"Your head," Zhao Kuang was so loyal that he punched Song Jiu several times. Of course, it was not really a hit, and he did not have Zhao Kuangyin's martial arts and strength, but genetic factors made Song Jiu feel a little painful. He shouted: "Two Kings, don't hit, don't hit, say something."

"Ningji, come here and tell him the situation, tell him the truth!" Zhao Kuangyi stopped and said. This kid is sometimes as smart as a ghost, and sometimes he is confused about who he is. But because the emperor's brother told him to pay attention, he had paid attention to him, and the people outside more or less classified this kid as his own. This kid is brave and if he doesn't explain it clearly to him, he will not make a big joke in the future.

This is a behind-the-scenes matter, but many people know it and can be made public. Zhao Kuangyi asked Shi Xizai to tell the truth to Song Jiu, and made Song Jiu understand it. He deliberately said three words and said truthfully.

Of course, Shi Xizai, as Zhao Kuangyi's confidant, spoke very tactfully, but when he talked, Song Jiu listened, Shi Xizai spoke, Song Jiu compared some historical knowledge in his memory and some things he heard from Yanei.

The first thing Shi Xizai said was the grudge between Zhao Kuangyi and Zhang Qiong.

It is said that before Empress Dowager Du died, he established a Jinkui alliance with Zhao Kuangyin and Zhao Pu, which was purely nonsense. If this happened, from now on, Zhao Dezhao grew older, and Zhao Kuangyin would have long strangled this second brother, instead of staring at him later.

But it is useless to say that the old lady likes the second child.

Besides, I was afraid that the Chai family would reappear. Zhao Kuangyin would sometimes go out to lead troops to fight. The capital needed an adult relative to take charge so that he would not have any worries. The matter of the Golden Chamber Alliance was 99:9999% fake, but the old lady probably said something similar, asking Zhao Kuangyin, the eldest brother to take care of Zhao Kuangyi. Zhao Kuangyin intended to support Zhao Kuangyi, but Zhao Guangyi was very young at that time. He relied on his brother's Guang to be named the inner palace marquis by Chai Rong, and was known to the officials. How much role did Zhao Kuangyi play in the Chenqiao mutiny? Shi Zaixi did not say that there were many rumors among the people, and Song Jiu didn't know whether it was true or not.

It was the old lady's remark that Zhao Kuangyin promoted Zhao Guangyi as the capital of the palace, and also transferred Murong Yanzhao, Shi Shouxin, Han Chongyun and others to the outside world. In this way, Zhao Guangyi jumped from a low-level guard to become the highest commander of the palace front office.

Seeing this, Old Mrs. Du smiled and let go of the world, but new problems arise. Although Zhao Kuangyin supported Zhao Kuangyi to the throne, he could Zhao Kuangyi's rights, but could not force the hearts of thousands of arrogant soldiers and generals who had been trained since Chai Rong's founding.

Think about how many brave generals there are among the injunctions. Now the Northern Song Dynasty is not short of generals, but too many famous generals. Generals like Yin Chongke can find at least more than one hundred. For example, Zhang Qiong's arch rival Shi Gui and Shi Hanqing are also two tiger generals. Because there are too many famous generals in the early Northern Song Dynasty, neither of them can rank.

Moreover, since the Five Dynasties, some bad habits have been developed. These generals are more arrogant than the other. Zhao Kuangyin is too powerful. He defeated the Southern Tang Huangfu Hui in Chuzhou for 5,000 troops and horses, and there are still dangerous passes in Qingliu Pass in the Southern Tang Dynasty. In the battle of Yangzhou, Li Jingda 20,000 and killed 5,000 people. The rest were killed and killed each other for their lives. Only three thousand people could escape back to Jiangnan.

