At the court meeting, Zhao Ji did not mention a word about Tong Guan's problem, and Cai Jing did not take the initiative to remind the officials. It shows that the analysis of the eighth prince is in place, and Zhao Ji still trusts Tong Guan and doesn't want to touch him.

In the afternoon of this day, a special guest came to Cai's Mansion, and he was the new Lord Qin Hui of Kaifeng Mansion.

Qin Hui is only twenty-eight years old this year, with a height of 1.75 meters, he looks slender, and his facial features are considered to be good-looking, but his eyes are a pair of triangular eyes, and his nose is slightly hooked, giving people a shrewd and capable, but somewhat insidious feeling.

After Qin Hui saw Cai Jing, the two of them were a little cold, and Qin Hui spoke first: "The kid has long wanted to come to visit Taishi, but because there are too many mundane things around him, he has never had a chance. If you don't come this time, next time you will have to visit your hometown to visit your old age. ”

Cai Jing snorted disdainfully and said, "Why, you just want the old man to retire so that Lord Wang can ascend to the throne?" ”

Qin Hui sneered: "If the Taishi has a dispute with Tong Shuxiang, Wang Xiang and others, maybe the court in the future will not be your world." With the shrewdness of the etheric master, can't you see that Zhao Chongyang is ranked as a Zaifu at the age of fifteen, and he is also a Dingbian Marquis with high military achievements. If you don't join forces to check and balance him, if he rises a little more, it will be a product. In the entire court, only you, Taishi, Gao Taiwei, and Tong Shuxiang are ranked first, and which of the three of you will give way? I'm afraid that the first thing the official family thinks of is your old lady, because you are also over seventy years old and have reached the age of returning to your hometown, the reason why the official family did not move you is mainly because you think that you have some way to make money. For example, the prefect of Hangzhou is a big fat shortage, and it is impossible for the official family to personally ask the Hanlin Academy who want to release the real power: Which of you is willing to pay 100,000 yuan, and the five-grade official is his. But you can operate secretly, and give most of the money to the official family, and bear the notoriety of selling the official mantle yourself.

It's different now, will you get money again, and get the man who claims to be a prodigy? After the first battle to destroy the Western Xia, he only privately rewarded all the officers and soldiers who participated in the war, and he himself contributed two million, how much did it reduce the expenses of the imperial court? So this time, in his recital, Yagen did not mention the reward for meritorious personnel and compensate the soldiers who died in battle. Because he has come out on behalf of the court. Since you have a bigger financier, and you are indeed old, you must be the one who will move at that time. ”

This remark was very demagogic, and it hit the nail on the head, making Cai Jing unable to refute it. He was silent for a while, and then asked Qin Hui, "In your opinion, how should the old man deal with it?" ”

Qin Hui said: "He has military achievements now, and he is also a real Dingbian Hou, and it is difficult to shake his position in a hurry." There are three strategies for the upper, middle and lower, and the Taishi can be chosen by the speaker.

The best policy, the idea is to let the official family recruit him as a concubine, once he marries the princess, he can't take on any real position, he can only be a carefree marquis, at most the official rank rises to a product, and receives a few more Fenglu money. Not long ago, didn't the golden vulture send someone to leave a message, and next spring he will compete with the horse master selected by the official family to try the dual arts of civil and martial arts? Whoever wins is the concubine of Emperor Maud. It is estimated that neither you nor the officials have good countermeasures now. Now it is better to let Ling Gongzi withdraw with dignity, and suggest that the official family designate Zhao Chongyang as a concubine to participate in the war on behalf of the Great Song Dynasty. For the sake of the face of the Great Song Dynasty, whether Zhao Chongyang wants to or not, he must fight.

In the middle of the policy, ask the official family to set up another metropolitan governor's mansion in the southwest or northeast, far away from the power center of the Beijing Division, when the official family needs people, let him be out of reach, and he will not be able to use his ability, so that he will not have the opportunity to make meritorious contributions and performance, and after ten or eight years, after his will is depressed and loses his enterprising spirit, he will not pose a threat to the adult father and son. By then, Cai You and Cai Yan would have already stood alone and climbed to a high position. It is best to be located in the southwest, with few wars, so that he can be a playful marquis in peace.

