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On the third day of the first month of March, the official family issued a decree to exempt the court.

The reason for exempting the court is that the concubine is happy, so when the whole world celebrates, the civil and military officials in Beijing will have a reward.

When they first heard this good news, all the officials were happy for Zhao Guan's family, after all, Tian Ding Jiakou was a great joy even in ordinary people's homes, not to mention the heavenly family that has always had a difficult heir.

But after the joy, the hearts of the officials began to churn again.

"The official family is also overjoyed, this is just pregnant, I can't wait to announce the celebration, and I am not afraid of offending the star gods......"

In order to let the child be born smoothly and grow up healthily, there are all kinds of taboos and customs, and the pregnancy should not be too high-profile, so as not to attract ghosts and gods, even after birth, they are used to giving the child a cheap name to avoid the attention of ghosts and gods.

"This crown prince turmoil has just subsided a little, and if such a thing comes again, won't it add to the twists and turns again?"

"This year has been really eventful, from the beginning of the year to the present, it has been tossing endlessly, which is really haggard."

"Hehe, this is all together, yesterday King Zhong made a big fuss in the Qian Mansion, and now the concubine is happy, our Great Song Dynasty's storage position, after all, it is difficult to say."

When the officials were talking endlessly, Dong Huai, who was temporarily in power, was also worried, since the official family had a happy event, this Uncle Xie Fang's resignation was afraid that it would have to drag on for a long time, and he didn't know when his temporary title would be hung.

But at this moment, there were a few more edicts in the palace, and at a glance, Dong Huai washed his sorrow and became excited.

The first edict, worship Dong Huai as the right prime minister and privy envoy!

The prime minister system of the Great Song Dynasty has undergone many changes, and by the time of Xiaozong, the three provinces were completely merged, and the prime minister was divided into two parts, that is, the left and right prime ministers.

The left prime minister generally has the functions and powers of Shangshu Province plus Menxia Province, and the right prime minister is Shangshu Province plus Zhongshu Province, and the difference between the two is the functions and powers of Menxia and Zhongshu.

To put it simply, the Menxia Province is responsible for reviewing the edict, while the Zhongshu Province is responsible for drafting the edict, but after the merger of departments, the decisions of the imperial court are basically discussed on the spot, and many times they are decided on the spot, so that the review power of the Menxia Province has no effect, that is, it is just a signature and seal.

Therefore, in fact, the real power of the right prime minister is higher than that of the left prime minister, and when the two exist at the same time, it is natural to respect the right prime minister, that is to say, even if Uncle Xie Fang does not resign, he can only take a back seat to the second in command.

The second edict repaired the Yousheng Palace, and the funds were provided by the Inner Treasury, and Dong Songchen was appointed as the officer, and Lu Yun was promoted to the assistant officer.

This edict made Dong Huai frown a little, he was against it in his heart, but he thought that he had just been nominated as the right minister, and this first political order was against the official family, which was really inappropriate, so he had to sign an approval and submit it to the follow-up review.

The third edict promoted Hanlin Medical Xiao Chongrong to be a good doctor of Hanlin and colluded with the Hanlin Medical Bureau.

is just a medical officer, and he has made great contributions, and Dong Huai passed it casually.

The fourth edict promoted the imperial history in the palace to serve the imperial history and read it.

Dong Huai didn't have a good impression of Ding Daquan, and felt that this person had some bad intentions, but this appointment was a normal transfer range, and he couldn't find much fault, so he hesitated for a long time and still passed it.

If you want to talk about Dong Huai, he loves the people and is diligent in government, honest and honest, understands the general situation, and takes the overall situation into account, but there is a problem that he is too soft-hearted and overly thoughtful, in fact, he is not very suitable to serve as prime minister when there are internal and external troubles.

But in any case, it is not surprising that he took over as prime minister, and all officials knew that it would be sooner or later, so the process went smoothly, and the first batch of edicts issued after the prime minister were also made difficult by no one.

So I have to say that Zhao Guan's family has very political means, and the edict that was originally easy to attract criticism took a ride to pay homage to the prime minister, and it passed unimpeded.

The officials of Uncle Xie Fang's family, after learning that Dong Huai officially paid homage to the prime minister, became more and more anxious, and in order to create an opportunity for Uncle Xie Fang's recovery in the future, they launched more active actions against Zhao Mengqi.

After Ding Daquan took over as the servant of the imperial history, he began to take charge of the power of the imperial history platform, and nearly half of the ministers were co-opted by him, and he also secretly released rumors, intentionally or unintentionally indicating his relationship with Yan Guifei, so that many officials who wanted to turn to him from Long Zhigong, making him more and more popular, and at the same time, he and his henchmen also stepped up their arrangements to brew public opinion that was not conducive to the loyal king among the officials and gentry.

There are also Dong Songchen, Lu Yunsheng and others, while they began to plan the renovation project of Yousheng Palace, they did not forget to fabricate some sensational rumors for people to spread everywhere.

On the contrary, the Qian family, which had been smashed, had been silent, and even Qian Tao entrusted the official affairs of Taifu Temple to his subordinates, and he began to be sick at home, and refused all visits.

Zhao Guan's family basically never went out of the Ciyuan Palace, although they still reviewed the chapters, but they did not go to the court for four or five consecutive days, and occasionally some guerrilla and brave officials played the impeachment of the loyal king Meng Lang for his immorality, and they were all left behind, making people unable to touch his attitude towards this matter.

But everyone can sense that a big storm is brewing and will sweep in at any moment.

What is strange is that Zhao Mengqi, the loyal king who caused all this, seemed to be unaware of these things, like a nobody, he went out of the palace every day and was busy for the new clan school.

On this day, Zhao Mengqi finally found a satisfactory place, stood on a small mound, looked around, and was full of ambition.

The place where he is located is bounded by the north-south Waisha River in the west, the earthen wall of the outer city of Lin'an on the other side of the river, and the Jiangnan Canal in the north, and the canal is five miles to the east after the junction of the Waisha River, it turns around in the southeast direction, and meets the Qiantang River after another six miles.

If the north soil gate of Lin'an is used as an east-west horizontal line, the north of this horizontal line happens to be a roughly square with a side length of five miles, with a total of 12,000 acres.

And the place where Zhao Mengqi is standing now is the range of Zhejiang University in later generations, and the water area not far from him that is more than a mile long and wide is the Huajia Pond of later generations, but it is much wider than that of later generations, and Zhao Mengqi decided to rename it 'East Pool'.

Others thought that he just took a fancy to the place near this pond to build a school, but they didn't know that he actually fancied the entire area within a radius of five miles.

He wanted to build not just a school, but a city!