"Of course, I, Xia Bolong, are also a man who stands tall. Brother Zhang, you should leave quickly. If you are late, you will not be able to leave. Didn't Sima Qian say that a person's death is inherently heavier than Mount Tai or as light as a feather. If you die like this, there is no value at all. It's better to live well and keep a useful body, and you can do something in the future." Xia Bolong said with a bright look.

"Brother, I'll wake me up with a few words, so I'll leave now." Zhang Jun threw away the book in his hand and stepped out of the threshold.

"Where are you going?"

Cai Fu got out of nowhere and happened to meet Zhang Jun going out, so he screamed and stretched out his hands to capture him.

Zhang Jun heard a loud roar and saw a man reaching out to grab him. He reacted instinctively and jumped away to avoid Cai Fu's capture.

Cai Fu is definitely not an ordinary person. Seeing Zhang Jun jumping away, he walked halfway through his hands and changed direction. At the same time, he kicked his legs and jumped up in the air. An eagle rushed to the ground and captured Zhang Jun.

Xia Bolong was shocked when he saw Cai Fu's skills: "This guy is indeed hidden. He usually sees him dull, but he didn't expect that he had such skills. It seems that this personal bodyguard is indeed not an ordinary person."

"Ah-Let me go!" Zhang Jun was grabbed by Cai Fu's shoulder, and was so painful that he couldn't help but scream.

"Hmph! Do you still want to run away insulting my master?" Cai Fu said coldly.

Xia Bolong hurried over and said to Cai Fu: "Butler Cai, he is not running away, but preparing to meet the prime minister."

"What you said is true?" Cai Fu asked with a glance at Xia Bolong.

"Of course it's true. I was about to take him to see the prime minister, and you came. Besides, with me here, how could such a madman run away?" Xia Bolong said lightly.

When Zhang Jun heard Xia Bolong call him a madman at this time and looked at him sideways, he saw Xia Bolong wink at him, and he knew it in his heart and immediately shouted, "Let me go and see the prime minister."

"You don't need to go, I'm here in person. Cough cough cough..." Cai Jing's old voice came over.

Cai Jing was the first to arrive before the people arrived, and he felt like he was transmitting a voice from thousands of miles away.

Xia Bolong saw Cai Jing being supported by two servants, and followed his grandsons and turned out from a corner.

"Grandpa, it's him, he asked us to learn to escape, and he also said that his grandfather would be killed in the future." One of Cai Jing's grandsons pointed at Zhang Jun and said.

"Prince!" Xia Bolong bowed respectfully when he saw Cai Jing coming.

Cai Jing came to the door, waved at Cai Fu, and said, "Afu, let him go!"

Cai Fu grabbed Zhang Jun like an eagle catching a chick. He was not afraid that he would churn anything, so he let go of Zhang Jun's shoulder and stood on the side.

"I'll ask you, who taught you what you said?" Cai Jing asked.

Zhang Jun said: "No one taught me, I said it myself!"

"What a courageous thing, aren't you afraid that the original will kill you?" Cai Jing said.

Zhang Jun laughed and said, "Scared? If I were afraid, I wouldn't come. Since I came here, I didn't plan to go out alive."

"Well... I'm brave. What's your name?" Cai Jing said.

Zhang Jun said loudly: "If you don't change your name, if you don't change your surname, I am Zhang Jun."

Cai Jing sighed softly and asked, "Actually you are right, so can you tell me how to avoid this?"

Zhang Jun and Xia Bolong were both surprised, and never expected Cai Jing to say such words.

Zhang Jun was really serious. Thinking that he had fallen into Cai Jing's hands, he would definitely not be able to survive, so he said loudly: "You can't avoid this, because you did too much evil in the past, so you can only do less evil now and accumulate some blessings for your descendants. Just think of cultivating the next life."

"Ahem cough cough..."

Cai Jing coughed violently for a while, and it took him a long time to recover.

"Afu, go to the warehouse to get two hundred taels of silver and give it to Mr. Zhang." Cai Jing said.

"Master, what did you say?" Cai Fu asked in disbelief.

Cai Jing said seriously: "I asked you to go to the warehouse to get two hundred taels of silver, give it to the gentleman, and then send it out of the mansion. Haven't you heard that?"

