Chapter 33: A mere heart, asking for nothing, just loving you
Chapter 33: A mere heart, asking for nothing, just loving you
Zhao Ji felt that he had discovered a Wei Zheng-like figure! The current affairs of the Song Dynasty were controlled by the Six Thieves and other treacherous ministers. The Yushitai, the organ that monitored the conduct of all officials, lacked people with upright character and courage to give advice like Cao Fu.
Official!
However, when Zhao Ji employs people, he not only relies on being a time traveler to know in advance the talent and loyalty of a certain minister recorded in history books, but he also has to personally inspect it, so that he can more accurately know and utilize people properly.
"I want to summon Cao Fu!"
"Old slave obeys the order.
The old slave will go to inform Cao Fu and pay an audience to the official family." After Liang Shicheng obeyed the order, he went to personally announce the oral instructions of the Zhao official family.
As he sat in the sedan chair, on the way to the capital hall, he felt that Cao Fu, the secretary of the sixth-rank official Cao Fu, was going to be in bad luck.
Liang Shicheng has already seen clearly that during the twenty years that Zhao Guan's family has been in power, who among the officials can speak better and figure out the thoughts of Zhao Guan's family. Whoever can serve Zhao Guan's family happily can get fast results.
Promotion.
Within a year, Wang Fu was promoted to the rank of Shaozai and became the "right prime minister". This is a living example.
Soon, the sedan Liang Shicheng was sitting in arrived at the gate of the capital hall.
Since the Song Dynasty, in order to divide the power of the prime minister, the group prime minister system has been adopted.
Even, sometimes there is no prime minister (i.e. prime minister), so a group of deputy prime ministers have to check each other and work together to handle national affairs for the emperor.
This capital hall is the former political hall. It is the office of a group of prime minister-level officials who hold national power.
Liang Shicheng came straight to the capital to carry out the imperial edict from Zhao officials. He had met the young prime minister Wang Fu on the way and learned that several prime ministers in the capital wanted to reprimand Cao Cao for "catching wind and shadows" and disregarding the integrity of the monarch and his ministers.
Auxiliary.
When the eunuch of Liang, known as the "Hidden Prime Minister", was helped out of the sedan chair by his junior eunuchs, he walked into the inner court of the capital hall with great authority... In the capital hall, everyone from the small officials to the senior officials looked as if they were fighting against the prime minister.
See the courtesy, be respectful...
At this time, in the main hall of the capital hall, the four prime minister-level officials were sitting in the main seats, namely Grand Prime Minister Yu Shen, Young Prime Minister Wang Fu, Left Prime Minister Zhang Bangchang, and Right Prime Minister Li Bangyan.
When these four officials saw Liang Shicheng, a popular man next to Zhao Guan's family, suddenly arriving, they all stood up and bowed their hands in greeting.
After Liang Shicheng returned the gift with a smile, he said: "Our family is following the imperial edict from the official family, and we will take away the 'official' Cao Fu to meet the emperor soon.
My ministers, who are among the top officials, have unexpectedly appeared among their subordinates such as Cao Fu, a rebellious minister who stalks and destroys the reputation of an official family!"
Standing proudly in the courtyard of the capital is Cao Fu, a small sixth-rank official in the Secretariat Province.
When he heard the great eunuch Liang Shicheng commenting on him as a rebellious minister, he treated Liang Shicheng in a neither humble nor arrogant manner:
"Hmph! Have you forgotten the Great Song Dynasty's ancestral system?
How can an eunuch dare to discuss the affairs of the state and slander the officials who remonstrate with him?"
"You!!" Liang Shicheng was extremely angry when Cao Fu contradicted him. He pinched his orchid finger and pointed at Cao Fu, but he had no words to refute.
Suo Xing, Liang Shicheng said angrily: "How dare our family discuss the government affairs indiscriminately and slander the officials who came to remonstrate with us? Sirs, please judge Cao Fu, the official official!"
The four ministers looked at each other in shock, feeling that Cao Fu was really a fool, and he actually dared to offend Liang Shicheng, the famous man next to Zhao Guan's family who was known as the "Hidden Prime Minister"!
Dazai Yu Shen is seventy years old this year, but he is energetic, wily and resourceful.
He saw that the great eunuch of Liang was stunned speechless by a small sixth-grade official [literally] Cao Fu.
He felt that he should rebuke Cao Fu severely to please Liang Daguan.
Yu Shen coughed lightly and opened the memorial copy of Cao Fu's remonstration written by Wang Fu. The clerk in the imperial hall handed the memorial to Cao Fu and said:
"Cao Fu, your remonstrance memorial has been forwarded to Zhao Guan's family.
This copy was copied by Wang Shaozai. If you look carefully, have you copied a word wrong?"
Cao Fu took the copy of Wang Fu's copy of his remonstrance, read it carefully, and said calmly: "Every word is correct!"
"Hmph!" Dazai Yu Shen's gray beard stood up in anger.
As soon as he slapped the document, there was a "snap" sound, and the official document on the case trembled.
Yu Shen angrily asked Cao Fu, "Why do you want to seize the wind and write false accusations to the officials to leave the palace incognito and sleep in Fanlou at night?
Assistant, a small official! How dare you talk about big things?"
Cao Fu, on the other hand, said confidently and with neither humility nor arrogance: "Since I dare to risk my own life to make a remonstration, I have both human and material evidence!
Senior officials don't speak, so small officials do.
Officials come in different sizes, but the love for the king is the same."
"You..." Dazai Yu Shen was also so angry that Cao Fu had nothing to say. After all, Cao Fu's answer made sense, "Officials may be different, but their love for you is the same." Such an answer made Dazai
Yu Shen couldn't refute anything.
Cao Fu looked around at the few people in the business hall who looked like dogs, and said:
"I heard from my humble position that the official left the palace incognito last night and stayed at Fanlou. Wang Shaozai and Liang Daguan also accompanied him!
Wang Shaozai, is this possible?"
"Uh?!" Young Master Wang Fu's heart trembled, but his expression remained unchanged. He stared at the big golden eyes inherited from the Hu people, pretending to be aggrieved and angry. He looked at the left prime minister Zhang Bangchang and the right prime minister Li
Bang Yan, asked:
"Is this happening?"
The left prime minister Zhang Bangchang and the right prime minister Li Bangyan both shook their heads and said: "I don't know!"
Cao Fu looked at Dazai Yu Shen, left prime minister Zhang Bangchang, and right prime minister Li Bangyan with contempt, and said:
"Even the common people in the streets know that Zhao Guan's family often goes out of the palace incognito.
Don’t you know that the princes are in charge of the country?
If my husband-in-law doesn’t know, then what’s the use of having my husband-in-law?!”
The four ministers were so angry that Cao Fu...
Wang Fu angrily ordered his subordinates to get paper and pen, and asked Cao Fu to write down his confession. When he went to see the officials again, he would have an ironclad case that would never allow Cao Fu to be used...
Cao Fu wrote, dots and dots, and he wrote: "My heart is just for nothing, I just love you!"
When Wang Fu saw what Cao Fu wrote, he asked you, Cao Fu, to write a confession of guilt. Why did you write a self-praise of loyalty to the emperor?
Wang Fu hurriedly wrote a memorial, basically advising Zhao Guan's family: If Cao Fu is not severely punished, the rumors cannot be quelled. Cao Fu can be banished to Chenzhou, included in the local household registration, and controlled by local officials... Then, Wang Fu handed the written memorial to Liang Shicheng and took it back to present it.
Liang Shicheng also brought his admonishment minister Cao Fu back to the palace to face the saint...