Li Qingchen snorted.

In fact, Wang Ju and Sima Guang are both playing the shameless pathos card.

Don't think that Sima Guang really thinks that Xiao Cheng has been wronged, there are so many big guys, and after the news of Yanhe Hall reached Luoyang, Sima Guang was also a little suspicious.

Maybe Xiao Cheng was hopelessly stupid and did it. But does truth and falsehood matter?

For Wang Ju, truth and falsehood are also not important, everyone will do whatever it takes to achieve their goals, and they are all each other.

But the effect of the sad card played by the two is the same, especially Wang Ju did not pursue Sima Guang, let alone dissolve the Luoyang Elders' Association, so Sima Guang made such a fuss, looking extremely rude, rude, arrogant, and domineering.

Or are you a little older and a little older, do you really employ people based on age and qualifications? In that case, don't grind the survey, according to the performance of the officials, directly discuss seniority and age to employ people.

It's good that Wang Ju is the prime minister of the dynasty, Wang Ju is a mouthful, he doesn't even call him, and he keeps crowning him as a **** villain, don't say that you are an old minister who has left the political arena, that is, the emperor, you can't treat the emperor like this.

But Wang Ju seems to be quite generous, and behind the generosity, it seems that there is nothing to be done.

Therefore, when Sima Guang left Luoyang, there were almost few people to see him off, and there would be no people calling for the truth.

In fact, Sima Guang's heart is dripping blood, and so many years of forbearance have come to an end.

But Wang Ju got two huge gains.

The first harvest is the Luoyang Senior Citizens Association, in fact, many of these old guys have died, including Fu Bi and Wang Gongchen, and there are only three people who are alive and influential and make Wang Ju always worry. Wen Yanbo continued to stay in Chizhou. Sima Guang returned to his hometown in Lianshui. There is another one that surprised everyone, that is, Xiao Cheng was still locked up in the prison of Kaifeng Mansion, but Xiao Cheng was completely out of order after Wang Ju.

Therefore, the remaining elders in Luoyang are no longer afraid.

If there is no dissolution, it is equal to dissolution!

The second harvest was the violent old party, after this blow. basically collapsed, and it also made Wang Ju completely discredited.

It is likely that after Gao Taotao ascends to the throne, he will reuse Wen Yanbo, Lu Gongshu, Feng Jing, Feng Gongzhu and Feng Jing Wang Ju are not worried, but what they are worried about is Wen Yanbo, but under the current reputation, if Wen Yanbo does not act, he may stay in the position of prime minister for a few more years. If you do, overturn your own policy. Then it will inevitably make everyone attack.

That is to say, after Gao Taotao takes office, he is likely to change the various policies and systems he has formulated to some extent, but it is very, very difficult to completely overthrow it.

At least after Wang Ju went to Shaanxi Road, no one dared to do it behind his back.

Isn't it for these two goals?

But who can guess this kind of thinking?

No one even thought about the impact of Gao Tao in the back.

In this context, Li Qingchen was ashamed of his plea, so how did he speak.

"Li Gong, if you listen to it, you will be clear, and if you listen to it, you will be dark, even if you say it, if I can accept it, I will accept it, and if I don't accept it, I won't blame you."

"This ......"

"Li Gong, in the past few years, in terms of the number of officials punished, I am the most, but the officials punished are either inaction, or greedy for ink, or incompetent, but can I see that I use people for private purposes and punish people for private purposes? There were also many officials who gave me many well-meaning opinions and said wrong, and I patiently explained to them that it was even a magistrate. That's right, I immediately obeyed. But apart from those who reverse black and white and have bad intentions, have I ever blamed someone for criticizing me? ”

"Then I'll say, can you use An Tao and Liang Tao to deal with Cheng Yi."

Among the three, An Tao is the most comfortable, he started well, and he couldn't handle it too much, so he was relegated to Lizhou, a good place, with four seasons like spring and a pleasant climate.

Liang Tao and the others were very sad, put them in the tropics, and tossed for a long time before they were transferred to Lizhou to recuperate.

In Li Qingchen's heart, the most desired result is to be like An Tao, but he is afraid that Wang Ju will be angry, so the second result is acceptable, at least no one will die.

"It's okay, let's put it in Lizhou."

"Where's the editor?"

"Then put it in Mianzhou to make a general judgment, but there is one article, if you don't adapt to the weather where, it is absolutely impossible for the imperial court to be transferred to Lizhou, do you agree?"

Mianzhou now understands where the war is going on, and in a few years, that island will not be able to be taken.

