Song Jiu smiled bitterly. This was a real misunderstanding. He didn't like Zhao Pu, and he also used his skills, that was Hezhou. But that was in the dark. In this era, no one had the ability to put it on the table and said that he was dealing with Zhao Pu.

If it weren't for his going south and many things had happened, he had always maintained a sloppy and unindifferent relationship with Zhao Chengzong and had also made many "good" suggestions, but Zhao Chengzong didn't listen. But in public, Song Jiu still didn't want to offend Zhao Pu.

Let me ask how many people in this world dare to openly fight against Zhao Pu. Yes, let’s see what they will end up.

Some ministers had a look of pity in their eyes.

Hezhou is a matter of a younger generation. Zhao Pu cannot interfere directly, as that will make people feel uneasy. Hezhou also has the right to treat the people well for personal gain, public taxes, and various research that is conducive to national technology.

But directly offend Zhao Pu, don’t think there are no loopholes. If you are interested in finding Song Jiu’s loopholes, there are still some. It is difficult for Zhao Pu to kill Song Jiu, but it is most likely that you can still send Song Jiu to Shaman Island.

But who dares to say it?

After the banquet.

With different thoughts, they sat and watched how Zhao Pu took revenge.

However, no one expected that this was Zhao Pu's final glory.

What happened in the past two years has repeatedly exceeded Zhao Kuangyin's bottom line. Song Jiu said something vaguely, because he was involved in the Analects of Confucius, and Zhao Kuangyin saw it. He also thought of all the past things, the death of Chai Zongxun, the better than writing books, and the three officials spent all their strength in the second half of last year and only collected 100,000 stones of grain, which caused the people of dozens of prefectures in the north to be famine at the end of the year. If Song Jiu had not written a letter to Guangzhou, if he had not been quick to transfer grain from Shaanxi, he might have had trouble this spring. What was he doing?

Even in the eyes of the governors of various prefectures and counties, there is only the Secretariat, and there is no Emperor.

However, Zhao Pu gradually became a big shot, and Zhao Kuangyin was extremely cautious. First, he issued an edict, and the fifteen officials behind the hall were never replaced. It is advisable to order the Ministry of Personnel to attend the previous officials to meet the orders of the previous officials, and to select the fifteen members of the official affairs, and to report to the fifteen members of the official affairs, and to report to the fifteen members of the vassal state, and to discuss the submissions for three years. If there is no contradictory, the order will be removed from the prefectures and the prefectures will be transferred to the prefectures.

This behind-the-school official refers to the highest-level minor officials serving in the Zhengshi Hall under the Secretary of the Ministry of Affairs, which are divided into the back-the-school officials and the officials of the Five-Directors. The responsibilities of the back-the-school officials of the Five-Directors are to inspect and review the various business documents handled by the officers, chief officials, chief officials, and chief officials; to recommend the back-the-school officials of the Five-Directors, the official documents transferred from each room to perform the final inspection and audit.

Their names are officials, but they are actually officials.

However, from their powers, their powers are greater than those of many officials, and they can be said to be the prime minister's most important right-hand man.

This edict is absolutely fine. These old officials have been in charge of many important government affairs under the Secretary of the Central Committee for a long time, but have not been promoted. Over time, they will definitely not be enterprising. However, with their qualifications, they serve as magistrates, magistrates of various states, judicial household registration and county magistrates. If they replace them, add fifteen minor officials who have not violated the rules or have made major mistakes, they will add fresh blood to the Secretary of the Central Committee.

The edict was issued in front of the front, and the Wude County Magistrate Jiang Xuanyi was appointed as the minister of Meizhou, and was appointed as the senior official of the hall. He was also appointed as the military officer of Xinchengzhou. Former Pi County Magistrate Xia Dechong, and former Sanyuan County Magistrate Kong Chongzhao entered the Secretariat to serve as the senior official of the hall.

Still no problem.

However, once these officials in the hall were replaced, Zhao Pu would be cut off his arms and his thighs. Therefore, Zhao Pu raised an objection. Your Majesty, you can replace a group of officials in the hall, but you can't replace them all. They were just a newcomer and were not familiar with the affairs of the Central Secretariat. If they were replaced, the Central Secretariat would be paralyzed. When Zhao Pu opposed it, it was very powerful. The Inner Liequan of the Ministry of Personnel was preparing to continue to select officials in the hall. When he heard Zhao Pu's objection, he did not dare to select them again. Therefore, he only chose Jiang Renxia Kong and the other four.

