Chapter 315
Go home to divorce your wife
Bao Zheng hesitated for a moment. It can be said that he had a relatively good grasp of Renzong's mentality. Renzong asked Bao Zheng to come out and said that it seemed very fair. Bao Zheng is now in charge of the Song Dynasty's criminal prison, but Bao Zheng understood that this was a way of survival left by Renzong for Chen Yuan!
"Long live, all the crimes committed by Chen Shimei were committed by Dangxiang, and there was no deviant behavior in our Song Dynasty. Logically speaking, if a crime is committed in a foreign country, it should be handed over to the foreigners for punishment, but..."
Bao Zheng made the word "reason" extremely clear. There were no words like extradition in the legal system of the Song Dynasty. In foreign relations, it was only an agreement signed with the Liao Kingdom that stated that "both sides shall not conceal the other party's criminals."
But Bao Zheng didn't say anything, but Fan Zhongyan and others understood!
Logically speaking, the crimes committed in the Fanbian are naturally handled by the Fanbian. However, every time a Fanbian commits a crime in the Song Dynasty, the Fanbian wants to go back and deal with it themselves! And the result of the treatment is often left unresolved!
So for the people, Chen Yuan committed a case in Dangxiang this time. If the Song Dynasty handed him over to Dangxiang, the response among the people would be very bad!
After hearing Bao Zheng's answer, Renzong smiled in his heart. This was the gap he found for Chen Yuan, the gap he found in the Song Dynasty's laws. In the past, even if those foreigners killed people in the Song Dynasty, they would be safe. Now it's the Song people's turn, and he has no reason to be so generous!
Lu Yijian immediately found a more convincing reason! Take a step forward: "Long live, Lord Bao has not finished what he said, but the old minister already knew in his heart. He thought that even if I, the Great Song Dynasty, could show my mind and show my mind in front of the foreign countries, is Dangxiang still our foreign countries?"
This question is even more acute, and no one can give a correct answer to this point.
Li Yuanhao has now formed de facto independence and has made a fuss about the interests of the Song Dynasty at the negotiating table with the Liao people!
From the perspective of diplomatic relations, Dangxiang is neither a vassal state like Tubo or Uighurs nor a "friendly country" like Liao. The Song Dynasty had no reason to take the initiative to fulfill any obligations!
Renzong made a contemplative look and secretly glanced at Fan Zhongyan and Xia Shu.
Pang Ji had already understood Renzong's meaning at this time, and was regretting whether Renzong would blame him if he stood in the wrong team this time! When Fan Zhongyan was about to say something, Xia Shu pulled him and then stood up first: "Long live, I think what the Prime Minister said was very true. Last year, Li Yuanhao betrayed the Song Dynasty and the Liao Dynasty, and then came to join the Song Dynasty. Now he has just won the Liao Dynasty, and he stabbed us in the back regardless of morality! Talking about morality with such villains is completely playing the piano against a cow."
Fan Zhongyan hesitated for a long time, but in the end he still didn't say anything. What he was about to talk about was a moral issue. No matter what, Chen Yuan's rebellion was very unfair to Fan Zhongyan's opinion.
Xia Shun didn't want to see Fan Zhongyan contradict Renzong at this time, so he said it first. This was his concern for Fan Zhongyan, which Fan Zhongyan understood in his heart.
If Chen Yuan didn't understand what Renzong thought after hearing this, he would have lived in vain for so many years!
He was very excited! Next, it was time to perform by himself!
"Long live, Caomin also knows that his mistakes were really serious, but Caomin still wants to return to the Song Dynasty, just because Caomin saw something in Dangxiang, so Long live must know!"
Renzong sat down again: "Tell me."
Chen Yuan wanted to persuade Renzong to attack Dangxiang!
Judging from the current situation, during the period when he was escorted back to Bianjing, the Liao Kingdom and Dangxiang sat together. If the Song Dynasty did not do anything at this time and still looked soft, they would definitely be targeted by the two wolves!
It has been said that the saying "To be strong" for thousands of years has been made, and it is not unreasonable.
If there is a little selfishness in it, it is Chen Yuan’s promise to the women in the copycat. Also, he wants to be the one he used to be and no longer be troubled by Chen Shimei’s fate. Let Chen Shimei’s future follow his own footsteps!
"Long live, Cao Min went to Dangxiang this time to find out that Li Yuanhao's peeping at our Song Dynasty has been in one day or two! Among the Dangxiang army, their second-line corps are far more than the front-line corps. The training and equipment of these people are completely targeted at our Song Dynasty army and cities! Cao Min Yao has a map of the Dangxiang, which clearly marks the deployment of the troops at the border of the Song Dynasty! Li Yuanhao even formulated an attack route. Please wait for long live to observe and prepare for early defense!"
Renzong winked at the eunuch around him. The eunuch walked down and took out the map in Chen Yuan's arms.
The map is real, but the above troops deployment and the so-called offensive route drafted by Li Yuanhao were written by Di Qing for help.
