Chapter 201
The next morning, Zhao Hao arrived in front of Xuande Gate early, which was his first court since he returned to Bianliang.
As soon as I fell into the sedan chair, a group of Qingliu schools surrounded me as people.
Zhao Hao's rank is not the highest among the Qing sects, but the Qing sects have already regarded him as the leader. Even Jin Chongyue, the Minister of Rites, was a bit polite. One is because Zhao Hao's outstanding achievements and his sage family is Zhenglong, and the other is because of his identity as a royal family.
Zhao Hao hurriedly got out of the sedan chair and took the lead in salute to everyone. After a while of greeting, Zhao Hao saw that everyone was full of excitement and excitement, and he felt a little moved. When the civil and military in the court were in ruins, these angry young people in the Qing Dynasty were indeed worthy of a clear stream in the sewage.
Zhao Hao asked Jin Chongyue softly: "Mr. Jin, how are you discussing?"
Jin Chongyue lowered his voice and said, "Since the young master dares to be the first in the world, how dare I fall behind? Today, I will make this happen if I have fought my life in the court."
Zhao Hao smiled slightly, and his eyes looked at Tong Guan intentionally or unintentionally, Wang Fu and others, and said calmly: "Jin Gongyan is so powerful."
One person came out in line and bowed respectfully to Zhao Hao: "The Marquis of Shou'an was a royal family. Before he was old, he was so worried about the country and the people, and he worked tirelessly. He admired him deeply!"
Zhao Hao saw that this person was so majestic that he was in his thirties or forties. He felt aroused and he hurriedly checked the attributes of this person.
"Li Gang, 65 in force, 88 in intelligence, 83 in politics, 81 in command"
Three attributes above 80 are indeed worthy of being a famous anti-Jin minister in history!
Zhao Hao showed a solemn look on his face, and hurriedly helped the person up, and said excitedly: "Brother Bo Ji, don't have to be too polite."
At this moment, someone whispered: "Old thief Cai Jing is here!"
Zhao Hao looked back and saw Cai Jing's soft sedan chair coming towards this side. Just as he passed by the Qingliu Sect, the curtain suddenly opened, revealing Cai Jing's slightly old but not angry and powerful face.
Cai Jing looked at the crowd and looked at Zhao Hao again. The two of them met with each other. Cai Jing nodded meaningfully to Zhao Hao, then lowered the curtain and continued to move forward.
After a while, a melodious bell sound came from the bell tower. Officials from Cai Jing and his party surrounded Cai Jing's soft sedan chair, rushed to Xuande Gate first and ran into the palace.
Immediately afterwards, Wang Fu, Tong Guan, Cai You and others also rushed to the palace, and the group of people from the Qingliu School fell behind.
An official from the Qingliu School said angrily: "Every time, I am behind, why?"
Zhao Hao smiled indifferently: "The good show is coming, why bother to compete for a while?"
Everyone laughed and felt relieved.
In the hall, everyone was still scheduling in order. Jin Chongyue hesitated for a while while placing Zhao Hao's position. Finally, he chose Zhao Hao to continue to be in the third-rank queue, but he ranked him at the forefront of the third-rank queue. Although some people were dissatisfied, they dared not speak out. After all, when Zhao Hao was still in the fourth-rank queue, he was inserted into the third-rank queue. Now he is legitimately the third-rank, and Sheng Jun Zhenglong is at the forefront. Who dares to say a word?
After a while, Zhao Ji slowly came by surrounded by Liang Shicheng and others. Today, Zhao Ji seemed very energetic and looked happy. Without waiting for Liang Shicheng to help him, he sat on the dragon throne with a golden sword.
Liang Shicheng saw that the official had settled down and cleared his throat. When he was about to shout the opening remark that had not changed for thousands of years, he saw Zhao Ji wave his hand to him, hurriedly stopped him, and looked at Zhao Ji in confusion.
Zhao Ji smiled and asked, "Where is Zhao Hao's nephew?"
As soon as the words came to an end, everyone was in a mess. Isn’t this an opening remark yet, why did you call me someone?
Zhao Hao was also confused and hurriedly stepped out and said, "I am here!"
Zhao Ji shook his head slightly and said dissatisfiedly: "You are standing too far behind. I can't see you feeling uncomfortable. After you stand forward, just stand next to Jin Shangshu."
Everyone was in a mess again... The third-rank official stood at the forefront of the second-rank official. How much do the official do you like Zhao Hao?
Zhao Hao looked stunned, but saw Jin Chongyue waved to him with excitement and pride, and had to reply to "Abide by the order". The Minister of Personnel, who was originally standing next to Jin Chongyue, had to retreat unwillingly and let Zhao Hao stand still.
There is no way. Who told me that I had just made such a great contribution? Not only was the government extremely favored, but the government was also shocked. Who would dare to touch this bad luck? Standing in a position in the back will not kill anyone.
Zhao Ji waved to Liang Shicheng, and Liang Shicheng wiped his forehead, looked solemn, and said loudly: "Everyone has something to say, and you have nothing to do to retreat to the court!"
As soon as he finished speaking, a man rushed out of the vermilion official robe sequence behind him and said loudly: "My memory, Li Gang, have a copy, and I want to report it!"
Liang Shicheng frowned slightly and said, "Tell me!"
"Report to Your Majesty, drought and locust plague run side by side, nowhere to come out, the people are starving and slaughtering everywhere, and Zhang Di, a rebel in Mingzhou, Hebei, Hebei, gathered 100,000 people to capture prefectures and counties, and now he besieged the city of Junzhou, Songjiang, Shandong, and occupied Liangshan River. He gathered hundreds of thousands of troops to plunder Heshuo, west of Beijing, and Huainan. He was rampant and did not dare to resist. Now the king's army is about to fight the northern expedition. If it cannot provide disaster relief, it is a future trouble. Please make a decision quickly!"
