The historical lessons left by the relatives of the two Han Dynasty are painful enough, and the lessons of Yang Guozhong alone in the Tang Dynasty are enough to deafen and chill! Chinese people do not always have a bad memory, and they always forget or refuse to accept the lessons of their predecessors coagulated by blood. The emperors, including their wives, couldn't help but feel that the lessons left by the dictatorship of their relatives were too profound and painful! It is inevitable that the capital of thoughts will have palpitations. Therefore, from the perspective of the system and family law, preventing and restricting the dictatorship of foreign relatives has become an inevitable political choice for the successor dynasty.

The Song Dynasty accepted the lesson that foreign relatives interfered in politics and caused national turmoil and even the destruction of the country, and since the founding of the People's Republic of China, it has formulated strict regulations to avoid the phenomenon of foreign relatives interfering in politics. ”

It means that they can be given official titles, and they are not small, but they are just fictitious positions such as generals and generals, that is, they receive high salaries, and they have no real power, and of course there is no opportunity to interfere in politics. And after death, if you haven't made any big mistakes, you will often be posthumously awarded titles such as Taibao, Jiedu Envoy, and Zhongshu Ling, coaxing the dead and comforting the living. It is not impossible for relatives to be high-ranking officials, but most of those who can really be in power and at the prime minister level are not directly related to the queen mother, the queen, and the emperor's favorite concubines.

But these systems did not stop the desire of the women in the harem, and the most splendid and glorious women in the inner court belonged to the women who were fortunate enough to seek the throne of the queen and protect it with all their scheming and means. If the emperor dies, his son will be able to inherit the throne and become the queen mother, and he will still be able to live a long life. But in order to achieve this goal, in addition to relying on one's own beauty, scheming and luck, it is undoubtedly necessary to find political helpers. But apart from his father and brother, where can he find a more intimate political helper than them?

According to human nature, she most likely wants to praise and commend her father and brother, and pry and instigate the emperor to reward her father and brother for their beauty; Also from the emperor's point of view, relatives and their own family are always 'relatives', and they are always more at ease than outsiders and loyal to themselves. But this situation often doesn't work in the Great Song Dynasty, especially Zhao Ta, a later man. He was extremely disgusted with nepotism......

The emperor had very few concubines, but Zhu Shuzhen didn't feel relaxed at all. Because these sisters are not simple people, they are not only smart and wise. is empathetic, and all of them have a very strong family background, compared with them, Zhu Shuzhen feels that she is an ugly duckling. She also wanted to recruit a wide range of beautiful women and select some concubines from them to distract the emperor from their favor, but the emperor was not good at this and repeatedly rejected her suggestions.

After several noble concubines gave birth to princes one after another, and Zhu Shuzhen had a very unpleasant quarrel with the emperor because of the establishment of the prince, which caused her son to be unable to become the prince for a long time, which made her feel that the crisis was imminent. In order to strengthen their position. Of course, Zhu Shuzhen thought of his father and brother, but no matter how he knocked on the side for so many years, the emperor was only willing to give them a little more money, and refused to give them a real job.

Some time ago, because of the western expedition to Gaochang and the marriage of Western Liao, the emperor frequently went in and out of the palace of the noble concubine Yu Liyan, and of course he inevitably stayed in it overnight. This made Zhu Shuzhen feel even more uneasy, in order to consolidate the newly acquired land in the Western Regions and the Northwest, the emperor would inevitably favor Yu Liyan even more. In order to show their sincerity, it is inevitable that the relationship will be deeper over time, and it is possible to abolish the queen or set up his son without saving.

Just when Zhu Shuzhen was anxious, she heard about the emperor's abdication. Immediately panicked. If the emperor is not appropriate, she will be no longer the queen, let alone her son will be the emperor in the future. For the sake of prudence, she immediately contacted her maiden brother in Beijing. They were asked to investigate whether there was such a thing, but they did not ask the emperor for confirmation. And this matter has been circulating in the market for a few days. Of course, it is easy to 'confirm' the abdication. After Zhu Shuzhen learned the 'truth', she immediately wanted to go to the face saint to dissuade her. but was stopped by his brother.

Uncle Zhu Bao analyzed the current situation for his sister, the emperor has always been true to his word, you will definitely not be able to persuade him, and it will backfire if he doesn't get it right, because he was reprimanded and snubbed by the emperor for interfering in politics, and the relationship with the emperor will be more tense. The brother and sister pondered for a long time, and Zhu Bao gave her an idea, that is, to make the matter higher and higher, so that the whole world would know about it, so as to achieve the idea of forcing the emperor to retract the abdication with the help of the power of public opinion.

