"I would like to ask Yang Jian to be punished for his crime. In the name of expanding the imperial city, this man bullied the people and occupied people's houses. He has committed a heinous crime. I ask the officials to hand him over to Dali Temple for trial!"

At the court meeting, a minister spoke loudly and righteously.

"Please punish Yang Jian for his crime!"

Following this minister's lead, other ministers in the court also came forward to express their opinions.

Recently, Yang Jian caused public dissatisfaction due to the land enclosure. People who lost their houses organized a group to complain to Kaifeng Mansion. Although they were temporarily suppressed by Kaifeng Mansion, it still caused a great disturbance.

Today, the officials in the court finally couldn't help it and began to impeach Yang Jian. In the end, even Zeng Bu stood up and asked Zhao Ji to punish Yang Jian.

Originally, at this time, Zhao Ji only needed to push Yang Jian out to calm the public anger. After all, as a eunuch, he always acted according to Zhao Ji's wishes. Of course, he could also push Yang Jian out to take the blame for Zhao Ji when necessary.

However, Zhao Ji did not follow common sense. He ignored the ministers who impeached Yang Jian, and directly announced his resignation from the court, and typed back all the memorials to impeach Yang Jian to show his attitude.

Facing such a tough emperor, although the ministers were annoyed, they had nothing to do.

This is also Zhao Xu's fault. When Zhao Xu was in power, he was known for his toughness. As long as he decided on something, no matter how much the ministers opposed it, it was useless, such as reform, the abolition of the queen, etc., all were passed with Zhao Xu's strong support.

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Moreover, Zhao Xu used his reputation to expand the scope of imperial power, causing the Prime Minister to lose the ability to contain the imperial power. As a result, Zhao Ji now took advantage of him.

It can be said that when Zhao Ji ascended the throne, the imperial power of the Song Dynasty reached its peak. Apart from the founding emperors Taizu and Taizong, Zhao Ji had the most power in his hands, which is why Zhao Ji could be so willful.

"Mr. Yan, why have I never seen you take a stand on the matter of land enclosure?"

After the court meeting, Zeng Bu suddenly found Ning Fu and asked.

In the past few days, the ministers did not give up their advice. Countless memorials were sent to Zhao Ji every day. Unfortunately, Zhao Ji did not even read them and even had them burned.

"What's there to express? It's a done deal. Who can influence the official's decision?"

Ning Fu smiled coldly and said that when Zeng Bu and the others chose Zhao Ji as emperor, they had to bear the corresponding consequences.

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Zeng Bu also knew the meaning of Ning Fu's words, and was immediately choked and speechless.

Then I saw Zeng Bu taking a few deep breaths, and then he suppressed his anger and said: "The official is still young, and now he is just confused. As a minister, I should try my best to persuade him. Only in this way can the official correct himself!"

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"Stop being delusional. What the official does is his business. Even if you force him to introduce a scapegoat, what else will he do in the future?"

After Ning Fu finished speaking, he turned around and left. He was too lazy to talk nonsense to Zeng Bu.

Zeng Bu was so angry at Ning Fu's words that he wanted to get angry but had nowhere to go, because what Ning Fu said was the truth. Judging from what Zhao Ji had done since he ascended the throne, he was by no means a wise man.

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"Right!"

Unexpectedly, Ning Fu, who had taken a few steps out, suddenly stopped and turned around to look at Zeng Sermon.

"I have something to warn Mr. Zeng!"

"What words?"

Zeng Bu suppressed his anger and asked.

"With Mr. Zhang in front, Mr. Zeng, you'd better make plans in advance!"

After Ning Fu said that, he turned around and left.

"You...what do you mean?"

Zeng Bu's face turned red with anger when he heard this. Ning Fu even used Zhang Dun as an example to warn him. What was his intention?

"Mr. Zeng, you should know better than anyone else what I mean. Don't think that you can monopolize power just because you support him!"

Ning Fu said without looking back. When Zeng Bu wanted to speak again, he found that Ning Fu had already walked away.

Ning Fu was not threatening Zeng Bu, but was talking about the fact that Zeng Bu was openly on the opposite side of Zhao Ji on the matter of land enclosure. With Zhao Ji's temper, he would definitely not tolerate him.

In the political hall, there happened to be Cai Jing, who wanted to fawn over him. In the original history, Zeng Bu was forced to leave by Cai Jing, so now Zeng Bu's position is in danger, but he doesn't know it yet.

Zeng Bu did not believe Ning Fu's words, because in his opinion, although he did not agree with Zhao Ji's approach to enclosing land, as the prime minister, it was his duty to admonish the emperor.

What's more, since the founding of the Song Dynasty, it has been common for prime ministers and emperors to have disagreements. Sometimes it is not surprising that emperors and prime ministers quarreled directly at court meetings. Therefore, Zeng Bu did not believe that Zhao Ji would blame himself for such a trivial matter.

However, Zeng Bu still miscalculated. Before the land enclosure incident calmed down, Cai Jing suddenly wrote a letter accusing Zeng Bu of nepotism.

It turned out that Zeng Bu had previously recommended his in-law Chen Youfu to be the Minister of Household Affairs. Cai Jing seized on this and desperately attacked Zeng Bu for forming a clique for personal gain.

Of course, Zeng Bu was not willing to give in, so he had a big quarrel with Cai Jing in the court. Cai Jing's party member Wen Yi accused Zeng Bu of being discourteous in front of the emperor, and put a big hat on Zeng Bu's head. In the end, Zhao Ji was also very unhappy.

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Then some censors who were attracted by Cai Jing also began to write letters to impeach Zeng Bu. Of course, these censors also saw that Zeng Bu was about to lose power, so they all worked very hard.

Under such siege, Zeng Bu was speechless, and Zhao Ji also took the opportunity to take away Zeng Bu's position as prime minister and demoted him to the rank of bachelor of Guanwen Palace and Zhirunzhou.

But this is just the beginning, Cai Jing has no intention of letting Zeng Bu go just like that.

So Cai Jing ordered Lu Jiawen, the governor of Kaifeng, to arrest all Zeng Bu's sons and make up charges against them. He took advantage of these people's desire to escape guilt and lured them to pin some crimes on Zeng Bu.

As a result, under this situation, Zeng Bu's charges were increased again, and finally Zhao Ji issued an order again, taking away Zeng Bu's official position and ordering him to be promoted to the Taiqing Palace, almost the same as Zhang Dun.

But this is just the beginning. Ning Fu remembers very clearly that Zeng Bu in history was also very miserable in his last few years because he provoked the villain Cai Jing, and villains hold grudges the most.

Therefore, in the last few years of his life, Zeng Bu was constantly demoted and transferred, and suffered betrayal from those around him. Finally, he died a few years later in Runzhou, which was later known as Zhenjiang.

In comparison, Zhang Dun in history was not much better than Zeng Bu. He was also repeatedly demoted and finally died in Huzhou.

But now Zhang Dun is lucky. After receiving Ning Fu's reminder, he escaped in time. Now that he has resigned from his official position, he has not experienced the fate of being demoted one after another.
Chapter completed!