Zhang Yaozuo never dreamed that he spent hundreds of thousands of dollars to build, and the seven thousand Zhuang Ding who had high hopes collapsed under a round of arrows from the other party, not only collapsed, but also a large number of defective troops, and his two sons died in the rebellion of the rebel army, and were killed and used to ask for credit.

Zhang Yaozuo was surrounded by 3,000 soldiers in a wooden building, Zhang Yaozuo stood in the lobby with a blue face, holding a sword in his hand, holding an iron card and roaring like thunder to the soldiers outside the hall, "I have the Son of Heaven's Danshu iron coupon, which of you dares to kill me?" ”

At this time, the crowd split a way, and Fan Ning walked in from outside with Zhu Long and four other guards, he looked at Zhang Yaozuo and said coldly: "You betrayed the Son of Heaven, and you still have the face to use the Son of Heaven's Danshu Iron Coupon?" ”

"It's you!"

Zhang Yaozuo suddenly turned out to be fierce, and shouted: "I should have killed you little bastard back then!" ”

Fanning shook his head, "You're hopeless!" ”

He turned back to General Li Zhi and said, "General Li will take the brothers down first, and I will talk to him privately!" ”

Li Zhi raised his hand, and hundreds of soldiers quickly evacuated the courtyard and the lobby, and Fan Ning was the only one in the lobby.

Zhang Yaozuo suddenly became a little flustered, "Fan Ning, what are you going to do, I have a Danshu iron coupon, you can't kill me!" ”

Fan Ning said with a look of pity: "Taishi Zhang, I know that you are very loyal to the Son of Heaven, and this mutiny, you feel very guilty in your heart, so you committed suicide by taking poison and gave up the Danshu Iron Coupon." ”

Zhang Yaozuo screamed and turned around to escape, but Zhu Long and Zhu Bao grabbed his arm and snatched his sword, Zhang Yaozuo was so frightened that he curled up and begged: "Fan Zhanshi, I will give you all my property, spare my life!" ”

Fan Ning took out a small red bottle from his arms and handed it to Zhu Hu, Zhu Hu and Zhu Ying stepped forward and pried open Zhang Yaozuo's mouth, and Zhu Hu poured a bottle of crane top red into his mouth, "Dangchang!" The little red bottle fell to the ground, and the people let go of him.

Zhang Yaozuo collapsed to the ground, choked his throat hard, trembling so much that he couldn't speak, only for a moment he shrunk into a small ball, bleeding from his seven orifices, and died in a moment, but his eyes bulged out, unwilling to look at the sky outside the lobby.

Fan Ning shook his head, turned around and left the lobby, just walked out of the wooden building, only to see Zhao Shiyue hurriedly walking, and when he saw Fan Ning, he hurriedly said: "The Son of Heaven once told me that if you want to keep Zhang Yaozuo's name, you can't kill him!" ”

Fanning said calmly: "No one killed him, he himself felt guilty for the Son of Heaven and committed suicide by taking poison!" ”

"You!"

Zhao Shiyue said angrily: "How could he commit suicide by taking poison, how can you explain it to the Son of Heaven?" ”

Fan Ning glanced at him coldly, "How did the Giant Deer King commit suicide by taking poison, you think about it, how to explain it to the new emperor, right?" ”

Fanning took his men and walked away.

Zhao Shiyue was stunned, he suddenly thought of this terrifying thing, yes! How did he explain it to the new emperor?

"Knock-knock-"

The Tianchen bell of the Daqing Hall rang, echoing all over the city, the last time the Tianchen bell rang was forty years ago, when the Son of Heaven Zhao Zhen ascended the throne, and this ringing means that the Son of Heaven Zhao Zhen died, the flag of the dormitory was replaced with white, all the palace people were wrapped in white cloth, and the cry began to come from the inner palace.

The sky is not yet dawn, the Daqing Palace Square is full of thousands of officials, in the capital of the nine products and above officials, all the military are concentrated here, not only hundreds of officials, the royal street in front of the Xuande Building is also full of people, hundreds of thousands of people gathered on the royal street, witnessing the scene of the Great Song Dynasty changing the world.

On the steps of the Daqing Palace, the scholar of the Guanwen Palace, Sun Yan, read aloud the edict of the Son of Heaven, "The emperor's grandson Zhao Xuan, the martial arts and wise, benevolent and humble, far better than me, can inherit the unification, but he is still young and can not govern, but he can listen to the government by the Empress Dowager Gao and the Empress Dowager Cao's curtain to help him become an adult. ”

In this edict, Zhao Zhen officially named Zhao Ji as the emperor's grandson, her mother Gao as the queen mother, and her grandmother Cao as the queen mother.

After reading the edict, Sun Mian shouted loudly: "The new emperor is on the throne!" ”

The rumbling drum sounded, the end door opened, and three thousand armored soldiers escorted the young son of heaven Zhao Ji into the Daqing Palace Square, Zhao Ji was wearing a dragon robe and a big crown on his head, and he climbed the high dragon chair proudly and sat down on the dragon chair.

Thousands of officials knelt down and shouted three times together! On December 28, the seventh year of Jiayou, Zhao Ji, who was only 14 years old, ascended the throne of the Great Song Dynasty, he was the Song Shenzong in history, and ascended to the throne four years earlier than history.

