Prime Minister

Chapter 935 The mantis catches the cicada, the oriole is behind

Chapter 935 The mantis catches the cicada, the oriole is behind

"Cai Chengxi went to Zhazi yesterday. I don't know what happened?"

"Today we know that Lu Huiqing and his brother Lu Shengqing have been impeached!"

Wang Anshi, who was on the sick bed, listened to Wang Yu's report and thought for a while, Wang Yu said happily: "Before Dad is done, Cai Chengxi impeached Brother Lu Huiqing, it can be seen that this traitor has exhausted his energy."

Wang Anshi said to Wang Yu: "I have no intention of dismissing Lu Jifu, but I just want him to restrain himself a little."

Wang Yu said: "Father, Lu Huiqing first used the Zheng Xia case to harm uncle, and then used Zhao Shining's treason case to implicate father. If father hadn't rushed back to Bianjing from Jiangning within ten days, Lu Huiqing's subordinates might..."

Wang Anshi remembered how he rushed to Beijing for the second time to visit the prime minister.

Wang Anshi thought for a while and said: "Lu Jifu is wrong, but I can save it. I resigned because of Zheng Jiefu's impeachment. If Jifu hadn't been in the court to maintain the new law, it would have been abolished. At that time, Lu Jifu would inevitably have to do something very serious. Otherwise, the hard work of the past six years of reform will be in vain."

"To do extraordinary things, to have an extraordinary position. He wants to retain the position and I can save it, not to mention that Lu Jifu is different from Zeng Zixuan. The old man and Zhang Yue once said not to recommend Shen Kuo, but he just refused to listen."

Wang Yu thought to himself, he cleaned up Lu Huiqing, and Ruo Zhang was more disobedient, so he also cleaned up.

Shen Kuo betrayed Wang Anshi, and Zhang Yue openly protected him. Although Wang Anshi and Wang Yu were unhappy, the most important opponent in front of him was not Zhang Yue.

One principle must be maintained in any political struggle, that is, not to set up two opponents at the same time.

Wang Anshi didn't know Wang Anshi's overall consideration. When Han Qi and Fu Bi opposed the reform, he openly persuaded Wang Anshi to kill them in front of Cheng Hao.

Wang Yu's murderous hatred is heavy, and he wants to see blood when he shoots.

This is also the habit of the yamen.

They are less afraid of restraint than Lao Tzu, and dare to think and act. It can be said that apart from Wang Anshi, he is in awe of three points. No one in the new party thinks highly of Wang Yu.

But Wang Yu is indeed very talented, even in the talented new party, there are few people who can beat him.But Wang Yu has always disliked Lu Huiqing from the beginning to the end.

In order to force Wang Anshi to make up his mind to deal with Lu Huiqing, Wang Yu said: "Father, no matter what, Zhang Duzhi never openly opposed father in terms of political views, not to mention that Shen Cunzhong is also a person appreciated by the officials, but... Lu Huiqing tampered with the new teachings of the three classics! "

Wang Anshi was taken aback when he heard this. He had two major endeavors, one was the great cause of reform that had continued since the second year of Xining, and the other was the Three Classics and the New Principles.

Even in his heart, the new meaning of the three classics was more important than the great cause of the reform.

"Where is Yu Zhong?" Wang Anshi asked.

This Yu Zhong is Lu Huiqing's son-in-law, and the number one scholar in Xining for six years. When Wang Anshi dismissed his chancellor earlier, he asked Yu Zhong to follow him back to Jiangning to revise the Three Classics.

Wang Yu said: "Yu Zhong has explained to me that there are many changes in the new meanings of the three classics that Brother Lu Huiqing will send back to Beijing. Among them, "Zhou Nan" and "Zhao Nan" in the Book of Songs were changed by Lu Huiqing in 21 places. "Zhou Li" was changed by Lu Huiqing in as many as eleven places."

Wang Anshi was furious when he heard the words, he coughed violently with lung qi, and coughed up a mouthful of blood.

Seeing this, Wang Yu regretted it greatly. He wanted to provoke Wang Anshi to deal with Lu Huiqing, but he did not expect that Wang Anshi was extremely angry.

