Chapter 511: The Head of State is in Charge of Important Events
Zhao Feiyan giggled when she heard this , and kept asking Eunuch Luo to stop talking, saying that it was so sour. If she continued, she would not be able to eat the grapes.
Eunuch Luo asked in surprise: What's the matter?
Are the grapes too sour and taste wrong?
Luo Mingqiu began to mutter, "These are the top-quality green grapes that the Agricultural Affairs Department found." Before he finished speaking, Zhao Feiyan burst into laughter again.
She wasn't saying the grapes were sour; she was saying that Eunuch Luo's compliments couldn't be sourer.
Kuang Sisi smiled and asked Eunuch Luo to stay put while she and her daughter wanted to talk.
Luo Mingqiu understood immediately. He told the maids around him to leave, and he stood at a distance and waited.
Kuang Sisi asked with a smile: No one knows a girl better than her mother. Is our Yan Zi worried about something again?
Feiyan then said that she no longer wanted to be the queen and wanted to go to Jiangdong to find Brother Yulin.
She told Kuang Sisi that Sister Fenghuang conquered Yue State and established Shenglong Prefecture, and Sister Yuqi often accompanied Brother Yuer and used her body to shield Brother Yulin from arrows. It was all due to the deep love between husband and wife, and it was a first-class contribution. She sat in Jinguan City and watched the officials discuss matters. After weighing the pros and cons, she made no contribution by pointing fingers, but the officials were all watching her.
Kuang Sisi was stunned for a moment and said: The king will of course do the top-level things, and the rest are just trivial matters. Could it be that our Yan Zi is going to go to the south to lead the army in person?
She said: If the emperor of a country really leads the army in person, then the country will be in great danger. In the past, her father was afraid that his subjects would ask him to lead the army in person, because it was very dangerous.
Zhao Feiyan always felt that she had not accomplished anything substantial and that it was all the work done by her subordinates.
This puts Kuang Sisi, a woman who comes from the entertainment industry, in a difficult position. How can she resolve the knot in her daughter's heart?
She quickly thought of a person, Mr. Li Zhongmian who had retired to Taijiantang. After seeing Zhao Feiyan off, she immediately asked Luo Mingqiu to invite Mr. Li to her house for a chat.
At this time, a tense conversation was taking place inside Shunfengchu in Jiankang Prefecture.
Zhang Qi was a man of great skill and courage, and with Zhao Yulin's current bodyguard Ke Zhenxie as his helper, he had no scruples at all. He went straight to Dell's public housing and asked everyone to leave, saying seriously that he wanted to question the third young master.
Daleli has been working in Jiankang Prefecture for nearly three years. If he is really an undercover agent of the Mongol Empire, he must have cultivated many close friends.
But time was urgent and Zhang Qi could not afford to make adequate preparations.
Dale was a little puzzled. Seeing Ke Zhenxie's men suddenly close the door and guard outside the house, he suddenly became suspicious and wondered what he had done wrong.
He asked Zhang Qi what he meant by this, what confidential matters did the Third Young Master want to confess?
Before Zhang Qi could ask any questions, the guard outside the house reported urgently: There is an urgent secret letter from Shangqiu Shunfeng to Manager Zhang.
Zhang Qi signaled Ke Zhenxie to take it, and when he opened it, he was immediately shocked . He shouted, "I've been tricked." He slumped down in a chair to catch his breath. Then he slapped himself hard on the face, muttering, "Damn, I've been tricked. Fortunately, the Third Young Master is fine, otherwise we would be guilty of a big crime."
Ke Zhenxie stared at Dale fiercely with his eyes gleaming with anger and asked Zhang Qi nervously: What's wrong?
What's wrong, Master? Tell me quickly.
Zhang Qi showed the secret letter to Ke Zhenxie and Dale Li, and said with a long sigh: Fortunately, Chief Steward Wu temporarily returned to Shangqiu to protect the Third Young Master, otherwise we would have really fallen into the enemy's trap of luring the tiger away from the mountain.
