Back to the Song Dynasty as a tyrant

Zhao Ning's expression returned to calm. He seemed to realize the root cause of Zhao Chen's behavior.

Zhao Chen's crown prince was abolished because of the Luoyang case.

That incident had a great impact on Zhao Chen. He used to be a prince who read sage books. He was full of justice in many things, treated everyone around him kindly, and took Confucian righteousness as his duty.

However, the righteous way of Confucianism made him lose the crown prince.

A vengeful denial of past ideas begins to form within him.

It's a psychological stress response.

Since then, he has used brutal methods to solve many things in the frontier, and even made military achievements. These things have positive feedback on his psychology.

In layman's terms, it is a positive incentive for him, which makes him more psychologically consolidate the role of brutal methods, and further negates the righteous way of Confucianism when he was young.

But this does not mean that his psychology has returned to normal. The psychological trauma of youth is very difficult to heal.

Things themselves have a huge impact on people.

Just like an introverted person who has been in sales for many years, he will also become glib and won the love of women.

And a person who used to be eloquent will gradually become quiet if he has been engaged in artistic creation for many years.

"Everything I say and do now! I learned from His Majesty! Only His Majesty will be satisfied with what you want me to do!"

Without waiting for Zhao Ning to speak, Zhao Chen continued: "I went to the frontier at the age of 14, and soon the Jin army fought head-on! What I missed most at that time was Your Majesty! But when I thought that Your Majesty had abandoned me! I was completely ashamed!"

Zhao Chen undoubtedly talked about the softest part of Zhao Ning's heart.

Does he have feelings for Zhao Chen?

Of course!

It doesn't have to be that he experienced Zhao Chen's birth in order to have feelings.

It has been so many years since father and son have been together. It is impossible to say that there is no emotion.

If he had no expectations for Zhao Chen at all, he would have told Cai Mao to leave long ago, and would not have given Zhao Chen so many opportunities to fight everywhere, and arranged for Han Shizhong to be by his side.

Not to mention that after calling him back, he painstakingly arranged for him to go to the official department.

But he found that he seemed to have done something wrong.

Just when Zhao Chen said that, he realized that he had caused irreparable damage to Zhao Chen's growth.

The mind of a normal person does not really begin to mature until after the age of 25.

Even most boys will not be able to recognize this diverse and complex world more calmly and calmly until they are over 30 years old.

Instead of seeing a person's shortcomings, he will call that person a waste.

Looking back at Zhao Chen, a 14-year-old boy was sent to the frontier. In such a dangerous environment, he encountered a major setback in his life. What kind of psychological torment did he go through?

Most of the time, pain and setbacks do not make people grow, but lead people astray.

When Zhao Chen first went to the frontier, he must have longed to be protected by his father.

Had he ever called out to his father in his dreams at night?

It is precisely because of the feeling of being abandoned by his father that he wants to learn from his father and gain his father's approval.

In fact, children love their parents more strongly than parents love their children.

However, without Zhao Ning's personal education, Zhao Chen only saw Zhao Ning's decisive killing, but he didn't know that there were many political means behind this decisive killing.

Learning is always so difficult.

Education, too.

Zhao Ning finally admitted that he had failed.

For so many years, he never thought that he did something wrong. Even in the Great Song Dynasty, he firmly believed that he was right.

In his previous life, he was also a person who was extremely confident in himself.

But at this moment, he felt that Zhao Chen's education had completely failed.

Being a father turned out to be more difficult than being an emperor.

"Go out and see your mother." Zhao Ning said listlessly.

Zhao Chen stood up and left without looking back.

At this moment, Zhao Chen no longer had any illusions about his father, and he no longer felt that learning from his father was his goal in life.

As for whether King Liao's title was abolished or not, he didn't seem to care about his own future.

His emotions that had been suppressed in his heart for a long time also broke out completely today.

In this world, the biggest gap is the difference in cognition between people.

