To The Land of Nevernight

Compared with other prime minister's residences, Zuoxiang's residence is really shabby.

After the teacher and the student had eaten, they wiped their hands with a damp cloth and came to Ji Wengji's study.

As soon as the door opened, the smell of old paper and ink rushed over.Ji Wengji went into the study, took some books, and handed them to Zhao Jing.Zhao Jing took the books with both hands.

Ji Wengji: "The roads in Qinzhou are rugged and the mountains are stacked. I don't know when we will meet again. You should read more books there, and when you return to Beijing, I will talk to you as a teacher."

Zhao Jing: "The students know."

After sending some books, the teacher and the student bid farewell.

Zhao Jing made a deep bow and raised his hands high: "May I see you again in Shengjing, sir."

Ji Wengji smiled and said, "Go."

Zhao Jing turned and left without looking back.In the afternoon of that day, a light carriage left Shengjing with several boxes of books.In the evening, at the gate of the right servant of the household department, several carriages were also loaded with clothes and bags, and left the city.After walking about ten miles outside the city, when they arrived at the Shili Pavilion, Qin Si, the right servant of the household department, lifted the curtain of the car, his eyes lit up, and ordered the driver to stop.

The carriage stopped, and Qin Si, who was dressed in casual clothes, walked quickly to the Shili Pavilion, saluted and said: "The criminal Qin Si, I have met Lord Shangshu."

I saw yellow sand all over the sky, on the long ancient road, in this small and simple pavilion, the person who had been waiting for Qin Si for a long time was Wang Qin.

Wang Qin looked up and down, and said softly, "Master Qin has lost a lot."

Qin Si felt bitter in his heart.

Since the accident in Guangling Mansion at the beginning of the year, he has been under house arrest by the emperor, and it has been almost half a year now.No matter how good a person is, they will become thinner and thinner day by day, and their melancholy will continue.Qin Yudao: "The criminal officer is ashamed of the Lord Shangshu. He has not done a good job in the Duzhi Division and the Household Department."

Wang Qin was surprised and said, "Didn't you manage well?"

"grown ups?"

"Whenever the sky is sunny and unprecedented, there will always be dark clouds covering the sun and heavy rain. But after the rain, the sun will always be better than before the rain. Don't Lord Qin think so?"

Qin Si's expression was complicated, and finally he let out a long sigh and said, "Yes."

Wang Qin smiled without saying a word.

Wang Quan used the 23 Fu reforms as a pretense to secretly implement the "Paper Token" to hide it from the eyes and ears of the aristocratic family.However, this road failed and was blocked.Those who went this way, whether it was Zhao Jing or Qin Si, were implicated and relegated to other places.

It is a great thing that Du Zhisi's affairs are done well, and Qin Si knows this.But there are always risks behind good things. He knew that he was doing things for Wang Quan and Wang Qin.It's just that he and Zhao Jing both failed in the dispute between the two parties this time, and now they are both losers.But Qin Si still had hope in his heart, so he looked out expectantly at the Shili Pavilion outside the city where he saw off the guests.

Sure enough, he saw Wang Qin!

Qin Si remained silent, waiting for Wang Qin to give him an explanation.

And Wang Qin did not disappoint him.

"I heard that Yu De likes to eat Caiqizhai's dim sum the most. Caiqizhai only has a store in Shengjing, and there is no other place outside. If I can't eat it again, I will regret it for the rest of my life."

Qin Si's eyes brightened: "My lord..."

Wang Qin smiled and said, "Since you like it, then eat more."

The sun sets in the west, and the bright moon rises in the east.

Wang Qin and his servant stood in the Ten Mile Pavilion, watching three carriages carrying a Qin Yude leave Shengjing.Qin Si was sitting in the carriage, holding in his hand the Caiqizhai snacks that Wang Qin had given him.He opened the box and ate one, and Mrs. Qin was surprised: "Isn't my husband always disliked these pastries and sweets?"

Qin Si laughed loudly: "Ma'am, what you said is wrong. From now on, I, Qin Yude, will like to eat it!"

The two parties are fighting each other, and each has its own gains and losses, but after this battle, the Duzhi Division really has no possibility of reopening.

Zhao Fu once reprimanded the powerful officials in the Chui Gong Palace, asking them whether they really thought that Taizu abolished the three divisions just to weaken the prime minister's power and consolidate the king's power?All the senior officials present were silent, and no one answered his words.At that time, apart from the emperor and high-ranking officials of the first and second ranks, there was also a living man and a living servant.

It's a pity that these two people are dull in nature. Although they are loyal, they always close their ears when facing this kind of thing, and dare not listen or think.

After a long time, Wang Qin took this as a joke and told Tang Shen to listen to it.

Tang Shen almost laughed out loud.

Taizu?

