Emperor Renzong of the Great Song Dynasty

Pang Ji's eyelids twitched.

Privy envoys are prime ministers.The so-called prime minister means that once the three prime ministers or a certain deputy prime minister, for example, participates in political affairs, and resigns due to business, the privy envoy can fill the vacancy and serve as prime minister.

But the Song Dynasty has its own national conditions here, and the censors are gearing up every day to take down a prime minister and show off their power. The emperor doesn't like a prime minister who has been in power to hinder the monarchy, so the turnover rate of the prime ministers is quite high. was demoted.

Being a privy envoy for a year or so, no matter what happens, he can catch a leak and become a prime minister smoothly.

The position of a privy envoy is a piece of cake among high-ranking civil servants, and serving as a privy envoy is equivalent to paying homage to the prime minister in advance.

That is to say, there was a Lai Guo Gong Kou Zhun before, and he himself was the prime minister, and he still occupied the position of privy envoy.

If you eat meat, you should leave a mouthful of soup for others to drink!

It was so easy to wait until the Duke of Lai fell from power, and all the families stared at the vacated post of privy envoy.

The position of Prime Minister Zhao Wen was assigned to Fan Zhongyan by the emperor, so the position of Privy Envoy must be vacated no matter what?

As a result, the emperor gave the privy envoy to his cousin.

As the deputy envoy of the Privy Council, Pang Ji had mixed feelings in his heart.

If you can't be a privy envoy, you can't be a prime minister.

He's grown up too, and it's time to make plans for his lifelong events.

As an official, don't you just count on a feudal marquis to worship the prime minister.

In today's world, it may be difficult to become a Marquis, but you have to fight for the matter of paying homage to the Prime Minister.

Just when he secretly hoped that the emperor would not be able to stand the torture of the Eight Worthy Kings, and would dismiss Di Qing, and let himself, the deputy envoy of the privy secretary, take over in a legitimate way, the emperor suddenly said to him, if this matter is done, we will not be the privy secretary. If you do, just be the prime minister.

And such good things?

He took a deep breath: "Chen, I will fulfill my mission."

Just be the prime minister!

Although he is only a vice-prime minister, he is only one step away from being a Sange University scholar!

Among the three prime ministers, only Zhaowenguan University has awarded Fan Zhongyan, that is to say, there are still two vacancies——

hold on!Pang Chunzhi!Be sure to hold on!

Zhao Yiyi said: "Pang Qing's family, we must do this well."

Taxation is a top priority for the country, and in order to reduce this wave of taxes, he will directly disarm the army at the risk of offending the government. If a fire breaks out in the backyard, these sacrifices will not bring benefits to the people in the disaster area, but To fill the pockets of corrupt officials, then...

He said: "There is Lao Qing's family."

I hope that Pang Ji can use his cruel methods to scare Xiaoxiao and help him stabilize half of the country in the Yellow River Basin.

Pang Ji said: "Please rest assured the officials."

Isn't it just to supervise the tax reduction of counties and counties, so as to prevent corrupt officials from filling their own pockets and making the country's wealth difficult?

What a simple matter!

Other officials may not be good at dealing with low-level officials, so that they are likely to be manipulated by the officials with swords and pens.

But who is he, he is Pang Chunzhi!

He started from a humble beginning, and he couldn't be more clear about how he deceived the petty officials.

You can't hide it from anyone, but you can't hide it from Pang Ji.

Since the emperor said he doesn't care about his means, then he can...

……You are welcome.

As for the censors at Yushitai who are full of food and are full of arguments all over the world, how will they join him after they know what he has done...

Pang Ji chuckled secretly.

He is an official for the emperor, not for the censors.

Since the emperor said he wanted to protect him, even if the censors read his memorial and broke the table and chopping board of the Chongzheng Palace, he, Pang Chunzhi, was still as calm as a mountain, in front of his privy envoy, waiting for him. After the event is completed, the imperial edict of worship.

Zhao Yiyi said: "Pang Qing, go back, go home and pack your luggage, the second government's order will be issued in two days, and you can start your journey then."

After sending Pang Ji away, Zhao Yiyi asked Liu En: "Speaking of which, how is Li Niangniang?"

It has been almost ten days since Bao Zheng took this Empress Li back to Beijing.

