Chapter 163: Human Spirit

Is Li Kui a good boy?

Definitely not.

But Li Yun 'falsely accused' Li Kui of drinking flower wine, and Wang Chaoyun would not believe anything. After all, Li Kui is not easier to discipline than Li Yun, and even more difficult to discipline than Li Yun. But when it comes to women, this guy is like a savage bull who doesn't understand anything. Even Wang Chaoyun has to worry about this kid, will he be able to marry a daughter-in-law in the future?

There is another reason why Li Yun was beaten.

Li Yun committed Wang Chaoyun's taboo.

When Wang Chaoyun was very young, he was sold to a flower boat in Hangzhou by his parents and forced to practice dance hard. It was more than 20 years ago, Su Shi had just been awarded the official position of Hangzhou General Judge, and took his wife to take office. How capricious Su Shi was when he was an official, how capricious he was. Basically, I don't deal with official business much.,Play all day.。 On this day, Su Shi took his wife to visit the West Lake and saw Wang Chaoyun's performance, which was breathtaking.

At that time, Su Shi's wife was still Wang Fu and his cousin. After the two got married, they foamed each other, like glue. But Wang Fu knew that relying on warmth, she obviously couldn't tie Su Shi's wild horse, so she urgently needed to find a helper for herself, and this helper was Wang Chaoyun. Seeing that her husband was obsessed with Wang Chaoyun's dancing skills, he decisively bought it and raised it at home. That year, Wang Chaoyun was twelve years old. At that time, it was not called Wang Chaoyun, and the surname was Wang Fu who followed his surname after buying Chaoyun.

A few years later, Su Shi had an extra concubine.

But Wang Fu passed away.

This past is something that the Su family will not say. It is also a taboo in Wang Chaoyun's heart. Li Yun didn't know that he had committed Wang Chaoyun's taboo, Li Kui knew, but would he be kind enough to remind Li Yun?

Li Yunliang, who was frightened by the punishment, recovered for a long time and lamented: "Why is it always me who is injured? ”

Li Yun's sorrow came and went quickly.

If this guy could be tortured to death by his studies, he wouldn't have grown so big.

It was time to throw yourself into the river as early as Yishui County.

Let's talk about chapter teaching.

When he left Yingzhou, his heart was heavy.

He didn't think that Su Shi and Li Kui alone would be able to restrain the big families in Yingzhou. Whether it is Su Shi or Zhang Dan, there is a gap in ability, but in the face of local large households, most of them are helpless.

Unless there is a mess in the big family, it is better to have a lawsuit, and this is a good time to make an example.

But the big families in Yingzhou, say that they oppress the good, there really is.

But what about incriminating evidence? No.

Let him have all kinds of means, but there is nothing he can do.

Zhang Zhu's first stop was Jiangning Mansion.

Compared with Yingzhou, Jiangning has much more interesting places.

The singing on the Qinhuai River has continued for thousands of years. But Zhang Zhu didn't have time to visit at all. Instead, he hurriedly went to the Jiangning Mansion to find Cai Bian.

Cai Bian was very enthusiastic about the arrival of Zhang Zhu, but after the enthusiasm, he said that he couldn't help.

Jiangning Province has a large population, far from being comparable to Yingzhou, and for such a city with a population of hundreds of thousands, grain reserves are absolutely immovable. If it weren't for the bumper harvest in Jiangning Mansion last year, Cai Bian would not have allocated even 100,000 stone of grain to Su Shi. Money is not important, the important thing is that once the merchants in Jiangning find that the granary of the treasury is empty, they will definitely hoard Juqi, and the trouble in Yingzhou will not be solved by then, and the price of grain in Jiangning will skyrocket, and he will not be able to bear this result.

In desperation, Zhang Zhu went to Yangzhou.

Compared with Jiangning, Yangzhou is more like a quiet water town. Before becoming the Huaiyan distribution center, Yangzhou's position in the Huainan Zhulu was not prominent.

Becoming the governor of Yangzhou is not a good errand.

Zhizhou Cai Jing has not been very happy with his jurisdiction. He prefers Suzhou and Hangzhou. Especially his younger brother is a prefect, but he is just a prefect, and he can't get by with face. At that time, the two brothers Cai Jing and Cai Bian were promoted to the rank of jinshi at the same time, which caused a sensation. Cai Jing thinks that he is no worse than his younger brother Cai Bian's talent.

But when it comes to being an official, he always seems to be chasing his younger brother.

At the beginning, Cai Jing successfully sent an envoy to Liao, and after he returned, the official family promoted him to be a scholar of the Zhongshu. But his younger brother Cai Bian has long been a member of the Zhongshu Society, and even Cai Bian begged Emperor Shenzong to promote Cai Jing before him in the ranking of Zhongshu Sheren in order to take care of his brother Cai Jing's emotions, so that Cai Jing would not be so embarrassed.

But is it just embarrassing?

The Jinshi in the group, he is not weak in the ranking, and his younger brother Cai Bian is not weak, why did he become a younger brother in the limelight in the end?

Brother and brother?

Hellish brother and brother Gong, Cai Jingcai is not uncommon to have such an evaluation. Cai Bian became Wang Anshi's son-in-law and was selected for the Longtu Pavilion to be systematized, and Cai Jing suddenly found that he had become Cai Bian's brother. Then, he was also selected, and even became an official bigger than Cai Bian, but what made Cai Jing unbearable was that he had been living in the shadow of his younger brother. Even if he once clinged to Cai Qu and conspired to kill Prime Minister Wang Qi, what made him extremely depressed was that he was ready to cover the net, but he didn't expect that when it was about to be launched, Wang Qi died of illness while serving as prime minister...... He almost lost his mind.

