Zhao Ding's voluntary resignation removed the biggest obstacle in front of Qin Hui, and now in the court of the Southern Song Dynasty, only the last person left to restrain Qin Hui's policy -

Privy Deputy Envoy Wang Shu.

Wang Shu is different from Zhao Ding, in addition to having the gentlemanly demeanor of a Confucian scholar, he also has the loyalty and courage of a military attaché and the ruthlessness of iron and blood.

In any case, as a close comrade-in-arms of the Yue Jiajun, the courage and determination to be fearless and indomitable alone made Qin Hui daunting.

For such people, it is impossible to be swayed by rumors alone.

Therefore, in order to solve the problem of Wang Shu, Qin Hui dispatched his last killer weapon - the help of the Jurchens

After the last round of negotiations, because the Southern Song Dynasty court agreed to all the conditions put forward by the Jin State, therefore, in November of the eighth year of Shaoxing, the Jin State sent Zhang Tonggu, the envoy to the south of the Yangtze River, to carry the edict of Jin Xizong, and went south with the Song envoy Wang Lun to sign a contract with the Southern Song Dynasty.

However, before leaving, Zhang Tonggu sent a silver medal Langjun to inform the Southern Song government that the envoy to the Jin State must meet the following standards:

1. After the edict envoy enters the Song realm, the official in charge of greeting must kneel down when greeting him; 2. After the edict envoy enters the Song realm, the state and county officials must look at the edict of the Jin State to greet them; 3. The status of the edict envoy must be the same as that of Zhao Gou; Fourth, the emperor of the Southern Dynasty must take off his dragon robe and wear a subjugation to worship and receive the edict of Dajin.

Jin Guo's request is very strange for two reasons:

First, the last time Wu Lingsi, the envoy of the Jin State, came to negotiate the terms of peace, there were no conditions for Emperor Gaozong to take off his dragon robe and bow down.

Second, even if these conditions were really Jin Xizong's temporary intentions, a higher-level envoy would be sent to inform the Southern Song court. For example, Wuling Simou. Instead of letting Zhang Tonggu casually send a silver medal Langjun to do it. Because it is clearly not in line with diplomatic etiquette.

Therefore, it is very likely that these conditions were made up by Zhang Tonggu himself.

So what is the purpose of Zhang Tonggu's doing?

This question, maybe we should ask Qin Hui. Because behind Zhang Tonggu is Wan Yan Chang of the Jin Kingdom, and Wan Yan Chang is Qin Hui's benefactor

As soon as this request of the Jin State was announced in the court of the Southern Song Dynasty, almost everyone's faces changed greatly, including our Emperor Gaozong.

A slap in the face, a complete slap in the face!

This move of the Jin State not only made Emperor Gaozong's face clear, but also beat the Manchu civil and military officials of the Southern Song Dynasty court one by one.

The emperor became someone else's courtier. Didn't the courtier's servant become a slave?

At this time, as the highest-ranking official under Qin Hui, the privy deputy envoy Wang Shu made a move. He gave Emperor Gaozong three copies in one go.

These three recitals, sincere and sincere, persuaded Emperor Gaozong to immediately stop all peace talks with the Jurchens.

Regarding Wang Shu's recital, Gaozong adopted a procrastination trick - ignore it.

In desperation, Wang Shu wrote a fourth note to the emperor.

In this fourth notebook, Wang Shu made three important points:

The first point is that Wang Shu stands from the perspective of the Jin State and explains why the Jurchens proposed peace at this time. It's because their national power is starting to weaken.

The captives broke the Great Liao, and drove the Central Plains for a long time. Thirty years. The land obtained was several times that of the Han and Tang Dynasties; The children of the pearl and jade obtained are not known to be extremely disciplined. The land is wide and cannot be a manager, and the wealth is abundant and the situation is in the picture. And the teacher will die completely, the master and the young will be divided, and there is a worry about trouble, so peace is also the best

The second point, Wang Shu directly pointed out that the military strength of the Jin State is constantly weakening, and it is no longer as brave as it was back then.

