Fenghou

Hu Yantong whispered to Chen Qing: "This Cao De is the successor of King Lu Cao Bin, and also from a family of generals. He used to be my elder brother."

Of course, Hu Yantong has to give face. Hearing that he is a descendant of Cao Bin, Chen Qing also has the idea of ​​making friends in his heart, so he smiled and said: "It's so late, and General Cao has no place to camp. Just set up a temporary camp on the school grounds, and then let the brothers drink some hot water, eat something, take a good rest, and talk about tomorrow if there is anything to do."

Cao De was overjoyed, he really didn't have a place to camp, he didn't expect the other party to be so righteous, he quickly clasped his fists and said, "Then trouble General Chen!"

The gate of the camp opened, and Cao De led two thousand troops into the camp. Strictly speaking, Chen Qing would never allow other troops to enter the camp without the order of the Privy Council. first?This barracks was also assigned to Cao De.

……

After entering Lin'an City, the temporarily assembled officials all dispersed. Only a dozen or so entourages followed Fan Zongyin's soft sedan chair. Inside the sedan chair, Fan Zongyin's face was cloudy. Only depressed in the heart, more and more uncomfortable.

However, he also realized that he made a mistake in the matter of the military camp today. He should not have come forward in person. He should have found someone to replace him. Don't say anything about the platform, and the chess is dead in one step, and there is no way to turn around.

Fan Zongyin actually wanted Wang Hao, the servant of the Ministry of War, to come forward to put pressure on him, so he stood behind him, but Wang Hao, a bastard, approved Cao De's barracks in the afternoon, and then fell ill, which was clearly an excuse.

And the group of officials from the Ministry of War stood behind me without saying a word, letting me sing a one-man show alone, and everyone was wise and safe. What's the use of them?

Fan Zongyin was really annoyed, and when he returned to the mansion, he immediately ordered: "Let Mr. Wen Shi come to see me!" He hurried to the study.

Although Fan Zongyin is very conceited and likes to push the envelope, he is not a stubborn person. He will still listen to some people's opinions, but there are very few people who can make Fan Zongyin humbly accept different opinions, and Mr. Wen Shi is one of them.

Mr. Wenshi is a fellow villager of Fan Zongyin. His real name is Han Qi. He used to be a doctor of imperial studies.

Fan Zongyin was reused as prime minister by the emperor Zhao Gou. He visited Han Qi in person and finally persuaded Han Qi to be his staff.

Not long after, a man in his fifties appeared in Fan Zongyin's study room. This person was Han Qi, a staff member. He looked very young, like 40 years old, with thin features and indifferent eyes. A worldly master who thinks nothing and seeks nothing.

"It's really unexpected today. Chen Qing actually has the late emperor's Dingyuan bow, so that the matter didn't work out, which makes people very annoyed!" Fan Zongyin sulked while sitting behind the table.

Han Qi asked with a slight smile: "Why does a small general of the Western Army make Xianggong so angry?"

Chapter 78 Counterattack

Fan Zongyin let out a long sigh, "I am also a majestic Prime Minister, if it wasn't for the bad breath in my heart, I wouldn't demean myself and have a hard time with a little general. Seeing him, I thought of the humiliation of the imperial court." , if I don’t give him a hard meal, I’m going to have a demon in my heart.”

"Fan Xianggong actually vented all his dissatisfaction with Zhang Jun on him!"

"maybe!"

"However, it's really inappropriate to use the military camp to make things difficult for Chen Qing this time. It's not that he shouldn't make things difficult for him, but that this method is easy to cause trouble. In the end, the Ministry of War will take the responsibility, which will have a great impact on the reputation of Mr. Xianggong. I'm afraid there will be no such thing in the future." People dare to do things for the husband."

Fan Zongyin said impatiently: "I know, I have already sent someone to tell Wang Hao to find a scapegoat, and say that the Ministry of War officials made a mistake this time."

"It's better to make mistakes on others a few times, so it won't be so conspicuous."

"It makes sense! I'll ask Wang Hao to arrange it later."

"Also, Fan Xianggong should pay attention to Qin Hui."

"Hmph! That ungrateful and shameless person, thanks to me I have been speaking well for him in front of the officials." When Qin Hui was mentioned, Fan Zongyin couldn't help gnashing his teeth.

Han Qi shook her head and said, "When I said pay attention, I didn't mean that he made trouble in the court. I meant that he might have participated in the impeachment of Chen Qing."

Fan Zongyin was startled, "Why do you say that?"

