An Tao jumped out at this time and blamed An Tang, which was helpless.

In terms of the situation of the war, the situation on the northern front is precarious. Although the information and information obtained are only a few words, it is necessary to wait for sufficient battle reports before making a judgment.

But...... It is an indisputable fact that the two cities that support the core of the defense line are lost, and they cannot be taken off from the relationship.

If the blame is not pressed on Anton, then in the end it will only be the Privy Council that swallows the bitter fruit.

But is this the pot of the Privy Council?

Ever since he took the helm of the Toshido, he has sought military command. In this way, Zhang Dian wants the Prime Minister's Mansion to take over the government alone, can Li Qingchen agree to this?

Not only will Li Qingchen not agree, but An Tao will not either!

It stands to reason that Li Qingchen and An Tao were both members of the Fa-Reform faction, and the reason why their relationship with Zhang Dian was incompatible, and then became hostile, was entirely caused by Zhang Tun's desire to monopolize the government. Of course, there is another reason, after the recovery of Zhang Dan, it stands to reason that Li Qingchen's status is the highest, this Shenzong was a bachelor of Hanlin Chengzhi during the period, and he was one of the two giants of the Hanlin Academy.

There were very few civil officials in the Great Song Dynasty who entered the capital hall from the privy envoy. What Wen Yanbo can't do, Li Qingchen is even more difficult.

This is because the Great Song Dynasty, from the court to the emperor, did not want to see the emergence of political giants with huge influence in both military and political circles.

This is inconsistent with the dynasty's control of power.

It can be said that after Li Qingchen was driven to the Privy Council by Zhang Dan, it was equivalent to cutting off the opportunity of the prime minister.

How can Li Qingchen endure this?

The situation is a bit like the three Zhao brothers back then, Zhao Kuangyin secretly became the emperor. said that he would be the emperor for his younger brother, but he couldn't choose his own son.

If this were to be done, a palace coup would be indispensable.

You became the emperor, and you said that you would let me be the eldest prince, and in a blink of an eye, the king will be over, who can bear it?

Their own sons will turn against each other.

What's more, the relationship between Li Qingchen and Zhang Dian is nothing more than an ally.

In fact, all the important ministers of the reform faction have this idea, and the prime minister takes turns to do it, and he will come to my house this year.

You have been doing it for two years, and you can have a good time, it's time to change people.

But Zhang Dan's addiction to being the prime minister is getting bigger and bigger, and after he became a minister, he never thought about giving others a chance.

As for An Tao, the relationship between them is even more complicated.

Anyway, An Tang is not An Tao's brother, but has the same surname. An Tao's attack on An Tang can only make Zhang Duan lose face, and that is enough.

Zhang Dun had a tiger face, and his threatening eyes stared at An Tao. It's a pity that the latter didn't care about it, and didn't look at his old man at all.

Everyone is an old man, who is afraid of whom!

Besides, Anton was a confidant appointed by Zhangton at the border, and if he did not bear any responsibility, he would not be able to justify it. As for the Privy Council, Li Qingchen and An Tao originally wanted to use Fan Chun to serve as the top military and political leader of Hebei's two routes, and Hebei's pacification envoy.

Besides, this adult is not ordinary, Fan Zhongyan's son.

The son of the old Fan family was deeply trusted and graced by the royal family of the Great Song Dynasty, and after becoming an official, he would generally go to the place where his father had fought. The specific position is the governor of Gyeongju. If he has outstanding ability and learning, he will serve as an official position such as the Xuanfu envoy of Huanqing Road, and Jia Long is a straight bachelor.

This is the royal family's favor to the Fan family, and no one can take it away.

Gyeongju is the border, and it is the most frequent war zone between the Great Song Dynasty and Western Xia, whether Fan Chun or Fan Chunren, they have all served as officials in this place. And they are all good at dealing with border military operations.

But Anton can't do it, the imperial history work he is good at, specifically - harming people.

Such a civilian official was arranged to Hebei Road to command tens of thousands of troops in a unified manner, which was originally Zhang Dan's wishful thinking.

