Emperor Renzong of the Great Song Dynasty
Chapter 72 The imperial mausoleum is flooded, how can there be prosperous descendants...
"Huo Fang and Xia Song?"
The Eight Sage Kings were a little confused.
He had never participated in government affairs, and only vaguely heard that there was a deputy prime minister surnamed Xia, who had already been demoted.
As for who Huo Fang was, he had never heard of it.
Zhao Yiyi said: "Huo Fang is the transshipment envoy stationed in Yingtian, the right-hand man of the King of Xiangyang. Except for the King of Xiangyang, only he can enter the tower that hides the heavenly scriptures. After the incident of the King of Xiangyang, Huo Fang also tried every means Instigated Bao Zheng to set fire to the Sky Tower. From this point of view, he must have participated in the robbery of the imperial tomb, at least it was a crime of ignoring the knowledge."
"As for Xia Song..." Zhao Yiyi stood up and tried to find the records of the construction of the imperial mausoleum from the hill-high documents on the side of the table, but he couldn't find it after searching for a long time.
Liu En pulled out a volume of documents from the floor-to-ceiling bookcase by the wall, shook off the dust on it, and handed it to Zhao Yiyi.
Zhao Yiyi untied the ribbon binding the documents, and at first glance, it was indeed the one he was looking for. Fortunately, the system sent such an AI assistant at that time, otherwise how could he work alone with so much work every day? Done.
He handed the document to Eight Sage Kings: "Uncle Huang, let's have a look."
The Eighth Sage King took the document and looked at it from the beginning, the more he looked at it, the more he felt angry, his brows gradually frowned, and at the end, if he hadn't taken care of the emperor's bad manners, he would have thrown the document viciously on the ground, stepping on it. a few feet.
"Absurd! Absurd!"
The Eighth Sage King gritted his teeth and said, "That Xia Song, it's just..."
At that time, Xia Song was a political advisor and a favorite of the Empress Dowager, and it happened to be the period when the Empress Dowager Party and the Kou Gong Party were attacking each other fiercely, so Xia Song was busy with official duties every day. .
He outsourced the task of building the emperor's tomb to an eunuch.
The eunuch's surname was Lei, and he was quite favored by the Empress Dowager and the late Emperor in the palace, and he and Xia Song were naturally in the same party, so Xia Song felt very at ease as the shopkeeper.
It turned out that this person surnamed Lei was a fool.A god stick from the Qin Tianjian told him that if the emperor's mausoleum was moved a hundred steps to the north, he would be able to prosper his descendants.But there are big rocks underground in that place, it is not easy to dig, and there may be water.
Lei Gonggong said, don't be afraid of rocks, let's dig slowly.Don’t be afraid of water—how could it be such a coincidence that there is water in the place we dug?The important thing is to prosper the descendants!You can see that our late emperor did not leave a son until his death, and the son of his stepbrother inherited the throne. You can see how serious it is for descendants not to prosper.
Everything has a priority, how could the emperor's mausoleum be flooded, how could it be more important than prosperous descendants!
So Eunuch Lei communicated with Xia Song and planned to move the imperial mausoleum to the north of Baibu.
Xia Song is a slippery character, so he let Eunuch Lei decide for himself.
This matter is up to you to decide, it's done, we share the credit, who made me the envoy of Shanling.If something bad happened, you should bear the responsibility yourself, whoever made this matter up to you.
Wishful thinking was playing loudly.
It was such a wishful thinking that saved Xia Song's life in the end.
As the mausoleum of the Qin Tianjian said, the bottom is full of huge rocks, which is difficult to excavate. After digging with all my strength, groundwater flooded up and flooded the entire imperial mausoleum.
No matter how long Liu E lived in the deep palace without seeing and hearing, the fact that the imperial mausoleum was flooded could not be hidden from her.
The mausoleum of the dead husband was flooded, so Liu E was of course furious, and Xia Song was about to have an attack at that time.
After all, you are the envoy of the mountain mausoleum, and you have full power to supervise the repair of the imperial tomb. Now that there is a problem with the imperial tomb, of course you will be the first to find trouble.
Xia Song tried to intercede in front of Liu E, put all the responsibility on Lei Gonggong, and picked herself clean.As a result, Liu E didn't listen to his explanation at all, and got up and went back to the palace directly. Xia Song wasted a long time talking in front of a curtain.
Liu E listened to the government behind a curtain, and when receiving foreign ministers, there was an opaque curtain between them.
Seeing that Liu E didn't intend to protect him anymore, Xia Song immediately hugged Kou Zhun's thigh.
