Emperor Renzong of the Great Song Dynasty

Eunuch Huang was indeed just an eunuch who was sent to Yangzhou for retirement. Liu E probably didn't even remember that there was such a number one person in the world. This is beyond doubt.

However, Eunuch Huang said that he would write a letter to ask the queen mother to make decisions for him, which is also serious.

Because he was a eunuch, Liu E was the queen mother, and Bao Zheng, who contradicted him, was a foreign official.

It's that simple.

Eunuchs and officials are two different systems. Officials have party affiliations, ideals, goals, and strength of character. Eunuchs have nothing, and eunuchs only have masters.

Putting eunuchs outside the palace represents the face of the master.

Regardless of whether the master knows the eunuch or not, if you slap the eunuch in the face, it is equivalent to slapping the master in the face.

Now there is only one master in the palace: the Empress Dowager.

What?You mean the emperor?

When Eunuch Huang was sent to Yangzhou, the emperor hadn't become a prince yet!

Even if Eunuch Huang wants to take the emperor as his master, and there is a queen dowager regent above him, the emperor must be able to be the master.

Therefore, it is completely reasonable for Eunuch Huang to move out of the mountain of the Empress Dowager to suppress Bao Zheng.

Ordinary foreign officials, when they hear the words "Empress Dowager", their legs become weak at first.Even if the foreign officials are dead ducks with a hard mouth and would rather bend than bend, Eunuch Huang will not be afraid if this matter is brought up in front of the empress dowager.

Foreign officials bully eunuchs, that is, they don't give face to the inside of the palace, and the trouble goes up to the sky, and Eunuch Huang also takes advantage of it!

As for how Bao Zheng bullied Eunuch Huang...

Thinking of this, Eunuch Huang was full of grievances.

Bao Zheng came up with the idea of ​​buying and selling, but Bao Zheng himself fell into a coma before it was implemented.The follow-up matters were all arranged by his Eunuch Huang, not to mention the hard work, and it was not flattering at all.As soon as Bao Zheng woke up, he was about to stop the takeaway method immediately.

Although Eunuch Huang is a person who doesn't care about everything, he also knows that changing orders from day to day is not the way to be an official.He also had good intentions to guide the younger generation, and he didn't want Bao Zheng to go astray at a young age, so he was kind enough to persuade him.Who knows that Bao Zheng didn't appreciate it, and said that he would eat a vegetarian meal with Huang Gonggong's corpse, which would bring disaster to the country and the people.

Hey!

Clay figurines are still three-point hot, not to mention Eunuch Huang!

Since Bao Zheng didn't know how to praise, he simply tore his face to see who the empress dowager is in charge of!

Of course, if Bao Zheng knew his mistake and corrected it, and pleaded guilty, it is not impossible for Eunuch Huang to save him face.

After all, Eunuch Huang doesn't like to make enemies, so he usually lets go of those who can be lightly let go.

Bao Zheng has his own ideas.

He is a small official who has just taken office, and he doesn't understand the twists and turns in the front and rear palaces.

But Huang Gonggong threatened him with the queen mother, and he was not afraid.

Since the buy-and-buy law has degenerated into a tyranny, it must be abolished, no matter how much effort he has put into it before.

Big deal, after returning to Beijing, the queen mother blamed him and dismissed him from office.

He also did a good deed for the tea farmers in the south of the Yangtze River.

The queen mother is the little emperor's mother, and he doesn't want the little emperor to fall into a situation where filial piety and righteousness are incompatible.

Everything will be carried by him.

Zhao benefit saw an opportunity.

He has crouched in the shadow of Kou Zhun and Liu E for too long, so long that it is becoming more and more unbearable for him to be in a powerless situation where power is left in the hands of others.

The marionette show has been played for too long, it's time to ditch the two puppets and go to the front of the stage.

He can't be a child all his life, and he can't pretend to be a pig and eat a tiger all his life. Wouldn't he really be a pig?

Sooner or later, Kou Zhun and Liu E will realize that he is no longer that child who is slaughtered.

Before Kou and Liu became wary of him, he had to strike first and kill him with one blow.

Between Kou Zhun and Liu E, Zhao Yiyi hesitated for a long time, but decided to start with Liu E first.

Liu E is his adoptive mother, who has the advantage of reducing dimensionality and attacking him.With the big banner of filial piety under the pressure, he will always be at a disadvantage when facing Liu E.