"After the Chaotang incident, I specially went to investigate Wang Huan. I always felt that this supervisory censor was very strange. He looked like my husband's dog leg, but in fact he had nothing to do with him. He even hated Chen even more than he did. Qing, it's not like a normal supervisory censor investigating, Fan Xianggong guesses, what did I find?"

"I can't guess, you just say it!"

"This Wang Huan is actually Qin Hui's wife and nephew."

"what!"

Fan Zongyin's eyes widened. Wang Huan, who was trampled so hard by Qin Hui, was Qin Hui's wife and nephew?

"Could it be that this Wang Huan was arranged by Qin Hui to investigate Chen Qing?"

"I think so. Originally, it wasn't Wang Huan who went to investigate, but he went instead temporarily. At first, I thought it was Fan Xianggong who greeted Shen Wanqiu."

Fan Zongyin shook his head quickly, "I didn't say hello."

"That's right, it can only be Qin Hui's arrangement!"

Fan Zongyin asked suspiciously: "If it was arranged by Qin Hui, what is his motive?"

"There are many motives. For example, he also wants to bring down Zhang Jun, so he helps Xianggong. For example, Jin Guo may have some requirements."

"Impossible! What does it have to do with Jin Guo?"

"Fan Xianggong, don't forget, Wanyan Lou Shi died at the hands of Chen Qing, the Emperor of the Kingdom of Jin even offered a reward of [-] guan for his head, and Qin Hui came back from the Kingdom of Jin..."

Fan Zongyin stopped talking, and he suddenly realized that his consideration of the problem was too shallow.

"Actually, there is another possibility." Han Qi said calmly.

"what?"

"Chen Qing went there as a martial arts student when he carried out this mission to suppress bandits. I specifically looked at the list of martial arts, and I found that Qin Hui's other wife and nephew, Wang Bo, was also at the martial arts school. Before the entrance exam, Chen Qing did not .1, Wang Bo No.2, could it be due to some kind of competition."

Fan Zongyin shook his head, "Qin Hui is a majestic prime minister, so he won't waste his time and effort on this kind of petty competition between martial arts students."

"That's the problem. Qin Hui didn't bother at all. It was Fan Xianggong who was paying attention to this matter. He said hello to a supervisory censor, and then he borrowed a knife to kill someone."

Fan Zongyin was pacing back and forth in the room with his hands behind his back. Han Qi's cocoon-like analysis made him realize his stupidity.

Now he finds that Qin Hui is a real poisonous snake, lurking beside him, he has already bitten himself hard in the court, and he doesn't know when he will open his fangs to himself.

"Then what should I do? Do you have any suggestions, sir?"

"My suggestion is that no matter how much Xianggong hates Chen Qing, don't show up in person. You can use Wang Bo instead! Create opportunities for him to bite Chen Qing, and they will hurt both. Isn't that what Xianggong said? expected?"

Fan Zongyin nodded, this suggestion is indeed brilliant.

……

The oolong incident of the Ministry of War can never be left alone. Chen Qing has never been a person who swallows his anger.

Early the next morning, Chen Qing found Han Shizhong and begged him to make decisions for himself.

After listening to Chen Qing's statement, Han Shizhong immediately realized that there was a problem. Arranging the barracks was just a trivial matter. This kind of internal document did not need the approval of the Prime Minister.

Han Shizhong thought for a while and said, "I'm just the head of the local army, and I can't interfere in the internal affairs of the court. But since envoy Zhang Xuanfu entrusted you to me, I can't ignore you. How about this! I'll take you to see Lu Xianggong, You can complain to him and ask him to do justice."

Chen Qing also knew Han Shizhong's difficulties. Although he was very famous and valued by the emperor, he was still a local warlord, similar to Wu Jie and Wang Yan, and his status was much lower than that of Zhang Jun. It was impossible for Zhang Jun to fight against Xiangguo like that. The fact that he could bring himself to see Lu Yihao was already the biggest resource he had.

"Han Dutong's help will be greatly appreciated!"

Han Shizhong patted him on the shoulder with a smile, "Come with me!"

The two came to Lu Yihao's official room, and Chen Qing was waiting outside. After a while, a servant came out and said, "General Chen, Mr. Lu invites you in!"

Chen Qing followed the tea boy into the official room, and saw the smiling right minister Lu Yihao talking happily with Han Shizhong. Seeing Chen Qing coming in, Han Shizhong got up and smiled and said, "Then I will go first, please help Lu Xianggong." Settle this matter and don't let last night's misunderstanding happen again."

"Hehe! Let Han Du take charge! The truth will be dealt with fairly."

Han Shizhong nodded to Chen Qing, and left first. Han Shizhong just introduced Lu Yihao for Chen Qing, but he couldn't participate in this matter, so he had to leave first.

