Occasionally, it is just an exception.

If you encounter it frequently and cannot find the reason, you should consider it from a metaphysical perspective.

This is how Li Kui was at this time. He always wanted to do something for the Song Dynasty. Of course, at the beginning, in Baizhang Village, his birthplace, he had the idea of ​​becoming a mountain king or even rebelling. Unfortunately, as he became richer, he found that rebellion had no future.

The situation in the Song Dynasty was very strange. If it was a foreign race to fight, whether it was a court or a folk, there were always people who shouted that they would never stop, but at the same time, there were also people who shouted that they would benefit enough to make them retreat. Wouldn’t it be good to let them retreat?

To put it bluntly, there are too many surrenderists, which is difficult to deal with.

But if the people of the Song Dynasty wanted to overthrow the Song Dynasty, all of them would not be able to bear it, from ordinary people to officials, and even incompetent generals.

It can be seen that the thoughts of the external sages and inner kings of the Song Dynasty have been deeply rooted and difficult to change. A large part of the reason why the reformists were opposed was that the reformists wanted to change the external strategy of the Song Dynasty. Zhang Dun did the most extraordinary things in this regard, and he was even prepared to go to war with the Liao Kingdom. But Zhang Dun also knew that his stubborn desire to change the external strategy of the Song Dynasty was mostly unpopular and thankless.

This is also the reason why there was no future in the Song Dynasty. Perhaps the people in a place were willing to rebel because they could not survive, but most people were unwilling to rebel, and even believed that the rebellion caused them to suffer heavy losses. The massive rebellion was not without. At least two rebellions from JD East Road, the reason for the failure of 100,000 people to break through the city of Zhou, but in the end, the reason was that the rebellion hosts had been in a bad situation of being betrayal of their relatives.

The court used one move to extinguish the lofty ambitions of many patriots.

Even though Li Kui was preparing to do good deeds and determined to be a talent that was useful to the Song Dynasty, he found that he was not a good person around him. After entering the officialdom, he was first labeled as a relative.

What is a relative of the outside world?

The relatives of the foreigners are the standard equipment for treacherous officials.

Then I won’t talk about the officials I contacted, Su Shi, Chao Buzhi, and Huang Tingjian. These are traditional literati. They care more about the essence of their hearts and the sublimation of their souls, but they are not so concerned about the government. An imperial official cared about the government, which is obviously a bit far from the tall evaluation of loyal ministers.

The second is Su Che and Fan Chunren. The former is arrogant and has a more inclined personality to the ancient scholars and officials. How do you say it? The scholars and officials must be called gentlemen. A gentleman naturally has to be with someone with similar ambitions to be with someone with equal ambitions. Li Kui showed his face in front of Su Che for so long and didn't even have a word of praise, which is very problematic.

As for Fan Chunren, he was a good person, but the tradition of the old Fan family and his stinginess character inherited 10% of Fan Zhongyan's stinginess. Of course, Fan Zhongyan was stingy, which was for himself. After he retired and returned to his hometown, he donated his life savings to establish Yixue. Fan's Yixue lasted for eight hundred years and lasted for a long time. Even hundreds of years later, many talents emerged, such as Fan Wencheng, who helped the Qing Dynasty pacify the Central Plains... Alas, this guy is not a good person.

But overall, the Fan family’s tutoring is very good.

Fan Chunren's only disadvantage is that he is stingy and likes to be greedy for small gains, and then his ability to be mixed with has prestige between the two factions.

But in terms of calculation, Fan Chunren is just not a treacherous minister. As for the loyal minister, it is hard to say. After all, Empress Dowager Xuanren said he was a loyal minister, and the young emperor Zhao Xu said he was a treacherous minister. Who did he listen to? But to ask his true heart, Fan Chunren must be a loyal minister.

As for Mr. Su Song, the prime minister of engineering in the Song Dynasty, he had average ability to handle government affairs, but he was kind. There is a saying: If you serve the king with all your rites, people think you are trapped!

It means that when treating the king according to etiquette, the person does not look like a good person.

Su Song is such a person. He was innocently labeled as a treacherous minister by the reformists. But in essence, he is a gentleman, and he is not a treacherous minister, but a loyal minister.

But in addition to having a good relationship with Mr. Su Song, Li Kui basically has few elders and friends with deep personal relationships in the loyal minister world.

On the contrary, Li Kui's cards in the treacherous ministers are getting bigger and bigger. Hao Sui won't say that they have a prosperous relationship, so they naturally have to help each other. But this is a eunuch. No matter whether it is good or bad, there have been no good people in the eunuch world since ancient times. Tong Guan is a good relationship. At least there is no need to worry about entrusting small matters to Tong Guan, but he is also a eunuch. For others, Cai Jing and Li Kui are now very interested in abandoning past grudges. As long as you find some good ways to make money for him, Li Kui believes that he is not far from being close to the Cai Jing brothers.

