The attendant followed Yin Zhiping for two steps, then confessed and went back to inform Lu Wende in advance. Before Yin Zhiping returned to the courtyard, Lu Wende led someone out first.

"Lady Lauro has sent someone to look for me. Without waiting for Lu Wende to speak, Yin Zhiping bowed first, and then asked, "I don't know what Lord Lu is looking for me?"

Lu Wende returned the salute and said, "Someone from the Prime Minister's Mansion said that he was going to have a banquet for the two of us at noon. I asked someone to tell me about it, only to find out that you were not there, so I sent people around to look for you. ”

"Shi Xianggong?" Yin Zhiping was slightly surprised. He knew who Shi Xianggong was talking about in Lu Wende's mouth, and it was Shi Songzhi, the prime minister of the dynasty. The term "Xianggong" does not specifically refer to the title of husband and wife in later dramas. During the two Song Dynasty, those who had officials to the phase were often called Xianggong.

Shi Songzhi's current official position is the right prime minister and privy envoy, the prime minister is the head of the civil officials, and the Privy Council is an exclusive body in charge of military affairs in the Song Dynasty, and the head and highest official of the Privy Council are the privy envoys.

The position of privy envoy originally began in the Tang Dynasty during the reign of Zong Yongtai, with eunuchs as the leader, receiving courtiers and quartet performances and announcing the emperor's order. But in the beginning, there was only one privy envoy, and the authority was not great. During the Five Dynasties, the Privy Council began to be set up, and it was appointed by civil servants and scholars, and gradually evolved into a central institution of the imperial court specializing in the management of the military.

During the Song Dynasty, the Privy Council and Zhongshu Province were called the two governments, Zhongshu Province was the government, the Privy Council was the Privy Council, and the two handles of the civil and military affairs were the highest institutions of the central government. However, in order not to make the authority of the subordinates too great, the prime minister is often no longer able to serve as a privy envoy. The Prime Minister is not allowed to intervene in the military without the title of Privy Councillor. During the Qingli period of Renzong of the Northern Song Dynasty, he used troops against the Western Xia. In order to make it easier for the prime minister to command and manage the war, the then prime minister Fan Zhongyan concurrently served as a privy envoy. But this is not permanent. He went after the Western Xia War.

During the Southern Song Dynasty, because half of the northern country was occupied by the Jin people, and the Jin State was in a state of confrontation between the north and the south, the government affairs of the court were mostly military, and in order to facilitate the prime minister to consult the military, he often had the title of privy councillor. Qin Hui, the great traitor of Gaozong, was also a privy envoy when he was the prime minister, but this was not the norm until after the Ningzong Dynasty, and the position of prime minister and privy envoy became a permanent position. Whoever worships the Prime Minister must also serve as a privy envoy. As a result, the prime minister grasped the military and political power, so that in the later period of the Southern Song Dynasty, there were several ministers who monopolized power and dominated the dynasty.

Speaking of which, making the prime minister and privy envoy a common practice is also related to Shi Songzhi. The position of prime minister and privy envoy is a common practice, which was started by Shi Songzhi's uncle, Shi Miyuan, the minister of power who dominated the Ningzong Dynasty for 17 years. It is the current Emperor Lizong, who was also established by Shi Miyuan. After Li Zong ascended the throne, Shi Miyuan also monopolized the dynasty and occupied the throne for nine years. Until Shaoding died of illness in the sixth year of the phase. The two dynasties before and after him were in power for 26 years, and during his reign, he has always won the trust of Emperor Ningzong and Emperor Lizong, and he has been knighted. After dying of illness, he also posthumously crowned the king of Wei and offered his loyalty.

Shi Songzhi can do the current phase. It can be said that there is also a lot of credit for his uncle Shi Miyuan. And Shi Songzhi's grandfather, Shi Miyuan's father, Shi Hao, also served as the prime minister during the Xiaozong period, the Siming Shi family. It is known as the three prime ministers of one family, and the court is glorious. Extraordinary.

Shi Hao was a generation of virtuous ministers, and when Xiaozong was in the dynasty, it was at Shi Hao's suggestion that Emperor Xiaozong rehabilitated Yue Fei.

