Emperor Daojun was obsessed with cultivation, took the so-called elixir for a long time, and accumulated a large amount of heavy metals in his body, and was destroyed by Zhao Yue when he detonated erysipelas during the Tokyo case, and his internal organs were damaged, and the liver and kidney function and nerve damage were particularly serious, and now he is only in his forties, just in the prime of life, but he has lost his male style, and no matter how high the imperial doctor's medical skills are, he can't cure it, and Xiao Ding Ding is not easy to make, and has become the largest eunuch in fact in the palace...... Delicacies are also boring, boring, angry, psychologically distorted, and suspicious, always feeling that someone is trying to harm him, irritable, moody, easy to punish people and kill people.......

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Zhao Ji is undoubtedly an outstanding artist, becoming a de facto perverted psychopath, his mood is more sensitive than ordinary people, sad spring and autumn, lamenting the past and the present, feeling the impermanence of life, lamenting the shortness of joy, so that he has more inspiration in the creation of painting and calligraphy, and there are many more new masterpieces than in the same period in history, and the poems are often full of mouths, and the talent is terrifying, as if the flood is about to burst the embankment.

But as an emperor, he holds the supreme power of life and death, and changes in joy and anger can determine people's honor and disgrace in life and death, but he is a perverted psychopath, and it becomes a disaster for officials. Especially Cai Jing and other prime ministers and eunuch chief Liang Shicheng, who were in front of the emperor all day long, were unlucky.

Cai Jing and the others knew the root of the emperor's illness and knew that the emperor was perverted, but they couldn't tell whether they would be happy or angry about what the emperor thought, and they were even frightened and cautious day and night.

The advantage of such an arrogant artist and sick emperor is that he is better than before to deceive and exploit loopholes, and the terrible disadvantage is that he may be punished and lose his life at any time.

Because the emperor is no longer the elegant and exquisite person, he no longer pays attention to abiding by the ancestral system, he doesn't care much about the demeanor and style of being an emperor, and he only lives for the willful and wanton.

The emperor is extravagant and extravagant, and he uses the power of the state to provide for it, which is not a big problem, but he is moody and punishes people to kill people at every turn, which will kill people.

Therefore, Cai Jing and the others rejected the holy decree and came to the emperor to explain the reason, and pretended to be extremely respectful and loyal to the emperor one by one, for fear that the emperor would pull them to feed the dogs in anger.

Zhao Ji didn't do what he wanted this time, he was aggrieved and angry, and he saw that the prime ministers were scared like quails waiting to be slaughtered, so he was in a slightly better mood, and he was capricious, but he also realized that the personnel arrangements of Gaoyang Guanlu were directly related to the survival of the Great Song Dynasty.

He changed his mind and issued an order to crown Zhao Gonglian as a scholar of Longtuge, but the civil and military officials and soldiers of Cheongju were still not allowed any rewards.

The prime ministers hurriedly praised: "My emperor is sage." ”

That's right.

The country is in trouble, and it can use the lack of financial resources as an excuse not to reward Qingzhou, but even the name that the imperial court can take out casually will not give Zhao Gonglian, which will not fool people at all.

Separately sealing Zhao Gonglian can also increase the stimulation of the Qingzhou civil and military forces and soldiers who fought hard but got nothing, and Zhao Gonglian was even more dissatisfied with Zhao Gonglian, and could be further isolated.

This is the emperor's mind.

The idea of letting Zheng Juzhong take charge of Gaoyang Guanlu or something before, it was nonsense and self-defeating. It's not what the Emperor's Mind Technique should use.

But Zhao Ji made concessions, and he was not happy.

"Shengming?"

He sneered, not to mention that he was dignified and at least graceful and respectful Bai Shizhong and Zhang Bangchang, looking at it and feeling quite pleasing to the eye, and looking at Cai Jing, who was full of folds on his face, bowed and stood there, although he was extremely respectful and loyal, he looked like a thin old fox with a rickety, and the more he looked at it when he was in a bad mood, the more unpleasant he looked, and his eyes became cold.

"This old thing is too old to be used, but the rule of the country on behalf of the Son of Heaven is like this, which makes me worry about it. After more than ten years as prime minister, it's time for a change. ”

When Zhao Ji broke out in the pirate robbery in the south of the Yangtze River, he was extremely shocked and panicked, and at that time, he was furious and wanted to dismiss Cai Jing's phase.

It's just that in the midst of the disaster, Yi Jing is not easy to move, and he can't easily change the prime minister to plunge the court into turmoil and make the situation worse, so Zhao Ji couldn't bear it and didn't show his thoughts.

Settle accounts after the fact.

At this time, he looked at Cai Jing more and more unpleasantly, and his intention to abolish Cai Jing and abandon him without punishment and anger became more and more determined.

