Great Song Super Scholar

Chapter 593
Fan Ning followed the eunuch to Ci'an Palace, and Empress Dowager Cao was already waiting for him.

"My subject, Fanning, sees the Queen Mother!" Fanning stepped forward and saluted respectfully.

Empress Dowager Cao sat behind the curtain and said with a slight smile: "The Ai family has read your bulletin. Your sense of smell is very keen and your judgment is very accurate. If it weren't for your decisiveness and persistence, Kunzhou might have fallen into the hands of the Liao Kingdom." .”

"To the Empress Dowager, Weichen has entrusted great affection to Kunzhou, just like a parent who dotes on his children very much. If there is any disturbance, Weichen will think the worst. Fortunately, this time Weichen guessed correct."

"Actually, you thought of this last year. The officials also told me about it. They hoped that I could garrison Kunzhou with heavy troops, but I didn't take it to heart. This matter is my family's fault!"

"The Empress Dowager takes care of everything every day. After all, she has limited energy. It's normal for many things to be unexpected."

Fan Ning said something casually, Empress Dowager Cao was silent, how shrewd she was, she immediately heard the meaning of Fan Ning's words, after a while, Empress Dowager Cao said: "The Ai family is not a person who loves power, and sooner or later the government affairs will be returned to the officials. , but he is still young, and the Ai family wants to help him go another step, and when he turns 25, the Ai family will completely delegate power."

Empress Dowager Cao took the former emperor as the standard!There are still five years to go before decentralization, can Zhao Xu wait?Something big will happen!
Now that this matter has been discussed, Fan Ning simply said bluntly: "Now that the Song Dynasty is facing an extraordinary period, the Liao Kingdom is likely to provoke a war against the Song Dynasty again. I suggest that the emperor should take full control and concentrate on Response, once the Song Dynasty wins, it will be a great boost to the emperor's prestige, and the emperor is likely to become the emperor of Zhongxing in the Song Dynasty. I believe this is what the Queen Mother hopes, and I hope the Queen Mother will seriously consider it."

Of course, Fan Ning didn't come to persuade Empress Dowager Cao after listening to Fu Bi's words. He had already made up his mind. He came to Beijing this time to persuade Empress Dowager Cao. Since he is the niece and son-in-law of Empress Dowager Cao, it would be more convenient for him to say something. Say it.

Empress Dowager Cao immediately understood what Fan Ning meant, and Fan Ning persuaded herself to hand over the military power to the emperor. At present, the emperor Zhao Xu only has the right to transfer troops of less than 1 people, and the transfer of more than 1 troops must be approved by himself.

After a moment of silence, Empress Dowager Cao asked again: "Fan Aiqing, do you have any suggestions?"

"Weichen also heard about the demotion of Liu Kan, the third division chief, in Quanzhou. This incident made me deeply worried."

"Liu Kan dismantled the power of Aijia in a disguised form, and deceived the emperor, shouldn't he be demoted?" Empress Dowager Cao was really dissatisfied.

"Empress Dowager, I'm sorry to say bluntly, if the empress dowager Zhu Pi agrees to the expenditure of the Zuo Zang Treasury, then what should the Internal Treasury do? Just merge the two."

Empress Dowager Cao was at a loss for words. She snorted and said, "Fan Ning, no one would dare to speak to Ai's family like that? Even the Son of Heaven would not dare."

Fan Ning smiled lightly: "I guess the Cao family would not dare. The Queen Mother should feel lucky. At least one person in the world is reminding the Queen Mother."

"What is it if you remind Aijia like this?"

Fan Ning did not back down and said: "The Queen Mother wants to support the official family. Although the idea is very good, if the people in the world don't understand, and no one persuades like Wei Chen, Wei Chen is worried that after a hundred years, what the Queen Mother will leave behind will not be a good name. , but infamy!"

"boom!"

Empress Dowager Cao slapped the table heavily, "Fan Ning, you are so brave!"

Fan Ning stood up and said: "If you don't want to be strong in everything, I have no selfish intentions, of course I am brave. If the Queen Mother does not accept my advice, I will resign from all official positions and return to my hometown to retire!"

Empress Dowager Cao laughed angrily. How old is this bastard who actually wants to return to his hometown for the elderly?

"Get out!"

Fan Ning turned around and left. When he reached the gate of the palace, Empress Dowager Cao shouted angrily again: "Stop, come back!"

Fan Ning stopped, but did not retreat. Empress Dowager Cao looked at his young and straight back, and finally sighed: "Okay! The Ai family will seriously consider your suggestion. In fact, the Ai family hopes that you have selfish intentions. Come down!"

Fanning turned around and saluted, then left in a hurry.

Empress Dowager Cao watched him go away, for some reason, she suddenly thought of Gao Taotao, couldn't help being upset for a while, got up and went back to the palace.

