Song Dynasty Cannon Fodder Counterattack Record

Chapter 283 Struggle

Wen Yanbo didn't speak, Chen Zhizhong said with a gloomy face, "Gai Yushi, these are just your speculations. Although Yushi's performance can be speculative, you can't scare people."

Gai Jiao unabashedly glanced at Chen Zhang who was standing beside him, which made Chen Zhizhong's face feel hot - just now Chen Zhang said what happened to Di Qing's family, he was obviously catching rumors, you Chen Zhizhong didn't criticize him, how dare you criticize him now Gai Jiao was chasing after the wind—but Chen Zhizhong was very good at nourishing his energy, and his expression remained unchanged.

Gai Jiao took a look at Chen Zhang before saying to the emperor: "Although I am being suspicious, I am not alarmist. Recently, there are rumors among scholars in the capital that there are all kinds of visions in Di Shumi's family, but it is rumored among the people that there were Wang Shumi who had the emperor's appearance before." It is said that now there are strange things happening in Di Shumi's family. This is something that some people in the court want to follow the story of Zhang Yongde in the previous dynasty. There are heated discussions among the people, and the people are terrified, so I ask Your Majesty to investigate this matter thoroughly, so as to reassure the people."

Although Gai Jiao only said a simple word to the "Zhang Yongde" from the previous court, everyone in the hall heard it like thunder, especially Chen Zhang, the imperial servant, his face turned livid and he felt guilty. Peek at the emperor's face.

If you want to be a high-ranking official in the court, you must be familiar with the history of the previous court, otherwise you will not know some taboos in this court.This Zhang Yongde is an official of the Song Dynasty who is determined to climb up. He should know that he is not well-known, but he is very important to the establishment of the Song Dynasty.

When Zhou Shizong Chai Rong regained the land of Guannan, on the way back to his teacher, he got a three-foot-long wooden board with the words "Check to be the Son of Heaven" written on it. Chai Rong couldn't help feeling suspicious. The inspection was dismissed and replaced by Zhao Kuangyin. It was Zhang Yongde who was dismissed at the front of the hall.

Zhang Yongde is the son-in-law of Chai Rong's adoptive father Guo Wei, a relative of the Zhou Dynasty emperor, even if he is not loyal to Chai Rong, he will definitely oppose the change of dynasty.It can be said that the dismissal of Zhang Yongde and the replacement of Zhao Kuangyin as the inspection in front of the palace cleared the way for Zhao Kuangyin to launch a mutiny.When Gai Jiao mentioned Zhang Yongde, the meaning was very clear, that is, someone wanted to kill the privy envoy of the emperor's cronies and replace him with his own people, and there was an attempt to usurp the throne.

What is the emperor most afraid of?Isn't it because he is afraid that someone will usurp the throne!In the past, the emperor could tolerate the framing of Di Qing and Wang Deyong by civil servants as a battle caused by literati's hostility to warriors, but if this kind of struggle brought unpredictable consequences, the emperor would never allow it.When Gai Jiao mentioned Zhang Yongde, it hit the most vulnerable place in the emperor's heart, causing the emperor's deep pain, and he couldn't allow the emperor not to respond.

Zhao Zhen actually gave Gai Jiao a big bonus in his heart when Gai Jiao suggested that the rumors about Di Qing were framed.His Imperial City Division has a department dedicated to inquiring about the news and rumors of the capital. Recently, in the Washejiaodian in Goulan, it has been rumored among the people that some important ministers in the court were dissatisfied with the emperor's emphasis on practical affairs, and attempted to control the Privy Council by framing the military privy envoys appointed by the emperor, and then the army. The matter of abolishing and establishing has already been reported to Zhao Zhen, which made the emperor suspicious.But none of the censors mentioned this matter in the memorial. Even if he, the emperor, wanted to investigate, it was not easy to order, because if the civil servants were to investigate, they would definitely be resisted by the civil servants, and if the imperial city secretary were to investigate, they would also be punished. The backlash from civil servants who hate to pry into their private affairs is the worst.

It's all right now, the censor raised this matter, and it's justifiable to check it out.And now Zhao Zhen is really not sure why he appointed Wang De as the privy envoy. Those civil officials tried their best to drive Wang Deyong out, and appointed Di Qing as the privy envoy.Isn't it said that good literati should use fair and aboveboard methods, and literati should care more about face?Using conspiracies and tricks without caring about face, how is it different from warriors?

Both Wang Deyong and Di Qing are privy envoys appointed by the emperor!From the bottom of his heart, now Zhao Zhen is really tired of literati acting as privy envoys.Among other things, he almost lost Guangnan because the civil servant was a privy envoy.But you can see that Li Buqi not only pacified Guangnan when he was short of money and food, he also defeated Jiaozhi and made a lot of money.This year it was rainy in the north, and the grain harvest was poor. Thanks to the emergency food transported from Jiaozhi, a lot of people from the central and local areas came to him, the emperor who couldn't change money and food.Although Di Qing only knew how to fight, he used much less troops than the Jiaozhi army to destroy Nong Zhigao and drive the Jiaozhi people out of Guangnan. If he was a civilian leader, he didn't know that the imperial court would send hundreds of thousands of troops Woolen cloth.

