"Xiangye, Tong Guan is already waiting outside the door."

"Let him wait, and the feast continues."

Tong Guan listened to the sound of silk music in the main hall, and jumped into his ears one after another, at the beginning, he was trembling and quite tormented. But after standing for a while, this sense of torment was lost, and what followed was a scoundrel who broke the jar and broke it, could Zhang Dian still kill him?

It's not that he didn't think about Zhang's thoughts.

Isn't it just that Huang An is his person, and impeaching Cai Jing has nothing to do with him?

So what?

Can you still kill Shang Ji on the spot like he did in Jeju a few years ago?

Shang Ji's death was partly due to his arrogance, and at the same time he was too imprudent. Of course, this can't be blamed on him, Empress Meng, who had just been crowned, was challenged by Liu Qingjing in the palace. The emperor wants to protect the concubine, unless the emperor is under house arrest and has completely lost his imperial power, generally speaking, no one dares to touch Liu Qingjing at all, at least assassination is absolutely undaring.

This is also the reason why Liu Qingjing had a bad reputation in the palace at the beginning, relying on the emperor's grace, and deliberately showed people with an arrogant attitude.

This is also a way to protect herself, Liu Qingjing can do this, but it is difficult for the old Liu family.

After all, in a place like Yizhou, the sky is high and the emperor is far away, and no one can guarantee that the Liu family will not have some accidents. And it was precisely for this reason that the emperor moved the idea of elevating Old Man Liu to a Beijing official, which made it very difficult for the Meng family, who had just become a relative, to accept. This is also the reason why Shang Ji is just a eunuch next to the queen, but he took the people of the imperial city to Yizhou to deal with Liu Jiade.

As long as Liu Qingjing doesn't have the help of outsiders in the family, a harem concubine can't make much waves at all.

The eunuchs of the Great Song Dynasty went out of Beijing and needed to be reported. At the same time, after arriving at the local level, you must also report to Zhizhou.

None of these businesses have been done.

At that time, Zhang Dian had been degraded in Yizhou for more than ten years, and his resentment against the Empress Dowager Xuanren was almost at its peak.

This is the decisive side of Zhang Dun, he kills people, and there is reason and evidence. At the same time, he was also expressing his dissatisfaction to the Empress Dowager, who was in power at the time.

But Tongguan's situation is different.

He was making trouble in the capital, the eunuch was demoted, and he was still a eunuch. Except for the flattering officials in various places, Tong Guan could only stay in the palace in the capital. Besides, Tong Guan didn't do anything unruly, and he didn't have a reason to be mad by Zhang Dan.

Thinking about this, Tong Guan is not afraid.

Anyway, in the end, his life is worry-free, whatever Zhang Dian does to him. It's a big deal, he lived in the palace after he went back, and didn't give Zhang Dian any chance.

More than half of the banquet, the guests are slightly drunk.

Zhang Duan picked up the wine glass, stopped suddenly, and sent the steward around him to see Tong Guan's performance.

"Xiangye, Eunuch Tong doesn't seem to be abnormal."

"Forget it, you go and bring him in."

The same banquet is almost the same as the scene that happened in Jeju that year, after Tong Guan was introduced into the main hall, he saw Zhang Dian sitting on the main seat, and the next one was accompanied by his son Zhang Zhu, and there was Shang Shu's right servant Cai Bian. The other guests, as well as Yang Wei and others, were not on Tong Guan's threat list.

"Tong Guan, you are not small! Do you think the old man can't handle you anymore? ”

After Zhang Dian re-entered the court, his personality changed a lot. In the time of Wang Anshi and Cai Quchao, although Zhang Dian had no one in his eyes and was arrogant and untamed, he was still measured in his work, and his strength was not small. But since the year before last, after Zhang Dian entered the court, his personality has changed a lot, and he has a lot of means for political opponents, compared with before, he is like two people.

But as the prime minister, Zhang Dian still can't get his way.

The main reason is that Emperor Zhao Xu is not as easy to control as Zhang Dian and Cai Bian and other reformers hope, the emperor has the emperor's ideas, and in many ways, the reformers cannot do what they want. Although Emperor Zhao Xu unconditionally supported the Fa Reform faction, it was because he wanted to restore the policies of the Shenzong period. At the same time, it also declares the world's own governance goals and filial piety.

But the emperor didn't want to be a spearman for the Fa-changers, and he refused to belittle Su Zhe many times, which shows that his wrist is not as easy to deal with as a fledgling boy.

In this way, Zhangdun's power has indeed been greatly affected.

But the power of the dignified prime minister still overwhelmed Tong Guan, he swallowed his saliva with difficulty, and then bowed and said: "Zhang Xiang, the slave maid is just dedicated to His Majesty." ”

"Well said, you were a disciple of Li Xian before, Li Xian fought for Emperor Shenzong in the northwest for many years, if it weren't for the defeat of Yongle City, he tried his best to get rid of his involvement and dirty his colleagues, and he would not have been abandoned. Judging from the unification of the army, his methods are not too bad, you follow him, and you also want to go to the northwest for training, so you must also want to make contributions to Your Majesty? ”

Zhang Dian asked playfully.

Tong Guan didn't know Zhang Dan's intentions, so he agreed: "Please also ask Zhang Xiang to fulfill it." ”

"It's not impossible to fulfill you."

Zhang Duan paused halfway through his words, and waited for a while before continuing to speak: "But now that the imperial treasury is not enough to mobilize, and the only army that can be mobilized in the Western Army is Qin Fenglu Liu Yannian's department, do you think you can still deal with Qingtang Tubo?" ”

Previously, the imperial court adopted a short-term tolerant attitude towards Qingtang Tubo, which was entrenched in the land of the river.

