Chapter 34: Honkai
"When the first emperor was here, he often thought about the difficulties of my Great Song Dynasty, which was not only difficult to trouble outside Jinliao, but also difficult to be traitorous in the court."
During the Chinese New Year, the Great Song Kingdom won one after another battles a year ago, which was originally a joyful situation.
If the Holy Emperor of Xiaociyuan didn't come back.
He is now sitting on the throne of the Daqing Palace, which should have been the position of the emperor...... Well, he was also an emperor, at least once was.
Qin Xiangye's party in the original court had almost all been swept down when the official family went north, except for officials like Wan Qiao, who abandoned the secret and turned to the light earlier, and the others either died or were doing hard labor in Taixue.
And now, needless to say, Xin Ciying came out of the Taimiao, I don't know how many people are dissatisfied with Zhao Xiangxin, so many people resigned from the banquet later; Now it seems that although there are many people in the Daqing Palace, more than half of them are all Qin Hui faction in the former court.
Qin Hui's faction, that is the main and the faction, and the surrender faction.
At present, this kind of scene even made Liu Ziyu a little in a trance...... Nothing seems to have changed, almost exactly the same as it was back then.
That's it, not to mention that before the Great Song Dynasty was in the Zhao official family, there were few examples of killing ministers, let's just say that behind these officials, there are intricate relationships. Since the official family didn't move them before, they must have been worried.
Now that the Holy Emperor of Xiaociyuan has invited them, at most it will only make everyone sick, after all, these people have no official status and can't make any waves.
But...... The king of Yongjia County has been decided, disrespectful and rebellious, but he has also become the guest of honor at the first table of the year, isn't this messing around!
Liu Ziyu couldn't stop glancing at Zhao Ding, but the latter seemed to be an old monk who had settled down, just sitting upright with his eyelids lowered, as if he had fallen asleep.
Zhao Huan was still talking about the hard life of him and his father, but this was not a glorious thing, Liu Ziyu didn't want to listen to it and didn't want to listen to it, but when he read the poem written by Emperor Huizong in the Five Kingdoms City, he retracted his mind a little,
"The west wind shook the door all night, and the depressed lonely hall was faint."
"Jiashan looks back for 3,000 miles, and there are no geese flying in the south of the sky."
"The Emperor...... The son is back......"
Zhao Huan had already wiped the corners of his eyes with his cuffs, and said that the king was worried about the humiliation of the king and the death of the minister, no matter how Liu Ziyu escaped, at this time, he couldn't help but think of his martyred father, and he became very sad for a while.
Even he is like this, not to mention the rest of the ministers, Wang Ciweng and the others are crying, crying that there is finally a savior, the wood and stone, they can't lift any of them; Su Fu cried, crying that the country was suffering, and now it is finally starting to get better; Different people have different ways of crying, such as Wan Qiao, he originally started to howl, but seeing that Zhao Xiangye was still sitting firmly on Mount Tai, he had to put away his tears.
"Speaking of which, the ninth brother protects the survival of our society and the livelihood of the people south of the Huai River...... Whether it is governing the family or the country, I am not as good as him, far behind! ”
"Now that he is not in Lin'an, I can drink with the princes for the time being, if I wait for him to come back, this throne will still be hiss after all."
There are true and false words, Zhao Huan can't tell how much is true and how much is false; When the news of the Jin people going south came, his father couldn't live for a long time, and directly gave way to him in December, dragging him to be the king of the dead country, if you want to say that this Holy Emperor of Xiaociyuan didn't have any ideas, it must be fake.
But his women, and his crown prince, and the sons born in the kingdom of Jin, are all still in the north; And he has suffered the hardships of the Jin people, and he has also seen the methods, I don't know how many letters he has written to his ninth brother in the past fifteen years, from orders to requests to pleas, but he has not even received a reply.
Whenever a Jin envoy came back and forth, or a Song envoy went north, Zhao Huan would go to see them with hope, and then return to his bullpen with disappointment...... Over and over again, year after year, he was about to die of that heart.
And now, he is sitting on the throne in the imperial city of the Great Song Dynasty, if all this is a dream, he really wishes that this dream will never wake up.
