Chapter 460: Something big happened

On New Year's Eve, when I woke up early in the morning, the mansion was filled with a festive atmosphere. The lanterns and Spring Festival couplets were ready-made, and Liu Sheng hosted them so that there would be no mistakes.

Chen Ao became famous and went to visit Tang Yan and Chen Ji first, so he started to arrange the matter of entering the palace. If he wanted to enter the palace, the etiquette could not be spent. He had to wear a dress. The three ladies had to do the imperial decree and had to do it.

The dresses of the Song Dynasty were the most complicated, especially the imperial edicts, which had strict regulations on the three layers inside and three layers outside.

Fortunately, Tang Yan jumped out at this time and supervised him, but he was not afraid of anything being left behind.

After taking a shower and dressing, I waited for the order. At noon, Chen Ji was invited to drink. The master and apprentice drank a few cups. Mrs. Tang and Zhenzhen took a brief taste and retreated to the inner room to rest. After the three of them had a drink, they would inevitably have some discussion. Tang Yan suddenly asked about the Martial Arts School. In fact, Tang Yan had not asked about it since the establishment of the Martial Arts School. At this time, he suddenly asked, which surprised Chen Ao, and he said his main theme.

Tang Yan pondered: "I thought you wanted to make a fuss, but I didn't expect you to do it. However, if a literati joins the army, is he a scholar or a martial artist?"

Chen Ji was very impressed by the martial arts school. He would occasionally go there a few times, mostly at night to supervise the school captain's homework. He raised his glass and drank a sip of wine and said, "The way of civil and military affairs is different. As long as it benefits the country and the people, why bother about civil and military affairs?"

Tang Yan sneered: "I can't see it anymore, so I'm fined a glass of wine." He drank a glass of wine and then smacked his lips.

After noon, someone finally came to pick him up. Yang Jian came in person. He wore a red dress and entered the mansion in a familiar way. When he saw Tang Yan, Chen Ji also laughed and said, "It turns out that the two are here too. Haha, the family is polite."

Tang Yan and Chen Ji quickly replied the gift and greeted Yang Jian for a few polite words. Yang Jian said, "This trip from the family brought Chen Ao and Zhenzhen into the palace. You two, the palace is still waiting, so I won't bother you." Then he went to the back garden to see Zhenzhen. When he saw Zhenzhen wearing an imperial dress, he was amazed, saying that she was even more dignified than the concubines in the palace.

Yang Jian praised this and Chen Ao said, "Actually, Moer and Ruoer are also very dignified."

Yang Jian was the most sleek person. After hearing Chen Ao's words, he immediately said: "Yes, yes, the family is just visiting Zhenzhen."

After saying that, he took the four of them out of the mansion, went directly to the carriage in the palace, and went straight into the palace.

When they got off the bus at Zhengde Gate, Zhenzhen and others, as female relatives, were led to the harem to the empress dowager to sit, while Chen Ao was called to Wenjing Pavilion to talk to the emperor first.

Today, Zhao Ji was in a bad mood and had a gloomy face. When Chen Ao went in, he found Cai Jing, the Minister of War and others were there. They stood in fear and did not dare to show off.

If it is normal to give Cai Jing a seat, Zhao Ji is sympathetic to him, so he has always been very kind to him, but the atmosphere today is different, as if something big happened.

Zhao Ji sat on the dragon throne with his eyes closed. Chen Ao came in. He just opened his eyes a little, and then continued to remain silent.

Chen Ao stood aside obediently and waited. Zhao Ji gently tapped the imperial desk with his knuckles. There was a red memorial on the imperial desk, which was very bright.

The memorials of the Song Dynasty were divided into three types. One was ordinary memorials, mostly with green bases, and the other was impeachment memorials, which were black bases. Only when major events happened, such as urgent reports from border towns and emergency reports from disasters, would they use red bases. After receiving such memorials, the three provinces could not be proficient in their profession and report them directly to the palace.

If it were when Cai Jing was in charge of the three provinces in the past, Liang Shicheng was echoing each other, so even if it was a big red memorial, he would dare to keep it, so that his Majesty would not be "troubled". But now, the Secretariat had a quartz, a gong outside the court, and Yang Jian in the palace. This kind of thing could not be hidden, so it was sent immediately, so it saved people to catch the handle.

