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To be fair, Wang Hao is actually quite good at making money.

It's just that Wang Hao never thinks about long-term peace and stability, and often puts his hand into the pockets of the poor to take out money, and the methods are simple and rude, making the people's livelihood miserable.

The most typical example is Wang Hao's free money.

The immediate results were indeed immediate, and in a very short period of time, they helped Zhao Ji get tens of millions.

That is, Wang Hao's care for the head and tail has made the common people suffer.

Cai Jing is also extremely good at making money.

However, unlike Wang Huang, Cai Jing mainly used clever means to get money from the rich and businessmen, and rarely touched the poor people's melons and dates.

At the beginning, after Wang Hao got out of the Jingfu room, Cai Jing went into the palace and said to Zhao Ji: "The old minister heard that the court set up the Jingfu room, and the people of the world, whether rich or poor, all need to pay free money, and the old minister is foolish, this is the way to cut off the people, not the way to govern the country, and it damages the image of the official family, the official family and even the Shengrenjun, Yize and the four seas, so that they don't care about the people's suffering, and wantonly grab the hope of the people's survival, it is definitely not for the sake of His Majesty and the Great Song Dynasty."

Zhao Ji listened and was silent.

In fact, at that time, Zhao Ji already knew that in order to complete the task indicators issued by Wang Hao and obtain political achievements, officials in many places forced the people to pay money by unscrupulous means, which caused the people to complain.

In other words, Zhao Ji actually knew that levying free money was a policy that harmed the people.

But at that time, the wood was already in the boat, and if Zhao Ji wanted to correct it, it was impossible at all.

The key is that because the Zhao and Song dynasties launched a series of national wars to encircle and suppress Li Cun and Fang La's uprising, and Lianjin to destroy Liao and recover the sixteen states of Yanyun, it cost a lot.

The key point is that the largest part of the financial revenue of the Zhao and Song dynasties has been accounted for by Li Cun.

In addition, from Zhao Ji downwards, the monarchs and ministers of the Zhao and Song dynasties spent a lot of money on corruption.

In addition, the Zhao and Song dynasties gave this point of age coins and that point of age coins at every turn.

This caused a very serious financial crisis in the Zhao and Song dynasties, so serious that the salaries of the soldiers on the front line could not be guaranteed.

In order to solve this increasingly serious financial crisis, Zhao Ji issued an edict to Cai You, Bai Shizhong, and Li Bangyan, telling them to quickly find a way.

Cai You, Bai Shizhong, Li Bangyan and others have been tinkering for a long time, but they just cut off some of the things that are not urgent and the nameless expenses, not to mention the book, they can't even cure the standard.

Seeing that Cai You and the others had this ability, Zhao Ji gave up the idea of letting Cai You be the prime minister.

- Previously, Zhao Ji had intended to make Cai You the prime minister, but as soon as Zhao Ji leaked this extremely stupid idea, he was opposed by almost everyone, and some people even bluntly said in front of Zhao Ji, "How can Cai Liu be a prime minister?!"

Seeing that almost everyone opposed Cai You as the prime minister, Zhao Ji could only make Cai You fall into the ranks and still lead the Privy Council.

And Dazai Bai Shizhong and Shaozai Li Bangyan also have no solution to the practical difficulties of the Zhao and Song dynasties in front of them.

Let's put it this way, the combination of Cai You, Bai Shizhong and Li Bangyan is not as good as Wang Hao.

At the same time, rebels and thieves swarmed in the areas of Hebei Road and Jingdong Road, and there were even several groups of rebels with hundreds of thousands of horses, which had the potential to repeat the original Li Cun and Fang La. ….

Cai Jing's henchmen took this opportunity to shout in the court, saying that Shizhong and Li Bangyan were not capable and famous, how could they be prime ministers, and they could not shock the world at all, and called for the old prime minister Cai Jing to come out again.

Since Cai Jing's third time, the Zhao Song Dynasty has actually been out of control, and it has not performed as well as it should.

The key is that the Zhao and Song dynasties are now suffering from internal and external troubles, as if they are on the verge of extinction.

Zhao Ji also hopes that Cai Jing, who has helped him create a prosperous situation, can help the building to fall and turn the tide.

