Chapter 791 Lu Huiqing is demoted

In July, a huge "wave of betrayal" broke out in the DPRK.

At the beginning of the trend, Lu Huiqing's younger brother Lu Shengqing took the Imperial Examination. This boy was uneducated and had always been despised by intellectuals. However, Lu Huiqing's brother-in-law Fang Tong also took the exam and ranked high, which immediately caused a stir.

The government and the public are dissatisfied.

In fact, Fang Tong's knowledge was not bad, but the censor Cai Chengxi wrote a letter of impeachment, so Lu Huiqing had to take leave to await his punishment.

Although Zhao Xu was already dissatisfied with Lu Huiqing, he felt that it was still necessary to discuss the matter, so he sent Feng Zongdao to inquire and summoned Lu Huiqing to work at Zhongshu.

Lu Huiqing couldn't afford it, so Wang Anshi went to his residence and explained to him what Zhao Xu meant.

Lu Huiqing still petitioned for release, and Zhao Xu sent his envoys to return him, and ordered Wang Anshi and Wang Gui to go and appease him.

After Lu Huiqing came in, Zhao Xu asked him: "This matter has nothing to do with you? And you asked to go several times, is it because you have disagreements with Wang Xianggong on personnel appointments?"

Lu Huiqing said: "I have differences of opinion with Mr. Wang, but this is not my responsibility. Previously, Mr. Wang worked tirelessly to establish a common government for His Majesty."

"Now that I have returned from thousands of miles away, I am asking for illness in the capital and do not ask about court affairs."

"I don't know why he is different from before, and I don't know who he wants to hand over the government affairs to."

Zhao Xu asked: "Why did Wang Xianggong come to this?"

Lu Huiqing said: "This shows that Mr. Wang is uneasy about his position. I think it is because of the ministers. In this case, if we don't drive the ministers away and listen to the stone, the world can be governed."

Zhao Xu thought for a while: "If I don't let you go, you still have to take care of Zhongshu's government affairs together."

Lu Huiqing paused: "I dare not obey the imperial edict."

After Lu Huiqing returned home, Zhao Xu once again sent an envoy to Xiao, and Lu Huiqing had no choice but to come in and take office again.

In fact, Lu Huiqing was a smart man. He knew that a storm was coming from the moment his brother was in serious trouble, but when Zhao Xu did this, he had no choice but to obey.

Of course Cai Chengxi would not let him go, and immediately reported: "Huiqing wields power for himself, and bullies the country by competing with friends. For example, Zhang Dun, Li Ding, and Xu Xi's disciples are all close friends; Zeng Min, Liu Jing, Ye Tangyi, Zhou Chang, and Xu Shen's disciples

, and also for running around. This is an especially evil person."

If you come out to fool around, you will always have to pay it back. Officials who were usually dissatisfied with Lu Huiqing's actions responded one after another.

Han Jiang, his old rival, took the opportunity to add fuel to the flames and angrily filed an impeachment petition: "Huiqing's treachery is known to everyone on the road. After two years in power, he has become a party member." The entire government was difficult to communicate, all because Lu Huiqing had a tight layout and was not leaked despite the storm.

At a critical moment, a scandal more serious than the Imperial College Examination broke out in Beijing.

Censor Zhongcheng Deng Wan, Lu Huiqing's loyal dog after Wang Anshi resigned as prime minister, rebelled and impeached Lu Huiqing's brothers!

It is said that Lu Huiqing's brother Ding Youzhi took advantage of his familiar relationship with Zhang Ruoji, the magistrate of Huating County, and asked him to send county officials to Wang Yu. He borrowed more than 4,000 yuan from six households including Zhu Xiang, a wealthy citizen, to buy land in Huating, and entrusted Wang Yu to use it.

Call for rent payment.

Huating is in Songjiang, and those fields were experimental fields developed by Sitong Company under the entrustment of Jiaquan, and then transferred to immigrants.

Suyou has done a lot of things in Taihu Lake, but it happened that it did not continue to develop in Songjiang this year.

As a result, these lands inexplicably became lands under Lu Huiqing's name.

More than 4,000 guans, according to Suyou’s pricing, is nearly 2,000 acres, an entire area of ​​Daugang polder!

In addition, there was another incident. Lu Huiqing lent 700 guan to merchants in the capital. After taking back 1000 guan, he was still not satisfied and continued to ask for money. In the end, he forced the merchant to hang himself!

This is Wang Yu's desperate counterattack!

Lu Huiqing immediately wrote a letter requesting to resign, and explained that the forced death was completely false. There was a matter of buying land, but he did not use the businessman's money to buy the land, but borrowed it and returned it afterwards.

Moreover, this matter was handled by his younger brother, who was on his way to carry his father's tomb to Quanzhou without knowing it.

This matter cannot be washed away, because Su You's glorious image is displayed there, and this matter cannot be washed away.

It doesn't matter whether you borrowed the money or whether you have paid it back or not.

