Take the system back to the Northern Song Dynasty

Chapter 203 Cai Jing's Swing

"Is it true that he and Prime Minister Cai did not get along?"

These are some trajectories in Zhao Cheng's little historical memory, by the way.

Zhang Ji tilted his head as if he couldn't say it well, "It depends on how you understand it. Basically, whoever has the most limelight is the one he likes to criticize. In the earliest days, he was just a small pusher in Kaifeng Mansion, and his favorite thing to do The thing is that those big officials in the temple were sprayed, which made him taste the sweetness. The more he sprayed, the more official he became. , Jiangxi, and Huainan have all served as criminal judges, and they all seem to be on the go. It’s because he sprays wherever he goes, and it’s all old things.”

Zhang Ji went on to say, "During Emperor Zhezong's time, he loved the Yuanyou Party, Wen Yanbo, Su Shi, Sima Guang, Lu Gong's works and others, and he was very popular with others."

Zhao Cheng was stunned, "If this is the case, should he make friends with Cai Jing?"

Zhang Ji nodded, "It's like this in the last period. He had a good relationship with Cai Jing at the beginning, especially in the year of Chongning, which was very prosperous for a while. After Cai Jing worshiped the prime minister, he became Cai Jing's Zuo Cheng (assistant prime minister). But in a short time Seeing the disagreement, it may be because of his integrity, or it may be due to his personality. Once Lao Zhang made a mistake, he publicly slandered Cai Jing several times, and it was especially fierce. As a result, a censor came out to say that Lao Zhang was corrupt. He railed against the Yuanyou Party, and then slapped the Yuanyou Party’s horse, and his position and ideas were wavering.”

Zhao Cheng asked with a strange expression, "I think Lao Zhang will respond by saying that he is right and wrong?"

Zhang Ji nodded and said, "That's how he responded. Maybe he is really right and wrong, and maybe this is the way he behaves in the world. In short, this thing can't be recognized by outsiders, and I'm afraid no one knows it except himself. But he Being a clean official and a relatively upright person has a good reputation.”

"What happened later?" Zhao Cheng asked again.

Zhang Ji smiled and said, "It was the booming period of Cai Jing. Zhang Shangying slandered Cai Jingqian several times and would definitely be demoted. Of course, he was demoted from Beijing to know Bozhou. It is better to follow him. When encountering Xingchang, Cai Jing avoids suspicion and quits. During the Tingzhi period, he was called to Hangzhou again, and he returned to his old job as the criminal and prison officer of Liangzhe Road. This is his rough resume."

Zhao Cheng felt that what Zhang Ji said was quite accurate, and he had minimized his evaluation of Lao Zhang.Zhang Shangying is a good person, generally considered to be upright, but with great ambition and lack of talent, even if he had the opportunity many times, he was appreciated by Wang Anshi and Emperor Huizong successively, but he did not achieve much.

He was indeed a bit vacillating. The period when he was appreciated by Wang Anshi was when Zhang Shangying was a fan of Sima Guang and Mr. Lu wrote Wen Yanbo.

The era of Wang Anshi is over, but the era of Cai Bian and Cai Jing is almost here, so those who turn black fans to Sima Guang and others will really become the enemies of the Cai family.However, the difference between Lao Zhang and Lu Huiqing is that he actually made friends with Cai Jing in the early years of Chongning. With the help of Lao Cai, he entered the temple and became Zuo Cheng.

Generally speaking, this troll has experienced ups and downs and has never failed in three dynasties. After Cai Jing, he will have another chance to officially become the prime minister. It is a pity that he is really ambitious and neglected to do anything. He followed Zhao Tingzhi's old path. The only thing he did was to negate all of Cai Jing's policies, which caused a major disturbance in a short period of time and then stepped down again.

Finally, Zhang Jidao: "It has been delayed a lot of time, and I still have the lecture hall. The last thing I want to say is that he and my father are okay, but he and my second uncle are not good."

Zhao Cheng looked weird. Her uncle Zhang Kegong was also a big troll. It would be impossible to deal with two trolls named Zhang together.

Zhang Ji had already left and went to the lecture hall.

Zhao Cheng once again confirmed what he was doing based on Lao Zhang's resume.

"It must be to replace Cai Jing to maintain stability and muddle."

For Zhang Shangying, Zhao Cheng felt that this was the only explanation.

Regardless of whether a person like Zhang Shangying is upright or not, there is no doubt that he is an old kid with a glassy heart because of his qualifications and knowledge.In fact, this is the true nature of a literati. If he is a traitor, he will not be like this. He will be very thick-skinned and seem to be kind.

