Prime Minister

Chapter 527
Zhang Yue's house is full of friends.

Zhang Yue made a special decree to promote You Zhengyan, and Zhang Zhi was promoted to Provincial Yuan. Everyone can see that such a family must have a bright future in the future.

Zhang Yue couldn't cope with the congratulatory guests from Yingmen, at this moment, he suddenly saw a person and couldn't help but said happily: "Brother!"

The person who came was Sun Jue, and the other party was Chen Xiang's disciple, and Sun Jue was the elder of all the students, so Zhang Yue privately called Sun Jue his elder brother.

Zhang Yue and Sun Jue had a good personal relationship, and they often discussed Yi Xue together.

Sun Jue is now 40 years old. He was a Jinshi in the first year of Huangyou. After nearly 20 years of official career, he finally became an official in Beijing.

Sun Jue's current official title is You Zhengyan, Zhiji Xianyuan, and Tongzhi Jianyuan.

You Zhengyan's official position can only be removed by the official's relatives, so he, like Zhang Yue, was specially promoted, and he entrusted the recommendation of his teacher Chen Xiang.

Chen Xiang was single-handedly promoted by Fu Bi, and letting Sun Jue enter the remonstrance court was also the intention of the officials to supervise Han Qi.This is the consistent operation of the emperor of the Song Dynasty to ask Taiwan to supervise the government.

Zhang Yue is also right now, and went straight to Xianyuan, so the two brothers and sisters can be said to be equal in official positions.

Sun Jue said to Zhang Yue: "Teacher has just gone to Khitan as an envoy, so I will congratulate my younger brother on behalf of all the students."

Zhang Yue sighed: "It's a pity that I haven't seen the teacher since I returned to Beijing. I'm even more worried about going to Khitan as an envoy in far away places."

Sun Jue said: "I am also a little worried. The teacher said that I will go to Khitan to fight for the national system. At worst, I will not return to the dynasty, and I will also defeat Khitan's arrogance."

Zhang Yue said: "Who said that the Liao Kingdom is a big country? Even though we treat it with humiliation, the upper and lower levels still need face. It is really difficult to not insult the country's constitution when going on a mission. Therefore, going to Khitan as an envoy in the official arena is a disservice to officials. experience, but as long as you don’t go on business, you can be reused when you come back.”

"So it's also a joy and a worry."

Sun Jue talked with Zhang Yue for a while, and Zhang Yue immediately brought Sun Jue to see Zhang Zhi.

Sun Jue couldn't help being amazed when he saw Zhang Zhi, and appreciated it very much.

Zhang Yue felt a little strange when he saw Sun Jue's appearance.

After Sun Jue talked to Zhang Zhi, he pulled Zhang Yue aside and said, "Junior Brother, how many years have you and I known each other?"

Zhang Yue felt that there was a fraud, so he pretended not to remember clearly and said: "I, Jiayou, joined the teacher's school in three years. Does it seem that Jiayou met the elder brother in four or five years? Sigh, I can't remember, I can't remember."

Sun Jue coughed heavily and said, "Brother, you and I have known each other for so long, I can trust your character, and you can trust me, brother, right?"

Zhang Yue took a look at Sun Jue, and said vigilantly: "Brother, you might as well speak up."

Sun Jueqian laughed a few times, then put on the appearance of a big brother and said: "You and I are in the same school, you don't know that I have a beloved daughter who can play piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, and what's more important is that she has a virtuous temperament. Housekeeper."

Zhang Yue cursed from the bottom of his heart, so he knew you were planning on hitting my eldest nephew.

Zhang Yue said: "This...to tell the truth...my nephew..."

Sun Jue turned pale and said, "It could be that there is already..."

Zhang Yue laughed dryly, and was about to be sloppy when someone said, "Lv Xiji is here to congratulate you!"

Zhang Yue said to Sun Jue that he would talk about it later, and then he ran away immediately.

