Not to mention the partial hall, after all, for the Qipin and Beijing officials, the victory of the Great Song Dynasty did not have any substantial benefits for them. It's not that there is no such thing as nothing, at least they mixed it up with the state banquet.

For many low-grade Beijing officials, this is the end of their lives.

But there is a memory that can boast of a lifetime, and there is no memory that can boast of a lifetime, and the quality of life is completely different.

Most of the petty officials of the seventh or eighth grade, unless they are in some key departments.

For example, the secretary and supervisor, the Zhongshu Province, and the Menxia Province, although the official positions are not large, such as: Sheren, Shulang, Xiaoshulang and other official positions, these officials are different from other Beijing officials.

First, they basically do things under the nose of the emperor. Although they are all doing things that are ineffective, these people are all the imperial elites that the emperor thinks, and they need to observe their conduct carefully.

When the opportunity is right, it's time for them to shine.

Except for the officials on the side of the Son of Heaven. Among the officials of the six ministries, many of them are unlucky people who have no hope of promotion in this life.

It is better to say that Sun Jinxian, his official position is the cabinet library, and his full name should be 'the head of the Ministry of Officials and the cabinet library', to put it bluntly, he is the official who manages the copywriting in the archives.

As long as there is no major accident, such as natural disasters and man-made disasters such as copywriting being burned. He does good or bad, and no one cares.

If an official like this wants to be promoted, it is difficult to ascend to the sky.

Even when he returned to his hometown, he didn't expect anything thrilling to happen to him.

And being able to participate in a state banquet naturally has nothing to brag about in the capital. Those who have a higher status and a higher official position than him naturally participated. Those with a lower status than him can only be officials, and they are not even officials, and he doesn't have much sense of accomplishment if he brags. Even in the capital, he will be extremely lost and depressed, because even if he is an official, the opportunities for him to see the emperor in his life are only a few times, or watching from a distance, and he can't get close at all.

But if he returns to his hometown, the old friends in his hometown who have never even been to the state capital, he will have the capital to brag.

"There are not a few dishes at the emperor's state banquet, but the official family is benevolent, and his old man is reluctant to eat and wear, and those of us who are courtiers can't be extravagant, right?"

"At that time, the official family took the old man's hand and encouraged the old man to do things for the court......"

Anyway, no one refutes it, just care about your own happiness.

Therefore, these officials cheered, not because they were happy, but because the bosses in the Daqing Hall were happy, if they showed a depressed expression, what if they were remembered?

Wouldn't it be bad luck?

So they were also happy, happy that Qingtang gave the Great Song Dynasty 20,000 war horses at once, and they were more thinking about whether they could fill the Daqing Hall if they were exchanged for money.

As for Sun Jinxian, he has long been forgotten.

Of course, there are officials who are genuinely happy.

They generally have several characteristics, young, very young. Because they are the big people who may have a decisive position in the court of the Great Song Dynasty in the future.

For example, Qian Liao, for example, Fan Chong.

The former is happy because he is one of the organizers of the state banquet, and the more successful the state banquet, the greater his credit.

And Fan Chong's happiness is completely another reason, the days of the Great Song Dynasty are getting better and better, and the court's finances are becoming more and more relaxed. For him, then, the contradiction between the reformers and the conservatives will not become as acute as before. His father got back to hope. It's also strange to say that not long after Fan Zuyu was demoted, his body obviously began to deteriorate.

But when he heard that Lu Dafang had entered Beijing, he was miraculously cured.

It has to be said that Chongxi is effective, not a feudal remnant, and sometimes it is more powerful than medicine.

"Renjie, do you say that this Qingtang will be regarded as a return to the heart in the future?"

Fan Chong said excitedly.

Li Kui was very calm, he said indifferently: "It's still far away?" The problem in Qingtang is not their attitude, but more the court's opinion of them. Only when the toasts truly experience the sincerity of the Great Song Dynasty will they sincerely turn their hearts to the Great Song Dynasty. ”

"Master Li's achievements are high, congratulations to Lord Li!"

"All together!"

