Late April is the time to enter midsummer.

If it doesn't rain at this time, the moon will not be clear at night and the stars will be shining brightly, and the heat will be steaming during the day. But if it rains, it won't rain heavily, but it will be no matter the day or night, the wind will come from the rain, and everything will become moldy.

But there was no mold in Zhao Guan's family. On the contrary, he became even more angry... The courtiers who came to contact Zhao Guan's family almost watched helplessly as the blisters on the corners of Zhao Guan's mouth became larger and larger, so that they finally had to apply medicine.

Not only that, these people also quickly noticed or heard the fact that this official was angry and angry from time to time.

"Does Mr. Zhao know what Zhang is doing?"

At noon on this day, in the Chongwen Courtyard, the rain had stopped for half a day, and the heat had subsided. Several ministers came out of the public room as a routine to eat ice porridge under the cool courtyard... The Privy Council is on the west side, and the Province is on the east side.

As soon as he sat down in the public room, a certain doctor from the provincial capital could not help but talk to Zhao Ding.

Zhao Ding thought thoughtfully, and then nodded in response: "I have heard about it. It is said that it was sent by the Empress Dowager Yuanyou, a young chamberlain. Later, he caught the attention of the officials because he was the most powerful in contracting fish ponds.

What happened to the three guards...?"

"In order to let Mr. Xiang know, I went to the fish pond in the morning to deliver documents to some internal officials (Hanlin bachelors). I saw with my own eyes that Zhang Wen was hung up and beaten by some martial arts students in the rain. He was beaten twenty times.

He was driven back to Yangzhou again." The doctor sneered at him.

Zhao Ding was puzzled for a moment: "Usually, when criminals in the chamberlain get into trouble, they just kick them out or hand them over to a supervisor for proper handling. This is the first time I have heard of officials using torture on chamberlains... How did this incident offend the officials?"

"The lower official just listened to the chatter of a few internal officials and wrote the message. He didn't keep the truth." The doctor quickly stopped laughing, but shook his head solemnly and sighed. "It is said that the official family is extremely dissatisfied with the peace negotiation these days, and it just so happens that the golden envoy

Brought many empresses..."

"Princess." Liu Ji, the deputy prime minister of the capital, suddenly interrupted and corrected. "Soon after the official ascended the throne, he changed it back."

"Yes, princess." The doctor quickly corrected him. "It just so happened that the Jin envoy brought many princesses. That Zhang came to give me some advice, saying that he could go to the imperial court and let the princesses cry in front of the court, saying that the Jin people were barbaric and shameless.

Everyone in the court dared not make peace..."

"This kind of thief is self-righteous and shows off his cleverness. He deserves to be beaten to death!" Liu Ji yelled on the spot. "If you do this, all the officials will be speechless, but they don't know where the royal dignity is! How will it be interpreted in the market and in the history books in the future?

?”

"It's not only a matter of honor, but it's not a princess. Can we bring it to the court and let them reveal their scars?" Zhao Ding rarely became angry. "And in the final analysis, national affairs must be viewed from the big picture. This kind of

What does a twisted path mean? A man like a castrated temple, relying on the favor of the Queen Mother and the officials, dares to make such remarks?"

"Not bad!" Liu Ji responded.

As the two prime ministers became furious, the corridor on the east side of Chongwen Yuan was immediately silent, but soon there was an uproar. They all joined the voices of the two prime ministers in condemning the shameless castration of the temple, which attracted the attention of the corridor on the west side of Chongwen Yuan more than a hundred steps away.

Sideways glance.

However, after Zhao Ding was angry, he felt helpless... He was different from Liu Ji. As a person who had been working in the middle and lower classes for decades, he knew very well that despite the fact that these provincial officials were now

Everyone is filled with righteous indignation, but privately, after returning home, I don’t know how many people will write some imaginary unofficial history of the barnyard official, and describe the process of the emperor and concubine being kidnapped, to satisfy their own dark psychology.

We are all human in nature, and as human beings we will have a dark mentality.

For example, if the people below can't reach them, they will secretly spread some obscure royal secrets; the eunuchs think they have mastered something, so they can't help but interfere in it; and the officials have some information, but also keep some things separate.

However, on the surface, he still looks sanctimonious, so he can't help but make up his own mind... Those nonsense rumors are probably the result of these officials.

Of course, the emperor is not immune to vulgarity. If you encounter some emperors who behave vulgarly and low-end, they will even make trouble for you - after Xiao Zhou of the Southern Tang Dynasty, he was often summoned to the palace by Song Taizu Zhao Kuangyin, and he would quarrel with Li Yu as soon as he returned.

