Northern Song Dynasty Revitalization Strategy

Chapter 369 Two Ways, Two Lives
Li Bangyan shook his head and said, "Dazai, you are too upright."

"Such a person doesn't live long. As long as you don't like poetry and songs, you have never been seen in the poetry association."

"Second, I don't like to go to prostitutes, which is far from the word elegant guest. Three, I don't take concubines, and I don't have the friendship of giving concubines."

"In a short period of time, you are a minister of power and the governor of the Great Song Dynasty. No one dares to say anything about you, but if Shengen is not there that day, your reputation of private virtue will harm you instead. It is better to defile yourself."

"That's why I said good things."

Li Bangyan is nearly fifty years old, tears flow quickly, and he walks quickly, just feeling his life.

He wrote long poems of tens of thousands of words, and he wrote them for those talented scholars who have reached the rank of Jinshi. Don't learn from him.

"Self-defilement?" Li Gang chewed on these two words, and said with a smile, "It's not what I want."

"You are a moral saint! You are dedicated to the public! Come on!"

"Are there people like you in this world?" "Others will only use the words 'people have no selfish desires, and what they want are great' to go and chew their tongues at the officials."

"Wait until someone tells you to imitate Wang Mang, let's see what you should do!"

Li Bangyan angrily grabbed two broad beans and threw them into his mouth, chewing them.

Wang Mang's usurping the Han is a typical way for a powerful minister to ascend to the throne.

During the time of Emperor Ping of the Han Dynasty, Wang Mang was the great Sima, and he was already an extremely human minister.

However, the ministers continued to encourage the court to violate the old system, confer the title of "An Han Gong" on Wang Mang, and expand the fiefdom.

At that time, Wang Mang was determined not to have the fiefdom of Xinye!
As a result, more than 48 people wrote letters, asking Emperor Han Ping to give Xinye to Wang Mang.

There are zeros and whole numbers, which are the numbers clearly recorded in the Notes on Daily Life in the Han Dynasty.

Chang'an, the capital of the Han Dynasty, has a population of over one million, and 48 people actually wrote a petition.They are all scholars, scholars who can deliver memorials to the palace.

It is conceivable that when Wang Mang ascended the throne at that time, how popular it was!
Li Gang's current appearance is the only way for powerful officials to go to the imperial power!
Moreover, the official was seriously ill for three days this time, and Li Gang's national dispatch, no one did not respond!

This is the scariest thing!
What if one day Li Gang blocks the Chongde Gate, surrounds the palace city, coerces the emperor to order the princes, or simply kills the emperor directly!
It is simply a breeze.

And this time, when Zhao Huan was seriously ill, Li Gang also designed the Taishanghuang.

He is ready to attack the royal family!
That's why Li Bangyan allowed Li Gang to smear himself. Whether Li Shishi or Mrs. Zhang, if used properly, Li Gang's reputation can definitely be wiped out.

Only in this way will Li Gang be safe.

Li Bangyan did say this for the good of Li Gang, but it is a pity that Li Gang's sentence was not what I wanted, and he rejected the method of self-pollution to make Li Gang safe and fast.

Although Li Bangyan didn't explain clearly, he believed that Li Gang knew what he was talking about when he uttered the word "self-defilement".

"If Li Dazai insists on his personal virtues and doesn't want to defile himself, then Dazai's life will not be long. Look at you, isn't it just marrying two equal wives? What a big deal." Li Bangyan said jokingly.

Li Gang was still shaking his head, and said: "In the laws of the Song Dynasty, there is no such thing as equal wives, monogamy, and no three wives."

"Besides, Mr. Li can bear the matter of taking concubines. What about Mrs. Zhang? That's Concubine Kang. I definitely can't bear the uselessness of such a concubine. Is it possible that I still want to divorce my wife?"

Li Bangyan bit the broad beans loudly. At his age, the time to bite broad beans like this is running out.

He said with a smile: "Why Li Shishi and Concubine Kang found you, Li Gang, have you ever thought about it?"

"The two women understand better than you! They need to find a powerful minister to protect their identity and status."

"You need two women with a bad reputation to lower your Li Gang's reputation! Keep yourself safe! It is based on this reason that the two people entangled you."

