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Hearing that the court was kind enough to entertain Jin envoys and sent Cai Jian to Fanlou, the first floor of the Song Dynasty, to see, Cai Jing immediately dragged his elderly body into the palace to see Zhao Ji.

Zhao Ji was not sure why, and he didn't know why Cai Jing suddenly entered the palace, but he still invited the important officials he had relied on the most immediately.

After Cai Jing entered the hall, Zhao Ji soon found that Cai Jing's legs were getting more and more unstraight, so he asked the eunuch to bring a chair for Cai Jing.

Cai Jing thanked him very much for this.

After Cai Jing sat down, Zhao Ji took the initiative to ask, "I don't know what happened to my beloved minister when he entered the palace?"

Cai Jing stood up and said, "At the time of his ancestors, they were very etiquette and very sensible in dealing with foreign envoys. They never showed extravagance to prevent their greed. Now, the King of Kings actually welcomed the Jin envoys with kindness and took the Jin envoys to Fanlou. If this continues, the national affairs are worrying! The old minister risked his life to advise, and ask Your Majesty not to use the slander to deal with the major affairs of the military and national affairs."

After saying that, Cai Jing knelt down and burst into tears at the same time.

Cai Jing's words made Zhao Ji realize that he might have committed a big taboo.

But--

Zhao Liangsi had already notified the Jin envoy, and Cai would accompany them to Fan Tower tonight. The tree was already in a boat and could not be saved. He could only learn from it as a warning and would not be an example.

Zhao Ji said: "Ti Shi Cai's words are reasonable. I know that they did not do this properly. It will cause harm to the excessive etiquette of the Jin envoy and beyond the rules. Too much is as bad as too much, and it will definitely be harmful to the fact that it is too much."

Cai Jing can be said to have watched Zhao Ji grow up. He knows that since Zhao Ji said such words, there is no possibility of this matter changing.

This made Cai Jing, who was no longer powerless, feel helpless!

Cai Jing only stood for a while and his legs trembled very hard.

Seeing this, Zhao Ji said, "I don't have good legs and feet, so I don't need to be polite. Just sit and talk when I have something to do."

Cai Jing was so moved that he wanted to kneel down and thank him again, but was grabbed by Zhao Ji.

Zhao Ji said: "We are not only the monarch and minister, but also the family of in-laws. It is reasonable to sit opposite each other."

Cai Jing said: "Your Majesty, there are only monarchs and ministers above this hall, and there is no other. Your Majesty feels sorry for the dying body of the old minister. He is so grateful to him."

Zhao Ji said: "Although my old beloved has retired, I am still worried about the world and the country's affairs. I am very moved. I understand the responsibility of the receptionist of the Messenger, so please don't miss the Grand Master. After all, the Grand Master is nearly 80 years old, so I will work less and take care of it in the future. It is better to maintain my life."

Zhao Ji changed his mind and said, "By the way, can you tell me what happened between Maode and the child of Jae? Why did she also make trouble with Chongde and Xunde?"

When Zhao Ji talked about this, Cai Jing smiled bitterly. He said, "I don't know what happened. Since Emperor Ji left home and moved to the back of Daxiangguo Temple eleven months ago, he has never come back. The old minister once asked the teenager where he offended the ecstasy. But the ecstasy said that he and the ecstasy had always respected each other and did not offend the ecstasy. However, Emperor Ji just hid and disappeared. Later, the old minister asked his concubine Taohong to find Emperor Ji several times, but she was sent back by Emperor Ji's maid without even seeing the ecstasy."

Zhao Fujin is handsome and gentle. He is the most beautiful among Zhao Ji's large group of daughters. Zhao Ji's favorite is this daughter.

The young man Cai Yan was gentle and talented. He was at the time of Xuanhe Palace. He loved calligraphy and painting and was very popular with Zhao Ji.

Zhao Ji originally thought that this was a match made by heaven.

It's okay, they got together, and it only took more than a year to do this.

Zhao Ji was also having a headache!

After a while, Zhao Ji said, "Then wait until I've been busy for this period of time, I'll come and ask Maode."

Cai Jing and Zhao Ji chatted for a long time before saying goodbye to Zhao Ji and returning home.

As soon as he arrived home, Cai Jing called Cai Tao and asked him to invite Cai Jian.

Cai Shen and Cai Jing's family have always had a good relationship. From time to time, they would come to Mingluan Hall to have a meal. They had a better relationship with Cai Tao. When Cai Tao was fine, they would run to Cai Shen's place.

Cai Jing was happy to see this and vaguely divided Cai Shen's party into his own sphere of influence.

This is also one of the reasons why Cai Jing has become active recently.

Although he is already seventy or eighty, Cai Jing has never died of his intention to regain prime minister. He felt that although he is not young, he can still be prime minister for ten years.

Now that Cai still has the support, Cai Jing feels that he has the strength to regain prime minister.

only--

Cai Shen and Wang Fu both supported the recovery of Yan Yun, while Cai Jing opposed the recovery of Yan Yun.

This prevented Cai and Cai Jing from being able to fully unite.

but--

Because Cai Shen's authority is getting heavier and heavier, because Cai Jing still has a lot of talent resources, because both parties are kinship, the relationship between the two parties is still very close. Well... it can also be said that Cai Jing has been trying hard to win over Cai Shen.

To this end, Cai Jing and Cai Jing made a lot of contributions to the fact that Cai still recruited civil servants and literati.

Although there was something important to do in the evening, Cai still came here as soon as possible when he learned that Cai Jing was going to see him.

As soon as they met, Cai still said affectionately: "Uncle, do you have something to come to me?"

Cai Jing smiled and said, "Let me have a pair."

