On February 19, 1022, when Song Zhenzong Zhao Heng had just died, the senior officials of the two palaces immediately fell to the ground with a crying sound. Empress Liu walked out from behind the screen. She was particularly calm and said in a stern manner that she had left in the official history, "I will cry one day, and I will listen to the punishment." I have something to say! How concise and loud, it is completely a strong image, which is very consistent with her position in history. But unfortunately, it is in line with her future historical status. At that time, after she said these 8 words, she was immediately kicked off the stage and went cool.

The emperor died and the officialdom was reshuffled. Do you think you were the first pick and could continue talking loudly? Just kidding! Orphans and widows are bullied, no matter whether you are the queen or the village woman!

Ding Wei seized the camera and after the order was released, it became his world. He followed the orders first, wiped away his tears, and then got up to do the most important thing: writing the will! At this time, there were two statements in history: 1 The prime ministers and officials of the East and West governments withdrew from Yanqing Palace on the spot and went to the palace hut outside to write, based on Zhao Heng's last words before his death. 2 A sentence in "The Successful Zizhi Tongjian Changbian" said, "At the beginning, the auxiliary ministers listened to the orders of the empress dowager. Withdrawal, the palace hut was made of the grass." First, he heard Liu E telling what to do in Yanqing Palace, and then came out to copy them one by one, and turned into written words.

Which one is not important at all, because the matter depends on the result. No matter what, it is left the dead emperor and the living queen, and the ministers formed a circle alone to write the most important edict of the throne and the specific official positions of the lords in the future. Ding Wei's performance began.

Mr. Ding looked left and right, and suddenly shouted, "Wang Zeng, there is a word you wrote more." All the priests turned their eyes. Impossible! I just listened at the ears, and now everyone is watching. Who dares to have more or less words? Tampering with the edict, it is to kill the nine clans and be ruined! But Mr. Ding really pointed out what was wrong. "Wang Zeng, the empress dowager, is the same as the military and national affairs. Do you have the word "power"?" In an instant, everyone became fierce and aggressive.

"Prince" means agent, temporary. That is, although the Empress Dowager Liu E has the power to govern the country with the young emperor and share the power of military and national power, it is only temporary. Everything is because the emperor is too young, only 13 years old. However, removing the word "Prince" means that Zhao Heng once said it himself and wrote it into a written decree. Liu E can share the power of the emperor with Zhao Zhen for life, and immediately became Wu Zetian in the actual sense. The difference between one word and the difference between heaven and earth is beyond the scope of tampering and completely turned into a rewrite! Unless all the prime ministers in Yanqing Palace were so sad that they were too pierced with the eardrums and out of the words, otherwise Ding Wei's words would be completely disobeying the previous emperor, betraying the present, and rebelling!

But the problem is that Ding Wei is now rebelling sincerely. Please come and beat me up, but who will stand up?

Silence... All the ministers of the East and West governments unanimously decided to kill him with their eyes. Time was walking away quickly, and the word "power" was about to be deleted, but no one jumped out to make a name for himself. Ding Wei was content with his leisure and enjoying the silence at this time. In his opinion, this was a kind of awe of majesty. Ding Wei had established a power position that no one dared to violate in the Later Zhao Heng era...

But there will always be a matter of things. One who dares to challenge, and it is the most weak and subtle person among them. The man suddenly threw the pen away. "I don't have the Queen Mother's affairs in the court! Now because the emperor is young, he is not a blessing for the country. The word "Prince" can be barely unconfident in the future. Moreover, the country has laws to add or reduce the book. The public is the chief assistant. Do you want to disrupt the family rules of the ancestors?" Ding Wei looked back suddenly and realized that he was still secret. Someone really dared to fight against him openly regardless of his own safety: Wang Zeng! He pressed down with a big hat, Ding Wei could only bear it. He nodded to Wang Zeng in front of everyone, signaling him to pick up the pen and write it according to the clause you remember. That is, the word "Prince" was retained...

But don't be busy, the matter is not over yet. Ding Wei's test has just begun... Wang Zeng picked up his pen and wrote a few more words. Ding Wei suddenly stopped, "Wang Zeng, you missed this time, Concubine Yang Shu should be promoted to the Imperial Concubine. This is the will of the late emperor."

Wang Zeng's reaction was to put down his pen again, "I didn't hear this sentence just now."

Ding Wei's performance this time seemed very nonsensical. Why did he suddenly mention a concubine in the harem who had no political experience or political qualifications? Was he forming a deep working friendship with the harem again after Liu E? Or did he say so at the instruction of Liu E?

Nothing is right. Another imperial concubine appeared outside the Empress Dowager, that is the prototype of the East and West Palaces. Ding Wei did this to divide the power of Empress Dowager Liu! Historical books immediately recorded Liu E's anger. "Ming Su (i.e. Liu E) knew it and hated Ding and the king's straightforwardness"

But let me ask, Ding Wei's previous proposal was to make Liu E the emperor for life, so why did the second proposal be the first concubine and divide Liu E's power? Why?

It's actually very simple. The first proposal was that Ding Wei was testing the loyalty of the ministers to the previous emperor and the pity and expectation of the current emperor and the empress dowager... and even more testing Ding Wei's awareness of the senior officials at the time. As a result, he seemed very disappointed, but Wang Zeng jumped out and rejected it on the spot. Dante Wei was laughing secretly. How great! My accomplices were still standing firmly beside me. Only one of the mortal rivals, Wang Zeng, was still unstoppable and wanted to compete with me. Then wait!

The second proposal is to test the senior officials, including Wang Zeng, how do you recognize Empress Dowager Liu, who has been hidden behind the scenes and manipulated the country in recent years? I will bring out the Concubine Yang to divide Empress Dowager Liu's power and see how you react?

