When Zhang Yue attacked Hezhou, he destroyed the ghost Zhang Qingjie and stationed his heavy troops under the enemy's fortified city. This cost countless manpower and material resources. Not to mention the ordinary people of Shaanxi, even the officials of the entire Shaanxi Province were forced to rebel. .
How many people held their heads high and helped him win this battle.
Later, when Taozhou was defeated, the temple miscalculated and let go of the main enemy force. The court had to mobilize troops again and used a lot of manpower and material resources to finally defeat Taohuangzhou.
Previously, Aligu rebelled against the Song Dynasty and Xixia and attacked Xihe. In order to avoid fighting on two fronts, he ceded Huangzhou, which had just been acquired but had not yet warmed up, and returned it to Aligu.
Now they are going to attack Huangzhou again.
Zhang kept his promise, and Wang Shao both said in front of the officials that Zhang Yue was a mediocre general, and some courtiers also vaguely revealed that they did not understand Zhang Yue's strategic deployment.
At this moment, the officials also doubted whether Zhang Yue, whom they had always entrusted with important responsibilities, could help him complete his grand plan of exterminating Xia.
On that day, when the officials visited Empress Dowager Cao, who was bedridden and unable to walk, the Empress Dowager Cao said to the officials sincerely: "Cao Wuhui once said to my father that all generals are 'those who are good at fighting have no great achievements.' . Therefore, those who are good at moving troops use the shallow side instead of the deep side."
"If your Majesty wants to make a surprise, you can't use Zhang San. If you want to destroy Xia and break the country, you should entrust him to him!"
The official didn't understand what Empress Dowager Cao said, but he still remembered it. After hearing what Zhang Dun said today, he told him without hesitation.
Zhang Dun was stunned when he heard this and didn't know what to say.
After a while, Zhang Dun left the palace and came out.
Zhang Dun looked at the palace and couldn't help but think about the past.
He remembered what happened when he lived in Pucheng. He was born in a poor family of the Zhang family, but he was very talented. He entered the County Xuehuang Huaguan when he was young and was known as the best among all living beings.
Everyone in the county looked down upon him.
However, both the elder brother and the younger brother are extremely ineffective. Of course, he hates iron, especially Zhang Yue's younger brother who is idle and doing nothing all day long.
If it was just idleness, Zhang Yue actually took the money left by his parents and relied on his brother's favor to squander money like water. This made him particularly evil.
Later, there was the incident of the custodian repenting of his marriage. In fact, Zhang Dun also arranged for a backup plan. He asked a good friend to rescue Zhang Shi and Zhang Yue brothers after he left, while he went to Suzhou to pass the imperial examination related to the Yang family.
After he is admitted to the imperial examination, he will come back to deal with the custodian and take in the two brothers.
But before that, he must teach them an unforgettable lesson, otherwise even if he wins the Jinshi, these two people will be a burden to him in the future.
But Zhang Dun didn't expect that after he left, Zhang Yue would seem to be a different person, no, to be precise, it would be as if he had a different head.
Not only did he resolve Zhao Yasi's situation, but he also made all the backup plans he had arranged come to nothing.
Zhang Yue also changed his past bad habits and studied like Wen Quxing, who had a photographic memory.
Zhang Dun clearly remembered that his younger brother was hopelessly stupid back then. Not to mention articles, a twenty-word five-character poem could not be memorized even after half a day of reading.
Zhang Dun always felt that Zhang Yue was someone else's imposter. After confirming that he was really his brother, Zhang Dun had never believed in ghosts and gods, so he began to burn incense and worship Buddha. It can be seen that this incident had a huge impact on him.
Zhang Dun never mentioned that he had arranged a backup plan. He is extremely conceited, and it is difficult for most people to like him, let alone get into his heart, so he actually has little regard for brotherly love.
But the disgust was still rooted in his heart, and he would unconsciously deny what Zhang Yue had done.
