Zhao Zhen of Song Renzong died in the middle of the night on March 29, 1063, and the news of his death did not reach until the early morning of April 1 the next day. A whole set of official articles can be ignored and look directly at the protagonist.

Crown Prince Zhao Shu was just like Zhao Kuangyin was broken into the bedroom by "rebels" in Chenqiaoyi, and the hundred officials started with Prime Minister Han Qi, holding a yellow robe, and invited him to ascend the throne. His reaction was also very standard, shouting "I can't do it, I can't do it" in a row, this is normal, and the excuse is necessary, but the next moment is too unique: this person turns around and runs, and wants to disappear from the scene!

Han Qi and the others immediately pounced: Boss, the process is wrong, this play can't be played! On that day, Zhao Shu was forced by his courtiers to put on the imperial robe and officially became the fifth emperor of the Great Song Dynasty - Song Yingzong.

It's just that everyone always feels that something is not quite right, and it was not until he went out of the hall to meet the hundred officials and read out the edict of the first emperor that he found the problem: Zhao Shu's eyes were dull and his expression was stiff, and he looked blankly at the courtiers who knelt on the ground in front of him, crying bitterly, not to mention taking the lead in mourning and mourning, and even the hair scattered on his forehead did not know how to take care of it. If there is any difference between him and zombies, it is that there are two lines of tears.

The courtiers exchanged heads and were very moved. Silent tears are really painful! Great filial son! Even if it wasn't born to the first emperor...

This kind of "filial piety" made Zhao Shu fall ill on the evening of April 4, 3 days later, incoherently, and no one recognized him...

On the 5th, Empress Cao was honored as the Empress Dowager. On the 6th, the ministers submitted three petitions to Song Yingzong to listen to the government. On the 7th, Yingzong issued an edict: I am sick and can't listen to politics! Si Tianjian also made a timely move at this time: Recently, the emperor and the queen mother will have a disaster. Zhao Shu, a slut, has even more reason to avoid the Empress Dowager Cao...

On the 8th, the day of Renzong's funeral, Zhao Shu's "filial piety" reached an unprecedented level: the new emperor walked wildly in front of the coffin of the first emperor, jumping back and forth, and completely disrupted the funeral of the first emperor and adoptive father! What the? Even if the masters who killed their father and usurped the throne, such as Emperor Yang Guang of the Sui Dynasty, and Zhu Youqi, the King of Later Liang Ying, didn't do it like this, right? It was so much that he couldn't watch it, and Han Qi stood up. Pull the curtain to block people, hold Zhao Shu by the waist, and ask a few eunuchs to twist and send them back to the harem directly!

Disrespecting the first emperor is a great rebellion! But the official explanation is: this baby is too "filial", and the grief is excessive, which leads to abnormality...

Back in the harem, the sadness continued and the filial piety was escalating, Zhao Shu intensified and began to beat and scold his subordinates. Although it is normal for the emperor to beat and scold his subordinates, you have to give a reason, right? Zhao Shu didn't care about this. He said that he would beat and scold if he wanted to, but to tell the truth, he just didn't have an axe in his hand, otherwise it is estimated that everyone will lack front teeth!

This kind of violence was actually used on his nominal mother, the Empress Dowager Cao. At that time, the waiters couldn't stand it anymore, so they ran to the Queen Mother to plead: Do you care about your son? He just entered the palace, and he is a little recognized! The Queen Mother went, judging from the cultivation and records of the first half of the Empress Dowager Cao's life, she could not be a violent mother.

But the warm persuasion, in exchange for the "son" is not inferior, these two words are in the history books. As for how not to be inferior? Conversations are all "hidden". No one knows what Zhao Shu said that day!

I can't help it! Got on the thief ship... can only knock out teeth and swallow blood, who made me choose such a baby to be the emperor in the first place! Han Qi estimated that he had all kinds of flavors in his heart... Empress Dowager Cao, come and listen to the government! I really don't know what kind of madness Zhao Shu is going to this bastard!

On the 10th, the Khitan envoy Yelugu asked for an audience. The court really didn't know the shameless performance of Zhao Shu, the new emperor. It was proposed that it would be better to let the Liao envoy bow in front of the coffin of the first emperor, and then directly exchange the national credentials, lest Zhao Shu, a slut, make any tricks when he met him. The proposal was unanimously adopted, but Jerugu insisted. In the end, in the fear of the ministers. The new emperor, Song Yingzong, received Yelugu. The two emperors of Song and Liao wanted to rearrange their seniority. But Song Yingzong didn't know the birthday of Liao Daozong, but fortunately, Zhou Xin, a bachelor of Longtu Pavilion, who was his companion, was alert, and he found out the birthday of Yelu Hongji of Liao Daozong from the mouth of Yelu Valley in a gag. It turns out that the two emperors were born together in 1032. However, Song Yingzong was born in the first month, and Yelu Hongji was born in August. Yelugu repented that "now the brother is in the Southern Dynasty"

On the 11th, Song Yingzong was in the West Pavilion of the Rouyi Palace, and the Empress Dowager Cao was in the East Pavilion, and the curtain was officially lowered to listen to the government.

