Emperor Renzong of the Great Song Dynasty

Putting the elephant into the refrigerator requires three steps, first, open the refrigerator; second, put the elephant in; third, close the door of the refrigerator.

Three steps are also needed to bring down Liu E. First, ask Liu E to return to power; second, take over Liu E's power;

Di Qing deduced that there would be a change in party items from the trivial information from some border states.

The Dangxiang family lived in Xiazhou in the northwest for generations, and they claimed to be descendants of the Tuoba clan of Xianbei, the royal family of the Northern Wei Dynasty.Because the ancestor helped Tang Xizong to quell the Huangchao Rebellion, he was named King of Xiping.

After the Song Dynasty, due to the incompetence of the Song Dynasty in foreign wars and the inability to pacify the Quartet, the party regime in the Northwest has always existed in such an unembarrassing and unembarrassing manner. It is said that it is a separate court from the Song Dynasty. They are still just kings and have not claimed to be emperors; Let's bow down to the Song Dynasty, and they also united with the Liao Dynasty and the Song Dynasty, and the life is much more comfortable than that of the Song Dynasty.

Up to now, the leader of the party members is named Li Deming.Li Deming was biased towards the Liao side during the Liao and Song Dynasties, so the Liao people made him the king of Xixia.

Li Deming has a son named Li Yuanhao.Li Yuanhao was born in Zhenzong Xianping six years, seven years older than Zhao Yiyi, and now he has just reached the weak crown, and has led the party army to attack several cities. He is a real young talent.

The first detail Di Qing noticed was related to this Li Yuanhao.

Since ancient times, young talents have to marry a noble wife, and Li Yuanhao is no exception.

His father Li Deming sent envoys to Khitan and Liao Kingdom in the spring and February of last year, intending to ask Li Yuanhao to marry a Khitan princess as his wife.

As a result, the Xiazhou envoy arrived in Liao, but he did not marry a princess for Li Yuanhao.

The envoy went to the territory of Liao Kingdom and married one of Li Yuanhao's brothers to the princess of the Liao Kingdom on the grounds that Li Yuanhao first married his mother's Weimu family.

This is weird, isn't it—Li Yuanhao became famous as a young man, whether it is in Xiazhou, Song Dynasty, or Liao Dynasty, although Li Deming has not officially canonized Li Yuanhao as the prince, but everyone agrees that Li Yuanhao is Xiazhou. One term king.

In the end, you, Li Deming, sent an envoy all the way to the suzerain state of Liao, and married a princess for his other son?

Or is it a perfunctory reason that Li Yuanhao has already married a wife and cannot marry the princess of Liao Kingdom?

Songtsan Gampo also married Princess Chizun, did it delay Princess Wencheng's entry into Tibet?

The Liao Kingdom married its princess to another son who was not favored by Li Deming, perhaps thinking that Li Deming could not understand Li Yuanhao's increasingly arrogant arrogance, and planned to support other sons to be superior and suppress Li Yuanhao.

The Liao people don't care which man their princess marries, they only care about whether their princess can be the queen of Xiazhou.

Since Li Deming intends to suppress Li Yuanhao, he will definitely support the princess' husband as the prince.A hundred years from Li Deming, the princess of Liao Kingdom will definitely become the queen of Xiazhou.

But Di Qing didn't think so.

Li Yuanhao is 21 years old this year. He has repeatedly made military exploits and is quite famous in the army.Li Deming suppressed Li Yuanhao so blatantly, isn't he afraid of Li Yuanhao's rebellion?

What's even more strange is that Li Yuanhao didn't have any special reaction after learning that it was his brother and not himself who was going to marry the princess of Liao Kingdom.

He just accepted his father's inexplicable arrangement so calmly.

Reminiscent of the chaotic situation in the Liao Kingdom since the change of emperor two years ago, Di Qing speculated that it was likely that Xiazhou envoys entered the Liao Kingdom, saw the current situation of the Liao Kingdom, and became disobedient.

Originally, the purpose of asking Li Yuanhao to marry the princess of the Liao Kingdom was to seek the support of the Liao Kingdom, but since the Liao Kingdom has shown signs of decline, there is no need to sacrifice the position of the future queen to accommodate the princess.

Just send a prince to get married and it's over.

It is also because of this that Li Yuanhao can act as if nothing had happened after losing the opportunity to marry the princess.

Because he has lost his awe of the empire behind the princess.

The princess is no longer a princess, but just an ordinary young woman.

Li Yuanhao has plenty of women, and he doesn't care about this one.

Since Xiazhou can be disobedient to Liao, what about Song?

