Chapter 281: Iron Horseman Wind and Snow Down to Jiangnan (III)

Today’s meeting, at the end of xiangfu two years extremely low-profile Ministry of Rites Minister Jin Lanting, suddenly became the temple on the loudest official, even the Ministry of War Tang Tieshuang were robbed of the limelight.

In Jin Lanting’s advice, the court adopted a series of policies on the spot without a small meeting, which for the Son of Heaven patrol the border of two Liao, and in the last year to assist the Great Pillar State Gu Jiantang made a war victory in the Ministry of War Xu Gong, finally able to withdraw from the Liaodong this Palace, not only succeeded in the return from the customs and led 20,000 of the capital city’s elite south to reinforce Lu Shengxiang, has just been promoted to the general Li Chang’an served as the deputy of the Minister of War Xu, the Ministry of War! The young officials in the Yamen, such as Gao Tingshu Kong Zhenrong, who followed the two lords and left the capital for training, are also expected to finally make their mark. General Yuan Tingshan of Jizhou left the border with 10,000 horsemen and 10,000 footmen and entered the Central Plains from the pass of Keizikou, going hand in hand with Xu Gong’s army. Then there is the decree of Western Shu, ordering King of Shu Chen Zhi Bao to deploy another 10,000 elite troops from Shu to participate in the Guangling Road to quell the rebellion, which will be under the joint command of Xu Gong and Chen Zhi Bao. Compared to Jin Lanting’s loyalty to the country, everywhere for the court to solve the problem, the State Crown Prince Yao Baifeng’s proposal at the end of the court meeting, immediately let the already heavy atmosphere of the court hall became more and more silent, the origin of this Northwest of the science of the great man suggested that the matter of the transport, Jing’an Road, Wen Taiyi, a strategic ambassador to the first to the place, the government is already heavy, should be handed over to the transport of the internal officials responsible for the specific affairs, Wen only need to grasp the big picture can be. If it was before, without His Majesty the Emperor opening his mouth, there would be countless civil officials and military generals jumping out to refute Lord Left Sacrificer, but today, the young world was sitting on the high dragon chair, not saying a word, his sight wandered, but almost as far as his eyes could see, there were only courtiers who bowed down and were silent, and none of the officials who stood up with their chests out of the columns of lofty speeches. In the end, the young emperor from a distance to close, slowly retracted his eyes, stayed in a group of six yellow and purple ministers for a few moments, and finally someone stood out, it is the Chen Wang, Chen Wang did not overthrow all of Yao Baifeng’s opinion, but put forward a compromise, first by the Ministry of Administration to rigorously examine the curriculum vitae of the main officials of the transport, wait until the court to finalize the candidate, and then let the Secretary Secretary Wen Taiyi put down the burden of the Guangling Transportation temporarily, still by Wen Taiyi full responsibility. Wen Taiyi was still in charge of the transportation of the Guangling canal for the time being.

After the court retired, His Majesty did not want to convene a small court meeting, so all the officials exited the hall and went straight to the various government offices.

Jin Lanting, who was a laughing stock in the officialdom at the end of last year, is considered to have raised his eyebrows today. No need to think about it, because of the “trivial matters” and forgot to pay New Year’s visit to some officials, are going to flock to, in the minister’s mansion outside the queue waiting, of course, how the gift list is how heavy how to come.

Yao Baifeng today there is no officials surrounded by clusters, the old man did not think, did not hurry to walk down the steps, looking at the field of vision as if bound within the door of the imperial road, lost in thought.

Beside the old man rang a young voice, “left priest, your home stove is cold ah, the future of food can be difficult.”

The old man did not turn his head, the young man who dared to speak to his seniors in such a cynical tone, there are not many young people in the Liyang court, and only a handful of them have the qualifications to participate in the court meetings. At a young age, he had already sunk his teeth into the officialdom of the capital, the cold scholar of Northern Liang, Sun Yin.

Sun Yin continued to flirt, “Lord Yao, you are also really bookish, picking this time to be a loyal minister, you deserve to have people leave.”

The old man laughed at himself and said, “You need to pick the right time to be a loyal minister?”

Sun Yin nodded his head and said in a serious manner, “That’s not true, you have to look up the yellow calendar to see what time it is before you go out.”

The old man laughed it off, “I can’t be a loyal minister like that.”

Sun Yin gloating smile: “Lord Yao has the heart of retirement, in fact, is a good thing, I Sun Yin is in the State Children’s Prison fell, all day long think when from the State Children’s Prison rise again, the left priest’s seat is empty, I have the opportunity. Just for this I, Sun Yin, must also say thank you to Lord Yao in person.”

