The Little Officials of the Song Dynasty

Chapter 69: The wind blows in Bianjing

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Yun Yan replied, "I-I'm the president of the Tokyo Branch of the Zhanzhao National Support Association!"

Bao Zheng: "???"

After Yun Yan replied, she also said something in her heart, the president of the Shentm Support Association.

But he really didn't remember how to describe it at the moment, and said bravely: "Shaoyin, you don't even know about young people. Zhan Yishi is very famous in the world, and speakers in Tokyo often refer to him. There are many people all over the country who admire him, but they can't fight side by side, they can only help silently in the back or in their hearts..."

Alas, if you don't support silently, are you waving a cheering stick beside Zhan Zhao Xingxia when he is fighting for justice

However, Bao Zheng was hit by the sentence "Shao Yin, you don't know about young people anymore", and he was hit hard. He was only ten years older than Brother Yan! It turns out that Brother Yan no longer regards them as a generation

"I see... I didn't expect Zhan Yishi to have so many admirers. I'll introduce you to me when I have a chance in the future." After Bao Zheng finished feeling sad, he asked curiously, "How many people are there in the Tokyo branch of your support club? ?"

"At the moment, there is only one president of this club," Yun Yan replied calmly, "Shao Yin, do you want to join the club?"

Bao Zheng: "..."

Yun Yan replied: "I have to pay the usual membership fee..."

"..." Bao Zheng shook his head and said, "You bastard, almost fell for you, thinking that you really set up a strange alliance to support Zhan Zhao."

Yun Yan replied innocently: "This is more powerful. After all, there is no one around me who admires Zhan Daxia as much as I do. I seem to have a lot of face when I say this."

He felt that Bao Zheng's expression was like saying "you're happy", so he laughed a few times.

As soon as Bao Zheng came back, the work of the guards and the army was finished.

The people they caught here were handed over to Kaifeng House for management on the spot, and then Bao Zheng personally sent them back.

Before leaving, Yun Yanhui also said to Zhou Huilin, "Although you didn't help much this time, thank you and your brothers."

This time, Zhou Huilin spent most of his time recuperating, and the laxative really took half of his life away. Hearing Yun Yanhui's words at this time, his face was also extremely ugly.

Yun Yan replied, "Hehe, do we count as meeting and laughing away our grievances?"

Zhou Huilin: "Damn it!! Don't even think about it!!!"

Zhou Huilin left angrily.

Yun Yan returned to the place with her hands folded and muttered to herself: "If you have the final say, I will give you the antidote, and now it's not my fault..."

So Zhou Huilin, who returned to the forbidden army camp, continued to stretch his stomach for three days, and no medicine would help.

Originally, after Bao Zheng returned to Beijing, according to everyone's thoughts, it was inevitable that he and Pang Taishi would have a bloody fight, or that Renzong would borrow Bao Zheng and Pang Taishi to have a bloody fight.

However, something unexpected disrupted everyone's arrangements.

The first woman in charge of the imperial court in the Song Dynasty, the Empress Dowager Liu, who had been in bed for several months, died of illness. The news was like a thunderbolt, causing waves in the imperial court.

Liu E, Empress Dowager Liu, is really a legendary woman. She was born in humble beginnings. She was married to a craftsman. queen. Even after Zhenzong's death, when Renzong was young, she became the regent empress dowager, the most powerful woman in the Song Dynasty.

Empress Dowager Liu is indeed capable, but as Renzong grew up, she was greedy for power and unwilling to return to power, and there was still a rift between mother and son.

The courtiers kept persuading the queen to return to power. More than two years ago, Empress Liu reluctantly returned to the harem, but she still had an influence on the government and did not let go completely.

At the beginning, in order to govern smoothly, Empress Liu attracted courtiers and designated Pang Taishi's daughter as the queen. It was precisely because she was pressing on it that Renzong was inconvenient to deal with Pang Taishi, and Pang Taishi echoed with Empress Liu both inside and outside the court, and Empress Liu still had influence.

For Renzong, Empress Liu was indeed his mother, but for an emperor, it was even more of a shadow.

When Empress Liu died, Taishi Pang panicked, and Renzong was in a complicated mood.

And the matter is not over yet, the funeral ceremony of Empress Liu has begun to organize. After more than ten years of seclusion, the eight kings, Zhao Yunchu's father Zhao Yuanyan suddenly entered the palace to ask for a meeting, and reported to the official family. Empress Liu was not his biological mother, but his biological mother. It was Concubine Li Chen who passed away last year.

It is said that Renzong was so shocked that he summoned some old courtiers to inquire, and learned that the truth was indeed the case.

