The rumors spread, and Cai did get his wish and became the headline figure at that time, covering the dying Wang Qi and the tough Zhang Dian. This really brought him benefits, and most directly, he was noticed by a noble lady in the deep palace - Empress Dowager Gao. She thought it was funny, what were these people doing outside? Like they can decide something. According to the legendary routine, you should get instructions from her first, and then go outside to publicize it, right? Now it's the opposite! Do you want to come up with a fait accompli and ask her to do it?

This is how Cai Qu's tragedy was staged. He could never have imagined what those previous performances would bring him, it was an unprecedented blow in the history of the Northern Song Dynasty! Who let him not know how to advance and retreat, and dare to grab credit from Empress Dowager Gao?

"History of the Song Dynasty" records: The person who really paved the way for Zhao Xu of Song Zhezong was his grandmother. Empress Dowager Gao first affirmed his character in public, saying that since Shenzong fell ill, this 10-year-old child not only stayed at the bedside every day to serve medicine to his father, but also silently copied three volumes of Buddhist scriptures to pray for his father... The ministers also saw the Buddhist scriptures, which were handwritten in a dignified and neat manner, and could tell the mood of the copyists.

Empress Dowager Gao also sent someone to secretly make a set of small dragon robes for the children to wear, and when Shenzong passed away, she immediately gave it to Zhao Xu to wear. Together, these are ironclad evidence that she supports the new emperor!

In fact, we also have to admit that she is indeed the one who has the final word, and Zhao Xu can become the emperor, and the biggest credit lies in her! But don't misunderstand her because of this. She is a generation of intellectual women with ideals, ambitions and pursuits, she has too many things to do, and a little doll that is less than 9 years old is the prerequisite for her to display her ambitions! Li Zhao Hao? It was a 36-year-old adult man. What does she use to control zhì? Even the highest position in the harem had to be transferred out and handed over to the new queen. To say that she established Zhao Xu because of her love for her eldest son Shenzong is even more inexplicable judgment! I really want to love the God Sect. Why did he immediately ruin the career of Shenzong's life?

At the end of the day, she's been putting up with it for almost 40 years! In her heart, the benevolent and profound Emperor Renzong is weak, the generous and humble Empress Dowager Cao is cowardly and ridiculous, her husband Yingzong has been entangled with his courtiers all his life, and he is tired to death and only fights for his biological father to get a false name, as for the eldest son Shenzong, he is completely upside down... The whole world is waiting to be saved by her!

The first step to salvation is to spread rumors. I must find the best reason for her best helper to go out of the mountain. So she used the name of her eldest son, who had just died!

The rumor was told by Song Shenzong a year before his death. It was at a banquet where he said to the ministers, "The crown prince will be appointed next spring." by Sima Guang and Lu Gong as the crown prince and the prince, the prince, and the Taibao" did not indicate who the crown prince to be appointed...

What could be more ridiculous? It was clear earlier that when Song Shenzong was about to die and couldn't even speak. Many ministers urgently asked for instructions to appoint the crown prince. If the Divine Sect made a clear arrangement a year ago, what else is there to toss at this time?

In particular, at that time, Wang Jue, who was neutral, and Cai Qu, who was reformist, how could they arrange a master of the opposition for the future successor emperor? Determined to dismantle his own platform?

This rumor is ridiculous, but it is really a last resort! Don't. She can't invite those legendary "gentlemen". Take Sima Guang as an example. He has lived in seclusion in Luoyang for 15 years, and seems to have completely withdrawn from officialdom, but his status is even more super, and he doesn't know how much higher than 15 years ago. His life with the other "gentlemen" in Luoyang City has long become a legend...

The general impression is that Sima Guang has had a very hard time these years. If he writes books exhausted and exhausted, the whole body is sick, but still persists, for the sake of efficiency. He made a wake pillow. It was a log that was very uncomfortable to pillow on. The effect is to prevent him from sleeping for a long time, as long as he moves slightly, the wood will move, waking him up. And Han Qi, Fu Bi, Wen Yanbo and other old-fashioned ministers were all forced out of the capital by Wang Anshi, and it should be a miserable and miserable frustrated concentration camp scene in Luoyang. Wrong! Quite the opposite! In the city of Luoyang, Xijing, it is a fairy life that is widely sung and makes generations of literati and scholars drool...

