Song Shenzong is still seriously ill, and a new round of political games has begun! Who will be the next emperor? Under whose nomination? This is the biggest sale in feudal times! How many people are staring at it! Of course, there are only 2 people who can implement it: Shang Shu Zuo Servant and Prime Minister Wang Qi; Shangshu's right servant shoots, and the second minister Cai is true! The division of labor between these two people is very clear: Wang Qi protects the son of Song Shenzong, and Cai really thinks of Song Shenzong's younger brother. Why don't we work together to protect one person? Because each of them wants to monopolize the biggest deal in this feudal era!

Focus on Cai Qu. In the first half of his life, Mr. Cai oscillated between the old and new factions, and now he is the leader of the new party for the time being. Because he is very decisive, dares to start, and dares to speak, compared with the "Three Decrees" Wang Qi, there are many more capable people under him. There are even more people who give him ideas. Among them, there was a person named Xing Shu who was the most to his liking, and his idea made him fascinated... As for the reason? Origin decides a qiē. The path he has traveled is very similar to Cai Qu, first as a student of the opposition, and the teachers are Sima Guang and Cheng Hao, earning enough credits. Be a believer in Wang Anshi again and find a good job... There is a common language!

Xing Shu is convinced that wealth is in danger. In response to the current situation, he reminded Cai Qu: Although the emperor has sons, they are too young. The Great Song Dynasty had a tradition of brother to brother and brother, and this time it is very likely to be staged again! There are two reasons for this. 1 Shenzong's two younger brothers: Zhao Hao is 36 years old and Zhao Hao is 30 years old, both of them are in their best years. 2 They and Shenzong have the same father and mother, and that mother is very unusual, very much the shadow of the old Empress Dowager Du back then...

What's more, these two imperial brothers are very caring, since Song Shenzong fell ill. Always haunting the palace, and not even going home at night. Especially Yongwang Zhao Hao, this younger brother is the most special. The most favored by the Queen Mother! Back then, even Wang Anshi dared to provoke, and dared to quarrel with the emperor's brother, forcing Song Shenzong to shout the words "replace you as the emperor". Such a person has the potential to be an emperor...

When Cai did hear this, his heart was surging. Well! I like this guy. Just choose him! But you chose someone, did they agree? That's to be sure! So Xing Shu went out and found the most critical point - the Gao family! At this moment. The most mysterious and powerful family in the Great Song Dynasty is no longer surnamed Zhao, but surnamed Gao!

Xing Shu saw it very accurately, as long as he obtained the consent of the Gao family. Zhao Hao will definitely ascend to the sky in one step. At that time, even if he himself doesn't agree, there is no way, if you want to be, you will be, and it will not be possible!

Pave the way for the new emperor and help the new emperor on the road. It's exciting to think about! Someday. Xing Shu accurately calculated and found the opportunity for Empress Dowager Gao's two maiden nephews, Gao Gonghua and Gao Gongji, to wander around the city and have fun. That's great! Xing Shu came to a very elegant invitation - my peach tree has bloomed, and I invite two gentlemen to come over to watch...

The Gao brothers happily went on the road, and when they entered the door, they found that there were no peach blossoms at all, only Xing Shu's old face that smiled like a blooming chrysanthemum. He was very excited to say his intentions, full of expectations that he would win a hearty smile... Unexpectedly, the Gao family disappeared in the next moment, leaving him with only one sentence, "You want to kill our whole family" At this time, Mr. Xing came back to his senses: What is the identity of the Gao family? Even if you want to turn your hands into clouds and cover your hands for rain. There's no need for you, a little Beijing official, to lead the way, right?

was in the middle of the south wall, but Xing Shu didn't care. He immediately reported it to Cai Qu. Immediately adjust the direction of the main attack: turn your head to support the prince! At the same time, in order to destroy the corpse and destroy the traces, he immediately spread rumors that Zhao Hao, the king of Yong, was plotting for the throne and deliberately rebelled... Poor Zhao Hao, who didn't have the slightest connection with Cai Qu Group, was used twice in a row...

But the queue to support the prince is too crowded, and the imperial prime minister Wang Qi is in the way, how can this old thing be dissipated? Do you want to be behind him and be a deputy? Never! At the critical moment, Xing Shu's brain was running quickly and he came up with a very clever method. Even if the prince who was first established by Wang Jue, even if Wang Jue is the head of the ministers, he must grab the first credit!

This matter is too serious, Cai did go out in person, and he found two helpers: 1 Men under the servant Zhang Dan. The vice-prime minister of Zhang Tun is highly powerful, resolute and strong, and the chances of winning by joining forces with him have greatly increased. In particular, Zhang Dian was loyal to Song Shenzong and would choose a prince to succeed him no matter what. What's even better is that because of Su Shi, Zhang Dian hates Wang Qi very much, and he scolded him a few days ago.