He's scared, he's always been scared...... Otherwise, he wouldn't have been frightened by the Jin people back then, so he really went out of the city to the camp.
Now, in addition to the Jin people, there is also a younger brother of him, King Kang of the Great Song Dynasty.
Zhao Gou's unclear attitude...... Maybe it is because he is also from the Zhao family, and they are all in the same line as Taizong, Zhao Huan always feels that he will treat himself like Li Yu.
So, he listened to the golden man, to the words of the dwarf, just to live.
"Your Majesty!"
Among these criminals, Wang Ciweng had the highest position, and when he heard Zhao Huan's self-defeating statement, he immediately panicked in his heart...... If you don't become emperor, then what will we do!
But he didn't dare to speak directly to advise, he just made a pitiful appearance, and looked directly at the Holy Emperor of Xiaoci Yuan, and the thirst in his eyes almost burst out.
Many people also reacted in the same way as Wang Ciweng, one shouted more sadly than the other, and the other shouted more emotionally, being stared at by so many people, but Zhao Huan subconsciously looked at Zhao Ding, who had a normal complexion......
"Don't do this, you are entrapping me in injustice!"
"Zhao Xiang, you quickly persuade them, persuade them!"
Zhao Ding finally seemed to come back to his senses and made a gesture towards him:
"You don't have to be presumptuous, the official family is a holy monarch who can understand right and wrong, and the unification of the throne is not a child's play, everything should be decided by the two of you."
His attitude is very clear, this is a matter of your Zhao family, although he is also surnamed Zhao, but he is not the same as your ancestors, it is not good to say too much.
But for Zhao Huan, Liu Ziyu and Hu Quan, Zhao Ding is not completely on the emperor's side, this is already a big deal.
Loyalty is not absolute, it is absolutely disloyal.
Liu Ziyu looked at Zhao Ding a little like a stranger, he couldn't have imagined that the prime minister, who was pulled up by the official family, would have such an attitude now!
Not to mention Hu Quan, if he hadn't thought that this was in the palace, he might have already blown his beard and scolded Zhao Ding.
And Zhao Huan glanced at Zhao Ding strangely, and he didn't even expect that he hadn't done anything, and Zhao Ding had already disarmed......
The dwarf said that under the heavy pressure of Lao Jiu, many people's dissatisfaction has been covered, and as long as he loosens his mouth a little, he can hear a lot of dissatisfaction.
I thought he was exaggerating before, but at this time, Zhao Huan believed it a little.
"In the past, I didn't listen to Li Boji's words, so I caused a big disaster, and when I remembered it in the Northland, I wanted to see him again...... But I don't want to, he is already dead, and I have lost him after all. ”
Li Boji is Li Gang, the minister who has risen and fallen several times and has an unswerving ambition to resist Jin, happened to die the year before Qin Hui and the year before the emperor began to change his temperament.
If he could see today, I don't know what it would be like.
And Zhao Huan has now begun to call himself 'I'...... Wang Ciweng and they were naturally overjoyed, although Hu Quan was not happy, but he also knew that this person was also qualified to call himself so.
Although he was dissatisfied, he still pressed on.
"He is the pillar of the country, the minister of the humerus of the Great Song Dynasty, and he failed to use him well, it is my fault or not, and it has nothing to do with him."
This is nonsense, everyone knows it.
But Zhao Huan can say this, which still can't help but make people a little impressed.
Zhao Ding moved slightly, straightened his body again, and returned to his previous appearance.
"Therefore, I know that this Great Song is not the Great Song of the Zhao family, but the Great Song of all the capable ministers and the people of the world."
"If the Great Song Dynasty wants to restore its old days, the most indispensable thing is talent, whether it is me or the ninth brother here, I believe they all think so."
"So...... I invited the countryman to Lin'an. ”
As he spoke, Zhao Huan nodded to Wang Xie, who understood and immediately turned around and went out.
When he came back, when Miao Liu mutinied, he organized the restoration of King Qin, and fought against Jin, and operated Sichuan and Shaanxi to protect the southeast.
