Chapter 602: Father and Son Battle

In the sixth year of the founding of the military, the Great Song Dynasty worked hard from east to west. Huaixi, Jiangxi, and Jinghu have expanded their armaments, and in addition to recruiting strong men to serve in the army, they have also recruited thieves who have surrendered to Zhao'an into the army, steadily advancing toward the goal of "500,000 elite soldiers" of Xiao Zhao's official family.

The expansion of armaments is the most costly, since the founding of the Song Dynasty, the recruitment system has been established, and the treatment of soldiers is generally good, and the history books say that "one person is conscripted, and the whole family has to live", that is to say, one person is a soldier, and the whole family can be fed. Now the imperial court wants to expand the army to 500,000, and the expenditure has increased sharply. In order to cope with this huge consumption, the Great Song Dynasty tried its best to manage its finances. Despite Xu Shao's death, the new policies he implemented during his lifetime were still being implemented. Encourage industry and commerce, trade overseas.

In fact, Xu Shao's strategy, strictly speaking, cannot be called a "New Deal", because it only involves economic and military aspects, and the scale is not the same as that of Wang Anshi's reforms.

Although Xu Shao's new policy helped to increase the country's fiscal revenue, the implementation of the policy was not an immediate effect, and no one could eat a fat man in one bite. Zhao Chen is very anxious, the money is not enough, when will I be able to train 500,000 elite soldiers? At this time, the young emperor was guilty of quick success, and he chose the most convenient method, drastically reducing redundant personnel and cutting official salaries. In addition to the allowance, the number of high-ranking officials who can make up for their children and grandchildren as officials has also been greatly reduced, and the number of people who eat the emperor's grain has been minimized.

At the beginning of the founding of the Great Song Dynasty, the national policy of "ruling the world with scholars and doctors" was set, and the imperial court gave preferential treatment to officials and scholars. Before Zhao Chen, no emperor dared to make such a big deal and cut the welfare of officials.

The shock of the imperial court can be imagined. In addition, although Zhao Chen is determined to forge ahead, Zhu Shengfei is also inclined to the main battle, but neither of these monarchs and ministers has the courage to fundamentally solve the problem of the emperor. The Hangzhou Dynasty, which had to be established for six years, was caught in a dispute with Jīlie.

Xu Han suggested purging those officials who "stood in the Qinzheng Hall and ran around the Deokshou Palace", but Zhao Chen and Zhu Shengfei could not make up their minds on the grounds that they were too widely involved. And the Emperor Zhao Huan never gave up interfering in the government affairs, in addition to often sending people to convey his opinions to his son, he also directly went to the ministers who came to visit him. Even, when Xu Wei entered the Hajj, he wanted to summon the Purple Gold Tiger in person, but he was worried that this matter would attract huge criticism and gave up.

Every time Zhao Chen remembered Xu Shao's reminder to him before he died, Zhao Fa felt that it made sense. Finally mustered up the courage and planned to be ruthless. He consulted with Zhu Shengfei, intending to emulate the old affairs of the Emperor Taishang in dealing with Daojun back then, forbidding courtiers to visit the Emperor Taishang at times other than those stipulated by the system, removing all the guards in Deshou Palace, and strictly stipulating that Emperor Zhao Huan could not interfere in anything except for some Zhao family clan affairs.

But Zhu Shengfei thinks it can't. First of all, the reason why the Emperor Taishang was able to restrict the Daojun everywhere was because the Daojun automatically abdicated in order to unload the burden of letting his son bear the thunder in the case of internal and external troubles, and promised in the abdication edict that "except for the affairs of the sect, the rest will not care", which is the legal basis for the Emperor Taishang to restrict the Daojun.

The current Emperor Taishang was forced to abdicate by his ministers, and he did not have any promises written in black and white. Moreover, Daojun was the first emperor since the founding of the Great Song Dynasty, and the imperial court did not have specific regulations on the authority of the emperor. If you act rashly, you will inevitably attract turbulent public opinion in the world.

