The famous book tour starting from the Red House

Chapter 378
After hearing the ins and outs, Zhu Gui said with a smile, "Thank you for your trust in me, Liang Shanbo, but it's just a bit of a coincidence that you all came here. Brother Mu Xu went out early this morning, and I'm afraid it will take two or three days before he returns. But on weekdays he once Again and again, if there are heroes from other places who come to join the group, they must treat them well, and they must not be neglected, and please follow me up the mountain first, how about waiting for my brother to come back?"

Mrs. Gu and the others expressed their understanding when they heard this, and they followed Zhu Gui to Liangshanbo to join the group that day.

Originally, according to what Zhu Gui said, Mu Xu should stay at least two or three days before returning this time, but he took Lu Zhishen and Yang Zhi back to Liangshan from Dulonggang the next day.As for the reason, it is also very simple to say, that is, the Song Dynasty finally sent troops to conquer Qingfeng Mountain.

Speaking of which, it is rare for the Great Song Dynasty not to talk nonsense this time, and it cannot be separated from the credit of Mu Xu's arrow.It is said that the news of Cai Jiu's death reached Tokyo City that day, and Cai Jing, who was old and bereaved, fell ill immediately after hearing the news.

For Cai Jing, who has few days to live, what he values ​​most now are two things, one is the rights in his hands, and the other is his descendants.Today suddenly a white-haired man sends a black-haired man, Cai Jing is full of thoughts to avenge his son.

In order to achieve this goal, the next day, regardless of his serious illness, Cai Jing personally posted a post asking his eldest son Cai You to come to the house to talk about it.Yes, Cai Jing, as the prime minister of a country, needs to send someone to invite him to see his son.

The reason for this is that Cai Jing and his son have long turned against each other, and that Cai You is more favored than Cai Jing in front of Zhao Ji.If Cai Jing gained Zhao Ji's trust by virtue of flattery and his own talent, then Cai You relied entirely on flattery.

As early as Song Zhezong's first year of Yuanfu, Cai You worked as a supervisor at the Tailoring Institute. He was only in his early twenties at that time, but he already knew how to seize every opportunity to pave the way for his future.At that time, Cai You was able to catch up with the courtiers' retreat every time he went to the Tailoring Academy, so he planned to come out at a good time, so that he could meet Zhao Ji, who was only the king at that time, when he came down to the court.

Therefore, every time King Duan went to court, he could see a handsome young man who was a few years older than himself dismounted and stood with hands folded, courteous and amiable.King Duan asked the servants on the left and right which family the young man belonged to, and they all said, "It's Cai Chengzhi's son."

Since then, King Duan has kept Cai You in his heart, and when Song Zhezong died in the second year of Yuanfu, and King Duan Zhao Ji succeeded to the throne, he immediately promoted Cai You, and within two years he was promoted to a privy direct bachelor.Later, he was appointed as a bachelor of Xuanhedian, and he was given a gold belt for the carpet wenfang group, and he was also the military envoy of Huaikang.

As for how much Cai You is favored by Zhao Ji?His wife Song was free to enter and leave the harem, and his son Cai Xing, who was neither educated nor skillful, was able to rise to the top, and was appointed by Zhao Ji as the prisoner in the palace.Even when Cai You went out on business and went to ask Zhao Ji to resign, he saw the two concubines serving Zhao Ji and directly asked, "On the day I return, please give them to my humble minister." After hearing this, Zhao Ji didn't care at all. , actually responded with a smile.From this we can see how much Cai You is favored by Zhao Ji.

Besides, Cai You and Cai Jing had a very harmonious father-son relationship at the beginning. Even when Cai Jing was dismissed as prime minister for the first time, it was Cai You who used his personal relationship with Zhao Ji to intercede with him, which saved Cai Jing from disaster.

However, it also corresponds to the old saying that there are no fathers and sons in the officialdom. Later, Cai You and Cai Jing fought against each other in power, and some people provoked each other, so that the father and son became estranged and turned against each other.In addition, Emperor Zhao Ji didn't want to see Cai Jing and his son get together, so he added fuel to the flames and gave Cai You's mansion to let them set up their own families.

How bad is the relationship between Cai You and his father Cai Jing? There are two things that are most representative.First, because Cai Jing loves his fourth son Cai Tiao the most, in order to avenge Cai Jing, Cai You has repeatedly slandered Cai Tiao at Zhao Ji's place, and wanted to put his younger brother to death, but in the end Zhao Ji refused to allow him, so he gave up.

Second, one time when Cai You came to Cai Jing's mansion, he caught up with Cai Jing to talk to a guest. Cai Jing told the guest to wait a while, but Cai You rushed forward and grabbed his father's hand to make a pulse diagnosis as soon as he came in. Said, "My lord's pulse has eased, is there any discomfort?"

