Gan Qi wanted to see Bao Zheng more in his last time, so he went to Bao Zheng's house to sit down.

In the past, Gan Qi was actually not very willing to go to Bao Zheng more, because as long as Bao Zheng saw Gan Qi, he would teach and chatter.

But now, Gan Qi is willing to listen to Bao Zheng's chatter, and he can greet him with a smile.

This era is almost coming to an end, and the people who represent this era are withering away one by one.

Gan Qi knew that Bao Zheng's time was numbered, but he didn't know that Bao Zheng would not even be able to survive the Mid-Autumn Festival.

In the chatter, Bao Zheng suddenly fell ill, then became terminally ill in a short time, and then died.

Gan Qi has always been with him in this process, even if Gan Qi has prepared in his heart, he is still sad.

Bao Zheng left, at the age of sixty-three.

Zhao Zhen commented on Bao Zheng: Public and selfless, not inviting luck. Posthumously presented the book of the Ministry of Gifts, nicknamed "Xiaosu".

Ouyang Xiuzhi said: The life-saving nature is so strong, and the talent is straightforward.

Sima Guang commented: Rigid but not stubborn, this person is difficult.

Liu Chang: Recognize the vigor, straight and indomitable, and have the cold of the year.

Gan Qi commented: The ancestor is upright, not allowed to be small, anxious for justice and righteousness, not noble, selfless, rare in the world.

Bao Zheng drove the crane, the emperor mourned it, and dropped out of the dynasty for a day.

Sending Bao Zheng away, Gan Qi raised his eyes and looked around, this Great Song Dynasty court, there was no one to rely on.

Gan Qi knew that Bao Zheng was gone, and some people would be secretly happy.

In the future, above this court, Gan Qi can only rely on himself.

There was a sense of anxiety that hung over Ganqi, and he had to prepare for many more things.

According to Gan Qi's arrangement, Wu Chengwu served in Quanzhou under the activities of Sister Zhao.

Gan Qi also went to the city gate to send him a few miles, and earnestly told Wu Chengwu many things.

Wu Chengwu said goodbye on the official road and burst into tears on the spot.

Under the instruction of Gan Qi, Li Ding, the director of commercial taxation, wrote to the emperor together with Wang Anshi, asking Shi Honglei, the head of the Quanzhou Soldiers and Horses, to return to the post of the third division and continue to manage the growing tax collectors.

Gan Qi sat with Di Qing a few more times and drank a few times.

Gan Qi often lectured in the academy, talking about local governance, the way of trade, and some things at sea.

Ganchi even proposed the conjecture of a "round" earth for the first time in the academy. The reason why it is still only conjecture is because Gan Qi has not yet been able to swear to inculcate this idea, and he has to slowly and imperceptibly avoid causing huge controversy.

While Shen Kuo was preparing for the exam at the beginning of the year, he helped Gan Qi test how to make a qualified barrel. In a courtyard next to the academy, it is in full swing every day, and there is a bit of momentum of steelmaking.

The old emperor's body is getting weaker and weaker, which is something that everyone can already see, because even if the old emperor is above the court, it is difficult for him to maintain his previous spirit, and he even coughs a few times from time to time.

This also made more and more people at the gate of the palace of Runan County, but the owner of the old palace never saw guests, and even ordered his subordinates to drive away guests at the door.

Han Qi entered the palace more and more often, and even invited the queen from time to time. Han Qi would also invite famous doctors to bring him into the palace everywhere, and he also used this excuse to keep seeing Empress Cao.

Ganqi's first batch of finished ironware finally arrived in Bianliang with the ship, and began to be sold at a price of 20% cheaper than Bianliang ironware.

While dumping ironware in Bianliang City at a low price, and recruiting blacksmiths in Bianliang City with a lot of money, this is Ganqi's method.

After Wu Chengwu arrived in Quanzhou, the first thing he did was to tell Cai Ji that he would start buying a large number of Kunlun slaves. Wu Chengwu would also promote the slave trade in Quanzhou in terms of policy, and would also issue a strict decree that Song people should not be traded as slaves.

Of course, the Song people are not slaves, and it is also the law of the country.

At the Mid-Autumn Festival poetry meeting, Gan Qi was still invited, and Gan Qi was invited to sit in the main seat as a judge, but Gan Qi just went for a walk and came back.

The occasion of the poetry meeting is no longer suitable for Gan Qi.

After a period of time, Shen Kuo temporarily stopped his research after countless failures and began to devote himself to preparing for the exam.

Gan Qi was in a kind of anxiety, waiting for many things to come, he got Shi Honglei back, and when Shi Honglei came back, Gan Qi's heart was a little more settled.

Gan Qi took Shi Honglei to see Di Qing a few more times.

Nowadays, there is no one who is most anxious than Zhao Shu, and his anxiety has been conveyed by Zhao Zonghan to Gan Qi.

One day when the emperor did not go to the court, Han Qi was deciding everything in the court, so Zhao Shu immediately sent Zhao Zonghan back to find Gan Qi, and Gan Qi would say some comforting and explaining words for Zhao Zonghan to take back.

