On January 1, 1100, the 4-year-old Song Zhezong passed away, and the new emperor Song Huizong Zhao Ji ascended the throne. Zhao Ji is the 11th son of Song Shenzong. He is really outstanding in all aspects to become emperor...

First of all, he had a good mother, Chen, from Kaifeng, who was smart and dignified, and as beautiful as a peach and plum. He gave birth to Zhao Ji when he was an attendant. This is very important, which means that she is from a very low-class background and will not be suspicious of the harem masters of the noble family such as Empress Dowager Gao and Empress Dowager Xiang. On the other hand, she is also very naturally close to Concubine Zhu, the biological mother of Emperor Zhezong. Concubine Zhu is also from Kaifeng, and has a very low-class background... The dual relationship between class and fellow villagers made them very close, and they were also close to each other's sons...

Before Song Zhezong took power, he often asked Zhao Ji to play in the bedroom before he took power. Many years later, Zhao Ji, who became emperor, recalled affectionately - at that time, Zhezong, who was twelve or thirteen years old, could only take out some ordinary fruit cakes and put them in pottery vessels, and could not tell the emperor's identity at all. The two little brothers hid in the curtain and ate silently, very happy and bitter...

Chen's family is more than that. This woman from a civilian origin has an extremely strong side. Song Shenzong died of illness at a young age. Chen was younger and only a year old at that time. It was a good time for a woman to be in her prime in her life, but she suddenly withered!

Chen moved into the side hall of Shenzong Mausoleum Hall, silently scattered all day long, motionless, quickly becoming a bone-shaped and having a bleak face. The palace brought food and medicine, and Chen waved his hand and asked someone to take it away, "I have to serve the late emperor early, my wish is enough." Not long after, Chen died...

She truly loves Song Shenzong, and this is awe-inspiring even in the feudal era. Her death satisfies her wishes on the one hand, and on the other hand, she has accumulated enough impressions for her son...

Love the house and the Wu, and the respect for Chen's family increased the love for Zhao Ji in the entire harem. Even Empress Dowager Gao and Empress Dowager Xiang, who were born into a wealthy gentry and were used to the kinship of the father and son of the Tian family, took great care of Zhao Ji, not to mention Concubine Zhu, Song Zhezong and his son...

Zhao Ji grew up in love. After Emperor Zhezong ascended the throne, he was named Prince. After four years, he was appointed King Duan. After another year, he was appointed Sikong, changed to Zhaode and Zhangxin Jiedu. The title and rapid promotion were the best among all the emperors!

He himself was also very successful. By this time the Song Dynasty developed, he was already the seventh generation grandson of Zhao Guangyi. The emperors and brothers of the seventh generation ancestors had long been standard. Every day, they were all the same, and they were all very good at playing!

What Zhao Ji likes is calligraphy, painting, zither, pictures and history... What do you think of these? The so-called six arts of gentlemen: rituals, music, shooting, imperialism, calligraphy, and numbers. Zhao Ji was almost all-round except shooting archery and driving. This made the Kaifeng City Scholars and Doctors Group illuminate the eyes and found that the eleventh prince was the perfect incarnation!

Think about it: Zhao Ji's residence is filled with rare books. Every day, the masters and scholars talk about scriptures and mystery, adjust the strings and drums the zithers, and splash ink when they are in their prime. Whether painting or writing, they have reached a very high level in their prime. This is not all. Zhao Ji has a slender figure, handsome face, elegant conversation, and is always the focus of bright lights among the crowd wherever he goes... Who doesn't love such a person? Moreover, he is particularly friendly...

The famous scholar Zhao Lingrang in the royal family, the son-in-law Wang Shi, was the one who could have a relationship with Su Dongpo, the literary master, and promoted him to the outside world. In the palace, Concubine Zhu and the great faction of Empress Dowager Xiang shared their love for him, and was almost the only person named Zhao who was able to get along with others and was invincible.

At this point, if Zhezong does not die, he will be prosperous for a lifetime and be superior to his peers. If Zhezong dies, he stands out among the many princes. Even if he goes to the outside world for election, he will not be able to escape his throne!

Two strange things happened in Zhao Ji Duan’s mansion. One day, a white crane suddenly fell from the sky and fell in his courtyard, wandering for a long time, and dancing... Since ancient times, the cranes sing in the hall has been a rare auspicious auspiciousness in a thousand years, especially in the important areas of Kyoto. For a while, the whole city caused a sensation, and many famous ministers flocked to him. Of course: not to see a crane, but to flatter King Duan: You are auspicious, you are rich, and you are promoted...

At that time, everyone in the royal palace was in a state of ecstasy, only the butler Yang Zhen was so scared that he was sweating coldly: Get rich, get promoted? They are all princes, what is the promotion? The emperor? He immediately stood up and drove out, saying, "This is a cheekbones, not a crane, not a cheekbones."

