Chapter 389: Cai Jing asked to resign

When Chen Ao was still a supervisor, Hua Shigang's accounts were already quietly circulating among supervisors. Students loved the most, and it was common to say a few words in their hearts after studying. What's more, the students in the Imperial College were all officials, and I don't know who leaked the accounts of the Ministry of Revenue, anyway, it was a sensation.

Before traveling through time, Chen Ao's impression of Hua Shi Gang was limited to the story of Water Margin. When he read the accounts, his chin was about to fall off. At that time, he thought to himself, if my buddy had known this, he would have opened a mountain house in the sea. Now, what I think back is that I have fooled so many international friends, and the money I made was not as good as a stone. Failure is too much failure!

The account book was really shocking. The annual cost was 30 million yuan. What is the concept of 30 million yuan? In the entire Song Dynasty, the annual income was only 100 million yuan. This item is only one, God knows how many people have made their fortune.

Chen Ao is both jealous and indignant. Jealousy is necessary. In the act of making love, a servant in the workplace is rich. When he meets someone with good things, he can take yellow paper and grab it with him. In order to make some money, his buddy was injured in his tongue. It turned out that he was not as small as others and a piece of yellow paper.

It is natural to be indignant. Chen Ao always needs to make some money. The emperor has one, the empress dowager has one, and the father-in-law, Eunuch Yang, and even the concubines and the king of clans, can't be left behind. They can still win the flag of winning glory for the country. It turned out that after working for a long time, I thought I had really added some money to the country. But compared with the flower use of Hua Shigang, it was really a thousand miles away!

This is how the emperor makes money?

Cutting off the Flower and Stone Gang is the general trend. The treasury of the imperial court is empty. This is not counting. Only God in the northern Liao Kingdom knows how long it can stop the Jin people. Chen Ao doesn't want to be a decapitated ghost under the butcher knife of the Jin people. If he doesn't raise some food and money immediately, he doesn't know how to die.

In fact, flower stones are not worth much. The so-called flower stones are either stones picked from the mountains or robbed by force. The real consumption is in freight and corruption, the creation and weaving bureaus, and the deductions are layer by layer. There are also the civil servants who are requisitioned along the way. The waste is so great that it has never been seen in the world. Only by persuading Zhao Ji to give up the flower stone sect can these people be cut off.

Chen Ao said something, Zhao Ji couldn't help but raise his eyebrows, and couldn't help but fall into deep thought. He held the handle of the chair with his hand, kept picking the red paint on the handle, closing his eyes, and his face looked very unhappy.

Chen Ao's words meant to tell Zhao Ji that he was being hacked and that those bastards would be full of their own pockets, but their appearance was too ugly and they went to rob them everywhere, but they were beaten to the emperor's name. As a result, they got the benefits, but the emperor left a bad reputation.

Zhao Ji didn't think anything at first, but he just thought that as long as the Imperial Bureau was willing to worship on time, corruption and disturb the people, he couldn't help but be furious after hearing Chen Ao's words. He originally thought that these guys were doing things for him, but they did it together.

Let the emperor take the blame, so Zhao Ji cannot tolerate it. He sneered and said, "It's not that easy. Yang Jian, go to the Secretariat to issue an edict and tell them that I want to investigate the Suzhou-Hangzhou Construction Bureau."

The so-called edict is actually similar to the votes of the Ming Dynasty in later generations, but the power of the Song Dynasty was divided into three parts, namely the Zhongshu, the Mensezhai, and the Shangshu. The Zhongshu was responsible for drafting the edict according to the emperor's wishes, and then sent the edict to the Mensezhai Province for approval and finally handed over to the Shangshu Province for execution. These three links effectively checked and balanced the power of the prime minister.

Yang Jian responded and was about to pass the message, but Zhao Ji seemed to remember something again: "When you come back, you still don't need to issue an edict, just draft the edict."

Yang Jian's eyes lit up and he immediately understood something. The biggest function of the Zhongtuan Imperial is to directly bypass the three provinces and issue his own orders. Such a major matter was issued to implement the Zhongtuan Imperial, which shows that Your Majesty no longer trusts the three provinces.

As for why you don’t trust the Three Provinces, you actually need to think about it and understand that Cai Jing is in charge of the three Provinces. If you don’t trust the Three Provinces, you don’t trust Cai Jing. Yang Jian and Cai Jing had no enemies before, but they were just getting involved with Shen Ao recently. The two of them were relatives again, breaking their bones and tendons, and not fighting against you Cai Jing. Now Cai Jing has lost the emperor’s trust invisibly, which is of course gratifying.

However, Yang Jian did not show any pleasure of putting in trouble at all. He lowered his eyebrows and replied: "Yes."

Shen Ao's conspiracy succeeded and smiled happily. He was not as reserved as Yang Jian. He said happily: "Your Majesty, why do you need someone to investigate? If you really ask someone to investigate, it will be a mess in the end. Anyway, your Majesty is going to go to investigate, so your Majesty will investigate in person. Which son of the turtle corruption of His Majesty's money and let His Majesty bear his reputation, so he will copy all his money back. Your Majesty is the imperial envoy, so I feel wronged and leave a deputy envoy." When Shen Ao heard Zhao Ji's voice, his face turned red with excitement, and almost wanted to shout: rob their money, so they have no way to grab it.