At this moment, An Tao's counterattack came with the right benefits.

But Zhang Dian also has difficulties, Fan Chun is now on the way to deprecation, according to Cai Bian's idea, this is to go all the way south from the capital to Qiongzhou. Now it happens to be on Zhejiang Road, and there is still half the way to go, how can it be possible to let such a person come back. Not only to come back, but also to be reused, isn't this a slap in the face?

With Anton, this is the way that Zhangdun can't help.

On the northern front, there was also a minister of the imperial court, Xing Shu. Because of framing Li Kui, he was driven to the Daimyo's Mansion to serve as the prefect. He is also qualified to take charge of the military administration of Hebei Road.

This product is even more unreliable than Anton, and if you have no guts, you will only tell right and wrong. is also brilliantly written, quick-witted, and has nothing to do with fighting.

An Duan can at least be decisive in killing, although it is aimed at conservatives, it can also be seen that this person is more responsible than Xing Shu.

It is better to use Xing Shu than to use Antun.

As for Fan Chun, it is absolutely impossible.

Ke Fan Chun is really the most suitable person. The people of the Fan family, don't look at political discord, but if you just look at your ability, they are very outstanding. Fan Chunren, Fan Chunren, was also an important minister in the court. And both have experience in border army operations.

Especially Fan Chun, who has been in the Northwest for many years.

Don't look at Zhang Qi's dominance in the northwest, relying on his own strength, he has protected the safety of the northwest of the Great Song Dynasty in the past ten years during the Yuan You period. But without Fan's pure help, Zhang Ji would be just alone.

Seeing that the benefactor was attacked, Lin Xi suddenly stood up, and at the beginning, Zhang Dian was the choice between him and An Ton, and finally chose An Tun, which made him breathe a sigh of relief. If he had gone to the northern front, he would have been even worse than Anton. At least, Antun also knew that to keep Zhending Mansion was to keep Hebei West Road, and decisively give up the surrounding dozen or so small cities.

This decisiveness is already much stronger than him.

Lin Xi is not much worse, he writes very good articles, but unfortunately he has no ability to fight.

"An Tao, the loss of Yanzhou and Zhuozhou, although it is very unfavorable to my Great Song Dynasty. Is it unfair to allow Anton to bear the blame entirely? The election of the war will be the business of your Privy Council, and it is not the responsibility of your Privy Council to fight against it? ”

How could An Tao admit it? immediately jumped out and pointed at Lin Xi and scolded: "In addition to finding evidence of someone's 'rebellion' in the documents and letters, what else does he have to do?" Why is it in charge of Hebei Road? Don't you count in your heart? There are six main generals of the Western Army, and more than 30 generals, none of you can move, you can only let Wang Jin continue to fight in Hebei Road, you shouldn't ask me why I can't mobilize the generals of the Great Song Forbidden Army, but why do you have to intervene? ”

An Tao's fire was about to burn to Zhang Dian's body.

Zhang Dian couldn't sit still, and snorted coldly: "An Tao, you jumped out to take responsibility at this time, old man, do you think that the Western Army should not attack Western Xia, but let Western Xia slow down and become a big trouble for my Great Song henchmen?" ”

"Bah, what are you thinking in your heart, I don't understand? Qiankun is arbitrary, and he wants to be a powerful minister of the Great Song Dynasty. ”

"The old man's heart is all for the Great Song, the dog thief, I fought with you!" Zhang Dan was furious.

"Come on, if the old man takes a step back, he won't be raised by people." An Tao said disdainfully: "Dare not do it, what do you say about the Great Song Dynasty, you are Sima Zhao's heart, and everyone knows it." Don't hide it, Fan is purely a remnant of the old party, you also say this? Wang Jingzhou's change of law is still copied by Fan Chun, his father Fan Xiwengong's change of law Chen, I bah, shameless thing. He was a 'remnant' who did not participate in the politics of the old party, but he said a few words about Wang Jingzhou's changes in the book back then. I will not be guilty of speech, you squirting on these flies and dogs, and you will be spurned. How? His son-in-law hides behind his back. You are an irrelevant person, do you want to be his filial son? ”

Li Qingchen hid properly behind An Tao, watching the old man An rattling and killing all directions, and he was very proud in his heart.