When Shi Miyuan was the prime minister, he was a monopoly on power, with extremely heavy authority, suppressing dissidents internally and begging for gold externally. In the third year of Kaixi, the then prime minister Han Yanxuan launched a failed Northern Expedition against Jin, and the Jin Dynasty came to ask for the mastermind. Shi Miyuan, who was the waiter of the Ministry of Rites and the official of Zishantang Yishan, conspired with Empress Yang and others to send Xia Zhen, who was in charge of the palace's former secretary, to kill Han Yanxuan in Yujin Garden, and cut off his head to send gold to ask for peace. As a result, Shi Miyuan was promoted to the right prime minister and privy envoy, and began his seventeen-year-long phase road to dominate the Ningzong Dynasty.

After Shi Miyuan took power, he restored the title of King Shen and the title of loyalty and dedication that Qin Hui posthumously awarded after his death, and actively pursued the policy of reducing gold and begging. In September, the Song-Jin Peace Conference was signed, changing the country of the uncles and nephews of the Jin and Song Dynasty to the country of the uncles and nephews, increasing the annual currency from 200,000 to 300,000, and adding 3 million taels of "military silver", which was a humiliating treaty that had never been seen in the previous peace talks.

Shi Songzhi is the phase, and it has the characteristics of his grandfather Shi Hao and his uncle Shi Miyuan. Shi Songzhi is not only a talented minister, but also a power-hungry and arbitrary person. In order to achieve their own ends, you can make ruler means. Uniting Mongolia to destroy the whole country was what Shi Song had made a difference.

From now on, Lianmeng's destruction of gold can be said to have driven away the wolf and attracted the tiger. But at the time, it was also seen as a good governance. Moreover, the union with Mongolia did destroy the Jin State, which had been pressing on the heads of the Southern Song Dynasty monarchs for a hundred years and brought many humiliations to the Song Dynasty. Shi Songzhi also contributed to this matter, and began to be reused by the Sect.

Yin Zhiping was not a talented student in the history department in his previous life, and he did not know much about this period of history in the Southern Song Dynasty, and he knew about Shi Songzhi and his Shi family's three prime ministers, or because he wanted to come to Lin'an, and wanted to understand the current person in charge of the Lin'an court, so he specially inquired about Lu Wende on the boat that came all the way.

Shi Songzhi is the prime minister of the dynasty, so meeting the two of them before the emperor officially summons them is also the proper meaning of the title. After Yin Zhiping was a little surprised, he nodded and asked Lu Wende, "Where did Shi Xianggong say to invite us?"

Lu Wende said: "It's in Shi Xianggong's house." ”

Yin Zhiping agreed: "Then let's go over at noon." After a few more gossips with Lu Wende, he said goodbye and returned to his room, meditated and practiced, consolidating the cultivation he had just broken through.

At noon, Shi Songzhi sent a carriage to the post house to pick up Yin Zhiping and Lu Wende to the banquet. The two had already packed up, got into the carriage and went to Shifu.

Yin Zhiping looked at the scenery of Lin'an City outside the car window all the way, and unconsciously the carriage stopped, and he had arrived in front of Shi Song's mansion.

After getting out of the carriage, Yin Zhiping looked up, but saw that the gate of Shifu was not particularly tall and luxurious, except for the word "Shifu" on the plaque, there was no special decoration. At this time, the door opened, and Shi Songzhi sent a housekeeper to greet him outside the door.

Then he entered the mansion and bypassed the wall, only to find that there was a cave inside, which was very open and very exquisitely arranged. There are bamboos and flowers planted along the road, and the scenery is pleasant. When I walked straight to the third entrance, I saw an old man in brocade clothes, more than 50 years old, with a beard under his chin and a square face, standing in front of the door.

As soon as Lu Wende saw this old man, he immediately stepped forward quickly, bowed his hand and said: "Lu Wende visited Shi Xianggong, and there was a long way to greet him, and Wende was ashamed. ”

Yin Zhiping saw Lu Wende come forward to pay homage, and then he knew that this person was Shi Songzhi, the prime minister of the dynasty, and looked at it carefully, before he stepped forward and saluted: "Yin Zhiping, a mountain and wild Taoist, has seen Shi Xianggong." ”

Shi Songzhi had seen Lu Wende before, so he didn't look at it much, but after looking at Yin Zhiping a few more times, he smiled slightly, waved his hand and said, "You don't have to be polite, it's just a casual banquet today, come, please." (To be continued......)

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