Chen Ao knew in his heart that something might have happened in the border town or something. This matter was not small. It was also sarcastic to see that the Minister of War was also there, so it was almost certain that it should have been a military matter.

Military affairs are the most troublesome, but in Shen Ao's opinion, what he is most afraid of is the Jin people going south. However, if something goes wrong with the Liao Kingdom, Chen Ao should have received the news first. He secretly wondered: "Is it because something happened in the border town?"

Cai Jing bent down and said slowly: "Your Majesty... It's time to this point, and it's a futile investigation. It's better to find a way to deal with the aftermath. It's New Year's Eve, and it's the old minister to blame for such a thing..."

"You don't have to blame yourself." Zhao Ji closed his eyes and thought deeply, and said slowly: "If you want to blame, I blame me for not knowing people. You are right. It's time to deal with the aftermath. However, there must be a constitution for the aftermath. The court must have two tricks, one is to ease the other is to suppress it. First, send an imperial envoy to see what they say. At the same time, the Ministry of War must also be fully prepared."

The Minister of War said sarcastically: "Does it be time to transfer the border troops? The Amway army is leaning on the other side of Jingji North Road, and there are still tens of thousands of elite cavalrymen to call on Xiaozhong's side."

Zhao Ji said coldly: "You can't move. Now the border affairs are uneasy. We must prevent problems before they happen. If a bandit is in chaos, we will *** the border troops. Be careful that the Xixia people have the opportunity to take advantage of it. So we will allocate the imperial guards to go there. Gao Qiu has been a little lazy in the past few years. I will give him a chance."

Zhao Ji thought for a while and said, "Before the troops and horses move, the matter of recruiting and appeasement is still the top priority. Why is the welcoming head of the Ministry of Rites called Wu?"

The Minister of War was stunned. He knew some people from the Ministry of Rites, but he really had no impression of the welcome host. When he heard Zhao Ji ask, he said, "Yes...yes..."

Chen Ao said, "I'm also a capable person."

Ban Fei raised her eyes, looked at Chen Ao with gratitude, and said, "Yes, it's him. This person has heard a little about it, but he doesn't have much friendship in his daily life and it's hard to remember it for a while."

Zhao Ji glared at Chen Ao, then slowly said: "Let him be the imperial envoy and be appointed as the North Road recruitment envoy of the Jingji North Road. Let him know clearly that as long as the other side is willing to accept the recruitment, everything can be discussed, but if it is stubborn, the army will have to encircle and suppress it from all sides. Cai Aiqing, the disciples and provinces must also be fully prepared and draft an edict. If there is anything, enter the palace to report it at any time. This year will be even worse."

Then, Zhao Ji waved his hand and said, "Let's go down."

Cai Jing and Ban Feng bowed and left in a row.

Zhao Ji sighed and said to Chen Ao: "Come on, come and sit next to me."

Chen Ao approached and sat down at Zhao Ji's confrontation. Zhao Ji said, "You can see it yourself and see what you say."

Chen Ao picked up the memorial on the imperial case, and it was indeed a rebellion. It was about the rebellion. It was about Xu Shenfu, the appeaser of the North Road of Jingji, raising the banner to rebel. He gathered tens of thousands of people and occupied the North Road of Jingji, proclaiming himself Emperor Tianyi, changing the first year of Yuanshen, setting up hundreds of officials, and issued a false edict to present Zhao Ji eight major crimes, claiming to be the way for heaven and overthrow the Song Dynasty.

Chen Ao was stunned. A pacifier actually turned against him. It would be fine if he turned against him. After all, the chiefs along the way were nominally pacifiers, but the envoys of the punishment and the transshipment envoy also turned against him. It was fine if these two people were confused. Even the local wing army followed them and many prefectures and counties were like this. Overnight, the entire North Road of Jingji became traitors. A few days ago, they were still court officials and good people. How could they say that they would rebel?

The official system of the Song Dynasty adopted a policy of strong trunks and weak branches. It not only had great power to monopolize the central government, but officials from all walks of life were hindered by each other. This was in charge of prisons, the other was in charge of government affairs, and the other was in charge of river transportation. It was clear that there was no rebellion by the comfort envoy. However, such a strange thing happened. Xu Shenfu was soaked in the heart after eating lard, and the entire West Road of Jingji was soaked in his mind.

"Your Majesty..." Chen Ao put down his memorial, looking like he wanted to speak but stopped.

