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Not long ago, the Jin Kingdom sent Slaxilu and Dadiu as the chief and deputy envoys, and brought the letter of state to Dengzhou across the sea.

The magistrate of Dengzhou, the King of the Kings, immediately sent people to escort Slaxilu and Dadiu to Tokyo Bianliang City.

Zhao Ji ordered Zhao Liangsi to be responsible for the reception and reception.

Slaxilu and Dadiu were dazzled by the bustling street scene of Bianliang City - the first time they saw such beautiful houses, such beautiful goods, and such beautiful women, they were shocked, and they were deeply attracted by the material civilization of the Song Dynasty.

Zhao Liangsi took them to Xianjing Temple for a banquet - this place is relatively secluded and will not attract attention.

After the meal, Zhao Liangsi arranged for Slaxilu and Dadiu to stay in the Tongwenguan as envoys of the Goryeo Kingdom.

Tongwenguan is located in Anzhou Lane outside Liangmen. It is an inn specially used to receive envoys of the Goryeo Kingdom.

Three days later, Slaxilu and Dadiu entered the palace to pay homage to Zhao Ji as envoys of Goryeo.

Slaxilu and Dadiwu conveyed Wanyan Aguda's greetings to Zhao Ji, and formally submitted the letter of the Jin Dynasty to the Song Dynasty.

The general meaning of this letter of nationality is that not long ago, Zhao Liangsi visited the imperial pen and asked to take back Yanjing and the land under his jurisdiction in the future, and hand over the silver and silk that had been handed over to the Khitan to us. We agreed to this, but after raising the troops, the households who ran to Yanjing in other places were not within the scope of the permit. If your dynasty does not send troops to attack the Khitan in the future, then we cannot take back Yanjing on the grounds that we promised.

Wang Fu was very smart. He soon discovered that among the Jin Dynasty's letters, there was only Yanjing and Suzhou City, and there was no Yundi and Suzhou City, let alone Pingluanying.

Wang Fu quickly explained to Zhao Ji: "The Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun are the seven prefectures in front of the mountain (i.e. Yandi), and the nine prefectures behind the mountain (i.e. Yundi). In addition, Pingzhou, Yingzhou and Luanzhou, the mountains are rolling and dangerous, which can be used as a strategic barrier to defend against the Jurchens in the future, and cannot be given to the Jurchens."

At this point, Zhao Ji realized that he had made a big mistake. He quickly said, "I don't know that there are so many statements in the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun. I always thought that the land of Yanyun was the city of Yanjing and the city under the jurisdiction of the state, so my letter only wrote that I wanted Yanjing and the city under the jurisdiction of the state."

Wang Fu immediately comforted Zhao Ji and said, "Your Majesty, don't worry, let's call Zhao Liangsi first to ask what's going on."

After Zhao Liangsi was summoned to the palace, he understood the reason why Zhao Ji summoned him to the palace and immediately explained: "The emperor of the Jin Dynasty also verbally agreed to the nine states behind the mountain such as Xijing. However, he said that he would wait until they captured the Liao lord before making a settlement. I also pointed out to them specifically, Wei, Ying, Shuo and Shuo are closest to the Song Dynasty, and the Jin army is not allowed to arrive. Our Song Dynasty can also send a large army to occupy these three states first, and then slowly ask them for the other six states behind the mountain."

After hearing what Zhao Liangsi said, Zhao Ji and Wang Fu were relieved.

However, Wang Fu quickly asked again: "What about the three prefectures of Pingluanying?"

Zhao Liangsi replied: "I have asked them for these three states, but they said that these three states were already Khitan before Shi Jingtang ceded the Sixteen State of Yanyun to the Khitan, and were not the old place of our Song Dynasty, so they did not agree to give these three states to us."

Wang Fu frowned and blamed Zhao Liangsi and said, "Why don't you fight for them?"

Zhao Liangsi couldn't say anything about his suffering, so he could only take a secret look at Zhao Ji.

Zhao Ji knew that it must be because he didn't write it clearly that Zhao Liangsi could not fight for it.