Li Kui didn't expect that just one contribution from Qingtang Tusi would make him and the opponents of the officials in the surrounding halls disappear without a trace. Especially the eyes around him are stammering, very similar to his appearance in Qingtang City.

As for the disgruntled, it is not for nothing. For example, Sun Jinxian, this old man's face like an old tree root, dark and gloomy. But what can he do, what he is most afraid of now is that Li Kui will settle accounts with him after the autumn and cut off his career.

Although he has a sesame future, it is gone.

But is returning to the hometown the same as dismissing an official and losing his function?

The Great Song Dynasty solved the problem of Qingtang and solved the problem of Western Xia. At least more than 20% of the tax can be saved, and according to the annual tax of 10,000 yuan in the Great Song Dynasty, there will be at least 20 million more surpluses. With so much money, would the emperor still think about changing the law?

Isn't it nice to eat, drink and be merry?

Isn't it uncomfortable to lie on top of a pile of money?

Why do you have to take risks with changes that might destroy the foundation of the Great Song Dynasty?

Starting from Renzong, to Emperor Shenzong, and then to the present, the purpose of their change of law is nothing more than that the taxes of the Great Song Dynasty are no longer enough to spend. You must know that in the past, the finances of the Great Song Dynasty had a surplus of more than 5 million yuan every year. Although the money in the treasury is still piling up, if you really wait for the treasury to run out of rats, the Great Song Dynasty will almost be finished. The emperor who intended to change the law was also worried that the change would shake the foundation of the Great Song Dynasty, but there was no way, even if they knew that it was so, they had to do it hard.

Born in sorrow and dying in peace, this is the plan of the wise.

In fact, Li Kui knew about Qingtang's toast dedication, not only knew, but also gave Qingtang's toast a wake-up call. Although Li Kui promoted Qingtang's Tusi policy, he advocated the strategy of Fanren governing Fanbang. But he is only the commander of the battle, and at most he can only give the emperor a twist. He didn't know whether the Eastern and Western Chambers, that is, the Privy Council and the Metropolitan Hall, would listen to him. The toasts had to express their loyalty to the emperor. The best thing to do is to give a gift that is enough to make the Great Song Emperor happy.

Otherwise, the court may still waver in the policy of Tusi and Fanren to govern Fan.

The combination of Li Qingchen and An Tao, even if Li Qingchen is good at planning, An Tao is good at charging into battle. But compared with the combination of Zhang Dian and Cai Bian, it is still a lot worse. In particular, Yang Wei also took refuge in Zhangdun, and the Hanlin Yuan undertook to formulate decrees and holy decrees, so it can be said that the Privy Council is completely at a disadvantage in terms of discourse.

In this case, it is difficult for An Tao to completely implement the toast policy.

At least Zhang Duan will never let An Tao get his wish.

After all, the greater the credit of the Privy Council, the greater the threat to Charter. Especially Li Qingchen is not without the idea of wanting to be a prime minister, but this idea was extinguished by Zhang Dun.

Out of his own interests, Zhang Dian couldn't let An Tao get his wish.

But the toasts of Qingtang rushed to the capital en masse, although some old toasts did not come, but they also sent heirs to come, which is equivalent to giving An Tao a station.

As the prime minister of the empire, even if Zhang Dian has a small belly, he can see An Tao's plan.

At the same time, he also began to be afraid of one person, and this person was Li Kui.

To put it bluntly, An Tao is a minister who has come all the way from the Yushitai. Although he is very old, the problem is that he has no talent for governance, let alone military talent. Now several bigwigs in the court, except for Li Qingchen, Cai Bian, and Zeng Bu, all have military merits. Although Su Zhe's military exploits are difficult to speak, his old man was obtained because he commanded the army to protect the mausoleum after the death of Emperor Shenzong. To put it bluntly, it was just that the Empress Dowager Xuanren at that time wanted to give Su Zhe a reason for his military merits.

Ke Antao's military exploits are real military exploits.

He also had the credit for going to Western Xia to negotiate and redraw the border.

If An Tao continues to grow, then it will inevitably threaten his phase.