As for the next policy, of course, it is to ignore nothing, let it sit big, and finally replace the master and take charge of the Great Song Dynasty.

Of course, if Master Tai wants to successfully achieve the best or middle policy, it must be indispensable for Tong Shuxiang and Wang Xiangye's great help, plus Master Taiwei Gao is your in-laws, so naturally he will not withdraw your platform, so everything will be easy. Therefore, Tong Shuxiang's stay also has an impact on Master Tai. ”

Qin Hui talked for a long time, and finally clarified the purpose of this visit.

Cai Jing was still quite satisfied with Qin Hui's analysis and the three strategies of the upper, middle and lower levels, and decided to choose the best strategy and follow the plan. In the end, he said to Qin Hui: "It seems that you and Zhao Chongyang have their own strengths, and you are good at combining vertical and horizontal." Thank you for the reminder, I will do my best to keep the position of the child. And tomorrow, let the official family announce the cancellation of Cai Ying's faint contract with the princess. ”

Qin Hui saw that his goal had been achieved, so he said goodbye and went back.

After Qin Hui left, Cai Jing asked his subordinates to prepare a sedan chair, and he wanted to enter the palace to see the official's house......

Zhao Chongyang sealed the marquis the next morning, Zhao Ji issued a holy decree, the meritorious personnel in this war were knighted, and the promotion of the official was promoted, and symbolically let the three provinces and households make up 500,000 yuan to hand over to Zhao Chongyang, to the marquis and earls to repair the mansion, and reward the meritorious personnel.

Zhao Chongyang received the order on behalf of the officers and men of the Western Army.

Next, Zhao Ji finally mentioned that Tong Guan had reached an agreement with Xixia in private, and asked everyone's views on this issue.

Tong Guan's party had already gotten the news, and this time it was Yang Jian, who had just returned to Beijing from Huaixi Road, to start: "Qi played the official family, at that time, Tong Shuxiang was also an expedient measure, the purpose was to reduce the death of the Western Army. As the saying goes, before the soldiers and horses move, the grain and grass go first, and every time you fight, you have to sell a lot of money and grain of the country. Therefore, although this matter was not approved by the court and the official family, it is also understandable. ”

"Seconded." "Seconded." ......" seconded. ”

As soon as Yang Jian proposed, all their cronies immediately agreed, and finally Cai Jing also expressed his agreement.

Only the upright Li Gang expressed a different opinion: "If this matter is not handled, the cardinal minister does not know what amazing things he will do behind the back of the officials and the imperial court in the future." Last time, Tong Shuxiang listened to the one-sided words of Zhe Keqiu, so he mobilized more than 100,000 troops to encircle and suppress the Yang family's army, but the final reason was that Zhi Keqiu was afraid that the loyal Yang family general would visit him to surrender and treason, and deliberately wanted to force away or force the Yang family army to rebel. The court has not yet given an explanation for this matter, and it has discovered that he has privately signed a contract with the enemy. In these two cases, Tong adults have been suspected of betraying the country and treason for a long time, so please think twice. ”

Zhao Ji said: "Ladies and gentlemen, there is no need to doubt Tong Guan's loyalty to the Great Song Dynasty. I also think that he has done both things inappropriately. Well, punish him with a year's imprisonment. Okay, that's the end of the matter, retreat. ”

Zong Ze, Zhang Shuye, Zhao Chongyang and others still wanted to argue, but the emperor didn't give them a chance. Several people shook their heads, sighed, and walked out of the palace helplessly.

After Zhao Chongyang went back, he immediately brought Zhu Wu, Wang Laotou, Chen Dong and others to discuss countermeasures. In the end, Zhao Chongyang instructed everyone to do this and so, and everyone received the order and immediately went to prepare......

Early the next morning, more than 1,000 students and many scholars in the capital gathered directly outside the palace gate, each holding a copy of the Tokyo Evening News in his hand, shouting: "Severely punish the traitor Tong Guan!" "Tong Guan get out of Tokyo!" ...... "Tong Guan will not die, and the country will have no peace!" ”

Thousands of scholars surrounded the palace gates, and the ministers who wanted to go to court were gambled outside. I don't know who found Tong Guan's sedan chair, surrounded him with a hula sound, and ripped Tong Guan off the official sedan chair.

