Chapter Forty-Eight: Dismissal of Tactics

Shouqing Quanzhou sacrifices ancestors

Misfortune uses a plan to stay right

Li Renyou's trip to Quanzhou went extremely smoothly.

Quanzhou Port, in ancient times, was called "Thornton Port". It is the harbor of the lower reaches of the Jinjiang River in the southeast of Quanzhou, Fujian Province, north to Meizhou Bay Neiao, south to Weitou Bay, Xiamen City, Tong'an County, Lianhe, with a total coastline length of more than 400 kilometers. Historically, it has been famous for its three bays and twelve ports. At that time, Quanzhou's overseas transportation and trade were unprecedentedly prosperous. Quanzhou Port (known as one of the world's largest trading ports) and well-known at home and abroad, as famous as Alexandria in Egypt.

There are more than 70 countries and regions in Quanzhou and foreign countries, and the overseas traffic reaches the east and west oceans, east to Japan, south to the South China Sea countries, west to Persia, Arabia and East Africa. In the second year of Yuanyou (1087), Quanzhou set up a city shipping department, and then set up a remote post to receive tribute envoys and foreign merchants. In order to encourage overseas transportation and trade, the Quanzhou City Shipping Division and local officials in the Song Dynasty held "praying for the wind" or "sacrificing the sea" activities for Chinese and foreign businessmen whenever the sea ships entered the port or sailed out of the sea, so as to wish the sea ships a smooth wind and safe sailing.

Han Tiju, the secretary of the city, was older than the seventh uncle, and after asking him a few questions, he knew that Li Renyou was a competent businessman. Therefore, he asked the trade judge to accompany him to watch and explain several links such as the purchase of goods, the cabin, and the market where the goods were sold. Then, find the owner of the boat. When the owner of the ship heard that the relatives of the lifting lord wanted to rent a cabin to go to sea, he immediately said that the cabin could be picked at will, and the cost would be halved. When the goods are purchased, the merchants are also very polite, and the prices are quite favorable.

After everything was ready, Han Tiju took Li Renyou to worship the ancestors.

The Pantheon is in the east of the Minglun Hall of the Confucian Temple in Quanzhou Prefecture, and is also known as the Hanzhong Lingzhong Father and Son Temple. It was built by Han Shouqing, the sixth grandson of Han Hua and the Bo Si of Quanzhou City, in the Chunxi period. This Han Zhong Ling refers to Han Hua, Zhenzong Jingde during the Tai Chang Shaoqing out of Quanzhou. In the meantime, he was honest and honest, sympathetic to the people, and did some practical things for the people of Quanzhou, giving birth to a young son Han Qi at the age of 51, and died in Quanzhou three years later, posthumously awarded the Zhongshu Order.

The ancestral hall is a quadrangle, there is the name of the ancestral hall written by Wang Shipeng on the gatehouse, there are two halls in the middle, the left side is dedicated to Han Hua, there is a god card and "Quanzhou Zhizhou Korean Hua Statue Praise Inscription", written by Ouyang Xiu, Cai Xiang book tablet, the right side is to worship Han Qi, there are Shinto cards and "Loyal to the King Han Qi like praise inscription", written by Caizhou Han Ju of Huiyou Pavilion to be made, the east and west sides are poems and inscriptions. The whole building looks simple, solemn and elegant.

The main goods purchased by Li Renyou were silk and tea, and some ceramics were added. The goods entered the wharf, took the official certificate issued by the city shipping department to go to sea to do business, loaded the goods, and then multiplied the ship to go to the South Seas, when parting, write a letter to the seventh uncle, and the housekeeper said goodbye to Han Tiju, and returned to the capital Han Mansion.

After reading Han Tiju and Li Renyou's letters, and listening to the housekeeper's story, Han Yanxuan still frowned, and the housekeeper was puzzled, thinking that he was worried about the safety of going to sea, so he whispered: "The old man has seen it on the boat, the boat is tall and big, and it is very stable, don't worry, it will be fine, you just wait to count the money." ”

Han Yanxuan said: "Ye is not worried about Renyou, but thinking about other things."

