As usual, Lu Yijian was eating saury sent from his hometown Shouzhou in his mansion of Duke Shen. This is his favorite!
Almost every happy event, I like to eat one.
However, the price of sending this kind of swordfish from Shouzhou to Bianjing is not cheap!
One piece costs a lot of money!
Only a high-ranking official of Lu Yijian's level can afford it with his salary alone.
Lu Yijian had just finished eating a saury fish when his son Lu Gongchuo came to him in a hurry: "Father, Chao Zongqi just sent someone to deliver Gao Shu..."
"Gao Shu?" Lu Yijian put down his chopsticks and became curious: "What Gao Shu?"
"The official letter of the Political Affairs Hall meeting!" Lu Gongchuo said through gritted teeth.
Snapped!
Lu Yijian slammed his chopsticks on the table, and his expression suddenly became terrifying: "Nonsense!"
"What qualifications does Chao Zongqi have to convene a political meeting? Have you asked me?"
This practice of bypassing the Prime Minister and convening a meeting without authorization reminded Lu Yijian of what his old boss Wang Zeng did when he overthrew Ding Wei.
At that time, when Wang Zeng resigned from the court, he suddenly asked for a chance to expose Ding Wei's crimes in front of the Empress Dowager Liu.
This directly made Empress Dowager Liu furious, and even the procedure for Xuan Ma to be dismissed as prime minister was not used.
Ding Wei was directly dismissed and deeply demoted to the court.
Now, Chao Zongqi's approach of bypassing him as prime minister and convening a meeting in the political hall is almost the same as what Wang Zeng did back then.
They are all sudden attacks, they all ignore the authority of the Prime Minister himself, and they are all provocations to the Prime Minister himself!
If he didn't respond in time, people might think that he, Lu Yijian, was decrepit.
"Father, calm down!" Lu Gongchuo quickly advised: "Chao Zongqi is always involved in political affairs, and today he is the one who knows the seal. There is no problem in the system..."
Lu Yijian woke up and stopped cursing.
Chao Zongqi was not the other three officials involved in political affairs.
He is a general personally appointed by the official, that is, a person placed in the palace to supervise his administration.
Therefore, Chao Zongqi suddenly chose to hold a political meeting meeting today.
I'm afraid, that's not what he meant.
So, Lu Yijian stretched out his hand and said: "Bring Gao Shu to me and take a look!"
Lu Gongchuo quickly handed an ultimatum framed on rice paper to Lu Yijian. Lu Yijian took it in his hand, glanced at it, and began to ponder.
After a while, Lu Yijian said: "Chao Zongji said, 'The virtues of the country are given to the two governments. The ministers did not dare to make light decisions, so they asked the two governments to make a decision...'"
"This old scholar is getting more and more confused as he gets older!" he said dissatisfied.
In the opinion of this tough prime minister, Chao Zongqi should discuss it with him first, come up with opinions and consensus, and then bring it to the political hall for discussion.
Why involve those people from the Privy Council?
Zhang Dexiang, Zheng Jian, Du Yan... these three people are not the same as Lu Yijian.
"Father, I heard that today You Zhengyan and Fu Bi went to Chunfang and Fu He asked to see Duke Shou..." Lu Gongchuo said cautiously from the side: "Could it be that Fu Bi did this?"
"It's possible!" Lu Yijian thought for a moment and said, "Fu Yanguo and Fan Zhongyan have always been close!"
"It's really possible that this person told his fallacies in front of the Duke and deceived the Duke's ears!"
As he said this, Lu Yijian's brows frowned deeply.
Fan Zhongyan is his heartache.
The poor guy from Xuzhou had the same temper and personality as him, but his political views were completely different from that of the prime minister.
Especially on the issue of the abolition of the post-war Kuo family, I specifically opposed him.
And because of the deposed Guo family, Fan Zhongyan became Lu Yijian's biggest worry!
Because Lu Yijian understood very well the weight that the dead queen held in the hearts of today's officials!
Fan Zhongyan's actions in protecting the Guo family gained him numerous points in the hearts of officials.
Especially after Guo's sudden death, Fan Zhongyan automatically became a loyal minister and righteous man in the hearts of officials.
Over the years, Lu Yijian tried every means to suppress, suppress and restrict Fan Zhongyan, just because he was afraid that this big leader in Xuzhou would take away his position in front of the officials.
Unfortunately, all the efforts to suppress Fan Zhongyan had the opposite effect. He even made Fan Zhongyan write a piece of "Lingwu Fu", with the sentence "Ning Ming died, but lived silently", which made him instantly famous all over the world and became a major celebrity.
The "virtuous ministers and men of lofty ideals" that everyone in the Song Dynasty was eagerly waiting for.
Especially those guys in the garbage dump in Luoyang, Xijing, help Fan Zhongyan build momentum every day.
It seems that the only one who can save the world and the Song Dynasty is Fan Xiwen.
What worried Lu Yijian even more was the attitude of the officials.
Last year, Han Qi recommended Fan Zhongyan as the Deputy Envoy of Economic Strategy and Appeasement of Shaanxi Province, but he originally disagreed.
However, the officials' attitude was very resolute. They visited the political hall in person to preside over the meeting. They removed Fan Zhongyan as the deputy economic envoy of Shaanxi and appointed him to know Yanzhou and take charge of the military affairs on Qiyan Road.
Even the accusations from cronies can't suppress Fan Zhongyan!
Now, Fan Zhongyan's "clique" Fu Bi has fallen into the eyes of Duke Shou again.
This made Lu Yijian frown.
He thought for a long time before finally turning around and saying to Lu Gongchuo: "Gongchuo, take my post immediately and go to see the other three political advisors and tell them that today's meeting in the political hall must take into account the overall situation and worry about the situation."
consciousness!"
"Son, go right away..." Lu Gongchuo immediately bowed respectfully.
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Zhao Xin sat on the bed.
In front of him were piles of books.
These are the books in his palace.
The place where he lives is called Chunfang, which is a small palace on the north side of Donghua Gate in the southern district of the imperial city.
Here, starting from Taizong, the princes of the Song Dynasty lived.
After he was born, he was sent here by his father when he was less than half a year old.
The reason is very simple.
His biological mother, Miao, was born too humble. She was just the daughter of his father's wet nurse. No matter the system or rules, the Song Dynasty was not allowed to be raised by a concubine with such a humble birth.
Therefore, he was sent to the residence of the Prince of Chunfang to live in the Prince's palace as a prince.
This will make it easier for the queen and Zhang Cai, his father's favorite, to raise and educate Zhao Xin legitimately.
To be honest, this is actually a very gentle approach.
At least Zhao Xin can still know who her biological mother is? They can also reunite with her every ten days and a half.
His father, a current official, was taken away from him when he was born, and he never saw him until his biological mother passed away.
If it weren't for Lu Yijian, his father might not even know who his biological mother is.
However, this made it easier for Zhao Xin to patch herself.
There are a large number of books and classics in Chunfang.
These include numerous Song Dynasty canons and court meeting records.
These are things that he has seen countless times in his previous life. Naturally, he only needs to read them again to basically remember them.
In this way, his understanding and familiarity with many things will at least have an explanation that can be explained to the outside world.
As a result, his reading speed was beyond imagination.
All the palace maids and eunuchs standing by were stunned and shocked.
"The Duke of the State is a truly holy king!" Xu Xi sighed with emotion and took up a pen to write on the rice paper in front of him: Guiwei, the Duke of the State read hundreds of volumes of books in Chunfang, and everyone regarded him as a god.