Chapter 775: Lu Huiqing's End
Empress Dowager Gao's seizure of power was carried out very secretly, and even Zhao Yan didn't get any news in advance, let alone others, but with Zhao Yan's withdrawal from the political hall, and after Empress Dowager Gao came forward to officially listen to the government, the news inevitably spread, and many people were complaining about Zhao Yan, one is to thank Zhao Yan for his previous contributions, and the other is to distrust the Empress Dowager Gao, a woman.
However, the performance of the Empress Dowager Gao surprised everyone, as soon as she listened to the government, she immediately defeated Sima Guang, and dealt with some of the problems left over from the previous change, speaking of which the impact of the change was too great, although later after some improvements by Zhao Yan, many laws that harm the people have become laws that benefit the people, but Zhao Yan's time as regent is too short, and there are still some problems that have not had time to be dealt with, which also gives Empress Dowager Gao and Sima Guang the opportunity to perform.
It's just that Sima Guang's attitude towards the change of the law is completely different from Zhao Yan's, and he almost has an extremely hateful feeling for the change, so after he came to power, he did not improve and use the new law like Zhao Yan, but abolished it almost all of them, even the new law that Zhao Yan had improved before, but this matter was opposed by many people, and even Zhao Yan intervened, which made Sima Guang change his attitude and only abolished the laws that harmed the people that had not had time to be improved.
The public resentment caused by the new law is too great, so the move of Empress Dowager Gao and Sima Guang immediately won the favor of many people, which also made Empress Dowager Gao finally ignite the first fire after listening to the government, gaining a lot of popularity for herself, and at the same time reducing some objections from the outside world to her, which also made her finally sit in her current position.
Zhao Yan was not surprised by the performance of the Empress Dowager Gao, because whether it was the original history or the current history. Empress Dowager Gao almost didn't have any good feelings about the change, when Wang Anshi resigned for the first time, the fuse was that Empress Dowager Gao and Empress Dowager Cao cried to Zhao Ji about the harm of the new law, and now after Empress Dowager Gao is in power, she will naturally attack the new law.
However, after abolishing those laws that harmed the people, Sima Guang had no intention of stopping. Because he began to liquidate those law-changing factions, the first to bear the brunt was naturally Lu Huiqing, who was also the prime minister, speaking of which Sima Guang really hated the law-changing law to death, and took the opportunity of the court meeting to list Lu Huiqing's ten major crimes in front of the civil and military officials, and each of them was full of human and material evidence, which even Lu Huiqing himself could not refute.
However, Lu Huiqing was not alarmed by this, because in his opinion, he had just supported the success of Empress Dowager Gao's seizure of power. Empress Dowager Gao would certainly not have agreed to Sima Guang's impeachment of herself. It's a pity that Lu Huiqing miscalculated this time, the Empress Dowager Gao originally promised Zhao Yan to severely punish Lu Huiqing, and it just so happened that this time Sima Guang bit Lu Huiqing tightly, so in this case, the Empress Dowager Gao only considered for two days and agreed with Sima Guang's opinion, liquidated all the charges of Lu Huiqing, and finally deposed Lu Huiqing from all positions and exiled to Nanyang. Without the special decree of the imperial court, he will never be allowed to return to the Great Song Dynasty.
Lu Huiqing never expected that this was the result that was waiting for him in the end. For this reason, he even went to see the Empress Dowager Gao in person, but unfortunately he couldn't even enter the palace gate, and those henchmen under him saw that he was unlucky, and one by one they took the initiative to expose Lu Huiqing's crimes in order to protect themselves, which made Lu Huiqing even worse, and there was no possibility of turning over. Until this time. Lu Huiqing suddenly thought of the words that Zhao Yan said after beating him when he was in the political hall that day, and at the same time thought of the Empress Dowager Gao who took power so smoothly, and Zhao Yan did not intervene, which made him wake up all of a sudden. It seems that Zhao Yan and Empress Dowager Gao have already reached a deal, but it is ridiculous that he is secretly happy to force Zhao Yan away.
Lu Huiqing was exiled to Nanyang, and this incident also made the prestige of the Empress Dowager Gao reach its peak, after all, compared with Wang Anshi, Lu Huiqing, a capricious villain, is more jealous, so after dealing with Lu Huiqing, countless people are running to tell each other, especially on the day Lu Huiqing was exiled from the capital, countless people spontaneously went to the city gate to watch, and the scolding was endless, so we can know how bad Lu Huiqing's reputation is.
Lu Huiqing was disposed of, and then Han Jiang and Cai Qu and others were also impeached by Sima Guang, and as a result, the dismissal of the dismissed officials, the exiled exile, and the remaining reformers were also in danger, but only Zeng Bu and Zhang Dian and others, who had taken refuge in Zhao Yan before, were safe and sound, which also made the remaining reformers seem to have found a savior, and they all wanted to take refuge in Zhao Yan's door, but unfortunately Zhao Yan no longer paid attention to the government and government, and all the officials who visited him were gone, and as a result, in this case, these people contacted Zeng Bu and Zhang Dian one after another, hopes that through them, Zhao Yan can come forward to protect them.
