Chapter 11 Peace Envoys
When the brothers talked about lunch, the emperor was late, Zhao Ta thought that the brothers were not so polite, as soon as he made a gesture, the eldest brother stretched out his hand to help him even if it passed, it was like this in the past, but today he was disappointed. Zhao Huan sat down and received the big gift of Zhao Ta's three bows and nine bows, looking at his appearance is very satisfying to this feeling, isn't your Yan King flamboyant and unruly, but now he is still kneeling at his feet!
Zhao Ta can see that this is not the prince who was bullied by Lin Lingsu and Zhao Kai back then, but the lord of a country that reigns over the world, the past repression and humiliation have turned into the motivation for him to take revenge on anyone, even if he has helped his brother, this kind of distorted mind allows him to show his authority at every opportunity and enjoy this high sense of superiority.
Some courtiers understand this and use this to gain benefits from the emperor, and those who do not understand this will be jealous of the emperor the more talented and meritorious they are. It's just that Zhao Tan is not a person with this kind of temper, he is a person who eats soft and does not eat hard, if you make me unhappy, I won't make you happy, Zhao Huan wanted to listen to a few words of compliment and surrender, but he just didn't say it, three sentences and two sentences talked about Zhao Ji, he was going to ask his parents for peace.
Zhao Huan was already taboo about others contacting the old emperor, of course, he was more strict with his brothers, so he was naturally unhappy, so he didn't care about the meal, let him go to see the queen, and then take his daughter-in-law home, and report to the Privy Council early tomorrow morning, don't even take a vacation, and go to work immediately!
Zhao Ta was ordered to visit the emperor's sister-in-law, and they all said that there were a few emperors in the Great Song Dynasty, but the queens were all good people, which was really true. Empress Zhu is very affectionate to this second brother. not only kept him to eat, but also talked about the events of the year. recalled the help to them, and the two mansions once fought together against the Jiawang Mansion. This made Zhao Ta feel very good. But he didn't dare to eat the food, so he took his daughter-in-law home.
After a few years, Zhu Shuzhen has retired, and she has more of the charm of being a woman. Although Zhao Ta was dissatisfied with this marriage, how could their family dare to disobey the king's orders, and how innocent was a woman, he snubbed her for several years, and found a little wife outside, but now he was taken hostage because of himself. Although she still doesn't know it. This made Zhao Ta feel very guilty in his heart, and his eyes were much softer when he looked at Zhu Shuzhen.
Because Zhao Ta didn't expect the eldest brother to be able to release people so easily, so he didn't order someone to prepare a sedan car and prepare a car, where to find it in a hurry, seeing that he wanted to send someone back to the house to get it, Zhao Ta felt that he didn't know how much time to delay when he came and went, so he ordered someone to tie the queen's reward on horseback, and hugged his daughter-in-law on his horseback, and he flew on the horse. The two rode home on horseback.
"Lord, quickly put down the concubines, otherwise you will be impeached by the imperial history tomorrow!" Zhu Shuzhen nestled in the arms of the prince, so ashamed that she couldn't raise her head. Whispered.
"Don't you like riding with me?" Zhao Ta held the reins in one hand, put the other hand around his wife's waist and whispered in her ear.
"Hi... Like! Zhu Shuzhen grabbed the prince's clothes tightly with both hands and leaned on his arms. This sweet and romantic scene has appeared in her dreams countless times.
"Ha Luha, since you like to be afraid of something. I rode a horse with my daughter-in-law, afraid that they would make noise. If they have the ability, they can also learn! Zhao Ta said with a smile.
"I'm afraid that the concubine is dreaming, and waking up is empty, I'm afraid that one day the prince will abandon me, and it will be difficult to see each other again!" Zhu Shuzhen shrank into the prince's arms again, and said softly.
"Don't worry, we will never be separated in the future, and we will never leave you!" Zhao Ta hugged the beauty in his arms and said solemnly, Zhu Shuzhen looked at the prince and nodded vigorously and smiled.
Zhao Ta rode a horse with a beautiful woman in his arms, and the entourage behind him was wrapped in a cage on the horse, and the streets of the capital city quickly attracted people's attention, if it were not for the Jin army had retreated, they would definitely be regarded as the Jurchens who entered the city to loot, and everyone quickly recognized that this 'bohemian' madman was the Prince Yan who had just created the Taiyuan victory, and they became the object of onlookers and chases.
Zhao Ta's image immediately became the object of imitation for those 'yuppies' in Beijing who like to push through the old and follow the trend, while Prince Yan became the dream lover of countless young girls and ladies to be married in the pavilion, and their hot and jealous eyes almost made Zhao Ta unable to resist. Within a few days, the price of dark horses in Beijing rose sharply, and even a dark horse with almost lost teeth was sold for 200 yuan, and it was priceless. Zhao Ta once again shocked the Beijing master with his unique way of standing up!
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The next morning, before dawn, Zhao Ta, who had a happy night, was invited out of the quilt by Zhu Shuzhen, changed clothes, washed and ate and prepared to go to work, he looked at the princess whose face was flushed, and then looked at the breakfast prepared on the table, and sighed in his heart, this is the happiness he pursued in his previous life, living a 6-to-5 life as a senior white-collar worker.
Just after Yin, Zhao Ta went out to prepare for work and went to the Privy Council to take office. The Privy Council, set up along the old system of the Song Dynasty in the Five Dynasties, usurped the functions and powers of the original Ministry of War, and was the highest military institution. The prefect was the privy envoy and deputy envoy, and later the Privy Council was changed to the chief officer, and the Privy Council was also known as the deputy prefect.