Therefore, Zhao Ji said, "This cannot be blamed on Zhao Liangsi, it is all my fault for being foolish. I have always mistakenly thought that Yanyun lost his territory, which is Yanjing lost his territory. What should I do?"

At this time, Tong Guan walked in from outside and said, "The official family should not worry. Send envoys to the Jurchens and explain them in detail."

So, after discussing, Zhao Ji, Wang Fu, Tong Guan and others decided to send Ma Zheng, Ma Kuo and his son to go there.

In addition to discussing the areas that were clearly recovered with the Jin Kingdom, Zhao Ji and others were also busy using the excuse of replacing defenses to exchange the Hebei imperial guards with the Northwest imperial guards. At the same time, they were busy gathering food and supplies, preparing to go north to recover Yanyun.

It was in such a general environment that Zhao Ji summoned Cai Jian to the capital, but he had no time to summon Cai Jian to the palace. After all, the small Cai Jian was not worth mentioning compared to the Lianjin defeating Liao and recapturing the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun.

Cai still came to Tokyo this time and saw that Zhao Ji was only one of the purposes and the smallest one. Cai still had several more important things to do, such as operating Lu Chuan Bian to learn about the Jinwu army, such as operating Wang Sheng, Gao Shidan, Zhai Jin and others transferred to Xingde army, such as adjusting the Xingde army and the Jinwu Left Army, etc....

Therefore, Zhao Ji was not in a hurry to summon Cai Jian, and Cai Jian was not in a hurry to see Zhao Ji.

During this period, Cai still began to clear the relationship.

First of all, the relationship that Cai Shen has cleared, to be precise, should be the consolidated relationship, Cai You and Gao Qiu. The former is the only favorite minister of Zhao Ji who can compete with Wang Fu. Often, he says one word equals to others saying hundreds, thousands, and tens of thousands of sentences. The latter is Cai Shen’s current top leader in direct management. Although he does not have the right to decide many things, he has the right to speak, at least he can propose it.

Secondly, Cai still began to clear the relationship between Tong Guan, Deng Xunwu and Zheng Juzhong. At this time, Tong Guan, Deng Xunwu and Zheng Juzhong were in charge of the Privy Council. Deng Xunwu was the Privy Councilor, and Zheng Juzhong was the Tong Zhizhi Privy Councilor. Tong Guan wanted to mobilize the Western Army to change defense with the Hebei Imperial Army, and Tong Guan currently has more power in the Privy Council than Deng Xunwu and Zheng Juzhong. If Cai still wants to attack Xingde Army, he cannot escape Tong Guan. Deng Xunwu and Zheng Juzhong's approval must at least get one of them.

In addition to clearing the relationship between the Privy Council, Cai still had to clear the relationship between the Ministry of Personnel and the Ministry of War.

In short, because he wanted to swallow the Xingde Army, because he wanted to establish relationships for the promotion of the Jinwu Army soldiers, and finally gained a team that could follow him wholeheartedly, Cai still began his own journey of clearance and bribery.

actually--

Some things are tedious and difficult to do, especially when you really do it, especially when your status reaches a certain level and there is huge support from behind.

To put it short, with Cai still investing regardless of cost, the Privy Council quickly issued an order to transfer defense to the Jinwu Left Army and Xingde Army. The Ministry of Personnel promoted Wang Sheng, Gao Shidan, Zhai Jin and others to the official positions, and the Ministry of War allowed Wang Sheng, Gao Shidan, Zhai Jin and others to transfer to the Xingde Army.

but--

It was not that everything was in line with Cai Jian's wishes. The progress of Lu Chuan Bian's transfer to the Jinwu Army was not so smooth.

Cai Shen didn't know why Lu Chuan and Bian offended Wang Fu. Wang Fu just refused to let Lu Chuan and Bian go to the Jinwu army, and seemed to have made up his mind to send Lu Chuan and Bian to Tanzhou.

Later, Cai Jian asked Lu Chuanbian and asked, and then he roughly understood the reason.

turn out to be--

This is still the case with Cai Jing.

