Meishan Su family, Su Yun is the most virtuous

Chapter 304 There is always a way out!

Wen Yanbo put it nicely, saying that he wanted to train a prime minister for the Song Dynasty, and that he was suppressing himself in order to temper his temperament... Haha, listen to him, can you accept this?

I suppress you for your own good!
Does this sound familiar to you? Did the leaders of PUA subordinates in later generations also say the same thing?

Su Yun sneered in his heart.

Suppression is suppression, but you insist on using such words to cover it up and to seek a good reputation from me. If I really become the prime minister in the future, wouldn't this also make Wen Yanbo famous?
Thinking about how someone talked about this matter later and said that if Wen Yanbo had not cultivated him regardless of his own reputation, he would not have achieved what he did later, Su Yun felt disgusted!
Let’s wait and see!
Originally, Su Yun had no ill feelings towards Wen Yanbo. After all, he was just a stranger to him. It was normal that Empress Dowager Gao and Sima Guang were unwilling to use him since they had different political views. But you, an old man, insist on coming to the limelight. Does that make you look good?

Li Chang saw Su Yun's cold expression and understood Su Yun's feelings. When he wanted to persuade Su Yun, he heard the imperial censor in the palace shouting: "All ministers, all officials, please take your positions. The Queen Mother is coming soon!"

At this moment, Su Yun looked around and saw that the civil and military officials were divided into four rows, two rows on each side. Su Yun didn't know where he should stand, but Li Chang pulled him to the left, then pointed at the person in front of him and said, "Stand in front of Brother Yaofu."

Yao Fu? Fan Chunren?

The man in front turned around and looked at Su Yun, smiling, "I am Fan Chunren, you must be the young scholar Su, come, stand in front of me."

Su Yun exclaimed.

I stand in front of Fan Chunren?
Fan Chunren is the eldest son of Fan Zhongyan, and is also a well-known figure among conservative ministers. He is not inferior to Lu Gongzhu and others. Can we stand ahead of him?
Li Changjian was stunned by Su Yun, and quickly whispered: "You are a Hanlin scholar, and Yaofu is the Minister of Personnel. Logically, your position should be ahead of him. There is no problem, hurry up."

Su Yun felt a little embarrassed and bowed to Fan Chunren, saying, "Minister Fan, that's overstepping your authority."

Fan Chunren chuckled and said, "What are you talking about, Scholar Su? You should be in front of me, so why are you overstepping your authority? Hurry up."

At this time, the Imperial Censor in the palace shouted from above: "Hey, stop whispering! Put on your official hat, it's indecent in public!"

Su Yun quickly turned around. Although the Imperial Censor in the palace did not mention any names, his eyes were looking at this side. Su Yun quickly straightened the long hat brim.

The person in front of him turned his head slightly to look over. He was an old man in his sixties. He looked at Su Yun and said with a smile, "I am Lu Gongzhu, and I am a good friend of your uncle Su Zizhan. If you have any questions in the future, you can come to me."

Oh, this Lu Gongzhu is really a good friend of Su Shi, and he is also a real second-generation official. Fan Chunren’s father is the famous Fan Zhongyan. Lu Gongzhu’s father also has a great background. His father is Lu Yijian, and his uncle is Lu Mengzheng!

Ok?
Su Yun suddenly felt a little dazed: it seemed that he was not so alone and weak in the court!
The ones in front, Lu Gongzhu, and the ones in the back, Fan Chunren and Li Chang, were basically all friends of his uncle Su Shi. And Su Shi was about to come back. Once Su Shi came back, he would immediately ride on a rocket of high-speed promotion and be promoted all the way to Hanlin Bachelor and Master of Imperial Edicts.

And his other uncle, Su Che, has now been promoted to the position of Zhongshu Sheren, and can be considered a person with a say.

Su Shi's friends are all over the court. Even if they want to save Su Shi's face, they will not make things too difficult for themselves!

Su Yun suddenly felt enlightened.

Sure enough, there is no perfect path!
It is true that he is Zhang Dun's son-in-law, but he is also Su Shi's nephew, and he is the nephew that Su Shi brags about everywhere.

Although he was hated by Empress Dowager Gao, his popularity was not that bad. These old party members had to give him some face for Su Shi's sake!
Tsk.

