Chapter 1346 Taking medicine

A cold rain had just happened in Bianjing City in early autumn, and the copper bells at the corners of the eaves were jingling in the wind. Sima Guang leaned on a celadon pillow and lay halfway down on a sickbed.

Sima Guang had met Zhang Yue since that day, and was seriously ill again.

I was sick for more than ten days before I got out of bed.

Sima Guang stood up in a trembling dress and looked at the ginkgo leaves falling outside the window. In a trance, he couldn't tell which one was more haggard and his hair.

As he said, it was like a lonely yellow leaf floating in the autumn wind.

This disease came urgently and fiercely. After recovering from the disease, Sima Guang felt that his appetite was greatly reduced and his energy was not as good as before.

He had already explained his funeral to the capital this time. As he said, the book Zizhi Tongjian has been written, and with the ambition of scholars to establish their words, his wishes in this life have been fulfilled.

He entrusted himself to the doctor and entrusted his family affairs to Sima Kang. From then on, Sima Guangyi was gone, and state affairs could only be entrusted to Lu Gong.

It’s time to make a statement, and now it’s time to establish morality and make contributions.

In Sima Guang's eyes, moral cultivation and meritorious service are to abolish the new laws and make the world that was chaotic by the new party return to its position.

A few ginkgo pieces floated out of the window. Sima Guang suddenly heard the clamor from the door of the Tai students, and could vaguely hear the shout of "free service forever". Sima Guang thought that although these Tai students were full of passion, they did not know the foundation of the country.

But now, Mr. Lu has turned to Zhang Yue, uncle and nephew, little by little, and were very determined in the matter of exempting the law of service. He firmly opposed Sima Guang's abolishment of this law.

This made Sima Guang very worried.

Mr. Lu was still a little reserved in his previous attitude. When did he become so firm?

Did it start from Zhang Yue’s entry into Beijing?

Starting from Zhang Yue’s memorial against the abolition of the new law?

Or did the Empress Dowager ask the two kings to come out?

Yes, it was because the Empress Dowager ordered the two kings to go out.

This is a wind direction!

In the future, the prince will definitely be the prince in Zhao Song.

As soon as Zhang Yue entered the capital, he shocked Empress Dowager Gao and forced King Yong to go out.

Sima Guang's sick body held the door frame. A wry smile appeared on his face. The more Zhang Yue, Lu Gongzhu and others opposed him to abolishing the exemption law, the more intense he performed in this matter, the more proved that he did the right thing!

"Father!" Sima Kang knelt in front of the steps with a medicine cup, and a few pieces of chrysanthemums floated in the celadon bowl.

"Transfer the pen and ink!" He suddenly turned around. Under Sima Kang's panic gaze, he trembled and wrote "Begging for all the abandonment and exemption from the service of Baojia", and the pen tip penetrated the back of the paper.

After writing this memorial, Sima Guang was a little exhausted, and Sima Kang advised: "Father, take a break."

Sima Guang waved his hand and said, "I can't stop. During these days when I was sick, Song Pengnian, the Shaoqing of Taifu, submitted a memorial to the Imperial Army to set up three yamen to manage military officials, and Wang Yan, the Minister of Water Affairs, submitted a memorial to discuss the law of protecting horses and the addition of the doctoral degree in the "Spring and Autumn Annals" in the Taixue School."

"Cai Que and Zhang Dun each fined 30 kilograms of copper on the grounds that they were not talking about their duties and disturbed the saint's listening."

Sima Kang said: "Your Majesty is seriously ill, and it is indeed inappropriate to say that the law of protecting horses and adding spring and autumn."

As we all know, this is a wind direction. Wang Anshi hates "Spring and Autumn" and believes that this is a bad news, so the Imperial Academy has never talked about Spring and Autumn.

Song Pengnian and Wang Yan wrote memorials to criticize the corners of the new method and test the direction of the wind, but they were all stopped by Cai Que and Zhang Dun.

Sima Guang said: "Song Pengnian did not know the matter and was a cliché, but Wang Yan was urgently at the critical moment. If he could not speak, he would have nothing to do in the holy world. The emperor would betray the Queen Mother's request, and the subordinate would betray my loyalty. If the wood follows the rope, he would be upright, and if he would be advised, he would be virtuous."

"I have to submit another memorial, not only to open up the road of speech, but also to ask the Empress Dowager to ask for advice. Whether it is 'one morality' or 'clear virtue', it must be put aside."

Sima Guang returned from illness and reported two memorials, one was to resolutely remove the law of expelling the military, and the other was to continue to open up the road of communication and issue an edict to seek advice.

After completing these two things, Sima Guang felt exhausted again, and Sima Kang served the decoction and medicine.

Sima Guang reluctantly opened his eyes and said, "I can't pick up my pen anymore. You can write to your home and tell them that I have been the prime minister for more than a month, but this is not what I expected. I am also afraid of the future, and I ask them not to be arrogant because I am the prime minister, and not to rely on my power to disturb the local people, and not to abuse the common people."

After instructing Sima Kang and these things, Sima Guang looked at the top of the tent: "The superiors and subordinates have great responsibility, how should I respond to the situation?"

...

Sima Guang's two sprouts were like boiling oil poured into cold water.

When Sima Guang came to Beijing, thousands of people blocked the saying, "The Lord has no return to Luo, stayed in the prime minister and lived the people!" He pushed Sima Guang's reputation to the sky.

The candlelight in the capital hall was swaying in the dusk, and Sima Guang's second memorial was quietly spreading on the red sandalwood table. Cai Que's fingertips rubbed the edge of the celadon cup, and the tea soup had already cooled three times.

The Empress Dowager has issued an order to blame the two of them for responding to Sima Guang’s two memorials.

After Wang Gui left, the central government changed drastically.