He was the youngest prime minister of the Great Song Dynasty after Kou Zhun, and he was also the minister who deposed Li Gang with Huang Qianshan that year, and at the same time, he was also a minority who strongly advocated resistance to Jin...... Naturally, when he was dismissed, although he knew Qin Hui's character, he was more worried about his old opponent Zhao Ding's power, so he acquiesced to the emperor and let Qin Hui be the prime minister.
This is a complex person, you can't just evaluate him with loyalty and treachery, if according to Liu Bang's previous thoughts, this should be the kind of person who puts his own interests first,
Some talents, but not many.
Even the bottom line is not that high...... For example, after Fujian learned that the officials were recalled to Lin'an by the emperor, Zhang Jun waited for a long time, but in the end he only waited for the news that the emperor worshiped Zhao Ding as his prime minister.
This is almost a devastating blow to this 'young man', who has been a prime minister in his early thirties and is only in his early forties.
Degrading him more than the emperor made him feel frustrated.
But it was at this time that he received a solicitation from the Holy Emperor of Xiaociyuan...... Zhang Jun, like Hu Quan, has always been by the side of Zhao Guan's family, and for the two northern emperors, he has always only heard of their names and not seen them.
And now......
He boarded the boat without half a minute of hesitation, Zhao Huan was Wang Ciweng's only hope for them, but for Zhang Jun, why not.
Saluting to the emperor above, the first thing Zhang Jun did when he came to this hall was to stand in front of Zhao Ding.
"I really didn't expect that goodbye would still be in Lin'an...... Zhao Xiang, may I ask tonight...... What time is it? ”
Zhao Ding raised his eyes and looked at him, but did not answer his words.
This obvious show of weakness made Zhao Huan even more overjoyed, and even the whole person was a little excited.
"The ninth brother is on the Northern Expedition in the front, and the rear is indispensable."
"Zhao Xiang has worked hard, and now with the assistance of Mr. Deyuan, he can share a lot of burdens for you."
"You should work together to protect the country."
There must be many people who echo this, but no one expected that the first one to agree was Zhao Ding and Zhao Xiangye.
He stood up again: "The minister was supported by His Majesty and served as the left and right servants of the Zhongshu Sect, but it was a lack of people in the official family, and it was a helpless move." ”
"Deyuan is Wang Zuozhicai, if he can come, the minister will naturally agree."
"Hey......" Zhao Huan couldn't tell which side Zhao Ding was on, and he didn't want to offend him too much at this time, so he just said:
"The appointment of the ninth brother naturally has his reasons...... Although Deyuan has the ability to be a prime minister, he still has to divide the priorities, how can he think about it from Zhao Xiang's officials. ”
"According to me, it is better to let him do the political affairs of the governor, so that neither Deyuan nor Zhao Xiang will be disadvantaged."
The left and right servants are nominally left and right, and the governor is the actual deputy prime minister, the three powers of the Great Song Dynasty, the military power belongs to the Privy Council of the Sanya, the financial power belongs to the three departments of the household department, and the administrative power belongs to the governor of the Zhongshu Province, if the prime minister is not there, the deputy prime minister can also exercise the power of the prime minister.
This request is already excessive, as long as Zhao Ding does not agree, Zhao Huan has no way, at least there is no way now.
Unless he tears his face, but he doesn't have the guts, and he doesn't have the strength.
But Zhao Ding didn't even hesitate, and said directly:
"You're a saint."
After saying that, it turned into an old clock.
Hu Quan couldn't bear it anymore and stood up...... He frowned and stared at Zhao Ding for a long time, and finally ......
"Ho~Teh!"
took a bite and spat at Zhao Ding.
It was a bit indecent, but it happened so quickly that no one reacted.
Hu Quan looked at Zhao Huan above, arched his hand, didn't even say a word, and turned around and walked out.
Wang Xie wanted to stop him, but he pushed him away:
"What, do you want to slap the official too?!"
This is not a simple official like Yin of Lin'an Mansion, he is the real God of Wealth of the Great Song Dynasty, and what he offended just now was the prime minister of the dynasty.
Just a little together, Wang Xie let go and let him walk out of the Daqing Palace.
