Empress Dowager Meng said: "Okay, look at this edict, if you don't have any opinions, the mourning family will send it out." ”

In order to cultivate his son's decision-making ability since he was a child, in recent years, whether it is Cai Dao, or the six prime ministers, or Empress Meng and the Empress Dowager, they will show some important holy decrees and recitals to Zhao Ban.

Zhao Ban took a look, and his little face immediately changed color, but it was written that he and Empress Dowager Meng had given the three of them new titles and official positions.

The content of the will, into the king of Jian as the king of Zhou, Taifu, into the king of Shen Zhao Mi as the king of Cai, Taibao, and Cai Dao's two sons have booked the title, but have not been sealed, therefore, this time, awarded his two sons Xinghua Hou and Putian Hou, the three envoys as before, Taishi, into the dynasty is not tending, praise is not named, the sword is on the palace, such as Xiao He story.

In history, the first minister to receive this honor was Xiao He, but the minister who received this honor later was either a close relative of the royal family or a traitorous minister who was prosperous for a while.

After Cai Dao learned the content of this will, he was also extremely shocked, and hurriedly pushed back: "Queen Mother, Your Majesty, this honor is really the honor of the minister, but the micro minister is not too old, and his virtue is light, and he is too different from Zhang Qi, Cai Xuan and other ministers. I also ask the Queen Mother and Her Majesty to retract their orders. After speaking, Cai Dao was about to kneel, but he was stopped by the eunuch beside Empress Dowager Meng.

"Taishi Cai doesn't need to be humble, in this great Song Dynasty, no one knows that the soldiers of the three armies can Yang Wei on three sides, this is all the result of Taishi Cai's behind-the-scenes planning. If there is not enough money and food, if there is no virtuous minister recommended by Aiqing. How can Zhang Aiqing and Cai Aiqing make those immortal achievements? You see, this is all the music they wrote to ask for credit for you. As she spoke, Empress Dowager Meng took out a large stack of folds from the side to ask for credit for Cai Dao.

Cai Xuan's request for credit for Cai Dao is normal, but Zhang Qi's move is a bit intriguing. Cai Dao knew that this person was not a person who liked flattery at all, otherwise, when Zhao Xu was not in power, he was transferred from and around by conservative ministers in the years in the northwest, and he actually served as a deputy envoy to Guangzhou as far away.

At this time, Zhao Ban also persuaded: "Yes, the third envoy, you have worked hard, and the Dayue Kingdom and the Dali Kingdom were all planned by you, so there is a situation this year." The Empress Dowager rewarded her like this, which is also a proper righteousness. ”

Cai Dao is not those sour Confucians, and he has to be humble three times to accept an official position, since Empress Dowager Meng and His Majesty have said so. He also agreed, after all, after marrying the tenth princess, he can be regarded as half of the Zhao family.

As soon as the Empress Dowager's will came out, the court shook, especially the six old prime ministers and the privy envoy Han Zhongyan, who originally Cai Dao's official position and real power were greater than theirs, but the grade was slightly lower.

However, now this will has made Cai Dao a first-class minister in one fell swoop, and he is at the same level as His Majesty's two closest relatives. Perhaps, Han Zhongyan's status will not change greatly, but the real power that these six prime ministers have just taken back in their hands will be reduced again.

Even so, none of these ministers dared to stand up against it.

First of all, Cai Dao is now a concubine

Secondly, if you talk about the relationship between Cai Dao and the two harem masters, the other ministers know it in their hearts, I am afraid that this Empress Dowager Meng is even more obedient to Cai Dao. I think that at the beginning, when the Empress Dowager Meng was about to be deposed, it was Cai Dao's words that delayed the abolition of the Empress Dowager Meng for a month. And the ill-intentioned Liu waster was dragged for three years to become the queen as he wished.

In the end, at the beginning, Cai Dao withstood the pressure of Liu Waste, and first went to treat the eldest prince, that is, His Majesty, and the little prince died immediately. Think about it carefully, if Cai Dao went to save the prince first and was the little prince Zhao Mao, who had already died, then what kind of situation would the current Great Song Dynasty be?

Liu Ruoren, who has a cunning, cruel and extremely powerful personality, is probably more greedy for power than Empress Dowager Meng. She will definitely take the power of the court into her own hands.

After the shock, it's bland. However, the people in Bianliang City, and the people in the entire north heard the news, and they were all jubilant. The fortune boy became a teacher, and he was still young, which was for others. When Cai Dao was less than five years old, he knew how to farm. Such a prodigy has only become a master and a third envoy at this moment, and the people feel that it is a little late.

At the beginning, before Cai Dao entered Beijing for the second time, the feat of collecting grain in Shuibo Liangshan is still fresh in the memory of the people of Jingxi Road.

At this time, good news came from the northwest region, the Lanzhou defense envoy personally led the Western Army, together with the 50,000 elite soldiers of the Western Xia army personally led by Li Qianshun, the lord of the Western Xia State, to advance to the Hexi Corridor together. Except for a small number of intellectuals who fled to the Western Regions, most of the yellow-headed Uighurs either surrendered to the Great Song Dynasty or to Li Qianshun.

Of course, Li Qianshun took Guazhou by force, and suffered many casualties and casualties, so the captured population was not as large as that of Jianzhong. When the yellow-headed Uighur nobles fled, they took with them a lot of gold and silver treasures, so that they had less money seized in the construction of the plant.

Cai Dao gave the instructions, the property can be wanted, but the Han people in the hands of the Tangut people must be redeemed, if the Tangut Kingdom is willing, you can also exchange the property for the precious books of the Tang Dynasty in Guazhou, except for Buddhist scriptures, because the Tangut people themselves also believe in Buddhism.

No matter how much wealth there is, it can't compare to the living people, as well as those precious books of the Tang Dynasty.

Chong Jianzhong faithfully carried out Cai Dao's secret order.

At the same time, Cai Dao made a twist and gave amnesty to the world, but his amnesty did not include those condemned to death and those who were imprisoned for robbery.

The Ministry of Criminal Justice has withdrawn the power of the local death penalty, and although this has greatly reduced the efficiency of execution, it has also greatly reduced the occurrence of unjust, false and wrongly decided cases. Those bandits, bandits and bandits who were captured in various places were cleared up. Cai Dao did not kill them, but sold them to the Cai family who pretended to be at sea, and put these people on the southern islands for three months of training, and these people could become the main force of the Great Song colonial group to attack the Nanyang Islands.

Therefore, those military generals who intend to expand their family territory overseas have been very concerned about local banditry in recent years.

After Zhao Xu's death, coupled with the Song and Xia peace negotiations, the generals in the Western Army are now wild horses who let go of the reins and occupy the big islands in the South China Sea. By this time, each family had already sent outstanding children and elite men in the family to accomplish this.