Song Taizong sat on the dragon chair in the vertical arch hall, his face solidified into a piece of iron; Two hours ago, he sent Lan Cai, the chief of the Great Interior, and Jiang Qing, Shen Yang, Han Fei, Yang Guang, and more than 30 guards to the Xiangwang Mansion to capture Liu Min.

After Lan Caihe and the people left, Zhao Guangyi was still not at ease, and asked Wang Jien, the eunuch of the palm print, to lead 200 forbidden troops to support.

captured a Liu Min, and Song Taizong sent two people who believed it best; also brought so many guards, which shows that he attaches great importance to Liu Min.

Isn't it, Liu Min is really Liu Mo's daughter; Then she will be the blood of Li Min, the chief of Song Taizong's guards, and Li Min was put in the oil pot by Song Taizong; If Li Min's girl enters the palace, she will definitely avenge her father.

Once Liu Min joins forces with Zhao Kuangyin's descendants, then his Zhao Guangyi's painstaking plan for thousands of generations of descendants will not come to naught.

Such a situation can't help but remind Song Taizong of the story of Tang Taizong Li Shimin and Wu Zetian.

Wu Zetian was originally a talented person of Li Shimin, and Tang Taizong's acceptance of Wu Zetian as a talented person was purely a political need.

Wu Zetian's father, Wu Shitong, was a very wealthy businessman who funded Li Yuan and Li Shimin's father and son; And played a key role in the process of Li Yuan's uprising, and later followed Li Yuan to capture Chang'an, which can be called the founding hero of the Tang Dynasty.

In order to thank the Wu family, Li Shimin selected Wu Zetian into the palace in the second year after Wu Shitong's death and gave him the title of talent.

This practice of Tang Taizong is in the same vein as his practice of building Lingyan Pavilion and painting portraits of twenty-four heroes; It's all a political consideration.

It can be seen that Tang Taizong will not marry Wu Zetian because he likes it.

Although Wu Zetian is young, he is not necessarily beautiful; There has never been a record of Wu Zetian's "beauty" in history, at least she is not the category of national beauty and fragrance; will not let the mature man Li Shimin lose it at a glance.

Li Shimin gave Wu Zetian the name "Mei Niang", the word "Mei" does not mean beauty, but just says that Wu Zetian is very cute.

Of course, there are also some derogatory meanings, because in ancient times, it was always said that "fox", and the word "charming" also has the meaning of confusing people; Of course, the mature man Li Shimin could not be confused by Wu Zetian.

Li Shimin is a capable man who has come over on the battlefield in both civil and military affairs, and he is also an outstanding politician with far-sighted vision.

Li Shimin likes women and can grasp the sense of proportion; The eldest grandson empress, who knows the difference between inside and outside, is virtuous, and can help him politically is the woman she needs.

For a "charming" woman, Wu Zetian showed a "charming" posture many times in front of Tang Taizong at that time; It should be said that Li Shimin will not like it.

Wu Zetian actively and actively threw himself into Li Shimin's arms, but the effect was not obvious; I wanted to win Li Shimin's favor with "flattery", but I couldn't do it.

Wu Zetian's real purpose is to get on the throne, and she has always catered to Li Shimin's interests; But it's not right with Li Shimin.

Wu Zetian first adopted the method of "flattery", and then after the effect of "flattery" was not obvious, she changed another way, that is, to show her political ability.

Wu Zetian is actively learning from Empress Changsun, but because of the status problem, there is no other better way than to learn from Empress Changsun's political talents.

From the story of "Riding a Horse", it can be seen that she wants to show her political talents, which does not seem to be the way a woman should show them.

Therefore, Li Shimin just praised her, but perhaps from now on he was more wary of her and alienated her; It may be that Li Shimin saw through Wu Zetian's ambition and became wary of him.

Wu Zetian is not an ordinary woman, after Li Shimin tried his best to get the opportunity to take the position; Knowing that as long as Li Shimin lived, she would have no hope, so she stopped struggling and shifted her goal to the crown prince and Li Zhi.

Wu Zetian has always been a talented person during Li Shimin's nine years of life and has not been promoted, so it was only through long-term observation that he targeted the crown prince Li Zhi and succeeded.

