"When the late Emperor was still alive, he once told me that Wen Tianxiang, the number one scholar on the Golden List, and Lu Xiufu, who had been blessed for four years, were knowledgeable and could be my literature professors. Now that I have just ascended the throne, I still have many things to learn. I want to
Inviting these two people into the palace, what do you think?"
"Wen Tianxiang, Lu Xiufu? I have the impression that since it is the late emperor's will, I have no objection. Your Majesty, I will withdraw."
After Jia Sidao left, I murmured: "This guy has benefited, so naturally he has no objection to these two scholars who have not done much and have no background."
Although I don't know anything about politics, I have been working in sales since I graduated from college. The most important thing in sales is to figure out the customer's mind, which is often called psychology. This is what I am very good at. As long as I can figure it out accurately,
People's mentality can naturally be corrected. This is a magic weapon for me to win. Besides, no matter how many thoughts the ancients had, they will not know as many things as modern people.
The funeral of the late emperor's country was grand and luxurious, with complicated ceremonies. Fortunately, there were many people in the Ministry of Rites, and it seemed orderly under the command of Jia Sidao. As the successor to the throne, I naturally wore sackcloth and wore mourning. The ministers and concubines were all in tears, but I didn't know this.
Who is really crying to bid farewell to the late emperor, and who is acting.
I was too lazy to observe these people and turned my attention to the burial objects of the late emperor. I was amazed by how precious the burial objects were. It is no wonder that tomb robbing has been banned many times in history, and has even become more and more serious.
It takes a whole day of busy work to get it done.
Lizong of the Song Dynasty had been in power for more than 40 years and was inactive. Shi Miyuan was in power before, and Jia Sidao was in power later. The corruption of the government directly led to the decline of the national power of the Southern Song Dynasty. However, Emperor Lizong was really good to Zhao Yu, his adopted son.
For this reason, he dismissed Wu Qian, the prime minister at the time. After Zhao Fu was established as the prince, he built the "Zishantang" specifically for him as a place for learning, and personally wrote an article "Zishantang Ji" for him.
Lizong also selected famous scholars as Zhao Yu's teachers, such as Tang Han, Yang Dong, Ye Mengding and others, all of whom were famous Confucians. These all reflected Emperor Lizong's high hopes for Zhao Yu. Perhaps Emperor Lizong was
He had done nothing in his life, so he pinned all his hopes on this heir, but this Zhao Yu was even less satisfactory.
I kowtowed three times respectfully in front of Lizong's mausoleum, which was considered as repayment of Zhao Fu's affection.
When I returned to my palace, I was exhausted and fell asleep.
The next day, the whole people mourned the late emperor, and the court meeting was also suspended for one day. I slept until after noon before being awakened by Xiao Qi. Today, all the people in the Prince's Palace will move to Ningqian Palace. Xiao Qi and others have made preparations, so they called me
wake.
It was already chilly in Jiangnan in November. I was wearing a thick cotton robe and standing on the highest floor of Ningqian Palace. This three-story palace is located at the front of the harem and is the largest and tallest building in the entire palace. From the surrounding windows,
Looking around, you can see the entire palace from top to bottom.
It was almost dusk and the sun was setting in the west. I looked at the palaces slowly shrouded in darkness. I couldn't help but feel empty in my heart. Is this my current and future home? A home without Lelingshan is still a home.
Home? I left the original world forever. Will Hesugi be sad if he finds out? Oh, maybe she has forgotten me at all, but why do I still miss me so much, Hesugi, do you know how much I miss you?
I miss you, Lingsugi, why is this happening? As soon as I thought about it, my heart suddenly became extremely painful. I even thought about jumping off the building to see if I could go back in time and ask her to find out.
"The officials have been standing in front of the window for a long time. It's cold at night, so let's eat first." Xiaoqi's voice interrupted my thoughts in time. I retracted my thoughts and sighed and said: "It's Xiaoqi, let's go.
Have a meal."
"I, my ministers, wish to see your Majesty the Emperor, long live, long live, long live."
"Without courtesy, dear friends, stay safe."
This is the day when I officially come to court.
At the beginning of November of the fifth year of Jingding, I officially ascended the throne, and was known as Duzong of the Song Dynasty in history. I honored Xie Daoqing as the Queen Mother.
According to the lists drawn up in advance by Xie Dao, Qing, Jia Sidao and others, I announced them one by one at the court meeting, naming Ma Tingluan, Liu Mengyan as minister, Li Boyu, Chen Zongli, Fan Dongsou as minister, He Ji and Xu Ji as minister.
The palace storytellers, Wen Tianxiang and Lu Xiufu, were full-time storytellers in the Chongzheng Palace. They also ordered the former ministers Zhao Kui, Xie Fangshu, Cheng Yuanfeng, Ma Guangzu, Li Zengbo, etc. to come forward to correct the situation. This was to ask for outspoken opinions. Jiang Wanli, Hong Tianxi, Tang and others were also ordered to speak out.