Chen Qing knelt down on one knee and saluted, "The last general, Chen Qing, will meet Lu Xianggong!"

Lu Yihao smiled slightly: "Han Dutong told me that there were some disputes last night, you might as well tell me what happened in detail first."

Chen Qing took out a report with the approval document from the Ministry of War as evidence. This is also Cao De's righteousness. Last night he got Chen Qing's help and camped overnight. In return, Cao De gave Chen Qing the approval document from the Ministry of War. To him, the approval from the Ministry of War was a waste of paper for the Privy Council to go through the formalities. As for whether Fan Zongyin would be offended by this, he, a son of an official from a meritorious family like him, didn't care much.

"This is a report written overnight by the humble official. The cause and effect are all in the report. Please read it, Mr. Lu!"

After Lu Yihao received the report, he was really surprised. The reports of the generals were basically written by their staff. It is rare to see a young general like Chen Qing who writes the report himself.

In fact, what Chen Qing learned later is still different from the Song Dynasty. The fonts are different. In order to adapt to the characters and writing habits of the Song Dynasty, he put in a lot of effort. He spent a winter in Linyou County. Two things he did were Practicing calligraphy and sword practice.

In particular, vulgar characters have existed since ancient times. With the changes in printing techniques in the Song Dynasty, a large number of popular books such as novels came out, more and more common people could read, and the promotion of vulgar characters in the Song Dynasty was far better than that of the previous dynasty.

The vulgar characters are similar to the simplified characters of later generations. For example, Guo is written as Guo, Liu is written as Liu, and Shou is written as Shou. Therefore, it is not surprising that Chen Qing accidentally wrote a few simplified characters. Everyone naturally regards it as a vulgar character.

"You wrote this yourself?" Lu Yihao asked in surprise as he flipped through the report.

"The young general has little knowledge, please don't make fun of me!"

Lu Yihao nodded approvingly, "The calligraphy is not bad, it can be seen that he has worked hard for several years."

"Writing is a door hammer", this is the idea of ​​Chen Qing's father. Since Chen Qing was three years old, he asked a calligraphy teacher to teach Chen Qing how to write. Chen Qing has been insisting on it for more than ten years. Good writing.

Perhaps because of his good calligraphy, Lu Yihao carefully read Chen Qing's report.

He frowned, "Did you have a conflict with General Cao last night?"

"Last night, a conflict almost broke out due to a misunderstanding. Later, the misunderstanding was cleared up. I asked General Cao's army to rest in the camp. Out of gratitude, General Cao handed over the approval letter from the Ministry of War to him."

Lu Yihao looked at the approval document from the Ministry of War again. It had the seal of Wang Hao, the minister of the Ministry of War, and even the instructions from the Prime Minister Fan Zongyin.

Lu Yihao sneered, how could he not understand, this Fan Zongyin is too narrow-minded, he was slapped in the face in the court, and it is really embarrassing to wear small shoes for others in this way!

It doesn't matter if you wear small shoes, but the level of wearing small shoes is not flattering, it is too low-level, and even signing your name on the document is an insult to the status of the prime minister.

In fact, this is why Lu Yihao can't get used to Fan Zongyin. He is too young, too arrogant, and a bit unscrupulous. Maybe signing the letter is also a sign of his arrogance!

Lu Yihao felt that it was necessary to beat Fan Zongyin with this matter, don't be too arrogant, and at the same time give Zhang Jun a favor, I didn't stand idly by when your subordinates were bullied.

"Where's the approval letter from the Privy Council for your barracks?"

Chen Qing quickly took out the approval document and presented it to Lu Yihao, "Please read it!"

Lu Yihao looked at the approval document, and the chain of evidence was complete. He smiled slightly and said, "It just so happens that the official called me in the afternoon, and you have lunch with me, and then I go to see the official in the afternoon, and you wait here, maybe the official will summon you."

"Thank you Lu Xianggong for your kindness!"

"It's not about love, it's just about upholding justice, otherwise Lao Zhang will come to demolish my house next time he comes to Beijing!"

Lu Yihao has passed the necessary information to Chen Qing. On the scene, he is upholding justice, but in fact I am giving Zhang Jun a favor.

Chapter 79 Blame

In the afternoon, Lu Yihao had an audience with Emperor Zhao Gou in the imperial study.

"It stands to reason that such a small matter should not alarm the officials, but after all, the recruit training competition is arranged by the officials themselves. I think it is necessary to let the officials know and draw everyone's attention, so as to avoid bigger mistakes."

Zhao Gou sat in front of the imperial case and read Chen Qing's report. Although Lu Yihao tried his best to understate the matter, the fact that he came to report the matter itself showed that the matter was not simple.