In the afternoon, the Empress Dowager Cao issued a decree, "All important military affairs are at the disposal of the officials, and there is no need to report to her. From now on, all income and expenditures of the internal treasury must be approved by her. Other than that, they will be handled by the officials, and they will be appointed and dismissed from below the third rank." Don't have to go through her again. '

There have been some concessions from the previous division of power, and the personnel rights have not changed. The Empress Dowager Cao still firmly controls the appointment and dismissal of officials above the third rank. She didn't ask about the national treasury. It was decided by the Zhizhengtang and the emperor. The income of the inner treasury mainly came from Huangzhuang and overseas. This was decided by Emperor Renzong.

But Empress Dowager Cao's real concession is military power. She completely delegated the general power to Prince Zhao Xu, and she will no longer intervene. Of course, if the Song Army loses badly and the situation is critical, she will still intervene, but she will not care about the normal deployment of troops .

When the dynasty was about to dissipate, the Empress Dowager Cao issued another decree, and Liu Kan, the envoy of the third division, was pardoned and released from prison, and became the governor of Mizhou.

Fu Bi got the Queen Mother's order, he breathed a long sigh of relief, and smiled at Wen Yanbo: "The most correct thing I did this year, Mr. Ming, guess what it is?"

Wen Yanbo smiled slightly, "If it is to support Mr. Fan's entry into the prime minister, then we both want to go together."

The two looked at each other and laughed together.

When Fan Ning came out of the imperial city, he instinctively walked towards the square where the carriages were parked on the left. Halfway there, he suddenly remembered that he had no carriages. Four of his bodyguards went to Ganjiang Island, and two soldiers were sent by him to his family. After reporting the letter, Fan Ning was a little stunned for a moment. Did he actually want to go home in a street cart?

If it gets out, it will surely become the headlines of the tabloids tomorrow. It is unseemly for the dignified new gentleman to send a bullock cart back home!
He turned to leave, when someone behind him suddenly called him, "Officials, go slowly!"

Fan Ning turned his head and saw a carriage coming at a high speed. Fan Ning immediately recognized that it was the carriage of his own family, but the driver was Zhu Yuanfeng's coachman.

The carriage stopped beside Fan Ning, and the coachman said: "My lady knows that the officials don't have a carriage to travel, so she asked the villain to wait for the officials here."

A warm feeling suddenly surged in Fan Ning's heart. It was because his wife had thought carefully and thought that she didn't have a carriage.

Fan Ning happily got into the carriage, "Go home!"

The carriage started and drove towards his mansion at Feihong Bridge
Fan Ning has not been back to his mansion for five years. The Cuiyun Building still stands tall, without any sense of dilapidation. The Cuiyun Peak in front of the building has also been erected. The grass was tidied up, and the two daughters, Fan Zhen'er and Fan Ling'er, were feeding the deer in front of the grass.

Fan Ning currently has three sons and two daughters. The eldest daughter Fan Zhener is nine years old, the eldest son Fan Jing is seven years old, the second daughter Fan Linger, the second son Fan Chu, and the third son Fan Qi are all four years old. The eldest son and second daughter are born to Zhu Pei. The daughter and second son were born to Ouyang Qian, and Fan Qi was born to his concubine Aya. The reason why he was named Fan Qi was to commemorate that his mother was from Changqi, Japan.

At present, only his next wife, Cao Xiu, has not yet given birth.

Parents are somewhat partial, and Fan Ning is no exception. It is even obvious that he loves his eldest daughter Fan Zhener the most, followed by his second daughter Fan Linger, who gave the homonym of his name to the second daughter.

Fan Ning saw that the two daughters were concentrating on feeding the deer, but he didn't notice himself. He stepped forward, knelt down and hugged the two daughters and asked with a smile, "Where did the deer come from?"

"Daddy!"

The two daughters embraced their father in surprise, and the youngest daughter Fan Linger asked excitedly, "When did Daddy come back?"

Fan Ning pinched the younger daughter's face affectionately, and then asked the eldest daughter, "What else is there besides the deer?"

"My aunt brought two little deer, and several little squirrels and hedgehogs, and put them on the hill."

The aunt is Zhu Pei's aunt Zhu Jie. Fan Ning nodded and fed the deer with her two daughters. After returning to the back house, Zhu Pei and Ouyang Qian came out to welcome her. Zhu Pei smiled and said, "Welcome little Fan Xianggong go home!"

"You all know?"

"It has been spread in the capital for a long time, and we are the last to know about it. How does Fan Xianggong feel about going to court today?" Ouyang Qian also joked.

"It's hard to say! On the first day of the court"

He wanted to say that he quarreled with the Queen Mother, but when he saw Cao Xiu suddenly, he changed his mind and said, "I was thrown a lot of shit by the Zhizheng Hall. This husband might as well be inappropriate!"

"My husband said that, how embarrassing are the other officials!"

Fan Ning laughed, "I'll go to the study to rest for a while, and we'll chat after dinner tonight. Make me a pot of tea!"

Fan Ning returned to his study room, sat heavily on the chair, rested his head on the back of the chair and remained silent for a long time. He didn't know how to explain to his family that he had just returned to the capital and was going to Hebei again, and this time he was going to fight. Instead of going overseas.

He was very disturbed, he owed his family too much, and wanted to make up for it after returning to Beijing, but now it seemed that he was going to break his promise again.

(End of this chapter)