Imperial Palace, Chongzheng Palace.

The official Zhao Ji sat on the throne, with a solemn appearance, and he looked like a wise man.

In the main hall, the chief deacon, the privy councillor, the imperial historian, the Hanlin scholar, the scholar and other important ministers are either sitting on the pestle, or standing solemnly, or standing up to speak.

The speaker was Jiang Zhiqi, a scholar of Hanlin and a member of the Privy Council.

The content of Old Man Jiang's speech is related to the "Northern Grain and Southern Transportation", he served as the deputy envoy of the Sixth Route Shipment and the Sixth Route Shipping Envoy for many years during the Yuanfeng period, and he has quite a political achievement. During his tenure, he presided over the excavation of a section of the new river from the left side of Guishan Mountain to Hongze Lake, which not only increased the transportation capacity of the canal, but also diverted the Huai River and alleviated flooding. Therefore, he is recognized as an expert in Cao Yun, and he saw the suggestion of "Northern Grain and Southern Transportation" in the newspaper and felt that it was very insightful, so he went to the concert to request a trial.

However, he did not approve of the Jiehe City Shipping Division presiding over the transportation of grain from the north to the south, but advocated that the Sixth Route Shipping Division should be in charge. The reason is also very simple, the amount of grain transported north by the Sixth Route Shipping Division depends not only on the carrying capacity of the canal, but also on the quantity of rice and grain purchased by the Sixth Route Shipping Division. Of the six or seven million stone rice grain offered on the six roads, about one or two million stone were bought, and the rest were collected and paid. If we want to increase the transportation volume of millions of stone a year, the Sixth Route Shipping Division must buy more rice and grain, build more ships, and also consider the grain production of the Sixth Route in the southeast. In short, it is a very troublesome thing......

Of course, the old man Jiang, who talked a lot of nonsense, would not know that Wu Haogu, a traitorous minister, did not consider buying a large amount of grain from the six southeast roads to transport it north by sea - the suggestions for transporting rice and grain from Haizhou to the north published in the "Wenqu Xingxun Bao" are all deceptive, the price of grain in Haizhou is not low, and the shipping route around the Shandong Peninsula is too long. All kinds of factors add up, the cost of transporting grain is not low, so where can the company in Jiehe City make huge profits?

Wu Haogu's real plan was to ask the imperial court for a price in the name of transporting enough grain from Haizhou to the north, and then buy a small amount of grain from Haizhou and go north by sea, and buy a large amount of grain from the Tokyo Road of Liao.

Liaoguo Tokyo Road is the later Northeast granary, the land is fertile, the population is sparse, a large area of black soil has not been developed, there is a lot of room to increase production, and there is Liaohe River water transportation and Bohai Bay shipping, the transportation cost is not high.

If Wu Haogu asked Jiehe City to purchase wheat from the Liaoguo Tokyo Road in Jiehe Shang City to replace the rice from the southeast of the Great Song Dynasty, then refer to the cost of buying rice from the southeast 6th Road to set the price. Then just 780,000 or 800,000 koku (200,000 or 300,000 koku purchased from Haizhou) of Tokyo Province wheat per year can make Jiehe City Boji eat the price difference of hundreds of thousands of yuan!

Song Huizong didn't know Wu Haogu's calculations now, so he felt that what Jiang Zhiqi said still made some sense. However, he didn't make a decision right away, but after Jiang Zhiqi's words were finished, he thought noncommittally for a while, and then led the topic to a strange case.

"I don't know if you know that there was a strange case of a dead man marrying two wives in Kaifeng Mansion recently?"

Hearing Zhao Ji's words, the old party members present were all chuckling in their hearts.

Recently, there has been more than one strange case of a dead man marrying two wives in Kaifeng Mansion! If this strange case outside the palace finally determines that the reunion of the Yu family with the dead Chen Dalang is invalid, then what will Empress Meng in the palace do?

If it is determined that the reunion between Yu and the deceased husband is valid, then it is equivalent to acknowledging that a husband can marry a second wife and a dead person can marry a living man...... Do you want Confucianism? Don't you become a beast? For the sake of a Queen Meng, it's not enough to let everyone be beasts!

It's really hard to do!

"Your Majesty," Deputy Prime Minister Zeng Bu spoke, "The minister knows about this case, and the minister thinks that although the reconciliation between the Yu family and Chen Dalang is inappropriate, it is even more ridiculous to reunite after Chen Dalang's death. How can a dead man marry a living man? How can a husband marry two wives? This kind of practice is contrary to the way of human ethics, but it is done by an ignorant old woman out of the affection of her mother-in-law and daughter-in-law, and Kaifeng Mansion cannot destroy the road of human ethics because of this. ”

"Since harmony is inappropriate, it should be invalid." Han Zhongyan spoke stubbornly, "Therefore, the Yu family has always been Chen Dalang's wife, and the Wang family he married later should not be regarded as a wife!" ”

Zhao Tingzhi interjected in the imperial history: "If you don't want to leave, you can also leave, there are documents from Kaifeng Mansion as evidence, how can it be invalid?" And Wang's entry has three media and six hires, and the etiquette is complete, how can he not be a wife? If the wives hired by the three media and six hired by the six are not counted, then the way of humanity is not bad? ”

Fan Chunli from the old party also got up and spoke: "The way of marriage should be from parents, Chen Dalang disobeyed his mother's order and abandoned his hair, which is unfilial." I rule the world with filial piety, and divorce should be invalidated, so the Yu family is Chen Dalang's main room. ”