Now after hearing what the official said, he couldn't help but wonder if he was being too subjective?
After becoming a Hanlin bachelor, it is inevitable that there will be more opportunities to deal with Zhang Yue.
He didn't want to explain.
Nowadays, it is inappropriate for two brothers, one to be in phase, and the other to be a bachelor of Hanlin, but the world knows that he has a very bad relationship with Zhang Yue, so there is no such relationship, and he can still play the role of a first-class supervisor.
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Under the Imperial City, Yuan Jiang, Yuan Mansion.
At the beginning of the new year, officials rushed to visit Wang Gui and Yuan Jiang's houses to congratulate them.
With the support of his disciples, Wang Lian, a Hanlin scholar, arrived at Yuan Mansion tremblingly.
Wang Lian was already old. Some people advised him to go out to live in retirement, but the other party refused anyway. When Wang Lian went to Yuan Mansion to meet Yuan Jiang, Yuan Jiang looked at him looking like he was about to die and was too lazy to see him.
However, the other party is also a Hanlin bachelor after all, so it is still not good to miss him.
When Wang Lian saw Yuan Jiang, he asked, "How is Da Ginseng?"
Yuan Jiang sighed: "What can I do? Now there is a great famine in the Huaihe River and Zhejiang provinces, and thieves are infested in the eastern part of Hebei Province. I can't eat anything."
Wang Lian said: "Then Da Shen must also protect the country. Now Da Shen alone is in danger of the safety of the world. Your Majesty and the ministers are all pointing to you, Da Shen."
After saying this, Wang Lian thought of the officials outside the palace who were scrambling to deliver messages and wanted to see Yuan Jiang.
The prime minister Yuan Jiang was extremely worried, so everyone in the Hefu family reduced the number of dishes.
Yuan Jiang was originally known for his frugal and virtuous official reputation. Participating in politics is a role model for the world. He took the lead and won the respect of the officialdom from top to bottom.
After the officials learned about this, they also praised Yuan Jiang, saying that as a veteran minister, the other party was really worried about the country and the people, but they also asked him to take care of his health and not be too frugal.
Of course the officials felt very sorry when they heard about it, so during the Chinese New Year, they came to see Yuan Xianggong with large and small bags and various gifts, hoping that he would take care of his health and take good care of his body for the country.
Wang Lian said: "Now that Zhang Zihou has entered the Yutang, it's really hard for me at my age to look down on this young man like this."
Yuan Jiang said: "Nowadays, if you do more, you will make more mistakes, and if you do less, you will make fewer mistakes. My brother is enjoying himself in Yutang, as if he has ascended to immortality, and I am not unenviable."
Wang Lian thought of this and immediately said: "In the past, Qian Yinggong (Qian Weiyan) once said that he regretted that he could not draw on yellow paper in his life, and I did the same."
Hearing what Wang Lian said so straightforwardly, Yuan Jiang almost wanted to walk away, but in the end she said: "Now, the seven princes-in-law of the two houses have never been vacant."
When Wang Lian heard this, he still said with a shy face: "If there is any problem, please ask Yuan Gong to remember me."
Seeing Yuan Jiang, he didn't comment.
Wang Lian said to his son beside him: "This is a dog's son. If Meng Yuan Gong doesn't abandon me, please accept him as your adopted son."
After Wang Lian finished speaking, his son immediately bowed down and said to Yuan Jiang: "Father, please accept my bow."
Upon hearing this, Yuan Jiang immediately stood up and said, "It's easy to say, I just take Brother Wang's matter to heart."
After receiving Yuan Jiang's words, Wang Lian was extremely happy and then left tremblingly with the support of his son.
After Wang Lian left, Yuan Jiang's two sons Yuan Qining and Yuan Qibi said: "Dad, the new robes are ready."
Yuan Jiang nodded and walked to the back hall. Yuan Jiang's son is already helping him look for robes that he will wear as prime minister in the future.