The loss is that An Tao is by his side, and when it comes to quarrels, except for An Tao and Liu Anshi, no one in the court can match.

It's a pity that Liu Anshi was rectified by Cai Bian, and now he has been demoted out of the capital.

Only An Tao is his close comrade-in-arms, and his combat effectiveness is amazing.

Zhang Xuan gasped angrily, it was impossible for him to really make a move with An Tao. The two civil officials, who are about the same age, add up to more than 130 years old, no matter how good their physical strength was when they were young, they are both old, and their combat effectiveness is about the same.

If you really do it, in case An Tao can't make a mess in the court, I'm afraid Zhang Duan won't be able to get out of it.

But if you lose, it will be even more humiliating.

Cai Bian was noisy and lively, and he was also anxious in his heart. Li Qingchen and An Tao originally wanted to use Fan Chun, but in fact, Zhang Dian wanted to agree, but he didn't agree.

The reason is very simple, on the one hand, Fan is purely engaged in him, and he can't afford to lose this person.

In addition, Cai Bian is also a person whose intelligence does not lose to anyone. Can he not see Li Qingchen and An Tao's thoughts?

The enemy of my enemy is my friend.

Even if Cai Bian hadn't heard this sentence, he couldn't let this happen.

Fan is purely a conservative person, and Li Qingchen and An Tao want to win over, which shows that these two want to increase their strength. In case Fan Chun made meritorious service on the northern front (which is very likely), wouldn't it benefit Li Qingchen and An Tao?

Cai Bian cleaned up the court, and the biggest opportunity was that when the officials who entered the court in the future wanted to stand in the camp, they would choose the more powerful capital. Instead of choosing a Privy Council with little future. He killed three birds with one stone, giving his father-in-law Wang Anshi a proper name; Avenge; The last one is to cultivate power for Zhangdun.

Because Cai Bian also saw that Zeng Bu had a few, each with a ghost, and Zhang Dian wanted to rely on them to govern, and he would be more and more constrained by all parties. It is better not to break or stand, create a power vacuum, and create opportunities for cultivating people in your own camp.

The biggest reason for preventing Li Qingchen and An Tao from recruiting conservative marginal officials is to control their forces.

These two are the Fa-changers, and now the banner of the Fa-Changers is carried by Zhang-Dan, even if these two people fight with Zhang-Dan, they can't set off the storm. But if they were to be united with the conservatives, it would be a disaster for the reformers.

Emperor Zhao Xi sat on the dragon chair, his eyes were dilated, he didn't understand why his ministers were still biting each other?

Interesting?

The key is that if the society of the Great Song Dynasty damages the foundation, he will have to carry this pot.

It is undoubted that the emperor bears the greatest responsibility.

is like the king of the dead country, even if the dead country really has nothing to do with them, but he has to wear the hat of a faint king.

If the Great Song Dynasty dies tomorrow, he Zhao Xu will be the biggest faint monarch in the world, which is too unreasonable!

At this time, Cai Bian suddenly pointed at Li Kui and wanted to divert the target. You can't let An Tao, who kills a thousand knives, slander his father-in-law, Wang Anshi, right?

"Your Majesty, the minister once saw an excerpt written by Li Tianzhang to the capital hall, which has such a passage, 'There is no aid to defend the city, there is help to attack'. The Metropolitan Hall asked the Privy Council at the time if there were reinforcements. I remember that Li Shumi and An Tongzhi said at the beginning, no. The main generals in front all agree that Yanzhou and Zhuozhou should be abandoned, An Tao, why are you entangled here? ”

Seeing the fire burning on himself, Li Kui sighed in his heart.

He was originally a spectator, and he couldn't get involved in a quarrel at this level.

