Zhao Zhen's mourning

Zampu is a king, sacrosanct and must be obeyed unconditionally. This philosophy seems to have always been the pride of the Han people and the belief that they are ahead of any other ethnic group. Even Confucius, who advocated this concept, was canonized as saints. But in fact? Even the Confucians themselves admit that as early as the 23rd year of King Weilie of Zhou (BC403), when the three families of Wei Si, Zhao Ji, and Han Qian of the Jin Kingdom were divided, the prohibition of the inviolability of the monarch was completely broken without any punishment. The three families were divided, and the king of Zhou recognized the fait accompli and named the three of them princes. As a result, the etiquette collapsed, the world was in chaos, and the Warring States period began. Later, Master Sima's lifelong masterpiece "Zizhi Tongjian" also began to record from this year, reminding kings how to govern people and not be governed.

But this is not the case in Tibet. At this time, the future Tibetan Buddhism of theocracy had not yet been born, but the harsh environment of the snowy plateau had already produced the concept of the deification of leaders. They don't talk about loyalty and patriotism all the time like the Han people (don't you feel like the reason why you always want to emphasize it is because you always forget?). Rather, it is normal to think of it as eating and drinking.

Therefore, as long as there is the so-called Zampu bloodline, he can be established as the king by Hehuang Tubo. As long as he escapes, a fluttering word will send Wen Qiqi to hell. In the same way, Wen Qiqi also really has to rebel, and he can't wait any longer no matter what. I'm growing up because of the chatter. If it is any older, it will be necessary to recognize his legitimate authority.

Ask again: Since Tubo Zampu is so great, why should you be careful to be a person before you fight, and be low? It's also very simple: first of all, he was not born Zampu, and there are some problems with blood. Secondly, Zampu is sacred because of his gods. Wen Qiqi was not disrespectful at all before this coup, why did you kill his people, exterminate his clan, and have a bloody bath in Michuan?

In March 1032, after the coup d'état of Wen Qiqi was quelled, Luo moved the royal city from Miaochuan to Qingtang City. After a hundred years, Tibet finally produced a veritable Zampu again.

Excuse me: Who is the boss of the Great Song Empire today? Do you think that when Liu E dies, Zhao Zhen will become the natural successor? Joke! The queen mother of the harem is innumerable. After Liu and Li, there is Yang!

Zhao Zhen's real adoptive mother, Concubine Yang, and now Empress Dowager Yang. History proves that she will always be Liu E's good sister. At the beginning, he followed Liu E's ass and climbed all the way in the harem. Now that Liu E is dead, the great mother's love must be continued by her. Liu E's edict: Empress Dowager Yang continued to listen to the government and protect "their son" Zhao Zhen.

As a result, at the opening of Zhao Zhen's first pro-government court meeting, a good show was staged. The envoy of the first cabinet suddenly stopped the team of officials: Please turn a little corner, don't forget the rules, and go to see the Queen Mother first.

The scene froze, and he gritted his teeth secretly, and no one dared to speak up. First, this is the empress dowager's edict issued in the form of an imperial order in the past 10 years. Second, the emperor himself did not explicitly oppose it. But the danger factor is super. Once you go to worship this time, it will immediately become a fixed pattern. The Song Dynasty would immediately enter another period of empress dowager rule.

The Queen Mother is the Queen Mother, and there are so many Queen Mothers. The Empress Dowager of the Great Song Dynasty, the emperor is in ruins!

In the midst of the crisis, suddenly an official squeezed out of the crowd and shouted to the cabinet envoy "Who lives you" with only four words, and then everything was over, and the cabinet envoy disappeared immediately.

This official was Cai Qi, the prefect of the Imperial History Observatory at that time. This department is the nemesis of all officials. Together with the prime minister, they are all the objects of its supervision, let alone a small cabinet envoy? Other than that. Cai Qi has always been against Liu E. Back then, when he wrote a consecration speech for the great temple, he could get the title of deputy prime minister of the governor's affairs, but he just didn't do it, and would rather be demoted out of Beijing. Go to Henan to reflect. Such a person suddenly goes berserk, think about what it is like to be a person who has been hit? What's more, there is a third, that is, the power of those 4 words, "Who lives you", do you dare to answer? That involves those in power in the harem. Empress Dowager Yang herself can be excluded, she has not cared about anything for many years. But those Empress Dowager Liu's chamberlains. If there is another queen mother in charge, will it be possible for chickens and dogs to ascend to heaven?

