Great Song Super Scholar

Chapter 647 Rumors Spread
Liang Yibu stayed in Bianliang for ten days. The Song Dynasty was very considerate to him, but resolutely avoided the substantive issues and refused to respond to the peace request. Liang Yibu gradually began to despair.

At noon that day, he was sitting alone in his room drinking, when he suddenly heard footsteps outside, and a subordinate reported outside the door, "Xiangguo, today's newspaper came out, and it seems to be related to Xixia."

"Give me the newspaper."

His subordinates walked into the room and handed a copy of "Letter". Liang Yibu took the newspaper and found a special battle report inside. He already knew that this kind of special battle report would only appear if there were major news or results of the battle, so he was a little afraid to read it.

He still held back the uneasiness in his heart, pulled out this special battle report, and carefully read it carefully. The title was big, 'The defense of the southern Xixia collapsed across the board'.

The content inside turned out to be that the Song army on the Shaanxi Road captured Weizhou and Xiazhou in two ways, and the main force of the Xixia frontier army retreated northward, and was surrounded by 30 Song troops in Yanzhou.

Liang Yibu's eyes darkened, and he almost fainted. Xixia's southern defense was completely breached by the Song army.

His subordinates quickly supported him, "Xiangguo! Xiangguo!"

Liang Yibu heaved a long sigh. He knew that it must be the Song army from the north that defeated Xixia's southern defense line from behind. They were all broken from the inside first.

No wonder Song Chao refused to accept his own peace proposal. The war situation had reached this stage, even he would not accept the other party's peace proposal.

Knowing that he didn't need to stay in Bianliang any longer, Liang Yibu said to his entourage disinterestedly: "Pack up your luggage! We'll go back tomorrow morning."

Liang Yibu just stood up when he was suddenly attracted by a piece of news in another newspaper.

"Fan's Overseas Purchase of Islands, Desire to Build a New Country"

In festive victories, there will always be some discordant voices. In the past two days, on the second page of "Tabolo", someone has published a series of articles under the name 'Li Guangbai', 'Uncovering Fan's Shady', from When Fan Ning became the first state affairs officer in Kunzhou, he wrote that the Fan family brothers ran out of gold in Kunzhou to get rich, and then started to trade with Nanyang in Quanzhou, which made the Fan family's wealth reach an astonishing level. The family made a fortune overseas.

This series of reports caused an uproar in the capital. Everyone knew that these reports stabbed one person, that is, the coach who fought in Xixia, Xiao Fan Xianggong, and the youngest Xiangguo Fan Ning of the Song Dynasty.

The report aroused heated discussions in the capital, and today another major report was published. The Fan family and the Zhu family purchased an island comparable to the size of Jiangnan Dongdao overseas and planned to establish a country overseas.

In fact, the entire imperial court knew about Fan Ning's overseas purchase of islands, but ordinary people didn't know much about it. Now that the news was exposed by the newspapers, it immediately aroused strong repercussions in the capital.

Almost every restaurant and teahouse is discussing this matter, and its popularity even surpasses the Song Army's battle in Xixia.

In Qingfeng Restaurant next to Feihong Bridge, dozens of drinkers were discussing this matter loudly.

Someone said sourly: "I said why the Fan family suddenly became rich. It turned out that the gold was obtained by using power. Maybe half of Kunzhou's gold was taken by his family!"

There were also people who were indignant, "The majestic Xiangguo actually ordered his family to establish a country overseas. Is this going to fight against the Song Dynasty?"

An old man said: "That's because you are ignorant. There are eight hundred people who buy islands overseas if not one thousand. Nearly half of the thousands of islands in Luzon have been sold. Which island is not as big as the state capital? Don't talk about it, just focus on Fan's family, the person who wrote this report will be damned."

A young man still argued: "Old man, it is true that the Fan family made money by panning for gold in Kunzhou! It is the land of the Great Song Dynasty. Why can the Fan family wantonly pan for gold? Taking advantage of the court?"

"Young man, that gold was discovered by someone else. You can find gold anywhere in the Song Dynasty, and you can pan for it. As long as you sell the gold to the government, besides, it is not only Fan Ning, the Cao family, and the Gao family who pan for gold in Kunzhou. , Pang’s family, and even Zhang Yaozuo is digging silver in Ryukyu, why don’t you mention these things?”

Holding the soup bowl, the young man snorted heavily, "Hmph! We are all the same breed, the powerful eat meat, and we ordinary people can't even afford soup."

"Young man, aren't you just drinking soup?"

The whole room immediately burst into laughter, and some people said: "The Fan family occupies such a large land in Jiangnan East Road, it is a bit inappropriate! Should the court restrict it?"

"Hehe! If I tell everyone that the island bought by the Fan family has people-eating natives, are you willing to go?"

Everyone stuck out their tongues in fright, darling, there is actually a legendary cannibal, "Old man, this is not mentioned in the report!" Someone shouted.

The old man shook his head, stood up and said solemnly to everyone: "Everyone, there are problems with these reports. They are obviously aimed at Mr. Fan. The purpose is to sow dissatisfaction with Mr. Fan from the court and the people. Think about why this is so. ? This is obviously a countermeasure, using the dissatisfaction of the people to force the court to change the commander. Let me tell you, if the court really changes the commander, then the great plan of the Song Dynasty to destroy Xixia will fall short. Who is behind this? Can't guess?"

The restaurant suddenly fell silent, everyone drank silently, and no one mentioned the report.

The old man was Zhu Yuanfeng, he was having dinner at the restaurant next door to his son-in-law, and happened to encounter this incident, which made him stand up and refute.

Zhu Yuanfeng was depressed, got up to check out and left, and went directly to Fan Ning's residence across the bridge, Zhu Pei was chatting with his aunt Zhu Jie, when he heard that his grandfather was coming, he rushed out to greet him.

"Why don't you let the Journal refute the matter?"

Zhu Yuanfeng said to Zhu Pei in dissatisfaction: "This matter spreads all over the city and ruins your husband's reputation. Why do you bear it?"

Zhu Pei said calmly: "Grandfather, it shouldn't be the Fan family's job to refute the rumors! Everyone knows that the "Letter" is the newspaper of the Zhu family, and "Letter" to refute rumors will only make people look down upon."

"Then let them make trouble?"

Zhu Pei said coldly: "If the imperial court refuses to refute the rumors, then let Xiang Gong resign. I don't care about this princess hat, so I return it to the imperial court, and our family will move to Beidao."

Zhu Yuanfeng and his daughter Zhu Jie looked at each other, and they realized that Zhu Pei hated him to the extreme. Zhu Yuanfeng sighed, "Then the princess should make a statement!"

"No!" Zhu Pei said extremely stubbornly: "I want the court to make a public statement and return my husband's reputation."

Zhu Yuanfeng and his daughter returned to the residence in a carriage. Zhu Jie said angrily, "Father, these articles attacking the Fan family in the "Taboli" are obviously aimed at our "Letter". , we should also act.”

Zhu Yuanfeng sighed, "Ape is resisting with silence. If the court doesn't show up again, the matter may become serious. This matter is up to Zhu Pei, and we don't want to act without authorization."

After a pause, Zhu Yuanfeng said again: "You go to cooperate with the "Military Daily" and stop all cooperation with the "Tabolo". In addition, you send someone to investigate the background of this Li Guangbai. Who is this person?"

Zhu Jie nodded, "I'll go to the newspaper right away!"

(End of this chapter)