Chapter 174 What kind of court does the Great Song Dynasty have?
The official family that Wang Hao said was naturally the well-known artist Song Huizong in later generations, and the official family that Wang Hao said would give Cai You an answer, what was the answer?
It's about the answer to "Lianjin to destroy Liao"!
Cai You was the first important minister in the history of the Northern Song Dynasty to put forward the strategy of "Lianjin to destroy Liao".
Cai You worshiped the prime minister at this time, and his authority was hot, and there was a tendency to replace his father. If you really want to talk about the relationship with Emperor Zhao Ji, Cai You is far better than his father Cai Jing!
But things in the court are by no means so simple, and the relationship with the emperor is not omnipotent, not to mention that Cai You's relationship with the emperor is not the closest, he is just better than his father Cai Jing.
If you really want to rank the people who are close to the emperor, then Cai You's position is not higher than Gao Yu, Wang Hao and others.
Cai You's thirst for power is strong, even if his own father gets in his way, he must try to trample Cai Jing under his feet.
"Lianjin to destroy Liao" is the best political move! Once the emperor agrees and is realized, then his achievements in Cai You's political achievements will overshadow all the famous ministers of the Great Song Dynasty since Taizu Zhao Kuangyin! If that day really comes, Cai Jing will of course be nothing.
You can even say a bold statement in your heart that you dare not declare: This political achievement is higher than that of all the emperors of the Great Song Dynasty!
As early as the day after Bai Sheng went out of the city with 50,000 forbidden troops, Cai You put forward this earth-shattering idea in the court!
Is Cai You crazy? How powerful is the Liao State? If the Liao State does not come to fight the Great Song Dynasty, the Great Song Dynasty will already burn high incense to thank the gods of the heavens, and you Cai You have eaten the heart of a bear and swallowed the gall of a leopard? How dare you go to the tiger whiskers of the Liao Kingdom?
The reason why people think this way is because the emperor and even hundreds of officials in the Great Song Dynasty have never understood the importance of the intelligence front.
There is a product hall in Western Xia, and there is a crossbow battalion in Liao, these are special spy agencies responsible for investigating neighboring countries and collecting intelligence, even the newly established Jin State has also bought Jindingmen and other martial arts sects, responsible for spying on the movements of the government and the opposition in various neighboring countries.
Although the Great Song Dynasty had a special service department, the Imperial City Department was only responsible for monitoring the conduct of the civil and military officials, focusing on investigating whether the hundred officials had usurped the throne and rebelled, and did not care about military intelligence.
The so-called not in his position, not in his politics. Officials of the Imperial City Department believed that military matters were the responsibility of the Privy Council, which in peacetime was an empty shelf, with no civil servants at all.
Therefore, to this day, the Jurchens have quietly established a state, and have smashed the borders of the Liao State to a thousand holes, but the monarchs and ministers of the Great Song Dynasty still have no idea which country the Jin State is, where is the Jin State, and what is their emperor's name? No one in the entire court except Cai You knows it.
Cai You told the emperor and the civil and military officials that now that there is a country like the Jin State rising between the white mountains and black waters, and it has made the Liao State unable to invade southward, and this is a good time to destroy the Liao State! At least the dream of the ancestors should be fulfilled and the sixteen states of Youyun should be recovered, right?
No one dared to suspect that Cai You was lying, because lying meant committing the crime of defrauding the king. The courtiers of the Great Song Dynasty only dared to conceal it at most, but no one dared to lie about such a major matter. So the ministers believe in Cai You.
As a result, the court began to divide sides, both ancient and modern, Chinese and foreign, and on the issue of whether to start a war, the ruling officials were always divided into two factions, hawks and doves.
Cai You's strategy moved some hot-blooded young people very much, such as Li Gang and Chen Dong, angry youths immediately stood on Cai You's side, and strongly called for the recovery of Yanyun, and the shame of the snow for a hundred years was a hawk.
