Northern Song Dynasty gangster: Start the game with a dog's head, and Mr. Bao spares his life

Although he didn't say it directly, it is obvious that he alluded to Li Qingzhao and Cao Bin's thoughts on messing with men and women in the officialdom.

And what he said was not unreasonable.

Even in later generations, it is extremely easy for women to be criticized for mixing in officialdom, let alone the Song Dynasty, which valued etiquette.

No one cares about how you take concubines at home, but it is unacceptable to bring this kind of thing into officialdom.

Li Qingzhao didn't expect him to be so insidious, to make a fuss about the relationship between men and women, and as long as his reasons are recognized, no matter how difficult it is for a woman to become an official, he can only return to the boudoir.

So she was very angry:

"My lord, the clean is clean, what evidence do you have that I have misbehaved?"

Sima Guangli ignored him, looked up at the sky and said disdainfully:

"I don't argue with women in my boudoir."

Li Qingzhao was almost pissed off by this unruly look.

Even the Empress Dowager Pan frowned a little. She felt much more relaxed when she got the solution to the salt case. She also saw Li Qingzhao dressed in a man's official uniform, his actions were chic and his spirit was high, and she appreciated it very much.

I didn't expect Sima Guang to make a fuss about men and women when he came up, but what he said was not unreasonable.

If a precedent is set, some women may use their beauty to confuse the court, and she is still very taboo about this.

I also don't want to cause the court to collapse because of one of my decisions.

But Li Qingzhao is Cao Bin's person, if he wants to agree with Sima Guang, he must get rid of her, which made her hesitate for a while.

At this time, many ministers also argued, most of them supported Sima Guang, and some supported Cao Bin, but that was because they were in the same party as Cao Bin.

It does not mean that they do not agree with Sima Guang's statement.

At this moment, Li Qingzhao faced many accusations, even if she was eloquent, it would be difficult to refute, she just felt that there was malice everywhere.

When Empress Dowager Pan was in a dilemma, the guard outside the door suddenly reported:

"Empress Dowager, Hou Zhongjing seeks to see you in spite of illness."

Cao Bin hadn't planned to show up at the court so soon.

Since you are pretending to be sick, you must pretend to the end.

But he didn't expect that Wu Zang Heiyun's reply would come so quickly, and he was even invited to go to Xixia as an envoy.

Coincidentally, Zhong Shiheng, the appeasement envoy of Fuyan Road Economic Strategy, also sent a letter, asking Cao Bin to help plan the rebuilding of Hengshan New City.

Prior to this, he had written several letters to the imperial court, but they were all rejected by the Political Affairs Hall and the Privy Council because the imperial court lacked financial resources.

After Cao Bin received these two letters, he couldn't help being moved.

Compared with Wang Yanling and Pan Renmei, Cao Bin actually believed in Zhong Shiheng's views on military strategy.

And for him, there is no difference between going on a mission to Western Xia and traveling on vacation, and it is still at public expense.

You can also take the opportunity to inspect the feasibility of rebuilding a new city on the spot.

If Zhong Shiheng's plan is feasible, then Xixia will be completely pinched to death in Xijiang, and there will be no worries about intruding Song Dynasty.

Even if it cannot be wiped out quickly, it can always be deterred and forced to abandon Beiliao and become its loyal "ally".

In this way, there is no need to wait for the young emperor Xixia to become an adult, and slowly plan with political means.

After all, there are many possibilities in the future.

Although the emperor's loyalty will allow Cao Bin to take a lot of the initiative, but the emperor has the queen mother above, and the ministers and clans below, and they all have their own interests.

It's not so easy to make Xixia obey him.

Compared with pretending to be sick, going to Xixia as an envoy is much more legitimate, at least you can completely clear your own responsibility, and there are no imperial envoys who stare at them every day, finding fault and impeaching them.

Although Cao Bin is not afraid of these things, he doesn't like to scold him, and even goes out to play in a sneaky way.

That's why Cao Bin came to the court to discuss the matter of the mission, and gave Li Qingzhao the platform by the way.

Since she doesn't intend to continue to pretend to be sick, she doesn't need her to cover it up for herself.

When Queen Mother Pan heard that Cao Bin was begging to see her, she nodded helplessly and said:

"Show him into the palace."

This guy is alert, whenever he is about to suffer a loss, he can always arrive in time.

But this time it's a matter of style, the most difficult to justify, and you came here at this time, pretending to be sick, aren't you asking for trouble?

If you don't come, I can still put all the blame on this woman from the Li family, and try to clear up your responsibility. This is going to be difficult.

Li Qingzhao didn't know what Queen Mother Pan was thinking, but when he heard Cao Bin rushing, he instinctively affirmed it.

She was besieged by the officials just now, although she tried her best to keep calm, her face was calm and calm, but her heart was already panicked.

In the past, she always thought that she was unparalleled in eloquence, and that all the officials were mediocre. Now, she just realized that eloquence is based on status.

As a woman, she was still a ninth-rank petty official, and she was dismissed with a single sentence of "the view of a foolish woman in the boudoir", and she was not given a chance to speak at all.

Even if she has shocking words, it is useless.

And those people became more vicious as they spoke. If this continues, even if she is not punished by the court, she will be accused by thousands of people.

Now she is still young, although she is smart, she has not yet matured the courage to despise the world and dare to sue her husband for divorce.

"Marquis Zhongjing is really pretending to be sick!"

Seeing Cao Bin's appearance, Sima Guang was immediately refreshed and fired at full strength.

