Prime Minister

Chapter 838 Must Summon Zhang Yue to Return to Beijing
Lu Mansion, the inner city of Bianjing.

After Lu Huiqing was promoted to a Hanlin bachelor, she changed her new residence.

Now Lu Huiqing is also a person who lives in eight seats.

His younger brother Lu Wenqing came to Lu Huiqing with a thick stack of famous thorns and invitations.

Lu Huiqing picked it up casually, flipped it over and put it aside.

Lu Wenqing said: "Since my elder brother was promoted to a scholar of the Hanlin Academy, more and more famous thorns have been given out in these invitations. They are all followers of power!"

Lu Huiqing said: "When you were in the valley, these people wished that you could not see them. These people are afraid that you will not see them when you go up the mountain."

Lu Wenqing said: "At the beginning, these people were jealous of elder brother, and even made up words behind their backs. Fortunately, elder brother didn't take these people to heart at all."

Lu Huiqing said: "It's not that I didn't take it to heart, it's just that a man should set up a great ambition and follow Wang Xianggong's reform first, and the rest are insignificant."

When Wang Anshi valued Zeng Bu and slightly neglected Lu Huiqing, he didn't say that. Now that he mentions the Hanlin Bachelor, the other party is the "good guardian of the Dharma" again.

"Except for Wang Xianggong, only elder brother can be compared with him in this world."

Lu Huiqing shook her head and said, "I don't dare to do that, there is at least one more person."

"Who?" Lu Wenqing was about to ask.

Lu Huiqing took out a handwritten letter from Wang Yu and handed it to Lu Wenqing, "Mr. Wang Dalang wants me to do dirty things again."

After reading the manuscript, Lu Wenqing asked, "Is it Wei Jizong? Zeng Bu?"

Lu Huiqing said: "The officials ordered me and Zeng Zixuan to investigate the matter of Shiyi together. You go to see Wei Jizong, as long as he is willing to change his words and say that Zeng Zixuan instructed him to slander the Shiyi law, I will give him whatever he wants."

Lu Wenqing knew that her elder brother had secretly hated Zeng Bu for a long time, and had been holding back in order to be promoted to a Hanlin scholar.Lu Wenqing said: "This man is on good terms with Zeng Bu. I'm afraid Wei Jizong won't change his words."

Lu Huiqing sneered and said, "Then we'll clean up Wei Jizong together!"

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In the palace of Empress Dowager Cao.

When the officials heard that Empress Dowager Cao mentioned Renzong's prime minister, they immediately thought of a few candidates.

Empress Dowager Gao asked Empress Dowager Cao: "Is the Empress Dowager referring to Sima Guang who is in Luoyang?"

Empress Dowager Cao nodded slightly and said, "He can be counted as one."

After hearing Sima Guang's name, the officials didn't want to speak.

Empress Dowager Cao said to the official family: "At present, the people in the world are suffering from the money for young crops and the money for exempting them from military service. Your Majesty, please let it go!"

The officials were silent when they heard the words.

Empress Dowager Cao and Empress Dowager Gao talked to him more than once.But the officials still firmly believed in Wang Anshi's reform, and he also knew that the property of the two empress dowagers and those around them had also been affected.

The official said: "I want to teach the Empress Dowager to know that the reform is for the benefit of the people, not for the suffering of the people."

Empress Dowager Cao said: "I know that Wang Anshi is indeed a talented minister, but there are many people who complain about it. If Your Majesty really wants to protect him, it is better to let him go out for a while, and then choose a prime minister who can understand things for the people of the world. Wait for a period of time before calling him back to the court. This not only preserves Wang Anshi, but also preserves the new law, and even preserves the ancestors of the world."

The officials thought carefully about what the Empress Dowager Cao said, and looked up at the other party's gray-haired appearance. They knew that these words were definitely from the bottom of their hearts. From the perspective of the emperor, they also considered how to govern the country well.

After the death of Emperor Renzong, the Empress Dowager Cao once ruled the world and had her own views on how to govern the country. She also considered it from the perspective of stabilizing the Zhao family's foundation.