Surprisingly, the old man did not get annoyed, instead he nodded his head and said, “It is good for you Sun Yin to go to the State Elementary School, I kind of understand that the State Elementary School would not be the place for me to teach because it has long since ceased to be a place for studying.”

Sun Yin was surprised, “Lord Yao wouldn’t be thinking of resigning and returning to his hometown, right?”

The old man laughed, “I’m not stupid, can I go back at this time? I’ve just slapped the court once, and I’m about to do it again, how many lives do I, Yao Baifeng, have?”

Sun Yin tsked: “It turns out that Lord Yao is not well versed in the world, but in the end, he is not hopeless.”

The stereotypical old man joked in an unprecedented manner, “It’s rare that there are still people who are happy to pat me on the back now, I thank you.”

Sun Yin waved his hand and said, “Don’t just pay lip service, when Lord Yao submits his resignation remember to put in a good word for me.”

The old man didn’t nod or shake his head, he just lamented, “Yuan Tingshan of Jizhou, entered the Central Plains at the mouth of the Kezi, huh, although I am a sour scholar who can’t even claim to be talking about the army on paper, I understand that those 20,000 men didn’t go to Guangling Road to quell the chaos at all, but rather, they went to intercept the Northern Liang cavalry. Waiting for the Jizhou soldiers and horses hit no, that 10,000 Shu soldiers just almost to the northern part of the Guangling Road, at the same time, I guess Xu’s soldiers should also be to the army, one ring after another, it’s hard to Jin Lanting, the Ministry of Rites Minister so worried about military affairs, it’s even more rare that the advice he gives are adopted by the court.”

Sun Yin whispered, “Lord Yao, do you really think it was Jin Lanting’s idea? Do you really think it’s a good thing for Xu Gong to leave the two Liao and lead the troops south?”

The old man turned his head and asked with a smile, “I’m a scholar, but I really don’t understand these things. Is there a lesson here?”

Sun Yin smiled and said, “I heard that Lord Yao’s residence has a private stash of good wine?”

The old man froze for a moment, tugged on Sun Yin’s cuff, walked down the steps together, and lowered his voice, “Green ants? Last year when I heard the results of the Liangmang War, I drank it all away long ago.”

Sun Yin smiled without saying anything.

After all, the old man was not someone like Sun Yin who had a face as thick as a city wall, he helplessly said, “There are only two or three jars left, so don’t hit on them, other good wines, the price is even more expensive, I’ll treat you to them.”

Sun Yin’s face was contemptuous.

The two walked out of the gate side by side, Sun Yin suddenly stopped selling the old man’s green ant wine, and said in a low voice, “Jin Lanting has hooked up with Tang Tieshuang, and that’s what made Xu Gong run off to fight the Northern Liang cavalry to the death.”

The old man was first stunned, then sighed and looked around, finally completely dead, this was indeed not the place for him to preach and teach.

Sun Yin turned around and walked away, laughing, “Lord Yao is probably not even posthumously honored, I, Sun Yin, will not go to add insult to injury and drink green ant wine.”

Sun Yin walks out a few steps, suddenly turns around, gently reaches out and pats his chest, “There is a bow that is not suitable to be given to Mr. Yao in plain sight, but placed in the heart.”

Twenty years later, at the height of summer, at that time Sun Yin had just become the second Minister of the Ministry of Revenue of the new dynasty of Li Yang, the powerful and powerful Lord of the Second Grade Heavenly Official.

One day suddenly someone to visit the Sun House, claiming to be a son of the Yao family, has been busy and anxious concierge simply ignore, really can not take care of, until the twilight of the Sun House to close the door to refuse customers, the young man is still not willing to leave, had to report his grandfather’s name, although the concierge is a native of the capital city of the eight-faced characters, but think half a day also do not know that the officialdom of the Li Yang have Yao Baifeng so a big man, then remembered with difficulty seems to be many years ago, the previous dynasty, the Imperial College has an old man surnamed Yao served as the left priest, but the past twenty years, the science everyone and not half a bit of poetry and articles into the Central Plains, the time has changed, it is estimated that it is not as good as a new among the new dynasty of the Hanlin Academy of the new section of the Yellow Door Lang. The concierge clenched his teeth, look at the young man traveled thousands of miles to the capital, just let people return home, really poor, overstepped the rules and ran to the Lord Shangshu side of the report.

The minister of the government, who is bare-chested in a melon shed under the cool, jumped up from the chaise longue, could not put on the boots to run to the courtyard door, but finally stopped, to the dumbfounded steward lightly said, said let the person leave the things can be, the house does not need to receive, if the young man showed the slightest resentment, things do not have to get to the courtyard.