"Marquis Zhongjing, you pretended to be sick and dereliction of duty, let alone your dereliction of duty."

"He also brought unmarried women into the third division as officials. You know, this is the imperial court, not the brothel Chuguan."

"Set this precedent, what do you want to do?"

"You are confusing the court, subverting the world, and creating evil for all generations..."

He has won the essentials of the debate, and now it is rare to grasp Cao Bin's handle and gain the upper hand in public opinion. Naturally, he will pursue him fiercely and crucify him completely.

Sima Guang even had some extravagant expectations. Even if Cao Bin was not expelled from the court this time, he would be demoted to three ranks and released from Beijing, so that he would have no chance of becoming the main center.

In fact, since he never met Cao Bin, Sima Guang found him particularly disliked.

A Wu Xun, but also a poor boy, you fight hard, just listen to the court's greetings.

Unexpectedly, Zheng'er Bajing has taken up the official position of governing, and he also controls the court, and he is a general and a prime minister, just thinking about it is annoying.

In his heart, even if Cao Bin bullies men and women at home, spending time and drinking is cuter than now...

At this time, Sima Guang became more and more excited as he talked, and counted Cao Bin's crimes endlessly, and he almost didn't call Bao Zheng to carry the guillotine.

Seeing this, Zhang Dun and others couldn't help but become gloomy, and they all sweated for Cao Bin.

It's really hard to argue with this male-female issue.

Although there are female generals serving in the imperial court, they all follow their husbands or take care of their biological fathers. Relatives watch over them, and there are very few opportunities for private contact with other men.

And you Cao Houye have no legitimate relationship with the Li family, but you have created such a close relationship between superiors and subordinates. If you say that there is no personal relationship, who will believe it.

Once this precedent is set, won't the imperial court become a place for secret meetings?

At that time, the imperial court will stop managing the world and do these messy things every day.

On this point, they actually agreed with what Sima Guang said.

But axioms belong to axioms, and those who support Cao Bin don't want him to be defeated. After all, this is his backing, which is related to his official career.

It's just too difficult, it doesn't make sense at all, so how can you win?

At this moment, even Li Qingzhao felt powerless.

Seeing this, Concubine Pang frowned, and was about to imitate Empress Dowager Pan and pretend to be sick to save Cao Bin, but seeing that he had already walked towards Sima Guang, she had to keep her mouth shut and watch how he would deal with it.

"Hey, Sima Guang, let's not talk about the problem of the Marquis, I want to talk about your problem first."

Cao Bin said with a dark smile.

Sima Guang frowned, raised his head slightly and glanced at Cao Bin, saying:

"Marquis Zhongjing, please don't talk about him..."

Hearing Cao Bin's words, Sima Guang sneered to himself, he really is a warrior, and he wants to use offense instead of defense?This method is the rest of my game.

You can't get away with it!

He was complacent, but he saw Cao Bin suddenly pull out the sword from his waist with a "cang clang", which made him jump sideways in fright, and said vigilantly:

"Marquis Zhongjing, what are you going to do? Don't mess around!"

Wang Yanling and the others were also terrified. They were about to step forward to stop them, but they saw Cao Bin throwing the sword at Sima Guang's feet. They laughed and said:

"Sima Zhiyuan, what did you say back then?"

"As long as Xixia makes unconditional concessions and sends them back to the Empress Dowager, you will decide yourself in front of Kong Sheng."

As he spoke, he took out a letter and said:

"Now the Empress Dowager Xixia has written back to the Marquis."

"There is no need for Da Song to cede land and pay compensation, let alone pardon Zhao Ji..."

"Now is the time for you to keep your promise!"

"This Marquis will not force you to lose face in front of Confucius. What you are even more sorry for is the late emperor who served as a respectful and virtuous official, thousands of soldiers of the Great Song Dynasty and the people of the world."

"You can decide yourself in this court!"

Then, he patted the pale Sima Guang again, and said:

"In addition, I will explain the crimes of the Marquis to the Empress Dowager, the concubine, and all the virtuous officials in the court, so I won't bother you, a dying person."

At last he sighed again:

"It's a pity that my green sword is going to kill you, an incompetent rat who betrays the country and flatters the enemy today..."

"I......"

Hearing Cao Bin's words, Sima Guang's eyes were instantly bloodshot, his voice trembled slightly, and he asked:

"Xixia has officially responded?"

Cao Bin said:

"Benhou's letter arrives first, and the letter of credence will arrive in Beijing together with the second envoy in a few days."

"But this letter contains the seal of the Empress Dowager Xixia, but it cannot be faked."

As he spoke, he sneered and said:

"What? Afraid? You dare not die?"

Speaking of which, he is very understanding:

"If you dare not, this Marquis can help you!"

"Guaranteed to raise the knife and fall, so that you will not feel pain..."

When Sima Guang heard the words, his eyes widened in anger, his beard and hair stretched out, and he shouted:

"The Marquis of Zhongjing wants to humiliate me, why should I be afraid of death?"

"Sima Guang just doesn't want to die in an unclear manner. I want to read this letter."

After speaking, you must reach for the letter.

Cao Bin dodged lightly, and said with some depression:

"Don't believe me? Can I still lie to you?"

"You're dead first, and if the Xixia Guoshu doesn't match what I said in a few days, I will pay you for my life!"

Sima Guang was speechless when he heard the words.

Are you speaking in a human way?

I'm dead, how can you pay for it?Even if it takes your life, I don't know, it's a bird.

Originally, he didn't believe that Cao Bin would joke about such a big event, but now Cao Bin's performance made him have some doubts,