The Song Dynasty has been deliberate for 16 years, only to know that it is the Water Margin

Chapter 274
Jiang You's eyelids twitched when he heard this, and he leaned forward slightly and said, "My lord, that..."

Zhao Tun looked at him puzzled: "Jiang Shangshu, you are..."

With a smile on Jiang You's face, he looked at Huang Gu who was standing by the door, and then at Zhao Tun.

Zhao Tong frowned and said to Huang Gu: "Close the door, no one is allowed to come near here."

Huang Gu closed the door and left, Jiang You listened again, feeling that there was no movement outside, the smile on his face suddenly turned into mourning: "My lord, the imperial decree is lost!"

"Ah?" Zhao Tun was taken aback when he heard the words, his arms trembled, and he knocked over the tea bowl on the table, which made Jiang You shiver in fright.

"Jiang Shangshu, what are you talking about?" Zhao Tun stared at Jiang You, "Is the imperial decree lost?"

Jiang You looked panic-stricken, stood up hastily and did not dare to sit again, bowed and wept, "My lord, Jiang You is incompetent. He has lost the imperial decree given to him by the government, and I ask him to come down."

Looking at his trembling appearance, Zhao Tuan said angrily, "How did you lose it? The imperial decree is useless for ordinary people to steal it. How could you lose it!"

Jiang You told the story of the thief sneaking into the room that night, then bowed his head and said, "I don't know what the thief stole the imperial decree for. I'm afraid it was attracted by the silk and satin surface of the decree. took away..."

Zhao Tong said with a cold expression: "Jiang Shangshu, the loss of the imperial decree is a major matter, which concerns the dignity of the court. Once it is spread out, it will become a joke in the world? Let's think about how to plead guilty to the officials after returning to Beijing!"

Jiang You fell to his knees with a "plop" when he heard the words, and cried, "Please save me, my lord."

Zhao Tong wondered: "What's the reason for Jiang Shangshu? The imperial decree is issued by the government, so how can this king save you?"

Jiang You whimpered, "My lord..."

Zhao Tang saw him muttering, and said calmly: "Jiang Shangshu, this king has not received the imperial decree and forgives you if you don't blame you. How can you behave like this?"

Jiang You knelt on the ground and wept: "Now only the prince can save the official, and I ask the prince to save the official's life for the sake of the official's hard work for the court for many years."

Zhao Tong said: "Jiang Shangshu's words are serious. Even if it is a serious crime to lose the imperial decree, it is not a crime of death. I, the Great Song Dynasty, did not kill scholars and officials at all. What's more, Mr. Jiang is a minister, so there is no way to save lives. Two words."

Jiang You lay on the ground, just as he was about to continue begging, but he heard Zhao Tun say again: "If you lose the imperial decree, this king will at most send you to prison first, and then you will be assigned to Lingnan or Qiongzhou, where you will stay for three to five years. After that, if the officials can still think of Jiang Shangshu, their anger will be relieved, maybe they will be recalled and continue to be court officials, not to mention beheading, even ransacking the house is unlikely."

Hearing this, Jiang You felt bitter. What he was afraid of was this beheading. He knew it was impossible to beheaded, but this beheading was even more painful than beheading.

He is a member of the official family, and he has no party members in the court, let alone relatives and friends, no more than some other ministers. It won't be long before he will be recalled to Beijing to restore his original post.

For example, Su Shi in those days, and even Cai Jing in the current dynasty, had been dispatched and dispatched, but he was not alone in the court. Brothers and brothers, there were always people willing to speak up, even if the officials forgot, they would be brought up and tried to find ways Let the officials recite their merits and transfer them back sooner or later.

And that Zongze in front of me was originally going to be sent to Zhenjiang for custody, but that was much stricter than being dispatched to surrender, and there was no possibility of turning over. Got promoted.

But who can talk to him?

More than half of the official staff are members of the Cai family's henchmen, eager to vacate a position, and then make up for it layer by layer, get promoted and make a fortune, so the subordinates can't count on it.

Once he is dispatched, few people in the court will remember him, right?

He is a trustworthy minister and a lonely minister. Only by relying on the Emperor Daojun to remember him can he come back, but he knows the Emperor Daoist too well. As long as he is dispatched by his family, it may take ten and a half months, and he will never remember this matter again. .

Thinking of this, Jiang You felt worse than death. He didn't care if he ransacked his house or not, and he didn't care much about money. If he really cared about money so much, he wouldn't be a lonely minister. He didn't even care about fame. He doesn't care, he only cares about authority.

Once you lose power, life is worse than death.

Jiang You immediately burst into tears, whimpering and said: "My lord, I am the only son in the family, and I still have an old mother to take care of. If I leave the capital, I'm afraid I won't be able to return to serve in my lifetime."

Zhao Tang looked at him coldly when he heard the words: "Shangshu Jiang still has a baby waiting to be fed?"

Jiang You was taken aback, and hurriedly said: "How does the lord know that the concubine of the lower official has just given birth to a child? I don't need to mention the lower official, although he is not a direct son, but he is also his own flesh and blood..."

Zhao Tong waved his hand impatiently: "Jiang Shangshu, I can understand your difficulty, but you said that I will save you, how can I save you? Is it possible that you dare to forge a fake imperial decree!"

Jiang You heard it as if there was a door, and immediately wiped his eyes with his sleeve and said, "How dare you think of such a rebellious thing... as long as the prince, the prince pretends to have received the imperial edict."

"What?" Zhao Tun immediately slapped the table when he heard the words, the teapot on the table jumped a few times, and Jiang You almost sat down on the ground in fright.

Zhao Tong said: "Jiang You, you are so bold, isn't this deceiving the emperor?"

Jiang You also gave up at this time, and began to kowtow hard, God is sorry to see, he has never kowtowed so hard to the Taoist emperor in the past few decades since he was a student and became an official in the middle school. Except for important occasions, it is not necessary at all other times.

Seeing that his forehead was bruised and swollen, Zhao Tang couldn't help sighing: "Why is Jiang Shangshu like this? Even if I am willing to risk the crime of deceiving the emperor to help you, but I don't know the content of the imperial decree. If the official asks, How can I answer."

Jiang You was in a daze at first, but when he heard the words, it seemed as if a clear spring hit the top, and he immediately woke up. He choked up and said, "Your Majesty, when the official family drafted the decree, the official was at the side, and the official will remember most of the content of the decree. It's all praise and praise." Words, no special instructions or major matters."

Zhao Tong looked at it and said, "Is that true?"

Jiang Youdao: "How dare an inferior official lie a little bit."

Zhao Tun was silent for a moment, and said, "Jiang Shangshu, get up and talk."

Jiang Youdao: "I don't dare to be an official."

Zhao Tong shook his head and said, "Get up and talk about the content of the imperial decree carefully. If it is true as you said, alas, I can't tell... just give you a hand."

Hearing the words, Jiang You stood up tremblingly as if he had received an amnesty, but suddenly his feet became unsteady and he almost fell to his knees again.

How could he dare to sit still at this moment, he calmed down and said: "My lord, what the imperial decree said is probably..."

(End of this chapter)