The more important the matter is, the more quickly it needs to be resolved, otherwise there will be some mistakes from nowhere, and then the whole game will be lost.

He believed that Bao Zheng also understood this truth.

Why hasn't the group of them made arrangements for him to meet his mother?

Liu Endao: "Concubine Li has already moved into Nanqing Palace."

Zhao Yiyi nodded: "The next step, Niangniang Di has to find a chance for me to meet Li Niangniang, right?"

Liu En nodded: "Yes, but this opportunity is hard to find. The officials are busy with state affairs, and they don't often meet Di Niangniang when they have nothing to do, let alone at this critical moment."

What's more, at this juncture, not to mention the affairs of the previous dynasty, Di Niangniang's husband Ba Xianwang is still persistently arguing with Zhao Yiyi about Di Qing's issue. She thought about it, and felt that it was really not easy for her.

"Miss Di is suffering." Zhao Yiyi said with a little guilty conscience: "When the matter here is over, we have to thank her well."

From adopting the little prince who was exiled from the palace 17 years ago, to supporting Zhao Yiyi all the way after he ascended the throne, to helping Zhao Yiyi steal the golden mace of the Eight Sage Kings, and now he still has to admit his mother to the emperor with trepidation.

Along the way, after all, Di Niangniang carried everything alone.

Zhao Yiyi said: "I have to create an opportunity for them."

He had to meet Concubine Li in person to recognize this mother-in-law, which was enough to form a moral deterrent to the Eight Sage Kings.

"Is there anything worth going out of the palace recently?"

Liu En thought for a while: "Di Qing and Miss Fan's wedding is approaching. This marriage was bestowed by the government, and it is also the marriage between the royal family and the prime minister's family. It seems reasonable for the government to be present."

Zhao Yiyi thought for a while, but still shook his head: "Farewell. Why bother to trouble others on their happy days."

Fan Zhongyan is his prime minister, his right-hand man, he has to preserve some dignity for others anyway.

Your emperor and his own mother met at someone else's daughter's wedding, so overwhelming, what do people think.

"Except for Di Qing's wedding, there is no legitimate reason to leave the palace in the near future."

The so-called justifiable reason for leaving the palace refers to traveling as the emperor with full ceremonies.

It is not easy to find the reason for the emperor to leave the palace officially, so it is better to go out quietly.

There is no need for such a big ceremony, just let a few close officials around him know that he is coming out of the palace.

Such as Fan Zhongyan, such as Bao Zheng.

Zhao Yiyi said: "Why don't we go to Qingbei University tomorrow to see how Xia Yuqi's boat is going?"

Xia Yuqi's steamboat was a project appointed by the emperor, and Zhao Yiyi cared about the process, so it was reasonable for him to visit the palace.

Liu En said: "It's possible. Send someone to inform Xia Yuqi today. Di Qing is currently living next door to Xia Yuqi. You can't hide from him that the official family will arrive tomorrow. He is Fan Zhongyan's prospective son-in-law..."

After going back and forth, Fan Zhongyan will definitely know that the emperor will visit Qingbei University tomorrow before tonight.

It was enough time for him to prepare.

The next day was Xiumu, and there was no court meeting.Zhao Yiyi got up early, approved the memorials all morning, and left the palace before dinner, heading towards Qingbei University.

It's been a long time since I saw Yan Shu, so he had to go have a meal with him, and take a look at how his written conversation with Yan Shu was compiled.

He did not take the emperor's car, but quietly left the palace in a small car through the side door.

If it weren't for the fact that it was not easy for people to see someone flying over the walls in the palace in broad daylight, he would rather ask Liu En to use his lightness kung fu to take him to Qingbei University.

Light work is much faster than chariots and horses.

Qingbei University was a bit far from Miyagi, but luckily the royal horse had a good journey, and finally arrived at the destination before Zhao Yiyi was about to starve.

The rest time of the university and the government are synchronized, the government is on holiday, and the university is also on holiday.

At this time, there were not many people in the huge campus. Zhao Yiyi got off the car in front of the school gate and asked Liu En, "Where is Yan Shu's principal's office?"

He hadn't been here a few times, so he didn't know the way.But Liu En is a system AI, he can remember all the ways after coming here once.

