In Baoci Palace, the Empress Dowager was currently talking to An Gao Zunyu's wife who had entered the palace.
Mainly to comfort her.
After Gao Zunyu suffered a stroke, although he took a lot of medicine and the imperial doctors also gave him acupuncture, he seemed to be getting better.
But half of his body was still unconscious.
Gao Zunyu's family looks like the building is about to collapse.
His wife would always cry when she came to the palace from time to time, and the Empress Dowager could only patiently comfort her.
After all, this is her biological aunt, and she has always followed the rules.
Just as he was talking, Liang Weijian came to report that the Queen Mother and the officials arrived.
Gao Zunyu's wife quickly apologized and retreated into the inner hall of Baoci Palace.
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"What happened to the Queen Mother today?" The Queen Mother looked at the Queen Mother's face and knew that the daughter-in-law was angry, so she asked.
"Let's take a look, Your Majesty!" Empress Dowager Xiang handed the two side reports she had brought to the hands of the Empress Dowager: "These military ministers are too domineering!"
"He actually didn't even listen to the general's orders from the Prime Minister and made the decision without authorization! He even dared to impeach the commander-in-chief!"
"This is not taking the country's laws into consideration!"
"I don't even care about Sixth Brother!"
The Queen Mother took the side report handed to the Queen Mother. She first glanced at Zhang Zhijian's impeachment and felt nothing.
This is where the butt is different.
The Gao family is a family of military generals and ministers, and their feelings about the boundaries between civil and military affairs are not as sensitive as the Empress Dowager Xiang's.
Therefore, in the eyes of Empress Dowager Xiang, it is really unforgivable that Zhang Zhijian, a military minister whose status was originally lower than Lu Huiqing, dared to leapfrog his rank and impeach a commander-in-chief!
But according to the Queen Mother, isn't this a normal thing?
One minister impeaches another minister.
Reasonable.
It wasn't until she read Lu Huiqing's memorial that her face finally turned serious.
"This is a major military and state matter!" the Empress Dowager said seriously: "We should invite the governors of the capital to discuss it..."
"But..." She observed Zhao Xu's expression and found nothing unusual, so she took the Queen Mother Xiang's hand, asked her to sit in front of her, and said: "This remonstrance is indeed beyond measure!"
Lu Huiqing had already told Zhang Zhijian, the emperor's edict, ordering Ben Jinglue to lead his troops to patrol the border.
You, a minister, do not ask for instructions or report, but just make your own decisions. This is indeed too much!
and……
The Empress Dowager looked at the description in Lu Huiqing's report.
It is different from Empress Dowager Xiang who only cares about Zhao Xu’s authority.
The Empress Dowager also remembered that it was she and Empress Dowager Xiang who issued the edict to Lu Huiqing in the name of the official family that day.
If the Western thieves didn't invade, that would be fine.
Now, the Western thieves have indeed invaded, but because Zhang Zhijian acted on his own initiative, he missed the opportunity to fight!
Of course the Queen Mother was angry!
That's right, she doesn't like to cause trouble.
But now, it’s the Western thieves who are taking the initiative to fight!
This is not giving her the face of the Queen Mother!
Especially when the Empress Dowager thought that if Lu Huiqing won this battle, she would capture another general of the Western Thieves.
In this way, it was logical for the Song Dynasty to use the power of victory to force the Western thieves to surrender and pay tribute.
In this way, what was said in front of the officials that day will come true.
The officials will admire and respect her as their mother-in-law even more!
This Zhang Zhijian was all ruined!
Therefore, the Empress Dowager also began to say angrily: "Before the discussion in the capital hall reaches a conclusion, you can first order someone to go to Yanyan Road and recall Zhang Zhijian to Bianjing to face his punishment!"
"What do you think, Queen Mother?"
Although Queen Mother Xiang was a little dissatisfied with this disposal strategy.
What she had in mind was to send someone directly to Yanyan Road, dismiss him on the spot, and then send him to Bianjing with weapons to break into Dali Temple.