After Zhu Shengfei said this, Zhao Chen was also a little shaken. But his hand is soft, but the other end is merciless.

Because of the redundant personnel and the reduction of salaries, there is widespread discontent in the DPRK and China. At this time, the news of the Emperor Taishang's illness came again. Zhao Chen has extreme fear and defensiveness towards his father, and has not visited him for a long time, which has already attracted criticism from the government and the opposition. At this time, the emperor was ill, but Zhao Chen thought that his father was pretending to be and still refused to visit.

In this way, it is incredible. In the city of Hangzhou, inside and outside the court, there are rumors that the emperor is not filial. Some ministers of the court also played a fierce speech, criticizing Zhao Chen's practice, Zhao Chen thought that this was his father's plan, and the emperor wanted to restore so he refused the ministers' request to visit him in the palace, in order to get rid of these troubles, Zhao Chen decided to leave Hangzhou and go to Zhenjiang Mansion to inspect military affairs.

At this time, fortunately, Xu Liang, the governor of the council, and Xu Han, the privy envoy, urgently entered the performance, and he told the emperor that there are rumors inside and outside Hangzhou, all of which refer to the unfilial piety of the officials. How can His Majesty leave the dynasty at such a time? Xu Liu alluded to the fact that once the emperor left Hangzhou, he would be careful to turn around and be put in the pot. Zhu Shengfei also advised Zhao Chen not to leave the palace without permission, and the emperor saw this, so he gave up. But in response to the request of several ministers to persuade him to come to the palace to visit the emperor, Zhao Chen only threw down one sentence, "This is my family matter, don't ask." It can be seen that the contradiction between father and son has reached the point of irreconcilability.

Forbidden, under the door of the Chinese book, the political hall.

This place is the main office of the prime minister and the governor and other ministers, including the main functions and powers of the three provinces of Shangshu, Zhongshu and Menxia, and is the highest administrative body. It consists of Confucius, officials, soldiers, households, rites, and criminal rooms, and is divided into Cao directors. There is also a Zhizhi Edict or Zhishe Renyuan, who is responsible for drafting edicts.

Xu Liu's love was restored, and after visiting the governor's affairs, he worked here. As a vice minister, there are two ways to participate in handling national affairs, one is to have a specific division of labor, such as Huang Qianshan used to be in charge of farmland and water conservancy, which is called "dividing provinces to govern affairs". One is that there is no specific division of labor, and the vice minister assists the prime minister in handling government affairs in an all-round way, which is called "managing affairs through the province".

After Xu Liu's visit to the prime minister, the emperor thought that he was born in Jiangmen and was familiar with military affairs, so he ordered him to specialize in military affairs and be in charge of military affairs. In this regard, it was originally Zhu Shengfei's weakness, after Xu Liu entered the center, Jinghu, Jiangxi, Liangzhejiang, Huaixi and other road military affairs, generally speaking, he reviewed the instructions, and at most reported to Zhu Shengfei when he encountered major events.

On this day, he had just received a report from Liu Guangguo, the pacification envoy of Huaixi, asking the central government to allocate 8,000 sets of armor, and after consulting the relevant officials of the military room, Xu Liu approved the application, and immediately transferred it to Zhu Shengfei, and when he drew a charge, he sent it back to the military room and issued it to the ordnance supervisor for execution.

"Prime Minister Zhu asked the prime minister to come over." An adjutant shouted outside the office hall.

Xu Liu put down the affairs in his hand and walked out of the office hall, Zhu Shengfei's public hall was only a few steps away from him, and when he went in, Huang Qianshan was also there. Zhu Shengfei was sitting behind the desk, flipping the chapters one by one, and Huang Qianshan was full of worries, and his brows were almost twisted into a ball and he stood next to him and watched.

"What's going on?" Xu Liu asked.

