Chapter 1,188 The King of Wei went to Song Dynasty
Chapter 1196 The King of Wei went to Song Dynasty
Bianjing Nanxunmen.
Yelu Yixin's carriage was slowly driving in, and his driver came face to face with Li Dingzheng, who was leaving the city and was demoted to Yongzhou.
Li Ding impeached the Prime Minister and was demoted to Lingnan due to his untruthful impeachment and the use of private armed forces to raid the Prime Minister's estate without going through the Kaifeng Prefecture.
The dignified censor Zhongcheng was exiled to Lingnan.
Li Ding had no good ministers in the dynasty, and he always claimed to have no party. Furthermore, he relied on Wang Anshi to get a beautiful official, and he falsely accused Su Shi of crimes. The public opinion was not good. Therefore, no one interceded.
Zhang Yue was a little surprised when no one asked for mercy.
In the end, it was Cai Que who spoke up. He told Zhang Yue that Li Ding was an important minister after all, and it would not be a good idea to exile Zhongcheng, one of the four chief censors, to Lingnan, as it would set a bad precedent.
Let’s talk about Zheng Xia, who had previously been in charge of public affairs, and Tang Gao had been demoted to Lingnan. After all, Li Ding was an important minister and still had to save some face. Although Zhang Yue suspected that Cai Que was behind this matter, he still thought of him in the end.
Because of his kindness, the day before Li Ding's departure, he was transferred to Yongzhou on Jinghu South Road.
This is to ask Li Ding to go up the mountain to catch snakes. He might just like Liu Zongyuan and leave some articles to be handed down for generations.
At this moment, Li Ding was holding a book in front of Nanxun's door, and he also had mixed feelings. He said to his disciples who followed him: "My father, a scholar, was poor and could not survive. Thanks to the support of the clan, I have been an official all these years and finally used my official salary to make a living."
Paying off the old debt can also be regarded as repaying the clan's great kindness."
"Now that I can go to Yongzhou and make a living on my own, I won't be wasting my family tradition of farming and studying in the Li family."
After hearing this, Li Dingshuzi bowed and said yes.
Although Li Ding reached the rank of Yushi Zhongcheng, he was a poor official. Not only did the family members not have the dandy style in the yamen, but they all maintained the simplicity of poor students.
After finishing speaking, Shuzi got on the donkey cart first.
Li Ding said to the officials who came to see him off: "I don't think he was defeated morally, but because he was defeated by tricks."
"It's ridiculous that some people keep saying that conspiracy is the worst, but they themselves are using it."
Li Ding is still not angry when he thinks about it now. Zhang Yue is a man who likes to kill people and punish people, and he has no prime ministerial demeanor at all.
The officials did not dare to answer. At this time, it was bad for someone to convey their words to Zhang Yue's ears. It was not easy for them to come to see Li Ding off.
One person said: "Succeeding as a king and losing as a bandit, if Mr. Li cares about it any more, he will not have the courage to do so."
Li Ding sneered when he heard this and said nothing.
But some officials who came to see him off couldn't help but sigh when they saw Li Ding's chariot driving: "The officials promoted by Duke Jing over the years are all honest in terms of conduct."
Everyone said yes.
Li Ding boarded the donkey cart and gazed at the palace for a moment, then finally set off with his whip raised.
When Li Ding was demoted, another censor, He Zhengchen, had also been demoted.
He Zhengchen and Zhang Zhi were Jinshi in the same year, and they had a good relationship. He Zhengchen was also quite upright as an official, and was appreciated by Wang Anshi, who later targeted Su Shi in the Li Ding Wutai Poetry Case.
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At this moment, He Zhengchen was going to see Zhang Zhi.
It turned out that before Li Ding impeached Zhang Yue, he had been in contact with Zhang Zhiduo and even reported information.
Now Zhang Zhi does not live in Zhang's mansion. People come and go in Zhang's mansion, and there are more than a hundred people under Zhang Yue's court alone, which is not conducive to the care of his condition. So Zhang Zhi bought a house in Yiqiumen, Bianjing.
He moved out of a house and became a neighbor to Su Zhe.
Zhang Shi and Yu also moved here.