Official uniforms can be divided into sacrificial uniforms, court uniforms, and public uniforms. Yuan Jiang saw several styles and was satisfied with them, but she still asked her son to make the collar or cuffs larger or smaller.
His son undressed Yuan Jiang and said, "A character like Wang Lian should have been released earlier."
Yuan Jiang said: "One more person in the court means one more person to help. Although Wang Lian is old, he is useful!"
Immediately, Yuan Jiang warned his two sons: "There have been many things lately. You two should be careful. Don't bring me a bad reputation. You should take Li Chengzhi as a warning."
While they were talking, someone said: "My lord, Li Chengzhi is here to visit!"
Yuan Jiang was overjoyed when he heard this.
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Compared with the scene when Zhang Yue was newly appointed prime minister in the tenth year of Xining, a huge crowd came to congratulate him.
The number of officials visited by Yuanfeng in the first year of his reign was fully 50% less than that of last year.
Many officials who used to rush to visit him to congratulate him just left a message to express their appreciation.
People in the officialdom are the most well-informed. Now Zhang Yue has offended the old party on the left and offended the new party on the right. He is caught in the middle, and the left and right are not human beings.
Although the aspect seems to be worry-free for the time being, everyone knows how to avoid suspicion, so they are much more cautious.
Several aides in Zhang Yue's curtain were also warming themselves over the fire, drinking wine, and talking at the same time.
Su Zhe said: "If Mr. Zhang had been more ruthless, he would have stopped and gone to Li Chengzhi, and Xiong Ben and the two would not be in such embarrassment."
Chen Guan drank a bowl of wine and said: "Xiong Ben and Li Chengzhi are both talented people. If they give up without a reputation, people in the government and the public will be panicked."
Cai Jing laughed and said: "Yes, Mr. Zhang is a benevolent and righteous man."
Su Che said: "Benevolence and righteousness should also be divided into serious and serious matters, just like pulling out pus. If the pus is pulled out, it cannot be pulled out. Just like if it is not pulled out, the consequences will be endless."
"We must do our best to eradicate evil, otherwise it will be no different than not eradicating it!"
Chen Guan frowned and said: "If it was true before, Li Chengzhi, Xiong Ben, Zhang Gong, how different are they from Lu Liu?"
"Lu Liu was playing tricks at the beginning. After he joined politics, he got rid of all the people who did not agree with him. Now he has ended up like Chong Yanzhou."
"How could Mr. Zhang do what Lu Liu did?"
Cai Jing asked: "What advice does Yingzhong have?"
Chen Guan said: "I think this is too worrying. Changing the service law offended the new party, and the old party did not support it. Attacking Xihe offended the old party, and your majesty also meant to use force in Hengshan, which caused everyone in the world to be dissatisfied." Understand Zhang Gong’s proposition.”
Su Che said: "I think the draft law has been appropriately reformed. Sima Junshi advocated restoring the draft draft law, but he didn't know that the draft draft law was no less harmful than today's draft draft law."
Cai Jing and Chen Guan both agreed.
Cai Jing said: "One is over, the other is under."
Su Zhe said: "Actually, the method of using servants and servants simultaneously as mentioned by Shen Cunzhong is the real way to save the world. Unfortunately, most people in the world either oppose the new law or adhere to the new law and cannot get it."
Cai Jing smiled but thought to himself, after Shen Kuo was dismissed as the Third Secretary-General, Zhang Gong relied on me even more. In fact, it's really good.
As the inspector of the Zhongshu Household, Cai Jing had a lot of dealings with Cai Que, Kumamoto, and Li Chengzhi, the envoy of the Third Division of Sinong Temple. Although Cai Jing was Zhang Yue's confidant, officials from both yamen did not hate Cai Jing.
Chen Guan said: "In today's world, the only way to save the world is to eliminate cliques and govern the country impartially."
After hearing Chen Guan's words, Cai Jing couldn't help but sneer in his heart and gave the other party a childish evaluation.