Huang Qianshan pointed to the notebook on the table: "Thirty-seven books, this book is self-deposed, the officials who wrote these thirty-seven books are not on duty today, and they are all at home." ”

Xu Liu didn't believe it, and reached out to grab a stack and examine it carefully. Sure enough, each of them asked for resignation, and the reasons were all the same, thinking that the emperor was not filial, and they did not listen to the bitter advice, so they could only ask for dismissal. Looking at it again, these officials cover the three provinces, the six ministries, the Privy Council, the Taiji, the Dali Temple, the three divisions, the three ya, and the imperial camp division, which is equivalent to saying that almost all the central agencies are involved.

Thirty-seven central officials asked for their dismissal at the same time, and this was definitely a shocking matter. Thirty-seven people will not be on duty, and the central authorities will not say that they will be paralyzed, but their normal work will certainly be greatly affected. Xu Liu put down the notebook and sensed the seriousness of the matter.

"Most of them here are the former ministers of the Emperor, and they are trying to persecute the Son of Heaven." Zhu Shengfei whispered.

Xu Liu's face was long: "This matter must be dealt with immediately, and it can't be delayed." In my opinion, the three of me are saints. ”

"That's what I mean, let's go." Zhu Shengfei said, got up and left.

The book was set up in the forbidden middle, so it didn't take long to go to the emperor's daily handling of state affairs. As soon as they entered, the three prime ministers were all dumbfounded, only to see that the emperor was tidy, wearing an ochre yellow robe and a short-winged head, but the strange thing was that Zhao Chen had a sword hanging from his belt. The emperor wears weapons, either to drive the expedition in person, or to review the three armies, and now there is nothing, why do officials wear swords?

Zhu Shengfei was also confused, and stepped forward to ask, "Official, this is ......?"

Zhao Chen's face was full of seriousness, and even looked a little nervous, he tightened his sword tightly, and said in a deep voice: "Deshou Palace just came, saying that the Emperor Taishang personally summoned me to see me to see that this time it is horizontal and vertical can not be avoided."

The three prime ministers were shocked and the thirty-seven central officials begged to go, and the emperor must have known, and now he invited the officials to come over, it must be for this matter, but the officials can carry the swords to go? It's simply unthinkable

Zhu Shengfei was frightened, and said continuously: "How can the official family carry a sword to see Taishang?" ”

"The hearts of the people in the DPRK and China are fluctuating, and I am here to prevent accidents" Zhao Chen was expressionless.

The three phases looked at each other, and Xu Liu stepped forward and said: "Officials, today, thirty-seven officials from various departments and offices have written to beg to go, and they are not allowed to sit in the government, and they all call themselves guilty of staying at home. ”

Zhao Chen glared suddenly, and said sharply: "What"

Xu Liang repeated it again, only to see the emperor's teeth clenched, and a pair of fists clenched almost out of the water. The "strike" of so many central officials is unprecedented

"What kind of people are they," the emperor said through gritted teeth.

Zhu Shengfei raised his eyelids: "Most of them are, the old ministers of the emperor." ”

"Hmph, I know" Zhao Chen was furious. Almost without thinking, he threw out a sentence "All according to what they want to go, I am not reluctant"

Sanxiang was stunned and speechless.

"Sanqing came just in time, go with the Deshou Palace" Zhao Chen's eyes were red and he lost his rationality. Say it, pull out the tuǐ and leave.

Xu Liu reacted quickly, hurriedly rushed up, and said quickly: "Official, please untie the blade and go like this, I'm afraid of ......."

Where was Zhao Chen willing to listen, he just rushed out with his head held high, Xu Liu grabbed the emperor's placket, and said in a loud voice: "Your Majesty, you must not ask for the blade to be removed, otherwise, something big will happen."

Zhu Huang also caught up and blocked the emperor's way. The inner sì in that hall also swarmed up, and Shen Xue persuaded: "Official, what Xu Shenzheng said is reasonable, this sword has no eyes, don't be impulsive."