If that's the case, maybe what Emperor Shenzong asked me to do, to take care of his son, could actually happen?
Afterwards, Su Yun met Empress Dowager Gao and the current emperor, who later became Emperor Zhezong of Song, Zhao Xu, for the first time.

Through the curtain, Su Yun could see the appearance of Empress Dowager Gao more clearly. She looked very young, not like a fifty-year-old old lady. More like a forty-year-old middle-aged woman with a very pretty face.

But Su Yun didn't have any good feelings towards him.

Firstly, the Empress Dowager Gao had some ill will towards him. Secondly, Su Yun, who was well versed in history, knew that this woman was known as the 'female Yao and Shun'. After searching through all the history books, he could not find another woman who could have such a title. However, what she did could even be said to be the root cause of the demise of the Northern Song Dynasty!
Of course, it is not appropriate to attribute the prosperity of a dynasty to one person, but in Su Yun's opinion, it is not too far off the mark.

Empress Dowager Gao "replaced her son with her mother" and overturned all of Zhao Xu's new laws. This good policy, which was called "returning to the origin" by many old ministers of Yuanyou, actually cut off the last breath of the Song Dynasty.

When Song Shenzong first ascended the throne, he took over the empire in name only; in reality, the empire was already in financial difficulties.

A few days after Song Shenzong ascended the throne, Zhang Fangping, the official in charge of finance, handed him a financial report with eight words written on it: "A hundred years of accumulation is nothing but empty books"!
The country is so poor that it can barely make ends meet.

In a social environment where "the rich get richer and the poor get poorer" and in the real crisis of "three redundancies", the Song Dynasty was falling irretrievably into decline.

Change had become inevitable and Song Shenzong had no choice.

Therefore, the Xining Reforms began with great vigor.

Although many problems arose during the Xining Reform, it must be admitted that the Xining Reform injected new impetus into the Song Dynasty.

The Xining Reforms brought more annual revenue to the Song Dynasty, allowing the country to have money to continue operating. However, during the reign of Empress Dowager Gao, the country was actually extremely poor because all the new laws were abolished. Later, after Song Zhezong took power, he re-enacted the new laws, which enabled the country to achieve a great victory over Western Xia.

The fact that Empress Dowager Gao overthrew the new law was only one of the evidences of her crime. The key point was that she provoked the most intense and cruel party struggle in the history of the Song Dynasty!
Even from the Yuanyou period to the reign of Emperor Zhezong of Song, the ministers in the court, whether conservative or reformist, were inevitably involved in fierce party struggles.

The complexity and subtlety of this matter are beyond words. There is the political struggle between conservatives and reformers, the conflict between Emperor Zhezong of Song and Empress Dowager Gao, and many personal grudges that cannot be explained.

From the beginning of her reign, she launched a major purge of the imperial court. Within a short period of time, she teamed up with Sima Guang to exile all the members of the New Law Party!
So much so that Wang Fuzhi of later generations believed that during the Yuanyou period "if one person was promoted, it would be said that this was what Xi Feng demoted; if one person was demoted, it would be said that this was what Xi Feng promoted; if a law was implemented, it would be said that this was what Xi Feng abolished; if a law was abolished, it would be said that this was what Xi Feng promoted."

Zhu Xi of the Southern Song Dynasty also ridiculed this idea of ​​drawing lines based on Xifeng's ideas, saying that it was "talking about principles behind closed doors", and thus "correcting the mistakes of Xifeng's reforms without falling into the habit of following the old ways".

Under such circumstances, it was difficult for Su Yun to have a good impression of Queen Dowager Gao.

Looking at the little emperor again, he saw that he had handsome features. Although he lowered his eyebrows and looked pleasing to the eye, Su Yun could still tell that this child was indeed a very smart one.

Su Yun followed the ministers to pay respects to Empress Dowager Gao and the young emperor. Afterwards, the ministers began to report to Empress Dowager Gao, and basically reported to her, but no longer reported to Zhao Xu.

Su Yun just listened for a while, then looked at the little emperor, and was suddenly stunned because he saw Zhao Xu winking at him.

Su Yun was stunned for a moment, then he couldn't help but smile. He nodded and smiled at Zhao Xu, and then the little emperor seemed to be very encouraged and laughed secretly.

(End of this chapter)