Northern Song Dynasty: I became Zhao Ji Chapter 127: The prodigal prime minister was beaten by a group of people, and the scholarly business spirit belongs to Chen Dong
Chapter 127: The prodigal prime minister was beaten by a group of people, and the scholarly business spirit belongs to Chen Dong
Chapter 127: The prodigal prime minister was beaten by a group of people, and his scholarly business spirit belongs to Chen Dong
Zhao Ji was stunned when he heard this!
The little imperial student Chen Dong actually dared to incite dozens of imperial students to kneel in front of Xihua Gate, blocking my way back to the palace, and petitioning me for a 'demonstration'!
Under the leadership of Chen Dong, this group of imperial students even jointly requested me to kill the eunuch Liang Shicheng who violated the law and Zhu Meng who was tyrannizing in the southeast.
Zhao Ji saw Chen Dong, an imperial student kneeling in front of my chariot. He was plain-looking and of medium height. He was dressed in the blue cloth robe of a Confucian scholar. Because he had been studying for many years and worked without being exposed to the wind and sun, his skin looked fairer. He had sword-shaped eyebrows and single phoenix eyes.
, with a square nose and a mustache, he looks about thirty years old.
Zhao Ji sat in the royal chariot with the curtain drawn, and asked Chen Dong, who was kneeling in front of the chariot:
"Chen Dong, Imperial Student, you are just a scholar. You don't read the books of saints and sages properly, but you talk about state affairs and incite more than thirty Imperial students to kneel in front of the Xihua Gate and block my way back to the palace. Please
If I kill a high-ranking official of the imperial court, can I know the crime?"
Chen Dong, who was kneeling, did not change his expression and responded with emotion, saying:
"As a reminder to the officials, although I, Chen Dong, am a scholar, how dare a scholar forget to worry about his country?!"
Damn it! Zhao Ji sighed in his heart, this Chen Dong is so straight and reckless! Your Chen Dong's answer actually gave me a rhetorical question, is this a taunting me?
Zhao Ji's face turned pale and he was very unhappy. Chen Dong, you don't know my big plan.
However, he did not punish Chen Dong. After all, Zhao Ji knew that Chen Dong recorded in history books was an upright and loyal man like Cao Fu.
Zhao Ji also knew that Liang Shicheng and Zhu Meng, whom Chen Dong led the imperial students to petition and wanted to kill, were two of the Six Thieves of the Northern Song Dynasty.
However, Liang Shicheng's temporary performance is not bad, I can't kill everyone around me! Let's keep Liang Shicheng for now, it will be of some use for the time being.
As for Zhu Meng, one of the Six Thieves of the Northern Song Dynasty, Zhao Ji had long made up his mind and must kill him. Not only did he have to kill Zhu Meng, but he also had to deal with his father Zhu Chong.
Zhao Ji still remembers the history of Zhu Meng's fortune when he was reading history before he time traveled: "Zhu Meng, a native of Suzhou in the Song Dynasty; Zhu Chongzi. (Zhu Meng) flattered Cai Jing, and both his father and son became officials. At that time, Huizong admired Hua Shi.
Meng told his father that he secretly collected rare stones and flowers from central Zhejiang and presented them to..."
At that time, the original owner of Zhao Ji's body, Emperor Huizong of the Song Dynasty, was interested in rare flowers and stones. Zhu Meng responded to his request and collected donations of rare flowers and stones from central Zhejiang, and the number increased year by year. During the Zhenghe period, a Ying Feng Bureau was set up in Suzhou, and Mo Fei
For official money, he searched for it with all possible means, seized flowers and stones, and transported them to the capital by boat from the Huaihe River and Bianhe River, known as the "Flower and Stone Guide".
While Zhu Meng tried his best to please the emperor, he also tried every means to plunder, accumulate private property, and live a corrupt life
The battle of "Hua Shi Gang" continued for years, and the people were in trouble and desolate. All middle-class families went bankrupt, and even sold their sons and daughters for extortion. During Fangla's uprising, he called on Zhu Meng to be killed, and the southeastern lands were captured by Zhu Meng.
The fierce battle of Huashigang won the support of many people whose families were destroyed...
At this time, in the southeast of the Song Dynasty, the father and son Zhu Chong and Zhu Meng were the instigators of the "Huashi Gang" that made people miserable. Of course, Zhao Ji had already thought about killing Zhu Meng.
However, if we kill Zhu Meng now, it would be better for my imperial commander to personally conquer Fangla and then suddenly sentence Zhu Meng for his crime of engaging in the Huashigang Battle after arriving in the southeast, and then kill him with the anger of most of Fangla's rebels.