At the beginning, Zhang Shangying was prime minister, but because of his lack of ability, he made the Northern Song Dynasty court a mess. Zhao Ji wanted to let Cai Jing, who had retired, regain the prime minister, and so he sent an envoy to reward Yuhuan to Cai Jing in Hangzhou.

After Wang Fu learned about this, he submitted a memorial to praise Cai Jing's political affairs and attacked Zhang Shangying.

Cai Jing was once again appointed as prime minister and thanked Wang Fu for helping him, so he appointed Wang Fu as the left counselor, and the chief censor, and Wang Fu was promoted from the position of proofreader to the chief censor. It took only two years for Wang Fu to be promoted from the position of proofreader to the chief censor, which was entirely based on Cai Jing's appreciation.

Since then, Wang Fu has become one of Cai Jing's favorite disciples.

At first, Wang Fu tried his best to do things for Cai Jing - he was promoted by He Zhizhong. In order to make Cai Jing dictatorial, he submitted a memorial to He Zhizhong's twenty crimes.

But later, Wang Fu's official position was promoted faster and faster, and there were signs of being out of control of Cai Jing.

The most obvious thing is that Cai Jing and Zheng Juzhong are incompatible, but Wang Fu is in good terms with Zheng Juzhong.

Cai Jing was very angry because of this, so he transferred Wang Fu to serve as Minister of Revenue.

At that time, when the emperor and the emperor were not in charge, Cai Jing wanted to use the insufficient national financial resources as Wang Fu's crime.

Soon, the imperial guards of the various troops went to Zuozangku to make trouble because they did not reward them as scheduled.

After hearing this, Wang Fu posted a big list in front of the army, ensuring that they would reward them on a certain day of a month. After everyone read the list, they all dispersed, and Cai Jing's plan did not come true.

But although Cai Jing failed to beat Wang Fu to death that time, it also caused Wang Fu to be quite frightened, so that Wang Fu quickly surrendered to Liang Shicheng's reputation and sought Liang Shicheng's protection, so that he was spared from being cleansed up by Cai Jing again, and eventually took Cai Jing and replaced him.

Wang Fu always remembered Cai Jing's suppression of him and was determined to find an opportunity to settle accounts with Cai Jing.

But although Cai Jing has retired, his remaining power is still there. The key is that his power is still there, so that Wang Fu can't move Cai Jing at all.

On this basis, Wang Fu could only settle the score with Cai Jing's minions.

One of the people who helped Cai Jing deal with Wang Fu at that time was Lu Chuanbian, and Lu Chuanbian was the one who charged.

It is precisely because of this that as soon as Wang Fu came to power, he demoted Lu Chuanbian to the third department and became a free position. He felt that he was unrestrained. Wang Fu recently planned to transfer Lu Chuanbian to the bitter and cold Tanzhou.

Cai still had a headache when he learned that this was the case.

If I had known that the grudge between Lu Chuan and Bian and Wang Fu was so deep, Cai would not have taken the initiative with Cai Jing to operate Lu Chuan and Bian to the Jinwu Army.

It was not until this time that Cai still realized that Cai Jing, the old fox, was not helping him, and clearly wanted to use his own hands to save Lu Chuanbian and save Lu Chuanbian's political life.

To be honest, Cai still hates this kind of mercy.

But at the same time, Cai Jing's political resources were too rich, so rich that Cai still wanted to inherit the political resources Cai Jing's hands, even if it was just a small part of them.

Secondly, after contacting Lu Chuanbian, Cai still observed and carefully tested, and found that Lu Chuanbian was really suitable to be a "leader" for himself.

So, in the end, Cai still pinched his nose and recognized that he was plotting by Cai Jing, and was preparing to find a suitable opportunity to visit the only person Wang Fu was afraid and the only person he followed - Liang Shicheng.

A few days later, Cai Mao, who was entrusted by Cai Jian to make an appointment with Liang Shicheng's godson Liang Bingcong, brought back news to Cai Jian: "Sixth Uncle, Liang Yanei invites you to get together at Fanlou tonight."

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Chapter completed!