Chapter 188: Black Hand

As the saying goes, it's eventful.

After a period of steady development......

In July of the first year of Jingyou, before the autumn, the Song Dynasty started again. Li Yuanhao sent troops to directly invade Gyeongju, and the Song Dynasty inspected Yang Zun along the border, and Lu Xun, the prisoner of Rouyuanzhai, led 700 cavalry to engage the Western Xia army at Longmaling. Not wanting the Song army to be defeated, Qi Song Ju, the governor of Huanqing Road, Zhao Dexuan, and Wang Wen, the governor of Ningzhou, hurriedly led troops to reinforce the Song army in Longmaling. Li Yuanhao had been prepared for a long time, and when the reinforcements arrived at Jieyi Peak, they were suddenly attacked by Li Yuanhao who had already ambushed the soldiers and horses.

Arrows rained down, and the Song army's formation was in chaos. Li Yuanhao held the red flag high, and the Seven Route Cavalry came out together, cutting the already chaotic Song army's formation into countless small pieces, and the Song army, which had lost its formation, was defeated. Qi Songju, the eunuch of Huanqing Road, was captured, and the imperial court was shaken.

Jingdong East Road also sent an urgent document from the third envoy, ordering Zhao Yu to immediately escort the recently excavated gold into Beijing, and at the same time increase the scale of gold excavation.

However, before Zhao Yu could come up with a feasible strategy for the imperial court to deal with Western Xia, Lu Yijian suddenly made a move at this time!

After the fall of Liu E, the former privy envoy Zhang Qi was dismissed as the left servant and the envoy of the national festival, and was sentenced to Xuzhou, and later changed to Chenzhou, which had just been settled for less than a year, and was sentenced to Zhiweizhou.

What kind of place is Weizhou?

Zhaoyuan gold mine is also located!

And who is Zhang Qi? Liu E's number one confidant before his death, and Lu Yijian was Liu E's number one minister before his death, if the two have nothing to do with each other, I am afraid that Zhao Yu would rather believe that wolves eat grass instead.

And don't look at Zhang Qi's actual official position is just the governor of Weizhou! As one of the treatments of the Song Dynasty's wealthy doctors, as long as he has been the prime minister, he will not make a big mistake. Even if it is degraded, it shows that there is still a layer of bright clothes hanging on it, and the left servant shoots and protects the country!

Let's talk about the significance of these two official positions first, what is the left servant? In ancient times, there was a famous political system of three provinces and six ministries, the most important of which was Shangshu Province. Shangshu Province managed six departments, and for this reason, it slowly evolved into six departments in one province, that is, six departments in the Ming and Qing dynasties.

And the most bullish governor of Shangshu Province is Shangshu Ling, Tang Taizong Li Shimin also served, so this official position was only fictitious after the Tang Dynasty. Think about the last official position of Tang Taizong before he became the emperor, what do you want to do when you become this official position? The one who dares not to be long-sighted should be in this official position?

So the left and right servants of Shangshu Province became the de facto prime minister. Needless to say, although the Song Dynasty became a Jilu official, it was still the highest pursuit of the Song Dynasty's military generals. Together, the two are collectively called envoys, and they are one of the most prominent official positions since the Tang Dynasty.

With such a talisman, even if Zhang Qi is nominally Zhao Yu's subordinate, who dares to say that he can suppress him?

Before Zhao Yu could deal with Zhang Qi, something happened in the palace again. And this time it's the kind of water that washed the Dragon King Temple.

August of the first year of Jing Yu.

Since Liu E's death, Song Renzong was extremely dissatisfied with Liu E's queen Guo, so Shang and Yang began to be favored, and later there was a "claw wound door", Song Renzong took the opportunity to abolish the queen Guo at the instigation of Lu Yijian.

Without Empress Guo's jealousy, Shang and Yang were even more unscrupulous, and Song Renzong naturally favored them more. Shang and Yang waited for Song Renzong to rest, not wanting Song Renzong's body to become weaker and weaker. There are two theories about this, one is that the emperor worked too government affairs, which led to physical weakness. The other one is naturally longitudinal. Desire. It's excessive.

Doesn't the former say that the minister is incompetent? Otherwise, would the emperor be so sad? So this one became a rumor, and the second became ironclad evidence.

Shisuke stood up again and was the first to fire, and all the words of benevolence and righteousness were pulled out, and I have to say that the article was written gorgeously, even Zhao Yu's Qingzhou Mansion newspaper also reprinted it.

The remarks inside and outside the court were fired by Shi Jie's cannon, and everyone from the scholars to the common people of Li talked about it, and under the guidance of the scholars' 'goodwill', they blamed it on the Shang family and the Yang family.

Even the Empress Dowager Yang had to remind Song Renzong to pay attention to the influence, but Song Renzong ignored it, and the eunuch Yan Wen should serve Song Renzong sooner or later, and repeatedly made suggestions. In August, Song Renzong finally couldn't bear the pressure anymore and was forced to agree to drive Shang and Yang out of the inner palace. The Shang family became a Taoist monk and lived in the Dongzhen Palace, and the Yang family lived in another house.

This may seem simple, but it's actually not simple. Because of Shang and Yang, Zhao Yu spent no less than 100,000 yuan to win over. Unexpectedly, Yang Shufei finally interjected and cheated her adopted son once.

didn't wait for Zhao Yu to complain a few words about Yang Shufei in his heart, but Yang Shufei had already been pitted by Lu Yijian. Zhao Yu's left and right arms in the palace are gone.

What's going on? It turned out that Empress Guo had been deposed for almost a year, and the two concubines had left the palace. Lu Yijian showed crocodile tears, and asked Song Renzong to be the new empress in August.

It's flattering, Emperor! You see you're so unlucky, I'll find you a woman right away.

Song Renzong was naturally very satisfied, and the show girl quickly organized. Among them, the daughter of the Chen family, a tea merchant in Shouzhou (now Fengtai, Anhui), was the most liked by Song Renzong, and she was ready to become the queen.

didn't want this matter to be known to Song Shou, the governor of the political affairs, Song Shou immediately entered the palace and said to Song Renzong: "Official! You want to make a lowly daughter a nobleman in the palace, this is not etiquette! Think about a merchant's daughter, how can she be a mother of the world? ”

In the past few days, the privy envoy Wang Zeng also came to advise Song Renzong, thinking that it was not appropriate for the daughter of a tea merchant to be the empress.

Prime Minister Lu Yijian, Deputy Privy Envoys Cai Qi, Yang Kai, Guo Quan, and other bureaucrats also wrote to Song Renzong: "The canonization of the queen should be cautious and not make mistakes. ”

It stands to reason that this thing is played like this, and I don't want to be rumored in the capital at this time, and it is said that the daughter of the Chen family is his father Chen Zicheng who accessed the inner palace through the relationship of the Empress Dowager Yang, and the Empress Dowager Yang promised to make his daughter the queen and so on. After the eunuch Yan Shiliang investigated the situation in Bianliang City, he also tried his best to oppose Song Renzong marrying the daughter of a slave as the empress, forcing Song Renzong to dispel the idea of marrying the daughter of the Chen family. In the end, the granddaughter of Cao Bin, a famous general in the early Song Dynasty, was selected as the queen.

And what about Yang Shufei? Instead, he was charged with interfering with ** and had to go from a semi-retreat state to a retreat state. Let Zhao Yu's proud ** influence decline to an outrageous level.

All of this was done when Zhao Yu couldn't react at all.

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