Take the system back to the Northern Song Dynasty

Chapter 242 Forget it, drive to Beijing
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The snow has stopped and hasn't melted yet, and the weather is starting to pick up but still in the tail end of winter.

The so-called auspicious snow heralds a good harvest, and the visible harvest in the coming year has made the already prosperous Bianjing city lively everywhere. The elite students from all over the country in Taixue have also begun to travel in the snow scene, or sink in brothels and cottages with poetry and wine. .

In the Song Dynasty, some down-to-earth Taoist priests like to use Yin-Yang and Five Elements to explain: the cold winter will slow down the circulation of the whole person, making the brain and thinking in a "semi-hibernation" state, so they are relatively inactive.

This actually makes sense. Every winter, literati students always publish relatively few articles on poetry and poetry, and there is often a huge explosion near spring.This is the situation in Bianjing now.

"Have you heard that the Battle of Chizhou was a great victory? It's rare. Without the support of a sufficient number of troops, there is actually a battle that we can win?"

"I have heard about it, but I don't understand it and don't want to know it. It's not a battle for the rise of a nation that will shine through the ages. Why should I pay attention to it?"

"That is, the problem in the southeast has always been that they couldn't agree on the matter of sharing the loot among their several families. The accumulated conflicts eventually led to fighting each other's brains out. No matter whether they rise or fall, it is the people who suffer."

"Yes, it's the people who are suffering. They are too ugly to eat. It can be summed up as thousands of unhappy and mindless people who are gathered in Chizhou, where money is everywhere. They are fighting each other. That Zhao Cheng is like a national hero."

"Damn you idiots, you are also called common people. If you are a common people, you can study in Taixue? If you are a common people, can you know that the problems in the Southeast are caused by the uneven distribution of spoils among bureaucrats in several departments? You are just pretending to be cool. You keep talking about the rise and fall of the common people. title."

"Fuck, Fujian helped these bastards against the sky, dare to say that, we will beat them like a lion and roll a hydrangea ball!"

"Drag these Jiangxi country bumpkins away and beat them to death first! Dare to say that the Putian gang is a turtle, you don't know that Cai Xianggong is a Putian clan!"

"Fuck you, the old man who said that Jiangxi has never been a minister is similar. Wang Anshi, you think it's fake. Lao Cai was promoted by Wang Xianggong!"

With the great victory in Chizhou and the beginning of spring, the "world war" among the Bianjing dudes finally started. Countless fights took place, and they often fought each other in brothels.

This is a typical example of having nothing to do when you are full, but you can't blame them. The capital city where the dandies gather, especially the Taixue, which is basically full of young people, is just like this.

To a certain extent, it reflects that no one cares about the process of the "small-scale" battle in Chizhou, and there is no direct pressure.In everyone's mind, such excessive publicity is pretending to be coercive, and it is only natural for the court to defeat a group of bandits.

Except for Zhang Shuye, no one knew the inside story of the decisive battle at Lingzhi Mountain, because Cai You deliberately downplayed the matter in the documents he wrote to Beijing and omitted details such as the militiamen's participation in the battle.

Cai You's actions have strong political significance.Zhang Ji did not, but the problem was that Zhang Ji's private letter did not represent the Chizhou government, but only herself. It was a letter she wrote to her father.

Just like when he saved Dao Scarqiang back then, Lao Zhang could only make compromises, but could not defeat the bureaucracy. Now, Zhang Shuye knows that Cai You's actions on this issue must be hiding a very shocking truth.He, Xiao Cai, was afraid of getting into trouble, so he simply ignored everything.

The southeast issue needs to be resolved, and Lao Cai’s political authorization is needed for the next deployment. Zhang Shuye endured this, and decided not to exaggerate the Chizhou incident, allowing them to carelessly treat the Chizhou incident as a policeman to catch thieves. question.

But later on, I saw that these dandies were becoming more and more outrageous and making a fuss. They were simply heartless people.

"They will only add to the chaos at any time. Could it be that this is the mainstay of our country's next generation? It's obviously a bit of a joke. Catch it, but catch anyone who is heartless at this juncture!"

Zhang Shuye, who was almost pissed off, slapped the table in the middle hall and roared.

