Chapter 295: I almost committed the crime of defrauding the king
Song Lizong Zhao Yun's biological father Zhao Xitong was just a Jiupin county lieutenant, and he died early, Zhao Yun's mother was unable to raise her son and had to live in her mother's house. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE。 info It can be seen that even if Zhao Yun is really a descendant of Song Taizu, he is no different from ordinary civilians. The reason why Zhao Yun appeared on the political stage was entirely due to the struggle between the crown prince Zhao Hong and Shi Miyuan.
After Prime Minister Shi Miyuan decided to abolish Zhao Hong's crown prince, he secretly appointed his confidant Yu Tianxi to find a disciple of the sect in order to replace Zhao Hong in the future. Yu Tianxi searched everywhere, but never found a suitable candidate. Six or seven years ago, Yu Tianxi passed through Shaoxing when he returned to his hometown, and it rained heavily, and Yu Tianxi happened to go to Zhao Yun's uncle Quanbaochang's house to take shelter from the rain. When the chief of the whole security heard that Yu Tianxi was Shi Miyuan's disciple, he deliberately stammered, and introduced his nephew Zhao Heju to Yu Tianxi, saying that Zhao Heju was a child of the clan. Yu Tianxi was overjoyed and brought Zhao and Ju to Lin'an. Shi Mi saw that Zhao and Ju were good-looking, and he liked it very much, so he asked Zhao and Ju to write. Zhao and Ju actually wrote the words "I heard about the ancients". Shi Miyuan sighed: "This is the destiny of heaven! So he decided to train Zhao and Ju.
Regardless of the authenticity of Zhao Guicheng's royal bloodline, Zhao Heju was only seventeen years old at the time, he lost his father at a young age, and lived a life under the fence with his mother for a long time, so it is unlikely that he will have the ambition of Lingyun. It is inferred that he should have been instructed by Yu Tianxi in advance, so he dared to call himself "I". But in any case, his fate began to take a turn for the worse.
In order to educate Zhao and Ju, Shi Miyuan summoned Zheng Qingzhi, the superintendent of the country, to give a lecture to Zhao Guicheng, who was a famous Confucian at that time. Shi Miyuan specially told Zheng Qingzhi: "The prince Zhao Hong can't take on the big responsibility, Zhao Heju is very virtuous, you have to teach him well." In the future, it will be done, and my current position will be yours. But it will come out of my mouth, and into your ears, and if any word is leaked, you and I will be condemned. Although Zheng Qingzhi is very famous, he is just a nine-grade petty official, so he agreed to come down for the sake of his future.
Later, under the strong recommendation of Shi Miyuan, Zhao Heju was established as Zhao Luan, the king of Yi, and changed his name to Zhao Guicheng. In this way, Zhao Guicheng became the nephew of Song Ningzong and the younger brother of the crown prince Zhao Hong, and initially had the qualifications to become a prince. Shi Miyuan spoke ill of the crown prince Zhao Hong in front of Song Ningzong and Empress Yang, and proposed to re-establish Zhao Guicheng as the crown prince. Although Song Ningzong was mediocre, he still knew that Zhao Hong was his real nephew, so he did not agree with Shi Miyuan's suggestion. Prince Zhao Hong's teacher, Zhen Dexiu, felt that Shi Miyuan had the intention of abolishing the prince Zhao Hong, and was worried that it would harm him, so he preemptively resigned from the East Palace. The crown prince Zhao Hong also lost an important adviser.
Therefore, Li Zong naturally knew that he had become an emperor from a commoner, and that the throne was not justified, and he had no foundation in the court, and he had to rely entirely on Shi Miyuan and Empress Yang. Therefore, as soon as he became the emperor, he respected Empress Yang as the empress dowager and asked Empress Dowager Yang to listen to the government. Dan Lizong himself also understood that if he did not do some deeds as an emperor, it would be a great sin to waste this great opportunity given by God. But in order to achieve great things in the future, he can endure many things. In history, Song Lizong has been on the throne for ten years, and only after Shi Miyuan's death did he start his own government. As soon as he became pro-government, he immediately carried out a series of drastic reforms, such as deposing the historical party, personally promoting Taiwan's admonitions, clarifying the administration of officials, and rectifying finances.