Zhao Kuangyin was so miserable by Zhao Pu. If the Inner Revenge did not report the number of people, he could not replace the officials under Zhao Pu. In anger, he summoned the old officials Liu Chonghua and four others to the palace and said directly that you, the officials who were good at the power of the Secretariat, were mostly illegal. I hope you will change your evil into good deeds and no fault in the year. I will give you the position of magistrate of the county. If you continue to be like before, I will punish you severely.

This is the first round.

Zhao Kuangyin took action, but Zhao Pu broke up and the two tied.

Seeing the two of them start to fight fiercely, Liu Xigu, the political affairs officer of the government, who was the first hero of Zhao Kuangyin ascended the throne, was caught in the middle and said that he was very uncomfortable. Emperor, I can't afford to offend you, Zhao Pu, I can't afford to offend you, you, and I have submitted four times to seek resignation because of foot disease. Zhao Kuangyin was unhappy, I used you to divide Zhao Pu's power, so I agreed to resign as the Minister of Revenue.

The second round begins.

Zhao Pu was doing timber business, and under his leadership, many officials also did timber business. The supply and reserve warehouse warehousing Li Shouxin received an imperial edict and managed timber for the state in Qin and Long. Seeing that it was profitable, he embezzled the country's money and operated the timber business for his own family, making a lot of money.

What the Dibao said was very simple, and when he returned to the office, he was sued by his subordinates, that is, Zhao Kuangyin issued an edict to return him and replaced him with others, but his subordinates exposed Li Shouxin's embezzlement of public funds to do business. But why did he replace Li Shouxin at this moment, and why did his subordinates sue Li Shouxin?

The custody of the treasury was no longer a small official. Will Li Shouxin be stupid when sitting in this position? He had just arrived in Zhongmu County and heard about this matter and knew that something was wrong. He wrote a letter to his son-in-law Ma Shi, the magistrate of Qinzhou, and hanged himself. Zhao Kuangyin sent Su Xiao, the doctor of the Sixun, to go to the censorship. After Su Xiao went down, he was not polite and arrested him, including the letter given to his son-in-law by Li Shouxin. He also found out that Zhao Kuangyin wanted to pardon, but Su Xiao disagreed. So he abandoned Ma Shi and beheaded his family and implicated him more widely. Many families went bankrupt together and finally confiscated the public funds embezzled by Li Shouxin. Zhao Kuangyin was very happy and appointed Su Xiao as the right censor, sentenced to Dali Temple, and was later transferred to the left censor, and was supervised by the tax affairs in Beijing.

Therefore, all officials were shocked and no one dared to run the Qinlong timber business again.

Zhao Pu did not touch him, but the spearhead was clearly aimed at Zhao Pu.

The second shot just subsided, and the third shot began again. The left and right military patrols of the capital city, the Diansi, and the old dentist school of Kaifeng Prefecture was selected, and the positions were divided. The emperor mourned the civil prison and ordered the imperial edict to be appointed as a scholar. The next sentence was no problem, and the key was the previous sentence, the seven words in the previous sentence, the old dentist school of Kaifeng Prefecture was selected.

There is no way, Zhao Pu's tail is too big. Zhao Kuangyin used to pass through two lines to the central nervous system in the deep palace. One is Zhao Kuangyi, and the other is Zhao Pu. Zhao Pu's central nervous system has problems, so he can only try to reopen the nerve in Kaifeng Mansion.

But Zhao Kuangyi continued to pretend to be cowardly.

The fourth shot was fired again.

This is another story about slapping on firewood and tasting gall.

Lei Dexiang impeached Zhao Pu and was demoted to Shangzhou as a military servant. The former magistrate of Shangzhou had a good relationship with Lei Dexiang. Zhao Pu was unhappy and transferred his confidant Xi Yu to Shangzhou. Xi Yu then made trouble for Lei Dexiang again and again. Lei Dexiang was miserable and said some resentful words. Xi Yu was furious and happened to hear an article written by Lei Dexiang that wrote some words that were not very satisfied with the court. He secretly sent people to obtain them from the Lei family to imprison him and prepare for the disposal.

Is this guilty?

No!

The Song Dynasty did not promote literary inquisition, nor did the Tang Dynasty. Either Su Dongpo suffered some hardships in the Wutai poem case, but he was only locked in a cell for a few days. Then Wang Anshi demoted Su Dongpo to Huangzhou, and still ate wine and had fun, and still wrote about the river going east. If there were literary inquisitions, at least Bai Juyi and Du Fu could die thousands of times.