What happened next made Di Qing's heart sink to the bottom.

Xiazhou wanted to pay tribute to Mount Wutai on the grounds that Mount Wutai destroyed the Buddha, the Golden Buddha was no longer there, and the holy land was covered with dust.

The Queen Mother is ready.

Anyway, this golden Buddha was given away for free, and if you don't take it for nothing, you won't take it for nothing.

Mount Wutai is located in the hinterland of Hedong Road, and the envoys from Xiazhou transported the golden Buddha deep into Hedong Road. By the time they returned, they might have spied all the roads and defenses in every place.

After spying on the inside information of the defense, it is time to move south.

The Liao Kingdom is currently in chaos and overwhelmed with self-care, and may not be able to contain Xiazhou.What's more, they had just married a princess, and it was the time to make out. Once Xiazhou sent troops south to attack the Song Kingdom, the Liao Kingdom would definitely stand by and watch.

Xiazhou is only a tiny place, and it cannot be compared with the vast territory of Song Dynasty.However, the people of Xiazhou are tough, with strong soldiers and strong horses. In recent years, under the leadership of Prince Li Yuanhao, they have captured the land of the Uighurs.

Di Qing has been with Kou Zhun for a long time, and he has some understanding of the general trend of the world.

In today's Song Dynasty, the internal affairs are in a mess. The Queen Mother and Kou Gong fought in the court hall and no one would accept the other. Overstaffing and waste accumulated to a certain extent. The economic pressure was unprecedentedly huge. The only soldiers capable of fighting in the entire Song Dynasty were the Imperial Army camp Here are 30 new troops.Once Xiazhou sends troops, it may be difficult for Song State to pacify it within a year and a half.

The battle line has been drawn out, and it is a burden that cannot be ignored for this great country that has only an empty shelf left.

Moreover, the harvest in recent years has not been good. The Duke of Lai also proposed to reduce the taxes of certain states and counties at the court meeting...

Thinking of this, Di Qing planned to tell the emperor about this deduction, and asked the emperor to make preparations early.

As for preparations...

It's beyond his current status.

Even if Liu En did not happen to visit him in the Forbidden Army camp, he would find a reason to return to Nanqing Palace and ask Niangniang Di to help bring the news to the palace.

It's not that he didn't think of reporting this matter directly to Kou Zhun, but after all, he had already sworn allegiance to the emperor, and this move was more like a betrayal.

So he finally concealed it from Kou Zhun.

Anyway, if the emperor really believed his inference, he would definitely discuss the matter with Kou Zhun.And if the emperor didn't believe it... how could Kou Xianggong believe it?

Based on these two trivial matters alone, it is more like a delusion to infer that Xiazhou will use troops to fight Song.

Di Qing also didn't know whether he expected this delusion to come true.

Of course, Zhao Yiyi believed in Di Qing's judgment.

Even putting aside the fact that Di Qing is the Star Lord of Wuqu, based on Li Yuanhao alone, he can conclude that Xiazhou will rebel this year.

In history, Li Yuanhao really had to wait a few more years before becoming emperor, but the butterfly effect had already begun to operate. Now Liao Kingdom has no leader, its national power has been greatly reduced, and Song Dynasty is in power again. If it is a career, it is simply not worthy of leaving a name in the history.

Since Li Yuanhao will rebel this year, he might as well take advantage of this opportunity to do something.

A plan gradually took shape in his mind.

"Liu En," Zhao Yiyi hugged Xueqiu tightly, "You go to the Nanqing Palace overnight, and ask Niang Niang to invite Mrs. Lai Guogong to visit the house tomorrow."

Since Kou Zhun wants to send his daughter to the palace so much, let him do it.

Bao Zheng and Huang Gonggong finally took 24 tea farmers and tea merchants to Beijing by boat.

Zhao Yiyi still met them at Chongzheng Hall.

Bao Zheng and Eunuch Huang are fine, after all, they are courtiers of high grade, and they don't show any fear when standing in front of the hall.The 24 civilians never thought that there would be a day to meet the emperor, and they were all shaking like chaff, unable to speak a word, let alone look up at the palace.

Because of this, no one found out that the emperor and eunuch in the palace were Boss Zhao and Steward Liu who paid for their boat at Guazhou Ferry.

Zhao Yiyi turned his head to Liu E and said, "I also ask my mother to show me."

Liu E nodded slightly behind the curtain: "Everything is up to the emperor."

Anyway, this group of people was called by the emperor, so the emperor himself has the final say on how to interrogate them.

Zhao Yiyi turned back and said, "Bao Qing and Eunuch Huang waited in the hall first, and brought the tea farmers and tea merchants to the side hall. They were not allowed to speak and communicate with each other, and colluded with confessions."

