My surname is Wang, my neighbor Wu Dalang

Chapter 125

After the rain, the sky cleared, and the air in Tokyo City became extremely fresh, and a storm washed away the rich blood.

However, from the dignitaries in Tokyo to the common people, they all kept silent about the earth-shattering event that just happened not long ago.

On March 28th, under heavy rain, Wang Lin, a disciple of the Son of Heaven and the commander-in-chief of the Fuhu Army, led the army to kill the six thieves in Tokyo!
"Break the bucket (Tong Guan) and splash the vegetables (Cai Jing), and it is a good world on earth."

Rumors of this song spread all over the streets and alleys, and everyone clapped their hands and cheered!
No one knows exactly what happened, but everyone knows that today's officials and princes almost lost their lives, and the six thieves Cai Jing, Tong Guan, Liang Shicheng, Zhu Yan, Wang Fu, and Li Yan, who have been in power for a long time, have become permanent history and were It was swept into the garbage dump of the Song Dynasty, and nailed to the pillar of shame forever!

The six thieves' disciples, old officials, family members, relatives and friends are countless.

Compared with the rejoicing Tokyo people behind them, these people stay behind closed doors, not knowing what awaits them.

According to the Song system, "On New Year's Day, the first day of May, and the winter solstice, there are officials who sit in the Daqing Hall, and the emperor accepts congratulations from all officials."

The Grand Court Meeting on New Year's Day was canceled due to the emperor's illness, and the supplementary Grand Court Meeting was originally a grand drama organized by Cai Jing to force the palace. Now that Cai Jing is dead, all the ministers are still emperors and will take advantage of the trend. As a result, it was reported from the palace that night The imperial edict said that the Great Court will be held as usual.

In the first year of Xuanhe, March 29, early morning.

The sky on the east side of the Great Song Palace had just turned pale. Zhao Ji, the official, changed into a formal attire with a crown that he seldom wore since he ascended the throne and proclaimed himself emperor. dragon chair.

Crown Prince Zhao Huan also dressed up and stood on the Danchi below Zhao Ji.

The civil and military officials who had been waiting for a long time began to pay respects according to the etiquette: "Long live my emperor, long live!"

Zhao Ji was sitting on the dragon chair, staring at the dark group of officials under Dan Chi.

It can be said that the hall is full of hairpin tassels, and there are important officials in purple robes everywhere.

The officials in red robes and green robes couldn't see their faces clearly because of the distance.

As far as Zhao Ji could see, except for Zhao Song's clan, almost all of them were the confidantes of Cai Jing, Tong Guan and others.

For example, Cai Jing's sons Cai You, Cai Shu, and Cai Jing, and Cai You's son Cai Xing are all officials to bachelors, which is equivalent to ruling.

The disciples and old officials of Cai Jing and others are standing in the forefront at this moment.

These people occupy key positions everywhere.

If you want to win them all, the Song court will be paralyzed.

Perhaps because of this, these sons of Cai Jing are still calm and composed.

Zhao Ji's heart was full of endless anger, but he had to grit his teeth to hold it back. Only then did he realize that killing Cai Jing was not easy, but killing Cai Jing was also not easy.

He remembered the repeated discussions with his son Zhao Huan at the Yanfu Palace banquet yesterday, so he turned his head to look at his son Zhao Huan.

Zhao Huanlang said in a loud voice: "Today's court meeting, the officials and all the ministers will discuss the government affairs together. Before that, my palace will announce the imperial edict first."

The ministers' breathing became rapid.

Everyone understands that the emperor is going to announce that Cai Jing's six thieves conspired against each other. These six people are dead, but they don't know how many people will be involved.

However, the result was beyond everyone's expectations.

Zhao Huan announced Zhao Ji's imperial edict without any hassle, which was nothing more than publicly declaring that the six people Cai Jingtong and Guan were rebels, which showed the emperor's handling principle of only punishing the head of the villain and mercifully releasing the rest. Three thousand miles.

The followers of the Six Thieves were naturally rejoiced, while the ministers who were not members of the Six Thieves hid behind and were greatly disappointed.