He must be punished for his serious crime of delaying military aircraft!
But the Empress Dowager spoke up, and considering that such a matter really needed to be dealt with by communicating with the Prime Minister.
After all, this Zhang Zhijian is no ordinary military minister.
He is Yaojun!
Wuchen Yaojun is an important minister to be controlled among the military officials.
Although the imperial dynasty did not pay as much attention to military ministers as scholar-bureaucrats, they still respected them very much.
In the 19th year of Emperor Daxing's lifetime, the total number of remote counties dealt with by military law was only five.
Only one of them was executed.
That was Han Cunbao, the general who commanded the army when he suppressed the rebellion of the barbarians in Luzhou.
Moreover, the most important reason for executing Han Cunbao was that the Five-Road Expedition to the Xia Dynasty was about to take place, and a large army was fighting, which required strict military discipline, so Han Cunbao's head was borrowed.
Otherwise, military ministers like this at the level of Yaojun would usually just be demoted.
The best example is the breeding E.
Zhong'e is domineering and doesn't listen to orders, not just once or twice.
But the most he can do is demote, resettle, and then activate him again in two years.
Thinking of this, he nodded to the Empress Dowager and said: "I will follow your Majesty's wishes..."
"It's just that in the edict sent to the capital for discussion, it must be stated clearly that the officials had already noticed that the bandits from the west were invading, and ordered Lu Huiqing to order Hedong to be on guard..."
The Queen Mother smiled and said: "This is natural!"
She looked at Zhao Xu and asked, "What do the officials think?"
Zhao Xu nodded sensibly: "Mother-in-law, it's up to the queen to make the decision!"
Does he need to take action on this matter?
No need at all!
Because there is a person in the capital who will definitely become furious if he knows about this!
Right Prime Minister, Duke Kang Guo Han Jiang!
This Zhang Zhijian will definitely die if he hits Han Jiang's hands!
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The Imperial Palace.
Han Jiang was currently listening to Zhang Hong's report on adjustments to military service.
Zhang Hong plans to first trial a new law in Gyeonggi Province that halve the tax exemption fee for households below the fifth class, with less than 20 acres of land, or with two adult males.
Of course, in Zhang Hong's vision, the exemption money for these poor people was reduced, but the government expenditure and the corresponding amount of exemption money could not be reduced too much.
Therefore, the relevant taxes will eventually be imposed on those large households.
This is also in line with Xining's consistent policy since the Reform.
The money for free service and free service is not distributed evenly, but is levied according to the amount of property.
Rich and wealthy households have to pay hundreds of guan for exemption a year, and some households even have to pay thousands of guan.
Zhang Hong's reason is also very good - Liangzhe Road has always implemented the rule that if the property of a rural household is less than 50,000 yuan, it is exempted from paying the service fee, and if the property of an urban household is less than 200,000 yuan, it is exempted from paying the service fee.
However, Han Jiang did not agree.
Let Zhang Hong go back and think about it carefully - this is Gyeonggi!
The powerful families are very powerful and may influence the palace at any time.
Wang Jiefu was defeated by this!
Before Han Jiang could take a sip of water after sending Zhang Hong away, two side reports issued by the palace and accompanying instructions from the two palaces were delivered to Han Jiang.
Han Jiang initially looked at the joke as a joke.
Even looking at Zhang Zhijian's impeachment memorial, he still laughed: "Lu Jifu, you also have this day?"
The past eight years of Xining emerged in his mind.
He would like it best if he could see Lu Huiqing deflated.
However……
Lu Huiqing's side newspaper text came into his eyes.
The right prime minister of the Song Dynasty, Duke Kang, had already taken action!
"How dare the military minister be so domineering?!"
"Is he going to rebel?"
The conflict with Lu Huiqing in the political hall back then could only be regarded as political differences.
At most, Lu Huiqing only made him angry and made him uncomfortable.
But……
What Lu Huiqing said in the side newspaper... made Han Jiang recall Hengshan in the third year of Xining.