The tea farmers and tea merchants were taken away, and Zhao Yiyi asked Bao Zheng: "Bao Qing, I heard that you practiced the buy-by-buy method in Yangzhou, which almost caused the tea farmers to go bankrupt. Is there such a thing?"

Bao Zheng said: "Returning to Your Majesty, it was my idea to use the buying method, but I dare not admit the guilt of causing tea farmers to pour tea and even ruin their families."

Zhao Yiyi smiled and said, "If you don't admit the guilt, then who should claim the guilt?"

Bao Zheng's gaze was like a torch, and he said loudly, "Yangzhou supervisor Huang Qi should be held accountable!"

Huang Qi is the name of Eunuch Huang.

Eunuch Huang hurriedly said: "Your maidservant is wronged!"

He also really felt that he was wronged - he obviously didn't do anything, and Bao Zheng came up with the idea, so why did he blame himself for the crime?

Liu En shouted: "Shut up! The officials didn't ask you to speak!"

There was internal energy in this drink, and he went straight to Eunuch Huang, Eunuch Huang couldn't help being shocked, his back was wet with cold sweat.

He stared at Liu En bitterly, and said in his heart, good boy, when our family was favored by the first emperor, you were just a sweeping eunuch in the queen's palace. Now that you have climbed up to the emperor, you just want to ride Arrived at our house?

But in the end he was scared out of his nerve by this drinking, so he didn't dare to speak again.

Zhao Yiyi asked Bao Zheng again: "I heard that you are the one who facilitated the buying method. The buying method forced the tea farmers to pour tea, but why is it all on Huang Gonggong's head?"

Bao Zheng said: "The minister's buy-by-buy method was originally just to ask the tea merchants to buy a small amount of secondary tea when they bought the tea, so as to balance the profits of the tea farmers and the tea merchants. But after the minister issued the official document of the buy-by-buy method, he fell seriously ill. Bedridden, Huang Gonggong sent people to the tea market to carry out the buying method. After recovering from a serious illness, I learned that Huang Gonggong’s corpse was a vegetarian meal, and misinterpreted the minister’s decree, ordering tea merchants to buy tea. A large amount of bad tea caused the tea merchants to suffer so much that they no longer bought tea, and the tea farmers’ tea piled up at the Guazhou ferry and could not be sold, so they had to dump it into the canal. The minister knew that the situation was irreversible, so he had to order to cancel the purchase method.”

Zhao Yiyi asked: "Do you have a certificate?"

Bao Zheng took out the official document from his sleeve: "There is an official document written by the minister as evidence."

The official documents were passed on layer by layer, and finally reached Zhao Yiyi's hands.Zhao Yiyi took a look, and found that it was indeed the same as what Bao Zheng said.

The original tie-buying method did leave room for tea merchants, and if it is carried out in this way, it will not lead to subsequent results.

He put the official document in front of the case: "This is your family's opinion, and I can only decide after I ask the tea merchants and tea farmers."

He actually ignored Eunuch Huang on purpose.

Seeing that the emperor ignored him, Eunuch Huang felt sad.

Once the emperor and the courtiers, he, the eunuch of the former dynasty, was not welcomed by the new emperor after all.

He didn't dare to complain about the emperor, but only dared to curse Liu En viciously in his heart.

This bastard, relying on the emperor's favor, dares to humiliate him, an old senior!

Twenty years earlier, why did Eunuch Huang pay attention to you!

Up to now, the tiger has fallen into Pingyang and has been bullied by dogs!

He secretly raised his head and stared at Liu En fiercely.

But Liu En smiled at him, and turned his head in the direction of the emperor.

Eunuch Huang was furious.

What does this mean, is this a demonstration to him!

It's just that I have won the emperor's favor. In my court, there is still a queen mother who listens to the government behind the curtain——

Eunuch Huang shivered suddenly.

Yup!

And the Queen Mother!

The little emperor doesn't recognize him, but he still has a queen mother!

When he served in front of the first emperor, he often showed his favor to Liu E, who was still the empress at that time.

The Queen Mother must still remember him!

Eunuch Huang gradually felt confident in his heart.

The queen mother will definitely protect him!

He looked at Liu En with a little contempt.

What is it to be favored by the emperor, we know that there is a queen dowager above the emperor!

Seeing that he was hooked so easily, Liu En looked away.

So unchallenging, sure enough a fool is a fool.

Zhao Yiyi ordered people to announce the tea farmers and tea merchants to the hall one by one, and Liu En asked them about their experiences since the implementation of the tamai law.

