The north wind is blowing.

At the end of the hour, Su Song got down from the carriage, and the Si Tian Supervisor hurriedly stepped forward to support the old boss.

Su Song waved his hand kindly: "It's okay, I'm not old enough to walk." ”

The prisoner smiled and said yes.

Su Song looked up at the gold-lettered plaque, looked at the sky again, and muttered: "Old Shen, I burned paper money for you last time, so you came to your dream, saying that you are in the south, and you don't want to be around, just think about your pile of treasures in Si Tianjian, I will take a look for you today......"

The eunuch beside Su Song was made to this position by the junior official in the prison, although the official quality is still only seven grades, Si Tianjian's past is clear.

When he heard Su Song say this, he knew that "Old Shen" referred to Shen Kuo, who was promoted by Si Tianjian when Yingzong was in power, and his face was also four or five points pale.

At the beginning of the year, the news came that Shen Kuo drove a crane west in the south of the Yangtze River, and this prisoner also made a sacrifice for wine.

Su Song's gaze fell, he glanced at the prisoner, and teased: "Well, thirty years ago, you weren't as weak as the crown, you were a clever person on Shen Gong's lips at that time, why are you still a blue-robed official now?" ”

The eunuch was stunned for a moment, and only muttered: "Xiaguan followed Shen Gong to build an armillary sphere, and later followed Su Gong to build a water transport instrument statue, Xiaguan felt that he had no regrets in this life. ”

The approving meaning in Su Song's eyes deepened.

Si Tianjian returned to the Zhongshu for a while, and returned to the Ministry of Rites for a while, but it was all nominal, in fact, this astronomical calendar institution, because it was regarded as being able to talk to the heavens and explain the auspiciousness of the heavenly phenomena, has always been controlled by the Son of Heaven himself.

If Si Tianjian mixes well, he will change his green robe to Zhu Zi in about ten years, and even move his nest to the door of Zhongshu and be called "Pavilion Elder", it is also possible. The prisoner in front of him is also almost fifty years old, with such old qualifications, but he is still wearing a seventh-grade official robe, which shows that he is not good at drilling camps.

Su Song smiled at him: "Lao Shen values you, it really makes sense." You can keep his pile of treasures. ”

Although Jian Cheng was grateful for the recognition of these old bosses, he didn't dare to delay with Su Song at the door.

"Su Gong, go in, the official family is already inside."

"Ah, you, why didn't you say it earlier!" Su Song said angrily, while lifting his robe and walking towards the courtyard, he asked again, "It's just been handed over, and it's so early to put the court today?" ”

"Su Gong, drop out of the dynasty today."

"Dropout?"

The eunuch said worriedly: "The lower officials don't know why, but just after the hour, the imperial driver came to Si Tianjian." The official family, the official family has been standing in front of the ceremonial platform for half an hour. ”

……

"Official, the old minister is late, please forgive the official."

Zhao Xu, the Son of Heaven, heard this old and familiar voice behind him, turned around and stared at Su Song's white hair that emerged from the brim of his crown.

"What is Su Gong's crime? How did Su Gong know that I would drop out of the dynasty today. ”

Zhao Xu spoke softly, but Su Song clearly captured the hesitation in the tone of the young emperor.

Zhao Xu said again: "Winter is coming, the sky is already so cold, I still have to invite Su Gong out and accompany me to sit in the courtyard of Si Tianjian that is ventilated on all sides, I should declare my guilt to Su." ”

When Su Song heard this, it was not so much that he was sincerely afraid, but that he was sad for a while.

In the face of the Ninth Five-Year Supreme, even the crown prince is the first to talk about the monarch and the minister, and then the father and son, and it is not good to treat the relatives and relatives like ordinary cloth families. However, the young man of the Zhao family in front of him is indeed his old Su, who grew up.

Looking at the dragon robe on his body, from the size of a child, to a teenager, and now, this robe is finally the same size as the one worn by the first emperor.

Su Song remembered that on the first day of the official family, although there was a solemn face in the curtain behind him, the Empress Dowager Gao was still stunned. In the face of the courtesy of the ministers, the nine-year-old child's voice trembled when he said the words "Zhongqing's family is flat".

Su Song humbly thought that for the official family, the Manchu Dynasty could not find a second minister like him who knew how to take care of the young emperor.

And the protection of this Son of Heaven for him now also proves that he Su Song has not missed the celestial phenomena and people.

The official family could have become a generation of benevolent monarchs.

Zhao Xu led Su Song to sit on the chair, picked up the sencha served inside, seemed to want to drink, and put it down.

"Duke Su, I still remember that during the Yuan You period, the imperial court ordered you to supervise the construction of this water transport instrument platform, I had just inherited the unification of the first emperor at that time, but in fact I was still a child's heart, and I often begged the empress dowager to come to Sitian to see you build the platform."

Su Song's face showed kindness: "The official family has been here three times, and every time he comes, he will ask a lot of questions to the ministers. ”

Zhao Xu's eyes were confused, and he suddenly asked, "Su Gong, can you only see the stars in the sky on this platform?" ”

Su Song was stunned: "What the official said, the old minister is stupid, I don't know what the official wants to ask?" ”

Zhao Xu sighed and said: "I Fangcai, looking at the water transport instrument elephant platform you built for the national dynasty back then, how I hope that a god can walk down from the platform and tell me plainly that after I became a pro-government, some things were not done wrong." I used those people, did I use them wrong? If not, why did I suffer such a catastrophe for the first time in the hands of the Song Dynasty for more than 100 years. If so, I really can't think of what I did wrong, and I can't think of where Zhang and Cai are wrong, where the imperial historians are wrong, and where the river discussion of the Ministry of Industry is wrong. ”

Zhao Xu's eyes looked at the tall astronomical bronze platform, but his emotions were obviously excited.

"My grandmother, it was only because I was young that I got the opportunity to be in power, what qualifications does she have to stop the great cause of rebellion against the previous emperor?"

"Sima Guang, how many scribes in the world admire him, but in my opinion, he is just a coward, a hypocrite. It was just a matter of him selling the Northwest Prefectures that the Great Song Army had fought bloodily to the Western Xia barbarians, and he was also a villain in the court. If he really has a good character, how could he rely on the power of the Empress Dowager Xuanren to recover and cultivate a group of filthy henchmen? Although he is dead, the ghost is still gone, and those henchmen of his can actually exile my prime minister Cai Qu to Lingnan? What am I considered in their eyes? Is there still the majesty of the Son of Heaven? Su Gong, how can I not hate Yuan You's courtiers? ”

"Su Shi, a scholar of Su University, what can he do except for beautiful articles and being good at writing and scolding Huai? Su Zhe, the head of the household, if the three envoys are still set up, he can be called a prime minister, but did he get me the military expenses of the Western Army? In addition to arguing with the Ministry of Industry Shangshu over whether the Yellow River should be brought back to its old ways, what else can he do? Why can't Zhang Xianggong degrade the second Su? ”

Zhao Xu said this, coughing violently.

The cough further caused him to feel a deep discomfort, and he clutched his heart, and his face showed a look of pain.

The waiter who was waiting for him was so frightened that he hurriedly took out a small porcelain bottle from his sleeve, poured a pill in his palm, and served it to Zhao Xu urgently and fearfully.

Zhao Xu didn't hesitate, picked up the bowl of water that had already been prepared by the teacup, and swallowed it with the pill.