"I heard that it wasn't. According to rumors, the imperial guards won a big victory on Fuyan Road."

"What rumors are true. Let me tell you, the third brother of my second aunt's family is the commander of the sergeant in the Beijing camp. The army has long been spreading. The people of Xixia are floating in the fields. The elite tiger camps are fighting. If the good guys don't make a sound, they will exalt my divine power in the Heavenly Dynasty and kill countless people. This battle can be won so much. I heard that it was a new weapon released by the Ministry of Works that made great contributions. What is the artillery?"

"I have heard of this, this cannon is so powerful. Once it comes out, it covers the sky and the sun is covered with dark clouds. Dangxiang people can't react at all, and they are bombarded and killed into ashes!"

"Nothing nonsense. If the Divine Thunder comes to the world and the Dangxiang people are killed into ashes, where will the floating corpses come from?"

"Then what do you think?"

"I heard from the Taoist priest of Chongfu Palace that this cannon is a magic weapon, and it looks like a snail horn. It cannot be blown by anyone who is not a divine martial arts person, but if it is blown, it can capture people's souls. Dangxiangren was killed or injured after being captured by the souls."

"You fools, since they are snail numbers, why should they have fire?"

...

In the capital, on the streets and alleys, there were soon all kinds of rumors about artillery. For example, the magical artifacts that cannot be produced in the world have power only in legends.

Of course, some knowledgeable people said: "Arson is a weapon used to launch gunpowder, which is a secret weapon produced by the Ministry of Works over the years."

"Stop talking nonsense. Do you think we are stupid enough to deceive us? The sudden musket is a weapon made by the Ministry of Works. During the Chinese New Year, the imperial guards were taken out as fireworks on Shangyuan Night. How could such a thing be killed? The soldiers on the front line disliked using it. How could they use this thing to kill the corpses of the Dangxiang people everywhere?"

...

Since Li Qingchen joked that artillery would become a magic weapon for protecting the country in the Song Dynasty, there have been various versions of artillery in Kaifeng Prefecture.

The most bizarre saying is the ancient artifact of the soul-catching magic snail.

Of course, there are also many supporters of the magical thunder magic weapon.

In the city of Bianliang, they even thought they supported their respective statements, but these street discussions were definitely not groundless, but someone deliberately spreading rumors. Moreover, such rumors did not matter to others, but were very unfavorable to Li Qingchen.

After Li Qingchen was in charge of the CPC, he won a great victory in the Northwest. This victory was a great contribution for other important officials in the court. However, this contribution was eaten by Li Qingchen in a confused manner. Can this make people happy? As for the great victory in the Northwest, the details may be somewhat different from the official report and the memorials. But the contribution is clearly what is placed in front of him.

The reason why Li Qingchen was so revenge was that this big victory came too suddenly, but it was too important for the Song Dynasty.

In the middle of the Shenzong period, the Song Dynasty maintained an offensive posture against the Xixia and won steadily. It seemed that the Xixia had survived under the military power of the Song Dynasty and had not had a few years of hope.

However, in a great defeat in Lingzhou, he returned all the advantages that the Song Dynasty had taken, but also completely lost the 100,000 elite soldiers accumulated by the northwest. There were less than 15,000 troops who fled back. In addition, the Xiang army and civilians, the Song Dynasty lost more than 300,000 people in the battle of Lingzhou.

The news reached the capital. When Emperor Shenzong heard the bad news, he fainted from crying in the hall.

Some people even speculate that because of this great defeat, Emperor Shenzong was depressed and sick, and finally passed away at a young age. You should know that Emperor Shenzong was not in good health, but not bad. The emperors of the Song Dynasty were in good health, it depends on whether they could have sons. Emperor Shenzong had more than a dozen sons. However, many of them were not raised, but many of them were adults. Zhao Xu was ranked sixth, and he had a brother above him, but because of his leg illness, he was excluded from the rank of the heirs of the throne.

An unprecedented defeat not only made the emperor depressed, but even the Song Dynasty was covered with an unforgettable cloud.