"Uh, this..."

Although Lao Zhang is basically in charge of the daily work of Yousi (Youxiang) by default, he is not the real prime minister after all, so the secretary of Yousi reminded embarrassingly, "Mr. Not under our guidance..."

Zhang Shuye scolded: "There are so many twists and turns. The matter of my scholars is not a criminal law matter, but a matter of virtue. I will arrest them all. If they are not convinced, let their fathers come to the court to sue me."

So began a vigorous campaign to invite students to drink tea.

Politics is such a thing, sometimes when the opportunity is right, if it is not the prime minister who speaks, someone will listen, otherwise how could Zhao Tingzhi sit on the prime minister at that time, but was controlled by the "suspended" old Cai Jing by remote control to mess up the rule.

Basically, when the Wuwei Army entered Chizhou to start the war, it was tantamount to the fact that the two ended up shirtless.

Now that Chizhou has won the battle relying on Zhao Cheng, not only is the financial problem expected to be alleviated soon, which will naturally lead to Zhang Shuye, the head of the Ministry of Household Affairs, but also on the political level, it means that Lao Zhang’s deployment is correct and he has political achievements. If Lao Cai doesn’t really want to Starting a civil war and shaking the country's foundation requires avoiding suspicion for some time.

In other words, the imperial court always needs one person to take charge of the administration in turn, so Zhang Shuye will soon be officially promoted to the title of Vice Minister of Zhongshu and preside over the daily work of the Song Dynasty as deputy prime minister.

Regardless of war, politics, or small daily affairs, once a trend is formed, it usually will not change easily in a short period of time.

After Zhang Shuye spoke now, a quarter of the dandies in Bianjing were invited to drink tea, and the fathers and grandpas of these guys went to Beijing to public relations one after another, so as not to let the dandies leave bad resumes, and staged the Eight Immortals crossing the sea to show their magical powers wonders.

Just by looking at these, we know that Zhang Shuye’s political reputation skyrocketed after the victory in the Battle of Chizhou. Although there is no comment on Lao Cai’s fate, he has basically stopped working in the middle hall and is living behind closed doors on the grounds of cold weather and poor health. , seemingly regardless of the affairs, actually know that Lao Cai now has too many trade-offs to make and too many choices to make regarding the intricate nepotism and protégé issues in the southeast region.I can't care about anything else...

The weather in Chizhou is also getting warmer.

Zhao Cheng, who had been through hell for a while, still lived in the county government dormitory. He didn't want to move much. He spent most of his time sitting on the deck chair in the yard, covered with tiger skin, basking in the sun.

Chen Meiniang and the demon girl Tan Xiaolan took good care of her by her side, constantly babbling about things like "My husband is almost disabled".The bad thing is that the two of them are hanging around at any time, which makes Zhang Ji very strange and rarely come to see each other.

It is said that she is busy helping students prepare for the exam.

The rest is, I often hear the details of the decisive battle at Ganoderma lucidum mountain from people around me.It's a pity that Zhao Cheng was in the cold before the decisive battle, and he didn't know what happened after that.

Basically, the total annihilation was achieved. In the not-so-deep battlefield of the Ganoderma lucidum cottage, the number of rebels who were directly annihilated reached [-], and it didn't even take half an hour.Bi Shijing said that he was already terrified at that time. After the rebel army was defeated like a mountain and hundreds of people died, most of them knelt down and surrendered in the snowstorm.

But Bai Chenxiang is the commander in chief, Bi Shijing is not.With a vengeful attitude, she resolutely carried out Zhao Cheng's instruction of "not accepting surrender" before she fell into a coma.It is said that after that it was not a battle, but an execution.

Zhao Cheng tried his best to defeat Ganoderma lucidum Mountain, but the price was that the overall battle loss of the participating teams was as high as [-]%.This is the result that I just woke up recently after being in a coma for many days: it is more serious than Zhao Cheng's previous estimate.

"Master Zhu... Hey, what a hero. I couldn't tell it in the past. He actually took several of his sons and nephews to participate in the Battle of Ganoderma Mountain. After the war, the cleanup took place for so many days, but their bodies were found yesterday. When they came out, they all died for their country on the battlefield.”

