Bianjing.
Cai Que, the miscellaneous official of the imperial censor, was returning to the government office. All the officials who met Cai Que along the way stepped aside and stood respectfully with their slips.
Cai Que has had a notorious reputation since he became the censor.
He impeached more than 20 officials in total, including Prime Minister Wang Anshi and Han Jiang's younger brother Han Zhen.
There are also Guo Kui, Li Ding, Wang Shao and others.
These people are all famous people.
The most famous one is that last year, Wang Anshi entered the palace gate on horseback and was injured by the guards while riding the horse.
At that time, Cai Que criticized Wang Anshi. It should be noted that Cai Que was recommended by Wang Anshi for the post of censor, but he still criticized the person who promoted him.
Cai Que's intention of impeaching Wang Anshi was also very clear, that is, to protect the people's sovereignty.
Cai Que met Zhang Zhi and saw that he clearly saw him but avoided him as if he hadn't seen him.
Cai Que frowned when he saw this scene and immediately called out to Zhang Zhi.
"Zizheng!"
Zhang Zhi reluctantly stopped and saluted Cai Que and said, "Uncle Chizheng."
Cai Que said: "You still recognize me."
After a pause, Cai Que said: "Are you unhappy with me because of what happened at the Sutra banquet?"
Zhang Zhi was helpless.
One day during the banquet, Zhang Zhi advised the emperor to open his mouth and allow ministers to speak out like Wei Zheng did to Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty.
However, Cai Que stood up and criticized Zhang Zhi, saying that when His Majesty first came to the throne, ministers treated the Emperor as friends. If they disagreed, they would blame the Emperor face to face. He repeatedly challenged the Emperor, and he must be convinced by the Emperor. There is really no distinction between monarch and minister.
Cai Que suggested that the emperor must correct the rules and regulations and divide the court with monarchs and ministers.
Cai Que's words were appreciated by the officials and made Zhang Zhi avoid Cai Que when he saw him.
Cai Que met Zhang Zhi and gave him another lecture. Zhang Zhi could only curse in his stomach.
Seeing that Zhang Zhi was silent, Cai Que lowered his voice and said: "Your uncle is going back to Beijing soon, so don't talk about delegating power to subordinates again. Now that Wang Jiefu has resigned, which minister do you want the emperor to delegate power to? Is it Mr. Han or Mr. Han?" Your uncle is going back to court soon?"
Zhang Zhi said with sweat on his forehead: "I was wrong."
Cai Quedao said: "In the past, Mr. Wang was on the throne. He was a virtuous gentleman. As long as you did not break the rules, you did not have to worry about being criticized. But now that Lu Jifu is in power, you have to worry about everything you say. Don't be criticized. Seize the handle.”
Zhang Zhi was sweating and said immediately: "Uncle Chizheng, this capital is too dangerous. I'd better ask for help."
Cai Que scolded: "You are not promising at all. I have told you before. Wealth lies in skills rather than hard work, and benefit lies in the situation rather than hard work. You have been close to the official family since childhood, and this kindness is unparalleled. Who can have a better future than you in the future? Having said that, protecting the master like me is the only way out for officials from our humble family."
"But you said that you should open up your voice and speak out to your Majesty. Isn't this a joke?"
Zhang Zhi said: "I can't learn this. If you have anything to say, can't we just rebuke the officials if they are wrong?"
When Cai Que heard this, he said angrily: "You are really a piece of rotten wood, you are incurable!"
Zhang Zhi said angrily: "I'll just treat it as my own rotten wood, and Uncle Chizheng doesn't have to worry about carving it."
After Zhang Zhi walked away, Cai Que looked at Zhang Zhi's back and shook his head and thought, Zizheng is too naive. With Wang Anshi's resignation as prime minister, the factional disputes in the court will become more and more intense. If you don't take sides as soon as possible, you will be pushed out sooner or later.
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Hezhou City.
Facing Lu Shengqing's inquiry, Zhang Yue said: "Xihe still has some trivial matters. Mingfu doesn't need to wait for me. He just goes to Beijing first."