This kind of behavior was originally a great contempt for the emperor above, but maybe he stayed in the Jin country for a long time, and Zhao Huan actually endured it.
Mainly, Zhao Ding endured it.
He took the handkerchief handed by the attendant and gently wiped away the saliva on his clothes, not even the slightest temper.
Zhao Huan snorted, quickly diverted the topic, and the music sounded again.
After a song, he said the second thing of the day:
"King of Yongjia County...... Although he did some unruly things, he was the son of King Yi, and King Yi had merit to the ninth brother and to my Great Song Dynasty, so he ......"
"The ninth brother is not here, so I will be the master! You are also a member of the Zhao family, you don't know the proportion, you have done something wrong, cut half of its supply, and you are not allowed to leave Shanyin without warning! ”
"You have to take it as a warning, don't do it again, you know?!"
Zhao Shicheng had already reacted, and he made a big fuss, but he just made a wedding dress for others.
Now that he is fortunate to be able to survive, and he has retained his title, where does he have a reason not to obey, even if he is unwilling in his heart, he still responds.
But I don't know if this county king is really stupid or cute, he actually made a request to the emperor at this time:
"Your Majesty, the minister has indeed done something wrong...... After the death of his father, the princess also left the courtiers, and there was a lot less worry about this life. ”
"If you talk about the last family business again, the minister will go back to live with peace of mind, and if Your Majesty does not summon him, the minister will never come again."
As he spoke, he even added a bit of innocence to himself, if someone who didn't know saw it, I was afraid that he really thought that rebellion was a big deal.
Zhao Huan was a little angry, he didn't know how to lift, and thought that what he said did make some sense.
It's not difficult to do him at all, but it's not good for him at all.
As long as he lives, Lao Jiu comes back as if he wants to deal with people, so he has to think about it a little more.
King Yi has given birth to so many sons, and he has already spread out in various places, not to mention a thousand, at least three or five hundred, plus their respective marriage partners, as well as other people in the Zhao family's clan......
I didn't do anything, at most it was a bit overstepping, this is a real rebellion, if Lao Jiu wants to deal with himself, he must deal with him first.
And he is so gracious, which is right and wrong, everyone naturally understands it.
After all, it was the crown prince set up by Emperor Huizong himself, although Zhao Huan was not the emperor for a long time, but he was a prince for a long time.
He may not have the ability to deal with Jin Ren, but he is not so simple when he uses his brains on these people in the court.
Then he asked:
"Listen to your tone, you seem to have a candidate?"
Zhao Shicheng didn't catch the emperor, it was good to be able to catch a beauty, the pearl of Shaoqing's family in Taichang Temple, he never forgot it.
"The minister didn't dare to hide it, the young lady of Tang Shaoqing's family in Taichang Temple...... Since I saw her, I have been stolen by her, if I can marry her......"
The Yongjiajun Dynasty bowed deeply to the Holy Emperor of Xiaociyuan:
"Your Majesty's great grace, the minister is unforgettable."
Tang Hong never thought that he, a person who had always been invisible, would actually be named at times.
But this kind of naming is a good thing, and it is clearly a big disaster!
This man rebelled with the front foot, and with the back foot he wanted to take his own young lady as his wife...... If the official family comes back and insists on holding him accountable, how can this be good?!
Thinking of this, Tang Shaoqing hurriedly refused:
"The little girl has not yet reached the end of the year, and the king of the county is beautiful, I am afraid that it will be unblessed."
Who knew that Zhao Shicheng had already found out clearly:
"Why is Tang Shaoqing so prevaricating? Tang Wan was born in the first month, and in ten days it will be the day of the day, so the king can't even wait for these ten days? ”
Zhao Huan smiled: "You have made it clear to others." ”
As he spoke, he said to Tang Hong:
"He hasn't remarried for many years, and it's not an abrupt character, since he opened his mouth, then why can't I be a matchmaker today?"
"This ......"
Tang Hong still wanted to speak, but when he saw Wang Xie's old man staring at him with wide eyes, he flicked his sleeves helplessly.
"The minister went back and asked the little girl what she meant."
