Zhenjiang in August of the first year of Daoxing is also a scene of singing and dancing inside and outside, and the market is bustling. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Since today's Taishang first went to Maozhou to incense, and then moved to Zhenjiang to sit in the hall, Zhenjiang, which was not originally a thoroughfare, also ushered in the second spring.

The name of Zhenjiang was originally the meaning of guarding the Yangtze River, and now Taishang commanded the Zhenjiang army in the early years, and after ascending to the pole, he also promoted Runzhou, to which the original Zhenjiang land belongs, to Zhenjiang Mansion, and Zhenjiang also changed from the military name to the place name.

As for the greatness of the Great Song Dynasty, why Taishang chose Zhenjiang, it is not bad to say that he has a special preference for this place, but Zhenjiang can be selected as Taishang Zai, and its unique advantages are also inseparable.

On the afternoon of October in the eighth year of Kaibao (967), Zhao Kuangyin, Taizu of the Song Dynasty, changed the naval festival of Runzhou Town, which originally belonged to the Southern Tang Dynasty, to the Zhenjiang military festival, which was to take a fancy to the military use of the Yangtze River. In August of the third year of Zhenghe (1113), after Taishang succeeded to the throne, he also issued a decree to upgrade Runzhou to Zhenjiang Prefecture on the spot.

In addition, militarily, Zhenjiang is easy to advance and retreat, and the surrounding geographical advantages are obvious, "fertile fields for thousands of miles, thousands of counties and counties, hundreds of needs in the central capital, all of them are taken and given", and "the west is far from Hancha, and the east is connected to Haiqiao, which is the state of the three Wu belts, and the meeting of hundreds of boats and vehicles" ("Reading History Fangyu Minutes"), and the political and economic status is very important.

And the original pattern of Runzhou city is also solid and atmospheric, the city wall built in the Southern Tang Dynasty is as high as three zhang six, so when the Song Dynasty went south to destroy the Southern Tang Dynasty, Changzhou was pulled out in April of the eighth year of Kaibao, and after five months, it was only in September to win Runzhou ("History of the Song Dynasty" volume 3 Benji), which also shows that Zhenjiang defended the city strongly.

Later, when Zhao Kuangyin changed to Zhenjiang Military Festival, and when Emperor Zhao Ji promoted Runzhou to Zhenjiang Mansion, he did not reduce the height of the city, and also allocated more funds for repairs, which made the city wall of Zhenjiang Mansion three zhang six different than the national capital regulation of Tokyo Bianliang four zhang is only one level worse.

In addition, Emperor Zhao Ji himself also has a deep network in Zhenjiang, and this place is also the area where he and his cronies have the longest operation and the deepest roots in the southeast roads. For example, Cai You, the eldest son of his confidant Cai Jing, successively served as the Kaifu Yitong Third Division, the Zhenhai Naval Envoy, and the Shaobao, and was stationed in Zhenjiang for a long time; Song Huan, who was appointed as the envoy of Jiang, Huai, Jing, Zhejiang and other roads, was Cai You's cousin-in-law and brother-in-law, and was also stationed in Zhenjiang; Previously, Cai Jing's fourth son, Cai Xuan, was appointed as the prefect of Zhenjiang...... It goes without saying that these conditions were very favorable to his restoration of the throne in Zhenjiang.

Speaking of restoration, although there has been no precedent for Lao Tzu to give way to his son and then restore in the world, Zhao Ji really did what he did in Zhenjiang.

Zhao Ji arrived in Zhenjiang and continued to dig the corner of his son Zhao Huan, and after the ministers who were pleasing to him from the court and the court continued to stand firm, he also continued to issue the "Zhenjiang Decree" from Zhenjiang.

