"Xing Shangshu!"

"Master Li!"

"I didn't expect it to be you?"

"That's right, that's me."

……

The two had a witty conversation, and the people around them listened to it in a fog, and only Li Kui and Xing Shu knew it.

Li Kui doesn't have many enemies, at least not in the court. But there are many people who want to restrict Li Kui from continuing to grow, even when he was in the capital, Li Kui couldn't figure out who was behind him. This is not a lag in the news of the court, and it is impossible to guard against.

It's because he was promoted too quickly and there were too many people who were jealous of him.

It's a mediocre talent not to recruit people, and Li Kui doesn't want to be a budding bird, but he can't pretend to be mediocre.

As for the fact that there are many people who want to oppress him, it is normal, such as the current court. Most of the officials above the third grade are Jinshi in the Jiayou period, especially in the second and fourth years of Jiayou, and they are all courtiers of Zhongjinshi for more than 30 years. For example, Zhang Dian, Lin Xi, Zeng Bu, Li Qingchen and others; The second is the courtier of Jinshi in the early years of Yingzong and Shenzong, and he has been an official for more than 25 years, such as Yang Wei, Cai Bian brothers, and Xing Shu.

Without the ups and downs of officialdom for 30 years, it is indeed impossible to enter the center.

And what about Li Kui?

In the first year of Shaosheng, he was only seven or eight years old, and he didn't even have ten years.

Although Li Kui is the face of Shao Sheng's first year, it also shows that Li Kui has no hardcore allies in the court.

Suo Feng doesn't count, besides, Suo Feng is also a jinshi in the Yuanfeng period, and he has been an official for almost 20 years, which is much older than him.

And Li Kui's peers, who did a good job, were just general judges, not even Zhizhou, let alone entering the court to be a high-ranking official such as a ministry attendant, which was not realistic at all. Even most of them are still circling in the county office.

This also declares that Li Kui is an isolated person in the court. Because he was too good, he was promoted too quickly, and when he entered the court, he found that there was no colleague around him who could become an ally. Not even the same year of the liner. The officials who can have the right to speak in the court are all seniors. And the seniors, even if they have a good relationship with Li Kui, are not very happy that Li Kui, who is only in his twenties, can be on an equal footing with them.

It's not some jealousy, it's dissatisfaction with the destruction of the system. Seniority is also a kind of capital, everyone has survived step by step, why does Li Kui, who is younger than their son, sit in front of them so easily and have the same power as them?

They were promoted all the way from a petty official of seven or eight grades, step by step, and Li Kui's career was like telling them that the hardships they had endured back then were all in vain.

As for Xing Shu's arrival, Li Kui had already guessed some, but he just needed to confirm it. And his tentative words were answered by Xing Shu.

No one forced him, he said it himself.

That's enough, there is a debtor and a debtor, Li Kui just needs to find Xing Shu.

In fact, Xing Shu was appointed as the Xuanzhi Qincha, which had already been abandoned by Emperor Zhao Xu. At the moment when the imperial court decided to send Xing Shu to appease Li Kui, Xing Shu's life or death was no longer important to anyone.

But Xing Shu hadn't felt the sadness of being abandoned, and he even felt that it might be the emperor's compensation for him. After all, Li Kui had humiliated him many times before, and now that he came with the emperor's will, Li Kui had to endure even if he was a great grievance. Besides, does Li Kui dare to kill?

Do you dare to kill the officials of the imperial court?

He didn't dare to borrow his guts.

Xing Shu thought of it firmly, he didn't even notice that Li Kui's dark face was even darker, but arrogantly like a big rooster patrolling his own territory, standing in front of Li Kui and arrogantly said: "Renjie, you are a talent, but unfortunately you don't know how to be an official, do you know what mistakes you have made?" ”

"I've made a lot of mistakes, that time, you say?"

Li Kui sneered, what he said was absolutely true, the problem is that many times even he himself doesn't know who he offended? Before leaving the capital, he was the most popular spicy chicken in the court, a straight bachelor of Tianzhang Pavilion, and a civil official from the third grade. Is it necessary for him to care?

After leaving the capital...... After letting go of myself, everything went well, and I was much happier than being an official. Officialdom is like a cage, and the people who are deeply involved in it are smoothed out all the time.

After getting out of the cage, Li Kui can really do whatever he wants.

Now he doesn't care about making mistakes, or accidentally offending people.

Anyway, there are people he can't afford to offend, but it's definitely not on the land of Jingdong East Road. In Jingdong East Road, it is not easy for anyone to say it, he is the person in charge of this jurisdiction.

Xing Shu looked at Li Kui in amazement, he spoke to Li Kui in an almost preachy tone, but Li Kui's unrepentant appearance really made him angry. couldn't help but raise the door, and said sharply: "Li Kui, you are no longer a celebrity in front of the emperor, and there is no longer your seat in the court, don't you know how to converge?" ”

"Restrain what, wagging your tail at you?"