It stands to reason that the Privy Council is not inferior to this position, and it is the head of the Privy Council's subordinate officials, and it is responsible for undertaking and propagating secrets, and is responsible for the affairs of the Privy Council, and is in charge of important military and political affairs, which is much more affordable than the affairs of the Cabinet. To put it simply, in Xifu, in addition to knowing the affairs of the Privy Council and the Privy Council (or signing the Privy Council), the internal affairs of the Privy Council are all in charge of him.

If the left prime minister is not so ruthless to him, when he goes to the prime minister's hall to wander around, give him a little good face, so that his vanity is satisfied, and the right prime minister Zhao Ruyu is not so unrighteous, but gently comforts him, saying something like: Take your time, step by step, it will give you a heavier burden. He won't complain like this, and even be anxious to pale his face, after all, if there is powder, it will be white, and hope is still ahead.

Now it's different, the two prime ministers are both with the virtue of no one in their eyes, just imagine, under their leadership, do I Han Yanxuan still have a future, can I show the glory of the Han clan again. Apparently a fool's dream. The only thing that made Han Yanxuan feel relieved was that Emperor Zhao Kuo trusted him extremely much, the Empress Dowager was still there, and Empress Han Jing didn't say anything to his uncle.

After repeated struggles in his heart, Han Yanxuan decided to fight back.

On that day, after the emperor dispersed, he walked towards the Wende Palace, and Han Yan bowed down and stood on the side of the corridor. said softly: "Your Majesty, are you tired, Weichen will accompany you to the back garden for a walk?" The emperor nodded yes.

In late autumn, the autumn breeze is cool, and the osmanthus is fragrant. Compared with the dull and cumbersome hall, this is naturally Elysium, a paradise on earth.

Emperor Zhao Kuo sat in the pavilion in the back garden, enjoying the pleasant autumn colors.

Han Yanxuan stood aside, chatting with or without a partner.

Today's court time is so long, is the emperor tired?

Why aren't you tired, twitter wow, you quarrel with me, it's annoying.

So among the ministers, who is the emperor the most annoying?

Stay Prime Minister, his Hokkien dialect, twittering, people can't understand, and he has an old face all day long, the emperor is like this, the emperor is like that, it's annoying to death.

This prime minister is obviously relying on the old and selling the old.

How old is this, not yet seventy? The emperor knew that the age of the civil and military officials of this dynasty was seventy.

It may be sixty-eight, but if it reaches seventy, you have to take the initiative to report it. Han Yanxuan replied. Seeing that the emperor was a little disappointed, he took the opportunity to report: This old man has done a big bad thing, does the emperor know?

I don't know wow, what's the bad thing?

Just a few days ago, when everyone discussed supporting you to ascend the throne, he objected, saying that you are not capable, so you can only be the prince first. Everyone insisted on supporting you, and he was afraid that the emperor would punish him, so he pretended to be sick and ran away all of a sudden.

Then this old man is bad enough.

Also, many ministers and ordinary people outside said that he did not dare to take responsibility when the country was in crisis, just thinking about himself, such a person is not worthy of being the prime minister.

I also don't think he's worthy to be prime minister.

Han Yanxuan accompanied him carefully, since His Majesty did not want to see him, Weichen had a way.

What's the way, Han Aiqing, you say.

So he accompanied the emperor back to the vertical arch hall. After a while, the inner palace knew Guan Li holding the imperial notebook in his hand and went to the prime minister's hall to read the holy decree: to remove the post of the prime minister, to be a scholar of the Duanming Palace, and to judge the Jiankang Mansion.

In the Song Dynasty, there was a normal process for the removal of the prime minister, one was that the Taiwanese officials were impeached, pointing out what mistakes existed, the prime minister stopped working, and went out of the capital to wait for processing. The other is that the emperor is not satisfied, hinting that the prime minister will resign himself, and the emperor will open his mouth to keep it, add an official rank, and draw up the decree by the Chinese book. In this way, both sides can get by.

And today, the dismissal of the elders of the four dynasties, there is no sign in advance, the emperor directly out of the imperial pen, there is no room for it, directly sweep the floor out of the door, the situation is extremely rare.

After Zhao Ruyu knew, he immediately went to the Vertical Arch Hall to ask for an audience, trying to make the emperor change his decision, Ning Zong said coldly: I have decided, and Prime Minister Zhao Cheng does not need to say much.