"The official family and the emperor are father and son, if there is something to do, it is okay to say it, why bother to do this, the official family thinks twice," Zhu Shengfei persuaded.

Seeing this, Zhao Chen said angrily: "If you don't carry a blade, you can go to work with me and go straight to work."

Where are the three prime ministers willing to agree, this is to meet in the palace, and it is not a march to fight, why do you need to go straight to work? Zhao Chen was furious, ignored the three prime ministers, and directly ordered Shen Xue to execute.

Zhu Shengfei was so anxious that he was sweating profusely, looking at the posture of the official family, as if he thought that Deoksugung Palace invited him to go to harm him. Even if the Emperor Taishang covets power and interferes in the government, how can the tiger poison not eat the children, how can it be detrimental to the official family? If this leads the squad to go straight and spreads the word that it will go out, it will inevitably cause a big uproar in public opinion

"The official family, this palace is a direct guard, the Privy Council has already been replaced, and it is in the hands of Shen Duzhi, so it is foolproof. Your Majesty doesn't have to worry much, as long as the family goes to have ministers and other accompaniments, please relax the officials" Zhu Shengfei took two steps back and bowed to the ground.

Left and right persuaded him, Zhao Chen stopped insisting, untied the sword, and mōmō the dagger pinned to Kù's waist, leading the crowd to Deshou Palace.

However, it is said that the Deshou Palace was specially built for the Taishang Emperor Zhao Huan and the Taishang Empress Zhu to live. Zhao Huan suffers from wind disease, whether it is good or bad, it is not unusual, but recently it was suddenly reported that the Emperor Taishang had some hemoptysis.

At this time, Zhao Huan was lying on the couch, and his wife Zhu was sitting in front of the collapse, feeding him a spoonful of decoction. Zhao Huan looks pretty good, he is in the prime of life, and he usually has nothing else wrong except for wind disease, but I don't know how this hemoptysis came from.

"Emperor Taishang, the saint has come up." An inner sì trotted into the room and said loudly.

When Zhao Huan heard this, his face suddenly changed, and he gently pushed away Empress Dowager Zhu's medicine bowl, and said angrily: "He only remembered to come to see his parents at this time."

Empress Dowager Zhu hurriedly persuaded: "Taishang is angry, after all, it is his own flesh and blood, and he will tell him when he meets him." Just ask him to come to Deoksugung Palace more often. Zhao Huan lay down and only snorted coldly.

After a while, Zhao Chen led Sanxiang into the room, stood behind the threshold, looked left and right, and his face was alert. It was Zhu Shengfei who coughed lightly twice behind him to remind him, and then walked towards his father.

The three prime ministers and Shen Xue all bowed to the ground and greeted the emperor. Zhao Chen stood in front of the collapse, looked at his father's face carefully, and felt that it was very ruddy and bright, and he didn't feel any different. His eyes touched his mother, and then he bowed: "Ask the Empress Dowager how she is well." ”

The son is the mother's heart, and the Empress Dowager Zhu took her son's hand to help him up: "It's good to come, your father always chatters." ”

Zhao Chen saw that his mother was thin, and said with concern: "The queen mother has to add clothes and food on time, and the state affairs are heavy, so she can't help but neglect Deshou Palace." ”

Empress Dowager Zhu was less than forty, dignified and graceful, and was very relieved to hear her son's words, and her eyes squinted to indicate that the emperor should also care about her father.

Zhao Chen looked left and right again, then leaned out his upper body and asked, "I heard that Taishang had hemoptysis recently, have you ever summoned the imperial doctor?" ”

Zhao Huan was angry, and then he suddenly attacked: "If you don't call the imperial doctor, don't you have to wait for death?"

