But as long as you hear this name, Hong Tao will never forget it for the rest of your life, and people in later generations do not know who the emperor of the Song Dynasty is, but there are not many people who don't know the traitor Cai Jing.

The main villain in the Water Margin is the corrupt officials of the Northern Song Dynasty headed by Cai Jing, and he also came up with the Birth Gang, which was included in the "Biography of the Traitorous Minister" in the "History of the Song Dynasty".

However, Cai Jing is not quite the same as Gao Yu and Tong Guan, he is a very talented person. This point is not Hong Tao's self-admitted, but Zhang Dian introduced it privately.

In Zhang's words, the mayor of the capital is a political star that both the old and new parties are very optimistic about and strive for. Wang Anshi's vision is high, and when evaluating the current officials, he once said that his sons Wang Yuanze, Cai Jing, and Lu Huiqing are all talents, and the rest cannot be seen.

It is possible that Guangwang Anshi praised Cai Jing on purpose to buy people's hearts, but the old party boss Lu Gongshu also made the same evaluation of Cai Jing. He once invited Cai Jing to the mansion and said in front of a large number of children and grandchildren: I have read countless people, you will definitely be able to sit in my seat in the future, and don't forget to take more care of the descendants of the Lu family when the time comes.

At that time, Cai Jing was just a diplomat who went to Liao, and Lu Gong couldn't make a fuss.

Cai Jing is also really powerful, and he ascended to the position of mayor of the capital in his early forties. Didn't you say it before, this position is likely to be the reserve of the future prime minister.

Is Cai Jing a traitor, Wang Anshi and Lu Gongzhu blind? This matter has to be analyzed dialectically. Judging from his talent alone, he has indeed done practical things in reforming the monopoly system of tea, salt and iron and improving the social assistance system, and is indeed conducive to social development, and he is a very capable official.

Judging from the effect of ruling alone, the issuance of ten coins and tin coins has exacerbated inflation, infinitely satisfied the emperor's extravagant desires for power, and intensified social contradictions.

Hong Tao has long said that the more capable people have, the stronger their desire for power, and if they cannot be reasonably checked and balanced, the greater the harm to the country and society.

What do checks and balances depend on, you can't rely on people, you have to rely on the system, there must be a system that can play a role in checks and balances regardless of whether Cai Jing, Iijing, Roujing, or Jiujing are in office.

Before this system, there would be no checks and balances on Hong Tao alone. At this time, Cai Jing was not in power, and he showed more advantages than disadvantages. If you have to target him, not only will you not achieve your goal, but you will make the courtiers and the emperor think that you are arrogant and suppress your colleagues.

Like killing Wang Zhongzheng and Tong Guan, how about painting a scoop according to a gourd? It's not easy to do, Cai Jing is the Yin of Kaifeng Mansion, and in the words of later generations, he is a *****, a first-class minister. It is too difficult and too risky to kill the mayor of the capital in the capital without realizing it, how can it be calculated.

And there is no point in doing so, a good system can make bad people good, and a bad system will make good people do evil. If you kill one Cai Jing, as long as the system remains unchanged, there will soon be a second, third, and Nth one, and they will never stop killing them by assassination.

"Xiaguan Cai Jing has seen the founding marquis, but my lord thinks that there is something wrong with Xiaguan's appearance?" Hong Tao always involuntarily glanced at Cai Jing, who had already attracted the attention of the other party, and he was quite generous, so he simply came over and took the initiative to meet him.

"Lord Fu Yin laughed, the official just looked at the adult's beautiful hair and was jealous."

Hong Tao really didn't think about how to chat with a big traitor, turn his head and ignore it, it would be too offended, and he would rather offend gentlemen like Su Shi and Wang Anshi than offend villains, this is the experience of the ancestors.

“…… Hehe, it's better to be famous than to meet, the prince is really fast. Originally, it shouldn't be rude to meet for the first time today, but I heard that the prince is about to go to the Daimyo's Mansion in the near future, and it may take some time to meet again. ”

Even though he had heard that the crazy horse was full of madness when he spoke and did things, Cai Jing still choked on the answer about the beard. If you compliment me on something else, we can give it away generously, how can I give it away.

But it is worthy of being praised by the two rising stars, and after being stunned for a while, he immediately returned to normal, and actually came back to the horse pistol and began to take the initiative to attack.

"Lord Cai is a parent official, and everyone in the mansion has to look up to Lord Snort, just open your mouth, except for the official's wife and daughter, you can take everything!" Hey, it's the first time Hong Tao has seen such an ancient official who can chat, he usually used his own words to block others, and today he can be regarded as meeting an opponent.

"Don't dare, don't dare, the prince's book of arithmetic, the book of money, the scriptures of refining have been read by the lower officials, no matter how others evaluate, the lower officials think that the prince is the pillar of the country, and the subtleties are often opened. It's just that the talent of the lower officials is dull, and some places can't be integrated, if the prince doesn't dislike it, can he give a point or two for the lower officials, and Beijing is grateful......"

Cai Jing did not open his mouth widely, let alone covet the means of making money from the horse, but respectfully bowed, intending to seek knowledge.

