To The Land of Nevernight

It was already May when the family letter was sent from Gusu Mansion to Shengjing and then to Youzhou.

Tang Shen received a letter from Gusu, and only then did he know that after Fu Wei resigned, he actually went south to Jiangnan to play.

The 32nd year of Kaiping is destined to be different from previous years. Ji Xiang was dismissed from his official position, Fu Wei retired and returned to his hometown.Perhaps this also symbolizes that the era belonging to the Kaiping emperor is gradually passing away.

At the end of May, Wang Qin returned to Beijing first.

In two years, Yinqi Village of the Ministry of War was established in the 36 prefectures of the Song Dynasty one by one, and established a solid foundation.Originally, the Yinyin Division was only in charge of the military pay of the Northwest Army Camp. Since this year, the military pay of the Southwest Army and the Commanding Armies of various places have also entered the treasury of the Yinyin Division.

It is no longer appropriate to set up the Yinyin Division only in Youzhou. Wang Qin returned from this trip to Beijing to supervise the construction of the Yinyin Division in Kyoto.

Tang Shen sent him away from Youzhou. Outside Shili Pavilion on the outskirts of the city, Wang Qin lifted the curtain of the car and smiled at him, "Little brother, don't send him off."

Tang Shen: "Brother, have a good journey."

There are many officials around, and the two cannot whisper.Wang Qin took a deep look at Tang Shen, put down the curtain, and drove away.

After Wang Qin returned to Beijing, within a few days, the emperor issued an imperial decree to set up a silver Yinsi in Shengjing and Jiangnan.

In an instant, Yin Yinsi's power was at its peak.

Wang Qin is so powerful that even Wang Quan, the right minister, has to avoid his edge.When talking about the royal party, the first thing that comes to mind of all officials is not Wang Quan, but Wang Qin.

Officials and yamen servants also serve food from the dishes, and whoever is in power and not easy to mess with, they will do their best for the other party.Yuan Mu, Shangshu of the Ministry of Industry, had a bad relationship with Wang Qin in the early years, but now that Wang Qin has gained power, Yuan Shangshu is able to bend and stretch, completely forgetting the quarrel between the two at the beginning, and devoted himself to building the Yinyinsi Yamen in Shengjing.

In just one month, Yinyinsi in Shengjing and Jiangnan were completed one after another.

During a private banquet at home, Prime Minister Wang Quan said to his nephew with emotion: "Look at them, they must not have dared to profit from it this time." "Even if you are greedy for ink, you will only be greedy for [-]% of ink at most. This is all because you are doing things for you. Who doesn't know that your Wang Zifeng is a famous first-rank official?"

Wang Qin was surprised and said: "The matter of supervising the Yinyin Division is to do things for the Holy One, what has nothing to do with me, why did my uncle say that?"

Wang Quan ignored him, and snorted: "Ji Wengji is gone, Fu Xiru is gone, the old man is now in his sixties, it's time to think about it."

Wang Quan was just talking about this matter, could he really resign from office?

Don't look at the powerful royal party now, but Wang Qin can only be regarded as half of the royal party.If he retired from his old age and returned to his hometown, the royal party would collapse in half!

Yin Yinsi's errands are in full swing, and in July, everything is booming.Wang Qin has been planning for many years and calculated for a long time, and now one by one of the aristocratic family realized that there was something strange behind the Yin Yinsi and the Yin Qizhuang of the Ministry of War, but it was too late.The silver deeds of the Ministry of War are like chess pieces, falling on the Kyushu of the Divine Land, weaving into a dense net.

The trend of Yinyinsi has risen, and everything is waiting for the east wind.

Wang Qin knew that the current Yin Yinsi was no longer something that aristocratic families could shake.However, it is too hasty to implement "paper currency" now.Still need to wait, maybe a year, maybe two years.But this time is destined not to be long.He has already paved all the roads for it, and as long as the time comes, the emperor decrees that the Bingbu Yinqi Manor, which is specially provided for military camps, will be used for ordinary people's households, and that will be the first step in this eternal event.

That night, Wang Qin was sitting in the study of the Minister of the Household Department, playing chess with his son.

He holds black in one hand and white in the other, playing chess against himself, but the game is evenly matched.

