Gaozong Zhao asked Xiao Ming, what is a satisfactory explanation?

Before Xiao Ming answered him, he had confidently pondered Zhao Gou in his heart for a long time!

Gaozong Zhao Gou is the ninth son of Huizong, and it stands to reason that it is far from his turn to be on the throne, so he has not taken this matter to heart since he was a child, but studied literature and martial arts according to his hobby.

Ding Jianpeng once told him that according to the "History of the Song Dynasty" and other historical records, Zhao Gou was strong in martial arts, shrewd and scheming. He can walk hundreds of steps with his arms flat on each hundred and ten pounds, which is shocking and impressive. He also likes to ride horses and shoot arrows, and shoot bows with one stone. According to the system of the Song Dynasty's army, this is considered to be superior in martial arts, and it has reached the level of the emperor's guard, which is almost equivalent to the level of athletes in later generations.

Zhao Gou is quite familiar with poetry and has a good sense of art. His calligraphy attainments are very high, beginner Huang Tingjian, Mi Fu, following the study of the Tang people, Yu Shinan, Chu Suiliang and other works of diligence, after tracing Wang Xizhi, Wang Xian's father and son, and have their own style. According to the standards of the Great Song Dynasty, he should be regarded as an all-round talent in civil and military affairs!

In addition, it may be young and vigorous, Zhao Gou when he was young was still quite chivalrous, and he always wanted to do something for the country and the people, so he went north to Liao as an envoy and met Xiao Ming.

Until the time of the Jin army's attack on the Song Dynasty, Xiao Ming returned to the Central Plains from Western Xia, saw the decay of the Great Song Dynasty, and when he was determined to support a county lord who could rejuvenate the country, he naturally thought of Zhao Gou, so he made many preparations for him, and supported him financially and manpower, and did not point out the way for him.

Zhao Gou never dared to think that he could finally be ordered to ascend the throne in the end, his fate had a 180-degree turn, when he could finally put his ambitions into action, and it coincided with a change, after several changes in the world, the ** of power finally made him lost!

For Zhao Gou, the legitimacy of his throne has always been a dead knot in his heart, no one can untie it for him, plus he has a disease, Zhao Gou has suffered from impotence since Nandu, such a secret thing can only be hidden in his heart, his private life is a tragedy, but Xiao Ming knows it.

Zhao Gou's transformation is a slow process, and there are traces to follow during the period, this transformation to the time of the Miao Liu Mutiny was a trigger point, during which after the pain of losing a child, Gaozong Zhao Gou should be extremely greedy for power, and gradually became obsessed with wealth and enjoyment as he grew older.

It is difficult to determine the evaluation of Zhao Gou in history, he is not only a political figure with a cool head and a judge of the situation, but also an ordinary person with many flaws! Looking at his greed for pleasure and accumulation of wealth in his old age, Xiao Ming felt that this should be a kind of semi-eunuch mentality.

But all eunuchs, because they do not have the ability to give birth to the next generation, will become desperate to accumulate money, and intensify the search for all kinds of finances to satisfy their deformed hearts, because they feel that only money is the safest, and if the emperor, who is known as a lonely man, also has such a mentality, then many things cannot be said clearly.

Xiao Ming knew how to control Zhao Gou's psychology, one aspect was to give him hope, including the hope that he could recover from his illness, and the other aspect was to satisfy his control of wealth, so he decided to let Zhao Gou control the financial power of the Great Song Dynasty! Before that, the actual controller of the financial power of the Great Song Dynasty was Xiao Ming.

Xiao Ming gave Zhao Gou some dried seahorses, a specialty of the South Seas, only saying that it was to cure his disease, Zhao Gou was quite surprised by this, what a secret thing it was that he was suffering from the disease of yang sales! How did Xiao Ming know? Of course Xiao Ming won't tell him, just tell him that this thing is extremely precious and is used for men's health care!

The word "health care" was used well, which suddenly filled Zhao Gou's heart with hope! It's not that there is no imperial doctor in the Great Song Dynasty, but Zhao Gou's illness is really unspeakable, so he has been looking for some medicine to eat, but it has not improved over the years, and he has slowly lost hope!

Today, I heard Xiao Ming say that the dry seahorse can make his disease have hope of curing, and he couldn't help but be excited, and at this time, Xiao Ming told Zhao Gou his true intention, that is, to establish a cabinet in the imperial court, and the emperor and the cabinet to divide powers, that is, Gaozong holds the financial power, and the cabinet holds the administrative power!

This is a bold attempt, to put it bluntly, it is a special decentralization system, but Xiao Ming said very vaguely, he wants to share political affairs for Gaozong, and let Zhao Gou devote all his attention to making money, this is a kind of political reform, but there is no clear action, all this seems to have not changed, but a cabinet has been directly established under the imperial power!

The military, administration, and justice of the Great Song Dynasty were separated from the military and the administration, but the judiciary was still chaotic, but Xiao Ming had already set up a supervision department before this, so it was preparing for judicial independence, although it seemed that the military and administrative were separated, but all of this was controlled by the emperor.

Now setting up such a cabinet under the imperial power is to have a buffer stage, and at the same time to withdraw the financial power downward and let the emperor be in charge alone, it seems to be a strengthening of the imperial power, but it is actually a divisive measure, Zhao Gou confirmed that this is Xiao Ming's request to take charge of power alone, he thinks it doesn't matter, anyway, as long as it doesn't threaten his throne, he can do anything.