Of course, what Zhao Ding couldn't have imagined was that hundreds of years later, not only did the person who summoned Xiao Zhou into the palace changed from Song Taizu to Song Taizong, but there was even a special erotic picture... but it turned out to be proof that,

The dark psychology of literati is the most difficult to deal with.

Back in front of him, Zhao Ding lamented the shallowness of people's hearts. After eating some porridge, he was about to go back to work. Unexpectedly, Lan Gui, the chief regent, suddenly arrived in person and summoned the four prime ministers for half an hour.

Later, they went to the harem to meet the saint, and they hurriedly agreed, but then they acted like prime ministers for a while, and stayed in the public room for half an hour, and then they gave up their official duties with Liu Ji and went out to gather Zhang Jun again.

go.

It's sunny after the rain, and most of the roads in the palace are still clean. However, after entering the harem palace area, which is now the fish pond and mulberry forest area, it can't help but look a little muddy... And if it's just the roads that are muddy, that's it.

Several prime ministers felt a little uneasy and struggling at this time.

After all, when the officials heard that the Jin people had returned the plundered people and deposed Liu Yu to negotiate peace terms, they were not happy and became furious. Their decisive attitude could be said to make everyone raise eyebrows. At the same time,

However, the desire for peace among the people and the bureaucracy is so strong that it is difficult to stop it for a while.

At this time, as a prime minister, even if you have slightly different political opinions, you must unify the steps and maintain the situation. You can neither let the officials overturn the table nor let the people below kidnap the court policy.

Everywhere is a difficult word.

"In summer, mosquitoes make their nests in stagnant puddles, and malaria and other diseases are spread by mosquitoes. If you take people to inspect the various places in the palace, if you see any places with inconvenient drainage, try to rectify them. If it is difficult to rectify them, simply

Landfill, don’t leave any hidden dangers anyway…”

When the four prime ministers arrived at the familiar stone pavilion, they saw Lu Haowen, the prime minister, and Li Guangju, the imperial censor, sitting in the pavilion.

In the end, Feng Yi was told to make some small talk, so he had to stop for a moment.

However, seeing the five prime ministers and one half prime minister, that is, the six highest-ranking people in the dynasty, all arrived, Zhao Jiu immediately stopped talking and turned to face each other:

"Four gentlemen, sit down together. I have an idea to share with you."

Below Zhao Ding, the four newcomers turned around when they saw Zhao Guanjia, who was dressed in regular clothes, revealing a pair of red eyes, and the corners of his mouth that had been smeared with medicine were blue and purple. They also felt increasingly uneasy, but they quickly thanked him and sat down carefully.

"The return of several princesses is certainly a good thing, but some things are inevitable... For example, Princess Yifu and above had husbands before Jingkang, but some lived and died; and for Princess Shunde and above, they had husbands even earlier.

The children are with me, but some were kidnapped together and some are still alive." Zhao Jiu tried her best to open her red eyes and respond seriously. "So, I intend to let them go back to their respective homes as much as possible to find their lost husbands.

Children and those who have no family will be temporarily sent to Yangzhou and handed over to the Empress Dowager Yuanyou to settle them together, and let the Empress Dowager make marriage arrangements."

"What the official said is very appropriate." Lu Haowen responded first, and the other five people also agreed.

Of course it’s appropriate!

In fact, how the government arranges them is probably very appropriate for Zaizhi. After all, these people really don't matter, even though they are the most eye-catching, and Zhao Ding is vaguely aware that they are destined to be passed down.

Gossip, being humiliated by sluts... But to be cruel, they really don't count in the overall scheme of things.

And for Zhao Jiu, it seems to be even more so.

Maybe it was really tempered. After contacting these nominal sisters in the past two days, Zhao Jiu didn't have any particularly deep feelings. He had no resentment. The resentment was all on the two saints, especially the Emperor Taishang Daojun;

I didn’t pay special attention to it, because they were really meaningless in the face of the entire anti-golden situation that we had to worry about. At most, they were just a tack, and it was just a wishful tack; there was only a little sympathy, but this sympathy was in the Lianghe Central Plains.

Those countless women looked so light in front of them... Not to mention compared with the estimated tens of millions of women in Lianghe, even the Central Plains area was looted by the Song Army's own rebels, and the number of women who were kidnapped was estimated to be in the millions.

count.

In fact, Zhao Jiu once felt a sense of moral guilt because of this cheap sympathy. During the same period, there were more than one hundred thousand or millions of women affected by the war, either taken captive or their families were destroyed.

