Chapter 226: The Storm of Impeachment
Emperor Huizong didn't run close this time, he actually ran to Zhenjiang, and waited until Tong Guan took the defeated Tan Shen and tens of thousands of forbidden troops to join him, he ended the state of panic, and finally took a group of courtiers to start touring in Jiangnan and other places, relying on ancient and modern poems, songs and paintings.
After receiving Cai You's news, he felt that it was time to return to Beijing, so he led Cai Jing, Wang Hao, Liang Shicheng, Tong Guan and others from Jiangnan to return to Bianjing by boat through the Grand Canal.
Ninety miles out of Bianjing East is Chen Liu, the prince sent the seed master and Tang Ke to meet the car, outside the east gate of Bianjingdong, the loess paves the road, the clear water sprinkled the road, the prince and the country led the civil and military officials to meet the emperor Huizong outside the city, Huizong felt complacent, and walked on foot, and praised the prince and the ministers.
Xiao Ming didn't go to welcome Huizong back to the dynasty under the pretext of inspecting the defense, he was not completely okay when he waited for Huizong to come back, and he still wanted to get it in his hands in Quanzhou City, so he also had to make some preparations, the Great Song Dynasty was very taboo about ministers or generals supporting their own troops, and Xiao Ming transferred the Golden Army to Xuzhou early.
And the remaining nearly 10,000 Xinfeng troops, because Yao Pingzhong was discouraged and lazy, returned to his hometown to recuperate, and then had no intention of pursuing a career, so he handed them all over to Xiao Ming, Xiao Ming asked them to protect Uncle Zhang and go to Weihai City at night, and then stay there to be trained by Han Shizhong and Yelusha, Weihai City is currently Xiao Ming's base for counterattacking Liaodong, and it currently has the most personnel.
Huizong returned to the dynasty and rewarded the meritorious personnel who returned the gold this time, not only Li Gang, He Li, Sun Fu and others were rewarded, but even Wu Min, Cai You, Geng Nanzhong and others were also rewarded.
Xiao Ming's reward was originally proposed by the crown prince Zhao Huan, but in the official document sent to Huizong's Ministry of Officials and Households, Huizong approved it at the same time, and as soon as the Ministry of Officials was recorded, Xiao Ming, a senior official of the second grade, was also decided.
Huizong returned to the court, rested for five days, five days later, Huizong sat on the throne to accept the worship of hundreds of officials, the official eunuch of the Yellow Gate swept the dust, and said loudly: "Zhuqing has a book to play, no book to retreat!" ”
Li Gang came out of the class and asked to play: "Your Majesty, this time the Jurchen thieves broke through my border pass, killed my people, and trapped my Beijing Division, the Jurchen thieves have become a big trouble for my Great Song Dynasty, I hope that my Emperor will prevent it this morning, and Weichen will ask the old man to save the post to inform the Privy Council, and please ask Your Majesty to allow the performance"
Wang Hao came out of the class and said: "My ancestor system of the Song Dynasty, the ruling officials of the Privy Council must be from Jinshi, civil officials, and military generals, and there is no fame, Master Li's suggestion cannot be adopted!" ”
Li Gang said: "Civil officials don't understand military affairs, just like old men can't participate in the affairs of the Privy Council, although the old general is a martial artist, but you have a strategy in your chest and can take on a big responsibility, unlike some civil servants who don't know how to pretend to understand, it is my Great Song Kong who has hundreds of thousands of elites but was defeated by the Jurchen thieves!" ”
Wang Hao said: "Wenchen really can't participate in commanding the military, just like the last time Lord Li, you planned to rob the camp, which caused my Great Song Dynasty to lose 8,000 men and horses!" ”
Li Gang said angrily: "The failure of the camp robbery was caused by Li Bangyan's betrayal of the country and the news was reported to the gold thief ...... in advance!" ”
Huizong said: "Okay, okay, don't make any noise!" The old general is seriously ill, and has repeatedly proposed to the imperial court to return to his hometown to recuperate, I should be allowed to do so, as for notifying the Privy Council, let Tong Guan take the responsibility! ”
Tong Guan came out of the class and thanked: "Thank you for my emperor's trust!" ”
Huizong said: "As for the matter of the Jin people, it really can't be taken lightly, do you Aiqing have any good ways to deal with the Jin people?" ”
