When Fan Ning returned to Zhu Yuanfeng's mansion after lunch, he unexpectedly found his second uncle Fan Tiege sitting on the steps at the gate, and Zhu Yuanfeng stood aside helplessly.

"He's back!"

Fan Tiege was like a spring, his fat body jumped up, rushed to Fan Ning like a gust of wind, and roared with his neck straight: "I've been waiting for you for almost an hour, and I haven't even eaten lunch!" ”

Fanning looked at the second uncle a little dumbfounded, and he suddenly remembered what Akihito had said to him, "The most important thing in my father's life is to eat!" ’

What is it that makes the second uncle not even care about eating?

"Second uncle, don't worry, tell me what happened first?"

"Look at this!"

Fan Tiege took out a long wooden box from his bag and opened it in front of Fan Ning's eyes, and Fan Ning's gaze suddenly became grim.

In the box was an arrow, two feet and three inches of wolf's tooth arrow, the tip of the arrow was still flashing with a blue sharp light, and next to the wolf's tooth arrow was a piece of paper, the paper was poked by the arrow, and a sentence was written on the paper bloodily:

'Abandon the house within three days!' ’

The meaning of this sentence is that leaving people in three days and leaving the house behind is simply an extremely arrogant threat.

"When was this arrow letter discovered?" Fanning asked calmly.

"Just this morning, a whoosh shot from the outside almost hit a guy and nailed it to the table leg."

Fan Tiege was angry, hateful and anxious: "It was shot from the wall of the Great Xiangguo Temple opposite." ”

"Did you report to the police?" Fanning asked again.

"Did you use the fart of the official last time, will it make sense to report to the official this time?"

Fan Ning shook his head, "I didn't mean to go to the county government to report to the official, but to go to Kaifeng Mansion to report the case!" ”

The governor of Kaifeng Prefecture is Bao Zheng, how can he not care about this matter?

Fan Tiege slapped his head hard, "I'll go now!" ”

Fan Ning grabbed him and smiled: "Second uncle, don't worry, eat first, let's go together after eating!" ”

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Bao Zheng sat in the back hall, listening to Fan Tiege's narration with a light black beard, Bao Zheng's current official position is Zhikaifeng Mansion, Kaifeng Mansion Yin is the highest position, generally the royal family is concurrent, there is no real power, Zhikaifeng Mansion sounds like a dispatch officer, but it is actually the highest official of Kaifeng Mansion.

Many of Bao Zheng's stories in later generations happened on this official position, when he became the governor of Kaifeng Mansion, his opponent was not Pang Taishi, but Zhang Yaozuo.

The chief official of the capital is not easy to do, it is easy to offend people, and those who offend are powerful, so it generally does not last long, and it has been like this since the Han and Tang dynasties.

However, Bao Zheng sat very firmly, and did it well, the key is that the Son of Heaven trusts him, believes that he has no selfishness, and his iron-faced selflessness can suppress all kinds of arrogance in the capital, and also save the Son of Heaven a lot of troubles.

After Bao Zheng listened to Fan Tiege's statement, he thought quietly for a moment, and then asked Fan Ning, "What do you want?" ”

Fanning laughed, "Can I take that?" ”

Bao Zheng also smiled and said to Fan Tiege: "Old Fan, I know you're busy, you go back first!" I took this case, and someone will come to contact you when I come back, don't worry, just do business with peace of mind. ”

Fan Tiege thanked him and left, and Bao Zheng smiled: "Come with me for a cup of tea!" ”

Fan Ning knew very well in his heart that there were some things that could not be said in the yamen.

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Next to Kaifeng Mansion is Qingfeng Teahouse, but there are many people here, Bao Zheng took Fanning's carriage to the small Hongluo Teahouse in the north, which is also a good grade boutique teahouse, the feature is in a small word, a two-story building, twelve teaplaces, three elegant rooms, the sound insulation is very good, of course, the price is not expensive, drink tea here, at least ten yuan to start.

The two entered a private room on the second floor, and a tea lady ordered tea for them to perform, and after a round of drinking, a pot of fried tea was brought in.

Cha Ji retreated knowingly, this is the rule of the teahouse, when a man talks, Cha Ji can't be present.

"Now you speak! What do you want to do with this case? ”

Fanning was silent for a moment and said, "Let them burn!" ”

Bao Zheng was stunned, and immediately understood, "Take Song Zhen by chance?" ”

Fanning nodded, "If it's possible, Zhang Qu will take it together!" ”

Bao Zheng was silent, Bao Zheng was just and selfless, but it did not mean that he did not have a political position, on the contrary, his political position was very strong, that is, in order to maintain orthodoxy, in Bao Zheng's eyes, Empress Cao was orthodox, so in this battle for the emperor's heir, Bao Zheng clearly supported Zhao Zongshi.

