Chapter 288 The wind and rain are like dark, there are still friends
At this moment, the servant came to report: "Su Gong, Su Erlang is here."
"He's the only one coming?"
“Yes, I didn’t bring my family.”
"Okay, please come here to talk."
After Su Song ordered the servants, he turned to the strange news that the court was about to kill Er Su a while ago. Yao Huan and Shao Qing, who were frightened on their faces, said calmly: "I am going to see Su Zhongyu today."
Su Shi's second son Su Feng walked into the door and was slightly stunned when he saw Yao and Shao.
Su Song said, "Zhongyu, yesterday, after I ordered my servants to go to your mansion to deliver the words, I received a greeting from Jingbo and Yao Niangzi. I never asked Jingbo and Yao Niangzi to come back another day because I will say next, the only ones in the capital are you three. Let's listen to them together today."
Su Hui showed a hint of this matter, and his suspicion became even more serious. After giving the gift, he looked at Su Song in the upper head anxiously.
Su Song asked bluntly: "Erlang, do you know that last month, your father and your uncle jointly submitted a report to the official family, and made two things to do. First, Empress Dowager Xuanren must have been framed, and the official family must not be deceived by those who abusive power and deceive the emperor, and pursued the destruction of the queen mother. Second, for the new policy, your father used his experience when he was in charge of the border counties of Dingzhou as a basis, supported Zeng Bu's horse protection law, and used the gains and losses of the Xining and Yuanfeng periods as an example to oppose Cai Jing and others to reopen the Yisi and Daoluo storehouses."
Su Hui said in surprise: "I don't know."
Su Song said: "Well, because your uncle was also a censor at that time, and knew how to send the confession of the emperor directly to the imperial court, so what the two of them reported this time has not yet been released from the Political Affairs Hall. All officials from outside the court have not heard of it in detail."
Su Feng was stunned for a moment, with a sad look on his eyes and said to Su Song: "I only received letters from my father's family, saying that he and my uncle had arranged for my brother Su Mai and cousin Su Chi to go to Yangxian (now Yixing, Jiangsu) and Yingchang (now Xuchang, Henan) to buy land and farm. I also asked me to visit Ouyang's father-in-law's house more, and could ask my younger brother Su Guo to return to Beijing from Huizhou and reunite with his sister-in-law. If he could teach his children in the Ouyang family's clan school, it would be better."
As soon as Su Hui said this, Yao Huan and Shao Qing also understood it.
This is clearly the meaning of arranging the funeral.
Su Mai and Su Chi are the eldest sons of Su Shi and Su Zhe respectively.
They started farming mode in the south, and Er Su showed that the descendants of the Su family no longer had political ambitions.
Su Shi's youngest son Su Guo has been with his father who has been demoted for several years in order to fulfill his filial piety. Su Shi came forward through Su Feng and begged the descendants of his mentor Ouyang Xiu to help take care of him. He also used the reputation of the Ouyang family to try his best to eliminate the possibility of Su Guo being implicated.
At the scene of the seat, Su Song sighed: "It seems that Zizhan and Ziyou have prepared a more tragic ending before the memorial. I hope so much that they were worried. However, the day before yesterday, the official ordered the inscription written by Zizhan in Shangqing Chuxiang Palace and the inscription written by Zizhan within the year, and be rewrited and engraved by Cai Jing."
The "Shangqing Chuxiang Palace" mentioned by Su Song is a story-shaped location in the Song Dynasty.
This was originally an ordinary Taoist temple, but it was destroyed in a fire during the reign of Emperor Renzong. During the reign of Emperor Shenzong, a famous Taoist priest lived in the former site of the palace and reported to the Tianjia that this place was related to the long-lasting fortune of the dragon heirs and the court should rebuild it.
Soon, Emperor Shenzong passed away. Five years later, when Zi Zhao Xu reached the age of his wedding, Empress Dowager Xuanren Gao thought that the prince had died prematurely since the founding of the Song Dynasty, so he personally told the harem, so he asked the concubines to save money and put their own private money on it. Finally, the renovation of the Shangqing Chuxiang Palace without spending a penny of the treasury was completed.
