In the west of Bianliang City, in front of the street near Zhaodefang, there is a large house.
This place was originally prepared by Yang Lin for his concubine Duan Miaozhen. After the Duan family dedicated their country to the country, they lived here.
Duan Zhengchun also heard some rumors about his daughter and Young Master Yang Lin, but he was not disgusted.
The current situation of the Duan family in Dali is very delicate. It is better to have a big man in the court taking care of them than to have the whole family be worried.
Regarding the ranking of power in the Song Dynasty, he had long known that the Song troops in Dali were all subordinates of Yang Shaozai.
When Duan Zhengchun moved into this mansion, he discovered that this place was unexpectedly good and the cost was no less than that of the Dali Palace.
How could his daughter have such money? When she came to Bianliang, she only brought a few old servants with her. The rest were arranged by the Gao family, and the money was also under their control.
Now it seems that his daughter's clothes and jewelry are not of ordinary quality, especially her head full of pearls and jade, which are often made of gold, jade, and jade. Duan is also a poor emperor, so he cannot afford to spend the money to buy jewelry for his daughter.
In the flower hall, Duan Zhengchun was thinking wildly when he saw two girls approaching with a smile from a distance.
Duan Miaozhen and Zheng Yunyao clasped their arms, smelling each other's breath, blowing hair like willows, leaning their heads side by side, looking very affectionate.
When he met Duan Zhengchun, he called him uncle, and the latter quickly agreed with a smile.
This was the queen's biological sister. Duan Zhengchun couldn't help but think highly of his daughter's abilities. She had only been in the Song Dynasty for a few days, and she had already hooked up with so many people in power.
Zheng Yunyao was just getting close to Duan Miaozhen, and felt a little uncomfortable with her father. She patted the back of her hand and said with a smile: "Dad, I will send Yao'er home."
"Go ahead, be careful not to lose your etiquette when meeting Master Zheng."
Duan Miaozhen was in a good mood for some reason, and said with a smile: "I know."
Duan Zhengchun looked at the backs of the two women with a glint in his eyes. It was said that after the Qian family dedicated their country to the country, there were hundreds of Jinshi, including quite a few who became prime ministers.
There is definitely no hope of restoring the country. If we can become a famous family like the Qian family, it would be a good way to make up for our ancestors——
In Zhaodefang, in the study, sat a group of people who looked like scholar-bureaucrats. The strange thing was that everyone was wearing Taoist robes, no crowns, just ebony horizontal hairpins.
The fluttering long sleeves show the spaciousness, as if they are all idle people who are tired of traveling in the official world. From then on, they wear shoes, bamboo horses, Taoist robes, and place their feelings among the mountains and rivers.
Only Yang Lin knew that this group of people's passion for power was probably greater than the true Taoist priest's desire to become an immortal.
These are officials who were eliminated under Cai Jing's new policy. Cai Jing was quite kind and promised to pay them pension money on time every month.
But for the civil servants and officials of the Song Dynasty, ending their career prospects was not much better than killing them.
These people thought about it for a long time. After the old thief Cai Jing had done this, only Yang Shaozai in the court could help them.
So they got together and came to find Yang Lin, hoping to get Shaozai's support. As we all know, Yang Shaozai didn't have many people under his command.
People like myself are all old officials who have experienced ups and downs in the officialdom. There is no telling whether Yang Shaozai will speak up and help him regain his official position.
Everyone knew about Yang Lin's other identity, so they followed him and the Taoist priest came to see him.
Everyone had already discussed it when they came, and now they were sitting in the study, quietly waiting for Yang Shaozai to arrive.
Suddenly, there was a sound of footsteps, and everyone pricked up their ears.
With a creak, the door was pushed open. After Yang Lin came in, he was stunned for a moment and said, "Did I come to Yanqing to watch?"
"Shao Zai."
Everyone stood up and saluted together.
Yang Lin laughed dumbly and said: "Although you have lost your official status, you all joined the Taoist sect at some time, but this is fine. When it comes to self-cultivation, we Taoists do not leave it to others."
"Young Zai, we are all from the Banke family. The Ministry of Rites sang and called the Jinshi of the Golden Palace. With a stroke of his pen, Prime Minister Cai removed us from the Ministry of Civil Service. This has never happened in the past. Please ask the Young Zai to make the decision for us.
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The person who spoke was elegant in appearance and tall in stature. He was Wei Xian, the Zhengfeng official of the Song Dynasty.
One of the strange things in the Song Dynasty bureaucracy is that the officials often ignore their own affairs. "The ministers in Zhongshu Ling, Shi Zhong, and Shangshu Ling have nothing to do with the affairs of the court. The ministers do not have official duties when they give things, and they have no words to express their opinions when giving advice. But the ministers in daily life,
It is very common for people who live in their homes not to write down things with pens...it is very common for people who live in their official positions and do not know their duties."
The reason is that the official position is the actual position, the first two are empty titles, and such high-ranking officials are full of central and local government agencies.
Wei Xian was such an idle official. I heard that he raised flowers and birds every day, and even got the nickname "Flower and Bird Doctor". Wei Xian was not ashamed but proud, and called himself "Flower and Bird Doctor" every day, making himself look noble and leisurely.
Yang Lin sat at the top, chuckled and said: "The counties in our Song Dynasty are not as wide as before, but the officials are five times as many as before, and the central and central offices are even more overstaffed. Since ancient times, there have never been so many officials, Prime Minister Cai
I will give my full support to him if he strives for reform. If he feels that his position is dispensable, I will have nothing to say if he is fired as well."
When everyone heard this, they immediately exploded and expressed their importance one after another.
Yang Lin slapped the table and said to them: "I am the first to agree with Prime Minister Cai's new policy. Don't come to my place to make noises. If there is someone who is really wronged, go back and write down your resume, and explain the political measures and solutions."
Whatever happened, write it down clearly, and I will go to Xiang Cai to discuss it as appropriate.
If you are a Wei Xian like Dr. Flower and Bird, please don’t get involved in this bad luck. I’m going to tell you something ugly in front of you. Let me find out who is committing fraud, and I will settle the matter with him.”
People came here to take advantage of the excitement but returned in despair. There were quite a lot of scholar-bureaucrats like them who were expelled from officialdom in Bianliang City recently.
They wandered around the tiled houses of Bianliang wine shops every day, as if the emperor could not get on the boat, and since Yun Chen was like a wine immortal. After drinking enough yellow soup, he made yin and yang remarks to the officials in power.
A roundabout complaint.
If he drank a few more cents, he would just drink like crazy and call anyone who tried to persuade him a vulgar person.
After such a commotion for a while, even the boys in the house knew that these people were absolutely disgusting, and fewer and fewer people looked at them seriously.
After driving away these flies, Yang Lin couldn't help but chuckle. Cai Jing had really started. This man's New Deal was as precise as a scalpel, cutting off the rotten flesh of the Song Dynasty with precision.
In the changed old time and space, after Cai Jing became prime minister, because he was surrounded by enemies like Liang Shicheng, Li Yan, and Wang Fu, in order to retain his power, he could not care about the shortcomings of the Song Dynasty.
After taking charge of the Central Committee, Cai Jing understood that he could not let go even if he died. He infiltrated day and night, cultivated his power, and gradually took over the power of the Central Committee.
In this process, it is nothing more than uniting the party against dissidents and suppressing dissidents.
This rotten party struggle not only wasted the best opportunity for the rise of the Northern Song Dynasty brought by the Jin-Liao conflict, but also wasted Cai Jing's talent for governing the country.
Enable Beijing to correct its mind, even though the virtuous ministers in ancient times are not worthy of mention.