It can even be said that if there is no Kou Zhun to restrain Liu E, if Zhao Yiyi wants to break free from Liu E's shackles, there is a high probability that Liu E will die.

Even if he does not die, he must be so ill that he is incapable of acting and cannot continue to be a regency, so that the emperor can gradually take charge.

After all, the queen mother is the emperor's mother. The queen mother said that the emperor is not yet an adult and cannot be in charge. How can the emperor stand up and say that I am an adult and ask the queen mother to return to power?

An unfilial big hat can overwhelm you.

In real history, Liu E was indeed the regent at the last moment of his life—even before he died, he asked Song Renzong to say, son, you are still young, and you are still a child. After I die, you should make your little mother Concubine Yang Shu For the Empress Dowager, let her continue to listen to politics behind the curtain and help you decide state affairs.

At this time, Song Renzong was already 23 years old.

At the age of 23, the queen mother said that you are a child, and you are a child.

Now the two parties of Kou Zhun and Liu E are in a delicate tie in the court. At this time, Liu E dare not be so rampant, pointing at the 23-year-old emperor and saying that this is still a child.

There are weights of the same weight hanging on both ends of a balance. If you want to take off both weights, you must have one first and one last.

There must be a time difference between the first and the later.

No matter how hard Zhao Yiyi tried to shorten this time difference, it was impossible to change this fact.

He couldn't overthrow Kou and Liu at the same time, he could only deal with one first and then the other.

No matter how quickly Zhao Yi's royalist party expands, it will not be able to swallow the wreckage of the Kou and Liu parties in a short time.

Then, there must be a period of time when there will be a phenomenon that one of them dominates the family in the court.

And he couldn't let Liu E have the opportunity to dominate the family.

Once Liu E has this opportunity, before she dies, Zhao Yiyi will really not be able to get ahead.

Kou Zhun is different.

No matter how beautiful Duke Lai is, he is only a courtier after all.

The emperor has a natural and reasonable right to dispose of his courtiers.

After the Chanyuan alliance, Kou Xianggong was thrown out of Beijing with all his power.

As long as Zhao Yiyi can bear the turmoil in the court caused by the power vacuum left after the removal of Kou Zhun, he can let Kou Zhun retire at any time.

So Zhao Yiyi decided to deal with Liu E first, and as for Kou Zhun, it would not be too late to wait until later.

Let's keep Kou Xianggong for the time being, and let him guard the country for a few more years.

As for how to deal with Liu E——

Zhao Yiyi smiled.

Eunuch Huang gave him a good idea.

The prerequisites for the empress dowager to replace the emperor in handling government affairs were that the emperor was young and incompetent, and the empress dowager herself was competent for the work of the previous dynasty.

As an inner palace eunuch, Eunuch Huang, even though he was dispatched to Yangzhou as early as the Song Zhenzong period, his every move still represented the face of the palace, that is, the face of Liu E.

Liu E must be responsible for Huang Gonggong's actions.

As long as the matter of Jiangnan tea policy is made a big deal, Liu E can be branded as incompetent and incompetent.

Zhao Yiyi thought that Kou Zhun would be willing to help Liu E wear this hat.

As for whether Liu E is really incompetent or not, it doesn't matter, no one cares.

Zhao Yiyi sent Zhan Zhao back to sleep, stretched himself, and asked Liu En, "By the way, when is my birthday?"

Ever since he got this perfect ai, he has become more and more lazy, even lazy to remember his own birthday.

In the past few years in the palace, I have been worried every day, for fear that Liu E will kill him in the next second. For Zhao Yiyi, it is just another real person who needs to perform mother-child love with Liu E. Just a show.

Anyway, Liu En is inseparable from him, Liu En remembers, he remembers.

Liu Endao: "Qianyuan Festival is on April [-]."

Qianyuan Festival is Zhao Yiyi's birthday in this life.

Zhao Yiyi counted the days and found that there were more than half a year left.

"After another Qianyuan Festival, I will be 15 years old."

Zhao Yiyi smiled and said, "It's time to get married at the age of 15. Which family's girl has the queen mother arranged for me to be the queen?"

Liu Endao: "The queen mother screened out many women, and the final candidate has not yet been decided, but nothing unexpected, it should be the daughter of the Guo family."