Lu Xiji was the second son of Hanlin scholar Lu Gong, the nephew of Lu Gongbi, deputy envoy of the Privy Council, and the son-in-law of Zhang Yue's father-in-law Wu Chong.

It was only natural for him to come to congratulate him.

Lu Xiji saw Zhang Yue with a smile and said: "Congratulations, Duzhi. My father originally said that he would come to the door in person, but after retiring from the court, he was kept by the government, so he sent me to the mansion to congratulate him."

With Lu Gongzhu's current status, it is impossible for him to condescend to congratulate him in person.But when Lu Xiji said this, Zhang Yue showed that he was very helpful and said: "Ji Chang's words are serious. Zhang has never visited a bachelor since he became an official. Then I will ask Ji Chang to introduce me."

It is not an easy existence for Lu Gongshu to be a good friend of Wang Anshi, Sima Guang, and Han Wei.

He usually doesn't like to talk, but when it comes to debating, even Wang Anshi, who is the best at debating, dare not say he is better than him.As an official, Lu Gong also cherished his feathers very much, and resigned if he didn't like it, but the more he was like this, the more the world respected him.

Lv Xiji smiled and said, "Du wished to see my father, and my father would greet me with his back. After all, my father often told me that today's younger generation of officials, only Du can catch his eyes."

Zhang Yue said with a smile: "How can Zhang, He De, be able to win the favor of a bachelor, I am really ashamed to be so, but did the bachelor miss one person?"

Lu Xiji wondered, "Who is it?"

"Chunfu!"

Zhang Yue and Lu Xiji laughed at the same time. Chunfu was Zhang Yue's old classmate Fan Zuyu when he was in the Imperial College, and now he is Lu Gong's son-in-law, and he is helping his father-in-law's good friend Sima Guang to learn from him.

Lu Xiji smiled and said: "Speaking of Chunfu, I still have a younger sister who is still waiting in my boudoir. Please take care of her. Is there any suitable candidate to help me pay attention."

The most worrying thing for officials and eunuchs in Bianjing is to marry a daughter. It is not easy to find a well-matched couple to marry off.And the most fearful thing is that you won't be able to marry when you reach the age, so it will be even more difficult to marry in the future.

Therefore, even if the daughters of official families in Bianjing get married as late as [-], which is much higher than the folk age of [-] or [-], there are still many daughters who have not yet married at this age.

Therefore, the father and brother in the family are anxious to make arrangements, and often start looking for candidates at a very young age, and at the same time accumulate a large amount of dowry.

Like Zeng Gong, the elder brother who let the eight younger sisters get married is really a rare good elder brother.

When Zhang Yue arrived in Bianjing, he also lamented that he was so involved in the high-end marriage and love market in Bianjing.It is so difficult for a woman from an official family to marry.

Zhang Yue hurriedly said: "The daughter of Lu's mansion is not something that ordinary people can look at, I'm afraid it's hard to find."

Lv Xiji laughed and said, "Damn it, Ming people don't slander, do you think there is a handsome and talented young man like your nephew among your acquaintances?"

This is the picture. See you.

All in all, after Sun Jue and Lu Xiji, there were several waves who came to matchmaking with Zhang Yueming privately.

As for Zhang Shi, someone from Yu's side also held him back.

Zhang Yue couldn't help feeling envious and jealous of his eldest nephew at the moment, why didn't I...

When thinking of this, Zhang Yue subconsciously looked towards Shi Qi Niang, and then quickly killed the thought.

"The emperor has a decree!"

At the most lively time of the banquet, the emperor's decree came.

All the guests smiled and said, "It's really the emperor's grace."

But Zhang Yue's head was buzzing at the moment when he was told by the matchmaker army, and he couldn't help being frightened when he heard that the emperor had a decree.

I wondered if the emperor also took a fancy to our elder nephew. With their small friendship, it is possible to have a closer kiss, but how can it be so easy to be a son-in-law of this dynasty.

"The emperor rewarded Shengyuan Zhangzhi, a set of brocade clothes for each season, 100 taels of gold and silver, and 100 million money!"