On the 13th, Prime Minister Han Qi and Zeng Gongliang; Governor Ouyang Xiu and Zhao Yi; Privy Envoy Zhang Yu; The privy deputy envoys Hu Su and Wu Kui were all added to the ranks.

On the 29th, Empress Dowager Cao's niece and Zhao Shu's wife Gao Taotao was made queen.

The Great Khitan, Yelu Chongyuan, Yelu Nelugu, Xiao Huxuan and others are making the most reluctant preparations for the rebellion. The only obstacle now is the famous and famous Jelu Renxian. To succeed in the rebellion, you must first kill Renxian! So Yelu Nelugu played Emperor Liao, "Please Feng Ren first recruit envoys for the Northwest Road", and Liao Daozong probably didn't see his cousin's wolf ambition at all. Just as I was about to agree, at this critical moment in history, Yelu Yixin, a traitor who had ranked first in Liao history for more than 200 years, appeared on the stage to speak!

Yelu Yixin, as the first traitor of the Great Liao, has an unshirkable responsibility for the fall of the Great Liao with the future second traitor Zhang Xiaojie and the third traitor Xiao Fengxian! I really want to introduce this person: Throughout Yelu Yixin's life, he is very similar to Fan Zhongyan, "the first person in the three hundred years of the Song Dynasty". Except for the difference between good and evil, each of them reached a pole, the path of life they took was almost identical: they all relied on personal efforts, from low to high, and they were extremely popular, so that the fate of the country would be changed because of it!

Yelu Yixin was born in an extremely poor family, how poor was he? His father's nickname is "Poor Diera", but this can't hide the light of Yelu Yixin! This child is different before he is born. His mother had a dream in which she caught a sheep, broke its horns, and plucked its tail. A fortune teller congratulates her on removing the head and tail of the word "sheep", which is the word "king", and your son will be the king in the future! With the poverty of his family at that time, his parents naturally took this as sarcasm and did not pay attention to it. But when we think about it, it seems like fun? Poor Khitans used Chinese characters to tell fortunes?

Later, when Jeruyisin was born, his parents were on their way and had no water to bathe him. But just after he was born, a clear spring actually appeared out of the rut that he had just thrown out! This is only more than in the Buddhist scripture story, when the Buddha Shakyamuni was born, he descended from heaven to bathe in a sweet spring... It's just a little bit worse! Don't forget: the Khitan nation is a nation that all believe in Buddhism!

The most wonderful thing is the dream of Yelu Yixin when he grows up to graze. One day it was getting late, and he hadn't come home yet. His father found him in the bush and found him sleeping soundly, so he woke him up. When Jereth Ethin woke up, he was furious, saying that he was dreaming of a god holding the sun and moon in his hand and giving him food! He has eaten the moon (spoiler ahead: the queen died tragically in his hands) and the sun is half eating (the prince died tragically in his hands). Suddenly woken up! It's annoying.

Regardless of whether this is true or not, the fate of Yelu Yixin has changed since then. His father no longer let him herd, but learned something else. He was a first-class man among the Khitans in martial arts, which was relatively ordinary, and at most he could be an excellent warrior. But he also has another quality that is very rare among the Khitans: Yelu Yixin is graceful, outstanding, gentle and elegant in appearance, especially dynamic and well-educated, not at all like a poor child who grows in the wild!

How did it come about? No one knows, maybe it's the unique talent of the first traitor, right? After that, his bravery made him a personal guard of the Liao Xingzong Yelu Sect. The position is a civil servant and a Taibao seal. This is a pretty job, just like the Song Dynasty pavilion personnel. You can see the emperor at any time, and even accompany the emperor in and out of the court.

Once he entered the inner palace, Yelu Yixin's good luck came! The queen immediately noticed that this unusual young man was "as elegant as a plain eunuch", like a specially trained eunuch, both docile and elegant. He was kept to work as a pen clerk. This position is very low, and it can be compared with the civil class officials, which is more pretty! Because this is related to Liao Xingzong's personal hobby, Liao Xingzong is very accomplished in Han poetry and songs, and the landscape he painted, the feather flowers and birds are very high, and he has specially sent them to the Great Song Dynasty to show the imperial brother Song Renzong. Zhao Zhen returned the gift with flying white calligraphy. At the time, it was a romantic story...

Yelu Yixin was like a fish in water in this romantic environment, and his official position was soon promoted to the guardian Taibao. When Yelu Hongji became the emperor, he climbed faster, and in just a few years, he rose to the rank of privy envoy of the Northern Court, King of Zhao... A poor boy really became a prince!

