Chapter 12: The Faint King and the Traitor

In the first year of Song Guobaoqing, in the study of the imperial palace, His Majesty the Emperor was discussing with the prime minister.

"Prime Minister, now that the courtiers are strongly advocating that Vajin avenge the first emperor, what should I do?" said the emperor in fear.

"Your Majesty, this matter has not yet been decided, it is still to be discussed, if you rashly raise troops and act recklessly, it is really not the blessing of the people of Li, the luck of the country, I hope Your Majesty will think twice. Shi Miyuan admonished.

"I don't want to do that either, but those courtiers ......," the Emperor said worriedly.

"Your Majesty, don't worry, those courtiers colluded with Mongolia, first to assassinate the old minister, and now they want to provoke a war and disrupt the court, the crime is unforgivable, the old minister is willing to clean up the court for His Majesty and rectify the discipline. Shi Miyuan said sternly.

"That qiē has Prime Minister Lao. His Majesty the Emperor said with peace of mind.

Shi Miyuan bowed and exited the study, showing a satisfied smile, this emperor was as he expected, from a humble background, without an orthodox royal education, with limited knowledge of the imperial court's affairs, weak and hesitant in case of trouble, completely under his control, which showed that his choice was correct.

His Majesty the Emperor looked at Shi Miyuan's back, and also showed a satisfied smile, those main battle factions let the prime minister go to his heart, and continue to play this cowardly and incompetent emperor, not only to satisfy Shi Miyuan's rights and hopes, but also to give the main battle faction an explanation, why not.

This is the best commentary of the faint monarch and the jiān minister.

Yang Kang is not worried about what Shi Miyuan will do to those main battle factions, the Song State is a country with a relatively high degree of speech, because it is a civilian government, the treatment of intellectuals is very high, the phrase "the punishment is not a doctor" has been well reflected in the Song State, even if a big mistake is made, the heaviest is just exile, and the general mistake is at most at home and can be used at any time.

Second, Shi Miyuan, the prime minister of the Song Dynasty, framed the main battle faction headed by Hong Shikui and Hu Mengyu above the court, and the two sides fought a war of words, and the queen mother in the curtain spoke to persuade peace, and the whole court was in chaos, with the intensification of the dispute, the emperor Majesty Xià continued to make nervous, worried, hesitant and other expressions, which can definitely be called the expression emperor, but unfortunately no one appreciated the emperor Majesty's jīng color performance, he was completely ignored, which can not but be said to be a kind of sadness.

In the end, Shi Miyuan demoted several officials of the main war faction in the DPRK to various posts in the Song State and ended the court meeting.

The main battle faction of the Song State ended in failure again, they originally thought that the new emperor was on the throne, and he had the righteous name of avenging the first emperor, and he could raise troops to fight gold, and even brought down the Jiān Xiang Shi Miyuan, so that the Song State began to prosper, but unfortunately they were disappointed, the power of the court was still in the hands of Shi Miyuan and the empress dowager, the new emperor was just a puppet, these ministers walked out of the palace, looked up to the sky and sighed, sad for themselves, and also sad for the country, the emperor was mediocre, and the ministers were in charge, where is the future of the Song State?

However, the matter did not end there, the deposition of the officials of the main battle faction became a fuse, first the upright students of the Taixue Center issued a petition to avenge the former emperor and to depose Jiān Xiangshi Miyuan, and then the people also began to criticize, if the emperor of his country was killed and did not take revenge, not only the face of the country was lost, but the people also felt humiliated.

For a while, the humiliation that seemed to have been suppressed for a hundred years broke out all of a sudden, and after the fall of the Northern Song Dynasty, the Song State blindly surrendered and forbeared, ceded land and paid compensation, enslaved and servile, and survived.

