In late March, the weather was getting hotter and hotter. On this afternoon, Zhao Guan's family was studying Ouyang's "New History of the Five Dynasties" in the pavilion near the lake in the harem. In addition to Bachelor Xiaolin who was ready for consultation, there was actually Prime Minister Lu Haowen sitting with him.

Let’s say that during the Jingkang Incident, the Jin people focused all their attention on plundering gold and silver, not even copper coins, but this does not mean that the royal books were not plundered. After all, there was Wanyan Xiyin... Others were robbing the gold.

Woman, he was there grabbing books and chapters, determined to be Xiao He's.

Of course, Xiyin's destructive power is limited after all, and he cannot force his subordinates to give up all their gold and silver to pack books for him. Most of the losses of more books and regulations are only from the subsequent wars, and they are not considered systemic.

In addition, due to the prosperous literary style of the Song Dynasty, many books were printed and circulated in various places, so it was not difficult to find them.

This is a blessing among misfortunes.

In fact, someone in the court has already suggested collecting and consolidating classics, identifying errors and omissions, and re-establishing an official edition... The reason is that books are now left outside, and some people are using some classics with poor printing quality, errors and omissions to mislead people.

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However, this kind of thing has nothing to do with the experience of Zhao Guan's family, because "New History of the Five Dynasties" is a private history book, and Ouyang Xiu said from the beginning that he was disgusted with the general decline and moral collapse during the Five Dynasties, so he wanted to imitate the "Spring and Autumn Period" writing style

'Write a history book to criticize those 'shameless' people... In other words, "New History of the Five Dynasties" is more about literary and artistic value, as well as general ethics, but has little to do with textual research and historical value.

Even the people of the Song Dynasty themselves said that Ouyang Xiu could do "what a shame" and write "second-class articles". In other words, no matter how good the online articles are, they are just online articles and cannot be regarded as literature.

Therefore, Zhao Jiu was only used as a dispatch... He and Lu Haowen were waiting here for Han Xiaozhou, who should be returning to Tokyo today.

However, from noon to the afternoon, when the Zhao Guan family read the book for several generations, Han Xiaozhou was still nowhere to be seen. Finally, as the sun turned westward, the Zhao Guan family was so bored that they went straight to look for Feng Dao's biography.

, only to see Yang Yizhong leading a middle-aged purple-robed official to come in a hurry, and Zhao Jiu put down the history book and calmed down a little.

He knew that the person coming must be Han Xiaozhou, because someone had given him a popular science before. As soon as Han Xiaozhou entered the official position and became a mere secretary of Kaifeng Prefecture, he was dismissed by the extremely frivolous Taishang Daojun Emperor.

He was bumped into, and after asking his name and family background, he was directly rewarded with the position of Wei Wei Shaoqing, and was specially given a third-grade purple robe... and this person also became a rare purple-robed magistrate.

And sure enough, when this person came forward and was greeted with greetings, he turned out to be the eldest son of the Han family who was twice as old as Zhao Guan's family but a generation younger.

After the two parties had finished their greetings, Zhao Jiu, who had already waited impatiently, frowned at each other and said, "Han Qing worked so hard from afar, but he was so delayed when he arrived in Tokyo. It took him nearly half a day to enter the city?"

Han Xiaozhou was a little confused when he came up and was scolded, but he still managed to explain: "Good instructors know that I went to Qingcheng in the south of Tokyo last night, and my uncle went to Qingcheng to inform the officials of the order. Therefore, I set off this morning.

When I came to see the official, I had to abandon the horses and take a mule cart instead. It was a little late..."

As soon as these words came out, there was silence in the pavilion for a while, and Zhao Jiu was obviously confused. After a while, he asked: "When did I have a decree for your uncles, and when did I ask you to enter the city by mule cart?"

I don't know if it was because of the hot weather, but Han Xiaozhou was sweating profusely and didn't know how to deal with it.

"The official family does have this purpose, but it is not a specific purpose." Seeing Han Xiaozhou at a loss, Prime Minister Lu Haowen sitting next to him spoke up at the right time. "Before the official family was in Huaishang, there would be

It was decreed that officials were not allowed to ride in sedan chairs because the state was in danger. Later, there was another decree in Nanyang that because the army lacked war horses and the people lacked cattle, officials were not allowed to use strong horses as mounts without authorization, and women were not allowed to travel in ox carts without authorization...

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"That's right." Han Xiaozhou hurriedly followed. "That's what my uncles told me. They said that the civil servants in the capital all rode donkeys and mules. I wasted some time looking for the mule cart.

Please also ask the officials to atone for their sins."

Zhao Jiu looked at the other party's sincere and frightened posture, and felt that he was wrong for a moment. After being speechless for a long time, he bit the bullet and skipped the topic: "Never mind this matter, after crossing the river, does Han Qing know what to do?"