Gao Qiu?

No matter how good or bad Gao Qiu is, it doesn’t matter whether he is bad or not. The important thing is that you don’t have to be wary of each other when you are together, how free you are?

As for Xing Shu, this guy is a traitor who is unethical and smokes, but the problem is that this guy has a good reputation. If you give him benefits, do your best to do your best and never drag him down.

There is also the eunuch Liang Shicheng, a younger generation, who seems to have followed Concubine Xian and Liu Qingjing.

As Li Kui entered the officialdom, he found that he seemed to have a halo of treacherous ministers on his head, attracting treacherous ministers everywhere to make friends and seek refuge.

Li Bangyan, regardless of whether he is the prodigal prime minister or not.

But Li Bangyan is definitely at the top of his service level, and he is meticulous and does things without any leakage. Even if he is a little free, he is also very knowledgeable. Li Kui found that the articles written by this guy were very innovative, which shows that he was quick-witted and considered a talented person. Maybe he went to the Imperial Academy and had a real hope of imperial examinations.

...

Li Kui is a person who is good at enlightening his heart. Suddenly there was another treacherous minister around him, which made him very uncomfortable. But not long after, Li Kui discovered that he had almost collected all the treacherous ministers living in the Song Dynasty. With this bowl of old white kids at the bottom, what else could he be afraid of!

Thinking of this, the haze in my heart was wiped out.

Fenglingdu, Li Kui and Hao Sui's itinerary were delayed for a full month.

There was no way, not only did they bring their followers, but they also brought a lot of gifts. Although the northwest is a bitter and cold place, there was nothing specialty that the people in the Central Plains were rare. Only the horse was the exception.

In the past, when we fought with Tubo in Xixia, we could not transport the war horses in Hehuang and Hequ.

In addition, the Liao Kingdom did not sell war horses to the Northern Song Dynasty, which led to the lack of good horses in the Northern Song Dynasty, and the price was ridiculously high. Now Li Kui and Hao Sui have horses in their hands. This time, they chose two hundred war horses from the horses to give gifts.

The river is frozen, and if the ice layer is not thick enough, it will not be able to pass through the war horses.

So they can only wait.

As for why they didn’t pass Hangu Pass?

Mountain roads, especially in winter, are much more dangerous to pass through the ice of the river after heavy snow.

It was difficult for them to cross the Yellow River safely until the Chinese New Year was almost over, and they entered the boundary of Kaifeng Prefecture.

When Li Kui entered Beijing again, his mood had changed a little.

Last year, he was also in the capital, waiting for the provincial examination and palace examination. Even Li Kui felt pressured when preparing for the exam. However, ordinary people could not see his inner anxiety. Times passed and after seeing the prosperity of Tokyo again, Li Kui discovered that he had not yet had a deep understanding of this prosperous city.

Unfortunately, it was a very busy time for officials before the New Year.

The moment Li Kui entered the house, Uncle San was playing in the sun in the yard. When he heard the noise, his ears moved, and closed his eyes but said deeply: "Boy Huang, you have come here more diligently recently!"

"Third Grandpa, it's me."

Li Kui responded, and the third uncle opened his eyes suddenly. I don’t know if it was the old eyes were dizzy or the sun was too dazzling. He actually asked Li Kui to escape as soon as he spoke: "Hareman, let the third grandfather see, hey, he is strong, but it is even darker."

Li Kui is a system that attracts evil spirits, and he is also a person who cannot rest, so he will naturally become idle. But the problem is that before you always talk, you also think about Li Kui's fragile heart. What does it mean to be black again? If you continue to be black, can you still see people?

Herodian.

The third uncle passed by Li Kui, and Ruan Xiaoer and others behind him, his eyes fell on the war horses. One by one, the war horses entered the yard one by one, and then went to the cattle shed in the backyard. The third uncle used his unreliable arithmetic to estimate that there were hundreds of them. And it was not a useless horse-pulling horse, but Shen Jun's war horse.

Although good horses look the same as bad horses, the unique unruly look of war horses shocked him. So many war horses are worthy of being the top bandits in the Song Dynasty to do a big deal.

He took Li Kui to a secluded place and asked, "Where did the good horse come from?"

"The Xixia people were captured on the battlefield." Li Kui said for granted war horses to the soldiers. How could the officers and the military supervisors have no benefits?

This is simply unreasonable.

Although there was a reason for insufficient food and grass at that time, it was more because in order to gather people's hearts and insufficient food and grass, the transportation capacity of the Song Dynasty was not easy to solve.

However, in a war, the court's rewards were limited. Li Kui's move also let the soldiers know how sweet the winners tasted.