Besides, if he had the opportunity to participate one day, I am afraid he would not have fallen into such a predicament as Zhang Dun.

"Cai Zhizhi, you misunderstood what you said."

Of course, Li Kui couldn't admit it, this defeat was caused by himself.

He pointed at Cai Bian and asked: "This is just a war assumption made to prevent the Liao State from jumping over the wall, and you don't know how many people the Liao army has come this time?" If 300,000 come, I'm afraid it won't be long before the Liao army may arrive at the Daimyo's Mansion. Could it be that I instigated this? ”

"And I remember that this is not an excerpt that I wrote to the capital hall, but a secret fold written to the Imperial City Division, through the secret fold sent to the Vertical Arch Hall with the military supervision army. Where did you find out? ”

Li Kui immediately bowed to the emperor and said, "Your Majesty, if this excerpt of the Hanging Arch Palace, if it is a military situation, should it be reported to Shangshu Province?" ”

Cai Bian is a scholar and is in charge of Shangshu Province, so he is naturally not qualified to participate in military politics.

At least, in order to avoid suspicion, he should not deliberately listen to this kind of secret.

Of course, this is just a superficial rule. Secretly, the ministers in the court, in order to know more about the government, have long forgotten these rules.

Cai Bian is not the only one, but unfortunately, he bumped into Li Kui.

Emperor Zhao Xu's face was gloomy and he said, "Official! ”

"The minions are here."

"Go and check, who leaked the secret of the military intelligence?"

Cai Bian buzzed in his ears, Li Kui, this guy, spoke like a bell, he was still standing close, and he couldn't hide.

Cai Bian didn't want to let Li Kui take the blame, he just wanted to give An Dian a way out. After all, they are all grasshoppers on a rope, and when the allies are in trouble, he can't help but pull a hand.

didn't expect Li Kui to not give an inch, and directly accused him of leaking secrets.

Shangshu Province, in charge of six ministries. But in fact, the Ministry of Officials has always been under the jurisdiction of the Metropolitan Hall, and the Ministry of War is not under his control.

Cai Bian was not qualified to take the initiative to spy on the confidential military information of the Great Song Dynasty, unless the emperor told him that he needed to give advice, otherwise he would overstep his authority.

The vertical arch hall is the place where the emperor deals with the government affairs, and some dynasties call it the imperial study, which is the same meaning.

The normal court will be in the Zichen Hall and the Daqing Hall.

In fact, the vertical arch hall has its own team, the official is the head of the eunuchs, and there are also transcription secrets below, and the clerical personnel in the warehouse are also served by the eunuchs. The secret fold was leaked, and most of it was related to the eunuch who copied it.

Soon, the little yellow door that leaked the secret was dragged to the main hall, and the cryer: "Your Majesty, the slave is guilty, the slave is guilty!" ”

Zhao Xi looked at the little yellow door that kept kowtowing, and couldn't help but be irritable in his heart: "Ask the Imperial City Division." ”

entered the torture chamber of the Imperial City Division, and this life was basically confessed.

Xiao Huangmen was trembling with fright, but he was even more afraid of the torture room. Suddenly he broke free from his companion and slammed into the pillar of the main hall and died!

This really frightened the emperor, and the court discussion could not continue.

Zhao Xu got up from the dragon chair, shook the dragon robe, and left.

Hao Sui followed closely, and then came back, and said in a loud voice: "Retreat!" ”

"Renjie, don't rush to run."

The emperor walked in the imperial city with a pale face, Li Kui followed him, and after a long time, the emperor said tiredly: "Li Qing, is it really hopeless to recover the sixteen states of Yanyun?" ”

"In a year or two, there is no chance."

Li Kui told the truth.

A few days later, as more and more military reports came from the northern front, the mood in the court finally stabilized, and fortunately, the people were still there.

and lost two cities.

Almost ten days later, the envoys of the Liao State entered the country with festival flags and reported to the Great Song Dynasty: Liao Emperor Yelu Hongji died!