And it is also a very hot place, if you are sick, you will not be allowed to transfer, Xiao Cheng will only have to wait for death.

Let's make it up, at least the weather in Lizhou is good.

Li Qingchen thought that like An Tao, he would be able to transfer back after staying for two years.

This time Xiao Cheng went, and he didn't want to come back.

"Then it's up to Duke Li," Wang Ju said.

"Just ...... I want?" Am I the one who meant? However, Li Qingchen is not the kind of violent person, what should I do, I have to take on a charge, otherwise if the trial continues like this, the court will not know how to punish Xiao Cheng in the end. Don't think that Da Su, Da Su just wrote a few whining poems, but he didn't use ugly means to slander the prime minister.

In fact, this is exactly the result that Wang Ju wants.

At least when the sick and weak Zhao maid in the future listens to the lecture, he will not stand for several hours.

Two evils have gone, one evil.

And Zhao Ji can't die for the time being, under Zhao Ji's supervision, the people in the palace carefully serve Zhao Maid, and Zhao Maid listens to his own persuasion, and practices two or three times a day Five Bird Drama and Military Boxing, so as long as it drags on for two or three years, the body is also resistant, at least under Gao Tao's torture, there will be no serious injury......

Even if Zhao Maid can only live to be thirty years old, the entire history of the Great Song Dynasty will be completely rewritten!

Although Wang Ju's methods were dark, he brought the Great Song Dynasty to the other side of the light step by step.

It's just a human being, and it's impossible to be all-encompassing, for example, he doesn't think of Ali Gu at the moment, nor does he think of the great changes that are about to take place in Liaodong in advance......

On this day, Wang Ju and Cai did complete their official business one after another.

Cai Qu asked the hall officials to make tea, sat down in front of Wang Ju and asked, "Taibao, how about the bottom of the other side?" ”

"Let's be honest. Where for the destitute people. It's paradise. Low taxes, clean politics, vast living space, and even businessmen use charity money to offset taxes in order to stimulate everyone to do good, so except for those who are lazy and lazy, the rest of the people can make their lives better in a few years, even if they encounter difficulties. The government came to help, and private individuals also donated money to help. But for the rich people of our dynasty, it is not a good place, the various settlements can not be directly connected one by one, half of the area is located in the hot equatorial region, the rest is the big island, but most of them are semi-arid plains and desert Gobi, and there are very few places where the water and grass are really abundant. ”

"What about Lizhou?"

"Lizhou is nice and has a beautiful view, especially for the sake of making perfumes. There are a lot of flowers planted, but the island is too small. ”

In fact, the island where Yeoju is located is the twelfth largest island in the world. It is larger than Luzon, Sakhalin and Mindan, and more than four times the size of the bay, which is not small, but it is indeed small compared to Australia.

If it weren't for this, and it wasn't on the main transportation route, Wang Ju wouldn't have sent people to run it.

But where does Cai really know?

However, on the whole, the living space on the other side is indeed worse than that of the Central Plains, and perhaps the two east coasts of the Americas have a large fertile plain area.

But where can we operate to the east now?

And there are now a large number of fourth-level civilizations over there, and there are quite a few third-level civilizations.

What is a three-level civilization?

In Wang Ju's heart, the Song Dynasty, the Liao Kingdom, the Western Xia, and Arabia are considered first-class civilizations, although the Song Dynasty civilization is the most developed, and the other civilizations are not much different from the Song Dynasty civilization.

Like the original Dali, Zhancheng, Zhenla, Tianzhu countries, and some countries on the main channel of the South China Sea, they are considered second-class civilizations.

Like Bagan, Central and North Asia, as well as some coastal areas of East Africa, it is considered a third-level civilization.

Like Luzon, the original state of Australia, and the depths of Africa, it is considered a fourth-level civilization.

The fourth-level civilization is fearless and can fully exert the weapon advantage of the Song Dynasty, but the third-level civilization coupled with the complex terrain and the advantage of numbers, it will be difficult to deal with.

Now, not only the Gulf of Mexico, but also some indigenous countries in South America, have reached or barely reached the level of third-level civilization.

So despite the location, it's not easy to conquer.

However, the advantages of the Song Dynasty are still obvious, but this is not until Wang Ju went to the other side, and the other side implemented the policy of encouraging the people to have a population, and some families raised six, seven, seven or eight children, and three years later, it was the time when these children generally grew up.

If there are few children in the family, it is necessary to migrate, otherwise the local arable land will be insufficient.