Han and others returned to the palace and made another appointment.
The above people are all civil servants, including Xie and Jia people, and a small number of neutral people.
The biggest gain for Jia Sidao was that his son-in-law Fan Wenhu was promoted to deputy commander of the Forbidden Army. The commander of the Forbidden Army was only appointed during wartime. Therefore, Fan Wenhu officially became the senior general of the Central Army of the Southern Song Dynasty.
Guitong is the leader of the army.
Regarding this point, I have also thought about it. In fact, most of the generals in the army at this time were Jia Sidao's people. Even Li Tingzhi, who was both civil and military, was promoted by Jia Sidao, and many of the original powerful generals were here.
In the past few years, they were successively purged, lived in seclusion, or fell into his arms, and even worse, were forced to defect to Mongolia. Among them, the greatest impact on the later defense was the surrender of Liu Zheng, the general in Sichuan, so that later Kubi
Lie's choice to attack Xiangyang was Liu Zheng's strategy, which ultimately led to the rapid defeat of the Southern Song Dynasty.
Since the current situation is like this, I will just go with the flow and wait until my wings are full before I start to worry about it, and then I will uproot his followers.
As for the two people I appointed, Wen and Lu, are not in Beijing at this time. Wen Tianxiang is in Jiangxi and Lu Xiufu is in the Yangzhou army. However, since the imperial edict is issued, we don't have to wait too long.
I thought that today's affairs in the DPRK would be to announce new personnel appointments, but when Xiaoqi signaled me to announce my intention to withdraw from the DPRK, a man emerged from the queue of civil servants and said loudly: "Your Majesty Ma Tingluan has written a memorial."
Ma Tingluan was once the crown prince's right concubine, so he knew very well about Zhao Yu's affairs. At this time, he was the minister of the Ministry of Rites, and he had just been concurrently served as the minister. Ma Tingluan now belongs to Xie Daoqing's faction.
"Ma Aiqing, if you have the book, just play it."
"Your Majesty, I forgive you for being brave. Your Majesty has just ascended the throne and is not very familiar with most affairs in the court. Therefore, I propose that the Queen Mother handle the affairs of the court in the back hall, and then come to the court in person after your Majesty is familiar with the court."
As soon as these words fell, the whole hall fell into silence.
Ma Tingluan was outspoken and at odds with Jia Sidao and others. He was always regarded as a dissenter and suppressed.
These words were clearly meant to make Xie Daoqing listen to politics behind the curtain, just like Empress Dowager Cixi in later generations.
After listening to this, I didn't feel anxious at all, because naturally some people would be anxious for me, but I still pretended to be a little angry on my expression.
Sure enough, after a while, Jia Sidao's party members jumped out to accuse Ma Tingluan. The hall was very lively for a while, just like some small island countries holding parliaments in later generations. They were full of ugliness and not at all popular.
Except for a few neutral factions, almost all the lineups of both sides participated. "I have my own foundation." "I have my own foundation."
I closed my eyes slightly and said nothing, letting them make noise in the hall.
"What kind of behavior are you doing?" Jia Sidao, who had been closing his eyes to meditate, suddenly opened his eyes and glanced at me. Then he stood up and shouted loudly at the courtiers, "For an important official of the Song Dynasty to do such a thing, it is actually the same thing.
Although it has been common practice in ancient times to scold shrews and to have a queen mother listen to the government, it was only possible when the emperor was a young emperor or when he was unable to take charge of the affairs. Now that your majesty has ascended the throne as an emperor as an adult, and then a queen mother will listen to the government, there is no precedent for this in this dynasty. You guys
What is the intention of violating the laws of the ancestors and wanting the Queen Mother to interfere in the government affairs without being responsible for the harem, so that the Emperor will be known as incompetent?"
Jia Sidao's words were righteous and awe-inspiring, and he put two big hats on Ma Tingluan and others.
Since ancient times, women have only been in power when the emperor was childish, otherwise they will be regarded as unworthy and even usurp power. Therefore, even though Wu Zetian of the Tang Dynasty had made great achievements, she was not ashamed of the literati.
The Queen Mother Xie Daoqing was firstly afraid of Jia Sidao's majesty, and secondly she was even more worried about being labeled with these two big hats, which would affect the Queen Mother's reputation, so she could only keep silent.
This Jia Sidao is indeed arrogant and sharp. In just a few words, he made Ma Tingluan and others speechless. After Jia Sidao finished speaking, he looked at me meaningfully again. This look clearly hinted to me that he
Jia Sidao is a big tree. As long as I obey the arrangements, I will be safe.
"Huh, old thing, let's see."
Seeing that all the ministers were silent, I signaled Xiao Qi to withdraw from the court.
"Retreat from the court." Xiao Qi shouted at the top of his lungs.