At that time, Empress Liu could not give birth to a child, but Zhenzong wanted her to be the queen. After Concubine Li became pregnant, he made her falsely claim to be pregnant. Seal her.

Empress Liu was busy with government affairs, and handed Renzong to a concubine Yang Shu in the harem to raise him. Therefore, for so many years, although Renzong felt that he was not close to his mother, he did not doubt the relationship between the two. He just thought that it was because he was raised by Yang Niangniang since he was a child and did not get along much.

As for Concubine Li, she was not very well born. She was originally Empress Liu's maid, and she borrowed her belly for Empress Liu. After she gave birth to the prince, she was unknown. After Zhenzong died, she was moved to the emperor's mausoleum until she died of illness. He didn't even remember what his own mother looked like.

Originally, Empress Liu had the intention of imitating Empress Wu, but it was only because of the obstruction of the courtiers that she could not make the trip. Now that she knows that she is not even his own mother, she is sour, only Renzong himself knows.

As soon as Empress Liu died, the limelight turned, and the ministers began to speak ill of her, accusing her of treating Concubine Li harshly and condoning her family.

Even so, Renzong added a title to Empress Liu, after all, she was the queen of Zhenzong. And her own mother, Concubine Li, could no longer be wronged, and was posthumously named Empress Zhuang Yi.

In this way, the whole world knows that the official family's biological mother is someone else, which is another good gossip.

In the harem, the nominal mother and biological mother of the official family had all died, and it should have been Pang Niangniang's biggest. However, before the joy of the first person in Pang Niangniang's harem had been enjoyed for a few days, Renzong suddenly claimed that Empress Liu had said before his death that he wanted to respect him. Yang Niangniang, who had raised him, was the empress dowager, and with a squeak, she put Empress Dowager Baoqing's hat on Yang Niangniang's head.

Huh, a big Buddha appeared out of thin air on Pang Niangniang again, and she had to lie down and be the second child again in a grievance.

At this time, Renzong also rewarded Gongsun Ce, Chao Dynasty, Ma Han, Zhang Long, and Zhao Hu of Kaifeng House for their official positions, saying that they did a good job. And these people are clearly the ones who went to Chenzhou with Bao Zheng last time and killed Pang Yu.

Taishi Pang, who originally wanted to roll up his sleeves and beat Bao Zheng, was beaten like this, but at this time he had to calm down and be as quiet as a chicken, so as not to be thrown into the street.

The power of the court has changed, and the city of Tokyo is surging, but for a small official in Kaifeng, Yun Yanhui, nothing has changed, but it is the difference between Bao Zheng being busy and being more busy.

Yun Yanhui was busy harvesting grapes, and the people who led the back kitchen processed them all and turned them into wine.

During this process, there were constant voices of doubt.

"Can you really make wine without adding koji?"

"Isn't this really grape juice..."

"Don't waste such good grapes."

There are so many voices, but Yun Yanhui has always worked hard to slap his face. After two ten days, he told them with practical actions that wine does not need koji!

This is also called an uproar in Kaifeng Mansion. It turns out that there have always been few good wines in the Central Plains. It is precisely because the method of winemaking is wrong. This wine does not need and cannot be added with koji.

So there was another cheer, and the Kaifeng Mansion Cafeteria had another unique sign.

Although the empress dowager had just passed away and could not have a banquet, Yun Yanhui still brewed some of the wine for the second time, placed some of the wine, and took out the other to teach you how to make casserole wine duck.

In this Tokyo city, for the time being, only the cafeteria in Kaifeng Prefecture is willing to use good wine to cook this dish. One plate requires a pot of wine. Many people are a little unbelievable when they eat it.

Although most people knew that the official family gave them the right to make wine, they never thought that they could actually make wine in their house. Some time ago, everyone who picked grapes in the cafeteria thought they were selling them. Who knew it would be used to make wine for them? The dishes are done, I heard that Shaoyin has to set regulations for everyone to share wine for a while.

Some low-level officials were so moved that they were about to cry. Since Shao Yin took office, their lives have changed a lot. He used to be an evil official and a running dog. He was afraid and hated wherever he went, but now he follows Bao Shaoyin, and the people look good on them. Come set close.

Now when I go out and say that I belong to Kaifeng Mansion, other people's eyes will be different. When visiting relatives, you only need to save one dish from the two meals a day and bring it with you, which will save you face.

Extra money, not to mention, Shao Yin is very reasonable, and does not prohibit some people from reselling their share.

Now that the grape brewing has not been on the menu, the news has already spread, and now everyone thinks that even if it is the same thing, the quality of the Kaifeng canteen will be better. After all, that dish is eaten by Shao Yin every day, and the official family has also tasted it!