Su Mingrun, the pacifying envoy of the two-Zhejiang road transfer, has transformed 70,000 hectares of old Taihu land and opened up 50,000 hectares of new fields. Even adding the 5,000 hectares of the previous Kunshan Huating experimental field, has he ever occupied an acre?

!

Even the Sitong store was disposed of as soon as it was developed, cleanly.

And the political counselor who was far away in Bianjing City actually stretched his hand so far and gave his family more than 2,000 acres of farmland?!

This is called no comparison, no harm.

Zhao Xu ordered Xu Xi and his chamberlain Feng Zongdao to investigate the matter.

What made the courtiers feel magical was Su You's attitude.

Su You could be considered to have been punished by Lu Huiqing and Wang Yu, but there was no indication in the boy's memorial that he had any objections to Lu Huiqing. He was completely pragmatic and even had a hint of protection in it.

Under the rule of Chen, something like this happened in Huating, and I had to investigate.

After verification, it was found that although the Lu Huiqing brothers did purchase 1,720 acres of land in Huating, this was a purely commercial act.

The contract files are clear, the loan procedures are complete, and the money is returned immediately.

Lu Shenzheng had no flaws in the land purchase issue.

But the courtiers don't think so. The absence of flaws is more terrifying than the presence of flaws, and the absence of flaws is actually more likely to trigger associations.

First of all, Lu Huiqing has only been in politics for two years. Before that, he was a hardworking official in the capital. His family also suffered a funeral. Where did he get so much money?

Secondly, the New Party keeps saying it resists annexation, but in the end the number two figure has grown into a big landowner in two years. Isn’t this saying one thing but doing another?

Land purchase itself is a flaw, okay?!

The crowd was so excited that Zhao Xu was "forced" to issue an edict and demoted Lu Huiqing from the capital: "I will not promote you again, so that I can intervene in the political power, but I cannot use public affairs to destroy private interests and serve as the country's chief minister. A'zhi gave it to me, and I humiliated him."

The sentence was handed down, and those who spoke were attacked, and I was deeply horrified to hear it. You can guard your position and know about Chenzhou."

At the same time, Lu Shengqing was demoted to Taizhu of Taichang Temple and imprisoned for military liquor tax.

After investigation, Xu Xi believed that the impeachment of Deng Wan and Cai Chengxi was untrue.

But the courtiers immediately pointed out that Xu Xi was unreliable. He was promoted by Lu Huiqing. He got a noble official in white clothes. Lu Huiqing was his great benefactor!

So Zhao Xu changed people and sent Jian Zhou Fu to continue investigating the matter.

July was an eventful month, and the turmoil in the court was not over yet. An update came from Xiangzhou.

Situ and Shizhong, Taishi, Wei Guogong, judged the death of Han Qi in Xiangzhou.

It is said that the night before Han Qi's death, a big star fell and everyone was shocked.

After Zhao Xu received the notice, he cried loudly in the mourning garden. He sent soldiers from Lianghe to organize Han Qi's tomb, and personally wrote the inscription. The first part of the stele was written in seal script: "The stele of the founders of the two dynasties who cared about the fate of the two dynasties", which is extremely qualitative.

high.

As a posthumous gift to the minister, he was given the posthumous title of Zhongxian, and he was entitled to enjoy the Yingzong temple. One of his descendants was ordered to serve as an official in Xiangzhou forever, and the court gave him a salary to protect Han Qiqiu's tomb.

Han Qi was not kind to Su You. Su You had suppressed the old man unceasingly since he first became an official. Later, he forced himself to come forward, which made the old man even more embarrassed and embarrassed.

However, Han Qi had a good reputation in the political circles of the Song Dynasty. He made two major decisions in Jiayou and Zhiping. Some people advised him that "the public service is honest and kind. If it falls into trouble, how can it be that if you cannot protect yourself, you may have no place for your family."

Han Qi sighed: "What are you talking about? A minister should do his best to serve the king, life or death. As for success or failure, God will decide."

"How can you worry about it not working and just give up?"

What made Su You admire him the most was that he was defiled and later entrusted with the most important task in Hebei, but he did not avoid suspicion and had no complaints. It could be said that it was public or private.

Therefore, people at that time commented that he was "a majestic person with great knowledge, a man who was happy but no expression of emotion, a simple and loyal nature, and had no money left in his family."

He is more important than Zhou Bo, and more powerful than Yao Chong in political affairs."

As famous as Fu Bi, he was known as a wise prime minister and was called "Fu Han" at that time.

Su You felt that this evaluation was a bit exaggerated, but it was also fair.

Later generations mainly like to use his actions in Shaanxi's fight against Xixia to completely deny him. In fact, it is also biased.

The old man's greatest achievements are in "Jiayou, managing peace, and then making major decisions to stabilize the country. When faced with dangers and doubts, he knows how to do everything."

Another advantage is that "it is urgent to reward talents, and those who are given by public opinion will be accepted even if they are not pleased with it."

This is the same as Su You, but Su You puts it more bluntly, even if I don't like you ten thousand times, as long as you do well, I will still promote you.
Chapter completed!