On May 1, the final investigation results made everyone grit their teeth, it was actually a maid surnamed Han in Zhao Yuanyan's mansion who stole a few gold bracelets, afraid that the owner would find out, so he simply set a fire, wanting to die without proof. But the effect was so good, and the treasury of the Great Song Dynasty was also destroyed...

Zhao Heng was rarely cruel once, he reluctantly obeyed Wang Dan's advice, and talked about things without connecting others. But the main culprit Han was dealt with strictly. This greedy, ruthless and stupid woman was "cut off her hands and feet, displayed in public for 3 days, and executed by Ling Chi"

The country's strength plummeted, the national treasury reserves were completely depleted, and the situation suddenly became bad. And there was no precaution in advance, and there was no emergency at all. Then the following year's natural disaster, the emperor finally couldn't bear such a blow...

On August 6, Zhang Yong, the first local minister of the Great Song Dynasty, died. Left his last words, "Beggar, hang his head in the country to thank the world." Then cut Zhang Yong, put the door of the Ding family with the head of the Yong, and said Xie Ding"

On September 2, an envoy was sent to pay tribute to the Great Song Dynasty, which had never communicated with China before and was estimated to be 411,400 miles away. According to the envoy himself, he arrived in Canton by sea ship for 1,150 days. Such a distant country came to pay tribute, so that the emperor, who was obsessed with Feng Zen, felt a lot of face, and ordered a generous reward.

On December 2, the 6-year-old prince Zhao Ying was crowned. On the 15th, he was awarded the title of Loyal Army Festival Envoy and King of Shouchun County.

On the 28th, he ordered Wang Qinruo and Chen Pengnian to re-copy those precious books that survived the fire more than half a year ago...

On February 17, 1016, the 9th year of Dazhong Xiangfu, another magnificent and of course super money-burning building in the Great Song Dynasty - Jingling Palace in District 1322 was completed.

On the 21st, Zhao Ying's biological mother Li was named a talented person.

On the 23rd, Yelu Longxu's son Yelu Zongzhen (the future Liaoxingzong) was born. But the biological mother is not the beautiful and virtuous queen Xiao Bodhisattva, but the ruthless palace man Xiao Yunjin. Xiao Yunjin's background is also prominent, and he is the 5th grandson of Agu Zhi, the younger brother of the Empress Dowager Shu Luping. However, the 'gentleman's ze, the fifth generation and beheaded' was passed to her generation, and she entered the palace as a palace maid to serve the Empress Dowager Xiao. Once, when cleaning the couch of the Empress Dowager Xiao, she caught a golden rooster. No matter how much he swallowed it, a strange thing suddenly happened: Xiao Yunjin's dark skin had all faded, and his complexion was dazzling. At the same time, it becomes naturally beautiful. Empress Dowager Xiao sighed: "This girl is not simple. will definitely be able to give birth to a strange son', so let this 'magically beautiful' girl serve Liao Shengzong. This gave birth to 'Qizi' Yelu Zongzhen. Queen Xiao Bodhisattva Brother gave birth to 2 sons, but they all died early, and the Liao Shengzong, who was in love with each other, handed over Yelu Zong to Xiao Bodhisattva Brother to raise, but this caused Xiao Yunjin's extreme dissatisfaction. The Liao Kingdom is about to be in chaos...

On July 2, Liao Shengzong came to Chishan to hunt and almost encountered the danger of life and death. Liao Shengzong originally rode a horse to shoot a tiger, but he didn't expect the horse to run too fast, and the arrow didn't have time to be issued. He has run in front of the tiger. On the line of life and death, Chen Zhaogon stepped forward, rode on the back of the tiger, and grabbed the two tiger ears with both hands. The frightened Liao Shengzong was in a hurry to chase and kill the guards, and Chen Zhaogon shouted to stop it. With his own strength, he fought with the tiger, and finally looked into the air and killed the tiger with a sword. The lord of Liao was overjoyed, and gave Chen Zhaogon the surname of the country Yelu, and rewarded countless gold and silver.

9th. A once-in-a-century plague of locusts has suddenly arrived... Break out near the capital first!

The Song Dynasty's response was the most fashionable at the time - building altars and praying. The effect is said to be very good, and within a few days, some ministers brought the dead locusts into the East Mansion, and began to open their eyes and say nonsense, "The locusts are all dead, let's go and congratulate the emperor" How can this trick deceive the well-informed Wang Dan? Although Wang Dan did not dare to stop the emperor from worshipping the gods. But there is still the courage to stop the hundred officials. Resolutely refuse! As a result, when the court went to court that day, locusts came all over the world, and some fell directly on the court. Zhao Heng sighed, "If the locusts are congratulated by hundreds of officials to this point, won't they laugh for the world" on the 21st. It is said that the locust plague is caused by the wanton behavior of the minister's children.

On August 5, due to a locust plague in the land of Jiangbei, Jianghuai was ordered to urgently pay tribute of 500,000 stones. In case of hunger.

On the 15th, the privy envoy Chen Yaosu died of illness. On September 3, the governor Ding Wei was dismissed. On the 5th, Wang Zeng and Zhang Zhibai were appointed as governors.