The key is that the 100,000 elite troops are the most capable army among the Western Army. The losses of these 100,000 people have completely changed the Song Dynasty's strategy in the northwest from offense to defense, and it is even unable to attack the Western Xia anymore. Moreover, this situation continued for twenty years.

This is also the reason why Xixia was scared in the court during the Yuanyou period.

The Song Dynasty lost the spirit of a great power that despised the small country of Xixia and had few people. It was absolutely impossible to get the conservatives back to the position of main war. At that time, the Western Army suffered a lot of losses, and many areas had no soldiers to defend and had no soldiers to send, so they could only choose a conservative defensive strategy. In the end of Emperor Shenzong, due to the successive defeats of foreign wars, the implementation of new laws in the domestic market became increasingly difficult. It can be said that Shenzong had embarked on the end of the exhaustion of oil lamps in succession of failures.

If Sima Guang had received the Western Army at the peak of the Shenzong during the Yuanyou period, he would definitely not have chosen to negotiate peace with the Western Xia.

Of course, peace talks are definitely wrong. At that time, the Western Army had no offensive ability, so there was still some ability to protect themselves.

This is also the reason why Sima Guang was criticized.

Zhao Xu ascended the throne at a young age, and his grandmother, Empress Dowager Xuanren, ruled from behind the curtain, and the Song Dynasty entered a dormant period. This was not the appetite of the young emperor, but in the situation where the power was lost, he was unhappy and had no choice. After the accumulated anger was accumulated, it finally broke out in the first year of taking power. Zhao Xu chose the reign of Shaosheng, in order to follow the great achievements of Emperor Shenzong.

But in fact, Emperor Shenzong left a mess.

But a big victory in the northwest immediately made Zhao Xu discover that he was really the son of heaven. It can be foreseeable that the first thing the emperor would do is to reward merit shortly afterwards.

How could Li Qingchen's political enemy watch him gain the emperor's trust and the credit of the sky for nothing?

Of course, even the emperor understood that Li Qingchen's contribution was mostly good luck.

Don’t forget that if the superiors do not have the ability to explore true and extraordinary talents and choose in the unknown situation, they will definitely choose the one with good luck.

Undoubtedly, Li Qingchen is the emperor's deputy general.

There are many blessings in history, most of which are trusted by the emperor. For example, the general Yuwen Shu, who was trusted by Emperor Yang of Sui, was a lucky general who was extremely lucky. The credit would run to him like his legs. Even if he suffered a great defeat in Goguryeo for the second time, he suffered the greatest defeat in his life, he had been demoted to the people, but because of Yang Xuangan's rebellion, his magical official restored his post.

For example, Zhang Liang of the Tang Dynasty was ranked as a hero of the 24th Lingyan Pavilion, but his ability was mediocre. He led his troops to fight for the first time and was attacked by the enemy. This person was frightened and could not even speak on a bench. However, because his subordinates mistakenly thought that the commander was not afraid of danger, his morale suddenly rose sharply and he won... Where did you let an old man like Li Guang make sense?

Is Li Qingchen the deputy general? He was promoted to Privy Councillor as a Hanlin scholar, and became the highest commander in charge of the imperial guards of the Song Dynasty. If you want to say that Li Qingchen is not confused, who is confused? In fact, when he saw the five Western Xia army attacking the northwest, his expression was similar to Zhang Liang. He felt that he was going to take the blame for the Song Dynasty's defeat in the northwest. But in less than a month, the situation changed, and the Western Army turned defeat into victory. What preparations did the court make during this period?

There is nothing.

The Privy Council had no place to dispatch at all. The only imperial guards sent to the northwest was drafted before he took office, and the total number was only a few thousand.

From this point of view, Li Qingchen must be the deputy general, and he is also the number one deputy general in the world.

Sometimes, emperors are superstitious. If they believe that someone can bring good luck, they should provide them with delicious food and drink even if they are raised as pigs.

If Li Qingchen continued to win the victory of the border army in a confused manner in a row, it would easily lead the emperor to have a strange idea of ​​Li Qingchen. Like him, Li Aiqing was a son of luck. Birds of a feather flocked to each other, so the emperor naturally had to keep Li Qingchen by his side before he could rest assured.