Zhao Ji's face was extremely difficult to see, and he said dejectedly: "It's my fault, I'm responsible for everything."

A marginal sentence made Chen Ao even more confused. Who is Xu Shenfu, who is so capable.

Seeing Chen Ao's face full of doubts, Zhao Ji smiled bitterly: "This person was once a guest of Kinmen. Later, I sealed him off to Jingji North Road, but unexpectedly it would have caused such a disaster. In the past few years, he set up the Tianyi Sect on Jingji North Road, but he didn't even check it. He unexpectedly had such a great momentum in just a few years."

Chen Ao suddenly realized that the so-called Golden Gate Feather Guest is a Taoist priest. Zhao Ji had previously advocated Taoism. No one dared to stop Taoist priests from entering and leaving the palace, so he was called the "Golden Gate Feather Guest". These people, represented by Cai You, were also noisy for a while, and many of them were granted official positions and became chief officials of the border.

But later, Chen Ao exposed the trick of a living god and designed to kill Cai You's political future. These Taoists were also frightened, afraid that His Majesty would settle down, so they began to seek self-protection strategies. The Taoist named Liu Shenfu was a pacifier and recruited believers on Gyeonggi North Road in his early years. He was the highest commander of Gyeonggi North Road and the leader of Tianyi Sect. Of course, there were many people who depended on it. In this way, most of the officials of Gyeonggi North Road naturally surrendered to it. I believe that those people did not believe in the Tianyi Sect at the beginning. After all, they were scholars, and whoever believed was a fool. However, since they were under the Tianyi Sect, this relationship could not be washed away. Xu Shenfu asked them to do something illegal. With the handle, Xu Shenfu called them up and shouted, and they could only be deceived.

Even the officials were pulled down, and the people of the Xiang army were even more confused. The Tianyi Sect relied on Xu Shenfu to take charge of the government and held some religious ceremonies and recruited believers in a crazily manner, for fear that the people of all prefectures and counties would all become believers of the Tianyi Sect.

Just before the New Year, the Ministry of Personnel was ready to deal with Liu Shenfu. In the past, Liu Shenfu was in power because of the saints' family. Now everyone can see that His Majesty is gradually becoming less enthusiastic about gods and ghosts. Liu Shenfu has no political achievements on the North Road of Gyeonggi. To put it bluntly, this guy is not a person on the same boat. Everyone worships Saint Kong. What kind of god he worships is not a system, and he has long disliked him. So the people from Gongkaosi over there have already greeted him, and asked the person named Liu to clean his butt and get out!

Seeing that Liu Shenfu was unable to become an official, he was afraid of being questioned. At this time, he became distracted and simply raised his flag and took a storm to make a fuss.

The news was sent to Zhao Ji. It was originally a good New Year's Eve, but it was completely ruined. The North Road of Jingji is only a hundred miles away from Bianjing. Something happened there. If something bad is there, it may spread to Bianjing, causing panic in Jingji.

Zhao Ji raised his eyes. Although he deliberately calmed down in front of Cai Jing and Ban Feng, he seemed a little helpless at this time: "Chen Ao, if he can't help but fail to recruit him, what should he do?"

Chen Ao thought about it and said without hesitation: "Then let's ask for another call."

Zhao Ji shook his head: "You don't understand, the relationship here is too great. Gyeonggi North Road is a suburb of Gyeonggi and is close to the border town. One negligence will lead to a huge disaster."

Chen Ao hesitated for a moment and said, "Your Majesty, let the border troops go and recruit. As for the imperial guards, it is better to stay in the capital to prevent accidents."

Zhao Ji didn't know it, but Chen Ao understood that the imperial guards in Jingji were already very decayed, and it was okay to be corrupt. The most terrible thing was to get empty salary. In the eyes of the emperor, the Ma Junsi in Jingji had at least 40,000 to 50,000 people, and the scale was not small. It was obviously enough to use it to suppress the thieves. After all, the thieves on the North Road of Jingji were only the wing army, and of course it was not the opponent of the large number of imperial guards. But Zhao Ji didn't know that it would be good if the Ma Junsi could have 20,000 people. Relying on Gao Qiu to take 20,000 people to the North Road of Jingji, there would probably be something wrong.

Once the official army fails, the problem will be even more serious, so Chen Ao means that he would rather let the border army go, because the border army has a good combat power, at least it has the power to fight.
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