Zhao Yiyi asked, "Which Guo family?"

Liu Endao: "It's the granddaughter of the late Zhongshuling Guo Chong."

"Is anyone else in their family serving in the court?"

Liu En said, "It's gone."

Zhao Yiyi smiled: "It seems that the empress dowager specially found a daughter from a poor family to be my queen."

This is a bit vicious, but for the emperor, marrying a late Zhongshuling's granddaughter as a queen, and now there is no one in this daughter's family in the court, isn't it like marrying a daughter who has settled down.

This is also in Liu E's interest.

If the emperor finds a powerful wife and family, then how can the queen mother dominate the family in the palace?

Of course, I have to marry the emperor a wife from a small family, so that it is easy to control, and I have to tell the emperor after I am done, I am doing this for your own good, and the empress is born in an old family so that it is not easy to cause foreign relatives to monopolize power. This palace is really well-intentioned Bitter, can sing and cry.

In fact, Zhao Yiyi quite agrees with the statement of "choosing a queen from the common people's family", but in the current situation, if he really obeys Liu E's arrangement and marries this Queen Guo, then he will be even more serious when he is playing games with Liu E. There is no chance of winning.

"Go to Jiang Ping tomorrow," he told Liu En, "Let him find a reliable person and send a letter back to Beijing."

Liu En asked: "Where do you give it to?"

Zhao Yiyi smiled and said: "Stupid! Where else can I give it to! Fan Zhongyan doesn't care who I marry, of course I send it back to Nanqing Palace to Empress Di!"

Liu En said: "Yes."

"Send a letter to Niang Niang, asking her to help me find some noble women in Beijing, so that there is no inseparable relationship with the Kou and Liu parties."

Special countermeasures in special times, marriage is an investment, as long as the family background is good enough to increase his power, he will not refuse anyone.

As for partisanship...

As the emperor's father-in-law, didn't he automatically belong to the royalist party?

Liu En nodded: "Yes."

"Then send a letter to Yan Shu," Zhao Yiyi said, "Let him think of a way to spread the news of Yangzhou in Beijing. The more outrageous the spread, the better."

Before Bao Zheng and Yunniang were in a coma, which caused such a big incident, in fact, no news was heard in Beijing at all.

Eunuch Huang controlled the cargo office, thinking that he had found out the matter by himself, and as long as he didn't look for trouble, nothing would happen to him, so he didn't report such a big thing as the tea farmer pouring tea.

He and Bao Zheng were the two chiefs in charge of the goods. Bao Zheng was in a coma, and he didn't care about his affairs. It was only the reform that changed the bad, after all the calculations, the new Mr. Bao should be blamed.

So there was no movement in the officialdom.

As for folklore—

It can only be attributed to the ability of the pirates to block the news.

Even Jiang Ping's letter to Fan Zhongyan was intercepted by them. If it wasn't for the capable man in Kou Zhun's mansion who left him a note, Zhao Yiyi would be kept in the dark like most people now. .

Liu En said, "Okay."

Zhao Yiyi added another sentence: "Tell Yan Shu, you must keep this matter from Fan Zhongyan."

Liu En nodded again: "Okay."

Fan Zhongyan is a gentleman, and I am afraid that he will look down on their method of using the suffering of tea farmers to attack political opponents.In contrast, Yan Shu was much more flexible than him.

Liu En said again: "It's just that this matter may be detrimental to Mr. Bao."

It was his job to reform the tea policy, Yangzhou was in chaos, and he, Bao Zheng, was the only one to blame.

"Naturally, once this rumor spreads, Bao Zheng must be the first to be held accountable."

Zhao Yiyi sat cross-legged on the bed with a firm tone.

Liu En sat at the end of the bed: "Are we going to abandon Bao Zheng?"

When Zhan Zhao personally protected Bao Zheng, he lived next door to Bao Zheng. Zhao Yiyi’s persecution paranoia was much higher than Bao Zheng’s, so when he was in the palace, Liu En guarded him in his bed tent every night. Sitting at the end of his bed, there was less than half a meter between them.

Zhao Yiyi is very satisfied with this distance.

No matter how far away, he would worry that Liu En would not have time to protect him when the assassin broke in.

At this time, Zhao Yiyi patted Liu En with a smile: "What are you talking about! He is the star of Wenqu! No one can give up on him!"