After the success, Wu Zetian killed the Li Sect relatives, and step by step replaced the somewhat weak Li Zhi.

Interestingly, Song Taizong had long observed that his third son, Zhao Hengsheng, was kind and a little weak; Whether he is biased or not, he looks at Liu Min, a street performer.

Song Taizong had never seen Liu Min, but he could think of Liu Min's mother, Liu Molai; That's a peerless woman.

When Song Taizong was Kaifeng Yin, he went to Jingzhao Mansion for an unannounced visit and met Liu Mo at the folk art conference; Without saying anything, he took Liu Mo back to the Jin Palace.

But at that time, Song Taizong's mind actually forgot about the stunning beauty Liu Mo in the queen Xiao Zhouhou of the Southern Tang Dynasty queen Li Yu, and Liu Mo and his own chief of the guard Liu Mo were together.

The development of events is so bizarre that many years later, Liu Mo's daughter actually came to Tokyo; He was so drunk with his own son.

Once Liu Min becomes Wu Zetian's second, then the Zhao family's country may be even worse than the Li family.

Song Taizong gritted his teeth and swore a poisonous oath: he couldn't let Liu Min live, so he successively sent Lan Caihe and Wang Jien to Xiangwang's mansion to capture Liu Min.

After Lan Caihe and Wang Jien rushed to Xiangwang's mansion one after another, Song Taizong rushed from the Guanjia Hall to the Vertical Arch Palace.

Song Taizong reigned for 22 years, and shared nine people as ministers, they are Xue Juzheng, Shen Lun, Lu Duoxun, Zhao Pu, Song Qi, Li Fang, Lv Mengzheng, Zhang Qixian, Lv Duan, of which Zhao Pu, Li Fang, and Lv Mengzheng served as prime ministers twice.

Xue Juzheng and Shen Lun were the old ministers of the Taizu Dynasty, and Taizong was busy consolidating the throne in the early stage, and retaining them was conducive to eliminating the criticism of public opinion.

However, as soon as Taizong ascended the throne, Lu Duosun was added as the prime minister, and Lu Duosun assisted Taizong in seizing the throne, and Taizong wanted to reward him and let him play a key role in the power of the prime minister.

Xue Juzheng died five years after Song Taizong usurped the throne, and Shen Lun and Lu Duoxun served as prime ministers for six years.

Because they were too close to Zhao Tingmei, they rejuvenated the country in the seventh year of Taiping (982); finally aroused Taizong's suspicion and quit the phase.

After Shen Lun and Lu Duoxun dismissed the prime minister, Song Taizong took three measures to strengthen the status of the imperial power and prevent the prime minister from exercising autocratic power.

First, control the prime minister's tenure. The six prime ministers after Lu Duoxun are generally about two years; The longest is that Li Fang's first appearance is slightly more than four years, and the shortest is Lu Mengzheng's second appearance, only one and a half years.

The purpose of the frequent change of appearance is as Wang Fuzhi said, "to shake his heart before and before, his will is not stretched, his action is unsuccessful, his plan is undecided, and the position has been departed", which is a wonderful son of Taizong to maintain dictatorship.

Second, the right to deprive the Chinese book is to be deprived. In the seventh year of the Taiping Rejuvenation of the Kingdom, Song Taizong ordered his eldest son and second son to go to Zhongshu to inspect things on different days; The following year, he asked the five sons to go to Zhongshu on the same day to inspect affairs, nominally to familiarize the princes with political affairs, but in fact to send them to supervise the prime minister.

Song Taizong also stripped the appointment power of officials such as Zhongshu and Quan Zhizhi and Tongju, and set up a dispatch court to take charge of it; It also set aside the Zhongshu Torture Room to set up an independent trial and punishment court.

Third, institutions check each other. Taizong set up three classes in the central government, the court of judges, and the examination court, and placed signatures to mention the official affairs of the Privy Council, so that the institutions overlapped and were not subordinate to each other, which was convenient for the emperor to control.