Cai Jian smiled and said, "It just so happened that my nephew's addiction to chess is also a big deal."

The maid brought the chessboard and chess pieces.

Guess.

Cai still held Bai first.

Cai still gave up a son cleanly.

Seeing this, Cai Jing slowly let go of one son.

In this way, you and I have made about a dozen moves. Cai Jing said, "Go to Fanlou to entertain Jin Envoy tonight?"

Cai still gave up a son and said, "The court hopes that I will shock the Jin envoys so that they will gain more and more greed."

Cai Jing said: "Wang Fu is right in this step. Since he has aroused the greed of his allies, he must show his powerful force to his allies so that even if they are ready to move, they dare not act rashly."

The two of them went down for a while, and Cai Jing said, "Do you still have to continue fighting with Tong Guan?"

Cai Shen has a high political sensitivity. Besides, Cai Shen raised Li Gang and a large number of excellent staff members such as Li Guang were not in vain.

The key is that the several intelligence departments Cai still has in his hands were not established in vain.

Although Cai still didn't know about Tong Guan and Zhao Ji's soul-studying conversation the past two days ago, Cai still stuck with Tong Guan's spy, but had already reported the idea that Tong Guan's aides had given to Tong Guan to Cai Gan. In other words, Cai still vaguely knew what cards Tong Guan wanted to play, and even vaguely knew that Tong Guan wanted to deal with some of his strategies.

It has to be said that although Cai still has run fast enough in the past two or three years, his background is still far from challenging Tong Guan. If it weren't for the Fang La uprising that it had caught Tong Guan off guard, he wouldn't even be qualified to challenge Tong Guan.

More importantly, Tong Guan has two advantages that Cai still can never match - Lao He is a eunuch.

I won’t talk about it anymore, this is a problem that Cai still cannot solve.

As for eunuchs, Cai still can't castrate himself in order to fight with Tong Guan, right?

But although he had already vaguely felt that he might not be able to compete with Tong Guan, Cai still firmly gave up a son and said, "Fight."

Cai Jing didn't say anything, but just continued to play chess with Cai.

As he went down, Cai still spent more and more time pondering, but Cai Jing was still calm.

I don’t know if it was a coincidence or Cai Jing’s intentional layout.

When the chess reached the middle game, the situation of the black and white pieces was actually similar to the situation that Cai still faced now.

Seeing this, Cai still stubbornly controlled his white zi and kept killing to the left, hoping to break through the siege, and then connect with a piece of white zi that he had set up for a long time in the distance, and then destroy Cai Jing's black zi in one fell swoop.

But Cai Jing blocked the white dragon on Cai Shen's left as a rock, while searching for Cai Shen's weakness on the right and biting it steadily and fiercely.

After fighting for a long time, Cai Dan finally broke out of Cai Jing's siege and got what he wanted and connected with a piece of white that had been laid out in the distance for a long time.

But Cai still couldn't be happy at all because he lost - just as Cai still rushed forward desperately, Cai Jing had already killed him silently without leaving any hesitation.

Cai still looked at the chessboard and said nothing.

Not long after, Cai Jing's voice sounded: "Do you know why you lost?"

Cai still looked up at Cai Jing and said, "Please give me advice."

Cai Jing said: "If you want to achieve great things, you must remember four words."

Cai still asked: "What four words?"

Cai Jing paused word by word and said, "Go with the flow."

“Go with the flow?”

Cai still woke up from a dream!

Yes.

For a long time, in Cai Gan's heart, Zhao Ji, Zhao Huan and his son were both incompetent, and Zhao Song would surely perish. If he did not take action, Jingkang's shame would inevitably happen.

But now I think, if Zhao Ji had not made mistakes repeatedly in the process of regaining Yan Yun, if Zhao Ji had not passed the throne to Zhao Huan, who was as stupid as a pig, if Zhao Huan had not always fought and swayed during the process of the Jin people's southward movement, would the Northern Song Dynasty have perished?

Cai still tried his best to suppress his prejudice against the Northern Song Dynasty, and then tried to analyze this matter from the perspective of a bystander.

As a result, Cai still easily came to the conclusion that the Northern Song Dynasty should not perish, at least it would not perish so quickly, nor would it be so shameful.

To be honest, although Zhao Ji has not been tempted over the years, the foundation of the Zhao Song Dynasty was too profound, so profound that unless Zhao Ji's monarch and ministers kept making mistakes in the process of regaining Yan Yun like in history, Zhao Huan, after rushing to replace Zi Zhao Ji's throne, did not adopt some important strategies to save the country, but all of them adopted important strategies to mislead the country. The Jin Kingdom, which had just completed the snake swallowing elephant and destroyed the Liao Kingdom, could not destroy Zhao Song at all.

After all, in history, the original purpose of the Jin people to go south was only because Zhao Song repeatedly did not keep his word and always made small moves behind him, and they wanted to teach Zhao Song a lesson. Their biggest goal was to draw the Yellow River with Zhao Song and control it. Later, they crossed the Yellow River, but they just wanted to show off their power, and their idea was to grab the point and leave.

It was Zhao Huan's sudden move that forced the Jin people to attack the city of Bianliang in Tokyo, and allowed the Jin people to dream-break the outer city of Bianliang in the same way, and then completed the Jingkang shame without bloodshed.

If Zhao Ji and Zhao Huan did not make such a fool of themselves as in history, even if they only woke up in a few major decisions, Zhao Song might not have perished with the shame of Jingkang like in history.

Then...If Zhao Song was not so destructive, how could he take it and replace it? Can people in the world recognize themselves as the former minister of Zhao Song as their new emperor?

If we go against the trend, can we still overthrow Zhao Song?

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Chapter completed!