Chapter 181: Becoming President

The Yacheng Incident lasted only one day, and the overall situation was settled.

In the face of Zhao Lie's strength and the successive centrifugation of the ministers of civil and military affairs, Empress Dowager Yang had no choice but to retreat in the end. Empress Dowager Yang is not a courageous and resourceful woman, on the contrary, her temperament is weak, otherwise she would not have put the important affairs of the military state into the hands of Zhang Shijie, Yang Liangjie and others. She is very qualified to be the mother of one person, but she is very incompetent to be the mother of a country.

At this time, Zhao Lie may still be relatively young politically, but he met a weaker queen mother, so he won.

Subsequently, the Empress Dowager Yang issued an edict, and Zhao Hunting entered the king of Leizhou County, the Kaifu Yitong three divisions, the privy deputy envoy, the commander of the palace, the president's military envoys, and the Kaifeng Mansion Yin. Militaristic matters are taken care of.

The edict basically didn't say anything, just a list of official titles. But when the original copy of the edict arrived at the government office, almost everyone who saw it was stunned.

These official titles are too connotative!

Let's talk about the king of Leizhou first. This is a prince, and the Song Dynasty has increased to twelve levels, namely the king, the heir, the county king, the prince of the country, the prince of the county, the prince of the founding country, the prince of the founding county, the prince of the founding county, the prince of the founding country, the founder of the country, the founder of the country. Zhao Lie, who was also the eighth-level founding county prince before, had been pressed by the inner court and the outer court, and he was never allowed to inherit the heir to King Xiu. And this time he rushed to the third-level county king, thinking of the identity of his clan, this time he was promoted to the king, and it was a real seal, which was extraordinary.

The most intriguing thing is that Zhao Lie did not inherit the king of Heixiu, but made the king of Leizhou County. Where is Leizhou? Just across the Qiongzhou Strait, it is the most important springboard for the counteroffensive against the Yuan. Giving up Xiuzhou and taking Leizhou, this title is interesting.

Then there are the Privy Counsellors. Who was the original Privy Councillor? Zhang Shijie! This is enough to show that Zhang Shijie, a military and political powerhouse who has controlled the dynasty for nearly ten years, has been pulled off the horse. Next, there is a possibility of facing the outcome of liquidation.

and then commanded the envoys in front of the palace. This is the highest position of the two divisions of the forbidden army, and whoever sits in this position is equivalent to directly in charge of the forbidden army. And this official position was originally Su Liuyi's, and it is obvious that this Song Army Palace Marshal has now been dismissed.

The news that two commanders, deputy commanders and powerful figures in the army, were dismissed on the same day is truly appalling. However, compared to this, the last official position is the one that really scares people - Yao Ling Kaifeng Mansion Yin!

This official position seems ordinary, but it is just a second-grade dispatch, or a false title, and it can't be compared with those kings and prime ministers. In fact, it has a strong political connotation.

At the beginning of the Northern Song Dynasty, most of the people who served as the Yin of Kaifeng Mansion were de facto princes. Zhou Shizong, Song Taizong, and Song Zhenzong all held this position before their accession to the throne. Since then, most of them have been held by the prince.

After the southern crossing, there was no prince who received this title. More than 100 years have passed, but the political implications of the position remain, and the sensitivity remains.

Which of the princes in the government hall is not familiar with the affairs of the country? Which is not the right officer? If the county king in front of him is only a little meaningful, then this Kaifeng Mansion Yin shows a very clear political meaning.

The title is not false, but it is very hammered!

To be able to use an official position at the beginning of a dynasty to skillfully finalize the identity of Zhao Lie's prince, this requires a thorough understanding of the history of the dynasty and an accurate grasp of the current situation of the dynasty. This is definitely not something that Zhao Lie can come up with, there are only two people who can do this: Chen Yizhong and Ma Nanchun.

Seeing the smile of the Prime Minister of the Great Song Dynasty, I don't know whose hand this pen came from.

Wen Tianxiang only said three words: "Good!" Good! Good! And he said no more.

