Chapter 531 There is no most wicked, only more wicked
What a beautiful and sinister and vicious queen mother!
After hearing Empress Dowager Liu's advice, Wu Haogu already understood in his heart that the old party was so vicious that she had been so vicious.
Zhao Ji only needs to ask about Ren Boyu's bullets tomorrow, and let the prime ministers express their opinions one by one. Anyone who supports Ren Boyu is a treacherous minister who "will be happy when he hears the Liao lord, and worry when he hears the Liao lord." The old party in the court will not be caught in one go!
Ren Boyu's article is well written, but he didn't understand Zhao Ji's thoughts! I don't know how this guy became an official? Why did he write such an article?
But Wu Haogu could not have imagined that Ren Boyu was "hit the virus released by Zhang Yuan". What else could he do? Confess to Zhao Ji and wait to taste the red ones? He is a loyal minister, but he is not a fool.
As for him to kill people and silence them himself... this is also impossible. He is not the kind of Confucian scholar who will never leave his sword and win people over with virtue. Who will he kill? Besides, he is not the Chief Censor of the Censorate. How can he manipulate the clerks of the Censorate?
So now he doesn't want to impeach Zhang Dun and his son to Shaman Island at all, but he just wants to be safe and secure by Zhao Ji... It would be great if he could be released from the imperial court.
As for whether his book would be used as a tool to combat the gentlemen of the old party, he didn't care about it for the time being.
But Wu Haogu still wanted to attract the old party at this time. He is too close to the old party now. Although Cai Jing has a good relationship with the new party, most of them want to get rid of themselves.
Thinking of this, Wu Haogu spoke again: "Your Majesty, although Ren Zhengyan's letter is inappropriate, it can be used to confuse the Lord of Liao."
"Confusing the Lord of Liao?" Zhao Ji was a little puzzled.
"Your Majesty," Wu Hao Ancient Road, "The great Liao army is strong and cannot be compared with our dynasty. If you want to plan it, you still need to act in secret and do not let the Liao lord be wary."
Zhao Ji frowned, "Dalang, let me first talk about how powerful the Liao Kingdom is?"
Wu Haogu took a breath and said in a heavy tone: "At present, there are personal soldiers in the palace tents of the twelve palaces and one mansion in Liao Kingdom, with a total of 11,000 soldiers, all of which are elite cavalry! Among them, there are about thousands of armored cavalry known as Tielin, and the rest are elite cavalry equipped with human armor. They can be riding and shooting, rushing, and dismounting and fighting on the battlefield.
In addition to the twelve palaces and one prefecture, the Liao Kingdom also had tribal cavalry and personal soldiers of the skin. Most of the tribal soldiers came from the Khitan and Xi tribes, and the number of people and the armor and equipment they prepared were not as good as those of the palace tent soldiers. However, the Liao Kingdom has used tribal soldiers to charge to preserve the strength of the palace tents for many years, so the actual combat power of tribal soldiers is even better than that of the palace tent soldiers.
As for the Pi Shi soldiers, they were originally palace soldiers, and they were among the elite soldiers. They were only independent of their tribes later, and now they seem to be with the tribes.
The soldiers of the major tribes and the soldiers of the Pishi were about 100,000 soldiers, and 20,000 of them were stationed in Kedu City, the northern part of the Mo, called the Zhenzhou Anfu Army. This unit fought with the people of the Bu for many years, and the upper and lower parts were fighting hard, and their strength was extraordinary.
In addition to the 200,000 elite troops, the Liao Kingdom also has 18,000 Han army guards and thousands of elite troops in the Bohai Sea, all of which are available, and their combat power is no less than that of our Western Army."
In other words, the weak Liao Kingdom has more than 200,000 elite troops to fight! And most of them are cavalry that can move quickly. On the Song Dynasty, 450,000 of the 500,000 imperial guards were "equipped", and the remaining 50,000 Western Army soldiers were at most, which was the elite level of the Liao Kingdom, and most of them were infantry. How could they defeat the more than 200,000 elite troops in the Liao Kingdom, mainly cavalry?
"Will you not be able to defeat the Liao Kingdom?" Zhao Ji's words were a little gloomy.
"It's not that I can't beat it," Wu Haogu glanced at Zhao Ji, who frowned, "but I can't use a dignified battle to deal with the Liao Kingdom... Even the late emperor and Xianggong Zhang wanted to defeat Yanyun, otherwise there would be no Jiehe Market.
Therefore, Your Majesty would be better to temporarily hide the idea of seeking Liao in his heart, so as not to be seen by the spies of the Liao people. Only in this way can he accumulate strength secretly, wait for the opportunity, and penetrate the Liao Kingdom at the same time."
"It makes sense." Zhao Ji nodded slightly. He was not completely confused yet and knew how much he was. He still had to make a long-term plan for the attack on Liao!
After saying a lot of words and going around in a big circle, Wu Haogu finally saved some situation for the old party... I don't know if it can be allowed to let Han Zhongyan and Fan Chunli, the two old party chiefs, stay in their seats for a few more years, be beaten up by the old party, which is not in line with Wu Haogu's wishes.
Cai Jing is the leader of the six thieves. Although Wu Haogu flattered him, as an upright loyal minister, how could he get along well with Cai Jing, the leader of the six thieves?
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"The Censorate...Plague?"
"But the Hanlin Medical Officer was sent?"
"How is Zhao Zhengfu? He is not infected, right?"
"What happened to Zhang Yuan and Ji Yi?"
In the Political Affairs Hall, the priests who had just finished lunch and were discussing political affairs now know that the plague was in the Censorate.