It can play a role in breaking down the morale of the rebels.
If so, I now agree to the petition jointly signed by Chen Dong and others, and issue an edict to the southeast to kill Zhu Meng. Although Zhu Meng can be killed, it will be difficult for me to kill him suddenly when I personally go to war.
Kill Zhu Meng and then attack Fang La to break the hearts of the rebels.
When thinking about this, Zhao Ji said:
"Chen Dong, you are not above the court and have no real evidence of the crime of the person you are reporting, but you incited more than thirty imperial students to block my way back to the palace and asked me to kill the court officials.
!This is really unreasonable.
Chen Dong, you have committed a serious crime!"
Chen Dong's face did not change and he said solemnly: "I know that leading the crowd and kneeling to stop the driver is a serious crime.
However, I have been in charge of government for three years, and entered Taixue at the age of seventeen. I have been studying the books of sages in Taixue for seventeen years. I should imitate the loyalty of sages.
I would like to learn from Yong Xiaowen, a student in the second year of Chongning, who dared to die in the palace examination, vigorously criticized Cai Jing's brothers for controlling the government, and tried to denigrate the failure of the current government. Although Yong Xiaowen was exiled to Hainan by Cai Jing and died, he is a role model for us. p>
The official sage has today killed the traitors Cai Jing, Gao Qiu, and Wang Fu. They are the traitors in the court who have long been hated by us imperial students.
We, the imperial students, have decided that this is a good time to take advantage of this opportunity to petition the officials and continue to eradicate the traitorous ministers.
Therefore, more than 30 Taixue students like us walked on foot from Taixue in the south of Tokyo, crossed Longjin Bridge, followed the imperial road, and walked to the outside of Xihua Gate to wait for the officials and imperial officials to express their wishes!"
Zhao Ji nodded slightly. He knew Chen Dong's integrity. Chen Dong led the imperial students to petition Yuan for the good of the country. However, Chen Dong's petition at this time asked me to kill Liang Shicheng and Zhu Meng, which was inappropriate.
Traveler Zhao Ji was flipping through the petition petitions signed by more than 30 people including Chen Dong, and suddenly discovered that in addition to Chen Dong, a historical celebrity, there was also a historical celebrity in the petition world on top of the petition petition.
——Chen Chaolao.
As early as the Daguan period, Chen Chaolao, a student of Taipei Imperial College, dared to write a letter and reprimanded Cai Jing for being "treacherous, cruel, deceitful and ruthless"...
Although, for the sake of the overall situation, Zhao Ji cannot agree to the petition of Chen Dong and Chen Chaolao for the time being;
However, he knew that the more than thirty co-signers who dared to write their names on this petition should all be righteous people.
After all, there are more than a thousand students in Nancheng Imperial College today, but only these thirty-odd students dare to risk their lives to petition.
Zhao Ji put away the petition. I will pay close attention to the more than 30 Tai students such as Chen Dong and Chen Chaolao who dare to co-sign on the petition, and those who are capable will be appointed as officials.
Chen Dong, who was kneeling in front of the imperial chariot, put the petition aside without even looking at Zhao Guanjia. However, he misunderstood Zhao Guanjia's good intentions.
Chen Dong said excitedly: "What the officials said is that our imperial students have no evidence of the crimes of Liang Shicheng and Zhu Meng.
The evidence of Liang Shicheng and Zhu Meng's crimes is obvious to everyone in the world. If the officials really want to find out the evidence of their crimes, they only need an imperial edict and send a few people to investigate carefully to find out their heinous crimes..."
Chen Dong also sternly stated what he had heard about the various crimes committed by the eunuch Liang Shicheng and Zhu Meng, the chief officer of the Southeast Enshrinement Bureau...
Zhao Ji still felt that immediately investigating and killing Liang Shicheng and Zhu Meng now conflicted with the big plan in his mind.
Zhao Ji had a sullen face and said in a leisurely and authentic voice:
"Chen Dong, this time you incited the imperial students to kneel in front of my imperial chariot to petition. You were just talking about state affairs and wanted to kill the imperial officials. This is a serious crime!
However, I think you are in the interests of the country, and I forgive you for your innocence.
You quickly lead all the students kneeling in front of Xihua Gate to disperse!"
"Bang, bang, bang!" Chen Dong, a student from the Imperial College, kowtowed again and said stubbornly:
"Before we came to petition, we all took an oath. If the officials did not send people to thoroughly investigate the crimes of Liang Shicheng and Zhu Meng, we, the students, would kneel in front of the Xihua Gate and not be able to afford it."
