Chapter 4: The Professional Emperor
"Come, come with the mourners." Empress Dowager Cao greeted Zhao Ji and said, "You all stand down!" ”
A group of palace maids and yellow doors all withdrew from the hall. Empress Dowager Cao took Zhao Ji into the bedroom, but Zhao Ji didn't know why.
Zhao Ji saw an antique huge figure painting, depicting Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty riding a bloody horse, holding a spear, sweaty and bloody BMW jumping high, with the territory of the Han Dynasty in the background.
"This is the Han Wu Zongma Tu, which is the handwriting of Emperor Renzong. Come, take him off. Empress Dowager Cao seemed very sad.
Zhao Ji thought that the Empress Dowager Cao was going to give this painting to herself, so she quickly took it off and looked at it carefully, and the heroic posture of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty made Zhao Ji admire.
"Come, push the door open." Empress Dowager Cao said while turning over a wall brick.
After Empress Dowager Cao finished speaking, Zhao Ji reacted, he was attracted by the painting just now, but he didn't realize that there was a door behind the painting. Zhao Ji pushed hard, and the stone door was pushed open, and in front of him was a stone staircase with no bottom in sight.
"Let's go!" Empress Dowager Cao said with a serious face again. After speaking, Empress Dowager Cao went in first. Zhao Ji had to keep up.
After walking the last stone step, Zhao Ji followed the Empress Dowager Cao into an armory.
Zhao Ji's eyes widened, there were weapons and armor in them. The bright piece dazzled Zhao Ji's eyes.
Only then did Zhao Ji understand where Empress Dowager Cao's power was. And not long after the completion of this Qingshou Palace, there is an armory inside, and the Empress Dowager Cao is really good.
"This is left by Emperor Taizu in the past, in order to prevent anyone from making trouble, he set up an armory in the inner palace, which is not allowed to be opened until a critical moment. There are a lot of weapons of famous emperors and generals in it, you can choose a set from it! There are also tens of thousands of sets of cavalry equipment, but unfortunately the cavalry of the Great Song Dynasty is chilling. Empress Dowager Cao seemed very sad.
"Yes, Our Lady, the grandson must live up to the hard work of the Virgin." Zhao Ji said with a resolute face.
Zhao Ji turned around, and every set of weapons was exciting. After some trade-offs, Zhao Ji chose a set of weapons from Emperor Renzong.
The funny thing is that although it says that this is Emperor Renzong's, in fact, Emperor Renzong only tried it once, and after Emperor Renzong passed away, he was hidden here by Empress Dowager Cao.
Longyin long lance, gold armor, tungsten inner armor, long and short double knives, cloud shoes, and so on. Zhao Ji didn't care about any taboos, and immediately put it on.
Empress Dowager Cao looked at Zhao Ji's appearance and thought of her husband, who also had the ambition of Han Wu, but let this well-built weapon be dusted. The world is helpless, and the heart is powerless! Fortunately, there is a successor now.
"This is a set of weapons and armor carefully built by your imperial grandfather, although it is not as famous as other overlord generals, but it is sharp, I hope the official family will give him a good reputation and stop being dusty." Empress Dowager Cao cried with emotion.
As a traverser, how could Zhao Ji not know the progress of military technology? Although other weapons are famous, they are surprisingly old, and they are only afraid that they will not be useful, after all, the times are progressive.
"Thank you for the gift of Our Lady, and the grandchild will definitely live up to expectations." Zhao Ji said solemnly.
"Good, good. That painting of Emperor Renzong, the official family should also take it! Empress Dowager Cao said movingly.
Perhaps it was Zhao Ji who put on the battle armor of Emperor Renzong, and the Empress Dowager Cao had a little more expectation in her heart.
Looking at this set of equipment, Zhao Ji looked excited. I was reluctant to take off my golden armor, so I picked up the Qinglong knife and wanted to pull it out, but I felt heavy. It took a lot of effort to pull it out.
"This body is bone! Even if there is an armory, I am afraid that this body bone will not be needed. Zhao Ji sighed in his heart.
The knife was three feet long, revealing a cold breath, which made Zhao Ji shiver. There are grooves on both sides of the back of the knife, and it is a special design for bloodletting. On both sides of the blade is a steel-grained green dragon pattern, with two green dragons opening their teeth and claws, and their long tongues pointing directly at the tip of the knife. The name of the knife is engraved near the handle, the green dragon is double-edged, and it weighs 20 catties.
One catty in the Song Dynasty was sixteen taels, which is equivalent to six hundred and forty grams now, which is more than one catty. The blade is wide and thick, and the curved arc is a bit large, unlike the horizontal knife in the Tang Dynasty, nor like the Pu knife that is commonly used in the Song Dynasty now, let alone the Miao knife. Zhao Ji couldn't figure out what kind of knife this was for a while?
