There is another example: in the last years of Xuanhe, Zhao Ji personally planned 800 Jinshi, of which more than 100 were special court examinations. These people are all children of super-rich businessmen in the name of dedicating their songs, and they are characterized by having no life, and they want money to give at will! Each person gave Liang Shicheng almost 10,000 yuan, and he had the opportunity to be selected in the court examination. These people saw with their own eyes that the eunuch Liang was standing beside the emperor, whispering something to the emperor, and then whoever entered and who fell had a result...

Liang Shicheng not only secretly manipulated the country, but also swayed the officialdom in front of the emperor! Who is not convinced of such a thing! Almost all over the country, there is a Liang eunuch in the palace, he is better than Zaizhi! So Liang Shicheng had a title "Hidden Phase", and he finally succeeded! The first black hand behind the scenes of the Great Song Dynasty! Invisibly turning the clouds and rain upside down, turning the world upside down! To do this, even Cai Jing, the official prime minister, bowed his head and took the initiative to visit with his eldest son to get closer...

On September 29, at the suggestion of Taishi Cai Jing, the official name of Song Shenzong Yuanfeng was reformed again: Taishi, Taifu, and Taibao were appointed as the prime ministers of the empire. The servant is the left auxiliary, and the middle book order is the right bi. Shangshu's left servant shoots as Dazai and his subordinate squire, and Shangshu's right servant shoots as Shaozai and Zhongshu squire.

This month, Ah Guda returned to his Jurchen hometown. clearly knew that Lu Dao had angered the Great Liao Emperor at the head fish banquet. Yelu Yanxi could send troops to destroy him at any time. Then let's strike first! Taking advantage of the serious illness of the eldest brother of the leader, Wanyan Aguta began the conquest to unify the Jurchen Division! The two leaders, Zhao San and Ah Hu, did not obey and were beaten and taken captive by Ah Gu. The two could only flee to Xianzhou on their own and appeal to the Great Liao Emperor. Unexpectedly, the matter was reported to the Northern Privy Council, and Xiao Fengxian, the third traitor and privy envoy, still disdained it: Isn't it just a merger of two small tribes? You go back and spread the holy decree of our Emperor Daliao: Let Ah Gu hit the capital and see His Majesty! We'll teach him some rules so he can mend his ways... When the holy decree reached the Jurchen Wanyan Division, Ah Guta simply disdained it, let alone reformed himself!

On December 23, the new Yanfu Palace was completed, and the ministers were feasted. It was completed by the division of labor among the five great eunuchs. Therefore, it is called "Yanfu Five"

Continue to build palaces? The relationship is not straight. Some people are very unhappy, you Cai Jing has taken care of the previous project, do you have to consider the feelings of other comrades? The eunuchs in the palace have opinions!

Tong Guan is not a person who hides behind the scenes as a nameless boss, that type of boss is Liang Shicheng, he can't compare. What he wants is real power and limelight. Specific to the present, the good and bad of repairing the palace must not be squeezed to the periphery! He united Yang Jian, Jia Shen, He 60, Lan Congxi and other 4 great eunuchs to put forward a plan, as soon as it came out, it immediately made the emperor's eyes shine and Cai Jing's heart cold...

is worthy of being a person who has been working inside the palace, and pointed out the defects of the palace of the Song Dynasty with a sharp point. Follow this plan and immediately change the world. The palace of the Song Dynasty will double its charm...

Kaifeng City is the greatest, most magnificent, richest and most commercial capital in ancient China, but the scale of the Song Dynasty palace before Zhao Ji was the smallest in the Zhengshuo Dynasty. The circumference is only 5 miles. What is this enough for? Even if you carve beams and paint buildings, it's too cramped, is it? So expand!

But it is not said to be expanded, but supplemented. The additional building is also very suitable for the status of a eunuch, just a large canteen. This canteen is called Yeonfugong Palace, which was specially used by the emperor to have dinner with his ministers, and was built outside the Gongchen Gate in the north of Ouchi. The name is very large, the scale is very small, think about the total circumference of the palace where the emperor and queen concubines live is only 5 li, you know what Yanfu Palace can be?