And the reason why An Tao got these credits is inseparable from one person, Li Kui.

In the matter of Western Xia, Li Kui jumped up and down, first instigated the rebellion of Li Chengqian, the imperial family of Western Xia, and then killed the emperor and the empress dowager of Western Xia, and the coup was successful. Under the civil strife, the strength of Western Xia was greatly damaged, allowing the Great Song Bai to pick up the territory of four states. But in the end, the credit was not calculated on Zhang Dan's head, but fell on the emperor's wise selection, which made Zhang Duan have a hard time.

After that, it was Qingtang, and the Great Song Dynasty hit Qingtang was Zhang Dianli's decision to exclude public opinion. First, the former king of Qingtang, now the subordinate prisoner Ali Gu was too arrogant, and dared to lead an army of 100,000 to attack Qin Fenglu, embarrassing the Great Song Dynasty (mainly because Qin Fenglu under the command of Cai Jing did not win). Second, the recovery of Qingtang is of vital significance to the improvement of the military division system of the Great Song Dynasty. The Central Plains Dynasty, which has no shortage of war horses, is a great country with offensive capabilities.

If you don't even have a war horse and rely on infantry to fight, you can only be reduced to a situation of being beaten passively.

Even an army as strong as the Han Dynasty did not have enough cavalry, and could not pose a huge threat to the Xiongnu. Not to mention strategic initiatives and the like. Cavalry, enough cavalry, is the greatest confidence of the Central Plains Dynasty.

What can make Zhang Dian depressed is that it is recommended that An Tao go to Qin Fenglu to preside over the recovery of the land of Hehuang, which is Zhang Tun's plan. Originally, Zhang Dian thought that he could separate An Tao and Li Qingchen's control of the Privy Council, and after at least two or three years of separation, he would have enough time to control the Privy Council. is just one Li Qingchen, who is not his opponent at all. And An Tao led his troops to fight, not only was he afraid that he would not be able to make meritorious contributions, but he would even suffer a fiasco. In Zhang Zhangdun's opinion, An Tao's talent is far worse than Cai Jing, Cai Jing can't beat Qingtang, and An Tao must be cold. But who would have thought that the Great Song Dynasty didn't even send supplies to Qinfeng Road, and Li Kui laid Qingtang City.

Keeping the Qiang people and not surrendering is really not a trouble for Qin Fenglu.

After all, the Qiang people have many infantry and are still in the mountains, no matter how bad the Great Song is, it is easy to deal with the Qiang people.

The two plans made Li Kui easily resolved.

This made Zhang Dian have to suspect that Li Kui had taken refuge in Li Qingchen. Zhang Dian hesitated, did he really want to attack Li Kui?

It never occurred to him that he would be a seemingly non-threatening man. even a kid who has only been in officialdom for two or three years starts. But if Li Kui really took refuge in Li Qingchen, he had no choice.

Looking at a group of Qingtang toasts who even choked on the number of courtesies, some stood and bowed, some knelt on the ground, and some of the embarrassing things lying on the ground without land, Zhang Dan's heart was cold to the freezing point.

Don't look at these Qingtang people, they can't speak well, their tone is very strange, and they are all embarrassed, but the emperor smiled unusually brightly.

Even Hao Sui felt this joy. The emperor was so happy, there were probably only two times, the first time was when the emperor was in power, and the second time was now.

On the Daqing Palace, Zhao Xu stood up excitedly, got up from the dragon chair, walked down the steps, and helped Qingtang's toast up one by one, his emotions were almost out of control, and he choked up: "Aiqing, I have a heart." ”

"Aiqing, I have a heart!"

"You will live up to me, I swear to live up to it!"

Jun did not joke, the emperor spoke in front of the Manchu Dynasty civil and military, and the envoys of Fanbang. If this still doesn't count, I'm afraid he really won't have the face to see the ancestors of the Zhao family after his death.

And the most struggling in my heart is probably not Zhang Dian, but the envoys of Western Xia and Liao.

For them, the stronger the Great Song, the more worried they will be.

The celebration is over.