However, the officials thought that if Wang Anshi was dismissed, who could replace the prime minister?

If Sima Guang were to be prime minister, the new law would be abolished in less than a day.

The official lowered his head and said, "Grandmother, among the officials and ministers, only Wang Anshi can serve the country."

Empress Dowager Cao couldn't help sighing when she heard the grandmother.

But at this moment, King Qi said, "Your Majesty must think about what the Empress Dowager said is true."

Hearing this, the official turned pale and said loudly: "Could it be that I have ruined the world? Then you will be the official!"

After hearing this, King Qi was not prepared for the official's sudden outburst and said this sentence, he was both afraid and wronged: "Your Majesty, why are you so suspicious of my brother?"

After speaking, King Qi burst into tears.

King Qi is the second son of Empress Dowager Gao, and his brothers from the official family have always lived in the palace. A minister said that King Qi should leave the palace at such an age, but Empress Dowager Gao refused.

The officials said to the outside world that this is the righteousness of King Wu of Zhou to Duke Zhou.

But having said that, the official family and King Qi still got along well since they were young, and the relationship between brothers is very strong.

But a good brotherhood is a good relationship, and doubts return to suspicions.

On this occasion, the official suddenly broke out this sentence, which immediately exposed the suspicion in his heart.

Empress Dowager Gao and Empress Dowager Cao also couldn't say a word.It is true that Empress Dowager Gao likes the second son, but at the same time, they are a small family who entered the big family and became emperors.

But who knew that such a move would cause the officials to have suspicions against their mother and brother.

When Emperor Taizong of the Song Dynasty fled in a donkey cart after the defeat of Gaolianghe, the generals supported his nephew Zhao Dezhao as emperor when the situation was unknown.

Song Taizong wanted to waive the reward for capturing Taiyuan, Zhao Dezhao, instigated by the general, suggested that Taiyuan should be rewarded first, and then punished for the defeat of Youzhou.Song Taizong said on the spot, after you become an official, it will not be too late to reward the soldiers.

Zhao Dezhao was forced to draw his sword and commit suicide afterwards.

From Song Taizong to today's officials, the emperor's thoughts are not far behind.

Empress Dowager Gao turned her head and wept without saying a word. Seeing this, the officials knew that they had made a slip of the tongue, and he didn't know what to say. After apologizing, he left the Empress Dowager Cao's palace alone.

After the official family returned to the palace, they also tossed and turned all night, regretting that they had broken their mother and younger brother's heart by their slip of the tongue.

But the words have been spoken, no matter how regretful it is, it is useless.

It seems that Wang Anshi is the only one who follows his will first, just as Wen Yanbo is also begging to go, and Wang Anshi is not there, so there is no need to quarrel with each other.

The officials are also upset with Wen Yanbo.

The two want to stay together, and they want to go together, but after the two leave, who will take the lead in the second mansion?

At the same time, the new law cannot be repealed.

In a daze, the officials thought of the prime minister left by Emperor Renzong that Empress Dowager Cao had said before.Emperor Renzong has always had a good understanding of people, and the selected Fubi and Han Qi are all prime ministers who have the character and ability to shoulder the world.

Of course there is Sima Guang, but Sima Guang's political views are too pedantic and contradict the new law, so who else is there?

As the Empress Dowager said, she understands the truth, and is also a minister who is valued by Emperor Renzong?
The official suddenly dreamed of the late emperor Zhao Shu in a vague way.Zhao Shu talked to him as if chatting with him. After the one-day scripture banquet with him, Emperor Renzong once told him that Su Shi and Zhang Yue were talents he left to the late emperor.Especially if Zhang Yue has been tempered, he can be a prime minister.

The officials turned to wake up and thought that after Jiayou's six-year imperial examination, Zhang Yue and Su Shi entered the third class, and Emperor Renzong also said to Empress Cao that I would get two prime ministers for my descendants.