So Zhao Ji wrote an edict to Cai Jing: "I hold power and take advantage of the essentials, take the right way, and give things to the minister. Since then, he has not been his own, and he has been in the midst of political loss. Reciting the teachings of my martyr's examination, repairing the reform of the Gu and the malpractices, holding on to the followers, wantonly approaching, and putting the division to discuss. Taishi Zhishi Cai Jing assisted me at the beginning, and was born

Shuo, the skin belongs to Min Lao, and the matter of official position, that is, Anli Luxian, his words and deeds still depend on it. The book is not cloudy: 'If you inquire about Huang Shu, you will be disregarded. , Jing Ke also led the Lecture Division, listened to the private tribunal, and was still exempt from signing the book, and the mother was industrious, so as to call me the beauty of the noble old and the greedy."

In this way, Cai Jingguan was reinstated, served as the prime minister of the Zhao Song Dynasty for the fourth time, and once again stepped onto the political stage of the Zhao Song Dynasty.

When Cai Jing first served as prime minister, Cai Jing was fifty-six years old and Zhao Ji was twenty-one years old.

At that time, the Zhao and Song dynasties were facing the mess left by Wang Anshi's reforms, and the new party and the old party were fighting each other because of whether to continue to change the law, and it can be said that the two factions almost didn't fight the Zhao and Song dynasties at that time.

At that time, Zhao Ji had just been in power for a short time and wanted to do something.

Therefore, Zhao Ji resolutely chose the path of reform taken by his father and brother, and chose Cai Jing, the reformist with the highest voice at that time, as the prime minister.

Cai Jing was grateful to Zhao Ji for his kindness, and was determined to die in revenge.

Therefore, after Cai Jing came to power, he quickly set off a vigorous Chongning reform upsurge, and the appearance of the Zhao and Song dynasties soon took on a new look.

But Cai Jing's political style is tough, and sometimes even aggressive.

This made Zhao Ji feel very uncomfortable.

Zhao Ji began to suspect that Cai Jing had authoritarian tendencies.

Some ministers were also dissatisfied with Cai Jing's strength, but they couldn't find an opportunity to attack Cai Jing.

Until the first month of the fifth year of Chongning, a comet suddenly appeared in the western sky.

The comet's tail was long, stretching across the sky, and every night the windows of the Imperial Palace were bright.

Some ministers led by Zhao Mingcheng's father, Zhao Tingzhi, and Liu Kui, a scholar in Zhongshu, took the opportunity to write a letter, saying that the imperial court's policy was wrong, and the heavens issued a warning.

Liu Kui even took the opportunity to persuade Zhao Ji to destroy the Yuanyou Party Monument erected by Cai Jing in order to end the scourge of party strife that had spread for decades, and stop Cai Jing's reform measures, saying that in this way the heavens would be normal and the world would be peaceful.

Zhao Ji adopted Liu Kui's suggestion, and in the middle of the night, he sent a group of eunuchs to the Wende Hall to destroy all the stone carvings on the east wall.

When he went to court the next morning, Cai Jing suddenly found that the stone carving had been destroyed, and said sharply: "The stone can be destroyed, but the name cannot be destroyed!"

Cai Jing's fierce confrontational attitude made Zhao Ji really intolerable. ….

In February, Cai Jing was dismissed by Zhao Ji, appointed as the envoy of the Taiyi Palace, and stayed in the capital.

Subsequently, Zhao Tingzhi was appointed as the right servant, and Liu Kui continued to serve as the Zhongshu squire, and the two of them worked closely together to abolish all the reforms implemented by Cai Jing.

This caused a lot of shock inside and outside the Zhao and Song courts.

At that time, the saying of "three nos" began to be widely circulated in the society, that is, "the law is immutable, Liu Kui is unusable, and Cai Jing cannot be stopped."

A few days later, the comet disappeared.

Zhao Ji was very dissatisfied with the governance measures of Zhao Tingzhi and Liu Kui, two idiots, and began to regret the removal of Cai Jing.

Nine months later, Zhao Ji reinstated Cai Jing.

The second time, after Cai Jing became the prime minister for less than four years, Zhao Jinian and Tong Guan made outstanding achievements in the northwest to open the border, and issued an edict to award Tong Guan to open the palace and the three divisions.

Kaifu Yi Tong Sansi is an honorary official title that shows the emperor's grace and high social status.