Empress Dowager Yang's dream of hanging the curtain was shattered. On April 1, the phrase about Empress Dowager Yang hanging the curtain to listen to the government was deleted from Empress Dowager Liu's edict. 24-year-old Zhao Zhen finally 'grew up' and began to be in politics.

Then it was time for the Emperor to tell the truth about something. But no one dared to take the lead, and a heavyweight appeared on the stage - Zhao Guangyi's eighth son, Zhao Zhen's eighth uncle Zhao Yuanyan. That is, one of the prototypes of the Eight Sages King commonly known as the folklore...

I saw Liu E's funeral, and the little emperor was grief-stricken. Zhao Yuanyan was leisurely and indifferent: Emperor, your mother is not your own mother, and your own mother has not been able to be your mother for so many years. Now you're crying and it's not your mom at all...

Zhao Zhen's brain was sharply deprived of oxygen. Eighth uncle, speak slowly, I'm dizzy. So Zhao Yuanyan told the previous stories one by one. The central thesis is this sentence "His Majesty was born to Concubine Li Chen, and Concubine Chen died unexpectedly"

Zhao Zhen's mind slowly retreated into a cold and distant place. A brutal truth befell without warning. My mother turned out to be someone else, and she could only look at me silently for so many years, but she couldn't recognize me! and "died unexpectedly" and then linked to the age difference between Liu E and Li by 20 years, but they both died 1 year apart, what kind of answer can you get?

Before Liu E died, she killed the only person who could threaten her! My own mother was killed!

Zhao Zhen couldn't bear it, he immediately wanted to see his own mother, even after death, to see her body, to see what kind of suffering she had suffered!

Go check it out right away, where is the biological mother buried? The answer came right away: Hongfukuji Temple. Zhao Zhen was stunned, it was a very formal place... He was about to rush there, but was stopped.

Uncle Eight Emperor said that you still have an uncle, why don't you let him go first?

Zhao Zhen has a mixture of joy and sorrow. Uncle, where is he? The answer is that it is in the capital, and it is the third class in the palace. Zhao Zhen was stunned again: Did the Queen Mother not know whether she was nervous or nervous, and kept him under her nose? But he couldn't take care of it, so he sent his uncle Li Yonghe to fight the front station first, and then set off by himself. At the same time, troops were sent to surround the residence of Liu E's ex-husband and brother Liu Mei, and as long as the body of the biological mother Li was found to be injured, he immediately searched the house and asked him!

The coffin was finally opened. I saw Li Niangniang's face as pale as life, lying calmly in the mercury. Wearing the clothes of the queen mother, there is no trace of suffering and disability, "Your Majesty was born to Concubine Li Chen, and Concubine Chen died unexpectedly" The words of the Eighth Emperor Uncle echoed in his ears. The first half of the sentence is true, but the second half of the sentence is not possible.

The essence of the Song 'Ren' sect is revealed here. When he holds the power of life and death in his own hands, he will never use other people's blood to prove his filial piety. On the same day, Zhao Zhen calmly put down the coffin, sighed slightly, "How can people believe their words", and then ordered the troops surrounding Liu's house to withdraw. From then on there was only sorrow, not anger.

It's helpless. No one in the world can escape the limitations of the times. Zhao Zhen is the same. His grief and indignation only lie in the fact that his biological mother "died unexpectedly", and once it was proved that it was not, the dark clouds in the sky dispersed. Because Liu E didn't do anything wrong.

What about robbing Lee's son? Li was just Liu E's maid back then. Everything about her, from body to soul, belongs to Liu E. What's more, Liu E has not harmed her for so many years, and even her younger brother Li Yonghe was carefully found by Liu E, step by step, from low to high, to serve in the third class. I have done my best to be benevolent and righteous.

