Song Gexing

Chapter 14 Almost Exposed

A few days later, Wang Zhongzheng came to Zhao Fang, handed him a stack of paper and said, "Da Lang is here. This is all the information collected by the Imperial City Division."

Zhao Fang had just come back from the teacher. He was exhausted, but when he heard this, he immediately became energetic and took the information and read it carefully.

"Although this guy has done a lot of bad things, they are all trivial. They are just the usual problems of playboys. He doesn't rape civilian girls or anything like that!"

After reading all the information, Zhao Fang muttered to himself in confusion. The information showed that Lu Zhailang was from Zhengzhou, Henan, and his father was an eunuch of the Zhenzong Dynasty. After giving birth to a son, he entered the palace as a eunuch.

Although he had no great talent, he was valued by Renzong because he had served Concubine Li Chen, so he favored his son Lu Zhailang Enyin to become an official, and he was also considered by Renzong as a confidant.

"You can't talk nonsense about snatching away a common girl. The officials take good care of that guy."

"I know, I know, his father is my eldest mother's son, so my father should take care of him."

Zhao Fang responded nonchalantly and put down the information, frowned and thought about it. There was no evidence of Lu Zhailang's crime on it, which meant that he was at least law-abiding for now.

Of course, he can't be framed for being innocent, but what exactly is the reason for this person's appearance.

"No! It's the first year of Qingli, and Bao Heizi is still in Duanzhou."

Thinking of the time in the story, what is certain is that Bao Zheng killed Lu Zhailang when he was in charge of Kaifeng Mansion.

Fifteen years before this, it was Lu Zhailang who stole the wife of silversmith Li Si and the wife of Kong Mu Zhang Gui, causing the two families' children to live on the streets and were adopted by Bao Zheng.

"It seems that Lao Bao took office in Kaifeng Mansion in December of the first year of Jiayou's reign. Yes, a lot of things happened that year. Di Qing was dismissed that year."

The Song Dynasty was in chaos this year. Zhao Fang had read the History of Natural History. Renzong was also seriously ill this year, and someone proposed establishing a prince for the first time, so he remembered it very clearly.

"Let me do the math. Jiayou's first year is 1056, and Lao Bao took office in December, so the year to handle this case is 1057."

"Push forward 15 years to 1042..."

"1042... That's next year, the second year of Qingli. Yes, that makes sense."

Zhao Fang, who wanted to understand, slapped his thigh and jumped up. Only then did he see Wang Zhongzheng staring at him as if he had seen a ghost. He remembered that his soliloquy had been overheard, and he immediately glared back fiercely and said: "Just now You didn’t hear anything, or I would have silenced you.”

"Ah! What, did Dalang just say something?"

Seeing Wang Zhongzheng's confused look, Zhao Fang laughed, waved his hand and chased him away: "Let's go, just forget about this."

Wang Zhongzheng jumped up immediately and disappeared like a rabbit. He almost laughed like a pig when he saw it.

It's not that he is not afraid of being found out. Firstly, Wang Zhongzheng is young and a confidant that he can trust. Secondly, those words just now did not reveal any bad information.

There is only one Bao Zheng. Whether Wang Zhongzheng knows this person or not is still unclear. Now Bao Zheng is not famous and is an official in Guangdong.

Besides, not to mention Wang Zhongzheng, even Han Qi couldn't hear anything about the AD calendar. The only surprising thing was that he mentioned Bao Zheng's appointment in Kaifeng Prefecture.

As for Di Qing, let alone Wang Zhongzheng, probably no one in the whole court knows who he is. Only when Fan Zhongyan and Han Qi return to Beijing will they know the information about this person.

"Then wait until next year and send someone to keep an eye on him." It seems to match the story. Lu Zhailang resigned and went home because he disliked his official position.

When passing by Xuzhou, he accidentally saw Li Si's wife who was very beautiful, so he took her home by force. Li Si chased her to Zhengzhou but was helpless. When he returned home, he found that his children were missing.

