"Senior brother, this piece can't be presented, you are angry, you must be cautious."

In the morning, in the courtyard at the entrance of the Bingzhai Drink, a red dress stopped in front of the weakly crowned Changshi, who was about to go out on duty.

A closed red umbrella in Xie Lingjiang's hand was placed horizontally, just blocking Ouyang Rong's right hand holding the notebook with his hanging arm.

After plotting at night in the study of Xunyang Wangfu the night before, Xie Lingjiang couldn't help frowning when he saw Ouyang Rong drop a chuckling word and turned to leave.

Yesterday's decree came on its heel, and the senior brother's calm and usual attitude accompanied her to receive the decree made her even more uneasy.

It may be because of a light rain in Xunyang City after the third watch at night, or it may be because of some other reason.

When he returned to the boudoir that night to sleep, Xie Lingjiang tossed and turned, unable to sleep.

Early the next morning, she carried a red umbrella and went out early, and as soon as the curfew was lifted, she rushed to the Huaiye Lane Mansion in Chaisang Fang and stopped the senior brother who was about to go out.

In the courtyard, Xie Lingjiang, who was wet with rain and muddy water, couldn't help but look at the book in Ouyang Rong's hand.

Sure enough, the senior brother may not have slept last night, and he was working hard at his desk.

Ouyang Rong looked calm, and said to the little junior sister with a worried face:

"I'm not angry. I'm calm. ”

Xie Lingjiang shook his head: "Then why don't you sleep at night, write a letter to the court." ”

"Can't it be written calmly?"

“……”

Xie Lingjiang stiffened his pretty face: "Senior brother is not allowed to quibble. ”

Ouyang Rong shook his head: "There is no quibble, it is the truth." ”

He glanced at the Xie noblewoman in front of him twice.

She didn't seem to have time to put on makeup to cover up, so she ran here to stop him with a faint "panda eye".

After a pause, Ouyang Rong asked:

"Didn't the little junior sister look down on the policies of the imperial court before, and always said that my senior brother's attitude was too indifferent and not impassioned enough...... Why are you stopping me now? ”

Xie Lingjiang pouted:

"I used to be alone, I had nothing to do with the court, I only relied on my preferences, I was happy to be happy with enmity, I could say whatever I wanted, and I never thought about it.

"But now it's different, we are two people, your career is the most important, let's seriously consider ......"

After a pause, Xie Lingjiang's eyes were slightly red, and he stared at him and said:

"My straight character has to be restrained and restrained, and it must not affect your judgment, we need to consider everything carefully, I ...... I don't want to be what others say. ”

Her tone was stubborn and a little emotional.

Ouyang Rong was stunned for a while, and then smiled: "So, now it's a virtuous helper?" ”

"Of course!" Xie Lingjiang raised his snow-white chin and curled his hair a little: "Senior brother, let's have fun, Master Shandao showed me and said, I am the only one in a thousand miles." ”

“……”

Ouyang Rong thought for a while and muttered: "Is the female benefactor of their Donglin Temple rich in prosperous husbands?" ”

“？”

Dodging the pink fist kick of a certain virtuous helper, Ouyang Rong smiled, and immediately turned into a serious face:

"I understand Wanwan's concern, but this letter must be presented."

"Why?" Xie Lingjiang's face was a little incomprehensible:

"Didn't the senior brother know about the fact that the Donglin Giant Buddha is located in Jiangzhou years ago and prepared in advance?

"I heard my aunt and Wang Caozhi mention that the great brother's carefully prepared good strategy for making Buddha has both water control, which not only does not cost the people and money, but also benefits the people of Xunyang.

"What is the senior brother going to do in the book, is it the matter of the center of the Great Zhou Songde? But according to the atmosphere created by the Wei family, opposing the Songde Center now is almost equivalent to opposing the Great Zhou legal system, and the senior brother will not be unclear. ”

Ouyang Rong nodded: "I naturally know." ”

Xie Lingjiang wanted to speak and stopped.

