Chapter 771: Tokyo with Undercurrents (Page 1/1)

The throne of the emperor is like love, it is not something you can take if you want to take it, and you can discard it if you want to.

After Huizong Zhao Ji felt remorse in his heart, he immediately secretly summoned his close ministers who were loyal to him and quietly discussed the matter, trying to find a way to get the throne back.

Although Zhao Huan, who had just succeeded to the throne, was cowardly and incompetent, talentless and unwise, he was not a fool after all, and now that the looming crisis had disappeared, it was even more difficult for him to hand over the throne.

In addition, those civil and military generals in the court who have the skill of following the dragon and have completely fallen to Qinzong do not want Zhao Ji to regain power.

No matter what country or group, as long as a new person is in power, the first thing to do is to eliminate the personnel left by the predecessor and place his trusted subordinates in important positions.

In the power field, any position is limited, so if someone wants to move forward and ascend, then those who occupy the position need to be pulled down first.

Cai Jing, Wang Hao, Tong Guan, Liang Shicheng, Zhu Mian, Li Bangyan, known as the 'six thieves' by the people, they are all Huizong's extremely trusted favored ministers, and they are also in everyone's hands, when Huizong Zhao Ji abdicated, they were not surprisingly the target of attack.

At the court meeting, the courtiers such as Shi Sun Mo played one after another, demanding that Cai Jingtong Guan Cai Yu be held accountable.

Sun Mo and other ministers first impeached Cai Jing:

"Taishi Cai Jing served as the fourth prime minister, and for 20 years before and after, in the name of Jizhi's narration, he built a government that harmed the people, and the ancestral law was abolished; Tuo Fengheng Yu Dazhi said that it was a trend of poverty and luxury, and public and private savings were swept away. Establish the limit of the imperial pen, and refute the law of yin and evil; The subject of classics is the road to Du Sai's admonition. Draw on the small group, full of important paths, imprison loyalty, and all are friends. Traffic robbery, stealing authority, selling officials, bribing public banks, embezzlement of treasury money, treacherous wolf, muddy boudoirs, and father-son disputes. The servant officials are rampant, and the concubines are sealed to the big countries, bullying the king, and coercing a few people. As recorded in the biography, the old treacherous and the evil are not as good as the ...... of Beijing"

Then, Sun Mo and other ministers began to impeach Tong Guan again, saying: "Although the crimes of ministers according to the rules are not enough to count, the great ones who mislead the country can still be counted." Running through the use of troops in Shaanxi, before and after 20 years, specializing in deceiving the king and taking it as a technique, setting up a false city, vainly playing the border, and thinking that it was his own merit. Draw in the small group, change the generals, and plant the private party. There are those who are self-selected and transferred to Beijing without recommendation, there are those who are promoted to the defense regiment without qualifications, and there are those who are promoted to the guard regiment because they should not be selected in the abandoned fields. Treacherous villains, competing for admiration, invading the fishermen, stealing official money, Bao Tho public line, the door is like a city, gold and treasure jade, full of mountains, private collections, more than the treasury .......

In fact, the call for the punishment of Cai Jingtong Guan and others began to emerge inside and outside the imperial court soon after the throne of Song Huizong.

Chen Dong, the leader of the Tai students, also led many students to write to Fu Que and said: "Today's events, Cai Jing is in chaos, Liang Shicheng is in the back, Li Yan is in the northwest, Zhu Mian is in the southeast, Wang Hao and Tong Guan are in Liao and Jin, creating a gap. ”

They strongly demanded that the "six thieves" be killed, and that "the heads of the four parties be passed on to thank the world." As a result, the theory of "six thieves" quickly became popular and caused a strong response among the people.

Seeing that both the many courtiers and the people of Tokyo City demanded that they be dealt with and others were getting louder and louder, Wang Hao, Tong Guan, Liang Shicheng, Zhu Mian, and Li Bangyan were all frightened, and after discussing it immediately, they decided to go to Longde Palace.

Why did the six thieves go to Longde Palace?

Because it was originally the Duanwang Mansion, that is, the hidden residence of Huizong Zhao Ji before he ascended the throne, since Song Huizong Zhao Ji was in the Zen position, he moved out of the forbidden courtyard of the palace and came to live in Longde Palace.

Longde Palace is located in the outer city, on the north bank of the Jinglong River. The so-called Jinglong River is a moat outside the Jinglong Gate at the north gate of the inner city of the Imperial Palace.

Emperor Huizong of the Song Dynasty had an expansion of the Longde Palace during the Zhenghe period, mainly along the bank of the Longjiang River to build some unique style buildings, and added some flowers, stones and plants, and expanded the Longde Palace into a characteristic garden.

In spring and March every year, the strange flowers and plants in the garden sprout everywhere, full of vitality, and in May and June, the hibiscus is covered in red, the lotus flowers are in full bloom, and the scenery is very beautiful. There is a poem that describes the scenery of Longde Palace like this: "Bi Zhu Yong's face is open, and Cui Wei is locked by green clouds. Lianchang Ting sill is planted with bamboo, and the painting of streams and mountains is half plum. ”

The most important building of Longde Palace is called Xichun Pavilion, which is a multi-storey building pavilion with pure solid wood structure, the biggest feature is that "there is no mud up and down", in addition, the buildings in the garden are some scattered low houses.

Longde Palace is adjacent to the imperial city, there is only a sandwich city separated by it, through this sandwich city, you can pass through the palace garden, all of which are the place of the swallow.

After nightfall, there are people quietly entering the palace gate on the side of Longde Palace from time to time, including not only the left-behind Tong Guan in Tokyo among the six thieves, Cai You, the leader of the Privy Council, Wang Huang, who was deposed, Liang Shicheng, the inspector of the school, and Gao Yu, the former captain of the palace, and Zhao Kai, the king of Yun, and others.

Needless to say, the six thieves knew that they were the most favored courtiers of Huizong Zhao Ji, so they would be impeached first and shot at them.

Compared with them, Gao Yu is much smarter in life and work.

Of course, Gao Yu is not a good person or a good official, and when he was in charge of the forbidden army, he built a private house on the land of the military camp. Treat the forbidden army as private service, regardless of training, and contribute to his private business. If you don't have the skills, then you can only pay for the craftsmen. Those who have money are exempt from discipline; If you don't have money, you can only find a way to make a living, and you can't practice.

It was because of Gao Yu's greed that he turned the forbidden army in Tokyo into a waste army with lax discipline and uncultivated military and political affairs, and became a waste army that no one knew how to use soldiers.

Gao Yu has an advantage, that is, he does not forget to repay the old people who have been kind to him.

Before Gao Yu's career, Liu Zhongwu promoted him at the border pass, and he has maintained a close relationship with Liu Zhongwu's family since then.

Liu Zhongwu lost the battle in Zhenghe for five years, but his career was not affected, because Gao Yu said good things for him in the court. After Liu Zhongwu's death, Gao Yu strongly recommended his son Liu Qi to Huizong as a general.

Cai Jing and others brutally persecuted Su Shi and his family because of the party struggle, Gao Yu, who was also a powerful minister of the same palace, did not fall into the well for Su Shi's family, but extended a helping hand.

The most important thing is that Gao Yu and the traitors who were in power at that time, Tong Guan, Cai Jing, etc., were not in the same party.

It was because Gao Yu was used to being left and right, so he did not become the first target of the courtiers, but he knew that after Qinzong succeeded to the throne, sooner or later there would be former political enemies to deal with him, so he also came to Longde Palace.

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