The cranes and people finally drove them away, but a few days later, a strange thing happened again. Outside Zhao Ji's bedroom, a bunch of Ganoderma lucidum suddenly grew. This was a double auspiciousness! The crane fell from the sky, and it might be because it was tired of flying and resting for a while. It was a fluid auspiciousness. However, the Ganoderma lucidum grass crawled out of the ground and settled home outside Zhao Ji's window. This is auspiciousness that belongs to Zhao Ji in any case!

For a moment, everyone in the palace ran to Zhao Ji to congratulate him. At the same time, the good news flew to all parts of the city like wings, which was a trend that exceeded the last time. At the critical moment, one hand reached over and instantly stopped the good news. Butler Yang Zhen! He pulled down the Ganoderma lucidum grass like a dog-tail grass and threw it aside, saying that it was an edible fungus, not Ganoderma lucidum at all! The crowd dispersed in frustration. Yang Zhen breathed a sigh of relief, but turned his head and found that Zhao Ji's eyes were a little solidified, as if he was thinking...

How can you resist a series of supernatural events? After these two incidents, one day Zhao Ji suddenly wrote a note and quietly called his trusted servant: This is my birth date. If you take it to Daxiangguo Temple, you can calculate every hexagram once, and see what the result is...

The servants went there, and they calculated one by one. They spent a lot of money and didn't calculate anything. They were all clichés of common charlatans. Until in the end, they met a fortune teller who was dressed in a ragged corner and was about to starve to death.

The gentleman looked at the notes and looked at the servant again. Suddenly, he looked very depressed and threw them back. "Brother, I'm doing a very bad job, why are you still making fun of me?" The servant was puzzled and asked him what he meant?

The gentleman sneered, "This is the emperor's birth date, it's not yours at all." The servant was shocked and ran back to the palace to report to Zhao Ji. Zhao Ji thought for a long time and asked the servant to go again the next day, tell the fortune teller his name to see what he said...

The next day, the fortune teller said, "Go back and tell the prince that you are the destiny of the emperor and you must treat the people well in the future."

It's very fictional, right? But this fortune teller is famous, surnamed and status in history. After his words came true, Emperor Huizong of Song made him rise to the top, become a military governor, and became a high-ranking official. His name was Chen Yan.

After a series of psychological hints, Duan Zhao Ji began to take the initiative! He was smart. On the one hand, he continued to have a good relationship with Song Zhezong and Concubine Zhu, and on the other hand, he deliberately pleased the people around Empress Dowager Xiang and showed kindness to eunuchs and palace maids as a prince. How great sincerity is this. Soon, Empress Dowager Xiang was surrounded by praises, and everyone said good things about Zhao Ji. Think about her lonely and widowed old lady, who was frustrated and defeated, and she had such a good son to show filial piety and not be successful.

Did you knock it down? Then the Empress Dowager Xiang fought for the throne for him. Otherwise, how could the Nine Cauldron Artifact fall on Zhao Ji for no reason? That night, Zhao Ji's people rushed between the palace and the palace to report everything that was happening to him. When the Empress Dowager Xiang was nominated, when Zhang Dun opposed it, Zhao Ji's reaction was very strong, sometimes laughing at the sky and sometimes pondering: Between gains and losses, between the emperor and the vassal kings, the world is far different! He wants the throne, and he wants the supreme authority to control the life and death of all peoples!

On January 4, the Great Liao Kingdom recruited the envoy of Otla to capture the rebellious Minister Mogus alive and presented it to the court. On January 1, Mogus was ordered to be sentenced to death by Emperor Daozong of Liao.

Finally becoming emperor, Zhao Ji, who was over 17 years old, became calmer. He had only completed the first step of the Long March. He not only had to climb to this position, but also sat comfortably in this position. A series of performances later showed that he was so smart and rational!

The first step is to respect the leader! His father and brother both generations met with the harem, and the water and fire were incompatible. As a result, the country was damaged, and the two emperors themselves were also in a difficult situation, living a miserable life and dying a frustrated life. It was Zhao Ji's turn, what should he do?

He chose to be grateful... At the age of 18, he cried and shouted to ask the Empress Dowager to rule the country from behind the curtain! How about it? The power that Empress Dowager Gao made a mess that he had obtained by "changing his son with his mother" was obtained, Zhao Ji gave up! On the 14th, Liu was honored as the Empress Dowager Yuanfu. On the 16th, his biological mother Chen was posthumously honored as the Imperial Concubine. On the 10th, Song Zhezong's biological mother Zhu was respected as the Imperial Concubine. On the 10th, Wang, who was pregnant and to give birth, was appointed as the Imperial Concubine.

