Days are everlasting

In September of the first year of Baoqing, King Ji Zhao Hong, Emperor Zhao Yun and Prime Minister Shi Miyuan went to the lake together. Unfortunately, it happened to be a shower, the boat capsized, and all three of them fell into the water.

Soon, news spread that King Ji and Shi Xiang were both seriously ill.

The emperor's physical condition was reported by the imperial physician, and basically all the high-ranking officials' families knew it.

Compared with King Ji, whose physical condition has declined sharply in the past year, and Shi Xiang, who just recovered from his illness before, the emperor Zhao Yun's physical condition can be said to be very good, but even so, he still needs to recuperate for a period of time. Needless to say, his physical condition is not as good as that of his King Ji and Prime Minister.

Zhao Yun, who was still on the sickbed, asked the imperial doctors about the situation of King Ji and Prime Minister Shi with concern, and then stopped doing anything else.

He is still a sick man!

And after finally waiting for such an opportunity, how could he let it go?

In fact, Zhao Yun did not propose this trip to the lake himself. Zhao Mian and Shi Miyuan hated each other. He was always reasonable, and he would not insist on taking these two people to swim in the lake together.

Although the gardens of the Song court are beautiful, neither Zhao Mian nor Shi Miyuan should be willing to enjoy the beautiful scenery of lakes and mountains with each other.

Shi Miyuan came here when Zhao Mian and Zhao Yun were swimming in the lake together. After meeting, in order to disgust Zhao Mian, the two went together instead.

Because you swim in the lake in the original garden of the imperial palace, the small boats on the lake are all light-weight types, similar to the "boat boats" mentioned in Li Qingzhao's poems, and this kind of small boats can be used in bad weather and heavy loads. Under normal circumstances, if there is any abnormal movement of the people on the boat, it is easy to roll over.

At this time, it has come to autumn, and it is almost winter. Although it fell into the water during the daytime, but it happened to be rainy, and the feeling of falling into the water, who really knows who is cold.

"Officials, King Ji's maidservant said she had something important to report, and then the maidservant and others found this at King Ji's place." Zhao Yun was bedridden like Zhao Mian, Shi Miyuan and others, but his condition was a little better than theirs. His thinking is still clear, and now, the eunuch who is serving him is reporting, or in other words, asking for credit with the "evidence" he accidentally obtained from King Ji.

Zhao Yun lowered his eyes and looked at the two wooden boards with his and Shi Miyuan's birthdays written on them.

To be honest, he doesn't pay much attention to the art of witchcraft. In his world, there is still some place for mysterious power, so it may be feasible, but in this world, he is the only one with golden fingers in the whole world. Because of his dragon spirit, all the strange people and strangers are immune. Witch Gu and the like are really useless to him. It is not as good as the opportunistic medicine passed down by the court of the Song Dynasty—the kind that Taizong bestowed on Li Yu after his death. □□——The damage to his body is too great.

According to the person who reported, King Ji had always held a grudge against Shi Miyuan, and after losing his power completely, he chose to use witchcraft to curse Shi Miyuan. As for Zhao Yun, he really did it by the way.

However, after he ascended the throne, his goal was more obvious than that of Shi Miyuan. If it was said that Ji Wang Zhao Mian incidentally cursed him for not having his own selfishness, Zhao Yun would not believe it.

However, if you pretend to be the Virgin of the White Lotus, you have to pretend thoroughly.

Zhao Yun covered it up for Zhao Mian with the clumsy excuse that King Ji had a disease, and that this must be caused by someone else, but he was not at all prepared to let the servants around him reveal the news to the outside.

The level of secrecy in the Great Song Palace is actually not as good as that of some strict high-ranking families. After all, there are so many people in the palace, and important information can easily be obtained by ministers who are interested in prying.

Witch Gu is actually a big deal. Although Zhao Yun "deliberately" concealed it, someone will always get the news, especially the other victim besides him, Shi Miyuan, Shi Xiangye.

Probably because of the leak of witchcraft news, Ji Wang Zhao Mian, who was seriously ill, was shocked and angry, and finally died of illness.

