The fourth year of Shaosheng was an eventful time for the Song Dynasty, and the Liao Kingdom in the north and the Western Xia Kingdom in the northwest were actually not peaceful.

After the Liao Daozong Yelu Hongji ascended the throne, the Liao State experienced four relatively major political events, one was that his imperial uncle Yelu Chongyuan conspiracy to seize power and seize the throne, and the army was defeated and committed suicide; The second is that Xiao Guanyin, the queen of Yide, was falsely accused by Yelu Yixin of fornicating with Zhao Weiyi, but Yelu Hongji forced the queen to commit suicide without verification, which is known as the Shixiang Ci Injustice Case; the third is that his crown prince Yelu Jun was falsely accused by Yelu Yixin of plotting to seize the throne, so he was tragically imprisoned and assassinated by Yelu Yixin; Fourth, Yelu Yixin tried to kill the emperor's grandson Yelu Yanxi, but he was defeated and fled and was killed by Yelu Hongji. These four major events, spanning nearly 20 years, seriously shook the political foundation of Liao, and all kinds of suspicions prevailed in Liao, and everyone was in danger. As soon as the Liao State came out of the conspiracy and rebellion of Yelu Yixin and his henchmen, Yelu Hongji, who was diligent in government at the beginning of his ascension to the throne, began to pursue pleasure. He was mediocre, loyal and treacherous, obsessed with wine, and also believed in Buddhism, printed Buddhist scriptures and built temples and pagodas, labored the people and lost money, which intensified the social contradictions in Liao, and the rebellions in Liaoguo began to emerge one after another, which made the Liao army tired and desperate, and also made Liaoguo begin to turn from strong to declining.

At this time, the Western Xia, its domestic situation was almost the same as the Song Dynasty when Zhao Xu ascended the throne, and Li Qianshun ascended the throne after the death of Li Bingchang in the first year of Yuanyou, that is, the first year of Tian'an Liding (1086), at the age of three, and it was also the dictatorship of the mother party. His mother, the queen of Liang, the daughter of Liang Yiburi, was respected as the queen mother, the regent of the Linzhao Dynasty, and his uncle Liang Yiqi was good at governance. Before Li Qianshun came to power in the first year of Yong'an (1099), the Liang brothers and sisters controlled the government for many years, and framed Li Bingchang's old cronies and ministers, and cracked down on and excluded them. In order to alleviate the domestic social contradictions, following the example of the previous dynasty, the army was reckless, and invaded the border of the Song Dynasty for many years, causing small-scale wars between the Song and Xia dynasties to continue, so as to divert the domestic crisis. In October of the fifth year of Tianyou Min'an (1094), Liang Yikui's conspiracy rebellion was killed by the big leader Wei Ming Ah Wu, Renduo Baozhong and others. During the reign of the Liang dynasty, the Western Xia were politically corrupt and their armies weakened, so that they did not take advantage of the Song dynasty's repeated disputes.

And in the territory of the Great Song Dynasty, in the court, a funny drama was staged!

In mid-June of the fourth year of Shaosheng (1097), when Wu Zhi was degraded from the capital, the New Party headed by Zhang Chun and An Chun fabricated the "Prison of Tongwenguan" and once again planned a major incident to attack the old party.

The incident originated from Liu Zhi and Lv Dafang when they were prime ministers, Wen Yanbo's son Wen and Fu were in mourning, he had been impeached by Liu Zhi and transferred abroad, this time I was afraid that he would not be allowed to return to Beijing as a Beijing official after the funeral, so he sent a letter to his friend Xing Shu, which vaguely has "Sima Zhao's heart is known to passers-by, and his friends are wrongly standing, and he wants to bow down as a place of willingness" and other words, Xing Shu originally knew what it meant, but he instigated Cai Wei, the son of the late New Party leader Cai Qu, to play the imperial court, and used this book as Liu Zhi and Lu Dafang to frame Cai Bian and intend to plot to abolish the emperor. Evidence of the Dumping of Social Welfare.

