Chapter 1350 Consultation (10,000 words)

At the twilight, Cai Que returned to the mansion and looked at the long queues waiting for reception outside the mansion. The officials in black and black robes rubbed their hands and stamped their feet in the cold wind, but did not dare to slacken at all.

Cai Que loosened his fingertips and the curtain fell heavily, isolating those earnest gazes.

The carriage drove straight into the middle door, and a servant had already lit the lights of the bright corners. Cai Wei led three or five servants to wait in front of the dripping eaves. Cai Shuo rushed from the west crossing courtyard, and the jade belt buckles on his waist made a crisp sound - this former poor child now even the belt is embedded with the pearl of the South China Sea.

"Father." Cai Wei stepped forward to support him. After Cai Wei married Feng Jing's daughter, even the scholars in the Imperial College wanted to hand over him when they saw him.

Cai Shuo's daughter married Wen Kangshi, the grandson of Wen Yanbo.

As the left prime minister, Cai Que is now very powerful. How could he marry a prominent official like the Wen family and the Feng family in the past?

The entire Cai family has been raised to a new level because of Cai Que alone, and everyone is looking up at Cai Que.

When he arrived at the hall, Cai Shuo handed over a box of gold-painted prayer. There were still several undried ink marks on the sandalwood box. Cai Que looked at these prayer books, and they were all requested by officials from all over the country after entering Beijing.

For officials, Cai may not necessarily see it, but the script must be handed over.

The envoy knelt under the corridor holding a gilded copper basin. Cai Que looked at the desk and prayed for a while when he cleaned his hands. The paper piled like a hill in the past was only a thin pile today. He counted the past twenty or thirty letters every day, and at most fifty or sixty letters, but today there are only a dozen letters.

"Huang Yan, He Zhengchen, Xing Shu and the others have been waiting in the flower hall for half an hour."

Cai Que nodded, and these mermaids entered.

The candlelight in the hall was swaying, and Cai Que sat upright in the main seat, and the tea cup in his hand was rising and the heat was swaying in front of him.

He Zhengchen said first: "Zuo Kui, it is rumored that you want to give the Prime Minister to Duke Zhang Wei, I don't know if it's true or false?"

Huang Yan said: "It's ridiculous. Even if the late emperor has a life, he shouldn't be so aggressive. He swears that he will be in charge of the government for five years. Now, the late emperor passed away and turned around and came back."

"The previous five years of sayings, such a move that broke the promise and became fat, was simply...simply..."

His Adam's apple rolled, but he didn't say that word after all.

Xiang Qi twisted his beard and sneered: "All the two men have been dealing with Zhang Qu for many years. Can't they see through his trick of "retreat to advance"? They have always been about retreating to advance, and not seeking their own self-reliance."

"We should not be fooled by him again, but we should run away in danger!"

Cai Que didn't speak and just focused on drinking tea.

"Enough," Cai Wei suddenly interrupted, and his young face turned red: "Do you don't want to return to the court, worrying about the abolition of the new law, or are you reluctant to give up the power and wealth that have been in power for so many years?"

Huang Yan and others were disgraced. The whole house was in an uproar.

"How could Yanei speak like this?"

"We are devoted to following Zuo Kui and have been loyal for many years."

Seeing this, Cai Shuo quickly made things happen: "Enephew Wei's words are straightforward, but it is reasonable. Now the Empress Dowager favors Sima Junshi. If there is no order to return to the court to check and balance, the new law will undoubtedly be abolished - this is what Zuo Kui really cares about."

Xiang Qi said: "Zuo Kui, you can't cheat Zhang Duzhi anymore at this time."

Zuo Kui was clear! "Xiang Qi was so anxious that his forehead was sweating. "If Zhang Yue was in power, would he let Zuo Kui go? I would rather believe Sima Guang than believe in Zhishi. Although Sima Guang is pedantic, he is at least a gentleman, and he is confident in his words. Zhishi... will his heart be unpredictable!"

He Zhengchen said: "Uncle Chen He of the Zhang Party died at our hands after all. Although Sima Junshi and Lu Hui's uncle opposed the new law, they have no deep hatred with us. I would rather give Sima Junshi and Lu Hui's uncle than Zhang San!"

After He Zhengchen finished speaking, Cai Wei wanted to speak, but he reached out to interrupt Cai Que.

"I have replied to Zhang Zizheng today and will not refuse his appearance!"

As soon as Cai Que said this, Huang Yan and others were overjoyed. Cai Shuo, Cai Wei and others all showed disappointment.

Only Xing Shu, who was silent all the time, finally sighed.

Several people stood up and said goodbye.

Cai Que pointed at Xing Shu and said, "Stay with Uncle!"

Xing Shu bowed and asked, "Who is Zuo Kui telling me?"

Cai Que asked: "Have you ever asked you for someone to come to you these days?"

Xing Shu nodded after hesitation.

"Why didn't you say it just now?"

Xing Shu said: "I can't say anything, what's the point of saying this at this time? Uncle Chen He has a life after all!"

"Zhang Qun will let Cai Xiang go, but we are afraid it will be difficult for us to have a good end. When the late emperor was here, everyone was afraid of Zuo Kui and us, but now... it is different from the past."