Renzong was very surprised to read it. Di Qing did not write it in detail, it was just a rough approximation, but this approximation was probably enough to achieve the effect Chen Yuan wanted!
Chen Yuan looked at Renzong's face and knew that Renzong was already very angry. Now that he added another fire, he would probably burn Renzong! As long as Renzong came together and the Song Dynasty took action first, there would be a chance. If the Liao people and Dangxiang people agreed to fight together, the matter would be even worse!
So Chen Yuan continued, "Long live! Sir, you may not know what environment the Song people in Dangxiang live together. Then Li Yuanhao divided the common people under the territory into four levels, and we Song people ranked last!"
Fan Zhongyan's face was shocked. He was not shocked by this news. Everyone knew about this news, but they had never mentioned it in front of Renzong. Now Chen Shimei brought it up. What exactly does this scholar who is doing business want to do? Fan Zhongyan looked at Chen Yuan for a moment, but could not guess Chen Yuan's thoughts.
Xia Shu nodded calmly: "What Chen Shimei said is true. Long live, in Dangxiang, if the Han people kill a Dangxiang person, they will kill nine clans! If the Dangxiang person kills a Han people, they will only punish 500 silver dollars, or ten horses will be punished."
The muscles on Renzong's face trembled sharply: "It's too much! Why didn't anyone tell me earlier? What did you do before?"
Several important officials bowed their heads. Such a thing is a ban on the court. It’s not that they don’t want to change it, but that it’s useless if they say it!
Why is it useless? That is, the Song Dynasty is really afraid of war. Just like now, even if Renzong knew about it, he would not dare to give Dangxiang people a first move!
His fear came from the repeated failures of the Song army on the battlefield.
Since the Chanyuan Alliance, the Song Dynasty has hardly fought any major annihilation war. This is not because the Song Dynasty has no good generals.
On the contrary, some grassroots commanders performed quite well. For example, this time Li Yuanhao attacked, the Song army with three cities steadily defended the city. A few years ago, a commander in Lanzhou defeated the Uighurs with one thousand soldiers and horses in his hands! But after the commander was promoted, he could not win immediately! The same was true for Ren Fu. When he was the commander, he defeated the 8,000 cavalry of the Liao Kingdom with two thousand soldiers, but when he became a general, he no longer had a brilliant record.
The Song Dynasty had almost never won a battle of tens of thousands of people. Being able to run back from the opponent's horse's hooves was already considered a good record.
It is not a problem of generals or soldiers, it is a problem of the military system of the Song Dynasty. As long as you become a general, you will not have your own army and soldiers! And if you rely on all the commanders at the grassroots level on the battlefield, it is impossible to win.
The large-scale repeated defeats made people forget the slight victory of the Song army, and also made Renzong full of hesitation and fear of the war. Even if they have bullied them, will you still raise your hand when you don’t believe in your fists?
After Renzong got angry, his last choice was to force the fire to suppress the fire: "Chen Shimei, I miss you a little loyalty, because the princess pleads for you. You go home first."
Chen Yuan was very disappointed, but he did not show anything. As long as Renzong asked him to go home, he could find a way to force Renzong to start a war!
Chen Yuan was sure of this. Just as he was thinking about what method he had taken, Renzong continued: "After going home, stop your business, read books honestly, and take the scientific exam next spring! The princess will not marry a businessman."
This is very clear. If Chen Yuan wants to marry a princess, he must be admitted to the exam. Moreover, Renzong's attitude fully demonstrates that as long as Chen Yuan can come to the palace examination, he will definitely give Chen Yuan a sufficient identity to match the princess! It seems that the prince consort is coming, and the top scholar is coming.
Chen Yuan smiled bitterly in his heart. Dodging is really not a solution to the problem. He can avoid fate but cannot avoid choices. This is also good, and it also makes him completely let go of the burden that has been pressing in his heart.
But what should Qin Xianglian do? Chen Yuan was about to ask, but Renzong said, "Also, you will divorce your wife in the middle of the family!"
Chen Yuan was shocked and said hurriedly: "Long live! Although Caomin has no knowledge, he still remembers his wife in his heart if she doesn't leave the court..."
Before he could finish his words, a teacup flew towards him. Chen Yuan hurriedly avoided it. The teacup fell and then the ground behind him shattered!
Renzong almost roared, "The wife of the scoundrel will not leave the court! That's what Song Hong said when he didn't like the princess! Since you went to Dangxiang to get the princess back, don't tell me that the wife of the scoundrel will not leave the court!"
Not only Chen Yuan, but even Bao Zheng and others present had never seen Renzong get so angry! Lu Yijian hurriedly gave Chen Yuan a wink and signaled him not to say anything more. Lu Yijian could understand Renzong's current mood.
It can be said that Chen Shimei should be killed and it is not an exaggeration to cut him down. However, Renzong left him only for 80% because of Zhao Yi's future happiness, one was to pity Chen Yuan's talent, and one was probably out of indignation for Li Yuanhao's betrayal of the Song Dynasty this time.
Chapter completed!