This Song Dynasty is different

Chapter 74 Catastrophe
in the palace.

The Queen Mother was talking to Concubine Yang.

"The Wang family is too demonic, and the officials are young and cannot withstand the temptation. Young people are wary of sex." The Queen Mother said coldly: "The Zhang family is mediocre, but as the queen, she cannot help the officials. Moreover, the Zhang family was born in a wealthy family, and her father and ancestors were The army is powerful, and if we act as the rear, we will be unable to defeat the enemy if we don't manage to do so."

"What about Mr. Guo?" Concubine Yang asked with concern.

"The Guo family has a distinguished status, but her family background is not outstanding. If she is the queen, the officials can easily manipulate her." The Queen Mother looked at Concubine Yang, "Even if there is an emergency for the officials, the Guo family can temporarily stabilize the situation. Family The truth is not clear, now there is no one behind me to seduce Guo... This is what I value most about her. After all, the bodies of officials are not strong."

Concubine Yang suddenly realized, "It turns out that the Queen Mother has considered so many things."

The emperor's women are never chosen casually. Even if she is a concubine, the people in the palace will check her eighteen generations of ancestors.

Background is the first element.

"Guo is the queen, I have made up my mind!" A look of determination flashed in the Queen Mother's eyes, "Go and persuade him later."

Concubine Yang nodded, and then Zhang Jing came to see her.

"How?" asked the Queen Mother.

"The Queen Mother, Dingyuan Marquis went to Guo's house and came out to tell the minister..." Zhang Jing knew that the Queen Mother admired Guo, so he felt a little gloating and felt that Li Xian was going to be in bad luck.

"He said there was a handwriting from the Queen Mother, and Mr. Guo opened his mouth to check it."

"Be cautious." The Queen Mother became more and more satisfied.

"Then Marquis Dingyuan said that if any of the three young ladies entered the palace, they could become concubines. If they couldn't be concubines, they would be concubines." Zhang Jing raised his head.

"How is Mr. Guo?" the Queen Mother asked with a smile.She thought about the embarrassment she was in before entering the palace, how similar it was to the Guo family whose family was in decline now.

"Ms. Guo clenched his fists and looked angry!"

After a long time, the Queen Mother yelled from above, "Impossible!"

"The accompanying female officer is outside." Zhang Jing turned sideways and the female officer came in.

"But is that true?" The Queen Mother stood up angrily.

When the female officer saw the angry Queen Mother for the first time, she lowered her head in fear, "Yes, that's what I saw. In both of Guo's eyes..."

"What is it?" The Queen Mother was furious as she held the pen in her hand.

"Jealousy!"

Bah!
The brush fell heavily to the ground and turned into powder.

……

"Where is Marquis Dingyuan?"

In the Li family, Zhao Zhen woke up quietly.

"The officials are awake?" Zhang Ze quickly went in to serve. "Marquis Dingyuan went to the palace to see the Queen Mother. He sent someone earlier to check on the homes of some young ladies."

Zhao Zhen felt a splitting headache and said groggily: "What's the use? The eldest lady can just say it."

……

The second time, Li Xian went to the Zhang family.

The Zhang family is wealthy and old, and is not as arrogant as the nouveau riche.

The reception was very polite, but the scale was well controlled.

Mrs. Zhang appeared without wearing a hat.

The female officer behind him watched carefully, and then Li Xian spoke.

"I am here with a handwritten letter from the Queen Mother."

He took out the handwriting.

Mrs. Zhang didn't say a word. Someone beside her smiled and said, "Thank you for your hard work, Lord Marquis."

Why does such a thing need to be verified... The Queen Mother will naturally speak out afterwards.

Moreover, can the female officer behind her still be able to disguise herself?

Unless Li Xian wants to rebel, otherwise, it is absolutely impossible.

"With three young ladies entering the palace, it's hard to say who will be the master. If not the queen, then she will be the concubine..." Li Xian looked at Mrs. Zhang. She looked calm and had no reaction.

The female officer also saw it clearly and couldn't help but think of Mr. Guo from before.

After a few words that were neither salty nor bland, Li Xian stood up and left.

After leaving the Zhang family, Zhang Jing magically appeared again.

"How is Zhang?"

"Mediocre."

To be mediocre is to be mediocre.

If it is a strong emperor, it would be appropriate for him to be paired with a mediocre queen.But Zhao Zhen was too generous and did not have a virtuous wife, that is, the more powerful queen in the mouth of the queen mother. This day has never been better.

Then it’s time to go to Wang’s house.

Wang Mengzheng received him personally, and his spring-like smile made Li Xian a little unhappy.

too fake!

"Last time, a servant acted recklessly. I already punished him when he came back. I always wanted to ask the Marquis to apologize, but I didn't dare to come. I didn't expect that I would be lucky enough to see the Marquis today, hahahaha!"

Amid hearty laughter, Wang appeared.

However, the teenage girl looked very bright.

"My daughter always said that she felt friendly when she saw the Marquis that day." Wang Mengzheng glanced at Li Xian calmly, and when he saw that he was noncommittal, he felt a little dissatisfied.

The officials all like my daughter, what do you mean?
"I've met Marquis Dingyuan." Wang saluted with a very gentle voice.

"I am here with a handwritten letter from the Queen Mother."

Li Xian was impartial, and it was still the two issues.

"The Marquis is a minister whom the Queen Mother values, so what else is there to check?" Wang Mengzheng laughed.

Li Xian smiled and put away the handwritten letter. The female official behind him coughed dryly, hinting that he should be careful... After all, the Queen Mother did not like the Wang family.

"Three little ladies enter the palace, and it is unknown who will become the master in the end. If not the queen, then she will be the concubine..." Wang said calmly: "Yes."

Li Xian stood up and said goodbye.

