Thirty-six-year-old Zhao Ji looks pretty good—in fact, I think he should have looked pretty good except for him before he was captured by the Jin Kingdom.

He sat on his dragon chair with a sword, and did not look like a well-mannered emperor, though his artistic attainments were much higher than his genius as an emperor.

Tong Guan, who is next to him, is sixty-four years old this year.

Tong Guan can be regarded as the most powerful eunuch in Chinese history, he was in charge of the military power of the Great Song Dynasty for nearly 20 years, and he fought in the east and west to quell the rebellion in the town, just like the generalissimo of a country; In the end, he was ranked as the third prince and worshiped as the Taishi, and led the privy council to become the highest military consul of the Great Song Dynasty, and he was already a very popular minister. And he is the only eunuch in history who has been crowned a king!

Speaking of Tong Guan, known as the "Six Thieves", everyone in the world says that Tong Guan is a traitor to the country. In fact, if it weren't for his outstanding features, how could he stand out as a eunuch and achieve the status of a eunuch who has never been seen in history?

He has been in charge of the military for more than 20 years, and has been defending the Western Xia all the year round, and trying to protect the Guanshaan, and has repeatedly penetrated into the territory of the Western Xia to suppress the Western Xia, and it seems that he almost destroyed the Western Xia again, and when the Northern Song Dynasty was besieged by the Jin soldiers, the elite Western Army of the Song Army led by Tong Guan also controlled a large amount of land in the original Western Xia in the Western Xia.

In addition, Tong Guan successively suppressed the rebellions of many parties such as Jiangnan and La...... Regardless of this person's mental skills, there is no doubt about his ability. It is by no means as unbearable and incompetent as the Water Margin and others say.

At this time, he was standing beside Zhao Ji, although his figure was a little rickety. But he was still in good spirits.

As he announced the start of the court meeting, Zhao Ji nodded slightly to him. Then Tong Guan unfolded the document in his hand, which recorded the various processes of today's court meeting.

An annual pilgrimage meeting. Tong Guan has been standing here for more than ten years, and he can't do anything wrong with his eyes closed.

However, he still looked solemn and meticulous, the same as when he first stood here. Perhaps such caution is also a reason why the officials like it.

First of all, the affairs of the area around the capital that have occurred in the area around the capital since the beginning of the year have been reported by Yin Zuo of Kaifeng Prefecture, and they are naturally the first to receive attention in the place under the nose of the official family.

Except that football is heating up. There are no other big differences between the area around the capital and previous years, so even if he just heard it, Zhao Ji was expressionless, and after he finished the report, Tong Guan signaled him to return to his original position.

After the officials of the capital finished their reports, they were local officials, and the local officials were mostly border war reports. Many things are reported by the secretary of the military department.

First of all, it was the war of Liao, Western Xia and other countries. It's a "foreign experience." ”

The constant military conflicts between Liao and Jin and the successive defeats of Liao further aggravated the class contradictions in Liao. There was a great hunger in the areas of Liaoqian, Xian, Jin, and Xingzhongfu, and the people cut the bark of trees to eat, and even cannibalism appeared. May. Han Zhang Gao'er and An Sheng'er gathered more than 200,000 people to hold an anti-Liao uprising, and a large number of hungry people joined the uprising. The Liao court sent Yelu Mago to lead the troops to suppress and kill An Sheng'er in Longhua Prefecture. Zhang Gao'er led the crowd to continue to fight in the Yizhou area, and joined up with another uprising team led by the local Sixth Brother Mold. The struggle lasted for months, but finally failed.

The scale of this uprising was not large. However, it indicates that in addition to the crumbling of the Great Song Dynasty, the surrounding countries are actually not very peaceful.

Secondly, after Aguta became the emperor and established the Jin State, he defeated the Liao army in succession, and the country's strength was greatly boosted.

Yang Pu, a member of the Bohai clan, then suggested to Aguta that he send someone to Liao to ask for canonization, intending to make Liao publicly recognize the Jin State and Aguta as emperor. Ah Guta once again listened to Yang Pu's advice, and sent envoys to Liao in August of the second year of Tianfu, the eighth year of Song Zhenghe, and the eighth year of Liao Tianqing, and put forward ten requirements such as asking for canonization.

Its main contents are: canonizing A Guda as the Great Sage Emperor of the Ming Dynasty, the country name Dajin, enjoying the treasure of the jade chariot and the jade carving of the crown; Jin is the brother country of Liao, and every time the gold lord is born and on the New Year's Day, Liao must send an envoy to condole; Liao distributed half of the silver silk lost by the Song Dynasty per year, that is, 250,000 horses, to Jin, and ceded Liaodong and Changchun to Jin.

Emperor Tianzuo handed over these demands of Jin to the ministers for discussion, and Xiao Feng, the envoy of the Northern Privy Council, was overjoyed after hearing this, believing that as long as he agreed to Jin's request, he could eliminate the scourge and keep peace forever.

In October of this year, Emperor Tianzuo had no choice but to send a group of ministers with high positions such as Xiao Xi and Nilie to serve as envoys, envoys to ask questions, and envoys to read books, and to bring the crown of the Son of Heaven, jade books, golden seals, chariots, and law drivers to Jin, and canonize Aguda as the most holy and Ming emperor of Donghuaiguo.