Therefore, the hatred of taking the child, as well as Zhao Zhen's deprived motherly love, are only regrets. There is no talk of hatred. Even if Zhao Zhen was in all kinds of distress, he didn't have the right to take revenge publicly.

In the final analysis, the reason why he was able to become the emperor was based on Confucian ethics, so how could he put aside these ethics? Not being able to hate does not mean not hating. Zhao Zhen still did something to vent his anger to his biological mother and make himself feel at ease.

On April 7, Li was posthumously honored as the queen mother. On the 9th, Empress Dowager Li was buried next to Zhao Heng, the father of Yongding Mausoleum.

Zhao Zhen chose Yan Shu to write a Shinto inscription for the twin queens of the Great Song Dynasty. It is equivalent to the official funeral report and the summary of the life of the Queen Mother... The prodigy of Yan began to scratch his head. The two queen mothers, do you really want to be tied? But who is higher and who is lower between the primary and secondary? No matter what aspect it is, Liu E is set in front.

So Yan Shu wrote, "The five mountains are magnificent, and Kunshan produces jade." The four are vast. Lishui Shengjin: "That's all right, right?" Totally compliments. The first 2 sentences say that with the strength of the five mountains in the Central Plains, two pieces of "jade" were born, that is, two queen mothers. The last two sentences are saying that water is really good water. In terms of the five elements, the real "gold" in the world is the emperor! The words are beautiful and the metaphors are clever. The doctors unanimously praised. Zhao Zhen couldn't say anything. As of now, the two queen mothers are still in a state of equilibrium. Immediately after that, Zhao Zhen suddenly became angry. I saw that the inscription read, "Li gave birth to a daughter and died young." Childless "Fuck! Childless? Who is the Emperor? Zhao Zhen was furious. Until now, do people in the world still want to treat me as a blind person and a waste? And let me admit that it is Liu E's son? Put my birth mother in a childless land!

But his name is Zhao Zhen, not Zhao Shu, let alone Zhu Houxi. So the anger was just anger, and it didn't turn into a steel knife... It's just that this incident still cast a shadow in his heart again... Years later, Yan Shu fell because of this...

After N battles, Zhao Zhen and the ministers finally compromised with each other and reached the following terms: 1 Whether it is Empress Dowager Liu or Empress Dowager Li, they will not be able to meet their father Zhao Heng for the time being. The only one who can accompany his father in the temple is his father's first queen, Empress Dowager Guo; 2. Another hall was built outside the Taimiao, "Fengci Temple", in which the Liu family and the Li family did not distinguish each other, and the master-slave relationship was wiped out. One is Zhuang Xian Mingsu Empress Dowager Liu (old system: Hou Zhen 2 words. The 4 characters of the latter are from Liu E) one is the Empress Dowager Li of Zhuang Yi.

The above is the maximum comfort that Zhao Zhen can do for his biological mother.

A fork in the road of history appeared, and the rectification and liquidation movement of the Song Dynasty was about to begin. At this critical moment, there may be only 2 people in the whole country in the Song Dynasty who can stay awake. Amazingly, their reasons for staying sober are diametrically opposed. One is Fan Zhongyan. On the 18th, he and Song Shou were transferred back to Beijing. As soon as he came back, he sang a big opposite tune with the entire court. Shangshu Zhao Zhen: Your Majesty, don't dwell too much on the trivial things in the past. The Queen Mother has protected you for more than 10 years, now you have to think more about her benefits, and forget about the rest.

Zhao Zhen felt ashamed. These words came from the mouth of Fan Zhongyan, who had resisted Liu E the most fiercely in the past, and it was stronger than any kind of persuasion. He was immediately sober. On May 9, an edict was issued that no longer discuss any gains and losses when the Queen Mother lowered the curtain to listen to the government.

The second remained silent throughout. But in fact, he should have been the most actionable and omnipresent person. Because he is the Prime Minister of the Empire, Lu Yijian.

