The officials in the palace seemed to be talking to themselves.
Immediately the official asked Li Xian: "What do you mean?"
Li Xiandao: "Reporting to your Majesty, I have heard about the scenery of Fujian. This place is barren, with few fields and many mountains. Therefore, the villagers pay attention to business and do not pursue vain pursuits. It is like Zhang Dexiang, Wu Yu of Renzong Dynasty, and Cai Xiang of Yingzong Dynasty. Gong Liang all has the reputation of being an able minister, and the same goes for Chen Shengzhi, Wu Chong and Lu Huiqing of this dynasty."
After Li Xianxian finished speaking, Guan Jiaxun immediately asked: "Then why did Taizu say that southerners cannot be prime ministers?"
The official said to His Highness's chair: "People from the south are not allowed to sit in my hall. This is what Taizu taught me back then and it is engraved on the political hall."
Li Xiandao: "This was said when Taizu was ruling the world. At that time, there were more people in the north and fewer people in the south. Moreover, this dynasty took the south from the north, and most of the people in the south were those who surrendered. Taizu was worried about the remnants of the dead ministers and the chaos. I am Sheji, so I leave these words."
"Now this dynasty has conquered the world for more than a hundred years. Even the rebellious officials and traitors left by the Southern Dynasty have long been buried in the fields. Therefore, Zhenzong and Renzong have successively appointed southerners as prime ministers. Let me say that after the world is at peace, the south will be richer than the north. , so there are also many figures in the south. When comparing Zhejiang and Zhejiang with the imperial examination, the scholars in Fujian Road are indeed outstanding, and most of the number one scholars in the Renzong Dynasty and the Yingzong Dynasty were chosen from them."
The official nodded when he heard this and said, "What you said is absolutely true!"
Li Xian said: "But having said that, the southerners are indeed good at internal fighting and stubborn. Please use it with caution, Your Majesty."
The official laughed and said, "The one you mentioned is Lu Huiqing who is good at internal fighting, and the one who is stubborn is Wang Anshi!"
Li Xian was shocked when he heard this. When word spread, he had offended a prime minister. How could a person participating in politics still survive?
Li Xian quickly said: "Your Majesty, I am talking about Wang Qinruo!"
Emperor Renzong personally determined that Wang Qinruo was a traitor.
The official said: "Speaking of which, between Wang Qinruo and Kou Zhun, Kou Zhun is from the north, but his uprightness and courage are indeed not comparable to that of a southern prime minister. It's a pity that he likes to control the emperor."
On the side, Li Xian heard Xian Ge and knew what Ya meant: "Your Majesty, the truth about the fire in the Third Division has been found out, and there is indeed another mastermind."
The official said: "You don't need to tell me who he is, I already know it."
Li Xian said yes, the officials did not care about the mastermind behind the scenes because they still wanted to use the other party.
"Xuan Zhang goes up to the palace."
The official sat firmly on the dragon chair. After a while, Zhang Yue went up to the hall and saluted immediately.
The two rows of candles in the hall were dimly lit, and the official was sitting on the dragon chair. From this angle, Zhang Yue couldn't see the expression on the official's face clearly.
Zhang Yue thought to himself, after not seeing each other for several months, there were new changes in the official family, and they actually started to play a mysterious and mysterious trick.
Zhang Yue couldn't see the official's face clearly, and he heard a loud voice from the throne saying to Zhang Yue: "Qing Zhang, please sit down."
"Thank you, Your Majesty."
The conversation between the monarch and his ministers was somewhat calm, and the official asked: "Qing Zhang, does he know why I summoned you back to the capital?"
Zhang Yue said: "Reporting to Your Majesty, I dare not speculate on the Holy Will."
The official smiled and flipped the impeachment seal on the royal eucalyptus with his hand.
Zhang Yue said: "Your Majesty, I heard that someone in the cabinet impeached me before. I don't know what the impeachment chapter said. Please make it clear to your Majesty."
The officials were interested in interrogating Zhang Yue, but they were worried about hurting the feelings of the emperor and his ministers, so they held back.
Unexpectedly, Zhang Yue took the initiative to ask the officials what the memorial to impeach him actually said.
This surprised the official for a moment. He thought to himself whether Zhang Yue really didn't know or pretended not to know. What was the purpose of calling him back to the capital? At this time, the other party is still concerned about this.
