Outside the west gate, watching the protection fee convoy leave, Shi Jingjie whispered: "Two hundred thousand taels of silver, I don't know how many men I can support?"

Gao Fangping gave him a palm on the back of his head and said, "Twenty-hundred thousand is also considered money?"

Except for Shi Jingjie, the group of angry young men couldn't help but be furious, staring at Zhuruoping with their eyes, and they wanted to curse.

Gao Fang spread his hands and said, "Why do you look at me? 200,000 guan is nothing. If you can get peace with just 200,000 yuan of protection fees, what if I get 200,000 yuan of pork every year to help the government purchase services? Do you think I can't afford this little money? It's not as simple as 200,000 yuan. Putting aside the escort fees of our army, and being robbed at least once a year on average, it turned into 400,000 yuan. With the pension of the dead Song army, it turned into 600,000 yuan. Once the Liao people felt it

After we were weak and bullied, the grass-drawing valley incident occurred at the border of Hejian Prefecture at all times. The people's wealth would never accumulate, which increased the burden on the court. We paid more than two million! We didn't say two million, but we didn't get the service after paying the money. We knew that the horse thief in the grass-drawing valley was in Yanyun territory, but we had no choice. When the Xixia barbarians jumped, the Liao people also watched the wall. Is this called protection fee? If I had managed the protection fee like this, I would have been stabbed to death by the backbone."

The angry young men worshipped each other and were shocked. They said that pork was wise and had vision, but it was useless. When they asked pork when it could wash away the shame, Gao Fangping said, "Ten to fifteen years" and left.

This is very depressing. With the vigorous and decisive behavior of pork flat, it is said that it will take fifteen years. They feel that the state may not be saved...

There are various news coming to Beijing in the northwest.

It seems that Tong Guan has a strong opinion that he wants to be a good knives.

He had no positive meaning at all, and it was completely contrary to the current overall national policy. The war in the Northwest was decided, and it was the time to recuperate and accelerate production and construction. Even Prime Minister Cai Jing set the tone in this way. However, Tong Guan felt that it would not be too powerful to lead troops without fighting. He would not say that he would continue to maintain the inherent organization of the army, but he did not go to suppress bandits, and took the army to drill mountains and dig holes all day long to clear away fugitives.

There are rumors that the Northwest, which was originally a small number of people, is now almost empty. Although the fugitives were illegal, they all agreed to contribute to the Northwest Economic Circle by making unspoken rules. Now the black households were so scared that they hid deeper into the mountains and even fled to the Western Xia territory.

The problem is quite serious, but there is no document from the Jingzhao Prefecture Zongze impeached Tong Guan to Beijing, which made it difficult for the Secretary of the Secretariat Zhang Shuye to speak to the emperor. Because the news is only folk news, as one of the prime ministers, Zhang Shuye cannot use folk rumors to impeach the favorite generals who led their troops.

The Chief Censor Zhang Kegong talked to the emperor. Unfortunately, this old Bangcui, like the former Secretary Liu Kui, spent too much on irrelevant issues. He suggested that he be the one who killed the Privy Councilor, and he was also the one who impeached the civil and military officials of the court. He gave Zhao Ji the impression that this little old Zhang was just a person who spoke like a fart, and he could not take it seriously. In addition, the person who impeached the most favored Tong Guan, so Zhao Ji ignored it at all.

Immediately afterwards, the official family was angry and seemed to have a rebellious personality as a child. After Zhang Kegong impeached his favorite minister Tong Guan, Zhao Ji acted in a state of mind. Not only did he not demote Tong Guan, but he issued an order to give Tong Guan the title of top official: Kaifu Yitong Sansi.

This made the problem a big deal. The emperor was willful and almost opposed to the entire scholar-official class.

Kaifu Yi and Sansi are the top of the civil servant series. If the demon eunuch like Tong Guan has such an honor, that would be fine.

A big incident happened next. Zhang Shangying and Zhang Shuye, two old Zhang, came to the residence of Cai Jing, and urgently discussed it. The rumors said that Zhang Shangying threatened Cai Jing: You old treacherous minister dare to appoint eunuchs, and I will be killed in your mansion.

Cai Jing had long wanted to kill this annoying Zhang Shangying, but he felt that you would not die in my mansion even if you were to die. So I heard that Cai Jing, who had been cunning all his life, was really frightened.

In the end, Cai Jing resisted the order.

Lao Cai seemed like a loyal minister. He took off his official hat from the court as the prime minister and said passionately: The old minister has let His Majesty down. The old minister refused to appoint Tong Guan as the third secretary of Kaifu Yitong. He dare not take such a matter that violates the rules of his ancestors. Let's change to those who are willing to enforce it.

Gao Fangping wanted to faint when he learned this news. In history, there was indeed a farce in which the emperor promoted Tong Guan to the civil servant series and was given official positions and the official positions were given to the official positions. At that time, Cai Jing was indeed the prime minister, and Cai Jing really refused to be appointed. Granting this official position really required an imperial edict and the prime minister signed the appointment to make a count. Therefore, if Cai Jing refused to be appointed, Tong Guan could not be promoted to this official position.

Then Zhao Ji only has two ways, one is to give up this plan, and the other is to dismiss Cai Jing again.