Cai Fu did not dare to disobey Cai Jing's intentions and replied submissively: "Yes, Master."

Xia Bolong was still worried that Cai Jing would kill Zhang Jun. When he heard that Cai Jing not only did not kill him, he also wanted to give him 200 taels of silver and sent him out of the mansion, his heart finally fell back to his original place.

"You...you won't kill me?" Zhang Jun also asked strangely.

Cai Jing laughed and said, "It's rare that there is someone who dares to tell the truth. Why do I kill you? I am old, and I have not had a few days to do my job as the prime minister. If you can do more good things, just do more good things."

"Thank you for not killing me." Zhang Jun hurriedly thanked.

Cai Jing laughed and said, "Not only will I not kill you, but I will also ask you to continue to teach my grandson some principles of doing things, so that they can learn more in the future. I wonder if you are willing or not?"

"this……"

Zhang Jun glanced at Xia Bolong with a squint eyes, saw Xia Bolong nodding slightly, and said, "Okay, thank you, Prime Minister. However, I don't have too many poems and books to lay down, I only know how to dance guns and sticks. I wonder if Prime Minister dares to take advantage of the situation?"

Cai Jing laughed and said, "Why don't you dare? You can teach my grandchildren at home with peace of mind, and your benefits are indispensable."

Zhang Jun said: "Okay then."

Cai Jing bent down and said to his grandchildren: "There is nothing to cry. You can scare you to tears with just one word. Then my grandson of Cai Jing is too sloppy. From now on, you will follow Mr. Zhang. You will learn whatever he teaches you. Do you know?"

The six Cai Jing's grandson replied in unison: "I know grandpa."

Cai Jing nodded, straightened up, and said to Zhang Jun: "Okay, Cai Fu will give you money later, so you can leave the mansion and come back tomorrow."

Zhang Jun nodded and said nothing.

Cai Jing turned around and said to Xia Bolong who was standing beside him: "Bolong, come with me, I have something to say to you."

Xia Bolong replied: "Yes, Prime Minister."

Cai Jing said "um" softly, turned around and left.

Xia Bolong bowed to Zhang Jun, said "goodbye" softly, and turned around and left.

When he arrived at Cai Jing's room, Cai Jing lay on the bed, asked Xia Bolong to sit by the bed, repelled the servants, and said, "Bolong, do you know why I called you here?"

Xia Bolong shook his head.

Cai Jing said: "My health has become worse and worse these days. I am afraid that I will die soon. Xinrui has always been my beloved daughter. I regard him as the pearl in my hand. Since I promised to betroth her to you, find a good day and get married as soon as possible. Next month's sixth day is a zodiac auspicious day. What do you think?"

"Next month's sixth day? Is it too fast?" Xia Bolong asked.

"No, no, I know my body. If I continue to hold this way, it will not be beneficial to me. I think I can see you and Xinrui get married before I die." Cai Jing said.

"What did the Prime Minister say? The Prime Minister's body is still strong..." Xia Bolong said.

"Hey, are you unwilling to be my son-in-law? Do you think I am a treacherous minister, afraid that others will say you recognize the thief as your father? Yes, right?" Cai Jing interrupted Xia Bolong's words.

Xia Bolong hurriedly said, "Prince, I don't have this intention. But the Prime Minister said that I would seek fame and fortune and marry Xinrui. I have not had fame yet..."

"There is no need for that now. As soon as Cai You's rebellious son came today, I knew that my good life was over. In less than two days, my position as prime minister will be almost dismissed. I want to take advantage of my prime minister's time to get your marriage done as soon as possible, so that everyone in the capital will know that my baby daughter has found a good husband." Cai Jing interrupted Xia Bolong's words again.

"Brother Cai? Prime Minister, what is the incomprehensible gap between you and Brother Cai? I wonder if I can help you?" Xia Bolong said.

Cai Jing shook his head and said lightly: "It's useless. This gap has been two or three years and cannot be resolved. Before you marry Xinrui, I will give you a mansion for you to welcome you. It will be decided on the sixth day of next month."

Xia Bolong heard Cai Jing's firm tone, and no longer called himself "in true form" in his words, as if he had seen through life and death.

"I will follow the orders of the prime minister." Xia Bolong said.

Cai Jing's face was slightly angry and said, "I'm still calling you the prime minister? It's time to change your words."