That night, he asked someone to find two pickle jars, one filled with half-inch-diameter pearls, and the other filled with gold bricks, and asked someone to carry them into Mr. Kou's mansion in the dark, and give him fresh pickles.
Xia Song stayed in her own home in fear all night, for fear that Kou Zhun would not accept his surrender.
The next day, Kou Zhun's family members came to his door and brought him two jars of pickles.
Xia Song's heart was half cold at that time.
How can there be courtesy and reciprocity in bribery since ancient times?
If you are willing to accept it, just hide it quietly.
What do you send back the two cylinders?
When he opened the tank and took a look, the other half of his heart also became cold.
The jar contained the pearls and gold he sent last night, Kou Zhun didn't want the same, and sent them back to him.
If bribery fails, it is because the other party is unwilling to accept him or protect him.
The queen mother has given up on him, and Kou Gong is unwilling to accept him.
As a mausoleum envoy, the imperial mausoleum he supervised was flooded.
My life is over!
He went to court with such despair, and Liu E was going to have something unfavorable for him to build the tomb, and he was going to be demoted and sent out of Beijing.
Just as he was about to bite the bullet and defend himself, Kou Zhun stepped forward, saying that the relocation of the imperial tomb was the eunuch Lei Yungong's idea and had nothing to do with Xia Song.
Although Xia Song was guilty, it was just a mistake of oversight, and it was enough to demote him to an official rank, and he didn't have to be sent out of Beijing.
The eunuch Lei Yungong, on the other hand, committed a heinous crime and should be executed.
Liu E was silent for a while, seeing that Kou Zhun was planning to save Xia Song.
Whether Xia Song's crime is big or small depends on how it is understood.It's okay to demote him out of the capital, or he can stay in the capital if he is punished with a small punishment and a big punishment.
In the end, Liu E decided to give Kou Zhun a face, took Xia Song's position as a political adviser, downgraded his official rank by two levels, and remained in the capital.
From then on, Xia Song became a member of Kou Zhun's party.
Only then did he know that the reason why Kou Zhun didn't accept his bribe that day was because he didn't like these things.
Kou Zhun has plenty of pearls and gold, and he is too lazy to accept the filial piety from his subordinates.
There was a budget and a limited time limit for the construction of the imperial mausoleum. After all, the country’s finances were relatively tight at that time, and the time that the Daxing Emperor’s Zi Palace stayed in the palace was also in accordance with the law.
After such a toss, the original budget was immediately tightened, and the original construction period was also shortened.
In the end, Song Zhenzong's mausoleum can be regarded as a shoddy and perfunctory one.
It didn't take long for the Liao Kingdom to send troops south again, and the entire court's attention was focused on the frontline warfare. The emperor's mausoleum was hastily completed, and the whole thing was just a tofu project. Two tomb robbers can give you everything. Evacuated.
It is also because of this that the King of Xiangyang came up with the idea of the heavenly book in the imperial mausoleum, and he succeeded so easily.
"...So, although Xia Song is not the mastermind, he must be an accomplice."
Zhao Yiyi sighed slightly: "If he didn't listen to the villain's slander when he was supervising the imperial tomb, how could things happen later? The emperor was buried for only two or three years, and the imperial tomb was stolen. The unprecedented absurd thing happened in my court!"
"Xia Song cannot escape the blame!"
The Baxian King was also indignant: "Not only Xia Song, but also the Duke of Lai who protected him!"
He has always been a temperament who can clearly distinguish between love and hate. If you love, you want to live, if you hate, you want to die.In his view of good and evil, it is unfavorable to supervise and repair the imperial tomb, causing the imperial tomb to be flooded and stolen, which is a serious crime. However, the criminal who committed this crime escaped justice with the protection of others, and he could not accept this result. .
Zhao Yiyi also frowned: "At that time, I was very soft-spoken and couldn't say anything. Now that I think about it, it's a pity. Xia Song was demoted to a foreign state earlier, so he deserved it."
The Eighth Wise King asked, "Why was he demoted?"
Zhao Yiyi said: "Because his mother is mourning and can't keep it."
Before Kou Zhun just led troops to attack Xixia, Zhao Yiyi asked Bao Zheng to read Xia Song's book, and directly drove him out of Beijing.
Eight Wise Kings sneered slightly: "If you are not loyal to the king, you are not filial to your parents."
Zhao Yiyi said: "Huo Fang is currently being imprisoned in Kaifeng Mansion, how to deal with it is only a matter of one sentence. Although Xia Song has been demoted to another state, such a big crime cannot be regarded as nothing happened."
