Chapter 133: The Maritime Alliance should be abolished immediately, Zhao Liangsi is in trouble!
When Prince Zhao Huan, who was far away in the capital, received a military report from the Southeast Government Office about Fangla's uprising, he felt extremely complicated!
"Father has left Beijing for seven days. At this time, he should have visited the southeast, right?"
Prince Zhao Huan murmured in his heart, his mood changed very quickly: from worry to sorrow, then from sudden joy, to finally panic...
When Zhao Huan was thinking about why his father went to the southeast for inspection, Fang La in the southeast revolted and the commotion was so big. Is it safe for his father to go to the southeast for inspection?
On the other hand, Zhao Huan also had a glimmer of delusion. If his father was patrolling the southeast of Fangla Uprising and was in danger, then the prince would no longer have to supervise the country, but...
Thinking of this, Zhao Huan broke out in cold sweat. With his cowardly character, he did not have the courage to continue with his delusions.
Then, Zhao Huan secretly blamed himself in his heart: I am unkind and unfilial...
Prince Zhao Huan summoned Dazai Yu Shen and other ministers assisting the government to discuss the report on the Southeast Nanla Uprising...
Zhao Huan asked: "My father's tour to the southeast coincides with Fangla's uprising. Will my father be in danger..."
Yu Shen, a wily and scheming man, deeply admired Zhao Guanjia, who had changed his mind a lot. Why did he have the foresight to "conquer the southeast personally"?
Prince Zhao Huan asked with a trembling voice: "My dear sirs, my father is going to the southeast. The rebel Fang La is revolting, and the southeast is shaking. To protect my father, can you send some more elite troops from the imperial army in the capital to go south to protect my father?"
Where is the emperor?"
Dazai Yu Shen stepped out of the queue and stopped him, saying: "Old minister Yu Shen told the prince that the strategy of increasing troops to the southeast to protect the official family is absolutely impossible."
Zhao Huan asked doubtfully: "Why is it not feasible?"
Dazai Yu Shen paused and said: "The prince mobilizes his troops privately without receiving the imperial edict, which will make the Zhao family suspicious of the prince's 'what is his intention?'"
"Ah?!" Prince Zhao Huan exclaimed in fright, sweating profusely, and tears welling up in his eyes. He realized that what Yu Shen said was very reasonable. Thanks to Dazai Yu Shen's dissuasion, otherwise he would have died.
It led to a huge mistake.
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At this time, Zhao Ji, who was in the lobby of the Yangzhou government office, heard that the eunuch Liang Shicheng came to report that Li Gang, who had issued an edict to recall the capital more than ten days ago, happened to be in Yangzhou on his way back to the capital from Sha County, Nanjianzhou.
In front of the Yangzhou government office, I wanted to see the official.
Zhao Jidao: "Announcement."
Liang Shicheng obeyed the order and trotted out, the fat on his body trembling wildly.
Zhao Ji secretly thought: "Li Gang came to see me, so I will naturally summon him. I want to see the style of this famous official who resisted the Jin Dynasty in history!"
Not long after, Liang Shicheng introduced Li Gang into the Yangzhou government office.
"Your Majesty, Li Gang, kowtow to the official." Li Gang kowtowed.
Zhao Ji, who was sitting upright, said hurriedly: "Li Aiqing lay flat and raised his head."
"Your Majesty, Li Gang, thanks you for your kindness." Li Gang stood up, raised his head, and looked at Zhao Guan's family, who was sitting high in the government office, with burning eyes.
Zhao Ji saw that Li Gang's eyes were bright, and his eyes were not evasive like those common treacherous ministers looking at me.
The eyes are the windows to the soul. If someone is guilty, his eyes will be wandering. But if this person is magnanimous and righteous, his eyes will definitely be like Li Gang who dares to look directly at the emperor.
Zhao Ji took a look at Li Gang's appearance.
Li Gang is of medium height, moderately fat and thin, with sword-shaped eyebrows and phoenix eyes, piercing eyes, a straight bridge of the nose, broad nose wings, a wide mouth and thick lips, a mustache, and a beard hanging down his chest.
Zhao Ji secretly sighed, Li Gang had such an upright and awe-inspiring appearance.
