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Chapter 284 Unpunishable
After thinking for a moment, the two palaces agreed to Zhang Kai's appointment.

However, there are still procedures that need to be followed before the appointment.

So, the Empress Dowager asked: "What position does Zhang Kai hold now?"

Han Jiang replied: "I know the Ci Sage, Zhang Kai now has the authority to know the Qin Feng Road Strategy and appease the envoy..."

He handled this matter personally.

Thinking like this, Han Jiang couldn't help but take a deep look at the young official sitting on the throne.

"When the officials sent people to hint to me, I'm afraid they already had the idea of ​​making great use of Zhang Kai..."

"It's just, how did Zhang Kai get the favor of an official?"

What a problem!
Zhang Kai, every time he came to Beijing, he would come in a hurry and then leave in a hurry.

Moreover, this person is very old.

When he passed the Jinshi examination in the second year of Zhiping, he was almost 40 years old, and he was sixty-one this year.

He has been an official in Hubei, Jingdong, Chengdu and other places all his life. Although his official reputation is very good, he is only famous in the state and county.

"Is it really Lu Dafang's merit in recommending and praising him in front of officials?"

Han Jiang felt that this was the only possibility.

After all, Lu Dafang worked with Zhang Kai in Chengdu.

After Lu Dafang entered the capital, he kept praising Zhang Kai and praised him to everyone he met - "Zhang Zhifu is the minister of the country and the most economical talent in the world!"

Isn't this just like when he, Han Wei, and Han Zhen praised Wang Anshi in front of the late emperor every day?

However, after discussing with the Empress Dowager Xiang for a while, the Empress Dowager made a decision: "If you ministers have no objections, just follow the official orders!"

"Wei!" Naturally, the chief ministers had no objection.

The emperor proposes a candidate for the position of commander-in-chief, as long as the person's reputation is not so bad that his reputation is so bad, or his ability is so bad that it is known to the whole world.

The governors could only obey.

So, the show continued.

Lu Gong wrote a memorial and requested that the authority to annotate and authorize it should be given to Zhongshu by the officials of Wenguyuan and Jianyuan.

This is actually what the two palaces hinted him to do.

The reason is that there are too many trivial matters and the two palaces are too busy to handle them, so they simply delegate some of the less important personnel appointment and dismissal powers to Zhongshu.

Zhang Xuan, the servant of the sect, reported that the envoys of the Liao Kingdom, Lin Ya, Yelu Bai, the envoy of the Chongyi Army, and Niu Wenru, the deputy envoy to the imperial court and the Shaoqing of Shou Chonglu who served as editors of the History Museum, etc., brought congratulatory gifts from the leader of the Liao Kingdom. Come to congratulations.

In addition, the emperor's grandson of the Liao Dynasty sent Yelu Gu, a scholar of the Hanlin Academy, to serve as an envoy to thank the emperor's brother in the Southern Dynasty for presenting letters, and Zhao Xiaoyan, a scholar of the Privy Council, served as his deputy.

He also sent two volumes of reading notes by the grandson of the Emperor of Liao Dynasty, thinking that it would be good for the whole family.

When the two palaces heard this, they were very happy.

The friendship between Song and Liao means that nothing happens in Hebei, and if nothing happens in Hebei, the world will be at peace.

Zhao Xu even asked: "Where is my book about the emperor's younger brother of the Liao Kingdom?"

Zhang Hong paid his respects and said, "When the Northern Envoy sees you, you should respectfully present him to the emperor!"

"Good!" Zhao Xu nodded with satisfaction.

Zhao Xu has boundless love for his dear imperial brother.

Can you find a better 'brother' than Yelu Yanxi?

Northern Tianzuo and Southern Huiqin are both called friends of Dajin!
So, Zhao Xu smiled and said: "I am also planning to give some reading notes to the emperor's brother..."

He even wanted to tell the emperor's younger brother - if you don't understand anything, you can come to Bianjing and ask me!
The ministers congratulated them again and again, and felt that if the current development continues, it is not a dream for Song and Liao to continue to be peaceful for a hundred years.

The Prime Minister of Dongfu has finished his work and is about to retire.

But at this moment, the Empress Dowager said: "Everyone, please stay!"

The officials were stunned for a moment.

"But there is something that needs to be discussed with all the ministers..." The Queen Mother said calmly: "A few days ago, the imperial censor Liu Zhi impeached the Kaifeng Mansion. You ministers should have heard about it. Alright?"