Replacing Lu Duoxun was the founding prime minister Zhao Pu, who was once again prime minister in the Taizong Dynasty; is because he has been holding Song Taizong's seven-inch "candlelight axe shadow".

Zhao Pu had an old gap with Song Taizong, and Prime Minister Lu Duoxun continued to slander Zhao Pu.

Zhao Pu has a beautiful talk of "half of the treatise on ruling the world", and the "History of the Song Dynasty" relays that he "did not release the volume in his later years, and every time he returned to the private section, he opened the house to take the book, and read it every day." and the next day, he was executed. If the family despises it, then the twenty chapters of the Analects are also."

Zhao Pu was born as a small official and did not read much in his early years, but in his later years he still only read the "Analects", which obviously violates historical facts.

From the recital on it, it can be seen that he draws on the past and discusses the present, and the scope of his knowledge is by no means included in a single Analect.

In fact, Du Fu has a poem that says that "children's learning is only the Analects, and the eldest children end up with the merchants", so the people of the Song Dynasty took the "Analects" as the book of children.

Song Taizong was about to use Zhao Pu, and someone said bad things about him in front of Taizong; It is said that he is a scholar in Shandong, and he can only read the Analects.

Song Taizong asked Zhao Pu, and Zhao Pu said a meaningful passage-for-tat: "I really don't know books, I can only read the Analects." Assisting Taizu to set the world, I only used half of it; There is also half of it that can be used to assist His Majesty! So Taizong decided to use him as a phase.

Song Taizong's re-ministership to Zhao Pu was to let him help himself on the issue of the "Golden Kui Alliance" and Zhao Tingmei, and pave the way for the succession of the emperor.

Zhao Pu sold his soul in exchange for the phase, but he did not gain the absolute trust of Taizong.

Zhao Pu is the prime minister, and his power, status and role are not the same as those in the Taizu period.

Lu Zhong of the Southern Song Dynasty pointed out sharply: "The scale of Taizu was huge, so Pu was angry and dared to do things with the world's own responsibility; The scale of Taizong is troublesome, so Pu can't help but be suspicious of the traces and save him. ”

When Zhao Pu was in the phase, Taizong scolded the thief in front of the monk: "When I was in the domain, I often heard that there were courtiers who had strong words and sharp tongues, and the tombs replaced the characters; or send them to distant lands for gain. Is there such a thing in the court now? ”

In May of the seventh year of the Taiping Rejuvenation of the People's Republic of China, Zhao Tingmei was dismissed and sent to Fangzhou for resettlement; In July, Taizong named his eldest son Zhao Yuanzuo as the king of Wei.

The overall situation of persecuting Tingmei and passing on the throne has been decided, and the use value of Zhao Pu is about the same.

Zhao Yuanzuo, the eldest son of Song Taizong, was later renamed King of Chu, and he was very dissatisfied with his father's persecution of his uncle Tingmei; is also quite disgusted with Zhao Pu, the accomplice who helped him.

Taizong couldn't ignore the likes and dislikes of the eldest son who had the status of the prince, so a year later, Zhao Pu quit the court.

When the court resigned, Taizong gave a poem, and Zhao Pu held the poem and cried, saying that he would bury the poem stone with his rotten bones under Jiuquan.

It is inferred from the rhetoric of Zhao Pu's parting from life and death that Taizong seems to imply in the poem that Zhao Pu will no longer be used.

After the resignation of the prime minister, Zhao Pu has been working as a governor in other places; In the year of Yongxi's Northern Expedition, he was serving in Zhideng Prefecture.

In May, just as the Song army was victorious, Zhao Pu wrote "Ban Shi Shu", thinking that the Northern Expedition "lost money by labor", criticized Taizong for "seeking merit from misfortune", and suggested that the class should be divided as soon as possible to prevent the Khitan from going south.

Judging from the situation at that time, Zhao Pu's analysis was still insightful. Soon, the Northern Expedition really failed, and both the government and the opposition thought that "Ban Shi Shu" was a policy for peace, and Zhao Pu once again became the desired candidate for prime minister.

In December of the fourth year of Yongxi (987), Zhao Pu entered the court, and the monarchs and ministers saw each other, and they all had different feelings......