12. Zhao Ze's Prison I

When the enemy's heavy troops were on the border, Renzong had never been so distressed, because he had millions of soldiers to guard the border, and there were a large number of brave and resourceful generals to send. Whether they were from Liao people or Xixia, they were not afraid!

However, a few days ago, the border gate sent a secret report, which was sent from Hejian Prefecture, which was stamped with the seal of Jia Changchao, the reassured envoy of Hebei.

The content of the secret report claimed that the people of Liaoning also had muskets, and asked His Majesty Renzong to thoroughly investigate the matter.

It's amazing. It's simply shocking. Renzong took the secret report and meditated for a long time. He wanted to know how the people of Liao had muskets. Now only Bianliang can build this thing in the whole Song Dynasty. Who leaked such an important thing?

Furi? Renzong first thought of him, because Fubi was in charge of the Sansiqi case and was also responsible for the daily affairs of the Xiangfu firearm workshop. He had the opportunity to be exposed to a lot of internal situations.

After a while, Renzong shook his head and denied the idea in his heart. Fu Bi couldn't get along with his father-in-law Yan Shu, but he didn't betray the Song Dynasty. It wouldn't be him.

Who would that be? Renzong was lost in meditation. For a long time, he spread the rice paper on the imperial book, made a long list of people, and then ruled out one by one, thinking of all the possibilities he could guess.

As soon as the red pen was mentioned, he hit a red fork, and then another red fork, which has been hit more than a dozen red forks.

Suddenly, he had a feeling that the characters listed on the paper would not betray him, so he left the brush on the table, stood up and walked to the imperial garden, and distracted aimlessly.

On September 14th, Bianliang Chenliu County, sunny.

Zhao Ze led the army to suppress bandits in the south of the Yangtze River and finally returned to the capital after half a month of sailing. After disembarking, he got off the ship and came to the wharf of Chenliu County. He was arrested by a group of palace guards. The person who arrested him was Li Shunju, who was newly promoted by Renzong.

"Lord Zhao, I'm really sorry. The miscellaneous family is also ordered to act. Don't panic!"

No one knows what happened. Even the onlookers present were stunned, not to mention the accompanying soldiers. Before leaving, Zhao Ze told Shangguan Mei and others not to worry about him. Things will be clarified. Those who have nothing to do will go back to the camp first, and the rest will wait to go home to rest and wait for further orders.

The next day, the court quarreled, because the officials heard that it was Zhao Ze who sold the drawings of the musket to the State of Liao. They were indignant and shouted that the three government officials would be interrogated and find out the truth. If it was really what Zhao Ze did, they would show him on the street, and then Ling Chi was executed.

The officials always speak regardless of the consequences. No one will blame them, not even His Majesty Renzong, because the speaker is innocent and those who hear it. This is Song Ting's atmosphere.

Although Zhao Ze is the most suspected, he is beaten by him in Jeju alone, but it is not enough to show that he will secretly communicate with Liao.

Another point is that the news came from Baigouyi in Xiongzhou. According to Yang Huaimin of Zhixian County, the possession of a musket in Liao was first discovered by a group of Song Dynasty merchants who went north to Liao to sell silk. Although they didn't know what it was at that time, people with intentions drew graphics and returned to the Song Dynasty. Spread it out.

Although there is no impervious wall, people will know that the Song Dynasty had a musket sooner or later, but this is too fast. Half a year ago, it was not found that the people of Liao had muskets. Half a year later, the people of Liao were also equipped with muskets.

Why is this? According to the calculation, there must be someone who communicates abroad, otherwise it won't be so fast.

Wang Zhengong, Sun Fu and others in the imperial history of the imperial history, think that the matter should be thoroughly investigated as soon as possible. Zhao Ze should be detained first, and then secretly interrogated. Don't talk too much. After all, this matter can be big or small, and they should be well controlled so as not to be too involved.

Although Ouyang Xiu always likes to do something that is falling into the well, he is still very sober in this matter, because he feels that it is very strange and really strange.

