The contradiction between Cai Jing and Cai You's father and son was buried many years ago, when Cai Jing entered the dynasty as a list of cronies, appointed doormen, promoted a large number of people, and arranged official positions for them that were red and purple and rich and oily, and for his two eldest sons Cai You and Cai Zhen, one was the secretary from the eighth grade, and the other was the guard from the seventh grade, Cai Jing ignored it and did not mention the word promotion at all. The emperor wanted to promote Cai You, but Cai Jing not only did not help, but repeatedly thanked him, saying that the eldest son was too shallow to do the important job of Qing Dynasty, and the emperor was not allowed to resign, and Cai Jing transferred him to assist in revising the "Orthodox History of Shenzong".

Who wants to engage in the drudgery of racking their brains, of course, this caused the dissatisfaction of the two sons, and now go to the daddy theory, and ask Cai Jing You have to have a limit to lead by example, why don't you avoid relatives inside, why are you so mean to the most reliable son? Cai You asked his father to arrange him a powerful position that could attract wealth and wealth; Cai Cheng was also very unhappy, although the guard officer was close to the emperor, he stood on both sides of the palace like a wooden man when he went to court, and when he went out, he ran back and forth with the guards, like a miscellaneous subordinate, what is the future of this? Also asked for a change of place.

Cai Jing did not promise his two sons, but taught his brothers a lesson, saying that the old man was a person who favored the emperor and a person with merit, and vigorously protected him, appearing to be impartial and selfless. If I use my power to arrange my own son, the official will be impeached, the people will discuss, and the emperor will be suspicious. A few years ago, Zeng Bu was in power, first promoted his younger brother and son, and then prepared to promote his own in-laws, which was criticized by the ministers. As a result, he was dismissed from his post. Because it's small, it's big.

So the top priority is not to promote you, but the power of the old man needs to be consolidated, if you want to keep power, the most fundamental thing is to gain the trust of the emperor, and the emperor is not completely at ease with me, sending you to the emperor's side is undercover, and when your father has a firm foothold, it is not too late to promote you, what kind of official can you be at that time!

After hearing this, Cai You and the two Cai Cheng sons were enlightened. praised his father's wisdom, so he went to work with peace of mind and waited for the opportunity, but this was more than ten years. Cai You can't wait to rely on his own efforts. Patting the horse and sending a woman to be a harlequin won the emperor's favor and the emperor became an iron buddy, and was promoted to the rank of captain. But his ultimate goal is to be promoted to Zaizhi, but his seventy-year-old father Cai Jing has no intention of backing down, and even wants to promote his preferred youngest son Cai Zhen to become the successor of Xiangye, and give him a ride before retiring with honor.

The struggle for power is definitely not gentle and humble, and they often meet each other with each other, and the six relatives do not know each other. Cai You has worked hard for so many years, and he is almost fifty years old, but he waited for such a result, of course, he was angry bullfighting. Holding back his strength to destroy Cai Jing and get rid of his unlucky brother, of course, the opportunity is reserved for those who are prepared, and this opportunity will come soon...

Since ancient times, robbers have teamed up to rob and share the spoils. After Tong Guan went to the 'Ping Yan Ce', after two years of hard negotiations and preparations, there was finally a result, Cai Jing and Tong Guan were allies back then, and they must have spared no effort to support them, and even joined forces to get rid of Deng Xunwu of the Privy Council, but when they were competing for the power to preside over the invasion of Liao. The two had serious disagreements, and even did not hesitate to expose each other's shortcomings and report their own ugliness.

Although Cai Jing is in Beijing, he knows Tong Guan quite well and exposes what he did in the northwest one by one. Attacking him for abusing military power, making false reports and making meritorious contributions, corrupting military discipline, damaging military prestige, forming a party for personal gain, and even shaking out Gao Yongnian's death, of course, he can't get rid of these things. Tong Guan was recommended by him, and he was also the one who supported Tong Guan's command of the northwest, and he could only ask the emperor for guilt, in fact, it was mainly Cai Jing to Tong Guan who was now ranked as the third duke, and he was in the same column as himself, and he was resentful and jealous.

The result of the dispute between the two was that the emperor distrusted Tong Guan and reconsidered the candidate for the commander of the Liao War, and then Zhao Ta took charge of Hedong with the secret support of the emperor, in order to monitor and divide Tong Guan's military power, and vigorously promoted Wang Huang, Li Bangyan and other cronies to contain Cai Jing's power in the court, and the two could be said to have lost both. The two forces of the DPRK and China rose rapidly under the support of the emperor, one was Zhao Ta in the northwest, who had won great prestige in the Hedong Army after several battles, and the power in his hands was enough to compete with Tong Guan; The other is Wang Huang, who has now begun to preside over the government. Although Cai Jing is still the nominal head of the civil officials, his right to speak is not as good as before, but the tiger is old and heroic, and he is sitting in that position, so Wang Hao and the others can't let go of their hands and feet. …,

Cai Jing and the emperor's internal conversation was soon known to Tong Guan, this is to die to fix himself, Tong Guan is also anxious, and immediately contacted a chess piece laid by himself, he is Cai You. These two people are close relatives and friends, although Tong Guan is a eunuch, he has married several daughters-in-law, among which the eldest lady Xu Xixi is still a matchmaker made by Cai Jing, but Hongxing went out of the wall and slept with Cai You. Things in the world are so weird, Cai You gave his wife to the emperor to enjoy, but went to sleep with someone else's wife.