Zhao Zhen has already figured it out. If he wants to rely on civil servants and secretaries to command the army to recover Yanyun, it is basically useless. He can only rely on warriors like Wang Deyong and Di Qing, or Li Buqi, who is not sure whether he is a literati or a warrior. .He, Zhao Zhen, also wants to be praised for his great achievements by future generations, so this time he is going to use this excuse to beat the excessive civil servants and let the court restore the balance he established.

Chen Zhizhong was pushed back by Gai Jiao, Wen Yanbo wisely didn't speak, Chen Zhang was suspicious of Di Qing first, and even with Gai Jiao, he couldn't blame Gai Jiao, and there was a moment of silence in the Chongzheng Hall.Zhao Zhen said slowly: "In this case, then Chen Zhang and Gai Jiao will be the principal and deputy envoys... and the police department detective Fang Xiang Lizhong will be the deputy envoys to investigate this matter. What happened to Shumi Di's family? You have to figure it out, so that you don't have to fish in troubled waters."

Chen Zhang had no choice but to accept the decree, pretending that he would investigate the matter to the bottom, but in fact he had already made up his mind and just pretended.In his opinion, there is no way to investigate such rumors. The emperor just wanted to express his support for Di Qing, but since he is the official investigator of the matter, he has the means to make Di Qing clean up and be thrown on it. shit.

But after Chen Zhang and Gai Jiao had a meeting with Xiang Zhongli of the Police Department, Chen Zhang found out that he was wrong, and he was wrong too much.During the meeting, Gai Jiao took out a list of neutral candidates, saying that these people are the people who spread Di Qing's rumors so far. Among them are fortune-tellers and imperial guards...

This surprised Chen Zhang, only then did he realize that Gai Jiao had already made preparations, so he hurriedly asked the source of the list.Gai Jiao only said that it was obtained by someone who secretly investigated Di Qing and felt angry after seeing Di Qing, a great hero of the country, being framed.The censor has the right to speculate, and Chen Zhang has no choice but to show the exact source of the list.

What made Chen Zhang even more horrified was that Xiang Zhongli of the police department actually said that because Di Qing's incident involved important officials of the court, the police department had been spying secretly. However, there are some regular customers of Yushi Zhongcheng's family, students of Guozijian, and nephews of Guange bachelors.The two hit it off immediately, and immediately issued cards to arrest people, completely treating Chen Zhang's envoy as a decoration.

In the end, the two deputy envoys unanimously recommended Chen Zhang to go to Di Qing's house to look for the horned dog, and the matter of interrogating the rumor spreader was left to them two deputy envoys.

The Police Department has always acted vigorously and arrested a large number of rumor spreaders and witnesses for interrogation that day. With the witnesses correcting them, it would be difficult for the rumor spreaders to deny it.Then the police department interrogated those who spread the rumors where they heard the rumors, and then followed the clues.Of course, some are difficult to check, such as the students of the Imperial College, the relatives and friends of the courtiers, or small officials, who can't deny it and then presume that they don't know where they heard it.But Gai Jiao was not in a hurry, and only recorded the names of these people and their relationship with courtiers.

The police department and Yushitai summon hundreds of people every day, and many of them are famous or have connections with important officials in the court, which naturally caused an uproar in the capital.This also made some people smell the danger, and finally realized that now is not the time to spread rumors about warriors unscrupulously like before.In order to get rid of the danger of being bitten out, the police department and Yushitai were asked to stop the investigation, and the memorials to calm the hearts of the people were sent to Tongjin Yintai Department like snowflakes, and the emperor had to order to stop the investigation.

Although the matter seemed to be settled, but Chen Zhang and Gai Jiao wanted to report the results of the investigation to the emperor, and it was impossible for Di Qing's dog to grow horns, and Gai Jiao did not find the ultimate source of the rumor.However, Gai Jiao reported to the emperor that officials of the Privy Council, students of the Imperial College, and relatives and friends of important ministers were suspected of spreading rumors, and these people firmly refused to reveal the source of the rumors, which made the emperor see the danger—Warren Of course, the army can be used to usurp the throne, but if the literati fight against the emperor together, it is not impossible to usurp the throne when the literati are dominant.

Gai Jiao believed that the emperor saw this danger and decided to beat these unscrupulous civil servants. Yushi Zhongcheng Sun Yan became one of the victims-Sun Yan's son-in-law was the one who unscrupulously spread rumors.

All the smart people in the court immediately understood the emperor's anger from this signal.But compared to the emperor's anger, what these people were more afraid of was the pervasiveness of the police department. For a while, the actions of the civil servants calmed down a lot, and it seemed that suddenly no strange things happened in Di Qing's house.

A month later, Li Buqi saw what happened in the letter from the capital, and he just smiled.The fact that Di Qing was framed was too famous, so he naturally knew about it. In order to keep Di Qing, he arranged all the power he could use in the capital to focus on the rumors against Di Qing.

Now that he, Li Buqi, is also a famous general in the Song Dynasty, with Di Qing helping him to share the pressure, there will be fewer open and dark arrows from literati.And this time Li Buqi pushed the police department to the forefront of confrontation with the literati, allowing the literati to see the fangs of the police, which unsurprisingly caused panic among the literati, and they are already discussing how to abolish the evil yamen of the police department up.A group of literati with muscles all grown in their brains, who can only speak out, have to fight against the organized police. Hehe, Li Buqi can only silently mourn for them.

(End of this chapter)