Liu En remained silent, but looked at him with questioning eyes.

Zhao Yiyi withdrew his hand: "You are an AI, and your way of thinking is different from that of humans. You abandon all your current positions and think from the perspective of an outsider. Which party do you think Bao Zheng belongs to."

Liu En blinked: "Bao Zheng has no party."

Bao Zheng is Wenqu Xingjun, and he is loyal to the symbol of the emperor, the country and society of the Song Dynasty.So strictly speaking, Bao Zheng is not a member of any party.

He is a pure minister without party or affiliation.

Zhao Yiyi said: "Then from the standpoint of Liu E and his party, which party does Bao Zheng belong to?"

Liu En immediately said: "Kou Dang."

Kou Zhun has always had the courage to act and do something, and he admires Bao Zheng, a young man who dares to be the first in the world.

Even if Bao Zheng was not willing to get close to him, Kou Zhun offered a helping hand as much as he could.

Otherwise, where did Zhan Zhao come from?Could it be that he delivered it to his door?

Even if it was really delivered to the door by oneself, someone had to introduce it, otherwise the door would not even be found.

Zhao Yiyi nodded: "That's right. Liu E's people thought that Bao Zheng was a Kou party, and then found out that Bao Zheng had messed up the Yangzhou tea administration, so they would definitely spare no effort to attack Kou Zhun."

"And the Kou Dang will never sit still. At this time, Eunuch Huang wrote to ask the Queen Mother to make decisions for him..."

Liu En immediately said: "The Lai Guo Guild will investigate to the end, and when the truth comes out, the Queen Mother can only suffer from being dumb."

Who told her that she was the queen mother and Eunuch Huang was the eunuch.

Zhao Yiyi nodded with satisfaction: "That's right. This loss is just the beginning."

Huang Gonggong is only the first step in this set of combined boxing.

"Then it's time for me to get married."

Liu En exchanged a glance with him.

The queen mother will definitely let him marry the daughter of the Guo family as the queen. The Guo family's lintel is not high, and it is just a trivial matter in normal times.There is nothing wrong with the empress dowager being in charge of the emperor's marriage, as long as the empress dowager can justify herself, this matter will be over.

But at that time, Kou Zhun had just caused Liu E a big loss, and according to his temperament, he would definitely take advantage of the victory and pursue it.

"After the big marriage, I will become an adult. Kou Zhun will definitely ask the Queen Mother to return to power."

Liu En said: "The queen mother must not be happy."

Zhao Yiyi lay on his back on the bed: "Who is happy, and no one can be happy. There is no way."

At that time, Liu E will definitely use all his strength to counterattack.This is a tough battle.

But he still holds a hole card in his hand.

When it really came to the end of the mountain, he revealed the truth about the civet cat being replaced by the prince.At that time, everyone will have no good fruit to eat.

He turned over and said, "I'm sleepy, I'm asleep, I'll talk about things later."

Yangzhou City finally ushered in a brief peace.

The government abolished the tie-buying law and allowed tea merchants and tea farmers to buy and sell tea freely.Among the five shipments of tea leaves stored at Guazhou Ferry, the better quality teas were sold out immediately, and the rest were inferior rough late yellow teas.

But the tea farmers are also very satisfied at this time.

At first, I thought that I would lose all my money, but I didn't expect to sell some of the tea after all, so I got back some of my money.

This is not bad, just a few days ago, I planned to pour all my hard work into the Grand Canal for a year.

Fortunately, it's not over yet, no, there is no unparalleled road, first someone subverted the boat price, and then the government canceled the ride purchase, and you have to go to the temple to pay homage when you go back.

No, it seems that there is no Buddha in the temple, and it is impossible to worship.

Then buy a jug of good wine, worship the ancestors, and thank the ancestors for their blessings.

The tea farmers sighed.

It's just that Boss Zhao, who paid them the boat fare, never came to buy tea.

It's really weird, now that the government has canceled the purchase, why doesn't Boss Zhao come to buy tea?

They also deliberately left two thousand catties of good tea waiting for Boss Zhao to buy it.

Boss Zhao didn't wait, but a group of pirates came.

When they saw a group of vicious pirates coming to the pier, the tea farmers were scared out of their wits.

How did you mess with these masters!Could it be that they are not filial?

But their boats are just sailing on the inland river, so is this also filial piety?