Dellie, however, was puzzled and asked what this had to do with him.
Zhang Qi then slowly began to talk about how a high-ranking spy from the grassland empire was captured in Shunfeng, Kaifeng. This person confessed that he had had close dealings with Chief Steward Dai fifteen years ago.
Then, Zhang Qi took out a confidential bag and handed it to Dell.
After seeing the contact token inside, this guy's face turned pale, his body swayed and he stood there stupidly.
After a while, Daleli murmured: He was lucky to think that after so much time, the Northern Barbarians had not come to him for work again, and he was afraid that the Shunfeng Division would hold on to this point, so he concealed it. However, he was definitely not a spy for the Northern Barbarians, and he had never done anything to harm our New Song Kingdom.
The guy suddenly fell to his knees facing north, kowtowed three times in a row and shouted: "Third Young Master, since I joined the Shenwei Army, I have never done anything wrong to harm the Shenwei Army."
Zhang Qi went up to him and helped him up and asked him to sit down and talk. Everyone who entered Shunfeng Company was a brother.
Only then did Dale calm himself down and tell the whole story of his handover with the Grassland Empire.
Zhang Qi sighed and said: "General Manager Dai is really confused. The first rule of our Shunfeng Division is to be honest with the organization. The situation is complicated now, and he needs to conduct a review. According to the rules of the Shunfeng Division, General Manager Dai must be left alone. I will temporarily take over the Jiankang Shunfeng Office."
Dale nodded dejectedly and went to stay in the small dark room.
Zhang Qi quickly sorted out the case and reported it secretly to Shangqiu.
Wu Yuqi was also surprised after receiving Zhang Qi's report in Shangqiu. It turned out that Dellli was in contact with the spies of the Grassland Empire. Although it was a dead end more than ten years ago, it was also a taboo in doing secret affairs.
Zhao Yulin told her: If the situation is true after verification, Dale will be transferred to Hangzhou to take charge. Firstly, Hangzhou was the old nest of the Imperial City Division in the past, and he is more familiar with the situation and can handle it more easily. Secondly, Hangzhou is far away from the war zone in the downwind direction, which can be regarded as a precaution.
Zhao Yulin asked Yuqi to assign a task to Dale: to find the imperial seal that the previous emperor had lost in Hangzhou Bay. This is a treasure that has been handed down for hundreds or thousands of years. In the past, emperors of all dynasties used this imperial seal to issue orders as orthodoxy.
Wu Yuqi asked him: Then Zhang Qi can only stay in Jiankang Prefecture, what about Kaifeng?
Will Gang Leader Jian be transferred to Kaifeng?
Zhao Yulin nodded. He thought that the female leader was also in Hangzhou. According to the employment system, Leader Jian should avoid her. Going to Kaifeng would be more conducive to collecting intelligence in the war zone, as the Beggars' Sect had many disciples there.
Yuqi was speechless, and said with a smile that whatever he said made sense, and she still had to make a trip to Kaifeng.
That day, Wu Yuqi rushed to Kaifeng to verify Dell's problem. This was no small matter, as it involved a regional manager of her Shunfeng company.
In Zhending Prefecture, Hebei Province, Hubili had received news of the failed attempt to assassinate Zhao Yulin.
When his secret agents learned that Li Quan's wife, Yang, had secretly traveled to Shangqiu, they immediately thought that Li Quan might want to make peace with the New Song Dynasty, or even completely side with the New Song Dynasty's Shenwei Army. They then ordered the killing of Zhao Yulin, intending to put the blame on Li Quan for sabotaging the peace talks.
This fellow did not hesitate to expose an old secret spy who had been hiding for years, and fabricated top-secret information that Dellli was his undercover agent in the Grassland Empire in order to create the best opportunity to kill Zhao Yulin. However, Wu Yuqi still saw through his plan, and suddenly turned around and joined the guards protecting Zhao Yulin, just in time to block this hidden enemy.