2 Cai did quietly find a person, and this person was the turning point in the history of the Great Song Dynasty! The turning point of the Song Dynasty was in the Huizong Dynasty. And the reason why Song Huizong fell was Cai Jing. Without this person, even if Huizong can't maintain the Qingming Junjie at the beginning, he will never quickly let the country recover... Studying Cai Jing, we can clearly understand the officialdom in the last years of the Northern Song Dynasty, and we can see the officialdom culture of the Northern Song Dynasty from Shenzong to Huizong from his twists and turns all the way to his life, so as to find out the chronic diseases in the thinking and life of the Chinese.

Simplifying his cumbersome resume, Cai Jing's road to officialdom is full of luck and suffering. In 1070, at the age of 23, he entered Beijing from his hometown of Xinghua Xianyou in Fujian Province and his younger brother Cai Bian to take the examination and won the Jinshi. The first person to appreciate him was the examiner Wang Qi that year. The second person is Wang Anshi. The Cai brothers' talent is by no means below the Su brothers in some respects. Such as calligraphy, political zhì talent. Especially Cai Bian, who is precocious and has outstanding quality. At that time, it was 1070, Wang Anshi presided over the reform, and was the first powerful minister of the imperial court, he took a fancy to Cai Bian at a glance and married his daughter to him. Cai Jing hooked up with the prime minister almost at the first moment of the beginning of his career, which was even more surprising than winning the top prize. It's just that Wang Anshi is different, he is very strict with the Cai brothers - don't want to be a concubine in the capital, you are still young, go to the grassroots to exercise...

During the 9 years that Wang Anshi was in power, Er Cai ran between remote states and counties, and had no relationship with high-ranking officials Houlu. However, this had an unexpected good effect, after Wang Anshi resigned as prime minister, both the new party and the old party had a good impression of the Cai Jing brothers, thinking that they had integrity, indifferent to fame and fortune, and Deng Xuan, Lu Huiqing and other people who tended to be inflammatory!

With such an officialdom evaluation, coupled with Wang Anshi's relationship, Emperor Shenzong also had a good impression of the Cai brothers. In the early years of Yuanfeng, Cai Bian became a living housekeeper and Cai Jing became a Zhongshu housekeeper. A few years later, when Shenzong was critically ill, Cai Jing was already the Yin of Kaifeng Mansion and the mayor of the capital, and his authority was very great. Cai really wanted to deal with the prime minister and found him directly. A lot of complicated insider information translates into two sentences.

Indeed, "we support the sixth son of the emperor, Zhao Maid", and Beijing is "good"

Indeed, "we deal with Wang Jue" and "Beijing" is "good"

Indeed, "Tomorrow morning, I will have a showdown with Wang Qi with Zhang Dun." You lead people to stand guard outside the window of the government hall. He dares to resist, you kill him" Cai Jing had a very short pause, "Okay" still replied.

The conversation above is a bit weird, I'm sure everyone can see it. Why did Cai Qu go to Cai Jing? In terms of relationship, Wang Jue is Cai Jing's teacher, and he is a very strong lineage relationship in the officialdom. Even Taizu Zhao Kuangyin had a headache back then, and he came up with a palace test to be a teacher in person and break up this kind of officialdom nepotism. Why did Cai turn a blind eye? Very simple. Have stronger relationships!

In the history of the Northern Song Dynasty, there were many high-ranking officials with the surname Cai, such as Cai Qu, Cai Xiang, Cai Jing, and Cai Bian. In fact, they are relatives, very close blood relations. Cai Qu and Cai Xiang are the same grandfather. Their great-grandfather and the great-grandfather of the Cai Jing brothers were brothers. I can't write two Cai characters in one stroke, and compared to this, it's useless to have any teacher!

But there is a second anomaly - Cai Jing is too well-behaved? No matter what Cai Qu said, he was full of promises. Its obedience to Cheng dù. Don't say brothers. Even superiors and subordinates rarely have such pleasure. This is Cai Jing's suffering, and it is also his characteristic. Throughout Cai Jing's life, he had no foundation or backing, and he was admitted from the most remote and small places in the empire, and even Wang Anshi fell in love with his younger brother Cai Bian. With such a background, if you want to climb up, you have to make compromises! Cai Jing knew this very well, and he didn't show any edge from the beginning. Deal with everybody. All exude enough enthusiasm and thoughtfulness. Over time, he formed his own unique way of surviving officialdom - zero rejection...

This is a very rare exception. As the saying goes, people have no steel bones, and they can't be safe, whether in the family or in society, men must have temper, and women must have temper, otherwise everyone will bully you. In a word: people who are not good at saying "no" are people who have no status, let alone status! So what will Cai Jing's future hold? Will it become a lump of dough to be kneaded? We'll have to wait and see. Now it's important to remember that he's got his signature – zero rejection.

