Song Mingyue

Chapter 199

In the early morning of the next day, Zhao Hao arrived in front of Xuande Gate very early. This was the first time he went to court after returning to Bianliang.

As soon as he got off the sedan chair, a group of people from the Qing School surrounded him.

Zhao Hao's rank is not the highest in the Qing School, but everyone in the Qing School has implicitly regarded him as the leader. Even Jin Chongyue, the Shangshu of the Ministry of Rites, is somewhat courteous. The second is because of his clan status.

Zhao Hao hurriedly got off the sedan chair, and took the lead to salute everyone. After greeting for a while, Zhao Hao saw the excitement on everyone's faces, and felt a little bit emotional in his heart. Genre cynical youth is indeed worthy of a clean stream in the sewage.

Zhao Hao asked Jin Chongyue softly: "Jin Gong, how is the discussion going?"

Jin Chongyue lowered his voice and said: "Since the son dares to be the first in the world, how dare the ministers lag behind. Today, I have to put my life on the court to make this matter happen."

Zhao Hao smiled slightly, glanced at Tong Guan, Wang Fu and the others intentionally or unintentionally, and said calmly, "Jin Gong's words are serious."

One person stood out from the crowd and bowed respectfully to Zhao Hao: "The Marquis of Shou'an is a royal family, and he is not as young as a weak crown, so he is so worried about the country and the people, and he works tirelessly. I am deeply admired by the officials!"

Zhao Hao saw that this person was about 40 years old and had a high-spirited appearance, so his heart skipped a beat and he hurriedly inquired about this person's attributes.

"Li Gang, force 65, intelligence 88, politics 83, leadership 81"

Three attributes of more than 80 are indeed worthy of being the famous anti-gold minister in history!
Zhao Hao's face showed a solemn look, he hurried forward to help this person up, and said in a loud voice: "Brother Bo Ji, you don't need to be polite."

At this moment, someone whispered: "The old thief Cai Jing is here!"

Zhao Hao looked back, and saw Cai Jing's soft sedan was coming towards this side. Just as he was passing by the crowd of the Qing School, the curtain of the sedan chair suddenly opened, revealing Cai Jing's slightly old and calm face.

Cai Jing glanced at the crowd, then looked at Zhao Hao, and the two met each other's eyes. Cai Jing nodded meaningfully at Zhao Hao, put down the car curtain again, and continued to walk forward.

After a while, melodious bells sounded from the bell tower, and all the officials of Cai Jing's party surrounded Cai Jing's soft sedan chair, rushed to Xuande Gate first, and rushed to the palace.

Immediately afterwards, Wang Fu, Tong Guan, Cai You and others also rushed to the palace, while the group of Qing School fell behind.

An official of the Qingliu faction said angrily: "Every time we are lagging behind, why?"

Zhao Hao smiled indifferently: "The good show is yet to come, why bother to fight for the first time?"

Everyone laughed, and their hearts were instantly relieved.

In the main hall, everyone was still lined up in order. Jin Chongyue hesitated for a while when arranging the position of Zhao Hao, and finally chose Zhao Hao to continue in the queue of the third rank, but he was ranked at the front of the queue of the third rank Although some people were dissatisfied in their hearts, they still dared not speak out. After all, Zhao Hao was placed in the queue of the third rank when he was still the fourth rank. Who dares to say half a sentence at the beginning?
After a while, Zhao Ji came slowly surrounded by Liang Shicheng and others. Today, Zhao Ji looked very energetic, with a happy face, and without waiting for Liang Shicheng to help him, he sat on the dragon chair with a golden sword on his horse.

Seeing that the officials had already sat down, Liang Shicheng cleared his throat, and was about to say the opening line that has remained unchanged for thousands of years, but saw Zhao Ji waving his hand at him, and hurriedly stopped, looking at Zhao Ji puzzled.

Zhao Ji smiled and asked, "Where is Zhao Hao's nephew?"

As soon as the voice fell, everyone became confused in an instant. Didn't this mean that they hadn't called the opening line yet, so why did they call the Master?
Zhao Hao also had a confused expression on his face, and hurriedly came out and said, "The minister is here!"

Zhao Ji shook his head slightly, and said dissatisfiedly: "You are standing too far back, I can't see that you are uncomfortable, you can stand forward and stand next to Jin Shangshu."

Everyone was in chaos again... The officials of the third rank were standing at the forefront of the second rank. How much do the officials favor Zhao Hao?

Zhao Hao's expression froze, but he saw Jin Chongyue waving at him with excitement and complacency on his face, so he could only reply "obey the order", and the official minister who was standing beside Jin Chongyue had to back away unwillingly. Position, let Zhao Hao stand still.

There is no way, who said that someone has just made a great achievement, not only the officials are extremely fond of it, but also the government and the public are shocked by it. This momentum is at the height of the sun, whoever dares to touch this bad luck will not die if he stands behind.

Only then did Zhao Ji wave to Liang Shicheng, Liang Shicheng wiped his forehead, looked solemn, and said loudly: "Everyone has something to play, and nothing to leave the court!"

As soon as the words fell, a person jumped out from behind the sequence of vermilion official robes, and said loudly: "Your servant Li Gang has a book to play!"

Liang Shicheng frowned slightly and said, "Speak!"

"Reporting to Your Majesty, the north, south, and south of Beijing are plagued by drought and locust plagues in parallel. The land has nowhere to go, and the people are starving to death. Zhang Di, a rebel from Mingzhou, Hebei, gathered [-] people and trapped the county. Now he is besieging the city of Junzhou. Songjiang, Shandong, according to the mountains and rivers of Liang, gathered hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses, and plundered the roads of Heshuo, Jingxi, and Huainan. For future troubles, please Your Majesty make a quick decision!"