"Hmph!" Zhao Ji said angrily: "You fellow Imperial students, are you threatening me?"
Chen Dong was not intimidated by Zhao Guan's family. He was upright, neither humble nor arrogant:
"If we threaten the emperor with loyalty and righteousness, will it not be better than threatening him with treachery and sycophancy?"
Zhao Ji:......
Damn it! Zhao Ji sighed in his heart, what should come will still come.
Maybe it’s because I, a time traveler, killed the demon Dao Lin Lingsuwen,
And, is it because I also "forcibly sent them to the underworld to report in advance" such as Cai Jing, Gao Qiu and Wang Fu, who still have about six years of "yang life"?!
Therefore, somehow, the thunderbolt method used by me as a time traveler caused a butterfly effect...
The historical event that led Tai student Chen Dong to lead a crowd to petition the emperor happened in advance.
Zhao Ji felt that it would be much better to happen in advance than to delay it for six years when the Jin army came to the city.
It's just that Chen Dong, the imperial student, instigated the Tai students to petition in advance. Therefore, Chen Dong has not yet included Tong Guan, the eunuch in charge of the Privy Council in the northwest of the army, on the list of petitions to "please kill".
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After all, the current Tong Guan has not yet exposed the biggest evil he committed a few years later: that is, he, Tong Guan, lost his army due to the attack on the Liao Dynasty and wanted to be crowned king, so he begged for gold and soldiers to take over Yanjing for millions.
Guan Guan redeemed Yanjing and other empty cities and returned, boasting that he Tong Guan had the merit of restoring the sixteen states of Yanyun.
Zhao Ji, a time traveler who is familiar with the history of the late Northern Song Dynasty, knows that Chen Dong, a student in history, wrote four times to request the execution of the "six thieves"
His first letter was on December 27, the seventh year of Xuanhe (1125), asking him to punish the "six thieves" such as Cai Jing, Tong Guan, Wang Fu, Liang Shicheng, Zhu Meng, and Li Yan to thank the world.<
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Zhao Ji also knew that in the first year of Jingkang in history, Chen Dong, a Taipei student, led hundreds of people to kneel under Xuande's gate and petitioned to recall Li Gang, the main war faction... Driven by the petitions of Chen Dong and other Taipei students,
Tens of thousands of citizens from Bianliang, Tokyo, also came out to plead guilty, and even broke the drum of Denwen!
(Dengwen drum is a large drum hung outside the court. Those who have been wronged or those with urgent cases can beat the drum to hear the case, thereby establishing a lawsuit.)
At that time, Li Bangyan, the leader of the peace faction known as the "Prodigal Prime Minister", came out to reprimand the imperial students not to mess around, but he was grabbed by the angry imperial students, and was beaten and beaten...
In history, Emperor Qinzong of the Song Dynasty had no choice but to agree to Wanmin's petition and recall Li Gang... He also killed five of the "six thieves", spared the Grand Master Cai Jing and demoted him to return to his hometown as a commoner. Soon after, eight
Cai Jing, who was in his teenage years, was poor and ill and was said to have died of starvation in his hometown.
After the outer city of Bianliang (Kaifeng) in Tokyo was captured by the Jin army, Song Qinzong Zhao Huan, who still had the imperial city and the inner city to defend, did not wait for King Qin's soldiers to come to relieve the siege, but he foolishly believed and agreed to the Jin army's plan.
Conditions for inducing surrender (actually it was a trick set up by the Jin army to trap and detain the Emperor of the Song Dynasty when they saw that it was too difficult to attack the city).
Song Qinzong Zhao Huan, as the supreme emperor of the Song Dynasty, personally went to Jinying to seek peace...
At that time, Chen Dong and other hundreds of imperial students heard that the emperor had entered the Jin camp to seek peace, and they all cried and went to Nanjingmen... Unfortunately, Chen Dong and other imperial students, who were very foresighted, could not change Jingkang's shame... p>
When Zhao Jisi came here, he not only sighed.
It seems that the only person in the world who can change Jingkang’s shame is me, a time traveler!
However, the imperial students blocking the Xihua Gate have temporarily hindered my grand plan.
It is obviously inappropriate to arrest and punish all these Tai students who were kneeling outside Xihua Gate to petition;
If we leave them alone and let them continue their hunger strike and kneel here for a long time, if there are some students from the highest university in the Song Dynasty who are both good and bad, won't I lose my royal dignity and lose the tradition of the Song Dynasty that emphasizes etiquette and culture?!