In the sixth year of Yuanyou, the new palace was completed. Empress Dowager Xuanren recalled Su Shi, who was the governor of Hangzhou, and asked him to write inscriptions for the palace. In the name of Zhao Xu, he paid money from the royal private treasury and rewarded Su Shi with a sum of money.
Now, immediately after Er Su shouted for injustice for Empress Dowager Xuanren and opposed the reopening of the Municipal Change Department, Zhao Xu made the decision to destroy the inscription of the Shangqing Palace written by Su Shi, and ordered Cai Jing to rewrite it. The signal conveyed by this move was too obvious.
"Old friends who have been under the ban secretly informed me. Cai Jing took the opportunity to submit a report to the court to ask the court to pay 2 Su, and don't have the kindness of the thoughts of the Wutai poetry case back then. In the Political Affairs Hall, Zeng Bu stood up for your father and uncle, and argued with Cai Jing. He quoted the words of Empress Dowager Cao that year, Sheng Chao must not kill famous scholars. Cai Jing then laughed at the official family that he was about to be a relative of Zeng Shu, so how could he be a relative of two Yuanyou ministers with the relatives blushed, so he followed the Prime Minister's intention and kept Er Su's life. However, please ask the official family to continue to exile Er Su to the south and ask them to cross the sea."
When Su Song talked about the word "crossing the sea", there was a trembling sound.
During the Yuanyou period, Cai Que, the prime minister of the new party, was demoted to Lingnan by his old party and died in the demotion site. There were rumors in the court that the cause of death was that he was acutely ill and could not be treated.
On the other hand, when the new party’s civil servants are purged of the old party’s civil servants, they don’t have to be arrested and investigated in the capital, so that they can be killed.
The vast sea is so strange and treacherous that the small boat that Er Su rides has passed away without a trace. What an open and upright reason is that the historians cannot even write a melody.
When Su Xi heard this, his face turned pale and his lips trembled.
When his father Su Shi was imprisoned in the Wutai poetry case, Su Hui had just turned nine years old. The child of this age was the most pitiful, understood the seriousness of the situation, and was powerless. He was as frightened as a small beast in a cage every day, and was most afraid that suddenly someone wearing official uniforms came to the door to announce that the court would impose a death sentence on his father.
At this moment, this feeling came back, clenching Su Xi's heart into a ball.
"Mr. Su, what should I do now?"
Su Song stared at him: "I invite you to come today. I am telling you not to do anything. From tomorrow, no matter how I am in Wende Hall, Chugong Hall, or even enter Zichen Hall, go to the official house, and plead for your father and uncle, you should not be provoked by someone with ulterior motives. Don't follow me, you should thank guests in a closed door, and just think that the outside trouble has nothing to do with you. I am also a father who has been a father for decades and understand Zizhan's thoughts. He arranged for you to return to the fields or teach, and I miss you safe and sound."
As if afraid that the Su family felt that they owe their favor, Su Song added: "Erlang, in the poetry case, your father was imprisoned in Wutai, I was imprisoned for the Chen Shiru case and was imprisoned next to your father. I heard that the censor who investigated the case forced confessions to your father day and night, and was criticized and humiliated all night long. Finally, he even transferred an old official from Kaifeng Prefecture and used torture instruments. But your father firmly refused to admit the crime of being false. Erlang, I will tell you that if there was no father at that time, he would not have been in the position of the crime. Next door, I don’t know if I can persevere. My father and I have many different opinions on the strategy of governing the country, but we can still become friends with each other. We yell and ask for the voice of our friends. Now your father is demoting himself and has not yet become a person who is wise and self-protection. I, an old man, relying on the kindness of the official family to run for my son Zhan and his son, is not to give your family affection, but to be sincere and willing."
Su Song's words were sincere and enthusiastic, and they were also very loyal.
Chapter completed!