The plan proposed by the five great eunuchs was: to tear down the city wall in the north of the imperial city and to tear down the original Yanfu Palace. Based on the overall area of the original Ouchi, build a palace complex!

The palace complex was divided into 5 districts, each of which was subordinated to 5 great eunuchs. These 5 guys went to the pile sealing warehouse, the inner treasury, the treasury and other major places where money was hidden, and they gave our family how much money they had! At this time, the important thing is not money, but the competition mechanism. In any case, it cannot be compared!

What does Yeonbok Palace look like like this? Let's list some original data: the new palace east to Jinglongmen, west to Tianbo Gate, pavilions, palaces and water pavilions, all ancient Chinese architectural forms are readily available. Palace: There are 7 seats of Muqing, Chengping, Huining, Ruimo, Ninghe, Kunwang and Qunyu.

Pavilion, divided into east and west 2 groups. East: Hui Fu. Bao Qiong, peach, spring brocade. Stacked Qiong, fragrant, Liyu, Hanxiang, Fuyun, Yangai, Cuibao, Lead, Yunjin, Lanxun, 15 pavilions of gold. West: Fanying, Xuexiang, Pifang, Leadhua, Qionghua, Fangqi, Calyx, Jiahua, Luyi, Yaobi, Qingyin, Qiuxiang, Congyu, Fuyu, Jiangyun 15 Pavilions.

In addition to this, the stacked stones form a mountain, and two super pavilions are built, which are 11 zhang high and 12 zhang wide. How can such a high pavilion not be near the water? You dig a pond and fill it with water, 400 feet wide and 267 feet long.

After these were covered, Zhao Ji came in and walked around, shaking his head as he walked. Although the scenery is good, it is too carved, and it is all artificial weather... Annoying! It's terrible for this group of things to have no artistic cells, no culture...

Faced with the emperor's new request, Tong Guan and the other great eunuchs bowed their heads in shame. No matter how confident they are, this kind of task is simply beyond their reach. Tong Guan looked at Cai Jing very reluctantly, still only this person can satisfy His Majesty's desires...

Decorating a palace complex is the same as painting a picture. The ravines in the chest and the lofty horizons are indispensable. Cai Jing has proved this point with two practical actions: once in Hangzhou to paint for Zhao Ji and choose antiques, and the other time was when the Jingling Palace was built in front of him...

In this palace group, which is equivalent to the entire large inner area, the plants are strange and strange, and they come from all over the country in a steady stream, reaching the level of "cold pine strange stones, strange flowers and trees, fighting strange and contending for beauty". Animals set birds, animals, and aquariums in one park, and there are sections such as "Turtle Pavilion, Crane Village, Deer Fence, Peacock Fence, Scale Pond" and so on.

It was the feeling that the little boxwood tree brought to him, and it was the taste! Zhao Ji was satisfied in this novel world, and felt that the emperor was very successful when he was like this! It didn't cost much, but it also showed a unique taste!

Up to this point, Zhao Ji has successfully enjoyed the material life (palace garden) and artistic life (natural scenery), what is next? After all, life has to go on, enjoyment has to be innovative, with Zhao Ji's talent, he can't stop...

The answer is simple: religion, Taoism!

In March of the 3rd year of Zhenghe (1113), you were summoned by a holy decree, but you didn't come, and if you didn't summon you, you rewound 500 cavalry and arrived at our Xianzhou City in one day. Then since you are here, Ah Gu will have a good discussion with Zhao San and Ah Husan. But Wanyan Aguta's unruly appearance angered the interrogating officials, and it was decided to arrest the Jurchen. Eat well for a few days in prison to frustrate his arrogance, but he didn't expect Ah Guda to escape back to his hometown overnight. After that, he gave Emperor Tianzuo a seal: The minister listened to His Majesty's words, but the officials of His Majesty's Detailed Stability Division wanted to kill the minister, so the minister did not dare to stay. In the future, Your Majesty will no longer need to summon the ministers with the holy decree, and the ministers will not come again...

On April 6, the princess of the edict was renamed Emperor Ji, the county lord was renamed Zongji, and the county lord was renamed Clan Ji. So there is a saying among the people that there is no owner. And those who say that they are hungry. Hinting at the fate of these golden branches and jade leaves, they will soon be hungry and cold...

