"Cai Chengxi went to Zhazi yesterday. I don't know what happened?"
"Today we found out that Lu Huiqing and his brother Lu Shengqing were impeached!"
Wang Anshi, who was on the sick bed, thought for a while after hearing Wang Yu's report. Wang Yu said happily: "My father has not yet done anything, Cai Chengxi impeached Brother Lu Huiqing, which shows that this traitor has exhausted all his strength."
Wang Anshi said to Wang Yu: "I have no intention of getting rid of Lu Jifu, but I just want him to restrain himself a little."
Wang Yu said: "Dad, Lu Huiqing first used the Zheng Xia case to kill his uncle, and then used the Zhao Shining conspiracy case to implicate dad. If dad hadn't rushed back to Bianjing from Jiangning within ten days, Lu Huiqing would have..."
Wang Anshi remembered how he rushed to Beijing to pay homage to the prime minister for the second time.
Wang Anshi thought for a while and said: "Lü Jifu was wrong, but I can avoid it. I resigned as prime minister due to the impeachment of Zheng Jiefu. If Jifu hadn't maintained the new law in the government, the new law would have been abolished. At that time, under the chaos of swords and halberds, Lü Jifu would have inevitably done something extraordinary. Otherwise, the hard work of the past six years of reform will be in vain."
"If you want to do extraordinary things, you must have an extraordinary position. He wants to retain his position and I can save it. What's more, Lu Jifu is different from Zeng Zixuan. However, I and Zhang Yue once said not to recommend Shen Kuo, but he just didn't listen."
Wang Yu thought to himself and took care of Lu Huiqing. If Zhang Yue disobeyed, he also took care of him.
Shen Kuo betrayed Wang Anshi, and Zhang Yue openly defended him. Although Wang Anshi and Wang Yu were unhappy, the most important opponent at hand was not Zhang Yue.
One principle must be maintained in any political struggle, which is not to create two opponents at the same time.
Wang Anshi didn't know Wang Anshi's overall consideration. When Han Qi and Fu Bi opposed the reform, he openly persuaded Wang Anshi to kill them in front of Cheng Hao.
Wang Yu is murderous and hateful, whether he takes action or wants to see blood.
This is also the habit within the yamen.
They are less afraid of restraints than I am, and they dare to think and act. It can be said that except for Wang Anshi, he is also in awe. No one in the new party, Wang Yu, thinks highly of them.
However, Wang Yu is indeed very talented. Even in the New Party, which is full of talents, few people can surpass him. But Wang Yu has always disliked Lu Huiqing from beginning to end.
In order to force Wang Anshi to make up his mind to deal with Lu Huiqing, Wang Yu said: "Dad, no matter what, Zhang Duzhi has never openly opposed dad in politics, not to mention Shen Cunzhong is also a person appreciated by the government, but... Lu Huiqing has tampered with the new meaning of the Three Classics!" "
Wang Anshi was surprised when he heard this. He had two major efforts. One was the great reform cause that had lasted from the second year of Xining to the present, and the other was the new meaning of the Three Classics.
Even in his heart, the new meaning of the three classics was more important than the great cause of the reform.
"Where is Yu Zhong?" Wang Anshi asked.
This Yu Zhong was the son-in-law of Lu Huiqing, who was the number one scholar in the sixth year of Xining. When Wang Anshi resigned as prime minister, he asked Yu Zhong to follow him back to Jiangning to study the new meaning of the Three Classics.
Wang Yu said: "Yu Zhong has confessed to me that many of the new meanings of the Three Classics that Brother Lu Huiqing sent back to Beijing were tampered with. Among them, the one in the Book of Songs was changed by Lu Huiqing in twenty-one places, and even the detailed explanation by Lu Huiqing was changed by Lu Huiqing in ten places. There are so many in one place.”
Wang Anshi was furious when he heard this. He suddenly coughed up his lungs and coughed up a mouthful of blood.
Wang Yu regretted seeing this. In order to provoke Wang Anshi to deal with Lu Huiqing, he unexpectedly made Wang Anshi extremely angry.
Wang Anshi blushed and waved his hands: "Don't mention this in advance!"
