"Shangshu" said: The chicken is in the morning, but the family is the rope. The Empress Dowager, the woman of the first emperor, the mother of the present, the ancient Chinese tradition, the queen and concubines are not allowed to interfere in politics, because it is easy to complicate politics. However, there are accidents in everything, once the old emperor returns to heaven and the new emperor is young, he immediately becomes the most staunch defender of the new imperial power, and it is logical for the queen mother to listen to the government.

The original intention of the Empress Dowager was to ensure the safety of the new monarch and prevent the ministers from making trouble. In the end, he still has to govern the country, thinking about how to work with his husband's military generals to steadily pass on the country's society to the next generation, and live up to the expectations of his husband and son. As the saying goes, it is difficult to be a woman, it is more difficult to be an emperor's woman, it is even more difficult to be the queen mother, and it is even more difficult to be the queen mother of the dynasty.

Is that every queen mother a master of governing the country? The answer is maybe. Whether or not they can gain political experience during their time as queens or concubines depends largely on their relationship with their husbands. A loving husband may be willing to let his wife participate in court politics, and a sick son may also be a child, so with the study of her husband's imperial case, a wise woman has long been well versed in the way of political scheming. But not every queen mother has such a coincidence......

Empress Dowager Yang is the concubine of Duzong, and now the biological mother of the little emperor Zhao Yu, when she first entered the palace, she was only named a beauty, and her status in the harem was very low. On the eve of the Yuan army's large-scale invasion of Jiangnan and the fall of Lin'an, she took two princes and some ministers out of the palace to take refuge under the edict of the Empress Dowager, and then set up her son as the emperor under the support of the ministers of Fuzhou, and she became the Empress Dowager.

Empress Dowager Yang has been in the harem since she entered the palace, and her status is low, and she has no chance to touch the government, so she is very unfamiliar with governance. And she does not have the ambition to seize power and command the world like Lu Pheasant and Wu Zetian. Therefore, it is actually difficult for such a woman who has never had political experience to listen to the government and decide national affairs for the young emperor.

"The country has fallen to such a point, slave family...... The slave family is ashamed of the first emperor and the empress dowager...... "Empress Dowager Yang thought that after she left the palace, she fled to Fuzhou after all kinds of hardships, and supported her son to ascend the throne when the country was in trouble, but she has been doing nothing, hiding in Tibet under the pursuit of the enemy, and even having to take refuge at sea. And now that the enemy army is coming, he can't help but be helpless, and he can't help but feel sad in his heart, and cry out above the court.

"The queen mother, all the ministers are incompetent, they can't repay the king's kindness, and they can't save the people from fire and water, it's really a crime that deserves death!" Seeing that the Queen Mother was crying in front of the ministers, Chen Yizhong, as the first assistant of the imperial court, could not help but make a gesture, and he came out to kneel down and ask for sin.

"The minister is incompetent, he has the trust of the Empress Dowager, he can't resist the enemy, recover the country, please ask the Empress Dowager to surrender!" Jiang Wanzai also fell to his knees.

"The subordinates are incompetent!" …… Hulala, the people who knelt on the ground in the narrow main hall in a blink of an eye, and the people outside the hall didn't know what was going on inside, they all knelt down, thinking that it would be okay for them to kneel, and they also knelt down.

"Alas, if I killed you to restore the country and repel the Mongols, it is estimated that you would have been slaughtered long ago, and you could still be left until now!" Zhao Hao looked left and right, the emperor on the throne may have been frightened by this battle, pouting and wanting to cry but not daring to cry, helplessly looking at the crying mother behind the curtain, and looking at the group of people in His Royal Highness curled up helplessly on the throne. And he didn't know whether to kneel or not to kneel for a while, but he was extremely disdainful in his heart, and when he had something to say, kneeling at every turn couldn't solve the problem in front of him.

"Queen Mother, Your Highness, although the enemy is attacking again, we still have 300,000 soldiers, dozens of prefectures and counties, and countless volunteers and bravers in various places. Zhao Yu looked back, and Lu Xiufu beside him was still standing, holding the wat board in his hand with tears in his eyes.

"Queen Mother, Lord Lu is reasonable, as long as the monarch and ministers are single-minded, why not be afraid of those Tartars!" Zhao Yu sighed secretly in his heart, loyal ministers are loyal ministers, and he dared to stand up at the critical moment, he jumped off the embroidery pier and stood beside Lu Xiufu, puffed up his chest and said loudly.

"Shichiro, what is discussed in the court is a major national matter, and it is not allowed to make noise."

"Erchen just felt it, not nonsense...... Yes, Erchen was wrong. As soon as Zhao Yu finished speaking, he was reprimanded by the Queen Mother, and wanted to argue, but he heard the Queen Mother's angry cold snort behind the curtain, he was unwilling but didn't dare to say more.

"Queen Mother, the minister thinks that although His Royal Highness King Wei is young, what he said is not unreasonable." Liu Huang said again, "Wen Xiang alone led an army to support it, but the imperial court did not send a single soldier and did not give a grain of rice and grass, once Jiangxi is defeated, what will be the benefit to the imperial court?" At the moment of the great enemy, what is wrong with Prime Minister Wen leading the troops to King Qin? The military situation is urgent, and we are still arguing incessantly, and there is no conclusion to be reached, so will we not delay the military plane. ”

"Lord Liu, don't we know what you said, but there are 50,000 horses in the Governor's Army, so how can we solve it with only food and salary?" As soon as Liu Huang's voice fell, someone was in a hurry, and said out of the class, Zhao Yu didn't know him, but he should be an official of the household department when he listened.

