Empress Dowager Xiang is not a random person, the name Zhao Ji has actually been passed in her ears I don't know how many times, there are many reasons for this, first of all, Zhao Ji has been friends with Song Zhezong since he was a child, the royal family of the Song Dynasty in all dynasties except for the first two brothers is considered to be humane, at that time due to the suppression of the Empress Dowager Gao, the then twelve or thirteen-year-old Zhezong entertained his younger brother, and could only take out some ordinary fruit cakes, packed in pottery vessels, and could not see the identity of the emperor at all. The two little brothers hid in the curtain and ate silently, very happy and bitter, such a special friendship made Zhao Ji very liked by Song Zhezong.

And Zhao Ji's mother Chen added a lot of points to Zhao Ji, this commoner-born woman immediately moved into the side hall of the Shenzong Mausoleum after the death of Song Shenzong, and was silently motionless all day long, and soon her shape was bleak and her face was bleak. The palace sent food, decoction and medicine, and Chen waved his hand to let people take it, so he starved himself to death, and became a model for the world. Probably, this is because Chen, who was born as a commoner, really loves the emperor who has exhausted his efforts for the revival of the world.

Zhao Ji, he is also extremely competitive, later generations often say that the rich second generation, the second generation of officials how cheating fathers, do not know how motivated, but as the eighth ancestor although he is also playing, but play out of taste, piano, chess, calligraphy and painting are all refined, and handsome, elegant conversation, almost became a royal star, he not only worked hard himself, but also continued to deliberately please the people around the Queen Mother, as a prince to the eunuchs and palace maids, what a huge sincerity, soon to the Queen Mother was surrounded by pieces of praise and praise, Everyone said good things about Zhao Ji.

There is never success in the world for no reason, behind all success is actually the silent efforts of some people, sure enough, when Song Zhezong died, it was Zhao Ji's name that blurted out to the Queen Mother, in case the possibility was obtained by him!

But what about being an emperor? The extremely strange court needs him to grasp and elect the new party, so what does the Empress Dowager Xiang, who is sitting behind the curtain, think, she is the sworn enemy of the new party; Elect the old party, the old party is a prisoner of Zhezong, who has just taken over the position of the emperor's brother, and wants to destroy the tradition?

This is a problem that ordinary people are enough to kill all their brain cells, but Zhao Ji easily solved it, he first promoted Han Zhongyan to the secretary of the ministry; transferred Li Qingchen to the Ministry of Rites; Huang Lu is a fellow scholar and student of the Senior Administration Palace.

It's very interesting, the new party's man of the year and the son of the old party leader were promoted together, which is typical and muddy, but it is not over, and then, Han Zhongyan's position rose sharply and became the new prime minister, not only told the Empress Dowager his choice, but also kicked away Zhang Dun, who had blocked him at the beginning, and let everyone say that it was not a problem, and then, he called back a new faction of the old party, pay attention, it is the new faction of the new faction. All of them are officials.

What can these officials do? Zhao Ji sacrificed his last knife and begged for words! Okay, then there will be grudges to revenge, and there will be revenge! Zhang Dun, Cai Bian, you also have today!

How ruthless? Just look at Zhang Dun, the prophet Yuezhou, before he left, he degraded Tanzhou, and in the first year of the establishment of Yasukuni, he degraded Leizhou, not at ease, Ren Boyu impeached Zhang Dan, saying that Zhang Dun had the intention of rebellion, and he was demoted to Leizhou Sihu to join the army. In the first year of Chongning, he was reappointed to Shuzhou, and then lived in Muzhou, Chongning for four years, moved to Yuezhou, and then moved to Huzhou.

Well, finally tortured Zhang Dian alive, and the old party was at ease.

Is it really reassuring? The Yuanyu Party Monument is waiting for them! Who was the real No. 1 politician of the Northern Song Dynasty? It's none other than this Zhao Ji who looks harmless to humans and animals! Countless people from the old and new parties were toyed with by him, and he was the same as his brother, and he started to use the new party again, but his new party was different from his father's unscrupulous appearance, and his brother's Zhang Dun who reconciled with Tuqiang was also different, his new party was Cai Jing!

From the beginning of Xining's three-year climb to the present, Cai Jing has been up and down in the sea for forty years, and the 23-year-old young man has also become an old minister who is over the age of today, since Zhao Ji ascended the throne, he has tried every means to enter the vision of this new emperor, and finally, Tong Guan's trip to Hangzhou gave him a chance, and his opportunity is very good, because Zhao Ji at this time needs someone to help him. But Zhao Ji still hesitated, Cai Jing was the first batch of ministers who were demoted when Zhao Ji first ascended the throne, even if he wanted to recruit him back, he had to wait for a good opportunity, otherwise he would rebel, and where would the emperor's prestige go.