The emperor could not restrain the joy in his heart, and walked briskly in the palace, followed by Hao Sui and other eunuchs. The more he thought about it, the happier he became, what if his father, Emperor Shenzong, used Wang Shao to defeat Qingtang? Whether the Qingtang people should rebel or rebel, even the expected war horses cannot provide. also had to drag down the garrison of the army stationed on Qin Fenglu.

But what about him?

is also to recover Qingtang, judging from the battle report, the number of people killed in Qingtang is at least three or four times that of Wang Shao's Xining Kaibian, but Xining Kaibian is actually a failure, these are all conclusive things.

But what about Zhao Xu? What he gained was a return to his heart. Doesn't this mean that he is more powerful than his father? But he's only twenty years old! When I think about it, I get excited. If it was five years later, ten years later, wouldn't he have to surpass Emperor Qin and Han Wu...... Thinking of such a beautiful thing, if he really regained the sixteen states of Yanyun in the future, he could only go to alchemy to pass the time, and when he thought of this, he couldn't help laughing: "Hao Sui, tomorrow the Zichen Palace will give the Qingtang Tusi, what do you say I want to give?" ”

"Thunder, rain and dew are all gentlemen, whatever Your Majesty gives, the toast of Qingtang will be full of joy." Hao Sui didn't dare to talk nonsense, especially when the emperor was happy, if he ruined the emperor's good mood, he would be unlucky.

For such an answer, Zhao Xu was naturally not satisfied, and said continuously: "It's not proper, I am rich all over the world, how can I take advantage of the courtiers?" ”

This is true, Huaxia is a country of etiquette, and the truth that has always been believed in is that you respect me for a foot, and I respect you for a foot.

Qingtang's top ten toasts are so eye-catching, how can Zhao Xu not show it? Besides, Qingtang Tusi gave 20,000 war horses, if he picked and searched, wouldn't it make the loyal ministers feel cold?

Zhao Xu frowned and asked, "Hao Sui, what do you say Qingtang's toast will lack?" ”

"There is a lot of shortage, more tea, more iron, more weapons, and more silk, after all, these are not produced on the grassland."

"Give, give more. Tea gives 100,000 catties, iron 1 million catties, silk...... It is not easy for Tusi to travel between Qingtang and the capital, if it is not appropriate to build a palace, how about building a temple? I heard that the people of Qingtang like to live in the temple and live close to the Buddha. "Zhao Xu is very rich, after all, the materials for preparing for the war have not been used, these are exchanged for money, let alone buying 20,000 war horses, even if there are more war horses, it is enough. When Zhao Xu decided to reward, he naturally had to give face.

After all, the richer the reward, the more face he has.

But after Zhao Xu's ruined reward decision came out, Hao Sui thought of a question in horror: "This deal seems to have lost a lot." ”

"Your Majesty, I can't help it! With so many supplies, I'm afraid the Doshido won't agree. Besides, the establishment of a toast in Qingtang is still Li Kui's suggestion. Should you ask Li Kui for these rewards? Hao Sui said nervously, the emperor wants to say it, he can't stop it, but Dushitang doesn't agree, and he will be the one who will be angry at both ends at that time.

In desperation, Hao Sui could only move out of Li Kui.

Zhao Xu raised his eyebrows and said, "Why didn't Li Kui come to see me when he returned to Beijing?" ”

Hao Sui was smiling at this, a stunned young man who can jump the Bianhe River in the winter when he returns to Beijing the day before, will think about you, don't dream.

However, Hao Sui is Li Kui's good brother after all, and even once wanted Li Kui to take advantage of him as his son's father. Even if Li Kui didn't agree, but he was still his own brother, Hao Sui had to round out what he said, and he thought of Li Kui's excuse that he didn't enter the palace: "Your Majesty, you forgot, Li Kui is no longer on an errand in the imperial city, and the official body of the Straight Secret Pavilion has also gone, and he has not entered the waist card of Deshengmen." ”

The emperor was stunned, and said in his heart: "This kid can't be stupid, he didn't ask for one!" ”

If Li Kui knew that the emperor thought so, he would definitely be angry: Do you think you can give it if you ask for it?