Seeing that his brother's reputation has a tendency to rot in the capital, the elder brother still can't bear to see that his brother's reputation is really stinky, and the emperor has the heart to help.

Brother Zhao Xu summoned him, and Duanwang Zhao Ji seemed to have grasped a life-saving straw, and he couldn't wait to hug his brother's thigh and cry for a while.

"The royal brother blames Li Bingqian, this bastard, and the younger brother can be miserable by him. Now that my Great Song Dynasty has won a complete victory over Western Xia, can I ask Li Bingqian to send the money? Whenever Zhao Ji talked about Li Bingqian, he always gritted his teeth with hatred.

"You can say this in front of me, but don't talk nonsense outside." As an elder brother, Zhao Xu's desire to care for his younger brother is true. So he said, "How much do you owe?" ”

"Brother Huang, as long as 100,000 yuan, not 110,000 yuan, you can make the creditor's account go up."

But Zhao Xu ...... After hearing this, I couldn't wait to slap myself in the mouth. He suddenly found that the price of brother and brother Gong was a bit big, and he didn't want to help. Why don't you just let this bastard go out and fend for himself?

Anyway, Zhao Ji is the prince of the Great Song Dynasty, and even if the creditor has a great reason, he doesn't dare to go to Duanwang's Mansion to move things to settle the account.

The emperors of the Great Song Dynasty, except for Zhao Ji, all had a hobby, frugality.

Regardless of whether it is true or not, even if it is shown to others, it has already achieved the ultimate that an emperor can do. Although Shenzong used a large amount of astonishing wealth in the treasury, it was because of the war, and he did not like extravagance. Zhao Xu is not very old, but he has a stingy grandmother, who has also stimulated the family genes.

Every time he saw mountains of gold and silver in the royal treasury, he always felt an indescribable satisfaction.

Zhao Xu used to lament the charm of money because he had no money to reward the palace people, if it weren't for Taishi Liu's generosity, he would have to live a hard life in the palace for a few years.

Finally, when he was in power, he finally discovered the joy of saving money. At the same time, the business of Xuehua Salt, which Taishi Liu has been giving him blood transfusion, has also been given to the imperial court, which can be regarded as a large amount of money in hand. In this way, he will not have much money at his disposal. Hearing that the royal brother opened his mouth is 110,000 guan, he suddenly felt a little bit of wax. He even regretted it a little, it was better to pretend not to know. Of course, if he really had the heart, he would definitely be able to get this money in the treasury of the palace, but he was a little reluctant.

Anyway, Zhao Xu estimated that no matter how difficult it was, Zhao Ji didn't dare to go to the palace to borrow money from him.

After pondering for a long time, Emperor Zhao Xu finally took out a handwritten edict and asked Tong Guan to give it to Zhao Ji. Before leaving, he sighed: "There is only so much that my brother can help you." ”

Tong Guan was very scheming and waited for Zhao Xu to go away, and then gave the edict to Zhao Ji.

Zhao Ji was grateful to Tong Guan and said: "Please also ask Father-in-law Tong to appreciate his face and give Xiao Wang a chance to thank his father-in-law." ”

"Another day, another day!"

Tong Guan said absentmindedly, and then took the opportunity to say goodbye: "Lord, the slave still has something to do, you can go to the treasury to get the money." ”

Zhao Ji fell to the ground with a stone in his heart, and he was in a good mood, and beckoned people to go to the treasury to move money. I wondered in my heart, being a prince is too aggrieved, how can I spend 30,000 yuan a year?

casually looked at the emperor's edict, and was dumbfounded, 10,000?

He felt that the imperial brother must have made a mistake, and immediately turned around and ran to the palace. But he was stopped, and he shouted anxiously: "Lone is the king of Duan, which of you dares to stop this king?" ”

"Lord Wang, money is no problem."

Just when King Duan was emotional, suddenly a shrill voice spoke on the side, and he looked down to see that it was the little eunuch beside Tong Guan, at this moment, he understood everything. Leaving angrily, halfway through, the more I thought about it, the more unpleasant it became, and suddenly stared at the imperial brother's hand, touching my chin and pondering.