The land of the river must be recovered, but the time will be delayed by a year or two. It was mainly the large army stationed on the border of Western Xia, which could not be drawn. The four states that had just taken Western Xia were not completely controlled by the Great Song Dynasty. If it was really for the land of Hehuang, but he lost the Hengshan defense line, for the Great Song Dynasty, it was undoubtedly because of a small loss, losing watermelons and picking up sesame seeds.

"It doesn't cost a single soldier in the imperial court, and the slave and maid should dedicate the land of the river to the Xiangye."

"Can you really do it?"

It's all on this side, can Tong Guan still retreat? immediately buried his head, regardless of the promise: "The slave can do it." ”

"Alright, you can go down!"

A sip of water, a sip of wine is not given, this is Tong Guan's face in front of Zhang Dian. After Tong Guan left, Cai Bian asked Zhang Dian: "Xiangye, do you really want to send Tong Guan?" ”

"Well, why not? If he didn't learn any skills with Li Xian, he deserved to die on Qin Feng Road. After saying that, Zhang Dian happily withdrew the banquet and dispersed the guests.

Zhangdun's talent is top-notch, but his head is also first-class iron. It is not for nothing that others say that they are arrogant and have no one in their eyes. But suddenly let a eunuch go to Qin Fenglu to preside over military affairs, which made Cai Bian and others unacceptable.

But Cai Bian is not easy to speak, and he is helpless to put up Cai Jing's brother.

Cai Jing is greedy for money, and I don't know when it started. In short, Cai Jing is in a degraded place, and often writes signboards for merchant shops. At the beginning, he also wrote, and he didn't dislike it. Until the time in Yangzhou, it stabilized at the price of 30 pieces of a signboard. Others have belittled him for a few years, and there are many people who can't even make up the travel expenses, but his bags are getting richer and richer, which is also a wonder among the degraded officials of the Great Song Dynasty. But to say that his words are really good, especially the big characters, which belong to the top class.

However, the reputation of greed for money is not good, when he was the governor of Yangzhou, Yangzhou at that time sentenced Chao to make up a little face, and directly said: Fujian signboard, thirty pieces.

Cai Jing is a Fujian passerby, and this Fujian signboard naturally fell on his head.

At the same time, Zhang Dian and the others did not know what happened to Qin Fenglu.

The news has been passed on, and the jury is still inconclusive.

In Qinzhou, Liu Yannian and Cai Jing almost got into trouble, mainly because Cai Jing pitted a group of war horses from Qingtang Tubo, and then he sent the Tubo people away as if they were nothing.

This caused dissatisfaction among the Qingtang tribe, and the two sides were only small-scale conflicts.

But Liu Yannian was worried that once a large-scale battle was carried out, would he be able to defeat Qingtang Tubo with more than 30,000 horses under his command if the Western Army could not rescue him?

"Cai Jingluo, didn't the imperial court say before that it would not use troops against Hehuang for the time being, why did you bully the Qingtang people and start this war?"

"How the court decides, it's not your turn to speak, and this official doesn't need to explain to you what he does."

"I will report your recklessness to the Privy Council!"

"Please!"

Liu Yannian's heart was full of anger, and his words were full of gunpowder.

Cai Jing was angry in his heart, and his tone was naturally not good, besides, he did everything to settle the accounts. The reason why he attacked Qingtang Tubo was mainly because he sold the war horses at a high price before, and thought that Li Kui's Western Summer would be overturned, and when the war subsided, there would inevitably be a large number of war horses in the northwest from the Western Xia to the Song Dynasty, buying high and selling low to make a windfall.

Indeed, there were nearly tens of thousands of war horses into the Song Dynasty.

But this batch of war horses is the private property of the Renduo tribe, and it is impossible to sell them to Cai Jing at a low price. In addition, except for a few cities, the Great Song Dynasty did not get the war horses of Western Xia at all. The price of horses in the northwest has soared, but the food hoarded in Cai Jing's hands is getting cheaper and cheaper, and this time, he lost more than 100,000 yuan.

If he didn't make up for it, he wouldn't be able to afford it.

As a last resort, make this move. Let the doorman go to Qingtang to contact the war horse, and trick the cute and straightforward grassland people in exchange for tea and silk.

When the horse came, Cai Jing was immediately assigned to the three armies of Deshun, Huaide, and Zhenrong. And then there was no tea and silk at all. The enraged steppe tribes went completely insane.

But because of the lack of preparation, even if there is anger, it is only a skirmish.

Cai Jing expected that Qingtang Tubo, who did not have Western Xia as an ally, was just the object of his casual kneading. But who would have thought that when he met an unknown Qingtang King Aligu, an army of 100,000 was assembled.

At this time, Cai Jing couldn't do anything if he wanted to return the horse for peace, so he could only turn his face hard.

Of course, it will definitely not be Cai Jing who will go to war, and neither will he. Sitting alone at home, Liu Yannian, who came from the sky, was completely stunned. He had some horses from Qingtangkeng, but the problem was that he didn't have enough troops. And Qin Fenglu is still surprisingly big, more than a dozen military states, how can his 30,000 people be able to stop the 100,000 army?

"Report, my lord, general, the people of Qingtang crossed Baishi Mountain and approached Longxi."

"Is the city broken?"

Cai Jing was still holding on, but his voice trembled slightly. He found that he was playing with the prairie people, and they didn't follow the rules at all, and the situation was out of control.