Taizu is a reckless man!

The rough general who won the country from the battlefield!

In addition to weakening the prime minister's power, what else could Taizu do to abolish the three divisions?Could he come up with more twists and turns?

Zhao Fu used Taizu's tiger skin to stop the mouths of the four gentlemen, so that they would never dare to mention the reopening of the third division.After the Du Zhisi incident, we saw that the Disciplinary Party and the Royal Party suffered losses one after another. Only Zhao Fu sat firmly on the Diaoyutai and watched his group of courtiers vying for profit.

But really only the emperor benefited?

Zhao Jing was demoted, Ji Wengji lost a lot of power in the court, but Zhao Fu felt more at ease with him.

Qin Si was demoted, and Wang Qin lost a capable subordinate. Zhao Fu's new household servant You Shilang was a member of Zuo Cheng Chen Linghai.But other than that, Wang Qin was not implicated in any way. Instead, Zhao Fu entrusted him with the full power of Yinyin Division and treated him more highly.

The newly established Yinyin Department in Northwest China is mainly in charge of military pay and rations.

In April, Tang Shen passed the memorial to Wang Quan in private, and within a few days, Wang Quan wrote a memorial and sent it to the emperor.Zhao Fu was originally discouraged by the "paper currency" thing, and he has been in a bad mood these days.

Zhao Fu is over 30 this year. He has done many great things in the 17 years since he succeeded to the throne.For example, in the tenth year of Kaiping, he went to war with Liao, and the two countries signed a peace agreement; for example, in the [-]th year of Kaiping, Zhao Fu sent people to manage the Yellow River, which greatly reduced the risk of flooding.Besides, in the past two years, Zhao Fu sent people to build three official roads leading to the north. This matter will be a big event after a hundred years.

As a Mingjun, Zhao Fu felt that his name could be immortalized through the ages.

But if the big event of "using paper currency" is achieved, he will become one of the most famous emperors for thousands of years.

However, Wang Quan drew a big cake for him, saying that the 23 tax reforms were used as a cover to implement "paper tokens".The results of it?Ji Wengji and Wang Quan, the two current prime ministers failed to accomplish this!Now Wang Quan told him again, Your Majesty, let's not change from Fu, let's go from Northwest Military Pay.Using the situation in the Northwest as a cover, secretly carry out the big event of "using paper tokens" again!

Although Zhao Fu still had doubts, he agreed.

Yinyinsi, on the surface, is the department in charge of the salaries of the three armies, but when the three official roads are completed, the Yinyinsi in the northwest has become a bank for future generations!The military officers stored the things issued by the court in Yin Yinsi. If they wanted to use them, they could exchange them with a deed.But as time goes by, Yinyin Division will issue various "notes" step by step.There is no need to exchange them specially. In the northwestern states, these deeds are directly used to buy and sell transactions. The Yinyin Division "recognizes the paper but not the person"!

This is the deceitful plan that Tang Shen presented to Wang Quan.

The northwest is the place where the Song Dynasty and the Liao Kingdom meet, and there are endless wars all year round.The hands of aristocratic families simply cannot get involved here, and this is also the best experimental field for the "paper token" policy.When all the preliminary preparations are complete, and then promote it to the whole country, it will definitely get twice the result with half the effort, and the aristocratic family will have no room to fight back.

It's just that this matter is destined to take many years, and it cannot be accomplished overnight.So Zhao Fu handed over the matter to the young and vigorous Wang Qin, but not to Wang Quan.

In the court hall, when Yin Yinsi was officially on the right track, although the officials were puzzled, they didn't know what it was doing.

Ji Wengji silently agreed and let Yinyin Division operate.

In the hot summer, Tang Shen gave the booklets he had finished reading to Xu Wei, the right minister. After Xu Wu had finished reading it, he was about to go back to the house, only to hear Xu Wei laughingly said: "Master Tang, the imperial court is busy today, you want to read it." There are more pocketbooks than ever before."

Tang Shen paused, turned around and said, "Your Majesty obeys."

After Tang Shen returned to his room, the official sent another box of memorials and sent them to his desk.Tang Shen flipped through it and saw that not only were there memorials on military affairs in the Northwest, but the memorials from places that Xu Wei no longer allowed him to read last year are now back.Tang Shen looked at these excerpts in silence, closed his eyes and thought carefully, thinking about what Xu Wu had done in the layout for more than a year.

In the end he couldn't help but laugh.

Xu Wei didn't do anything!

The discipline party was relegated, and the royal party had its own gains and losses.Chen Linghai's people replaced Qin Si as the right servant of the household department.As for him, Xu Wei, he gained nothing, but he also lost nothing!He is still the person who does not exist in the emperor's heart, a You Cheng who has no sense of existence, and a powerful minister who hardly poses any threat.