"Li Shishi is obviously much smarter than Mrs. Zhang. After Zhao Ji returned to Beijing, she realized the danger of you, Li Gang. She took the initiative to approach you. Mrs. Zhang only showed her fangs after the official's family became seriously ill. something."

"To put it simply, it's just a political marriage where everyone gets what they want. It's just a divorce, and that's it."

Li Gang sat down on the couch, drank two cups of mulled wine, and said: "I don't like Li Shishi. What about a prostitute who is beautiful? I still don't like her. Even if she is the Supreme Emperor's woman, now Gen Yue Lady officer. I don't like it either."

"Let's not talk about Mrs. Zhang. A wretched wife can't be abandoned. I absolutely can't divorce my wife." Li Gang still said worriedly.

My wife is just a woman, how can I understand these court tricks?
"Why don't you just take a concubine? Bring Li Shishi into the house? Let the officials betroth Mrs. Zhang to a Zhao family's son. How can you say that Zhao Yan is also the Duke of the state, and there are a lot of Zhao family clan members waiting." Li Bangyan thought for a while and said.

Li Gang thought for a long time and said: "Forget it. The state owns the state law, and concubines must be 40 years old and have no children. I obviously don't meet the requirements. Are you blatantly violating the state law?"

"What you want is to blatantly violate the national law. Otherwise, you, Li Gang, are such an upright person, and the officials have no handle at all. An Neng can rest assured?"

"Stupid!" Li Bangyan pointed at Li Gang and said.

Li Bangyan is not very fond of the word "private morality", and he hates moral saints even more!

Li Gang is the only moral saint he doesn't hate.

Li Gang was imprisoned for three days in that black coffin!
Three days!How did you survive?

After Li Gang came out, he blatantly turned Bamen into Beijing to kill the world!
In Li Bangyan's view, his perseverance is invincible in the world!

He just wanted to persuade him, he could persuade him as much as he could, and Li Bangyan couldn't help him if he couldn't.

Li Gang is such a stubborn person, once he finds out, even ten cows will not be able to pull him back.

Why does Li Bangyan hate moral saints?
It's not that he hates the word morality, but that he hates some people who say one thing to the face and another behind the scenes.

For example, that Liu Jian, Wan Dao Liu is this kind of guy. On the surface, he is a righteous businessman. After his death, tens of thousands of people snapped up "Liu Jian Biography".

Shit moral saint!It doesn't exist at all!
But Li Gang appeared in front of him, and this guy was acting more and more like a moral saint.

"Anyway, I've said what I have to say. You can decide for yourself. If you have wine today, you will be drunk today, and you will be sad tomorrow. Come on, Dazai, you can drink what is in the cup. Who can care about the worries outside?" Li Bangyan raised his glass and said with a smile .

"Is there no way?" Li Gang said with a sigh.

Officials trust themselves as always, big and small things, regular courts, court meetings are the same as in the past, and even when there is an argument, the official likes to slap the table as always and get angry like a child.

But the more this happened, the worse Li Gang's mood became.

What he did to Zhao Ji has not been punished by the government until now, which really makes him a little worried.

"Then you have to count on the official family to be a hero with great ambitions, who can accommodate you, a saint who walks in the world." Li Bangyan laughed loudly, pointed to Li Gang and said, "Do you think the official family is Lord of England?"

Li Gang thought for a while, then suddenly smiled and said: "Yes, and no."

"Officials have an extremely precise and long-term perspective on right and wrong, the overall situation, and big right and wrong. But when it comes to dealing with specific matters, they are a little...childish?"

"It's too ideal to do things, which is why officials usually get angry when they slap the table."

Li Gang smiled and shook his head again and again.

"I'm not by the official's side, so I can't give you a reference. Alas, I can only drink two more glasses of wine with Dazai." Li Bangyan said sadly.

After speaking, he glanced at the crack of the door.

He is a person who blatantly violated the laws of the country and took more than one concubine. This is not uncommon in the Song Dynasty, and it is even more normal. When did the literati and bureaucrats take the laws of the country seriously?
One of Li Bangyan's concubines is Chazi of the Imperial City Division.