Don’t ask Xi Yu what courage he has, let’s see what Yao Shu will end. At that time, Zhao Kuangyin didn’t want to touch Zhao Pu, so he just claimed that he was guilty and removed his title and moved Lingwu to take care of him, satisfying most of Zhao Pu’s wishes. Lingwu was later Xixia and Yinxia, ​​and was truly demoted to the Northwest.

But Lei Dexiang also has a son named Lei Youlin. He was a scholar who failed the provincial examination many times and thought that Zhao Pu deliberately suppressed it. Whether this happened may not be the case. But there must be one. At this time, the test of the famous test has not been implemented. No matter who is the chief examiner, who dares to register him as a Jinshi, and wants to find a draw! After his father's accident, he continued to travel with a group of literati friends as if this had not happened. There was also a scholar at his doorstep, named Wang Dong, who participated in the spring exam together, and called it the same year. In fact, it was not the same year. If Lei Youlin was still there, it would be

After being a Jinshi, it was the real year. He failed and Wang Dong was defeated. Wang Dong later became Secretary Secretary. He cursed Wang Dong. Wang Dong did not expect anything else. Seeing that he had nothing to do and had time all day long, the two had a good relationship before, just like Zhu San and Song Jiu, they entrusted him with family affairs. The officials of the church, Hu Zan and Li Kedu, were in office for a long time and were Zhao Pu's confidants. As a result, they were very powerful. If others wanted to ask them for their business, they had to give them generous gifts to do it. Once, Wang Dong asked Lei You Nei to come back with half-devoured gold.

In ancient times, when gold and silver were melted and cast, they were mostly cast into strips, that is, a gold bar, which was also called a gold bar. Later, the development of this weight was made into a standard weight. The standard weight of one gold and silver was fifty taels, and half gold was twenty-five taels of gold. At this time, gold was still very expensive, and the Song Jiu family did not count. For ordinary officials, half gold was still a considerable amount. Lei Youlin asked strangely: "Brother Wang, why did you do for so much gold?"

"I want to give it to General Hu."

General Hu was Hu Zan, and his military official under Zhao Pu's tent was called General Hu.

Wang Dong cursed Hu Zan because he wanted Hu Zan to say more good things in front of Zhao Pu. Lei Youlin had also gone to Hu Zan's house before, and even gave Wang Dong some gifts. Wang Dong did not expect anything else, so he said it. When Lei Youlin heard the opportunity, he said, "Brother Wang, leave it to me. You are the secretary general. You are too conspicuous to go to General Hu's mansion."

Wang Dong agreed.

Including Hu Zan, he didn't expect anything else. He killed someone just to put the ground. Could it be that because Lei Dexiang impeached Zhao Pu, he killed his family. In addition, Lei Youlin was very careful, and Hu Zan was somewhat sympathetic, so he gradually got along with Lei Youlin.

Therefore, after the incident, these officials were self-inflicted by their own faults, but people at that time did not agree with Lei Youlin. His motive for revenge for his father was good, but his methods were also low.

Not long after, Lei Youlin finally got what he wanted. With the line between Wang Dong and Hu Zan, Lei Youlin's social circle was expanding, and he also had acquaintance with Bo Liu Wei, the acting leader of Shangcai County. Liu Wei was an acting official. According to the rules of the Song Dynasty, any official must be more than three terms and no mistakes. After relying on the valid certificates since the three terms, it was submitted to the Ministry of Personnel for approval before it could be transferred to the Ministry of Personnel for approval. But at this time he encountered a problem, and one of the documents were lost. Liu Wei's eldest brother Liu Wei was a Jinshi, and forged a certificate for him to submit it to the Ministry of Personnel. The key proof required the official seal. Liu Jinshi was a talented person, not only forged the certificate, but also forged the official seal.

What is the crime of forging official seals?

Look at Song Jiu put his small official seal on the ticket, and the fake ticket disappeared immediately. That was a death sentence.

Because he was a friend, the Liu brothers did not hide it from him, and Lei Youlin also knew about it.

He heard another news from Hu Zan that Wang Quanbin pacified Shu, and Bashu was in chaos. The court selected good officials to govern Shu, and also chose Zong Zhengcheng Zhao Fu to go to Xichuan. Zhao Fu saw the chaos in Xichuan, fearing death, and did not want to go, so he claimed to be sick and refused to take responsibility. He asked Zhao Pu to say good things. Zhao Pu really protected him and did not let him go.

Having these three is enough.

