Chapter 258: Persistence in a Thousand Times

After only a while, the screams stopped abruptly, and there was a silence outside the yamen.

Su Shi didn't have time to stop Tyson's behavior—he could only stop it, but at this time Su Shi was unscrupulous. When the yamen became quiet outside, he took off the goldfish bag, silver ribbon, etc. from his belt, and gently placed it on the table. He turned around and smiled at Li Zhiyi, saying embarrassedly: "I have implicated Brother Li, but I didn't expect that Brother Li, the official position, was not in charge."

Li Zhiyi smiled bitterly, and after a while, he clapped his hands: "With Zhao Liren, the big financial master, here, I can't be poor, why bother Brother Su?"

After a while, Dingzhou officials came in one after another, and Tyson also grabbed Wang Guangzu. Zhao Xing glared at Wang Guangzu and asked, "How did the helper arrange it? Is it a person who was sent to the rank of the jail camp or a person who was sent to the yamen runners?"

Wang Guangzu answered in a speechless manner: "Assuming the arrangements of Lord Zhao!"

Zhao Xing waved his hand: "Then let's go out of the yamen run. Mr. Su is on his own way, and I will arrange his family. I will take the servants to protect him and walk by land. Mr. Su walks by water... Since he is coming out of the yamen runners, I will also take a few people to take care of him along the way, telling the yamen runners when to stop along the way, and obey my arrangements..."

In order to protect his teeth, Wang Guangzu agreed to everything. After the Xuanhui envoy conveyed the edict, he had to obey the local arrangements for the rest of the matter, and he could not speak at all.

Zhao Xing stayed in Dingzhou for a few more days, and personally escorted Su Shi's journey south and arranged for Su Shi's family and Liao Xiaoxiao and others to slowly head towards the Yellow River Ferry by land. He and Su Shi took the nearest road to take the Yellow River, took their own boat on the Yellow River, and headed all the way to Bianjing.

In April, Cai Jing was restored and served as Minister of Revenue. On the same day, Zhao Xing's ship arrived in Bianjing.

Zhao Xing originally planned to arrange Su Shi's ship to go south along the Grand Canal, and then sent a ship to Yingzhou from Hangzhou. However, after reaching Bianliang, he found that the court had a new order. Zhang Shangying, who returned to the court, felt that the court was demoted to Yuanyou, was too lightly, so he decided to increase the punishment: Su Shi's position as a scholar in Duanming Hall, demoted to Sima of Jianchang Army, and was placed in Huizhou (surveillance). At the same time, Liu Zhi, a scholar in Guanwen Hall and a servant in Daming Mansion, was demoted to Huangzhou, and Su Che was demoted to Yuanzhou again. Fan Zuyu, a scholar in Hanlin Hall and a lecturer, was demoted to Shanzhou, and Fan Chunren, the right minister, was dismissed from his subordinates to Yingchang Mansion.

The official given by Wang Yansou, the remaining guard of Zhending Prefecture, was also pursued and demoted to the Leizhou Bianjia. Shortly afterwards, he died at the age of fifty.

Wang Yansou was good at painting plum blossoms with elegant style and was known as the "Two Kings" together with Wang Mian. At the age of 19, he became one of the three "Three Yuan Tops" in the Northern Song Dynasty.

In the entire three thousand years of history of China, there were only 15 people who passed the Sanyuan Grade, but there were no less than one million people who passed the Jinshi exam in the past years. In the Song Dynasty, 400,000 people participated in the scientific examination every year, and at most, there were only more than 300 people who passed the Jinshi exam, and at least at least less than one hundred people. Therefore, the difficulty of passing the Sanyuan Grade exam in China was equivalent to "one in billions" or even one in billions.

During his lifetime, Wang Yansou first advocated the view that "the country must never give up its own land to outsiders." As a result, an idiom was born in China: Do not give up any land.

Wang Yansou is not dead yet, but Zhao Xing, who has just arrived in Bianliang, has no news. He only knows that Su Shi is right in front of him, accepting the imperial court's order to re-exile on the ship. The envoy of Xuanfu was carrying two imperial edicts, one was Su Shi's new order to depose, and the other was to call Zhao Xing to report to Zizheng Hall and accept the emperor's question. It seems that the court also knows that Zhao Xing was protecting Su Shi along the way.