He looked at the Eight Sage Kings: "Uncle Emperor, I need you to do me a favor."
Eight Wise Kings hurriedly said: "I must do my best."
Zhao Yiyi said: "This heavenly book was stolen from the imperial mausoleum by King Xiangyang, but King Xiangyang is my uncle, and he is already dead. I can't, and I don't want to make this matter public."
The Zhao family became emperor by bullying orphans and widowed mothers. For decades since the founding of the country, they have been committed to washing away the stains on their bodies and erecting a memorial archway of loyalty, filial piety and righteousness.
No matter how disgusting it was, he pinched his nose and made offerings to the royal family of the Chai family.
I am afraid that people in the world will say something bad about me.
Because the rituals of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms were far more broken than the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, killing an emperor is as easy as killing a chicken.Because everyone doesn't think there is anything great about the emperor-you deserve it, I deserve it, and everyone deserves it.
Smelly fish and rotten shrimp in a ditch, who doesn't know who?
Therefore, the Zhao family must make a white lotus that is not stained by silt—you kill, I will not kill, and I will convince others with reason.
I advocate civil governance, I have a broad mind, and I rule the world with the scholar-bureaucrats.
I am an emperor who is truly ordered by heaven and has a long life.
Because I am moral.
The Zhao family has been blowing this bullshit for decades. From Taizu to Taizong, he was obviously the emperor who killed the king and brother with the sound of candle shadow and axe.
Under such a background, Zhao Yiyi couldn't tell the world that the king of Xiangyang had robbed the tomb of the first emperor.
Doesn't that mean telling the people of the world that although our Zhao family governs the world with loyalty and filial piety, our own family also has a bad family style, and the younger brother digs the older brother's grave, causing a lot of trouble.
Decades of cowhide will be punctured.
And the Baxian King also knew this very well - he was also Taizong's son, although he never participated in political affairs, he still knew what kind of virtue his father was.
Therefore, he can understand Zhao Yiyi's concealment for the King of Xiangyang, although he feels a little uncomfortable.
"Although the king of Xiangyang is temporarily spared, Huo Fang and Xia Song must be severely punished."
Zhao Yiyi said: "Uncle Emperor, Duke Lai will come back from the front in a few days, just in time for his mother's birthday, so you..."
He asked the eight sage kings a few words, after listening to the eight sage kings, they were silent for a long time, and finally said: "Your servant, obey the order."
The Eight Sage Kings were a little confused.
He had never participated in government affairs, and only vaguely heard that there was a deputy prime minister surnamed Xia, who had already been demoted.
As for who Huo Fang was, he had never heard of it.
Zhao Yiyi said: "Huo Fang is the transshipment envoy stationed in Yingtian, the right-hand man of the King of Xiangyang. Except for the King of Xiangyang, only he can enter the tower that hides the heavenly scriptures. After the incident of the King of Xiangyang, Huo Fang also tried every means Instigated Bao Zheng to set fire to the Sky Tower. From this point of view, he must have participated in the robbery of the imperial tomb, at least it was a crime of ignoring the knowledge."
"As for Xia Song..." Zhao Yiyi stood up and tried to find the records of the construction of the imperial mausoleum from the hill-high documents on the side of the table, but he couldn't find it after searching for a long time.
Liu En pulled out a volume of documents from the floor-to-ceiling bookcase by the wall, shook off the dust on it, and handed it to Zhao Yiyi.
Zhao Yiyi untied the ribbon binding the documents, and at first glance, it was indeed the one he was looking for. Fortunately, the system sent such an AI assistant at that time, otherwise how could he work alone with so much work every day? Done.
He handed the document to Eight Sage Kings: "Uncle Huang, let's have a look."
The Eighth Sage King took the document and looked at it from the beginning, the more he looked at it, the more he felt angry, his brows gradually frowned, and at the end, if he hadn't taken care of the emperor's bad manners, he would have thrown the document viciously on the ground, stepping on it. a few feet.
"Absurd! Absurd!"
The Eighth Sage King gritted his teeth and said, "That Xia Song, it's just..."
At that time, Xia Song was a political advisor and a favorite of the Empress Dowager, and it happened to be the period when the Empress Dowager Party and the Kou Gong Party were attacking each other fiercely, so Xia Song was busy with official duties every day. .
He outsourced the task of building the emperor's tomb to an eunuch.
The eunuch's surname was Lei, and he was quite favored by the Empress Dowager and the late Emperor in the palace, and he and Xia Song were naturally in the same party, so Xia Song felt very at ease as the shopkeeper.