"Kill you, traitor!" "You are cruel to loyalty, and you are in cahoots with Zheke!" ...... "The Yang family is so loyal and brave, you actually want to send heavy troops to kill you!" ”

Some of the scholars shouted slogans, and some sent the Tokyo Evening News (supplement) to the citizens who came to see the excitement. The citizens read the ins and outs of the imperial court's handling of the Tong Guan incident and the results of the handling of the incident in the supplement, and immediately a virtuous and respected Shi surnamed took the lead, and everyone pressed the bloody handprints and tens of thousands of people's letters, asking the imperial court to comply with the will of the people, drive Tong Guan out of the court, and exile him for thousands of miles!

The protests outside the palace had long been passed on by the eunuchs on duty to Li Yan and Liang Shicheng and other great eunuchs.

Zhao Ji was waiting in a small room next to the main hall for the civil and military officials to arrive, and he went to the Golden Palace to set up an early dynasty. Who knew that after waiting for a long time, they didn't see the arrival of the civil and military officials, and they were about to send someone to the palace to ask the reason, Li Yan and Liang Shicheng came to report together: "Thousands of scholars outside protested, demanding that the emperor and the court severely punish Tong Guan. Now Tong Daren has been dragged out of the official bridge by the scholars, beaten violently, and he doesn't know whether he is alive or dead. The scholars also heard that Yang Jian and Wang Hao were helping Tong Guan to say good things in the court, excusing him, and were besieging the two.

This is a condition put forward by the scholars, if the emperor does not agree, they will not leave today. ”

"Tong Guan will be raided at home, his crime will be tried publicly, and the Tai students will send representatives to participate in the trial of the Criminal Department, Dali Temple, and Yushitai to prove his guilt. Yang Jian and Wang Huang colluded with Tong Guan and should be severely punished. Please ask the emperor to make a quick decision, it will be difficult to save the life of Lord Tong at the latest, and the two kings of Yang may also suffer from the pond fish. ”

This Zhao Ji is the most unassertive emperor, usually when he does big things, he asks Cai Jing, Tong Guan and others, and now he wants to be the master, and he can be the master for a while. I asked Li Yan and Liang Shicheng what to do, the relationship between the two and Yang Jian and Wang Hao was still very good, I was afraid that the emperor would not agree for a long time, and Yang Jian would not be able to protect their lives, so he asked the emperor to quickly issue a holy decree, agree to the request of the scholars, and immediately let Gao Yu take the Imperial Forest Army to raid Tong Guan's home. Seeing if Tong Guan and the others were seriously injured, if they were seriously injured, they would first let the imperial doctor recuperate, and then they would be tried in three sessions.

Zhao Ji asked Liang Shicheng to write a holy decree on his behalf, used the jade seal, and hurried to the palace gate to spread the decree.

After listening to the holy decree, the scholar was sure that the emperor had ordered the raid of the Tong Mansion, and handed over the letters of the people on the Kaifeng gentlemen to the two of them, and then dispersed one after another......

When the civil and military officials rescued Tong Guan and the three of them, they were surprised at first, Tong Guan only suffered some skin injuries, far less serious than the injuries of Yang and Wang. Qin Hui is just a five-grade acquaintance, and he has no qualifications to go to the court, and he came to see the injuries of the three people at that time, and said in his heart, this is a predetermined action, Tong Guan is about to accept the trial of the three halls, so it is a minor injury, and the other two just helped Tong Guan say some good things, but they were seriously injured. This is a warning to the ministers not to be biased.

After the ministers went to the palace and saluted, Zhao Ji asked the ministers what they thought of today's events.

A military general replied: "This dynasty does not kill scholars and doctors, but treats scholars preferentially, so when these scholars encounter something they are not used to, they will stand up and make trouble." Now they are again bewitched by the newly appeared "Tokyo Evening News", and this time the trouble is particularly fierce. After speaking, he asked the eunuch to pass a copy of the "Tokyo Evening News" (supplement) in his hand to the emperor.