The military officials are domineering and disobey orders...
The generals compete for merit and refuse to accept the order...
Good news came frequently from the front, but military officials rebelled in the rear, and the Xiaoju mutiny...
As a result, he ended up waiting for punishment and being demoted!
In an instant, Han Jiang felt the same way.
Then, he read the text of the two palace manuscripts.
"It was actually the young master who sent an edict in advance to inform Lu Huiqing and ordered Lu Huiqing to lead an army to patrol the border..."
Han Jiang couldn't bear it anymore.
That guy named Zhang Zhijian, in Han Jiang's eyes, turned into a combination of Zhong'e + Wu Kui + Wang Wenliang.
Back then, Han Zihua had greater power than Lu Huiqing does today!
But those military officials were still domineering, and they still dared to go against him, and even deceived him and played tricks on him.
"These bastards!" Han Jiang was furious.
He immediately picked up his pen and started writing the memorial.
He must take care of this matter and investigate it thoroughly!
Military ministers will never be allowed to ride on the heads of scholar-bureaucrats!
What's more, he is an important minister in power, and what's more, this important minister has an edict from the emperor in his hand.
Who gave you the courage to disobey?
Moreover……
Han Jiang looked at the part about the young master in the instructions from the two palaces.
If this is true, then Zhang Zhijian is not just disobedient and domineering.
This is the first time that the young master has commanded the military. As a minister, it is impossible and should not have any other thoughts besides unconditional obedience.
What's more, the current facts seem to indicate that we have succeeded - regardless of whether it was a blind guess or something else...
The fact is that the young master guessed correctly.
As expected, the thieves came in large numbers...
correct……
Han Jiang suddenly remembered something.
He served as Shaanxi economic strategy and pacification envoy.
He knows the surrounding terrain and jurisdiction well.
So, he suddenly remembered.
"Jialu Village..."
"Come here, get the documents from Jialu Village immediately..."
So, an official from the department brought the documents from Jialu Village of the Great Song Dynasty.
Good guy...
Although Jialuzhai is between Hedong and Fuyan Road, it is under the jurisdiction of the Economic Strategy Department of Fuyan Road.
In other words...this Zhang Zhijian not only delayed the military aircraft, but also committed the serious crime of sitting back and watching the Western invaders invade!
Going a step further, we have every reason to suspect him as a traffic thief who wants to commit treason.
So Han Jiang couldn't bear it anymore.
He wrote furiously, but within half an hour, he had already written a murderous petition.
After checking it several times, Han Jiang took this petition to the Neidong Gate in person and handed it over to the people from the Tongjian Department. He also told the other party: "Please be sure to send this petition to the two palaces!"
"
The people in the Tongjian Department did not dare to neglect and quickly started copying.
Soon, Han Jiang's memorial was delivered to the two palaces.
He is the right prime minister and a veteran minister. In the past few days since he took office, he has won the trust of the two palaces, especially the Queen Mother, because of his stable governance and mature work.
After reading it, the Empress Dowager couldn't help but murmured: "Did I think it was a little simpler?"
"Even veterans like Han Jiang said that if this matter is allowed to go unchecked, the country will not be able to survive if things go on like this..."
"Perhaps we should be punished as severely as the Empress Dowager said?"
Note: Han Jiang was defeated that year, for which he himself was responsible for at least 60%.
Half of the remaining 40% responsibility belongs to Shenzong, and the rest belongs to the military ministers at that time.
But how could Han Jiang admit that he had done something wrong?
It can only be that the military minister is domineering and harming me!
This is the normal thinking of the scholar-bureaucrats in the Northern Song Dynasty.
Therefore, readers are asked to pay attention to the descriptions in the book from the perspective of the scholar-bureaucrats themselves.
Don't treat these people as pure, cute and innocent little white rabbits.
None of them are simple.
This is exactly human nature, and human nature is complex.
A person cannot always be a good person, nor can he always be a bad person.