In September, another magical Taoist priest entered the life of Song Huizong: Wang Laozhi, a native of Puzhou.

In the Tang Dynasty, there was a fairy story, and Tang Xuanzong Li Longji missed it very much after losing Yang Guifei. Find a priest to find it, even if you are poor and fall into the Yellow Spring, you must find the trace of the concubine. This Fang Shi is very brave, he not only found Yang Guifei on the overseas immortal mountain, but also brought back some private words of Li and Yang back then, so that the parties concerned could not suspect... Awesome, right? The Song Dynasty also had it, and it went to the next level!

Wang Laozhi was originally a local petty official, but later abandoned the official to learn the Tao. The gods are amazing. Someone in his hometown in Shandong asked him for trouble, but suddenly he fell into a deep pit under his feet. At the bottom of the pit was exposed a large scale armor, and the troublemakers were so frightened that they turned around and ran. After running for 5 miles, thunder and thunder overhead, rain and hail...

Wang Laozhi entered Beijing. happened to catch up with Zhao Ji's beloved concubine Liu who died of illness, Zhao Ji invited him into the palace while grieving, and asked Liu Guifei about the situation in the other world. Wang Laozhi said that Liu Guifei is the Purple Void Yuan Jun in the sky, and now her soul has returned to Dao Mountain. Re-correction results. But through him, Zhao Ji was able to talk to Liu Guifei. The emperor will be suspicious...

Another concubine, Qiao, asked: She is very good with Liu, does Liu still miss her now? Wang Laozhi didn't speak. Took out a letter. What was written in this letter was actually the private words that Qiao, Liu and Zhao Ji said when they were together a year ago...

On the 13th, Wang Laozhi was summoned to Beijing. On the 19th, he was named Mr. Dongwei.

Next, Zhao Ji also became supernatural. He first had a dream, in which he swayed for nine days and ascended to a fairy palace. The immortal inside told him, "You are fateful, and you should be a Taoist priest."

Zhao Ji solemnly told the ministers around him about this dream, and the ministers understood it and notified it to the lower levels. But the effect was not very good, and not many people were shocked. In hindsight, it is likely that because there were no bystanders, the emperor himself had a dream, and then he preached it to the ministers alone, which was not very credible? Another reason may also be that the scale is too small, and the exemption of the Song Dynasty people after the god-making movement under His Majesty Zhenzong is too high, resulting in indifference...

What to do? The smart Zhao Ji thought about it, didn't say anything more, didn't do anything more, until the day of November 6th, according to the custom, he had to dress up and go to the mound to worship the sky. On that day, the honor guards were grand and the courtiers were complete. The emperor took the jade chariot out of the Nanxun Gate and Benyuan Hill. As soon as he left the city, Zhao Ji suddenly pointed ahead and asked the young man next to him, "Cai Aiqing, look at the east of Yujin Garden, if there are many buildings, where is it?"

Cai Jing has many sons, the eldest son Cai You is very special, he didn't take his father's way to catch the emperor, when Zhao Ji was still the king of Duan, he won the favor of the future emperor.

When Zhao Ji went out of the palace, he often met a young man who was two or three years older than him, and when he saw him, he would immediately dismount and stand aside. Over time, Zhao Ji asked "Who is this" and "Cai Chengzhi's son"

Cai You's name entered Zhao Ji's heart from this moment, and he was half a poor friend. At this time, Cai You comprehended and replied, "The minister has seen it, there are indeed buildings in the clouds, and if you look carefully, they are all dozens of zhang high from the ground."

"Really? Aiqing, you see that the power is very good, what else do you see, are there any characters" "Yes, there are Taoist boys holding banners and festival covers, keeping the formation in the clouds and walking out, the ministers can see their eyebrows and expressions, as if in front of them" The ministers and guards around listened to it, and shouted in unison, long live, the gods really descended to earth, but we are too stupid, only the emperor and Cai You have a fairy fate, so we see...

On the 8th, Zhao Ji built a Taoist temple here, named "Yingzhen", and made "The Manifestation of the Innocent Spirit". From this time on, the Song Dynasty once again swept up a nationwide revival of Taoism...

