The "Dongpo Poetry Club" originated in the first year of Yuanyou, when Murong Fu bought a property in the suburbs of Bianjing and held a welcome banquet for Su Shi's return to court.After Murong Fu left Beijing, this property belonged to Su Shi.Su Shi has always been hospitable, and from time to time he invited his friends and relatives to Bieye for drinking and having fun.Just because everyone is a literati, poetry is unavoidable at the banquet.As time went on, many students and common people came here to participate in this elegant event, and the "Dongpo Poetry Association" became famous from this.In the third year of Yuanyou, Murong Fu returned to Beijing and held debates, often discussing administrative problems encountered during his administration, which aroused public comments and attracted the attention of many court officials.To this day, the February round of "Dongpo Poetry Fair" has already become another popular weather vane in Bianjing. Whenever the poetry fair starts, not only officials and scholars participate in it, but also the nearby people come here with their old and young. Listening, the degree of excitement is even worse than that of temple fairs.

Accompanied by Zhuge Zhengwo and Murong Fu, the little emperor came to this other property. Along the way, he saw many street vendors selling various commodities and snacks, and there were groups of students and ordinary people. Arriving in a hurry to grab a good seat in the front row.Seeing this situation, the little emperor couldn't help laughing and said: "It's really enviable that a bachelor is so loved by others."

Murong Fu just smiled slightly when he heard the words, and replied casually: "Learning civil and martial arts, the goods are the same as the emperor's family. The common people are good and eager to learn, so they really admire the officials!"

Murong Fu was so good at talking, the little emperor was even more elated.Seeing Huang Tingjian coming to greet him after hearing the news from a distance, he took a step forward with great interest and offered to salute: "Brother Lu Zhi, I haven't seen you for a long time, but you still look good."

Huang Tingjian was also in the officialdom, so he had naturally seen the little emperor. Seeing that the little emperor actually offered to salute him, Huang Tingjian was startled, and was momentarily stunned and unable to react on the spot.

Murong Fu stepped forward to make a rescue at this moment: "Senior Brother, this is Young Master Zhao whom we met a few days ago, did you forget so soon?"

"Where, where..." Huang Tingjian was reminded by Murong Fu's words, and finally realized that the officials did not want to reveal his identity, so he hurriedly bowed deeply. "My servant, Huang Luzhi, has met Mr. Zhao!"

The little emperor nodded, and asked again: "I wonder what the title of today's poem will be?"

"It's good to teach Mr. Zhao that since last year, our poetry meeting has changed its rules. It is a poetry meeting and a debate meeting, which are held in turn. Today, the debate meeting is taking turns." Huang Tingjian saw that the little emperor was in high spirits. Coming to participate in the poetry meeting, I can't help feeling a little ashamed.

Hearing this, the little emperor couldn't help turning his head to look at Murong Fu in surprise, one must know that when Murong Fu suggested that he come to see the "Dongpo Poetry Club", he never mentioned that there would be a debate meeting.

"Looks like it's a coincidence," Murong Fu asked Huang Tingjian with a smile as if he didn't notice the little emperor's eyes. "I wonder what the topic of today's debate will be?"

As soon as Murong Fu said this, Huang Tingjian couldn't help but glared at Murong Fu, and thought to himself: You came up with this debate question yourself, and now you are asking me again?However, in front of the little emperor, he had no choice but to answer honestly: "There are three topics today, and the participants can choose one of them to participate in the debate. First, there is a poor family who is unable to raise a child and sends the youngest child to others to raise. However, a few years later, this person's eldest son unfortunately died early and wanted to claim his youngest son back, is that okay? Second, today there is a woman whose husband died in battle, and the woman had no choice but to remarry. Unexpectedly, the husband who died in battle returned home alive. Who should this woman belong to? Thirdly, there is a wealthy businessman who has two sons, a concubine and a concubine. "

The little emperor was not interested in this debate at first, but now he heard that these three topics are very interesting, so he became active.I saw him pondering for a moment, then shook his head and smiled, "These three topics seem to be plain, but they are all unacceptable to reason and law. I don't know who made them, they are so tricky."