Liu Endao: "Go straight along the main road into the school gate. After a lilac flower garden, you will find Principal Yan's principal's office."

Just as Zhao Yiyi was about to nod his head and say let's go, he suddenly heard a long horn sounding in the distance.

"What's that sound?" he asked.

Qingbei University always rings the bell during and after class. The bell is placed on a high platform in the center of the campus. It is more than one foot high, and the sound it makes is enough to resound throughout the campus.

And today the students are on holiday, so there is no class at all.Who is blowing the trumpet?

Liu En tiptoed, jumped onto a nearby tree, looked in the direction of the sound of the horn, and then jumped down again, saying, "Xia Yuqi is trying to drive that boat."

Zhao Yiyi said, "Let's go and have a look."

Qingbei University was built adjacent to the Bian River, and Xia Yuqi's boat was moored on the bank of the Bian River.

At this time, the river bank was full of people, all of them were the surrounding people and university teachers and students who came to watch the sailless bicycle boat.

In the middle of the river, a strange big ship with no sails or fibers, but with a chimney in the middle of the deck, was sailing slowly and gradually speeding up.

Zhao Yiyi and Liu En squeezed through the cheering crowd and stood on the shore, just in time to see Xia Yuqi standing on the deck, full of vigor, occasionally yelling at the boiler room below the deck.

No wonder he has a loud voice, it's because the boiler makes a lot of noise when it's in operation. If you don't roar, you can't hear what the other party is saying.

After a while, the boat drove away, and only the black smoke from the chimney could be faintly seen in the sky.

Zhao Yiyi estimated the current speed of the ship in his mind, and found that it was much faster than the big ship he took when he went down to Yangzhou.And at this time, there is still some time before Xia Yuqi and him agreed to deliver the goods in September, which means that the performance of this ship still has room for improvement.

Either faster, or better stability.

but……

He patted the shoulder of the person next to him: "Brother, please tell me, where is this boat going? Will it come back today?"

He came to visit Xia Yuqi's steam ship, but the ship was gone now, where would he go to visit?

The person beside him turned around and said, "You're welcome, this boat is my master..."

After seeing Zhao Yiyi's face clearly, he suddenly froze.

Zhao Yiyi said in his heart, hehe, acquaintance.

This person is Bai Yutang, Xia Yuqi's closed disciple.

Thinking that Xia Yuqi had previously entrusted Zhao Yiyi to treat Bai Yutang leniently for his sake, Zhao Yiyi smiled even more cordially.

Bai Yutang looked at him and said, "You...you..."

Why is the emperor here!

Oh, by the way, the emperor is indeed coming to see the ship today.

But why did it come so silently?Shouldn't the emperor sit in the principal's office and wait for them to urge him repeatedly before taking a coy look at the river?

Zhao Yiyi said: "My surname is Zhao."

He thought Bai Yutang didn't remember who he was, so he kindly reminded him.

After all, the two of them met once in a serious way. Children are forgetful, so it is normal for them not to remember people.

He sized up Bai Yutang.

He looks about fourteen or fifteen years old, although he is taller, and his back looks like an adult, but he is actually a child.

Bai Yutang said, "Brother Zhao."

Zhao Yiyi raised his eyebrows.

Bai Yutang looked like he wanted to swallow the word "Brother Zhao".

Why was he so obsessed with ghosts that he started calling the emperor brothers and sisters!

Zhao Yiyi smiled secretly, and sure enough, children are children, and he was taken aback.

"Bai Shaoxia hasn't answered my question yet?"

Zhao Yiyi pointed to the looming black smoke in the distance: "Where is this boat going? When will it come back?"

Bai Yutang said: "Go back..."

He was about to say something about going back to the official's house, but he remembered that this was in public, and the emperor didn't seem to have a few guards by his side, so it seemed that his identity should not be revealed.

But what is he going to say?Either he calls the emperor?

For a while, he couldn't remember how to address the emperor.

The more anxious and chaotic, the more chaotic and anxious, he looked at the emperor's increasingly unpredictable expression, sweating coldly: "I..."

Zhao Yiyi said in his heart, it really is a child.

He said, "Just call me Brother Zhao."