In this way, the Zhang family's first and third bedrooms were officially separated.
Now Zhang Zhi is half-lying on the bed. After nearly two years of training, he can barely get out of bed.
"This matter is finally over. You have been demoted from the capital this time. It is expected that you will rise again later." Zhang Zhi looked a little pale and spoke to He Zhengchen feebly.
"That's what I said, but as for the Prime Minister, I would like to ask Zizheng to speak kindly to me. To be honest, I don't feel confident yet."
Zhang Zhi was silent for a moment and said: "You are hedging your bets. Although you have the ability to inform the news, the Prime Minister may not be able to remember it in his heart. I am now half a useless person and have not been involved in government affairs for a long time. Even the Prime Minister rarely moves around.
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He Zhengchen was silent for a moment, and finally stood up to say goodbye.
Mrs. Lu stepped out from behind the screen, and she heard clearly what He Zhengchen said just now.
"He Zhengchen is so groveling, why don't you ask your third uncle for a favor."
Zhang Zhi said: "I am far away from the government now, so it is not appropriate to ask about these things anymore. Besides, the third uncle must have his own arrangements."
Lu said: "Your third uncle is now the prime minister, and you have to serve him every step of the way."
Hearing Lu's meaning, Zhang Zhi smiled slightly and said: "In the past, I wanted to wrap my body in horse leather, but now I want to hide in the city."
After hearing what Zhang Zhi said, Lu Shi suppressed her full resentment. Lu Shi said: "Now my father and Zhang Gong have different opinions on the party's expedition. Don't the officials want to be in a dilemma?"
Zhang Zhi said with a smile: "I'm in such a bad shape. You see, we are living a good life like this."
Ms. Lu was still full of resentment and said: "It's a pity that I am sitting on the bench."
Hearing this, Zhang Zhi laughed and hugged Lu and said, "It's enough for me to come back alive and see you, so why ask for anything else?"
When Mrs. Lu heard this, she looked happy and said, "Yes, what the official said is right."
She raised her head and saw that Zhang Zhi's face was very ugly after he finished speaking. Knowing that his old injury had relapsed, she quickly helped him lie down on the bed again.
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After Li Ding and He Zhengchen left, Zhang Yue chased and demoted several of Li Ding's remaining members. Those who had provided force to Li Ding to take Yeluhong were not allowed by Zhang Yue. Su Song, the prefect of Kaifeng Prefecture, uprooted them all.
wipe out.
When he offended the powerful minister of the dynasty, not only did he say what he said, but Zhang Yue didn't even need to wink, the people below knew how to rush to do things.
The official family did not have the Yushi Zhongcheng for the time being, so Chen Mu changed it to Quanzhi Xueyuan, with Shu Yu serving as the Yushi and knowing miscellaneous matters, and became the head of the Yushitai.
But when Yelu Yixin entered the city, he didn't know that the person leaving the city on the other side was Li Ding, who was dismissed from office because of him.
After Yelu Yixin arrived in Bianjing secretly, he chose a secret place to settle down.
Among them, the officials kept sending confidants and chamberlains to ask about Yelu Yixin's attitude, but Yelu Yixin refused to answer anyway.
In the end, Li Xian died in person. After hearing that it was Li Xian, Yelu Yixin was moved and said, "I know you."
Li Xian smiled and said: "Thanks to King Wei for his respect, I wonder who killed King Wei?"
Yelu Yixin sighed: "It's hard to describe in one word."
Li Xian ordered people to serve wine, poured a glass for Yelu Yixin himself and said, "King Wei, please speak."
Yelu Yixin picked up the wine and drank it all in one gulp, then said: "After Zhang Xiaojie and I were dismissed, we were replaced by Liang Ying, the former Privy Council scholar."
"Liang Ying?" Li Xian looked questioning, and the envoy on the side said: "This person came to celebrate Tongtian Festival (the emperor's birthday) as an envoy in the sixth year of Xining."
"Afterwards, he and Xiao Su participated in land exploration negotiations in Hedong. According to Shen Kuo, this person was quite strong and had several disputes with us. There are no further records."
Li Xian couldn't help but shake his head. For such an important figure who could bring down Yelu Yixin, the Song Dynasty court knew very little about him.