This word is so common, it is not a problem to imitate it yourself.

Without a seal, it seems that you can get through the tricks.

In the palace, Zhao Xu thought about his brother with a weak heart. sighed in his heart: "It's not that the imperial brother doesn't want to help you, and the imperial brother's treasury is not sufficient." ”

"Your Majesty, it's not good." The treasurer hurriedly ran to Tong Guan's side.

"King Duan took 110,000 from the treasury."

"What, isn't it ten thousand?" Zhao Xu jumped up anxiously, hurriedly took the edict he had given to Zhao Ji from Tong Guan's hand, and understood everything after looking at it.

The oracle is fake, and this guy Zhao Ji dares to forge the oracle.

At this moment, the anger on Zhao Xu's face was like a dark cloud, layer upon layer, and he gritted his teeth and said, "Good boy, I am blind." ”

"Your Majesty, do you want it?" Tong Guan fanned the flames on the side.

Zhao Xu glared angrily, and said angrily: "Do you want everyone in the world to know that my prince of the Great Song Dynasty dares to bully the king?" If you really make a fuss, won't it make people all over the world laugh at me and kill each other? ”

The crime of deceitful does not necessarily lead to death, but the punishment will certainly not be light.

It is possible to deprive the prince of the king.

But Zhao Xu is a face-saving person, his own brother cheated him, so he could only knock out his teeth and swallow it in his stomach. But this breath was not out, it was really difficult to calm down, and said to Tong Guan: "The king of the back end doesn't need to go to court." Let him reflect at home. "This is also reasonable, after all, King Duan is famous in Bianliang City, to put it seriously, the entire royal family has made him smeared, and the grounding is reasonable.

The princes of the Great Song Dynasty are basically kept in captivity in the capital, and there is almost no possibility of release.

Most of the princes of the Great Song Dynasty still have official positions, and they have to go to court with the courtiers when they go to court, and when they quarrel in the court, they only have the power to shout a few voices, and they have no real power. Depriving Duan Wang of his qualifications to go to court is already Zhao Xu's extreme to vent his dissatisfaction with Duan Wang. If it is too much, it should be a demotion to the king, which will make people feel that Zhao Xu has no room for people.

After the emperor's order to grounding King Duan was issued, Zhao Ji breathed a sigh of relief.

He is really afraid that the emperor will not let him go, although he is a brother, but the heavenly family has no family affection, even if it is a brother and a brother, it is because there is no threat that Zhao Xu will take care of his brothers.

After this incident, King Duan gradually disappeared from the sight of the court.

I don't know if Zhao Xu was intentional or unintentional, King Duan didn't even have the grace to be summoned into the palace. In the past, between January, Duanwang would always be accompanied by ten days. The main reason is that Duanwang Zhao Ji is the best prince in the clan, and he can compete with the emperor for football skills. But will Zhao Xu be short of golfers?

Now the brotherhood is broken, and the golfers are completely turned against each other.

Outside the city.

On the city tower, Fan Chunren looked into the distance, but unfortunately facing the wind, so that the old man didn't see a shadow except for a strong cry. Ever since he heard the news of the mission's return to Beijing, he has been waiting on the tower of the city for a long time every day. provoked the big and small officials in the city to follow Fan Chunren and wait for the return of the mission.

He is a scholar of the Guanwen Temple, although he is no longer the prime minister, but the glory of the prime minister is still on his body.

Zhou Yuan, the newly promoted 'Yeluzi Zhizhou', can only accompany Fan Chunren to suffer from the cold.