During this movement, Taoism reached its highest point in history, becoming the only religion in China to have a theocratic unity during the Zhengshuo Dynasty. Zhao Ji is the one!

First of all, he is the emperor, but he claims that in addition to Song Shenzong Zhao Ji, he has another father. The father is the Jade Emperor, referred to as God. Zhao Ji is the first son of God, that is, the eldest son. Zhao Ji's official name in the sky is Emperor Shenxiao, because he loves the land of the Central Plains too much, he looked down in the sky, and found that the vast land was full of bald heads, and he was really angry in his heart, so he took the initiative to ask to be born in order to save the people of Limin... In the mouth of Emperor Zhao Ji of Shenxiao, Buddhism is called "Jindi's Teaching" Jin, and the Five Elements belong to the West, which is a sense of direction, pointing to Tianzhu ancient India. Di, Yi Di foreign, with contempt, stems from the superiority of the Huamei Han people... How can a dignified Chinese noble heir shave his head and worship a foreign god? It's a lot of forgetfulness! So Zhao Ji, with the combined identity of "sect leader + emperor", added some halos to Taoist believers...

First of all, to study, Zhao Ji asked the people of the whole country to make every effort to excavate the Taoist knowledge heritage, who can hand in the lone book, treasure the Taoist classics, and immediately get promoted to make a fortune! The classics were classified and sorted out by the officially designated person, and finally combined into a "Wanshou Daozang". According to legend, the Nine Yin True Scripture is a by-product of this campaign to rescue the classics...

Then you have to learn. Since then, institutions at all levels such as Song Dynasty State School and Taixue have added more subjects, major classics or minor classics. Students can choose any one, study carefully, and learn well to get a prize! The Great Classic refers to the "Yellow Emperor's Inner Canon" and "Tao Te Ching". Xiaojing refers to "Zhuangzi" and "Liezi"

In the course of study, the Taoist priests developed. They have a status, from low to high, with 26 ranks, and the rank is equal to that of the sergeant and doctor of the court. With rank comes power, and they don't have to bow down when they see officials. This is not just a division of courtesy, it is simply out of the ordinary! To have power is to have money. The Taoist priests overhauled the Shenxiao Palace all over the country, and the palace envoys were no longer part-time by the officials, but by the brothers in the sect, so the rich wages of the palace officials became their own fields! Last but not least, the ultimate privilege. No matter who commits any crime, except for the crime of anti-Song, anti-Zhao and anti-human, as long as he joins Taoism, he will immediately restore his reputation and become a new person...

In the process, the monks fell into bad luck. First of all, the name was changed, the monk is called Deshi, the Buddha is called Jinxian, the Bodhisattva is called Xianren, the Arhat is called Wuxuan, the Vajra is called Lux, and the Sangha is called Xiushan...

Then there was the loss of a place to live. Shenxiao Palace should be built in various places, and the official saying is that it is rebuilt by Taoist temples in various places. But when it was actually operated, the Taoist priests with 26-level officials in their hands stopped the renovation project team with a smile: Why waste it? The house is still the same as the original, no matter how much you repair it, what tricks can you make? You go around, measure on the spot, find the largest Buddhist temple, drive the monks inside, and rebuild the Shenxiao Palace there...

Then there is the original monk's robe that cannot be worn. Zhao Ji said that he looked at the dense bald heads on the ground in the sky, and even wore robes, crowns, tin rods and other things. These must be changed, changed to the appearance of a half-Taoist priest! You should wear a crown of stars on your head, but you must not have the sun, moon and stars, but only a dark hat. It's nothing, it's a big deal to put a strap around your neck. But the bottom of the hat can't be handled. Under the star crown of the genuine brand is a crown scarf, with the long flowing hair of the Taoist priests, it looks chic and beautiful. But the monk is bald, how can this be done? The monks had a way, they put on wigs! The wig is combed into a bun and pinned with a hairpin, which looks very harmonious from a distance, without any flaws. All of the above are just routine facilities, implemented at the level of the civil and officialdom...

How so? In a word: they are all rules for mortals! There is a god above people, and in the realm above the mortal world, this is the real goal that Zhao Ji is pursuing! (To be continued......)