Yelu Yixin said: "Liang Ying is a Han and Zhang Xiaojie is the same imperial scholar. Although Liang Ying is a Han, she is attached to Xiao Su, the envoy of the Privy Council of Zhibei. This person is my king's great enemy."
"However, I didn't care about these Han ministers at that time. My king's biggest enemy is the Khitan royal family and descendants who are attached to the crown prince. The Han officials have no foundation and are nothing to be afraid of. Who would have expected that in the end he would advocate against me
, it is this Han minister Liang Ying. After I lost power, this person tried his best to deal with me and Zhang Xiaojie's remaining party. Zhang Xiaojie was the one who advocated exile. If I had not gone to Song Dynasty, I would have died now."
"In the words of you Han people, you have been chasing geese all your life, only to be pecked in the eye."
Li Xian laughed when he heard this and said: "The King of Wei was born in a poor family, but to be able to be one person below ten thousand people shows how capable King Wei is."
"From ancient times to the present, if a poor family has failed to challenge a noble family, it is often a new poor family that replaces the old poor family, not the old noble family. Even if the poor family succeeds in challenging the noble family, it will become a new noble family."
Yelu Yixin said: "You are right. Now the Northern Privy Envoy Liang Ying is in power in the Liao Kingdom, but he does not win the trust of your majesty... The Lord of Liao has much less trust than I did at the beginning."
Li Xiandao: "Why did the Lord of Liao like to use Han officials?"
Yelu Yixin said: "Your Han system does have something that we, the Liao Kingdom, can learn from. For example, our Northern and Southern Privy Councils, and our Northern and Southern Zhongshu sects all refer to your Han system. The ministers of this dynasty are skilled in bows and horses, and they are very familiar with cultural relics and laws.
It’s really not as clear as you Han people.”
"However, our subordinates of Zhongshu of the Liao Kingdom cannot predict political affairs unless they are also Privy Councilors. They are just Han Prime Ministers and cannot be regarded as real Prime Ministers."
After hearing what Yelu Yixin said, the accompanying envoys on the side quickly took notes and wrote down that the Song Dynasty really knew nothing about the official system of the Liao Kingdom.
Li Xiandao: "As far as I know, the current Han prime ministers of Liao are Liang Ying and Yang Zunxu. He is also the real prime minister!"
Yelu Yixin said: "This person and Liang Ying are related to each other, but they are not as good as each other. When I killed the crown prince, this person didn't say a word. Now he has been ignored by the Lord of Liao."
Li Xian was overjoyed in his heart, but at the same time he pretended to sigh: "Since ancient times, the rise of an emperor must have a generation of famous ministers. Now that King Wei has passed away, isn't there no one available to the Lord of Liao? Why can't we give up?"
Yelu Yixin laughed and said: "Back then, Emperor Taizu had a strong army and strong horses, so he wanted to spy on the Central Plains. He told the Tang envoy that if you come to the north of the river with me, I will not invade the south again."
"Now that you Han people have made reforms to become stronger, after seizing Xihe Road, you forced Dangxiang to cede territory, almost forcing Li Bingchang and Liang's mother and son into a dangerous situation. Will you not regain the Sixteenth Prefecture of Yanyun in the future?"
Li Xian smiled when he heard this and said: "King Wei, our Song Dynasty is to recover Xihe Road, not to seize Xihe Road."
Yelu Yixin said: "Is it interesting for you to play these word games? Land can be ownerless, and only the strong can live in it, while the weak will lose it or crawl in front of the strong."
Li Xiandao: "So who are the people in the Liao Kingdom who advocate the invasion of the Song Dynasty now?"
Yelu Yixin laughed when he heard this and said: "I want to see your emperor of the Song Dynasty!"
Li Xiandao: "Our family will make arrangements for King Wei!"
Yelu Yixin nodded and immediately closed his eyes and said nothing. Li Xian got up and said goodbye and returned to the palace to report to the emperor.
Ps: Liao history records that Liang Yijie (Liang Ying), the prime minister of the country, killed Yingbi (Yixin), killed thousands of people, and established Yanxi (Emperor Tianzuo) as the emperor's grandson.