Li Kui suddenly laughed: "Xing Shu, since I first saw you in the prison of the Criminal Department, I know that you don't know the situation, treacherous, despicable, but you can't see through the general trend. Do you think that you came to Dengzhou because the emperor gave you a fat difference to reward you? You are an abandoned son, although you are as despicable as Yang Wei, but others have better vision than you and better planning than you. On the contrary, it's you, just a pitiful worm like a clown jumping off the beam, don't think that you are a second-class high-ranking official, I'm bah, the lord is also a marquis in a purple robe, put away your poor inferiority, this is Dengzhou, not the capital. In Dengzhou, the king of heaven is here, and he has to listen to my arrangement. ”

Maybe he was stimulated by Li Kui's words, or he didn't take Li Kui seriously at all. Otherwise, after he disembarked from Li Kui, Xing Shu would not have deliberately provoked.

This kind of thinking, if it is an ordinary situation, ordinary people, naturally do not have to worry.

Xing Shu is the minister of proclamation, or more appropriately, the minister of the Qincha.

However, his powers as a minister are relatively small, and he cannot punish corrupt officials or mobilize the local treasury, so he belongs to the kind of errand work that he does specially.

Even the most powerless minister is still a minister, and Xing Shu regards himself as a real minister, and he is a third-level official.

When he met Li Kui, who was not interested, he was even more angry. Pointing at Li Kui, he said angrily: "Li Kui, you have fallen like this, do you still have the demeanor of a court minister?" Don't be ashamed to speak up, dare to offend the official, the official tells you, I am a messenger, I came to announce the decree, Li Kui listened to the decree-"

Li Kui didn't move, and when the Great Song Dynasty read out the holy decree, he didn't kneel, and he didn't have to do it when he saw the emperor.

This rule started in the Yuan Dynasty, and the Great Song Dynasty did not have such rules.

It is true not to kneel, but at least respect is also needed, at least when listening to the holy decree, you must bow down and listen, and you can't stand stupidly like Li Kui.

"Li Kui, you dare to despise the imperial court and despise the saint-"

Seeing that Li Kui didn't react, he sneered at him. Xing Shu's tone rose again: "Li Kui, do you dare to rebel?" ”

While speaking, Li Kui snatched the holy decree from Xing Shu's hand, and lost it to Gongsun Sheng behind him without looking at it. It's also strange to say, Gongsun Sheng was a good Taoist official in the Dao Palace, and after hearing that Li Kui had recruited Liangshan, he didn't even want an official, and followed him to Dengzhou, and I don't know what this guy thinks.

The moment Li Kui took away the holy decree, it really scared people.

Others don't know, can Li Kui still not know?

The court really has a way for him, can he still send Xing Shu? I'm afraid it's an army of 100,000, not a powerless minister.

He was sure that nothing in the decree would be against him. In this case, what are you worried about, just grab it. Besides, he resigned from the government, and even made the worst plan to break with the court, and he didn't take the rules seriously for a long time. Today's rules, Xing Shu has to be guarded, and Zhang Dian has to be guarded, but Li Kui doesn't have to care about it at all.

After Gongsun Sheng read the holy decree, he whispered to Li Kui: "It is the holy decree given by His Majesty to the old lady's archway, the proprietor, can you accept it?" ”

"Pick it up, why not."

Even at this point, Li Kui has no intention of completely breaking with the court. He is not afraid of the imperial army, but he has an arrangement in his heart, and he is not afraid of the court's next suppression of him.

It's already like this, and I'm afraid of a ball!

Hearing that Li Kui received the holy decree, even if it was Li Kui who snatched the holy decree in the process, Xing Shu suddenly understood Li Kui's thoughts, and he didn't dare to rebel against the Great Song Dynasty.

This made Xing Shu's confidence rise again, and he pointed at Li Kui and shouted: "Li Kui, even if you know that I framed you, what can you do?" What can you do to me? ”

The governor of Dengzhou behind Xing Shu was so frightened that he wiped his sweat again and again, and he wanted to tell Xing Shu that it was very cool to be arrogant, but the problem was that the power of the imperial court in the state was out of control. Xing Shu actually belongs to the guts bandits, if he goes to Liao, he can hold his tail between his legs, and even wag his tail to beg. But in the face of Li Kui, who was also a Song person and was a colleague before, he was not afraid at all, but became more and more courageous.

Behind him, the governor of Dengzhou turned pale with fright, and wiped the cold sweat on his forehead. Even the officials in the yamen have been replaced by people trusted by Li Kui, it can be said that once Li Kui has murderous intentions towards Xing Shu, no one can protect him.

