Chapter 7: The Turmoil in the Court

"Your Majesty, please speak."

"When the first emperor was alive, he once said to me that Wen Tianxiang, the champion of the gold list for four years, and Lu Xiufu, the fellow jinshi, are very knowledgeable and can be my professors, and now I have just ascended the throne, and there are still many things to learn, I want to invite these two into the palace, what do the ministers think?"

"Wen Tianxiang, Lu Xiufu? Some impressions, since it is the will of the first emperor, the ministers have no opinion. Your Majesty, the minister retired. ”

After Jia Rudao left, I muttered: "This guy has benefited, and naturally I have no opinion on these two scholars who have not done much and have no background." ”

Although I don't know anything about politics, but I have been engaged in sales after graduating from university, and the most important point in sales is to figure out the hearts of customers, that is, often said psychology, which is what I am very good at, as long as I can find out the mentality of people, I can naturally prescribe the right medicine, this is a big magic weapon for me, and no matter how much the ancients thought, there will not be many things that modern people know.

The national funeral of the first emperor is grand and luxurious, the ceremony is complicated, fortunately, there are many people in the Ministry of Rites, and it seems to be orderly under the command of Jia Yidao, as the heir to the throne, I am naturally wearing linen and filial piety, ministers, and concubines are all in tears, but I don't know who is really crying to send the first emperor here, who is acting.

I didn't bother to observe these people, and turned my attention to the burial goods of the first emperor, and I was amazed by the preciousness of those burial goods, no wonder that tomb robbery has been repeatedly banned and even intensified throughout history.

It took a whole day to finish.

Emperor Lizong of the Song Dynasty reigned for more than 40 years, and did nothing in the dark, before Shi Miyuan was in charge, and then there was Jia Yidao's dictatorship, and the government [***], which directly led to the decline of the national strength of the Southern Song Dynasty, but Emperor Lizong was really good for Zhao Yu's adopted son, and did not hesitate to dismiss the then prime minister Wu Qian, after Zhao Yu was established as the prince, he specially built "Zishantang" for him, as a place to study, and personally made a "Zishantang Record" for him. Li Zong also selected famous masters as Zhao Yu's teachers, such as Tang Han, Yang Dong, Ye Mengding and others, all of whom were well-known Confucians, all of which reflected Emperor Lizong's high hopes for Zhao Yu, perhaps Emperor Li Zong's life was inactive, so he pinned all his hopes on this heir, but this Zhao Yu was even more unsatisfactory.

I respectfully kowtowed three times in front of the mausoleum of Li Zong, which can be regarded as returning this affection for Zhao Yu.

When I returned to my palace, I was exhausted and fell asleep.

The next time, the whole people mourned the emperor, and the court meeting was also suspended for a while, and I slept until after noon before I was woken up by Xiao Qi. Today, all the people in the Prince's Palace will move to Ningqian Palace, and Xiao Qi and the others are ready, so I will wake up.

It was already chilly in Jiangnan in November, and I stood on the highest floor of the Ningqian Palace in a thick cotton robe, this three-story palace was located at the front of the harem, and it was the largest and tallest building in the entire palace.

At this time, it was almost dusk, the sun was setting, I watched this palace slowly shrouded in darkness, and I couldn't help but feel empty in my heart, is this my current and future home? Is a home without Lelingshan still a home? I've left the original world forever, will Ryoshan be sad if he knows? Alas, maybe she has forgotten me at all, but why do I miss you so much, Lingshan, do you know how much I miss you, Lingshan, why is this, as soon as I thought of this, my heart suddenly became extremely painful, until I thought of simply jumping from the upstairs, whether I could travel back and ask her to understand.

"The official family has been standing in front of the window for a long time, and the night is cold, so let's eat first." Xiao Qi's voice interrupted my train of thought in time, I retracted my thoughts, sighed and said, "It's Xiao Qi, let's go, eat." ”

"Ministers see my majesty, long live."

"No courtesy, everyone Aiqing, flat."

This is my official coming-of-the-road approach.

At the beginning of November of the fifth year of Jingding, I officially ascended the throne, known as Song Duzong in history, and honored Xie Daoqing as the queen mother.

According to the list drawn up by Xie Daoqing and Jia Yidao in advance, I announced one by one at the court meeting, ordering Ma Tingluan and Liumengyan to serve as attendants, Li Boyu, Chen Zongli, and Fan Dongsuo to serve as attendants, He Ji and Xu Ji to serve as storytellers in Chongzheng Palace, Wen Tianxiang and Lu Xiufu to tell stories in Chongzheng Hall full-time, and Zhao Kui, Xie Fangshu, Cheng Yuanfeng, Ma Guangzu, Li Zengbo, and other former ministers of the Zhao Dynasty. It is for the edict to speak bluntly. Then Jiang Wanli, Hong Tianxi, Tang Han and others were ordered to return to the palace and be appointed separately.

