Officials of the Song Dynasty were probably the most conscious officials to avoid suspicion. As long as they were impeached, regardless of whether they were at fault, their first reaction was to ask for permission to go out and serve as local officials.
This was a gentle way for officials of the Song Dynasty to eliminate dissidents. Once an official was accused of unwarranted charges, it meant that the big shots in the court felt that you were hindering the political process of the Song Dynasty. They must leave. Whether you can come back depends on how much you hindered.
Whether the matter has been completed, so in the Song Dynasty, being impeached was a normal thing, and not being impeached was a strange thing. As long as you leave wisely, the charges of impeaching you will disappear.
Bao Zheng originally just wanted to question the two warriors whether they knew about these evil people. If they knew, he hoped they could restrain themselves and not make Tokyo city bloody.
After entering the Yun family, he was stunned by the scene in front of him. Yun Zheng and Di Qing were instilling the thoughts of warriors and the way of military formation into the emperor. This scene made the stubborn Bao Zheng unable to accept it no matter what.
It is an eternal truth that military rule establishes a country and civilized rule establishes a country. It is impossible for the weak Zhao Zhen to become an emperor with both civil and military skills like Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty. Too much exposure to military strategist ideas will only make him arrogant that he should not have.
Coming from arrogance.
Today's Song Dynasty is plagued by internal and external troubles. Stabilizing the country is more important than expanding territory. National taxes have been declining for three consecutive years. God does not bless the Song Dynasty. Since entering the Qingli period, disasters have occurred every year, and they are more frequent than before.
After a cruel attack, Pang Ji, Han Qi and others managed to maintain the status quo by making quick moves.
Since Yun Zheng brought the Jiaozhi treasury back to Tokyo, the Song Dynasty's treasury finally showed a small surplus. If there are no more disasters next year, the Song Dynasty's finances will become normal. After all, the money Yunzheng got back can only provide for
It is a temporary consumption, but it cannot produce new contributions. Once it is spent, it is spent. As long as the money does not enter the market circulation, its role is very limited.
Blood transfusion can only save temporary emergencies, but it cannot benefit the people in the long term. Regarding this, the political elites of the Song Dynasty have a clear understanding. The theory of war wealth advocated by Yun Zheng did not allow these bureaucrats who pursue the golden mean to have
Any touch.
If we talk about reform, it is actually a process of winning the emperor's support. Whoever can win the emperor's full support will win. Therefore, Pang Ji and the others can tolerate Yun Zheng becoming the third class of the system for nothing, and they can beat the supervisor.
After the censor returned home safely, in their opinion, this was a small matter. Compared with Yun Zheng's own role, those efforts were very worthwhile. This is why Liu Du and others were able to shut up and accept it after being seriously injured.
The emperor's will.
But the scene that Bao Zheng saw today was definitely intolerable to the civil servants. After listening for a moment, Bao Zheng discovered that Yun Zheng and Di Qing were using extremely bewitching words to influence His Majesty the Emperor's thinking. Once the Emperor's thinking changed from
The transition from civil affairs to war was the most serious challenge to the political beliefs and system of the Song Dynasty.
Seeing that his Majesty was coming, Yun Zheng couldn't do anything, so he smiled and invited the Emperor to sit in his flower hall. He also said that his poor wife heard about His Majesty's arrival and specially made some delicious snacks, and asked His Majesty to taste them.
Zhao Zhen, who was still looking uncertain, was still thinking about what Bao Zheng said. He sat in the flower hall and frowned at Yun Zheng and asked: "Is it true that you guys joined forces to kill the evildoers in Tokyo? I don't blame you for saying it now."
Yun Zheng stared at the emperor with wide eyes, and more than ten thousand strange things were running through his heart. Can such a thing be admitted?
He shook his head decisively and said: "Your Majesty, it is the force controlled by Wei Chen. As a general, Wei Chen will definitely not let it go. However, Wei Chen will definitely not touch things that should not be obtained by Wei Chen.
If these things happen in Shu, and the government is powerless to ask for help from the ministers, it is obligatory for the ministers to dispatch their generals to capture the bandits. However, this is the imperial territory, and even if the Kaifeng government is unable to capture the bandits, it should still ask for help from your majesty. This is
Rules, and the most important thing in the army is rules, so not only Di Gong will not do this kind of thing, but also the humble ministers will not do it, because doing so will only cause harm to the humble ministers and Di Gong, without any benefit. It is a wise man.
Don’t take it.”
Zhao Zhen nodded and said: "I think so too, that's all, let the Secret Service handle this matter."
Because the emperor is here, the only person in the Yun family who is qualified to serve the emperor is Lu Qingqing. Wearing court clothes, wearing imperial crowns, and holding plates, it is really difficult for her.
Bao Zheng's dark face was ugly, but he ate a lot of food. After Baorou personally brought the fried noodles and twists at home, he also gave Baorou a rare smile. His favorite thing when he was in Shuzhong was
This thing, I didn't expect Bacon to still remember this habit of his.
It was very troublesome for the emperor to eat. Soft items such as pastries could be tested for poison by inserting a silver needle into them, but things like twists and noodles were hard and there was no way to test them.
