Chapter 16 The Battle Between Father and Daughter
After leaving the Kaifeng Prefecture, Song Renzong Zhao Zhen originally wanted to return to the palace from the Youye Gate not far away, but when he thought about it, he would let the people in the palace know, especially when Queen Cao knew that he had left the palace during the day, he gave up this idea.
So, the group passed Liangmen in the inner city first, walked west along Liangmen Street not far, and arrived at Wengwazi and went to Beiguai Street.
After almost three or four miles away, I passed by Xia Su Mansion on the right side of the street. This time, I saw that the two big stone lions in front of Xia Su Mansion were gone.
It was not until this time that Song Renzong Zhao Zhen completely wanted to believe what Bao Zheng said in the Kaifeng Prefecture Office that the two big stone lions were transported away by people from the street department in a carriage.
Walk north along the street, and after two minutes, you will arrive at Baihu Bridge, get off the shore and board the boat, and follow the Jinshui River toward the direction of the Jinshui Gate in the palace.
After getting on the boat, Zhao Huiruo, who had been holding back all the way, opened up his conversation and asked her father Zhao Zhen in a puzzled tone: "Dad, you just told the Prime Minister Bao that the young man led by the more than a dozen street soldiers who performed official duties in front of the Xia Zhizhai Mansion will be of great use in the future. Why can't my daughter see if she is not talented?"
After listening to Zhao Huiruo's inquiry, Zhao Zhen first pondered for a moment, and then replied seriously: "Ruoer, in my opinion, this person can lead the soldiers of the street department to compete with the deacons and servants in the Xia Zhizhe Mansion, which is not something that ordinary people can do.
"Even many ministers in the court will be a little courteous when they see the deacons in Xia Shu's mansion. I have to say that this person's courage is commendable, and he has the courage of a newborn calf not afraid of a tiger."
After answering, Zhao Zhen saw his daughter Zhao Huiruo standing beside him, and his cheek was still disdainful. He asked in a curious tone: "Ruoer, you seem to have prejudices about this person. Can you tell me what to say?"
As soon as Zhao Zhen finished speaking, he stood by looking for Huiruo without even thinking about it, and replied bluntly: "Dad, in Ruoer's opinion, this person is as timid as a mouse, so where is Daddy as he spoke so well just now.
"Dad, did you know that when he saw that more than a dozen soldiers from the Street Department were about to fight with more than twenty servants from the Xia Zhizhe Mansion, Ruoer couldn't stand it, so he took the initiative to stand up and prepared to help the soldiers from the Street Department deal with the servants from the Zhizhe Mansion together.
"But who knew that as soon as Ruoer took action, the man not only did not fight side by side with Ruoer, but also hid behind Ruoer and asked Ruoer to protect him. Previously, Ruoer heard that the people who were in charge of the street office were all under the wing army of Kaifeng Prefecture, and their combat effectiveness was only a little weaker than the imperial guards directly led by Dad.
"A man of this man is from the Xiang Army. He dared not fight with the servants of Xia Zhizai Mansion during a fight. He hid behind Ruoer's weak woman. He was clearly a timid and fearful person who was afraid of life and death. Where is the father who said so well?!"
After hearing what Huiruo said, Zhao Zhen was speechless for a moment and didn't know how to defend himself. However, in the dark, he felt that there should be something extraordinary about the soldiers in this street.
It must be said that Zhang Maoze, who was the deputy governor of the eunuch, did not spend time in the palace in vain. In addition, he was very good at observing words and expressions. At this time, he saw that Zhao Zhen and Zhao Huiruo had different opinions on a soldier in the street department. Facing Zhao Huiruo's rebuttal, Zhao Zhen was unable to refute and defend, and fell into an extremely embarrassing situation.
So Zhang Maoze quickly stepped forward, started to smooth things over, and said with a smile: "What the princess said just now sounds reasonable. However, the official family is really the most noble person, and there has never been any mistakes in identifying people.
"For example, many famous officials and generals of the dynasty were discovered and promoted by the officials. For example, the authors who usually like to read articles, such as Fan Zhongyan, Yan Shu, Ouyang Xiu, Sima Guang and Su Shi, etc., are many.
"The people who can be favored by the government will definitely make great achievements in the future. The princess is just 28 years old and is not as young as the age of 2008. It is a bit shallow to know people and things, and it is understandable. She thought that whether this person will be valued by the court in the future depends on his own luck.
"If this person performs well in the street department, the official will definitely surrender talents without any restrictions and entrusted him with important tasks. Of course, if this person performs poorly, it means he is not good at it."
Seeing Zhang Maoze play the role of a peacemaker at this time, from what he said, three points affirming Zhao Huiruo and seven points appreciate Zhao Zhen. Naturally, while alleviating Zhao Zhen’s embarrassment, Zhao Zhen was also very satisfied.
Although Zhao Huiruo did not continue to refute Zhang Maoze, she secretly retorted in her heart: Deputy Zhang is a flatterer, so his father naturally promoted many famous officials and generals, and didn’t he also produce a Xia Shu? Moreover, Xia Shu is still the ruling of the dynasty. At present, he is using troops to fight against Xixia on the northwest border. No wonder he was defeated repeatedly, and hundreds of thousands of imperial guards could not defeat the Xixia army with tens of thousands of troops.
What's even more annoying is that once he was defeated in the battle against the Western Xia army, the commander Xia Shun had nothing to do. The person who was punished by the court was Fan Zhongyan, Han Qi, and Xia Shun's official positions and salaries were not affected at all.
Now, even a small deacon in Xia Shu’s mansion doesn’t take his father as an official seriously. How rampant is this? Isn’t the official repeatedly promoted and used Xia Shu a good negative teaching material?
However, Zhao Huiruo dared to accuse these words secretly, but did not dare to say them, because she knew that as a daughter's family, she should not care too much about the government affairs, making her wish she could become a man, so that she could solve her problems as a father in the official family.
While talking, Song Renzong Zhao Zhen and Fukang Princess Zhao Huiruo and his group took a small boat and followed the Jinshui River to the Jinshui Gate and entered the palace.
At the same time, Kaifeng Prefecture Prime Minister Bao Zheng was not idle either. Since sending away Song Renzong Zhao Zhen and his party, he quickly wrote a document in his office, and took more than a dozen yamen runners and rode straight to the street yamen.
After arriving at the street yamen, Bao Zheng immediately summoned everyone in the street yamen to the front yard to read out the official documents.
Before Bao Zheng read out the content of the official document, many people standing in the assembly team were ulterior motives.
At this time, Wang Hao's opinion seemed that when he led people to demolish the two big stone lions in front of the Xia Zhizhai Mansion, it was already noon today, so he naturally violated the oral orders of the Zhao official family. He was worried that he would punish him for the content of the official document that Bao Zheng was about to be read.
Chapter completed!