Sima Guang was promoted, and became Gan Qi's colleague with the Zhizhiyuan. It's just that Sima Guang hasn't been in office for long since he arrived at the Imperial Academy, and he got a new errand, and he was sent to the Ministry of Rites to help with the tribute, and became the deputy of Zhigongju Fan Town, and also became Shen Kuo's examiner. This belongs to temporary secondment, and the tribute is a kind of errand, and every time it is a temporary secondment official to be busy, and the tribute is generally a Hanlin bachelor.

As soon as the Mid-Autumn Festival passes, the New Year is not far away.

Gan Qi, a civil servant, has also begun to be lazy, often leaving early from work, and now he has a lot of business, not to mention patrolling everywhere, and also participating in the settlement of many accounts.

It's mainly because there is no errand in the court, and it hasn't caught any people and things that need to be sprayed.

In Ganqi's house, a larger cellar was dug to store money, that is, Ganqi had so much money that there was no place to put it.

During the New Year's Festival, the upper class of the entire Bianliang City showed a sense of depression, and it seemed that everyone knew that something was wrong.

Every year, the palace routinely holds a banquet for the New Year, and invites many people to the palace for the banquet.

This year, even this procedure is gone, and even the emperor did not even participate in the ceremony of worshipping the heavens.

Everyone was honest and didn't dare to make any moves.

Gan Qi was also honest and didn't make any moves.

In the next year, those who should go to work will go to work, those who should take exams will take exams, and those who should work will work.

The list was released again outside the Donghua Gate, and Shen Kuo was on the list in one fell swoop, and after being excited, he had to keep the election, that is, wait for the court to arrange the position. Shen Kuo immediately returned to the academy to start his experiment.

Not long after the list was released, at the end of the third lunar month, Gan Qi was urgently summoned to the palace, and all the officials who were qualified for the court meeting were urgently summoned to the palace.

For a time, the world was silent, and all the people wept.

Outside the imperial city, the people of the whole city spontaneously gathered, and everywhere there was dark paper burning, and the fireworks were hidden from the sky.

A generation of Mingjun, this Bintian.

Hundreds of civil and military officials, kneeling on the ground, couldn't stand for a long time, and cried together. Once Renzong is gone, there will never be such an enlightened era in the Song Dynasty again.

Gan Qi also knelt on the spot, kneeling so that his legs were numb.

Gan Qi thought that he would not be sad about the death of the emperor, but he didn't expect that at this moment, Zhao Zhen's hearty laughter kept appearing in his mind.

This emperor has all kinds of good, and there are all kinds of bad.

But Gan Qi really received his favor, and Zhao Zhen also valued Gan Qi in his heart, and often maintained it.

At this time, Gan Qi is actually sad, no matter what is wrong with Renzong, at least he is the monarch of Shengming, knows right from wrong, knows right and wrong, has skills, has insight, and many things are like a mirror.

Such an emperor, if you really want to talk about it, is really a rare Ming monarch in all dynasties, and he really laid the foundation for the prosperity of the Great Song Dynasty. And he's also a strict self-disciplined person.

Being able to be a courtier in the Renzong Dynasty is also a blessing for these courtiers.

Gan Qi was able to become an official in the Renzong Dynasty, which was also Gan Qi's blessing.

It's a pity that the fifty-four-year-old emperor is gone.

Luoyang City received the news a day later, and the people of the city burned almost all the paper that could be burned in the city in order to pay tribute to the old emperor, and the smoke from the burning was almost obscured by the sun.

Empress Cao walked to the main hall with a sad face, went up to the high platform, read out the old emperor's edict, and the prince Zhao Shuke succeeded to the throne.

Reading this edict, Empress Cao's face could not hide her helplessness.

After reading it, Empress Cao looked at Han Qi frequently.

The emperor is critically ill, and those who can really see the emperor, know the exact news, and can accompany the emperor to the last moment, are still those ministers.

For example, an official of Ganqi's level does not even have the qualifications to listen to real-time news, only the qualifications to be notified.

Zhao Shu was also summoned to the palace, and he was also waiting tremblingly at the moment.

Knowing that Li Xian invited Zhao Shu to the main hall, Zhao Shu calmed down a little.

Ganchi just kept kneeling down for hours.

Empress Cao ordered someone to change Zhao Shu's clothes, put on a dragon robe, and then come out to meet people.

Han Qi is also busy, and the enthronement ceremony is also simple, the country cannot be without a monarch for a day, let Zhao Shu sit on the throne first, stabilize the Quartet, and announce the old emperor's edict to the world.

After all this is done, I will start to deal with the matter of mourning the old emperor. The process was also complicated, and it wasn't until October that the old emperor could really settle down. This is filial piety.

It was almost dark that many courtiers came out of the palace, and at this time, many old ministers even had to be helped to walk.

After that, it's not something that Gan Qi can participate in, Su Su is here, he should go to work, and what else to do.

It wasn't until seven or eight days later that Gan Qi received news from the palace again, summoned by the new emperor Zhao Shu.