First of all, there is the material base. Each of these bigwigs has a lot of money, hands and eyes, what kind of materials do you want, what kind of location do you want? How can you be sloppy with where you live? Not to mention their own houses, the famous "comfort nest" of Yi scholar Shao Yong was built by them on a whim!

Among them, the most distinctive ones are the mansions of Fu Bi, Wang Gongchen, and Sima Guang. Luoyang City, Xijing of the Great Song Dynasty, there are countless official residences, and there are 5 prime ministers alone: Wenxiang, Fuxiang, Wangxiang, and Erzhangxiang.

Fu Bi's mansion was once the most luxurious in Luoyang City, he is not like the general famous garden in the old mansion of the previous generation of Sui and Tang celebrities renovated, but completely new, the garden of mountains and rivers, halls, lakes, pavilions, and towers, each of which reflects his decades of self-cultivation as an official's taste.

The rich house is not light on hospitality, and the precious information left in the history books is the visit of Shao Yong, a famous scholar of Yixue, so he was able to visit by chance. Coming out of Fu Zhenggong's living room, first pass through the Tanchun Pavilion, go up a hill, and there are four view halls on the mountain to overlook the whole garden. After going down the mountain, cross the river, cross the Tongjin Bridge through the south, and there is a Fangliu Pavilion on the bridge. The pavilion looks far away, a verdant bamboo forest opposite, and a high hall Ziyun Hall is hidden in the middle. To the right of Ziyun Hall is a sea of flowers, famous and famous flowers gather in more than 100 steps, and then pass through the Yin Yue Pavilion, enjoy the secluded platform, and go to Chongbo Xuan. There is a cave to the north, which is a major feature of the rich house. The North Garden is turned from Tuyun Cave to a bamboo forest, and the scenery inside is no longer bricks and tiles, but is all made of bamboo. The sound of the water is murmuring in the bamboo pavilion, the bamboo and stone flowing water, the secluded people come and go, there are four holes and five pavilions in it. Out of the bamboo forest to the south is a plum terrace. Further south is the Tianguang Terrace, which is higher than the bamboo forest, covering the green of the courtyard, and the outside world can only see the green grass on the hillside. Turning to the east, is the Woyun Hall, this hall and the living area outside the Sijingtang look north and south, the water outside the hall is surrounded, and the end of the water is a hill, hiding the rich garden in the noise of the city... In such a hall, Shao Yong was greatly overwhelmed, and he walked all over the famous garden of Xijing and identified this as the crown of Luoyang. He was right, the Fubi Mansion did rank first, and this was because Wang Gongchen's one had not been built...

Champion Zai Zhiwang Gongchen had good luck in his life, at the age of 19, he became the head of high school, and at the age of 29, he became the third envoy and became the prime minister of the Great Song Dynasty, and even the name was given by Emperor Renzong himself. This prominence made his soul swell and he decided to enjoy a perfect life. Since he was 27 years old, he has built his own house in Luoyang, with the size of the project and the beauty of the pavilion. To achieve the Cheng dù that makes people sweat coldly. With the labor fees of the top civil servants in the most prosperous stage of the Northern Song Dynasty, coupled with the huge gray income of all kinds of officials and businessmen in the capital, this mansion was not built until Wang Gongchen died at the age of 74! It took 47 years... What is this Cheng dù's luxury? After his death. Not only could his children and grandchildren not be able to afford to continue building, they also had no money to repair their old and broken houses.

The most famous in the royal garden is a central hall called Chaotian Pavilion. This building is as high as 3 floors, majestic and majestic, so that Luoyang City at that time called it "nest dwelling", which means the building on the top of the tree, high to the clouds! Corresponding to it is Sima Guang's underground cave, he does not like to build high-rise buildings. It is better to hide underground and write quietly.