This time, Zhao Xing did not resist the order. He accepted the order readily and came with someone in his arms. He ordered Cheng Shuang to escort Su Shi to Hangzhou: "The outsiders of the Jewish Zhuangzi opposite the Jasmine Courtyard cannot enter. You send Mr. Su to that farm to rest. The two rescuers will be placed--no matter what, you must keep Mr. Su and wait for my next news."

Cheng Shuang nodded and said yes. Wanqi Yong understood what Zhao Xing wanted to do. He sighed and said, "Shuaizi, please go with Mr. Su for the time being. You have to deal with all aspects in the capital. I am here, so I can discuss it."

Zhao Xing then turned to Li Zhiyi and asked with a smile: "Uncle Duan (Uncle Duan of Li Zhiyi), I plan to ask the court for an official 'Search Place'. Uncle Duan might as well wait at home and wait until I have handled the court's affairs before coming to meet with Uncle Duan."

Li Zhiyi looked up at the sky, thought for a while, and sighed: "The officialdom is dangerous, and there is no place where we stay. I appreciate the kindness of the people, so let me rest before talking."

The so-called "pointing place" refers to a system of officials in the Song Dynasty. There were eight routes for office assignments: Chengdu Fu Road, Tongchuan Fu Road, Lizhou Road, Kuizhou Road and Guangnan East Road, Guangnan West Road, Fujian Road, and Jinghu South Road. These eight places are remote areas of the Song Dynasty. Generally, people with knowledge do not like to go there to be officials. In order to make up for the lack of officials, the court allowed local supervisors to arbitrarily appoint officials in the Central Plains and local areas to select officials, which was called "pointing".

In the original history, the only thing Li Zhiyi, the "No. 2 Love Poetry Author in the World" who had worked in his life was the subordinate of Su Dongpo. Because of Su Dongpo's recommendation, he served as a magistrate for half a year. After that, the party struggles became more and more intense. Li Zhiyi was involved in Su Dongpo, the backbone of the old party, and no one hired him again.

However, Zhao Xing had already made up his mind to the heavens. He knew that although Li Zhiyi was a little discouraged now, he was educated under the official-oriented idea and finally wanted to be an official. Now the dispute between the old and new parties has just begun, and there is still a name for doing things. When the party struggles are getting bigger and bigger, no one dares to use him even if Li Zhiyi wants to be an official.

He came to defiance the will of heaven, and now starts with Li Zhiyi.

Zhao Xing insisted: "The Eighth Route 'Search Land' is not all a smoky and wild place. Don't worry, I, Zhao Liren, will not treat myself badly. Follow me, I will never eat or drink badly."

Li Zhiyi smiled gently and replied: "I believe this. Just look at Li Ren who is still eating fine food and fine meat on the road. When you live, you must be clean and carriages and horses, and you must be beautiful. I know that Li Ren is not a person who treats you badly. Just wait for news about Li Ren. You know where I live?"

"I know," Zhao Xing nodded. Li Zhiyi must live with his brother Li Zhichun, who was the governor of Kaifeng at that time.

The Song Dynasty was ruled by the demotion of officials and could not return to the capital by summoning them. Therefore, Su Shi could not stay even when he arrived in Bianliang City. After Zhao Xing bid farewell to Li Zhiyi, he bid farewell to Su Shi on the dock and led his followers to slowly walk towards his home in the capital, which is now the Ma Mengde family.

The dock of Daxiangguo Temple is still noisy, and the common people cannot feel the bloody battles in the high places of the court. They still work from sunrise to sunset. At that time, this bustling urban life scene once fascinated Zhao Xing. He once sat in the shop next to the dock, obsessed with the street scene all day, and was not boring. But now when he looked at this scene again, it felt like he was watching a movie. He always felt that it was not real to be true through a layer of curtains.

Ma Mengde was still so busy. When Zhao Xing arrived, he was not in the mansion. He heard that he had gone out to inspect the shops. His neighbor Ma Xiucai was still a scholar, but he was a little old after not seeing him for a few years. He met Zhao Xing on the street and immediately started a hot conversation. With his introduction, Zhao Xing successfully moved into Ma Mengde's home. Almost all the family members in Ma Mengde's mansion changed. His eldest son Ma Rong still remembered Zhao Xing. When he heard Zhao Xing's arrival, he hurriedly greeted him in the middle hall and sent someone to invite his father home.