Cai Jing, as a qualified politician, of course will not put his eggs in one basket, Deng Xunwu, a person who everyone didn't notice, helped him, of course, Deng Xunwu helped Cai Jing because the last thing Cai Jing did before leaving Beijing was to push Deng Xunwu to the National Academy of History.

No one's success is casual, all the arguments that seem to be good are just fooling those who don't know anything, Deng Xunwu did something very simple, he showed Zhao Ji a table, the form is similar to the chronology of the "Historical Records", according to the prime minister, the consul, the attendant, the Taiwan admonition, the Lang official, the pavilion, and the school are divided into seven categories, each category is divided into two columns.

On the left is the new party, on the right is the old party. On the side of the old party, the names of people are like dense ants, from the chief minister to the attendants, the Manchu Dynasty is full of civil and military personnel, and there are more than 100 people; The new party on the other side is very pitiful, and there is only one person in the Zaizhi column, named Wen Yi. Who is Wen Yi? Few people in later generations know that this is the political power pattern given to Zhao Ji by the Empress Dowager Xiang less than a year after she was alive, and Zhao Ji began to be tempted. Then, almost exactly the same situation as Zhao Ji back then, the eunuchs, concubines, and palace maids around Zhao Ji all talked about Cai Jing's goodness in unison, well, then Cai Jing must be really good.

When Cai Jing returned to Kaifeng, his identity became Shangshu Zuocheng, and not long after, he replaced Zeng Bu as the right servant, and within a few months, he became the left servant, that is, the prime minister.

Dusk Jun may be a mediocre monarch, but most of the traitorous ministers are capable ministers, and Cai Jing is no exception, he quickly solved all the problems with one trick - the establishment of the Lecture Division!

What is the Lecture Division? It is nominally an imitation of the Regulations Department of the Three Divisions during the period of Wang Anshi's reform, and it is also similar in function, and it is responsible for various problems of the state, such as the clan, redundant officials, state use, business travel, Yanze, Futuo, Yin Mu, and so on. Officials such as the chief executive and the Taiwan counselor are not allowed to interfere in the decisions made by the Lecture Division, and they are not even allowed to discuss them.

From this time on, the so-called pattern of ruling the world with scholars and doctors began from Song Taizu and Song Taizong has been completely collapsed after the reform of Song Shenzong to this day, and the Song Dynasty court has completely become a hall of words for Zhao Ji and Cai Jing and others.

Who said Zhao Ji was stupid? Can't be an emperor? Zhao Ji's head is not only on the qin, chess, calligraphy and painting, he also plays the political game like a fire, Song Shenzong and Song Zhezong's efforts make Zhao Ji and Cai Jing have enough capital, and after completely, at least on the surface, completely solved the problem of party struggle and controlled the situation, Zhao Ji can finally breathe a sigh of relief and begin to prepare to enjoy.

But Zhao Ji didn't dare at first, why didn't he dare? There is no way, from Song Taizu to Song Zhezong, none of the generations of emperors can be said to be enjoyable, Empress Song Renzong's clothes are not as good as those rich merchants' wives, and the funeral goods of Liu E, the queen of power, are not even pure gold, they are all gold-plated. Song Shenzong was determined to forge ahead, and he didn't put his mind on enjoyment, with so many emperors in front, Zhao Ji even struggled with a jade bowl for eating.

A subordinate who can't help the leader solve the problem is not a good subordinate, Cai Jing is extremely proficient in this truth, he first used the enemy country to encourage Zhao Ji.

He told Zhao Ji that when he went to Liao, when the emperor of Liao invited him, he deliberately took out a jade bowl, saying that it was the old thing of Jin Shi Jingjiao after the fifth dynasty, I don't know if there is still in the Southern Dynasty now? This is saying that the Liao State is showing off its wealth, how can the Song State be compared to the barbarian Liao State?

Zhao Ji was still hesitating, he could accept it, but those ministers of civil and military affairs might not be able to accept it, he remembered his father Song Shenzong, who was just going to build a small platform, and was greeted by the officials in turn for more than a month.

Yes, Cai Jing understood, there must be a theoretical basis to support it, he quickly turned to two sentences, very authoritative, no one can refute the two sentences, from the "Book of Changes" "Feng, Heng, Yu, Da." And from "Zhou Li", "Only the king will not." That is to say, the emperor's expenses do not need to be calculated at all, and he can spend as much as he wants, to achieve "abundance, prosperity, Henan, and greatness." "The effect of wealth and prosperity is good.