Having said that, now that the whereabouts of Emperor Qinzong are still in Xiao Ming's hands, it is easy for him to threaten his throne, and so far he has not done so, thinking that it is better for him to be the emperor than to be the emperor of Qinzong, Zhao Gou remembered Xiao Ming's promise to him, that is, with him, he will ensure his throne!

The pigtails were in the hands of others, and Xiao Ming was coercive and tempting, so Gaozong had to listen to him, so at the Tianchao meeting in October of the first year of Yongkang, Gaozong suddenly announced the formal establishment of an auxiliary cabinet to take charge of some military affairs, and appointed Xiao Ming as the first person to be the first auxiliary minister! The cabinet members are completely selected by Xiao Ming and submitted to Gaozong for approval before being appointed!

All the titles of participating in political affairs will be abolished, the official titles of the ministers will not be replaced, and all government affairs plans will be decided by the first and auxiliary ministers! The military decision-making of the Privy Council and the appointment and dismissal of officials of the six ministries also have the appointment and dismissal of the first assistant!

This is like a stone stirring up a thousand waves! The government and the opposition are in an uproar, what is the first minister? Is the law of the ancestors broken like this? When Wang Anshi changed the law and innovated at the time of the Divine Sect, it was not as outrageous as it is today? The first auxiliary minister is one person under ten thousand people, Xiao Ming is so ambitious, he wants to monopolize power?

I really don't know what Xiao Ming said to the emperor, why would the official family agree to such an absurd request? In fact, most of the people who hold this idea are the kind of inactive officials who are in a vegetarian position, and the real political elites are trying to figure out what the real purpose of Xiao Ming's move is, and why does he want to return to power after three years?

Xiao Ming didn't care about those discussions in choosing the office location of the cabinet, but he made it difficult, the architectural layout of the entire imperial city has been completely not according to the original design drawings, Zhao Gou will Bianjing City many buildings are all restored in Kangjing, among which several important halls: Baozhen Palace, Zichen Palace, Wende Palace, Vertical Arch Palace, Huangyi Palace, Jiying Palace, Ninghui Palace, Daqing Palace, Dongying Palace, Xuande Palace, etc. are all rebuilt in Kangjing, but the style has been improved.

And Zhao Gou has been building several secret pavilions have not decreased, but there is a trend of getting bigger and bigger, such as: Longtu Pavilion, Tianzhang Pavilion, Baowen Pavilion, Xianmo Pavilion, Huiyou Pavilion, Fuwen Pavilion, Huanzhang Pavilion, Huawen Pavilion, Baomo Pavilion, Baozhang Pavilion, Xianwen Pavilion Many have been planned for construction, and the only completed Longtu Pavilion is seriously exceeded!

This is a super tall building with huge columns, and the layout of the main hall inside is very majestic, and it even has three floors, all made of huge stone granite, which is to highlight the building of the palace of scholars, but it is the most time-consuming and wasteful building, so that Xiao Ming finally suggested that the office of the entire cabinet be set here.

The establishment of a cabinet requires a lot of changes in the political habits of the court, which depends on Xiao Ming's specific regulations! But the first thing Xiao Ming did was to merge Zhongshu Menxia Province, as well as Secretary Province and Mingtang! They were newly set up as the Central Province, and together with the Privy Council, the basic pattern of the three major cabinets was formed.

In fact, the main officials of the cabinet have been repeatedly considered by Xiao Ming, and the prime minister in charge of administration in Zhongshu Province is naturally Lu Yihao, but the auxiliary political personnel can not be less, initially determined to be Zhao Ding, Hu Quan, Xi Yi and others, but because Xi Yi has been recuperating in his hometown, he was later designated as Fan Zongyi, a university scholar.

The other officials of the six ministries are basically auxiliary ministers, and the only strange thing is that in the selection of the secretary of the ministry, Xiao Ming actually chose Qin Hui! This makes most people more criticized, in the use of Qin Hui, Xiao Ming once had a deep conversation with Gaozong, and that conversation was a big change in Qin Hui's fate.

In the matter of killing Yue Fei, Gaozong said that all the responsibility was put on Wan Qiaozhuo and Qin Hui Zhang Jun and others, but he did not reflect at all, but Xiao Ming said: "Don't you read it, seal the territory, don't you read it, Hui Qin is humiliated, but Hui Qin has returned, what does this body belong to!" Thousands of years of rest talked about the mistake of crossing the south, and at that time I was afraid of the recovery of the Central Plains. How can a cypress laugh and meet its desires. ”

This is the Ming Dynasty Wen Zhengming in Yue Wang Temple Yue Fei "Manjianghong" words under the rhyme, the words Zhao Gou was surprised, after a long time finally bowed his head and admitted his mistake: "The widow is wrong!" He said that he would give Yue Fei a generous burial and chase and treat Yue Fei's family well! After that, Yue Feiqi was wronged and Zhaoxue was reinstated and buried, and Yue Fei was called Wu Mu and the king of Hubei!

So Xiao Ming still used Qin Hui, but he degraded Wan Qian as a servant of the ministry, this intention is obvious, he wants to see Qin Hui's real political killing, then start with Wan Qian, Wan Qian went to Gaozong's palace to cry and beg to see him after being demoted, but how could Zhao Gou see him?

Xiao Ming decided to start a large-scale deployment of the military forces of the Great Song Dynasty, and a unit like the Privy Council naturally cannot be controlled by incompetent people, so Zhang Jun, who is expected to return, can only be awarded the title of chief of staff of a privy lieutenant.

But what Xiao Ming really used was the ...... of Wang Shu, who was absolutely very capable!