The person who came to report to them was Chen Guan, the Youzhengyan who belonged to Menxia Province. Like Ren Boyu, he never wanted to see the "big virus" Zhang Yuan and Ji Yi again in his life, so he pinched his nose and admitted that the plague of the Censorate was contagious. He, Youzhengyan, was in Menxia Province. If the epidemic was transmitted to several husbands, who would assist the officials?
So I can't go to the Censorate Prison even if I am just right... I must find a chance to take office outside the office when I look back!
"At present, Zhao Zhongcheng is not infected with the disease, and the Hanlin medical officer has also gone to the Censorate," Chen Guan replied, "The Xiaguan and Ren Zhengyan have transferred the Censorate together to let them temporarily release Zhang Yuan and Ji Yi."
"Let it go?"
Fan Chunli didn't know the inside story of the "early morning incident on January 13, 3rd year of Yuanfu", so she was very surprised.
Zhang Yuan and Ji Yi had been in the Censorate Prison for less than a day, so why were they released?
"If you let it go, let it go," the person who said this was not Zeng Bu, but Han Zhongyan. "They are all infected with the plague. If they want to stay in the Censorate Prison, what if they can't do it?"
No? Fan Chunli turned his head to look at Zeng Bu, Xu Jiang, Li Qingchen and Wen Yi, and the four of them had a little fear.
What they thought of was not Zhang Yuan and Ji Yi themselves as "big viruses", but Zhao Tingzhi was doing something!
Zhao Ting is always a ruthless person in the New Party Group. When he is slandered, his relatives do not recognize Zhao Tingzhi as a native of Zhucheng County, Mizhou on Jingdong East Road. Most of his fellow villagers are old parties... He does not recognize his former affection when he is slandered!
In addition, did Lu Jiawen's son Lu Benzhi die in the Censorate Prison without understanding?
Could it be that this time Zhao Tingzhi's change is getting worse and he wants to kill Zhang Yuan and Ji Yi in the name of the plague?
Maybe Zhang Yuan and Ji Yi are dead now!?
Before the four new party officials understood what was wrong, a gate Xuanzan had already arrived at the Zhengzheng Hall, and even passed the oral orders of the official Zhao Ji, summoning the important ministers and censors to go to Chongzheng Hall to ask questions.
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In Chongzheng Hall, Zhao Ji, who had just bid farewell to his sister-in-law and Wu Haogu, was sitting upright on it, looking at a group of important officials who were rushing to come.
In fact, Zhao Ji was particularly unwilling to investigate Zhang Dun in depth. Zhang Yuan and his son’s crimes were not as good as these two people! Don’t check it and find out a will to pass on the throne to King Jian. How can he end it? His emperor has not been satisfied yet, so of course it is impossible to give it up... But if you want to kill your brother, you are a little incapable of attacking.
Moreover, Zhao Ji found that he did not seem to have particularly reliable armed forces in his hands now! The imperial knights had just been formed, and all the knights were trained in Cangzhou and waiting to receive the vocational land. The "house slave" infantry has not been selected now, and the house has not been built...
So, now it’s better to make big things happen, and small things happen.
Thinking of this, Zhao Ji turned his eyes to Zhao Tingzhi, who was sitting on a scepter in the corner.
Zhao Tingzhi looked good, his face was rosy and energetic, and he didn't look infected with the epidemic.
"Zhao Qing," Zhao Ji asked, "How is Zhang Yuan and Ji Yi in the same way?"
"Report to Your Majesty," Zhao Tingzhi said lies with his eyes open, "They are very ill and have already let them go home to recuperate according to the transfer of Ren Zhengyan and Chen Zhengyan."
He had never seen Zhang Yuan and Ji Yi, the two "big viruses", have already knocked down half of the Censorate. Of course, he didn't dare to see him. And there was nothing to see, and he had nothing to say when he saw him...
"Oh." Zhao Ji nodded, "Have the Censorate ever interrogated them?"
"It was Zuo Zhengyan Ren Boyu, You Zhengyan Chen Guan, the Attorney Chen Shixi and the Attorney Chen Cisheng who were responsible for the interrogation. I did not participate."
"Ren Qing, Chen Qing," Zhao Ji asked, "Have you found the result?"
Is the result not obvious? Except for Ren Boyu and Chen Guan, everyone else fell ill...
"Report to Your Majesty," Ren Boyu said, "These two people deny each other in every way. Zhang Yuan also wrote a letter to the blood, so I will send you a letter to you again today to impeach Zhang Dun.
Please kill Zhang Dun!"
Is this going to be punished?
Zhao Ji frowned and wrote randomly on the chapter. Now he still talks nonsense, which is just too unreasonable!
"I also ask Zhang Dun to be killed!"
You Zhengyan Chen Guan also spoke loudly at this time, shouting for beating and killing.
Zhao Ji turned his attention to Zeng Bu. Zeng Bu and Zhang Dun are accomplices, so should we say a few good things, right?
"Your Majesty, Zhang Dun is indeed guilty of being confused by the country and being disobedient to the emperor! He also attempted to take advantage of the incident of the late emperor and violated the Empress Dowager. His crime was not light. Even if he did not die, he should be demoted to Lingnan."
Zhao Ji frowned. You accomplice is too unfriendly enough... He looked at Han Zhongyan again. Han Zhongyan had vaguely guessed some of the reasons for Zhang Dun's unluckyness. His father could have supported two decisions and was very familiar with this trick. So he knew that the situation of the old party is more dangerous than that of the new party, so he must not break through the bottom line of "demolishing officials to stop in Haizhou".
Chapter completed!