Empress Dowager Zhu turned around to persuade, and Zhao Chen said: "Spring is now in the spring, and the weather will be warmer soon, so it must be better." I will edict the imperial medicine heart, too high and recuperate. ”

"Internal and external diseases are easy to treat, how to treat heart diseases? It is the home of ordinary people, the old father is sick and lying, and the filial sons and grandsons are all in front of the cuáng, tasting the decoction and medicine, and the clothes are not untied. The emperor's house is supposed to be an example in the world, but it is so ruthless and wants to see you, it is as difficult as climbing to the sky" The more Zhao Huan spoke, the more angry he became, full of anger.

Zhao Chen became more and more suspicious, uneasy in his heart, and only thought about leaving quickly, so he said: "I will often come to Deokshou Palace in the future, Taishang is angry, and there is still an urgent ...... in the court."

"Is there a day when you're not in a hurry? What are you anxious about? In a hurry to cut the salaries of hundreds of officials? Anxious to cut off the road to the official eunuchs? What do you want to do with the money? "The Emperor asked questions like a cannonball, and this is the key point.

When Zhao Chen heard him mention the government, he was displeased, so he simply fell silent.

"The ancestors set the rules and ruled the world with the scholars. Now you have cut down hundreds of officials, with a stroke of the pen, and laid off many officials, so how can people live in peace? and did not allow the children of the eunuchs to make up for the officials, so how could the officials be diligent and diligent? Zhao Huan asked repeatedly, but Zhao Chen just ignored it.

Seeing this, the Emperor Taishang poured his anger on several prime ministers who were bowing to the ground, and scolded bitterly: "You are a group of people who encourage the emperor to go perverse, are you trying to mess up the dynasty, the son of heaven is young, how can you as a zaifu know how to connive at his misdeeds, and you still have the face to stand tall in the temple, ask yourself, how should you be ashamed of the people of the world to scold you?"

A miscellaneous sentence, scolding the three prime ministers bloody, and they didn't dare to argue, just lying on the ground and not saying a word.

At this time, Zhao Chen suddenly interjected: "Can the Taishang know that today, thirty-seven ministers from each department and each government have written to beg to go?" ”

Zhao Huan was stunned for a moment, and said in a lost voice: "Is there such a thing?" "Pause for a moment and continue" Why? ”

Zhao Chen didn't answer, and when the Emperor Taishang saw this, he taught: "So many ministers begged to go on the same day, and there must be a reason for it. ”

"I have done it all, and if they ask to go, let them go." Zhao Chen said.

"You ......" Zhao Huan stuffed his face with anger, he never thought that this son, who was almost dragged and pushed to the throne, now has hard wings and insists on doing things, and he can't listen to his own opinions, he firmly believes that his son is a good boy, and he is instigated by this class of ministers, otherwise, he has only been the emperor for a few years, how can he think about expanding armaments and be determined to go on the Northern Expedition? Are the Jurchens so easy to fight? If it was that easy, I would have beaten Yan Yun a long time ago, and the final result was obvious

"Big brother, Qin died in violence, Sui died in cool, you did this, not only did you live up to the people of the world, but also ashamed of the ancestors of the past dynasties" Zhao Huan began to go online.

Zhao Chen looked directly at his father and said solemnly: "Since I ascended the throne, I have seen the tyranny and unkindness of Beiyi, and I have turned my face without kindness. Destroy my temple, dig up my ancestors' tombs, kill my people, take my goods and goods, exhaust the bamboo of Nanshan, write endless crimes, break the East China Sea, flow evil and unstoppable, I will extend my righteousness to the world, expel Beiyi, return the foundation of my ancestors in the rivers and mountains, and leave the name behind me, I don't want to call the person in the north who is my age as my ancestor In order to achieve this goal, there must be forbearance and sacrifice, why is it surprising? ”

Hearing these words, the three kneeling on the ground were excited, but the emperor was so anxious that he raised his hand tremblingly, pointed at his son, and said, "You, are you mocking your father?" You rebel son"