And at this time, the senior brother also wrote a book, almost showing his attitude of not supporting, which is no different from opposition.

Who knows if this letter will become a handle for Wei's and other political enemies to attack the senior brother.

From the night before, when he learned about the establishment of the Great Zhou Songde Center and the Sifang Buddha statue, Xie Lingjiang smelled a rather familiar smell.

She roughly thought of the subsequent trend of public opinion and the earthquake in the court.

It must be another statement of standing in line, and a shuffle to eliminate dissidents.

Xie Lingjiang took a deep breath and tried to speak softly:

"The holy decree has just been issued, and now the situation in Luoyang is not very clear, senior brother, let's not wait any longer, see the master's statement, and the direction of the situation, and then decide whether to go to the book or not?"

Ouyang Rong shook his head: "There are some things, you have to do it as soon as possible." ”

He glanced at Xie Lingjiang and asked, "Little junior sister knows what I wrote?" ”

Xie Ling Jiang's red lips pursed into a line, he was quiet for a while, and nodded: "I guessed it." ”

Ouyang Rong looked at her and said in a serious tone:

"I did prepare for it, Jiangzhou Hall has a good plan to deal with Buddha-making, but what about other places?

"There is not only one Jiangzhou in the world, but not all states have the conditions and luck of Jiangzhou.

"I have carefully read the requirements of the officials of the Holy Decree and the Ministry of Rites, in order to cooperate with His Majesty's grand ceremony of sealing Zen in the autumn of this year, the construction period of the center and the Buddha statue is so tight.

Not to mention the specifications of the Buddha statues set up by the old men of the Ministry of Rites, which are also very high, with a limit of no less than 30 zhang of the golden Buddha.

"Such requirements, like the Jiangzhou lobby that have been prepared for a long time, can only be completed in advance by tightening the plan now, and this red line can be achieved.

"But what about the other three state capitals that built Buddha statues, Yangzhou, Guizhou, and Taiyuan, except for Yangzhou, which has the strongest financial resources, the other pressures are very great.

"The so-called 20,000 guan fat powder money donated by His Majesty privately is not enough to even make a Buddha palm, but he has repeatedly emphasized that it is not allowed to work for the people and lose money...... Scold. ”

Ouyang Rong shook his head:

"There is also the Great Zhou Songde Center, the so-called 'Songde Copper' that the states of the world have raised donations for it, and in the end, it still has to be evenly distributed to the people, which is different from adding an extra harsh tax?

"And from the local government to the center of the imperial court, I don't know how many hands it takes to pass this copper and silver, how much wear and tear, and finally melt into this Songde center, isn't it full of 'people's fat and people's ointment'?

"Although I am meager and have a long history, I can be alone, but I will never say a word."

He spoke calmly, bypassed Xie Lingjiang, and strode towards the outside of the courtyard with a twist.

Xie Lingjiang was moved, looked back at his back and asked:

"But the night before in the study, didn't the senior brother persuade his uncle to leave and write a letter to express his support? Why is the big brother ...... today?"

Ouyang Rong didn't look back:

"Because the Xunyang palace is a chopping board, there is only one way to go, and it is my responsibility as a strategist to advise the lord to write a letter to support.

"And when I walk out of the palace and put on this official uniform, I am a governor, and this is my unshirkable responsibility."

Xie Lingjiang's eyes looked fixedly at the back of the senior brother leaving,

Didn't stop ......

In the morning, Ouyang Rong handed over his handwritten notes to the superintendent of the imperial history stationed in Jiangzhou.

Strode out of the office.

It's just that not long after he left, in the courtyard of the office, a figure of a woman in palace clothes appeared.

The woman was dressed in a crimson palace dress, with makeup and lips, and an indifferent expression.

If Ouyang Rong was here, he would definitely recognize at a glance that this woman was the female official Miao Zhen who had met in Luming Street in Longcheng at the beginning.