Officials from all over the Song Kingdom submitted a petition to send troops to cut gold, and scholars from all over the country jointly wrote a letter requesting the purging of the dynasty, and the common people discussed it one after another, and the entire Lin'an City fell into a frenzy, and it is conceivable that the entire Song Kingdom would be like this soon. This is accidental, but also inevitable, the Song State has been silent for too long, not to explode in silence, but to perish in silence, the assassination of Emperor Zhao Kuo and Shi Miyuan's demotion of the main war faction ministers completely aroused the fighting spirit of the Song people.

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Yang Kang looked at the thick stack of pieces asking for gold, listened to the news that Xie Yili inquired from outside, and sighed like this, this matter must be fueled by someone behind it, but it can also be seen that the people of the Song Kingdom are not weak, they also have blood and fighting spirit, but this time they were used.

Xie Yili looked at this former classmate carefully, the current emperor Xià, he didn't know how the emperor would choose, the people had already classified the emperor who had just ascended the throne for a month into the list of faint monarchs, but he understood that the current court situation, the power was not in the hands of the emperor, Shi Miyuan was a surrender faction, the queen mother was a woman, she didn't like to fight, she was only willing to enjoy peace.

Xie Dacaizi is neither the main battle faction, nor the surrender faction, he is a moderate faction, whoever wins the power will throw himself, now his heart is the emperor Xià, the emperor is still young, and Shi Miyuan is already old, in his mind, as long as he follows the pace of the emperor's majesty, it is time for him to show his strength after the past few years, let him Shi Miyuan power is monstrous, and he can't escape the fate of birth, old age, sickness and death.

Just when Xie Yili was thinking about it, Prime Minister Shi Miyuan came, and Xie Dacai hurriedly saluted flatteringly and hurriedly retreated.

The Prime Minister is also very troubled, in this era of fame, no one wants to be evaluated as a minister of Jiān, this is to be written into the history books, he does not feel that he is a Jiān minister, at most he is a minister, he thinks that everything he does is for the good of the Song State, those ministers who want to fight are the real disasters of the Song State, if the war can be won, it is naturally good, but can it really win?

However, this time the matter was a little tricky, he sent someone to Jin Guo to question, hoping to get a negative answer, as long as Jin Guo denied that it was related to the assassination of the emperor, then he had an excuse to suppress domestic public opinion, but Jin Guo did not give an answer, which made Shi Miyuan very headache, and Jin Guo was not willing to give him even an excuse.

King Rong Wanyan Hongxi ignored the questioning of the envoys of the Song State, he felt that this was a very funny thing, the third prince thought that it was no one else who assassinated Zhao Kuo, it was the current Emperor of the Song Kingdom, at the beginning, this emperor His Majesty Xià murdered the sixth child in order to ascend the throne of the Dajin Kingdom, and now why not kill another Song emperor, these envoys of the Song State still have the face to question the Jin State, it is better to go back and ask their own emperor. King Rong just wanted to see the reaction of the new emperor of the Song Kingdom, and if that emperor was really determined to use this excuse to attack the Jin Kingdom, he would not hesitate to fight.

In the study room of the Song Imperial Palace, the faint monarch and the Jiān minister gathered again.

"Prime Minister, how is this good?" said the Emperor in a panic, pointing to the concerta.

"Your Majesty, the old minister is incompetent. Shi Miyuan apologized and said, "The scholars and the people use the enmity of the emperor as an excuse to force the next is a great crime of disrespect, but at this time, the general trend has been achieved, and it cannot be stopped." ”

"So, is there only a war?" asked the Emperor tentatively.

"Now there is only a feint to anger the people, and we will discuss it again in the next year. Shi Miyuan proposed a method of delay.

In the winter of 1219 AD, the first year of the Song State Baoqing, under the pressure of domestic public opinion, the emperor Zhao Yun ordered to mobilize the army to gather along the Yangtze River, intending to go on a northern expedition.

Before the Yangtze River was blocked, a small boat crossed the river to the north, and the person on the boat was Lou Shidao, the former prime minister of the Dajin Kingdom. (To be continued.) )