Take the system back to the Northern Song Dynasty

Chapter 204
Cai You's face was rather strange, and he nodded slightly to Zhao Cheng.

As for Huang Wenbing, who lowered his head and held the tea bowl, he purposely did not look at Zhao Cheng.

After Wang Fu gave Zhao Cheng a cold look, he continued to talk with Zhang Shangying.

Zhang Shangying also took a look, then ignored Zhao Cheng, and continued talking to the surrounding officials.

Zhao Cheng looked up at the ceiling helplessly, so he could only continue to stand in this shape.

Cai You frowned, and glared at Wang Fu, which probably meant that if you dare to keep talking to Lao Zhang, you will die later and you will not accompany the money.

Wang Fu was startled, he didn't dare to go too far and kept a low profile.

Seeing that Wang Fu was quite sensible, Cai You's hostility stopped, and he turned to look at Zhang Shangying and clasped his fists, "Mr. Zhang is still worrying about Chizhou affairs at this age. It's been a long journey."

Pointing to Zhao Cheng, "This is the hot young talent at the moment, Zhao Cheng."

If it were someone else, after Cai You made such a special introduction, no matter how disgusted he was, he would have to show some face.

It's a pity that this old Zhang turned around, frowning and looking up and down for a long time before asking, "Are you the one who was boasted too much and was defeated in Lingyang Mountain?"

"It's the next official, I'm worried about Duke Ming."

Zhao Cheng continued to maintain the situation of seeing the ceremony.

His attitude was slightly beyond Zhang Shangying's expectations. He twirled his beard and pondered, didn't he mean that he was a rebellious bandit?
Zhang Shangying paused and said, "Zhao Cheng, please answer this headquarters. After you were stubborn and refused to obey orders, and were defeated in Lingyang Mountain, which pushed the overall bandit suppression environment in Chizhou into an even more unfavorable situation, you, the commander in front of the formation, How do you view the next situation?”

"I?"

Zhao Cheng pointed to his nose and said in a very speechless manner, "I don't accept orders? Minggong, who did you hear about this?"

After all, Zhang Shangying was a bigwig of the three dynasties and was an assistant prime minister. This situation of squinting his eyes to look at people really seemed to be deciding the fate of people. After looking around, he said: "Do you have another reason? Is there a secret?"

Zhao Cheng looked at Huang Wenbing with a black line on his face, and when he saw the son of a bitch lowering his head and avoiding his eyes, he felt like a pill.

Damn Lao Huang turned his back on the water again. He said it nicely, saying that he was helping to carry the moths in politics, but he certainly didn't expect that Zhang Shangying, a great Confucianist, would come to Chizhou to "put down the chaos".

If it was replaced by those second-rate officials with bad reputation, mediocre qualifications, and full of faults, Lao Huang, a wasp sting, and Zhang Shuye, the right secretary, would really dare to bite him. As a god, several prime ministers including Cai Jing'an Tao were criticized by him, so Huang Wenbing, a great scholar of Wenzong, did not dare to resist easily.

"Zhao Cheng, what do you mean by looking at Huang Wenbing? Tell the headquarters the truth quickly, as if you look at him and he can turn things upside down and turn a deer into a horse." Zhang Shangying was very dissatisfied.

Zhao Cheng sweated a lot. In fact, to a certain extent, Lao Huang could turn black and white into false positives, but unfortunately he was discouraged this time without fighting.The persimmon is looking for a soft pinch, isn't a guy like Qin Ming almost died unjustly after being given up by Lao Huang, the son of a bitch?

"Why don't you answer? Are you resisting Shangguan's questioning?" Zhang Shangying pressed on step by step.

"What Duke Ming said is basically the truth. The lower officials did make mistakes in the battle of Lingyang Mountain, and they were a little self-willed." Zhao Cheng replied calmly.

Seeing that he finally took the blame for "refusing to accept dispatch", Huang Wenbing heaved a sigh of relief, and looked at Zhao Cheng quite approvingly.