When others used flattery to pursue status, and when Fan Zhongyan used knowledge and conscience to uphold justice, Lu Yijian had already gone straight to the point. In addition to putting forward the eight pro-government programs of the Zheng Dynasty Program, Blocking the Evil Path, Prohibiting Bribery, Distinguishing Adultery, Eliminating Female Confessions, Alienating Xi, Striking Forced Labor, and Saving Redundant Expenses, he also communicated privately with the emperor for a long time in order to set a list of the new government.

A major principle: Anyone who has a close relationship with Empress Dowager Liu should not. Anyone who opposes the Empress Dowager Liu will be promoted. Based on these guidelines, the list was quickly finalized. Only three people remained in the original government: 2 governors Zhang Shixun and Xue Kui. The third person is naturally Lu Yijian himself.

Anyway, why did you keep these two people? One is too rigid, Xue Chuyou is not easy to mess with. The other is too soft, Zhang Shixun was Cao's follower back then, and his loyalty has the nickname of "Hegu", such a person will never want to stand on his own. So he, Lu Yijian, can continue to stand alone in the new team. Thinking about it, is there a last resort? Very good! Implement it here!

On the day of April 24th, Prime Minister Lu led the civil and military officials of the Great Song Dynasty to the early court, and he quietly listened to the appointments and dismissals of each person. 6 of the previous 9-member team are being kicked out of the capital one by one according to his layout:

Governor Yan Shu out of Jiangning Mansion (later changed to Bozhou), Chen Yaozuo out of Zhiyongxing Army, privy envoy Zhang Qi out of Xuzhou (later changed to Chenzhou), privy deputy envoy Xia La out of Zhixiangzhou (later changed to Yingzhou), Fan Yong out of Zhijingnan Mansion (later changed to Yangzhou), Zhao Zhi out of Zhihezhong Mansion...

Prime Minister Lu Yijian came out of the sentence of Lanzhou!

In an instant, the world swirled, and Lu Yijian's soul was scattered. Did I hear me wrong? Is this true? I was also exiled and demoted?

Wishing is an illusion, but it's true. Lu Yijian was woken up by a blow on her head in a sweet dream. On that day, he used all his strength to restrain his shock and calmly accepted this imperial order.

After coming down, he quietly found his secret weapon - Yan Wenying, the eunuch in the palace. This is what sets Lu Yijian apart. He has long had an inside line in the palace, but he is not ostentatious at all.

From Yan Wenying's mouth, he knew the reason for his sudden downfall. It was a fragrant and gentle queen-level pillow wind. It is said that Zhao Zhen and Prime Minister Lu carefully studied how to fire the squid of Liu's high-ranking officials. As a result, the more I thought about it, the happier I became, and I couldn't restrain myself after work, so I told my queen in the harem.

But Renzong probably forgot how this Guo family, whom he never loved, became the queen, that is, Liu E's support! So Empress Guo smiled faintly after hearing this: "Isn't Lu Yijian the Queen Mother's person?" It's just that he is smart and clever" Queen Guo probably wouldn't have thought that it was this sentence that brought him the tragic fate of being deposed, and also provoked Fan Zhongyan to be his rival in the first half of his life.

One sentence made Zhao Zhen completely cool down. An ultimate question arises: If Lu Yijian is really an outsider to Empress Dowager Liu, how did he become prime minister?

The more Zhao Zhen thought about it, the more angry he became, so he decided to give Prime Minister Lu himself something in return... In this way, Lu Yijian also joined the ranks of exile. There are 6 of his old partners in the ranks, as well as some top celebrities in the Tiansheng years - 9 super popular eunuchs: Jiang Deming, Luo Chongxun, Yang Yuyi, Yang Chengde, Zhang Huaixin, Yang Anjie, Wu Jilong, Ren Shouzhong, Cai Shunqing. There's no need to look for it, although they have power for a while, they haven't done much harm. None of them are qualified to be selected for the "Biography of Eunuchs in the History of the Song Dynasty", which also indirectly shows that during Liu E's reign, not only relatives, but even eunuchs were not able to really dictate power. (To be continued......)