Cai was exiled to Lingnan by the old party led by Liu Zhi and died in the "Chegaiting Poetry Case", and his son Cai Wei was also implicated, in order to take refuge, he hid in a temple in Guangxi, and hid for seven years, until Zhao Xu's pro-political new party came to power before running back to the capital, intending to take revenge. After being tortured, Cai Wei tried his best to seize the opportunity to approach Zhao Xu, crying and framing him.

So, Zhao Xu was furious and ordered Zhang Dian and An Tun to investigate the matter thoroughly. Zhang Dian suggested that Cai Jing, the head of the household department, try the case, and arrest Liu Zhi, who had been relegated to Lingnan Dingzhou, back to Tongwenguan. Tongwenguan is a post house to receive envoys from Goryeo and Qingtang, and it is not a prison, but because it is often idle, it is used as a place for Cai Jing to interrogate Liu Zhi, which is why this case is called "Tongwenguan's prison".

The imperial court imprisoned Tongwenguan, and Cai Jing first arrested Wen Jifu to interrogate the matter, but Wen and Fu flatly denied that the letter did not mention Liu Zhi's plot to depose the emperor.

So, Cai Jing confronted the torture again, and the torture was frightened, afraid that he would be implicated, so he lied that the letter at that time had been lost, and only insisted that Liu Zhi had indeed plotted with the Empress Dowager Gao to abolish the emperor, and asked Cai Jing to investigate the case thoroughly.

Cai Jing had no choice but to torture Liu Zhi and force Liu Zhi to tell the truth. But no matter how severely Cai Jing tortured him, Liu Zhi was quite backbone, and still insisted that he had no intention of abolishing the emperor, and Cai Jing couldn't ask anything at all.

This case implicated many people, took several months, and there was no evidence, and the Empress Dowager personally told Zhezong to withdraw from prison, and Wen Jifu was released; Liu Zhi and his descendants were exiled to Lingnan Xinzhou and imprisoned in Lingnan forever, and Liu Zhi died unjustly soon after; Cai Jing and Zhang Dian were rewarded, and the case was closed.

But the case is not over. A year later, in the middle of the first year of Yuanfu, when Zhang Dian and others liquidated the old party, they once again calculated the accounts on Liu Zhi's head, and framed Liu Zhi and the eunuchs Chen Yan and Zhang Shiliang next to the Empress Dowager Gao for plotting to abolish the emperor. Since Liu Zhi is dead, there is no proof of death; Chen Yan was executed in Yazhou, Lingnan, and was ordered to be executed there by Zhao Xu, Zhezong; Zhang Shiliang was arrested by Cai Jing and sent back to the imperial court from the degraded center for trial, where he was severely tortured. Zhang Shiliang is also very backbone, unwilling to betray the master, gritted his teeth and refused to admit it, crying "The empress dowager cannot be falsely accused, how can the gods of heaven and earth be bullied!" He then died tragically in prison.

The world is bustling, all for profit; The world is crowded, all for profit.

If the struggle between people is branded with the mark of party strife, it is really terrible, people often can do everything for their own selfish interests, and people's hearts and minds will be completely lost, like mad dogs, biting people everywhere.

Wu Zhi is far away from the temple, and he is also soft-spoken, so he can only watch coldly. But in his heart, he hated the so-called new party members such as Zhang Chun, An Chun, and Cai Jing a little more, and at the same time secretly warned himself that in the past few years when Zhao Xu was in power, he must not have any contact with the old party members, no matter how much he sympathizes with them.

He is now like a larva waiting to turn into a butterfly, and can only lie dormant quietly, slowly accumulating strength, so that one day he can accumulate thick and thin, and finally break out of the cocoon.

Before the soldiers and horses came out, the grain and grass went first. What Wu Zhi can do now is to make a fortune in a muffled voice, grasp more money, and secretly cultivate his own strength.

After the production and sales of the Champion series of liquors gradually improved, Wu Zhi continued to experiment and improve perfumes, and at the same time began to develop laundry soaps and soaps. With the blessing of alcohol and perfume, the laundry soap and soap he makes have a very aromatic smell. After many purifications, the laundry soap and soap he got were whiter and more beautiful.