The above people are all civil officials, Xie Jia has people from both sides, and there are also a small number of neutral people.

Jia Rudao's biggest gain was that his son-in-law Fan Wenhu was promoted to the deputy commander of the forbidden army, and the commander of the forbidden army will only be appointed in wartime, so this Fan Wenhu officially became a senior general of the Central Army of the Southern Song Dynasty, and Xia Gui, who was the deputy commander of the palace at the time, was the same as the leader of the army.

In response to this, I also thought about it, in fact, most of the generals in the army at this time were Jia Nidao people, even the civil and military Li Tingzhi was also promoted by Jia Nidao, and many of the original real power generals have been purged in the past few years, or secluded in the opposition, or thrown into its arms, and even more, were forced to defect to Mongolia, which had the greatest impact on the later defense was the surrender of Liu Quan, the general of central Sichuan, so that later Kublai Khan chose to attack Xiangyang is Liu Quan's strategy, and finally made the Southern Song Dynasty rapidly defeated.

Since this is the case, I will go with the flow, and I can only wait for my full wings to do some calculations, and then uproot his henchmen.

As for Wen and Lu, who I hand-picked, are not in Beijing at this time, Wen Tianxiang is in Jiangxi, and Lu Xiufu is in the Yangzhou army, but the holy decree is issued, and there is no need to wait too long.

I thought that the matter in the court today was to announce the new personnel appointments, but when Xiao Qi signaled that he was about to announce his retirement from the court, a person flashed out of the civil official queue and said loudly: "Minister Ma Tingluan has a book." ”

This Ma Tingluan was the prince's right concubine, so he knew very well about Zhao Yu, at this time, the official worship department waiter, just now served as a waiter, Ma Tingluan now belongs to Xie Daoqing's faction.

"Ma Aiqing, let's play it."

"Your Majesty, forgive the ministers for their courage, now Your Majesty has just ascended the throne, and most of the affairs in the court are not very clear, so the minister proposed that the Queen Mother listen to the government in the back hall, and then come to the court after His Majesty is familiar with the court."

As soon as these words fell, the whole hall was silent.

Ma Tingluan is straightforward and fast-talking, and he is at odds with Jia Yidao and others, and has always been regarded as a dissident and suppressed.

These words clearly want Xie Daoqing to listen to politics, just like the Cixi Lafayette of later generations.

I didn't feel anxious at all after listening to this, because naturally someone would be anxious for me, but I still pretended to be angry on my expression.

Sure enough, after a while, the henchmen of Jia Rudao jumped out one after another to accuse Ma Tingluan, and for a while, this hall was not lively, just like some small island countries in later generations opened parliaments, full of ugliness, and there was no wind of everyone at all.

Except for a few neutrals, almost all of the lineups on both sides participated. "The minister also has a book."

I closed my eyes slightly, didn't speak, and let them make a noise in the hall.

"What kind of system?" Jia Rudao, who had been closing his eyes and recuperating, suddenly opened his eyes and glanced at me, then stood up and shouted at the courtiers, "The dignified ministers of the Song Dynasty, doing such behavior, are actually the same as scolding street shrews, the queen mother listens to the government, although there are ancient times, but only for the young emperor, or when you can't see things, now Your Majesty ascends the throne as an adult as the emperor, and then a queen mother listens to the government, this dynasty has no such precedent, what is your intention, violating the law of the ancestors, and wanting the queen mother to bear the harem to interfere in the government is not virtuous, and the emperor has a name of incompetence?" ”

Jia Rudao's words were righteous and awe-inspiring, and he buckled the two big hats to Ma Tingluan and the others.

Since ancient times, women have only been in power when the emperor is naïve, otherwise they will be regarded as unvirtuous or even usurped power. Therefore, even if Wu Zetian of the Tang Dynasty was quite accomplished, he was also ashamed of the literati and scholars.

The Queen Mother Xie Daoqing and her party were afraid of Jia Yidao's majesty, and secondly, they were even more worried about being buttoned up in these two big hats, which would affect the reputation of the Queen Mother, so they could only silence it.

This Jia seems to be arrogant, indeed sharp, and Ma Tingluan and others were speechless in a few words. After Jia Nidao finished speaking, he glanced at me meaningfully, and this look clearly implied that he Jia Nidao was a big tree, as long as I could follow the arrangement, I would be safe.

"Hmph, old thing, we'll see."

I saw that the ministers were no longer talking, so I signaled Xiao Qi to retreat.

"Retreat." Xiao Qi opened his throat and shouted loudly.