Zhao Ji thought that Li Gang's age should be about the same age as Song Huizong, the original owner of his body, close to forty years old.
Zhao Ji calculated in his mind that Li Gang was born in 1083 AD. Therefore, in the second year of Xuanhe, Li Gang should be thirty-seven years old, which is exactly one year younger than the original owner of his body.
Zhao Ji asked: "Boji, I was ordered to return to Beijing. I came back from Sha County in Nanjianzhou and traveled to Yangzhou. It was a long way and it was a hard journey. Please sit down."
Liang Shicheng, who was standing next to Zhao Guan's family, immediately moved the chair with a smile and brought it to Li Gang, who was standing upright.
Li Gang was not polite. He didn't even look at Liang Shicheng, the hidden minister who moved a chair for him. He just bowed to Zhao Guanjia, clasped his fists and thanked him:
"My lord, Li Gang, would like to thank you for your kindness."
After that, Li Gang sat on the chair, sitting upright, with his upper body straight, looking at the Zhao Guan family who was above him, waiting for the Zhao Guan family's questions.
"Haha!" Liang Shicheng smiled. Although he showed a happy smile on the surface, he was very unhappy in his heart. Li Gang, who has a small official position, actually even looked at our house. There are people above the court.
How many civil and military officials see our family as fathers? Li Gang, you are really ignorant.
At the same time, Liang Shicheng really couldn't understand Zhao Guan's family. A little Li Gang was only eight years ago in the second year of Zhenghe, and he became a Jinshi!
Moreover, the highest official position Li Gang ever held in the capital was during the five years of Zhenghe's reign, when he served as a minor official such as a supervisory censor and a censor in the palace of power. Soon after, he was dismissed from his post as an admonisher because of his mistakes in discussing government affairs.
He was re-appointed Yuanwai Lang and moved to Living Lang.
Liang Shicheng curled his lips slightly and recalled: In the first year of Xuanhe last year, there was a big flood in the capital. Li Gang sent a warning to the emperor and the court should pay attention to internal and external troubles. Zhao Guan's family thought that the discussion was inappropriate and he was banished to Nanjianzhou.
Shaxian County Taxation. Damn, you really deserve it!!
But now, I don’t know what kind of evil the Zhao Guan family has committed. They insist on bringing a low-level official like Li Gang back to the capital all the way from Sha County, Jiannan Prefecture. There are too many Jinshi candidates in the capital, so why does the Zhao Guan family pay so much attention to Li Gang?
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Nowadays, low-level officials like Li Gang are given the [sitting] treatment that only high-ranking officials occasionally enjoy.
Liang Shicheng's smile was as warm as the spring breeze, but he was secretly jealous. He speculated that the official wrote a secret edict to recruit Li Gang to return to the capital more than ten days ago, and that he was treating Li Gang so favorably after a chance encounter in Yangzhou. This might be because Li Gang had a son.
It’s because of my good dad!
Li Gang's father's name was Li Kui, also named Sihe. He was a Jinshi in the third year of Shenzong Yuanfeng. He was proficient in military affairs. He served with Lu Huiqing in resisting the invasion of Xixia, and he was appointed to Longtuge. Li Sihe is now seventy-four years old.
He served as the pacification envoy of South Jingxi Road and the pacification envoy of South Jingxi Road, and learned about Yingzhou.
Liang Shicheng sighed in his heart, maybe it was because Li Gang had a father. Therefore, it seemed that the Zhao Guan family, who wanted to use military force, deliberately wanted to win over Li Gang, right?
"Alas!" Liang Shicheng sighed in his heart. When it comes to fighting for his father, our family really can't compare to Li Gang.
Our family is just the posthumous son of Su Dongpo, and his biological mother was just a maid of the Su family, who was passed on to a friend by Su Dongpo. I came from a humble background, and only one year after the death of my biological father Su Shi, he was implicated as a "Yuanyou Party member"
I have had children and grandchildren for several years...
Nowadays, although our family has lost its influence, it is still quite successful. Whenever the Su family's little bachelor, Su, comes to my house when money is tight, he doesn't need to tell the other family if he spends less than a hundred guan, just let him know.