Xia Bolong hurriedly said, "Oh, it should be his father-in-law."

"Hahaha, be good, my good son-in-law." Cai Jing said, "But don't tell Xinrui about this."

"Why?" Xia Bolong asked in confusion.

Cai Jing said: "I want to give Xinrui a surprise."

Xia Bolong laughed and said, "Young son-in-law understands."

"Boron, let me tell you about the wrong things I did before?" Cai Jing said.

Xia Bolong was stunned: "What's wrong with Cai Jing? Why is there such a big contrast today? Is he really going to die? How could that happen? The historical books clearly say that he died after the Jingkang Incident, and there are still several years left?"

Before Xia Bolong answered, Cai Jing said brightly: "There is a saying that birds are about to die, and their singing is sad; when a person is about to die, their words are good. Today, Zhang Jun woke up the dreamer with one word. I have committed so many mistakes in my early years. It seems that it will harm my descendants in the future."

"Sir, how could that be? Don't the emperor trust my father-in-law very much now?" Xia Bolong said.

"Hey, I don't miss him anymore. I'll tell you what happened to me before..." Cai Jing said slowly.

After hearing what Cai Jing said and some of the wrong things he did in his early years, Xia Bolong realized why Cai Jing was so fond of Song Huizong.

Why is Cai Jing favored by the emperor?

Because this treacherous minister has his own extraordinary qualities, he can find theoretical basis for the emperor's extravagance.

Cai Jing took two sentences from the "Book of Changes", one of the Four Books and Five Classics, and proposed a theory called "Fengsheng and Yu Da".

To put it bluntly, the emperor must dare to spend money during the ordinary season. The more money it spends, the more it proves that the country is strong. Only in this way can it intimidate foreign countries. Therefore, you must dare to spend it and don’t be stingy to embarrass the country.

After this theory was proposed, Emperor Huizong of Song was so happy and thought to himself that I spent money to show that the country was prosperous and strong, and to make foreign countries afraid, not to enjoy it myself.

With this high-sounding reason, Cai Jing began to instigate the emperor to build a large-scale construction and to cast the Nine Cauldrons.

We know that it was King Yu of Xia who cast nine tripods, symbolizing the nine provinces.

As a symbol of the country, the Nine Tripods extended from generation to generation in the Xia, Shang and Zhou dynasties, and were passed down to the end of Qin dynasty.

In fact, the Song Dynasty did not complete the unification of China. There was Liao, which was established by the Khitan tribes in the north, and the Western Xia, which was established by the Dangxiang tribes in the northwest. The Western Xia, further west were the Uighur tribes, the ** were the Tubo tribes, and Guizhou, Yunnan was the Dali Kingdom.

The territory of the Song Dynasty was actually the smallest among the central dynasties established by the Han people, with a minimum of about 3 million square kilometers. Cai Jing instigated Emperor Huizong of Song to cast nine tripods to symbolize the unification of the nine provinces and build a Mingtang to supply the nine tripods.

These nine tripods have names, one in the center, one in the southeast, one in the northwest, one in the northeast, one in the southeast, one in the southeast, one in the southeast, one in the southwest, and one in the north. The tripod in the north is called Baoding.

Once, when Huizong was offering wine, the treasure tripod in the north suddenly broke and the wine mud inside spilled out. Huizong was staying there at that time. Cai Jing immediately knelt down on the ground and said, "Your Majesty, the crack of the tripod in the north means that there will be civil strife in the Liao Kingdom. We can take the opportunity to destroy them, and the Song Dynasty will unify the world."

It was obviously an unlucky thing, but Cai Jing said that it was not that our Song Dynasty was going to be in chaos, but that the Liao Kingdom was going to be in chaos. Huizong was so happy that he felt that he could no longer find someone who could speak.

After Xia Bolong walked out of Cai Jing's room, it was already night. He was tired of listening. After listening to a lot of things between Cai Jing and Song Huizong, he also understood that Cai Jing was really a treacherous minister.

Xia Bolong pushed open his door and saw darkness.

He stepped into the door and closed the door. Before he could turn around, he was hugged by a man from behind.

"Boron, where have you been? Do you know how long I have been waiting for you?" Cai Xinrui's voice sounded from behind Xia Bolong.
Chapter completed!