This Song Dynasty is different

Chapter 5
In the eyes of the Queen Mother and the ministers, Zhao Zhen was weak both physically and mentally.

He will not fight or rob when things happen, he will not be domineering, and he will not use his status as an emperor to suppress his ministers.You will only be gentle and forgiving when others make mistakes, and you can't help but help others when you see them being unlucky.

Such an official family is most suitable to be the emperor of peace.

But no one expected that Zhao Zhen, who had always shown himself to be weak, would actually hit Cao Li with a wat board.

Officials are so confused!

Wang Zeng covered his forehead, but was suddenly startled.

"What did the official say? Mother!"

Today, the official family takes the position of the son of man to stand up for his mother.

I am confused!
Wang Zeng suddenly realized it, and Wang Qinruo was dumbfounded.

Cao Li covered his face, and his reaction was not slow. He immediately knelt down and kowtowed to show his sincerity and fear, "I don't dare!"

If he dares to resist, Zhao Zhen will have him killed, and then his followers can only shout that the officials are wise.

The Queen Mother slowly sat back.

My eyes turned red for some reason.

Emperor Zhenzong was absurd in the second half of his life, treating the country as his own toy.In the later period, when he was unable to manage affairs, the Queen Mother assisted him, and later became the dictatorial one.

Although she has tasted the sweetness of power over the years, she has also suffered various blows.

Why didn't she want someone to help her and stand up for herself?

But Zhenzong was confused and Zhao Zhen was weak, so she could only arm herself with her heart, and after countless blows, she turned the scars into armor.

But what did she see today?
I saw my son giving Cao Li a blow for his mother.

The Queen Mother was choking silently.

After Zhao Zhen slapped Cao Li hard with a wat board, he became a little panicked.He didn't know what to do next.

Continue to scold.

Will Cao Li completely fall out?
If you don't scold, it will seem anticlimactic.

Experience became Zhao Zhen's shortcoming at this time.

And experience comes from doing things and from experience.

But his instinct drove him to say: "You can humiliate me, but you can't humiliate my mother!"

The young man's sharp voice echoed in the hall.

The Queen Mother raised her head with joy, wishing she could call her son over, hold her in her arms, and tell him: I am proud of you.

Cao Li kowtowed again, stuck his butt out, and said in panic: "My lord, I don't dare. My lord, I will die!"

Wang Zeng felt that today's official family is completely different from the past.He knelt down and cried, "I seem to have seen Emperor Taizong."

The Queen Mother suppressed the excitement in her heart and said calmly: "The officials are impulsive."

This is a clear endorsement of the officials... As I said, the officials fought well!

What follows is harmony between the monarch and his ministers, and the officials apologize to the Queen Mother and the ministers for their impulsiveness.The prime ministers and assistants also happily accepted his apology.

The proceedings ended peacefully.

Wang Zeng walked out of the hall and said to Feng Zheng, the chief assistant of Bingyangzi: "Today the official's sharpness is amazing."

Feng Zheng was old and sick. He said slowly: "He is an emperor after all. In the past, you waited too much. This man! Don't bully others too harshly, otherwise, honest people will really get angry. More ruthless than ruthless people!”

In the palace, the Queen Mother walked out of the curtain and said with a smile: "My son is bold today. If Emperor Taizong is still here, he will definitely be happy."

Zhao Zhen was happy in his heart, "Then Cao Li will definitely not dare to be rude to the eldest lady again in the future."

The Queen Mother suddenly woke up from the surprise, "If you scolded Cao Liang, I won't be surprised. I would like to praise you for your courage. But how dare you take action...Whose idea was it?"

She had watched this child grow up, and she knew exactly what his nature was.

Zhao Zhen said: "I went to find Li Xian to relieve my boredom and told Cao about Cao's use. Li Xian said that in the former Han Dynasty, parents were humiliated and killed without guilt!"

In the Han Dynasty, if someone insulted or harmed your parents, and you killed that person, there was a high chance that you would be found not guilty or even be rewarded.

This is the Song Dynasty, but Zhao Zhen said it well: You can humiliate me, but you cannot humiliate my mother!

This is a person's bottom line!
The Queen Mother squinted her eyes, "The Imperial City Secretary reported that Li Xian was smart since he was a child, but he failed many imperial examinations. After his parents passed away, he was still obsessed with the imperial examinations, so much that his family fortune withered. This son valued friendship, but was a bit naive. But he could do it casually How can a scholar who has found a solution to this matter be innocent? As for friendship..."

Zhao Zhen said about Li Xian's initial attitude, "...he wanted to avoid me like a god of plague, but after I told him to be careful about Cao's exploitation, he changed his mind."

"This is because I was moved by your friendship. I value friendship..." The Queen Mother pondered and said for a long time: "This man has sharp eyesight and good intelligence. Why did he fail in the imperial examination? After drinking, he said that he was unlucky and the examiner was blind... "

Zhao Zhen thought of Li Xian's calmness and confidence that he had everything under control, and blurted out, "The examiner must be blind!"

The Queen Mother smiled, "It seems that the past few examiners had some emotional problems."

When Zhao Zhen went back later, the Queen Mother summoned people from the Imperial City Division and rebuked the Imperial City Division for being perfunctory in investigating Li Xian and talking nonsense.

"How does this son treat the official family?" asked the Queen Mother.

The secret agent of the Imperial City who followed Zhao Zhen to the Li family said: "I avoided him at first. When I saw the official family going out, I even saw the relief in Li Xian's eyes."

