On February 19, 1022, Song Zhenzong Zhao Heng had just taken his last breath, and the high-ranking officials of the two governments immediately fell to their knees and cried. Empress Liu walked out from behind the screen, she was extremely calm, and said the first 8 words she left in the official history, "cry one day, and listen to the punishment" Don't howl. I have something to say! How concise and to the point, and completely the image of a strong person, very much in line with her place in history. But it's a pity that it's in line with her future historical status. At that time, after she said these 8 words, she was immediately kicked out of the stage and went cool.

The emperor died, and officialdom was reshuffled. You think you're the first person in line to speak loudly? Joke! Orphans and widows are meant to be bullied, whether you are a queen or a village woman!

Ding Wei seized the camera, and after the eight-character drinking order was exported, it became his world. He obeyed the order first, wiped away his tears, and then got up to do the most important thing: write the edict! At this time, there are two theories in history: 1. The high-ranking officials of the eastern and western prefectures withdrew from Yanqing Palace on the spot and went to the palace outside to write, based on Zhao Heng's last words before his death. 2. There is a sentence in the "Continuation of Capital and Governance Tongjian Long Edition": "At the beginning, the auxiliary ministers listened to the orders of the Queen Mother. Retreat, that is, the palace is grass-made" first listened to Liu E in Yanqing Palace what to do, and then came out to copy them one by one and turned them into written words.

It doesn't matter which one it is, because it depends on the outcome. In any case, after leaving the dead emperor and the living empress, the ministers formed a separate circle to write the most important edict of succession and the specific official positions of the adults in the future. This is where Ding Wei's performance begins.

Ding Xianggong looked left and right, and suddenly shouted, "Wang Zeng, there is a word you wrote more" All the rulers' eyes turned around. No way! Just listened with pricked ears, but now everyone is watching, who dares to say more or less? Tampering with the edict, that is to punish the nine clans, and the reputation will be ruined! But Ding Xianggong really pointed out what was wrong: "Wang Zeng, the queen mother has the right to deal with military and state affairs. Is there such a word 'right'?" In an instant, everyone became fierce and aggressive.

"Authority" means agency, temporary. That is, although the Empress Dowager Liu E has the right to govern the country with the little emperor and share the power of the military state, it is only temporary. Everything is because the emperor is too young, only 13 years old. But removing the word "right" means that Zhao Heng once said it personally, and it was written as a written decree, and Liu E could share the imperial power with Zhao Zhen for life, and immediately became Wu Zetian in the actual sense. A word difference. The difference between heaven and earth, this is beyond the scope of tampering, and it has completely become a rewriting! Unless it was because all the ministers in Yanqing Palace just now were overly sad and perforated their eardrums and misheard the words, otherwise Ding Wei said that this sentence was a complete disobedience to the emperor, betrayal of the present, and rebellion!

But the problem is that Ding Wei is now rebelling very sincerely, please come and crush me, but who will come out?

Silent... All the ministers of the eastern and western governments unanimously decided to kill him with their eyes. Time is fast pacing. Seeing that the word "right" is about to be deleted, no one has jumped out to make a name for itself. Ding Wei was leisurely, enjoying the silence at this time. To him, it was a kind of awe of majesty. He said that in the post-Zhao Heng era, he had established a position of power that no one dared to offend...

But there will always be a chance of something. actually jumped out of the crowd, and he was the weakest and most subtle among them. The man suddenly threw the pen away, "I don't have the Queen Mother's curtain!" Today, because the emperor is young, he specially follows power, which is not the blessing of the country. The word 'right' can barely make future generations undiscussed. and add or subtract from the book. The state has its own laws. The public is the first assistant, do you want to mess with the ancestral family law" Ding Wei suddenly looked back and realized that he was still a hundred secrets. There are really people who dare to openly confront him regardless of their own safety: Wang Zeng! A big hat was pressed down, Ding Wei could only endure it, nodded to Wang Zeng in front of everyone, and motioned for him to pick up the pen and write according to the articles you remember. That is, the word "right" is retained...