Han Jiang held his hand and said, "I've heard a little bit about it!"

The expressions of other prime ministers all became amused at this time.

The struggle for power between the Ancestral Temple, Dali Temple and Kaifeng Mansion was originally just a trivial matter.

But the sudden intervention of Yushitai stirred up the turmoil between the government and the opposition.

Subsequently, the two palaces issued an edict, ordering the capital hall to select ministers for review, which caused the matter to attract many people's attention.

After the investigation results came out, the two palaces went to the Yushitai to discuss the treatment of Huixin monk.

It makes people think that the matter ends here.

After all, Seng Lusi has fallen into decline.

Even Kaifeng Mansion seemed to have been summoned to the palace by officials yesterday to be reprimanded.

The only remaining issue is how to deal with Monk Huixin.

Everything has been settled.

But why did the two palaces suddenly mention this matter again at this time?
Could it be that things have changed that no one knows about?

While everyone was thinking, they heard the Empress Dowager say: "This matter needs to be discussed with all the ministers..."

After saying that, the Queen Mother clapped her hands.

Liang Weijian, who had been serving in the curtain, walked out of the curtain with the imperial censor's bullets that had been transcribed, and distributed them to the Prime Minister of Dongfu present.

The four prime ministers took the bullets and sat down again and began to read.

The Empress Dowager continued: "Everyone, I, the imperial censors, have heard that the report is an ancestral system. I shouldn't say more about it..."

"However, this Censor's courage is too great!"

"How dare you use words to spy on me and the Queen Mother..."

Everyone's eardrums began to tremble.

Spying on the Empress Dowager and the Queen Mother?
Who!

How dare you do such a taboo thing?
"I don't want to pursue the case. After all, maybe the censor used the wrong words and didn't know the taboos, or maybe he was just out of loyalty..."

"However, he pushed even further!"

"Both the old man and the Queen Mother clearly issued an edict to ask the censor to discuss Monk Hui Xin's treatment...but he...is pestering the Kaifeng Mansion!"

"Blatantly disobeying the will of me and the Queen Mother..."

"I don't quite understand..." The Empress Dowager sighed: "I and the Queen Mother, do you seem to be so easy to deceive and mislead?"

Although the voice was soft, it was like thunder, shaking the entire hall.

For a time, everyone in the palace held their breath and concentrated.

They all looked at the copies of the bullets in their hands.

To be honest, Liu Zhi's first bullet book only has some flaws in the text, or it may be said that he is overconfident.

At least in the eyes of these leaders.

Because the censors of the Song Dynasty were so out of touch when impeaching ministers.

It was just to impeach a minister, not to admonish the emperor or impeach a clan relative.

There won’t be much care about the text.

Most of the time, in order to rush the work and save time, it is not even polished properly.

However, Liu Zhi's second magazine is really a problem.

The two palaces asked him to discuss the treatment of monk Huixin, but he insisted on the affairs of Kaifeng Mansion, and even went so far as to blame Kaifeng Mansion.

It's both deceiving and cheating.

Big problem!Very big!

At this time, looking back at Liu Zhi's first magazine, even if it is written by Lu Gong, he has to admit that Liu Zhi's problems are huge.

why?
Because his second magazine proved that his first magazine had bad intentions.

It is really possible that, as the Empress Dowager said, she was trying to pry into the minds of the two palaces through words, and she might even be a little bit contemptuous.

However, Liu Zhi was the minister recommended by Sima Guang repeatedly, and he was also recommended by Mr. Lu.

Lu Gongzhu couldn't help but die.

Holding the Chao Hut, he prepared some words and was about to explain to Liu Zhi.

At least, don't let him really be in charge. The two palaces unanimously believe that he is deceiving and misleading the two palaces.

In this case, Liu Zhi might have to go to Lingnan.

However, he had not yet thought of an explanation to Liu Zhi.

Over there, the Empress Dowager also said angrily: "My dear ministers, there is one more thing I want to report to you..."

"After Liu Zhi, there was another censor, named Wang Yansou, who wrote a letter about the late emperor's virtues and policies. His words were quite disrespectful. Even the sixth brother read it and said - this minister is arrogant to the emperor. Shi Benzhi criticized the late emperor's virtues and policies... and was suspected of echoing Liu Zhi and forming a party to threaten the state affairs!!"

