Fu Song

Chapter 276
Xia Jie looked down on Cui Ang.

In Xia Jie's view, Cui Ang is a typical person with great ambition and talent, and he has no responsibility for doing things. He takes credit for his achievements and blames others for his mistakes. He is a real villain.

But villains also have their uses.

Xia Jie never thought that there was such a thing as a useless person.

Even a picky man has his uses.

Every living person is a chess piece, and this chess piece has its fixed uses.

Of course, some of these people are just chess pieces, while others also play the role of chess players to move the chess pieces.

The higher the status, the more chess pieces that can be mobilized.

Since he returned to Beijing and became the chief assistant, he still used Cui Ang to do a few things.The promotion of personnel in several key positions has been supported by Cui Ang.

Those guys who were originally in the positions were found by Cui Ang to participate in the performance. Xia Jie, as the chief assistant, naturally relegated those guys to other places and replaced them with his own people.

The two have a tacit understanding.

But this does not mean that Xia Jie will look up to Cui Ang.

So, when Cui Ang came to the East Mansion's public hall to ask Xia Jie to see him, Xia Jie left him out for half an hour, and finally Luo Song couldn't stand it anymore and reminded him.

"Zhi Yan, Cui Huaiyuan is also Yushi Zhongcheng, you can either go back and see him when you have no time, or you will see him right away. Isn't it good to hang around like this?"

Xia Jie put down the pen in his hand, moved his wrist, and said, "If it was you, Luo Fengchen, I would naturally be like this, but what about Cui Huaiyuan, haha? Fengchen, what would you do if I treated you like this?"

"Leave!" Luo Song said directly without thinking.

Xia Jie pointed to the outside with a half-smile, Luo Song raised his eyebrows, that's right, after Cui Ang came back from Beijing once, he was really shameless, he was treated like this, and he could still feel at ease, he didn't even care , but I worry about it here.The moment I smiled, I didn't care anymore.

In the public hall, the other officials kept their eyes on their noses and their hearts, and tried their best to focus their attention on the file in front of them, not wanting to attract the attention of the two big men, or they would just casually It would be miserable if a person who was very excited asked the last sentence "So-and-so, do you think this is the case?"

These two imperial censor Zhongcheng who can hide Pi does not mean that they can also succeed.

Cui Ang can't help the chief assistant and participate in political affairs, can't he not want them?

There are more than a dozen officials in the entire East Mansion Hall.Now there are only two lords in the East Mansion, one on the left and one on the right, and there are more than a dozen seats for Lang Guan, which are to assist the two lords in handling official affairs.

After Xia Jie drank a cup of tea, he signaled the pen sticks in the room to invite Cui Ang outside.

"Huaiyuan, you've neglected, neglected!" At this time, Xia Jie was full of joy, and stood up to greet Cui Ang: "This is really too much. After working for a long time, it is not too much!"

Xia Jie shook his head repeatedly, pointing to some pens and stickers outside that were still moving the case files into the house.

"Everyone in the Song Dynasty has to work hard for the first assistant, and the first assistant is really hard!" Cui Ang bowed slightly, but looked at the busy scene in the hall with envy.

If he didn't fail in Hebei, he might be sitting in Xia Jie's seat now.

This kind of busyness is exactly what he dreamed of. Thinking about the vast and beautiful country of the Song Dynasty, it is painted with color under his pen, and the fate of thousands of people will change because of his words and deeds. What a pleasure it is Life!

It's a pity that he can only sit in the deserted Wutai now.

"Huaiyuan, you have also seen that I am really busy here, and I have to go to the palace to report a few important things to the officials in a while." Xia Jie said with a smile: "Then to make a long story short?"

Cui Ang glanced at Luo Song, then at a dozen other officials in the room, and said, "I have something to discuss with the chief assistant alone."

This sudden suddenness, not to mention Xia Jie, even Luo Song who was still sitting there frantically writing was also stunned. He raised his head, held up the pen, and didn't realize that a large drop of ink fell on the file.

Cui Ang's behavior is very taboo.

Just like Mianjun, when everyone is leaving, you say "Officials, please face me!" It's the same, this is definitely going to sue someone!
The corner of Xia Jie's mouth twitched slightly, and he said with a smile: "Is there anything that needs to be discussed alone? How about this, the others go out, and Feng Chen stays and listens together?"

