 years, until another time when the scope of influence was wider and more dead people began to dig the Yellow River.

Li Gang admonished bitterly. Zhao Chen said: "Let's make words in Chinese books." ”

Sun Fu was a Chinese scholar, and he didn't dare to let the emperor dig the Yellow River, so he returned the prefix. If the Chinese book does not make words, the program will not be able to go down. Zhao Chen was furious, and was about to scold the Zaizhi for a bloody meeting, but when he saw Li Gang standing below with a sinking face, he cowered again.

After all, this matter was fruitless, and the dynasty was dispersed. Huang Qianshan left first, walked in a sedan chair for a while and then returned, asking to see the emperor at the palace gate.

Zhao Chen summoned Huang Qianshan and said: "Li Xianggong doesn't think about how to kill the gold thief, Jin says some pedantic words. The gold thief will not retreat, and the people will not perish in the water, but they will also perish in captivity. ”

"The emperor is sage, but the prince is also benevolent." Huang Qianshan helped Li Gang speak.

"Li Xiang has a lot of runs on Aiqing on weekdays, and Aiqing doesn't care about past suspicions, but instead helps Li Xiang speak, and he is also a righteous person."

"The emperor is sage, and the ministers just don't dare to damage their official affairs because of personal grudges."

"Aiqing is humble, and he neglected Aiqing in the past."

"Wechen doesn't dare." After being humble, Huang Qianshan began to get to the point: "Your Majesty, the minister thinks that it is feasible to dig the river and destroy the captives. ”

Zhao Chen pursed his lips, what's the use of you talking to me, "It's a pity that the Chinese book is not intended to be purposed." Everyone only cares about their own reputation, and has no interest in national affairs. ”

"I can't write a purpose in this matter." Huang Qianshan defended Sun Fu again, "If the river is dug up, more or less, there will always be people who will suffer, if the order comes from the Chinese book, then everyone knows that it is His Majesty's idea, and this grievance is attributed to the emperor." ”

"Then what does Aiqing think to do?"

"Please use a private seal to issue a handwritten letter, and let Du Chong do it. After the deed is completed, the credit goes to His Majesty, and the grievance goes to Du Chong. ”

"In that case, then why bother writing a handbook, wouldn't it be good for Aiqing to tell Du Chong directly?"

"I am only afraid of the bad things of pedantic ministers, so I want to rebuke them with a letter from Your Majesty."

"And what if they leak my orders?" Zhao Chen was still a little afraid of leaving notoriety.

"They don't have the guts. How can a man slander the king? ”