Chapter 153: Sima Guang's Bane Planted
Chenpi looked outside and said, "It's hard to walk on the official road now, it should be tomorrow."
Zhao Xu nodded and said, "Those strategic commanders, the military commanders are not very at ease?"
Chen Pi looked alert and glanced outside, stepped forward and whispered: "Official family, they are very close to those people from the original Three Yamen. Several of them even went to Cining Hall and stayed for half an hour."
Zhao Xu leaned on the chair, held his side face with his right hand, thought for a while, and said with a smile: "I guess they don't have the courage to do anything. Let's watch it for a while."
Zhao Xu had already controlled the court, Zhang Dun and other reformists flooded the court, and the army inside and outside Kaifeng was transferred by Zhang Dun, Xu General, Chu You and others in conjunction with this "flood fighting and disaster relief". Even if they wanted to do something random, these people had no strength.
Tangerine peel dare not talk too much.
Zhao Xu thought for a while, waved his hand, and said, "Cai You, don't worry about it in the future. Look at Nan Tianyou and cultivate him well."
Chen Pi was stunned for a moment, as if she didn't think about Zhao Xu's words, and responded habitually: "Yes, the villain follows the order."
Zhao Xu did not speak anymore and continued to review the memorial.
Zhao Xu was busy, and Cai Bian went to the Political Affairs Hall and tried his best to find out some old case files and take them back to the green tiled house to read them slowly.
Until now, he has not gone to Funing Palace to apologize or explain.
There is no secret in the court.
In just one stick of incense, the news that Cai Bian had placed Huang Lu on house arrest quietly circulated among the top leaders, and various speculations came out.
"Is this a breakup between Xianggong Cai and Xianggong Zhang?"
"Is Xianggong Cai opposed to overturning the case for Ayun? Did he stand on the other side?"
"It is said that he didn't explain, and he didn't even go to the official family!"
"What! Is he crazy? Is he under house arrest for a court official, this is a death sentence!"
"I really don't know, Xianggong Cai did not give any explanation!"
A layman watches the excitement, while an expert sees the tricks.
Many people with sufficient positions or vision have noticed that there is something wrong with this.
Cai Bian is not a naughty man. He will not be impulsive in such a big thing. Since he dares to do this, there must be enough reason to force him to be so desperate!
No matter what the reason for Cai Bian is, this is not a trivial matter, it is giving people a handle for nothing.
I don’t know how many people were sharpening their knives and guns when they stood outside, and some big names who had just entered Beijing joined the battlefield.
Xie Lin, the governor of Jingdong East Road, wrote a letter to criticize the recent chaos in the court, oppose reform, and blame Zhang Dun for all the blame. He defeated Cai Bian as a member of the party, which extended the case of Cai Bian's house arrest, and accused him of "a great traitor and a loyal person, and wanted to harm the world."
Zhang Dun and Cai Bian are the leader of the "New Party". Almost all the reformists since Wang Anshi looked at him and pointed at him. How could he allow Zhang Dun to be overthrown?
Seeing that the Jiedushi joined for the first time, some people seemed to have a premonition that the scope of the struggle had expanded. They couldn't wait to write a letter to defend Zhang Dun and others, and at the same time attacked Xie Lin.
The "old party" was not long ago by Zhang Dun's name of "released" nearly a hundred people in one breath. The "old party" in the world was in panic all day long, so he naturally fought hard to attack and counterattack.
The "Ayun Case" triggered, a huge party struggle began again.
Early the next morning.
Su Song came back first than Zhang Dun, and did not return to the mansion or enter the palace. He went directly to Cai Bian's mansion.
Cai Mansion Pavilion.
Cai Bian didn't sleep for almost a night, looking at him with dark circles and red eyes, sighing: "I know what Mr. Su is going to ask, I can tell you my attitude: I will leave it alone. The most important thing now is to convince Zhang Zihou to let him not hold on."
"Not left?"
Su Song had a calm face, savored Cai Bian's words, and then looked at him suspiciously, saying, "Why don't you take the opportunity to overturn the case? If this case is revealed, you can replace people openly."
Cai Bian's expression moved and said calmly: "From the heart, I object to the punishment of Ah Yun. This is not in accordance with the law and is unreasonable. It should be reversed. Sima Xianggong was too arrogant and laid the root of disaster."
Sima Guang turned over the long-determined case after more than 20 years and sentenced him to a hang. According to common sense, it is indeed too much, and the traces of party struggles are too obvious!
Su Song's face gradually became cold and said, "I want to know the real reason."
He heard something different from Cai Bian's house arrest and what he said just now.
Cai Bian did not respond to Su Song's coldness and said, "Mr. Su, I can only say so much. I hope you will come forward and hold down some people. Things really go big and we can't handle it."
Su Song felt more and more that there was something wrong with it. When he recalled the case, he suddenly said: "Return the case file back."
Cai Bian shook his head and said, "It's better for Mr. Su to not look at him. Zhang Zihou is coming back soon. I will persuade him with the same words."
Su Song's brows were tightened, and the old face was in a state of uncertainty. Cai Bian had always been cautious. Since he dared to do this, there might be something amazing hidden in it.
What are you hiding?
Since Cai Bian didn't say much, Su Song was about to get up.
"Don't go to the official family." Cai Bian said suddenly.
When Su Song heard this, he was stunned at first, then his expression changed slightly, with a dark face, and sat back without moving.