Wang Yu withdrew from Wang Anshi's bedroom, thinking that since his father did not want to take action with Lu Huiqing, it was because he had been involved too deeply for many years. In this case, he would let others take action. There is a rift between Zhang Yue and Lu Huiqing, and I am not the one who can persuade him. In the future, I promise to take Lu Huiqing's position today.
…
On this day, Zhang Yue had just retired from the court, but he learned that Lu Shengqing had come to visit him, and instead waited for him in the mansion for a full hour.
Zhang Yue heard about Cai Chengxi's impeachment of Lu Huiqing's brother, so soon Lu Shengqing came to visit.
"I've met Mr. Zhang!"
Zhang Yue said to Lu Shengqing, "It's Mingfu!"
Seeing Lu Shengqing sweating profusely, Zhang Yue ordered someone to immediately bring Lu Shengqing face wash.
Lu Shengqing wiped his face and said, "Please sir, please rescue our brothers!"
Zhang Yue immediately clarified: "I don't know anything about Cai Yu's history."
Zhang Yue was not completely unaware of this. Cai Que informed Zhang Yue about this after instructing Cai Chengxi to go to the hospital.
Lu Shengqing thought to himself that Zhang Yue really didn't know about this, but he couldn't escape his involvement. If Shen Kuo hadn't openly changed his banner, even if he had given Cai Chengxi ten courages, he would not have dared to impeach Lu Huiqing when the direction of the storm was unclear.
Lu Shengqing just kept apologizing, and Zhang Yue found it funny.
The Lu family brothers all have high emotional intelligence. When Zhang Yue was demoted from the capital by Lu Huiqing, Lu Shengqing came to explain afterwards. Even Lu Huiqing took good care of Zhang Zhi who was in Daizhou.
Lu Shengqing, who had been working under Zhang Yue's court for many years, knew that Zhang Yue had a friendship of one kind with his hometown and another with old friends, so he kept apologizing to him, hoping that he would soften his heart.
Lu Shengqing looked sincere and almost shed tears.
Zhang Yue finally said: "Does Brother Zun know that you are here this time?"
Lu Shengqing nodded and said: "My brother knows that, Mr. Zhang, my brother has always been the most reasonable person for you. If you were to find him in a different place, what would you do?"
"Zheng Xia's fellow minister, Wang Xianggong, ignored the officials and Lu Xianggong's attempts to stay, insisted on resigning, and ignored the survival of the new law. At that time, the whole dynasty was talking about abolishing the new law, but it was my brother who held the situation together. This saved the new law from being suspended. At that time, when my brother sent a letter to the governors of the world, asking them to support the new law, what was Wang Xianggong doing? He just wanted to go back to Jiangning and write some complaining poems. Is it the work of a party leader?"
"If my brother hadn't come forward to turn the tide, the new law would have been implemented long ago... Of course, Xianggong Zhang's victory in the northwest was one of the reasons that made the officials change their minds."
Zhang Yue laughed after hearing this and said: "Yes, I almost forgot about the pacification of Xihe if you didn't mention it. Afterwards, Xianggong Lu didn't ask for a reward on my behalf. Even my officials except Mingfu didn't do anything. Not sealed yet.”
Lu Shengqing was embarrassed for a moment when he heard this, and then said: "My husband misunderstood, and it's not that my brother didn't have this intention. It's just that Xihe's reward was too generous at that time, and the old party was too eager to criticize, so it's hard to say anything."
Zhang Yue smiled and said: "Of course you can say whatever you want afterwards. My brother had known this for a long time, so why did he do it in the first place?"
Lu Shengqing cried and said: "This matter is my brother's negligence, but preserving the survival of the new law is the most important thing in my heart. My brother has worked hard for this, and everyone in the world knows it. He has spent so much effort on this, I offended so many people, but after the situation stabilized, Wang Xianggong returned to the court, so smoothly taking my brother's hard work as his own. To be fair, Mr. Zhang, if you are my brother, can you live in peace?"
Lu Shengqing's words were sad, and Zhang Yue thought to himself that if he and Lu Huiqing were in different places, it would be difficult to reconcile them to each other at this moment.