Miao Zhen stood with his hands upright, and there were two palace maids in Tsing Yi behind him, one woman holding a book and one woman holding a red pen, all of whom followed suit.

The woman in the palace costume first turned her head to look in the direction of someone's departure.

Then she walked straight into the Imperial Historian's Office and looked at the letter he had presented.

Raise your chin slightly.

The palace maid behind him walked and took the fold, Miao Zhen quickly swept it with her eyes, nodded, and turned to leave.

The palace maids walked away, returned the folds, and left together.

In the office, the old imperial history with meticulous combed hair, after Miaozhen came in, handled official business without squinting throughout the whole process.

As if blind, let her take it and watch the twists and turns.

Both sides are somewhat skilled.

Miao Zhen walked out of the office and beckoned to the side, and the two palace maids handed over the booklet and the red pen.

This female official in six-grade colorful clothes who came from afar moved quietly.

She held this booklet in her hand, pinched the red pen, and wrote something on it......

Less, remembered,

Turn away.

Myojin returned to the water repair workshop.

She came with yesterday's holy decree procession, but after escorting the messenger of the holy decree into the city, Miao Zhen took her subordinates and quietly disappeared.

She has another task.

Miaozhen took the palace maid to an ordinary house diagonally opposite the Xunyang Palace.

In the house, there are strict soldiers who do not squint, and they are guarding each other in three steps.

I don't know how many soldiers from the Zhichong Mansion have been transferred.

Miao Zhen slowly climbed to an attic with a good view, and continued to wait silently.

On the new booklet that recorded Ouyang Lianghan's small actions just now, the first few pages actually recorded the behavior of King Xunyang.

Thinking of the cowering middle-aged rich man-like figure, Miao Zhen by the window was expressionless.

At one point, he tugged at the corners of his lips.

Yesterday, the yellow-clothed messenger arrived with the holy decree, and the details of Dade's behavior when he was away from receiving the decree were all recorded in detail by the red pen behind Miaozhen.

No oil and vinegar, but no suspicious thing to miss.

It's her responsibility.

……

The construction of the Great Zhou Songde Center and the Sifang Buddha statue set off an uproar inside and outside the Great Zhou Dynasty.

First of all, the ten provinces in the world, most of the governors of states and counties, have written books.

There are those who sing praises and virtues, those who state the pros and cons of admonition, and those who denounce sharply.

The first two naturally account for the majority,

As for the third party, it is not too few.

And if it is, compared with these irritable colleagues who are in the minority, the rhetoric of a certain weak crown Changshi can be regarded as relatively mild and calm.

In any case, after these snowflake-like twists and turns poured into the Feng Pavilion of Luoyang Ziwei Palace, they were silent for a few days, and began to reverberate.

On the third day, the monthly pilgrimage meeting.

Wei Sixing, the king of Liang, led the chiefs of Siyi to petition the Empress of the Wei family, engraved the names of the hundred officials and the leaders of all countries, and asked the Empress to personally inscribe the plaque "Great Zhou Wanguo Song De Tianshu".

The female emperor immediately appointed the heir of Wei Wangwei as the superintendent to supervise the construction of the project.

There are courtiers and imperial historians who are passionately opposed.

Soon, a fierce argument took place in the court......

Noon.

Towards the meeting, disperse.

The ending is clear.

The center of Songde of the Great Zhou Dynasty and the Buddha statue of the Quartet were built as usual, and the heir of Wang Wei of Wei was appointed as the governor, and the four princes of Xunyang Wang Lixian and Duan Wang Wei Youxian were appointed as the superintendent of the Buddha statue of the Quartet.

At the same time, a group of courtiers led by Ji Qianyi, the heavenly official of the Ministry of Officials, were deposed.

Four palace servants and three courtiers have thirty court staffs, or degrade Lingnan, or flow Liaodong.

Xia Guan, Liang Wang Wei Sixing, concurrently served as the official of the Ministry of Heaven.

