Chapter 39: Thorough Investigation
If it weren't for Shi Miyuan's support for Zhao Yun back then, the Ninety-Five Supreme Position of the Great Song Dynasty would not have been on the head of Zhao Yun, a country boy who was still under the fence in the countryside.
Zhao Qi is also a member of the royal family, regardless of identity, status or bloodline, he is not much more than Zhao Yun at that time. However, the world is impermanent, and in the middle and late Southern Song Dynasty, it seems that it has become a common practice for ministers to control the government, and the royal family and clan members cannot even decide the ownership of the throne that belongs to the internal affairs of the imperial family, but to obey the arrangement of Shi Miyuan, a courtier, which can be seen.
To cause such a phenomenon, in addition to the increasing authority of the prime minister, the more important thing is that under the internal and external troubles, the Zhao family, as a royal family, is not only becoming more and more scarce, but also basically has no talents with eloquent talents.
Since Zhao Yun ascended the throne, because he is from the people and his blood is estranged, he has not enjoyed the slightest respect he deserves as a royal family, so Zhao Yun's relationship with the royal family has not been very good.
In the original history, Zhao Yun knew that Zhao Yu, the son of King Zhao of Daorong and Bing, was born with an IQ lower than the normal level because of poisoning, weak and incompetent, and even he himself was repeatedly fainted by the prince Zhao Yu who was selected by himself, and he was still unwilling to follow the advice of the clan and select the prince from the clan to inherit the emperor of the Great Song Dynasty, and insisted on making Zhao Yu the crown prince to inherit the throne, and even ignored the national Zuo of the Great Song Dynasty.
Zhao Yun distrusts or even hates the royal family, and those royal relatives who have countless times more opportunities to inherit the throne than Zhao Yun also have little awe of Zhao Yun, a country boy from the people.
In the final analysis, the two sides are just for a basic face.
Zhao Qi knew this in his heart, and Zhao Yun was also very clear in his heart.
Zhao Qi's palace commanded the envoys, but it was just a product of a compromise between the two sides. However, it sounds good that Zhao Qi is still in charge of the most important yamen among the three yamen, but in the case of the Privy Council and the commanders of various theaters commanding the heavy troops, although the front division of the palace is still nominally in charge of the most elite forbidden army of the Four Great Song Dynasty, but what is the forbidden army of the four roads, Zhao Yun as the emperor and Zhao Qi who is the commander of the front division of the palace are also very clear.
The front division of the palace, the division of the guard horse, and the division of the guard infantry are collectively referred to as the three ya, which are responsible for the defense and garrison of the two important places in Gyeonggi, the imperial capital of the Great Song Dynasty, Lin'an City and Jiankang, the capital of the Great Song Dynasty. Therefore, the three commanders in charge of the three yas are also served by the royal family.
The four-way forbidden army of the palace division is responsible for the defense of Lin'an City, the four-way forbidden army of the guard infantry division is responsible for the defense of Jiankang City, and the four-way forbidden army of the guard horse army division is stationed between Lin'an and Jiankang.
These 12 routes are controlled by the royal family and clan relatives of the Sanya Forbidden Army, which can be said to be the most reliable guarantee of the Great Song Dynasty, and there are Xiang troops and all kinds of local soldiers in the locality, but what is the real situation of the hundreds of thousands of soldiers of the Sanya Twelve Forbidden Army, who are nominally responsible for the defense of Gyeonggi Heavy Land, in fact, not only the Sanya is clear, but also the Privy Council and even the entire Song Dynasty are also well aware of the important ministers.
When Shi Miyuan was in charge of the Privy Council during his lifetime, he began to divide the Sanya and Twelve Routes Forbidden Army, and constantly transferred the elite of the Twelve Routes Forbidden Army to deal with the southern invasion of the Mongols under the pretext of sending these forbidden troops to Shi Songzhi, who was the envoy of Jinghu at the time; After Shi Miyuan's death, Zhao Yun took charge of the government, and continued to transfer the limited elite of the Sanya Forbidden Army by re-organizing the imperial armies in the Yangtze River and Sichuan and Shaanxi, and finally Zhao Yun formed ten imperial front armies, but these ten imperial front armies were not subordinate to the Sanya, but directly under the Privy Council, that is, directly obeyed the emperor's orders.
After all kinds of things, coupled with hundreds of years of erosion, the number of people in the forbidden army was falsely reported, and the number of soldiers was insufficient to risk the army's salary, in fact, today's Sanya and Twelve Road Forbidden Army has long been left with an empty shell.
In other words, the current imperial capital of the Great Song Dynasty, except for the two imperial armies of no more than 100,000 people under Zhao Yun's own control, is actually undefended. As long as the Mongols break through the defense lines of Jinghu, Huaixi, and Huaidong, and then break through the Yangtze River defense line composed of two imperial armies, then the core boundary of hundreds of miles south of the Yangtze River will be a smooth road, and there will basically be no more obstacles.
An army of 100,000 is a lot, but it is not enough to see it after all, if it is distributed on the territory within a radius of hundreds of miles.
The Twelve Roads Forbidden Army to which Sanya belongs is the foundation of the royal clan's life, but now this foundation is gone, and the clans naturally have a lot of dissatisfaction with Zhao Yun. But dissatisfaction is dissatisfaction, but it is also a helpless thing.
Zhao Yun stared at Zhao Qi, who was prostrate on the ground, his face changed several times, and finally he didn't continue to say anything.
Zhao Yun himself is also very clear about the situation in the three yas, including the front division of the palace, the guard horse military division and the infantry military division, and now except for the two imperial front armies, the three yas are basically an empty shelf.
"This matter will be thoroughly investigated by Zheng Qing in front of the Lin'an Mansion Commander Palace, if there is no news after three days, how should Lin'an Mansion and Zhao Qing behave, there is no need for me to teach you."
Zhao Yun changed his words, but he directly ordered Zheng Qingzhi's general, who had been idle at home for a long time, to be responsible for verifying the assassination.
When a group of important ministers, including Qiao Xingjian and Shi Songzhi, heard Zhao Yun's words, their faces all changed.
The failure of the battle of Duanping into Luo has made Zheng Qingzhi have been burdened with infamy from the government and the opposition, which is also the main reason why Zhao Yun has always ordered Zheng Qingzhi to be reinstated, but Zheng Qingzhi insisted on resigning.
Of course, it is also qualified to lead the Lin'an Mansion and the front division of the palace as Zheng Qingzhi. It's just that the emperor wants to take such an opportunity to forcibly let Zheng Qingzhi, who has been resigning, go out of the mountain?
If it weren't for so many important ministers in the court, they would have asked Zheng Qingzhi to thoroughly investigate this matter.
If Zheng Qingzhi is really reinstated, it will not be too good news for Qiao Xingjian and Shi Songzhi. Qiao Xingjian's position as the left prime minister was obtained by giving Zheng Qing a set. Shi Songzhi has been taking a contrary line with Zheng Qingzhi, and has been fighting back against Zheng Qingzhi's overthrow of Shi Miyuan and expelling all the four Ming people from the court.
Therefore, it is reasonable, no matter what it is, whether it is Qiao Xingjian, who set Zheng Qing back then, or Shi Songzhi, who should be Zheng Qingzhi's ally, in fact, he doesn't want to see Zheng Qingzhi really appear in the court.
What's more, if Zheng Qingzhi comes out of the mountain, what kind of official position will he be, who is already Shen Guogong?