It is impossible for the queen to go out of the palace to personally operate this matter, and the task of making things big naturally falls on Zhu Bao's head, but this also gives him a hard job, the question is what kind of channel to go through and who to find to do this. It is said that Zhu's father also passed the imperial examination, although Zhu Bao was almost able to be admitted to the Juren, and later gave him the Jinshi background, which should be classified as a scholar. The emperor's abdication is related to the interests of the majority of scholars, and asking them for help should be the right way, but it will not work for the Zhu family's father and son.

This is because the identity of the Zhu family has changed after becoming the queen, and in the eyes of the world, the relatives entered the political circle and climbed to the high position of power by relying on the nepotism formed by the women in the family. For ordinary people, especially for scholars who pride themselves on their moral talents and are quite elevated, they are not only unfair, but also arouse their jealousy, and even disdain and contempt. In history, scholars have always lost most of the political struggles and power struggles with their relatives. Failure is always frustrating, even heart-wrenching, and naturally excludes scholars from their own circles, even if they were once scholars.

In their opinion, everyone has a strong desire for power and political ambitions, and no one is indifferent to this special marriage in his family; There is no one who does not make full use of this marriage, and uses it as a stepping stone and ladder to his career as a high-ranking official. The differences in ideas made them themselves unaware of and unaware of the indifference and exclusion of the scholars, so they were bound to be full of guard, jealousy, and even hostility towards the scholars and officials.

The two sides did not buy each other, and they were already estranged from each other, coupled with irreconcilable contradictions, so Zhu Bao could not use the nearest but farthest taxi to complete this matter. And if he wants to mobilize the people to dissuade the emperor from abdicating, not to mention whether he has the ability or not, the identity of the uncle will make him unable to put down his body to deal with the untouchables, and this road will also be blocked.

The Great Song Dynasty officials had a long tradition of doing business, and although the previous dynasties had imposed strict restrictions, it had little effect. Zhao Ta took the opportunity of rectifying the rule of officials to rein in the situation before he relented. But the ban does not restrict idle officials, after all, everyone has to eat a bowl of rice. Zhu Bao has been idle all these years, and Zhu Fu has done some business in the name of the national uncle and the national uncle on his head. And the emperor did not interfere too much with their 'self-reliance', Zhu Mansion has really made a lot of money over the years, and at the same time has accumulated some contacts in the Gyeonggi business community, he thought about it and hit the group he was most familiar with.

After Zhao Tan succeeded to the throne, he introduced a series of policies to encourage industry and commerce, actively expand overseas trade, so that commerce developed rapidly again, and brought rich taxes to the country, while merchants became one of the groups that benefited the most. Therefore, they hope that this state of affairs will continue, and this premise is that the emperor cannot be replaced, and the rumors of abdication have already made them feel uneasy, and now when the uncle of the court comes out to confirm it, they panic and worry that their interests will be harmed.

Zhu Bao took advantage of the fear of the merchants and secretly signaled through the channels under his control that the merchants must find a way to prevent the emperor from abdicating. His hand proved to be effective, and the merchants quickly reacted, and they decided to join forces to deal with the sudden crisis, and the guilds issued proposals to their subordinates, calling on everyone to dissuade the emperor from abdicating, and they became the earliest promoters of the storm......

"Your Majesty, there are all kinds of signs that the business world is involved in the turmoil, and it was Uncle Zhu Guo who planned and instigated it behind him, which meant to prevent His Majesty from abdicating, and I didn't find any other attempts!" Li Jun summed up the whole story.

"Well, I know! How deeply is the queen involved? Zhao Ta quietly listened to Jianxi and Li Jun's reports, his face was as usual, but his heart was not calm. Eryu is just an internal servant, and Zhu Bao is also an uncle with no power, and they are not big names. But one made up such a lie in order to change the dynasty and become a powerful minister, and the other also wanted to maintain his position and gain real power at the same time. But it was these two little people who made the Great Song Dynasty a mess, which shows how great the temptation of power is.

"Your Majesty, the strength of the Zhu family is limited, and the queen cannot get more support from the outside world. I think it was the queen's protector who did these foolish things! Li Jun looked at the emperor and said cautiously, the matter involved the emperor's family affairs, and he didn't dare to say more.

"Hehe, although there are extenuating circumstances, she can't escape the blame, and I also have an unshirkable responsibility!" Zhao Ta said with a wry smile, he heard that Li Jun wanted not to embarrass him too much, and there was a sense of exculpation in the queen's words, but the development of things to this point had a lot to do with her. And neither as an emperor nor as a husband found out about the abnormality, and he was also responsible, perhaps because of his snub that made him feel strongly uneasy, so he overreacted...... (To be continued......)