But there has to be a scale for zero rejection, right? Look at what Cai really wants him to do, that is, he wants him to go to the political hall in the depths of the palace to cut down the prime minister! If you really want to do this, don't care if Wang Jue can be hacked to death, no matter whether Zhao Hao, the king of Yong, comes to power, or the prince ascends the throne, Cai Jing himself is an ironclad dead end! It's obviously a fire pit, how could Cai Jing agree?

Don't worry, Cai Jing's stomach is now pumping happily, and it took him incomparable endurance to hold back his laughter and calmly send Cai Cheng away. Then gather people, carry controlled knives, and wait for the next day's action...

The next day, Cai Qu and Zhang Dian led a large number of men into the palace, met with the six ministers of the three provinces and the Privy Council, and went to the palace of Shenzong to inquire about the disease. In front of Shenzong's sickbed, everyone was very quiet, and after leaving, Cai did lead everyone to the south chamber of the Privy Council.

There, Zhang Dian was as fierce as ever, he looked at Wang Qi and became angry, and shouted: Do you support the prince or the prince? Today you have to dare to object, and you want your head to fall to the ground!

There was silence in the hall, and the ministers were stunned, since the founding of the Great Song Dynasty, no one had ever threatened the prime minister of the dynasty like this in the office! Now that the emperor is seriously ill and the prime minister is disgraced, isn't there really something big going to happen?

saw Wang Qi sitting there motionless, as if he was really scared stupid, and he didn't say a word for a long time. In fact, he was almost dizzy, a kind of pleasure of being spoofed made him want to jump up and scold the street, and he also wanted to look up to the sky and laugh It's really enjoyable and fun - he himself is the prince, and now Cai Qu and Zhang Dian are forcing him to support the prince with a knife, and this prince has long been determined that there is only one person named Zhao Maid, the sixth son of the emperor... Is this a joke?

Also wanting to look up to the sky and laugh is Cai Jing, who is hiding outside the window and carrying dozens of steel knives. Think he's really stupid? When Cai did find him, he instantly figured out this logic, so he agreed so happily. If you bring a knife, you will bring a knife, and if you enter the palace, you will not shed blood in this matter anyway, and you will be happy to do this favor, and show your loyalty to the blood...

After a long time, Wang Qi finally slowly said a sentence "I have my own son, what can I do", and Zhang Dian immediately let out a sigh, Shenzong can be blinded, and the throne is not falling...

Cai Cheng was furious, this is tantamount to opening up to the world, the throne is a natural inheritance, and there is no one to support it at all. Have you been busy all day long? Just as he was thinking about doing something more, Zhang Dian had already taken him through the next procedure-the ministers re-entered the palace, and no matter whether the Shenzong could accurately express their consciousness, they had to pass down the edict of the sixth son of the emperor. On the same day, Zhao Xu (Zhao Maid) finally had the status of crown prince, and when he walked out of the palace, the faces of the three top ministers were different...

Wang Jue's face was discouraged, the oil ran out, he couldn't support it anymore, and he would die in more than 2 months...

Cai Qu gritted his teeth, he never thought that Wang Qi, who was too old and too cowardly, would be shrewd at a critical moment, and a word would ruin his dream...

Zhang Dan is high-spirited, he doesn't care how much insider there is in the incident, and no matter who has any ideas, the important thing is that the goal is achieved. As if to make him more excited, when he went out of the palace gate, he met the sworn enemy of the incident, Prince Yong Zhao Hao. If Zhang Dun wants to win, he must win the arrogance and pleasure. He greeted him and said loudly, "I have obtained the decree to make the king of Yan'an County the crown prince." What do you think" Zhao Hao immediately bowed his head and "The world is very lucky" Zhang Dian left laughing, he believed that this was the best way to deal with this kind of incident. It is to put it on the bright side, let Zhao Hao bow his head in public, and completely defeat him, and he will have less thoughts in the future!

Behind him, Cai was still a thief, and he was unwilling. At this time, Xing Shu appeared again, and the traitor really had a lot of ideas. He asked Cai Qu to publicize to the outside world that Zhao Xu, the king of Yan'an County, was brought into the palace by Cai Qu and I to force Wang Ju to agree to the canonization. No matter what the process is, what the truth is, even if it is a lie, it must be repeated! As long as it has made an impact, it's a credit!

Cai did do so, and he really wanted to take that last step, cross the distance, and rise from second prime minister to prime minister. For this step, his mind was messed up... This is the sorrow of a foolish man who has forgotten how he became the Prime Minister of the Empire. It was not his ability and qualifications, but that Song Shenzong wanted to personally control the government and did not want to be obstructed by any of his subordinates, so he chose this year's leadership team. In other words, he and Wang Qi are just clerks, messengers, and royal secretaries. From this point of view, Wang Jue is really better than him, at least he understands his own situation, and honestly acts as a "three-purpose minister" (to be continued......