The third uncle looked at the war horse for a long time and asked Li Kui: "Hareb, the clan needs fifty war horses, I'll find someone to find a way to transport them back to my hometown."

"No, just let the money shop wait and see." Li Kui said indifferently.

The third uncle disagreed and whispered: "I'm confused. Although you have a big share of money shops, you are an official outside. The money shops are fake hands. If someone with ulterior motives observe secretly, trouble will be inevitable. But I came forward, transported them out of the city in batches, and then turned them into pieces and appeared in my hometown. No one knows that, and the children in the clan have war horses, more of the killer moves that others don't know. If they really encounter a big disaster, they will also have a counterattack."

Li Kui did not argue with his third uncle in this kind of thing.

After all, the third uncle is also for the tribe. If he refutes, the old man will be unhappy; the second is that the Li family’s mouths are cruel, what if the old man is told?

Li Kui turned to the third uncle: "Grandpa San, Mr. Huang often comes to his house recently?"

Speaking of Mr. Huang, the third uncle was furious: "This kid is not authentic in his work! He agreed to give me the entire official imperial edict, but in the end, the old boy Li Lide received the imperial edict, but I was still a white man. A good man, do you think I can go back to this hometown? If I return to my hometown and see this old guy Li Lide all day long, I might as well die."

The old man was sad that he could not go back to his home.

Li Kui asked casually: "Have you two settled?"

The old man said arrogantly: "That's because he knew that he couldn't afford to offend the third grandfather, and he deliberately showed weakness. And the third grandfather was not a villain who could not be right, so he pretended to make peace with him. But now, this old boy just got the official position, but he wrote to me to go back to preside over the clan meeting. Renjie, do you think this old boy is holding on to the wrongdoing and wants to work in the clan meeting to seize power?"

Li Kui was very upset when he heard this. He really couldn't interfere with this matter. The old man was very stubborn, and he was fighting for lifelong experience and achievements. No one could give in.

There is really nothing we can do about this.

Li Lide and his third uncle Li Liguang are brothers of the clan. Since the rise of the Li family in Baizhang Village, Li Lide, who was already a family member of the city, has been sarcastic by his third uncle.

But Li Lide was a tolerant person, and he failed to let his third uncle enjoy the pleasure of bullying others.

But the resentment in his heart could not be gone.

During this battle in Jinming Village on the Fuyan Road, Li Yun made two contributions and was promoted. Even Li Lide was lucky to have a job as an imperial decree who was too small.

Now, the third uncle felt uncomfortable.

The reason is very simple. Although Li Yun earned Li Lide a small imperial decree, it is very real. However, Li Liguang was difficult to deal with. His grandson was still young and his son had no hope of becoming an official. If Li Kui was his biological grandson, it would be easy to deal with. After Li Kui passed the Jinshi, he would be able to obtain an imperial decree.

But the problem is that Li Kui is not his biological grandson.

According to the rules of the Ministry of Rites to grant edicts, the third uncle never expected to be an official in his life.

But he was still very persistent. In addition, Mr. Huang, who was named Zhao Xu, often came to the old man to sway, patted his chest and said that he had someone in the Ministry of Rites and could help a lot. But things were delayed again and again, and after half a year, he didn't even see the shadow. This made the third uncle feel anxious, but he had no choice but to do anything.

No words all night.

Li Kui was busy visiting the elder the next day, so naturally he couldn't think about how to ruin Li Yun's grandfather's imperial edict with his third uncle.

Of course, he can't do such a pickled matter.

The next day, he visited Mr. Su Song first, and then Fan Chunren.

The Fan family was having a dinner, and Li Kui found that the Fan family had prepared four dishes, two meats and two vegetables, boiled radish, cooked radish, stir-fried radish, stir-fried radish, stir-fried radish, stir-fried radish... This was definitely an unprecedented event in the Fan family. Li Kui didn't dare to keep it at all, because he was afraid that if he had chopsticks, the Fan brothers could only have a dry meal.

...

After a visit one day, Li Kui was so tired that he couldn't bear it.

But when he returned home, he found Li Bangyan walking behind Li Kui with awkward smile, and Fan Chong stared at Li Bangyan angrily. Li Kui forced out a smile and asked, "Brother Fan, what's wrong? What's wrong with me? I'm not doing well, please don't care about it for my brother."

Fan Chong sighed and said sadly: "You are so enthusiastic, I can't bear it. He came to visit his house and I was very happy, so I kept him for a cup of hot tea. I don't know why, but he casually said that it was cold at home, and he remembered it in his heart. When I went out temporarily, there was an extra woman in the family. For my brother, I lacked a warm stove for warming the house, not a woman who warmed the bed!"

Li Kui said curiously: "Is there any difference?"
Chapter completed!