"Our Lady of the Virgin, the privy deputy envoy Wen Yanbo said that 30,000 elites should be selected from the 800,000 forbidden army, and additional training will be added to defend the Beijing division. I think it's feasible, and the cavalry equipment here should also be given to my grandson! The grandson wants to train 10,000 elite iron horses. Zhao said excitedly.
Zhao's plan is to build an armed force that is of one heart and one mind with himself and only absolutely obeys himself. In this way, once the law reform is launched, at least there is no fear that those opposition parties will kick themselves out of the throne.
Zhao Ji and Emperor Renzong in history were all afraid of this, so they shrank back and led to the premature death of the change. In this era, if you are just an ordinary person, you can't make a difference. Only by keeping the throne can there be a foundation for ambition.
"Wen Yanbo is an old minister of the Three Dynasties and a minister of Sheji. The Great Song cavalry was weak, as it should be. Empress Dowager Cao seemed very pleased.
"Thank you, Our Lady." Zhao Ji wanted to kneel down, but found that he was in armor.
"The official family has the ambition of Han Wu, and the mourning family understands it. The Great Song Dynasty has reached this day, Wen Tian is martial arts, and the mourning family also knows. Heavy agriculture and mulberry, thick ministers, and making great efforts to govern the country is the right way, and must not be encouraged by others, eager for quick success. Empress Dowager Cao said vigilantly.
"Yes. Grandchildren remember. Zhao Ji responded.
"The weapons and equipment here, the mourning family will let Wang Huangmen be responsible. When the time comes, just let Zhang Huangmen ask him directly. Let's get busy! Empress Dowager Cao waved her hand.
"Yes, my grandson is leaving." Zhao Ji took off his golden armor, knelt on the ground, and kowtowed.
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Coming out of Qingshou Palace, Zhao Ji felt very tired. He didn't go to the martial arts room of the Wende Hall again, but returned to the Funing Palace and slept all afternoon until he woke up hungry.
"Holy One, you're awake." Empress Xiang hurriedly ran to change Zhao Ji's clothes.
Then came a series of trivial matters in life.
"It's really easy to get hungry, and it seems that I'm slowly recovering the amount of food I have in the next generation. If you can eat it, then there is hope. Zhao Ji was very happy in his heart.
For dinner, the hungry Zhao Ji did not drink porridge again, but asked Li Xiangan to prepare a table of meat meals. Under the service of the queen, he devoured it.
"Oh" Zhao Ji burped a few times and touched his belly, so full.
After eating, Zhao Ji took a hot bath. The bathroom was steaming, and Empress Xiang was rubbing Zhao Ji's back, but Zhao Ji fell asleep leaning on the bathtub, snoring constantly.
Empress Xiang looked at Zhao Ji quietly, smiling. After the serious illness, although the emperor was a little pig, ate and slept, and ate, it was much more reassuring than before when he always did not sleep, and a sick seedling statue.
Seeing that Zhao Ji was sleeping deeply, he beckoned the queen and several palace maids carried Zhao Ji out of the bathtub and put him on a wooden bed, but he didn't wake Zhao Ji up. It seems that it is really a pig.
After drying off Zhao Ji's body, several people carried Zhao Ji back to the bedroom and covered the futon.
Queen Xiang also took off her essence and got into the quilt, snuggled up to Zhao Ji, but she couldn't sleep, and Qianqian's fingers kept sliding over Zhao Ji's chest.
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At the beginning of another day, Zhao Ji stretched out his arm and woke up. Looking sideways, he lay sideways to the queen, pillowing his hands and sleeping quietly. His face was flushed, as if he was dreaming something.
Turning over the futon and getting ready to get up, he found that he and Empress Xiang were both naked, and Zhao Ji was embarrassed.
In the memory of Zhao Ji in the past, Zhao Ji did favor Queen Xiang. But now Zhao Ji doesn't have that thought, Queen Xiang is still a seventeen-year-old girl after all, and she is still underage.
As soon as Zhao Ji got up, two palace maids walked over, looking at the naked emperor, and they didn't blush. Probably always had this way before!
Zhao Ji made a "shhhh Walking out of the bedroom, Zhao Ji changed his clothes under the service of the two palace maids, and then completed a series of trivial chores in life. I ate three bowls of porridge with nourishing herbs.
"If you make up for it like this, sooner or later you will have a nosebleed!" Zhao Ji thought to himself.
Although it was still early, today was the day of the small court meeting, and Li Xiangan and Zhang Ruoshui were already waiting outside the hall. Zhao Ji got up in time.
In the Northern Song Dynasty, the Great Dynasty would be the first dynasty in March, and the small dynasty would be the third dynasty in January.
The venue of the court meeting is the Daqing Hall, a hall specially designed for the court meeting. Under normal circumstances, the Daqing Hall is not opened. The emperor and his ministers discussed state affairs either in the Chongzheng Hall or in the Zichen Hall.