As for the secret? Very simple! Yelu Hongji is an upgraded version of his father, Yelu Zong. Every characteristic of his father was carried forward by him: including his love of poetry, and his queen Xiao Guanyin was the first talented woman in the 200-year history of Liao! Including Buddhism, he "eats 360,000 monks at the age of one year, and wishes 3,000 in one day" The scale is the largest in the history of Liao! Including provocations to the Song Dynasty. In the future, he will call out to Song Shenzong...

Yelu Yixin obeyed the emperor in everything, of course: there was only one opposition! But this opposition hit the nail on the head and was rewarded like no other!

This is the time. Before Liao Daozong was about to drive Yeluren out of the imperial court, he consulted Yelu Yixin. Yi Xin, who has always been low-key and obedient, shook his head for the only time, "Renxian, the former minister of the first emperor, the crown of virtue for a while." "On May 5, Yeluren was appointed as the privy envoy of the Southern Court and the king of Xu.

History proves that the stay of Yelu Renxian is the biggest advantage in quelling this "Yelu Chongyuan Rebellion"! And this advantage was single-handedly promoted by the first traitor Yelu Yixin!

threw away the opportunity to be favored alone, and willingly retreated to second. If Yelu Yixin is either too far-sighted and too accurate, or his luck is too good! Either way, it's amazing! Yelu Yixin won the unparalleled favor of Liao Daozong for the queen and the crown prince because of this sentence, so that the queen and the prince died tragically in his hands in the future. thus also established his unshakable position as "the first traitor of Daliao"!

On the 17th, Fu Bi's mourning period expired and he returned to the court as a privy envoy.

On June 3, Song Yingzong and Zhao Shu were completely ill, and all political affairs were decided by Empress Dowager Cao alone.

Should I drink medicine when I'm sick? Prime Minister Han Qi held a medicine bowl in his hand and brought it to the emperor's mouth. It is said that this is a great benefactor, without Han Qi, there will be no throne, why should Zhao Shu give some face? Zhao Shu gave it, tasted it a little, and immediately turned his head. Han Qi still insisted on holding the medicine bowl and asked the emperor to continue drinking the medicine.

The next moment was shocking: Song Yingzong knocked over the medicine bowl with a wave of his hand, and the medicine soup spilled Han Xianggong's body! Even the Empress Dowager Cao can't look at it now. None of the four officials of the Great Song Dynasty before was very respectful to the minister, and there had never been such a thing! Empress Dowager Cao immediately instructed the chamberlain to fetch a new robe for the prime minister to change into. Han Qi didn't even dare to say it, but Empress Dowager Cao seemed sympathetic and said, "It's not easy to be a prince"

At this time, the eldest son of Yingzong, who was named Zhao Cheng at the time, appeared, and he knelt down and raised the medicine bowl to ask his father to drink. Zhao Shu is even bigger. If you don't pay attention to it, you should not see it!

Alas! "Illness" is getting worse and worse, whether he is sick of the heart or body, or pretending to be sick if he is not sick... In any case, the emperor is temporarily unable to work. Empress Dowager Cao can only come to the fore and monopolize power.

At this time, everyone felt a faint sense of relief in their hearts: the new emperor was extremely reluctant to ascend the throne from the very beginning, maybe it was really too much pressure, right? has become the current 2/3 idiot + 1/3 sick ghost? Now that the Queen Mother has come forward to block things for him, will it be better?

The answer is quite the opposite! The contradiction between Zhao Shu and Empress Dowager Cao is getting deeper and deeper. Finally in the second half of the year, the Empress Dowager Cao, who had never been angry in the first half of her life, finally became angry, and she went to Han Qi: Han Xianggong, what kind of beast did you choose? How dare you be rude to the queen mother!

Han Qi was very calm, and from this moment on, a Han Qi that we had never seen before appeared. Or it can be said: The real Han Qi, who has been hiding very well before, is exposed! This man is super tough, vicious, and shameless. Faced with the queen mother's accusation, he chose to fight back as soon as possible!

Let's characterize things first: the emperor is sick! If you are sick and ugly, you don't care. Then came this sentence: "The ministers only see the official family outside, and the inner protection is all in the queen mother." If the official family is not taken care of, the Queen Mother is not stable" What is this? Since ancient times, even if the emperor dies, whether he dies of illness or is killed, unless the empress dowager plots to kill him, what is the matter with the empress dowager? Take 10,000 steps back and understand it in the best direction: What Han Qi said is that once the emperor dies, your queen mother's position will be unstable, is it out of consideration for the queen mother? That's not right either! The title of the queen mother will never change, even if a new emperor is produced, it will only rise and become more respectful? What's more, Zhao Shu's son is still an adopted son, and he is still so unfilial! Dead is dead, what's the big deal!

To sum up, Han Qi can only have one explanation when he says this-if something happens to the emperor, don't think about it, you must be the victim!

So Empress Dowager Cao's face immediately changed, and she sank her face, "What is Xianggong, my own family is more attentive" Of course I am attentive! (To be continued......)