Heizi is like an arrogant dragon, rampaging and destroying the city; Baizi is like a vast ocean, restrained and deep, without knowing its bottom.The further down he went, the slower Wang Qin's falling speed became.When he picked up a small white stone again, the housekeeper's voice came from outside the house: "My lord, it's time to go to court, do you want to prepare court clothes for you?"

It turned out to be dawn.

Wang Qin suddenly woke up, he raised his head and was dazed for a moment.

"Get the court clothes ready."

"Yes."

Wang Qin lowered his head and pressed the small chess piece down.In an instant, the sea set off a huge wave, and the calm just now was no longer seen, and the black-skinned dragon was devoured in one gulp.Looking at the game of chess, Wang Qin sighed a long time, feeling extremely lonely.

He immediately got up, walked to the desk, picked up the Langhao pen, swiped the ink, and wrote a letter.

The steward entered the room to deliver the court clothes to him, Wang Qin handed over the letter and said, "Send it to Youzhou, hurry up."

The butler nodded: "Yes."

Three days later, Tang Shen received this letter.Because it was delivered by Wang Qin eagerly, he thought something serious happened, so he opened it anxiously.Looking at the short line of words on the letter, Tang Shen was slightly startled, then suddenly smiled helplessly.

"I miss you too."

After carefully reading the letter three times, Tang Shen put the letter in his sleeve and called Lin Xu.

Lin Xu is the Sizheng of the Yinyin Department of Youzhou and Wang Qin's confidant.Wang Qin only expressed longing in the heart he gave to Tang Shen, but Tang Shen saw something unusual in it.He said to Lin Xu: "Now in Youzhou, you are familiar with the officials in Yinyin Division, so you can rest assured?"

Lin Xu rolled his eyes and said in a low voice, "Don't worry, my lord, they are all from my family."

Tang Shen: "Brother, it's not easy!"

Although Lin Xu said he didn't understand, he kept an eye out and decided to find a chance to pull out the few remaining uneasy nails in the Yinyin Division.

At the end of July, Wang Qin handed over the booklet and went to the palace to face the saint.

In the vertical arch hall, the windows are bright and clean, and the glazed windows set off the palace like a fairyland.Wang Qin was summoned to enter the palace, but after a while, the living servants and the living servants who were in charge of recording today's daily life all walked out of the palace, and the rest of the eunuchs who were serving also left the palace gate.

Only Zhao Fu, Wang Qin and Ji Fu remained in the Chuigong Hall.

Zhao Fu and Wang Qin were talking privately, half an hour later, Wang Qin left the Chui Gong Hall.

Wang Qin was wearing a red official robe, the bright but not beautiful color made him elegant and elegant, as light as a fairy.He walked out of the palace calmly, got into the carriage, and went straight to the household department.Since he left, there was a dumb silence in the Chui Gong Palace.

The living officer did not enter the palace immediately, and the eunuchs also stood guard outside the door.

Zhao Fu leaned back on the throne, and the eunuch Ji Fu waited on him with his head bowed.

After a long time, Zhao Fu's voice was gentle, and he said softly, "You said this Wang Zifeng, how could he understand my heart so well?"

Ji Fu was terrified when he heard that, he didn't know what he should say, but the emperor was still waiting for his reply, so he could only say: "Wang Xianggong is dedicated to the Great Song Dynasty, and so are the officials, so we can meet your wishes. "Ji Fu has a good personal relationship with Wang Qin, so he will naturally help out at this time.

No matter how hard Zhao Fu tried to plot, he never imagined that the people around him who had been with him for decades were actually on the same boat as Wang Qin.He nodded, and took out a brand new one from the folder on the table.He looked at the paper, and after a while, threw it to Ji Fu: "It's been dealt with, I don't want anyone to see it."

Ji Fu hurriedly accepted the notebook, and said obediently: "Yes."

Zhao Fu muttered again: "How come none of my three sons can compare to Wang Zifeng? I'm afraid they can't even compare to Fei Ran."

Ji Fu thought to himself: The three princes entered the royal family because of their lucky births.Among the powerful officials in the court, which one is not an outstanding person selected from thousands of people, can your prince compare with others?Not to mention Wang Zifeng and Su Wenyun, the three princes are far behind Tang Jingze!

Ji Fu took the book and left the Chuigong Hall. He asked his godson Xie Bao to burn a brazier and burn the book directly.Before throwing the notebook into the brazier, Ji Fu stopped his movements. He carefully looked around and saw that no one was around. There were no other court ladies and eunuchs in this remote palace. Ji Fu carefully opened the notebook and glanced at the contents.