Lu Gongzhu's head suddenly started buzzing.

Clique!

Are Liu Zhi and Wang Yansou forming a party?He was a little excited and had to stand up to explain before he had time to think about it.

But Han Jiang was already ahead of him, holding the fluorine in his hand and worshiping: "I am so frightened that I beg the benevolent saints of the two palaces to send down Wang Yansou's words!"

Nodding to the Queen Mother, he asked Shi Deyi to send out the bullets that had been copied one by one.

Lu Gongzhu took the copy of the bullet.

Then when he looked at the content, his vision went dark and he almost fainted on the spot.

Lu Gongzhu knew that Wang Yansou was definitely hopeless!

why?
Who doesn't know that today's officials are the most filial sons in the world?

But Wang Yansou dared to write a letter about the policy of "replacing prisoners with troops on the spot" that the late emperor was often proud of when he was in power.

Although the text seems reasonable.

But every sentence says that the late emperor's policy was completely wrong.

Not only that, but it also caused trouble to the countryside and allowed thieves to run rampant.

He vaguely pointed out that the current public order in the world is corrupted, and the late emperor must be responsible for this policy and may be fully responsible!
Can the officials spare him?
"Why is Wang Yanlin so unwise?"

Lu Gongzhu lamented in his heart.

In front of a filial son, he criticized and belittled the things that his father was proud of in his life.

He also uses words to exaggerate the current situation of the deterioration of public security in the world.

Create an atmosphere that all this is the fault of the late emperor.

This happened in the Han and Tang Dynasties. Wang Yansou had been pushed to the vegetable market and cut off in two parts.

Lu Gongzhu was still lamenting, but Han Jiang had already stood up and worshiped: "Your majesty, the Cisheng of the two palaces... The old minister observed and monitored the writings of Wang Yansou, the censor, and secretly saw that he used words to slander the late emperor and insinuate the national affairs. , to criticize the imperial government’s policies... is beyond the scope of human ministers!”

"In my humble opinion, Dali Temple is now!"

This is to put a censor in prison.

Since the Song Dynasty, there has been no precedent for such a thing!
After listening to this, Mr. Lu immediately stepped out of the queue and bowed again: "I am reporting to you, Your Majesty the Emperor, the kind sages of the two palaces... I believe that what the right minister said is true!"

"The imperial censor is the mouthpiece of the emperor!"

"I am now imprisoned for my words. I am afraid that in the future, the censors and admonishers will not dare to speak out!"

This is a fact!

In the Song Dynasty, the emperor always encouraged censors and admonishers to speak boldly.

It doesn’t matter if you say it wrong!
During the time of Renmiao and Yingmiao, the censors and admonishers could even speak eloquently in front of the king.

The saliva of the censors and admonishers all sprayed on the emperor's face, not once or twice.

Although the late Emperor Qiankun was arbitrary, he also respected the censors and admonishers.

why?
Because censors and admonishers are people who do the things of sinners.

They must be emboldened and given space to perform.

Let them be brave enough to bite and attack people.

Queen Mother Xiang naturally understood what Lu Gongzhu meant.

But the Empress Dowager snorted: "Could it be that the censors have formed a clique and they have to sit idly by and ignore it?"

She now has some opinions about the scholar-bureaucrats and officials of foreign dynasties.

Oh……

My nephew, just went to Xihe Road to be an official in charge of money and food, but you jumped up and down, making the sky cry, as if the Song Dynasty was about to perish because of Gao Gongji.

As a result, now, your people have made mistakes, and they have also committed serious crimes such as forming cliques, spying on the two palaces, and slandering the late emperor.

You jumped out again, and you can't even go to jail for punishment?
Co-author, My nephew is always wrong no matter what he does.

And no matter what you civil servants did, it was justified, right?

Lu Gongzhu was shocked, and he quickly apologized with the fluorine: "I don't dare... I'm just worried about the future, and the imperial censors and admonishers don't dare to say anything..."

As he said that, he glanced at Han Jiang.

Han Jiang pretended not to see it.

Even if Han Jiang knew that Lu Gongzhu was right.

However, Clay Bodhisattva also has fire energy!
He has already read the bullets of Liu Zhi and Wang Yansou.