They could convince Zhao Kuangyi. Zhao Kuangyin grew up drinking human blood. You grew up with milk. How can a herbivore manage us? During that time, Zhao Kuangyi made many jokes. The old lady died and no one talked about it. Zhao Kuangyin took back the military power of Zhao Kuangyi. This thing was too dazzling. During the Five Dynasties, his son killed me, brothers and elder brothers, and his subordinates killed too many things. Then he promoted his confidant Zhang Qiong as the guard in front of the palace.

Shi Xizai would not say this, but said that because His Highness had no military experience, he was not familiar with military affairs, and because he was still young, although he was extremely talented, he was slightly misleading.

The ex-girl Zhao Kuangyi did not do it well, and Zhang Qiong came, so he could not Xiao Gui and Cao Sui. In addition, he was a military general and had a generous personality. For example, some people who were offended by him commented that he was irritable and did not know how to adapt. Many people were suppressed, but if they did not do this, what did the army become? No matter how favors he did, he could not use the army as favors.

Most of the time Zhao Kuangyi left behind a mess, so some of his actions and what he said offended Zhao Kuangyi. This made some of Zhao Kuangyi's subordinates dissatisfied, including his brother-in-law Fu Zhaoshou. Fu Zhaoshou did not dare to cause trouble for Zhang Qiong directly, because it was a scam, but often had conflicts with Zhang Qiong's son Zhang Lin. Not only Fu Zhaoshou, but also some second-generation ancestors also had many disagreements with Zhang Lin for this or other reasons.

Shi Xizai also said that Zhang Qiong was violent and incompetent, and many things were rude. In fact, Song Jiu heard that Zhang Qiong sold his life for Zhao Kuangyin, and was not afraid of offending others, but also wanted to guard the imperial guards well. He did a good job, but he had not studied power schemes. Zhao Kuangyin asked Zhang Qiong to guard the imperial guards to suppress them from causing trouble, rather than putting the imperial guards with the word "Zhang".

Then there were Shi Gui and Shi Hanqing.

They are both deputy military leaders in the imperial guards, very high military academy, equivalent to the level of major generals in later military forces. Shi Zaixi first talked about Shi Gui, because of his bravery in combat, Zhao Kuangyin ascended the throne and appointed him as the captain of the Imperial Horses. Then in a short time he was promoted to deputy military commander of the Cavalry Infantry Army and commander of the Great Sword. Shi Xizai said so in detail that it was paved for the future. Shi Shi and Shi were not Zhao Kuangyi's people, but Zhao Kuangyin's people. Let Song Jiu understand that Zhao Kuangyi is not a sinister villain. Anything happened to Zhang Qiong has nothing to do with Zhao Kuangyi. Zhao Kuangyin is the first responsible person, or there are other people, but he cannot misunderstand Zhao Kuangyi. "Own people" must be made clear.

There is a reason why he rose so quickly. Zhao Kuangyin had to restrain everything when he became the emperor. He seemed to have more information, but the news he received was true and false, which was not as credible as the news he heard before when he was drunk in the army.

Therefore, some were correct when Shi Shi and the others were asked to investigate secretly. Zhao Kuangyin dealt with them one by one, and some were inappropriate when Zhao Kuangyin handled them. For example, once Shi Gui learned that a merchant sold goods to the government at a high price. This problem was not that simple. First, the merchant made money from the country, and second, he knew why the high price of officials still bought them. He wanted to investigate, but was stopped by Zhao Kuangyin.

But Shi Gui was not so selfless. Liang Mengsheng was the governor of Dezhou. Many of Guo Gui's relatives and family members were traitors and profits in Dezhou. Liang Mengsheng brought them to justice one by one. Guo Gui and Shi Gui were friendly, so Shi Gui made slander in front of Zhao Kuangyin. As a result, Zhao Kuangyin promoted Liang Mengsheng to the Grand Doctor Pangshan when he heard this. Shi Xizai said, "The Lord is wise."

In short, Shi and Shi and the others have done some good things over the years, and they have done some bad things. They have a little selfishness and are not fond of nothing. The biggest disadvantage is that they have a good reputation for the people. However, Zhao Kuangyin used their intentions to be the emperor's eyes and ears, and they would inevitably make mistakes in judgment.