The captive soldiers are restrained inside, and suspicious outside. The people used are not as brave as they were in the past, and the army they signed is not as strong as they were in the past. The front is out of the air, there is a risk of covering the nest, and the crowd is deep, not without worries. and on the ruins, and the land has nothing to plunder; The river is vast and not easy to cross; When the generals are different, they use soldiers as the bottom.

Third, Wang Shu proposed to Gaozong, if you insist on peace, please allow me to leave.

His Majesty listened to it, and set aside the cardinal, although his words were loyal but not suitable for the times, and although he was deeply concerned, he did not know how to change. Foolish and self-confident, stagnant, and disgusted with his sluggishness, what about others? Since this winter, the rash has been riddled with rashes, the spirit is exhausted, the feet and knees are heavy, if you are still greedy and presumptuous, you don't know how to retreat, and the sin comes, although your majesty wants to preserve, there is nothing you can't. Looking forward to the decay of the ministers, the ministers are always relieved of the ministry, except for the ministers who are sent in the outer palace to watch and send medicine.

According to the previous private agreement with Qin Hui, Emperor Gaozong had to approve Wang Shu's performance, remove him from his position, and replace Qin Hui's close friend Sun Jinlai with the position of privy deputy envoy, which was also Qin Hui's idea.

So far, Qin Hui's dream solitude has finally succeeded

It can be said that the voluntary resignation of Zhao Ding and Wang Shu indirectly helped Qin Hui to become the only lone minister in the history of the Southern Song Dynasty, and he was really under one person and above ten thousand people.

According to the official system of the Song Dynasty, the power of the prime minister was divided into three parts: the left and right servants, the governor and the privy envoy. This system is designed to prevent the prime minister from having too much power.

Although Emperor Gaozong himself violated the principles of organization and privately gave Qin Hui some rights that he should not have, if Zhao Ding and Wang Shu resolutely did not resign, at least they could restrain Qin Hui.

Regrettably, both of them chose to resign and fight.

That's the problem. Why not?

Yes, Confucius said: "A gentleman is reserved but not fighting, and the group is not a party."

However, in the Analects? In the Taber Chapter, Zeng Zi also said: "A scholar cannot fail to Hongyi, and there is a long way to go." Benevolence is its own responsibility, isn't it also important? Death is gone, isn't it far away? ”

According to Zengzi, Zhao Ding and Wang Shu should stick to their posts and fight Qin Hui to the end. Fang Zheng and the two of them didn't make any mistakes.

Unfortunately, history has no ifs.

And the indisputable result of Zhao Ding and Wang Shu directly fulfilled Qin Hui's desire to become a single minister

Qin Hui's trick of "drawing salary from the bottom of the kettle" is really powerful, and it solved several prime ministers of Emperor Gaozong at once. But Qin Hui missed one point - the reaction of other civil and military officials and the general public.

Zhang Tonggu's four conditions are too much. In the face of such a great shame. A lot of slightly bloody officials. All of them were furious.

The first to protest was the Qiu Governor's Mansion in Pingjiang Prefecture, an important town in the south of the Yangtze River.

When the envoy of the Jin Kingdom arrived in Pingjiang Mansion, the prefect took the lead in entertaining him.

I want to bow down and dream!

Say I'm incompetent, yes, I resign.

This is the measure of the governor of a province and a dignified official of the frontier. And with his resignation, an unprecedentedly strong officialdom storm swept through the entire Southern Song court.

First, the bigwigs of the military stood up.

This time, Han Shizhong couldn't bear it anymore and took the lead in speaking.

"The country is now sheltered in the southeast. At present, the military thieves are still on guard, although they are trying to annex it, they do not dare to go deep easily, so they use this strategy to trick and return Shaanxi to Shaanxi, hoping to move troops and divide our troops. The thief must have a plan, and he is determined to do it in one fell swoop, and the second thing is to endanger the dynasty and prevent the other from suffering in the future. Shaanxi Zhulu. Send troops and horses, and use the ground for martial arts. Will you really settle it and fund me? It is obvious that it is clever and hypocritical to make money from each other. I am afraid that people will secretly win His Majesty's courtesy, give promises lightly, spread them in all directions, scatter people's hearts, and demoralize them. The matter is a matter of safety, and at this time, it is not a trivial matter. ”

In addition to this, Han Shizhong strongly demanded an immediate war. He once again stressed the need to go to the most critical positions.