And in the process of making soap, Wu Zhi also obtained a small amount of glycerin, which is also a good treasure, which can be used to make skin care products and nitroglycerin, but nitroglycerin is very dangerous, and Wu Zhi does not have nitric acid and sulfuric acid in his hands now, and he cannot make nitroglycerin. Skin care products can be made, adding a little fragrance to them can get a good fragrance effect, with the help of alcohol, the production of fragrance is much simpler.

In the excitement, after Wu Zhi purified a large amount of pure potassium nitrate, he deliberately left a few hundred catties that were not prepared into gunpowder, and preserved it, he wanted to keep it to make ice cubes!

Wu Zhi tried to do it once, when he threw a sufficient amount of potassium nitrate into the water, stirred and dissolved, and after a while, thick ice really formed in the water, and the experiment was very successful.

But after a large amount of potassium nitrate was purified, it was already autumn, the weather was getting cooler, and there were more things on hand, so Wu Zhi didn't make this secret public, so he didn't use ice cubes at home so far.

Wu Zhi felt that there was no need to use ice cubes, this was too extravagant, and the people around the capital who could use ice cubes at that time were all people with status who were either rich or noble, and ordinary people couldn't use them at all.

Since Suo Chao's family came to join Wu Zhi, Wu Zhi not only continued to supervise Suo Chao in martial arts, but also began to consciously cultivate him, teaching him some knowledge on how to march and fight, reconnaissance and concealment, survival in the wild, identification of terrain maps and the art of war, and Xiao'e and Jin Lian taught him to read and write.

Wu Zhi's purpose is to train Suo Chao into a martial arts jinshi, so that he can make contributions and become a help for him in the future.

Suo Chao is very studious, and he is also relatively smart and clever, and under the strict teachings of Wu Zhi, Xiao'e, Jin Lian and others, he learns quickly and makes great progress.

Since Jin Lian came to the capital, because Wu Zhi was busy planning the production and sales of the champion series of wines, he never had much time to accompany Jin Lian. Although she didn't say anything, she was still a little bitter in her heart, full of resentment.

After the whole family moved to Weishi County, Wu Zhi got rid of the county government, subdued the Qinglong Gang to set up the Caoyun Company, and the champion series of liquor resumed normal production, supply and sales, especially after making more than 10,000 catties of new gunpowder at once, he felt that he was starting to be too idle again, so every day at home, he could spare a lot of time to accompany Jin Lian, which made Jin Lian overjoyed.

Wu Zhi has never been in love, and he has not had the experience of falling in love in the later life, so Wu Zhi, who is still a rookie in the love field, Rao is his self-proclaimed rich and suave man, and it is impossible for him to keep talking about love when facing Jin Lian every day, and there are times when he is short of words. In desperation, he had no choice but to move out the story of Liaozhai as some talking points for his usual exchanges.

Wu Zhi relied on the fragments of the story of Liaozhai in his memory, recalled it every day and wrote it on paper, and then slowly said it to Jin Lian. Such poignant stories of love, ghost foxes, and supernatural things immediately attracted Jin Lian, and even Xiao'e and Liu Yue became loyal listeners. A story a day, coupled with some of Wu Zhi's own processing materials, made the three of them want to stop listening to it, and sometimes they were so frightened that they drilled into his arms after hearing it, which made him laugh and feel a sense of accomplishment.

Part of Jin Lian's mind was also hooked by these fox fairy ghost stories, and there was less entanglement and resentment, Wu Zhi suddenly felt a lot more relaxed, and secretly exclaimed happiness.

The golden lotus, which has reached the age of seventeen, is even more delicate and moving, even if it is not an exaggeration to describe it as a shy flower in the closed moon and a sinking fish and geese. Every day when he is alone with her, laughing and laughing, Wu Zhi will have a feeling of adrenaline rushing upwards and impulsiveness, but he has good self-control, and finally realized what it means to sit still in her arms, such a scene of handsome men and beautiful women alone, for a person who is extremely sound physically and mentally, it is called a torment!

It's called pain and happiness!