Hearing several civil servants from the county government discussing this in a low voice as they passed by, Zhao Cheng's expression became extremely strange.

It is impossible to go out.

It is impossible for the children of the Zhu family to fight for the country in this life. In fact, as long as they do not act as traitors and hold back the army, then Zhao Cheng can win the Chizhou Battle more beautifully without so many casualties!

It's just that there is no evidence, but from the very beginning, Zhao Cheng knew what role Zhu Xiao played in this war.

Chizhou, and even the southeast, have great interests.To put it simply, it is impossible for people who are not children, or the second, third, or fourth generations, to be qualified to play this wealth feast game.So all the problems in the southeast are the problems of officials and gloves.

The Battle of Chizhou was a war between gloves and gloves.

Zhu Xiao is not only a child but also an official.

From Zhao Cheng's tenure as a county lieutenant and a large amount of criminal case materials, it is fully known that one-fifth of the robbery, vicious extortion, and even murder cases in Chizhou are related to the Zhu family's children.It's just that it can't be done.

Frankly speaking, Lao Pei can't even do it, he can only make them restrain themselves a little, and from now on, they will know that no one can deal with them if there is no war.They took out as much as they sentenced, and if they couldn't get it out, they ran away because there was a leak in the cell, and they joined Wang Xiu's team to continue "making money in a curve".

Of course, Zhao Cheng knows that there have been incidents in Jingjie Fachang this year, but they are still relatively few.However, if this situation continues, and the government's official governance and credibility continue to decline, it will really be possible to transition to the situation described in "Water Margin" in the future, where if there is a disagreement, the court will be robbed.

But objectively speaking, there are more tribulation fields in the north than in the south.To put it bluntly, those ruthless people like Song Jiang, Chao Gai, and Shi Xiu love to hijack the execution ground, just because they are not children, so they can only use ruthlessness to make up for the shortcomings of their family background. Children generally do not play this trick.

You can't think about these more, and you need to bear certain risks in doing things.In the Song Dynasty, mobilizing officials was basically the biggest political risk.

So to be honest, it is not easy for Zhao Cheng to hear that Zhu Xiao and his children "sacrificed their lives for the country" at Ganoderma lucidum mountain.

Others may not understand it, but Zhao Cheng does.Cai You didn't take responsibility after all, when moving Zhu Xiao, he resorted to conspiracy instead of overt conspiracy.This means that Cai You took the lead in letting other children in the southeast stand on the safety line.Then Zhao Cheng won the Ganoderma lucidum mountain, but Zhang Shuye would definitely not win the anti-corruption and anti-triad campaign in the southeast.

The big-headed people may believe that Zhu Xiaozhen has appeared on Ganoderma lucidum Mountain, but other dignitaries will never believe it in this life, and they will more or less subconsciously know that he was murdered by Cai You.So Cai You had no choice but to "arrange for him to sacrifice his life for the country", which means that he will give the Zhu family a good reputation, and it means leaving them a way out to maintain stability, and they also need to tacitly not pursue this matter.

Cai You's behavior is tantamount to tying his father and son Cai Jing to a chariot, forcing Cai Jing to pardon this group of children politically, and resisting the southeast's anti-corruption.

Otherwise, if Cai Jing can't handle it, Zhang Shuye's inspection team will come to slap Cai You in the face, and if they don't let them go, then they will definitely not let Cai You stab the black knife.

Zhao Cheng didn't smile wryly, but he knew that from Cai You's arrangement, the Southeast War was over.

Three feet of ice is not a day's cold. If they can take off a glove and their hands feel a little cold, it's okay to have a local chill.You really can't expect to take their panties off in one go.

Thinking of these, Zhao Cheng was lazy and tired, he didn't want to say a word, and he was still basking in the sun in a daze.

After a while, the sound of footsteps came, and Tan Xiaolan and Chen Meiniang's expressions changed drastically and they entered the room to avoid suspicion, so they knew it was Cai You.

However, Zhao Cheng was too lazy to get up.

Cai You walked to the front, a little embarrassed and took the initiative to say "Excuse me".Zhao Cheng said again, "Thank you, sir."