The officials will give it to Bachelor Su and that’s it.
"Sir Liang, you have been working hard for a few days. Please retire and rest." Seeing Liang Shicheng's preoccupied look, Zhao Ji said, "I am chatting with Li Aiqing. There is no need for Senior Liang to wait on me here." p>
"Huh?!" Liang Shicheng was surprised. He felt that Zhao Guanjia had only met Li Gang a few times. Are they treating each other favorably?
However, Liang Shicheng still knelt down obediently and thanked him, saying: "I obey the order. The officials are thinking of me, and I am so grateful that I shed tears of gratitude!"
Liang Shicheng is still a capable actor. He burst into tears when he said he was grateful, and he actually squeezed out a few hot tears, and even had two pieces of runny nose dripping from his nostrils.
Zhao Ji felt a little disgusted and waved his hand to signal Liang Shicheng to leave immediately!
Liang Shicheng obediently exited the lobby of the Yangzhou government office.
Zhao Ji saw that he and Li Gang were the only two people in the lobby of the government office, so he asked Li Gang, who was recalled to Beijing by his subordinate, a time traveler, five years in advance:
"Li Aiqing, do you know why I demoted you out of Beijing and relegated you to Sha County in South Jianzhou to serve as a small tax supervisor?"
Li Gang was neither humble nor arrogant. He got up from his chair and bowed, saying: "I know this because last year when I was appointed [Liang], I went to Shuji to discuss 'floods in the capital, the sky warns, the court should pay attention to internal and external troubles'."
Last year, the officials thought that the comments made by the minister Li Gang were inappropriate, so they demoted the minister Li Gang to supervise the taxation of Sha County, Nanjianzhou."
Zhao Ji smiled slightly. After all, what Li Gang said was true. He asked again:
"Li Aiqing, do you know why I summoned you back to Beijing now?"
Li Gang bowed and said confidently: "I guess that the officials have known that what I said last year was correct after experiencing the internal and external troubles in the Song Dynasty over the past year.
Therefore, now the officials have repented and realized that they should not demote their ministers and banish them from the capital!"
"Huh?!" When Zhao Ji heard the words of his loyal minister Li Gang, he always felt that the words were thorny, making him, a time traveler who planned to reuse Li Gang, sound very uncomfortable.
However, in order for Zhao Ji to get a famous minister from the main war faction to fight against the Jin Dynasty, even a loyal and good person like Li Gang, who chatted to death, had to use it!
Traitors such as Cai Jing, Gao Qiu, Wang Fu, and Li Bangyan, who have been executed, are very good at talking, and what they say makes me feel comfortable, but just listening to comfortable words can avoid Jingkang's disaster.
Did shame happen?
Obviously it's not possible.
Then, I have to use people like Li Gang, or even Yue Fei, who will become an outstanding general in the future, who are not good at saying good things but can do practical things that benefit the country and the people.
"Alas!" Zhao Ji sighed...
Li Gang didn't know how to read words and emotions at all. He didn't care about the feelings of Zhao Guan's family and continued to speak bluntly, saying:
"My minister Li Gang, who is far away in Sha County, has long heard that Wanyan Agu, the leader of the Jin Kingdom, led his troops to attack the Liao Dynasty. The Liao Kingdom was defeated in Shangjing City, and Emperor Tianzuo of the Liao Dynasty Yelu Yanxi fled to Xijing. The Jin Dynasty has conquered more than half of the territory of the Liao Dynasty. If you wait,
The Jin army destroyed the Liao Kingdom, so does the Song Dynasty have a northern barrier?
If the Jin army takes over the Liao Kingdom easily and uses their greedy and plundering nature as a bandit, they will definitely attack our Song Dynasty."
Zhao Ji nodded, feeling that although Li Gang spoke a little more straightforwardly, he was still very foreseeable about the overall situation.
Li Gang continued: "The Jurchens under Wanyan Aguda, the leader of the Jin Kingdom, were originally a vassal of the Liao Kingdom. However, Wanyan Aguda had great ambitions and was unwilling to be oppressed by the Liao forever, so he led the Jurchens under his army to work hard to rule...