It turned out that this person surnamed Lei was a fool.A god stick from the Qin Tianjian told him that if the emperor's mausoleum was moved a hundred steps to the north, he would be able to prosper his descendants.But there are big rocks underground in that place, it is not easy to dig, and there may be water.
Lei Gonggong said, don't be afraid of rocks, let's dig slowly.Don’t be afraid of water—how could it be such a coincidence that there is water in the place we dug?The important thing is to prosper the descendants!You can see that our late emperor did not leave a son until his death, and the son of his stepbrother inherited the throne. You can see how serious it is for descendants not to prosper.
Everything has a priority, how could the emperor's mausoleum be flooded, how could it be more important than prosperous descendants!
So Eunuch Lei communicated with Xia Song and planned to move the imperial mausoleum to the north of Baibu.
Xia Song is a slippery character, so he let Eunuch Lei decide for himself.
This matter is up to you to decide, it's done, we share the credit, who made me the envoy of Shanling.If something bad happened, you should bear the responsibility yourself, whoever made this matter up to you.
Wishful thinking was playing loudly.
It was such a wishful thinking that saved Xia Song's life in the end.
As the mausoleum of the Qin Tianjian said, the bottom is full of huge rocks, which is difficult to excavate. After digging with all my strength, groundwater flooded up and flooded the entire imperial mausoleum.
No matter how long Liu E lived in the deep palace without seeing and hearing, the fact that the imperial mausoleum was flooded could not be hidden from her.
The mausoleum of the dead husband was flooded, so Liu E was of course furious, and Xia Song was about to have an attack at that time.
After all, you are the envoy of the mountain mausoleum, and you have full power to supervise the repair of the imperial tomb. Now that there is a problem with the imperial tomb, of course you will be the first to find trouble.
Xia Song tried to intercede in front of Liu E, put all the responsibility on Lei Gonggong, and picked herself clean.As a result, Liu E didn't listen to his explanation at all, and got up and went back to the palace directly. Xia Song wasted a long time talking in front of a curtain.
Liu E listened to the government behind a curtain, and when receiving foreign ministers, there was an opaque curtain between them.
Seeing that Liu E didn't intend to protect him anymore, Xia Song immediately hugged Kou Zhun's thigh.
That night, he asked someone to find two pickle jars, one filled with half-inch-diameter pearls, and the other filled with gold bricks, and asked someone to carry them into Mr. Kou's mansion in the dark, and give him fresh pickles.
Xia Song stayed in her own home in fear all night, for fear that Kou Zhun would not accept his surrender.
The next day, Kou Zhun's family members came to his door and brought him two jars of pickles.
Xia Song's heart was half cold at that time.
How can there be courtesy and reciprocity in bribery since ancient times?
If you are willing to accept it, just hide it quietly.
What do you send back the two cylinders?
When he opened the tank and took a look, the other half of his heart also became cold.
The jar contained the pearls and gold he sent last night, Kou Zhun didn't want the same, and sent them back to him.
If bribery fails, it is because the other party is unwilling to accept him or protect him.
The queen mother has given up on him, and Kou Gong is unwilling to accept him.
As a mausoleum envoy, the imperial mausoleum he supervised was flooded.
My life is over!
He went to court with such despair, and Liu E was going to have something unfavorable for him to build the tomb, and he was going to be demoted and sent out of Beijing.
Just as he was about to bite the bullet and defend himself, Kou Zhun stepped forward, saying that the relocation of the imperial tomb was the eunuch Lei Yungong's idea and had nothing to do with Xia Song.
Although Xia Song was guilty, it was just a mistake of oversight, and it was enough to demote him to an official rank, and he didn't have to be sent out of Beijing.
The eunuch Lei Yungong, on the other hand, committed a heinous crime and should be executed.
Liu E was silent for a while, seeing that Kou Zhun was planning to save Xia Song.
Whether Xia Song's crime is big or small depends on how it is understood.It's okay to demote him out of the capital, or he can stay in the capital if he is punished with a small punishment and a big punishment.
In the end, Liu E decided to give Kou Zhun a face, took Xia Song's position as a political adviser, downgraded his official rank by two levels, and remained in the capital.
From then on, Xia Song became a member of Kou Zhun's party.
Only then did he know that the reason why Kou Zhun didn't accept his bribe that day was because he didn't like these things.
Kou Zhun has plenty of pearls and gold, and he is too lazy to accept the filial piety from his subordinates.
There was a budget and a limited time limit for the construction of the imperial mausoleum. After all, the country’s finances were relatively tight at that time, and the time that the Daxing Emperor’s Zi Palace stayed in the palace was also in accordance with the law.