The official covered it up and said: "These are all irrelevant words. I have already planned to stay."
Face must be given to important ministers. The emperor cannot easily doubt ministers. Even if you really have suspicions in your heart, you cannot put them on the surface.
Zhang Yue said: "Your Majesty, the monarch and his ministers must be frank and honest with each other. Only when there is no doubt about each other can they be intimate. I am willing to clear up my doubts to your majesty to show that I have no intention of hiding anything."
After hearing this, the official smiled inwardly and handed the memorial on the imperial edict to Li Xian and then to Zhang Yue.
Zhang Yue opened the memorial and found that the ink was still fresh. The date was yesterday, which was exactly what he had planned to do when he returned to court to impeach himself.
The person who impeached himself was the censor Deng Runfu.
What is the reason?
Zhang Yue wanted to laugh when he saw it, it turned out to be his teacher Zhang Youzhi.
Zhang Youzhi died in the second year of Zhiping. This impeachment letter said that Zhang Youzhi was a famous seal script master in the world, but his seal script skills were passed down to Zhang Gu, the number one scholar of the Southern Tang Dynasty, by Xu Kai, the younger brother of Xu Xian, an official of the Southern Tang Dynasty.
Zhang Gu was later passed to Zhang Youzhi.
Xu Xuan finally surrendered to the Song Dynasty, but Xu Kai did not surrender and died of illness before the fall of the Southern Tang Dynasty.
After the fall of the Southern Tang Dynasty, the Song Dynasty invited Zhang Gu to come out of the mountain several times, but he was rejected all times, and there were even words of dissatisfaction. Zhang Gu always regarded himself as a minister of the Southern Tang Dynasty, and directly told the officials of the Song Dynasty who came to recruit him, "A loyal minister will not serve two masters."
As for Zhang Youzhi, he also inherited Zhang Gu's legacy and refused to serve in the Song Dynasty three times. However, he still carved the Jiayou Stone Sutra for Emperor Renzong, which is now in Taixue.
Okay, so Deng Runfu made an article about this, saying that Zhang Yue was a member of the Southern Tang Dynasty. Although he was not incapable of being an official, he was not suitable for high positions.
Anyway, the implication is almost the same as Emperor Taizu's saying, "Southerners should not be prime ministers." Why? I'm afraid that since you are the disciple of the Southern Tang Dynasty's minister, there will be a counterattack in the future.
Zhang Yue looked at Qi Shu and found it very ridiculous.
A survivor of the Southern Tang Dynasty? ? ?
What exactly is Southern Tang!
But the problem is that everything the other party says is true, and there is a set of logic in it.
Most people certainly don’t believe it, but just finding a wedge there will make people take root in the future.
Any dynasty would rather kill anyone who might subvert the regime than let anyone go.
Take the case of Zhao Shiju, who was framed by Lu Huiqing this time to frame Wang Anshi.
Because the rebel Li Feng knew the clan member Zhao Shiju and they were in contact, Zhao Shiju was ordered by the officials to commit suicide.
Zhao Shiju knew Li Shining. Li Shining often visited Zhao Shiju's house. The two of them drank wine and accepted a knife from him, so he was also suspected of treason.
As for Li Shining, he was a disciple of Wang Anshi. He lived in Wang Anshi's house for a year and a half and became very familiar with his family and disciples, so Wang Anshi also...
So down the line...Wang Anshi also became a suspect in the rebellion.
As for using Zhang Youzhi to slander him, this is indeed a familiar method and a familiar smell.
If you spread rumors, you will lose your legs if you refute them.
The official said: "Zhang Youzhi has died of illness a long time ago, not to mention that the Southern Tang Dynasty has been dead for so many years. I think this is ridiculous."
Zhang Yue thought to himself that Zhang Youzhi had died of illness long ago, so this could mean that there was no evidence of death.
Zhang Yue said: "Your Majesty, neither Xu Kai nor Zhang Guchen know each other, but I only know my teacher. My teacher has taught me all his life the principles of study and life, and taught me to be loyal to the country and the country. His writing talent is even learned by Wang Xianggong. I also admired him very much. I often interacted with him in those days and praised his talents in his epitaph. He was a figure like Liezi and Zhuang Zhou."
"I don't know whether Liezi or Zhuangzhou is a relic of which dynasty and generation."