He Li came out of the class and said: "The elite of the Western Army came to rescue the Beijing division this time, and the general of the planting division Dao has a plan to prevent autumn, Your Majesty can listen to him." ”
Huizong played a quasi-play, the planter stepped forward and knelt down, thanked the emperor, Huizong said: "Aiqing is flat, but listen to you how to prevent autumn?" ”
The master said: "Although the Jin soldiers retreated, but exposed the weakness of our army's defenselessness, the Jin people's attack is more rented by the Yellow River, and they don't know the nature of the water, the old minister suggested that heavy troops be deployed on both sides of the Yellow River, this is the way to make up for the dead, I hope Your Majesty will approve!" ”
Huizong was silent, and after half a sound, he said: "If we deploy defenses along the Yellow River, our soldiers and horses from the west and east of the river must abandon the prefectures and counties where they are stationed, is this move feasible?" ”
The seed master said: "You can divide it according to the area, and each defense area will be handed over to a different state capital defense envoy, and then you can attack in a row!" ”
Huizong was still undecided about this, but Taishi Cai Jing said: "This matter is very important, this matter should be discussed later!" ”
Huizong announced his retirement from the court, playing with a secret letter in his sleeve, which was handed to him by his precious son Zhao Kai, the king of Yun, Huizong had arranged for Zhao Kai to secretly lead the eunuch agency of his Imperial City Division, and collect the misdeeds of the ministers of the court and several of his sons, this is his "autumn prevention plan"!
There was a content in the secret letter that attracted Huizong's attention, that is, the correspondence between the prince's concubine Zhu and his brother Zhu Gui, who was an honest envoy on Jingdong Road, and Zhu's sister was also the wife of Zhao Kai, the king of Yun.
He also knew that he had plans to abolish the crown prince, but he did not disclose this matter to Zhao Kai, and now looking at it, in Zhao Kai's secret letter, he made sharp accusations about the handling of many things in the prince's prison after his southern tour, and Zhao Kai had the intention of bringing down the prince!
coincided with the turmoil, Huizong didn't want his sons to make any more trouble, at present, stability is still the most important, but the tree wants to be quiet and the wind does not stop, Huizong feels that he should find an opportunity to talk about Zhao Kai, for this son, Huizong still likes it in his heart, but sometimes it is not good not to knock it.
There is also the crown prince Zhao Huan, who is indeed too unspeakable, he almost surrendered when he was not there, and he can't talk about peace like this? He even promised the Jin State to cede the three towns, and declared himself a minister to the Jin State and regarded them as uncles and nephews, which made Huizong have the face to see the ancestors and the ancestors!
There is also that Li Gang, Xiao Ming and others, they actually fought the main battle, and the Bianjing City was in a mess, and the rich people in the city actually moved more than a quarter of the people, and the money and taxes of the imperial court were all lost? It seems that the hundreds of officials who are not in the court are also looking for their own forces and forming gangs, which is really going to turn the sky upside down!
In the following days, Huizong received many ministers impeachment, and the impeached people were all over the ministers of the DPRK and China, first of all, several eunuchs were impeached, Liang Shicheng, Tong Guan, etc., as well as Wang Huang, Bai Shizhong, Li Bangyan, Wu Min, Tang Ke, Geng Nanzhong, and even Li Gang, He Li, Sun Fu and others were also impeached!
Among them, the most fierce wording is a person named Qin Hui, who is the champion of Jinke! Now that Tai Academy is learning right, he soothed and claimed: "Wenchen betrays the country, and the military generals mislead the country!" The Son of Heaven should learn from the ancestor Emperor Zhenzong to personally conquer the barbarian Jurchens to show the prestige of the country...... "Of course, Huizong knows that this is a scholarly spirit, but this son is loyal.
The subsequent development of events exceeded everyone's expectations, there were more and more impeachment cases, the officials and the imperial historians of the imperial history platform launched more violent impeachments, and even Cai Jing's father and son were also degraded, the pillars of the court and the central government were useless, and none of them were not misguided and ruined by the people, and the important ministers of the court were very angry in addition to panic.
