Thanks to Zhao Zhen, the driving force behind the scenes, through Hao Yi's mouth, the entire Beijing city knew the news of the Empress Wumei, which was not a loss for Zhao Zhen, but it was not easy for Wenchen to have a storm.

This kind of thing must be declared as a last resort, how can it be broken by a storyteller in a few words, even if he is erudite, it is impossible to know the secrets of the palace, not to mention that the matter of the queen's five pieces is not seen in the book, only cares about the word of mouth with the royal family.

In addition to the oral tradition of the royal family, only the historian inheritance is left to tell the story, but they will never tell such a secret story to a storyteller!

Pang Ji sat at the top of the wine table, this was a simple gathering in the center, which was already a common thing in the Great Song Dynasty, and the Wenchen were in contact with each other on this wine table, or chanted poems against each other, or sang and danced to cheer up.

But only inseparable from the talk of state affairs, of course, this is also suspected of forming a party for private purposes, but there are so many people in the center, and it is used at public expense to "dinner" The imperial history can not find fault, everyone is a colleague in the same government, chatting with each other about government politics, what is wrong with public and private?

This is the habit of the Chinese people for thousands of years, Zhao Zhen has to turn a blind eye, sometimes in order to reflect the emperor's generosity, but also to order people to send some rare food, in order to reward these troubles, for the court, for the Song Dynasty.

It's just that today's banquet is not joyful, it was originally a small gathering of the princes, but they were shocked by the news sent by the housekeeper one after another, Xia Zhu silently took a sip of the wine glass and then laughed, and Pang Ji shook his head with a wry smile and stopped talking.

Today's banquet not only has the central minister, but also some subordinate officials come to accompany him, and the embarrassed person is Yan Shu, everyone here knows that he was originally a descendant of the official family, and now he has switched to Wenchen, and now the most embarrassing person in the official family has not passed Yan Shu.

Many people are disdainful in their hearts, because even if he is as expensive as a governor, a traitor is a traitor after all, and he doesn't even have a serious assignment except for this title, which shows the dislike of the official family for him.

Anyone with a discerning eye can see that this is the last bit of face that the official family has given him in the love of accompanying reading, and everyone in the world will praise the official family's kindness and will not say that he is good.

Xia Zhu is a person who understands, if he doesn't take care of Yan Shu at this time, it will definitely make him be excluded among the ministers, not only that, but after a period of time, it will also make others feel that the princes are unkind, and the more the official family does not want to see Yan Shu, the more they must take care of him.

This is also the reason why Yan Shu is strongly invited to the banquet, and now the situation in the DPRK and China is clear, and there are several people who strongly support the official family in terms of the prime minister alone, such as Ouyang Xiu, Su Xun and other governors, and the same is true for Han Qi, the governor of Beijing.

Not to mention Fan Zhongyan, who has an excellent reputation even though he is far away in Western Xia, they are all important forces in maintaining the imperial power, but they will also worry that the imperial power is too strong, if the official family abandons their original attachment, these people will definitely bow down to their ears.

Xia Zhu smiled slightly bitterly, why wasn't he like this?

After three cycles of wine and five flavors, Xia Zhu turned to Pang Ji and said: "Pang Xianggong, the official family is beating us through the queen, and the same is true of the previous rewards and reprimands, obviously the official family has already explained the holy will." ”

Pang Ji glanced at Yan Shu, frowned slightly, and said, "In Ziqiao's opinion, why don't you accept it when you see it?" ”

Xia Zhu nodded slightly: "Yes!" ”

Pang Ji's face changed: "Where is Uncle Yan so trapped?" Your Majesty no longer wants to see him, so Your Majesty will definitely be evil! ”

Xia Zhu smiled: "He is an old man in the East Palace, His Majesty's companion, Your Majesty will be lenient even if you don't wait to see him, and the following officials will definitely entrust him with a heavy task to show his leniency." ”

Pang Ji groaned and said: "Okay, at this time, we should focus on state affairs, since Your Majesty has accepted the advice, we should not delay state affairs!" ”

Xia Zhu breathed a sigh of relief, he was actually really afraid, he knew Zhao Zhen too well for so many years, he knew himself too well as an official, he was a prisoner when he was in charge, and he was deeply impressed by Zhao Zhen's unthreatened, what is the temper of the official?

Even if you kill 10,000 enemies and lose 8,000 yourself, you must completely eliminate the threat, which was the case in the first battle of Mandarin Duck Bo, now think about it, if the civil servants continue to be tough again and again, the final result is likely to be that the officials will no longer compromise and continue to weaken the power in the hands of civilian officials with great fanfare.

Yan Shu didn't say anything from beginning to end, how could outsiders know the bitterness in his heart?

Everyone thought that he was a villain who turned his back on the emperor and threw himself into civil officials, but he had to do so, and his ambition was to be a capable minister, a famous minister, not a minister under the protection of the official family.

So from the time he entered the official career, he began to approach the civil official, and the goal was to abandon other people's views of him as "the Son of Heaven's close minister", and sure enough, as he continued to get closer to the civil minister, everyone praised him, but who knew that now he was so down.

He didn't understand that the subordinates and officials who had a good relationship with him in the past had left him, and some people even slandered him behind his back......

A small banquet made the ministers compromise again, they knew that the emperor was not a mediocre monarch but still had to admonish by drastic means, this is the prevention of the ministers, and now the friction between the monarchs and ministers has ended, and the "honeymoon period" has begun.

No matter what happened, the sun still rose in the east, the officials in Beijing still got up early to report the hours on the street, Toutuo still shouted what the weather was like today, and the prodigal son still swayed out of the sweet water alley......

Naturally, the court meeting was also held as in the past, the atmosphere of today's court meeting was obviously much lighter, and the time for Ouyang Xiu's palace test was quickly set, and the courtiers did not have any meaning, Zhao Zhen sighed slightly in his heart, this is the benefit of the monarch and the minister.

There was a harmonious atmosphere in the hall, which anyone with a discerning eye could see, and the military generals could naturally understand that Di Qing, who was a privy envoy, was still serious, and Peng Qi's whispers on the side were directly filtered out by him.

"Goryeo envoy to meet you!"

Outside the main hall, after the inner attendant announced the call, the Goryeo delegation wearing the official uniform of the Han family entered the field of vision, although it was slightly the legacy of the Tang Dynasty, but it was not much different from the official uniform of the Great Song Dynasty.

"Foreign Minister Jin Shenquan see His Majesty the Emperor of the Great Song Dynasty!"

Different from the previous symbolic tribute, this time the Goryeo team can be described as luxurious, this Jin Shenquan is Goryeo's Zuo Cheng and the governor of the Great Song Dynasty, and Goryeo has been learning from the Central Plains Dynasty for a long time in the system, following the three provinces and six departments of the Tang Dynasty, and at the same time absorbing the Song system, setting up the Privy Council, merging the Zhongshu Province and the Menxia Province into the Zhongshu Menxia Province, holding the two handles of civil and military, known as the "Zaishu Two Provinces".