I served as an admonisher in the Song Dynasty

Chapter 256 Fu Bi has returned to the court, will Xia Song’s resignation be far away?

Goryeo special envoy Wang Huqi and deputy envoy Li Zong left Honglu Temple.

Go straight to the residence of Xiao Ding, the special envoy of the Liao Kingdom.

Because the Koreans were guilty first, they did not dare to ask the Liao envoys to support them and say a few harsh words to the Song Dynasty.

But he wanted Xiao Ding to beg for mercy and lower the conditions.

What they didn't expect was that Xiao Ding already knew about this and thanked the guests behind closed doors, ignoring them at all.

The Liao people looked down on the Koreans from the bottom of their hearts.

If it weren't for the fact that the latter still had some use value, Goryeo would have perished long ago.

Wang Huqi and Li Zong looked helpless.

So he could only go back to his residence and write a letter to the King of Goryeo, expressing the Song Dynasty's anger at the theft by Goryeo merchants.

He wrote down a series of conditions required by the Song Dynasty and the words of Ouyang Xiu, Tang Jie, and Bao Zheng word for word, and ordered them to be sent to Goryeo as soon as possible.

The angrier they made the Song people, the lighter their punishment.

It is expected that you will receive a reply in early January.

……

The twenty-fifth day of the twelfth lunar month.

Su Liang received a letter from Tang Jie.

When they saw Tang Jie, Bao Zheng, and Ouyang Xiu negotiating with the Goryeo envoy together, and adding an additional 100,000 yuan to the intelligence loss fee, they couldn't help but laugh so hard that they couldn't stand upright.

The current Song Dynasty should be so tough.

Let these three people team up to negotiate with others, and it will be difficult to suffer a loss.

Su Liang was certain that the leader of Goryeo would definitely implement the conditions and offending the Song Dynasty would be enough to destroy the entire Goryeo.

The Song Dynasty could afford to gamble, but Goryeo could not afford to gamble.

……

On the 26th of the twelfth lunar month, the flavor of the New Year is already very, very strong.

In Yangzhou City, the sound of firecrackers can be heard everywhere, and groups of children wearing new clothes are playing in the streets and alleys.

Su Zimu was like a wild horse running wild, running wild in the alley.

He especially enjoys playing with older children.

Just get out the door.

It is very difficult to bring it home.

Tang Wanmei was so angry that she couldn't laugh or cry all day long.

at this time.

Su Liang was completely free.

Sometimes, taking advantage of a sunny afternoon, he would get on a small boat and drift around the city of Yangzhou until dusk before returning home.

This city carries countless memories of him.

To the surprise of Su Liang's family, the officials and Empress Cao still did not forget to send New Year's gifts to Su Zimu.

Especially Queen Cao.

She treated Su Zimu like a nephew and loved him very much.

As long as there are good things, as long as there is her son, there will be Su Zimu.

Cao Yi was very respectful in front of Su Liang, almost refusing to retaliate when he was scolded or hit.

Many of these are due to Queen Cao.

Empress Cao has always thought of Su Liang's kindness.

It was Su Liang who made her position as the head of the harem more stable and allowed her to give birth to a dragon son in her near thirties.

……

The twenty-seventh day of the twelfth lunar month.

Su Liang spent his own money to host a banquet in Mingyue Tower, and invited Cao Siye, Qiao Sanniang, Ao Lie, and Su Shunyuan, the magistrate of Yangzhou.

On the one hand, Su Liang wanted to thank everyone for their contribution to Yangzhou's money shortage.

On the other hand, if Su Liang was invited to dinner by them, someone would inevitably impeach him.

Therefore, he paid for the meal first with his own money.

After the new year, there will be no more feasting.

That night, Su Liang was very drunk.

He is a seven-foot man, but he has never drank from Qiao Sanniang.

If Cao Hu hadn't carried Su Liang home in time, Qiao Sanniang would have carried Su Liang into her house.

……

New Year's Eve.

None of Su Liang's family had gone out.

This is a rare moment of togetherness.

Su Liang no longer has to rest early for tomorrow's court meeting, nor does he need to think about what memorials to submit, nor does he need to think about which colleagues to visit.