Cai Jing is a treacherous and slippery, more refined than a fox spirit, and naturally understood when he was robbed in Jiangnan: This time the emperor will be angry and ineffective in governing the country, but he is afraid that the phase will not be guaranteed.

He knew better what the emperor cared about most.

To put it bluntly, there are two words: money and food.

With money and grain to make up for the loss of taxes in the summer, the imperial court has the financial resources to deal with the difficulties, and the emperor has the money to squander without having to worry about the country's financial difficulties, then everything has a chance to turn around.

In order to protect the phase, Cai Jingcai took advantage of Gao Yu's bold and greedy nature, and pulled Bai Shizhong and Zhang Bangchang together to support Gao Yu's massacre and rob Jianghuai's huge wealth.

As long as Gao Yu drove away the pirates with a large army and came back with a mountain of money, the treasury was richer than normal, and the emperor's pockets were more abundant, then there would be room for maneuver, and it was very likely that he would not lose his power.

For the sake of their vital interests, Cai Jing and Bai Shizhong's powerful ministers wanted to coerce and win over the important members of the Founding Legion and military generals to ruthlessly clean up those high-ranking officials and ministers who had no real power and were eager to work together to expose the fact of robbing the people's property because of the great loss of smuggling interests, and participated in the crime of harming the people, but in fact, they wanted to fight against the prime ministers.

Zhao Ji is more concerned about whether the imperial court has money and food to deal with difficulties, and how can he care whether illegal smugglers are dead or alive.

Emperor Daojun thought that the ministers who dared to speak and speak for the smugglers and dared to come forward to accuse Gao Yu of the smugglers, and he was extremely angry, and he followed the refutations and suggestions of the prime minister and the nobles, and locked all these officials in the prison and strictly interrogated whether they were the ghosts of the pirates.

After going to prison, regardless of whether they were fornicating with pirates or not, these officials were all finished.

Cai Jing and others have 10,000 ways to shut up these officials.

For the dead duck-mouthed officials, they directly forged a suicide note to commit suicide and died. The other honest confessions and cooperating confessions were all killed on the road.

If you dare to make trouble at this time, you should be damned. Cai Jing and the others are ruthless, never let go of anyone, and don't leave sequelae and then worry about dealing with them.

Cai Jing has struggled until now, and at this time, he noticed that the emperor was staring at him coldly, and he clearly felt the emperor's transposition thoughts, and he looked forward to Gao Yu's smooth return.

Emperor Zhao Ji is also looking forward to Gao Aiqing's triumphant return as soon as possible.

He didn't know that Gao Yu took the gold and silver treasures he had snatched with him and prepared to divide them privately, leaving only the copper coins to be urgently charged to the treasury to deal with the court and him.

Daojun hopes that Gao Yu can severely damage the pirates, and it is best to teach the pirates that they will not dare to land and loot easily.

In addition, with Gao Qing, a loyal minister who can conquer and fight habitually, and hundreds of thousands of Beijing troops by his side, he, the emperor, can have more confidence to adjust the Hebei military willfully, squeeze Zhao Gonglian's power, and gradually weaken Zhao Gonglian's influence and control in Cangbei.

Before the Imperial Palace's decrees were issued, the Imperial Palace and Tokyo's internal lines had already telegraphed the news to Cheongju.

After reading the news, Zhao Gonglian couldn't help but let out a long sigh, without anger, but his eyes became ten times colder than Zhao Ji's.

Longtuge University Scholar is generally an honorary title for an old and senior senior official at or above the deputy prime level.

However, there is no material treatment for bachelors, university scholars, etc.

Cai Jing's grandson is only in his twenties, younger than Zhao Gonglian, and he plays with empty cannons all day long in the capital, but several of them are also university scholars. At this time in the Northern Song Dynasty, Zhao Ji showed his grace and generosity to the officials, and he added knighthood indiscriminately, and grabbed a lot of scholars from the court, and the title was no longer valuable.

Zhao Ji used this empty name to top the reward that Qingzhou deserved, on the surface, it was the emperor's favor and appreciation, but in fact, it was false, and it was only used to temporarily fool people.

His heart is sinister.

Zhao Gonglian saw it clearly, and sighed: How can there be true friends in officialdom, only like-minded people and people who are in the same stream. There has been a change in the Tao, and there is a dispute in interests, and it will immediately turn its face into an enemy. Hoping that the lonely feudal emperor can be affectionate and righteous is purely a joke of wishful thinking. Fortunately, after listening to his younger brother's prophecy, he had prepared a way out overseas early, otherwise the loyal monarch would have worked hard and ended up at this point, and he would not have been unjustly killed by the rotten officials and emperors of the imperial court who hid in the interior and enjoyed their wealth and prosperity.

Regarding Emperor Daojun's vicious methods, Zhao Gonglian had already predicted and countermeasures, and was ready to compete with the emperor in the next step, just waiting for the holy decree to come before taking action.