Wang Anshi blushed and waved his hands: "Don't mention this beforehand!"

Wang Yu withdrew from Wang Anshi's bedroom, thinking that since his father didn't want to fight with Lu Huiqing, it was because he had been involved too deeply for many years.There is a gap between Zhang Yue and Lu Huiqing, and it is not our party that can just persuade it. In the future, it will be Lu Huiqing's position today.

……

This day Zhang Yue just left the court, but when he learned that Lu Shengqing came to visit, he waited for him in the mansion for an hour.

Zhang Yue heard about Cai Chengxi's impeachment of Lu Huiqing's brother, so soon Lu Shengqing came to his door.

"Meet Zhang Xianggong!"

Zhang Yue said to Lu Shengqing, "It's Ming Fu!"

Seeing that Lu Shengqing was sweating profusely, Zhang Yue ordered someone to call Lu Shengqing to wash his face immediately.

Lu Shengqing wiped his face and said: "Please also ask my husband to rescue our brother!"

Zhang Yue immediately said: "Cai Yushi is sparse, I don't know about it at all."

Zhang Yue was not completely ignorant of this, Cai Que instructed Cai Chengxi to go to the school and told Zhang Yue about it.

Lu Shengqing thought to himself, Zhang Yue really didn't know about this matter, but he couldn't get away with it.If it weren't for Shen Kuo to openly change the flag, even if Cai Chengxi had ten courages, he would not dare to impeach Lu Huiqing when the wind was not clear.

Lu Shengqing just kept pleading guilty, and Zhang Yue thought it was funny after reading it.

The brothers of the Lu family all have high emotional intelligence. When Zhang Yue was exiled from Beijing by Lu Huiqing, Lu Shengqing even came to the door to explain afterwards. Even Lu Huiqing took good care of Zhang Zhi who was in Daizhou.

Lu Shengqing has known for many years under Zhang Yue's curtain that the other party has a family friendship and an old friendship, so he kept pleading guilty, hoping that he would soften his heart.

Lu Shengqing looked sincere, almost in tears.

Zhang Yue finally opened his mouth and said: "You are here this time, does Brother Zun know?"

Lu Shengqing nodded and said: "My brother knows, Zhang Xianggong, my brother has always said that you are the most reasonable person, if you are him in a different place, what would you do?"

"Zheng Xia's servant was absent, and Wang Xianggong insisted on resigning regardless of the officials and Lu Xianggong's retention. He never cared about the survival of the new law. At that time, the whole court was talking about abolishing the new law, and it was my brother who held up the situation alone. The new law was saved between preservation and abolition. At that time, my brother wrote a letter to the county guards all over the world, asking them to support the new law. What Wang Xianggong was doing was just going back to Jiangning and writing some complaining poems. Is it the work of a party leader?"

"If my brother hadn't come forward to turn the situation around, the new law would have come a long time ago... Of course, Mr. Zhang's victory in the Northwest at that time was also one of the reasons why the officials changed their minds."

Zhang Yue laughed when he heard this, and said, "Yes, I almost forgot about the pacification of Xihe if you didn't mention it, and Lu Xianggong didn't ask for rewards for me afterward, and even the officials under my curtain didn't ask for rewards for me except Mingfu and you." Not chased."

Lu Shengqing was embarrassed for a while when he heard the words, and then said: "Master misunderstood, it's not that my brother didn't have this heart, but at that time Xihe's reward was too generous, and the old party was too eager to attack, so it's hard to speak."

Zhang Yue smiled and said, "Of course you can say whatever you want afterwards. Brother Ling knew this earlier, so why bother?"

Lu Shengqing wept and said: "This matter is my brother's negligence, but keeping the new law alive is the most important thing on my brother's heart. My brother has worked hard on this, and everyone in the world knows it. I don't know how much effort he has spent on this. How many people have been offended, but after the situation stabilized, Wang Xianggong returned to the court, and so smoothly took all of my brother's hard work as his own. Zhang Xiang is fair, if you are a brother, can you live in peace?"

Lu Shengqing's words were sad, Zhang Yue thought to himself, if he and Lu Huiqing were in a different position, it would be hard to reconcile at this moment.