To be honest, Zhao Yun felt that he died too early and hadn't gained enough reputation for himself, and also felt that Zhao Mian died a little too late. If it takes a few more years, his position as emperor will not be secure, what a pity ah!

No matter what, Zhao Yun wanted to thank him for assisting Mr. Shi. Thanks to his sincere cooperation, Zhao Mian would no longer be an eyesore in the palace.

As for mourning after death, since Zhao Mian portrayed himself as a white lotus, he naturally did not hesitate to give Zhao Mian enough honor to posthumously.

Anyway, Zhao Mian himself died. His only son, born in Jiading in 17 years, followed the practice of the direct royal family of the Song Dynasty, and died within a few months. That is to say, Zhao Mian is extinct. What to worry about.

Shi Miyuan was not reconciled. He thought he had found the reason why his body was getting worse and worse since Jiading was changed to Yuan Dynasty in 17 years.

The officials could treat it with sincerity, and after finding the evidence in the palace, they would burn the thing to excuse Zhao Mian, but Shi Miyuan couldn't bear it.

Not only did he want to take revenge for himself and deprive Zhao Mian of his honor after death, but he also wanted to tarnish Zhao Mian's reputation and make him scolded by thousands of people!

Don't everyone think that he has elected a new official and seized the throne that originally belonged to Zhao Mian, and everyone is fighting for the injustice of Zhao Mian?

He will ruin this Zhuzi's reputation!

After the death of King Ji Zhao Hong, the emperor ordered the palace to mourn for him, and chose a site to build a tomb for him near the Mausoleum of Emperor Ningzong. The people were still speculating about the cause of King Ji's death—the three people who fell into the water, the officials and the elderly. The history and prime ministers are all alive and well, except that King Ji is gone. This is really worthy of further investigation—there are many rumors and rumors. However, as long as the matter is not discussed by scholars, it is purely folk rumors, and the Song Dynasty court does not care. Don't ask, otherwise, how could the rumor of the shadow of the candle and the sound of the ax have been passed down to this day?This is the way of generosity.

However, the rumors released by Shi Miyuan later have conclusive evidence, even the witnesses are all included in the rumors. The king of Ji, Zhao Mian, used witchcraft to curse the officials who had been treating him with courtesy since he succeeded to the throne. The family is still trying to cover it up, all these things seem to happen in front of everyone.

And this is not just a folk rumor, above the court, Liang Chengda and Li Zhixiao, who are recognized as Shi Miyuan's eagle dog, wrote a chapter together to ask for the kindness of King Ji, and the example they used was exactly that rumor.

Song Dynasty treated scholar-bureaucrats leniently and benevolently. When scholar-bureaucrats attacked each other, they also used many deliberately exaggerated examples. However, you must know that the premise of making people catch wind and shadow is that the incident is not without reason.

When things were told in the court, it meant that the deceased Ji Wang Zhao Hong was really finished.

The "orthodox" minister who has always supported King Ji refuted loudly in the court, and at some point, people from Shi Miyuan's faction who really feel guilty about what they have done do not want to entangle with him too much , as it is now, it has not been a long time since the two sides have developed into a big fight.

The occurrence of this situation, apart from the fact that Prime Minister Shi Miyuan was still ill and the emperor on the throne could not control the court well, it also meant that Shi Miyuan's party members were full of confidence in the matter of King Ji.

They firmly believe that King Ji is guilty.

King Ji Zhao Mian was not deprived of his title in the end, but he did not have the honor of pursuing posthumous posthumous posthumous titles after his death. He just waited silently to be buried in the mausoleum after his death.

His concubine invited herself to become a monk, and she didn't even mention the request of her heir Chengjue to Zhao Yun.

Half a month after King Ji's crime was judged, the Prime Minister Shi Mi passed away.

Shi Miyuan had been alone for more than ten years. After his death, apart from his party members, what other people cared most about was actually the choice of prime minister.

There has been only one prime minister in the Song Dynasty for more than ten consecutive years. After Shi Miyuan passed away, can there be another prime minister, or even several prime ministers?