On the other side, Yu Chaosheng, the right servant of the Ministry of Officials, walked into Xu Wu's main room, bowed and said, "I have seen you, sir."

Xu Yan smiled at him: "Xianzhi, you and that Tang Jing are a coincidence, every time he leaves, you will come."

Yu Chaosheng was surprised and said, "Master Tang has been here?"

Xu Wu said: "Sit down."

The teacher and the student sat opposite each other, and they talked about some academic matters, and they also talked about Yu Chaosheng's family.Yu Chaosheng returned to Shengjing for half a year, his wife gave birth to a child a few days ago, and today Yu Chaosheng wanted to ask the teacher to name his child.

Xu Wu said: "You have been married for more than ten years, and you finally have an heir, which also made me let go of some worries. You know, two years ago, my teacher almost thought that you were a broken sleeve like that Wang Zifeng."

Yu Chaosheng was shocked: "Master Wang is as good as Long Yang? How did you know that?"

Xu Wei asked back: "If it weren't for Longyang's goodness, why is he eight out of twenty and has not been married yet? Xianzhi, Xianzhi, if you think about such trivial matters, you will know. This matter, our emperor It must be known, otherwise the Great Song Dynasty has no consort and is not an official, such a good husband, must have been bestowed by the emperor a long time ago with a princess, and they will be married."

Yu Chaosheng said shamelessly, "It's the students who are stupid."

"Your Majesty uses him so much, it's not like he doesn't know the reason why he is alone and has no offspring." After a pause, Xu Wu continued: "Let's not talk about him. This is your first child, and you need to give it a good name. How about Fake, how about calling Yu Ke if you can't beat the bandit axe?"

"Thank you for giving me your name."

The two talked for a while, Xu Wei drank a sip of tea, and said meaningfully: "Last year Wang Chuan played, and there were 23 Fu reforms, and the old man immediately transferred that Tang Jing to see the excerpts in the northwest. Then let him look at local government affairs. Who would have thought that this year, Wang Quan proposed to set up a Yinyin Division in the Northwest. Yinyin Division, Northwest... This Tang Jingze is really an interesting person."

In the 30th year of Kaiping, on July [-]rd, in the northwest, thirty miles outside Yanzhou City.

The summer night in the northwest is like burning a knife, the air is extremely dry, and the strong wind blows, instead of reducing the heat, it stabs the face hotly. More than 30 young soldiers in night clothes crawled behind a small hill and quietly observed the front.

In the center of the crowd was a tall and handsome general with dark skin.His eyes were bright and piercing, gazing at the rugged trail below the hill.The moonlight shone into these sincere and fanatical eyes, which seemed to have been burned.

"Da da--"

The sound of horses and carts came from afar.

A quarter of an hour later, a caravan dressed as Liao people drove past the hill.When they got to the center of the two big rocks, the leading businessman from the Liao Kingdom suddenly fell into a trap, and the horse team panicked for a while.

"There is an ambush, there is an ambush!" the Liao people shouted, speaking in barbaric language.

On the hill, a bright goose feather spear was unsheathed.Li Jingde shouted angrily: "Where is the Feilong Army!"

In the moonlit night, more than 30 soldiers shouted in unison, "Here!"

"Follow this general!"

"Yes!"

This group of Liao generals pretending to be Liao merchants heard the earth-shattering shouts. They were so frightened that they looked up the hill.It turned out that there were only dozens of people!These dozens of people shouted with the momentum of thousands and hundreds, and the generals of the Liao Kingdom cursed a few words angrily, pulled out machetes from the chariots and horses, and rushed forward.

On a bright and clear moonlit night, the weapon pierced into the flesh, and blood sprayed everywhere.

On the Yanling spear, the white tassel was stained with blood.

After fighting for a long time, the Song army captured several Liao generals and confiscated the salary and food of a cavalry team.

The soldiers pressed a Liao man and brought him to Li Jingde. "General, the leader of the Liao soldiers is dead. This guy seems to be the most senior among the captives. He is not a Liao soldier, but a civil servant. A few Liao soldiers tried to escort him away just now, but we caught him."

Li Jingde wiped the blood on his face with his sleeve: "You are still a high official?"

This Liao official could speak Song dialect, so he spat: "Li Jingde, you beast, tomorrow my Liao army soldiers will come to your Youzhou City, cut off your head, and hang it on the city gate!"

The next moment, a silver gun pierced Liao Guan's chest.Officer Liao looked at him incredulously, to the end of his life he didn't understand how someone could kill a prisoner, and he was such a useful prisoner at first sight.

"Damn it, I don't talk, I really think I'm not angry?"

Song Bing said helplessly, "General!"

"Walk around, press the things back, go back and ask the Generalissimo for good things."