Prince of Song Dynasty

Chapter 405 The Chief Envoy's Token Appears

That is to say, the Huaxia Weifu at this time needs Li Junhao to sit in the Huaxia Weifu to appease the people below or calm people's hearts.

Since the news of the death of the chief envoy spread, the hearts of the people in the Huaxia Weifu were fluctuating. Jin Wang Zhao Guangyi and Prime Minister Zhao Pu secretly began to win over officials above the minister. They also began to feel restless, those who have been detoxified, some people have the idea of ​​running away, those who have not detoxified, clamoring to ask Li Junhao to go to Ye Fu for the antidote.If it wasn't for Ye Chen's remaining prestige, and these arrogant guys would more or less remember Ye Chen's goodness, and the ghost doctor would not be so easy to provoke.Otherwise, they would all go to Ye Mansion and grab the antidote directly.

Just as Li Junhao walked down the stone steps at the entrance of the Ye Mansion, Ren Zhiliang chased him out of the Ye Mansion, first saluted Li Junhao with his fists in his arms, and then said in a low voice: "My lord, His Royal Highness King Jin has always valued your lordship, and the lord wants to see you tonight." On the one hand, I wonder if my lord can give the prince some face?"

Li Junhao frowned, stopped, turned his head and said to Ren Zhiliang: "Lord Ren, the chief envoy was killed just now, do you think Li will go to see His Royal Highness King Jin at this time?"

Ren Zhiliang smiled wryly, but he had nothing to say.Since he came to Huaxia Weifu as the deputy envoy of the Supervision Department, he has cooperated with Li Junhao for more than a month to investigate the corruption case of the construction of the Yellow River Reservoir. It has already been thrown out, and it was originally waiting for the commander-in-chief to order the net to catch fish after he returned from Jiangnan, and the first shot of the Supervision Department was completely fired.And in this process, he has made great contributions.At the same time, after more than a month, he had an accurate understanding of Li Junhao's personality, and he knew that it was indeed impossible for the latter to meet King Jin at this time.But he is a member of the King of Jin, and he knows that he can't do anything, but he still wants to say some things for the King of Jin.

Under Ren Zhiliang's wry smile, Li Junhao had already walked quickly towards his carriage.

But at this moment, a middle-aged man dressed as a scribe walked out from the nearby teahouse, came to Li Junhao, bowed deeply, and began to speak with a smile on his face.But before this person finished speaking, Li Junhao apologized and got into the carriage. Eight Huaxia Golden Guards on tall horses stood guard on both sides of the carriage, and a Huaxia Guard acted as the driver to drive away. Only the scribe was left The well-dressed middle-aged man looked at the receding carriage with a livid expression.

Ren Zhiliang naturally knew this middle-aged scribe, who was Prime Minister Zhao Pu's confidant Huang Futong.

Seeing that Prime Minister Zhao Pu's people also failed, Ren Zhiliang was relieved, thinking that this kind of result could also be handed over to His Royal Highness Jin Wang.

In the carriage, Li Junhao's expression had returned to calm, but the killing intent towards the Maitreya Sect in his heart became more intense as time went by.He took a deep breath, remembering that in the Ye Mansion, he first met Zhao Dezhao, king of Wei, who came to pay homage to the commander-in-chief, and the latter's overly enthusiastic performance of a virtuous and virtuous corporal in front of him, as well as those words that hinted at wooing him.Immediately afterwards, Ren Zhiliang and Huangfu extended an invitation to him on behalf of Zhao Pu and Zhao Guangyi.

After going through these things in his mind, Li Junhao couldn't help thinking about it, thinking that the thing he thought was impossible might really be possible.

The Huaxia Weifu has a large number of people, many masters, and its establishment system is very different from any yamen in the imperial court.If someone from the Political Affairs Hall or the Privy Council is transferred to take Ye Chen's position and become the new chief envoy, there are various problems.First, there is no prestige within the Huaxia Weifu, and it is difficult to convince the public, especially the more than 100 arrogant and arrogant Jianghu masters will not respond at all.Second, outsiders don't understand the various routines and working models of Huaxia Weifu at all, and the officials who can take over Ye Chen's position are at least senior officials from the second rank or above. Opinions are stereotyped and often egotistical, even self-righteous.If such a person comes to the Huaxia Weifu, it can basically be expected that most of them will carry out some reforms and adjustments, and they will inevitably have to install their own confidants, or in order to consolidate their power, it is likely to suppress some people, and then Win over some people.

In this way, the good situation of the Huaxia Weifu will be severely damaged, and with the personalities and prestige of Li Junhao, Bai Canghai, and Xu Fangyi, the Huaxia Weifu will be divided into several hills. The Internet is likely to be torn apart.

This kind of Huaxia Weifu is definitely not what His Majesty the Song Dynasty would like to see, so these days, no matter whether it is Zhao Pu and Zhao Guangyi who are instructing to recommend any high-level officials other than Huaxia Weifu, or even Zhao Pu once proposed that Cao Bin, who has a good relationship with him, also serve as Zhao Kuangyin, the chief envoy of the Huaxia Weifu, did not agree.

