As an old minister of the Zhenzong Dynasty, Wang Qinruo certainly knew about the official's background.
Li Shuyi, no, Li Xianfei is the biological mother of the official family.
Mother is more valuable than son. If the official's life experience is exposed, the Song Dynasty will probably have another queen mother.
What did the Queen Mother think?
Wang Qinruo fell into deep thought.
After a long time, he suddenly thought of something.
The official wedding is coming soon. Does the Queen Mother want to take this opportunity to officially retire behind the scenes?
Now that it has retreated behind the scenes, there is no such thing as two palaces standing side by side.
On the other side, seeing Wang Qinruo's look of surprise, Ding Wei chuckled, got up, left his seat, and walked out the door.
It's time to resign.
What does the Queen Mother's affairs have to do with him?
Sooner or later, the official family will take power. The Queen Mother recalled Concubine Li Xian to the capital in advance, mostly to find a way out for herself.
After all, once the official family officially takes charge, they will obviously meet with foreign ministers more often than they do now.
At that time, any foreign minister who failed to protect the situation would report the matter secretly to the officials.
Rather than reacting passively, it is better to take the initiative. By then, even if the official's life experience is exposed, the Queen Mother will have a reason to explain.
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Yingtian Academy.
"Your Majesty, I never thought that you and I would meet in Yingtian."
In the small courtyard, Fan Zhongyan's face was full of spring, and his face was filled with joy at the reunion of old friends.
Zhang Lun's coming here was indeed something he didn't expect.
"Why am I not like that?"
Zhang Lun laughed, raised his tea cup and took a sip.
This time, he didn't come to Yingtian Mansion specially, but just along the way.
The embankment construction in Suzhou was over, and his achievements were complete. Thanks to the embankment construction, he was promoted.
This time, he went to Hebei Road to take up his post, and he was sent as the Deputy Transport Envoy. To be more specific, his main job was to control the floods in Huazhou.
Huazhou is located in the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River. Since the founding of the Song Dynasty, floods have been frequent. A small battle every three years and a major battle every five years are completely normal.
In fact, Huazhou was not like this at the beginning.
The floods in Huazhou are serious, and the history can be traced back to the Tang Dynasty. After the Anshi Rebellion, the foundation of the Tang Empire's rule was seriously shaken.
Although the Yellow River Basin is still within the territory of the empire, this area has become a de facto vassal and town separatist regime.
The forces in the vassal and town focus mostly on short-term interests. Projects such as river construction, which require high investment and slow results, are rarely carried out.
After all, once the river channel is repaired, whether or not one's own power will still exist is a question.
No one wants to be the predecessor in "the predecessors plant trees, the descendants enjoy the shade", everyone wants to be the descendants.
Later, in the late Tang Dynasty and the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, there was a turbulent period of warlord rule, and no one paid attention to repairing rivers.
If it were another river channel, the problem might not be so serious.
But the Yellow River is a "unruly" river, especially in the middle and lower reaches. Due to the destruction of water and soil in the upper reaches, disasters will occur if the precipitation is slightly greater.
Finally, in the last years of the Later Liang Dynasty, the Later Tang Dynasty and the Later Liang Dynasty fought in the Huazhou area. The leader of the Later Liang Dynasty did everything he could to win.
In order to win, he would even do things like break the embankment.
It is easy to destroy but difficult to control. Huazhou is a disaster-prone area. During the Five Dynasties, the river defense project was destroyed several times.
As a result, even after the Song Dynasty, the Huazhou area was repaired again and again, but the specific results were not very satisfactory.
Since the founding of the Song Dynasty, nearly 20 floods have occurred in the Huazhou area.
This year, it is rare that there was no flooding in Huazhou.
The last flood in Huazhou occurred in the fifth year of Tianxi (1021). At that time, Chen Yao happened to know Huazhou.
He built a dyke northwest of Huazhou City and barely resisted the flood.
Because of this incident, Chen Yaozuo also received a commendation.
However, three years have passed since the fifth year of Tianxi. Calculating the time, the boundary of Huazhou is probably not peaceful again.
Therefore, the Zhengshitang proposed that Zhang Lun rush to Huazhou in advance and inspect the river first. If any problems are encountered, they can be solved in time.
Secondly, a war is about to break out on Hebei Road. During the war, what is the most important thing?
It’s the smooth flow of food and grass!
Generally speaking, in times of war, in order to ensure the transportation of grain and grass, the Song Dynasty would appoint one or two more deputy transfer envoys.
It was under this circumstance that Zhang Lun was transferred to Hebei Road.
Fan Zhongyan felt sincerely happy when he learned that Zhang Lun was about to take up his post at Hebei Road.
Although Hebei Road is about to become a front line, Zhang Lun is the deputy transshipment envoy. He only needs to ensure the supply of food and grass and does not need to go to the battlefield at all.
Safety issues, no need to worry.
As for whether Zhang Lun is qualified for this responsibility, Fan Zhongyan is even less worried.
He had worked under Zhang Lun for many years, and he knew his former boss very well.
Transporting grain and grass is definitely not a problem.
When old friends reunited, they couldn't avoid drinking. It didn't take long for the two of them to move the battlefield from the tea room to the small courtyard outside.
At the turn of spring and summer, it is most suitable for drinking outdoors.
Unconsciously, the moon slowly climbed up the sky, and Zhang Lun and Fan Zhongyan were on the verge of getting drunk.
"Xiwen."
Zhang Lun glanced inside without leaving any trace, and found that Li was not there, so he spoke.
"There is an old story that I need to tell you carefully."
"Your Majesty, please!"
Fan Zhongyan raised his sleeves, drank the wine in his glass, and then acted as if he was listening carefully.
"In the past, when the late emperor ascended the throne, a secret incident happened in the palace."
"Everyone who entered the palace knew that Wang Jien had secretly colluded with Duke Leshan (Li Changling) who participated in politics. Everyone in front of the palace commanded Li Jixun and knew that Gao Gao, Hu Dan, and others were planning to support the king of Chu Yuanzuo."
"In the end, the matter was exposed, Leshan Gong was demoted to Sima of the Zhongwu Army Jiedu Marching Army, Wang Jien was resettled in Junzhou, and Hu Dan was demoted and exiled in Xunzhou."
Although it is not a top secret that Wang Jien and others conspired to support Li Li, those who did not personally witness it would most likely not know about it.
After all, neither the national history nor the actual records recorded this secret.
The reason Zhang Lun knew this was entirely because his father had been one of the participants. At that time, his father happened to be one of the witnesses.
That's why he knew this secret.
On the other side, after listening to Zhang Lun's words, Fan Zhongyan suddenly looked startled.
It turns out that Leshan Gong (Li Changling) was demoted because of this?
This is indeed something he doesn't know.
After all, Duke Leshan passed away long ago during the Dazhong Xiangfu period, and the father-in-law's family, both emotionally and rationally, should not talk about this past event with him.
(ps: This piece of history is indeed not recorded in the official history.
After all, we must follow the principle of keeping taboos for the honorable. What we are seeing now is from the Xu Zi Zhi Tong Jian Changbian. The source of historical data is the records of Lu Ji. Lu Ji is the grandson of Lu Duan, and Lu Duan happened to be the prime minister at that time. .
Therefore, for people at that time, this period of history was indeed a secret)
