The number of people in the morning court was not imagined by later generations. Many people had nearly 2,000 Beijing officials, and they would not have been qualified to attend the morning court, but hundreds of officials would stand at the grand court meeting. Eunuchs needed to pass the message loudly before they could pass the oral orders of Zhao Zhen.

With the eunuch's loud speech, Zheng Lang brought it in.

What makes people feel strange is that there is something in his arms, two small soft mats.

He fell from afar and said, "See Your Majesty."

"Zheng Qing, let's be calm."

Zheng Lang stood up, looked around, and then squeezed into the civil servants, just in front of Sima Guang, very late, there were almost a hundred ministers standing in front. If the military officials of the Western Prefecture were added, he would be ranked outside 200, and there were also some officials behind him, of course, he only deprived the Duke of the State and Pingzhangshi and the position of the Grand Secretary of the Hanlin Academy, and there were some official positions on him. Even though he was sitting on the dragon throne, he could hardly see him, and many officials were still lower than him.

However, at this stop, many officials at the front felt embarrassed and could not take it seriously, and looked at each other.

Zhao Zhen just smiled, only a few people knew the inside story. Zheng Lang had to punish him, even if it was not too late to make great contributions in the future. But after laughing, he sighed again and said, "Zheng Qing, don't you have something to say? Please come out and speak."

Zheng Lang put the mat in Sima Guang's hand and whispered: "Sanlang, well done."

In history, Sima Guang played an important role in the Crown Prince or Di Qing case and has carefully analyzed it, which is very disgraceful.

Especially the Di Qing case.

Then he walked out, held the scepter, and before he could speak, he glanced at the big bosses in front of him and said, "Your Majesty, I haven't been to court for a long time."

With just one sentence, countless ministers were deeply moved and said that this southward journey was mostly a place for miasma, mostly dealing with rough barbarians, and also being kidnapped by 100,000 wars. Zheng Lang had no complaints, and was not rewarded for his contributions. Instead, he was defamed again and again because of two irrelevant minor mistakes. This kind of integrity is simply impossible for ordinary people.

Zhao Zhen was a little sad and said softly: "Yes, you will have almost four years to go south."

"It's almost done, I'm looking at all the ministers. Many young ministers who were honest and passionate back then grew up one by one. Now they are famous in the court. Many people have entered the two governments, two systems or censorships respectively, as if it was a dream."

The speaker has a heart, and the listener has a heart. Before he could talk about the important things, he first made a sarcasm.

You were honest and bold in the past, and you fought against Lu Yijian, what about now?

Zheng Lang glanced at his ministers and said, "Since last autumn, many things happened. The princess ran away from home. Your Majesty was seriously ill. I was kidnapped for the incident of Tongpingzhang. This year, Liuta River broke its dam, and the river in Henan was raining heavily. Many places broke the dam and flooded. In July, westar was over the sky, and on the first day of August, the sun was ate. There was a natural disaster. This has never happened since Your Majesty's court. It was just a disaster. Chen Zhizhong, Jia Changchao, Song Xiang and other ministers were demoted to their official positions according to the Han regulations. Why did so many things happen this year, but I didn't hear any impeachment? "

All the people in the East Mansion changed their qualities.

These things happened one after another, all when Fu Bi and Fu Yanbo served as prime ministers.

Not only that, why no one is impeached?

Thinking about Empress Cao's demand for power, but the ministers of the two governments refused to give it to each other, and once controlled all the state's government affairs, the problem became serious.

Zheng Lang didn't say anything more. He had a bad thing and was too lazy to say it. Otherwise, he would have caused a huge storm at the court meeting because of these several major events today!

He took out the two mats from Sima Guang's hand, walked to the front, and handed them to Fu Bi and Wang Yaochen, saying, "Good Prince, Wang Gong, don't force me to cut them with a knife."

Both of them showed shame on their faces.

They served as deputy or subordinates under Zheng Lang for a long time, and Zheng Lang gave them the right to promote them. In the Liutahe incident, the two of them lacked responsibility.