But don't be busy, it's not over yet. Ding Wei's test has just begun... Wang Zeng picked up the pen again and wrote a few more words, and Ding Wei suddenly stopped, "Wang Zeng, this time you missed writing, Yang Shufei should be promoted to the imperial concubine." This is the edict of the emperor."

Wang Zeng's reaction was to put the pen down again, "I didn't hear this sentence just now"

Ding Wei's performance this time seems to be very nonsensical. Why did he suddenly mention a concubine in the harem who had no political experience or political qualifications? Is it to form a deep working friendship with the harem again after Liu E? Or did he say so at Liu E's behest?

None of them are right. There is another imperial concubine outside the queen mother, which is the prototype of the east and west palaces. Ding Wei is doing this to divide the power of the Empress Dowager Liu! And the history books also immediately recorded Liu E's anger, "Ming Su (that is, Liu E) knew it, and he began to be evil and Jia Wang was straight"

But let's ask, Ding Wei's previous proposal was to make Liu E the emperor for life, so why did the second proposal set up another concubine to divide Liu E's power? For what?

It's actually quite simple. The first proposal is that Ding Wei is testing the loyalty of the ministers to the former emperor and the pity and expectation of the current emperor and the queen mother... is also testing his Ding Wei's recognition at the top of the officialdom at this time. The result seemed to be very disappointed, and Wang Zeng jumped out and vetoed it on the spot. Dante was snickering. How wonderful! My accomplices still stand firmly by my side, and only one of the sworn enemies of the Kou Party, Wang Zeng, is still a thief and wants to compete with me. Then wait!

And the second proposal is to test the high-ranking officials and colleagues, including Wang Zeng, what is your understanding of the Empress Dowager Liu, who has been hiding behind the scenes and manipulating the country in recent years. I'll move out of Concubine Yang to share the power of Empress Dowager Liu, and see how you react?

It's subtle. The writer, Wang, objected again. It looks the same as the last time, but this is just a superficial behavior, what is the inner legacy? For the queen mother or for the first emperor who died for himself? That is, did Wang Zeng want to be a favored minister in the present tense (to please Liu E) or to be a loyal minister in the past tense (loyal to Zhao Heng)?

It's not a good point! It is difficult to know the face of the person, and even the hearts of the other colleagues in the hall at this time are not easy to figure out. So Ding Wei Ha Lu smiled: "This is the edict!" Can it be changed?" and then stepped aside and stopped talking about it...

On the 21st, the 4th emperor of the Great Song Dynasty, 13-year-old Song Renzong Zhao Zhen, and 56-year-old Empress Dowager Liu E officially started work. The first thing is to discuss the daily work arrangements of the emperor and the empress dowager.

Wang, the deputy prime minister of the Governor and the Governor, who felt good, was the first to speak. Wang Zhuangyuan Bo Gu Tongjin, proposed to cite the Eastern Han Dynasty, which had the most frequent and most significant effects of the Queen Mother's reign in history, as an example, and asked the Queen Mother and the Little Emperor to go to the court to work once every 5 days, and the location was set up in the Chengming Hall on a formal occasion. Even the specific order of desk placement has found a classic: the emperor on the right, the queen mother on the left.

The ministers had nothing to say. The Great Han Dynasty is a model in the Zhengshuo Dynasty of China. Quoting scriptures to find that time, it is completely correct and dignified. was about to agree, but Ding Wei suddenly said, "Wang Zeng's method is not good. I propose, the emperor is too young. The Queen Mother works hard, and she only goes to the court twice a month, just on the 2nd of Shuo and Wang! In case of major events, please ask the Queen Mother and the Emperor to summon our ministers to solve it together. If there is no major matter, please ask the queen mother and the emperor to rest, and our minister is responsible for all affairs. After having a plan, it will be passed to the harem by the great eunuch Lei Yungong, as long as the queen mother and the emperor sign it and stamp it..."