Unexpectedly, those pirates came to buy tea.

The leading pirate was a tall, thin man with a small beard, and said with a smile, "Boss, bring me two thousand catties of third-class tea."

Although the buy-by-buy method was abolished, the first, second and third-class teas were retained as the standard for qualitative and quantitative tea market.

Tea farmer Qi Dashuan tremblingly led the pirate to look at the inventory in the cabin: "My man, these are third-class teas."

This is the first-class tea he left for Boss Zhao, but now that life and death are at stake, Boss Zhao should be able to understand him.

The pirate shook his head: "No, this is first-class tea."

Qi Dashuan was on the verge of tears: "My man, this is really third-class tea."

Jiang Ping smiled helplessly: "Boss, my surname is Jiang. I am a tea merchant and I sincerely want to buy tea. I didn't bring enough money, only enough to buy two thousand catties of third-class tea. Please don't misunderstand the boss."

Then he pointed to the pirates behind him: "They are porters I hired. Although they look tall, they are actually peaceful people."

The pirates also tried their best to look like peaceful people.

Qi Dashuan was dubious: "Really, really?"

Jiang Pingdao: "Of course it is true."

Qi Dashuan said: "Okay, you come with me."

It is also a strange thing to sell two thousand catties of tea to a group of strong men who look like pirates.

What's even more amazing is that this group of people came to him to buy tea every day from then on.

Two thousand catties per day is the cheapest third-class tea.

Qi Dashuan didn't understand why they bought so much third-class tea.

The third-class tea is the lowest quality tea, almost not in the shape of a tea leaf, but full of powdered residue, dull color and bad taste.

As far as Qi Dashuan is concerned, he really doesn't even need to soak his feet.

But Mr. Jiang just came to buy tea every day, rain or shine, and he didn't know why.

What's even more strange is that after a few days, besides Mr. Jiang, many people came to the pier to buy some tea.

And it costs thousands of catties to buy.

Qi Dashuan was surprised. Why are people in Yangzhou so keen on inferior tea?

But they were willing to buy inferior tea, and Qi Dashuan was happy.So while Qi Dashuan doubted the taste of Yangzhou people, he counted the money in his purse happily.

Because more people bought it, the price of inferior tea actually went up, and he got more money.

After four or five days, Qi Dashuan's tea was almost sold out.Counting the money in the purse, it was more than double that of previous years when the government bought it.

Qi Dashuan couldn't help sighing, Master Bao is better. After Master Bao came to Yangzhou, he will stick to the law and make the life of our tea farmers really better.

Not only Qi Dashuan's family, but also other tea farmers' tea are selling well.

The five large cargo ships were full when they came, but now they don't have much draft, and they sway when the wind blows.

In fact, after doing the math, it was less than ten days since they desperately wanted to pour tea.

Ten days, it really seems like a lifetime away.

Anyway, Boss Zhao gave half a month's money for the boat, and there are still a few days left, so it's not in vain.Qi Dashuan made an appointment with the tea farmers brothers who came to Yangzhou together, and was about to disembark and go for a walk in the city.

These days they were busy selling tea on the boat, and they never even entered Yangzhou city once.This time I went to the city, I had to see and see.

The city of Yangzhou is really different from their mountain farm. The streets are full of people coming and going, and there are tea shops and restaurants with signboards hanging on the streets.

Qi Dashuan and the others were thirsty after walking, so they sat in front of a tea stand to buy water to drink.

They are all tea farmers, so there is no one to buy tea outside, so they only need a pot of water.The owner of the tea stall talked all kinds of things, and finally persuaded Qi Dashuan and others to buy a plate of dim sum.

Qi Dashuan was still not very happy: "We just sit down and rest our feet, a pot of water is enough, and we can't fill our stomachs with any snacks."

The boss said with a smile: "This is the most fashionable dim sum in Yangzhou City. You often come to a plate. It is definitely not available elsewhere."

Qi Dashuan muttered: "What kind of dim sum, it blows so much that there is nothing in the sky."

The boss personally brought a snack plate and placed it in front of Qi Dashuan.

The plate is petal-shaped, with five petals in total, and there are two small bright green snacks on each petal.

"This matcha cake is a recipe handed down from Boss Li's family. Boss Li is a big businessman. Is there anything wrong with what he eats? Take it easy."