The official history books of the Song Dynasty admit that officials everywhere did not pay much attention to locusts. So in September, even the prefectures and counties south of the Yangtze River were covered by locusts, and the natural disaster of "locusts" in the whole country was completely uncontrollable! This is after the treasury reserves were burned out, and even the rations of the year became a problem. The national strength and economy of the Great Song Dynasty have suddenly regressed for more than 20 years, returning to the most difficult years of Zhao Guangyi's period.

The emergency documents of the disaster situation in various places flew into Kaifeng City like snowflakes, and the emperor's mood can be imagined. On this day, he was sitting in the temple, and suddenly the sunlight outside was gone, and the world was dark, so he hurriedly sent someone out to see, and then walked out in person without waiting for a return. He saw the sky boundless, obscuring the sun, full of locusts...

The locusts of the day finally flew over, but the emperor still stood outside the hall, silent, and dumbfounded... It was a long time before he slowly walked back into the temple and sat down in his seat. But he doesn't eat, drink, or speak, like a wooden man. After a long time, the attendants found out: Your Majesty is sick!

A voice echoed in Zhao Heng's ears, shocking his heart, "If you will be bullied to the sky, then the sky cannot be bullied." If you will be foolish, you will not be foolish. will confuse future generations, and future generations will not believe it" This is the definition given by his courtiers Sun Zheng 6 years ago for a series of god-making movements such as his auspiciousness all over the earth and the advent of heavenly books. Among them, the words "if you will deceive the heavens, then the heavens will not be deceived" will surely make him restless and frightened, because he is really superstitious. In the past 10 years of deception, in the eyes of outsiders, he is enjoying the full protection of the gods and Buddhas, but he himself knows that if there is really a god, he is completely deceiving, deceiving, and blaspheming! In the face of this sudden locust plague, can he not be frightened?

How much force there is, how heavy the contusion is, so Zhao Heng is sick, in modern medical terms, it is likely to be cerebral thrombosis, the same disease as Tang Gaozong Li Zhi. The specific symptom is that from then on, you will become upside down, you will wake up from time to time, you will forget what you have said in a blink of an eye, and no matter how big the decision is, it can be automatically invalidated. And the most terrible thing is that the once normal Zhao Heng will suddenly come back from time to time, and no one can tell when he is normal or abnormal. Too many people and things have died at this point...

In November, Su Shouxin, the party's Xiliang Mansion guard, died, and his son Luo Ma could not obey the public. The Uighurs of Ganzhou took the opportunity to sneak attack at night. After the fall of Xiliangfu and the abandonment of the city, Li Deming waged a 12-year fierce war with the Ganzhou Uighurs. Under the strength of his son Li Yuanhao, he won the final victory...

On December 15, Yelu Longqing, the younger brother of Liao Shengzong, died of illness and was posthumously crowned as the emperor's younger brother (he was the only prince of the Liao Dynasty who had the right to form a Huluduo that only the emperor could set up)

On February 30, the first year of Tianxi (1017), Chen Pengnian, one of the 'Five Ghosts', the 'Nine-Tailed Wild Fox', died of illness.

On May 1, Emperor Liao took Xiao Hezhuo and Wang Jizhong (i.e., Yelu Xianzhong) as the chief and deputy commanders, and Xiao Qulie as the supervisor of the army, and conquered Goryeo.

On the 3rd, Wang Dan, the prime minister of the Great Song Dynasty, finally overworked. Exhausted, he asked to be dismissed due to illness. On the 11th, the emperor partially agreed to his request. Let Wang Dan not have to go to work every day, and consult at any time in case of military affairs.

In June, the natural disaster continued, the locusts only increased, and the number of locusts had flown out of the border of the Song Dynasty and entered the Youzhou area of the Great Khitan, so even the Khitan people shouted for help. October 2nd. Ordered the Yunzhou area to distribute grain for disaster relief.

On July 18, Wang Dan entered the palace, but he was carried into the palace from side to side. Zhao Heng said sympathetically, "I want to entrust Qing with great things, and Qing is like this." "Summoned the 8-year-old prince Zhao to bow down to Wang Dan." Wang Dan fled in fear. and said, "The prince Shengde will definitely be able to inherit His Majesty", and then recommended more than 10 ministers. These people, except for Ling Ce, Li and the two, all became high-ranking officials in the eastern and western provinces of the Great Song Dynasty in the future.

On the 21st, Wang Dan resigned. August 5th. Wang Qinruo broke the rule that the southerners of the Great Song Dynasty were not allowed to be prime ministers, and became the prime minister of the Great Song Dynasty (the prime minister was Xiang Minzhong) Wang Qinruo came to power, he first touched the prime minister's chair and sighed, "Wang Dan said a word." made me the prime minister 10 years late" has a cause. Over the years, Wang Dan, like Kou Zhun, has always reiterated the prohibition that the Song Dynasty did not use southerners as prime ministers, and at most could only serve as privy envoys. And just before Wang Dan died, he almost shattered his dream of being prime minister again. Wang Dan was seriously ill, Zhao Heng went to visit and asked who could be the prime minister? No matter who was mentioned, Wang Dan was silent, and it was only after the emperor that the emperor asked him to say that he cherished the emperor, "The foolish minister thinks that only Kou Zhun ..."