After a while, Cheng Xia was the first to arrive. When he saw Zhao Xing, he hurriedly shouted: "It's not good, no, Uncle Qi, why are you still coming to the capital at this time? Mr. Zhang has already hated Master Zhang to death and is thinking about how to torture Master. Because I have studied books with Master for a few days, I don't like it in the yamen. If I hadn't learned arithmetic with Uncle Qi, the Yici Leye people in the yamen would help me with me, and I wouldn't even stay."

"If you can't stay, leave," Zhao Xing replied calmly: "I came to Beijing this time. If Mr. Zhang still misses his old love, I will ask for a foreign position. If he doesn't miss this love, I will definitely go to Guangzhou. Now, there are few people in the house in Hangzhou, Huangzhou. If you think something is wrong, let Yici Leye people quickly get you a resignation form and leave quietly."

Cheng Xia hesitated for a moment and finally felt a little reluctant: "Uncle Qi, I am now in charge of the financial statistics of Jingdong Road and West Jing Road. Most people can't get this job, so I probably can't move me for a while."

Zhao Xing sighed: "Children, you will never understand the cruelty of politics. These people fight for their own victory, and do not hesitate to destroy the country for this. What is your little "little importance"? Your seventh uncle, I am fighting with the people of Xixia. They don't want to retreat if they want to... Forget it, children should be simple. I have time to talk to Mr. Zhang about your affairs. However, for the sake of safety, you'd better send your wife and children home.

Remember, if you have something to do, don’t run to your home or to Mizhou. I will say hello where Zhang Yong will run. When he runs to Mizhou, he will send you out to sea. When you get to the sea, it’s my world, and I will arrange for you to hide.”

Cheng Xia replied in disbelief: "Uncle Qi, it's not that serious. I heard that you were in Huanqing Dasheng, and it was spread all over the capital, saying that you were planning to have all the plants and trees, and that you led ten thousand people to fight against the Jingning Military Office. They all said that you were the 'Han Xin of the current world', and you had unpredictable methods, why are you so pessimistic about your future..."

Cheng Xia couldn't continue talking about this because Ma Meng had to take Zhang Dun's son Zhang Yuan to the mansion...

When Zhang Yuan saw Zhao Xing, he first explained enthusiastically: "Li Ren, these days, my father sent me to greet Uncle Ma every day and ask about your situation. The day before yesterday, he heard the postman saying that you had entered the capital. My father was very happy. He sent me to the dock to wait for your news this morning and told me to ask me to ask you to pass by the mansion as soon as I saw Li Ren. Li Ren, the grace of saving life in the past is unforgettable, please accept a greeting for your brother first."

Zhao Xing returned a greeting expressionlessly, and then greeted Cheng Xia, who could not avoid it: "Brother Wen Gu, this is my student, Cheng Xia, the legitimate son of the Cheng clan. He is in charge of Jingdong Xiqian and Grain in the Ministry of Revenue. Please see me."

Zhang Yuan greeted Cheng Xia coldly: "Oh, I heard that you have also studied with my teacher, Mr. Su. It turns out that you are still a family member of the family. When will you have time, let's get closer."

After Zhang Yuan finished speaking unintentionally, he turned to Zhao Xing: "Li Ren, go quickly. My father held everyone away today and just waited for Li Ren's brother to come to the door. Let's go quickly and don't let him wait for a long time."

Zhao Xing nodded, told Ma Mengde a few words, and ordered all the followers who came with him to rest and call Tyson to go with Zhang Yuan.

Zhang Dun Mansion, main hall.

Zhang Dun is now quite stylish. He sat in the empty hall and watched Zhao Xing walk in motion. The latter bowed to him silently, then stood solemnly with his hands crossed, and said nothing for a long time.

Zhang Dun first broke the silence. He sighed and said, "How could this happen? How could this happen? I remember that when I was exiled to the countryside, no one was willing to date me. My son was seriously ill and asked everywhere, but everyone stayed in the door. Only the only one who left the people opened the fort gate and accepted me as a guest.

I still remember the visiting time, as if yesterday: The cherry blossoms bloom in the jasmine garden, and the jasmine fragrance is everywhere. You stood under the cherry blossom tree and told me--'I have more than just violated these rules'... Later, you introduced the stone of the castle to me and promised to help me train a team of musketeers... The words are still in my ears, why are we so different today?"

