Until Zuo Zhengyan Song Zhen in the courtyard came out and said that Liu Jian had left. In the second year of Song Zhen Tiansheng, he was the third yuan, the champion and the first, and he has always been steady, so Xu Ping believed it.

Before leaving, Xu Ping said to Sun Zude: "I know that Liu Jian will come to him tomorrow!" ”

After speaking, he left the Imperial Court and went to the Imperial Tower.

Sun Zude said to Song Zhen beside him: "Liu Jian has always been avoidable in doing things, but this time he made trouble at Deputy Envoy Xu's mansion, and I don't know how it will end in the future." Xu Ping is a young man, and he once held the power of life and death in the local area, but he is afraid that he will not give up. ”

Song Zhen said: "No matter how you say it, Liu Jian and others are also confused for a while because of state affairs, and there is nothing wrong with it." Come to the door to make amends in the coming day, and then be a host, it's just that, is it possible that Xu Ping will be impeached? ”

Song Zhen is a native of Anzhou, and his family was in a very bad situation before he was admitted to the Jinshi, and he and his younger brother Song Qi had a very difficult time. At that time, Xia Zhu was the governor of Anzhou, and he took great care of the two brothers and had the grace of knowing each other. When Xu Ping was in office in Yongzhou, he was very disagreeable with Xia Zhu, and Song Zhen was affected by this and still had some opinions about Xu Ping.

To say that Xia Zhu is a sinister person, a good position of power, and greedy for money, he is the most capable of making waves in the Great Song Dynasty after Ding Wei. However, Xia Zhu's ability is far inferior to Ding Wei's, and his mind is even more different. Although Ding Wei is a powerful minister and a traitor, he has always been generous in his work, unlike Xia Zhu, who can only play some intrigues and tricks, and the storm he stirs up is far inferior to Ding Wei. But on the other hand, Xia Zhu is good at reading and literature, and he has indeed discovered a lot of talents, and his achievements in local politics are also outstanding. Those who were discovered and promoted by Xia Zhu still have many people who are grateful to him.

Xu Ping left the Imperial Court and went straight to the Imperial Historical Tower.

At this time, Cheng Kong Daofu in the imperial history has been out of the city, and the appointment of the deputy governor of Taixian to serve the governor of the imperial history has changed again and again, and no one has arrived until now.

Hearing Xu Ping come to the door, Duan Shaolian knew that he was at a loss, so he hurriedly brought out the servant Shi Jiang Tang, saw Xu Ping, and gave a deep salute: "Last night was our loss, where we offended, forgive the marquis!" ”

Xu Ping said: "This matter is just a reason? What does it have to do with me? Groups of people came to my house to harass, a woman in the middle of the night, you knocked on the door in the middle of the night, making endless noise, what do outsiders think? ”

Jiang Tang said: "It's really right, Liu Jian said that the county marquis and Li Zhang, who guards the gate, have known each other since childhood, and I want to invite the county marquis to the palace gate, and ask Li Zhang to open the gate. ”

It's okay not to mention this, but Xu Ping's anger is even more up: "Yes, I grew up with Li Zhang since childhood, but so what? He guards the door, whether he opens or does not follow the law of the country, can he still rely on his own will? You are the constitution of Taiwan, and you are responsible for correcting hundreds of officials and correcting the national law, but in your eyes, the national law is child's play, isn't it? ”

Duan Shaolian said: "The marquis of the county is angry, last night was just an urgent matter, we entered the palace anxiously, and we were in a hurry for a while, so we did this unreasonable thing." When the day comes, I will come to the door and apologize. ”

"No need, you guys come to the door, I'm afraid that something will happen again. Besides, you are in a constitutional position, and it is not good for me to associate with you, so as not to cause gossip in plain terms. The matter has been done, and I will not be too much to do, so let you condemn yourselves, so that you may prove my innocence, lest those who do not know will say anything. ”

Jiang Tang said: "The deputy envoy is so aggressive, it is inevitable that it will be too much. It is true that there is something wrong with our actions, but after all, it is for selfishness, but for the sake of the court's affairs. For the sake of last night's incident, today's Taiwan governor is far away from the locality, and all Taiwan officials are fined copper, at this time, why should the deputy envoy seize this matter? Don't you smell forgiving and forgiving? ”