Huang Tingjian heard the little emperor's words, and laughed immediately: "Young Master Zhao's words that reason and law are difficult to tolerate are actually to the point. If a person lives for a lifetime, if he only knows the law but not human relationships, it would be cruel; but if he only knows human relationships To be ignorant of the law is also foolishness."

"However, the importance of law and human relationship is in the hands of the county magistrate. If you meet a gentle person, the good person will suffer; if you meet a cruel official who doesn't understand human feelings, human relations will be hard to survive." Murong Fu Then he said, "The so-called don't worry about the few, but the unevenness. If there is no unified standard for how to deal with these problems, I am afraid that small things will accumulate into big disasters."

The little emperor couldn't help laughing when he heard the words, he just shook his head and sighed: "Mr. Murong is stubborn. The so-called family has scriptures that are hard to recite, and there are reasons for this kind of people's sophistication, how can we generalize it?"

The little emperor is only a 14-year-old boy now, and he is very pleased to have such insight into Huang Tingjian.However, Murong Fu was obviously still not satisfied, he just smiled and said: "When the people encounter such difficulties, they ask the county magistrate to make decisions for the people. This is their trust in the imperial court. The Holy Son of Heaven is in charge of all the people, and it is time for these difficult things to be resolved. It's even, so it can be supported by all people. Mr. Zhao, do you think this is the reason?"

The little emperor also seemed to be used to this kind of getting along with Murong Fu, he bowed to Murong Fu with a smile and said: "Please teach me, sir."

Murong Fu didn't hold back, and immediately said: "Restrain villains with laws, and restrain gentlemen with morality. As for how laws and morality should set limits, Mr. Zhao should listen more and think more about it." Murong Fu finished speaking. He drew his hand and sat down in the crowd with the little emperor and Zhuge Zhengwo.

It was two hours after a debate was over.The little emperor came here full of doubts, but he listened to the audience with relish.Huang Tingjian was originally a gentleman who didn't know how to cling, it can be seen that the officials put the people's livelihood as the top priority, he was so happy that he sent the little emperor out without Murong Fu reminding him.

Hearing Su Shi's concluding speech at the end, the little emperor also felt that he had gained a lot by arguing the words "love", "reason" and "law" clearly and profoundly, and couldn't help sighing: "Scholar is so talented, Pity……"

Huang Tingjian knew that the little emperor was referring to Su Shi's resignation, and he was already dissatisfied with it, so his eyes turned red and he was silent when he heard the little emperor's words.

Fortunately, the little emperor didn't need Huang Tingjian's response, and said unsatisfactorily: "I have also read the editorial of "Bianjing Times", even though it is very touching, but I always feel that "Bianjing Times" has become more and more stable in recent years, and there are fewer It’s quite the natural frankness of the past. In contrast, the articles in "Pucheng Wind and Rain" are more sophisticated and neat."

As soon as the little emperor said this, Huang Tingjian was shocked for a moment.Not yet knowing how to deal with it, Murong Fu laughed and said: "Wind and Rain in Pucheng is certainly enjoyable, but after it is over, you have to calm down and deal with it carefully. The official family is the master of the world, and they smashed the whole house because of a mouse." Porcelain vases, other people don't feel sorry for them, but officials have to feel sorry for them."

However, the little emperor didn't take it lightly.

Seeing the little emperor's cold expression, Huang Tingjian's heart sank, and seeing Su Shi coming to pay respects to the little emperor, he hastily stepped forward and pulled Murong Fu off, angrily said in a low voice: "How can you let the officials read the New Party's newspaper? "It turns out that this "Wind and Rain in Pucheng" is a newspaper run by Zhang Dun's disciples, and the newspaper run by Zhang Dun naturally stands for the position of the New Party, and naturally promotes the ideas of the New Party.When Su Shi resigned, the "Bianjing Times" only lamented that the court had lost a general and the people had lost a good official; "Pucheng Wind and Rain" pointed out that this was the reason for the party struggle, and those who participated in the party struggle should be punished as many as possible.

