Prime Minister

Chapter 918 Impeach me?
The officials in the palace seemed to be talking to themselves.

Immediately the official asked Li Xian, "Why do you think so?"

Li Xiandao: "Returning to Your Majesty, I have heard about the scenery of Fujian. This place is barren, with few fields and many mountains. Therefore, the villagers all pay attention to business and do not care about luxury. It is like Zhang Dexiang of the Renzong Dynasty, Wu Yu, and Cai Xiang of the Yingzong Dynasty. Gong Liang is known as a capable minister, as for Chen Shengzhi, Wu Chong, and Lu Huiqing of this dynasty."

After Li Xianxian finished speaking, the official searched and asked: "Then why did the Taizu say that southerners should not be photographed?"

The official said to His Highness's chair: "Southern people are not allowed to sit in my hall. This is the instruction of the Taizu, and it is engraved on the political affairs hall."

Li Xiandao: "Taizu said this when he established the world. At that time, there were many people in the north and few people in the south. Moreover, this dynasty took the north from the south, and most of the people in the south were descendants. Taizu was worried that there would be bandits left by dead ministers, and there would be chaos. I am Sheji, so leave this word."

"Now this dynasty has dominated the world for more than a hundred years. Even the rebellious officials and thieves left by the Southern Dynasty have long been buried in the fields. Therefore, Zhenzong and Renzong have successively used southerners as ministers. Let me say that after the world is peaceful, the prosperity of the south is better than that of the north. , so there are many people in the south, and the two Zhejiang provinces are judged by the imperial examinations. The scholars on Fujian Road are indeed outstanding, and most of the top scholars in the Renzong Dynasty and the Yingzong Dynasty were selected from them."

The official nodded when he heard the words: "What you said is very true!"

Li Xiandao: "But having said that, the southerners are indeed good at fighting internally and are stubborn. Please use it with caution, Your Majesty."

The official laughed and said: "It's Lu Huiqing who you said is good at fighting internally, and Wang Anshi who is stubborn!"

Li Xian was taken aback when he heard the words. When the words spread, he had offended a prime minister, and there was no life left for a man who participated in politics.

Li Xian hurriedly said: "Your Majesty, what I'm talking about is Wang Qinruo!"

If Wang Qinruo is a traitorous minister, Emperor Renzong personally identified it.

The official said: "Between Wang Qinruo and Kou Zhun, Kou Zhun is a northerner, but his uprightness is indeed not comparable to that of a southerner. It's just a pity that he likes to control the emperor."

On the side, Li Xian heard the string song and knew the meaning: "Your Majesty, the truth about the fire in the third department has been found out, and there is indeed another mastermind."

The official said: "Who is it? You don't need to say, I already know."

Li Xian said that the reason why the officials don't care about the mastermind behind the scenes is because they still have to use the other party.

"Xuanzhang goes up to the hall."

The official family sat firmly on the dragon chair, and after a while Zhang Yue went up to the hall and saluted immediately.

Two rows of candles in the hall were dimly lit, and the officials were sitting on dragon chairs. From this angle, Zhang Yue couldn't see the expressions on the officials' faces clearly.

Zhang Yue thought to himself, he hadn't seen him for a few months, and the official family had changed again, and they actually played the trick of mysterious and mysterious.

Zhang Yue couldn't see the faces of the officials clearly, so he heard a loud voice from the throne say to Zhang Yue: "Zhang Qing, please sit down."

"Thank you, Your Majesty."

The conversation between the monarch and his ministers was a bit calm, and the official asked: "Does Zhang Qing know why I called you back to Beijing?"

Zhang Yue said: "Reporting to Your Majesty, I dare not speculate on the Holy Will."

The official smiled, and moved the impeachment badge on the imperial case with his hand.

Zhang Yue said: "Your Majesty, I heard that someone in the pavilion had impeached me. I don't know what was said in the impeachment chapter. Please tell your Majesty clearly."

The officials were interested in asking Zhang Yue about this impeachment, but they were worried about hurting the feelings of the monarch and his ministers, so they didn't move.

Unexpectedly, Zhang Yue took the initiative to ask the officials what was said in the memorial to impeach him.

This caught the officials by surprise for a while, and he thought to himself that Zhang Yue didn't know if he really didn't know, or if he didn't know, what was the meaning of calling him back to Beijing?At this time, the other party still cares about this.

