"Why does a bachelor say that?"

Although You Shixiong is old and has been an official for 30 years and is a serious Jinshi. If he hadn't had his bad official career, he would have become a member of the decision-making level in the court.

Of course, he is neither a reformist, nor a conservative, and even a reed fenceist.

You must be trembling with any sighs from a big man like An Tao.

An Tao pinched the beard on his chin and said to him all the time: "Did Li Kui and Zhong Jianzhong both feared that they would make too much contribution, and deliberately did not mention their merits?"

Recovering the Hehuang land, destroying Qingtang City, and capturing Qingtang King Aligu alive, such a contribution would be more than a mistake to a bachelor's mistake. The key is that it is too fast. The materials from the rear of the Song Dynasty were not sent to the front line, and the war was over. This saved at least tens of millions of dollars of money, and the contribution was greatly improved. According to An Tao's thoughts, it would not be too much to give a bachelor of Longtu Pavilion.

When Wang Shao recovered the Hehuang land, he ascended to heaven in one step, and returned to Beijing to become the Privy Councilor.

If Wang Shao hadn't had the unstable foundation in the officialdom and the critical moment when the reformists and conservatives fought to the death, the Privy Council let an outsider decide, Wang Anshi and Lu Gongzhu were not relieved. There were more people who were jealous, so he was impeached and lost his official position as Privy Councilor. As for the rumors that the Marquis was the Privy Councilor who was excluded, it was simply nonsense. Wang Shao was a Jinshi and was born in the first three in the palace examination. What did he have to do with the generals?

But Li Kui and Zhong Jianzhong are different, and their qualifications are not comparable to Wang Shao.

It would not be too much to give a bachelor's credit by regaining lost territory, expanding territory, and capturing enemy chiefs?

Dragon map and Tianzhang, it’s all OK!

You Shixiong answered neither, nor did he not answered nor did he feel restless. He felt as if he had done something evil that was angry with heaven and people, which made him frightened: "I am..."

"It has nothing to do with you. You wrote His Majesty "An Bian Ce" to His Majesty? Now that Hehuang is now settled, this contribution will naturally not be missing. I am angry that those who have made meritorious people dare not stand up because of the disputes in the court. They are all Zhang Dun? I will definitely not forgive him after returning to the capital!"

An Tao vented his dissatisfaction in a fierce manner, of course he also had the qualifications.

But You Shixiong was even more afraid after hearing this. He had a shallow foundation? He had a weak relationship and could not resist the fight between the big bosses in the court. If you are not careful, you will be doomed.

An Tao and Zhang Dun? He can’t afford to offend him!

Not to mention them, even An Tao and Zhang Dun's disciples in the court, he would not dare to offend him.

Seeing that You Shixiong was not someone who could withstand the pressure, An Tao simply waved his hand and said, "Forget it? This matter has nothing to do with you? You should not participate."

After saying that, he was a little hesitant again. According to the truth, he should go to Qingtang front line to inspect and get first-hand information. But are you afraid that the emperor will suddenly summon him because of Dasheng? He really dare not leave Qinzhou too far.

Sure enough, two days later? The emperor's order came, praising the courage of the Qin Fenglu army? At the same time, he urged An Tao to return to the court.

The eunuch who came was named Liu, and An Tao also knew him? He asked casually: "What's the news in the court recently?"

"Report to the bachelor? Mr. Lu is coming back."

Liu's eunuch was humble and said lightly? Facing An Tao, he really didn't dare to show off an angel to drive out. He had to say the truth.

When An Tao heard that Lu Dafang was about to know the court, he was immediately furious: "He, a junior, dares to call him Lu Gong? I'm gonna be! It would be fine if Lu Gong was involved, he deserved it?"

"It's our family's fault, our family is talking too much!"

Facing An Tao in anger, Eunuch Liu decisively admitted his conscience. The eunuchs in the palace were not of high rank. Although going out represents the emperor, the emperor sometimes is not easy to use in front of court officials, let alone eunuchs. An Tao is one of the people who can make trouble for the emperor in the court.

An Tao despised him as if he had sent a flies: "It has nothing to do with you, I just can't stand this villain. This old boy is afraid that His Majesty will do a lot of effort when he returns to Beijing?"

An Tao thought a little and found out who would be the most beneficial to Lu Dafang's return to Beijing.

Not the emperor yet?

Now the land of Hehuang has been recovered, and even the King of Qingtang has been captured alive. There will be no shortage of war horses in the Song Dynasty in the future.

Prime Minister Zhang Dun said that he would benefit from anything, and Li Qingchen and his Privy Council of An Tao were naturally of great achievements.

But the eunuch Liu whispered: "It was proposed by Shuxian."