Lu Huiqing is a person with great political ambitions, and at the same time he is eager to display his ambitions.When Wang Anshi stepped down as prime minister, everyone saw his determination.

It is also an indisputable fact that Wang Anshi continued the reform with Lu Huiqing as his substitute.

Lu Huiqing took up the banner after Wang Anshi, and worked alone in the front for more than half a year. He worked hard for the reform and saved the unfavorable situation.He made promises to countless people and offended many people, but after Wang Anshi returned to the court, all these were taken away by the other party?

Moreover, Wang Anshi always regarded Lu Huiqing as his younger brother, and believed that he should obey him if he had any political opinions.

However, Lu Huiqing has established his own power and developed his own set of policy policies in the past six months.Wang Anshi came back and deprived Lu Huiqing of all this.

Zhang Yue said to Lu Shengqing: "Brother Ling has come to this point, didn't you expect it?"

"I told him not to force Feng to participate in politics or force him to go out. Did he listen? If he had listened, he wouldn't be here today."

"Even if you forced Feng to participate in politics, you also forced me away, but Brother Ling forced Prime Minister Han again? Prime Minister Han was forced by Brother Ling to give up his position, and wanted Wang Xianggong to return to the court. Taking another step back, Wang Xianggong was worried that Ling It only took a few days to get back to Bianjing from Jiangning for my brother’s harm, this is well known in the world.”

"If Brother Ling is a virtuous person, why are you so afraid of Brother Ling?"

"No one knows if Brother Ling will be in charge of the aspect in the future. Will it be Li Linfu, Yang Guozhong and others? All of this is Brother Ling's own fault!"

Lu Shengqing's face was turned green and pale by Zhang Yue's words. Why didn't he persuade his elder brother not to fall out with Zhang Yue?

Lu Huiqing said that since I expelled Feng Jing, Zhang Duzhi was saddened by the death of the rabbit and the fox, so he would send me to eat the sword in the future.

Lu Shengqing said: "Mr. Zhang said that everyone in the court is afraid of my brother? But my brother just defended the new law. Besides, when Lu Jianyi held the aspect, why didn't those who agree with him stay and those who didn't agree go? Why didn't the descendants speak at that time."

"It's useless to say these things now. I just ask my husband this time, can I let my brother go? With the wisdom of my husband, I also know that Wang Xianggong and his brother are closely related, so it is not easy to openly turn against each other, so they use a knife to kill people. Now they use It’s Zhang Xianggong’s knife.”

Zhang Yue laughed when he heard the words: "Mingfu, Mingfu, stop judging the belly of a gentleman with the heart of a villain. Wang Xianggong didn't want to put your brothers to death!"

Lu Shengqing thought to himself, Cai Chengxi is from Wang Anshi's hometown, and the impeachment must have been ordered by him, how can he say that he didn't want to kill his brother?

Seeing that Lu Shengqing didn't believe it, Zhang Yue suddenly understood. Could this be what Cai Que expected?

……

Wang Anshi forced his sick body to go to court. After the officials asked about Wang Anshi's condition, they asked him about Lu Huiqing.

The official said: "Cai Chengxi impeached and said that Brother Lu Huiqing was slow to recruit power, what do you think?"

Wang Anshi said: "I don't know what's wrong with Huiqing?"

Officials said: "Ji can, aggressive, unfair, like Zhang Yue and Shen Kuo are all great talents, but they are not tolerated."

Wang Anshi said: "Lu Huiqing hates Shen Kuo because he hates his repetition, not because he is disloyal."

The officials also said that Cai Chengxi said that Lu Shengqing persuaded Lu Huiqing to lie down for ten days, and the Taiwan remonstrance was all dismissed. They also said that Lu Shengqing's engraving on the imperial stele of Emperor Taizong was dismissed by Wang Anshi as nonsense, and he tried his best to protect Lu Huiqing.

And Lu Huiqing has already made a speech for the second time, and she sneered in her heart when she heard Wang Anshi's words of defense.On the one hand, Wang Anshi instructed Cai Chengxi to impeach him, and on the other hand, he defended himself in front of the emperor. This is the most hypocritical and cunning person in the world!

(End of this chapter)