"Ahh …… Lord Cai is not afraid of people's words? This time it was Hong Tao's turn to be stunned, Cai Jing asked himself for advice on how to govern the country, but he must not have thought of it in advance. He still has to figure out why he did this, but he can't let others think stupidly, and he has to find a more extensive topic to drag on time.

"The lower officials think that no matter how different the political views are, the methods of governing the country should be the same." Cai Jingzhen didn't give time, and ended this big topic with one sentence.

"Hahaha...... It's a good connection. In this case, Lord Cai asked the study to speak...... "Hong Tao is also a grandson, for fear that others will not pay attention to this, so he puffed up his breath and almost suffocated the urine bubbles, laughing This is called an earth-shattering." Then he kindly pulled up the sleeves of Cai Jing's robe and walked side by side towards the study.

Regardless of whether Cai Jing really has patriotic blood or pretends, Hong Tao plans to pour cold water on him. I'll let you ignore political opinions, I'll let you communicate, from here and now on, you kid will have to arouse the suspicion of a group of bigwigs, and don't even think about it if you have eight mouths.

But Hong Tao miscalculated again, from this day on, Cai Jing became a frequent visitor to the Horse Mansion, as long as he had time, he immediately came over with three broken books to rub knowledge and food, which annoyed Hong Tao.

It's definitely not appropriate to not receive it, but it's not appropriate, this grandson has a very good brain, he has enough experience in governance, and he has been a magistrate, and all the questions are dry goods, and he can't be fooled if he wants to.

People are not all asking for it, and there will soon be more errands from Kaifeng Mansion near the Horse Mansion. He said that the founding marquis is not at home all the year round, and as the Yin of Kaifeng Mansion, he has the responsibility and obligation to protect the safety of the family members of the pillars of the country, so as not to distract the horse in office.

In addition, he also took out some of the immature reform ideas he wrote and asked Hong Tao to correct them, and he was not annoyed when he was criticized, and he was not arrogant when he praised a few words, and he would definitely revise the defects every few days and then ask for advice.

Sometimes Hong Tao feels that if he doesn't call Cai Jing and calls him by a different name, he is really willing to treat him as a friend. This guy has a good brain, rich knowledge, and a smooth personality, and he doesn't have too many bad things about politicians, and he is the one who has the least estrangement from him when talking about things.

"What the hell have I done, I actually taught the most famous traitors and corrupt officials in history how to play the economy, national construction, and diplomacy, isn't this aiding and abetting!"

But as soon as he remembered this person's name, Hong Tao wanted Chen Niang to put some sodium nitrite in his tea bowl. It's really a contradiction, what should Cai Jing do?

I didn't get a conclusion about this matter at the beginning of May, and then Hong Tao didn't want to think about it, because it was time for him to get out. Zhao Maid's birthday is over, except for bringing his good son-in-law at the banquet, there is no way to stop the emperor's order, Hong Tao can finally leave this cage-like city.

"You stay in Beijing for the time being, in addition to paying attention to the trends of the imperial court, you will pay special attention to two people for this official, one is King Wu, and the other is Yin Caijing of Kaifeng Mansion. Send someone to keep an eye on it, summarize every move, report it every ten years, and then go there to meet the official after the daimyo's mansion has settled down. ”

The day before leaving, Hong Tao went to the Shunfeng Dart Bureau on Xiyu Street to consign a car of fine soft to the Daimyo's Mansion. In fact, the consignment is fake, and it is true to take the opportunity to meet Wang Shi to arrange the next step.

To say that Wang Shi is really a genius engaged in intelligence work, after staying in Kaifeng City for more than three months, she extended her tentacles into the two largest restaurants, and also used Zhu Bajin's relationship to get in touch with local river workers, and even got acquainted with several lower-level military attaches of the front division of the palace.

I don't dare to say that every move in Kaifeng City is in her eyes, but as long as something big happens, whether it is the court or the people, she can hear the wind the fastest.

In addition, she is also planning a plan to make Hong Tao grin when he listens, infiltrating the palace and the homes of important ministers of the court! The way is to use money and leverage to control the relatives of the relevant people first, and then slowly and gradually.

This plan was approved by the promotion society, and when he reported to Hong Tao, it had become a plan with complete details and high feasibility, and Hong Tao couldn't find a reason to oppose it, so he only added a restriction in the end, not to use flower cream on the Song people!

"The matter of the Big Apple...... "Wang Shi didn't want to go to the Daimyo's Mansion at all, she had mentioned this matter several times.

The reason is very simple, the harvest of intelligence in Kaifeng is greater than that of any other place, so why bother to seek far. In addition, she also discovered an internal official of the Imperial City Division, who was preparing for the second big move, which was to infiltrate the Imperial City Division, codenamed the Big Apple Project.

"It's okay to stare at it, it's not allowed to get close, and if you dare to cut it first, the official will smash your face into a big apple!" What does it mean that a newborn calf is not afraid of tigers? Wang 10: They are. The spies of the Imperial City Division around him didn't figure out who it was, so they dared to reverse infiltration, and they didn't die like this.

"What about Huangzhou Wang Hou?" The rejection of a suggestion did not affect Wang Shi's enthusiasm for work, she was finally able to spread flowers and toss in the deep mountains, and her mind was full of new ideas.

"Just like King Wu, just keep an eye on it, and you must get the permission of this official before taking any move!"