Where did those people reply in front of the empress dowager?

After asking the tea farmers and merchants, the truth has come to light. It was not Bao Zheng who caused Yangzhou tea farmers to pour tea, but Eunuch Huang.

Zhao Yiyi said: "In this way, the eunuch Huang Qi—"

He purposely prolonged his tone to give Eunuch Huang room to play.

Sure enough, Eunuch Huang did not disappoint him.

"Empress Dowager, you have to be the master of your slaves!"

Eunuch Huang raised his head sharply, with snot and tears: "Your servant is wronged, Empress Dowager! Since I have served the Empress Dowager for many years, please forgive me!"

All the officials whispered to each other, and there was a buzzing sound in the hall.

Liu E was also shocked, and said immediately after hearing the words: "Have you ever served me before! Don't talk nonsense!"

She really doesn't remember this eunuch, and she knows that she must not be attached to this person at this time.

Eunuch Huang walked forward on his knees: "The queen mother! The queen mother! Please remember the old love, please let the slaves live!"

Zhao Yiyi said: "Eunuch Huang Qi, did you really serve the Queen Mother?"

Liu E was angry: "The emperor don't want to listen to his nonsense!"

Huang Qi kowtowed like garlic: "The servant has served the Empress Dowager for many years. There is no merit but hard work. I beg the empress to remember the old love..."

He didn't know what he was talking about, he only knew that he had to ask the queen mother for forgiveness, if the queen mother didn't protect him, then he was really doomed!

Fan Zhongyan stepped forward at the slightest chance: "Empress Dowager, this person disrupted Yangzhou's tea policy and almost caused thousands of tea farmers to go bankrupt. This crime is unforgivable. Please report to the lord to deal with it!"

Originally, he couldn't say such words of pouring dirty water on the queen mother, but Eunuch Liu specially taught him before the court meeting.He also understood that it was only today that he could bring down the queen mother's party, so he came out against his conscience to set a rhythm.

As soon as he came out of this rhythm, Xia Song of the Kou Party immediately understood, and followed him out: "Please take back the order of the Queen Mother!"

The rest of the bandits also followed Xia Song: "Please take back your order, Queen Mother!"

Liu E was half-dead from anger.

Ben Gong didn't say a word, why do you seem to want to favor him for selfishness!

I don't even know who he is, okay?

For a while, half of the people in the court knelt down, and the rhythm had already picked up. The members of Liu's party could only swallow this breath, and knelt down, not daring to say a word.

Eunuch Huang was still shouting: "Queen Mother, save me—"

Liu E shouted: "Don't drag this lunatic out yet!"

The imperial guards immediately went to the palace to drag Eunuch Huang down, Zhao Yiyi squeezed his eyes and burst into tears: "Wait a minute!"

The big show has just started, how can the background board be removed?

All civil and military officials in the Manchu Dynasty were startled by his weeping cry.

Zhao Yiyi stood up, stepped off the dragon chair, and knelt in front of Liu E's curtain.

Liu E's heart tightened, her intuition was not good, and Zhao Yiyi said with tears in his eyes: "Eunuch Huang has served his mother for many years, and he has worked hard. I know how much my mother is reluctant to give up. However, Yangzhou's tea policy is a major national event, and it is even more related to tens of millions of tea farmers. The life and death of a tea merchant. My son is not filial, but I invite the Queen Mother to put aside my personal love for the time being and use it as a whole!"

Members of the Kou party also followed: "The Queen Mother, please put aside your personal relationship for the time being, and use the whole country!"

Eunuch Huang threw himself in the dying throes: "Madam, save me! Madam, save me!"

For a moment, only his dying cry was left in the hall.

Sitting behind the curtain, Liu E took a deep breath and closed her eyes.

There is still something I don't understand until now, this is someone else's trick!

The emperor and Kou Zhun teamed up and dug a hole for her to jump into!

It's not easy for them to find such an idiot eunuch, and when she didn't realize it, he abruptly identified this idiot as hers.

If the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty interceded again, the empress dowager's reputation for covering up and convicted eunuchs was settled.

The good reputation she has built for decades is ruined today!

From now on, she is no longer the wise and wise queen mother, but a woman who protects eunuchs for her own personal affair——

This is different from any previous attack and annihilation with Kou Zhun.

In the past, Kou Zhun accused her of forming a clique, accusing her of holding up the emperor, and even accusing her of promiscuously messing with the court.Because these things are what a politician should do - which politician does not form a party, which politician does not want to be authoritarian, and which politician is not lecherous.

Don't talk about others, just talk about Kou Zhun himself, isn't it the same?

