[Comprehensive] The five elements are short of money

"I know, I know." Zhuge'an hurriedly grabbed Zhezong's hand and skillfully channeled his internal energy into his body, "The officials promised me that the northern border will be managed by me, and I have always believed in you. If you really want to implement Qingmiao Fa, you will tell me yourself, not such a cold edict."

"Young crops law...you have never agreed with it." Zhe Zong sneered and said, "Don't say no, I know, you are asking for a right of autonomy on the surface, but in fact you want to tell my father the truth with reality." There are shortcomings in the reform, don't you? You know, I know, these people don't know! When the Empress Dowager Gao was here, they turned their backs to me, thinking that I was made of clay and wood; now the old party just wants to To suppress the new party, no matter what state affairs! It is useless to suppress party disputes, if the father is still here..."

"Officials! The merits of the official family will last for thousands of years; the faults of the official family will not cover up the good. The benefits of the reform outweigh the disadvantages. If there is no reform to enrich the country and strengthen the people, there will be no Xixia bowing their heads and proclaiming their ministers, and there will be no recovery of Yanyun sixteen prefectures!" Zhuge Anren comforted him.

"I have always known that the faction is fierce, but I didn't expect them to dare to falsely preach the imperial decree, and it is so bold, Zeng Zixuan!" Zhezong took the case, and said angrily: "If you dare to falsely preach the holy will today, the Ming Dynasty will dare to correct the imperial edict, false imperial edict! Duan Wang It must be, it must be..."

"Officials, please calm down. You don't know about the seal of the imperial edict, and Prime Minister Zeng doesn't necessarily know about it..."

"A'an!" Zhe Zong turned his head and grabbed Zhuge Anren's arm and said, "They are trying to empty me, and if I'm still alive, they will pretend that I'm dead and I'm still alive!"

"Official, official, you are always here, always, don't..."

"King Duan! King Duan!" The more Zhezong thought about it, the more angry he became. He couldn't listen to any dissuasion and advice, and his heart was burning with fire. He only wanted to ask King Duan to pay the price and ask Zeng Bu to be buried with him.

"Pfft—" Zhe Zong was so angry that he spat out a mouthful of blood, and Zhuge An stepped forward to catch his limp body.

When Zhezong woke up again, he saw countless people around him. Empress Dowager Xiang and Empress Meng were sitting by the bed, the five younger brothers were also there, and Zhang Dun, Zeng Bu and others were also waiting in the hall.Zhezong turned his head and looked around, but he didn't see the person he wanted to see.

"The officials are awake? The imperial physician, come quickly to check the pulse." Seeing that Zhe Zong opened his eyes, the Queen Mother hurriedly called the imperial physician for a follow-up visit.

"Reporting to the Empress Dowager, the official's family is extremely angry, and their blood is not returning. The official's body is weak, so he should guard against anxiety and anger. Only with a calm mind can he maintain his body. Otherwise, there will be a next time, and the gods will be hard to save!" The imperial physician stood up. On the side, I feel helpless, everyone knows that toil is not good for recuperation, but the emperor is the most labor-intensive profession in the world.

"Zhuge Xuguo is too presumptuous..." Queen Mother Xiang said angrily. She had already asked clearly. At that time, he was the only one serving in the palace. He must have made Zhezong vomit blood in anger.

"Help me up." Zhe Zong weakly interrupted the Queen Mother, Liu Min helped Zhe Zong up knowingly, and put a thick cushion behind him.

"Officials, Zhuge Xuguo..." The Empress Dowager Xiang has never had a good impression of the Zhuge An people. He has too much influence on the emperor. It is a critical period for the establishment of the reserve, and the Empress Dowager Xiang tries every means to weaken the influence of the Zhuge An people.

"Why don't you see Ah An?" Zhe Zong asked.

"Lord Zhuge knows that he is guilty, so he knelt down outside the hall to plead guilty." Empress Meng said in a low voice, just hearing "A'an", she knew that Zhezong had no anger towards Zhuge'an.