For these officials of the reform faction, Zhao Yan originally didn't want to care, but considering that the Empress Dowager Gao might deal with him in the future, he also had to maintain the corresponding right to speak in the court, so in the end, he selected some officials with outstanding ability and no bad deeds from these officials through Zeng Bu and Zhang Dian to survive, and Zhao Yan also secretly contacted Chen Shengzhi, plus Su Song, Su Zhe, Su Shi and others were also transferred to Beijing one after another, so that a group of Yue Wang faction headed by Zhao Yan was formed in the court, However, Zhao Yan only wanted to protect himself, as long as Empress Dowager Gao did not provoke him, the officials of his faction would not make any moves.
After Sima Guang carried out a drastic liquidation of the officials of the reform faction, the court finally calmed down, and then the Empress Dowager Gao implemented a series of policies of recuperation and recuperation, which is exactly what Zhao Yan and the people of the world want to see, after all, when Zhao Ji was in power, he had consumed too much national strength of the Great Song Dynasty, and the Great Song Dynasty had expanded a lot of territory, so recuperation was the most correct national policy.
The sun has risen in mid-air in the morning, but Zhao Yan is still lying on the bed and doesn't want to get up, some time ago he almost got up before dawn, and even formed a biological clock, after handing over the power during this time, he wanted to sleep for a few days, but in the first few days, he was tortured by the biological clock, and opened his eyes before dawn every day.
"Husband, get up, the children have gotten up early to eat and go to school, and you are the only one in the family who is still sleeping with your head covered, and you are not afraid of being laughed at." At this time, Yan Yuru came over with a smile, pulled down the quilt on Zhao Yan's face and said with a smile, Zhao Yan took her turn to spend the night yesterday, speaking of which, during this time, Zhao Yan got up early and was greedy and ignored them a little, so this time was also trying to compensate, and as a result, Yan Yuru and they now look bright and indescribably charming.
"Woo, last night was too much consumption, let me sleep a little longer!" Zhao Yan didn't even open his eyes, and put the quilt on his head again.
Hearing Zhao Yan mention last night, Yan Yuru's fair face also showed a little blush, and she couldn't help but pat Zhao Yan's chest hard in annoyance and said, "Husband, get up soon, otherwise Sister Ying'er and they should laugh at me!" ”
"Haha~, I remember that yesterday you didn't laugh at Ning'er and them, just today you let them laugh, and everyone will be even." Zhao Yan finally pulled the quilt off his face at this time and said with a smile, he is singing every night these days, and he is reluctant to get up in the morning, as a result, Ying'er and the others joke with each other, the later he gets up in bed, who will be teased by others, Yan Yuru is the thinnest, Zhao Yan really wants to see her being teased by Cao Ying and others.
"Husband, good husband, please get up quickly, if you can't afford it again, Ning'er and they will definitely not let me go, please!" Yan Yuru hugged Zhao Yan's arm and begged at this time, in order not to be joked, she even used the means of being coquettish.
Yan Yuru's temperament is cold, even after marriage, she rarely shows this kind of little daughter's posture, which makes Zhao Yan can't stand it, and she sits up from the bed as soon as her heart softens, which makes Yan Yuru very happy, and hurriedly personally serves him to dress and let people prepare breakfast.
After breakfast, Zhao Yan and Yan Yuru came to a large courtyard in the middle of the inner house, and before they entered the main hall, they heard the laughter of Cao Ying and others inside, mixed with the voice of a middle-aged woman, Zhao Yan took Yan Yuru into the main hall, only to see a middle-aged lady sitting in the hall, Cao Ying and others sat on both sides to accompany each other, and Zhao Yan hurriedly stepped forward and saluted: "Son meets mother!" ”
This middle-aged lady is Zhang Guiyi, who has just been picked up by Zhao Yan from the palace to live, before he reached a deal with the Empress Dowager Gao, one of which is to take himself and Zhao Hao and the mother of others out to support the elderly, for which the Empress Dowager Gao has fulfilled her promise. Zhang Guiyi didn't expect that he would have a day to recognize his son, and he also cried bitterly after seeing Zhao Yan, and then lived in Zhao Yan's house, and was even more close to Zhao Yan's children, at first those children were a little unfamiliar with Zhang Guiyi, but slowly found that no matter what mistakes were made, Zhang Guiyi would protect them, and as a result, these children were all intimate with Zhang Guiyi, and one grandmother kept screaming, which made Zhang Guiyi even cry tears with joy.
Seeing Zhao Yan come in, Zhang Guiyi was also very happy, and hurriedly asked him to get up and talk with him, but after chatting a few words, Zhang Guiyi began to complain that he had too few children, and he would have to work harder to regenerate in the future, which made Zhao Yan feel a little embarrassed, his children together are almost ten, of course, it is a little worse than Zhao Ji, but if it is placed in the future generations, I am afraid it will be on the news.
Accompanied Zhang Guiyi to chat until noon, and then accompanied her to lunch, in the afternoon Zhao Yan planned to go fishing with Huang Wude, who also lived in his house, but at this time, an incident from the court made him frown again. (To be continued......)