After the court meeting, a palace maid saw that the empress was not in danger and drove back to Shangyang Palace.

On the same day, at night, in the imperial study, the emperor criticized the folding, Long Yan was angry, and the edict was issued.

Li Zhengyan, the assassin of Meizhou, was the Sima of Raozhou,

Shi Wei Shaoqi was demoted to Yixian County,

In the matter, Du Shuqing was demoted to Longcheng Cheng,

Wang Junzhi, the chief secretary of Chang'an, was demoted to Dr. Jiangzhou......

The Ministry of Officials issued official documents overnight, and overnight, more than 20 local or central officials were dismissed or demoted.

The next day, when the right prime minister Di Fuzi, he wrote to the old man and begged for bones.

The Empress refutes.

The Master begs again.

Refutation......

The two monarchs and ministers rejected seven times in succession.

Until the empress solemnly decreed, a special leave was granted, and the old man was allowed to return after ten years of cultivation and be loyal to the country.

Immediately, the empress did not go to court again for several days.

During this period, there was no longer a will to remove officials.

Luoyang court, the turmoil subsided.

But then, with the acquiescence of the empress of the dynasty, intentionally or unintentionally, the two kings of the Wei family adopted a very clever way to reduce resistance.

As soon as Wei Wangwei's successor took office, he immediately made every effort to implement the construction of the Great Zhou Songde Center, but divided it into small steps and implemented them one by one.

After solving the first step of "people and things", then solve the next step...... Finally, the construction department in charge of construction was completely integrated.

The same is true of Liang Wangwei Sixing......

A month later, the superintendent made Wei Wangwei succeed him, united with the Ministry of Works, and began to select a site in Luoyang City and build a center.

During the first ten years, the heavenly officials in charge of Liang Wang Wei Sixing frequently issued official documents.

Another wave of the great change of local governors began.

Any local governor who openly defies or neglects the "Song De Copper" collection shall be dismissed or transferred, and replaced by the corresponding adjutant, or the jinshi who is waiting in line at the official department to be elected.

Soon, in the ten provinces and more than 100 states and counties in the world, officials who supported "Songde Copper" and worked hard to raise money sprung up like mushrooms after a rain.

A piece of praise and support was re-piled on a desk in the imperial study of the Luoyang Deep Palace.

The thorn head was disposed of by killing chickens and monkeys one after another, and some of the officials of the Baoli faction fell silent.

Jiangzhou, Lingnan and other popular places for degrading officials have once again become the names of places frequently mentioned by many frustrated officials in Luoyang officialdom recently.

The criticism and opposition of the court were finally slowly erased.

However, it was difficult to suppress the Qing discussion of the North and South Shilin.

Scholars from all over the country began to privately discuss the center of the Great Zhou Songde, and public opinion boiled.

Even Ouyang Rong, who was far away in Jiangzhou, found that even in Xunyang City, where the atmosphere was relatively salty, there were many people who were indignant.

It is forbidden to discuss on the surface, but it is difficult to block the mouth of Youyou.

It's just that he also knows that this kind of public opinion, in this era, is difficult to influence the policy of the imperial court...... Raising their heads will only pour out all their anger on Wei, blaming them for blinding the Holy Hearing and traitorous ministers for bullying the king.

Just after the Yuanzheng holiday, January and February of the first year of Tianyou, it was like this, quietly spent in the days when the officials and people of the world watched the turmoil in the Luoyang court.

And what worried Xie Lingjiang in the Xunyang Palace, never happened.

It seems that no one has paid attention to the twists and turns of the senior brother.

In a series of degrading edicts issued from Luoyang, his name was never included.

is different from those "derogatory celebrities" who were demoted by the empress, but were famous all over the world and widely praised by Shilin.

Ouyang Rong seemed to have been forgotten.

However, this also made Xie Lingjiang and other concerned people quietly breathe a sigh of relief.

(End of chapter)