What's more, what Fan Ning did was by no means for his own interests, but for the future of the Great Song Dynasty, and in order for the Great Song Dynasty not to fall into the hands of traitors, Bao Zheng had no reason not to help him.

"Why do you think they're going to set fires? Also, can you guarantee that those boys will be there? ”

Fan Ning said lightly: "Zhang Yaozuo has already burned down Zhu Yuanfeng's Zhu Building, it is this matter that they decided to do it in advance, they will definitely follow suit, as for whether they will be at the scene, I can't be sure, but if you catch the arsonist, you can dig them out." ”

"What about your second uncle?"

"I'll convince him to go back and build a more stylish shop."

Bao Zheng sighed and said, "This time I made an exception for your kid!" ”

Fanning took a sip of tea and smiled slightly: "It's just the first thing!" ”

"What else?"

"And there's Zhang Yaozuo, he wants to create Ruizhao!"

"What?" Bao Zheng's eyes widened suddenly.

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Coming out of the teahouse, Fanning asked the carriage to send Bao Zheng back to the official, and he walked back to Zhu Yuanfeng's mansion by himself.

On the surface, the competition between Zhao Zongshi and Zhao Wenyun is for the throne, but if you look at it from the context of the origin, this battle for the imperial heir is actually an extension of the struggle for the imperial court line since the Qingli Reform.

Zhao Zongshi's supporters are basically Fan Zhongyan's faction, including Han Qi, Fu Bi, Pang Ji, Bao Zheng and others, while Zhao Wenyun's supporters, Zhang Yaozuo, Jia Changchao, Song Zhen, Zhang Sheng and others, are almost all opposition to Qingli Reform.

As for the key figure Emperor Zhao Zhen, he is emotionally biased towards Zhao Wenyun, and invisibly, the balance of struggle is biased towards Zhao Wenyun.

Because of the Son of Heaven's favor for Zhang Guifei, a large number of court officials were optimistic about Zhao Wenyun, and many people took the initiative to stand in line, which made Zhang Yaozuo's faction temporarily gain the upper hand.

However, the military that Qingli Innovation has not expressed its position, represented by Cao and Gao, they clearly stand on Zhao Zhongzhong's side, which makes Zhao Wenyun's supporters not so thin, and Zhao Wenyun's faction has the upper hand on the surface, but secretly the two sides are actually evenly matched.

However, due to the death of Zhang Guifei at a critical moment, this caused strong concern among Zhang Yaozuo's faction, and they were eager to establish Zhao Wenyun as the heir to the throne before Zhang Guifei's shadow was exhausted.

If you are in a hurry, you will be in a hurry, and if you are in a hurry, there will be loopholes.

In fact, Zhang Yaozuo's faction was not ready, or the integration was not completed, and Zhang Yaozuo's faction now had two centers, one headed by Zhang Yaozuo and the other headed by Jia Changchao, while Song Zhen followed Zhang Yaozuo.

Although Jia Changchao supported Zhao Wenyun, he was by no means a person who was willing to be the queen of the ox, he asked to be on an equal footing with Zhang Yaozuo, not only that, but he also asked for a very high price, and he actually asked Zhang Yaozuo to guarantee that the Jia family would produce three prime ministers, and Zhang Yaozuo could not agree to these two conditions.

It is precisely because they can't reach a compromise that Zhang Yaozuo and Jia Changchao are doing their own things, and their forces are naturally dispersed, such as last spring's Fish Belly Jinshu, which was planned by Zhang Yaozuo, but in the end, it was anticlimactic, and Jia Changchao never participated, watching the joke on the sidelines!

And this time he was ready to implement Ruizhao, Zhang Yaozuo didn't tell Jia Changchao, he held his breath, and he wanted Jia Changchao to regret it.

If the factions that support Zhao Wenyun are not integrated, then the factions that support Zhao Zhongzhong are not even integrated, they are basically going their own way, although Fu Bi and Han Qi both support Zhao Zongshi, but the two are left and right, except for the need to cooperate in the government, there is basically nothing to do.

Bao Zheng is also a loner, and has never visited Han Qi or Fu Bi at night to discuss what countermeasures or anything like that.

But it can't be said that there is no at all, for example, Fan Ning himself and Han Qi formed a small alliance, and he formed a hidden alliance with the Cao and Gao families through Zhu Yuanfeng's relationship.

In fact, it doesn't matter whether the alliance is an alliance or not, the important thing is not to be selfish, and having selfishness is equivalent to a crack in the glass, which will fall apart sooner or later.

Fanning looked up at the sky, and it was raining lightly, and the thin rain was pouring on his face, bringing a hint of chill, but at this time Fanning's mind was extremely clear, and Fanning let out a long breath to the sky.

Gradually, faith welled up in his chest.

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