When Song Jiu heard this, he suddenly thought of some lyrics, spies, Jinyiwei, and East-West Factory.

And he also understood another thing and said carefully: "The Art of Balance?"

"Song Jiu, you're thinking about it again," Shi Xizai said with a haha. In fact, it was a balancing technique. Zhang Qiong rectified the imperial guards and was selfless and unofficial. However, this made Zhao Kuangyin not feel relieved, so he supported Shi Shi and the others to confront Zhang Qiong.

Zhang Qiong is a rough man, and he didn't understand it, and looked down on them repeatedly making small reports behind their backs, believing that this was a villain's behavior, and clashed with them many times, and even called them a witch. Shi Shi and the other two hated Zhang Qiong more and kept making small reports. The confrontation between the two sides was like Liu Luoguo and He Kun on TV. Zhao Kuangyin's goal was achieved, but the two were in a big way.

Shi Xizai didn't need to talk further, and Song Jiu also understood.

Zhang Qiong is of high level and has some old friends, and his power cannot be underestimated. However, Shi Shi and the other two have Zhao Kuangyin's support, because Zhang Qiong's personality has old friends, but they will not have many. Maybe because he offended Zhao Kuangyi, some forces close to Zhao Kuangyi will also secretly support Shi Shi. Therefore, the three of them have been fighting in secret over the years, and there is no difference in the victory or defeat.

It just so happened that I admired Zhang Qiong's courage. I saw Zhang Lin living in a weak position in the yamen and felt some sympathy. Therefore, I walked closer without intention. I also saw that the Zhang family was so poor that they only took out 100 guan of money, so I simply did a good job and borrowed 600 guan of money to Zhang Lin.

Zhang Qiong wanted face, so he would not be able to benefit from an unknown man. But when the stock contract was established, he could not regret it, so he borrowed money everywhere, and the matter was slightly shaken. This was a trend, and he rolled it in one end.

Shi Xizai explained some more things.

Song Jiu didn't get much deed money, and the difference was too big. There were ways, such as raising shares from Hezhong, why did he just bargain for the yamen? But Hezhong was too poor, and although there were many households, he probably couldn't raise considerable amount of money. In fact, it was even worse than Song Jiu thought.

The yamen are in good terms with Song Jiu, and this parent will not object.

But if they do business together and are headed by Song Jiu, what would these yamen parents think? If Pan Mei and Fu Yanqing's children were almost the same. One might not be optimistic about the prospects, and the other would not want their children to live under Song Jiu. If the Zhao brothers had not secretly made up for Song Jiu, the result would have been even worse.

It is precisely because of the face of the Zhao brothers and the children who want to join, it doesn’t matter. If they don’t give Song Jiu’s face, they have to give the emperor a gift, so they took thousands of guan for them to play. The remaining hundreds of guans were not the money paid by their family, but the private money taken out by the yanene. Now there are more than 70 yanenes in Song Jiu’s shares, and only seven yanenes are truly recognized by the whole family, including the Pan family!

Shi Xizai looked at Song Jiu with a smile.

That means you still have a chance.

Song Jiu also smiled awkwardly. This was a blessing in disgrace, but the real situation Tian would not tell anyone else. God knows what she wanted to agree to her son's investment.

Then he smiled bitterly, and it turned out that he had this impression in front of these people.

But after a while, he remembered that this was not the late Song Dynasty. The Tang Dynasty had just ended. Although the Five Dynasties had been in chaos for decades, people still retained some of the habits of the Tang Dynasty, including the degree of openness and the concept of the aristocratic family in the Tang Dynasty. However, with the implementation of various systems of the Song Dynasty and the reform of the imperial examination, a large number of poor children joined, and after decades, the concept of family status would become lighter and lighter. It was not to judge heroes by family status, but to judge heroes by imperial examinations, one by one, and one by one, to catch son-in-law by the imperial examinations.
Chapter completed!