Zhang Yue stood on the screen and heard clearly the conversation between Su Che and others.
Su Che was still so fierce. Zhang Yue recalled that in another time and space in history, Su Che impeached Lu Huiqing and dismissed him from office on the occasion of Yuanyou.
Su Shi also made up for it. When Su Shi, who was a Hanlin scholar at the time, drafted an edict to demote Lu Huiqing, he scolded Lu Huiqing and the New Party members, and then said to others, "I have been an executioner for thirty years, and today I have chopped up a fleshy man." .
Later, Qianlong, who liked to write poetry, also wrote a poem to comment on this matter.
Fengchi inkstone is used in combination with Yutang. Who can make it fair and equal if it is made of grass?
Su Shi would rather be a non-gentleman than call himself an executioner.
The only person Su Shi impeached in his life was Lu Huiqing. But Lu Huiqing even stepped on Su Shi's feet, which shows how much he offended people when he was in power.
Lu Huiqing does whatever it takes to exclude dissidents when participating in politics, and likes to "control people with joy and anger." In his memorial scolding Lu Huiqing, Su Shi said that Lu Huiqing "is a person who is happy enough to be in love with each other, but angry and turns against each other to devour each other."
To put it bluntly, in politics it would be extremely satisfying to be his ally, but it would be miserable to be his enemy. This is simply the template for male protagonists in online novels, and readers like to be like this.
But in reality, Lu Huiqing was extremely annoying because he used means to win over allies and attack dissidents, and he used power to the extreme.
The main reason why Zhang Yue promoted Han Jiang to the throne was that after he suddenly became prime minister, if he wanted to gain power, he would have to follow Lu Huiqing's example of vigorously purging the Central Secretary, promoting officials who were dependent on him, and attacking those who were not.
This clean-up should at least be expanded to the level of the two systems or even the pending system.
For Zhang Yue, who has to cherish his own life when doing big things, of course he would not do this.
Therefore, Li Chengzhi, Kumamoto and other troubles were left behind. In order to protect Feng Jing, he offended Lu Huiqing, and Feng Jing didn't thank him much.
At this time, Cai Jing said: "I think it's still a dilemma. The old party was offended by the attack on Xihe, and the new party and the officials were offended by the change of service law. I think we can't attack from both sides. If we are attacked on both sides, we must at least make peace with one of them first. Otherwise, if you catch both ends, you won’t be able to catch it!”
"With whom?" Chen Guan and Su Che asked at the same time.
Cai Jingdao: "Stop changing the service laws!"
As soon as Cai Jing finished speaking, he saw Zhang Yue stepping out, and the three of them quickly stood up and saluted.
Cai Jing gave up his seat and let Zhang Yue sit down.
Zhang Yue looked around at the crowd, smiled and said: "It is extremely difficult to resolve the dispute over [state affairs], not to mention the civil and military forces of the dynasty, and it is also extremely difficult for one's own family."
Upon hearing this, Cai Jing immediately said: "Mr. Sir, I made a mistake."
Zhang Yue waved his hand and asked, "How are people commenting on Li Chengzhi's matter now?"
Cai Jingdao: "After Li Chengshangshu resigned from the position of Third Secretary, it was ostensibly for covering up his son's crime of killing a commoner's wife, but everyone knows the underlying reason because he was forced by the father-in-law."
"The officials rejected it, but Li Chengzhi resigned repeatedly, and his intention was very strong."
"Some scholars questioned that Shen Kuo, the former Third Secretary, resigned because he wanted to change the service law, and now Li Chengzhi, the Third Secretary, resigned because he did not change the service law. So, should the Third Secretary listen to Zhang Xianggong or the officials? House's?"
Zhang Yue sneered at this and said: "Nowadays, most of the official circles are just grassroots. They will fall in whichever direction the wind is strong. There is no need to care too much."
"In times of strong winds and waves, when the world is questioning, only your own confidants can be relied upon."