Then he rushed to the west and said, "Di Qing, the court is in charge, and can go up and down. I heard that Your Majesty praised you as a loyal minister. What is loyalty? Listen to Fan Xiwen, Alas! I have once asked the hearts of the benevolent people in ancient times, and they may be different from the two. Why? Do not be happy with things or be sad with yourself; live in the high temple and worry about the people; live in the far away of the rivers and lakes, worry about the king. This is also worry about progress and retreat. But when will it be happy? He must say that he is worried about the world before he is worried, and then he is happy about the world after he is happy. Eat the king's fortune and loyalty to the king,

Officials of the court, our court has been very good for officials since ancient times. They want to share their worries and sorrows for the emperor, the people and the people in the world, and the prosperity and safety of the country. If we only consider our official positions and the rights in our hands, we will lose the way of a gentleman and the way of a minister. In the past, I was the prime minister and took charge of the government affairs of the two governments. Now I am only a magistrate of Tanzhou, and I am in the court. Many people in the forefront are my subordinates. Would I be angry?"

"Yes", Di Qing's eyes were a little wet.

If Zheng Lang once again takes the world's most ruthlessness and rushes back to the capital in person to seek justice for himself, what else can he be grieved?

Zheng Lang looked at Wang Yaochen again and said, "Grandpa Wang, although Di Qing is a military minister, he cannot serve Your Majesty in articles, but he has made great contributions to the battlefield for many years and defending the peace of the country. The country is a machine that requires various components. The literati and officials are important, and they cannot completely ignore the soldiers. Your Majesty regards Di Qing as the Privy Councilor, and has considered it in many aspects, encouraged the soldiers to serve the country and add a minister proficient in military affairs to the Western Prefecture. As a minister, if you object, you will proceed to the memorial. If you don't report, you will obey Your Majesty's appointment. Why don't you accept it?"

Wang Yaochen was still dissatisfied, but he was holding Zheng Lang's mat in his hand and dared not explain it.

Zheng Lang then talked about the serious matter and slowly bowed with his teeth scepter, "Your Majesty, I have not received the order of the Secretariat, and I have returned to the capital. I have just lost my manners at the court meeting. Please give your Majesty the imperial edict to remove me from my position as the Minister of War."

The entire hall was silent.

With this exemption, what official position is left in Zheng Lang?

Zhao Zhen had already understood Zheng Lang's meaning and said, "Zhun, Ouyang Xiu and others will draft an edict. Because Zheng Lang hastily returned to Beijing, the court lost his etiquette, he was demoted to the Ministry of War Department's Doctor and the Ministry of Works, and was changed to the Ministry of Works, Fengzhi, the Ministry of Works, and the Ministry of Light Vehicles."

"Thank you Your Majesty", Zheng Lang sang a big fat promise.

Everyone was stunned again. The five officials of the court were Xuan Feng, Zheng Feng, Zheng Feng, Zheng Feng, and Feng Zhi. Feng Zhi was the last one. Yuanwailang was one level lower than the doctor. The highest honorary official was Shangzhu Kingdom. Zheng Lang was the Zhu Kingdom at the time, so he could not be promoted to the top. What should I do in the future? In fact, all the official positions were almost close to this peak, and then there were Zhu Kingdom, Shangguard, Guard, Shangqi Duwei, Qingche Duwei, Shangqi Duwei, Shangqi Duwei, Cavalry Duwei, Feiqi Duwei, Yunqi Duwei, Wuqi Duwei, total twenty levels. The Qingche Duwei was only the honorary official in the middle. Compared with Zheng Lang's identity, he was nothing.

The strangest thing is that the emperor actually agreed, and those who demoted officials seemed to be happy. Seeing this pair of kings and ministers, many ministers felt uncomfortable.

But you can't learn it. Although Zheng Lang has been demoted again and again, he has obtained the most important thing, the emperor's heart!

In fact, this matter is related to the conversation between Zheng Lang and Zhao Zhen yesterday. Zheng Lang said lightly: "Your Majesty, the ministers' articles have been getting better and better in recent years, but the style of scholars has been declining."

Zhao Zhen was also full of emotion.

When he was in power, many gentlemen gave him a headache, Shi Feng had nothing to say, insisting on the truth and treating official positions as air, and he didn't care at all. These included Ouyang Xiu, Fu Bi, Pang Ji, Wen Yanbo and other important officials. What about now?

Therefore, Zheng Lang acquiesced to ask for punishment and let the ministers of the world take a look. This is what Mencius said: Wealth cannot be lustful, mighty and mighty cannot bend, and poor and humble cannot be moved.