Because a lot of wine was made, Yun Yanhui had to connect with the people in Cangcao and tried every means to stuff the wine into the warehouse to occupy space. After being so busy for a month, I found that it seems that I haven't seen Zhao Yunchu and Zheng Ling for a long time. In the past, these two people would come to him to talk to him when they passed by Kaifeng Mansion from time to time.

It just so happened that he also prepared a few jars for his family while making this wine, so he took one jar and sent it to the Wangfu and Zheng's house.

When I got to the door, I found out that Zheng Ling was having trouble with his family recently. He was unhappy at Honglu Temple. Recently, his family forced him to be a little bit better, and Honglu Temple was busy with receiving envoys and learning foreign languages. He learned that his head was big.

Zheng Ling clamored to enter the Hanlin Painting Academy and become a professional painter.

The Hanlin Painting Academy was both leisurely and in line with his interests, but where would he go for promotion in the future? It would be great to be a dean. Of course, the Zheng family was not happy.

As for Zhao Yunchu, it was even more incredible. He was actually confined to study at home with his brothers, except for the court.

You must know that the princess has always held a mentality of "enjoy wealth and honor if you succeed, and enjoy wealth and honor if you don't" to them, especially Zhao Yunchu. Anyway, the court will support them.

Now seeing them study hard, Yun Yan was naturally frightened to return.

The princess received Yun Yanhui in person, happily accepted the jar of wine, and asked someone to take him to see Zhao Yunchu.

Zhao Yunchu and his three older brothers were sitting in the study together and reading books. When Yun Yanhui, who he hadn't seen for a long time, appeared, he looked at him without crying, "Brother Yan..."

"Little brother, why are you crying?" Zhao Yundi was refreshed and rubbed his hands, "It's been a long time since I haven't seen Brother Yan, it seems to be getting more and more beautiful, hehe."

Yunyan replied: "..."

Yun Yanhui shuddered when she heard that hehe two lewd laughs.

Zhao Yunchu: "Third brother... ==||"

Zhao Yundi looked at Yun Yanhui and Zhao Yunchu's faces, and felt a little embarrassed. He put down his hands again, and said embarrassingly, "Oh, I'm rude, I'm rude, I couldn't go out to have fun for more than a month, and I was impulsive..."

Yunyan replied: "..."

Yun Yanhui knew that he was a fool, so he greeted everyone nonchalantly and said, "Kaifeng House has made some wine, I'll bring a jar over here to see you, I didn't expect you to show up for so long, you're studying hard at home. ?"

"Brother Yan, I thought you didn't remember me..." Zhao Yunchu glanced at him resentfully, "Dad invited a gentleman for us and asked us to supplement the poetry book, I don't know why."

Zhao Yunxi, the eldest brother of the Zhao family, said slowly at this time: "I heard that it seems that the official family intends to recruit the children of the clan, and the official should be relocated."

The descendants of the clan are born with names and officials. Their promotions are different from other courtiers, and they are related to blood. They do not need to take exams, and they are not allowed to take exams. Although the call-up test is a special test, if Renzong really allows the clan to carry out the call-up test, it will also give them a new promotion route.

Zhao Yundi said hesitantly: "No way... The official family is full..." Halfway through, he quickly shut up.

The clan can become an official without participating in the imperial examination. It is a kind of preferential treatment, and it is not a kind of imprisonment. Now I want to make a small slit, but I don't know why

Zhao Yundi rolled his eyes a few times, and looked at his brothers a few times, knowing what he knew, but he didn't dare to say it. Their father, who had been in seclusion for so long, suddenly came out to expose the secrets of the royal family, and even helped the official family to suppress Mr. Pang together—is this really active

The official family has lived for so long and stayed in the palace for more than 20 years. Is it true that he has never heard of his own life experience

There must be something tricky here.

Yun Yanhui didn't know what happened inside, so she had no idea at all, and said, "That's also a good thing, no wonder the prince and princess have to study with you."

"What's the matter," Zhao Yundi smirked a few times, "you don't know, A-niang said, although this child is clever, Brother Yan, but he doesn't like to read, and asked my younger brother Wen Shu, these days, don't keep looking for you. I want me Said, if you didn't come with wine today, I'm afraid A-Niang will shut you out, so as not to disturb the younger brother and not be able to calm down."

Yunyan replied: "..."

Yun Yan replied with an air of resentment, "The princess looks down on people, I'm not good at reading, but it's not that I can't read!"

Zhao Yundi said "Huh": "You mean, you can read?"

Yun Yan snorted back, although he gave up studying, but that was because his knowledge framework had already been set, and it was difficult to study ancient texts again. And learning methods, especially test-taking methods, are common across thousands of years!