"When marriage is a major event, parents can make the decision...... Since Tang Shaoqing has no opinion, it will be decided. ”
Zhao Huan stood up and beckoned everyone:
"All the princes should raise their glasses together, and they should also be a witness to this happy event!"
Still led by Zhao Ding, he was the first to bless Tang Hong, who didn't feel happy:
"Congratulations to Tang Shaoqing."
Zhao Huan was very happy, he had never been so happy in the past fifteen years.
……
Xin Ciying was tied up...... He drank alone in Sibei Building, but saw several soldiers under Wang Xie coming to ask for money...... The shopkeeper, Wang Xiaoer, relied on his identity as a relative of the emperor, but he refused to give it, and was beaten by this group of people.
He knew the relationship between the emperor and this family, even if he didn't know, as the Yin of Lin'an Mansion, this kind of thing could not be left alone, although all the people under his command had been killed by Zhao Shicheng, but at this time, he still stood up.
If he doesn't stand up, then he won't be Xin Ciying.
So he was tied up, and the dignified Lin'an Mansion Yin was tied up by several big-headed soldiers to parade the streets, and he started to kill chickens and make an example of monkeys...... I haven't heard of anything like this in a hundred years.
Most of the people didn't know his identity, but when they saw him so old, most of them couldn't bear it.
I can't bear to go back, I heard that the emperor in the north has returned, but Zhao Guanjia doesn't even have any news.
What the situation of the Great Song Dynasty will be and which direction it will go, no one knows.
……
Lu You was also tied up, since he met Zhao Shicheng that day, he knew that something big had happened, so he put away his thoughts of going home for the New Year.
But if he didn't go back, he didn't have any money, and he didn't have much livelihood to do during the New Year in Lin'an City, so he couldn't help it, so he went to the temple to borrow it...... The old man who served here was surnamed Zhou, and said that he was the ancestor and the king of Guan, and the last time Qin Hui wanted to smash the temple, he saw this student and took him in.
At the same time, he also moved a place in front of the temple to write, read and read letters for others, and earn some pocket money.
Originally, everything was fine, but until the Chinese New Year, the Holy Emperor of Xiaoci Yuan came back, and Lu You thought everything was fine.
But I never thought that it was also a few stinky people who saw the newly repaired Guanwang Temple - later the emperor threatened it, and Qin Hui spent a lot of money to repair it, and even the body of Guanwang was coated with a layer of genuine gold dust.
Those soldiers didn't know where they knew about it, so they had to use knives to scrape gold, and where Lu You and Old Man Zhou were willing to put it, they tied them up and hung them on the beams in front of the temple.
Old man Zhou was old, he couldn't stand this kind of stimulation at all, and he was tortured by those people again, and the next day, that is, on the first day of the Lunar New Year, he died on the side of Lu You...... If Tang Wan hadn't come looking for him, he would probably have starved to death there.
"Land Tour ......"
Knowing that he was in a bad mood, Tang Wan felt even more sad in his heart.
But every bit of sadness, she didn't dare to show it.
"This hairpin is too valuable, I want to return it to you."
She seemed to have made a big decision, but Lu You was a little dumbfounded, just looking at the corpse of Old Man Zhou lying in front of her, and didn't even turn her head.
Sighing softly, she still didn't wake him up after all, but just put the hairpin next to him.
She was indeed sad, but what was even more sad was that at this time, she couldn't do anything, not only could she not make Lu You easier, but she ......
Lovers don't necessarily end up married, but Tang Wan only felt as if her heart was constantly twitching, almost fainting in pain.
In Lin'an City, everyone saw it, and there was a girl who was crying.
……
Fohai only felt his heart tighten, but he didn't know what was going on.
He has been reciting Buddha for many years, and his mind is already as calm as water, and this reaction is almost extremely rare for him.
"Daoji?"
He seemed to see his apprentice, but it was clearly a statue of Shakyamuni in front of him, but Buddha Hai assured that he did see the face of Daoji on the face of the Buddha statue.
Weird......
The monk didn't know what this meant, but he always felt that something must have happened to his beloved disciple.
(End of chapter)