Lei Youlin also saw that the emperor was dissatisfied with Zhao Pu, so he heard that the emperor was dissatisfied with Zhao Pu, so he sued the officials after the church, Hu Zan and Li Kedu, who were sheltered by Zhao Pu; Liu Wei forged the official certificates and obtained the official's official approval, which was Zhao Pu's intentional approval; when he pacified Shu, Zong Zhengcheng Zhao Fu should have been sent to Shu, but he pretended to be sick and refused to go, which was also constrained by Zhao Pu.

In fact, the lawsuit is not as strong as his.

However, the times and situations are different. Zhao Kuangyin could not even change the officials after changing the hall. He could imagine the anger. After hearing this, he immediately sent the Censorate to interrogate. These were all facts. After the interrogation, Zhao Kuangyin immediately issued an edict to sentence Liu Wei to death. Wang Dong and Zhao Fu were asked to be removed from office. Hu Zan and Li Kedu were dismissed from office and confiscated their property. Lei Youlin was the secretary.

There were two people in between whom they had been vanishing.

First, Zhao Kuangyi, Lei Youlian's neighbors accumulated thoughts and planned for a long time, which must have nothing to do with Zhao Kuangyi. Second, Song Jiu, and Song Jiu also disappeared.

With this excuse, Zhao Kuangyin ordered the general officials Lu Yuqing and Xue Juzheng to be promoted to the capital hall, and discussed political affairs with the priest to share the power of Zhao Pu. In fact, Zhao Pu still had a glimmer of hope at this time, that is Lu Yuqing. Zhao Kuangyin divided Zhao Pu's power to Xue Juzheng and Lu Yuqing, not to rely on Xue Juzheng, but to be the minister of the former Zhou Dynasty. The person he really hoped for was Lu Yuqing, a meritorious official of the domineering palace, a good official of a generation, and was only in his forties, and was at the time of becoming rich and strong. However, Lu Yuqing disappointed Zhao Kuangyin very much.

He told Song Jiu that I was not Zhao Pu's person, but he did have a good relationship with Zhao Pu. Or he didn't figure out whether you break up and get back together between the three Zhaos, is it true or false. Continue to follow Zhao Pu's lead.

In other words, the state government affairs continued to be controlled by Zhao Pu, but did not achieve the situation Zhao Kuangyin wanted. Zhao Kuangyin asked Lu Duosun, who went south to the Southern Tang Dynasty as an envoy, so he had to learn, talk and talk, and he had a good time with Li Yu. He also had a polite attitude, not as arrogant as before, so he had a great conversation with Li Yu. Before leaving, he sent someone to Li Yu that our Song Dynasty was cultivating the local chronicles of the world, and that the only states in the history museum were missing in the south of the Yangtze River. Can each state give me a copy and let me take it back?

There was a small matter, and Li Yu immediately sent his subordinates to copy the work overnight to avoid delaying Lu Duosun's departure. As long as he sent someone to copy it, Lu Duosun would wait for half a year. He exhausted a group of minor officials in the Southern Tang Dynasty and died of exhaustion. Lu Duosun easily captured all the secrets such as the terrain of the 19 states in the south of the Yangtze River, the distance, and the number of household registrations.

At that time, Zhao Kuangyin valued Lu Duosun more. Zhao Kuangyin asked, and Lu Duosun replied: "Your Majesty, outside the Dongshuimen is a yamen affairs. I don't say it, and I don't know the timber of Qinlong, and I don't say it. I only talk about what I saw in the capital. Zhao Pu Guang governed his mansion and occupied his houses. It was originally a first-class prosperous place in the city. The houses were crowded, but Zhao's houses were so wide that they could manage vegetable gardens. They also used empty barriers to private property and bought houses to seize the benefits of the people. Other ministers did not know."

Lu Duosun did not wrongly accuse Zhao Pu. Zhao Kuangyin used to often go to Zhao Pu's house and could see them.

But after he said it several times, Zhao Kuangyin was hesitant, so Zhao Kuangyin asked another person again, Li Fang, Fang said: "I am not sure what I do."

Zhao Kuangyin was silent.

There are two types of silence. The ministers are right. Zhao Kuangyin didn't want to admit it, so he could only silence.

There is another even more terrifying type. The ministers said something wrong, and Zhao Kuangyin could not refute it clearly, so he went silent.

Li Fang's is not the former, but the latter.