When Shen Ao's incitement was right, Zhao Ji patted his thigh and said, "Okay, copy him a turtle son, Shen Ao, what is the allusion of this turtle son?"

Shen Ao coughed desperately: "The turtle son is the turtle son, so how can there be any allusions?"

The two agreed, and Zhao Ji was about to get his long-cherished wish, so he was very excited. He walked back and forth with his hands in hand, and had to make arrangements in advance. After a while, he said, "There is no need to bring too many guards, and there are 300 people enough. In addition, who can hurt me?" Then he said: If it can really be done, there will be an edict, and there is no need to be extravagant in various places. I just walked around casually. If it is too much, I will not follow it."

Before he could tell the eight characters, he explained everything clearly. Yang Jian could only be a vocal worm. God knew that he remembered a few things in a hurry. Shen Ao said: "Your Majesty, I was very busy a few days ago, but I almost forgot about one thing."

Zhao Ji smiled and said, "You just say it's okay."

Shen Ao said about meeting Xuan Lan'er in Nanjing, and said with a righteous heart: "I have been thinking of Song in the north for a long time. Although I have devoted myself to the iron hoof of Khitan, there are still many loyal officials who obey Your Majesty's inspiration to deal with the Khitans. Did Your Majesty send someone to contact them?"

Before Zhao Ji could get immersed in his excitement, he still had a blush on his face and waved his hand: "You are the minister of the Honglu Temple, so of course you are in contact with them. Well, since they are loyal people, I can't treat them with ease. What's the name of that leader?"

Shen Ao said: "Ran Lan'er."

Zhao Ji thought for a while: "I will give you a general Dingyuan. If Yan Yun is recovered in the future, I will still have a great reward."

General Dingyuan is just a reminder that he was fooling people with the Lawshizi scholar of Shen Ao. Although he was only a fifth-rank, it was rare for Zhao Ji to give him a general in one breath. If it were the past when the Khitans were still in glory, Zhao Ji would not only give him a general, but even contact him, he was afraid that the matter would be leaked and that would destroy the relationship between Song and Liao. However, now the feng shui has changed. He is in a good mood today. He has given an official title to a Han people in Liao Kingdom in one sentence, but he doesn't even ask whether the other party is a man or a woman.

Chen Ao said in surprise: "Your Majesty, I'm going to care about it again? They are all martial artists. Weishu is a civil servant. How can I subdue them? Your Majesty at least gives an order or something, and the order writes words such as negotiations according to the order, so that Weishu can also have a means to subdue them, right?"

Zhao Ji did not realize that he had fallen into Chen Ao's pit, and waved his hand generously, "This is easy to deal with, I will draft your order for you in person."

Chen Ao said happily: "This is easy. Oh, it's getting late. I'm going to surrender. Your Majesty, can you draft the decree first and take it back?"

Zhao Ji was so happy today. He called Yang Jian to come to the Four Treasures of the Study, and wrote four words to negotiate with him personally. He asked Chen Ao what else to write. Chen Ao praised Zhao Ji's words first, and then he smiled and said, "It's enough to have these four words. If you deal with those wild people, you have written too many words, so it's hard for them to identify them." After receiving the imperial edict written by the emperor, he said seriously: "Your Majesty, can I hang this order in the main hall of Honglu Temple to make a strong sound?"

Zhao Ji didn't think too much. Thinking of Shen Ao's idea for him just now, he nodded and said, "You can do it yourself."

Chen Ao took the imperial edict and said goodbye.

As soon as Chen Ao left, Zhao Ji felt a little tired. As soon as he relaxed, the rosy on his face faded, and he said to Yang Jian: "Yang Jian, come and relax my bones."

Yang Jian responded, grabbed Zhao Ji's shoulder, and was about to say something, an eunuch outside reported, saying, "Your Majesty, Grand Master Cai will meet you."

Zhao Ji seemed unpredictable in his eyes and said, "What are he doing? Isn't he already called him sick?"

The eunuch said, "I don't know."

Zhao Ji waved his hand and said, "Call him in."

Cai Jing, who was old and calm, entered the hall step by step. That night, he suddenly got a little older. The wrinkles carved on his face were slightly dark spots, and his silver hair became increasingly sparse. He finally crossed the threshold and was already a little panting, but he knelt down and said, "Your Majesty."

Zhao Ji said, "Since the Taishi is in good health, please rest for a few more days. Come and help the Taishi sit down."

The eunuch who was rumored to help Cai Jing up carefully and helped him sit down. Cai Jing did not dare to look at Zhao Ji, but just lowered his head and said, "I am already blinded, I am afraid that I can't afford it anymore. This time I came here to resign from Your Majesty."

Cai Jing looked very restrained with his legs together and his hands on his legs. As for resignation, it was really a bad choice he had no choice. He was betting whether he really lost his holy family. If His Majesty ignores him, he can resign safely and escape unstoppable. But if His Majesty does not agree, then at least there is still one thing that is certain that His Majesty still needs him. With this, the veteran who has taken charge of the three provinces will still have room for maneuver.

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Chapter completed!