The six Cai Jing rebelled, and their confidantes, especially Cai Jing's sons, were not charged. The official family is so weak that they don't have a long memory.

Cai You, Cai Shu, Cai Jin, and Cai Xing took the lead in kneeling on the ground: "The minister was convicted, but the ministers are loyal to the officials and to the Song Dynasty, and the official's long kindness is not forgiven. The crime implicates the innocent, and the ministers should continue to work hard for the court until they die!"

A large group of people knelt down behind the Cai family, shouting long live and thanking them.

The corner of Zhao Ji's mouth twitched, and he clearly saw the vaguely complacent smiles on the faces of Cai You and the others.

It seems that after yesterday's whole day of conspiring in series, these people have long been confident.Zhao Ji sneered in his heart.

In order to protect themselves, they quickly pushed Cai You to the front, replacing Cai Jing as the new leader of the Cai Party.

So what if Cai Jing died, they still controlled the government, even the officials did not dare to act rashly.Today's facts seem to prove this point.

Zhao Ji and Zhao Huan looked at each other, and they both read the raging anger in each other's eyes.

But Zhao Ji felt that for the time being, it was still impossible to wipe out all these people, so he had to keep them first.

Because Cai Jing Tongguan's party members are not only above the court, but also have countless disciples and old officials in important military towns in various places. Once this layer of window paper is pierced, there will be great turmoil and civil strife in the Song Dynasty.

Zhao Huan then announced several major personnel appointments.

Originally, when Cai Jing was alive, Cai Jing controlled the Zhengshitang to complete these appointments, and the emperor was just the one who signed and sealed.

Zhao Ji took advantage of the fact that Cai Jing's six thieves were killed, and directly issued the appointment. Naturally, no one dared to stand up and jump at this moment.

Lu Yihao, the transfer envoy of the capital of Hebei Province and a famous official, recommended him as Grand Minister, and was granted the title of Taishi.

Wu Min returned to the court, and Li Gang assisted him.

Zhang Shuye recommended him as the Taiwei and Kaifu Yitong to control the imperial guards in Beijing.

Jin veteran general Zhong Shidao was the Duke of Jin, the general commander of the Western Army, the seal of the inspection school Shaobao, the Jiedu Envoy of the Huaide Army, the Hebei Zhizhi Envoy of Hedong, the Sanlu Xuanfu Envoy, and the general town of Northwest.

It fills the vacancy of Tong Guan, and has more weight than Tong Guan.

On the list of those who were recommended and promoted beyond the rules, there are also unknown people such as Zhao Ding and Chen Gui, as well as middle and low generals such as Han Shizhong and Wu Jie in the Western Army.

The above is Wang Lin's suggestion to Zhao Ji.

In this way, although the six thieves still filled the imperial court, the power fell into the hands of people like Lu Yihao. The so-called "nothing can be broken, nothing can be established", as long as the emperor gives full trust and support, the government will gradually turn around, and gradually clean up and realize "de-Cai Jinghua" ".

And the control of the imperial army was directly handed over to Zhang Shuye, Zhao Ji's most trusted.

The most important Western Army is controlled by the old general. Although this old general is old, he is very capable and has a high prestige in the army. He sits in the northwest, and the Song Dynasty can be stable for a while.

When the overall situation gradually settles down, it's time to settle accounts with the Cai party.

Cai You and others remained silent.

The emperor gave the vacant posts to Lu Yihao and other humble people right after his father died. They were not fools, so they naturally understood what the emperor was going to do, but at the moment they could only accept it.

Otherwise, once Zhao Ji is angered, he will ignore it and die.

The court is paralyzed, and the court of the Song Dynasty is rotten anyway.

There is also the sad Yue King Zhao Si.

Zhao Si was dismissed from the throne, banished from Beijing, and exiled in Lingnan.

The court will be held in sequence, because the Cai party has lost its backing and will no longer make trouble collectively, and the order of the proceedings is orderly.

Everything was developing according to the emperor's preset direction, and the anger in Zhao Ji's heart subsided a lot.