Zhao Ning was never worried about Zhao Chen's ambitions. It was perfectly normal to have ambitions. He hoped that his sons would have ambitions. He could tolerate their petty moves or petty thoughts.

But today, he felt as if his heart had been stabbed.

This failure seemed to drain him of energy.

The next morning, Zhao Ning sat on the dragon chair.

He faced piles of letters to impeach the Liao king.

The atmosphere in the hall was somewhat dignified.

"What do you think about King Liao's murder?"

Chapter 1382 King Liao is going out? (Second more)

Zhao Ning cleaned up some of his bad emotions, and today at Zhao Guan's house in the Chui Gong Palace, it is no different from usual.

The Chui Gong Temple was silent for a moment.

Although silent, many people have become excited.

Because when King Laliao came down, there were many people there.

For more than a month, there are not a few people about the Liao King incident.

Li Zhuo's memorial letter has already been written several times.

If the Zhao official family does not respond, it will undoubtedly cause many officials to talk about it, thinking that the Zhao official family is trying to protect their son.

But today, Zhao Guanjia took the initiative to mention that it was obviously the best time to engage Liao Wang.

Li Zhuo was the first to stand up, and he said: "Your Majesty Qi Zuo, you should be punished severely according to the law. If not, I am worried that the son of a certain county magistrate will rush to the homes of ordinary people and act recklessly."

When he said this, it seemed that he immediately opened the chatterbox of the ministers.

The second one to stand up was Wang Boyan, and he said: "Your Majesty, I second the proposal."

The third person who stood up was Han Xiaozhou, Shangshu of the Ministry of Justice. He said: "Even if Li Ji should be killed, the king of Liao should produce evidence, detain him, and sentence him to death according to the judicial system, instead of trying privately."

But Cai Mao stood up and said: "This statement is wrong. Do you know the situation at that time?"

"Even if the situation is critical, it is okay to take the person down and imprison him first. There is no need to kill him directly."

"How to deter if you don't kill them?" Cai Mao continued, "Will other businessmen be able to cooperate obediently if they are locked up? Who can guarantee it?"

Wang Boyan asked: "After the killing, how can the private merchants continue to mobilize food quickly?"

"At this time, when people are about to starve to death, when people's lives are at stake, you still want to negotiate terms with businessmen!" Cai Mao questioned on the spot.

This is the first time that Cai Mao has been so proactive and so expressive.

Obviously, he also had a premonition of the crisis of King Liao.

If King Liao was demoted again, it would be extremely unfavorable to him.

Seeing that Wang Boyan was still about to speak, Cai Mao continued to say: "I know what you said about officials governing the local area. Killing a businessman caused dissatisfaction among other businessmen and made it difficult to transport food in the future. Then let me ask you a question. , the businessman’s dissatisfaction, who is the most detrimental?”

Wang Boyan said: "Of course it is not good for the common people! To prepare and transport grain, private merchants are needed. If they are dissatisfied, who will transport the grain!"

Let private merchants cooperate with the court to transport grain, not only in the Song Dynasty, but also in the Central Plains Dynasty long ago.

The ancient empires also knew that the efficiency of the bureaucratic system was very slow, and the complicated and refined work of transporting food was absolutely impossible to complete by local officials.

"Fart!" Cai Mao replied rudely.

His expression was even a little ferocious, and his eyes were a little cold.

At this moment, he finally stopped hiding himself and showed his sharp fangs.

"I've never heard of someone talking about their dereliction of duty in such a high-sounding way!" Cai Mao continued, "The businessman is dissatisfied, who is bad for it? The common people? Isn't this fart! The businessman is dissatisfied, only for the local officials Co-organizers are causing trouble!"

"In order to make themselves more relaxed, the local officials blindly please them. Even when the people of Xingzhou froze and starved to death, they were unwilling to punish them severely. Now the king of Liao has taken action, which has caused some local officials to govern. Trouble, some local officials and court officials are dissatisfied!"

Cai Mao's words were so sharp that everyone didn't know how to answer for a while.

