Liu Yuanyu immediately understood and nodded with a smile: "Mr. Ziqiao has a good plan."
Then he bowed and said, "I have some matters to attend to at the Salt and Money Department, so I will not bother Mr. Ziqiao any more. I will host a banquet for you tomorrow."
"Sure, sure."
Xia Song nodded.
Liu Yuanyu left happily.
Looking at his departing back, Xia Song narrowed his eyes.
Historically, his method of dealing with the New Party was to frame people. He first framed Fan Zhongyan and his group as a clique, and then asked the maid to imitate Shi Jie's notes and spread rumors that Fu Bi was planning a rebellion.
Although this was a risky move, it did allow him to succeed, which was enough to show that Xia Song was a person who was good at using conspiracy and trickery.
Or perhaps it could be said that the scholar-official class at that time still cared more about their reputation, and Xia Song found a breakthrough for this.
This has to do with the fact that Xia Song was not from an orthodox literary background.
Compared with the uprightness of some scholars and officials in the Song Dynasty, Xia Song could indeed do whatever it takes to achieve his goals.
The current situation is that he cannot achieve his goal by falsely accusing Zhao Jun of treason.
After all, he knew nothing about Zhao Jun, and Zhao Jun was the boss of the Imperial City Bureau. When it came to intelligence work, he was much better than him.
It was good enough that Zhao Jun didn't frame him. How could he be framed by him?
So we have to find another way.
Since they wanted to bring down Zhao Jun and Lu Yijian and destroy this suddenly emerged Constitutional Council, what better way could there be than to have a big problem with the Constitutional Council's governance?
As long as there are problems with the policies of the Constitutional Court, which bring disaster to the country and the people, all officials will rise up to attack. Even if the emperor trusts Zhao Jun and Lu Yijian, he will probably be hesitant.
If he attacks again at that time, his political enemies such as Zhao Jun and Lu Yijian will probably be dismissed from office soon, and then his chances of taking the throne will naturally be very high.
Therefore, when facing these political enemies, we must definitely take action behind the scenes.
However, from the perspective of luring Liu Yuanyu, it is actually a bit stupid.
After all, simply submitting erroneous and confusing statistics would not necessarily cause too much trouble to the Constitutional Yuan.
The smart thing to do would be to hide first, wait and see, and then secretly sabotage the situation when the Constitutional Yuan comes up with policies.
But Xia Song still gave Liu Yuanyu some advice.
The main purpose was to see how the Constitutional Yuan would deal with it and test the ability of Zhao Jun.
Anyway, he just mentioned this matter casually. Even if the incident happened in the future, and the government and the Constitutional Council wanted to punish Liu Yuanyu, given Liu Yuanyu's character among the officials, no one would probably believe it.
At that time, he would distance himself from Liu Yuanyu and say that Liu Yuanyu had a grudge against him and was trying to accuse him.
So it was just a casual move to see how the other party would react.
(End of this chapter)
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