Zhao Ji immediately promulgated the first decree, ordering the world to mourn for the first emperor, and for seven days, all cities were closed, and the city was full of vegetarians.

He soon issued a second will, in order to maintain the community, canonize Cao as the empress dowager, canonize his mother Gao as the empress dowager, and his father Zhao Zongshi as the Xuanxiao Emperor, and at the same time grant amnesty to the world.

It is undeniable that Zhao Zhen's forty years of reign is also the forty years of the Great Song Dynasty gradually becoming prosperous, the society has created a lot of wealth, most of the people of the Song Dynasty have benefited from it, his death has made the people infinitely sad, burning incense paper to cover the sky and the sun, almost all the temples in the capital have held water and land pujas, for the Son of Heaven Zhao Zhen to spend the soul.

In the Ziwei Palace, dozens of officials above the third grade held a small-scale court meeting to determine some important matters.

The Empress Dowager of the two palaces has been determined by the first emperor and cannot be changed, as for whether it is Gao Xian or Cao Xian, this will be discussed later, and the first consensus reached by the hundred officials is that the East Palace is dissolved, and the prefect hall is expanded to seven people, Wen Yanbo and Han Jiang are added to the governor's affairs and join the governor's hall.

As for Fan Ning, because of his slightly shallow qualifications, he was temporarily unable to enter the Zhizheng Hall, so he was reappointed as a regular attendant of the Zuo Sancai Cavalry, and was awarded the title of Doctor Jin Ziguanglu, which was regarded as a compensation from the hundred officials to Fan Ning, from the previous promotion from the third-grade silver Qingguanglu doctor to the third-grade gold purple Guanglu doctor, everyone has no objection to this, but Zhao Ji used the power of the Son of Heaven to crown Fan Ning as the prince of Qinghe County, and promoted another level in the title, and actually sealed 500 households.

Personnel changes except for the three people in the East Palace, no one else has changed, and the future is long, which needs to be solved slowly.

The New Year's arrangements and the wake for the emperor were discussed, and some important powers and items were handed over.

There is also a major matter, everyone has also reached a consensus, we must learn the lessons of Zhang Yaozuo's coup, any army movement must have a charm, a card, a seal, and an order in one, that is to say, the queen mother of the two palaces, one person in charge of the military talisman, one person in charge of the gold medal, the Son of Heaven in charge of the jade seal, and the governor of the hall in charge of the military order, and the four can only mobilize the army if they reach a consensus.

At noon, the important ministers' deliberations were over, and Zhao Ji did not have an imperial study, so he temporarily borrowed the imperial grandfather's imperial study and temporarily summoned Fanning.

Seeing that he was a little worried, Fan Ning smiled and said, "Your Majesty is still not used to his new identity?" ”

"There are so many things to worry about."

Zhao Ji sighed and said, "Zhan Shi, the Queen Mother of the Two Palaces is a little incompatible, do you know?" ”

Although Fan Ning now has a new official position, he has not yet stepped down from the East Palace, he didn't expect that the first thing Zhao Ji said was this, it stands to reason that Cao Rou and Gao Taotao are aunts and nieces, it should be very good, how could it be incompatible, so Fan Ning was a little puzzled.

"What is the reason?"

"I don't know!"

"Your Majesty, pay attention to the salutation." Fanning reminded him.

Zhao Ji hurriedly changed his words, "I just heard that it was related to my mother's marriage back then. ”

Fan Ning suddenly understood, Gao Taotao told himself that Queen Cao wanted to dedicate Gao Taotao to Zhao Zhen, the Son of Heaven, to compete with Concubine Zhang Guifei, but how could Gao Taotao marry her uncle? So Zhao Zhen didn't accept it, and Queen Cao married her to Zhao Zongshi.

The two major events involving life were decided by Empress Cao, and Gao Taotao's opinion was not sought, so Gao Taotao has always been unhappy about this matter.

Fan Ning comforted Zhao Ji and said: "The previous things have passed, and they need to cooperate with each other in the future, I believe that both of them are elders who understand the general situation and understand things, and there will not be too many contradictions in the government and politics." ”

"Of course, this is the best, and what about Zhang Yaozuo?"

"Zhang Yaozuo has committed suicide by taking poison, of course, he refuses to commit suicide, I gave him a ride, I suggest that Your Majesty cut the grass and eradicate the roots, after a while, find a reason to exile all the men to Lingnan, and then die of illness with water and soil, Your Majesty, there can be no kindness of women, leave trouble!"

Zhao Ji thought of his father's tragic death, a trace of coldness flashed in his eyes, and he nodded, "I'm not the only one who wants to clean them up!" ”

Zhao Ji then sighed again: "Zhan Shi has made such a great achievement, but he didn't even enter the Zhizheng Hall, I am very sorry in my heart!" ”

Fanning laughed, "How can there be a twenty-five-year-old prime minister, thirty years old is still about the same, I don't care, why should Your Majesty apologize, but I still have to ask Your Majesty for special permission for my specific position." ”

Zhao Ji perked up, "What actual position does Zhan Shi want to take, and how about the three envoys?" ”

Fanning shook his head, "I want to be an overseas economic envoy, please ask Your Majesty for permission!" ”

Zhao Ji sighed slightly, "If I remember correctly, this is what the imperial grandfather meant." ”

Fan Ning nodded silently, "It is indeed Zhao Zhen's arrangement!" ”