Cai Bian sighed in his heart. Su Song was old in the officialdom, and he could understand it by just pointing it out, but he didn't know what choice Su Song would make after he figured it out.
No matter what he thought, Cai Bian said, "You should know the attitude of the government. Zhang Zihou, you should know more. It is best to leave this case alone. If you take the opportunity to do something, the government and Zhang Zihou will not be good at it easily."
Su Song quickly regained his expression, looked at him, stood up and left with a cane.
Cai Bian looked at his back and said softly for a long time: "I hope there will not be too many people to see."
After the heavy rain, demons and monsters appeared together in Kaifeng City. The already unstable court situation became increasingly dark.
A series of strange-shaped memoirs appeared in the Political Affairs Hall and at Zhao Xu's desk.
Before noon, Zhang Dun also returned to Kaifeng.
As soon as he came back, the government and the country were even more excited.
The censors of the Censorate followed the letters and used the "Ayun case" to criticize Sima Guang and others, and from Sima Guang's abolishment of the "Xining Law", bowing to Xia Liao, and repeated the "Ayun case" and so on.
The "New Party" was heard and the government and the government and the opposition quickly launched forces, including Cai Que, Zeng Bu and other "New Party" bosses who had not been transferred back, also rushing to show up, viewing this case as the key to "eliminating" the "old party".
A series of heavyweight memorials quickly raised this old case, as if beyond the scope that the Three Justices could handle.
In the palace, the political affairs hall.
Su Song, who had worked hard for many days and rushed on the road, looked at the tall and strong Xie Lin in front of him with red eyes.
Su Song said calmly: "You use border ministers to make political affairs, do you know the consequences?"
Xie Lin looked solemn and said, "My husband, do we still have to keep our mouths silent in the current court?"
Su Song frowned. Xie Lin was also a person who had made many achievements. He had reached the position of governor. The next step was to appease the governor all the way, and he would be an important official of the chief officials in the border areas!
"Don't get involved in this matter!"
Su Song then said decisively in an orderly tone: "Tell others, that's all! Don't say anything righteous to me. Cai Bian can put Huang Lu under house arrest, and I can also hold you!"
Xie Lin was shocked, and he didn't expect Su Song to say such words.
He was puzzled that Zhang Dun wanted to overturn the case. Once the case was successfully overturned, he would inevitably retaliate against them, the "old party". As the prime minister, Su Song was the first to be the one who was suppressed. Why did he still sit back and wait for death?
Xie Lin was not stupid. After thinking about it, he raised his hand more and more solemnly and said, "Please make a clear statement."
Su Song snorted coldly and said, "That's all I said. If you and the person behind you are stubborn, you don't need Zhang Zihou to take action. As the priest, I will take you to Lingnan and even Zhanzhou first!"
Zhanzhou, in Hainan Island, the most remote place in the Song Dynasty, was the most severe punishment for officials in the Song Dynasty.
Xie Lin looked at Su Song's firm expression, hesitated again and again, and said, "My husband, I can stop talking, but I can't stop others."
Su Song said: "Then just watch others being sent to Zhanzhou by me!"
Xie Lin's face moved, but he said unwillingly: "Mr. Su, now I am a fisherman. If we don't do anything, we are afraid that Zhanzhou will not be able to go!"
Su Song's eyebrows were disgusted with irritability, and felt even more bored, saying, "As long as you don't do anything randomly, it's okay. Zhang Zihou, I can still suppress him!"
Xie Lin didn't believe it at all. In the eyes of the outside world, the reason why Su Song was able to sit in the position of the prime minister was simply that the dynasty was not stable in the previous dynasty, and Zhang Dun had gradually controlled the dynasty. How could he tolerate Su Song, the "old party", always controlling this position?
Su Song didn't want to talk nonsense and said, "I'll go see Zhang Zihou. Tell those people that if you withdraw all the memorials within today, don't write them again. If I see memorials about Ayun's case again today, don't blame me for being rude."
Just as Xie Lin was about to speak, Su Song was already on a crutch and walked out of the duty room.
Xie Lin stood there, looking at Su Song's back, and said to himself with a weird expression: "Cai Bian detains Huang Lu, you want to detain me, what's going on?"
The "new party" detains the "new party" and the "old party" detains the "old party". Instead of fighting, there is an internal strife?
Green tiled house.
Zhang Dun just came back not long after he took a break.
Cai Bian sat not far beside him, thinking about whether he had persuaded Su Song before, thinking for a moment that Cai Bian took out two official documents from the drawer, stood up, handed them to Zhang Dun, and said, "This case must be resolved in silence."
As Cai Bian said, he saw the memorial written by Zhang Dun, his pupils shrank - it was impeachment of Sima Guang!
Zhang Dun kept writing, and knew what Cai Bian was talking about, and said lightly: "If I am lenient, it won't take long. You and I have to go to Lingnan, and die of old age on the road."
The Song Dynasty did rarely kill scholars and officials, but they were even more cruel than killing! Many people were transferred around in seventy and eighty years and eventually died on their way to their new job.
Cai Bian sighed in his heart and said, "You can take a look first."
Zhang Dun finished writing quickly and carefully examined it before picking up the two official documents handed over by Cai Bian.
Before he could finish reading, he suddenly turned his head to look at Cai Bian.
Chapter completed!