"What?" The court suddenly became messy.
Zhao Ji's eyes were full of light and asked loudly: "Why did the memorial I received was to open warehouses and release grain in Kaifeng Prefecture? The disaster in the people has slowed down, and the rebellion in Hebei and Shandong is about to be quelled? Who is deceiving me?"
Zhao Ji heard that he would influence the plan of the Northern Expedition. He had read the memorial about this matter last night, but this morning he heard another remark and was immediately angry.
For Zhao Ji, the Song Dynasty had thousands of people, and death was not a big deal. As for civil unrest, it seemed that there were big or small every year, which was commonplace. However, what Zhao Ji valued most at the moment was the great cause of recapturing the sixteen prefectures of Youyun. At the same time, as the emperor, he also valued the most at the control of his subordinates. Now both of these points are threatened, so how can he not be angry?
Cai Mao, the prime minister of Kaifeng Prefecture, hurriedly stepped out, pointed at Li Gang and cursed angrily: "Li Boji, you have lived in Jiannan for a long time and don't understand the truth, but you are not a censor who can report the news. What should you be guilty of such nonsense and blinding the holy hearing?"
As soon as Cai Mao left, another person left the line and sneered, "There is indeed a matter of opening warehouses and releasing grain for relief in Kaifeng Prefecture. However, there are more than 8 million people in the north and west of the Beijing, of which more than 3 million people were killed, and 1.5 million stones of grain were released. It was originally insufficient, but it was exploited by Du Gongcai and others, and it fell into the hands of the people with less than 300,000 stones. The distribution was uneven, so it was naturally no strange thing to starve people to death."
Before this person could finish his words, Cai Jing, who was originally like an old monk entering into meditation, suddenly had a flash of rage in his eyes and then half closed again. It turned out that this person was not someone else, but Cai Jing's eldest son Cai You.
Cai Jing was also a successful life, but he gave birth to a eldest son who cheated on his father. He was determined to go against his father and did not hesitate to join forces with Wang Fu, Tong Guan, Liang Shicheng and others to fight against Cai Jing. If the two had not looked quite similar, outsiders would have thought that this son was the product of Lao Wang next door.
Zhao Ji became increasingly restless and asked angrily: "How can I remember that the memorials of Kaifeng Prefecture reported three million stones, but how did it cost one million and a half million stones?"
Don’t ask Zhao Ji how to remember these things. Since Zhao Hao returned from his mission to Liaodong, the Jin Dynasty sent an important official to Bianliang with Wanyan Aguda’s letter of nationality, promising the two countries to destroy Liao and return the sixteen states of Youyun to the Song Dynasty. There were also many praises to Zhao Ji in the letter of nationality, which made Zhao Ji full of energy and determined to be a thrifty wise ruler and become a true "Eternal Emperor".
Although Zhao Ji was destined to be a gust of heat, the popularity was still on the hot side. The memorials of these days were reviewed by themselves, and they were often busy until late at night and enjoyed it. Li Shishi rarely went there, so I remember it clearly.
One million stones of grain, even in normal times, would be one million. If you know that a Northern Expedition was only prepared for a budget of eight or nine million coins, and one million coins were sucked away by opening the warehouse and releasing the grain. How shocking!
Even though Zhao Hao had already learned that Song Ting had become greedy, he was stunned and murderous intent suddenly appeared in his eyes.
When Cai Mao heard this, he was so scared that his forehead was sweating heavily, his legs were weak, and he cried anxiously: "Your Majesty, you're wronged... I did hand over three million stones of grain to provide disaster relief to the two routes in the west of Beijing. Cai Juan is framed by me!"
Jin Chongyue also took the lead and sneered: "There are three million stones on the books. How much is the actual grain? You can tell by checking it. Since the Cai Mansion Yin is open and open, why not ask His Majesty to send someone to investigate disaster relief and civil unrest?"
Zhao Ji, who was determined to be the saint of the ages, was also angry at this moment. After hearing Jin Chongyue's proposal, he turned around and asked, "I wonder what Mr. Cai thinks about?"
Cai Jing seemed to be dozing off. Hearing Zhao Ji's name, he immediately opened his eyes and looked solemn. He bent down to Zhao Ji respectfully and said slowly: "Your Majesty, the matter of greed is of great importance. You must investigate it. You must investigate it again and strictly investigate it. Once you investigate it to the end, you will never tolerate it!"
Zhao Ji nodded with satisfaction and asked, "Since that's the case, I wonder who is more suitable to check it out?"
Cai Jing still said slowly: "Reporting to the emperor, it is important to be a great official. He must be a respected first-rank official, otherwise it will be difficult to shock the small group. I am afraid that this matter must be prosperous!"
Bai Shizhong, whose courtesy name was Mengxiang, was appointed as the Left Prime Minister of Shangshu. He was called the Left Prime Minister at that time. However, Cai Jing was the head of all the ministers, so of course he was called the same name.
As soon as Cai Jing finished speaking, Tong Guan's bell-like voice sounded: "Du Gongcai, Cai Mao, and Bai Shizhong all came from the disciples of Mr. Cai. Doesn't Mr. Cai know how to avoid suspicion? I see this matter, Wang Jiangming must be the one who must!"
At this moment, the palace was in a panic. Two first-rank officials of the dynasty and the leading figures of the two factions started to fight in the court. How could the others be outdone? For a moment, the court was like a vegetable market, and it was a big fuss. Liang Shicheng reminded him several times but failed to stop it.
Zhao Ji looked at the noisy hall and couldn't help but feel furious and shouted loudly: "Where is Zhao Hao?"
Chapter completed!