Li's House.

Li Qingchen listened to the manager talking about the streets in front of him, his face was quite calm. He had already estimated that day. Unfortunately, some of the strategies were easy to break, while others were helpless.

What made Li Qingchen helpless was that he also wanted to formulate a battle to destroy the country by the Song Dynasty against Xixia, but the problem was that he didn't know where to start.

In the Western Army, he didn't know which general has a general and who has a general and who has a general.

As for asking him to designate the formation map and let the generals of the Western Army fight according to the formation map made by the Privy Council, if they win, what if they lose?

"Master, it's already been circulating outside, and you're talking about anything."

Li Qingchen snorted coldly: "It's not the turn of the city to open the river. Go and take my post and ask Kaifeng Prefecture to investigate who is fanning the flames behind him."

"Master, will this arouse the dissatisfaction of several prime ministers?" The manager said worriedly: "Although Cai Jing is no longer the prefect of Kaifeng Prefecture, the newly appointed Prefect of Lu seems to have no contact with the prefect of the master."

As for not dating Lu Jiawen, Li Qingchen couldn't care.

Unexpectedly, the manager of the Li family not only did not meet the Kaifeng Prefecture Prefecture Prefecture Prefecture Prefecture Prefecture Prefecture Prefecture Prefecture, but was driven out by the Kaifeng Prefecture official because the matter was not under the jurisdiction of the Privy Council.

It was not until this time that Li Qingchen felt something was wrong. This style of doing things looked a bit like Zeng Bu’s layout!

And Lu Jia asked?

This person has a good relationship with Cai Jing, but he has never heard of having a deep friendship with Zeng Bu!

This made Li Qingchen feel sad, and he always feels that someone wants to mess with him.

The next day, morning court.

Lu Jiawen suddenly started a strife at the beginning of the court meeting, and loudly questioned the head of the Privy Council, Li Qingchen, the Privy Councilor: "Li Xiang, the people of Kaifeng support the great victory of the Western Army. It is because the people of our dynasty care about the national affairs and show their power for the Western Army. Why did Li Xiang send his disciples to let the yamen runners of the Kaifeng Prefecture suppress the joy of the people? Do we have no power to be happy for the great victory of the Western Army?"

Li Qingchen immediately became alert. He was the person behind the scenes who sent his disciples to Kaifeng Prefecture to investigate and assign rumors. But Kaifeng Prefecture had rejected him, not only refuting his face, but also quite disrespectful.

At this time, Lu Jiawen suddenly jumped out, obviously pointing his finger at him on purpose.

Everything has a cause and a result. You should always know why?

But when things happened to Lu Jiawen, it was hard to guess. What did Lu Jiawen say about this guy? He came from a famous family and his grandfather, Lu Yijian, was a famous prime minister of the Song Dynasty, and his brother Lu Gongbi was also the prime minister. His great-grandfather was Lu Mengzheng and the Grand Tutor. History says: "The Lu family was even more in power, and there were four people in three generations. The prosperity of aristocratic families was never seen." Three generations of people came out to four high-ranking officials at the prime minister level, which was even more powerful than the three Dukes of the Yuan family in the Three Kingdoms period.

Logically speaking, the Lu family is the backbone of the conservatives. Lu Jiawen should be a general among the conservatives. But otherwise, this guy is rebellious and looks down on the conservatives at all.

He secretly surrendered to Wang Anshi. Lu Gongbi was Wang Anshi's political enemy. Lu Gongbi wrote a memorial to refute Wang Anshi's new law, and many of the problems pointed directly at the key to Wang Anshi's reform. If he suddenly came out to attack in the court, Wang Anshi would definitely be in a mess. However, Lu Jiawen showed the excellent qualities of the agent at this time, and at the critical moment, he secretly copied a copy of his elder brother's memorial to Wang Anshi.

Later, Lu Gongbi was beaten to death by Wang Anshi for a long time.