After Zhao Ji arrived in Zhenjiang, he ordered the relocation of close bureaucrats who were still living in Tokyo to Zhenjiang, but on the other hand, he rewarded the meritorious personnel who fled south with him, and the general trend of "increasing rank and giving money", so that "the palace is like a city, there are those who are re-appointed, there are those who enter the three officials, and there are those who are summoned to the capital hall for inspection." Favors and rewards are indiscriminate, and the ratio of non-casual officials is also. ”

It makes Zhenjiang "ink system, easy to obey orders, move officials to give reports, and there is no empty day", and the officials are "confused by the parallel orders, and they don't know that there is a court." ”

Moreover, Cai You was even more powerful, and even said that Zhao Ji first drove the old Cai Jing who wanted to "serve" behind him to Mizhou, and then said that Zhao Ji used his third brother Cai Yi as the official of Zhenjiang, and made a wish to him to be an official and change to a scholar of the Zhengdian University. even made his fifth brother Cai Yan the envoy of the Zhenjiang Army, and directly grasped the military power of Zhenjiang Mansion.

However, Zhao Ji was not satisfied after doing this, and he didn't know who he was pushing, and he issued three "holy decrees" to all parts of the southeast one after another through the camp envoy and the shipping envoy.

One of them is called "Interception Corner", which means that the government in the southeast is not allowed to transmit any official documents to the capital Kaifeng; The second is called "Zhiqin Wang", which means that the garrisons in the southeast are not allowed to go to Kaifeng Qinwang, and intercept the 3,000 taels of Zhejiang Qinwang soldiers passing through Zhenjiang as guards; The third is called the "Grain Retention Program", that is, all parts of the southeast are not allowed to transport any materials, including grain, to Kaifeng.

As soon as he did this, his intention was obvious, but at that time, the siege of the Jin army was urgent, and Zhao Huan was still too busy to take care of himself, so he couldn't pay attention to too much.

However, soon the Jin army got money and returned to the north, after the siege of Bianliang was dissolved, the various performances of the emperor after fleeing south to Zhenjiang were quickly transmitted into the city of Kaifeng. ”

This day is the first day of the eighth month of the first year of Daoxing.

But seeing that there were hundreds of officials in front of the Wende Palace, everyone was waiting for the roll call to go to the Daqing Hall to participate in the big court meeting on the first day of the new month.

It's just that although there are hundreds of officials waiting here today, it is also obvious that there are very few officials above the third grade who wear purple, and in the area specially set aside on the side of the hall for the white body (no official personnel) to stand, there are two eye-catching figures standing abruptly.

These two eye-catching figures, one of whom is also an old acquaintance with many courtiers, is the former Dazai Wang. The other one, although he is not very familiar with the courtiers, is also well-known among the people, that is, Chen Dong, the student who made the "Fourteen Thieves" in one go.

Let's talk about Wang Huang first, although Chen Dong listed him as one of the fourteen thieves, Zhao Huan also belittled him in order to calm public opinion, first degraded him as the deputy envoy of the Chongxin Army Festival, and his family was confiscated, and then he was removed from the honor of the prince of other countries, and was demoted to the Chongqing Pavilion of Chenzhou, and even issued an order not to allow him to wear official clothes anymore, and he could only wear plain clothes (white clothes) to enter the court, so now standing in the area dedicated to white standing is also in line with the rules.

However, although Wang Hao was belittled by Zhao Huan again and again, he did not seriously move a single hair of his hair. I even heard that when the Jin army besieged Tokyo, Wang Hao not only donated all his family wealth for ransom, but also made suggestions with Zhao Huan, issued an edict to loot the gold and silver of the people, and ordered that all the big families in the city need to donate money, and all the treasures in the house of Chongyou were confiscated, and even hit the idea on the princes of the clan and the relatives of the emperor, and asked him to scrape out more than 100,000 taels of silver from the palace concubine and others, and finally made up the amount demanded by the Jin people.

So with this credit, Zhao Huan did not demote him to a place, but also left him to live in Tokyo, and from time to time he even ordered him to go to the court for consultation.

As for Chen Dong, he is still a student now, and he should stand here without an official or position.

It's just that today, these two people bumped into each other by coincidence, and they thought that something would happen.