Fifteen years later, when Bao Zheng became the powerful magistrate of Kaifeng Mansion, he tried the case and killed Lu Zhailang.

Since Zhao Fang understood that the incident had not happened yet, it was naturally not worthy of his attention, so he recorded the matter and put it aside, focusing on the current matter.

"I heard that Liu Ping and Shi Yuansun were redeemed, and they seem to have lost their official positions."

Three months ago, Xixia negotiated peace with the Song Dynasty. Li Yuanhao was adamant and unwilling to withdraw his imperial title, but recognized the Song Dynasty as his suzerainty.

The Song Dynasty originally refused to agree, but after receiving the letter of credence from the Liao Kingdom, the Song Dynasty questioned the Song Dynasty for bullying his son-in-law, and reluctantly agreed to accept Xixia's vassalship without losing the imperial title.

Xixia was also in trouble at this time. Li Yuanhao, who was forced by the Uighurs to rebel, had to quickly negotiate a peace with the Song Dynasty, so the Song Dynasty agreed to release the captive Li Yuanhao as soon as it was proposed.

Liu Ping and Shi Yuansun, as well as the captured soldiers and border residents were released, and the Song Dynasty agreed to open a market for Xixia trade.

History has been changed, but the two generals were dismissed from their official posts by the court because of their capture. Shi Yuansun was better off, after all, he was Shi Shouxin's grandson.

Even if he doesn't have an official position, he is still a descendant of the first martial artist in the founding of the Song Dynasty. Shi Shouxin is also famous for amassing money, so the Shi family is not short of money.

But Liu Ping was miserable. Without his official position, life at home would be difficult. The Liu family was from Kaifeng and was also a general, but they were only generals of junior officers.

Enyin's official position was only a ninth-grade military attache. At that time, Liu Ping spent a lot of money on studying. After winning the imperial examination, he became an official and was not able to make money due to his personality.

In the end, he offended Prime Minister Ding Wei and was transferred to a military position. Although his military officer rank is very high, he will not embezzle.This time he was captured again, and spent all the money left in the family.

Moreover, this guy had impeached Fan Zhongyan a few years ago. Although Lao Fan didn't care about it, the civil servants did not like him.

Even if he was originally a civil servant, he became an official after all, not to mention you are from a family of generals.

In the Song Dynasty, people who were elected were not considered a formal honor, but they could indeed become officials. If they did not want to take the exam, they would usually go to the county-level unit to become the smallest official.

Liu Ping was outstanding when he was young, but due to his upright character, his official career was very bumpy. Later, he offended Ding Wei because he was favored by Kou Zhun, and made a trick to transfer him to a military position.

Although the highest possible rank was Yuhou, the second-level official in the palace, military generals were bullied by civil servants in the Song Dynasty. Even Di Qing, the privy envoy, was not exempt from this, let alone him.

"Sir, do you think it's really okay for the court to treat Liu Shiheng like this?"

Zhao Fang was unable to change the court's decision, so he had to find a roundabout way. After listening to Chen Yaozuo's lecture the next day, he asked this question in the name of discussion.

How could the 80-year-old prime minister be so easy to fool? He raised his eyelids and looked at him with a half-smile and said: "Brother, what I want to say is bluntly, it's not tiring to turn around!"

Zhao Fang, who understood that he had been seen through, smiled shyly, and immediately changed his approach and said: "The student is indeed aggrieved for Liu Shiheng. I heard that Kou Xiang said that he was a talented person all those years ago, and that battle was a crime other than war. Idle like this He is a talented person, but the students think he is not good for the court."

Chen Yaozuo looked at him intently, and after a long time he suddenly sighed: "I have been your teacher for half a year, and I can see that you are different from the late emperor, and you are different from today. I am happy to have you as my disciple in this life, and at the same time And I’m worried about teaching a Han Xiaowu!”

(End of this chapter)