"Is my son a disaster?" The Queen Mother sneered, but most of the suspicion in her eyes dissipated. "The official told him to be careful about Cao's use. Li Xian hesitated for a while. I saw that his eyes were quite complicated, as if...as if he had taken over a big trouble. Then he stopped the official. What will happen next, I don't know. Dare to listen.”

"Is it big trouble?" the Queen Mother pondered.

Zhao Zhen's situation was a bit embarrassing. He was said to be the emperor of the Song Dynasty, but political affairs were in the hands of the Queen Mother and Prime Minister, and he was even still studying.

What will happen in the future is anyone’s guess.

Under power!
"He is a smart man who knows the good and the bad." The Queen Mother said calmly: "I am a little curious about how his unknown husband can teach such outstanding disciples? But he is a great Confucian?"

The secret agent of the Imperial City Department looked embarrassed, "Queen Mother, Mr. Li Xian... is mediocre."

"Mediocre? It's worth testing." Since Zhao Zhen liked hanging out with Li Xian, the Queen Mother subconsciously wanted to investigate everything about Li Xian.

"Queen Mother, that man is dead."

"How did you die?"

"Just after Li Xian was released from prison, someone set a fire and burned his family to death."

The Queen Mother was silent for a long time.

"The Queen Mother." The people from the Imperial City Department asked for instructions, "What will Li Xian do from now on..."

The Queen Mother thought of today's imperial family and shook her head, "A disciple taught by a mediocre gentleman can see the undercurrents in the court at a glance, and he can immediately give a way to deal with Cao Cao. I am thinking, Is this kid gifted, or..."

Subsequently, the examiners of the past few imperial examinations were all investigated, and most of them were corrupt.The Queen Mother was furious and ordered them all to be exiled.Bianjing Shilin was shocked.

No one knew that the anti-corruption in the imperial examination was related to Li Xian's repeated failures in the examination. A few days later, Zhang Ze came to find Li Xian and conveyed Zhao Zhen's words.

"Cao Lili has been quite calm these days, but the people from the Imperial City Department found that someone is watching you near your home. The officials asked you to be careful." Zhang Ze felt that the officials were too caring for Li Xian, "If it's inappropriate, , the officials sent people to take care of him."

At this moment, Zhao Zhen is not as depressed as he was after many years. Being with him is like a refreshing breath of fresh air.

"Tell the officials, I understand."

"You're in the light, he's in the dark. What do the officials mean? Why don't you go out for a walk?"

"No need."

Kindness is not rewarded!

Zhang Ze said goodbye.

"Mr. Lang, Cao Yongli is a hero!" Xinghua sat on the threshold with her hands on her chin, feeling very sad. "He is so powerful and we don't know what he will do. I'm a little flustered."

"This is why you can't guard against a thief for a thousand days, but why should I choose his battlefield?" Li Xian smiled, "By the way, the family is short of money?"

When it comes to Qian Xinghua, she doesn't feel sleepy anymore, "It's bad, it's not bad, it's just that I have no money. By the way, can the five pieces of money that Lang Jun is not allowed to touch be used?"

"Just use it for now!" Li Xian said, "I'm going out for a while."

Soon, the news that Li Xian had mortgaged the house reached the Cao family.

"Alang." Staff Huang Xin stroked his beard and smiled, "I heard that this guy wants to do business."

Cao Li was dressed in casual clothes, clenching his fists and gently beating the table in front of him, with a cold look on his eyebrows, "I found out that the official went to look for Li Xian that day, and his attitude was quite respectful, and then the official came." The family is in charge of attacking me."

"Emperor Master!" Huang Xin smiled calmly, "Does that person deserve it? Don't worry, Alang, we don't need any means, we just have one way to hurt others."

"That's exactly what it is!" Cao Li said calmly: "The Queen Mother has been very busy guarding the officials these days, just like an old hen watching over her cubs. In this way, she first crushed Li Xian and beat the old man. Diva.”

The Queen Mother came from a humble background and worked as a singer when she was young.

Huang Xin nodded, "I will definitely make Li Xian lose his blood. However, the methods originally planned to deal with Li Xian..."

"Put it on hold for now."

"Yes!"

……

After Xinghua learned that Li Xian had mortgaged the house, she cried all night. The next day with red and swollen eyes, she followed Li Xian and said that she would commit suicide whenever Li Xian went to eat, drink and have fun.

With a young housekeeper following behind him, Li Xian didn't panic. He first hired a few cooks, set up an earthen stove in the yard of his home, and began to teach the cooks how to cook.

Zhao Zhen came here once and saw that the food was pork. He covered his nose and left. He stood outside the door and said, "I and the Queen Mother will need some guards here. Look back and stare at Laoya Lane."

Li Xian looked at him and said for a long time, "Then I won't be polite."

Zhao Zhen smiled and said: "This is the best."

From being shunned by the plague god at the beginning to being rude now, the two of them have become increasingly close without realizing it.

Huang Xin learned that Li Xian was planning to start a catering business, so he hired several cooks with high salaries.

"The cook Li Xian hired is the worst." Huang Xin smiled with contempt. In this situation, if he couldn't crush Li Xian, he should find a piece of tofu and kill him.

Two days later, Li Xian went to recruit more than ten men and women and bought carts, barrels and other things.

He even told the outside world that he planned to open a business someday and sell food to the boatmen of Cai River.

The Cai River is constantly carrying boats every day, continuously transporting materials from various places into Bianjing City. It can be called the artery of Bianjing.

"Let's do it. It's just one piece. Whatever he sells, we'll lose [-]%!" Huang Xin said to several stewards: "I want Li Xian to know that even with official protection, Alang can still make him have no place in Bianjing. !”

(End of this chapter)