The reason why Zhou Yuan is the Yeluzi Zhizhou among the Zhizhou is mainly because he does not have the qualifications of a Beijing official, which is very sad. The civil officials of the Great Song Dynasty had a very high status, but the civil officials were also divided into three, six, nine and so on. Li Kui has been an official in the secretary province, and as long as he does not die, his future is limitless. Zhou Yuan has been mixed among low-level civil officials, and the Beijing officials have no hope, and this is the end of this life.

is like a seed teacher, he has been an official for almost twenty years, although he was mixed with the official position of promoting Chang Ping's envoy in Qin Fenglu before. But this is already the pinnacle of what he can achieve among civil servants.

Zhizhou, only Zhizhou, who has a post pavilion, is the elite bureaucrat that the imperial court really values.

And the pavilions, such as Longtu, Tianzhang, and Baowen, don't go to the capital to be officials, how can they get mixed up? Unless, like Zhang Qi, he got the status of a straight bachelor in exchange for the merit of breaking the sky. Otherwise, the transfer envoy is already the apex of the career.

Tightening his head, Zhou Yuan glanced at the seed master beside him. is a little short of breath, he is really weak and weak, and he belongs to a weak scholar.

But what about the way of the teacher?

This is a disciple of the general, burly and powerful. Of course, the Seed Master Dao family is a civil and military heirloom, and it is also a very rare category in the Great Song Dynasty.

Looking at Fan Chunren again, the old Fan family is very strange, obviously from the south, but the family originated in the northwest. Starting from Fan Zhongyan, as long as the children of the Fan family are outstanding, they will choose to come to the northwest to be officials. And they will serve as governors in Gyeongju. Fan Chun is like this, and Fan Chunren is like this. This belongs to the emperor's favor to the Fan family. When Fan Chunren came to the northwest, not only was he not unaccustomed, but he felt like a fish in water, and he was not afraid of the cold.

Exhaling the residual heat in his body, Zhou Yuan lamented, his body bones were almost unbearable.

"Your Excellency, the mission is back!"

As the guards shouted excitedly, Fan Chunren moved his steps. The planter hurriedly went up to help, just on the edge of the battlement, tried to open his eyes, seemed to see a black spot in his vision, and waited for a while before he could see the windward banner clearly. Fan Chunren waved his hand and ordered to the Seed Master: "Go down to the city tower and greet the mission." ”

"Enxiang, it's time to break the lower officials."

Facing Fan Chunren, An Tao didn't dare to hold it up. This person's face is definitely first-class in the Great Song Dynasty, when Wang Anshi changed the law, there were many officials who gave Wang Anshi eye medicine, and no one in the Divine Sect listened. However, Fan Chunren served as a co-advisor in the Yushitai at the beginning, and successively wrote small reports to Emperor Shenzong, saying bad things about Wang Anshi, but Shenzong praised Fan Chunren's integrity.

If he had changed to other officials, he would have been demoted by the emperor a long time ago.

If it weren't for Fan Chunren's increasing strength, Emperor Shenzong couldn't stand it anymore, so he sent him to Gyeongju.

On the bright side, this is demeaning. But in fact, this is the father and son ruling Gyeongju at the same time, and in the era when the Great Song Emperor was very suspicious, it was not a derogatory at all, but an honor.

It can be seen that the Fan family has more face in the Great Song Dynasty.

Even Wang Anshi, who is so proud, can only be careful in the face of Fan Chunren. The reason is very simple, most of Wang Anshi's changes are copied from Fan Zhongyan's changes, and he can't escape anything from his master-apprentice status, so he doesn't dare to be arrogant in front of the Fan family at all.

In front of Fan Zhongyan, An Tao didn't dare to hold the shelf of the privy councillor at all, and got out of the car from a distance.

"Brother Houqing, I don't know if the negotiation will go smoothly."

"Living up to the trust, although the Western Xia is unwilling, it still confirms that the land of the four states belongs to my Great Song Dynasty. Although he did not take back the gateway to Hengshan in Youzhou, the Western Xia promised not to garrison troops in Youzhou. At least ten years, as long as His Majesty has no intention of recovering the Hexi Corridor, I am afraid that the war will not start. ”

"Yes, yes!"