Xu Ping looked Jiang Tang up and down, and said: "Well said, the mouth is full of national righteousness, court affairs, and a mouthful of great truths." How to do things so obscenely! You also know that you have to be forgiving and forgiving, why did I tell you last night that I was not at home, but you still couldn't stay and banged the door! Lenient to oneself and strict with others, how can a person like you be suitable to stay in the Yushitai! ”

Jiang Tang's face was pale and white when Xu Ping said it, his eyes were wide open, and he couldn't speak anymore.

Duan Shaolian cleared his throat and said to Xu Ping: "The words and deeds of the Taiwanese admonition are indeed a little excessive, but in this extraordinary period, the Marquis of Wangjun will raise his noble hand this time, so let's stop it." In the future, I will bring an official from the Constitutional Taiwan to apologize and never break my word! ”

Xu Ping shook his head: "I don't want you to apologize, since you are wrong, then admit your mistakes." By the way, in order to avoid gossip, I have brought you the record of my exit from the city last night, as well as the pleadings written by the officials of the prison gate. As long as you write a book and explain the matter, and ask yourself for the guilt, I will not pursue it again. ”

At this time, Taiwan is turbulent, where does Duan Shaolian dare to agree to this condition? Originally, Kong Daofu and Fan Zhongyan were demoted from the capital, and the capital was in an uproar, and all the officials wrote to express their positions, and public opinion was on the side of the Taiwan officials. If such a seal of self-reproach comes out, people can see that the officials in Taiwan are so unbearable, and the trend of public opinion will not be so consistent.

The power of the speech officials, one is the emperor's intentional support, which is used to contain the ministers in the court, and the other is to rely on the public opinion of the world to form a huge pressure of public opinion. Xu Ping's move abolished half of the Yanguan's skills, how could Duan Shaolian agree?

In fact, what the officials can really rely on is the first item, that is, to close to the imperial power and contain the relative power, which is also the real positioning of imperial politics to Taiwan. But in this era, the Taiwanese admonitions gradually converged, and the officials themselves couldn't figure out their own positioning, supervising the monarch from above, impeaching and ruling with subordinates, and bringing the world's public opinion to aid themselves. Once he is hit, he will shout injustice all over the world, scold the faint king, scold the traitorous ministers, and treat all those who do not follow themselves as villains, and gradually push themselves into a desperate way.

If you want to really do something, you can't actually rely on one mouth, and you must choose one between the prime minister and the imperial power to cooperate, otherwise it will inevitably be suppressed. When he represents the justice of the world and has a constitution in his mouth, it is obviously naïve for the emperor and the prime minister to reform themselves in front of these righteous men and gentlemen.

After the abolition this time, it is obviously the emperor and the prime minister who have one heart and are determined to do it. The official doesn't care about the three-seven-twenty-one, and doesn't care about what exactly happened, he just wants to stop it, in fact, he opposes the emperor and the prime minister together. And the chapter was indifferent, and directly chose the most intense Fu Xia, please right. The most drastic means have already been used, and the other means are even more useless, in fact, the emperor and the prime minister have been forced to a dead end, and there is only one way to suppress it strongly.

If they had been tactful and had followed the normal steps, they would have chosen to stay on duty the next day and argue with the prime minister in front of hundreds of officials, and they might not have been so defeated. As a result, as soon as things didn't go well, all the people asked for the right thing, and they had trouble with the prime minister in the political hall before discussing staying on duty the next day, Lu Yijian was also a person who knew the miscellaneous imperial history and was the second-in-command of the imperial history platform, where would they be given this opportunity?

Now that it has reached this point, the prefects of the Senate have been demoted together, and all the Taiwanese officials have been punished, and they still feel that they have been greatly wronged, and they must fight for their breath no matter what, and fight to the end against the villain and traitor.

Xu Ping had nothing to do with this matter, and his request was reasonable, but the Taiwan officials had no way out, and they couldn't even publicly admit their mistakes. Otherwise, if you ruin your own image, you won't even have the last reliance. (To be continued.) )