Cai Que laughed out loud when he heard this

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Zhangfuzhong.

Zhang Yue looked at the sycamore tree outside the window and talked about the four words "Party and Defeat" and this was the tradition of the ancestors.

How old is it?

It is said that when humans were still Homo sapiens, they met Neanderans. Later generations discovered that Neanderans were smarter and stronger than Homo sapiens, but why did they lose to Homo sapiens in the end?

Because Homo sapiens can speak, the Needans can't speak.

Without language, it is difficult for an organization to exceed fifty people, but with language, an organization is formed.

Language allows Homo sapiens to learn to lie, or get together to speak small words, and arrange the one who can't speak.

You can imagine two Homo sapiens or two Homo sapiens tribes meeting together, and through language communication, planning a scene of another Neanderthal or Neanderthal tribe together.

The common party in the court is actually similar to the fact that a group of married women gather together and arrange or say a few words from an unmarried woman.

Language means to describe an imagined alliance.

For example, father and son, family, country, nation, world, religion, etc., such as the new party and the old party artificially define and divide an alliance.

Even if a group of officials gather together, they will gradually artificially divide various alliances.

Those who have not joined any alliance are easily marginalized.

It’s like a village that often ends up being a village with the same surname. Because there is a big surname inside, a ancestral temple was built, and people from other surnames who did not participate in the ancestral temple activities were naturally squeezed out.

Therefore, as an official, he still needs to find his own alliance.

Of course, there are risks in taking sides like this. Stock trading can be high and low, and politics can also have peaks and valleys. Once you stand, you must be unswerving.

At this moment, Zhang went straight to the mansion. Zhang Yue looked at the other party's face and said, "Just be honest and refuse!"

Zhang Zhi shook his head and said, "Cai Xiang is stubborn."

Zhang Yue thought to himself that Cai Que is bound to be exiled to Lingnan. In fact, the reason why everyone in Lingnan is afraid to go is mainly due to miasma.

In fact, it is to treat malaria as miasma.

How to make quinine? There is no cinchona tree in China.

It seems that taking Artemisia annua directly will also have an effect. At that time, I will give Cai Que a prescription.

Historically, Su Shi ate lychees when he went to Lingnan and ate oysters in Hainan, which could transform his mood at any time. I don’t know if Cai Que can learn this skill.

Zhang Yue said: "Zheng is to erect a monument for yourself."

Zhang Zhi said: "That nephew understands."

Zhang Yue laughed and said, "Axi, do you think that after defeating Cai Chizheng, the left prime minister would really be in my hands?"

Upon hearing this, Zhang Zhi lowered his head to avoid Zhang Yue's gaze and said, "Didn't the Empress Dowager have promised the Third Uncle? Besides, the Third Uncle has the last order of the late emperor."

Zhang Yue thought about it and took the initiative to change the topic: "Nothing? What are you planning? If I go back to the court, you will definitely go out, do you have any plans?"

Zhang Zhi said in surprise: "Since Mingsha City, my body has not been smooth, and I don't want to be an official."

Zhang Yue looked at Zhang Zhi with a meaningful look on his face.

"Axi, please accompany me out of the city!"

Zhang Yue and Zhang Zhi drove their horses out of the city together.

When driving in the city, you should avoid the people very slowly. When you arrive outside the city, you don’t have to avoid people and start riding a horse when you arrive at a remote place.

The uncle and nephew whipped each other at the same time. The riding technique tempered by the northwest battlefield was fully revealed at this moment. The horse's hooves stomped on the wild artemisia, alarming the birds flying.

Climbing to the ground, Zhang Yue stepped on his horse and looked into the distance. The Yellow River winds eastward like a belt, and the nine gates of Bianjing are lingering in fireworks. "Axi," he suddenly slashed the four fields with a horse whip, "Can we know that the most significant changes in Bianjing over the past twenty years?"

The uncle and nephew stayed on a small hill next to Bianjing, and could see both the Yellow River and the city of Bianjing.

Zhang Yue pointed at the surrounding Jiangshan with a horse whip and said to Zhang Zhi: "Axi, do you know what I have discovered in Bianjing for so many years?"

Zhang Zhi said: "I don't know."

Zhang Yue said: "Have you noticed that there are fewer and fewer trees around Bianjing?"

Zhang Zhi looked along the whip, but saw that there were no trees ten miles outside the city wall, only the short bushes left. "The firewood is rising" he suddenly realized, "Since the Zhenmiao period, the forests in the capital have been cut down thirty miles!"

"That's right. At the beginning of the country, there were only 100,000 households in Bianliang, but now millions of people have smoked in the cooking pot. It takes twenty years for a tree to form, but only half a day for the people to cut wood."

"The people had to come from farther away, and the firewood in the capital became more and more expensive."

Zhang Yue nodded and said, "That's right. People have a message, but they don't sell woodcutters in a hundred miles. Look at these merchants, today they sell woodcutters from Zhengzhou and tomorrow they will have to travel to Huazhou. In less than ten years, there will be no wood within a hundred miles!"

"At the beginning of the country, how many people were there in Bianjing, and now how many people are there. However, the land has not increased, so sooner or later, the people of Bianjing will have no firewood to use."

Zhang straightened his eyes to the distance and felt what Zhang Yue said.
To be continued...