Tong Guan would not be ignorant of this, but he did not scream but secretly connived at the two, so relying on Mrs. diplomacy, the two became close comrades-in-arms, of course, the main reason was interests. The two of them privately agreed that Cai You would come forward to persuade Cai Jing to support Tong Guan as the coach of the war against Liao, and after the matter was completed, Tong Guan reciprocated and recommended Cai You as the second marshal, but things did not go well, Cai You was a nose every time, and Cai Jing was silent about it.

At this time, Cai You was not the former Wuxia Ameng, but a close minister of the emperor, and he had several powerful friends such as Wang Hao by his side, and he asked Wang Hao to help facilitate this matter. Wang Huang is not happy, of course, it is a hit, he thinks that now the emperor is not happy with Cai Jing, it is a good time to do it, and once he does it, he will be rectified to death, and Cai Jing will be ousted from power, at that time he monopolized the government, and it is not easy to do something, so it happened that Cai You broke into Cai Jing's mansion and called his father in front of everyone.

After all, it was his father, and Cai You didn't want to do too much, so he saluted first and then soldiers, and began to mobilize Cai Jing to resign early, retire from the office, and give up the post to young people, but Cai Jing was not interested, and resolutely refused to leave the leadership position, and wanted to die for the country and the emperor. I want to mobilize my dad to retire is hopeless, and I discussed it with a few buddies, everyone thinks that fighting snakes will not die but will suffer from it, and several of us are all ruling on the court, and we are just an old immortal, so we simply don't do two endlessly, and he can do the retirement thing.

So, there was an application from Taishi Cai on the emperor's desk to ask for Zhishi, but according to the rules, the ministers resigned, and the emperor wanted to stay three times, which seemed that the emperor paid attention to the national body and gave face, so the resignation form was returned, and a few boys were on the table again, and Taishi Cai didn't know that he was retired, and he really played with the eagle for a lifetime, and he was pecked by the eagle who had raised him for half his life...

But things are always planned to catch up with the changes, Tong Guan and Cai You have just planned to draw up, he also stabilized the situation with the help of the Hedong Army, and prepared to negotiate peace with Western Xia, the emperor sent a negotiation mission headed by Cai You, but the situation in the northwest suddenly changed. The emperor immediately repented, suppressed Cai Jingzhishi's entry table, and although he did not recall the mission, he left them in Taiyuan to wait for the next instructions, and divided these people into three ways.

Zhao Ji often handles national politics unconventionally, just like he writes and paints, with a stroke of the pen, chic and elegant. When making major decisions, he often relies on whims, inattentiveness, capriciousness, and refuses to admit it, but he also has a bottom line, that is, he cannot threaten his own safety, otherwise Cai Jing will not have the previous three ups and downs, which also shows from the side that the power of the country has always been in his hands.

It is an ideal to reconcile with each other, and every king knows that once the prime minister and his own life will be sad, it will inevitably lead to the fall of the imperial power, and the courtiers will control the government, so it has always been for them to fight, and the emperor mediates between them, which is the source of the left and right, and both factions need the support of the emperor, so they have to be honest and obedient.

Zhao Ji learned from Zhao Ta's letter that Tong Guan actually wanted to give up the good situation in front of him, and wanted to return to the dynasty to attack Liao, at the expense of his son, and thought that he promoted Wang Hao, Cai You and others to contain Cai Jing's power, but once Cai Jing became a leader, and several upstarts took the position, will they repeat the mistakes of the past? And it is not a good thing for Cai Youzhi and Tong Guan to collude together, and this sign must be pinched off. …,

Therefore, Zhao Ji supported his son's meritorious achievements, making Zhao Ta's position more stable in the army, and making Tong Guan feel that there was no one in the army, and his son was also the god of war. At the same time, Tong Guan felt that these upstarts were unreliable, and they had to move closer to themselves. Keeping Cai Jing for the time being also made the upstarts feel threatened from time to time, and they did not dare to move, and successfully took advantage of his son's great victory to re-divide the various forces in the court.

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At the end of July, Zhao Ta led the army straight down to Youzhou, Yanzhou, extended the city post road to the west to approach Lingzhou, this road can be described as very hard, the post road runs through the Hanhai, although it is full of lakes, but it is a salt lake, the water is bitter and people can not drink, and, the land salinization is serious, not suitable for farming, the settlement population is sparse, and it is even more difficult to see people after the Chibi of Xixia clears the wilderness. Here is the famous salt pond in the meandering region of the Tang Dynasty, the Wu Pond, the White Pond, the Thin Neck Pond and the Tile Kiln Pond are all distributed here, presenting a gentle slope hilly landform between the two states to the west, the land is vast, and a mountain beam across the north and south forms a watershed

That night, the army stayed in Baichi City at night, Zhao Ta sent scouts to explore the road, looking for a guide, he ate something and then summoned the generals to discuss tomorrow's action, at this time the Shaanxi army was blocked in Mingshacheng and Pule City respectively, it was difficult to conquer in a short time, the two armies would attack Lingzhou's plan to fail, and they had to face the Lingzhou Xia army alone. At this time, it is the autumn harvest season, for the grain that is about to be harvested, the Xia army will inevitably fight to the death, and the loyal army only carries 20 days of grain and grass, and the supply will depend on Xiazhou, which is 300 miles away, which will be very difficult, and the competition for autumn grain has become their only choice... (To be continued.) If you like this work, you are welcome to (.) to vote for recommendation, monthly pass, your support is my biggest motivation. )