Gan Qi hurried to see him, and saw Zhao Shu again, and Gan Qi bowed to him: "Minister Gan Qi, meet my emperor!" ”

Zhao Shu sighed first, then got up, personally stepped forward to help Ganqi, and said, "Don't be polite, I'...... I called you because I had a word of suffering in my heart, and I wanted to talk to someone. ”

"Listen to me." Gan Qi is still polite and thoughtful.

"Alas...... Living in the palace these days, I wanted to dismiss some palace people and settle my father's concubines, but I couldn't do this little thing......" Zhao Shu sighed, he, the emperor, was destined to be aggrieved.

"Your Majesty doesn't need to be in a hurry, everything has to be done slowly." Ganchi explained.

"Take your time...... Empress Cao wanted to listen to the government, and when Han Qi saw me, he also asked me to ask the queen for everything to make a decision. I have ascended the throne, but I can't even find an emperor's thing in this imperial city, hum...... It's also a strange thing. "Zhao Shu is complaining to Ganqi, and he also wants Ganqi to give advice.

"Does Your Majesty have anyone you trust in this palace?" Gan Qi asked seriously.

"Yes, there are, but they are all greedy for money, and they can't be on the stage."

"The minister will protect one person for His Majesty, and if you take this person with you, you can control the affairs of the people in the palace, and then you will think about it in the long run."

"Who?"

"Governor Li Xian, although this person is young, he has won the trust of the former emperor, he is a loyal person, His Majesty treats him well, and he will repay him with loyalty." Gan Qi is looking for a help for Zhao Shu in the palace first, so that Zhao Shu will not be unseen.

When you become the emperor, everything is different, this palace is not something that can go out if you say it, and people outside the palace don't say that you can come in if you come in.

The Manchu Dynasty was civil and military, in fact, there was no one who was familiar with Zhao Shu.

Zhao Shu is now almost at the mercy of others.

"Li Xian, I know." Zhao Shu nodded, and said, "I still want to ask you, how to break the situation?" ”

Zhao Shu was in a hurry to break the situation and take power.

But this kind of thing can't be rushed, Gan Qi can only reply: "Your Majesty, rest assured, you can definitely break the situation." ”

"I'm a little worried." Zhao Shu was ready to tell the truth.

"I wonder what Your Majesty is worried about?"

"I am not born to the emperor, I am already a little unjustifiable, but now in the imperial city, there is Queen Cao in control, and the emperor's treasure is also in the hands of Queen Cao, if there is collusion between Queen Cao and ...... in the future" Zhao Shu said this, and did not continue.

Gan Qi can also understand that Zhao Shu is afraid that he will not be able to sit on the throne for a few days......

The abolition of the establishment, Empress Cao holds the emperor's treasure, and now she has the name of the queen mother, if there is really an internal and external collusion, it is really not very difficult.

"Your Majesty is at ease, even if the minister dies, he will not let things get to such a situation." Gan Qi is helping Zhao Shu, and he is also helping himself.

If Zhao Shu is really deposed, Gan Qi's death will not be far off.

"With your words, I will be relieved, you go back first, this palace is full of eyeliner, and staying too long will not benefit you."

"Farewell!"

Gan Qi left the palace, and the ruthless heart slowly rose again. Tomorrow is the first court meeting after Zhao Shu ascended the throne, let's take a look at the situation first.

The next day, things were more than Gan Qi imagined.

Empress Cao, or can no longer be called Empress Cao, but Empress Dowager Cao, now hanging the curtain on the side of the high platform.

Zhao Shu sat on the dragon chair and barely had a chance to speak.

Everything is decided by Han Qi and Empress Dowager Cao.

This almost really excluded Zhao Shu, and Zhao Shu, the emperor, became a puppet.

Not only Gan Qi can't see it, but there are also people who can't see it, such as Sima Guang of the Tongzhi Academy, who said at this time: "Empress Dowager Qi, the minister thinks that the matter of increasing troops in the northwest should be asked for His Majesty's opinion, so that it can be decided." ”

Empress Dowager Cao didn't know Sima Guang, who had just been promoted, but she also had to make a cut, and said, "What is the emperor's opinion on the military affairs in the northwest?" ”

Zhao Shu finally had a chance to speak: "Erchen thinks that the matter of increasing troops in the northwest is first and foremost the matter of military salary, and the matter of military salary should be played by the officials of the three divisions and the Privy Council. ”

Han Qi immediately spoke: "Your Majesty, at this time, the old minister has already discussed with the Privy Council and the Third Division. ”

Zhao Shu was a little dumbfounded. But I heard the Empress Dowager Cao beside me say: "Since it has been discussed, let's handle it according to the law of Han Xiang." ”

Gan Qi frowned again and again, Sima Guang also frowned, the emperor on the stage has really become an ornament.

Han Qi also smiled and arched his hand: "Empress Dowager Xie!" ”

Zhao Shu frowned slightly, he wanted to ask the Third Division and the Privy Council in person, and wanted to find out about the increase in troops in the northwest, but there was no room to speak again.

Zhao Shu could only stare at Gan Qi, his eyes were warm, and he wanted to see Gan Qi's response.