"I will definitely fulfill my mission!"

Han Xiaozhou, who was dressed in purple robe, heard this and ignored the etiquette and directly fell on the ground to salute. He was so shocked that Academician Xiao Lin, Yang Yizhong and Lan Gui took several steps back. Lu Haowen even stood up.

He came to hide away, but when the purple-robed magistrate raised his head, his eyes were already red. "Before I left Jiangzhou, my mother had something to say to me, warning me that I have received the country's favor in this life, and I will do what I am told, and I must not be rude or disrespectful."

, even if she has nine deaths, she must return to the capital... My mother said, my mother said, don't worry about her old age!"

At the end of his speech, the man burst into tears.

Zhao Jiu was also obviously startled, but he swallowed all the dissatisfaction and words he had accumulated before, and just said carefully: "Han Qing, please get up... Since the old lady has already told me, I won't stop."

I warned you...I remember that your father passed away when he became the governor of Xiangzhou?"

"yes."

"Fortunately, you have a good mother," Zhao Jiu looked directly at Lu Hao and asked, "What is the highest level of gift that such a good mother can give?"

Lu Haowen also felt a little frightened, but he spoke concisely and concisely: "Mrs. Guo, this is the case with Mrs. Ning Guo, who was rewarded by the official family to the mother of Lieutenant Yue in the middle of last year."

Zhao Jiu immediately turned to face Han Xiaozhou: "I will confer the title of Madam Rongguo in the Imperial Palace! Get up quickly!"

Han Xiaozhou became more and more grateful and got up. Zhao Jiu gave him some kind words and asked him to go back to his residence in Tokyo to rest. He would wait until tomorrow to receive the mission to welcome the envoy and then go north with the envoy from the Kingdom of Jin.

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Just like that, watching Han Xiaozhou come and go, Zhao Guan's family sat there for half a quarter of an hour before going to look at Lu Hao, who was still standing beside him, and asked: "Ms. Lu, I heard that you are in-laws?"

"Yes." Lu Haowen came back to his senses and spoke carefully. "Han Dayin's grandmother is Chen's aunt..."

"If you look at it this way, our monarchs and ministers are pretty good..."

Zhao Jiu grunted, but no one around him heard him.

After a pause, Zhao Guanjia looked around and saw that apart from a few guards, only Academician Xiao Lin and Lan Gui were around. They simply asked Lu Haowen and said bluntly: "Ms. Lu, do you think your in-law is here?"

Pretending, pretending to be stupid?”

Lu Haowen was startled for a moment, then slowly shook his head, but he didn't know whether he agreed or disagreed, or maybe he didn't see it.

Zhao Jiu sighed, but said what was in his heart: "I did not hide it from Xianggong Lu. Ever since Wanyan Wushu's letter came that day, I felt that something was wrong. Han Xiaozhou invited himself to go north, and at the same time as Wushu's letter

It’s such a coincidence to arrive..."

Lu Haowen had no choice but to finally bite the bullet and speak sincerely: "In the official family, Han Xiaozhou has been favored by the country for his whole life, and there is no way he can have connections with foreign countries."

Zhao Jiu frowned for a moment.

"The officials..." On the other side, Bachelor Xiao Lin also woke up, but he lowered his head and spoke carefully. "Han Dayin's father passed away early, so it's hard to say, but when his grandfather Yi Guogong (Han Zhongyan) was the prime minister, he was called

He is a sincere gentleman... I think Han Xiaozhou is extremely similar to his ancestors."

Being a gentleman means being useless and incompetent, which is consistent with Han Xiaozhou's performance today.

However, Zhao Jiu glanced at Lu Haowen, who was a little embarrassed, but slowly shook his head: "Actually, I didn't doubt him, because if I think about it carefully, how could Han Xiaozhou be separated by thousands of miles and a Yellow River in Jiangzhou?

Natural defense line and transportation to the north? So I thought from the beginning that the reason why a person like Han Xiaozhou asked to go north must be because the people at the top and bottom were like this, and everyone thought that the north and south were stable and could resume communication. But at this time, Wanyan Wushu did this.

It seems to cater to our people’s hearts too much.”

Lin Jingmo was deep in thought, then fell silent again.

Lu Haowen had no choice but to confront him seriously: "What do the officials think is going on?"

"Of course I thought Wanyan Wushu had other plans..." Zhao Jiu said calmly in the audience. "To be honest with Mr. Lu, I called you here today not just to accompany me to meet Han Xiaozhou.

I actually want to tell you that I have always suspected that the Jin Kingdom’s behavior was to use Empress Dowager Xuanhe to confuse my mood and cater to the people of the Song Dynasty to cover up something! Han Xiaozhou will leave tomorrow, so I will talk to you

Let’s talk.”

Lu Haowen sighed slightly, but then asked: "I dare to ask the officials, so what?"

Zhao Jiu also sighed... Just as Lu Haowen said, so what?