Su Liang at this time is not Su Jingming, the Taiwan admonisher, he is just Su Jingming, who completely belongs to this family.

This night. Su Liang drank with his father-in-law Tang Ze until midnight, and then chatted with Tang Wanmei for a long time before going to bed.

This sleep lasted until noon on the first day of Huangyou's second year.

This was the sweetest sleep Su Liang had ever had since he became a Taiwan admonishment officer.

……

The second day of the first lunar month.

Su Liang took his wife and children to Su Shunyuan's house to pay New Year's greetings.

Tangze got together with his old friends.

These old men were having a great time.

Playing chess, antithetical couplets, guessing riddles, writing calligraphy, throwing pots, playing Cuju, etc. There are both elegant and vulgar skills, and they are all masters.

……

The tenth day of the first lunar month.

A piece of good news reached Su Liang's ears.

The leader of the Goryeo Kingdom did not refute any of the conditions proposed by the Song Dynasty and directly complied with them.

At the same time, the apology letter (transcript) of the leader of Goryeo also reached Yangzhou.

This made Su Liang admire the leader of Goryeo a little.

At the same time, he was also afraid of it.

The Goryeo Kingdom has such a flexible and flexible leader who is likely to become a disaster in the future.

Su Shunyuan was overjoyed.

In this achievement of promoting the prestige of the Song Dynasty, everyone in Yangzhou City participated and will benefit.

Immediately, Su Shunyuan ordered people to copy several copies and post them to Yangzhou Port.

This is the strongest deterrent to those unclean overseas businessmen.

Many overseas businessmen believed that they were not subject to the laws of the Song Dynasty.

After doing something bad, he got on the boat and ran away.

But after seeing this apology letter, they would never dare to disobey the Song Dynasty laws again.

After the leader of Goryeo wrote this apology, he would definitely severely punish the families of those businessmen who were caught.

And those merchants will definitely be severely punished after returning to Goryeo.

……

The thirteenth day of the first lunar month.

Just when Su Liang and Su Zimu were noisily putting up lanterns.

Two edicts that shocked the entire Song Dynasty were issued by the Zhongshu Province.

One of them, Zeng Gongliang, the deputy envoy to the privy council, who knew the Daming Mansion, was ordered to return to the capital. The other deputy privy envoy, Pang Ji, knew the Daming Mansion as the Minister of Punishment.

Second, the pacification envoy on Jingdong Road knew Fu Bi of Qingzhou, promoted him to deputy privy envoy, and ordered him to return to Bianjing immediately.

These two edicts have many meanings.

In the twilight years, Pang Ji, the deputy privy envoy who was over sixty years old, was sent away, and was replaced by Zeng Gongliang, who had just reached the age of knowing his destiny and was very familiar with military affairs.

In addition, another capable minister who is good at running the army is Fan Zhongyan's best partner.

Fu Bi also returned.

This means that the focus of the reform in the new year will be on the military.

And Xia Song's position as Privy Councilor was already in jeopardy.

……

Although Su Liang didn't know the news yet, he knew that the focus of this year's reform was the military.

Back in October last year.

The Reform Department determined the direction of this year's reform in front of Zhao Zhen.

Last year, the reform department focused on enriching the country and strengthening the people, with great results. This year, the main focus of the reform is on the military.

Reducing troops is not enough to strengthen the army, training is enough to strengthen the army. The soldiers of the Song Dynasty need to be reorganized.

……

The sixteenth day of the first lunar month.

Su Liang's family got on the official ship and left Yangzhou City.

Tang Wanmei is expected to give birth in early March, and Su Liang also wants to return to Beijing early to seek help from the imperial doctor for an abortion.

In addition, today's political reform is indeed inseparable from Su Liang.

Wang Anshi's thoughts were so wild that sometimes Fan Zhongyan couldn't hold them back.

Once the reform strategy goes wrong, it will affect the entire Song Dynasty. Therefore, all colleagues are looking forward to Su Liang returning to Beijing and offering good strategies.

at the same time.

Various mints in the Song Dynasty have begun to mint two coins, three coins and five coins.

This method is not the best way to solve the money shortage in the Song Dynasty, but it is the safest way at the moment.

　Please vote for me at the end of the month, thank you readers!

　　

　

(End of this chapter)