Therefore, all these attacks and annihilations are harmless.

Kou Zhun scolded her like this, and she scolded Kou Zhun like this, there was back and forth, evenly matched.

But this time, Kou Zhun and the emperor tried their best to accuse her of shielding the eunuch because of their love affair.

It is equivalent to pointing at Liu E's nose and saying, you are not a qualified politician, so you are soft-hearted because of a few words of pleading. If we hadn't worked hard to advise you, you would have missed a big deal because of your woman's benevolence !

You are just an ordinary woman, you should not meddle in the affairs of the court, you should go back to the harem and do what you women should do.

You are not worthy of being a regent, and you are not worthy of dealing with military affairs.

You should go back to where women should be!

Kou Zhun!

And - the emperor!Zhao Zhen!

OK, so good!

Boiling emotions clamored in Liu E's mind, and she wished——

She suddenly felt dizzy.

what happened--

"Queen! What's wrong with you, Queen!"

What's wrong with me?I……

"The Queen Mother has fainted!"

"Help the Empress Dowager back to the palace!"

Zhao Yiyi quietly hid the handkerchief sprinkled with ecstasy incense deep in his sleeve.

Liu En only gave him a little drug. If Liu E hadn't been too emotional, it would have been difficult to achieve such a good effect.

He also inhaled some of the incense himself, so he was a little dizzy.

With the red eyes and staggering steps, he looks like a filial emperor who is painfully choosing between filial piety and state affairs.

Zhao Yiyi returned to the dragon chair, and it took all his strength to suppress the smile on his lips.

It turned out to be such a good feeling without the empress dowager sitting behind.

His eyes fell on Kou Zhun and quickly moved away.

The next one is you.

The Yangzhou tea policy case has finally been settled.

The eunuch Huang Qi was sentenced to exile, but Bao Zheng was transferred back to the capital because of his meritorious service in tea management.

In the Song Dynasty, the Yushitai was headed by the Yushi doctor. In the Song Dynasty, it was not actually granted, and it was only awarded to veterans as a false title.In the actual sense, the head of the station is Yushi Zhongcheng, and Yushi Zhizashi is Yushi Zhongcheng's right-hand man, which is a rather prominent and important position.

Bao Zheng was able to get this important position because of Kou Zhun and Zhao Yiyi's tacit understanding of sharing the spoils afterwards.

The position of Yushi Zhongcheng finally fell on Fan Zhongyan's head.

Liu E has been ill since she fainted in Chongzheng Hall and was sent back to her bedroom.

It's not a serious illness, just heart-fire depression.

But Zhao Yiyi is a filial son after all, how could he let his sick mother continue to worry about state affairs, so he assumed the responsibilities that belonged to Liu E by himself.

Liu Dang also questioned why the Queen Mother no longer went to court, but Liu E had fainted in public before, and now Zhao Yiyi said that Liu E was still ill, and there was nothing to blame.

After all, the queen mother is a female family member in the palace. If the queen mother is not in court, Liu Dang in the previous court is helpless.

As for Liu Dang in the harem——

Most of the maids and eunuchs in the harem are Liu E's people, but these people have a personality like grass, whoever gains power is the master, and there is no loyalty at all.

The confidantes who are truly loyal to Liu E can be counted on two hands.

Liu En can handle these individuals with one hand.

After sending Liu E back to the bedroom, Zhao Yiyi increased the dose of medicine for Liu E again.When Liu E woke up leisurely three days later, she realized that the harem had already changed to a new sky.

Guo Huai was killed, and Zhao Yiyi found an old acquaintance to be Liu E's new supervisor.

Chen Lin.

Chen Lin who helped Kou Zhu bring the little prince to the Eight Sage Kings back then.

Zhao Yiyi believes that Chen Lin will take good care of Liu E.

Without Liu E listening behind the curtain, Zhao Yiyi and Kou Zhun's court meeting experience has risen to a big level.

On the third day of Liu E's absence from court, Zhao Yiyi received a letter from Kou Zhun.

It was written in the letter that the queen mother was seriously ill because there was no happy event in the harem, and I hope that your majesty can get married as soon as possible, so that the queen mother can be happy.The minister has a daughter, dignified and dignified, who can be a good match for your majesty.

Zhao Yiyi took this letter and calculated the time when Li Yuanhao might send troops, thinking that he should be able to catch up, so he wrote on the letter: "Yes."

After you get married, you old man has to go to war, and if you marry your daughter, you marry your daughter.

Anyway, after you come back, the situation is over, and it's too late to regret it.

Just let you live a few days of Guozhang addiction.