Cai Jing replied, "There is nothing uncomfortable."

Cai You said again, "There are still important matters in the palace, I'll go back first."

After saying that, he turned around and left, coming and going in a hurry, which confused the guests, Monk Zhang Er couldn't figure it out, so he asked Cai Jingdao, "Master, why don't you stop a little longer?"

Cai Jing replied helplessly, "You must not understand the reason, this rebellious son wants to get rid of me because of my illness, old man!" A few days later, Zhao Ji really ordered Cai Jing to become an official.

From the above examples, we can see how complicated the relationship between the Chua and his sons is.But in order to avenge his son smoothly, and also to prevent Cai You from spoiling him in Zhao Ji, Cai Jing had to invite Cai You and said some soft words in exchange for a temporary reconciliation between father and son.

After Cai Jing finished all this, he felt that it was not enough, so he went to see Gao Qiu again, and told about the murder of his son by the Qingfeng bandits, and asked Gao Qiu to help him appoint some generals and send some strong troops to wipe out Song Jiang's gang.

After hearing this, Gao Qiu agreed, but he said, "Unfortunately, Nephew Cai Jiuxian was killed by a thief and died in Jiangzhou. We must not let those daring thieves go. The next official will definitely send his best soldiers and strong generals to kill the living The thieves are wiped out."

Speaking of this, he suddenly felt sad, and sighed, "Your official, I feel empathy for Mr. Xianggong's experience. Take Gouzi as an example, he was just playing around on weekdays, but he was killed like that by those villains. , to this day, I can only linger on the sick bed, and every time the next official sees it, it hurts like a knife."

Cai Jing has been immersed in the officialdom for many years, when he heard Gao Qiu's words, he didn't know that he was raising conditions, so he asked straight to the point, "The Taiwei said so, but the whereabouts of the thief who harmed your son?"

Gao Qiu nodded, and said bitterly, "What Mr. Xianggong said is true. After many investigations by the officials, I can confirm that the thief who killed my son is now in Liangshan, Jeju Prefecture. The leader of the bandits, Mu Xu."

When Cai Jing heard the word Liang Shanbo, he immediately felt a toothache, and couldn't help but think of his lost [-] birthday card.Although it was later proved that those robbers also came from Qingfeng Mountain, but because he secretly cleared up the relationship, he ordered the Jeju government to go to suppress the bandits, and the Jeju government lost troops and generals. In the end, in order to suppress this matter, he paid a big price.

"To be honest, the former old man ordered the governor of Jezhou to exterminate the bandits in Liangshan Po, but he suffered a financial battle. The old man who killed him was at the official's house, and almost died. This..."

Gao Qiu also knew in his heart that Liang Shanbo was no better than Qingfeng Mountain. Qingfeng Mountain not only killed Cai Jing's son, but also made a big disturbance in Jiangzhou Prefecture, and even wiped out Murong Guifei's brother's family. As long as Cai Jing mentioned these things to the officials, the Zhao officials would not opposed to conquest.But it was difficult for him to handle this matter, and it was inevitable that he would be suspected of using public equipment for private use.

After thinking about it for a while, Gao Qiu put forward his own conditions, "How can the lower officials not know what En Xiang said, but the humble ones can't swallow this breath anyway. The lower officials don't want to send troops to attack Liangshanbo now, but only want to be in court in the future." When the Tang Dynasty brings up this matter, Enxiang can help."

Cai Jing felt relieved, this matter was just a matter of little effort for him, and immediately promised Gao Qiu, "Taiwei can rest assured, we are officials in the same dynasty, we should watch out for each other and help each other."

Several power traitors secretly reached an agreement to conquer Qingfeng Mountain, which was quickly approved by the Great Song Dynasty Hall.Following Zhao Ji's edict ordering the Privy Council to dispatch troops and generals, as Cai Jing expected, this matter naturally fell on Gao Qiu's head.

After Gao Qiu received the edict, he did not dare to be negligent, and immediately ordered his subordinates to recommend capable generals. Someone suggested that Hu Yanzhuo, the capital of Runing County, be confiscated. When Gao Qiu heard that he was a descendant of Hu Yanzan, the founding hero, he was overjoyed and prepared to send someone to Send an order from the Privy Council.

I don't want a Marquis of Yu to come out and remind me, "Taiwei, the prefect of Runing County said last month that there were riots and bandits gathered in the place, and they asked the imperial court for permission to conquer, and the officials agreed at that time. I can't get away."

Gao Qiu frowned and said, "Then you can recommend another person later."

The next group of officials heard the words, and no one came out, but it turns out that everyone has figured it out. If the recommender wins, then of course everyone will be happy, but if he loses, there is no guarantee that he will not implicate his family.Instead of this, it would be better to have one less thing than one more thing.

(End of this chapter)