However, as expected by Wang Lin, when the case of Murong Yanda was discussed, the members of the Cai party, who had been silent all the time, bowed their heads and slumped their feet, finally couldn't hold back and jumped up one after another.

Because the case of Murong Yanda's private mining of silver mines and the massacre of civilians had already been discussed as an iron case in the court, there was nothing to dispute. The focus of the dispute was on the conclusion of Wang Lin's personal merits and demerits.

Cai You bowed and said: "The officials and ministers think that although Murong Yanda is not pardonable for his death, Murong Yanda is a fourth-rank official in the court after all, guarding one side, Wang Lin is just a mere fifth-rank general, but below It is a serious crime to kill a superior official without the court's approval!"

Li Bangyan, a member of Zhongshushe, also came out to play and said: "I report to the officials that Murong Yanda's crimes are certainly not to be punished, and there is no dispute. But the Fuhu Army was originally stationed in Yizhou, and Wang Lin marched into Qingzhou without the imperial court's order." , Interfering with important military and political affairs in Qingzhou, and arbitrarily killing high officials of the court, this trend must not grow, if it is not severely punished, it will be difficult to convince the public."

Shangshu Zuocheng Bai Shizhong also jumped out: "Wang Lin has always been arrogant and domineering, disregarding the court laws and military discipline, not to mention that he marched into Qingzhou without authorization and killed court officials, but this time he led the army back without obeying the order. Beijing is an irrefutable death penalty!"

After that, dozens of people knelt down to the ground one after another, participating in Wang Lin's performance.

Among them, there are several Yushitai speakers who do not belong to the Cai party.

Zhao Ji was very annoyed, but a little helpless.

Because at the court meeting at this moment, most of the officials who can really speak out are humble, and even if they stand up, the weight of their words is small enough to be ignored.

Zhao Huan could no longer control the anger in his heart.

He originally thought that Zhao Ji would temporarily let Cai's party members go, and spare their lives. He didn't want these people to change their past, but at least he had to repay his kindness and be honest for a while.

The result, as always.

Zhao Huan remembered what Wang Lin had said last night to eradicate all evil and eradicate the grass and roots, and couldn't help feeling a little regretful.

It was time to go to the bottom of the boat and come to a dead end with this **** thief.

But his own father is still a little too weak. He looked forward and backward, and he still couldn't make a decision.

Zhao Huan knew very well in his heart that the reason why Wang Lin became the thorn in the side and thorn in the courtiers of the Cai party was inseparably related to Wang Lin's killing of the six thieves, and it was also related to the ironclad evidence that Wang Lin had about Murong Yanda's bribery of courtiers.

Zhao Huan walked down Danchi slowly, looked around, and suddenly said angrily: "Cai You, Bai Shizhong, Li Bangyan, and you! You accused Wang Lin of marching into Qingzhou without authorization and killing the court officials without authorization, but you know, Wang Lin It is my order to lead the subduing tiger army to Qingzhou for military training!"

"Wang Lin made great contributions to the imperial court by exterminating two bandits in Qingzhou."

"Wang Lin also discovered that Murong Yanda was secretly mining silver, massacred the common people, and seized a million taels of silver. He made another great contribution to the court."

"Zhai Sheng, the commander-in-chief of the Zhenhai Navy, raised his troops to rebel, and the Fuhu Army sent troops at the right time to put down the rebellion, regained the three prefectures of Deng, Lai, and Mi that were occupied by Zhai Sheng's rebels, consolidated the coastal defense, and made great contributions."

"You guys said that Wang Lin's subordinates committed crimes and murdered officials of the court without authorization. Then, I would like to ask you, Murong Yanda knew that he had committed the unpardonable death crime of punishing the nine clans. If Wang Lin didn't resolutely kill this thief, Murong Yan Dading and Zhai Sheng colluded in rebellion, and the imperial court will lose the four prefectures of Qinglai!"

Speaking of this, Zhao Huan paused for a moment, and his voice suddenly rose several times: "In the eyes of you and others, such numerous and inexhaustible achievements have turned into meritless deeds that must be severely punished according to the law. I am thinking , Did your heads get kicked by a donkey!"

(End of this chapter)