At the moment when Zhao Ji was in a dilemma, behind the imperial chariot of Zhao Guan's family came the chariot of Li Bangyan, the minister's right prime minister.
Originally, Li Bangyan had watched the executions of Cai Jing, Gao Qiu and Wang Fu at the West Water Execution Ground. He thought that he must be cautious in his future actions. As for visiting brothels in the afternoon like in the past, he did not dare to occupy the public house this afternoon.
The time has passed. He is going back to the imperial city to deal with the following backlog of official documents that have not been processed for a long time.
Li Bangyan's chariot was in a hurry to come to Xihua Gate, but when he saw that the emperor's chariot was parked outside Xihua Gate, Li Bangyan immediately ordered to stop behind the chariot.
Li Bangyan got off the sedan in person and walked to Zhao Ji's imperial chariot. He saw Chen Dong, an imperial student kneeling in front of the imperial chariot, and more than thirty imperial students kneeling on the imperial road in front of Xihua Gate.
Li Bangyan, the prodigal prime minister who had always been cunning, was suspicious in his heart. He could tell that the imperial chariot from Zhao Guan's family could not enter Xihua Gate because Chen Dong and other imperial students knelt in front of Xihua Gate.
What Li Bangyan didn't know was why these imperial students, who were supported by the state, stopped in front of the emperor.
Li Bangyan thought to himself: Are you, the imperial students, so full that you are so full that you stop in front of Zhao Guan's family? This is a serious crime!
However, after Li Bangyan saw the Zhao Guan family's change of heart and killed Lin Lingsu, important minister Cai Jing, Gao Qiu and Wang Fu successively, he did not dare to be as presumptuous in front of the Zhao Guan family as before.
After Li Bangyan finished the ceremony of kneeling and kowtowing, he said tentatively:
"Your Majesty, Bangyan, came back from the West Water Execution Ground with the official's chariot. He wanted to return to the imperial city to handle government affairs. For some reason, the official's chariot stopped in front of Xihua Gate."
Zhao Ji took a look and saw, isn't this the prodigal prime minister Li Bangyan?
Li Bangyan said that he could enjoy all the flowers in the world, kick all the balls in the world, and be an official in the world. Li Bangyan acted obscenely and liked to compose obscene lyrics and music, so he called himself Li Prodigal Son.
Nowadays, Li Bangyan is the official of Shangshu Youcheng. Under the "group prime minister system" of the Song Dynasty, he is equivalent to the deputy prime minister. Therefore, the people in the capital nickname Li Bangyan the "Prodigal Prime Minister".
Zhao Ji thought to himself: Prime Minister Li, you have come just in time. These imperial students who came to invite Yuan are like hot potatoes, so let's leave it to you, the prodigal Li, to handle them!
Zhao Ji pointed at the more than 30 imperial students kneeling on the royal road outside Xihua Gate, and then pointed at the imperial student Chen Dong kneeling behind Li Bangyan, and said in a pretense of anger:
"These imperial students are discussing state affairs arbitrarily and stopping in front of Xihua Gate to petition me. If I don't agree, they will have to kneel down for a long time! How unbecoming is this?
Aiqing is also a prince, right?"
Li Bangyan immediately replied: "Although I was a student of Imperial College in my early years, I was granted a Jinshi status by the official family and was busy with government affairs as an official. Naturally, I have not interacted with these Imperial College students for a long time."
"Ha!" Zhao Ji smiled and looked at Li Bangyan, who was pretending to look serious.
It made Li Bangyan, the prodigal prime minister, hairy.
Zhao Ji smiled at Li Bangyan and said: "I order you to persuade these imperial students who are blocking the petition outside Xihua Gate. Our Song Dynasty has always been kind to literati. When you persuade the imperial students to retreat, you are not allowed to order soldiers to drive them away.<
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I want to see if you, who calls yourself the 'Prodigal Li', can persuade all the students to go back."
Li Bangyan felt that this was in line with the Zhao Guan family's consistent style of valuing literati and refined scholars, but today being appointed by the Zhao Guan family to do such an errand may not necessarily bring any benefits. On the contrary, if it fails, it will make them fall out of favor with the Zhao Guan family.
Li Bangyan gritted his teeth, forced a smile, and said: "I obey the order, I will try my best to persuade the imperial students kneeling in front of Xihua Gate and let them go back and read the sages' books carefully. Don't lose their dignity here."
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Zhao Ji nodded with a smile, and with the mentality of watching whether the prodigal prime minister would be beaten by the crowd when he went to persuade the excited students, he waved his hand and motioned to Li Bangyan to persuade him!