"Yes." Cai Jing's face turned red.
Zhang Yue said to the three of them: "Please pay attention to the public opinion and opinions for me. If you need to remove those who are on the wall, you can remove them. If you don't come to help in times of need, there will be no need to be the icing on the cake in the future."
The three of them collectively said yes.
Indeed, the warmth and warmth of human relations in officialdom are impressive.
Although this is not the first time, Zhang Yue's prime minister's residence went from being bustling with people during the New Year last year to being deserted this year. It only took a year.
Why did Wang Anshi want "one morality" back then?
Zhang Yue didn't know how many times he slandered Wang Anshi because of this, and he was even very disdainful. Do you have to suppress dissent to show that you are the only right one?
But now I am also taking three steps.
Question Wang Anshi, understand Wang Anshi, and become Wang Anshi.
Thinking of this, Zhang Yue also sighed secretly. He has always advocated that politicians should be able to listen to advice and accept advice. Only by attacking forward and backward can we achieve [sincerity].
Here we want to have different opinions to confuse each other, and there we want the same morality. This is a dilemma.
While they were talking, an outsider reported that Cai Que was visiting.
Everyone was surprised. Cai Que had not visited Zhang Yue for more than a year. This year, Cai Que and Zhang Yue had conflicting political views due to the issue of military service laws, which almost ruined their friendship.
Unexpectedly, Cai Que actually came to visit in person this time. What was the reason for this?
Cai Que is in the limelight now. He is wearing a green shirt and a folding fan on his waist, as if he is a handsome young man.
Zhang Yue saw that the other party's appearance was difficult to associate with Cai Que, who was in Imperial College back then. But soon Zhang Yue thought that Cai Que was originally an official, but his family was in decline.
Su Che glared at Cai Que, not giving the other person a good look.
Cai Que was thoughtful and looked back at Su Che.
After Zhang Yue took his seat, he personally poured tea for Cai Que. Cai Que said, "Sanlang, you and I haven't spoken in private together for a long time."
Zhang Yue said: "It's not like my senior brother here doesn't know the way. You can come at any time."
Cai Que said with a smile: "On the first day you entered the capital, I advised you to overthrow Duke Shu, but you didn't listen. Do you regret it today?"
Zhang Yue glanced at Cai Que and said, "It turns out that senior brother is the one with farsightedness. From that day on, did you expect that I would be where I am today?"
Cai Que smiled and did not answer, but asked: "What do you think? Since you started from Taixue, although your official position is higher than mine, you have never been as good as me in terms of knowledge."
Zhang Yue listened and said half-jokingly: "Then I will listen to you, Senior Brother Cai from now on?"
Cai Que also joked after hearing this: "Of course."
After saying that, the two of them laughed.
Zhang Yue picked up the tea cup and said: "Actually, even if I listen to my senior brother, I will only be the second Lu Jifu if I take down Lord Shu!"
Cai Que said: "Lu Jifu? If he can keep winning, he will be the one who speaks in the temple today and his words will rule the world!"
Zhang Yue said: "It's impossible, there are still officials."
Cai Que said: "If this is true, the official family cannot do without you."
"Then what? Demoted to Lingnan in ten years?"
Cai Que said angrily: "He is really a man who does great things but cherishes his own life."
After a pause, Cai Que said: "Forget about the past, what do you want to do now? You must put one of Xihe Road and the exemption method, otherwise your phase will be in danger!"
Zhang Yue said: "What if I don't let you go even if you tell me?"
Upon hearing this, Cai Que opened the folding fan and said slowly: "Then I guessed it right, you really have a back-up plan!"
"After attacking Xihe, change the military method, change the military method and then attack Xihe. This is from the outside to the inside, and then from the inside to the outside. You and Shu Guogong really don't have the name of master and disciple, but they are actually master and disciple!"
Zhang Yue said: "Senior brother is wrong. The more you practice, the more you know. The more you know, the more you can practice. This is my opinion!"