After leaving Wang's house and looking at Zhang Jing outside the door, Li Xian was already used to it.

"How is it?" Zhang Jing asked Li Xian, but he was looking at the female officer behind him.

"Quite positive." Li Xian said, "How to convince the officials is a headache."

Zhang Jing was happy when he heard this, "This is the problem of Marquis Dingyuan."

"What are the officials doing?" Li Xian asked.

"How do we know?" Zhang Jing said.

"Your people are just lying on the wall opposite the Li family. If they didn't know their identities, they would have become corpses!"

Wang He came to report earlier that there were two idiots on the wall opposite the Li family and asked Lang Jun if he wanted to take action.

idiot!Zhang Jing's face was ashen and he felt very embarrassed, "The officials are drinking."

"If he can be addicted to alcohol, I think it's good." Li Xian knew that his nature was hard to change, but he still had the idea of ​​changing Zhao Zhen's temperament from time to time.

"That's right." Zhang Jing said as he was about to go back: "The Queen Mother was very angry when she learned about Guo's words and deeds. In addition, I don't know who spread the dispute between the official family and the Queen Mother. The scholars were very happy to hear about it."

After Zhao Zhen and Li Xian became close, their words and deeds gradually deviated from the appearance of a 'wise king' in the eyes of the scholar-bureaucrats.Therefore, it is rare to be criticized verbally and writtenly.

"I brought this." Li Xian nodded, "I'll handle it."

"That's a scholar-official, how can you solve it?" Zhang Jing made a pun, implying that Li Xian could either have a good relationship with the scholar-officials, or wait to be criticized.

"It's just a group of threshold monkeys." Li Xian sneered.

He was full of anger and needed to vent his anger at this moment, "Give me some people."

Zhang Jing said warily: "What are you going to do?"

Li Xian took out the handwritten letter, and Zhang Jing said angrily: "The Queen Mother...that's all, how much do you want?"

"Fifty."

"What are you going to do?"

"Talk to them."

Half an hour later, Li Xian led fifty experts from the Imperial City Division to outside a restaurant.

"The shop is occupied today, guest, next time...next time..." The waiter stepped back.

Inside, the scholars were talking loudly.

When the dispute between the officials and the Queen Mother was mentioned, these people praised the Queen Mother for her wisdom and the officials' ignorance.

"The Song Dynasty is lucky to have a queen mother!"

Everyone looked in agreement, as if they were not the ones who mocked the Queen Mother a while ago.

Scholars are indeed shameless... The shopkeeper leaned to the side and sneered.

Bah!
The door was pushed open.

"It's Li Xian!" someone exclaimed.

"What can he do?" Someone sneered, stood up and looked at Li Xian.

"I heard that someone gathered here to rebel?" As soon as Li Xian spoke, the expressions of these people changed drastically.

"You spout blood."

Li Xian waved his hand, "Fight! Drag him back to the Imperial City Division and ask who is the mastermind!"

Marquis Dingyuan went berserk, beat up more than thirty scholars, and captured them all.

"Nonsense!" the Queen Mother said angrily in the palace, but then sneered, "Is he worried that I will take advantage of the situation?"

In just half a day, there was an undercurrent surging outside.Memorials praising the Queen Mother flew into the palace like snowflakes.

Some people even shamelessly praised the Queen Mother for being the female middle school of Yao and Shun... You know, this praise will only belong to Gao Taotao, the mother of Shenzong in the future.

This is openly tempting the Queen Mother to fight for power.

Li Xian stood outside the palace, with Wang Zeng beside him.

"Why are you acting like this?" Wang Zeng squinted at him, "Are you worried about the Queen Mother? I thought you were too worried."

What a bunch of idiots!

Li Xian didn't know whether to praise them for their big heart or reproach them for being stupid.

They had no idea how fast the Queen Mother was transforming... After falling out with Zhao Zhen over the selection of Queen, the Queen Mother quickly embarked on the road to power.From then on, Zhao Zhen became a stumbling block in her eyes.

Later, the powerful Queen Mother even had the idea of ​​proclaiming herself emperor, and she tried and hesitated several times.

When Li Xian saw Luo Chongxun, he took a deep breath and said, "Your Majesty, the future of the Song Dynasty is decided here."

Zhao Zhen, who had been suppressed for ten years, was a rookie after taking office and was unable to control the huge Song Dynasty.This was also one of the reasons for the failure of the Qingli New Deal.

It is precisely because of this that the power of ministers is unprecedentedly powerful.The minister pulled Zhao Zhen's sleeve and spit, which seemed like a good story, but what it reflected was the unprecedented weakness of the emperor.

An emperor without authority has no prestige.An emperor without prestige will have nothing to say.

The Song Dynasty was peaceful for decades.But what are the consequences?
The scholar-bureaucrats who had been waiting for this opportunity to share the fertilizer for many years quickly transformed into moths.So much so that when he came to Shenzong, he vowed to perish if he did not reform.But Wang Anshi was no match for the scholar-bureaucrats who had been fattened during the Renzong Dynasty, and the reform failed miserably.

"This is a battle over the fate of the country!" Li Xian glanced at the old man, "Prince, power is the devil and can confuse people's hearts. Think of the princes in the former Han and Tang Dynasties. The father killed his son, and the son killed his father."

Wang Zeng suddenly thought of what the man said before.His body was shaken, "I'm careless, those people's purpose is not to suppress the officials, their purpose is..."

"They want Mr. Xu!"

Li Xian walked towards Luo Chongxun and smiled: "Is the Queen Mother here?"

"Here!" Luo Chongxun glanced at him, with some pity in his eyes.

Wang Zeng saw it from the side and was shocked, "Guoan!"

Li Xian turned around and said with a smile: "The weather is very good, even in the Song Dynasty."

(End of this chapter)