There are Zhao Pu and Zhao Guangyi's eyes and ears in the imperial palace. After a few days, both of them roughly guessed Zhao Kuangyin's thoughts, and knew that Zhao Kuangyin was probably considering Li Junhao, who had the highest prestige and seniority in Huaxia Weifu, to take over the position of chief envoy. .Therefore, Li Junhao has become the hottest person in the Song court today.

When the carriage passed a corner, a quack swordsman wearing a bamboo hat attracted Li Junhao, but he just glanced casually.

However, when he saw the token in the swordsman's hand at this glance, Li Junhao's body trembled and his expression changed drastically.Just as he was about to make a move, the swordsman raised his right hand, ejected the token from his hand, and shot at him behind the carriage window.

The eight Huaxia Golden Guards reacted quickly, and they had already drawn their swords at the first time, and they were about to rush at the swordsman. At the last moment, Li Junhao scolded and stopped the eight Huaxia Golden Guards. Shaking from side to side, as fast as the wind, it blends into the crowd and disappears in an instant.This person is clearly a first-class swordsman.

During this process, Li Junhao had already grabbed the token in his hand. Thinking of a certain possibility, his expression was extremely excited, and his body trembled uncontrollably.

This token is Ye Chen's token, and it is the token of the chief envoy of Huaxia Weifu.There is only one piece in the entire Huaxia Weifu, which was refined by Ye Chen and Yu Qingyan in a special way, and no one in the world can imitate it.And only seven envoys have seen this token and know how to identify it.

Li Junhao suppressed the excitement in his heart, and after giving the eight Huaxia Golden Guards that no one should approach the carriage, or they would be shot or killed, he put down the curtains of the carriage, and then began to carefully identify the token.

After a while, Li Junhao took a deep breath, but his heartbeat could not be slowed down.It didn't take long for him to find a roll of cowhide about an inch long and wide with small characters written on it from the small mechanism hidden on the token.

After Li Junhao quickly read the words written on it, he who hadn't cried for many years, was already weeping with joy.

At this moment, the Huaxia Jinwei outside said softly: "My lord, Your Majesty sent the chief of the palace to summon you to enter the palace."

Li Junhao carefully put away the token and the small roll of cowhide, and then said: "Director Wang, please get on the carriage and go to the imperial city with me."

In the Chongzheng Palace, Zhao Kuangyin had already made a decision in his heart.Even the imperial decree to confer Li Junhao as the first-class earl and be promoted to the chief envoy of the Huaxia Weifu has already been written.In addition, he also promoted the titles of the four envoys, Bai Canghai, Xu Fangyi, Jia Xian, and Han Hu. As for the little girl Liu Shuizhi, the envoy of the law enforcement department, because of Ye Chen, she was the envoy of the first division. position, now that Ye Chen is gone, naturally a little girl like Liu Shuizhi can no longer be the envoy of the law enforcement department.

However, considering Liu Shuizhi's close relationship with Ye Chen, and it is said that his son Zhao Defang has a very good relationship with Liu Shuizhi, so he will not treat Liu Shuizhi badly.Zhao Kuangyin had already figured it out, if Ye Chen's concubine gave birth to a son, he would naturally lower Ye Chen's county king's title by one level according to the previous order, and be granted the title of Duke of Xiangfu.As for the girl Shui'er, he will also be named princess at the same time, which can be regarded as another compensation for Yefu.And if Ye Chen's concubine gave birth to a daughter, he would naturally not be able to take Ye Chen's title, so he would make Ye Chen's daughter a princess of the opposite sex, and the girl Shui'er would also be the princess.

In addition, what Zhao Kuangyin is most worried about is the control of the three sub-governments invested by Huaxia Weifu in the west, north and south.Because of the special circumstances, the three envoys of the sub-fu were not serious officials before.

Wu Xiuming, the envoy of Beifu located in Khitan, is an official of Khitan, and he doesn't know what method Ye Chen used to subdue him, and there is no need to worry about his loyalty.

The envoy of the Xifu is Huang Louping, the head of the Central Plains Escort Bureau, one of the four major Escort Bureaus in Jianghu. .

Liu Jinyuan, the Secretary of the Nanfu, was originally the head of the Dajiang Gang, the largest gang in the south of the Yangtze River. This person is a hero.No matter what method Ye Chen used to subdue him, after his death, Ye Chen would most likely be at odds with the Song court.And this person is the same as Wu Xiuming, the envoy of the Northern Mansion. The branch mansions are located in the Southern Tang Dynasty and Khitan respectively.And this is also one of the main reasons why he would rather appoint Li Junhao than send other officials to take over as the chief envoy of the Huaxia Weifu.

The person Zhao Kuangyin summoned today was not only Li Junhao, but also two other envoys of the Huaxia Weifu in Kaifeng at this time besides Shui'er - Jia Xian, envoy of internal affairs, and Han Hu, envoy of security.

Among the three, Li Junhao is the person with the most seniority and the highest prestige in Huaxia Weifu.Although Jia Xian was usually very low-key, Zhao Kuangyin knew that Jia Xian controlled the business wealth of the Huaxia Weifu, which was huge enough to affect the financial revenue of the Song Dynasty.As for Han Hu himself, he is a close minister of the emperor.

(End of this chapter)