Moreover, the report mentioned that the misunderstanding between the two armies led to the intensification of the conflict between the soldiers, and the conflict almost broke out.If it is not handled properly, wouldn't it become the second Liu Miao Rebellion?

Zhao Gou's face became more and more gloomy, and he said to the eunuch, "Immediately announce that Mr. Fan will come to see me!"

"Your Majesty, Chen Qing is waiting in Weichen's official room. Do you want to announce him to testify against this?"

Zhao Gou pondered for a moment and said, "Wait a bit first!"

Zhao Gou knew that it was Fan Zongyin who was wearing shoes for Chen Qing, but Chen Qing was unwilling to be humiliated and fought back. If the two met again, one would be unreasonable with a high position, and the other would be a low-ranked one with an unreasonable position. To be clear, it's not good for me to favor anyone, it's best not to meet each other.

Not long after, Fan Zongyin hurried over. He didn't know what had happened. Seeing that Lu Yihao was also there, he felt a little apprehensive, so he quickly bowed and saluted, "My minister sees Your Majesty!"

Emperor Zhao Gou threw the approval document from the Ministry of War on the ground, "Fan Xianggong, did you sign this bastard approval document?"

Fan Zongyin's heart clicked! 'Let's see, why did this matter come to the emperor?

He glanced out of the corner of his eye, and saw Lu Yihao half-closed his eyes, standing aside as if it had nothing to do with him. Fan Zongyin suddenly understood in his heart that it was Lu Yihao who made the move.

Fortunately, he discussed this matter carefully with Han Qi last night. As long as he resolutely denies his selfish intentions, then the responsibility lies with the Ministry of War. In fact, this is also Fan Zongyin's consistent style. A dead Taoist friend never dies a poor Taoist. It's a scapegoat, this time!I had to wrong Wang Hao, the Minister of the Ministry of War.

Fan Zongyin quickly picked up the approval document on the ground, and said with shame on his face: "This matter was careless, and I didn't check it carefully, so I signed it casually, because several troops wanted to station in that barracks. I signed my signature, and I never thought that the Ministry of War would make a big mistake by repeatedly approving the barracks."

Zhao Gou was noncommittal about Fan Zongyin's explanation, and he picked up Chen Qing's report and handed it to Fan Zongyin, "This is the report written by Chen Qing, the commander of the Western Army. It briefly describes what happened last night. Do you see any discrepancies?"

Fan Zongyin was annoyed, he didn't expect Chen Qing to write the report so quickly.

He took a look at the report and said: "Reporting to Your Majesty, the situation is basically true, but the description will be biased due to different personal positions, and some conclusions I disagree with."

"What's the difference?"

"Your Majesty, I heard that a conflict might break out last night, so I hurried to the barracks to quell the dispute. At this time, I knew that the Ministry of War might make a mistake. In order to calm the dispute, I considered that the two sides should live together temporarily until tomorrow. reprocessing.

However, General Chen has a prejudice against the minister, thinking that the minister is biased towards General Cao. He is emotional and forbids the minister to enter the barracks, otherwise he will shoot and kill the minister with the bow of the former emperor. I didn't ask about it again. "

"But he said in his report that you didn't approve of the Privy Council's approval and wanted them to be kicked out of the barracks. They wanted to force their way into the barracks. He forbade you to break into the barracks, so the conflict intensified?"

"How could Weichen not recognize the approval document from the Privy Council? Weichen just wanted to resolve the dispute between him and General Cao. He entered the barracks to see if there were no extra barracks. He was very excited and his attitude was so tough that it was unacceptable. It was clearly the following guilty of..."

Lu Yihao said from the side: "Ministers are not allowed to enter the barracks casually, they must have the approval of the Privy Council. General Chen did nothing wrong in this regard."

Fan Zongyin immediately glared at Lu Yihao, "Is he not wrong for the next crime?"

Lu Yihao said indifferently: "It also depends on the specific situation! If something is wrong, then Fan Xianggong yelled at the truth more than once in the court."

Fan Zongyin almost fainted from anger, he restrained his anger and said coldly: "Then he should be rude to me?"

Lu Yihao still calmly said: "As I said just now, it depends on the specific situation whether you commit the following crimes or not. In the case of the military camp, the military department made mistakes first, and Fan Xianggong also made mistakes. The normal way is to find another military camp. Settling General Cao's army is a good way to calm the dispute, instead of running to the military camp to intensify the conflict. Knowing that the ministers can't enter the military camp at will, but to force their way in, accusing the other party of committing crimes at this time would be like using power to overwhelm others gone."