On January 12, 1100, the 24-year-old Song Zhezong died, and the new emperor Song Huizong Zhao Ji ascended the throne. Zhao Ji is the 11th son of Song Shenzong, and being able to become the emperor is really excellent in all aspects...

First of all, he has a good mother, Chen, a native of Kaifeng, smart and dignified, glamorous, and gave birth to Zhao Ji when he was a royal servant. This is very important, which means that she has a very low background and will not be suspicious of harem masters from nobles such as Empress Dowager Gao and Empress Dowager Xiang. On the other hand, he is also very naturally close to Emperor Zhezong's biological mother, Concubine Zhu. Concubine Zhu is also from Kaifeng, and she is also from a very low background... The dual relationship of class and fellow villagers makes them very close, and even with their respective sons...

Song Zhezong often asked Zhao Ji to play in the dormitory when he was not in power and was suppressed by the Empress Dowager Gao. Many years later, Zhao Ji, who became the emperor, fondly recalled that Zhezong, who was twelve or thirteen years old at that time, could only take out some ordinary fruit cakes and put them in pottery vessels, and he couldn't see the emperor's identity at all. The two little brothers hid in the curtain and ate silently, very happy and bitter...

Chen's goodness is more than that. This commoner-born woman has an unusually strong side. Song Shenzong died of illness at a young age, and Chen was even younger at the time, only 32 years old, it was a good time for a woman to have a stroke in her life, but she suddenly withered!

Chen moved into the side hall of the Mausoleum of Shenzong, and was silently distracted and motionless all day long, and soon his appearance was bleak. Meals and soup were sent from the palace, and Chen waved his hand to let people take away "You have to serve the emperor early, wish it was enough" Not long after, Chen died...

She really loves Song Shenzong, which is just as awe-inspiring even in the feudal era. Her death, on the one hand, fulfilled her wishes, and on the other hand, saved enough impression points for her son...

Love House and Wu, the respect for the Chen family has increased the love of the entire harem for Zhao Ji. Even the Empress Dowager Gao and Empress Dowager Xiang, who were born in wealthy families and were accustomed to the lack of family affection between father and son, also took good care of Zhao Ji. Not to mention Concubine Zhu and Song Zhezong's mother and son...

Zhao Ji grew up in a piece of love, Song Zhezong was named the king of the county after he ascended the throne, 4 years later he was crowned the king of Duan, and then 2 years later he was crowned Sikong, and he was changed to Zhaode and Zhangxinjie. The weight of the title and the speed of promotion are second to none among the royal brothers!

And he himself is also very competitive, the Song Dynasty has developed to this time, he is already the seventh generation grandson of Zhao Guangyi, and the royal brothers and brothers of the seventh ancestor have long been standard princelings, and they are full of dogs and horses, smoke and willows and fog every day. But Zhao Ji is different, the same play, he played out of taste!

Zhao Ji likes calligraphy, danqing, qinse, picture history... What do you think of this? The so-called six arts of a gentleman: etiquette, music, archery, royalty, calligraphy, and mathematics. Zhao Ji is almost proficient in everything except archery and driving, which makes the eyes of the Kaifeng Chengshi Doctor Group shine, and he finds that the eleventh prince is the perfect incarnation!

Think about it: Zhao Ji's residence is full of rare books, and every day there are high-ranking people and scholars, talking about scriptures and mysteries, tuning strings and drums, and splashing ink when he is in the mood. Whether painting or writing, they have reached a very high level in the year of the weak crown. That's not all, Zhao Ji is slender, handsome, and elegant, and everywhere he goes, he is the focus of the crowd... Who doesn't love such a person? What's more, he's very friendly...

The well-known Yashi Zhao Lingsui in the clan and the horse Duwei Wang Xu. These two are people who can get in touch with Su Dongpo, a great fighter in the literary world, and promote him in the outside world. Inside the palace, the two major factions of Concubine Zhu and Empress Dowager Xiang share a common love for him, and he is almost the only one surnamed Zhao who is invincible.

To this point. If Zhezong does not die, he will prosper his life and be higher than his peers. If Zhezong died, he stood out among the many princes. Even if he is elected by the outside world, he can't run to his throne!

There were two strange things in Zhao Jiduan's palace. One day, two white cranes suddenly fell from the sky and landed in his courtyard, lingering for a long time, singing and dancing... Since ancient times, the crane has been singing in the hall, which is a rare auspicious time for thousands of years, especially in the heart of Kyoto. For a while, the whole city was in a sensation, and many well-known ministers flocked to it. Of course: it's not to see any cranes, but to pat the king's ass: you are auspicious, you are rich, you are promoted...

At that time, the people in the whole palace were fluttering, only the housekeeper Yang Zhen was scared and covered in cold sweat: get rich and promoted? It's all princes, what is it to rise again? Emperor? He immediately stood up and drove people out, saying as he was, "This is a cheek, not a crane, and a cheek, not a crane."