I remember that at the beginning of the month, Zhong Shiheng, the general of Huanzhou, wrote a letter to His Majesty Renzong. The content was that Yuan Hao was suspicious and killed his own general Ye Li Wangrong and Ye Liyu Qi brothers who guarded Tiandu Mountain. The two brothers were famous figures in Xixia, claiming to be: the king of Tiandu, holding heavy soldiers in their hands, in the border war. The Song army was defeated many times, and his face was ruined.

If it hadn't been for the timely dispatch of a famous general Zhong Shiheng to guard Huanzhou and block the front of the Western Xia army, the northwest border gate would have been really in danger. Even Fan Zhongyan and his son would not be able to return to the sky.

No matter what happened to Xixia, why did Yuan Hao kill his confidant? According to Zhong Shiheng's letter, he recruited Su Teixuan, the son of a leader of the Dangxiang tribe, and he played a big role in it, because Su Siyu's father was one of the kings of Tiandu. Because of this, Su had the opportunity to steal the knife of wild profit and begging and offering it to Zhong Shiheng.

Perhaps because of this, Yuan Hao became suspicious. Why would his department dedicate his personal sword to the hostile general of the Song Dynasty? There must be an unspeakable secret in it.

It can be seen that this is also a vicious trick to provoke discord. For Ouyang Xiu, who is full of poetry and books, this poisonous trick is commonplace. He has been an official for many years. He has been used this trick before and was demoted to Huangzhou. Fortunately, he came back.

Not to mention that Yuanhao of Xixia killed his confidant general, this year's border has not stopped. In early June, Tubo bandits, Li Gong, a Tubo tribe in western Qinzhou and other eight ethnic groups invaded two border villages, Yongning and Laiyuan. Qinzhou Metropolitan Superintendent Qi Zaisheng went to the bullet pressure. The Song army was defeated, and the eight allied forces of Tubo took advantage of the victory to pursue, forcing Qi Zaisheng to fall off the cliff and die. Since then, Tubo has repeatedly invaded the Song Dynasty, plundered property, and did all kinds of evil. Fortunately, Feng Gao, the supervisor of Qinfeng Road, set up a castle in the north of the Yuanzhai, controlled the passage of the Tubo invasion, forced the Tubo tribe to hand over their weapons, agreed to accept the pledge, and submit to the Song Dynasty.

In August, the Song Xia border gate was only a few days away from the war. Han Qi said to the court that he would stop building Luocheng on the pretext that it was too expensive to build the city, the supply of food, grass and ordnance was insufficient, and it was difficult to maintain. However, Luoshui City is located in the throat between Qin and Weizhou. No matter how much money you spend, you have to build a fortress and firmly control this area. However, there are some things that you can't control. Ouyang Xiu's last book was also rejected by Zhongshu. After all, the matter of continuing to build Luoshui City was stranded, because the money in the treasury was really not enough. Whether it was Wen Yanbo, the political affairs officer or Yao Zhongsun, the third secretary, they did not dare to risk gambling on the fate of the court, so they had to push Maybe there will be a chance in the coming year.

Thinking of this, Ouyang Xiu remembered the rebellious people this year. First, Wang Lun in Yizhou rebelled. It took two or three months before it was wiped out that Yangzhou and other places stabilized down. A group of more powerful people appeared in the areas of Quzhou and Fangzhou. The horse thief Guo Mishan, Zhang Hai, the bamboo forest thief Li Tiegun and others actually robbed the armor warehouses in Jinzhou and Xiangzhou. I don't know Cao Yuanji's chaotic army. How's it going? I hope they can eradicate Guo Yaoshan's party as soon as possible, and then go south to flatten the bamboo thieves in Fangzhou.

I hope it's always good. Ouyang Xiu also hopes to use Zhao Ze's case to pull down all the officials who are not incompatible with him.

Wen Yanbo hopes that he can continue to sit firmly in the position of prime minister, and Lv Yijian's illness will not get better.

Yao Zhongsun hopes to repay the money to His Majesty Renzong as soon as possible, otherwise he is so cowardly that he has to borrow money from his majesty's treasury to pay for the grain and salary of the border soldiers, but he can't pay it back.

Lv Yijian hopes that her fever will recover as soon as possible, and even his son Lv Gongzhu hopes that his father will recover from his illness and return to the court as soon as possible.