?Those people died and dispersed when they died, but unlike these royal relatives and nobles, they were able to return first because they were born into the royal family.

Of course, reason told him that these people were also poor people and there was no need to worry too much about them. Zhang Quwei was whipped and expelled just now because he misjudged the mentality of the Zhao Guan family.

"Then the Jin envoy will come again to discuss peace." At this point, Zhao Jiu sighed slightly, but tried his best to answer. "I also know that no matter whether it is war or peace, I must give a clear explanation, otherwise

I cannot explain myself to the people of the world, and it is also difficult for you to do so."

Everyone knew that the critical moment was coming and no one dared to neglect it. Lu Haowen took the lead, but the six of them simply got up together and prepared themselves in the pavilion.

"My attitude is very clear... I would rather die than negotiate for peace!" Zhao Jiu sighed again and became equally serious. "This will not change!"

Zhang Jun and Li Guang were hesitant to speak, Liu Ji and Chen Gui were silent, but Zhao Ding and Lu Haowen kept their calm posture.

"But I also know that national affairs involve the life and death of tens of millions of people. If the emperor can do whatever he wants without asking the people's hearts, it will not work. And I don't need you to tell me what the people's hearts are like. I already know it in my heart..."

Zhao Jiu couldn't stop sighing. "For example, I know that the bottom line of most bureaucrats, scholars and people is just to maintain the front line of the Yellow River and return the two saints. Once the Jin people are willing to hand over Jingdong, they will send back the captured nobles, and the court will be full of people."

I estimate that half of the officials are in favor of peace talks, and the remaining 20 to 30 percent remain silent, but just because I have not spoken, they actually want to negotiate for peace in their hearts. I also know that most of the people in the world are not willing to pay for food supplies across the Yellow River.

It’s not that there were no people who supported the Northern Expedition, but they were all in Hebei and Hedong, and they couldn’t speak. I also know that many people among the people in the world felt that the situation before the Song Dynasty was actually not much different, and that they were kidnapped by the Jin people. It was just an accident.

, so everyone wants to go back to the time when Henan was prosperous and prosperous, instead of following me on a new path... I'm not a fool or a deaf person, how come I don't know this?"

As soon as these words came out, all the ministers frowned and remained silent.

In fact, this is the biggest dilemma in this matter... Where are the people's hearts that the emperor must be concerned about, and most of them want to negotiate for peace.

One of the most intuitive ones is the so-called problem of the people's hearts in the occupied areas. If the people of Lianghe in the occupied areas can really come out to vote, these people will definitely be seeking war, and peace talks will not be possible at all. Which Southeast, Jingxiang minister

If you dare to say the word "harmony", you have to be careful about being hacked halfway. But the actual situation is exactly the opposite. The "public opinion" that can affect the decision-making of the central government cannot include the hearts and minds of the people in the two rivers in the occupied areas.

They couldn't speak.

Or to be more specific, their words at this time cannot have an impact on the central officials, and their actions cannot contribute much tax to the court. Even when the number of troops in the imperial camp has been fixed, and when it is difficult for the imperial army to cross the river in a short period of time,

They can't even provide soldiers and sacrifice quotas for the troops.

It is true that the people from the two rivers escaped, but those who escaped were only a minority compared to the native people south of the Yellow River... If they had fled to the south of the Yangtze River that day, the people from the Central Plains and the people from Hebei combined would still be a little weak, but they would still be weak.

Not to the extent that it is now.

"The official family." Li Guang thought for a moment and then suggested seriously. "Why not make a peace treaty for three to five years? Then start the Northern Expedition?"

"This is ridiculous." The previous heart-to-heart talk was effective at this time. Zhao Ding responded directly without the need for Zhao Jiu to reply. "Once peace is negotiated, people's morale will be drained, and peace is expected at this time, let alone three years and five years."

In the future, people’s hearts will become more and more demanding. When the time comes, I’m afraid everyone in the court will want peace!”

"If someone does this by then, I will spit in his face!" Li Guang quickly faced Zhao Ding seriously.

"Li Zhongcheng spit in his own face, but if he can't save people's hearts by then, so what?" Zhang Jun said coldly. "Can Li Zhongcheng spit on tens of millions of people to death?! Let me tell you, he really can't save the situation by then.

, even if Li Zhongcheng crashed his head into the Wende Hall to prove his innocence, he would be unforgivable! What's more, once the peace is negotiated, not only that the people of Henan will seek stability, but only that the people of the two rivers, how can we deal with it? Zhongcheng's white teeth are empty.
To be continued...