The second step is to reorganize the cabinet! Once the emperor is in the same time, Zhao Ji must have his own team. But this era is too sensitive. Should he choose a new party or an old party? If he chooses a new party, what does Empress Dowager Xiang behind the curtain think? If he chooses an old party, he just took over the position of the emperor brother, and he wants to betray the emperor brother? Both sides are not pleased, but both sides must find it well. How can this knot be resolved?

Zhao Ji had a way! The first person he did ascend to the throne was to transfer Han Zhongyan from Daming Prefecture to the capital and promoted him to the Minister of Personnel. He transferred Li Qingchen of Zhending Prefecture to the Minister of Rites, and the Right Zhengyan Huang Lu was the Grand Secretary and the Secretariat of the Zizheng Hall. This person had a very opposite identity. Han Zhongyan was the son of Han Qi, the late old party elder. Li and Huang Ren were the strife of the new party in the Zhezong Dynasty. At the same time, he promoted him, revealing a more obvious subtext - from then on, the new and old party balanced, and he was no longer hostile under the leadership of Song Huizong!

This is just the first layer of subtext. If there is no following, it is very crude and concise. It is too vulgar to do this in the top officialdom! It is impossible to please the Queen Mother Xiang at all. But when it is expressed in the second layer, it has to be admired...

Not long after, Han Zhongyan's position rose sharply. On the 1st of the month, he was promoted to deputy prime minister of the subordinate minister, and in April, he became the second prime minister of the Shangshu Right Pushe, and in September, Zhang Dun became the new prime minister. The position of subordinate minister of his empty subordinate minister was replaced by Li Qingchen. Huang Lu was promoted to the right prime minister of the Shangshu, but the two were out of reach from the top prime minister and became a member of the huge middle-level cadre group below Zeng Bu. What does this mean? Zhao Ji chose Empress Dowager Xiang from the beginning, and based on her preferences as the standard, he decided to distribute power! At the same time, it was impossible to pick out his shortcomings of betraying the emperor's brother...

The third step was to applaud all the old party members. Zhao Ji summoned all the new forces of the old party who were demoted from the court after Zhezong took power. They rushed to the capital from all over the place where they were demoted and all became censors. These names were very strange, and they were not available before. Secondly, they could not mention them. Although in the history of the Song Dynasty, these people were very status and praised by the old party members to be higher than the sky...

For example, Chen Guan is the famous famous scholar who lived in seclusion on the way back to the court to become the prime minister on the way back to the court. At this time, he stopped living in seclusion and returned to the officialdom, and became an official in seclusion. He stepped into Kaifeng City and transformed into a Ph.D. in the Imperial Academy. This official was too great, that is, a professor at the Royal University of the Song Dynasty! But what could this position do earth-shaking things? It was nothing more than asking questions, invigilance, and not being close to national affairs! What did I ask me to write about him?

For example, Zou Hao, he was a Jinshi in the Shenzong Dynasty. Zhezong Dynasty became a censor and immediately impeached Zhang Dun. He was a hard-core old party fighter! Unfortunately, it was useless. Zhang Dun of Zhezong Dynasty was invincible in the world. This is a pity that Zhezong failed to become the hero he expected. What really made him famous was the incident of Zhezong's deposed queen. Empress Meng was deposed, and Zou Hao's reaction was that the end of the world had come. He wrote a letter regardless of everything and asked Zhezong to take back his orders, re-establish Meng's clan, and kill all enemies standing opposite Meng's clan.

!If I don’t do this, Song Zhezong himself would be infamous for thousands of years. The Song Dynasty’s generals and the country were not, and the people would be unbalanced... Song Zhezong was angry and kicked Zou Hao out of the capital and went to the south to reflect on him... This was even more amazing. Zou Hao left Beijing and became a tragic hero who had a role model for generations, and became the only person in the world with conscience, love and sense of justice. The scene of that day was frozen into the totem in the hearts of the old party members, and was sung for a long time! I really want to ask this - as for it?

Everyone is like this. Except for those with ulterior motives, who would think they are dishes? That’s right! Now Song Huizong is using them with ulterior motives! He is looking at the old woman behind the curtain!

Following the fourth order, all censors will pay attention. No matter who you are, you can speak freely, you can say whatever you want, and you can impeach anyone! You are right and you will be rewarded, but if you say wrong, you will never go back on your word!

It looks very old-fashioned, right? All the previous emperors have done it. But this time it is different. The previous ones are just image projects. This time Zhao Ji turned it into a knife and stuffed it into the hands of Chen Guan, Zou Hao and others, so that they could chop it as much as possible! The chopping until the Queen Mother Xiang smiled and was satisfied...

Immediately, the minister of the disciple Han Zhongyan reported four things: Guangren's family opened his own way of speaking, went away from suspected cases, and refused to use troops. Xiang Empress Dowager adopted them one by one, and the old party was reborn. He was called "Xiao Yuanyou" at that time.
Chapter completed!