Xia Zhen hopes to firmly seize the military power and find a trustworthy helper in the court. Maybe he is about to find a candidate.

Su Su hopes to persuade Renzong to build several factories near Bianliang this year and quickly arm the Song Dynasty.

However, three days later, the news came from Henan Province.

Zhang Hong's army of the imperial court's rebellion was completely destroyed in the territory of the Lu family in Guzhou, and only a few 5,000 people escaped. It was deliberately released by the anti-thief Guo Mishan. Li Sui's army was attacked in Xiongjia Fishing Village west of Henan Prefecture and suffered heavy losses. Later, Li Sui led his troops into the mountain to encircle and suppress the thief. Unfortunately, all of them were killed in battle. Field.

Cao Yuanji went deep into Shangzhou and didn't know the news of Lu's trapped by Zhang Hong's. When he knew that it was too late, it was too late to rescue him.

messy, messy, messy, all messed up, all messed up!

In anger, Renzong scolded all the civil and military officials in the court, saying that your face of the court was lost by you. Is the 5,000 people on paper? They were defeated by a group of horse thieves. I really have nothing to say. I really want to die on the pillar, and I will never see you waiting.

The harem, in an elegant courtyard.

Zhao Xi (his 80-year-old husband), the commander of the internal bodyguard, was shocked after hearing this. He said what's wrong with his majesty. He hasn't seen his majesty get so angry for many years. Is it true that the thieves in Guzhou and Fangzhou are really so arrogant that they are not afraid of the army of the imperial court?

If he is not old and really wants to ask his majesty to fight against Guo Miaoshan, Li Tieqiang and others, and share the country's worries, but he is too old to withstand the toss of the pommel horse. Maybe he will die of illness as soon as he left the capital.

Hi, loyalty and filial piety are in a dilemma!

When Zhao Xi and Li Shunju were nagging about this matter, Li Shunju was not only used to seeing the wind and steering the rudder, but also thought carefully. He hurriedly asked, "Grandpa, what do you think of my grandson's ability?"

"You?"

After a while, Zhao Xi's hand fiddling with the emerald rosary stopped, slowly raised his head, looked at Li Shun's eyes, and felt that he was very much like himself when he was young, with his shadow on his body.

After being stared at by Zhao Xi for a long time, Li Shunju quickly lowered his head, because he knew that the little calculation in his heart could not escape the grandfather's eyes.

"How many pounds do you have?" Zhao Xi asked him in an old but majestic voice.

"Me?" Li Shunju's face turned red when asked, and he couldn't wait to get into the cracks in the ground.

"Answer me," Zhao Xi asked in a low voice.

"I know that I can't compare with my grandfather, but my grandson's knowledge in the past few years is not shallow, so I think I can share the worries of your majesty, so..."

"So, do you want to get promoted quickly and climb to Grandpa's head?"

As soon as Zhao Xi said his words, Li Shun was so scared that he knelt on the ground and quickly kowtowed and said, "Sun'er doesn't dare, Sun'er doesn't dare. Grandpa, where do you want to go? Sun'er has the heart to be promoted, but he doesn't dare to surpass this generation."

Suddenly, Zhao Xi smiled so much that the wrinkles on his face opened.

"It's good that you have the heart to share your worries for your majesty, and it's right to be promoted, but you have to remember one thing." Zhao Xi looked at his head and said, "Don't be insatiable, or if something happens in the future, no one can save you."

"Grandson understands, grandson understands, thank you for your advice, thank you for your advice"

"Okay," Zhao Xi patted him on the shoulder. "Get up. No matter where you can climb in the future, from now on, as long as you remember that peace is the most important thing, just go left and right. I don't need to say a lot of words. You know in your heart."

"Yes, yes, Sun Erjin obeys the teachings!" Li Shun hurriedly got up from the ground and helped Zhao Xi stand up.

"Let's go out for a walk. Our grandparents haven't walked like this for a long time," Zhao Xi looked out of the window and said.

"Okay, the grandson is with Grandpa. Let's go!"

After saying that, Li Shun obediently helped Zhao Xi out of the room and headed for a pavilion in the middle of the lake.