Lu Huiqing is a very politically ambitious person, and at the same time he is also eager to display his ambitions. When Wang Anshi resigned as prime minister, everyone could see the firmness of his ambition.
It is also an indisputable fact that Wang Anshi used Lu Huiqing as his substitute to continue the reform.
Lu Huiqing took up the banner after Wang Anshi and worked alone for more than half a year. He worked hard for the reform and reversed the unfavorable situation. He made promises to countless people outside and offended many people, but after Wang Anshi returned to the court, all of these were taken away by the other party?
Moreover, Wang Anshi always regarded Lu Huiqing as his younger brother and believed that he should obey him regardless of his political opinions.
However, Lu Huiqing has established his own power and developed his own set of policy policies in the past six months. Wang Anshi came back and deprived Lu Huiqing of all this.
Zhang Yue said to Lu Shengqing: "My brother has reached this point, didn't he already expect it?"
"I told him not to force Feng to participate in politics or to go abroad. Did he listen? If he had listened, he wouldn't be where he is today."
"Even if Feng Shenzheng is forced to go, he also forces me to go, but your brother is forcing Prime Minister Han? Prime Minister Han is forced by your brother to give up his position or to ask Mr. Wang to return to the court. If he takes a step back, Mr. Wang is worried that his Majesty It only took a few days to rush back to Bianjing from Jiangning because of my brother's murder. This is a matter known to everyone."
"If your brother is a virtuous person, why are everyone so afraid of your brother?"
"No one knows if my brother will be in charge of the position in the future. Will it be Li Linfu, Yang Guozhong and others? My brother is to blame for all this!"
Lu Shengqing's face turned blue and white after being spoken to by Zhang Yue. Didn't he persuade his brother not to fall out with Zhang Yue?
Lu Huiqing said that since I have chased Feng Jing, Zhang Du's rabbit will die and the fox will be sad, and he will give me a sword in the future.
Lu Shengqing said: "Zhang Xianggong said that everyone in the court is afraid of my brother? But my brother is just upholding the new law. Besides, when Lu Jianyi held the position, it was not true that those who were compatible would stay and those who were not compatible would be left. Why didn't future generations say anything at that time?"
"It's useless to say this now. I just came here to ask my husband, can I let my brother go? With my husband's intelligence, I also know that Wang Xianggong has a close relationship with my brother and they can't openly fall out with each other, so they kill people with a borrowed knife. Now they are borrowing a knife to kill someone. It’s Xianggong Zhang’s sword.”
Zhang Yue laughed when he heard this: "Mingfu, Mingfu, don't judge a gentleman with a villain's heart. Wang Xianggong didn't want to put your brothers to death!"
Lu Shengqing thought to himself that Cai Chengxi was a disciple of Wang Anshi's hometown, and the impeachment must have been his instruction. How could he say that he did not want to put his brother to death?
Seeing that Lu Shengqing didn't believe him, Zhang Yue suddenly realized, could this be what Cai Que expected?
…
Wang Anshi forced his sick body to go to court. After the officials asked about Wang Anshi's condition, they asked him about Lu Huiqing.
The official said: "Cai Chengxi's impeachment said that brother Lu Huiqing was slow to gain power. What do you think?"
Wang Anshi said: "I wonder what Hui Qing doesn't like?"
The official said: "Be wary of being capable, eager to win, and unfair. Just like Zhang Yue and Shen Kuo, they both have great talents, but they are not tolerated by them."
Wang Anshi said: "Lu Huiqing hates Shen Kuo because he hates his repetition, not because he is disloyal."
Officials also said that Cai Chengxi said that Lu Shengqing advised Lu Huiqing to lie down for ten days and that all the remonstrances were dismissed. They also said that Lu Shengqing had carved words on Taizong's imperial stele. Wang Anshi dismissed it as a lie and tried to protect Lu Huiqing.
Lu Huiqing, on the other hand, had gone to court for the second time and sneered in her heart when she heard Wang Anshi's words of defense. On the one hand, Wang Anshi instructed Cai Chengxi to impeach him, and on the other hand, he defended himself in front of the emperor. There is no more hypocritical and cunning person in the world than this!