Sima Guang's mansion was the smallest among the top officials in Luoyang City, and he chose a remote and low place. The size is no more than 5 acres, even the house of Su Shi's hometown in Sichuan is larger than it, and the style of the house looks like a farmhouse from a distance, and there is a hill in the courtyard. There is a "medicine garden" built on the mountain, and there is a small river at the bottom of the mountain. He built a "Diaoyu Nunnery", and the others were just bamboo huts, and the most valuable thing in the courtyard was his collection of nearly 5,000 volumes. He called this courtyard "Dule Yuan", which means to clearly tell the outside world: he does not have fun with everyone, concentrates on reading and writing history, and everything outside the courtyard has nothing to do with him. As for the cave, because he is from the northwest, the cave is warm in winter and cool in summer, and it is very comfortable and practical to live in...

The old bastard is indeed different, and there are too many mysteries to be confused. One of them is his 15 years of living in Luoyang. Why is he so bitter? Even the shelter is so shabby?

It's not right to say that there is no money. He wrote "Zizhi Tongjian" as an official investment, and Song Shenzong gave him a super large amount of special funds. There are also special rewards every year. So is he always simple? Is it a habit to suffer and sin? I'm afraid not? It seems that there is only one reason to explain the appearance of his life in Luoyang City, and this is also where he is completely different from Fu Bi, Wang Gongchen and others!

Fu, Wang and others are completely old-aged, and they have put aside their political affairs and grievances. Sima Guang had a raging fire in his heart, he was paying attention to the situation in the world while writing books, and everything Wang Anshi and Song Shenzong did fell in his eyes. Only by being bitter and strict can we keep ourselves in a sufficient state to wait! It was the only thing he could do, but the future was far away. Will Wang Anshi fall? Seven years later, he waited... Will Song Shenzong change? It hasn't been the same for 8 years! The bastard is very old, but the emperor is still so young... Even the "Zizhi Tongjian" has been written, and the world is still the world of reformers! Where is the hope? What to do? Keep waiting! The old bastard firmly believes that everything he has done in 15 years is meaningful! will not only make him famous, but also allow him to reach the pinnacle that Wang Anshi and Song Shenzong must look up to!

He did it! In China, a country where etiquette, poetry and books are supreme, the charm of a super scholar is unlimited! People subconsciously believe that how talented a person is, how virtuous he will be...

An unprecedented historiographical masterpiece "Zizhi Tongjian" has established the radiant image of the old bastard! With this book, he is immortal. At the same time, it also attracts the attention of the whole world! The prestige is unimaginable. The people of the whole world no longer call him by his name or his characters, but collectively refer to him as "Sima Xianggong", which refers to a ruler who has served in the eastern and western governments. But check Sima Guang's resume, before that, he was only nominated to be a privy councilor, but unfortunately he was disrupted by the reformers before he took office. That is to say, he is not qualified to be called a "Xianggong" at all, but the people approve of it! At the same time, the old bastard took advantage of the territory. Luoyang is a treasure land, second only to Chang'an in terms of fame in history. Since ancient times, the gentry have lived here, and its affluence and impact on the surrounding area are not much worse than Kaifeng. Sima Guang is the sun here, and everyone revolves around him. Whenever he was tired of writing, he would leave the house in the car and go to find a friend. His friends are Fu Bi, Wen Yanbo, Shao Yong, Cheng Yi, Cheng Hao, Xi Ruyan, Zhang Tao, Liu Shu, Fan Zuyu, etc... Let's take a look at the identities of these people, either top executives or Confucians, these people get together, write poems and sing songs casually, it is a grand event in the history of Chinese culture! At this time, there are thousands of empty alleys in Luoyang City, surrounded by Sima Guang's carriage, to see the legendary celebrities... Such a grand event is very famous in the history of the Northern Song Dynasty, called the "Senior Citizens Meeting"

Year after year, "Zizhi Tongjian" was written, the prestige was grand, Wang Anshi was dismissed, and Song Shenzong died... The old bastard Sima Guang is in full swing! He was the most influential person alive in the Song Dynasty at that time, and whoever became the emperor could not ignore him!