And Xing Shu's actions seem to have taken a big step towards death.

Li Kui glanced at Xing Shu and suddenly laughed: "Xing Shu, do you think I really don't dare to kill you?" ”

"You-"

Xing Shu's eyes widened and he looked at Li Kui in surprise.

I saw Li Kui said lightly: "Even if you are allowed to go back, as long as you are on the road, it is better to say that on the territory of Jingxi Road, you will be robbed and killed by strongmen, and you will not be able to live." It's better if you take a boat, and if you encounter water bandits on the road, you won't have a place to bury, wouldn't it be a hundred? These are all secretly killing people, I, Li Kui, do things, and I don't care about this, that is, I cut you with a knife and give you a traitorous hat, and I, Li Kui, am also a loyal minister on the side of the Qing monarch. ”

"Just ask the people of the world, is your Xing Shu's character good, or my Li Kui's character!"

There is no need to ask this question at all, Xing Shu has been repeatedly promoted by flattering the emperor, and has taken refuge in Wang Anshi, Zhang Dan, and Lu Huiqing, even if he is also a law-changing faction, few people look up to him. On the contrary, it is Li Kui, everyone in the capital knows that Li Kui is the god of war of the Great Song Dynasty, a civil and military all-rounder, and has made countless meritorious contributions.

Xing Shu's face changed a few times, and he found that what Li Kui said seemed to have some truth. The situation was very unfavorable to him, especially Li Kui's attitude was too strong, which he did not expect.

suddenly regretted it a little, thinking that Li Kui was down, and his humiliation of Li Kui with his martial arts was also out of the anger of being humiliated by Li Kui back then.

Unexpectedly, on the contrary, he was worried about his life.

I don't know if what Li Kui said is true or not.

But there was a person behind Li Kui who raised his arm excitedly and roared: "Kill him!" ”

"Kill him!"

Suddenly, dozens of people, hundreds of people, until finally the dock was full of shouts of 'kill him': "The dog official framed the court Zhongliang, kill him!" ”

It was only at this time that Xing Shu was completely panicked, but Li Kui quietly ordered: "Tie him up for me." ”

Thinking that Li Kui really wanted to kill him, Xing Shu was so frightened that his legs were weak, and he no longer had the arrogant momentum he had before, so he spread out on the ground and cried: "Li Kui, you can't kill me, I am an official of the imperial court and a minister of the imperial court." ”

"It's as if I'm not an official of the imperial court." Li Kui said contemptuously: "Come on, take strict care of this guy." ”

A storm seems to have subsided, but more seems to be brewing.

That night, Gongsun Sheng begged to see Li Kui, and as soon as they met, he asked, "The proprietor, what should Xing Shu do?" ”

"Buckle it down, I need to know the reaction of the imperial court."

Gongsun Sheng said worriedly: "I'm afraid it's not okay to deduct it clearly, this person is a second-class member of the imperial court, and the imperial court also needs to be faced, for such a villain, it is not worth messing up the general strategy of the proprietor." ”

"Let's just say that I need an official to contact the imperial court, Xing Shu is just right, send someone to send a letter to Zhang Dun, and ask him to give me an answer."

Li Kui doesn't want to be good at all, especially in this situation, if he gives way, the court will go further, and when he has no way to retreat, I'm afraid he will not be far from death.

So, he's strong, stronger than ever. Only when he is strong and a person who has been around for a hundred years can he have the confidence and cohesion. This truth is known to generals, especially on the battlefield, and the courage of generals. And Li Kui is the same, he is the courage of tens of thousands of people, he can't retreat, and there is no way out.

This is a temptation, and at the same time it is also a way to tell the court that he is not a casual master.

As for the results...... After he conquers Liaodong, it doesn't matter what the result is, with the territory, he can be the emperor if he wants.

Moreover, Li Kui is also annoyed that after he became an official, it seems that his personality has been polished by officialdom, and his original angular character seems to have been rounded.

As for the suppression of the rebellion by the imperial court, what kind of joke is it, unless Zhang Dian does not fight, and he must immediately sign an armistice agreement with the Liao State and the Western Xia at the same time, and give up all the benefits.

If he really does this, I'm afraid the emperor won't be able to accept it, let alone Zhang Dun, who has always wanted to surpass Wang Anshi.

And a year or two years later, if Li Kui hasn't laid down a piece of ground, it is estimated that even he will look down on himself.

That night, Li Kui's men were all surprised.

Especially Liangshan and his gang, when Li Kui ordered Xing Shu to be kidnapped, Chao Gai's eyes were bright, but unfortunately he didn't kill Xing Shu, which made him feel a little regretful.

It was only at this time that he discovered that Li Kui was more suitable to be a commander than him, even if Li Kui's subordinates were a group of rabble.