Song Gexing

Chapter 19 How dare the old eunuch stop me?

Two months later, Fu Bi returned from his mission to the Liao Kingdom and finalized an increase of 20 coins, and the Liao Alliance vowed to give up the land in Guannan.

Immediately, Han Qi and Fan Zhongyan were transferred back to the capital. Zhao Fang, who had already served as the deputy envoy of the Imperial City Department, was now well-informed and no longer had to rely on Wang Zhongzheng to pass it on.

Hearing the news, he was stunned: "No, the Qingli New Deal won't start until next year. Why did these two brothers come back early?"

Although he was not outstanding in his previous life, he was a history student. He did not study Song history, but he still understood history better than ordinary people. The Qingli New Deal was a major event, how could he not remember it.

"Did history change because of me?"

Thinking of this, he couldn't sit still. It was really possible that he had changed Xixia to negotiate peace in advance, let alone the battle of Dingchuanzhai, and the first war between Song and Xia ended in two battles instead of three battles.

This allowed the Song Dynasty to free up its hands early and start changes. It was normal. After all, Renzong did not have this idea just now. He had this idea not long after he ascended the throne.

The reason is very simple. Zhenzong wasted no time on the finances of the Song Dynasty. One was refining elixirs, and the other was consecrating Mount Taishan. After more than ten years of messing around, he was lucky not to collapse the Song Dynasty.

The court had no way to support the army without money, and the combat effectiveness of the Song army began to plummet from that time. Moreover, Zhenzong's extravagance caused the whole society to follow suit, and corruption in officialdom was inevitable.

Zhao Zhen has been smart since he was a child, but he couldn't see the reality clearly. Therefore, he wanted to change for a long time, but he never had the chance. Now he finally has the freedom to do so.

But Zhao Fang knew very well that although his father was determined to change, he was not a determined person, and the biggest problem with this change was that Fan Zhongyan and others made big mistakes.

Like Wang Anshi later, he made the mistake of being impatient, and almost all reformers in history made this mistake.

It is right to care about the country and its people, and it is right to reform, but doing it too hastily will often fail to succeed and will make the situation worse.

This was also the main reason why none of the people who later carried out Wang Anshi's reform and presided over the Qingli New Deal supported him, because they had suffered losses and understood that things had priorities, but Wang Anshi did not understand.

Zhang Juzheng, who had power all over the world, also passed away the New Deal after his death, which shows how difficult the reform is.

Moreover, Wang Anshi also created a very bad villain. It is not unreasonable for the Southern Song Dynasty to blame the demise of the Northern Song Dynasty on his reform.

You must know that in the party disputes before him, officials in the Song Dynasty suppressed opponents by driving people out of the court and then stopped. They pay attention to the style of a gentleman and will not kill everyone.

However, he killed all his opponents, which caused a great bad atmosphere in the officialdom. Cai Jing imitated him and killed his opponents, leaving no place for capable ministers in the late Northern Song Dynasty.

Therefore, before the Republic of China, Wang Anshi's reputation was that of a bad person. Later generations put him on the altar for political reasons.

Fan Zhongyan and others did not leave a bad reputation, but the failure of the reform had an equally huge blow to the Song Dynasty. It caused a large number of talents from the Renzong era to be cleared out of the court.

For ten years, the Song Dynasty was lingering on. The people who demolished the east wall to repair the west wall maintained the superficial prosperity. The Forbidden Army was so rotten that only the Western Army was able to fight, and the rest were just hanging around.

Especially after the death of Yang Yanzhao, the Forbidden Army in Hebei no longer had combat effectiveness. Fortunately, the Liao Kingdom did not choose war at that time, otherwise the country's destruction might have been advanced.

"No, I have to get involved. I can't let those people do whatever they want. Otherwise, how will I deal with the mess that I inherited from now on?"

Thinking of this, Zhao Fang quickly got up, called his four kings and the book boy Liu Jisun, and rushed to the palace.As soon as he arrived at the entrance of Chongzheng Hall, he was stopped by Lu Shouqin who was guarding him: "Wait a minute, Sir! The officials are discussing matters with the ministers and no one else is allowed to enter."

"Lao Lu, you are crazy, you dare to stop me?"

The guardsmen all lowered their heads and did not dare to step forward, but Lu Shouqin stopped him and refused to get out of the way. He held his hands with a smile and said: "If the big man were in the palace, he would be the prince, and the little man would naturally not dare to stop him. But now you are the prince." The deputy envoy of the City Secretary, the court official and the villain must stop him."

Looking at the smiling and kind-hearted old eunuch, Zhao Fang jumped angrily and said: "Damn old man, try to stop me again. I have a big deal with my father. Believe it or not, I will pluck out all your hair and eyebrows and make you... A big gourd..."

It wasn't that he didn't dare to charge, but Lu Shouqin was very skilled in martial arts, and he and the four King Kong might not be his match.

Don't think that you are invincible if you have a golden finger. After all, you are still a kid, and it is still early. But he is a general who has fought on the battlefield of mountains of corpses and seas of blood, and is a general with great military exploits.

This old eunuch started with the Khitans in the north when he was young, then moved to the northwest with the Tubos, and finally fucked Li Yuanhao and his father Li Jiqian. He fought countless battles and only stopped a few years ago in the Zhenzong era.

His contemporaries were equally famous as Sun Quanbin, but this was an eunuch from the Ministry of Internal Affairs, while Lu Shouqin was from the Ministry of Internal Affairs and was closer to the emperor's harem.

The famous old eunuch even scared the military generals. Miao Qinruo, the most magical eunuch of the Song Dynasty, defeated the Khitan army of 3000 troops with [-] troops during the Song Taizu period. This is not a story but a real history.

Except for Zhong E and the others, who usually refused to obey anyone, now they didn't dare to fart when they saw this old guy. Zhao Fang was the only one who was fearless, because no matter how powerful the old guy was, he was still a loyal guard of his family.

"Lu Qing, let elder brother come in."

Fortunately, Zhao Zhen loved his son. When he heard the noise outside, he knew that his precious son was coming, so he greeted him to resolve the deadlock.

By the way, he sighed: "This kid knows how to misbehave."

"Dad, the child is not acting up, it's Mr. Lu who is acting up. Now he doesn't love the child anymore."

As he stepped through the door, he opened his mouth to complain and rolled his eyes to glare at Lu Shouqin. The old eunuch could only smile bitterly, but the look he looked at him was full of doting.

The eunuchs of the Song Dynasty could not recognize godsons casually. They had to have both parents dead and no children before they could adopt a godson in the palace.

Lu Shouqin was such a person. He accepted Wang Zhongzheng as his godson. He himself had been in the palace since the Zhenzong era, watching Renzong grow up and watching Zhao Fang be born.

A lonely old man has long regarded Renzong and his son as relatives. If it weren't for the difference between master and servant and he didn't dare to show it, he would be almost like any grandfather.

"You, don't talk nonsense! Tell me what you are doing here. Daddy has something big going on and I don't have time to mess around with you."

Zhao Fang was not afraid of his father. He glanced at the people in the palace, and one of them, a handsome uncle, gave a dissatisfied "hum" to him.

"This guy must be Han Qi. He is really handsome."

He was not angry at Han Qi's dissatisfaction with him. He looked at Zhao Zhen and bowed solemnly as a monarch and his ministers, and said: "I, Duke Qing Zhao Fang, have something to report to your Majesty the Emperor!"

(End of this chapter)