In December, after the Liao envoys arrived in Jin, Yang Pu believed that the ritual system used by the Liao was not all the system of the Son of Heaven, and only made Jin a small country in the East Huai Kingdom.

The Liao envoy argued vigorously, Ah Gu was furious, and ordered to beat the Liao envoy with a whip and a cane of more than 100 rods each, and the peace agreement between Liao and Jin has not been reached.

This is too good news for the Great Song Dynasty to be had, because it also means that under their current situation, it is completely impossible to jointly attack the Great Song Dynasty.

Gao Yu has been standing in his position and has not spoken, it is not that he is not qualified to say, in fact, in a strict sense, he belongs to the highest military commander, and his position is not lower than that of the Ministry of War, the reason why he didn't say it was just to let other people's affairs be solved, he said slowly.

I waited for several hours, from the dawn of the sky to the setting of the sun in the west, even if the major events that happened in the year were stated, and it can be summed up as the life of the people of our dynasty is super happy, and the foreign people are in dire straits, which is basically the case.

Tong Guan saw that no one spoke, so he stood up and said: "If there is something to do, play early, and if there is nothing to retreat." ”

At this time, Gao Yu stood up in his queue, came to the middle and bowed slightly, and said, "The minister has a play." ”

Before the Tang Dynasty, ministers had seats in the court, and since the founding of the Great Song Dynasty, this benefit was abolished and the ministers were allowed to stand in the court. Kneeling and worshipping, only the Manchu Qing Tartars were only once.

Zhao Ji's eyes lit up and said, "Come on." ”

Everyone looked at Gao Yu, and saw that he hadn't squeaked for a long time, and now they were all ready to go home, so they didn't know what he was going to do.

Gao Yu said slowly: "This year's new champion Zhou Yi went to the minister's mansion a few days ago and begged the minister to give him a certain position in the army. ”

As soon as these words came out, everyone was shocked, especially those civil officials, who were shocked in their hearts.

The sixteen-year-old champion has a bright future in the future, and everyone has heard about Zhou Yi's many deeds, he is indeed a talent. It only takes a few years of training, and it is a sure thing to rise to the top, and it will not be long before you can become the mainstay of the civil and official system. Everyone was waiting for this day to come, but today Gao Yu suddenly said that he was going to join the army, which was equivalent to directly pulling such a talent into the military attache camp, how could they not be shocked?

He Zhizhong, the secretary of the ministry and the attendant, stood up and said: "The minister thinks it is inappropriate, Zhou Hengzhi is a scholar with his writings, familiar with the scriptures, and it is not suitable for generals, maybe it is just because he has not been granted an official position for the time being and made an impulsive move." Besides, the military and politics are not child's play, he is still too young, so it is better to recommend him immediately as a Hanlin Academy. ”

He Zhizhong's son He Zhi is now the editor of the Hanlin Academy, and Wang Hao is responsible for the compilation of the "Nine Domains Atlas", if he can pull Zhou Yi into the Hanlin Academy, and then let He Zhi get closer to him, he will grow up in the future, and he can also become a member of his own subordinates.

If Zhou Yi knew about the controversy in the court now, he might regret his act of giving gifts to He Zhizhong, at that time he was just giving a gift post, and by the way, he mentioned the matter of promoting his official position, but he didn't expect that He Zhizhong would insist on pulling himself into the civil official system at this time, if he knew that this was the result, it is estimated that he would regret it to death.

Regarding He Zhizhong's words, Zhao Ji seemed to agree more, the Great Song Dynasty emphasized literature and light martial arts, and such a talent must shine in the civil and official system. Although Gao Yu had entered the palace alone not long ago to state and show him Zhou Yi's important role in the military system, he still preferred to be civilian.

In the imperial history, Wang Huang naturally stood on He Zhizhong's side, and he said: "What Lord He said is extremely true, if he can enter the Hanlin Academy, he will definitely be able to achieve a career, and he has already announced his candidate Hanlin to the whole world, if he is allowed to join the army today, I am afraid that he will be criticized by the world." ”

Chen Guoting, a member of the right division, said: "The minister thinks that with football, he is more than enough to hold a position in the army." Moreover, it is precisely because he is a young man that he has to exercise more in the army, be able to understand the military situation, and when he comes back later, he can understand the people's situation, so he can be regarded as a civil and military all-rounder, so the minister completely agrees with the statement of the tall man. Let him be the pacification envoy of the war. ”

Dazai Zheng Juzhong thought that Zhou Yi should be a civil official, but Zhang Rulin, the transfer envoy of Jingxi, was on Gao Yu's side, and then Cai Jing and others were added, as soon as such heavyweights joined, Zhao Ji had to consider their opinions, although Wang Hao, He Zhizhong and others argued with reason, but Zhao Ji was still convinced. He was shocked in his heart, why did these ministers seem to be very interested in this Zhou Yi today?

"Okay, don't argue, everyone is capable, I know that he has also offered me a set of training methods. Now that we've talked about this today, let's talk about it. I think Gao Aiqing's statement is good, give him a strategy, see if he will only talk on paper, if not, and then transfer him back, what do you think? ”

This plan can be said to take into account the decency of both the civil and military sides, the military attache hopes that Zhou Yi can do something not to disgrace them, and those civilian officials hope that he can't withstand the pressure of the army and return to the Hanlin Academy as soon as possible, so that he can cultivate well.

Everyone spoke in unison: "Your Majesty is wise." (To be continued......)