"Lord Sun, your household department is responsible for the overall expenditure of the state, and it is your responsibility to collect and requisition, but did you come to ask me?" Liu Huang asked rhetorically.

"Lord Liu, when we evacuated Lin'an, the treasury was in deficit, and it was all the financial expenditure of the inner treasury. Although some tax silver was raised at the time of Fu'an, the imperial court had 300,000 soldiers and civilians accompanying it, and now the stone rice is three times, and the paper money is not available, and the court only needs at least three thousand stones of rice per day. The treasury has long been unable to make ends meet. Lao Sun was not afraid of Liu Huang and began to pour bitter water on him.

"Didn't we requisition a lot of property in Quanzhou?" Liu Huang understood that the household department was calling it poor, which meant that the household department had no money, and he had to ask the queen mother for food, and he thought that he had requisitioned a lot of merchant ships when he was evacuated from Quanzhou, and so many belongings on the ship would not be gone.

"Hehe, Lord Liu, the household department didn't receive much." Lao Sun glanced at Zhang Shijie and said with a wry smile, his meaning is very clear, where is the money grabbed, you can ask him.

"Lord Liu, you still don't know that now the treasury of the prefectures and counties in Chaozhou is empty, and it is difficult to requisition and transfer, and the enemy forces have entered the Guangxi and Guangnan roads, and the allocated grain and grass cannot break through the encirclement.

"The original supply of food in the imperial court is insufficient, and if there are 50,000 horses, how can we eat? If you don't get it right, it will cause a big disaster. ”……

"What you are saying is that the officers and men have no food and are unable to fight...... Therefore, I would like to ask Lord Liu to show righteousness to the people and ensure the supply of military rations! After everyone spoke, Zhang Shijie said to Liu Huang.

There were endless arguments in the court, and Zhao Yu also heard it and probably understood, what everyone meant was that in this extraordinary period, food was more expensive than gold, and gold could be eaten as food? No, I can't. Therefore, the people take food as the sky, and the army must take food as the sky! A country without food is terrible, and an army without food is even more terrible for his grandmother. But after thinking about it, the words sound like a truth, and they don't change the taste after careful consideration!

Now that the treasury is empty, except for the private money in the palace, only those things can be grabbed in Quanzhou, but these things are controlled by Zhang Shijie, and the household department can't intervene, so if there is no money to buy things, it won't depend on them. And Zhang Shijie didn't want Wen Tianxiang to return to the dynasty to fight for power with him, let alone take money out of his pocket. The reasons he said can't be justified, and he pushed the problem to Liu Huang on the backhand, can't you? Yes, you can do ideological and political work to the common people, and ask them to tighten their belts for the time being, and would rather go hungry themselves than let the officers and men go hungry.

"Your Royal Highness......" Liu Huang was speechless, how could he bear to collect the last grain in the hands of the people, the situation of losing the hearts of the people, just when he was bitter and couldn't speak, he suddenly felt that someone was pulling his back, turned his head to see that it was His Highness, he asked suspiciously, but His Highness only shook his head lightly and did not say anything. Liu Huang sighed and returned to the train.

Those Wenchen are sharp-tongued, Zhao Yu has already understood, and now he says that martial artists are rude and less wise people, and now he doesn't believe it when he is killed, and although Liu Huang is upright, there are too few twists and turns in his stomach, and he is not the opponent of those people at all, so it is best to shut up for the time being, so as not to be embarrassed, and listen to what they say before worrying.

"Zhongqing, there is no money in the treasury, and there are still some jewels, gold and silver artifacts brought from Lin'an in the inner treasury of the slave family, and they should be used as military salaries!" The ministers said that they couldn't spare a single word of money, and the Empress Dowager Yang sighed and said when she saw everyone crying poor.

The queen mother took out her family background, and it also caused a thousand waves in the court, and the relevant officials spoke step by step. Attacking each other and gloating is gone, but it is a thousand words and a thousand digressions. Some people suggested that the top priority at the moment was to control every grain in circulation on the market and to ensure the supply of military rations. Some people asked to bring troops to buy food, and the food shortage has been solved; Others suddenly showed kindness and demanded that the imperial court adopt the old, weak, sick and disabled people who were scattered in the world, so that these vulnerable groups would not be harmed in times of war. Some people even wanted to thoroughly investigate whether there were people in the army who had falsely reported the number of soldiers, falsely received food and salaries, and secretly concealed war booty......

The court should be discussing military affairs and saving the Great Song Dynasty from danger, but now that the court meeting has been held for nearly two hours, the ministers are still busy fighting for power and profit, throwing state affairs aside, and passing the buck to each other. Although Lu Xiufu, Liu Di and a few others had intentions, their positions were still low, and they didn't say a word, but they were besieged by everyone, and they couldn't do anything in a hurry.

"Report, 800 miles of military situation emergency, Guangzhou fell yesterday!" Just when there was a lot of in the court, suddenly a small yellow door ran into the hall in a panic with a military newspaper and said.

"Mother, the Tartar is here again!" The little emperor who was dozing on the throne was awakened, and he turned back and shouted in panic, and at this moment the court had fallen into dead silence, and only the little emperor's sad shouts echoed in the hall......