But this is what the Great Song Dynasty set up as a spokesman, can you still let people say it? This is obviously the mastermind behind someone, and everyone feels the need to find the mastermind behind it, but at this time, there is a royal historian named Fan Gong who impeached the prince, claiming that the prince's behavior is appropriate, and he is weak to the enemy, and he is frightened! It's just that the land of the Great Song Dynasty has been lost, the Jin soldiers are besieging the city, and there is the support of Liang Shicheng's old thieves behind him, forming a party for personal gain, and contacting the envoys of various places, there is really a rebellion and rebellion......! ”
This recital is simply a bombshell, and it suddenly blew up the Great Song Dynasty into chaos! The ministers have support and opposition to the satisfaction of the time for the prince Zhao Huan's messages are flying all over the sky, and the court has suddenly become the focus of attention on the issue of the abolition of the crown prince, of course, all of this depends on Huizong as the emperor to make a decision!
Emperor Huizong was so angry that he directly called Zhao Kai, the king of Yun, and scolded him angrily, telling him to do his duty and not make these moves again, is it true that the emperor does not know what he did?
Zhao Kai was scolded in a cold sweat, trembling, he underestimated his Lao Tzu's political wisdom, such a pediatric general behavior would definitely be seen through by Huizong, so he cried bitterly, saying that he would change his past mistakes and definitely do a good job as a courtier.
Huizong finally removed Zhao Kai from the authority of the special envoy of the Imperial City Division, and replaced it with Zhao Gou, the king of Kang, and Zhao Gou proposed to expand the scope of the Imperial City Division's authority and become: Pedestrian Division! It was also recognized by Huizong, and at this time, Zhao Gou began to include Xue Bingchang's Yaxing Gang in the Personnel Division on a large scale.
During this time, Zhao Gou was also recruiting talents everywhere, his way was very peaceful, just according to the advice given to him by Xue Bingchang, he discussed with others in a targeted manner, and national affairs, this pertinence is very important, don't underestimate the special talents and hobbies of these talents provided by Xue Bingchang, which is something that can quickly make people feel close.
Zhao Gou thus befriended and got the great Confucian Wang Boyan, and Hanlin Huang Qianshan and others, and at the same time, some middle and lower-level officials above the court also had close contacts with Zhao Gou, but they were all known as friends, including: Lu Yihao, Zhao Ding, Hu Quan and others, in addition, Zhao Gou also recruited talents from the army, including Liu Shiguang. Zhang Jun and others were also his guests.
Xiao Ming never went to court, not because he had any privileges, but because he didn't even understand the specific powers of the Sanya, but every day he got acquainted with those middle and lower officers, the officers of the forbidden army guards, and saw that the new Taiwei was quite approachable, and they all went to tremble.
Xiao Ming also paid attention to searching for young generals from here, mainly for the sake of his own talent reserves, but he did let him find a person, this person's name is Wu Jue, who is from Shaanxi, Xuanhe was born in martial arts in the eighth year, and his martial arts are good, but he has scored high marks in history and strategy, and he is a well-known strategic talent.
The head of the 400,000 forbidden army in Beijing is named Lin Lingzhi, his martial arts are amazing, he is good at using hooks and sickles, he is proud of his talents, and his relationship with his colleagues is not very good, and he is not interested in Xiao Ming, this day he reloaded Xiao Ming, claiming that Xiao Ming was the nepotism of the prince, Xiao Ming was furious and wanted to punish him, and all the officers were gloating, but Wu Jue knelt down to intercede for him, and Xiao Ming noticed Wu Jue.
After he had a deep talk with Wu Jue, he was very appreciative, so he had the intention to promote him as a talent for his own snar. In fact, Xiao Ming is also very distressed for a while, this has been busy in Bianjing, Su Caier has wanted to go north with Xiao Yunwu with his son Xiao Yunwu several times but he has stopped him, and now the north is not peaceful, and he is not at ease with his wife and child, but now he has no skills, and he doesn't know when he will be able to go home to visit relatives.
On the evening of this day, Xiao Ming was writing a letter to the two ladies in the room, when he suddenly heard Gu Xiaoliu shouting outside the door: "Who is it?" So he was surprised, so he went out to visit, and found a person standing in the shadow of the corner, the figure was vaguely familiar, that person saw Xiao Ming come out, stepped forward, Xiao Ming was startled, and said secretly: "It turned out to be her!" ”