The arrogant Cai Jing said that he couldn't stand this kind of neglected cold reception, and he needed to accumulate a lot. Now that he is in Yangzhou, he is not only inferior to Cai Bian in his official position, but also far inferior to his brother Cai Bian's Jiangning Mansion with the jurisdiction. He needs to plan, he needs to change to a better place, and the gap between the brothers has been smoothed.

Don't look at the fight between the old party and the reformers.

But there are only a few unlucky eggs, and many people are alive and well. It's just that it's not realistic to want to go to the capital to be an official. In fact, Cai Jing was not excluded from the capital like Cai Bian before. He is a reformist with a very vague appearance, and when he does things for Wang Anshi, he is conscientious and extremely capable. When he worked for Sima Guang, he was also conscientious and capable. Even Sima Guang said: "If everyone obeys the law like a king, what can't work!" "I can't wait to label Cai Jing as a capable official and publicize it.

Bad luck is bad luck, the prime minister Cai Cheng who he climbed to fell, and then Cai Jing was dragged and implicated. What Yushitai accused him of misconduct, this kind of lie would not be believed by a three-year-old child, let alone Cai Jing.

After circulating around the country, Cai Jing came to Yangzhou a year ago. But he didn't like Yangzhou.

Cai Jing took a fancy to Hangzhou this time.

Hangzhou is located on Liangzhejiang Road, which is one of the best big cities. Compared with Suzhou, Hangzhou also has an additional city ship, and the person who governs the city ship is a cronie from the palace, maybe he can also get in touch with the palace through the supervision of the city ship eunuch. He finally realized that only by having a good relationship with the emperor can he be as stable as Mount Tai in the court. Following the court bosses, he is often unlucky, which is really discouraging. And the opportunity will not be found by himself, he needs to take the initiative.

The little emperor is getting older and older, and the pro-government is just around the corner. If he could get on the relationship in advance, Cai Jing wondered what to do, and he should be on his own.

To this end, he wrote a lot of articles and sent them to the capital.

Ambiguously expressed incomprehension of political opinions. paved the way for him to go to Hangzhou to take office.

But at this moment, Cai Jing found that something happened under his rule that made him extremely annoyed. Tongju Chao Buzhi actually sent tens of thousands of stone grains to Yingzhou behind his back.

Of course, Cai Jingming knew that Chao Buzhi's teacher was Su Shi, which made him particularly annoyed. Who is Su Shi?

For Cai Jing, who wants to be a high-ranking official, this is simply a disaster, he can't hide, and he still can't hide from it.

Clear-eyed people know that sending Yangzhou's grain to Yingzhou is a decision to make up for it. But what about the unclear? It must be spread on his head Cai Jing, and he still didn't guard against his subordinates, Cai Jing was angry and wanted to throw Chao Buzhi into prison, but there was no way, it was not within the scope of Zhizhou's authority to deal with the general sentence.

I had to send someone to recruit Chao Buzhi, and mentioned it in person: "Brother Wujiao, is there anything that needs to be brought forward by this official in recent government affairs?" ”

Chao Buzhi is not a master that Cai Jing can handle at will, compared to other scholars in Sumen, Chao Buzhi has a noble background. The family has been in the court of the Great Song Dynasty for a hundred years, and there are countless court officials. In the face of Cai Jing's seemingly peaceful questioning, Chao Buzhi was determined to face it calmly: "The lower official division is in trouble in Yingzhou, and the price of grain in Yingzhou has skyrocketed several times at this time of year. The lower officials were morally righteous, and distributed part of the excess grain in the treasury to Yingzhou. ”

Cai Jing also knew that Chao Buzhi was full of confidence in front of him, and he didn't seem to buy his account much. Of course, it should be more about despising Cai Jing's character. At this time, Cai Jing already has the potential of wall grass, of course, framing, greed and other temperaments have not yet been exposed. But it has made the righteous man and gentleman disdainful. Chao Buzhi naturally didn't look down on him.

But Cai Jing pretended to be concerned and said, "Has it been like this in previous years?" ”

Chao Buzhi thought for a while, nodded and said, "The family teacher said in the letter that this is indeed the case. ”

Cai Jing clasped his palms, and then spread out and said: "Since this was the case in previous years, why did the bachelor buy grain and settle the price of grain?" This is not the fault of the bachelor, but the fault of the predecessors! ”

When Chao Buzhi heard this, his face suddenly became angry, and he jumped up and pointed at Cai Jing's nose and asked: "You and I are both officials of the imperial court, and we should seek the well-being of the people. ”

Cai Jing touched his big nose and felt that what Chao Buzhi said was very reasonable, but the truth is the truth, people can't take the truth as a meal, right?

Besides, he Cai Jing also has a temper, he didn't get angry, but sneered: "Chao Buzhi, you are an official in Yangzhou, not an official in Yingzhou, use the treasury, do you know the relationship you bear?" ”

Chao Buzhi was angry, so naturally he would not show weakness, and said with his head held high: "This official will bear it together." ”

"Can I make a note?"

"Why not!"

Soon, Chao Buzhi's head, who wrote down the note angrily, was a little confused, and Cai Jing also changed his previous indifference and said with a smile: "If you want to help people in the future, remember to make a note in advance that may affect the official." So as not to make it difficult for everyone. ”

You—

Chao Buzhi seemed to have reacquainted Cai Jing with disdain in the face of his extremely utilitarian boss.

At this time, the state government secretary office hurriedly entered the back office, bowed and saluted: "Two adults, there is a scribe in his thirties outside the mansion, saying that he is an old friend of the two adults. ”

"Is there a famous thorn?"

"No, just say that you are Zhang Renhe."

After Cai Jing took a closer look in his mouth, he suddenly stood up and said loudly: "Hurry up, please!" ”