"It's considered that he has self-knowledge. Officials, you are the Ninth Five-Year Honor. You must not be too tolerant to your subordinates. You are so angry that you vomit blood. Don't let it go lightly!" The Queen Mother hurriedly said, a dull person like Queen Meng would listen Come out, not to mention the Queen Mother.

Zhezong smiled contemptuously and said, "Oh? According to the Queen Mother, what should I do?"

"So disrespectful, it is a crime of beheading and death, and it will harm his family, so as to imitate others. But because he has fought for the country for many years, the death penalty can be avoided, and the death penalty cannot be escaped. We just let him go into exile." As for Bei The new commander of the border army was naturally decided by her, and it happened to be rewarded as a reward to the generals who supported King Duan's ascension to the throne.

"What the Empress Dowager said is that you speak with a golden eloquence, and I will take this as a decree. But since the case is to be resolved, it is better to be confronted face to face. Come, go and ask Lord Zhuge to come in. This time I fell ill, the Privy Council, the Political Affairs Hall , The adults of the third division are all here, come in together, just to discuss the crime that made me vomit blood in anger."

"Officials..." Zhang Dun subconsciously felt that something was wrong, and was about to persuade him, but Zhe Zong had already closed his eyes and waved, telling Liu Min to announce people into the palace.

All the lords came in one by one, bowed to see each other, got up and stood aside, only Zhuge'an was still kneeling on the ground.

Zhezong lay on the bed, leaning on the cushion, and said weakly: "Get up, you haven't been convicted yet, what are you kneeling for? Liu Min, tell all the ministers about the Queen Mother's imperial edict just now."

Liu Min's voice was clear and articulate, and he quickly recounted the scene just now.Zhezong instructed Liu Min to pass the edict on the compulsory implementation of young crop quotas over Zhang Dun and Zeng Bu, circulate it to the ministers and workers, and finally pass it to Zhang Dun.Zhang Dun was surprised. As one of the prime ministers, he didn't know the existence of this edict.This is not a "routine edict". Everything in the northern border is a special matter, and there is no possibility of such a mistake.Zhang Dun looked at Zeng Bu, feeling bad.

"My lords, have you seen it clearly, forcibly distributing young crop quotas? Well, I remember that the policy of forcibly distributing young crops has been abolished long ago. Who would dare to act recklessly and practice such a perverse method? I also said that I will personally supervise the affairs of the northern border , do you take it to heart? Ah! The imperial edict is actually stamped with my seal, why didn’t I know about it? Zeng Bu! What do you have to say?”

"Your servant is guilty." Zeng Bu knew the incident had happened as soon as he heard the word Qingmiao. They didn't expect that Zhuge Anren and Zhezong hadn't seen each other for many years, and they still didn't have this trust.The people of Zhuge'an are at the border all the year round, even if they have a bond from childhood, as the people of Zhuge'an monopolize the power, how much love should be wiped out.Zeng Bu believed that the emperor treated the Zhuge'an people well, firstly, by setting up a model of mutual understanding between the emperor and his ministers, and secondly, by using the Zhuge'an people's outstanding military exploits to control civil servants.Unexpectedly, Zhuge Anren played cards so unconventionally that he spread them all out in front of the emperor.I didn't expect...

"Of course you are guilty! Correcting orders and deceiving the emperor are unforgivable crimes!"

"Officials calm down!" The officials knelt down and shouted.

"I'm not angry, I've already been vomited blood once, so I'm going to be pissed off again? It's not worth it for this kind of deceitful thing!"

"Officials~" said anxiously to the Queen Mother, Zeng Bu is the only new party that has expressed goodwill to her, and he can be used as a signpost in the future, how can it be smashed?

"Why, the queen mother has objections? You have said that you will be exiled, and I have followed suit. The queen mother is still puzzled. Do you want to ransack the house?" Zhe Zong said coldly.

"What do the officials mean? The Zeng family has always been loyal..."

"That's right, three generations of Jinshi from the Zeng family, the pillars of the country, how could there be such a hypocritical national thief! If it wasn't for Mr. Nanfeng, I would have killed him!" Zhezong said angrily.