On March 6, 1085, 10-year-old Song Zhezong Zhao Xu officially succeeded to the throne. This is the youngest of the nine emperors of the Northern Song Dynasty to ascend the throne, 2 years younger than when Song Renzong succeeded to the throne. On the 21st, the Empress Dowager Gao of the 'Female Zhongyao Shun' lowered the curtain to listen to the government.

This month, Song Shenzong had just passed away, and Sima Guang, as an idle and semi-retired minister from another country, was not qualified to participate in the funeral, and even the state did not invite him to attend. But he thought about it and decided to squeeze in. Attention, this is a violation! For example, Wang Anshi, this is the real former Zaizhi, a minister who is inseparable from the interests of Song Shenzong's life, and he is not invited, nor can he enter Beijing casually. But Sima Guang is here!

As soon as his carriage reached the city gate, he was discovered by the guards, and the whole city was in a stir. The common people came out, watching, cheering, praising and retaining, he was the most dazzling star at that time. But the star was frightened, and in the face of the unprecedented popularity of the capital, the old bastard didn't say a word, turned the horse's head and ran, and ran directly back to his hometown Luoyang!

What god sect is not a god sect? Love is not dead! My reputation is so great that I have crossed the warning line, and I must avoid this limelight! But as a superstar, sometimes he is very helpless, he has just arrived at his hometown on the front foot, and before he has taken a breath in the paradise, the pursuers of Kaifeng City have arrived!

Empress Dowager Gao's personal representative, the chief eunuch Liang Weijian, the enshrined official of the Inner Palace, arrived. First of all, I apologized to Sima Guang: The official poor consideration and insufficient preparation have scared you, a national treasure, and I hereby offer my condolences. Then, on behalf of the Empress Dowager and the new emperor, I asked Sima Guang for advice on how to govern the country, what do you think is the most important thing to do now?

Opportunity! The opportunity I've been waiting for for 15 years has finally arrived! The old bastard has so much to say! After careful consideration, he drew up a series of action steps. From the point to the surface, the first step is to completely defeat the existing courtiers and the previous politicians!

After 15 years, the old bastard's first recital begins: "In recent years, customs have been decadent, and scholars have been wise to steal and be arrogant. It is to cause the lower feelings to be concealed but not passed, and the upper grace is not issued... The blame lies with the ministers, and the foolish people are ignorant, and they often blame the first emperor..."In the depths of the palace, the Empress Dowager Gao held such a piece in her hand, and her face began to become brilliant. Good! Very good! wiped out all the achievements during the Xifeng years, and completely belittled her biological son's life's career! Well done!

Summoning Sima Guang and Lu Gong back to Beijing!

The appointment had just been issued, and the old bastard's second recital had been published. The famous "Please Change the New Law". This article truly reflects Sima Guang's heart, and at the beginning of the article, Wang Anshi was scolded for being bloody: "... does not reach the political system, uses private opinions, changes the old chapters, and mistakenly appoints the emperor as an envoy. As a result, many people lost their jobs, and Lu Li complained, "After a long time, they cut down to the new laws!" Compare them to social tumors, and we must eradicate them as much as possible!

This piece is a banner, and the Empress Dowager Gao read it with refreshment and saw the dawn of the restoration of the old law. The opposition, which has been suppressed in the local area for many years and can only mumble and curse, is even more eye-catching, and feels that they have finally seen the hope of a counteroffensive! But the reality is helpless, no matter what ambition Sima Guang has and how much authority the Empress Dowager Gao has, the leadership team left by the first emperor of Shenzong is still there! Cai Qu, Han Jin, Zhang Dian and even the middle-level leaders are all from the Xinfa Group, these people are standing on the side, giggling and looking at Sima Guang who is jumping up and down, thinking it's very funny - look at it, everyone! One look at one less glance! This is the legendary Sima Guang! 15 years ago, Wang Anshi, Lu Huiqing and other predecessors rushed to Luoyang code word antiques, I don't know how long I can live, jumped out and bitten people again!

In response to this phenomenon, the scheming Sima Guang was not angry, his expression became more sacred, and he proposed a selfless proposal: The empress dowager, the eyes of the masses are bright. Please give the order to speak out and let the world speak freely... (To be continued......)