Zhang Dun said warmly, but Zhao Xing's face was still expressionless. He stood there without saying a word like a mud carved puppet.

Zhang Dun sighed, waved his hand to let his son stand aside, and then continued, "I have studied your political achievements over the past few years and found that if you look at it carefully, you have indeed violated many rules - in Mizhou, you revised the horse protection law and made the people of Mizhou always tens of thousands of good horses overnight. Jing Gong (Wang Anshi) exhausted his energy that day, and the people of the world complained. The court only added 20,000 war horses, but they were all war horses on paper. You don't need the people to pay a lot of money to raise 30,000 war horses.

People say that you are good at making things out of nothing. The law of protecting horses is an evil policy. Even Cai Jing's singular statements about restoring the law of exemption from service, Qingmiao law, restoring the Yuanfeng imperial examination, and abolishing the ten-subject imperial examinations, but you dare not touch the law of protecting horses. Even the law of protecting horses is recognized by the world, you can find ways to make the people consciously and voluntarily follow these methods. I would rather do this.

I remember that when Li Ren was demoted, he still had high hopes for me. For the sake of why, isn’t it just that we can practice the new law today? Today I give Li Ren this opportunity. If you are willing to stay in the court to help me, officials from the three ministries and six provinces will be your choice. If you are willing to go to a place to promote the new law for me, you will choose all the routes in the world. How about it? Li Ren is to show great ambitions and fulfill Kunpeng’s ambitions, or to demote him to Lingnan, and be depressed for life, all your life is in your thoughts."

Zhao Xing still had no expression on his face, as if he had not heard Zhang Dun's words. Zhang Dun held back his anger and picked up a note and said, "Cai Yuanchang (Cai Jing) has suggested that Su Zizhan should be demoted to the deputy envoy of the Ningyuan Army and still be placed in Huizhou."

Su Shi was originally demoted to the Sima of Jianchang Army and was resettled in Huizhou; now he was demoted to the Deputy Envoy of the Ningyuan Army and was still placed in Huizhou. The former "Sima" position was actually not as high as the latter "Deputy Envoy of the Jiedu", but the former was a real position and had a salary; the latter was a false title, and he was not given a salary, and he had to monitor his residence.

Seeing that Zhao Xing was still expressionless, Zhang Dun continued to put pressure: "The court has decided that Qin Guan was stripped of the position of proofreading the Pavilion for the charge of "shadow attached to Su Shi" and sent him to the tea, salt and wine tax in the prison. Zizhan's famous monk, monk Liao Zi, deprived him of the certificate of vassal for the same crime and forced him to return to secular life."

Zhao Xing felt aching in his heart: The insemination began. Originally, the Song Dynasty could not have any policy of insemination. For example, the eldest brother of the Lu brother was demoted, and his younger brother Lu Dazhong could still be in an important border town as the head of the local government.

But now, Zhang Dun has pushed the policy of implicating the Song Dynasty to the extreme.

In a sense: at this moment, the Song Dynasty was dead.

The original "Humanistic Song Dynasty" and the tolerant and open "Gentleman Song Dynasty" have been declared to perish from now on.

Next, the Song Dynasty entered the era of party prisons.

Party prisons are not considered based on the national and national political interests, but "if you don't join the party, you will be punished" - if you don't join my party, you do not agree with my opinion. I care how good your governance is, how brave you are in resisting aggression, and whether what you do is beneficial to the country and the people, as long as you are not a member of our party, you will be punished to death.

Zhang Dun was warning Zhao Xing: Although Zhao Xing has never expressed his political attitude, never participated in court struggles, local governance is good, and military achievements are also very good... But none of these are useful. As long as Zhang Dun wants to cure his crime, "shadow-attached Su Shi" is a crime.

Why did Zhang Dun repeatedly demote Su Shi to Huizhou to settle down? Zhao Xing knew that this was because of Su Shi's cousin Cheng Zhengfu.

Cheng Zhengfu was both Su Shi's cousin and Su Shi's brother-in-law. Su Shi's sister Baniang has been well-read poetry and good at poetry and writing since she was a child. She married her cousin Cheng Zhengfu at the age of 16. However, after Baniang married into the Cheng family, her parents-in-law did not like her and often abused her. The second time, Baniang gave birth to a son and fell seriously ill, but the Cheng family did not treat her. The parents had to take her back to her parents' home for treatment. The condition had just improved, but her parents-in-law started to question her, blamed Baniang for not being filial to her daughter-in-law and stole her baby, which made Baniang very sad, her old illness recurrence, and died with hatred. Su Shi's father announced that he had severance from the Cheng family, and the two families became enemies since then.