Yun Zheng, the master, sat under the emperor's hand, cupped his hands and said, "I have been talking for a long time today, and now I am hungry. Please give me some food to satisfy my hunger."
After saying that, he asked Zou Tong to pick up a sample of the things on each plate and share some for himself. He finished the meal in front of the emperor, and then raised his head to invite the emperor to taste it.
Zhao Zhen drank a cup of tea, used some twists and shook his head with a smile: "My dear, you know, all my life I have been eating the same food that others have eaten. It's boring to think about it."
Yun Zheng looked at Bao Zheng and seemed to have something to say, and quickly replied with a smile: "Your Majesty, testing poison with a silver needle is actually a joke. There are thousands of poisons in the world, and only a few can be detected with a silver needle, and many times
There are also deviations.
The most common poison in the Song Dynasty was arsenic. The reason why it can be detected by silver needles is because the purity of arsenic is not high. Arsenic with extremely high purity cannot be detected by silver needles..."
"Shut up, can you explain these dirty tricks in front of His Majesty?" Bao Zheng slapped the table and stood up immediately, pointing at Yun Zheng and scolding him in front of the audience.
Zhao Zhen was listening enthusiastically, and when he heard what Bao Zheng said, he said angrily: "Bao Qing's family, I am chatting with Yun Qing. Since it is a chat, I can naturally talk about all kinds of strange things. Yun Qing, please continue.
explain."
When Yun Zheng saw Bao Zheng sitting down angrily, he asked Bao Rou to get him a hard-boiled egg. After peeling off the skin, he asked Zou Tong to prick the egg with a silver needle. When the silver needle was pulled out, it was already hairy.
Blackened, this is an obvious symptom of poisoning.
Yun Zheng smiled and stuffed the egg that Zou Tong thought was poisonous into his mouth and ate it before saying: "You see, this is a misjudgment. Fortunately, the eggs with shells are not included in His Majesty's daily poison test recipes. Otherwise, even if the imperial chef has
Eighty heads were also chopped off, and they died unjustly."
Zhao Zhen also peeled an egg and played with it with a silver needle. He looked at the blackened silver needle and asked in confusion: "Why is this?"
Yun Zheng cleared his throat and said: "This starts with alchemy. Wei Chen calls this phenomenon a chemical reaction, which is also the so-called principle of the five elements restraining each other.
The earliest alchemy in the past was to refine the elixir of immortality. Facts have proved that no one has refined the real elixir of immortality. Those who take the elixir for a long time will die early.
Those people will die when they die, there is nothing to regret, but these people used their lives to try out many good things for us, and also opened up the earliest chemistry."
Zhao Zhen said in confusion: "Longhu Mountain is still refining elixirs to this day. During the Qingli period, I even presented some to the palace. However, Fan Wenzheng refuted them and threw them into the lotus pond. If there was no effect,
How dare those people offer it?"
Yun Zheng chuckled and said: "Your Majesty, sulfur, saltpeter, mercury, realgar, some five-color stones, quartz, and even jade are all used by Taoists to refine immortal food.
Your Majesty, you know very well what can be made from sulfur and saltpeter. Mercury can be used as antiseptic. It is said that the horses and martyrs buried in Emperor Qin's tomb were filled with mercury, so many Qi practitioners' bodies became lifelike after death. As for realgar, heating it
After that, it will turn into arsenic. Among the five-color stones, the green ones are copper ore or alum, the pink ones are hematite, and only God knows what is in the other colored ores.
People eat whole grains to survive, but by eating these things, Wei Chen feels that these people hate themselves for not dying."
Zhao Zhen liked talking to Yun Zheng very much, which Bao Zheng had already noticed. Yun Zheng always had the ability to make irrelevant things interesting and lively. Even Bao Zheng himself listened to it without knowing it.
These words may seem a bit absurd at first, but later on, if you taste them carefully, you will find that they do make sense. It would be terrible if this continues.
So Bao Zheng invited His Majesty to return to the palace after the emperor had a little refreshment. Zhao Zhen saw that the sun had turned west, so he drove back to the palace surrounded by the guards, Bao Zheng and others.
After Yun Zheng sent the emperor away with a smile, he said to Xiaolin: "Send out Doumu Xie, Jingmu Yan, Shenshui Yuan, Bi Yuewu, and Winged Fire Snake to participate in Operation Kuimulang. In the shortest possible time, we will
It will take seven days to clean up the city foxes and rats in Tokyo City, leaving Xinyuehu and Weiyueyan to deal with the aftermath. After seven days, they will go directly back to Huanzhou without stopping for a while."
Xiao Lin nodded in agreement and said in a low voice: "The emperor said that the Secret Service will be dispatched. This requires a very complicated procedure, so there will be no problem in just a few days, but there will be problems after a long time."
Yun Zheng said worriedly: "Brother Hao and the others can't stand up in the capital. This guy Duan Hong is determined to be a head hunter for the rest of his life. It seems that the temptation with sugar and sugar won't do much. This guy died after eating a weight."
Are you worried?"
Xiaolin smiled bitterly and said: "If this guy wasn't so obsessed with Tangtang, he wouldn't have come all the way to Beijing. Mr. Lu was responsible for the transfer to Beijing, but this guy is also a man. I guess he would have gone all the way to Beijing."