The Zichen Hall was originally a place where the emperor set up a banquet for his ministers, but because it was relatively close to Zhongshu Province, it also had the function of Chongzheng Palace.
Zhao Ji felt that he was in good spirits, but he still didn't sit on the dragon chariot, and spent half an hour walking over.
The ministers had already set up their shifts, and they were in small groups of three, and in large groups of ten, they were discussing something.
Yesterday, the emperor and Wang Anshi had a secret conversation in the imperial study for a morning, and it is no longer a secret. Although I don't know the content, I expected that the storm might be today.
"The emperor has arrived." Zhang Ruoshui shouted at the top of his voice.
With a shout, the Daqing Hall suddenly fell silent.
"Long live my emperor, long live, long live." When Zhao Ji sat on the dragon chair, the ministers all knelt on the ground and shouted long live.
"The ministers are flat." As a latecomer, this is the first time that Zhao Ji has been in court, but with the memory of Zhao Ji before, it seems very calm.
The ministers thanked them and began to report on their work one by one. Then Prime Minister Zeng Gongliang made a suggestion, Zhao Ji nodded in agreement, and the ministers who were ready to meet the storm were confused.
By the time the ministers finished their work reports one by one, it was already past noon, not to mention that Zhao Ji's buttocks were hurting, and those ministers estimated that their feet were also weak!
Originally, Zhao Ji could go to Wende Hall to rest halfway, so that the ministers could also take a breath, but Zhao Ji did not do this, and the ministers had to hold on.
As time passed, it was estimated that by more than three o'clock in the afternoon, Zhao Ji's stomach was hungry. The day's pilgrimage meeting is finally coming to an end.
"Something to start, nothing to retreat." Zhang Ruoshui shouted again.
"The minister has a book to play. The minister accused Ouyang Xiu of adultery with his daughter-in-law, which really humiliated the minister Sven and corrupted the social atmosphere. Yushi Jiang Zhiqi handed over the notebook.
Zhao Ji took the notebook from Zhang Ruoshui's hand and looked at it.
Zhao Wei still knows Ouyang Xiu well, and Ouyang Xiu's "Drunken Man Pavilion" is too famous, and Chinese know it.
Here's the thing: Ouyang Xiu's wife's cousin Xue Zongru was impeached, and Xue Zongru hoped that Ouyang Xiu would say a few kind words in front of the emperor, but he didn't expect Ouyang Xiu to write a letter asking for impartiality. Xue Zongru was anxious, and wrote that Ouyang Xiu had an affair with his eldest daughter-in-law, Wu. Because Xue Zongru is related to Ouyang Xiu, and Ouyang Xiu also has a "criminal record", many people believe in the authenticity of this matter, and it suddenly caused a storm in the city.
"Ouyang Xiu's family raised 3,000 courtesans and made fun day and night. did not fulfill his duties, but clamored to change the law. It's a great sin. cut off all Ouyang Xiu's official positions and confiscated all family property. Wu was shameless and beheaded him. Xue Zongru is Ouyang Xiu's family, who exposed his family ugliness, had ill intentions, cut off his official position, confiscated his family property, and his family was all stabbed for thousands of miles. Such a vicious verdict came out of Zhao Ji's mouth lightly.
Zhao Ji didn't listen to Zai's advice and didn't listen to the defendant's complaints, so he made an arbitrary decision and made such a verdict, which made the ministers sweat. That noisy change caused an uproar.
"Holy Lord, without examination, give a verdict. No, you can't! Zeng Gongliang stood up.
With a "snap", Zhao Ji patted the dragon case and stood up. The hearts of the ministers were trembling, treating the ministers like this, or a famous minister like Ouyang Xiu, this was something that had never happened in the Great Song Dynasty.
"The Holy One is angry." The ministers fell to their knees.
"I Chrysostom Yuyan, those who intercede for Ouyang Xiu's family are guilty of the same crime. Whoever makes a noise to change the law shall be guilty of the same crime. Dismissed Wang Anshi as governor of political affairs, dismissed Sima Guang Yushi Zhongcheng, and all his party members resigned, and went home to be punished. Zeng Gongliang, this matter is at your disposal. Retreat. Zhao Ji brushed his sleeves and left.
In the following month, Zhao Ji became a professional emperor, and most of the things were handed over to Zaizhi, except for nodding, he never squeaked.
Moreover, the affairs of the three divisions, the imperial history platform, and the Privy Council were all pushed by Zhao Ji into the hands of the three major rulers of the political affairs hall, and since the founding of the Great Song Dynasty, the weight of power has never been there. Zhao Ji was also regarded as the "Nodding Emperor" by the ministers.
And most of the time, in addition to asking for peace in the two palaces, Zhao Ji nested in the martial arts room, practicing martial arts diligently, trying to restore his skills in later generations.
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