One Piece of Song Dynasty

The next day, on the third day of June, Zongze came to Zhao Gou who was traveling in Nanjing. The reason why Zongze came to Nanjing was because of Li Gang's strong recommendation. Zongze saw Zhao Gou, stood up and saluted Li Gang again: "Xianggong Li advocated the fight against the Jin Dynasty. Zongze has always respected him. I am lucky to see you today."

"It's admirable that the old minister, Mr. Zong, was able to give up literature and join martial arts at such a seventy-year-old age." Li Gang returned the gift. Zhao Gou asked everyone to sit down and asked Zongze to introduce the thief situation in Gyeonggi. According to Zongze, the army in Jingdong, Henan, Hebei and other places has been defeated by bandits, rebels are rampant, and rogue bandits are raging. The total number of the three combined is no less than one million. Zhao Gou's expression became serious and asked him what countermeasures he had. Zongze emphasized that with the current military strength, the only way to deal with gold is to defend it, while to deal with rebel bandits, the top priority should be to recruit surrender and accept rebellion.

Zhao Gou thought that recruiting surrender and recruiting rebels was nothing more than a temporary measure. While he was pondering, Li Gang believed that it was not Zongze's option to restore the old capital, so he recommended Zongze to stay in Tokyo. Zhao thought about it and ordered Zongze that from now on, all anti-gold matters in Tokyo should be dealt with. At his disposal.

When Li Gang saw that Zongze's appointment had been arranged, he stared at Zhao Gou and said slowly: "Your Majesty, let's discuss business."

Zhao Gou then said: "Let's discuss business. Today we will discuss Mr. Li's discussion."

Li Gang cupped his hands and said, "Your Majesty, your Majesty asked me to discuss the Ten Discussions yesterday. How could the Ten Discussions become one overnight?"

Zhao Gou said helplessly: "After much thought, I decided to leave the two matters of treason and false life undiscussed by the court."

Zhang Bangchang, who was behind, immediately had a premonition that something was not good. Huang Qianshan also smelled the smell, and everyone who had been puzzled just now understood. Unexpectedly, Li Gang immediately replied forcefully: "I have something to say first. If your majesty agrees to the ten proposals, I will take office immediately. If you don't agree, I will immediately beg for an official position." Farewell."

Zhao Gou explained: "Mr. Li doesn't know that I have pardoned Zhang Bangchang for his crime of plagiarism before."

"Your Majesty wants to use Zhang Bangchang, but I swear to the death that I dare not take office. I will never be on the same level as you, a tyrant." The more Li Gang said, the more annoyed he became. He went over to drag Zhang Bangchang out and beat him. Zhang Bangchang was in such a state of embarrassment that he kept shouting: "Help, Your Majesty, help!"

Zhao Gou was startled and stood up suddenly. Huang Qianshan hurriedly pulled Li Gang away and said: "Xiangong Li fought in front of His Majesty. How unbecoming is this? Isn't he disrespectful of the emperor?"

"Why only leave the treasonous and false orders undiscussed? Your Majesty must either agree to ten proposals, or simply not discuss them at all." Li Gang did not give in. Only then did Zhang Jun and Zhao Ding understand Li Gang's fierce character. Huang Qianshan sneered repeatedly and decided to sit on the mountain and watch the fight between tigers and tigers. Zhao Gou had a sullen look on his face, but he suppressed his dissatisfaction and slowly sat down and said, "Because the impact is too large, the discussion is inappropriate."

Li Gang asked in reply: "What is inappropriate about severely punishing the minister of reducing the amount of money and killing Zhang Bangchang, the puppet emperor of Chu, for inappropriate discussions?"

Zhang Bangchang turned pale with horror and looked at Zhao Gou pleadingly. The courtiers all talked in low voices. Only then did Zongze see something, and he couldn't help but worry. Zhang Jun and Zhao Ding looked at each other with complicated expressions. Huang Qianshan felt that he was the most qualified to speak on behalf of Zhao Gou at this time, so he fanned the flames as soon as he opened his mouth: "Your Majesty is eagerly looking forward to Mr. Li and is waiting for him. This is such a favor. Mr. Li cannot deceive Your Majesty in his youth."

"Since your majesty said that my comments were inappropriate, can't I ask your majesty why my comments were inappropriate?" Li Gang ignored Huang Qianshan and continued to question Zhao Gou, but Huang Qianshan stopped him and said, "Is there any need to ask? What Zhang Bangchang has defiled is, at best, just a person." Character, the crime should not be punished."