The crane and the people were easily driven away, and within a few days, strange things happened again. Outside Zhao Ji's bedroom, a cluster of lingzhi suddenly grew. This is simply double the auspiciousness! The crane falls from the sky, and it is possible that it is tired of flying and rests for a while, which belongs to the mobility auspiciousness. But the Ganoderma lucidum grass came out of the ground and settled outside Zhao Ji's window with great accuracy, which is exclusive to Zhao Ji's auspiciousness in any case!

For a while, the people of the whole province ran to Zhao Ji to congratulate and beg for rewards, and at the same time, the good news flew to all parts of the city like wings, and there was a trend that exceeded the last time. At the critical moment, a hand reached over and stopped the good news in an instant. Butler Yang Zhen! He plucked the Ganoderma lucidum grass like a dog's tail grass and threw it aside, saying that it was an edible mushroom, not Ganoderma lucidum at all! The crowd dispersed in frustration, Yang Zhen breathed a sigh of relief, but when he turned his head, he found that Zhao Ji's gaze was a little frozen, as if thoughtful...

Pretentious, how can you resist a series of supernatural events? After these two incidents, one day Zhao Ji suddenly wrote a note and quietly called a confidant: This is my birthday, you take it to Daxiangguo Temple, count every hexagram stall once, and see what the result is...

The family went, counted one by one, spent a lot of money, and didn't calculate anything, it was all the clichés of some common magic sticks, until the last one, and met a fortune teller in a corner who was in tattered clothes and was about to starve to death.

The gentleman looked at the note, then at the family, and suddenly looked very depressed, and threw the note back, "Brother, I'm a miserable mess, why are you still making fun of me?"

Mr. sneered, "This is the birthday of the Son of Heaven, not yours at all" The family Ding was shocked, ran back to the palace, and reported to Zhao Ji. Zhao Ji thought about it for a long time, and asked the family to go back the next day, tell the fortune teller his name, and see what he had to say...

The next day, the fortune teller said, "Go back and tell His Royal Highness that you are the Son of Heaven and that you will be kind to the people in the future."

It's fictional, isn't it? But this fortune teller has a name, a surname and a status in history. After his words were fulfilled, Song Huizong made him rise to the top, and he became a high-ranking official and dignitary. His name is Chen Yan.

After a series of psychological hints, Duanwang Zhao Ji began to take the initiative! He is smart, and on the one hand, he continues to have a good relationship with Song Zhezong and Concubine Zhu. On the one hand, he deliberately curryed favor with the people around the Queen Mother, and showed favor to the eunuchs and palace maids as a prince, what a huge sincerity, and soon the Queen Mother Xiang was surrounded by pieces of singing praises and virtues, and everyone said good things about Zhao Ji. Think about her lonely old lady who has no children and no daughters, and is in frustration, can she not be smoothly thrown down if she has such a good son who is filial piety? After that, there was a matter of fighting for the throne for the Empress Dowager for him, otherwise, how could the Jiuding artifact fall on Zhao Ji's head for no reason? On that night. Zhao Ji's men rushed between the palace and the palace, reporting to him everything that was happening. When he nominated the Empress Dowager and Zhang Dian objected, Zhao Ji's reaction was very strong, sometimes looking up to the sky and smiling, sometimes contemplating: between gains and losses, between the Son of Heaven and the vassal king, there is a world of difference! He wants this throne, he wants this supreme authority that controls the life and death of all people in heaven and earth!

On January 24, the Great Liao Kingdom recruited Mogus, the minister of obstruction who had captured the rebellion, and presented it to the imperial court. On February 12, Mogusi was ordered to be sentenced to death by Liao Daozong.

Finally became the emperor. Zhao Ji, who is more than 17 years old, has become calmer. He has only completed the first step of the long march, and he must not only climb to this position, but also sit comfortably in this position. After that, a series of performances showed that he was really too smart and sensible!

Step 1. Respect the Leader! His father and elder brother have seen each other with the harem sword soldiers for two generations, and they are incompatible. As a result of the toss, aside from the damage to the country and the two emperors themselves, they lived uncomfortably and died aggrieved. It was Zhao Ji's turn. What did he do?

He chooses to be grateful... At the age of 18 years old and fully adult, crying and shouting, please listen to the queen mother! How? Back then, Empress Dowager Gao made the power that she only got by "changing her mother to her son", and Zhao Ji gave it up! 14th. Liu is revered as the Empress of Yuanfu. On the 16th, his biological mother Chen was posthumously honored as the imperial concubine. On February 2, Song Zhezong's biological mother Zhu was honored as the imperial concubine. On the 10th, Wang, who was pregnant and waiting to give birth, was made queen.

