Chapter 170 Zhao Kuangyin treats guests
A needle fell from the hall and everyone could feel the wrong and entangled state of Zhao Kuangyin. His eyebrows were twisted into the character Sichuan. After a long time, he only had two words: retreating to the court.
Although this is not very consistent with the rules, if his descendants cannot guarantee that any upright minister would dare to go up and push him back, is Zhao Kuangyin the founding emperor? In addition, his Taizu beat him well with a long punch, no one dared to challenge him at this time.
So, a court meeting that had been preparing for such a long time was over, but Li Chuyun went crazy and ended in a terrible way.
Sun Yue had no choice but to go wherever he came from and planned to go home, but when he walked to the door, he was stopped by Zhang Dejun, "Brother Yue, stay."
Sun Yue knew this person very well and quickly bowed politely and said, "Da Nei official, why do you always ask the officials personally? If you have something to do, just send someone to pass on a message."
Zhang Qianjun smiled and said, "Look at what you said, how can you get such a big face as a man and a slave? Brother Xiaoyue wants to go home?"
Seeing that Sun Yue was so respectful to him, Zhang Qianjun couldn't help but feel that he had a great impression of him. He secretly decided that he would have the opportunity to say good things to him in the future. He could feel that Sun Yue, even his father Sun Chunming, did not discriminate against him. You should know that eunuchs are extremely sensitive and some things cannot be pretended to be.
What's more, the storied figures like Sun Yue in the court were not very angry on the surface. You should know that in order to learn from the lessons of the Tang Dynasty, the five dynasties, all the monarchs from Li Cunxu have suppressed the eunuchs in life, especially Zhao Kuangyin, who is the most important, is the world's number one eunuch, and his official position is only from the seventh rank! Who should look at him with a little bit of power outside? Since history, has there been such a depressed internal official?
"I'm going home. I haven't seen my father for more than four months. I'm so frightened that if I'm convicted, I won't have time to eat a piece of food."
"Brother Xiaoyue is just joking. Even this three-year-old child in Kaifeng City knows that you are the Wenqu Star and the future prime minister of the Song Dynasty. How can you really condemn you? Today's meal, you really can't go home to eat it. The official family asked you to go over and eat with him."
Sun Yue's mind buzzed: "The official family wants to treat me to a meal?"
Zhang Qianjun smiled and said, "It can be said that."
Sun Yue hurriedly said, "Oh, then please ask the official to lead the way."
Zhang Qianjun smiled and took Sun Yue to the imperial kitchen, ordered the eunuch to get a meat cake, and said, "Brother Yue, please make some first. Have a meal with the official family. It's not a bad thing. If you don't have enough food, you will be hungry."
This is true. Not to mention accompanying the emperor to have dinner, Sun Chunming never had enough time with his leader in his previous life. He immediately thanked Zhang Qianjun, and brought the meat pie into his stomach in a few bites, drank a bowl of soup, and secretly remembered the affection in Zhang Qianjun's heart.
When he saw Zhao Kuangyin, he found that he had not waited for him. He ate the food when it was served, but he also left him a pair of chopsticks and told him not to be polite and eat.
Unlike other emperors of the Song Dynasty, Zhao Kuangyin loved to invite his ministers to dinner. It is said that before he became emperor, a group of brothers would come to his house to drink every day and spend all the money in the family. His sister was so angry that she would beat him up because of this. After becoming emperor, she always felt that it was too boring to eat, so she invited her former buddies to attack and dinner every now and then. When she was not invited, he probably brought his chopsticks to Zhao Pu. Therefore, those palace maids, eunuchs, etc., had a lot of experience in how to serve guests.
However, most of the things Zhao Kuangyin usually invites were his ten brothers in the Yishe Society, or like Zhang Yongde, who had extraordinary friendships, and civil servants were extremely rare. There were really not many other than Zhao Pu. Those who had no friendship with him in the Later Zhou Dynasty were still scorpion cakes, the only one.