Li Gang retorted: "Zhang Bangchang has been in power for ten years. He cannot stick to his integrity. What he has tarnished is not his personal moral character, but the image of the entire country."

Huang Qian argued eloquently: "Bangchang preserved the royal mausoleums. He saved many people in the capital, and he offered his jade seal to welcome your majesty without waiting for conquest. Zhang Bangchang not only had no fault, but also made meritorious deeds."

Li Gang said angrily: "It's wrong. Although Zhang Bangchang has virtues in the capital and meritorious service to the Marshal's Mansion, these merits are all private virtues. Zhang Bangchang pretended to be rebellious, and the whole world was angry. According to the law of the Spring and Autumn Period, it was a violation of justice. The imperial court will not violate justice." How can it be that your Majesty wants to build the great cause of China's rejuvenation, yet he respects his rebellious ministers, and how can he boost morale and inspire people's hearts?"

Seeing Li Gangyi's serious words, Zhang Bangchang couldn't help but feel his legs weaken, and he knelt down, trembling, sweating, and looking around begging. Zhu Shengfei couldn't stand it anymore and said bravely: "I think that the reason why Bangchang failed to kill himself is for no other reason than that he has a weak character and is timid."

Hearing this, Li Gang immediately turned to Zhu Shengfei and said: "Zhu Shengfei, last year the Jin people attacked the city. You didn't do any defense and ran around in panic. How did you have no courage? If you don't have loyalty and courage, what is a loyal minister?"

Zhu Shengfei was greatly embarrassed: "Ms. Li, you."

Li Gang continued to expose Zhu Shengfei's background: "Xiangong Zhu and Zhang Bangchang are brothers-in-law. They don't know how to avoid suspicion, so how can they dare to protect their relatives?"

Zhao Ding, Zhang Jun and many others did not know the relationship between Zhu Shengfei and Zhang Bangchang, and they all whispered in surprise when they heard this. Zhu Shengfei couldn't help feeling embarrassed and annoyed: "I am indeed brother-in-law with Zhang Bangchang, but I did not recommend the thief. Instead, I recommended Mr. Li."

Li Gang bowed to him: "Li thanked Mr. Zhu for the recommendation, but Li Gang only believed in justice and did not care about personal ethics, so he had to offend me."

Zhang Jun and Zhao Ding looked at each other. They both felt that Li Gang was too strong and couldn't help but shake their heads secretly. Zongze blinked uneasily. Huang Qianshan even sneered. Seeing that everyone was speechless, Zhao Gou said, "It doesn't matter if you tell me everything, or you won't say anything anymore."

"Ms. Li is a tiger whose butt you can't touch. Who dares to refute whoever he catches and bites?" As soon as Huang Qianshan finished speaking, Li Gang frowned and was about to refute. Huang Qianshan immediately backed away exaggeratedly and said: "Don't bite me, I don't have much meat." .”

Everyone had a grim face, wanting to laugh but not daring to laugh. Zhao Gou remained silent because he didn't want to directly conflict with Li Gang. Seeing that the atmosphere was extremely unserious, he had no choice but to say: "Gong Li is unsympathetic and upright. However, there are two types of hypocrisy. One is those who are greedy for wealth. True arrogance is a kind of false surrender in order to preserve the country and endure humiliation. Moreover, we are currently in troubled times. When hiring people, retaining Bangchang and veterans of the previous dynasty will not only not allow the Jin army to take the opportunity to launch an attack, but will also help unite the forces. Fight the enemy.”

"Surrender is treason, it doesn't matter whether it's true or false." Li Gang couldn't listen and suddenly took out a list, "There are so many courtiers who have received false orders, and this list of treasonous people is only one percent of them. I divided their crimes into three grades. , begging your Majesty to convict you."

Most of the courtiers became restless. Zhao Gou had no choice but to let him continue. Li Gang shook the list: "The first-class treasonous ministers who were promoted from attendants to pseudo-rulings include Wang Shiyong and others; those who were promoted from common officials to pseudo-attendants include Yu Wenxu and others; and Yan Bowen wrote a letter of persuasion to Zhang Bangchang. and others; there are also those who performed the ceremonial ceremony for Zhang Bangchang's enthronement, including Song Qiyu and others; those who changed their names because of taboos about Zhang Bangchang's name. According to the law, they should all flee outside the ridge."