As soon as these words came out, the ministers were in an uproar. Wang Zeng couldn't bear it, "The two palaces are different." The eunuchs seized power, which was a sign of evil. Never do it" is a word! As Ding Wei said, in the depths of the palace, the queen mother and the little emperor did not live together, and were surrounded by a large number of eunuchs and palace maids, and only twice a month and only 24 times a year could go out of the wall and see the minister outside. This is not counting some special circumstances that must occur, such as the Queen Mother and the Emperor suddenly becoming unwell and unable to go to the court to work. For the remaining 340 days, who will protect everyone's safety? Eunuchs?

Therefore the king had to fight. Fight to the end no matter what. Unexpectedly, this time Ding Weili ignored him and skipped him directly: I am the prime minister, and I decided to send my proposal directly to the harem to ask the queen mother for ruling. Look at me, or listen to you Wang Zeng!

3 days later. A handwritten letter from the harem came out of the empress dowager, and she fully agreed to Ding Wei's proposal. In this way, the top decision-making power of the Great Song Dynasty fell into the hands of Ding Wei...

So Ding Wei began to do things. He never asks anyone for advice in anything he does. Do what you want. Stop at nothing. There are too many small things, and there are 2 big things: 1 to the first emperor Zhao Heng to repair the mausoleum, 2 Ding said to beat the water dogs, and the spearhead was pointed at the old enemies Kou Zhun and Li Di.

29th. Daozhou Sima Kouzhun was demoted to Leizhou Sihu to join the army. Hubu Shilang and Zhiyun Prefecture Li Di were demoted to the deputy envoy of Hengzhou regimental training. The two former prime ministers were completely discredited. The degrading official system was written by Song Shou, the intellectual. According to Ding Wei's request, Kou Zhun was given 4 words "disloyal to the ministers" and Li Di was "attached to help the evil", and Ding Wei asked to broadcast their crimes at home and abroad, so that the Khitan, Dangxiang, and Goryeo people all knew what kind of virtue these two sanctimonious and famous people were.

The so-called one word determines life, such a test is heinous in the ethics of Confucian monarchs and ministers, which is enough to be scolded by gentlemen for all generations. After Song Shou finished writing, he was both guilty and apprehensive. I am sad for Kou Zhun and Li Di, and I regret my name. But I didn't expect Ding Wei to be very dissatisfied, you get out of the way, I'll write it myself! He added such a sentence to Kou Zhun's degrading system: "When the ugly man did the discipline, it was the beginning of the emperor's disobedience, and he was shocked by this, so he went to the drama", that is, when Kou Zhun, the "ugly man", was making trouble in the court and doing bad things, he met the emperor and began to get sick, and he was scared by him before he became seriously ill and died! Therefore, it is light to belittle other officials, he is really a scum who harms the king to death!

Seeing that the document is about to take effect and be decentralized, the reputations of Kou Zhun and Li Di will be damaged like never before. In the end, Wang Zeng came out and objected again: 1 Such a derogatory word is too serious and inappropriate; 2 Kou Zhun was demoted too far. Leizhou (now Leizhou Peninsula in Guangdong Province) is the coast of the South China Sea, barren land, let an old man go thousands of rivers and mountains, doesn't it cost him his life?

Dante Wei stared at Wang Zeng quietly, and slowly said a sentence: "The master of the residence is afraid that it is inevitable" Wang Zeng immediately shut up. The 4 words of the master of residence are Wang Zeng's heart disease. When Kou Zhun was just dismissed, he lent his house to Kou Zhun to live in. This matter can be big or small, linked to the previous party struggle and the current position that he is speaking for Kou Zhun, Ding Wei will easily put this matter on the line and sweep him out of the house.

Wang Zeng was not afraid, but there were still so many and so important things to do, and he must not be persecuted and squeezed away by Ding Wei in vain, so he had to choose Mingzhe to protect his life. In this way, Ding Wei's political enemies have been swept to the end from official positions to reputations, but this is not counted. The imperial court sent envoys to send the degraded official system to Kou Zhun and Li Di himself. It's just that there are some more things in the envoy's bag, which is Ding Wei's personal gift, but it is stamped with the official seal of the Great Song Dynasty. Looking at the bags and outfits of these two envoys who rushed to Daozhou and Yunzhou respectively, the people in Kaifeng City who had a little compassion couldn't help but cry. Kou Zhun and Li Di are about to die, and they are in different places, and there are no corpses in the dead... Because each of these two messengers had a long sword wrapped in his bag. Anyone knows that it is a court to give people a death...