On September 8, the governor of the council, Wang Zeng. Li Di was appointed as the Governor of the Council.

On the 14th, Wang Dan died at the age of 61. The nickname is the top of the Wenchen - Wenzheng! This is a kind of praise that even the founding prime minister Zhao Pu has not received! In the entire 319 years of the Two Song Dynasty, only 6 ministers received this nickname: Li Fang, Wang Dan, Fan Zhongyan, Sima Guang...

At this time, the pattern of the Song Dynasty has become a situation in which the emperor faints, the prime minister dies, Kou Zhun is demoted, the prince is young, the queen is shrewd and capable, and the treacherous and evil people like Wang Qinruo and others are advancing bravely and climbing to the highest peak of the political arena...

Some people are alive, as if they are insignificant, but once he is dead, people will find out that he is as heavy as Mount Tai. Wang Dan is like that!

If you want to talk about him, so that you can be worthy of an elder who is loyal, responsible, humble, forbearing, and other virtues of the ancient literati. Looking back on his life, it is a deformed extreme. On the one hand, he is a very popular minister, and he has been the prime minister of peace for more than 10 years, which is a great blessing that many elite heroes in the past generations can hope for. On the other hand, he was so miserable that he could not speak to anyone, but he endured and toiled silently until he ran out of oil and died of exhaustion. for his life has become a laughing stock. He knows very well what history will give him the ultimate verdict: a liar, a god, and the lightest of all a coward. knew that his emperor was doing something wrong, but he didn't dare to admonish, he couldn't admonish, but he added fuel to the fire... How shameless this is, just think about Wang Dan's soul will cry all night! He was originally a perfect person with both virtue and integrity, and his character was flawless, and he was a famous person, but this life ended like this! In history, when Wang Dan walked with the "Book of Heaven", he was "often unhappy" When Zhao Heng gave him many rewards, he closed his eyes and lamented, "The people are anointed with blood, how can I be used so much" When he died, he left his son's last words, to "eliminate hair and cloak in order to collect", that is, to shave off his hair and wear the clothes of his family to be buried... The parents who receive the body are not filial. Wang Dan is masochistic by doing this, he has failed this life, and he is ashamed of his ancestors and parents, so he has no face to meet his underground ancestors. What a painful remorse! Fortunately, this was stopped by his former friend Yang Yi. The famous minister died like this, but history still gave him a fair evaluation. He was at fault, he couldn't and didn't dare to stop Zhao Heng from worshipping God, but with his involvement, he subtly controlled the situation, even if Wang Qinruo, Ding Wei, Lin Te and others did everything to toss the court and the world, he could still keep the country stable and prosperous, even if it was only on the surface.

This alone is very good, not to mention that he has protected and promoted so many virtuous and capable people, and he has done it very low-key, many times people have benefited, and they don't know who did it. This has created a phenomenon that Wang Dan seems to be a dispensable person, and he seems to be insignificant during his lifetime. But after his death, the officialdom of the Song Dynasty was in turmoil, and no matter how smart and capable the successors were, or how extraordinary their courage and appeal were: Wang Qinruo, Ding Wei, Kou Zhun, Li Di... They can no longer stabilize the situation. And one by one, they are full of ugliness, and they fall one after another! Both loyal and traitorous, without exception!

Xiao Hezhuo conquered Goryeo, and the lord of Liao gave Shang Fang a sword, although the deputy general Wang Jizhong opposed it, but to no avail. Sure enough, Xiao Hezhuo, who lacked military talent, attacked the city of Xinghua in Goryeo for 9 days. On the contrary, they lost their troops and lost their generals. On the 20th, the Liao army was divided from Goryeo.

On February 3, 1018, the 2nd year of Tianxi, Shengzhou was used as Jiangning Mansion and Jiankang Army. 9-year-old Zhao was named the envoy of the festival and promoted to the king.

On May 5, Yelu Zongzhen, who was only more than 2 years old, was named King of Liang, and his younger brother Yelu Zongyuan was the envoy of the Yongqing Army. Zong Jian, Zong Yuan, Zong Wei, Zong Fan, Zong Xi, Zong Liang, Zong Bi, Zong Yi, Zong Xian, Zong Su and other sons and nephews were enshrined in one.

On August 8, the ministers submitted three petitions to the crown prince. On the 15th, Zhao Yingfu was made the crown prince and changed his name to Zhao Zhen. Amnesty to the world. On the 23rd, Li Di, the governor of the council, was appointed as the prince's guest, that is, the prince and the prince of the previous dynasty. On September 8, the crown prince's canonization ceremony was held in the Tian'an Palace.

On October 27, Emperor Liao took Xiao Paijian and Xiao Xulie as the chief and deputy commanders, and Yelu Starling as the supervising army, and then attacked Goryeo. In December, the defeated army returned.

In January of the 3rd year of Tianxi (1019), the Great Khitan sealed Shazhou Jiedu and made Cao Xianshun the king of Dunhuang County. (To be continued......)