After receiving the order, all the congratulators congratulated Zhang's family from top to bottom, praising the official family for being good at Confucianism and respecting scholars.

Zhang Yue was glad that the emperor did not recruit a son-in-law at last, but he felt that when he won the first prize, Emperor Renzong only gave 30 yuan... The result of his nephew winning the province... Was the emperor so partial?

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But at the same time, Ouyang Xiu's home looked different.

Ouyang Fang, the third son of Ouyang Xiu in this subject, won the Jinshi.Among the several sons, Ouyang Fen liked Ouyang Xiu the most. On weekdays, Ouyang Xiu had a lot of correspondence and letters, and he had no time to write them himself, so Ouyang Fen mostly answered them for him.

Ouyang Fen was able to entrust this important task at such a young age, it can be seen that his prose talent is not inferior to his father who is the leader of the literary world.

At the banquet celebrating Ouyang Fen, Ouyang Fen told Ouyang Xiu: "Brother and sister-in-law don't want to go back home."

Ouyang Xiu sighed, Ouyang Fa and Wu had already moved out of Ouyang Xiu's mansion to live in another place in order to avoid gossip.

Now that Ouyang Fai has been selected as a Jinshi, it was supposed to be a time for the family to rejoice, but Ouyang Fa and the Wu family did not go home.

Ouyang Xiu pushed the wine cup away with his hands behind his back.

Ouyang Fen glanced at his father, feeling sad in his heart, he said to his mother, Xue Shi: "Mother, although my son has won a Jinshi, but I don't want to be an official."

Mrs. Xue glanced at Ouyang Xiu's back, and it was her younger brother Xue Liangru who told Ouyang Xiu this time.

Mrs. Xue also felt sorry for her husband, she said to Ouyang Fen: "Both of your elder brothers are incompetent, and something like this happened again, no matter how hard it is for you, you will support this family for me. He is Zhang Duzhi's nephew, and I don't need to tell you how Zhang Duzhi is with our Ouyang family."

"This man knows kindness and righteousness. When he was promoted as a Jinshi, your elder brother said that he could take care of our Ouyang family for 30 years. In my opinion, this man has a bright future. Worship under his door."

Ouyang Fen said: "Although I have this intention, I was ordered by my father to go to Luoyang to meet Master Shao a month ago. I heard that Master Shao was walking on the Tianjin Bridge and saw the cuckoo flying by.

"In less than two or three years, the superiors will use southern scholars as ministers and attract more southerners, and the world will be full of troubles from then on!"

"I don't know what Master Shao said. Master Shao said that the world will be governed, and the atmosphere of the earth will flow from north to south; it will be chaotic, and the atmosphere of the earth will flow from south to north. Now the earth's atmosphere in the south is at its peak. Look at the cuckoos flying here, the birds are flying Kind, the first to get qi."

"Nowadays, there are many rumors like this in Beijing! It is said that the officials want to use a southerner as a prime minister. I don't know whether it refers to Zeng Jixian or Wang Jiefu."

"It seems that although our Ouyang family was born in Jiangxi, it is not beneficial for the northerners to settle in the capital for many years. I think..."

Although Ouyang Fen followed Ouyang Fa since he was a child, but unlike Ouyang Fa who was close to Zhang Yue, he admired Shao Yong more.

Xue said: "My son has his own opinion, and I can't force it. But how can such a prophecy be taken seriously?"

Ouyang Fen said: "Since prophecy is circulated among the people, it may be public opinion or someone's instruction. No matter what it refers to."

Xue said: "Let's not talk about it, I just hope your father is safe."

Ouyang Fen said: "Since I selected a Jinshi, it means that the court has made a public opinion on my father's matter. Mother, don't worry too much. As for Zhang Duzhi, although he is proud now, he was my family's guest after all. , I don’t want to ask him for shelter.”

A few days later, the imperial court also came to a conclusion on Ouyang Xiu's case.

