Chapter 37 The King of Nankangjun

Meng Sheng sat quietly in the side hall, not moving except for the occasional cup of tea. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Of course, the thoughts in Meng Shang's heart were different from his quiet demeanor.

On the Zhongyuan Festival more than half a month ago, he had long expected that the official family would send the clan to Tianqing Temple to worship, and nine times out of ten he was a certain county king of the Taizu lineage. Although Taizu's lineage has always been unpopular with the officials of the past dynasties, his authority is pitiful in comparison. But after all, it is a clan, or a branch of Taizu, which is much more prominent than the clans that were separated when the ancestor of Hebei was proclaimed.

What's more, Meng Sheng is very clear about his catties: there have always been rumors in the alleys that he has no fame and disdain to take the imperial examination, but how can he be embarrassed to open his mouth to others because of the truth that he has repeatedly tried when he was young? In recent years, he has become less and less likely to go to the gatherings of some friends he knew when he was young, so why don't he want to recall his embarrassment? After all, he heard the lie a thousand times, and he himself believed it a little - he didn't have a reputation in his body, so he didn't bother to take the test, not to fall off the list.

For his current situation, he said it better, he is a teacher and a respected "sir"; To put it mildly, it is a sour and rotten measure that has not even been famous. Zi said: People have no long-term worries, Meng Sheng doesn't have much hope for his life, but he still has a son who has just passed the age of establishment, and he expects him to study and test his fame, at most he will just repeat his own mistakes.

Therefore, in order to be able to get an official body for his unsuccessful son, on the day of the Midyear Festival, he took the excuse of taking the students to worship the souls of Emperor Song Zhong, and "coincidentally met" Master Cheng of the Ministry of Rites, and then met the "county king" who was twenty years earlier, no, ten years in the morning, he would not have seen the "county king" in his eyes at all.

The issue of clan titles in the Emperor Song Dynasty is a little different from that of other dynasties, unlike in the old days, unless the country was removed, the position of the prince would be passed down from generation to generation. The Emperor Song was different, although it was stipulated that the son of the prince would be the heir to the throne, but in fact it was nothing. For example, the prince is crowned king, the title is only limited to his body, and the descendants do not ask the heirs, with the longest of them, the duke, and the rest of the descendants are just the shadow into the office as the sanitation officer, and then in order to transfer, and the different surname of the noble official Yin Zi into the general, must be in the old age, seniority, Fang Te to the king (county king), and his ancestors, fathers received the lord is not inherited.

Because of the emergence of the system that the prince does not become the king and only one person inherits the duke, there was a situation of "almost no king with the surname of the clan" during the period of Emperor Renzong of the Song Dynasty. Therefore, in order to change this situation, Emperor Renzong issued an edict in July of the fourth year of Qingli (1044) to crown Taizu's brother Zhao Tingmei, Taizu's son Zhao Dezhao and Zhao Defang, and Taizong's seven sons as kings. But at that time, most of these princes had passed away, so in accordance with the principle of these ten princes being crowned county kings and grandsons being crowned princes, a total of six county kings, three national princes, and one county prince were crowned, but there was still no heir.

The county king of the Taizu lineage that Meng Sheng wants to take refuge into, although he has survived the title of a county king by virtue of his qualifications, he has not changed for several years, and it is obviously unwise to put his future on him. But after all, these unpopular county kings of the Taizu lineage are already the highest branches he can climb now, and it is not his turn to pick and choose.

The results of the first meeting were still satisfactory to Meng Shang, just when he had not yet expressed his intention to take refuge, the man in front of him, who had only survived to the position of the king of the county by his qualifications, was not a few years younger than himself, but looked much younger, and vaguely threw out the intention of solicitation, which was enough to make Meng Sheng happy.

After more than a month, His Royal Highness the King of the County invited himself into the palace for questioning, and in Meng Shang's opinion, it was obviously a prelude to his own importance. Overjoyed, he naturally didn't think about why His Royal Highness the King of the County sent a maid to summon him instead of the others in the palace.

An hour passed, during which only the maid who summoned him to refill the water twice, but still no one came to take him to see His Royal Highness the King of the County, Meng Sheng had to wait quietly with his mind.

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Zhao Shishe stayed in the study for a day today, preparing to walk in the courtyard.

Zhao Shishe has black hair, and the complexion on his face is very good, only the white temples with two temples are reminding him that he is already in the year of the sixtieth year.

Seven years ago, when the new emperor ascended the throne, because of his meritorious service, he was crowned the king of Nankang County, and became the highest person in the Taizu line.

But so what? As the great-great-grandson of Taizu, the cousin of Emperor Shenzong, and the uncle of Zhezong and the current emperor, Zhao Shishi did not have a good life. Since the day he was crowned, the vigilant gaze from the emperor has never left him, first Shenzong, then Zhezong, and now he has been replaced by the former Duan Wang and the current emperor.

Seven years ago, the support was actually just a speculative move to understand the current affairs, not to mention, if you are a clan with a distant lineage, whether you oppose it or support it, what impact can it have on the situation?

From the bottom of his heart, Zhao Shishe is not without thoughts about the throne. is also a descendant of Xuanzu, why do you Taizong sit on the throne, while my Taizu can only watch coldly from the sidelines, eating your leftovers? You must know that this Emperor Song was laid down by Taizu, not Taizong! This kind of thinking is common in the hearts of every male clan member of the Taizu lineage.

But what if you are unwilling? Zhenren Yingshenzhe, five generations of emperors came down, and the emperor in the minds of the Manchu Dynasty and the civil and military was only in the Taizong lineage, and how many people still remember the Taizu lineage? I'm afraid there aren't any.

However, Zhao Shishe was not discouraged, and before the current emperor succeeded to the throne, there were Zai Zhi who strongly opposed it, saying that King Duan was frivolous and not enough to be a king. In the past few years, if this is the case, the emperor indulged in the pleasures of calligraphy and painting every day, abandoned state affairs, and the national power that had been strengthened since the reform of Shenzong Xining gradually weakened.

I'm only sixty, I'm still early, and I have time to wait......

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ps (well, the school captain is not specialized in the study of Song history, and I don't know which was the king of the county when Taizu arrived in Huizong, so I will find one from the generation of Shenzong, let's just think it's him, and please don't blame the officials.) If any of the officers know anything about this, please also point out that the captain is grateful for this. ）

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