Although it is good for a family to reunite, for the sake of their children's future lives, I believe that most people will still be willing to migrate their children and find more living space.

Then you can march over there on a large scale.

Even Wang Ju planned to go over in person...... But Wang Ju will not say this.

Cai did provoke the conversation, and Wang Ju simply reminded: "Actually, I am to avoid suspicion, if you retire, Quanzhou is a good place." ”

"The change in Quanzhou, thanks to the Taibao." Cai Qu said. Quanzhou was originally not bad, but it was not considered the top city of the Song Dynasty, and even in Fujian Road, it was not as good as Fuzhou and Jianzhou, it was Wang Ju's promotion, and now it is almost equal to top cities like Hangzhou and Ezhou.

But Cai was suddenly stunned, no...... Wrong!

However, he didn't understand it clearly, so he casually asked: "Is the earth really round?" ”

In fact, the circle is not round, it is very good to prove, select a group of high-quality sea ships, form a fleet, there are people on the other side, there are people from the Song Dynasty, casually from Mizhou or Quanzhou Port, a ship to the east or west, all the way, such as to the east, to the Cape of Horn, and then from the Cape of Horn to the Cape of Good Hope, the difficult is this road, there is no supply, unfamiliar waterway, but it is not very far, if the water and the wind are smooth, but it can be reached in more than 20 days. After the Cape of Good Hope, and then drive a short distance along the coastline, you will reach the area where the Song Dynasty maritime merchants have already arrived.

In fact, the whole journey is only 5,000 kilometers, more than 3,000 nautical miles, and it will only take 6,000 hours for the ship to crawl at a speed like a five-knot snail. Of course, the actual ship is not only so slow, but the total time will not be so short, because even if the speed of the ship reaches fifteen knots and twenty knots, and it still has to wait for the monsoon current, but this voyage will only take three or four years.

After all, it was different from Magellan's navigation at that time, there was no confidence in his heart, and the ship technology was even more backward. Not even a crude sextant. There is also a lack of supplies. But Wang Ju pointed out. The ships are more advanced, and even Wang Ju can provide approximate nautical charts, and most of the distance is equipped with supply points, or can do simple communication, so it will be faster and safer.

But Wang Ju didn't do that.

Not the other side, but the Song Dynasty.

Nowadays, the number of sea ships in the Song Dynasty has also increased a lot under the leadership of Wang Ju. There were even maritime merchants who sailed their ships to the other side. It's just that the trade on the other side is completely controlled by the merchants on the other side, and they are not familiar with it, and they make little profit, so gradually no one wants to go.

Once this circumnavigation of the world is successful, there will be maritime merchants who are greedy for fame.

This was a good thing, but Wang Ju was afraid to alarm Europe, which was in the midst of a dark age.

Don't underestimate this group of Caucasians, it's not that the Chinese are not smart, but China still continues to attach importance to various scriptures, just like Shen Kuo, who is obviously good at science. There was also the fiasco of Yongle City, but he stayed in Limin Prison for a while. I just want to leave Limin Prison. Obviously, science has made so many changes in the Song Dynasty, but it is still a small way in everyone's hearts, and even in the hearts of a very small number of people, it is still a craftsman, and it is a strange skill.

But what about over there?

And that group of people are adventurous, this one also has to be admitted, aggressive, if it weren't for these three, with so many scattered countries, that little population, how could they almost rule the entire earth?

There is also a good example of Genghis Khan's introduction of black powder to Europe, and it only took long for the industrial revolution to begin in Europe, but in China, it was firecrackers and fireworks......

So as long as you don't alarm that group, maybe three hundred years later, Magellan will come, Columbus will come, but they will only be dumbfounded, and that scene may be beautiful.

Therefore, the gains far outweigh the losses, and Wang Ju did not initiate this round-the-world voyage plan.

He even preferred to transfer all trade through the Great Food Countries.

Just turn around, it just so happens that the Great Food Countries have become the strongest firewall.

However, Cai did ask, and Wang Ju also replied: "Across the sea, I don't know what is going on from east to west, but the north and south have proved that not only are the seasons opposite, but also that if you go south from Fengzhou, it is the land of ice and snow." ”

"It's amazing to think about," Cai did say without saying a word, but he kept thinking about it.

If Wang Ju doesn't go to the other side and really retires in the Central Plains, how can he go to Quanzhou to retire? There was something to say in these words, and suddenly he thought of Wang Ju's opening speech, that is, about Emperor Xuan of the Han Dynasty and Huo Guang, not only about the impact of Emperor Xuan's youthful life on Emperor Xuan of the Han Dynasty, but also about the ministers who should know how to advance and retreat.