The status of the privy envoy is slightly lower than that of the prime minister, and he is collectively referred to as the consul privy envoy, the privy councillor, and the privy councillor.
Among them, the same knowledge of the Privy Council, the deputy of the Privy Council, the signing of the Privy Council, the same signing of the Privy Council, the beginning of the Song Dynasty, the official is not customized, there is an envoy to put the deputy, there is the knowledge of the court is placed in the same court, and the seniority is to use the direct bachelor to sign the college affairs, and the two people of the Zhiyuan and the Tongzhiyuan. At the beginning of the Song Dynasty, the Privy Council had four rooms: soldiers, officials, households, and ceremonies. Shenzong Yuanfeng increased to ten rooms in five years, and then added two rooms, for a total of twelve rooms. Each room is equipped with the posts of deputy secretary, director, chief officer, secretary and secretary.
Song has the term "ruling the ruler", which is the combined name of the prime minister and the ruling party. Zai refers to the prime minister, only limited to Tongping Zhangshi, Shangshu's left servant shot and the door servant and Shangshu's right servant shot and Zhongshu squire, after Cai Jing adjusted the official system, called Dazai and Shaozai. The vice-ministers include the Governor of the Council, the Men and the Ministers, the Zhongshu Ministers, the Left and Right Ministers of the Shangshu, and the Privy Councillors and Vice-Chancellors, collectively known as the "Ruling Party".
Zhao Ta was appointed to the Tongzhi Privy Council, which is regarded as the second-in-command of the Privy Council, and he stepped into the ruling ranks, and in his previous life, he entered the Politburo, and he was already a senior leader of the country. However, after the original Privy Council made Li Gang demoted from Beijing, his position as a member of the Privy Council was taken over by Feng Lu, and then Xu Han was also demoted, and Nie Chang was appointed as a Tongzhi, and now there are two deputy heads of the Privy Council.
Today is just in time for the five-day court meeting, which is equivalent to an enlarged meeting of the Politburo presided over by the emperor, and not only the leaders of all departments and departments will attend. At the right time, Zhao Ta arranged a shift into the Vertical Arch Hall to discuss politics, and the topic this time is who to send to envoy Jin Guo to negotiate peace, this question has been bothering everyone for a long time!
A few days ago, Chen Guoting recommended Zong Ze to negotiate peace. Everyone is familiar with this Zongze, he has served as a magistrate, he is diligent and loves the people, and his political achievements are outstanding, so Zhao Huan agreed. But what he didn't know was that Zong Ze was upright and unyielding, discordant with the world, repeatedly contradicted his superiors, and was not allowed to be his colleagues, so he was only an official in the local area, and this person was very 'bad'!
A few years ago, Zhao Ji ordered all parts of the country to build the Shenxiao Longevity Palace, but he didn't pay for it, and let the local government raise it by itself, Zong Ze openly wrote a protest, and of course the most difficult thing was that the arm couldn't twist the thigh to protest to no avail, so in order to reduce the burden of the people, he cut corners to build a tofu scum Shenxiao Longevity Palace, and was punished by removing the name and managing it, and since then he has retired to Dongyang and settled in the mountains. To say that Chen Guoting is bad enough, to recommend such a person to the emperor as a peace envoy.
As a result, needless to say, after Zong Ze arrived in Tokyo, Geng Nanzhong and other ministers summoned Zong Ze, and the old man became stubborn, and immediately had a fierce dispute with Geng Nanzhong, resolutely opposing the use of the name "peace envoy", believing that this was a sign of cowardice to the Jin country, and it must be changed to "planning envoy". He doesn't care whether you Geng Nanzhong is an archon or the emperor's favorite minister, and he will not give an inch.
Zhao Huan saw that it was bad, it was not suitable for Zong Ze to discuss peace, his temper was too bad, he went to be stubborn with the Jurchens again, and he had to talk about it nine times out of ten, but he had already been summoned to Tokyo, so he had to arrange an errand, so he ordered him to go to Cizhou to be the prefect. But Zhao Huan is not a good thing, now the officials in the court are so frightened when they hear that they are going to be officials north of the Yellow River, and they don't go to death, but Zong Ze is halfway down the road and even the escort is gone, and he is good enough - to go to the post alone!
Then he chose Shi Qinhui, the servant of the palace, to be the deputy envoy, but he is now the main battle faction, thinking that "it is a line of land cutting, contradicting the minister's initial discussion, and losing the minister's heart", so he continued to write three chapters, and finally resigned from this humiliating errand. But someone has to go to this matter, so Zhao Huan sent Shangshu Zuo Cheng Wang Yu and Kang Wang Zhao Gou as peace envoys to Jinying to negotiate how to "exchange three towns for peace".
Wang Yu also refused to do this traitorous deed, and refused to accept the order by resigning, Zhao Huan demoted him to the official, and this time King Kang Zhao Gou also because of the eldest brother's injustice, he did not have the indignation of asking for his life as generously as last time, and he was extremely reluctant to be a hostage again. Although Zhao Huan gave him a very generous reward, although he did not dare to openly resist the order, he refused to go out under the pretext of being prepared.
The selection of peace envoys has been miscarried several times, and now that the Jin army has broken through the Xiongzhou and Guangxin armies, approaching the two towns of Zhongshan and Zhending, Zhao Huan is in a hurry, and he must elect a representative to convene a meeting again! He glanced at the ministers in the palace to see who was bowing their heads, only his royal brother Prince Yan was looking around looking indifferent.
"King Yan, who do you think is better to send to negotiate peace?" Zhao Huan thought about it, no one spoke, then you can do this offending thing... (To be continued......)