Thinking of this, the officials wondered, could it be that Empress Dowager Cao was referring to Zhang Yue?But Zhang Yue's qualifications are not enough, and his father-in-law Wu Chong is also a prime minister, and now he is still in Pinghehuang.

This day the officials met Lu Huiqing.

Seeing that Lu Huiqing got Zeng Bu's report the day before yesterday, the officials said that in order to avoid spoiling the matter, Lu Jiawen secretly asked people to take all the documents of the Shiyi Division home and tamper with them.

The officials immediately agreed to let Zeng Bu post the list.

And Lu Huiqing had already ordered Lu Wenqing to lure Wei Jizong to beat Zeng Bu, but Wei Jizong refused.

Lu Huiqing went to the folks to check in person again to see if there was any discrepancy between what he said and what Wei Jizong said, but there was no result.

Lu Huiqing also heard about Zeng Bu's posting of the list, and quickly informed Wang Anshi, saying that now only Wei Jizong is governed, and see if there are any mistakes in his rhetoric.

Wang Anshi wanted to accept the list, but saw that Zeng Bu had posted the imperial list, so he gave up.The matter of asking for the imperial list was made by Zeng Bu himself, and he did not tell Wang Anshi in advance.

The officials listened to Lu Huiqing's story, and saw that what he said was very different from Zeng Bu's law, and they couldn't help being surprised.

Lu Huiqing directly pointed out that there was nothing Zeng Bu said.The official thought to himself, it is the same thing, so why are the two people saying something completely different?

The official said: "You have different speeches, that's the case. I will let you go to the same place to check, so as not to say one by one."

The implication of the official's words is that you, Lu Huiqing, and Zeng Bu have different words, so one of them must be deceiving the emperor. Who is talking nonsense with open eyes?
The officials looked at Lu Huiqing, but Lu Huiqing agreed to confront Zeng Bu.

The hearts of the officials are like a bright mirror. Although Lu Huiqing is talented, she is very jealous. She is afraid that she will be the prime minister...

The official asked, "Is there any news from Hehuang?"

Lu Huiqing said: "Your Majesty, Zhang Yue has won successive victories in Hehuang! He asked Mu Zheng to come out in full attire and surrender the Qiang people face to face. None of the Qiang people have the will to fight, and most of them collapsed in anticipation."

"His soldiers and horses chased after them, and gave all the captured Tibetans food, clothing, money and silk and sent them back. None of the Qiang soldiers had the will to fight, and our army also surrounded Qingtang without fighting. Caravan monks are free to enter and leave Qingtang City."

After hearing this, the officials thought to themselves, Zhang Yue proposed the strategy of flattening Hehuang, first easy and then difficult, first familiarity and later life, now that Taozhou has been leveled, it seems that Pingqingtang is just around the corner.

The official said: "You draw up an imperial decree to reward Zhang Yue for his loyalty and bravery, and ask him to discuss peace with Dong Xing as soon as possible."

Lu Huiqing lowered his head, he wished that Zhang Yue would spend forever in Hehuang, and it would be best if he never returned to court.

Lu Huiqing had more than a dozen holes in his heart. He wondered if the officials would call Zhang Yue and Dong Zhan back to the court suddenly, or dismiss Wang Xianggong as Prime Minister?
For several days, Wang Anshi played the incident, and the other party tried to protect Lu Huiqing, and the officials believed and doubted.

The officials called Zeng Bu to meet again.

Zeng Bu pointed out the disadvantages of the Shiyi Law one by one, and said that Lu Huiqing deceived the officials and he did not want to work with him.

Seeing that the officials didn't respond, Zeng Bu complained from the bottom of his heart, this time he was not a human being inside and out, so he immediately begged to let him go as the third envoy.

The officials did not allow Zeng Bu to resign, but instead told Zeng Bu that he would order the Kaifeng government to question Wei Jizong.

Zeng Bu fainted a few times after hearing this, he knew that Lu Huiqing must have played tricks in the middle.

Zeng preached: "The minister is not competent. If your majesty wants to investigate the law of market transactions, you can only call Zhang Yue back to Beijing."

(End of this chapter)