Northern Song Dynasty: Starting from the son of Song Renzong

Chapter 117 Why do you bother to provoke His Royal Highness Prince Yu?

The fourth year of the Qingli period, spring, February.

The day after Wang Gongchen expressed his request to be sent to a distant place, the imperial court issued an edict.

Wang Gongchen was demoted to the Guangzhou Maritime Customs as a clerk.

After all, Zhao Xin thought about it...

It might be a bit difficult for Wang Gongchen, who had never been in charge of the Maritime Customs, to be in charge of it all of a sudden.

What to do!
Then go to Lingnan to study for a year or two and then come back.

The decree was made by Zhao Xin's teacher Yan Shu.

Because Zhao Xin understood that if he let others do it, they might get stuck.

After all, Zhao Xin was not just targeting Wang Gongchen alone, but the entire civil service group.

If His Royal Highness Prince of Yu dares to demote Wang Gongchen to Lingnan today, then tomorrow he can also demote them to Lingnan as well.

In cases like this, His Royal Highness the Prince of Yu must not be allowed to succeed.

But this is also the case with Wang Gongchen!
You can give advice if you want, but if you ask for transfer out of town for no reason, isn't that just unnecessary?

The decree was quickly delivered to Wang Gongchen's home.

Wang Gongchen was a little unsteady on the spot.

A moment of dizziness.

Guangzhou Maritime Customs, as a clerk?

Guangzhou, isn’t that Lingnan!

His wife immediately asked him, "My dear, what's going on?"

She seemed to have heard the word Guangzhou just now.

Although she was a woman, she knew some geography.

For example, dried lychees from Lingnan are also available in Tokyo.

but……

Only dried lychees are available. Fresh lychees are absolutely not edible.

"Wang Gongchen, accept the order."

"..."

……

This person has just dealt with Wang Gongchen.

Immediately afterwards...

This Fu Bi jumped out again.

He expressed that he was not very satisfied with this way of handling the matter.

Zhao Zhen didn't want to explain to Fu Bi, so he asked Fu Bi to find Zhao Xin.

Fu Bi actually came to find Zhao Xin.

At this time, Zhao Xin was learning how to ride a horse with the help of Zhao Xun and others.

After hearing Fu Bi's opinion, Zhao Xin was also carried down from his horse by Zhao Xun and asked, "Why, Fu Bi, do you want to go to Lingnan too?"

Fu Bi said, "Your Highness, Prince of Yu, although I don't like Wang Gongchen's behavior, you can't just demote him to Lingnan so casually. Moreover... people with bad behavior like Zhang Kang and Teng Zongliang are indeed not suitable to stay with your Highness."

Zhao Xin then asked, "Why? Zhang Kang and Teng Zongliang just embezzled some public funds. Do you want to crush them completely and not let them hold office in the future? Or what?"

Fu Bi: "That's not what I meant."

Zhao Xin: "That's not what you meant, then why don't you let me use them?"

Fu Bi: "There are many other people with good moral character in the court. Your Highness Prince Yu is still so young. If you have more contact with Zhang Kang and Teng Zongliang, you will inevitably be influenced by them."

Zhao Xin said, "Don't worry about this. I am not a three-year-old child anymore. Using them to open up wasteland is actually a punishment for the two of them. Is there anything else? If not, let's just leave it at that. I still have to practice riding a horse."

Fu Bi: "Is this too harsh a punishment for Wang Gongchen?"

Zhao Xin added, "This is his own request. Hmm... But the clerk's salary is indeed a bit low, but there is nothing we can do. He is already an official there. You can't just give you a high position just to accommodate you and let others make way for him, right?" Fu Bi asked, "Does His Royal Highness Prince Yu intend to let Wang Gongchen stay there forever?"

Zhao Xin had no choice but to say, "I plan to set up a customs office in Quanzhou to increase the country's tax revenue. I originally wanted Wang Gongchen to go there directly, but considering that he has no experience at all, let him go to the Guangzhou customs office for two years first."

Fu Bi was speechless.

Zhao Xin also said: "The country is short of funds, and none of you can come up with a solution. In the end, you still have to rely on me. What kind of country are you ruling? From now on... don't question any of my decisions! I'm not as stupid as you think."

Say it.

Zhao Xin got on the horse again.

Started running.

Fu Bi was left standing there alone.

Reclaimed wasteland for farming and established a Maritime Customs Office.

indeed!

At this moment, the only person in the court who could still do something was His Royal Highness Prince Yu.

Everyone else is just a bunch of good-for-nothings.

of course!

Other people in Tokyo don’t think so at this time.

"Have you heard that Wang Gongchen was really banished to Lingnan?"

"Letting him seek to be exiled is the right thing to do."

"In fact, I didn't like him at first!"

"But is this reasonable? He is just a censor, and he is just fulfilling his duty as a censor and making suggestions."

"But you can give me advice, but you can't threaten me with being demoted, right?"

Maybe Wang Gongchen really doesn’t have many friends.

Also!

After winning the top spot in the imperial examination, a person still says that he is not worthy of being the top scorer, saying that he has done the questions on the paper before. Such a person who seeks fame and reputation will make people feel unhappy.

You've already passed the exam and become the top scorer, and you're still pretending!
Then Zhao Xin had just sent Fu Bi away.

Immediately afterwards...

Ouyang Xiu came again.

In fact, Ouyang Xiu also disliked Wang Gongchen.

but……

Some of what Wang Gongchen said were indeed correct. For example, Zhang Kang and Teng Zongliang, these two people knew that there were laws but still broke them. If they were military generals like Di Qing, who had not read many books, it would be fine for them to do so. But, they were all scholars and it was impossible for them not to know the laws. This was committing crimes knowingly!

and……

The situation was even more egregious when Teng Zongliang burned the account books.

Teng Zongliang should be severely punished!
Zhao Xin feels that his young age is really a big disadvantage, as if everyone still treats him as a child.

Then he said to Ouyang Xiu: "Then what do you think should be done? Drag Teng Zongliang out and chop off his head?"

Ouyang Xiu was speechless at this time.

After all, this is really serious!

Ouyang Xiu said, "I just hope that His Royal Highness Prince Yu will be alert. There are so many other officials, why did he choose to use these two?"

Zhao Xin also said: "You said it yourself, nine out of ten officials are useless, and now you are talking about so many other officials. Although Zhang Kang and Teng Zongliang did things against the rules, at least they dared to do it. That's what I use them for! There are so many wastelands in Xuchang and Nanyang. For more than 80 years, I haven't seen any of you go to reclaim them."

"Ouyang Xiu, if you had taken the initiative to do what you said, why would the country be in this state?"

Ouyang Xiu: “…”

Ouyang Xiu was immediately speechless.

Zhao Xun on the side was also thinking, why are you guys provoking His Royal Highness the Prince of Yu for no reason? When has His Royal Highness the Prince of Yu ever lost an argument, his little mouth talks about others faster than a string of arrows.

(End of this chapter)