In fact, Zhao Jiu had already relaxed, but Wanyan Wushu's deliberate paralysis allowed him to catch a glimpse of something, but he didn't know how to deal with it.

And this is the danger of not having military initiative. He has suspicions but can't prove anything. He can only passively wait for the situation to emerge. These days, he thought about it for a long time, but found that he could not even dispatch troops and horse support in advance.

Yes, because all the soldiers and horses are performing their respective duties, once they get out of the way, they will take the initiative to expose a big hole, and Han Shizhong is already in the best support position in Caizhou.

Not only that, reason told him that guesses were just guesses. Forcing the soldiers and the people to be more vigilant would only lead to fatigue of the army and the people. When the Jin people really came, they would be even more miserable. The Jin people might even not come. This was in vain and made him lose his prestige.

, so he couldn't even talk openly to the officers in the letter... He just asked them to defend carefully and not to relax their vigilance just because the summer is coming.

"That's alright." After thinking for a long time, he saw Feng Yifeng and Feng Feng poking their heads in the distance. However, Zhao Jiu got up and left the matter behind, saying goodbye to Lu Haowen. "The soldiers are coming to cover up the water and the earth. Mr. Lu will go on his own. I

There’s something going on too…”

Lu Haowen left immediately.

However, just after Lu Haowen turned around and walked four or five steps, Zhao Jiu looked at something on the table in the pavilion. His heart moved slightly, but he stood up and called to the other party: "My lord, please stay."

Lu Haowen turned around in surprise.

"This is a gift to Mr. Lu." Under the silent gaze of Academician Xiao Lin, Zhao Jiu folded a page of "New History of the Five Dynasties" that he had read for half a day, then walked out of the pavilion holding the book and handed it to Lu Haowen.

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Lu Hao asked not knowing why, but he still bowed and thanked him. Then he held the book in both hands and left the harem accompanied by Lan Gui.

And when the Prime Minister of the day and the Imperial Guard of the Ministry of Internal Affairs turned around a corner, they saw Feng Yiyin standing by the roadside and hurriedly saluted and said hello to them... Lu Haowen only thought that the latter looked familiar, so he

He nodded slightly and walked over. When he turned another corner, he remembered that it was Pan Yongshou, the imperial medical officer, and the biological father of Concubine Pan.

This incident made Lu Xianggong feel a little disturbed.

Not to mention how Lu Haowen went back to study, he only said that it was very hot here in the palace one day. In the evening of that day, Zhao Jiu took a routine rest and went to Pan Guifei's place... Ever since he came back, he had stayed here most of the time, and he didn't stay here today either.

exception.

But that day, when I slept until the third watch of the night, Lan Gui and Yang Yizhong suddenly called each other through the door.

Zhao Jiu suddenly woke up and came out with his clothes on, but he didn't show any signs of panic: "But the golden man finally moved?"

"No." It was Lan Gui instead of Yang Yizhong who leaned over and handed over the note. "Everyone, the Privy Council turned to Xiangyang's left-behind prime minister Liu Ji, Ma Shen, the envoy of Jinghu North Road, and Liu Hongdao, the envoy of Jiangnan West Road, jointly signed

Urgent news, the Dongting Lake clock is reversed!"

Zhao Jiu was stunned for a moment and did not go to pick up Zha Zi at all.

After taking several breaths, the Zhao Song official frowned and said, "You didn't rebel the year before last, you didn't rebel last year, why are you rebelling this year?"

Yang Yizhong and Lan Gui looked at each other, of course speechless. It was not their turn to speak.

"The year before last, the official was in Nanyang, hundreds of miles away, and Prime Minister Zhong didn't dare to rebel; last year, the official won a great victory, and he was given many false official positions to appease him. He was happy and comfortable, but he was no longer willing to rebel; and according to several

As mentioned in the letter, the spring floods in Hubei this year were serious. The floods had just begun, and the autumn harvest was not harvested. However, last year, land tax was added. The people were excited for a while. Those close to him only thought that this was the last chance. But Ruo Zhongxiang still wanted to

As his great sage, I can only rebel, and the officials do not have to worry..." In the Chongwen Courtyard, under the hastily lit lights, Wang Boyan, the prime minister who had just entered the palace, was the first to speak, but he seemed to be unconcerned.

"That's right." Another Xianggong, Xu Jingheng, was also quite calm and unhurried. "As far as I'm concerned, the Dongting Lake area has formed associations to protect itself as early as Jingkang. If it doesn't listen to the government's promotion, it will be rebelled sooner or later. Last year, the tax was added.

, we suffered a disaster this year, but we must rebel. It is not a matter of whether Prime Minister Zhong is willing or dares to do so... If Prime Minister Zhong does not rebel, others will rebel, and it must be based on that thing in Dongting Lake.

Society is rebelling!"
To be continued...