Emperor Gaozong pressed down and ignored it.

Seeing this situation, Han Shizhong asked to ride into Beijing alone and stated in person.

Gaozong finally replied, asking him to stay at the station honestly and not to move, and gave him a task in advance, when the envoy of the Jin State returned home, he was escorted by Han Shizhong's army.

This is Qin Hui's meaning, so that Han Shizhong has no chance to hijack the messenger, unless he wants to guard and steal himself.

Needless to say, Yue Fei had never satisfied Emperor Gaozong in this regard.

At the instigation of the new prime minister, Lord Qin Hui, Emperor Gaozong was thinking about how to beware of Yue Fei, so as not to turn Yue's army into the second Huaixi army and become a rebel army to launch a coup d'état

Former Prime Minister Li Gang's letter sparked a second wave of revolt.

Li Gang wrote in the recital: "...... The Jin people are unpredictable and greedy, even if they listen to their edicts and serve as vassals, their ambitions are still unfinished. There must be an order, or to make relatives welcome the Zi Palace, or to make bicycles into the Hajj, or to change the generals, or to reform political affairs, or to exhaust rents, or to cut down the earth. From there, there will be no discipline, and if you don't follow, your previous achievements will be wasted, and you will be a soldier......"

Regarding Li Gang's recital, Emperor Gaozong issued an edict on November 19, the eighth year of Shaoxing:

"Dajin sent an envoy to the realm, I have not returned to the Zizi Palace, the queen mother is far away, the mausoleum palace has been swept for a long time, the brothers and clans have not been gathered, and the military and civilians in the north and south have not been allowed to rest for more than ten years, and they want to make peace. The ministers who serve in the court are admonished by Taiwan, and their detailed thinking is appropriate, and the rules are played, and they are limited to one day to enter"

Emperor Gaozong originally wanted the ministers to agree to the peace agreement, so as to support his decision and calm the anger of the ministers and the people. Unexpectedly, it triggered a great upsurge of opposition to peace.

Yan Dun, the servant of the ministry, replied to the book.

Wei Xuan, the servant of the Ministry of Officials, wrote a book.

Officials outside the Lang Xu Xin.

Hu Cheng, Zhang Kuo, Ling Jingxia, Zhu Song, Chang Tong, and Fan Rugui jointly signed the book.

Li Mixun, the head of the household, wrote a book.

Supervise the Imperial History of the Imperial Court.

Wait a minute

For a time, the letters of the Chinese military officials were sent to Emperor Gaozong like snowflakes. These books all express the same meaning - stop making peace with the Jin people.

In this round of books, the most influential is the recital of Hu Quan, the editor of the Privy Council.

Hu Quan's statement is: "...... As soon as His Majesty bends his knees, the spirit of the ancestors will be completely polluted, the ancestors of hundreds of years of innocence will be all left, the court will be all the courtiers, and the corporal doctors in the world will be cracked and ruined and the crown will become Hu Fu, and the jackal will be tireless at the same time. The three-foot boy of the husband, to the ignorance, refers to the enemy and makes him worship, then he is angry; The dignified great powers took the lead and worshiped the enemy, and there was no childish shame, and His Majesty endured it? …… The ministers are subordinate to the cardinal, and the righteousness is not shared with the juniper. The heart of the district, willing to cut off the three people's heads, and then detain the envoys, blame for rudeness, Xu Xing asked the guilty division, then the soldiers of the three armies were twice as angry without a fight. Otherwise, if the minister goes to the East China Sea and dies, would he rather live in a small court? ”

This is a positive, unsparing rebuke, a naked slap in the face.

This kind of writing quickly spread all over the world, and everyone knew it. There were even businessmen who printed the badge in writing and advertised it in Lin'an Province to get everyone to participate in the struggle.

This article is so well written that many people wonder how Emperor Gaozong will answer. (To be continued......)

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