Zhang Yue cannot express his anxiety or unwillingness to go to Beijing. If he goes to Beijing eagerly, he will be jealous of Lu Huiqing. If he is unwilling to go to Beijing, the emperor will think that Zhang Yue is unwilling, which is even worse.
Lu Shengqing said: "Lu is bold enough to ask the commander-in-chief whether he supports the reform or opposes the reform when he comes to Beijing?"
Zhang Yue said: "When Mr. Wang resigned as Prime Minister, my brother wrote to me and asked me to retain Mr. Wang. I did as he was told. Does Mingfu know about this?"
Lu Shengqing did not give up and continued to ask: "As for the market change law... I wonder if the commander has any advice?"
It is obvious that Zhang Yue does not agree with the market change law. Now Zeng Bu and Lu Huiqing are arguing over this. Lu Shengqing threw this out just to see which side Zhang Yue supported.
Of course, Zhang Yue disagrees with the Market Change Law in his heart, and believes that the Market Change Law must be withdrawn!
But Zhang Yue knew that after saying this, there would be no room for change between him and Lu Huiqing. Just talking about Lu Huiqing's methods of punishing people, none of the ten Wang Anshi could be as good as him.
Zhang Yue said: "When I wrote to the emperor, I had clearly analyzed the pros and cons of the market change law. Why should I say more about this matter?"
Lu Shengqing immediately said: "Commander, one moment and another moment, the market change law has been implemented for several years now, bringing more than one million yuan of money and food to the court every year, which can be said to be effective."
"Besides, the Market Change Law and the Reform are one. Opposing the Market Change Law means opposing the Reform. Since the Commander-in-Chief has written a letter to retain Wang Xianggong, why not also express support for the Market Change Law? In this way, my brother will definitely repay the Commander-in-Chief generously. ."
Everyone knows whether this market change law is a good one, and Zhang Yue doesn't want to argue with Lu Shengqing.
Zhang Yue said to Lu Shengqing: "I have a deep friendship with Jifu, and I support him in everything else except this matter."
If we talk about the first month of the seventh year of Xining, Zhang Yue and Lu Huiqing were still on an equal footing.
But what happens after that? Lu Huiqing was first promoted to a bachelor's degree in Hanlin in February, and to a political advisor in April. Now he is the second-ranking figure in Zhongshu and the leader of the new party.
This speed of promotion...
Lu Huiqing now has a considerable advantage over Zhang Yue in official position.
In addition, Lu Huiqing also has a huge advantage, which is space and distance.
Zhang Yue is now in the northwest, thousands of miles away from Bianjing, and has no time to know what is happening in Bianjing. But where is Lu Huiqing? But he was by the emperor's side, making and changing the court's decisions.
Once Lu Huiqing knew that Zhang Yue was against him, he could ask the emperor to issue an edict so that Zhang Yue would not have to return to Beijing and directly go to serve as an official elsewhere.
This is not difficult to do, as long as a very simple excuse, such as the Khitan and Jiaozhi armies are approaching, let Zhang Yue immediately change to Hebei and Guangxi to supervise the army.
Zhang Yue suddenly received an imperial decree on his way back to Beijing, telling him not to return to Beijing and to take up his post in another place. Three to five years later, when Lu Huiqing's advantage in the court was unshakable, it would make no difference whether Zhang Yue came back or not.
That's why Lu Huiqing instructed Lu Shengqing to negotiate with Zhang Yue at this critical point. This was a blackmail on the premise that he had an advantage.
Zhang Yue directly showed his cards with Lu Shengqing.
Lu Shengqing thought for a long time. He had a good relationship with Zhang Yue and had been taking care of him over the years. At the same time, he also knew Zhang Yue's talents. Therefore, he did not want his brother to fall out with Zhang Yue.
Lu Shengqing hesitated for a moment and then said: "Commander, don't you think about it anymore?"