He whispered: "Taibao, can you say a few words from your heart." ”

"Okay."

"Does the Queen Mother reject the New Party?"

"I think it's a little disgusting, after all, being too tall is related to the Gao Cao family."

Cai Qu's face changed.

They are all smart people, and there is no need to talk so much nonsense.

Wang Ju sipped his tea and thought to himself, as I expected.

In history, Cai Qu's death was because he was bent on setting up Zhao Hao on the throne, and finally relegated to Lingnan, because of the hot weather, living in poverty, and getting older, he finally died of illness in Lingnan.

But Cai did it against the trend so much, not because he wanted to make a contribution to the monarch, because Cai was already a very popular minister, and there was no need to take this risk, this was worried about Gao Tao, first, it would destroy the new law, and second, if it destroyed the new law, it would hit the new party.

But it also shows that Cai did also hear some news from the inner palace and probed Gao Tao's mentality, so he took the risk. After all, Zhao Hao is strong, once he becomes the emperor, Gao Tao can't listen to the government, and he can't destroy the new law.

It seems that this is indeed the case.

But there is no such thing, and Cai does have to be demoted.

The reason is equally simple, in terms of love, we all know that Gao Tao loves Zhao Hao very much, and it is precisely because of this that many things have happened, including Zhao Hao's adulthood, he is unwilling to release him from the palace to open a mansion.

But do you love Zhao Maid? Love a ghost!

Why is she forcefully supporting a grandson she doesn't love to ascend to the throne?

It is also convenient to grasp power.

So with this idea existing, and everyone knows Zhao Ji's physical condition, once Zhao Ji falls, he will inevitably take the position immediately.

Not to mention a monarch and a courtier, Cai is indeed a new party that Gao Tao hates, and he has been the prime minister for so many years, who will he take if he doesn't take him?

But Wang Ju can't say anything, is it possible to curse Zhao Ji to death, he is not stupid. Mr. Caida, you want to go slowly.

"No wonder the Taibao is going to the other side."

"Cai Gong, I went to the other side after the pacification of Western Xia. The power is too high. But he was unwilling to retire in mid-age. Even if Wang Ju pacified the Western Xia, he was barely in his forties, so this is also a saying: "Therefore, I went to the other side, and going to the other side can still help the Great Song Dynasty, I have already explained this, and I am also tired, but it has nothing to do with other reasons." ”

Decisively it was cleared.

But Wang Ju has already done it for Cai Qu, that is, Wu Chuhou, the protagonist of the Chegaiting case. Originally, it was Lao Wang who was appointed as the Dali Temple, so that Wang Ju found a reason to suppress it, and this spring, he found another reason to be demoted to the flower market as the governor.

This person went to the other side, and like Xiao Cheng, he never wanted to come back.

But why did Cai really retire?

As long as Cai is decisive, then the court will not let me retreat, and I will be sick. I will go home to retire and not be an official, what should I do?

Cai Qu's life was saved. But the significance is very significant, that is, Lao Cai talks with his beautiful little concubine Pipa every day, please say love, which is somewhat deterrent, or like the current Wen Yanbo, even in Chizhou, it is still a banner of the old party, and everyone has nothing to do with him (when Cai does degrade Xinzhou, only this little concubine called Pipa accompanies him, and there is also a parrot, whenever Cai does call the pipa, as long as he rings the bell, the parrot will call the name of the pipa. Soon the pipa died of malaria, Cai did not ring the bell again, one day by mistake, the parrot called the name of the pipa, Cai did touch the scene, sadly wrote a poem: the parrot is still there, the pipa is no longer the case. It hurts the river and Han water, and it is different to go together. Although he was depressed and fell ill, he died in Lingnan. Anyway, he was the head of the dynasty, and there was no big mistake, but when he died, Zhang Dian and others also turned red, and a more murderous political struggle began...... ）。

"That will be bloody and blood......y," Cai Qu muttered.

In the end, it was different from history, there were two fiascos in history, Zhao Ji was depressed, and the change of law produced so many ills, at least the upper class society rejected the change, so Gao Taotao and Sima Guang took down Cai Qu in 123, the new party was demoted one by one, and the new law was abolished one by one.

But now Wang Ju has corrected the shortcomings of the law one by one, Wang Ju will not retreat, once he retires, then many ministers will feel guilty about Wang Ju.