Zhao Yun wanted to use the clan to check and balance civil servants.

The association of eunuchs and emperors has always been synonymous with stupidity, but the clan is not. Although since the Northern Song Dynasty, Song Taizong's strict precautions against the clan have been passed down from generation to generation as ancestral instructions, and it was not until the Southern Song Dynasty that the clan's activities were lifted. After Emperor Xiaozong, the clan's participation in government affairs reached a new peak, and even during Ningzong's reign, there was a short-lived prime minister from the clan clan Zhao Ruyu—of course, he later held this high position because of his surname, and was respected by other scholars and officials. Impeachment——Although the clan did not rank as a high-ranking official like Zaifu, its power in the court should not be underestimated.

In addition to using the clan to check and balance civil servants, Zhao Yun felt that it was time to take power by himself.

The next imperial examination will be in the second year of Baoqing, that is, next year. After careful calculation, it will take only a few months to choose new tenders for yourself, and it will be easy for the previously trained personnel to enter the imperial court, but it will take a lot of time. Time, without the fame of a Confucianism master like Zhen Dexiu, who would have been promoted several levels a year, and just after receiving the imperial edict, he would occupy a high position and be conferred a noble title?

The prerequisite for one's own power is, first, to find out which ministers are credible and stand on one's side, and second, how to exclude people who do not suit one's wishes from the court.

Shi Miyuan died under Zhao Yun's plan, and the queen mother returned to power a long time ago and no longer hangs the curtain. In other words, in name, the emperor Zhao Yun has already grasped the power, but those candidates for the prime minister are all concerned about what Shi Miyuan left behind. Power is eyeing, but they have been immersed in the court for a long time, it is not Zhao Yun, the emperor who has only been on the throne for a year, can easily contend.

However, before Zhao Yun created an image of an emperor who loved Neo-Confucianism under the influence of Shi Miyuan, and the master of Neo-Confucianism in the court, Zhen Dexiu, was very stubborn. On the one hand, he is very prestigious, so he achieved the achievement of being promoted several times within a month after being recruited.

In contrast, Wei Liaoweng, who advocated being closer to Lu Jiuyuan's theory of mind, admired Zhu Xi's Confucianism, but also doubted the reliability of Zhu Xi's various annotations. If it is purely for appetite, Zhao Yun prefers Wei Weng.

Of course, the power of Zhen Dexiu, Wei Liaoweng and others is still insufficient compared with the power of Shi Miyuan's remaining party.

In history, after Shi Miyuan passed away ten years alone, Lizong began to take charge of the government slowly. First, he attacked Shi Miyuan’s remaining party, appointed a series of honest ministers, and then restored the damage caused by Shi Miyuan’s inappropriate financial system to the Song Dynasty’s economy. The influence is that Zhao Yun has been on the throne for one year now. Although the situation in the court may be more favorable than that of Li Zong in history, Li Zong's throne has long been stable, but his throne is still a little bit precarious.

However, the heirs of King Yi's family are now the most recent clan of the royal family. Zhao Mian is dead, and he should be the one who should inherit the throne. What's more, Zhao Mian bears the name of witchcraft on his body, as a benevolent concealment. Zhao Mian's guilty emperor, Zhao Yun's weight in the hearts of the ministers who support the orthodox faction in the court is not low.

After a few more days, Prime Minister Zhao Yun remembered that the ministers of the court and the central government realized that the Song Dynasty had always been seriously overstaffed. In addition to serving as practical officials—this position is also called "dispatch"—there were also judges. Rank officials, in addition to those who hold real positions in the court, there are countless talented but lower-ranking officials.

Before waiting for the talents he cultivated to climb to the top, he can find another way to promote from the bottom.

Although there were many redundant officials in the Song Dynasty, when the emperor dismissed ministers on a large scale, there was no need to worry about not being able to find a replacement, and a sufficient number of ministers could be promoted.

That's enough.

This kind of official promoted by the emperor will support the emperor even more!

The author has something to say: The copy of the Song Dynasty is a nightmare level, so hard to get through. QAQ feels like I am in Kawen every day. I am probably a useless author. Orz