Zheng Lang said again: "I report to you, secondly, autumn is approaching. I plan Jinghu South Road and ask the Secretariat to support the imperial court for 15 million yuan in money, grain and other materials, which is about 12 million yuan. However, Wen Yanbo only allocated five million yuan to me, which is far from enough. Therefore, I came to Beijing in person and asked Your Majesty that Jinghu South Road had spent a lot of money and silk, and it should not be abandoned."

Wen Yanbo walked out with his teeth scepter and said, "Your Majesty, the country has suffered this great disaster, the national treasury is tight, and so many people are still homeless. I am unable to raise more money and spread it to Jinghu South Road."

Be careful, Zheng Lang has no official positions now, and the remaining official positions are air. If you really go into battle, you will be dismissed and you will not dare to fight.

Zheng Lang said lightly: "Mr. Wen, I don't understand this. When you and I were the leader, the country also had disasters, but there were more than surplus every year. When I left the court, the treasury accumulated 70 million yuan, worth more than 50 million yuan. The treasury accumulated a year was nearly 40 million yuan, and the price was about 30 million yuan. Although I used a lot of money in the south, I allocated nearly 40 million yuan from the bank. Why was the treasury insufficient?"

A faint sentence made Wen Yanbo sweat on his face.

The small accounts cannot be calculated, and the approximate ones can be calculated clearly.

If the momentum of Emperor Prayer for three years is maintained, and the surplus of more than 30 million yuan per year is accumulated, now in more than four years, this money can be enough to support the expenses in the south.

It is considered that some preferential policies for the people have been introduced, with light taxes and low taxes, and the waste brought by Liutahe, the original surplus of 5,000 10,000 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100

We can't blame Wen Yanbo all for being more or less responsible with Wen Yanbo.

The south suffered from the harm of Nong Zhigao and Jiaozhi. The court did not benefit for the time being. Instead, it took out a lot of money to appease the people. This year, the area of ​​the disaster was very serious. In addition, the Liuta River was once in and out, and the losses were even heavier.

But this cannot be taken as a wait.

The country is in charge of the country, just like a family life. It is not careful in calculating and spends money very quickly. If you can calculate carefully, you will have surplus.

This aspect is Wen Yanbo's shortcomings, and like Chen Zhizhong in the later period, he liked to win people's hearts and gave them titles. When he actually became the prime minister with Zheng Lang, he and Chen Zhizhong had this tendency and gave titles to officials in a large manner.

What I saw was the top and the bottom. For example, officials. Many officials of the Song Dynasty had officials but had no positions, but had no dispatched officials. They had to be appointed as candidates before they could get dispatched officials. However, there was no fixed number of officials, such as a state, including prefects, magistrates, magistrates, recorders, officials, judicial officials, etc., as well as military officials, as well as military officials, observer, magistrates, judges, and procuratorial officials, as well as officials in charge of warehouse economy, responsible for collecting tea, salt and wine taxes, mining management, shipbuilding, and warehouse cashiers. There are many names, but they are often not all set up, and only some are set up.

If you tighten, the phenomenon of redundant officials will decrease. If you loosen, the number of redundant officials will increase.

Wen Yanbo saw that Pang Ji made the scholars and officials dissatisfied and was very relaxed in his official positions and had nothing to do with Zheng Lang. The provincial officials who Pang Ji carefully managed were all broken after Chen Zhizhong and Wen Yanbo took office, and the redundant officials were heavy again, which increased the expenditure.

Officials not only have annual salaries, but also have a lot of rewards during festivals. When they loosen their hands, they will use a lot of money and silk again.

There are many problems, so the originally abundant treasury gradually becomes tense.

A few ministers saw surprises.

No matter what the reason they spent, they were all disasters and harms. Why did they not have enough money in the past, but instead accumulated surplus. Now so much surplus is said to be gone.

This is a huge problem in itself.

Even if it changes, it can be said that Wen Yanbo deliberately suppressed Zheng Lang, not only used his verbal minister to deprive Zheng Lang of his official positions one by one, but also interfered with what Zheng Lang had to do on the South Road of Jinghu, so that Zheng Lang could not make contributions and could not return to the court!