Hearing the chief assistant's words, more than a dozen officials in the room and some pen stickers immediately responded in unison, stood up and prepared to leave.

But Cui Ang emphasized again: "Shoufu, I can only report this matter to you alone."

Xia Jie's face suddenly pulled down.

Luo Song couldn't hold his face anymore.

Speaking of which, Xia Jie is the chief assistant and the number one leader, but Luo Song can definitely be ranked among the top three among the courtiers of the Great Song Dynasty.For Xia Jie, Chen Guineng was in front of him, and others such as Li Guang, Xiao Yu, etc., also had to salute Luo Song when they saw him.

At that moment Luo Song stood up, cupped his hands towards Xia Jie and said, "Since that's the case, Luo Mou will avoid it!"

After finishing speaking, without waiting for Xia Jie to speak, he walked away immediately.

The rest of the officials and pen stickers dared not stay any longer, each of them carried their robes and walked away in a hurry, for fear of taking a step too slowly and being angered by these bigwigs.

There were only two people left in the huge room, Xia Jie looked at Cui Ang gloomyly.

Cui Ang's reputation is bad now, he doesn't want people to think that he has anything to do with him, it will hurt his reputation, if Cui Ang does something like this today, I'm afraid it won't happen tomorrow, the officials in Beijing, one Everyone knows.

"Huaiyuan, what are you doing? Offending Luo Fengchen so much, what do you think?"

Cui Ang cupped his hands and said, "It's really a last resort. In the future, Cui will apologize to Feng Zhen, but today's matter has too much to do with it. Cui can only tell the chief assistant."

Staring at Cui Ang for a long while, Xia Jie nodded, "Okay, Huaiyuan, then I'm ugly too. If you don't tell me how ugly you are today, don't blame me for participating in your book tomorrow. I have to give it to you too." Luo Fengzhen just explain it, right?"

Cui Ang, however, was confident, looked straight at Xia Jie, and said word by word: "Shoufu, I got the exact news that His Royal Highness King Jing is going to rebel!"

Xia Jie staggered and nearly fell to the ground, glaring at Cui Ang.

"Cui Ang, are you crazy?"

"The lower officials have never been so sober as they are now!" Cui Ang said seriously: "Shoufu, if it wasn't for the seriousness of the matter, how could I have offended Luo Fengchen like this, but it's too important for me to do otherwise."

"Cui Ang, when you were in Hebei, you framed and framed Qin Kuan and others. You don't know it. Xia is not a fool. It's just that the matter is over and you don't want to cause trouble. Desperately wanting to involve the matter on King Jing, that’s up to you.” Xia Jie lowered his voice, and said, “But you’re pointing at King Jing’s rebellion, but you’re driving yourself to a dead end, you know? That’s not you To die means to die, are you really going to do this?"

"Does the chief minister still think that I am plotting against King Jing?" Cui Ang laughed confidently: "In the beginning, it was true. Because Cui wants to save himself, King Jing must not be allowed to win the Eastern Palace. It can be said that If King Jing wins the position in the East Palace, no one in the Cui family will be spared. It would be considered King Jing’s mercy if he can be assigned to Lingnan. But maybe because Cui is pressing hard, King Jing is really planning to rebel. For Cui, it was a surprise."

Xia Jie took a deep breath, looking at Cui Ang's appearance, deep in his heart, he suddenly felt a little scared.

Could it be true?

The prince rebelled. This was something that had never happened in Song Dynasty. Once it happened, how much impact would it have?

"Where's the evidence?"

"Shoufu, do you know how many remnants of the Xin'an Army headed by Qin Kuan have arrived in Bianliang?" Cui Ang asked.

Xia Jie's heart skipped a beat.

He knew about this matter. Back then, he hinted at Xu Hong's convenience!Among them, a group of people's guides were obtained under Xu Hong's care. At first, Xia Jie thought that these people wanted to go to Beijing to seek justice. If these people could muddy the water, it would be more beneficial for him to return to Beijing to govern.

You must know that at that time, there were many people who opposed his return to Beijing?
The current deputy, Luo Song, was the strongest competitor back then, and the most powerful reason for staying behind was that he was familiar with Hebei and needed to deal with the crisis by himself.

However, after a lot of work, he finally managed to return to Bianliang, and these methods were ultimately useless at all.So much so that Xia Jie actually forgot about it.