Fan Chunren held An Tao's arms and couldn't help but exert himself. Since the time of Renzong, Western Xia has always been a confidant of the Great Song Dynasty. Although his father Fan Zhongyan used the method of clearing the wilderness to curb the Western Xia from plundering the population and materials from the Great Song Dynasty, Fan Zhongyan did not have a good way to face the Western Xia.

Governing the northwest and stabilizing the frontier is also the ambition of the old Fan family.

It's a pity that the Qingli New Deal failed in just a few months, and then Fan Zhongyan completely lost hope of returning to the court. Not to mention the northwest.

And he and his brother Fan Chun were officials in the northwest under the unfavorable situation of the Great Song Dynasty to the Western Xia, and they could not fulfill their father's ambition.

Unexpectedly, in the last years of his career, he caught up with the situation of the Great Song Dynasty's victory over Western Xia. Although this situation is a bit weird, the ending is the same for him.

"Teacher!"

"Renjie, you have grown taller, stronger, and darker!" Li Kui and Zhou Yuan, the master and apprentice, finally met. But as soon as they met, Li Kui found that Zhou Yuan's mouth seemed to have become poisonous.

An Tao carried Fan Chunren into the city. Li Kui followed Zhou Yuan and entered Fushi City. As he walked, he asked, "Can the teacher get used to it?" ”

"Nothing but a little colder." Zhou Yuan couldn't help but shudder. He was a true southerner, invulnerable to the cold of the Northwest.

Li Kui immediately said: "It's not cold to install a ground dragon in the official residence." ”

"Spending money on the treasury may cause criticism." Zhou Yuan sighed. He still lacks confidence as an official, and there is no way to do it.

Li Kui patted his chest and said: "Let's spend our own money, what are we afraid of?" ”

Zhou Yuan is Li Kui Zheng'er's teacher of the Eight Classics. Their master-apprentice status is actually very rare in the Great Song Dynasty. Li Kui ascended to the sky in one step, from a mountain boy to a student of Jinshi. It was because of Zhou Yuan that Li Kui entered Sumen and had the opportunity to study at Su Shi's house. In order to study under Huang Tingjian when he was admitted to the Jinshi examination.

All this, although Zhou Yuan did not contribute, Li Kui has to be grateful to Zhou Yuan in his life.

Even if Zhou Yuan began to regret it after accepting Li Kui as a disciple at the beginning, he regrets it now. The look he looked at Li Kui was very complicated, Su Shi had already ignored Zhou Yuan, and now it was even more so than before. wrote a letter to Su Shi, and Su Shi's reply was to ask Li Kui for news. Let him have a kind of bitterness that has been robbed of the teacher's love.

After the reception banquet, Zhou Yuan left Li Kui to speak, and inadvertently Zhou Yuan worried: "Yan'an Mansion will not fight in the future?" ”

The establishment of Yan Yanlu was to defend against Western Xia and not to fight, how could he, the prefect of Yan'an Prefecture, still make political achievements. Of course, it is impossible for him to command the battle, but in the past, the prefect of Yan'an Mansion had no chance to repair the fortress and make credit, which made him dumbfounded.

"Teacher, this is a good thing!" Li Kui felt that Zhou Yuan was a little dark-bellied, looking forward to the war, wasn't he looking forward to the people in the jurisdiction following him to suffer?

Zhou Yuan has another concern: "Renjie, let's not talk about the taxes paid by Yan'an Mansion, and basically can't collect them." Tian Fu is even more meager. If you are a teacher and an official and have no achievements, I am afraid that you will not be promoted in this life! Renjie, you are good at business, is there a way to make Yan'an Mansion rich? ”

"This place ......"

"Humph!"

Facing Zhou Yuan's white eyes, Li Kui nodded reluctantly: "Teacher, I want to find a way." ”

"It's not about trying to figure it out, it's going to be done! For the promotion of the teacher, it is all up to you. Zhou Yuan said helplessly, his career experience of more than ten years has made him completely understand the fact that it is impossible to be promoted by his own efforts.