Zhao Ji was completely enlightened, yes, that's what the ancients said, could the ancients be wrong? I say, why are those people desperately trying to be emperors? It turns out that this is the case, raising one person in the world and making the whole country happy, this is what the emperor should do!

This scene has been a full seven years since this time, these seven years, Cai Jing has been rising day by day, and finally accepted the Eight Treasures, worshiped as the Taishi, and was named the Duke of Chu, at this time, he has retired at home, and he has run a huge network of interests in these seven years.

In the southeast, from the first year of Chongning, the Suzhou-Hangzhou Bureau was set up, four years, and Suzhou should be served in Suzhou, collecting strange flowers and stones, famous trees and fruits in the southeast, where the person in charge is called Zhu Mian, his father is called Zhu Chong, are recommended by Cai Jing.

In the palace, there is Tong Guan, a military eunuch who has a tacit relationship with him, and there are countless students outside the palace, and he is a calligrapher, and he and Song Huizong have a lot of soul exchanges at the artistic level, for example, Zhao Ji once showed him his newly invented thin gold body, Cai Jing showed that he was dumbfounded, stared, and saliva flowed out of the look, which made Zhao Ji's soul greatly satisfied, and this satisfaction was not given to Zhao Ji by Tong Guan and others. This is also very understandable, an article makes a street vendor say good and makes Mo Yan praise the sense of accomplishment is definitely the same, every time they encounter such a scene, Tong Guan and others silently regret that they didn't read more books back then.

Cai Jing's good life has been five years in Chongning, this year, but there was a major event, a big comet appeared in the sky, this comet can be seen from early February to mid-March, such a different phase immediately made all the old party boil, they continue to create public opinion that this meteor is because Cai Jing and other new parties abolished the old law, and even the living immortal Lin Lingsu at that time also said that many people in the old party are the same as Zhao Ji, is the god in the sky, and finally, Zhao Ji let Cai Jing be dismissed as the Kaifu Yi and the third division, Zhongtaiyi Palace envoy let Zhao Tingzhi be the prime minister, but Zhao Tingzhi can't say or play like this, so Zhao Ji really can't like it, and within a year, he kicked Zhao Tingzhi away and re-put Cai Jing on the throne.

This change made the old party in the government and the opposition understand that it was impossible to get the officials to change their ways without getting rid of Cai Jing.

In the third year of Daguan, the officials suddenly secretly connected and shook out Cai Jing's past, and even the students joined the impeachment ranks, listing 14 evil things that Cai Jing knew about and violated the law. Zhao Ji couldn't, or was actually happy to see such a scene in his heart, so he let Cai Jing retire at home, but he still went to court on the fifteenth day of every month.

- Cai Fu

Cai Jing looked at the comet in the sky, his heart was full of bad premonitions, and his face became a lot worse. The last month-long comet made him step down for the first time, and this time, he is no longer the prime minister, and he doesn't know what the outcome will be.

"Daddy, what's wrong with you?" Cai Qian walked over and looked at Cai Jing's face was not good, and hurriedly asked.

Cai Jing pointed to the sky and said, "I watched the sky at night and saw a meteor sweeping the sky, I'm afraid it's unlucky." ”

Cai Qian is different from his brother Cai You, he is extremely filial to Cai Jing, and hurriedly said, "The ancients often said that heaven and man are inducted, and I am afraid that tomorrow the Taishi Bureau will say it." And last time my father was the prime minister, he could only be responsible, this time, my father is already living at home, so what is there to fear? ”

The Taishi Bureau is the original descendants of the well-known Si Tianjian, because of the ancient Taishi Lingzhang Tianshi ephemeris, the Song Dynasty Yuanfeng was called the Taishi Bureau after the restructuring.

Cai Jing frowned and said, "Since the old man of the Tai student Chen Chao has been sparse, the discussion about the old man in this court has not stopped, the old man thought that after retreating, as long as the situation is stable, he can come back one day, but today, I am afraid that the old man underestimated them!" ”

Cai Qian asked, "Who are you talking about Daddy?" Could it be the old party? ”

Cai Jing snorted and said, "Which one else will it be?" When Chongning was five years old, the comet was not extinguished in January, which made people panic, and when Lin Lingsu suddenly mentioned the Yuanyou Party Monument, I knew that those people in the old party were thieves and immortal, and now, in fact, someone has written a complaint against the old man and not once or twice, why is it suddenly fermented today, the old party is inseparable, the old man is not dead, they will not be at ease. ”

After Cai Qian knew Cai Jing's worries, he thought for a while and said, "Daddy, it doesn't matter what the students and those old party think, the most important thing is the idea of the official family, how do the official family think of Daddy?" ”