"What?" The court hall suddenly became chaotic.

The light in Zhao Ji's eyes was shining brightly, and he raised his voice and asked: "Why is the memorial that I got is that the Kaifeng government opened a warehouse to release food, the disaster situation of the people has eased, and the chaos in Hebei and Shandong is about to be quelled? Who is lying to me?"

Zhao Ji heard that it would affect the plan of the Northern Expedition, and he had only read the playbook on this matter last night, but he heard another rhetoric this morning, and immediately became angry.

For Zhao Ji, there are tens of thousands of people in the Song Dynasty, and death is not a big deal. As for civil uprisings, big or small, they seem to happen every year, and they are already commonplace. But what Zhao Ji values ​​most now is the Northern Expedition to recover Youyun Sixteen The great cause of the state, and at the same time, as the emperor, the most important thing is to control his subjects. Now that these two points are threatened, how can he not be angry?
Cai Mao, the prefect of Kaifeng, hurried out of the line, pointed at Li Gang and cursed angrily: "Li Boji, you have lived in Jiannan for a long time, and you don't know the truth, but you are not a censor who can hear about it. Such nonsense, deceiving the sage, What should I do?"

As soon as Cai Mao came out, another person came out and said with a sneer: "It is true that Kaifeng Prefecture opened a warehouse to release food for relief, but there are more than 800 million people in the south, south and north of Beijing, including more than 300 million victims, and 150 people were given food. Ten thousand stones, originally insufficient, were exploited layer by layer by Du Gongcai and others, and less than 30 stones fell into the hands of the common people, and the distribution was uneven, so it is not surprising that people starved to death."

This person hadn't finished speaking, Cai Jing, who was like an old monk in meditation, suddenly had a flash of anger in his eyes, and then half-closed them again, it turned out that this person was not someone else, but Cai Jing's eldest son Cai You.

Cai Jing can be regarded as a successful life, but he gave birth to a cheating eldest son, who was bent on opposing his father, and did not hesitate to ally with Wang Fu, Tong Guan, Liang Shicheng and others to fight against Cai Jing. I thought this son was the product of the old Wang next door.

Zhao Ji became more and more restless, and asked angrily: "How can I remember that the Kaifeng mansion's memorial reported 300 million stones at the beginning, how did it become 150 million stones?"

Don’t ask Zhao Ji how he remembers these things. Ever since Zhao Hao returned from his envoy to Liaodong, Jin Guo sent important officials to Bianliang with Wanyan Aguda’s letter of credence, promising that the two countries would destroy Liao and return Youyun sixteen prefectures to Song Dynasty. There are also many words of praise for Zhao Ji in the national book, which makes Zhao Ji high-spirited and determined to be a diligent and thrifty Mingjun and become the real "one emperor through the ages".

Although Zhao Ji is destined to be the heat of a gust of wind, but the heat is still on fire. These days, the memorials are reviewed by himself, and he is often busy until late at night and enjoys it. He rarely goes to Master Li, so he remembers it clearly.

150 million shi of grain, even in normal times, is 150 million guan. You must know that for a Northern Expedition, only a budget of 900 million guan was prepared, and 150 million guan was taken away when the grain was opened. How shocking!
Even though Zhao Hao had already learned that Song Ting's greed for ink was common, he was stunned, and his eyes suddenly became murderous.

When Cai Mao heard this, he couldn't help being so scared that his forehead was hot and sweaty, his legs were weak, and he cried anxiously: "Your Majesty, I am wronged... Weichen did deliver 300 million shi of grain to the Jingxi Road for disaster relief. Cai Juan is this You are framing this humble minister!"

Jin Chongyue also came out, and said with a sneer: "On the account, it is 300 million shi, and how much is the real food. You can find out if you check it. Since the Cai Mansion is so open and honest, why don't you ask His Majesty to send someone to investigate the disaster relief and civil uprising?"

Zhao Ji, who wanted to be the eternal sage, was also angry at this moment. Hearing Jin Chongyue's proposal, he turned his head and asked, "I don't know what Mr. Cai's intention is?"

Cai Jing seemed to be dozing off at first, but when he heard Zhao Ji's name, he immediately opened his eyes, with a serious look on his face, bowed respectfully to Zhao Ji, and said unhurriedly: "I report to Your Majesty, the matter of greedy ink It is serious, and it must be investigated, and it must be re-investigated, strictly investigated, and once investigated to the end, it will not be tolerated!"

Zhao Ji nodded in satisfaction and asked, "Since this is the case, who would be more appropriate to investigate?"

Cai Jing still said unhurriedly: "Reporting to the emperor is a very important matter. It must be a highly respected first-rank official, otherwise it will be difficult to deter the small group. I am afraid that this matter must be done by Meng Heng!"

Bai Shizhong, styled Mengxiang, occupied the position of Zuo Cheng in the Shangshu, and was called Zuo Xiang at that time, but Cai Jing was the head of the ministers, so of course he was called by his character.

As soon as Cai Jing finished speaking, Tong Guan's bell-like voice sounded: "Du Gongcai, Cai Mao, and Bai Shizhong all came from Mr. Cai's sect. Doesn't Mr. Cai know how to avoid suspicion? In my opinion, it must be Wang Jiangming." !"

At this moment, there was an instant chaos in the hall. Two senior members of the court and the leaders of the two factions fought in the hall. How could the others be willing to show weakness? For a while, the hall was like a vegetable market, and there was a lot of trouble. Liang Shicheng reminded Tried several times and couldn't stop it.

Looking at the commotion in the hall, Zhao Ji couldn't help being furious, and shouted sharply, "Where is Zhao Hao?"

PS: I'm a little upset about the interruption, please forgive me if there are any typos, because the author is going to catch the train soon, see you tomorrow!
(End of this chapter)