Yang Liangjie has long lost his usual elegance and calm demeanor, lost his soul, and kept muttering to himself: "How can this be? How could this be......"

Yes, he already knew about it, and he wanted to prevent it for a long time, and even took risks in order to get a gun, and constantly stepped on Zhao Hunt's bottom line. For this reason, they have resorted to all their might, and the lack of force has made up for the conspiracy. But even if all kinds of conspiracies and tricks are used, in the end, they can't stop the crushing by pure force. All calculations were wiped out by absolute force.

Before failing to convert the powerful force of the Dragon Bird Army into his own use, Yang Liangjie could only rely on Zhang Shijie. That's why he tried his best to unite with Zhang Shijie and promise all kinds of benefits, and the Empress Dowager Yang also continued to delegate power, so that Zhang Shijie's military discourse power pressed the court, and even Wen Tianxiang, the privy envoy, couldn't speak.

If Ali Hague hadn't made such a way to stir up and almost empty the Yacheng forces, Yang Liangjie's joint suppression strategy would really have succeeded, and it is estimated that Zhao Lie would have been forced to go away and stand on his own. Of course, now that everything is settled, as soon as Zhang Shijie defects, the Queen Mother's Party will also be finished. The Song Dynasty has always been a civilian, but in such a troubled era, the most powerful voice is no longer the pen, but the gun.

The Empress Dowager Party stepped down, but Zhao Lie did not immediately ascend the throne as emperor.

If he came to power with a mutiny, he would be suspected of repeating the "Chenqiao Mutiny" in the early Song Dynasty, which was criticized by later historians. Therefore, Chen Yizhong suggested in the letter that Zhao Lie postpone his accession to the throne, first establish the identity of the prince, and then slowly figure it out. After the internal and external shocks of the line subsided, the ministers supported it, and the government and the opposition persuaded to advance, and everything fell into place, so that it was the way to enter the lord and hang the arch.

Although Zhao Lie's political value is mediocre, he can still see whether the suggestion is good or bad, and he greatly appreciates Chen Yizhong's strategy and readily adopts it.

In March of the third year of Xiangxing, the dust settled.

Empress Dowager Yang withdrew the curtain and returned to power, Zhao Zhao, the king of Leizhou County, hunted and supervised the country, and the important affairs of the military state were decided by the prison country and the left and right prime ministers.

Zeng Yuanzi was still the governor of the council, and Ma Nanchun was a member of the Privy Council who signed the same book, and became Zhao Lie's assistant, from an executor who could only "promise the decree" to a decision-maker.

Zhang Shijie is still the Duke of Yue Guo and the Taifu, and then he hung up the title of the secretary of the military department, and he can no longer be in charge of the army.

Su Liuyi also retained various honorary titles and served as a squire in the military department, but he also had no chance to serve in the military.

Yang Liangjie "resigned" as the envoy of the degree and the secretary of the household department, and transferred to the secretary of the Ministry of Rites. "Yang Jixiang" has become "Yang Lixiang", this power is very different, and I am afraid that it will be difficult to make trouble in the future.

It can be seen from the above official changes that Zhao Lie's mutiny was very mild, and basically did not kill any of them, but only deprived them of real power.

Zhao Lie is not worried about whether these people will make trouble again in the future, as long as the military power is in hand, they will not be able to turn the sky upside down. If anyone doesn't know the interest and doesn't give up, they can be killed justifiably in the future.

When it comes to military power, what Zhao Lie is most satisfied with is the dispatch of "the president's military envoys". Historically, this was Su Liuyi's official position, and now it naturally falls to Zhao Hunting. This position is equivalent to "the generalissimo of the world's soldiers and horses", and since then, the entire Southern Song Dynasty government and the opposition, regardless of the forbidden army, the box army, the township soldiers, the Fan soldiers, and the volunteers, one is counted as one, and all of them are under his command. There is quite a bit of "command the world, don't dare to disobey" flavor.

Of course, this is only in name after all, and the most tangible thing is the soldiers and horses under his command and the guns in his hands.

I have the power of the army, and I have it in the world.

It's just that in the future, when subordinates call themselves, will they be "presidents"?