Cai Jing resolutely opposed and refused to carry out this edict, and he said angrily: "The ministers are handsome, not prosperous affairs, and it is a bit too much to let a eunuch serve as the envoy of the festival, how can he be granted the envoy again?"

Zhao Ji once again felt that his imperial power was challenged by Cai Jing.

Tong Guan was also very angry when he heard this, and he secretly contacted the ministers such as Cheng Shi Gongbi in the Imperial History and Zhang Kegong in the Imperial History, and impeached Cai Jing in the upper court.

Tong Guan also encouraged Guo Tianxin to enter the palace and said to Zhao Ji: "There is a sunspot in the sun, and the Lord is repulsing the minister, otherwise it is unknown."

Zhao Ji took advantage of the situation and ousted Cai Jing from the position of prime minister.

Although Cai Jing's previous two resignations had different backgrounds, they had one thing in common, that is, they were all because of the "heavenly changes".

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People believe that if there is a change in the sky, it means that there is a defect in the government, and the prime minister, as the commander-in-chief of the government, should take responsibility and either directly recall or resign.

In fact, this was just an excuse for the political struggle of the Zhao and Song courts.

Cai Jing was deposed twice, and the essential reason was actually the same, Cai Jing offended Zhao Ji's imperial power with his power.

Since the Song Dynasty, the political arena of the Zhao and Song dynasties has formed a situation in which all rights belong to the emperor.

Cai Jing openly challenged this situation, how could Zhao Ji tolerate it?

When he was young, Zhao Ji was actually very politically savvy, he was very good at using political skills, he wanted to firmly control the final decision-making power, and he wanted to play the minister in the palm of his hand.

The prince of the Ming Dynasty said that Cai Jing was not a powerful minister at all, he was just a courtier.

In fact, Wang Fuzhi was wrong, Cai Jing was neither a minister nor a courtier - he neither hijacked the imperial power to monopolize the idea of the dynasty, nor did he concentrate on pursuing the emperor's favor and playfulness, what he pursued was to rule the world with the imperial power.

This was the consistent dream and pursuit of Confucian intellectuals in the feudal era.

But Zhao Ji didn't think so.

Zhao Ji believes that the power of the prime minister is to serve the imperial power, and the power of the prime minister cannot oppose the imperial power.

Therefore, Zhao Ji not only wants to use Cai Jing's talents to serve himself, but also to hit Cai Jing's arrogance at the right time and give him a little color.

The attack on Cai Jing is essentially a blow to the power controlled by Cai Jing, and the purpose is to show the supreme authority of the imperial power to the Manchu civil and military. ….

That is, the emperor can give you *** generous fortune, or he can make you nothing, or even ruined and bankrupt.

After being beaten twice by Zhao Ji, Cai Jing finally understood that Xiangquan was just a vassal of the imperial power in the eyes of the emperor, and the object he wanted to serve was not the Great Song Dynasty at all, but the Great Song Emperor Zhao Ji.

The impeachment of Cai Jing did not stop with Cai Jing's second dismissal - at that time, the pieces were still being sent to Zhao Ji's imperial eucalyptus.

There was a student named Chen Chaolao who even went to Que to write a book, chasing after the wind and shadows, and went online to list Cai Jing's so-called 14 crimes.

Later, the comet came to the sky again.

Jiang, Huai, Jing, Zhejiang and other areas have not had rain for several months, and there is a drought everywhere.

The ministers of the DPRK and the Central Committee of the People's Republic of China pointed the finger at Cai Jing one after another, saying, "Cai Jing circled the Beijing Division, and Yu Wei was shocked by the ministers", and asked Zhao Ji to expel Cai Jing from the Beijing Division.

As a result, Cai Jing was demoted to the crown prince Shaobao, and he still lived in Hangzhou.

At the same time, Zhao Ji issued an edict prohibiting the minister from continuing to impeach Cai Jing.

Cai Jing didn't care about the impeachment at that time, he said: "Things should be reasonable, and more words are not fearful!"

That year, Cai Jing was sixty-four years old.

If Cai Jing had retired from politics since that time and spent his days in Hangzhou, then he might not have been listed as the head of the "Six Thieves" by Chen Dong, a student of Tai, and he would not have been that image in "Water Margin", and he would not have become a scapegoat for the demise of the Zhao and Song dynasties.