After such a toss, the original budget was immediately tightened, and the original construction period was also shortened.
In the end, Song Zhenzong's mausoleum can be regarded as a shoddy and perfunctory one.
It didn't take long for the Liao Kingdom to send troops south again, and the entire court's attention was focused on the frontline warfare. The emperor's mausoleum was hastily completed, and the whole thing was just a tofu project. Two tomb robbers can give you everything. Evacuated.
It is also because of this that the King of Xiangyang came up with the idea of the heavenly book in the imperial mausoleum, and he succeeded so easily.
"...So, although Xia Song is not the mastermind, he must be an accomplice."
Zhao Yiyi sighed slightly: "If he didn't listen to the villain's slander when he was supervising the imperial tomb, how could things happen later? The emperor was buried for only two or three years, and the imperial tomb was stolen. The unprecedented absurd thing happened in my court!"
"Xia Song cannot escape the blame!"
The Baxian King was also indignant: "Not only Xia Song, but also the Duke of Lai who protected him!"
He has always been a temperament who can clearly distinguish between love and hate. If you love, you want to live, if you hate, you want to die.In his view of good and evil, it is unfavorable to supervise and repair the imperial tomb, causing the imperial tomb to be flooded and stolen, which is a serious crime. However, the criminal who committed this crime escaped justice with the protection of others, and he could not accept this result. .
Zhao Yiyi also frowned: "At that time, I was very soft-spoken and couldn't say anything. Now that I think about it, it's a pity. Xia Song was demoted to a foreign state earlier, so he deserved it."
The Eighth Wise King asked, "Why was he demoted?"
Zhao Yiyi said: "Because his mother is mourning and can't keep it."
Before Kou Zhun just led troops to attack Xixia, Zhao Yiyi asked Bao Zheng to read Xia Song's book, and directly drove him out of Beijing.
Eight Wise Kings sneered slightly: "If you are not loyal to the king, you are not filial to your parents."
Zhao Yiyi said: "Huo Fang is currently being imprisoned in Kaifeng Mansion, how to deal with it is only a matter of one sentence. Although Xia Song has been demoted to another state, such a big crime cannot be regarded as nothing happened."
He looked at the Eight Sage Kings: "Uncle Emperor, I need you to do me a favor."
Eight Wise Kings hurriedly said: "I must do my best."
Zhao Yiyi said: "This heavenly book was stolen from the imperial mausoleum by King Xiangyang, but King Xiangyang is my uncle, and he is already dead. I can't, and I don't want to make this matter public."
The Zhao family became emperor by bullying orphans and widowed mothers. For decades since the founding of the country, they have been committed to washing away the stains on their bodies and erecting a memorial archway of loyalty, filial piety and righteousness.
No matter how disgusting it was, he pinched his nose and made offerings to the royal family of the Chai family.
I am afraid that people in the world will say something bad about me.
Because the rituals of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms were far more broken than the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, killing an emperor is as easy as killing a chicken.Because everyone doesn't think there is anything great about the emperor-you deserve it, I deserve it, and everyone deserves it.
Smelly fish and rotten shrimp in a ditch, who doesn't know who?
Therefore, the Zhao family must make a white lotus that is not stained by silt—you kill, I will not kill, and I will convince others with reason.
I advocate civil governance, I have a broad mind, and I rule the world with the scholar-bureaucrats.
I am an emperor who is truly ordered by heaven and has a long life.
Because I am moral.
The Zhao family has been blowing this bullshit for decades. From Taizu to Taizong, he was obviously the emperor who killed the king and brother with the sound of candle shadow and axe.
Under such a background, Zhao Yiyi couldn't tell the world that the king of Xiangyang had robbed the tomb of the first emperor.
Doesn't that mean telling the people of the world that although our Zhao family governs the world with loyalty and filial piety, our own family also has a bad family style, and the younger brother digs the older brother's grave, causing a lot of trouble.
Decades of cowhide will be punctured.
And the Baxian King also knew this very well - he was also Taizong's son, although he never participated in political affairs, he still knew what kind of virtue his father was.
Therefore, he can understand Zhao Yiyi's concealment for the King of Xiangyang, although he feels a little uncomfortable.
"Although the king of Xiangyang is temporarily spared, Huo Fang and Xia Song must be severely punished."
Zhao Yiyi said: "Uncle Emperor, Duke Lai will come back from the front in a few days, just in time for his mother's birthday, so you..."
He asked the eight sage kings a few words, after listening to the eight sage kings, they were silent for a long time, and finally said: "Your servant, obey the order."
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