Anyway, Weifu is outside, so people can call him whatever they want. Anyway, he has seen an acquaintance like Bai Yutang now, so he has to ask something out of him.

Bai Yutang said: "...Brother Zhao, Master heard that Brother Zhao was coming yesterday. He was so excited and inspired that he added a few traps to the ship overnight. After adding these traps, the speed of the boat will be faster. , the burning of charcoal can also be saved. After installing these organs, the master planned to wait for Brother Zhao to come and try to open them, but he couldn't hold back..."

One couldn't hold back, so he couldn't wait to launch the boat into the water before the emperor came to visit.

"This time is to test the speed of the boat. It will only drive twenty miles in total, and we will be back soon."

Bai Yutang pointed to the distant sky: "Look, we've already turned back."

Zhao Yiyi looked in the direction of his finger, and sure enough, he vaguely saw the chimney again, and the black smoke from the top of the chimney became more and more solid.

The boat is heading back.

Bai Yutang murmured: "The speed of entering the water is more than double that of the last time."

Zhao Yiyi asked him, "Why didn't your master take you into the water?"

Bai Yutang is Xia Yuqi's closed disciple, logically speaking, Xia Yuqi must take him with him when he tries to sail the ship.

Bai Yutang said: "I'm not going on the boat, I have to watch this from the shore."

He pointed to an hourglass at the bottom of his feet: "I have to time the boat here to see how long it takes it to go back and forth twenty miles."

Zhao Yiyi smiled and said, "I see."

It was a small brass hourglass, on a level ground, with precise graduations.

Zhao Yiyi doesn't know how to look at the hourglass, but judging from the flow rate of fine sand in it and the volume of sand accumulated at the bottom of the hourglass, the speed of Xia Yuqi's boat is really impressive.

"By the way," Bai Yutang asked him, "Brother Zhao, why don't you go to the principal's office? Fan Xiang and Principal Yan are waiting for you in the principal's office."

Zhao Yiyi pretended to be ignorant and said, "Why is Fan Xiang here?"

Bai Yutang shook his head: "I don't know, maybe I came to look for Brother Zhao."

Zhao Yiyi said: "What must be said today?"

Bai Yutang said: "I don't know...he's back!"

He excitedly pointed at the river: "Look, it's back!"

While talking, the big boat really came close, and the big wheels on both sides of the boat spun rapidly, stirring up huge water waves, which flooded the bodies of the onlookers on the shore.

Liu En protected Zhao Yiyi with his body, and didn't let the waves pour over the emperor.Protecting the hourglass, Bai Yutang ran straight for two feet, and returned to Zhao Yiyi after the big boat stopped and the wheels stopped spinning, "...the only thing that's bad is that the water waves are too big. Brother Zhao, are you alright?" Bar?"

Zhao Yiyi shook his head: "It's okay."

With Liu En's skills, how could he be overwhelmed.

He gestured to the hourglass in Bai Yutang's arms: "Have you written down the time for the round trip?"

Bai Yutang nodded: "Remember it!"

At this time Xia Yuqi also jumped onto the shore from the deck: "Yutang! Have you got the time?"

Bai Yutang lifted the hourglass up: "Remember it! It's more than double the speed of before!"

Xia Yuqi said: "Even the charcoal is more than doubled than before. Now I can finally explain something to the officials..."

He suddenly saw Zhao Yiyi who was standing beside Bai Yutang smiling, and was shocked: "Guan..."

Zhao Yiyi put his index finger on his lips: "Shhh—"

With so many people on the shore, it would be a big deal for an official to shout out.

Xia Yuqi hurriedly nodded to silence, and Bai Yutang said, "Master, this is Brother Zhao."

Zhao Yiyi said: "Lingtu is really young and romantic."

Xia Yuqi said: "Don't dare, dare not."

Zhao Yiyi gestured behind him: "Senior, is there anything else to do? Principal Yan and Fan Xiangzheng are waiting for us."

Xia Yuqi said: "It's okay, it's okay."

"Let's go then."

Along the way, Xia Yuqi danced and explained to Zhao Yiyi how the mechanisms he added to the boat last night allowed the same volume of charcoal to boil more water, and how the speed of the boat more than doubled of.

