Of course, what happened in Chunfang could not be hidden from anyone. Even before the next day, Prime Minister Lu Yijian got the relevant report that night.
Before Lu Yijian, several tabloids in Bianjing City had even written extremely eye-catching headlines, planning to capture the attention of the entire Bianjing city at dawn the next day.
"Dian Ninghua, you are too presumptuous!" Lu Yijian threw the report in his hand to the ground heavily: "The Queen is a female queen after all, how dare she do this?"
Naturally, the reports Lu Yijian received included not only news from Chunfang, but also secrets from Yanhe Hall, Ninghua Hall and even Jiao Fang.
This was sent overnight by his informant in the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
The report makes it very clear that Zhang Cairen of Ninghua Palace actually went to Yanhe Palace to face the saint, wearing the phoenix crown and shawl that only queens can wear, and using the ceremonial guards that only queens are qualified to use, under the guise of serving the officials.
, treating the queen as nothing.
This is a naked provocation!
It was a provocation to the ancestral law, to the Song Dynasty, and to the order of superiority and inferiority!
"Gong Chuo!" Lu Yijian told his eldest son: "Prepare a chariot and court clothes for me. I will go to the palace overnight to beg for justice!"
"This..." Lu Gongchuo quickly persuaded his father: "Sir, please calm down..."
"Your Majesty favors Zhang Cairen of Ninghua Palace. Who in the government and the public doesn't know that?"
"In the past years, when Deng Guogong was around, he did not dare to speak out on such matters. Why would you risk offending Tianyan and rashly interfere in this palace matter?"
"What do you know?" Lu Yijian looked back at his son: "This matter is related to the state system and the country's foundation. I am the prime minister. If I am silent because I am afraid of the officials..."
"Do you know, if this matter were known to the world, what would the world say?"
Lu Gongchuo lowered his head. He knew that if the Prime Minister remained silent about this kind of thing, others would still know about it.
Then, the whipping of public opinion will immediately follow.
Serve the king with the Tao, and stop if you can't do it.
As the Prime Minister, you especially need to set an example and set an example for the world!
Otherwise, those scholar-bureaucrats and ministers might not be able to help his father now, but in a hundred years his father will look good!
On the basis of posthumous title, a difference of one word can make a difference of thousands of miles.
Moreover, this kind of evaluation and influence is not only related to posthumous affairs, but also related to descendants.
The role of officials in the Song Dynasty was to record the gains and losses, merits and demerits of three generations of their ancestors.
but……
"Is it worth it?" Lu Gongchuo asked his father.
"Why isn't it worth it?" Lu Yijian sneered: "You think I'm just worried about my feathers?"
"Then you are wrong!"
"When Zhang Shixun was there, he didn't say a word about the affairs of the official palace, and the world thought he was stupid..."
"Now that I am the Prime Minister, I should refresh the political system and be completely different from Zhang Shixun!"
"This is political affairs!" Lu Yijian said: "Do you know?"
Lu Gongchuo finally came to his senses and said in admiration: "Father taught me a lesson, and my son understands!"
Lu Yijian shook his head and asked, "When will I enter Beijing?"
"Replying to my father, my third brother wrote a letter yesterday, saying that he is already on his way to Beijing. Maybe he should arrive in Beijing in the next few days..." Lu Gongchuo replied.
"Very good!" Lu Yijian nodded: "The day before yesterday, Fu Bi wrote a letter, asking the officials to select high-ranking people from the Qingming Dynasty to attend Chunfang. It is the right time to come here for public publication!"
Lu Gongchuo listened, but his mouth was full of bitterness.
Because he knew that there was actually one thing his father had not told him. The Prime Minister of the Song Dynasty, Shen Guogong, was so active. In addition to the two reasons he said himself, the most important reason was probably to give him the chance to return the favor.
Let the three sons who have not entered Beijing pave the way!
This made Lu Gongchuo feel really uncomfortable.
But there was nothing to do, because this was Lu Yijian's decision.
It was also the consensus of the Lu family in Shouzhou to pave the way for Lu Gong's work at all costs and resources.
The Lu family is no longer content with just one Jinshi family and two prime ministers, uncles and nephews.
They want to go one step further, so that all three generations will worship the prime minister, and their ancestors and grandchildren will all be famous ministers!
Therefore, Prime Minister Shen Guogong Lu Yijian entered the palace that night and knelt down in front of the Yanhe Hall to seek revenge.
At this time, Zhao Zhen had already fallen asleep.
When he was called urgently, he thought that bandits from the west along the border were invading in large numbers or that the Liao people were invading south.
Immediately, I got a sudden idea, quickly put on my clothes and hurried out.
When he learned that Lu Yijian only entered the palace for the sake of the queen and Zhang Cairen, the official immediately smiled bitterly: "Why is Shen Guogong doing this?"
"Zhang Douzhi..." He called Zhang Weiji over: "Please go and tell Duke Shen for me that I have gone to bed. Please come back tomorrow..."
This is the plan to use the procrastination technique, and it is also the official's subconscious evasive move when faced with similar things.
This official's ears were soft, soft in front of the prime minister, and equally soft in front of the beloved concubine.
So he simply put off similar things without offending both sides until both sides were discouraged, and everything was fine.
"Official, I'm afraid you have to meet..." Zhang Weiji said in a low voice: "If you don't see Duke Shen tonight, I'm worried that tomorrow morning, it won't be just Duke Shen who comes to ambush..."
"I'm afraid all the Taiwanese admonishers will come..."
"Just like Jing Sisi..."
When Zhao Zhen heard this, he immediately felt dizzy, because in the fourth year of Jing Dynasty, he issued an edict to depose Queen Guo as a pure concubine.
Instigated by Fan Zhongyan, the Taiwanese admonishers collectively came to the back of the Yanhe Palace to seek redress.
The momentum is simply incredible!
Zhao Zhen had no choice but to avoid it and asked the then Prime Minister Lu Yijian to send the Taiwanese admonishers away. As a result, a fierce conflict broke out between the Taiwanese admonishers and the Prime Minister.
In the end, Fan Zhongyan, Kong Daofu and other Taiwanese admonishers were demoted from the local government, and Prime Minister Lu Yijian was dismissed from Qingzhou.
Nowadays, there is no prime minister who can stand in his way and remonstrate with him.
On the contrary, the prime minister will stand in the same trench with Taiwan's admonishers.
This gave Zhao Zhen a headache just thinking about it. He asked, "What's going on?"
Zhang Weiji smiled bitterly, leaned into Zhao Zhen's ear, and explained the matter briefly.
Zhao Zhen looked gradually distressed as he listened.
"This is too nonsense!" He said with a straight face, "What's going on in Ninghua Palace? It's just causing trouble for me!"
"And the queen is also making nonsense!"
"I went to Chunfang to cry. I was afraid that outsiders wouldn't know. Is there something wrong with my harem?"
At this point, the official became serious, because he knew that he might have to give an explanation to the courtiers about this matter.
I even had to do something.
Otherwise, those courtiers will have no fun.
In particular, this matter also involved his beloved son, and he also showed a gesture of loving mother and filial piety that was completely in line with the expectations and imaginations of the scholar-bureaucrats!
Therefore, the Taiwanese admonishers will be obsessed with this matter just like the famous people in the Wei and Jin Dynasties who broke the Five Stone Powder System.
There was no other way, Zhao Zhen had no choice but to say: "Zhang Douzhi, go and invite Duke Shen to the side hall, I will be there shortly!"