If he still couldn't see that Liu Zhi and Wang Yansou were trying to drag him, the prime minister, into trouble, wouldn't it be that he had been in officialdom for decades in vain?
So, how could he help these two people?
Adding insult to injury like this and stepping on him hard is what Han Jiang would do.

There may be good people in officialdom.

But there is absolutely no silly Baitian who repays evil with kindness.

Lu Gongzhu sighed helplessly, and could only bow again with his hands: "Empress, the ancestral system is like this..."

"Censors and admonishers can be appointed to foreign posts or demoted, but they can never be punished!"

"It's a small matter to sin against Liu Zhi and Wang Yansou, but it's a big deal to sin against our ancestors!"

"Begging for Mercy, Holy Insight!"

After saying that, he bowed and fell to the ground.

Zhao Xu saw it and felt that the heat was almost there.

So, he said: "Mother, I think what Governor Lu said is right..."

"The ancestral system is the foundation of the country... Renmiao Jiayou's government is the most good and beautiful government of our dynasty!"

Empress Dowager Xiang also helped to persuade: "Your Majesty, what Governor Lu said is true. I hope you will think about it again!"

The Empress Dowager finally lost some of her anger.

Zhao Xu laughed in his heart when he saw it.

In his previous life, Wang Yansou's memorial was published in three provinces and six volumes by his mother-in-law, who greatly praised it.

And soon the law of exile was abolished and exile was reinstated.

On modern television, the situation of being escorted by police officers for hundreds or thousands of miles while wearing shackles weighing tens of kilograms reappears.

Then, Wang Anshi's cautious punishment policy was abolished.

In the eighth year of Yuanfeng, only two or three thousand people were able to expand the world.

In the second year of Yuanyou, there were 1 people in the world!
Death row inmates whose prices skyrocketed five to six times!
In a feudal society, what kind of impact would this have?
The proliferation of thieves and robbers began here.

Because when the law no longer tolerates treating the first offender and the accomplice equally, all of them will be executed.

When the country re-exported ordinary criminals to other places, more than half of them died on the road.

Vibrant people in society know that they have no way out once they commit a crime.

If Zhao Guan's family doesn't give them a way to survive, they will find a way to survive on their own!

The most typical example is the Chen Sheng and Wu Guang uprising at the end of the Qin Dynasty - if you die now, you will die, if you make great plans, you will die. If you wait for death, will the country die?
So, invite Da Qin to die!

The chaos caused by Yuanyou only lasted for a few years. After Fan Chunren and Lu Dafang took charge, they slowly adjusted and recovered. After Zhao Xu took charge, they even brought order to the chaos.

Otherwise, I am afraid that before the Jin soldiers could move south, the Song Dynasty would have perished due to the successive peasant riots and sergeant rebellions.

This is the reason why Zhao officials in the past dynasties would patiently recruit and appease those peasant uprising leaders who only opposed corrupt officials but not the emperor, and gave them official positions.

Stop pushing people too hard!
Give people a way to survive!
With this in mind, Zhao Xu continued: "Besides, my mother-in-law and queen mother, I also feel that no matter what, we must give these two ministers a chance to defend themselves in the palace!"

Of course, Zhao Xu is very willing to do such a favor without any expense.

Especially when the overall situation has been decided and the outcome cannot be changed, come out and be a good person.

Queen Mother Xiang immediately said: "Brother Six is ​​right!"

She not only wants to support Zhao Xu, but also because she is the daughter of a scholar-official family and is naturally close to scholar-officials.

The Empress Dowager hummed twice, knowing that what Zhao Xu and Empress Dowager Xiang actually said made sense.

How can we demote others without giving them a chance to defend themselves?

If word spread, it would be very bad for her reputation.

Who is she?
The female middle school students of the Song Dynasty, Yao and Shun, are so similar in the future!

Of course you have to show magnanimity.

　I went to the hospital for a review today, so I came back a little late.

　　Four more tomorrow!

　　Note: Liu Zhi is a clear person who can shout slogans.

　　But Wang Yansou is different. Wang Yansou is actually very talented!
　　But he is naturally at odds with the protagonist.

　　And in history, the protagonist is deeply sinned.

　　Therefore, the protagonist will definitely attack him!
　　Readers are asked to discern this point.

　　Don’t be led away by the protagonist’s perspective.

　　PS: In history, Wang Yansou belonged to the main war faction among the peace faction.

　　He was also one of the few ministers among the radical faction of the old party who opposed the cession of territory.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)