The envoy went straight to the Daozhou Prefecture Office, all the way expressionless, the long sword was half-exposed, and the state soldiers were stunned, and even forgot to pass for him.

The envoy was glad to find that the governor was singing and feasting. The smell of wine is fragrant, the singing is lingering, and Kou Zhun's luxurious life continues in Daozhou. Very good! That's what you want! The envoy was very strategic, he ignored the state government, went to the post house first, and then sent someone to inform the emperor to order him to enter the city. Freeze all the joy in an instant...

The officials of Daozhou immediately greeted them, and they listened to the orders with sincere fear. But the messenger did not see him, and he did not answer. What to do? Go back and keep drinking? But who would dare? The cold face of the envoy, as well as what the edict and the long sword mean, Kaifeng people understand, and Daozhou people also understand.

But Kou Zhun didn't understand, he was still sitting in the mansion drinking and listening to songs, indifferent. This is self-confidence, but also a trick. At this time, Kou Zhun's performance was completely different from Li Di and Su Shi decades later, and his composure broke Ding Wei's premeditation and the messenger's tricks.

After holding each other for a while, Kou Zhun sent someone to spread the word, "If the imperial court wants to give death to Kou Zhun, please bring the edict to me to see" The messenger had no choice but to read the edict in public. Scared out of a cold sweat! It turned out that it was just a degrading official system, and that sword might just be a self-defense weapon when the envoy traveled long distances? There is not a word in the edict at all... Kou Zhun Ha smiled, took off an official robe he had just borrowed, and beckoned the guests to sit down again, and we continued to drink! Tomorrow the world is far away, and there is wine and joy today. At the end of the world in Leizhou, I may never return, but I should be happy in life, and I have no regrets in death. This life is worth it!

In Yunzhou, the envoy behaved the same as the one in Daozhou. Li Di was discouraged and chose to commit suicide. As a result, he was saved by his son Li Dongzhi and did not die. What happened next was even worse. Li Di was deprived of his liberty and locked up. If there were relatives or friends who came to visit, the messenger did not stop them, but wrote down their names one by one. If anyone brought something to eat, put it there and let it rot, and Li Di didn't even want to eat half of it.

Everything is reasonable and legal. You committed the suicide yourself, and I didn't stop you from visiting the patient, so no one could say a word. As a result, a guest named Zheng Yu finally couldn't bear to jump out: Let's talk about it! You are currying favor with Ding Wei and trying to kill my master. I, Zheng Yu, are not afraid of death, if you kill my master, I will want you to die!

It was only at this time that the envoy read out the edict, and Li Di was able to go to Hengzhou to take office and continue to be his official.

Looking back on the whole process, it can be called murder without seeing blood. If Ding Wei really succeeded, he would definitely laugh at these two old-timers: You guys are so funny, I just hinted at it slightly, and they all yelled at themselves to die...

If you want to know what kind of long sword hidden in your bag can have such power, please refer to the "Li Feixiong Incident" in the early days of Zhao Guangyi's reign, an impostor who was able to take down all the officials in the border defense area of the Great Song Dynasty without even an edict, and almost cut off his head together. Just ask if Li Di's reaction is normal, and whether Kou Zhun's courage is superhuman?

The news was transmitted back to Kaifeng, and someone said to Ding Wei, "If Li Di is really dead, what do you think future generations of history books and people in the world will say about you?" At most, it's only 4 words 'the world cherishes it', what can I do?"

In the civil service system, he is self-respecting, and in the military general system, Ding Wei also shocked the whole country. At that time, Cao Wei, the second son of the first strongman in the army and the first general of the Northern Song Dynasty, was easily won by him. (To be continued......)