Hubili felt that the situation in Shandong was hopeless , so he tried to persuade Li Quan's subordinates to retreat to Hebei with their troops.
Li Quan's wife, Madam Yang, returned safely to Jinan Prefecture. After telling him Zhao Yulin's frank words, she told him: The Northern Barbarians were using them. At this time, they were actually carrying out an assassination in Shangqiu. If Commander Zhao was injured or even killed that day, then our Li family would be at fault.
Li Quan sighed and said that the situation was really going from bad to worse. Two more deputy generals brought their families and sneaked across the river to Hebei. These people were in such a hurry that they overturned two boats in the river. The bodies of the drowned people were probably washed into the Bohai Bay.
Mrs. Yang told him to make a decision quickly and not to delay any longer.
After receiving Zhao Yulin's approval, he immediately asked the general manager to summon all the generals and officials to discuss the matter.
In Taijian Hall in Chengdu, Li Zhongmian was invited to visit Kuang Sisi's Danfeng Garden. After learning about the heart disease of the king Zhao Feiyan, he was at a loss as to what to do. He returned to Taijian Hall to talk to Ding Gong and Qiao Ge Lao.
Lord Qiao said that our ruler is still young and impatient, and always thinks that he has to accomplish one or two great things to be considered meritorious, just like the ministers and generals below him. Little does he know that every great event of our New Song Dynasty was accomplished under the auspices of the ruler.
Mr. Ding joked with a smile: Brother Yulin is suave, handsome and elegant. The Queen of Feiyan is a young girl and always wants to be by Yulin's side. It must be boring for her to hang around Jinguan City all day long. We, as her subjects, have to find fun things for her to do to entertain her.
Mr. Li didn't understand what was going on and thought that Old Man Ding was joking, so he asked him in a rather stiff tone: Mr. Ding, please stop keeping us in suspense. What are you looking for to have fun with?
Ding Gong said with a smile: "The king wants to do something, so let's find a big thing for the King of Feiyan to do. When Cao Gong left Beijing, he told us to go to Wenjiang County to practice the rural council mechanism, and asked us to buy small benches for the rural council in Wenjiang. How about we ask the King of Feiyan to go to Wenjiang County to preside over the pilot council in person?"
If this matter can be done well and rolled out across the country, it will be a great achievement for the country.
After hearing this, their eyes immediately brightened.
That’s a good idea indeed.
Not only did he find an important task for the King of Feiyan, but he could also give some pointers to the ministers in Wenjiang and create an atmosphere that would make the King happy.
Lord Li said happily that the officials who had been on tour in Jinguan City had returned one after another, and it was a good opportunity to invite Lord Fan from the Ministry of Personnel and Lord Du from the Ministry of Revenue to come up with a strategy. Let's go to Wenjiang County and try out the rural council.
The next day, Mr. Ding took the initiative to attend the meeting of the officials in the Central Court in Jinguan City.
After Zhao Feiyan asked Shunzhidi from the public office to report the establishment of Shenglongzhou in the new Song Dynasty and the war in Shandong, Mr. Ding smiled and said that Taijiantang had something to discuss with you gentlemen. When Mr. Cao left Beijing, he proposed: Let our Taijiantang take the lead to Wenjiang County to implement the rural council of Huaxi Village to strengthen the management of village-level government affairs. What do you think?
Fan Zhong, deputy director of the Central Council and Minister of the Ministry of Revenue, immediately agreed, believing that the village had only one person, the Dubao, who had the final say, and there was indeed a problem of one person monopolizing all village affairs, with no one supervising and causing lawlessness.
The council implemented in Huaxi Village brings together the respected elders in the village to discuss village affairs. It is a great benefit. With the joint discussion of our Central Court, collective decision-making and openness and transparency, it is worth a try.