Yes, the painful system is here. Zhao Ji has the right to appoint and remove prime ministers, but the other positions need to be accepted and removed from the prime minister. Otherwise, Zhao Ji would have been given a direct title to Gao Fangping as a Jinshi long ago. It is because even if Zhao Ji likes Gao Fangping, he must agree with Cai Jing, which led to Gao Fangping being neither up nor down.

This is a strange place in the Song Dynasty. Any prime minister dares to fight against the emperor. The difference is that Cai Jing does not have the backbone of the famous ministers before, and most of the time he will not go against the emperor's intentions.

This is why the willful Zhao Ji only likes Cai Jing. Cai Jing has been repeatedly used in history because if other people are used as prime ministers, Zhao Ji will be even more depressed.

After hearing that Cai Jing resisted the imperial edict in court, Zhao Ji's beard became so angry that he was so angry that he was even more intimate. In addition, Zhao Ji was a superstitious person, and it was a matter of ruining Feng Shui. Although he had some heart problems, Zhao Ji did not agree to Cai Jing's move. So this time Zhao Ji was defeated by them, and the appointment of the official Tong Guan was taken back, which became a political farce...

The farce storm of Tong Guan's promotion has subsided.

Gao Fangping felt that the incident was unusual and hurried to the Government Affairs Hall to meet Zhang Shuye.

"Tong Guan, a traitor, does not do good things, he must have bad things. He doesn't know what gifts he plundered to give to the official family. Somehow he bewitched the official family, but the official family actually violated the taboo to promote him!"

When I just entered the lobby, I heard Zhang Shuye slap the table and scold him angrily.

There were people from Liao who came to make him angry before, but now it was Tong Guan's business. At this time, Lao Zhang's entire explosive barrel had already slipped away when he changed his usual slap, but this time he had to bite the bullet and wait for him to finish scolding.

After cursing for a moment, Lao Zhang looked at him maliciously and said, "What are you going to cause trouble? Have you participated in Tong Guan's affairs again?"

"Ming Mansion, you are a rich guy, but this time Tong Guan's stick is so big that he definitely doesn't dare to interact with him." Gao Fangping shook his hand and said.

"The matter of granting an official has been suppressed by us and Cai Jing. What important thing do you have?" Zhang Shuye said, twisting his beard.

Gao Fangping said word by word: "The Ming Mansion cannot be a joke. Immediately, with the reputation of the Government Affairs Hall, I will urgently ring the alarm bell for Mr. Zong Ze to prevent him from doing stupid things!"

Uncle Zhang was stunned and said, "What stupid thing can he do? He will never be able to cause trouble than you, right?"

"If the official is not guessing wrong, he is going to kill Tong Guan. It will be a mess if it really happens!" Gao Fangping said.

Zhang Shuye was also startled and stood up suddenly and said, "Switch on."

"Zong Ze is a cruel official who is a practical and ruthless person, and his eyes cannot rub the sand. In general, Zong Ze's impeachment documents have long been introduced to the capital for Tong Guan's affairs. But this time Zong Ze was extremely low-key. He was a person who would never be incompatible with Tong Guan. That is to say, he was deliberately indulging Tong Guan to do stupid things to cause hatred. Lao Zong is a practical ruthless person, and there must be a reason for doing things. So the boy speculated that he might want to kill Tong Guan at the eighth level." Gao Fangping said solemnly.

After hearing this, Zhang Shuye Zhen felt it made sense, so scared that he jumped up and hurriedly wrote a document to scold Zong Ze, warned him of several matters, and issued it in a hurry.

After the document was issued, Zhang Shuye was covered in cold sweat, and he could not help but praise the little treacherous minister.

This is really a big deal. If Tong Guanzhen was found an excuse by Zong Ze and there was a Cai Jing's anti-order incident before, then Zong Ze made a fool of himself, which would really make the emperor think that the literati and official group is lawless and start to fight against the emperor head-on.

It's very simple. The emperor wanted to be appointed as Tong Guan's official position, but Tong Guan was killed after turning his eyes. No matter what the inside story is, once this move forms a fact, anyone who is the emperor will feel unsafe, and then it will really begin to confront the literati and official group. At least, the few officials in the state who can use the career of the minister Zong Ze came to an end and it was impossible to do anything again.

From Gao Fangping's perspective, it doesn't matter whether it is broken the myth of invincibility of the scholars and officials. But Zong Ze, a rare commander who can fight and be the only one, must not lose in this special period. This is one or two. If this precedent is opened and Tong Guan can be killed, it means that Gao Qiu's father is also in great danger, which will bring about greater chaos.

At this point, Gao Fangping couldn't help but sigh that it was indeed difficult to be a prime minister. He was responsible for the important tasks of the country and employed people. The scammers of all the dynasties, treacherous ministers, scumbags, madmen, capable ministers and famous generals, etc. How to match and use these people well is really a systematic knowledge.

It is impossible to be perfect. There are rivers and lakes where there are people. The court where all officials are a template for loyal ministers and famous generals will never exist.

Appointing Zong Ze to Jingzhao Prefecture and Tong Guan faced him head-on. This was a failure of Cai Jing's government affairs, which almost killed Lao Cai himself. People are virtuous, and some people cannot expect him to be content with peace. For example, no one can expect Zong Ze, a troll who scolded the four emperors, to be easy to talk to. No one can expect Tong Guan, the stick-mass, to become Yue Fei. No one can expect Gao Fangping to become the honest and dedicated Bao Zheng. He can't expect Zhao Ji to be Li Shimin. (To be continued.)
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