If Gao Tao came forcibly, then it would be like the dispute between Song Yingzong and Puyi, and I don't know what it would look like, wasn't it bloody at that time?

Wang Ju smiled calmly and said, "The prince is getting stronger. ”

Unlike Zhao Xu in history, who succeeded to the throne at the age of ten, and now Zhao Xu is eleven years old, if Zhao Xu's body can be dragged until Wang Ju solves the Western Xia, then Zhao Xu is fourteen years old, how many years can Gao Taotao survive, even if he continues to live, wait until Zhao Xu is twenty years old, Gao Taotao is more than sixty years old, and he still hasn't returned to power?

Both of them spoke briefly, but everything was unspoken and understood.

Cai Qu suddenly woke up.

Zhao Xu is pro-government, and he is a Taifu, so don't you come up again?

Why do you have to fight with Gao Tao, can you fight? I think back then, I didn't fight Liu E with Ding's means. I'm a fart.

Wang Ju saw that he had figured it out, and he was also relieved in his heart, don't think that these are idle chess, they will be able to play a role when the time comes, at least the future Song Dynasty will not be as turbulent as in history.

But now Wang Ju is also worried, he is afraid that when he is using soldiers, Zhao Ji suddenly dies, and then Gao gushes a twelve gold medals, and then everything is over......

Gao Tao still has a while, but now something has happened that worries Wang Ju.

Zhang Qi was preparing at the front line, the season was just right, neither cold nor hot, and the situation was even better. But the problem is that the time is too tight, so everything seems rushed.

At this moment, he suddenly received a spy report from the front-line scouts, saying that Western Xia had mobilized a lot of troops and went to Quwu Mountain.

After receiving this news, Zhang Qi immediately informed the imperial court with a fast horse.

However, Han Zhen was very puzzled and asked, "Taibao, isn't this just right." ”

The Song army wanted to use troops in Mingsha City, which was somewhat risky, and Western Xia stationed a large number of troops in Lingzhou or Tiandu Mountain. Didn't Tiandu Mountain break through, and now it's been repaired again. With such an important position, how did Western Xia ignore it?

"If this is the case, Zhang Qianfu will not be able to write a chapter and come back."

"Huh?"

"If you don't understand, most people think that Western Xia wants to attack Lanzhou again."

Han Jin's old face turned red, what he was thinking was not like this? So I didn't dare to answer.

"It seems like this, and in the past, Western Xia tried to take back Lanzhou many times, but they were unsuccessful. If there were no previous two victories, it is possible that Liang Yiqi was preparing to recover Lanzhou again in order to take power and establish authority. Because of the previous two great victories, the Western Xia troops were seriously damaged. Our army has advanced to Xiaoguan, isn't Liang Yiqi really afraid of our army's counterattack? Besides, how many troops can they mobilize, if they have many troops, they don't dare, and if they have few troops, they won't be able to take Lanzhou, and even those forts in Nanhui Prefecture they can't even think of attacking them. This was a very unreasonable transfer of troops, so Zhang Qianfu hesitated and wrote a chapter and handed it to the imperial court. ”

"I see, he asked you ......?"

"It's not just a matter of asking for advice, this time the Western Xia uses troops is related to Xihe Road and Lanzhou, and it is not his jurisdiction, so it must be ordered by the Zhongshu and the Privy Council, but what should the Western Xia do?" Wang Ju was lying on the map, also puzzled.

"It's really not good, let Ali Gu support." Han Jin said.

Lanzhou still has troops, and the key is that those forts in Nanhui Prefecture may not be guaranteed.

Or send troops from the Deshun army to support, but then the troops in Zhang Kai's hands will be insufficient.

"Ali bone, it's not good, it's this Ali bone."

"Ali bone what?"

"Ali Gu and Xixia have joined forces, so this time the two sides will work together to deal with Lanzhou Shrine Valley, and even Dingxi City."

"Impossible, right?" Han Jin's color changed, and he didn't believe it a little, two years ago, Ali Gu also helped the Song Dynasty and Western Xia fight to the death. Not only did he not believe it, but even Zhang Qi didn't think about Ali Gu, so he couldn't figure it out. Even if there was no reminder from Han Jin, Wang Ju didn't think about Ali Gu.

But if it is true, not to mention the current crisis, Zhang Qi's plan will not be able to be implemented, and what's worse is that once Wang Ju defeats Xia, if he can't get Ali Gu, he will recover Xihe behind his back...... (To be continued.) )