The original official was Shangshu Zuocheng, and Ouyang Xiu, who was in charge of political affairs, was promoted to a bachelor of Guanwendian and Shangshu of the Ministry of Punishment.The host and guest member Wailang, the censor Jiang Zhiqi was demoted to the author Zuo Lang, and supervised the wine tax of Daozhou.

However, Ouyang Xiu still stated on the form that he would resign from office. In order to appease Ouyang Xiu, the official gave his eldest son Ouyang Fa, who was promoted from the former Yin official to be the director of the supervisor to the judge of Dali Temple.

The punishment for Jiang Zhiqi and the appeasement for Ouyang Xiu are much higher than the history of another time and space, but even so, they still cannot retain Ouyang Xiu who insisted on leaving.

After Ouyang Xiu became an official in Liushu, the officials finally agreed that Ouyang Xiu would go out to guard the place and know Bozhou.

In the edict issued by the officials to Ouyang Xiu, there were words of praise from the late emperor to Ouyang Xiu, and he did not avoid public grievances.

But Ouyang Xiu was disheartened, and he finally went out of the country at the age of 60. As for Ouyang Fen, who had just graduated as a Jinshi, he was also promoted by the officials to be the official of Chenzhou Jiedu Tui.

However, Ouyang Fen did not want to go to other places to take office, but went to Bozhou with his father.Ouyang Fa and Wu returned to their hometown in Yingzhou.

After Ouyang Xiu left the capital, Han Qi, who had lost his right-hand man, returned to the capital from his post as Shanling envoy.

In the few months since the new king ascended the throne, Han Qi, who is the Minister of Zhaowen, has been away from the capital. He said that he was busy building the tomb of the late emperor. In fact, it was regarded by the outside world as a first-class way to transfer power, avoiding being in a place of suspicion. , At the same time, it also eliminates the need to point fingers at the emperor.

Han Qi is not in the capital, it is a system of first-class virtual appearance, Zeng Gongliang, Wu Kui and other ministers assist the emperor in making decisions throughout the whole process.

Therefore, if Han Qi is there, Ouyang Xiu will not go out to defend.

Now with Han Qi's return, the power of the government has returned to him, and the illusion has become the reality.

There was a heavy rain in Bianjing in April, and it was raining heavily in the palace.

When Zhang Yue entered the court, he happened to see Han Qi's guard of honor as the prime minister. Hundreds of Yuan entourages surrounded the civil servant No. 1 to the palace.

Facing Han Qi's guard of honor, even though it was raining heavily, Zhang Yue and many other officials had to stay aside and let Han Qi go first.

The prime minister is extremely courteous, which is the honor he deserves.

However, with Ouyang Xiu's departure and the official's denial of Pu Yi, the officials couldn't help guessing how long Han Qi would be able to stay in the phase.

When he arrived at Tianzhang Pavilion, Zhang Yue's official robe was more than half wet, and the eunuch on duty moved out of the stove to bake Zhang Yue's official robe.

The eunuch sat beside Zhang Yue, helping the barefoot Zhang Yue to bake his boots, and then asked: "Zhang Zhengyan, I heard that the official family intends to replace Han Xianggong with Zeng Jixian or Wang Jiefu, is it true?"

Zhang Yue couldn't help being taken aback, how dare he say such nonsense.

Zhang Yue said in a low voice: "Where did you hear this, don't talk nonsense, otherwise be careful to move your head."

The other party smiled and said, "I dare not say a word to other people. I only say a word in front of Zhang Zhengyan. Can I still trust Zhang Zhengyan?"

"It's just that I've heard rumors recently that Zeng Jixian's spine is like a dragon, and Wang Jiefu's eyes are like a dragon. Both of these two people have the appearance of teachers and ministers, and there is a prophecy in the market that the officials want to worship the southerners as their ministers, and practice the law of not harming Shangyang. .”

Zhang Yue thought to himself that this was not just a rumor.

When the officials saw me that day, they said something like that, and there was something in the meaning behind the words.

Who leaked the news?
(End of this chapter)