Murong Fu gave Huang Tingjian a helpless look, and replied: "Senior brother, even if you are the empress of the palace, can you blatantly stop the official family from sleeping with other concubines?"

In the Song Dynasty, monarchs and ministers always liked to compare husband and wife. For example, Wang Jinggong once wrote two "Ming Concubine Songs" to Song Renzong who was in power at the time, lamenting that he was not reused by Emperor Renzong.The resentment between the lines is just like the beautiful Wang Zhaojun who married far away without seeing Emperor Han Yuan.However, even though it is now a customary rule to use the relationship between husband and wife as a metaphor for the relationship between monarch and minister, Huang Tingjian has never heard such vulgar words, and he couldn't help being taken aback on the spot.How did he know that more vulgar words were yet to come.

Murong Fu glanced at him again, and added nonchalantly: "What's more, we are just concubines now!"

When Murong Fu's word "concubine" landed, Huang Tingjian immediately came to his senses in shame. He pointed at Murong Fu tremblingly and said repeatedly: "It's an insult to the gentleman! It's an insult to the gentleman!"

Murong Fu thought he had spoken very thoroughly, and how much he could understand depended on Huang Tingjian's own understanding.He shook his head and ignored Huang Tingjian, and just left with the little emperor.

Until sending the little emperor back to the palace, Zhuge Zhengwo finally found an opportunity to speak with Murong Fu in private. "The news has come from Mizhou that Zhao Tingzhi is really not clean." Speaking of this, Zhuge Zheng and I couldn't help but look up at Murong Fu.Seeing Murong Fu's calm expression, he finally couldn't help but said. "...I always feel that this matter has nothing to do with you!"

"Brother Zhuge was joking," Murong Fu said in a serious tone, "I never asked Zhao Tingzhi, so what does his business have to do with me?"

"Why was Zhao Tingzhi the first one to impeach the bachelor?" Zhuge Zhengwo asked again.

Murong Fu's answer was still watertight. "Zhao Tingzhi is a villain who acts according to the wind. He wanted to impeach the teacher to show his favor to the Shuodang. Commander, don't you suspect that I ordered it? How could I impeach my teacher?"

Zhuge Zheng and I also knew it was impossible, but the coincidence really made him suspicious.I saw him frowning and silently looking at Murong Fu, but Murong Fu's face was always smiling and never saw anything wrong.After an unknown amount of time, Zhuge Zhengwo finally shook his head in frustration, and sighed helplessly, "What are you going to do?"

"Naturally, strike while the iron is hot, the teacher's grievances are all due to the Grand Commander!" Murong Fu hastily bowed deeply.Today he was able to successfully bring the little emperor out of the palace to experience the "Dongpo Poetry Club", which proves that the effect of selling out Lu Gong's works has gradually expired, and the empress dowager remembered the teacher's kindness again.O woman, fickle woman!

The six-door organization was originally similar to a secret service organization, directly responsible to the emperor.With Murong Fu's words, Zhuge Zhengwo immediately sorted out Zhao Tingzhi's crimes of using his official status to occupy people's land in his hometown, accepting bribes, and champering lawsuits, etc., and directly presented them to the Empress Dowager.At this time, more than two months had passed since Lu Gongzhu's death, and the empress dowager's mourning for Lu Gongzhu's death had gradually faded away. Instead, she held infinite regret and remorse for Su Shi's resignation.At this time, seeing Zhuge Zhengyi handing over the iron evidence, proving that Zhao Tingzhi is such a villain, she couldn't help being very angry.

At the court meeting, the Empress Dowager directly threw out Zhuge Zhengwo's memorial, pointed at Zhao Tingzhi and yelled: "Being corrupt and perverting the law, accumulating villains, how dare you slander the right minister of the court?"

At this time, the new right minister Liu Zhi was standing in the court hall, but everyone in the court knew that the right minister that the empress dowager was referring to was Su Shi.Most of the ministers who can stand in the court are good people. Seeing the empress dowager bursting into anger, and recalling how the empress dowager has always defended Su Shi, no one dared to speak up for Zhao Tingzhi before he figured out the situation.