For him, Qin Kuan and the others died as well. Since it is irreparable, there is no need to argue with Cui Ang over this matter, because Xia Jie had already discovered it at that time, and the officials also acquiesced in this matter. Happened, and used it to attack King Jing.

But now that Cui Ang directly accused King Jing of rebelling, the nature of the matter has changed greatly.

"how many people?"

"More than [-] people!" Cui Ang said: "And as time goes by, I'm afraid this number will increase. Shoufu, what is His Royal Highness King Jing calling these frontier troops to sneak into the capital secretly? It will not be to kill Someone Cui? If you want to kill Cui, one death is enough!"

"How much did you say?" Xia Jie could hardly believe his ears.

"More than [-] people!" Cui Ang stretched out two fingers: "If we count the Dingwu Army that is already in Beijing, there are now more than [-] people in the frontier army system in Bianliang."

Xia Jie's heart beat wildly.

It seems that Cui Ang is not lying, he even figured out the numbers so clearly, it must be true.Is there anyone who knows better than Xia Jie how the combat effectiveness of the thousands of frontier troops is?

"Who is the leader?"

"Qin Min, the son of Qin Kuan, is now aliased as He Sheng." Cui Ang said.

Qin Min, according to legend, died in the battle of Baigouyi.

In that battle, more than a thousand frontier troops were almost completely damaged, but the Liao army was also killed and injured, and the Jurchen troops died, Qin Min's bravery can be seen from this.

If Qin Kuan hadn't been caught up in the treason case later, Qin Min would have at least been awarded a knighthood by virtue of this battle alone, even if it was posthumous!
"Since you have found out so clearly, why didn't you go and report to the officials, but came to tell me?" Xia Jie looked at the other party angrily.

"Shoufu, tell the officials right now that King Jing will definitely push two or five. If you don't know a word, you can be relieved of all responsibility if you don't know it. And Qin Min and those people, even if they are arrested, I'm afraid they won't confess. They are under the command of King Jing. I have seen the way of King Jing's control, and Qin Kai, a scholar, would not even say a word, let alone Qin Min." Cui Ang's face was full. A sly smile.

"You..." Xia Jie suddenly understood what Cui Ang meant. "You nonsense! This thing is really going to happen. Do you know what kind of chaos Bianliang will be? Do you know what kind of losses the court will bear? If you don't make this matter invisible, you still want to He really happened? Cui Ang, you are so ulterior motives!"

"Shoufu, you won't die if you beat a snake, but you will suffer from it. You don't understand this truth?" Cui Ang said coldly: "We are having an attack now, and we will bring everyone headed by Qin Min to justice one by one. Will the king appreciate us? No, he will hate us, hate us to the bone."

Xia Jie took a deep breath and sat down slowly.

"Secondly, does King Jing really have no chance at all? No, he has the support of many officials, including Xiao Yu, and has a higher reputation among the people. On this point, the Liao people almost broke the daimyo It became even more obvious after the government. Outside, he has the support of a military commander like Xiao Ding, and the support of a feudal official like Ma Xing. As the chief assistant, King Jing has a chance to become a great treasure. Once King Jing takes power, we can Is it good? Of course I am going to die, how about you? With King Jing’s temperament, after taking power, can we courtiers still talk? He is even more domineering than officials!”

"Thirdly, these frontier troops are still scattered all over Bianliang. Once we have an outbreak, these people will definitely be alarmed. If we can't catch them all at once, and some people get away and make trouble in Bianliang, wouldn't the loss be small? Is it? Moreover, these people regard us as enemies, and we are afraid that we will have no peace day and night in the future. Even if we are fully protected, what about the family members of our two families? These desperadoes, why can’t they do anything?”

"Fourth, haven't you always been dissatisfied with the combat effectiveness of the Fourth Army? Taking this opportunity, you can also clear some of them naturally! If the old ones don't go away, the new ones won't come. It is true that the court will suffer certain losses, but Nothing can be broken, nothing can be built, only after the carrion is dug up, new flesh can grow, and a brand new Great Song Dynasty will be reborn in the hands of you, Xia Shoufu."

Xia Jie narrowed his eyes and looked at Cui Ang, as if for the first time he recognized what this person really looked like!
Cui Ang's little thoughts are clear at a glance, and he doesn't hide it!

However, what he said was not unreasonable.

(End of this chapter)