This sentence is very informative, and An Tao's eyes suddenly stormed, and he suddenly realized a little. This was not the result he was willing to see. According to time, Li Qingchen submitted a memorial to Lu Dafang to preside over the Ministry of Revenue, which must have been after receiving military information. Then the question arises. When Li Qingchen has enough merits to resist Zhang Dun's continuous infiltration of the Privy Council, why should Lu Dafang be invited?

Compared with reformists like Li Qingchen, An Tao did not participate in reforms and would not blindly follow the conservatives. He was not dissatisfied with Lu Dafang.

But from this incident, he had already realized that Li Qingchen could no longer stop Zhang Dun alone in the capital.

This is probably why Li Qingchen suggested that Lu Dafang preside over the Ministry of Revenue. At the same time, Xixia entered the defense, the Hehuang land was recovered, and the Song Dynasty had the opportunity to recuperate in finance and military terms. At this time, the use of drastic reforms was no longer in line with the interests of the Song Dynasty. Many new laws are no longer suitable for the Song Dynasty, and this is probably the real reason for Li Qingchen.

He wanted to modify the new method, but found that Zhang Dun was a stubborn guy with iron fist and was unmoved at all.

"You go down! I will take Qingtang King Aligu back to Beijing with you tomorrow."

"Our family takes a leave!"

When An Tao left Beijing last time, he was in a hurry and his escort was streamlined. But when he returned, he was very different. The huge convoy and even the army escorted him.

After all, Aligu, the King of Qingtang, who had been disgusted with the Song Dynasty for more than ten years, will also be escorted to Beijing.

Any civil servant could see the difference between An Tao when he was sitting in the car on the road. After a while, his momentum increased a little, and after a while, his momentum increased again. This is a technique of restraining energy and a secret practice that is necessary for quarrels. You Shixiong was amazed. This is the master who went to the capital to find Zhang Dun’s bad luck. If he followed An Tao, would Zhang Dun think that he was An Tao’s follower?

You Shixiong regretted following him to the capital. If he was in Hehuang and the sky was high and the emperor was far away, even if it was not the first meritorious service, the court would not favor one or the other.

If he is lucky and gets a post official who is waiting for the Longtu Pavilion to be established, his career will be successful.

"Why do I have to bear such bad luck?"

You Shixiong did not dare to call himself an old man in front of An Tao. Although they were about the same age and were both old men in their sixties, An Tao called himself "I am" which was an interpretation of his status, and he... that was self-deprecating.

After thinking about it, You Shixiong felt that his journey to the imperial capital was uneasy. In addition to resigning from the fourth rank and above, his obsession in the officialdom was also to recover the land of Hehuang.

The previous goal will be obtained when you arrive in the capital; the latter goal has been completed.

You Shixiong stared at An Tao's car with resentment and said to himself: "Should I be ready to retire?"

If he had changed someone, he would definitely be reluctant to become an official at this age. The civil servants were in much health, such as Wen Yanbo, who was in his nineties and was still alive.

Unlike Wen Yanbo, You Shixiong is an ordinary person and has been in the northwest frontier for a long time. His body has long been full of holes and his illness is only a short time. Not only is he much less energy than his fellow men, but he also suffers from pain and suffering all over his body once he works hard. Unexpectedly, after becoming successful, the first thing You Shixiong thought about was retirement.

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In Qingtang City.

Thousands of craftsmen from the Song Dynasty commanded the Qingtang people to repair the destroyed houses in the city.

There are construction sites everywhere, and if Qingtang people were allowed to manage it, it would have been a mess. Fortunately, Zhongjianzhong has rich experience and is good at various construction projects.

Not only did the work of tens of thousands of people not delayed, but the destroyed houses in the city were quickly repaired.

In less than a month, Qingtang City returned to its former appearance, and it was impossible to even see that the city had just experienced a war.

A mansion in the east of the city, with a ball of pictures under Zhong Jianzhong's arm, hurried to the entrance of the stairs. After going upstairs, he saw Lu Da sitting on the couch and snoring.

Huhuhu--

Zhong Jianzhong was secretly funny: "This kid got drunk again yesterday. I really don't understand, is the wine that good?"

"Luda, wake up, your lord is back!"

Lu Da opened his eyelids and saw that it was Zhong Jianzhong in a daze. He immediately said angrily: "Master Zhong, lying is a villain."

While talking, Luda stretched and opened her mouth wide and suffocated.

Zhong Jianzhong took two steps back decisively, covered his mouth and felt disgusted, and said in a urn: "What did you eat? It's all the smell of rottenness?"

Lu Da giggled and said, "It's meat. There's a lot of meat here, so it's uncomfortable to eat too much. By the way, Master Tian, ​​have you been repaired in the city?"

"Yes, it's all repaired, and the street houses are completely renewed, which looks more neat and elegant than before the city was broken." Zhong Jianzhong is a serious person. Although he was very dissatisfied with Li Kui asking him to repair the house, he still finished it with great since he was devoted.