"Calm down the anger of the officials. Correction is not a small crime. Let's listen to what Mr. Zeng said. Maybe there is a misunderstanding in it, and it's not known if it's a false accusation." Put the blame on Zhuge Anren.

Zeng Bu shook his head and smiled wryly, the queen mother was too naive, now is the time to bite back, the officials are clearly protecting the Zhuge'an people, so he doesn't care about such a large piece of land in the hands of the Zhuge'an people, and still trusts it.Don't look at the harsh words of the officials, but there is no precedent for killing scholar-bureaucrats in the Song Dynasty. The Zeng family is not a decoration.Zeng Bu sighed, he only calculated people's hearts, but forgot to prepare a way out for himself, that's all, winner and loser!Zeng Bu kowtowed and said, "I am guilty, and I have no excuse."

"Okay, okay, since I have nothing to say, then I will have a trial with a judge, exile in Yazhou, and get out of the capital this month." Today is 26, and there are four days left.

"Officials, veterans are guilty and dare not refute. Only the ministers are loyal, and the world can learn from it. Zhuge Xu Guo supported his troops and respected himself, and the imperial court's decree was unable to go together in Yanyun Sixteen Prefectures. How is this different from the fact that it was not taken back at the beginning? Zhuge Xu Kingdom has become the trend of splitting the soil and enshrining the king. The sixteen prefectures of Yanyun are like a country within a country. Such actions are the real country's thieves. The disaster of the Tang Dynasty's separatist rule is a lesson from the past. The officials are deceived by this thief and insist on going their own way. Loyal to the monarch and the country, so he had no choice but to make such a bad policy. The officials and veterans were worried, and the sun and the moon proved it, and the veterans..."

"Shut up! Shut up! Cough..." Zhe Zong grabbed the teacup beside the bed and threw it at Zeng Bu. Zeng Bu's forehead turned red immediately, and the hot tea splashed all over his body.

"Officials calm down." The ministers possessed themselves again. Zeng Bu is a veteran minister. For civil servants, even death must be a dignified death. How could such humiliation not make them feel sad.

"The officials calm down." Zhuge Anren got up and walked to the bed, channeled his inner strength again, and whispered: "Don't use other people's mistakes to punish yourself, didn't the officials teach me?"

"Pull it out, if there are any more beggars, we will be punished with the same crime!" Zhe Zong sighed: "Calm down, calm down, you all beg for mercy for this country's thief, but have you ever worried about my body? The king is worried about the humiliation of his ministers, and the king is humiliating his ministers to death. It should be loud, today Zeng Guo’s bandits humiliated me, and you just watched like this. This is your loyalty, and I have seen it.”

"Officials, ministers, etc. are all loyal to the official family and the Song Dynasty, but there was... there was still doubt about Zixuan..."

"What doubts? There are all witnesses and material evidence, and Zeng Bu also bowed his head and pleaded guilty. What doubts do you have? I have said long ago that those who beg for mercy are guilty of the same crime. Come here..."

"Officials, Mr. Wang is the censor. It is the duty of a minister to speak out and speak out. Please calm down the officials. You can't be angry now." Zhuge'an begged for Wang Ruosou.

Zhe Zong sneered, in the end only Zhuge Anren pleaded for these people, the world is really ironic.Zhezong said wearily: "Go down, go back and think about it, what is loyalty!"

"It seems that the official family is in good health, so there is no need to worry about the Ai family. The official family is in good health, and the Ai family will not disturb your rest." The Empress Dowager Xiang got up and left without waiting for the officials to withdraw.Empress Meng looked at Zhezong and Queen Mother Xiang at a loss, chose to follow Queen Mother Xiang, trotted to catch up, and helped Queen Mother Xiang out of Funing Palace.

"A'an, have you seen it? This is my situation. I dare not ask you to come back. I am a worthless emperor. King Duan shrank back so fast, Zeng Bu didn't bite him out!" Zhe Zong hammered the bed board and said bitterly.