With such a glass heart, he had a disagreement with Cai Jing at the time, and he slandered Lao Cai several times and was expelled from the central government to know Bozhou. There is no doubt that he had an enmity with Cai Jing.But in fact, Lao Cai is already very gentle. Damn it, he slandered the policies of the ruler, and he slandered it several times like a troll.

In fact, even if we do this in the age of civilization, it will be more serious than this.

But now that Cai Jing is feuding with Cai Jing, he is willing to accept Lao Cai's appointment to come to Chizhou. There should be several explanations.

One is that a scholar like him naturally doesn't like fighting, and doesn't like the atmosphere of blood and fire. When the official army (Zhao Cheng) has not won for a long time and is in a disadvantageous situation, such a scholar will be afraid and choose to compromise in order to avoid civilian casualties Zhao'an.

The second is that his attribute likes to show off the limelight, and now Zhao Cheng is, so he came.

Another thing is that Zhao Cheng had suspected before that the qualitative Manichaeism issue would usher in trouble, and Lao Zhang was the criminal officer of Liangzhe Road.

Zhao Cheng concluded in the Battle of Lingyang Mountain that it was the Manichaeism.Since the Manichaeism is so courageous, it means that all the bureaucrats on the Liangzhe Road were blind before this, and Zhang Shangying, the criminal officer, has the greatest theory of responsibility.So a glass-hearted character like Lao Zhang will rebound greatly.

The fourth is that Zhang Shangying did not trust the Cai family, and the fact that Lingyang Mountain prevented the entire Liangzhe Road bureaucrats from coming to Taiwan was decided by Zhao Cheng, Cai You's subordinate and prospective son-in-law.Zhang Shangying should naturally distrust the Lingyang Mountain incident.When he doesn't know what the truth is, there is a high probability that it will be understood as a political blow or even persecution against Zhang Zhang.

The above four points are what Zhao Cheng guessed, and Zhang Shangying's original intention of accepting Cai Jing's appointment to Chizhou.

As for why the treacherous Cai Jing appointed Zhang Shangying instead of others?

This seemed very ambiguous, and Zhao Cheng had a hunch: Cai Jing was wavering and worried about gains and losses.

In the earliest days, due to financial difficulties, Cai Jing had no patience with his son Cai You, and wanted to try an alternative method.This is why Cai Jing acquiesced to Zhang Shuye, Zhang Kangguo and others to deploy the inaction army into Chizhou.

It's not that Lao Cai really can't stop this process, it's that he's playing balance, pretending he can't stop it, and giving his horses in the southeast region a beat so that they don't look too ugly.

But seeing that the Wuwei army got into trouble, they stabbed the basket, but there was no battle report beneficial to the court for a long time, and they were defeated one after another.Then Cai Jing certainly didn't want chaos in the southeast, so he wanted to put out the fire and adopted Zhao'an's mitigation strategy, which was basically the national policy of the Song Dynasty anyway.

But even Zhao'an, from Cai Jing's standpoint, is not at ease at this time handing it over to his own people, because in essence these disasters were caused by his own people, and if he still leaves it to his own people, the southeast region will be further entangled, so the old man Cai chose Zhang Shangying, who is relatively upright and dare to speak, to handle this matter.The reputation will be better, and the resistance from Zhang Shuye and others will be much smaller.

I think it is basically clear, maybe a little biased, but it should not deviate too much from the core of this "transaction".

Even if she has no idea, the stinky daughter-in-law still wants to see her in-laws. She has to go to the state government to see Cai You's attitude, and then see if Huang Wenbing, the old fox, will help Zhao Cheng withstand political pressure as promised... …

Enter the state government.

Cai You, Huang Wenbing, and Wang Fu, the main officials of Chizhou, are gathering a seemingly immortal... well, no, it should be an extremely refined person around the core, drinking tea and talking.

That person is Zhang Shangying, really well-deserved of his reputation, a bit of a wild talent, he is an old version of a handsome guy.With his talent and demeanor, this man must have been a heartthrob when he was young.

Therefore, working under Zhao Ji's command is really good-looking, and doing things in the Song Dynasty, there is an absolute bonus to learning.

"My next official, Zhao Cheng, see you all."

Zhao Cheng was wearing a green robe and his hat was crooked, which was a bit funny, and on this occasion, the green official robe seemed particularly glaring.

Their eyes made Zhao Cheng fully feel, like the first-line workers in the workshop of later generations who met the director in suits and leather shoes when they were covered in oil and smudges.

(End of this chapter)