And those who are greedy for life and afraid of death, only know how to exploit the people of their own country, but are very jealous of foreign countries, are on the opposite side of Cai You, and the banner is for the people of the world not to suffer from war, and resolutely oppose the fight with Liao, which is dove.
Although Cai You is in a high position, he shows a side that is not as good as his father Cai Jing at this time - above the Great Song Dynasty, he can't play a hand to cover the sky.
If it was Cai Jing, an evergreen tree in the Northern Song Dynasty political arena, who proposed to destroy Liao at this time, then not to mention the distribution above the court, there would not even be a single voice of opposition, because Cai Jing would expel the opponents from the court in advance, which is where Cai Jing's strength lies.
Of course, it is absolutely impossible for Cai Jing to join forces with Jin to destroy Liao, if he must choose a country to destroy, then he will only choose to destroy Jin.
It is only said that Wang Huang is the kind of person who is greedy for life and afraid of death but wants to shout to protect the common people in the world, so when Cai You proposed to destroy Liao, he immediately stood on the opposite side of Cai You, and formed an alliance with Gao Yu, Li Bangyan and other ministers, and was also the head of the dove.
Where do these guys who play politics all day have a fuel-efficient lamp? Almost on the spot, they can guess that Cai Youzhi's recovery of the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun is actually a drunkard, not about drinking. But even then, they don't want to let Cai's political tactics come through.
The recovery of the sixteen states of Yanyun is to be crowned king, whether Cai You himself is crowned king, or others are able to recover the lost land and be crowned king under Cai You's initiative, it is not a good thing for Wang Huang and these people.
Everyone is playing well with the emperor, why are you Cai You a head taller? In this way, it is better to let Cai Jing rule, after all, Cai Jing is old and can't live long, right?
Therefore, Wang Hao, Gao Yu and others resolutely opposed Cai You's idea.
Emperor Zhao Ji had a hard time choosing between hawks and doves, and only felt that what both sides said made sense, so he took the option of temporarily shelving this compromise.
But now Wang Hao has changed his mind.
Didn't you Cai Jing cover Bai Sheng? Then I won't let you cover it!
How can Cai Jing be overwhelmed? It's very simple, just help Cai You realize his political ideas!
After coming out of Kaifeng Mansion, Wang Hao returned home directly.
There is an inconspicuous back door in the garden of his house, and through this back door, it is the garden of the Hidden Liang Shicheng Mansion.
This back door is the top secret way for him to collude with eunuchs, and Liang Shicheng is in the palace to cooperate with him inside and out, which is the only way for him to be promoted rapidly in recent years!
He is going to find Liang Shicheng tonight, and wants Liang Shicheng to blow the wind to the emperor, so that the emperor can finally stand on Cai You's side.
It doesn't matter if Lianliao destroys Jin, or Lianjin destroys Liao, what does it have to do with me Wang Huang? Anyway, it won't be me who will lead the troops to fight! I just need to get that jade horse back.
He was convinced that the jade horse that was stolen by Bai Sheng and transferred to Cai Jing must be a treasure of the sky, and as long as the jade horse was in his hand, this managed to make it shine, and he would definitely be able to bless him Wang Huang to become the first powerful minister like Cai Jing!
This is the current Great Song Dynasty, the so-called loyal ministers and virtuous ministers, there is nowhere to spill their blood, but if they really let them spill their blood, what they do must be a disaster for the country and the people!
And those traitorous ministers and ministers, who keep saying that they are for the benefit of the people of the world and the protection of all living beings, are actually just a pretense for their own selfishness.
As for the people who are working hard to survive, they will always be blinded in a happy or unhappy life, including the peddlers and pawns, and Bai Sheng, who is feeding Pang Qiuxia medicine in the Taishi Mansion.
The peddlers and pawns are a vulnerable group who can't know the truth, and Bai Sheng doesn't care how others intrigue, as long as I can live and nourish.