Fan Ning followed the eunuch to Ci'an Palace, and Empress Dowager Cao was already waiting for him.

"Minister Fanning see the Queen Mother!" Fanning stepped forward and saluted respectfully.

Empress Dowager Cao sat behind the curtain and said with a slight smile: "The mourning family has already read your express, your sense of smell is very keen, and your judgment is also very accurate, if it weren't for your decisiveness and persistence, I'm afraid Kunzhou has fallen into the hands of Liao." ”

"Empress Dowager Qi, Weichen has great feelings for Kunzhou, just like a parent who dotes on his children very much, if there is a slight disturbance, Weichen will think about the worst, fortunately, this time Weichen guessed correctly."

"Actually, you thought of this last year, and the official family also told me about it, hoping that I could garrison Kunzhou with heavy troops, but I didn't take it to heart, this matter is the fault of the mourning family!"

"The Queen Mother has a lot of opportunities, after all, her energy is limited, and it is normal to think of many things."

Fan Ning said casually, Empress Dowager Cao was silent, how shrewd she was, she immediately heard what Fan Ning said, and after a while, Empress Dowager Cao said: "The mourning family is not a person who loves power, and sooner or later will return government affairs to the official family, but he is still young now, and the mourning family wants to help him go another way, and when he is twenty-five years old, the mourning family will completely let go of power." ”

Empress Dowager Cao, this is based on the first emperor! There are still five years to go, can Zhao Ji wait? Something big is going to happen!

Now that this matter has been said, Fan Ning simply said bluntly: "Now that the Great Song Dynasty is facing an extraordinary period, the Liao State is likely to re-provoke the war against the Great Song Dynasty, Weichen suggested that the Son of Heaven had better be able to fully control and deal with it wholeheartedly, once the Great Song Dynasty wins, this will be a great boost to the prestige of the Son of Heaven, and the Son of Heaven is likely to become the emperor of the Great Song Dynasty, I believe this is also what the Queen Mother is looking forward to, and I hope the Queen Mother can seriously consider it." ”

Of course, Fan Ning didn't listen to Fu Bi's words to persuade the Empress Dowager Cao, he already had an idea, he entered Beijing this time to persuade the Empress Dowager Cao, since he was the niece and son-in-law of the Empress Dowager Cao, there were some things that he would say more conveniently.

Empress Dowager Cao immediately understood what Fan Ning meant, and Fan Ning persuaded herself to hand over the military power to the Son of Heaven, at present, the Son of Heaven Zhao Ji only has the right to transfer troops below 10,000 people, and the transfer of troops above 10,000 people must be approved by himself.

After a moment of silence, Empress Dowager Cao asked again, "What else does Fan Aiqing suggest?" ”

"Wechen also heard about the demotion of Liu Kan, the envoy of the Sansi Duzhi in Quanzhou, and this incident made Wechen deeply worried."

"Liu Kan split the power of the mourning family in disguise and deceived the king, shouldn't he be deposed?" Empress Dowager Cao was really a little dissatisfied.

"The Queen Mother, with all due respect to Weichen, if even the expenditure of the Zuo Zang Treasury has to be approved by the Empress Dowager Zhu Approval, then what else do you want the Inner Treasury to do, just merge the two directly."

Empress Dowager Cao was speechless for a moment, and she snorted: "Fanning, but no one dares to speak like this to the mourning family?" Even the Son of Heaven didn't dare. ”

Fan Ning smiled faintly: "Weichen estimates that the Cao family will not dare, the Queen Mother should feel lucky, at least there is still someone in the world who is reminding the Queen Mother ......."

"What are you reminding the mourners like this?"

Fan Ning did not back down and said: "The Queen Mother wants to help the official's family for a ride, although the idea is very good, but if the people in the world don't understand, and no one is as hard as Weichen, Weichen is worried that after a hundred years, the Queen Mother will not leave a good name, but a bad name!" ”

"Bang!"

Empress Dowager Cao slapped the table heavily, "Fanning, you are so bold!" ”

Fan Ning stood up and said: "Everything is just if there is no desire, Weichen has no selfishness, of course he is bold, if the Queen Mother does not accept Weichen's persuasion, Weichen is willing to resign from all official positions and return to his hometown to retire!" ”

Empress Dowager Cao laughed angrily, this bastard boy actually wants to go back to his hometown to retire, how old is he?

"Get out!"

Fan Ning turned around and left, and when he walked to the gate of the hall, Empress Dowager Cao shouted angrily: "Stop, come back for me!" ”

Fan Ning stopped, but did not retreat, Empress Dowager Cao looked at his young and upright back, and finally sighed and said, "Okay! The mourning family will consider your suggestion carefully, in fact, the mourning family hopes that you are selfish, step down! ”

Fanning turned around and saluted, and hurried away.

Empress Dowager Cao looked at him walking away, and for some reason, she suddenly thought of Gao Taotao, and couldn't help but be upset for a while, and got up and went back to the palace.