The second step is to restructure the cabinet! Once a son of heaven and a courtier, Zhao Ji has to have his own team. But this era is too sensitive, does he choose the new party or the old party? If you choose the new party, what does the Empress Dowager Xiang think behind the curtain? Electing the old party, he just took over the throne of the imperial brother, and he wants to betray the imperial brother? Neither side is pleased, but both sides must be pleased, how to untie this knot?

Zhao Ji has a way! The first personnel appointment and dismissal he made when he ascended the throne was to transfer Han Zhongyan from the Daimyo Mansion to the capital and promote him to the secretary of the ministry. Li Qingchen of the Zhending Mansion was the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, and Huang Lu was a scholar and attendant of the Senior Administration Palace. These three people have very opposite identities. Han Zhongyan is the son of the late old party veteran Han Qi, and Li and Huang are the new party figures of the Zhezong Dynasty, and they were promoted at the same time, revealing the subtext that has been obvious again and again - from now on, the balance between the old and new parties will no longer be hostile under the leadership of Song Huizong!

This is just the first layer of subtext, and if it is not followed, it is very crude and muddy. It's too vulgar to do this in top officialdom! There is no way to please the Empress Dowager Xiang at all. But when the second layer is expressed, it has to be admired...

It didn't take long for Han Zhongyan to rise in a straight line, and on February 21, he was promoted to the deputy prime minister of his subordinates, in April he became the second prime minister of Shangshu's right servant, and in September Zhang Dian became the new prime minister after he was dismissed. And the vacant position of his servant was taken over by Li Qingchen. Huang Lu was promoted to Shangshu Youcheng, but the two were far away from the top-level position and became members of the huge middle-level cadre group below the subprime minister Zeng Bu. What does this mean? Zhao Ji chose the Queen Mother from the very beginning, and decided the distribution of power based on her preferences! At the same time, it is impossible to find out the shortcomings of his betrayal of the imperial brother...

The third step was to applaud all the old party members, and Zhao Ji summoned back all the new factions of the old party who were demoted from the imperial court after Zhezong took office. They rushed to the capital from all over the degraded places, and all of them became officials. These names are unfamiliar, and I haven't been available before. Second, I can't mention them. Although in the history of the Song Dynasty, these people have a very high status, and they are praised by the old party people higher than the sky...

For example, Chen Qian is the reclusive celebrity who got on the boat to give lectures on the way back to the court to become the prime minister. At this time, he was no longer in seclusion, re-entered the officialdom, hidden and excellent, stepped into Kaifeng City, and became a doctor of Taixue, this official is really too big, that is, a professor of the Royal University of the Song Dynasty! But what earth-shattering can this position do? It's nothing more than a question, an invigilation or something, and it's not close to national events! Let me write him what?

Another example is Zou Hao, he is a Jinshi of the Shenzong Dynasty, and Zhezong Dynasty became a speech official, and he impeached Zhang Duan as soon as possible, and he is a hardcore fighter of the old party! It's a pity that it's useless, the Zhang Dian of the Zhezong Dynasty is invincible, it's a pity, Zou Hao failed to become the hero he was looking forward to. What really made him famous was the post-Zhezong abolition incident. After Empress Meng was deposed, Zou Hao's reaction was that the end of the world was coming, and he desperately wrote to Zhezong to retract the order, re-establish the Meng clan, and kill all the enemies who stood on the opposite side of the Meng clan! If you don't do this, Song Zhezong himself will be stinking for 10,000 years, the Song Dynasty will not be a country, and the people will be unbalanced... Song Zhezong was furious and kicked Zou Hao out of the capital to the south to reflect... This is even more remarkable, Zou Hao's departure from Beijing has become a tragic martyr who has become a model for all generations, and the only person in the world who has a conscience, love, and a sense of justice. The scene of the day was frozen into the totem in the hearts of the old party, and it was sung for a long time! In this regard, I really want to ask - as for it?

are all such characters, except for people with ulterior motives, who will treat them as dishes? That's right! Now that Song Huizong is using them, he has ulterior motives! The heart is towards the old woman behind the curtain!

Immediately after the issuance of the fourth order - all the speakers pay attention, no matter who can speak their minds, say anything, and impeach anyone! If you are right, you will be rewarded, if you are wrong, there is nothing wrong, I will never break my word!

Looks old-fashioned, doesn't it? The emperors of previous generations have done all of them. But this time it's different, the previous ones are just image projects, this time Zhao Ji really turned it into a knife, stuffed it into the hands of Chen Qiang, Zou Hao and others, and let them cut it at will! Cut to the Queen Mother to smile and be satisfied...

Immediately, Han Zhongyan, the servant of the door, played 4 things: Guang Renen, open the way, go to suspicion, and quit using soldiers. Xiang Xiang adopted them one by one, and the old party was able to regain its life. At that time, it was called "Xiao Yuanyu"

In March, he ordered the Queen Mother: Give up the entire Xihe Road! We don't want the Great Song Dynasty anymore, and we will return it all to the Tubo people! (To be continued......)