So, what happened to the emperor and Cai Jing, who had high hopes and hoped for a triumphant return, the general of the auxiliary state, and the forbidden army that went out to fight, and what were they doing?

The auxiliary generals and champion generals who were responsible for chasing down the Qing Halal Mountain Rogues were all old and blessed and enjoyed that they couldn't do anything, and they couldn't do anything, and they took away slaves who couldn't be coolies to atone for their lives with labor, and they were cut down and abandoned in the wilderness after being drugged in Laizhou.

lest you have to occupy space on the ship, delay other people's immigration, and waste food needlessly.

400,000 soldiers of the forbidden army were busy harvesting summer grain and ploughing, undergoing preliminary tests and screening.

Gao Yu and General Huaihua with him, as well as Gao Yu's cronies: the commander of the front of the palace, the deputy commander, and Du Yuhou, these five people are still alive.

They woke up after four days in a coma.

After not eating or drinking for many days, coupled with the heat, after waking up, the whole body was soft, and the mouth was very dry, and the five people slowly opened their eyes one after another, and they didn't know where they were for a while, but they only felt dizzy, and their eyes were black for a while, and after a while, they felt better, and their heavy heads were sober.

Open your eyes again.

The space in front of me is isolated, narrow and gloomy, and there is no daylight, only a little firelight comes from it; The nose smelled an extremely pungent smell mixed with dirty, bloody, moldy, and dry; What I touched in my hand was the tattered straw piercing my hands under me.

When I looked up, I saw the large, squash, filthy, black-stained wooden fences, iron chain doors, black, stinky, filthy and terrible walls, and dark steps leading to nowhere. That's where the faint glow of the fire came from. The stairs were also covered with filthy oozing blood.

This space seems to be in the Nine Secluded Mansions, dead and silent, but it seems to be full of resentful ghosts and ghosts floating around the people here with infinite resentful eyes, and there seem to be countless people who are unwilling to howl before their unjust deaths, including men and women, old and young. The sound of the rapid breathing of the five people in the small space was even more eerie and terrifying.

The scene in front of me was too unexpected and terrifying.

The five people are from different backgrounds, but they have never experienced this kind of scene, although they are military attachés and generals, they are all frightened and jump up, only thinking that they have done too many sins and are dead, and their souls are imprisoned in the underworld, and then the vicious Lord of Yama will sentence them to be tortured by evil ghosts through eighteen layers of hell to punish all kinds of sins in life.

The extreme fright and stimulation of the spirit made the five thieves jump up for a while, and the screams were terrifyingly loud, but the hungry and weak body had no strength left, and the five thieves collapsed to the ground again.

A burst of dizziness, stars in his eyes, and sweating all over his body, it was not uncomfortable, but this relatively alleviated the fear of the five people.

The five thieves desperately sank their breath, trying to stay sober and composed, and when they saw the frightened and distorted faces of their familiar accomplices in the darkness, they felt that the other party's eyes were green and glowing like evil wolf eyes, and they also looked like ghostly fires, and they couldn't help but be startled again.

At this moment, there was a chaotic and heavy sound of footsteps in the secluded passage.

The five thieves, who were frightened and overwhelmed, turned their eyes to the stairs in unison, and their hearts were all nervous to death.

In a moment, several torches appeared in view.

Several tall, majestic figures stuck torches in the wall, and then walked down in unison.

Gao Yu and the others saw the hideous and terrifying bearded faces flickering in the firelight, and their eyes matched the other party's murderous, bloodthirsty and ruthless cold eyes, and their hearts were so frightened that their hearts tightened again, and they saw that these ghosts were actually familiar with the costumes of the Song Dynasty officials, especially the big white prison word on their chests, so they were not so frightened that they screamed.

The five of them are all senior military attaches who are familiar with the Great Song Dynasty system, and when they see the familiar official clothes, they know that this is the dress of the local jailer, not the Dali Temple in the capital, nor the prison of the Criminal Department, and they also realize that they are not dead, although they have done too many evils, but it should be that the life span has not yet ended, and the Lord of Yama has not asked the prefectural judge to check his name on the life and death book.

Then it was natural to wonder: I am such a big official (so favored by the emperor; Such a good background and backstage; So trusted by the emperor; mixed officialdom so well) Why did you suddenly go to prison? And it should be a legendary underground solitary cell?

That kind of legendary prison cell is dedicated to the detention of extremely vicious criminals who are highly powerful, guilty, and unrepentant, or rebel thieves who are waiting to be beheaded, or those who have committed major crimes with high official status or social popularity, great influence, and great social harm.

Such a felony is entitled to be kept under close guard, on this kind of underground solitary death row in which there is no escape.

Be all abroad.

Where is this dungeon?

The five thieves remembered in a trance that they had been at a banquet in the Mizhou prefect's mansion before.

Am I in the dungeon of Mizhou?