Chapter 165 Jiedushi and Concubine Kang
After finally sending Han Shen away this big trouble, Lin Zhao breathed a sigh of relief and walked towards his school.
It is obvious that Han Shen was sent by Li Xu or directly by the prince. Although this method is understandable in the power field, it makes Lin Zhao quite disgusted. Until now, he has consumed very little of his favorability towards the East Palace because of Lin Jian.
After returning to his school, Lin Zhao first tidied up his bed. He hesitated for a moment, sat next to his desk, took out a piece of wrinkled white paper from his sleeve, spread it on his desk, and began to draft articles.
"The former Lantian County Magistrate Han Gong..."
After explaining the cause and effect of the matter, Lin Zhao spread out the wrinkled white paper and copied the Han Shen's confession.
Since he agreed, he naturally had to do it. However, whether Lin Zhao would hand over this thing to the palace is still an unknown number. Only when the Three Laws concluded that Kang Donglai was innocent would Lin Zhao appear to be this somewhat sad hero.
Han Shen's promulgation was only more than 200 words, and Lin Zhao's previous text was only more than 100 words. A piece of article was added together and only less than 400 words. Lin Zhao wrote it for half an hour before he wrote it all. After he wrote it out, he let out a long breath, put down his brush and blew the ink marks. Just as he was about to put away the paper, a rapid knock came from the door.
"Sanlang, Saburo."
It's Qi Xuan's voice.
Lin Zhao quickly stood up, put the written paper under his pillow, then got up and went to the entrance of the school hall, and opened the door.
At the entrance of the school, Qi Xuan had a little anxiety on his face. After seeing Lin Zhao open the door, he first looked at Lin Zhao's injured left hand and let out a long breath.
"I just heard them say that you have come back to Taixue, but I don't believe it yet. I can't think you are really back."
Lin Zhao bowed slightly to Qi Xuan and said with a smile: "I'm almost recovering from the injury, so I'm back. I'm going to participate in next year's discipline. I will win the exam in the Imperial College at the end of the year. Of course, I have to hurry back to the Imperial College to study."
"You're confused!"
Qi Xuan took Lin Zhao's hand and walked into the school and whispered: "You are only fourteen years old this year. When will you not be able to get a Jinshi? You have to go back to the Imperial Academy at this time? Now the dispute between Kang and the Eastern Palace is at the gate. Just stay in Pingkangfang with the great master in front of you, and the disaster will never fall on you."
Lin Zhao pulled Qi Xuan and sat down, smiled and said, "Since Uncle Qi is willing to let me out, it means I have convinced him."
"Brother Qi is here just right. I happen to have something to ask Brother Qi."
Master Qi frowned slightly and asked, "What's the matter?"
"About the question of the military governor of the Great Zhou."
Lin Sanlang whispered: "I first arrived in Chang'an and didn't know much about the imperial court, and I knew nothing about the military governors from all over the country. I heard that General Qi was the military governor of Fanyang. I would like to ask Brother Qi about what the situation was about the military governors from all over the country."
"Sanlang asked what this is for?"
Qi Xuan looked at Lin Zhao with some strangeness: "The governors from all over the country have nothing to do with us. That is what the saints and the prime ministers of the Political Affairs Hall have to worry about."
"Just ask."
Lin Zhao whispered: "I offended the Kang family a little bit, but I can't know nothing about the Jiedushi."
“That’s right.”
Qi Xuan nodded and whispered: "At this dynasty, there were a total of ten Jiedushis in various parts of the Great Zhou Dynasty, namely Fanyang, Shuofang, Hedong, Hexi, Jiannan and other places..."
The father of the eldest son of Qi was one of the top ten military governors. Although he was a royal relative, he was still half a general. He knew very well about the military governors in various places. At this time, he could naturally tell them about them.
In the early days of the founding of the Great Zhou Dynasty, there were no so-called Jiedu.
However, two hundred years after the founding of the country, the national strength always declined. A hundred years ago, the court began to move from attack to defense, and began to set up Jiedushi in the border states. In order to facilitate the resistance of foreign enemies, the Jiedushi was asked to control the local military and political management to coordinate their strength.
At first there were only one or two Jiedushis, but later there were five or six, seven or eight. At first, when the imperial court was strong, the Jiedushis of various places naturally obeyed and defended the court together. However, in the late emperor's dynasty, that is, during the period of Emperor Ling, the imperial court's national strength was weak, and the local government became the governors of their own small courts, and they had gradually become disobedient.
In the early days of the Emperor's reign, he vigorously rectified the governors of various places. In the first ten years, he saved some situations. However, as the saint grew older, he had to start relying on the power of these governors to resist the Khitan Huns in the north.
However, because of the lessons of the previous dynasty, the saint carefully considered the candidates for the governor. Given that outsiders could not trust him, he sent some of his own "relatives" to serve as governors in various places.
The more typical example is that the governor of Fan Yang, Qi Shidao, is the brother-in-law of the saint.
Kang Donglai, the governor of Shuofang, was the brother-in-law of the saint.
In addition to these two, among the other eight Jiedushi, three or four of them were related to the Li family.
But it is obvious that in the face of power, this kind of kinship relationship is fragile. As the saints grow older, several of the top ten military governors appointed by Qiande in the early years had a tendency to stand on their own.
In the Imperial Academy, Master Qi told Lin Zhao about the general situation of several military governors. Lin Sanlang sat opposite Qi Xuan and listened very seriously.
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Just when Lin Zhao was listening to the class in the Imperial Academy, in the Chenghuan Hall of the Inner Palace, the graceful Concubine Kang knelt in front of the emperor, her face covered with tears. She sobbed in a low voice: "Your Majesty, my second brother must have been promoted. I have watched him grow up since I was a child, and he would never do these evil things..."
The saint sat on the chair, looked at the favorite concubine in front of him, with a expressionless face and groaned: "When he was a child, he did not do evil because there was no imperial concubine who was his sister and no military governor who was his elder brother."
"Last year, Cheng Jingzong of your Kang family even colluded with bandits and entered Yuezhou City with the intention of murdering the Tanhualang of this dynasty. At that time, I was a little unbelievable. Where did Kang Donglai come from so bold? Unexpectedly, he had already done this as early as the fifth year of Qiande!"
Speaking of this, the saint snorted coldly: "Captain the women of the people, build private guilds, form cliques for personal gain, and kill the officials of the court!"
"Who can't kill the entire Kang family for these crimes?"
The emperor looked at Concubine Kang and said in a deep voice: "Seeing that we are having a couple, my intentions are very clear. Even if it is verified, it will stop at Kang Dongping and will not implicate your Kang family. If you are not satisfied, you still have to come to me to cry and ask for trouble, and you can only seek disaster!"
Concubine Kang sat weakly on the ground, her face full of tears: "Your Majesty, the Kang family has been loyal to Your Majesty for more than ten years. It is precisely because of this that it is easy to attract jealousy."
"In the entire Chang'an City, except for the Kang family standing on His Majesty's side, which of the other ministers has turned to the East Palace?"
Concubine Kang burst into tears and said, "Even the Dali Temple Minister who is known as selfless, was instructed by the Eastern Palace a few days ago to come to the palace to meet the saint, intending to kill my second brother?"
She looked up at the emperor and cried, "Your Majesty, my second brother can die, and the whole family of our Kang family can die, but if we die, who else in the entire Chang'an City will stand on His Majesty's side?"
Chapter completed!