But Cai Mao didn't intend to let it go today. He continued: "This is a lazy government! It's a lazy government! In order to make it easier for him to govern, he sacrificed the people! Using the people as a shield! This kind of behavior is extremely shameless!"

There was a dead silence in the hall, and for a while, even Wang Boyan, who was extremely treacherous, didn't know how to reply.

Others were even more afraid to answer the question, and did not dare to offend a ruling party too much.

"Cai Xianggong, don't forget that the king of Liao has violated the law." It was Sun Fu who spoke, and he stood up with a flick of his eyes. In the future, officials all over the world will follow suit, who will bear this responsibility?"

Often the most useful is the simplest.

Cai Mao obviously wanted to complicate things, but no matter how complicated it was, the underlying logic was so simple.

"Then what Sun Shilang thinks?" Cai Mao asked.

"Of course it will be heard by Dali Temple and dealt with according to law!"

"If this is the case, who would be willing to step forward in a critical situation in the future?" Cai Mao said coldly, "If you want to deal with the Liao King, you can ask the people in Xingzhou whether they agree or not! If so, everyone in the world will be shocked. heart, where is the virtue of the court!"

"Then according to Cai Xianggong's intention, don't pursue it?"

"The king of Liao immediately wrote a letter to the political affairs hall to clarify the facts, and suggested that the court immediately arrange and coordinate the grain to go to Xingzhou. It is not incomplete to consider the problem." Cai Mao continued, "When you criticize, have you ever thought about it? If King Liao doesn't act, how many people will die in Xingzhou?"

Everyone was speechless again.

Next, a group of officials stood up again.

For example, Cheng Zhen, the Minister of the Ministry of Officials, said: "What Cai Xianggong said is very true, and the King of Liao is credited for this matter."

More officials also stood up, and they all stood by Zhao Chen's side and spoke for Zhao Chen.

Obviously, this is no longer as simple as a prince making a mistake in handling things locally, but involves a deeper political struggle.

"Where are the butchers?"

Zhao Ning asked.

Among the chief executives, except for Cai Mao who stood up, the others didn't speak.

Zhao Ning obviously did not want the Zaizhi to remain silent.

"Lu Xianggong, tell me."

Lu Yihao stood up and said: "The minister's idea is very simple, act according to the law, the Liao king will reward if he has meritorious service, and punish him if he has done wrong."

"My minister seconded the proposal." Qian Yuqing immediately followed suit.

"My minister seconded the proposal." Yu Yunwen also said.

"I feel that this is a complicated issue that cannot be discussed in court today." Zhao Ding stood up and said, "It is true that King Liao violated the law, but it solved the food problem of the people of Xingzhou. It is also a fact, even if it is a temporary solution, in this case, it needs Dali Temple, the Ministry of Criminal Justice, and Yushitai to jointly try the case and give a convincing result instead of officials arguing here."

"What do you think?" Zhao Ning asked again.

"The ministers and others seconded the proposal. What the Prime Minister said is very true." Everyone said.

Zhao Ning sighed and said: "I have repeatedly emphasized that we must abide by the rules when doing things. It is true that King Liao violated the law, but King Liao is my son. The fault of the son is the fault of the father!"

The atmosphere suddenly became a little milder.

"Your Majesty is serious." Mo Choo jumped out immediately, "Your Majesty has tried his best to protect His Highness King Liao, but some things may not go as expected."

Zhao Ning waved his hand and said, "According to what the great minister said, this is the end of today's discussion."

In fact, it is not that simple for some people to overthrow King Liao. At least King Liao has a great influence on the border. This is a complicated problem that is difficult to deal with.

If it is handled roughly, it will be no different from Zhao Chen's brutal killing.

Chapter 1383 Zhao Jin's thoughts (first update)

Regarding the interrogation of Zhao Chen, he still respected etiquette.

After all, he was a prince, so he sent someone to take a luxury carriage to Dali Temple, arranged comfortable chairs, prepared tea and pastries, and asked slowly.