Ji Fu's eyes widened in astonishment, and the next moment he hurriedly threw the booklet into the brazier.

Only Ji Fu and the crackling brazier were empty in the palace.Ji Fu patted his chest, and said repeatedly: "It scared our family to death." When he recovered, he said seriously: "Wang Zifeng is really extraordinary."

Wang Qin has worked in the palace for many years and took the initiative to befriend Ji Fu, Li Xiaoren and other people close to the emperor, and now the benefits are reflected.

Ji Fu sent his godson Xie Bao out of the palace to deliver a letter to Wang Qin.

Wang Qin looked at the contents of the letter and smiled slightly.He held the corner of the letter close to the candle and watched the flames consume the letter.

Who would have thought that with just one step difference, Yu Chaosheng would almost take the position of Minister of the Ministry of Punishment and concurrently the Minister of the Ministry of Households?

The next day, the emperor made a decree to promote Yu Chaosheng, Minister of the Ministry of Punishment, to be a political counselor of Zhongshu Province, and to take charge of Jiangnan Yinyin Division.It is still a second-rank official position, but its authority is more than a little greater.Moreover, the emperor handed over the Jiangnan Yinyin Division to Yu Chaosheng, which also weakened Wang Qin's power.

Serving the Kaiping Emperor for 32 years, these officials soon discovered the key.

Yu Chaosheng was the favorite student of Xu Wei, the left minister of the dynasty, and a serious Xu Dang.The emperor's reuse of him is tantamount to expanding the power of the Xu Party.The Jiangnan Yinyin Division was Wang Qin's headquarters, and no one knew that Wang Qin was from the Langya Wang family and was from Jinling.This will weaken the royal party on the one hand, and strengthen the Xu party on the other.Once back and forth, the emperor's power is fully controlled.

Su Wenyun had already returned to Beijing. When he heard the news, he sneered and said, "If the Holy Majesty really wants to promote Xu Dang, why not just send Wang Zifeng as Minister of the Household Department? The household department is in charge of the national treasury, tsk, is it appropriate?"

The petty officials are confused and don't know why.

The self-righteous senior officials thought that they had seen through Zhao Fu's intentions. Zhao Fu was suppressing the royal party, suppressing Wang Qin, and elevating the power of the leftist party.

Only Zhao Fu's real confidants knew that Zhao Fu's action was too deep.

Yu Chaosheng didn't know that he had indeed been promoted, but it wasn't what he should have been.

The teacher and the student are sitting in the study, watching the duckweed being hit by the rain outside the window.

After a long time, Xu Wei let out a long sigh of relief and said, "It was the old man who lost to that Wang Zifeng."

Yu Chaosheng lowered his head: "It's the student's fault, the student made a mistake."

Xu Wei smiled and said: "You can take the wrong upper body, but you are not qualified to play chess with Wang Zifeng. The old man has been brewing for a year, and he and his Yin Yinsi have been praised to the extreme, even the emperor I couldn’t bear it any longer, but I didn’t think it would be resolved by him. I heard that he went to the Chuigong Palace a few days ago, and I don’t know what he said.”

Yu Chaosheng blushed in shame, unable to speak.

For the first time, he felt such strong unwillingness.

He and Wang Qin are on the same list of Jinshi, and he is the second place under Wang Qin.He is several years older than Wang Qin, but Xu Wei said that he is not qualified to play against Wang Zifeng.

Yu Chaosheng's heart was surging, his fingers were trembling, and he was almost unable to suppress his emotions.

Xu Wei glanced at him and said: "Be brave after knowing your shame. You come from a poor family, and what you have learned since you were a child must not be as good as him. But the time is long, the last one was born in a family, amazingly talented, and engraved his name on his merits and virtues during his lifetime." On the stele, the person who can only be remembered for thousands of years after death, do you know who it is?"

Yu Chaosheng: "Who is it?"

Xu Yan took a sip of tea and said with a smile, "Zhong Taisheng. Maybe Wang Zifeng is the next Zhong Taisheng?"

In August, Tang Shen received the imperial decree and prepared to return to Beijing.

Before leaving Beijing, he had arranged everything for Yin Yinsi, and when he was about to leave, he received an invitation.

Marshal Li Jingde of Zhengxi invited him into the mansion for a talk.