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Six years ago, Wanyan Aguda raised an army to resist the Liao Dynasty, and his tribe was brave and good at fighting; five years ago, he established the "Great Jin", and now half of the Liao Kingdom has been destroyed.
However, on the other hand, Emperor Tianzuo, the monarch of the Liao Kingdom, indulged in drinking and music, indulged in hunting (hunting), was extravagant and lustful, cheated on his credit, refused to remonstrate and pretended to be wrong, expelled the loyal and good, appointed small groups, neglected the rules of discipline, and destroyed all living things near and far.
I have been treated harshly and resented!
Therefore, the powerful Liao Dynasty, which had been established for more than 200 years, was attacked by the Jin people during the reign of Emperor Tianzuo. They went to the capital and defeated it, and Emperor Tianzuo fled."
The Jin Dynasty has already conquered more than half of Liao's territory, and it is still secretly eyeing our land of the Song Dynasty.
This is exactly what my minister Li Gang said a year ago to ask the court to pay attention to [foreign aggression]."
"Nowadays, there is another Fangla uprising in the southeast of our Song Dynasty. Its momentum is getting bigger and bigger, and it has the intention to invade Hangzhou.
This is exactly what my minister Li Gang said a year ago that the court should pay attention to [internal worries]."
This official tour to the southeast was really inappropriate. Didn’t the officials learn from the mistakes made by Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty when he went to Yangzhou?
Li Gangyan said this,
With a "plop", he knelt down in front of Zhao Guan's house, kowtowed and said:
"My minister Li Gang risked his life to advise the officials. The situation in the Song Dynasty is not good now. The officials should not imitate Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty, let alone Emperor Tianzuo of the Liao Dynasty who fled from Beijing but did not repent!"
Damn it! You, Li Gang, actually compare me, an emperor who has worked so hard to rule and is so wise and powerful, to a king who has subjugated his country.
Damn it, Zhao Ji was so angry that he wanted to curse.
Restraint, I must exercise restraint. I must exercise restraint to reason with you, my loyal minister Li Gang, and lay out the facts, so that you, this untamed good horse, can be used by me with all your heart.
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Zhao Ji combined the remaining memories of his original owner, deliberately used words to test Li Gang's position, and said:
"I already know what Aiqing said.
A few months ago, I sent my envoy Zhao Liangsi to the Kingdom of Jin.
When the benefactor Wanyan Aguda led his troops to attack the Liao Dynasty, the Song envoy Zhao Liangsi also accompanied him. After the capital city was defeated, the Liao Emperor Tianzuo fled to Xijing. Zhao Liangsi also brought back to us the news of the Song Dynasty."
Li Gang, who had been away from the capital for more than a year, heard that Zhao Guan had actually sent Zhao Liangsi, a two-faced villain, as envoy to the Kingdom of Jin before that. He said bitterly:
"Why did the officials send Zhao Liangsi as envoy to the Kingdom of Jin?"
Zhao Ji thought to himself: 'What the hell, Li Gang, what are you accusing me of doing?
This is not the idea of my current time traveler, but the original owner of my body, Song Huizong, was instigated by traitors and decided to change the name of this Han Chinese [Ma Zhi] who was born in the Liao Kingdom to [Zhao Liangsi].
A diplomat who went to unite with the Jin Dynasty to destroy the Liao Dynasty so that the Song Dynasty could regain the sixteen states of Yanyun occupied by the Liao Kingdom.
What the hell, you’re blaming me to my face?’
Zhao Ji calmed down the uncomfortable feeling of taking the blame, continued to test Li Gang's position, and said:
"I sent my envoy Zhao Liangsi across the sea from Penglai, Shandong to Jin, and signed an alliance at sea:
If the Song and Jin Dynasties unite to destroy the Liao Dynasty, we, the Song Dynasty, can gain the land of the sixteen states of Yanyun."
"Bang, bang, bang!" Li Gang kowtowed heavily and shouted:
"It is absolutely impossible for the officials, Song and Jin to unite to destroy the Liao Dynasty!
Don’t officials know the principle of ‘lips are dead and teeth are cold’?
The maritime alliance should be abolished as soon as possible,