Afterwards, the Lu family inspected himself and found that Lu Jia asked this kid to be a thief and was traitor. This is also the origin of Lu Jia's name "a thief". Logically speaking, he didn't even want his family for Wang Anshi, and he must be reused in the reform faction. But in fact, Lu Jia's question has always been very marginal and cannot even get involved in the core circle.

Someone asked, he even stole the secrets of his family and became famous as a thief. What did he mean?

Don't ask.

Even he himself couldn't explain what he was trying to do.

If other ministers impeached Li Qingchen, he would definitely be able to see the clues, but when Lu Jia asked, this guy who disagrees with his relatives and harms others and does not benefit himself stood up, even Li Qingchen couldn't see clearly, which end of this guy was from.

Not only did he not understand, but even Prime Minister Zhang Dun and the emperor could not understand.

When he met a young man, Li Qingchen immediately decided to be timid first, bowed his head and admitted his mistake: "I am wrong. I should not restrict the people's remarks on the grounds of military information. I beg your Majesty to punish me!"

"Li Qing..." Even the emperor was embarrassed by the punishment of Li Qingchen, but seeing that Li Qingchen seemed to be not a fraud, he simply nodded and said, "Li Qing must remember that he must not imprison public opinion."

"I thank Your Majesty for your tolerance."

However, it is definitely wrong for the Privy Council to interfere in Kaifeng Prefecture's affairs. Li Qingchen was fined for one month's salary.

This wave of operation seemed to be prepared by the emperor and Li Qingchen, which made Lu Jiawen very unhappy. He picked it out and prepared to do a big fight. You will be over. No, you must not forget it.

Lu Jiawen immediately spoke: "Your Majesty, Li Xiang, now the people in the capital are talking about artillery, and there are all kinds of statements, which are a bit amazing. If they are used by people with ulterior motives, the consequences will be unimaginable. I think that in order to eliminate the unreasonable speculations of artillery among the people, the Privy Council will also ask the Privy Council to mobilize artillery into the capital to eliminate the fallacies among the people."

Cai Jing was promoted from the position of prefectural prefecture of Kaifeng Prefecture and is now the Minister of Revenue.

He became the prefect of Kaifeng Prefecture, but it was more than excessive. Logically speaking, the Minister of Revenue is no longer small. This is not the Minister of Revenue before the Yuanfeng reorganization, but just a decoration. Since the Yuanfeng reorganization, most of the power of the Sansi envoy has been delegated to the Ministry of Revenue. Now the Ministry of Revenue has the glory of the Sansi as the Sansi. It is even called the Miscellaneous and has become the leader of the Six Ministry.

Even the importance of the Ministry of Personnel cannot conceal the authority of the Ministry of Revenue.

However, Cai Jing was still not satisfied with his position as the Minister of Revenue. His goal was to enter the Shangshu Province. However, he had great resistance to entering the Shangshu Province.

Seeing that Lu Jia asked a little lonely, Cai Jing felt that this was an opportunity, so he stood up and said, "Your Majesty, I think what Lu Gong said makes sense."

Li Qingchen's eyes gathered and stared at Cai Jing. He felt like he had been solved in a lot of trouble. He gritted his teeth and lowered his head, and said, "I am discussing it, but the Western Army is now victorious, Qin Feng Road is empty, and there is a difficulty in the Han Dynasty. The court needs to send officials to take charge. Shangshu Cai had said before that it was not good to implement the market law on Qin Feng Road. I suggest that it is nothing more than a solution to let Shangshu Cai go to Qin Feng Road to inspect it."

Zeng Bu had long disliked the Cai brothers. Before Li Qingchen finished speaking, he stood up and said, "I will discuss it!"

The little emperor Zhao Xu was not sure about his idea and looked at Zhang Dun. Zhang Dun was a little reluctant to let Cai Jing go. This guy is a good guy to make money. But if he objected, Zeng Bu might make trouble again. If he agreed, would Cai Bian’s heart be disappointed?

Just let their brothers discuss their affairs. Zhang Dun beat Cai Bian and asked, "What does Yuandu mean?"
To be continued...