Zhao Tingzhi was originally the supervisory censor of the imperial court. Not long after he was promoted to You Sijian for his meritorious service in impeaching Su Shi, it was a time of prosperity.Seeing that there was a memorial to impeach him for corruption and bribery, Zhao Tingzhi threw himself on the ground and shouted for injustice.However, Zhuge Zhengwo had already been instructed by Murong Fu to move all the bribes that Zhao Tingzhi had accepted over the years to the Daqing Hall.

In the more than a hundred years since the founding of the Song Dynasty, when did the emperors of all dynasties see such a scene?The little emperor was intent on watching the show, but now he saw the boxes of gold and stone antiques, jewels and jade articles, land deeds and bank notes in the palace, it was almost dizzying for the eyes, and some of the exquisite products were even more exquisite than those in the palace. He yelled: "You bastard! You are greedy, cunning, amassing and shameless, so you plunder people's fat and people's anointing, you still have a gentleman in your eyes!"

Zhao Tingzhi saw that these stolen goods filled half of the Daqing Palace, and knew that the situation was over, he collapsed on the ground like mud, and begged bitterly: "The official, please forgive me! The official, please forgive me..."

The Empress Dowager saw Zhao Tingzhi, who was wrapped in a crimson robe, lying on the hall and shivering, looking like a worm, she felt even more disgusted in her heart, and said immediately: "Come on! Take off his official robe and deliver it to me." There is a crime to be judged!"

After Zhao Tingzhi was dragged down by the palace guards, the Empress Dowager pointed the finger at Lu Dafang again. "At the beginning, Lu Xiang recommended Zhao Tingzhi to be appointed as You Sijian, saying that this person is loyal and daring to say that he is dedicated to serving the country, so what now?"

The empress dowager spoke so seriously that Lu Dafang hurriedly came out to apologize.In the Song Dynasty, it was advocated that the emperor and the scholar-bureaucrats shared the world, and Lu Dafanggui was the left minister, which was the treatment that he could sit and discuss politics with the emperor.At this time, Lu Dafang took off his hat and apologized, this ceremony is extremely serious.

Unexpectedly, the Empress Dowager didn't give him face, let alone make him get up, and just said coldly: "Retire!" and got up to leave.

The little emperor got up after him, and said sinisterly: "Mr. Lu, you don't know people well. How can I rest assured that you will be the chief executive and lead all the officials?"

With the attitude of the empress dowager and the little emperor, Lu Dafang suddenly knew that he would be the prime minister to the end.After returning, he quickly wrote his resignation and submitted it to the court. The Empress Dowager was really annoyed that Lu Dafang spoke up for Zhao Tingzhi who had framed his idol several times. Approved.

The members of the Shuo Party headed by Liu Zhi did not make any effort to retain Lu Dafang, but when the Empress Dowager revealed that she wanted to take Su Shi to the post of Zuoxiang, they said together: "Although Zhao Tingzhi is a villain , but his accusation of impeaching Su Shi is not groundless." After Su Shi resigned, the remnants of the Shu Party who remained in the court did not say a word about the position of left prime minister.

Although the Empress Dowager said that two fists were no match for four hands, she was already secretly frightened by the power of the Shuodang.She was unwilling to fulfill Liu Zhi's wish, so she handed over the position of left prime minister to Fan Chunren.Fan Chunren is really a smart man, looking left and right, there are a lot of talented people in the court, but he is a polished commander, he immediately said he was sick.

Murong Fu sneered and put aside the news that Fan Chunren said he was sick and Liu Zhi was acting as government affairs agent, got up and asked Abi to pack his luggage for him to attend the Hundred Flowers Festival held by the Beggar Gang in Luoyang.

The author has something to say:

Murong: What's more, we are just concubines now!

Director: Mr. Murong, Mr. Zhang still has an official status, but Xueshi Su is now white.You guys, ahem...you're just a roommate!

Murong: ...

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