Only then did Lao Cai twirl his beard and said, "Are you dissatisfied and angry because you heard 'Zhu Xiao and his children died for the country'?"

"No." Zhao Cheng shook his head slightly.

Cai You pointed to his nose, "You're talking nonsense with your eyes open, you obviously have emotions." Then sighed, "But you have to understand, Benzhou really tried his best."

"I understand." Zhao Cheng nodded slightly.

This is not a lie, I really understand. Even if there is evidence of Zhu Xiao's treason, what if he really conducts a large-scale and in-depth investigation and cuts off a large number of the remaining people?Apart from killing Cai You and making Zhao Cheng lose a political backer, this will not affect Zhu Xi, Zhu Chong, Wang Fu and the others to continue to be rich.

It seems to be true, compatriots treason, and the rest of the family continue to join the cabinet as elders. Other dynasties can appear, so what is so strange about the emergence of such a humane Song Dynasty.

Taking history as a mirror, Zhao Cheng knew that even if Cai You really used Dayang's conspiracy to forcibly kill the Zhu family with treason, apart from setting up a strong enemy and tearing his face, it would not affect Zhu's future, nor would it affect Zhu's family. His new ally, Wang Fu, will join the cabinet in the future.

To stop these processes, Zhao Cheng has a long way to go. First, he needs to be a better official. His official position is higher than theirs, his power is greater than theirs, his heart is darker than theirs, and his hands are crueler than theirs.Otherwise, just go to bed.

"So be it."

Cai You patted him on the shoulder, "You rest at ease, the war has reached this level, there will be no new authorization, and no one will appoint you to Muzhou to spread hatred. My brain is really not strong enough. You have tried your best to suppress your previous moths and persuade them to directly recruit you to study in Taixue with special reasons. Now you don't need to take care of any affairs in Chizhou. You are now "recovering from illness" 'Status. Because as soon as you come out, those gangs of local tyrants in Chizhou who are afraid of you will definitely make trouble. In short, you will be suspended from your job, and you will return to Beijing with Cai Wenji after the spring, and help me train Cai Wenji, and concentrate on studying by the way. Will arrange again."

"After Taixue, can you come back here to take charge?" Zhao Cheng asked lazily.

Cai You exclaimed, "I still want to come back! Damn you don't really ruin Cai Wenji and Benzhou together, you are not reconciled, are you?"

"I'm just talking." Zhao Cheng spread his hands.

"I don't know you yet. Didn't you just say it? Once you say it, it means that you have this kind of intention, and you are eager for revenge."

Cai You felt a big headache, "Basically, don't even think about it here. After studying in the Imperial Academy for a year, I don't expect you to learn anything. The main thing is to plate it with gold, and keep it for you to take the imperial examination at any time in the future." Qualifications, you can take the test when you are sure. After staying in Bianjing for a year, go to Putian, your hometown magistrate, and experience it for three years..."

Zhao Cheng, who was drinking tea, squirted out a mouthful of water: "Damn it, I need to recuperate. There are so many quack doctors over there telling me how to recuperate... Oh, let me go!"

He was slapped on the back of the head after he couldn't finish talking.

Cai You didn't know what nonsense this kid was talking about, so he pointed at his nose before leaving, "You're sick of your heart, using your idiot terminology to say that your thoughts are not clear, do you really think that Honshu is ignorant and outdated? "

He was about to leave, but Lao Cai turned back and laughed, "It's easy to recover from illness. I'll get you a special note. After you enter Beijing, you can go to the Imperial Hospital to recuperate for a month."

Seeing no one around, Cai You giggled again, "There is a spa, the spa is very interesting, right, don't let Cai Wenji know that I want you to go to the spa."

"..."

Zhao Cheng also looked strange, and could only watch helplessly as the traitor came into the courtyard and settled the southeast half of the country with a few words.

Well, it’s okay, there is no need to fight a war, and it won’t be possible for the time being.With so many bad records, I am afraid that except for Zhang Shuye, no one else will let Zhao Cheng take charge of the army.So, driving a few times to the spa should be a bit tricky, it's still a "war"...

(End of this chapter)