This was already a blatant political hint. His value on Sun Yue had reached the point where he was too lazy to hide it.
Sun Yue sat down cautiously and looked at the dishes on the table. There were quite a few dishes, and there were only nine dishes. Zhao Kuangyin did not have the bad habit of eating at most three bites of each dish. Anyway, three or five people would definitely be more than enough to eat the dishes on this table. A pot of stewed fragrant mutton, a bowl of fish soup, and a plate of crabs. The rest were all seasonal fresh vegetables. It was probably not enough to add one piece to Song Huizong for a bite of crab soup.
Just as Sun Yue wanted to stretch out his chopsticks to pick up a piece of meat to eat, he heard Zhao Kuangyin say, "You did a good job in Langzhou this time. This is what the military supervisor should do. It's a pity that it violates military law and it is impossible to reward you openly."
Sun Yue quickly put down his chopsticks and said, "I only want to be worthy of my original intention and dare not take credit. If I can win a life, it will be your kindness in the official family."
Zhao Kuangyin began to snore and drink porridge. Sun Yue stretched out his chopsticks and picked up a crab in his bowl.
"I heard that in this attack, whether it is to defeat Jiangling or Yiyang, your new army will be completely unsuccessful. You even wrote a slogan, saying that you will not rob food when you starve to death, and will not demolish houses when you freeze to death, and will never take the masses one needle or another. It has actually been done. What's even more rare is that the combat effectiveness of the new army has not been affected at all, and it is even a little higher than other imperial guards. It is powerful and powerful, and it is not in vain that the imperial court spent so much money on them. This is the army I want!"
Sun Yue had to put down the crab and said, "After all, the political commissar of the new army is so much that they are placed at the battalion level, and they are still able to control them. And they dare not deceive the officials. In fact, it is not that they have not robbed them. Some of the wealth in the treasury was still distributed to the soldiers. Several other gentry and bullies with bad reputation also confiscated their houses and divided the money they had looted."
"Hahaha, this is already great. I can't control the city robbery when I led the troops, but I let you do it. I think the speed of the imperial guards' restructuring can be faster. It's worth it if such an army costs more. Look at Li Chuyun, what's going on this time? The court's tax exemption from Lake-Nan is enough to support you more than a dozen new troops."
Sun Yue said a few words humbly, but did not dare to take credit. He just opened his legs and put them back. He was also quite angry for a moment. He was about to eat and talk while ignoring, but Zhao Kuangyin asked, "Do you think Li Chuyun is really crazy or fake crazy?"
When Sun Yue heard the topic was so serious, he had to put the crab down again and said carefully: "I think it doesn't matter whether it's really crazy or fake crazy. I think the crime he committed needs to be punished by the law. He should not be biased against him because he is crazy."
Zhao Kuangyin frowned and asked, "Did you suggest me kill him and pay tribute to Brother Murong?"
Sun Yue said firmly: "No, I dare to fight, please let Your Majesty surround Li Chuyun and never die."
Zhao Kuangyin's eyes flashed and he asked, "Do you advocate keeping his life? You should know that he is a minister of the dragon. As long as he does not die, he will have an influence on the court. You are already a revenge of him and he actually advised me to keep his life? Are you pretending to be generous and show me, or is your kindness?"
Sun Yue said firmly: "Not it, but I think that since the founding of the country, the officials have never used weapons to kill a single person. The descendants of future generations will be grateful for your kindness. In this way, the rules of not killing scholars have gradually emerged. I dare to say that the power of emperors has no boundaries and almost no constraints. Only the awe of life can imprison the descendants of future generations. Once the way to kill people is started, it will inevitably be endless. Li Chuyun is not worth your sword. I am asking the officials to spare his life for a hundred years of the Song Dynasty."
In the 300th year of the Song Dynasty, except for Zhang Bangchang, who had been the emperor, who had to kill only one minister, Li Chuyun, who was not worthy of being with him.
Chapter completed!