Lu Da dipped some water in the basin of the room with his palm, wiped it casually, and shouted: "Happy!" Then he followed Zhong Jianzhong out to patrol the city.

Looking at the orderly streets and the newly repaired houses, even though some houses were no longer repaired, they were cleared out of the open space and planted with flowers and plants. Not only did they not give people a sudden feeling, but they also had a staggered and interesting interest. Lu Da couldn't help but raise his thumbs up and said to Zhong Jianzhong: "Sir, you really have you. You have definitely been in Qingtang City to build a city."

Zhong Jianzhong snorted coldly, and said with a look of bad expression: "Where do you think I should go to build a city?"

"The imperial city, only by building an imperial palace for the emperor can you show your true skills." Lu Da and Zhong Jianzhong were very familiar with each other and didn't care about each other's official identities, and were talking and laughing. In short, she was considered half of the family of Zong. His father was the personal guard who fought with Zhong Yan.

Zhong Jianzhong said angrily: "I'm fed up with this craftsman. What did your adults go out of the city to do? Why haven't they come back yet?"

"This, sir, I went outside the city to arrest the remnants of Qingtang, and I couldn't come back for a while. But you are so powerful that you can guess what sir will tell you next." As he spoke, Lu Da took out a stained sack from his chest and handed it to Zhong Jianzhong.

"Li Kui's words are just escorting fools. When he recruited Qingtang slaves, he promised to give freedom to himself at the cost of twenty sheep, one horse, and five cows. Now Qingtang City has been defeated, and the promise has been sent out. He also gave a reward. The powerful and new chieftains in Qingtang City all used their wealth to recruit their subordinates. Mainly outside the city, the slaves whose masters died had the opportunity to obtain this property. They rushed to Qingtang City like crazy when they heard the news, and wanted to use it to encircle and suppress the ghosts? What about the deceiving ghosts?"

Zhong Jianzhong talked dissatisfiedly, then opened the treasure bag, looked at it for a while, and immediately raised his eyebrows and said angrily: "Is Li Kui still finished?"

"Sir Zhong, my master said this is very important." Seeing that Zhong Jianzhong was angry, Lu Da reminded carefully: "And sir, you must be the one who can complete the construction of Muen Temple in Qingtang City. If you don't say anything else, just command the craftsmen, no one can compare to you."

Zhong Jianzhong was a former official and changed his career to become a civil servant. If he couldn't even achieve political achievements, how could he be promoted to the Changping envoy? This is already a high-ranking official at the first level. There are four yamens at the road level, and the heads are: Xuanfu Department, in charge of the army; Transfer Department, in charge of money and grain; Promotion of Changping, Lu'anfu Trading, etc.; and there is also Promotion of Xing Prison Office, in charge of Xing Prison Office. Zong Jianzhong was exactly the previous Qinfeng Road Promotion of Changping envoy. If he hadn't jumped up the previous year against Cai Jing, who was still the Minister of the Ministry of Revenue, who was still the Minister of Revenue, how could he be removed from the promotion of the "City Law"?

If it hadn't been for offending Cai Jing, Zhong Jianzhong would have been a high-ranking official in the local area.

If Zhong Jianzhong does not have real governance talents and political achievements, how could he wear a fourth-rank official robe with his status as a supporting official?

Let me give you the simplest example, Mi Fu.

He was the same age as Zhong Jianzhong. He was the same age, but his career was completely different. Mi Fu had the advantage that Zhong Jianzhong had at all. The old lady of the Mi family was the wet nurse of Emperor Shenzong, and Mi Fu's official position was also personally provided by the emperor. Logically speaking, if Mi Fu made some achievements, it would be absolutely not a problem to be promoted. Especially in the past ten years, during the reign of Empress Dowager Gao, the Mi family and Empress Dowager Tai had a deep relationship.

Unfortunately, Mi Fu is still a sixth-rank official now and has never even been a magistrate.

Don’t think that someone in Zhong Jianzhong’s family is an official. His family is a general. He is a civil servant. In the officialdom of the Song Dynasty, he can’t help anything except helping others.

When Zhong Jianzhong came to the palace, he looked at the entire palace and felt that it was not too big, but the conference hall was very large, as empty as the temple's Buddhist temple. This may be the architectural style of the Qingtang area.

What Zhongjianzhong needs to do is to drive away the people in the royal palace, then add or demolish some buildings according to the temple's specifications, and ask craftsmen to cast bronze Buddhas.

This project is not too big, but it tests the designer's aesthetics very much.

As the disciple of Zhang Zai, the great scholar, Jianzhong, was not short of the heart to discover beauty.

The reason why Zhong Jianzhong took over the work of building a temple so obediently was that he also understood that no one in the city was more suitable for the supervisor of the construction of a temple in a short period of time than him.

There is a reason why I chose the royal palace of Yuandasila.
To be continued...