A weak woman with no strength to restrain a chicken, it is absolutely easy for Li Bangyan to deal with her.

But Li Bangyan didn't dare.

Instead, he hoped that the more handles he had in the hands of the officials, the safer he, Li Bangyan, would be.

He Li Bangyan is not Li Gang.

There are two ways of being a courtier, two people are completely different directions, and they live different lives.

Zhao Huan was eating when he received the secret report from Li Bangyan's residence.

Zhao Ying stewed the rabbit leg meat, smoked a piece of barbecued meat, made two dishes of vegetarian dishes, a bowl of porridge, and two large steamed buns with white noodles.

"Is the official family too simple?" Zhao Ying asked cautiously.

"It's all right, I eat to my heart's content." Zhao Huan waved his hands again and again, the four words "exquisite cooking skills" were extremely accurate for Zhao Ying.

The color, fragrance and taste!
nice!
According to the requirements of the palace dinner, there should be eighteen dishes on the table in front of him.

When Zhao Ying went out to Fujun, Zhao Huan almost vomited at the palace dinner!
Not to mention too many rules, just a little bit for each course!
Expensive is expensive, delicious is delicious, and the chef is extremely dedicated and dedicated.

But not hungry!

He would stay up late at night for reviewing papers and reading books. He only ate a few bites of food, and he would be hungry in the middle of the night.

But he has and can't let people from the Imperial Food Bureau cook him supper in the middle of the night.

This means that the official dinner is not good, and the people in the Imperial Food Bureau will be hanged.

In order not to let the people in the Imperial Food Bureau suffer, Zhao Huan didn't hold him accountable.

The emperor is also a human being, and he will also think about his subordinates, otherwise he will lose his heart, and one day his neck will be cut in his sleep, wouldn't it be a laughing stock for thousands of years?
In doing so, Zhao Huan also referred to Song Renzong's practice.

Song Renzong and Zhao Zhen once went on a trip, but they forgot to bring water. They were so thirsty that they saw that their subordinates did not bring any water. They endured it until the end of the trip before letting the servant serve water. It was also for the sake of their subordinates that they would not be punished. . 【from official history】

Zhao Huan felt that he was one of the five good young men of later generations, and he could not do worse than these feudal emperors, so he was not held accountable. Zhao Ying came back and nothing happened.

"It's because you know what I like." Zhao Huan flipped through the papers and ate, and there was only one Zhao Ying waiting in front of him.

Can't talk while eating!Can't read books!Can't think about what to eat!To eat a dish, the eunuch has to feed it into his mouth?

What a mess of rules!
Zhao Huan really can't stand such rules and regulations.

"Two old foxes, their vision is really accurate." Zhao Huan looked at the content of the discussion between Li Gang and Li Bangyan on the letter, and was amazed.

"Official family, I stewed a ginseng chicken soup for the official family. Now it's time to drink it after cooling down. Serve it?" Zhao Ying said with a smile.

The body of the official family is the sky of the Song Dynasty, and it cannot be collapsed.

Recently, he also racked his brains to combine the food tonic prescriptions of the imperial hospital with the preferences of the officials.

The official's food is comfortable, and it can also make up for the body, which is the most important thing for Zhao Ying right now.

"What Li Bangyan can't do, he thinks that Li Gang can't do it. Judge others by himself. But Li Bangyan, an old fox, has really poisonous eyes. Maybe he can guess what I want to do!" Zhao Huan said with a smile.

Zhao Huan took a sip of ginseng chicken soup, and the aroma of ginseng permeated into the soup, bursting the taste buds with a lingering fragrance.

"This chicken soup is good! Make more tomorrow and send some to Concubine Zhu Gui and Zhang Jieyu." Zhao Huan pointed to the chicken soup and said.

"It's fine if the officials like it, but the old minister specially asked famous chefs to cook it, so it's fine if the officials like it." Zhao Ying changed his tricks again, took out a fruit platter, put it on the table, and said: "Yogurt fruit plate. Cheese and yoghurt made by the veterans from the Khitan people are good for digestion. The officials should try it.”

(End of this chapter)