Zhao Yiyi nodded and smiled. Although he didn't understand a word, he still understood that Xia Yuqi built the boat well.Further improvement and improvement, the real world in September must be a treasure ship that can carry the Song Dynasty and sail far to the sea of ​​stars.

He couldn't help feeling agitated, and patted Bai Yutang's shoulder fiercely: "Senior Xia, I am so lucky to have senior help me!"

Xia Yuqi was old and too expensive, Zhao Yiyi didn't dare to take him - what if it went bad?

Had to shoot his apprentice instead.

Inexplicably, Bai Yutang was patted on the shoulder by the emperor, and when he turned his head, he saw the dazzling sunlight refracted from the emperor's eyes, which further made those dark pupils bottomless.

He turned his head stiffly.

Xia Yuqi said cheerfully, "Don't dare to act, dare not act."

Turning around, he began to talk about his next plan - he was inspired by the boat, thinking that since the boat can self-propelled, can the car also be self-propelled?Also like a self-propelled boat, if you install a boiler on the car, you can tell the car to run on the ground by itself.

However, he feels that the current cars are all made of wood, which seems too fragile to withstand such a large boiler. It is better to build a car with steel... But is this a bit too scrap iron, after all, iron is quite Dear……

Zhao Yiyi said in his heart, when you finish the steamship, I will send you to build the train.Not only the carriages are made of iron, but even the roads are paved with iron. Let me teach you what scrap iron is.

But no matter how much iron is scrapped, I am not afraid. When I repair the blast furnaces all over the motherland, I will show you why iron is worth less than soil.

The principal's office arrived soon. Bai Yutang went up and knocked on the door. After saying "Enter", he pushed open the door and invited Xia Yuqi and Zhao Yiyi to enter.

Yan Shu, Bao Zheng, and Fan Zhongyan in the house thought that Xia Yuqi and Bai Yutang were the only ones who had returned, but they didn't expect Zhao Yiyi to follow, and hurriedly got up: "Officials!"

Why did the emperor come so silently!None of them know!

Zhao Yiyi waved his hand: "Sit down."

He also sat on the stool brought by Liu En.

He looked at Fan Zhongyan and Bao Zheng, and said with a smile: "Why, the two Qing family also came to have dinner with Principal Yan?"

Bao Zheng and Fan Zhongyan looked at each other, and Fan Zhongyan stood up: "Officials, I'm not here to look for Principal Yan."

Zhao Yiyi said: "Oh? Didn't you come to see Principal Yan?"

"Who are those two looking for?"

Fan Zhongyan said: "The ministers are here to find the officials."

"Find me?"

Zhao Yiyi wondered: "If the two Qing families have something to do with me, why don't you play it in the Chongzheng Hall? Even if there is an urgent matter and you can't wait for the court meeting, you can go directly to the palace to ask for an interview. What's the matter waiting for me at President Yan's place? Woolen cloth?"

Fan Zhongyan said: "Because there are some things that are not easy to report in the Chongzheng Hall. The ministers must ask the officials to see someone before they can report the matter."

Zhao Yiyi said: "Who?"

Fan Zhongyan said softly: "Please come out and meet the officials."

There was a sound of clinking rings, and someone turned around from behind the screen.

Zhao Yiyi raised his eyes and saw a woman in fine clothes. The woman looked at him with tears in her eyes.

He tilted his head and asked Fan Zhongyan: "I seem to have heard Fan Qing calling her mother?"

"The first emperor and the second concubine lived in the palace to live their lives. My aunts and aunts are all in the palace. Where did this lady come from?"

Concubine Li said: "Emperor! You are my emperor!"

Zhao Yiyi was shocked: "Where does this start!"

He said to Concubine Li: "My biological mother is the eighth princess Di Niangniang, and my aunt is the late emperor Empress Liu. Who are you to call me the emperor's son?"

Concubine Li burst into tears: "Imperial son, for so many years, you actually recognized a thief as your mother. Then Mrs. Liu is not a queen, I am the late emperor's queen, and I am your mother!"

Zhao Yiyi turned to Fan Zhongyan and said, "Fan Qing? What's going on here? Where did this person come from? Why did he speak such lies?"

Concubine Li said angrily: "This is not a lie!"

Fan Zhongyan sighed: "This matter...it's a long story."