"There are three unfilial pieties, and no queen is great!" Li Qingchen of the New Party took over the topic and said, "The Yu family was abandoned because he had no children, and what Chen Dalang did was in line with filial piety, and Chen's mother did not raise objections in Kaifeng Mansion at that time, so it cannot be judged that Chen Dalang is not filial." Later, Chen's mother advocated that Chen Yu and the two reunite, because Chen Dalang had no queen until his death, and it can be seen that the root of the queenless is not in the Yu family, and Chen's mother and Yu's love are like mother and daughter, so they took the Yu family back. Although the divorce is unfair to the Yu family, it is not against filial piety, and Chen Dalang also uses capital and wealth to properly settle the Yu family's life, so it does not violate the three non-returns. Therefore, the reconciliation between Chen Dalang and Yu is completely legal and valid. ”

Of course, the truth of this matter is on the Wang family's side! He Tianhe's salary of 3,000 yuan a year is not taken for nothing! Therefore, a few gentlemen of the old party can't talk about the traitors of the new party. And...... The gentlemen of the old party are not gold medal lawyers! It is good that they are officials who have passed the imperial examination, but the imperial examination in the Song Dynasty does not test the law, although after high school, training and assessment in the field of uniform law will be carried out, but this kind of training and assessment is often a formality, and it does not make officials become experts in law.

Moreover, the legal awareness of Confucian officials is usually relatively thin, which is related to the way of ignoring law and emphasizing education in Confucianism.

At the same time, the litigators of the Song Dynasty had undergone special "litigation" training, with special teaching materials, special guilds, and masters and apprentices, and they had long been better than monkeys.

How could an official be able to play a litigant? Therefore, as a last resort, the Great Song Dynasty had to issue the rule of "suing things and not doing their own law" to suppress the lawsuit. However, this law can only compress the space for the activities of the litigant in the court, and legal activities such as writing pleadings, serial confessions, finding loopholes, and finding evidence still require the litigant.

Wu Haogu, on the other hand, has played a new level of play, employing "perennial legal counsel", and all the contract evidence signed by the Republic Bank and its subordinate firms, the internal account office of the Wu family and Wu Haogu himself must be reviewed or drafted by the litigation team.

He even hired a full-time team of lawyers for the Jiehe Chamber of Commerce, the Senate of Jiehe Shang City, and the Jiehe Shang Municipal Office, including not only lawyers who were proficient in the laws of the Song Dynasty, but also Liao lawyers invited from Xijin Prefecture.

The "internal regulations" of Jiehe Commercial City were also formulated by the litigation group first, and then discussed and voted on by the Senate.

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The result of asking the right questions in the Chongzheng Palace will definitely be very unfavorable to the old party and Empress Meng, even if Han Zhongyan and Fan Chunren try their best, they will not be on the side after all.

Zuo Zhengyan, who listened to this question, walked out of the Chongzheng Hall with a frown, and when he returned to the public hall of Menxia Province without saying a word, he had not yet figured out how to fight back against the traitorous ministers of the New Party and the villain of Wu Haogu, and a Xu official came to report, saying that his second son Ren Shen came first, and he was waiting outside the right door.

"What is it?" Ren Boyu frowned. His son is studying in Taixue, and now it's only nearly noon, so why did he come to find his father if he didn't work hard?

"Just say there's something important." The officer replied.

"Something important?"

Ren Boyu thought about it for a while, and said, "Tell him to wait, and I'll go see him soon." ”

After finishing speaking, Ren Boyu took care of some important official business a little, and then went out of the door to the province, went straight to the right door, and saw his son standing in the shade of the tree to hide from the sun outside this palace gate.

"Erlang, what's wrong?" Ren Boyu walked over quickly, and asked questions first without waiting for his son to salute.

Ren Shen looked left and right first, looking very mysterious, and saw that there were no idle people, so he whispered: "Daddy, Ji Yi wants to join the old party......"

"What do you say?" Ren Boyu glared at his son fiercely, "How can there be an old party?" Now there is only one friend of the Xining traitor party in the DPRK and China! ”

"My son lost his words," Ren Shen was reprimanded by Lao Tzu first, and quickly changed his words, "It's Ji Yiyao, who wants to expose Zhang Dian's crimes!" ”

"What's the hell?" Ren Boyu was stunned, "Isn't he Zhang Dan's grandson-in-law?" How do you want to expose your grandfather? It can't be a trap, right? ”

"This ......"

"What kind of crime?"

Ren Shen gritted his teeth first, "Rebellion!" ”

"Seek ...... Conspiracy? Ren Boyu's eyes widened, "This, how is this possible?" ”

Zhang Dian is a traitor, but he is loyal to Song Zhezong, the faint king! How is it possible to rebel? When Song Zhezong was alive, he was the "second emperor", what did he say Song Zhezong would do, and who else would he do? Besides, he doesn't have the strength to rebel...... This accusation is a false accusation as soon as it is heard, how can today's officials believe it?

"My son doesn't know," Ren Shenxian shook his head, "But Ji Yi said that there is ironclad evidence!" ”

And ironclad evidence?

Ren Boyu took a breath and calculated in his heart. Rebellion is a big case! If Zhang Dian really rebelled, then there must be a member of the same party. How can a person be reversed? He has no military power, how many elites can a bad old man beat?

And to arrest Zhang's comrades...... I must go to the camp of the Xining traitorous party to arrest it! What Zeng Bu, Cai Jing, An Tao, Jiang Zhiqi, Zhang Shangying, they are all rebel suspects, even if they are not caught, they have to stand aside.

So the old party, oh, there is no old party, but the non-party gentleman in the court, isn't it a big victory?