The official concealed and said: "It's all irrelevant words, and I have already planned to keep it."

Face must be given to important ministers. The emperor cannot easily suspect ministers. Even if you really have suspicions in your heart, you can't put them on the face.

Zhang Yue said: "I would like to inform your majesty that the monarch and his ministers should treat each other frankly and have no doubts about each other, so that they can be intimate. I would like to explain my doubts to your majesty, so as to show that there is no intention of hiding anything."

The official smiled from the bottom of his heart, and handed over the memorial to Li Xian, and then to Zhang Yue.

Zhang Yue opened the memorial, the ink was still fresh, and the date was yesterday, which happened to be a book for him to impeach himself when he returned to court.

It was Deng Runfu, the censor, who impeached himself.

What is the reason?

Zhang Yue felt like laughing when he saw it. It turned out to be his teacher Zhang Youzhi.

Zhang Youzhi passed away in the second year of Zhiping.According to this impeachment letter, Zhang Youzhi was a famous master of seal script at that time, but his way of seal script was passed down to Zhang Gu, the number one scholar of the Southern Tang Dynasty by Xu Kai, the younger brother of Xu Xian, an official of the Southern Tang Dynasty.

Zhang Gu was later passed on to Zhang Youzhi.

Xu Xuan finally surrendered to the Song Dynasty, but Xu Kai did not surrender, because he died of illness before the fall of the Southern Tang Dynasty.

After the fall of the Southern Tang Dynasty, the Song Dynasty invited Zhang Gu out of the mountains several times, but they were all rejected, and there were even words of dissatisfaction.Zhang Gu always regarded himself as a courtier of the Southern Tang Dynasty, and directly said to the officials who came to recruit him from the Song Dynasty that "loyal ministers do not care about two masters".

As for Zhang Youzhi, he also inherited Zhang Gu's behest and refused to serve in the Song Dynasty three times, but he still carved the Jiayou Stone Scripture, which is now in Taixue, for Emperor Renzong.

Okay, so Deng Runfu took this as an article, saying that Zhang Yue was a member of the Southern Tang Party, and although he could not be an official, he was not suitable for a high position.

Anyway, the implication is that the Emperor Taizu's phrase "Southern people should not be ministers" was almost uttered. Why?I'm afraid that you are the apprentice of the Southern Tang Dynasty's survivors, and there will be a day of counterattack in the future.

Zhang Yue read the impeachment book and found it very absurd.

Southern Tang survivor? ? ?

What the hell is Nantang!
But the problem is that everything the other party says is true, and there is a set of logic in it.

Most people definitely don't believe it, but just seeing a wedge there will make people take root in the future.

Any dynasty would rather kill anyone who might overthrow the regime by mistake than let anyone go.

Take the case of Zhao Shiju in which Lu Huiqing framed Wang Anshi as an example.

Because the rebel Li Feng knew the clan Zhao Shiju, and the two had contacts, Zhao Shiju was ordered by the officials to commit suicide.

Zhao Shiju knew Li Shining.Li Shining often went to and from Zhao Shiju's house, and the two of them drank and accepted a knife from him, so they were also suspected of treason.

As for Li Shining, Wang Anshi's disciple, he lived in Wang Anshi's residence for a year and a half, and got to know his family and disciples very well, so Wang Anshi also...

So this line down...Wang Anshi has also become a suspect in the conspiracy.

As for using Zhang Youzhi to slander himself, this is really a familiar method, a familiar smell.

Spread a rumor and break a leg.

The official said: "Zhang Youzhi has already died of illness, not to mention it has been dead for so many years in the Southern Tang Dynasty. I think this is ridiculous."

Zhang Yue thought to himself that Zhang Youzhi had already died of illness, and saying this could also mean that there is no proof of death.

Zhang Yue said: "Your Majesty, I don't know Xu Kai and Zhang Gu, but I only know my teacher. My teacher has taught me the principles of reading and being a man all his life, and taught him to be loyal to the country and the community. His articles are so talented that even Wang Xianggong I also admire him very much, I had many contacts with him in the past, and praised his talent in his epitaph, he is Liezi, a figure like Zhuang Zhou."

"I don't know Liezi, and what dynasty and generation Zhuang Zhou is."

(End of this chapter)