In the first year of Shaosheng, Cheng Zhengfu was responsible for the Guangnan East Road Trial Criminal Law (in charge of the judicial, criminal prisons and supervision of the states under his jurisdiction). Zhang Dun demoted Su Shi to Huizhou after obtaining military information between Xixia and Liao. The latest information shows that the Liao people had just defeated the Tatars. The Xixia people made Zhao Xing and Zhang Qi very difficult last year. At present, neither of these two countries have enough energy to launch an attack. In this way, the purpose of sending Su Shi to Dingzhou was vain.

Zhang Dun knew Su Shi's ability. If the Liao people and Xixia people did not attack, there would be a year of ease. Who knew what Su Shi would govern Dingzhou? Perhaps Su Shi was on the front line and would be in disguise and achieve great military achievements. This prediction seemed to have become a reality after Zhao Xing arrived in Dingzhou. Su Shi's golden ideas and Zhao Xing's implementation methods, Dingzhou had a different look in just a few months. Therefore, Zhang Dun had to think of another way to kill people by using a knife, such as transferring Su Shi to his "enemy" Cheng Zhengfu, hoping to use Cheng Zhengfu's hands to get rid of his political enemy Su Shi.

Zhao Xing was so sad that he was about to cry out loud. Zhang Dun waited for Zhao Xing to answer patiently, knowing that Zhao Xing would speak in the end.

After a long time, Zhao Xing laughed and said, "As soon as Mr. Po was exiled to the South China Sea, the world dared not to have a small Huizhou... I would like to use the past to use the affection of Zhang Laozi and the friendship with Brother Wengu in the past to exchange for Zhang Laozi's promise: Huizhou!"

Zhang Dun's face darkened and said dissatisfied: "You can choose the counties and counties in the world, but you can't choose Huizhou alone! Huizhou is not possible, so you can choose it separately."

"If I had to make a new choice a thousand times, my choice would be two words: Huizhou!" Zhao Xing also became stubborn and insisted.

Zhang Dun was a little angry. He took the posture of an elder and said angrily: "You are not calm now. I won't tell you anymore. Let's go back and think about it and leave!"

Zhao Xing bowed and said to his farewell, Zhang Dun was still angry. Zhao Xing said, "When the scenery of Huizhou is about to spread to the world, how can you be without me? I don't need to persuade me. If I ask me to make another choice, even if I repeat it a thousand times, I will still have two words: Huizhou."

After Zhao Xing left, Zhang Dun stomped his feet in the hall and said, "It's just that I'm just a stubborn person like Su Laopo. Why did I meet Zhao Liren again? This master and apprentice are all happy about suffering and are rushing to go to the poor and evil land of Huizhou."

Cai Jing flashed from behind the hall. He watched Zhao Xing leave, shook his head, and could not tell whether he was admiration or jealousy. After a while, he bowed to Zhang Dun and persuaded him: "My husband, I have worked with Zhao Liren for a year. I know this person's temperament. This person is a loyal and righteous person. Once he interacts with others, he wishes to take out his five livers and six organs. Therefore, this person is honest and honest, with amazing talents, and poetry is great - only the overall view is insufficient, and he is just a person who is despicable.

According to the Xiaguan, Zhao Li people are considered to be without ambitions and only loyalty and righteousness. This is a harmless person. Guangnan, Fujian, is a poor and evil place, and it is harmless to the overall situation. It is better to let him go to the local area and pass the limelight on the limelight. My husband will show his kindness and kindness again. After two or three years, he will experience it in the local area. In addition, the teacher's exile has become cold. My husband will transfer him back to Beijing and act as a helper."

When Zhang Dun heard this, his expression calmed down. He thought for a moment and nodded slowly: "Zhao Liren's current qualifications are indeed a bit lacking in the museum. It is a good thing to go to the local area to experience it. Wait for two or three years, and wait until I clean up the court, and just transfer him back to use his strengths... But Huizhou cannot do it, Huizhou will never do it."
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