However, there were also cases of some emperors voluntarily abdicating the throne in the Song Dynasty, mostly when the Song Dynasty went to war with the Jin State or the Mongols. At the beginning of the war, the emperor ordered the Song army to defend the counterattack, but it dragged on for a long time, and the Song army was defeated, so these emperors were a little flustered. For example, when Song Gaozong ascended the throne, he resisted the Jin State, but not long after he was defeated and moved the capital to Nanjing, he took the initiative to give way to the crown prince and proclaimed himself Emperor Taishang. When the Mongols invaded the south, no one was willing to do it at that time, but for various reasons, the ministers in the court did not let him abdicate, but he himself took the initiative to resign, for fear that once the Song Dynasty was defeated, it would affect itself. At that time, the court of the Southern Song Dynasty was also extremely weak, and even the rule of Jiangnan was extremely weak, and it could not be taken into account in a slightly farther place, which could be regarded as a real pocket court, which was also extremely rare in previous dynasties, so some rudimentary capitalist production relations had appeared on the southern coast.
At this time, Song Lizong thought so in his heart, now that the Great Song Dynasty has a talent like Li Xiang, as well as the artillery and other sharp weapons invented by Li Xiang, there may be real hope for defeating Mongolia, if he can recover Jiangbei and even unify China, it will be a great achievement, Li Zong's heart was ups and downs, and he couldn't calm down for a long time, he happened to be standing in the pavilion on the rockery at this time, holding the red carved railing, looking at the sky in the distance, and his thoughts had already flown to Jiangbei, thousands of miles away. Mrs. Zhaoyijun was leaning beside Li Zong, looking at Li Zong's gaze, it was tender like water.
Seeing this, Li Xiang's heart moved, and he pressed the shutter.
After a while, Li Zong suddenly turned his head, looked at Li Xiang, and said, "Li Aiqing, talk to me in the study." After speaking, he didn't wait for Li Xiang to answer, and walked straight ahead, and Li Xiang hurriedly followed. After leaving the Imperial Garden, Li Zong remembered the painting and asked, "Li Qing, did you have enough time for this portrait just now?" ”
Li Xiang said with a smile: "Back to the emperor, it's done." ”
The two discussed for a while, about the production and deployment of cannons and rocket artillery, and then Emperor Lizong also asked Li Xiang about the invasion of the Mongolian army, and heard Li Xiang say that he used the cannon to scare the general of the Mongolian army away, and he was very happy in his heart, and rewarded Li Xiang a lot.
Li Xiang was about to retire and leave, Li Zong suddenly asked: "Li Aiqing, where did I seem to have seen the woman next to you yesterday, I don't know who it is?" Li Xiang was taken aback when he heard this, and thought to himself, isn't the emperor taking a fancy to Lu Shiya and wanting to be admitted to the palace? In ancient times, if the emperor fell in love with a beautiful woman, as long as he was not married, he would welcome him to the palace to have a good time, but he was forgotten after a while, did he really fall in love with Lu Shiya? As soon as he thought of this, Li Xiang was a little anxious in his heart, and hurriedly said: "That woman is Lu Shiya, the daughter of Lord Lu Wende, and she is also Weichen's fiancée. The emperor should have no opinion, right? It's just that he was in a hurry, but he didn't expect to say that Lu Shiya was his fiancée in front of the emperor, in case the emperor wanted to marry the princess to him again, it would not be a crime of bullying the king.
Li Zong was stunned when he heard this, and laughed and said: "Such a very good, talented and beautiful woman, it is a match made in heaven." When Li Xiang heard Li Zong say this, his heart was relieved, and he secretly laughed in his heart that he was too nervous just now. However, the father-in-law heard that he had a fiancée, what would happen? Or, she has forgotten about herself, after all, she has not been in contact for so long, and the emperor seems to have listened to Ding Daquan's opinion and does not want the princess to marry her. (To be continued.) )