Zhang Shangying looked at Cai You for a moment, as if to give Cai You some face, and then said to Zhao Cheng, "Okay, the incident of your disobedience, hiding the forbidden army, and then losing the battle of Lingyang Mountain is not the case of our current trip. Responsibilities, let’s not talk about them for now.”

After a pause, he continued, "You just answer me. As the commander in front of the battle, the officers and troops have lost one after another. The morale of the people is low now that winter is coming. They cannot win for a long time. The state of war is not lifted. A large number of people are fighting for Refugees gather outside the city, consume a lot of food, and easily cause instability. Is this good or bad?"

"Not good." Zhao Cheng shook his head slightly.

Zhang Shangying said, "Then how should we solve it? The headquarters wants to hear from you, the commander, yourself?"

Zhao Cheng looked around and saw that many people were waiting to see the joke.

Obviously, Cai You and Huang Wenbin are not optimistic about how to win this war.If they speak out in support of Zhao Cheng's fight, if they fail to win the fight, they will definitely be put on the cusp of the storm and unable to step down from power.

So it's no surprise that the question was raised so rudely that even Cai You turned his eyes away from Zhao Cheng.

"Quickly answer the headquarters, why do you always look left and right?" Zhang Shangying seemed more and more impatient.

"It's all a mystery, let's see how he steps down this time." Wang Fu thought to himself without saying anything.

Zhao Cheng hesitated for a while, "I think that what Duke Ming is worried about is true. However, after analyzing before and after, I think this battle should be fought. I am confident that I can control the damage caused by the gathering of refugees in the harsh winter, and keep it safe." Wang Xiu uprooted and solved the special problems of Chizhou and even the southeast once and for all."

Zhang Shangying took the case and said, "You still dare to say that now. You have obviously gone to the extreme of ignoring the facts and betting the life and death of Chizhou on your merits and official career, is that so? You have completely disregarded the life and death of the honest people outside the city." ,is that so?"

Zhao Cheng said indifferently: "No matter how he seeks his own government, after accepting the appointment, his duty is to win the Battle of Chizhou for the country. Although other things will be considered, they are not the main factors. Because when doing one thing, You can’t look left and right, there really should be priorities.”

Zhang Shangying stood up sharply and said angrily, "You mean, for the war that you say has a high probability of being impossible to win, you have to sacrifice the people outside the city?"

Zhao Cheng shook his head, "The lower officials didn't say that. It's not my fault that they encountered such a thing, and it's not my responsibility. Since it's a war, there must be casualties, just like taking medicine when you're sick, and medicine has side effects. "

"you……"

Zhang Shangying felt that his words were harsh, but overall he seemed to be fine.

Looking at Cai You and Huang Wenbin again, Zhang Shangying also deliberately eased up, and said as usual, "Forget it, at this juncture, the headquarters does not want to be angry with you, but wants to solve the problem."

"Then please tell me how to solve it?" Zhao Cheng clasped his fists.

Zhang Shangying twirled his beard and thought for a while, "My official is inclined to Zhao'an Wang Xiu. What do you want to survive this harsh winter and stabilize the entire southeastern region? For the stability of the special period, and also for your Zhao Cheng's future, Lingyang Mountain Don't bring up the matter again, don't talk about the right and wrong of Manichaeism. Don't make big news about our two Zhejiang roads when Chizhou is not yet stable, causing more trouble, so you think it's good?"

"It's nonsense, this is a child's opinion!"

When Zhao Cheng said this, the lobby was like a fountain. Cai You, Huang Wenbing, Wang Wei and others sprayed tea together, which was really stimulated.

I really didn't expect Zhao Cheng to be so stubborn about this question, he jumped up at the touch of a finger, and directly hit Zhang Shangying.

It is well known that he, Xiao Zhao, occasionally gets confused when confronting other people on other occasions.But to a boss like Zhang Shangying, talking like this is really exciting, and troubles will definitely happen.

Cai You and Huang Wenbin really started to worry that Chizhou's politics might really be in chaos.

Wang Fu and others were busy waiting for Zhang Shangying's reaction in order to seize the opportunity to overthrow Zhao Cheng.

(End of this chapter)