But Cai Jing promised Zhao Ji to die in revenge, and he wanted to fulfill his promise.

Therefore, if Zhao Ji needs him, he will gladly make a comeback.

Three years later, Tong Guan, who led the army to recover the Qingtang region in the northwest and defeated the Western Xia, was ambitious to recover the sixteen states of Yanyun.

But the prime ministers at that time, He Zhizhong and Zhang Shangying, were not able to support Tong Guan's idea of recovering the sixteen states of Yanyun.

In Tong Guan's opinion, only Cai Jing has the ability to let him go.

So, after Tong Guan returned from the envoy to Liao, he said to Zhao Ji: "The emperor of Liao put wine in the secret room, feasted his ministers alone, and had two ladies to drink at the same table. During this period, the emperor of the Liao State praised Cai Jing for his virtue and said, "The Southern Dynasty does not use Cai Jing, and it cannot cause peace." 」

After three years of comparison, Zhao Ji certainly knew that the talents of He Zhizhong and Zhang Shangying were far from being comparable to Cai Jing.

Now Yelu Yanxi said this kind of thing again, which made Zhao Ji fall into deep thought.

Soon, Cai Jing, who was recuperating in Hangzhou, suddenly received an edict from Zhao Ji and asked him to return to Beijing to live.

A few months later, Zhao Ji officially issued an order to crown Cai Jing as the Taishi, so that Cai Jing was appointed as the prime minister, and Cai Jing became the prime minister for the third time.

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Cai Jing served as prime minister this time for nine years.

The reason why Cai Jing can be the prime minister for so long this time is mainly because Cai Jing understands how to get along with Zhao Ji:

That is, we must always remember the supremacy of Zhao Ji's imperial power and cannot be challenged;

That is, to make a lot of money for Zhao Ji to squander;

That is, only by satisfying Zhao Ji's extravagance first, can he display his political ambitions.

These nine years are the most glorious period in Cai Jing's life, the most glorious period of the Song Huizong Dynasty, and it can even be said to be the most prosperous period of the entire Zhao and Song Dynasty. ….

And Cai Jing's third strike is related to the strategy of Lianjin to destroy Liao and recover the sixteen states of Yanyun.

When Zhao Ji first started the strategy of Lianjin to destroy Liao and recover the sixteen states of Yanyun, Cai Jing strongly agreed with and actively promoted it.

But then Cai Jing's attitude changed.

This is mainly because, in the later period of Cai Jing's reign, Cai Jing, who knew the Zhao Song Dynasty well, clearly knew that the Zhao Song Dynasty, which looked infinitely beautiful on the surface, was actually empty, and the border was not prepared for a national war, and he felt that the plan to recover the sixteen states of Yanyun was unlikely to succeed, and took a step back to say that even if he succeeded in recovering the sixteen states of Yanyun, with the current national strength of the Zhao Song Dynasty, it would not be able to support the consumption of the Yanyun region.

Once, Zhao Ji had a banquet in the forbidden song, and everyone went boating together after drinking.

Zhao Ji suddenly sent Tong Guan a piece of paper, asking him to tell Cai Jing that everyone should express their stance on the matter of Lianjin destroying Liao and recovering the sixteen states of Yanyun, and if they agreed, they would sign the piece of paper.

Cai Jing was stunned and refused to sign on the spot, saying, "Let me face it carefully, it will be difficult to understand the title of the book."

Zhao Ji was very disappointed with Cai Jing's stubbornness, so he replaced Cai Jing with Wang Huang, who supported Lianjin to destroy Liao and recover the sixteen states of Yanyun.

Who would have thought, four years later, when the plan of Lianjin to destroy Liao and recover the sixteen states of Yanyun was implemented to a pulp, Cai Jing was invited by Zhao Ji to serve as the prime minister of the Zhao Song Dynasty for the fourth time.

But at this time, Cai Jing was already eighty years old, blind and unable to write, and unable to kneel on his feet.

Now, all the documents that need to be signed by Cai Jing are all done by Cai Jing's son, Cai Jing, and even the last court is replaced by Cai Sui.

In other words, the position of prime minister of the Zhao Song Dynasty at this time was not so much in the hands of Cai Jing, but in the hands of Cai Jing's third son, Cai Sui, who was only twenty-seven years old......

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Let the birds fly