In the afternoon, the Empress Dowager Cao issued an edict, 'All important military affairs are at the disposal of the official family, and there is no need to report to her, and all the income and expenditure of the inner treasury in the future must be approved by her, and in addition, they are all handled by the official family, and the appointment and dismissal from the third grade and below do not need to go through her." ’

And the previous division of power has been compromised, personnel power has not changed, Empress Dowager Cao still firmly controls the appointment and dismissal of officials above the third grade, she has the right to receive and release, and she has all the approval rights of the inner treasury, but Zuo Zang Treasury is the treasury She doesn't ask, decided by the Zhizheng Hall and the emperor, the income of the inner treasury mainly comes from the Huangzhuang and overseas, which is decided by Emperor Renzong, and thirty percent of the overseas income goes into the inner treasury.

But the real concession of Empress Dowager Cao is military power, she completely delegated military power to the crown prince Zhao Ji, she no longer cares, of course, if the Song army is defeated and the situation is critical, she still has to intervene, but the normal transfer of troops will leave her alone.

When it was time to disperse the dynasty, Empress Dowager Cao issued another edict, and Liu Kan was pardoned and released from prison and reappointed as the governor of Mizhou.

Fu Bi got the Empress Dowager's decree, he breathed a long sigh of relief, and smiled at Wen Yanbo: "The most correct thing I did this year, what is Ming Gong?" ”

Wen Yanbo smiled slightly, "If you support Xiao Fan Xianggong to enter the phase, then we both want to go together." ”

The two looked at each other and laughed together.

.........

Fanning came out of the imperial city, he instinctively walked to the square on the left where the carriage was parked, and when he was halfway there, he suddenly remembered that he had no carriage, and the four guards went to Ganjiang Island, and two soldiers were sent by him to report to his family, Fanning was a little stunned for a while, did he actually want to go home in a street ox cart?

If it spreads, it will definitely become the front page headline of "Tabloid News" tomorrow, and the dignified new minister will actually invite the street ox cart back to his home, which is unseemly!

He turned to leave, but suddenly someone behind him called him, "Official, go slowly!" ”

Fan Ning turned around and saw a carriage coming quickly, and Fan Ning immediately recognized that it was the carriage in his house, but the person driving the carriage was Zhu Yuanfeng's coachman.

The carriage stopped beside Fanning, and the coachman said, "The eldest lady knows that the officials do not have a carriage to travel, so she specially asked the villain to wait for the officials here." ”

Fan Ning's heart suddenly swelled with warmth, or his wife thought about it thoroughly, thinking that she didn't have a carriage.

Fanning happily got into the carriage, "Go home!" ”

The carriage started and sped towards his mansion in Feihongqiao.......

Fan Ning has not returned to his house for five years, Cuiyun Tower is still standing tall, without any sense of dilapidation, the Cuiyun Peak in front of the building has also been erected, the artificial rockery on the left side has become lush, but the weeds have been cleaned up, and the two daughters Fan Zhener and Fan Linger are feeding the deer in front of the grass.

Fan Ning currently has three sons and two daughters, the eldest daughter Fan Zhener is nine years old, the eldest son Fan Jing is seven years old, the second daughter Fan Linger and the second son Fan Chu, and the third son Fan Qi are all four years old, of which the eldest son and second daughter were born to Zhu Pei, the eldest daughter and second son were born to Ouyang Qian, and Fan Qi was born to the concubine Aya.

At present, only his wife Cao Xiu has not yet given birth.

Parents are a little partial, Fan Ning is no exception, and it is even obvious that he loves his eldest daughter Fan Zhen'er the most, followed by the second daughter Fan Ling'er, and gave the homonym of his name to the second daughter.

Fan Ning saw that the two daughters were concentrating on feeding the fawn, and did not find himself, he stepped forward and squatted down to hug the two daughters and asked with a smile, "Where did the fawn come from?" ”

"Daddy!"

The two daughters hugged their father in surprise, and the youngest daughter Fan Linger asked excitedly, "When did Daddy come back?" ”

Fanning pinched the little daughter's face lovingly, and asked the eldest daughter again, "What else is there besides the fawn?" ”

"Grandma sent two fawns, as well as several little squirrels and hedgehogs, and put them on the hill."

Aunt and grandmother is Zhu Pei's aunt Zhu Jie, Fan Ning nodded, fed the deer with the two daughters, and then returned to the back house, Zhu Pei and Ouyang Qian both greeted them, Zhu Pei smiled and said: "Welcome home to Xiao Fan Xianggong!" ”

"You all know?"

"The news has already spread in the capital, and we still know the latest, how does Fan Xianggong feel when he goes to court today?" Ouyang Qian also joked.

"It's hard to put into words! ..... on the first day of the dynasty"

He wanted to say that he had a quarrel with the Queen Mother, but when he suddenly saw Cao Xiu, he changed his words and said: "Being thrown to a bunch of bad things by the Zhizheng Hall, this Xianggong might as well be inappropriate!" ”

"Husband said this, how can other officials be embarrassed!"

Fanning snorted, "I'll go to the study to rest first, and then talk after dinner in the evening, and fry me a pot of tea!" ”

Fanning returned to his study and sat down on the chair, his head resting on the back of the chair for a long time without saying a word, he didn't know how to explain to his family that he had just returned to the capital and was going to Hebei again, and this time he was going to fight, not to explore overseas.

He was very upset, he owed too much to his family, and he wanted to make up for it after returning to Beijing, but now it seems that he is going to break his promise again. 8)