Why do you ask Li Fang? Because of Li Fang's history. In the second year of Qiande, the first time that Song Jiu's imperial examination was held, Zhang Zhao and Tao Gu were in charge of the spring examination. Tao Gu accused Cui Song of the clerk Li Fang from his ministers in charge of his relatives and cited Zhang Zhao as evidence. Zhang Zhao said that there was no such thing. At that time, Zhao Kuangyin intended to support Zhao Pu to take office and suppress the power of the old ministers of the Later Zhou Dynasty. Tao Gu, as Zhao Pu's confidant, was Zhao Pu's power, and he also wanted to support him. Therefore, he was displeased and demoted Li Fang to the Sima of Zhangwu Army, Cui Song to the Baoda Army Division, and Zhang Zhao forced Sanzhang to invite his elders.

Li Fang and Zhao Pu have a grudge.

That's why Zhao Kuangyin asked Li Fang. Of course, there was another possibility, that is, Li Fang was speaking fairly. But it was not true that Li Fang was promoted to a two-system official and actually bowed to the officials behind the hall. In addition, what happened in the examination and examination, Li Fang was not a direct official in Zhao Kuangyin's mind.

Why do you say this? It’s because it’s not easy to be afraid.

If Li Fang beat Zhao Pu's report this time, it would be better. If Lu Yuqing dared to divide Zhao Pu's power, it would be better. Then it means that more ministers would dare to confront Zhao Pu, and Zhao Pu would not be the only one. However, none of these ministers dared to say that, including Lu Duoxun, at most, they would talk about Guangzhi's mansion, not about Longqin wood, and not about Hebei. So what effect did he do when he made several ruthless moves?

Zhao Kuangyin had no choice but to use Zhao Pu anymore, so he directly issued an edict to dismiss Zhao Pu as the governor of the Three Cities of Heyang, and to work together with the Pacification of the Zhang Dynasty.

In fact, the matter could have ended here. Zhao Kuangyin had serious suspicions in the face of Zhao Pu's former power, and even believed that Lu Yuqing was Zhao Pu's man. He repeatedly indirectly attacked him, but Lu Yuqing had no choice but to seek dismissal as the Left Prime Minister of the Shangshu. Zhao Guangmei was appointed as the governor of Yongxing and the minister of the military commander, Zhao Dezhao was appointed as the governor of Shannan West Road, Xue Juzheng was appointed as the minister of the subordinates, Shen Yilun was appointed as the minister of the Secretariat, Shi Shouxin was appointed as the minister of the Secretariat, Shen Qi was appointed as the minister of the Secretariat, Lu Duoxun was appointed as the governor of the Secretariat, Lu Duoxun was appointed as the governor of the Secretariat, Chu Zhaofu was appointed as the deputy envoy of the Privy Council, and his brother Zhao Kuangyi was appointed as the King of Jin and the minister of the generals. He was in the class of the prime ministers.

Take a look at the promotions of these people and you will know the intention of Zhao Kuangyin. Zhao Kuangmei and Zhao Dezhao are still so-called, but one is a third brother, the other is a son, and his own family. Although Xue Juzheng is an honest person, he is not very close to Zhao Pu. Shi Shouxin can now be regarded as a royal relative, Gao Huaide and Wang Shenqi are children's relatives, and they all have a common characteristic. The main figure in releasing military power with a glass of wine is Zhao Pu. Lu Duoxun has always been unaware of a cold with Zhao Pu, and Chu Zhaofu is the same. Not to mention Zhao Kuangyi.

The reason is very simple, that is, completely wash away Zhao Pu's influence.

An era finally came to an end. When Zhao Pu left, he said, "Outsiders said that I slighted my brother Kaifeng Yin, and my brother was loyal, filial and loyal, and I was so loyal.

That was not a ridicule, and Zhao Pu did not expect what happened later. If it were like that, with his power, he would have gained the biggest fruit before Lu Duosun. Why did he create a farce of the Golden Plaque Alliance? This is fear, and he was afraid that Zhao Kuangyi would also force him to death like he did...

Because of this sentence, he left a way out, so he could make a comeback later. Although Zhao Pu was far from Zhao Pu's current situation at that time, no matter how profound Zhao Pu's skills were in the future, it would not necessarily have a good ending in history. Because in addition to Lu Duosun, there was another person.

The most terrifying figure in the Song Dynasty was not Wang Anshi, Zhao Pu, or Sima Guang. The real terrifying thing was the first person in three hundred years, Fan Zhongyan!

Because his virtue is flawless, it is really scary, even if it is a capable minister like Lu Yijian who has the skills to govern the world and a master of power and strategy. Song Jiu was not as good as Fan Zhongyan, and may be barely considered a smaller version of Fan Zhongyan. In some aspects of his life, he has a greater effect on the country than Fan Zhongyan.
Chapter completed!