Zhang Yueze said: "I have been friends with Jifu for more than ten years. It is precisely because of this that I spoke out and tried my best to persuade him. Of course, I can answer perfunctorily today, but this would be an apology for our years of friendship. Friendship.”
Lu Shengqing sighed and said, "I understand."
A few days later, Zhang Yue set off from Hezhou and returned to Beijing. It was already May of the seventh year of Xining.
Before setting off, some staff suggested that Zhang Yue return to Beijing quickly without giving Lu Huiqing time to react, or send someone to intercept him midway. Lu Shengqing wrote a letter to Lu Huiqing.
Some people even suggested that Zhang Yue sent a stand-in to pretend to be walking slowly on the road to attract people's attention as a means of paralyzing Lu Huiqing, while Zhang Yue himself secretly entered Beijing overnight wearing civilian clothes.
These suggestions were ridiculous in Zhang Yue's eyes.
He dared to tell Lu Shengqing his plan, but he thought Lu Huiqing was just threatening and really didn't dare to do anything to him.
Even if you are now involved in politics, can you dominate the world with one hand?
You, Lu Huiqing, have just ascended to the throne and your position is unstable, so you will definitely be able to deal with me?
Zhang Yue didn't walk fast on the way back to Beijing, even a little slow.
Under Chengzhou City.
An old man was squatting at the base of the wall next to the city gate. He took a rice stalk and fiddled with it at the base of the wall where an ant nest had been planted.
"One, two, three... five, ten, oh, your ten can be made into a dozen, I will let you do whatever you want!"
The old man smiled and used the rice stalk to push the ten ants aside and forcibly divided them into ten pieces. Then he picked up the rice stalk and counted the other ten ants to make one piece of ten pieces, and then divided them according to law.
The old man smiled and rubbed the old mud around his neck, and said with a smile: "You two will practice together. If you do well, I will reward you!"
This old man was smiling and wearing an old coat. He was squatting in the corner and having a great time.
Several children laughed when they saw this scene.
At this time, a group of people came forward. The leader got off his horse and passed by someone else who pointed at him, and immediately walked towards the old man.
The man stood beside the old man for a moment, and then asked, "Zichun?"
The old man didn't seem to hear.
After the other party shouted a few more times, the old man turned back thoughtfully.
The old man and the other party looked at each other, and they were both stunned.
The corner of the old man's mouth moved. At first he didn't want to recognize him, but finally he said: "I have met the handsome man."
The old man is Wang Shao, and the other party is Zhang Yue who rushed back to Bianjing to visit him.
Zhang Yue looked at the other party and almost couldn't believe it. The other party was Wang Shao, but after not seeing him for two years, the other party turned out to be so old. He was completely different from the decisive and decisive Wang Shao.
Zhang Yue found a stone pier and sat down and said to Wang Shao, "Zichun, let's sit down and talk."
"There is no place for me to sit in front of the commander-in-chief."
"We are old acquaintances, so we don't have to be polite."
After Wang Shao sat down, the two talked about old times. Zhang Yue talked to Wang Shao about how he attacked, captured Mu Zheng, captured the border servant Bo Jie personally, defeated Dong Xiang, and how he finally captured the army. To Taozhou, Huangzhou, Hezhou.
Wang Shao was very happy to hear this. He took off the wine gourd on the tip of his gun and took a sip of wine when he heard that the Song army had won a great victory.
When Wang Shao heard the news that he had captured the enemy chief alive, he put his hands on his hands and laughed, as if he had personally gone into battle to kill the enemy.
Wang Shao said bluntly at the end: "Although the general is a mediocre general, he has clear rewards and punishments, so he can win the hearts of the army. With the combination of vertical and horizontal techniques, and then attacking the enemy with ten times the force, how can he not win?" "
Zhang Yue smiled and said, "What if it's General Zichun?"
Wang Shao said arrogantly: "If you are a general named Wang, you only need 30% of the troops to be a commander, that's fine!"
Having said this, Wang Shao sighed, clasped his fists and asked Zhang Yue: "Commander, does Wang have a chance in this life?"
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