Zhao Zhen said to Wang Gongchen: "Wang Qing, check the accounts of the three departments and leave them to me for a review."

"Hey", Wang Gongchen also had a headache.

Zheng Lang said again: "I reported to Liutahe again. The case of Liutahe is serious, which is a mistake. But whether it is Wenfu or Your Majesty, they all want to benefit the people and govern the country. The harm of the Yellow River is getting more and more serious, and they will eventually be governed. It is just underestimating the difficulty of governing the Yellow River. This is a mistake, but its intention is good. Who can do no mistakes? Because of my negligence, so many things have happened."

Zheng Lang shook his head.

Only Zhao Zhen understood and pointed out the matter between Zheng Lang and his daughter.

Putting aside this inside story, Zheng Lang's comments are fair and impartial.

"It's not important. I'll tell you two things. Xixia took down Nigu and threatened Tubo Hezhou. This battle was very fierce. Although the people of Xixia suffered heavy losses, Wuzang Epang's reputation became increasingly popular. Wuzang's empress dowager was not happy. The turmoil between their brothers and sisters was directly related to the security of the northwest border. The new Khitan emperor registered the base and attached great importance to the emperor's uncle Yelu Chongyuan. His personality was quite similar to his father, so he gave Yelu Chongyuan a lot of rights. In addition, the rights in the hands of Empress Dowager Xiao Yujin, Yelu Chongyuan should not be underestimated. Xiao Yujin was not happy with his eldest son and eldest grandson, and repeatedly instigated in front of Yelu Chongyuan. Yelu Chongyuan's mentality changed, and he was an elder. What will happen sooner or later?"

"Compared with these two major events, what is Liuta River? The river has been broken, disaster relief, resettlement of people, heavy rains poured down, many rivers have been broken and flooded, and disaster victims have been resettled. Over the years, the weather has been abnormal, not only in our court, but also in Jiaozhi. The Khitan has also suffered many disasters. Haven't everyone been through it? The Master does not ridicule and believes that a gentleman is a man who can correct mistakes. He is not afraid of making mistakes, but he is afraid of making mistakes but not knowing to correct them."

The spearhead began to appear.

Liuta River is a big event, but compared to what happened in Xixia and Khitan, it is nothing. It is a civil strife in a country! It is not a disaster.

Zheng Lang said again: "What did I hear in the south? First, someone took the opportunity to attack Liutahe and slander Wen Yanbo and Fu Bi. Then, the case of the Crown Prince and Di Qing followed one after another. The ministers did not express their opinions on the Crown Prince.

Zhao Zhen has the mentality of Zhao Zhen. He is only in his forties. Although the older he is, the more difficult it is to adopt a child, it is not without a chance. Besides, there are two future successors of the empires in the harem for selection. What are you afraid of?

The ministers had the opinions of the ministers, and Zhao Zhen had a dizzy wind, that is, a stroke, and he might fall down. If he was not justified, he would be afraid that the country would have something to do in the future. Although some ministers were used by Wen Yanbo as a gun, they also wanted to be good for the Song Dynasty.

The main reason is that Zheng Lang knew that Zhao Zhen would not have a son in the future, otherwise he would still support Zhao Zhen.

If he didn't want to participate in this matter, Gao Taotao also made Zheng Lang feel a little worried.

He also said: "However, when Your Majesty was seriously ill, there was no public opinion, but when Liutahe was controversial and when Your Majesty recovered, there were suddenly a large number of voices of supporting the concubines and crown princes?"

Some ministers want to refute, but some ministers already understand.

Wen Yanbo's face was terrible.

I don’t want to fight Zheng Lang, but Zheng Lang is targeting him everywhere. He already feels that this aspect is hard to protect.

Zheng Lang continued: "Not only that, the Liutahe incident was originally the fault of the Secretariat. However, the Secretariat did not admit his mistake to the people of the world, but instead put the blame on Di Qing. What's the matter with Di Qing?"

"This matter is wrong!" Ouyang Xiu stood up.

"What's wrong! If the person who does wrong things is not pursued, can he use some inexplicable words to shirk it from others? Your Majesty, please release all the prisoners in the world. The reason why they commit crimes regardless of the country's laws is that the court uses Di Qing as prime minister, not because they want to commit crimes."
To be continued...