Mr. Lu, Mr. Zhang, Mr. Su Song both tended to support the abolition of the reform in a limited position. Sima Guang firmly opposed the reform, while Li Qingchen, Mr. Zhang, and Mr. Han Zhen were all waiting and watching.

Cai Que and Zhang Dun are getting embarrassed day by day.

"Holding the right way is like planting trees. Even if there are dead branches and leaves, they must not be uprooted. The Empress Dowager has no experience in handling political affairs, but only believes in Sima Guang alone. Sima Guang is even more rude and has served as a secondary official and a staff official. When will he really manage the local government? When the official's family was healthy, he had no trouble returning to the court, but now we should not let Sima Guang act like this and control the situation."

Cai Que looked at Zhang Dun and thought to himself that Zhang Dun did not look at the occasion at all. He also lacked experience in local governance and was not yet the prime minister.

However, Cai Dee did not express his feelings: "Sima Guang is famous and has a pure morality. What can you do?"

Zhang Dun looked at Sima Guang's memorial saying "The exemption from military service is the leader of the corruption government" and continued: "Zhang Duzhi is smart and hides in the mansion and does not come out, which makes you and I have become a tyrant who loves power."

Compared to Zhang Yue, who was idle in Beijing after resigning from prime minister, who was idle in Beijing and doing nothing, Cai Qu, Zhang Dun and the others were sitting in pins and needles.

Cai Que said: "What is the reason for this? Among the three studies, the Secretary of the Central Committee is very important, and it is indeed inconvenient for Lu Huishu to be the right prime minister."

"I think the three provinces must join forces to strip the minister of the minister of the Central Secretariat."

After Yuanfeng's restructuring, three provinces were established, and the Secretariat controlled the power to obtain orders and had a temporary weight. After Zhang Yue abolished the prime minister, the Secretariat still held the power to be eliminated, but the Secretariat still had the power.

After Cai Que was promoted from the right prime minister to the left prime minister, he felt that the power was lost, so he decided to deprive the Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and instead, the three provincial governments agreed to take the imperial edict together.

If the three provinces jointly obtain the order, then the left prime minister Cai is sure to say it.

Zhang Dun nodded.

"So the rest?"

Zhang Dun said: "It's easy. Baojia Law belongs to the head of the Privy Council. I will take a charter first, and it can be modified slightly. As for the exemption law, I will ignore him and deal with the Empress Dowager first."

"Good solution." Cai Que said, since the matter comes, he will be responsible for the matter. Zhang Dun can handle things with him, and he can trust him.

"As for asking for advice, we can also follow Sima Guang's intention. However, before asking for advice, we need the following six things."

"What are the six things?"

Zhang Dun said: "First, if you have something to do, you will be punished without mercy."

"Second, if you violate it, you will be punished without mercy."

"Third, if the fan is in trouble, there will be no mercy."

"Fourth, if you cater to your orders, you will be punished without mercy."

"Fifth, if you want to wait and see the court, you will be punished without mercy."

"Sixth, those who are confusing and disguising will be punished without mercy."

Cai Que smiled and said, "What a good Zhang Zihou!"

Zhang Dun did not laugh when he heard this, and then Cai Que lowered his smile and said, "In their opinion, we are just a slanderous disobedience, but it is just a hatred for the empress dowager and Sima Guang."

Why didn’t Zhang Dun know what Cai Que meant? These are all tricks and clever things.

When the Queen Mother Sima Guang saw that you performed the same as playing, you would definitely be furious.

But if Cai Que really needs to implement the decision to abolish the new law, they must not.

Zhang Dun said: "Then let it go. I will live up to the hard work of Your Majesty and Duke Jing. In the future, the prince will know how hard we have been."

Cai Que nodded and said, "Zihou, you must keep this capable body."

Zhang Dun's face changed and he asked, "Zuo Kui, why did you say this?"

Cai Que shook his head and said, "Nothing else."

"I have been in a high position over the years, have done a lot of things and offended many people. Sooner or later, I will do it."

The prime minister was appointed as the emperor, and the prime minister was punished and removed from office. Of course, he would not be demoted to the end immediately, but would have a gradual process.

Generally, he was appointed as a palace official and seized the power, and then the censor wrote a letter to impeach him. After the emperor agreed, he ordered the official to be demoted and gradually demoted.

Cai Que raised his head and said, "Thinking about the time of Xining, although the new and old parties were criticized, except for a few people, they were not affected by the party dispute. Although Duke Han Wei, Ouyang Yongzhong and others opposed the new law, Duke Wang Jing gave courtesy behind them. Even Sima Guang was told to take taxes on merchants in Luoyang that year, Duke Jing also made a statement to defend him."

"During the Yuanfeng period, the Xiangzhou case, the Taixue Yufan case, the Wutai poem case, and the Chen Shiru case were all caused by my Cai Que. I am afraid..."

Zhang Dun said: "Don't worry too much when you are righteous. Besides, you are the prime minister, and the prime minister has the dignity of the prime minister."

Cai Que smiled and said, "When I was young, a minister had a meeting with me with a few."

"The minister told me that one day I will become prime minister like Ding Wei, but I will be demoted to Lingnan like Ding Wei. But Ding Wei can return from Lingnan, but I will die in Lingnan."

"As the saying goes, spring, plum, and new, adjacent to death; Gao, Dou, Lei, and Hua, and he is afraid. There has been seventy years since the road to Lingnan, or my life is over."

Cai Que finished speaking and gradually became silent.

Zhang Dun drank a cup of tea and said angrily: "As long as this example is started, in the future, except for revenge, and repay grudges with grudges, and do not think about other things!"

"Holding righteousness, one's destiny is created by one's own way. Why should one pay attention to the words of the alchemist?"
To be continued...