Finally, the steward carefully brought a cloth bag to the small courtyard.

Lord Shangshu smiled happily.

Since it wasn’t that old man’s descendant who wished to use it as a step to officialdom, that was good, very good.

In the twilight, on the stone table in the small courtyard lay two jars of green ant wine that had obviously been dusty for many years, and Sun Yin surprisingly did not bother to open them and drink them.

The next day at the court meeting, a long-forgotten old man from the former dynasty suddenly became famous all over the world.

Yao Baifeng, a native of Beiliang Dao, was posthumously honored with the title of Wenjie (文節).

Even though he was already in a position of power, Sun Yin, the minister of the Ministry of Justice, who was still known for his licentiousness, came out of the hall and stood at the top of the steps for a while after the court had retired, then came to a place on the side of the Royal Road alone, and no one was there, but Sun Yin still bent down respectfully and bowed to him, and this matter was quickly rumored to be a strange story in the capital city.

For some reason, today the son of Liyang not only did not convene a small court, but also returned to the splendid hall, the Secretary of the seal eunuch Song Tanglu guarded outside the door alone.

The young prince stood near the dragon chair, behind him the hall floor was paved with gold bricks, so even if the door was closed to hide the windows, but at the time of the rising sun, because there was light through the window paper, the hall did not look too dark.

Dragon chair throne placed on both sides of the four pairs of majestic furnishings, treasure elephant, Luduan, cranes and incense burners, together symbolize that countless kings dreamed of “the country’s eternal solidity, the country’s prosperity”.

The so-called golden bricks under his feet are not made of gold, but are tribute bricks from the Guangling Manufacturing Bureau, which have the reputation of “stepping on them quietly, but knocking on them like jade chimes”.

Zhao Zhuan raised his eyes to look, the hall corridor columns to the Nanzhao cut out of the mountains to build nanmu, early years away from the Yang speech officer had “into the mountain thousands of people, out of the mountain half of the number of” complained, and then in the hands of the late emperor, away from the Yang palace hall corridor columns with wood, will be replaced by more easy to harvest the Liaodong pine wood.

Zhao Zhuan walked to a corridor column before, reached out and stroked the leaching powder paste gold pattern of cloud dragon pattern of the brilliant column, murmured: “Father, you have blue-eyed child Zhang Julu, have half an inch of tongue Yuan Benxi, someone cat Han Sheng Xuan. What about me? A dragon robe a dragon chair a great hall?”

“This world, can’t you give me another moment of inspiring time? Ten years, no, just five years! I will be able to let the Northern Liang Southern Border Northern Mang, ashes to ashes! Let that chaotic officials have no place to stand, and let my people in Liyang enjoy peace forever.”

“Father, now I don’t trust anyone anymore, the Qi Yang Long Huan Wen on the temple hall, the Gu Jian Tang Lu Sheng Xiang outside the temple hall, are the young people that Father deliberately suppressed at that time and left me to promote and appoint, Song Kasa, Sun Yin, these people, I don’t trust any of them either.”

“The only one, Chen Wang, is still too young, his prestige is insufficient, and he has even less roots in the Liyang Army, even if he is willing to save the day, he still has no power.”

Zhao Zhuan suddenly retracted his hand, his face grimacing as he clenched his fist and slammed it hard against the porch pillar.

The young emperor gasped for breath, and piercing pain came from his hand.

He stared at the corridor pillar with glaring eyes and said angrily, “You destroyed my Zhao family’s fortune at the Chintian Supervisor, and I’m only letting my two lackeys make things slightly more difficult for me in terms of the food shipment, and you dare to openly send troops to Guangling Road? This is no different from a rebellion!”

Zhao Zhuan slammed his fist on the corridor pillar again, this time the surface of the corridor pillar was stained with blood, “Do you really think that my Liyang doesn’t dare to go through thick and thin with you, Beiliang?!”

The young emperor lying on the floor of the hall, looking at the algae well carved in the center of the coiled lying golden dragon, the dragon head down, mouth holding a huge pearl.

Looking at that large night pearl, the young emperor had no reason to think of his own sister, Sui Zhu Princess Zhao Fengya.

The Sui Zhu Princess of the Liyang Zhao family was dead, but Zhao Fengya was still alive.

This was probably the only thing that young man from the Xu family in Northern Liang had done that made Zhao Zhuan less hateful.

The exhausted young prince closed his eyes and thought again of the stupid parrot that the empress had kept.

The so-called King of the Nine to Five was also a bird in a cage.