It's very subtle. The writer-in-law once opposed it again. It seems to be the same as the last time, but this is just a superficial behavior. What is the inner background? For the sake of the empress dowager or the late emperor who died for himself? That is, the king once wanted to be the favorite minister of the present (pleasing Liu E) or be the loyal minister of the past (loyal to Zhao Heng)?

It’s not easy to tell the difference! It’s hard to know the people and faces. Even the other colleagues in the hall were not easy to understand. So Ding Wei laughed and said, “This is a will! Can it be changed?” Then he walked aside and stopped paying attention to this matter…

On the 21st, the fourth emperor of the Song Dynasty, 13-year-old Song Renzong Zhao Zhen, and 56-year-old Empress Dowager Liu E officially started work. The first thing was to discuss the emperor and the empress dowager's daily work arrangements.

Wang Zeng, the deputy prime minister of the Communist Party, was the first to speak. Wang Zhuangyuan was well-versed in history and proposed to quote the Eastern Han Dynasty, which was the most frequent and most significant in history, as an example. He asked the Empress Dowager and the young emperor to go to court to work every 5 days, and the location was in Chengming Hall on a regular occasion. Even the specific order of the desks were placed: the emperor is on the right and the empress dowager is on the left.

The ministers had nothing to say. The Han Dynasty was a model of the Chinese dynasty. It was completely correct and upright to find the scriptures and classics. Just when they were about to agree, Ding Wei suddenly said, "Wang Zeng's solution is not good. I suggest that the emperor is too young and the empress dowager is working hard. I will just go to court twice a month. Just look for it. Let's look for the second day! If there is a big event, please ask the empress dowager and summon our ministers to solve it together. If there is no big event, please ask the empress dowager and the emperor will rest. Our ministers are responsible for all matters. After the plan is established, the eunuch Lei Yungong will pass it to the harem. As long as the empress dowager, the emperor will sign a letter and stamp it..."

As soon as this statement was made, the ministers were in an uproar. Wang Zeng could not bear it anymore. "The two palaces are different, and the eunuchs take over power. This is a sign of disaster. It will never work." The words revealed the secret! As Ding Wei said, deep in the palace, the empress dowager and the young emperor did not live together, and were surrounded by a large number of eunuchs and palace maids. They only had twice a month, and only 24 times a year can walk out of the wall and see ministers outside. This is not a certain special situation, such as the empress dowager, who suddenly felt uncomfortable and could not go to court to work. So for the remaining 340 days, who will protect everyone's safety? Eunuchs?

So Wang Zeng wanted to fight, and he had to fight to the end no matter what. However, this time Ding Weili ignored him and skipped him directly: I am the Prime Minister, I decided to send my proposal directly to the harem and ask the Queen Mother to make a judgment. Let’s listen to me, or you Wang Zeng!

Three days later, Empress Dowager Liu's handwritten letter was circulated in the harem, and Ding Wei's proposal was fully agreed. In this way, the top decision-making power of the Song Dynasty fell into Ding Wei's hands...

So Ding Wei started to do things. He never asked anyone for advice when doing anything. He did it without any scruples. There were too many small things, and there were two big things: 1. Cultivating the tomb for the late emperor Zhao Heng, 2. Ding Wei wanted to beat the dog in the water, and pointed the finger at his old enemy Kou Zhun and Li Di.

On the 29th, Sima Kou Zhun of Daozhou was demoted to the army of the Sihu of Leizhou. Li Di, the Minister of the Ministry of Revenue, was demoted to the Deputy Envoy of the Hengzhou Tuanjiao. Two former prime ministers were completely discredited. The demotion system was written by Song Shou of Zhizhi. According to Ding Wei's request, Kou Zhun approved four words "disloyal to be a minister" to Li Di "attached to help evil" and Ding Wei asked them to spread their charges to China and abroad, so that Khitan, Dangxiang, and Goryeo people knew what these two hypocritical and famous people were of virtue.

The so-called word determines life. Such a test is unforgivable in the Confucian ethics of monarchs and ministers, and is enough to be cursed by gentlemen for generations. After writing, Song Shou felt guilty and nervous. He was sad for Kou Zhun and Li Di, and even regretted his reputation. But unexpectedly, Ding Wei was very dissatisfied. Get out of here, I will write it myself! He added this sentence to Kou Zhun's demotion system, "When the ugly disciple was in the first place, he was shocked when the emperor violated his feelings, and then he became a serious blow." That is, when Kou Zhun, the "ugly disciple", was in trouble with the turmoil and did bad things in the court, he met the emperor who started to get sick, and was scared by him and died of illness! Therefore, it was light to demote him, and he was really a scum who killed the king!

As the documents were about to take effect, Kou Zhun and Li Di's reputation was about to be damaged unprecedentedly. In the end, Wang Zeng came out and opposed it again: 1. Such a derogatory statement is too serious and inappropriate; 2. Kou Zhun was demoted too far. Leizhou (now Leizhou Peninsula, Guangdong Province) is a barren land on the South China Sea, and it is a barren land. Isn't it to kill an old man to leave thousands of miles?

But Ding Wei stared at Wang Zeng quietly and slowly said a sentence, "The master of Ju Ting is probably not immune." Wang Zeng immediately shut up. The master of Ju Ting is Wang Zeng's heart disease. Kou Zhun was just dismissed from prefecture, and he once lent his house to Kou Zhun. This matter can be big or small, and it is related to the previous party struggles and his current position of speaking for Kou Zhun, Ding Wei will easily exaggerate the matter and sweep him out.

The king was not afraid, but there were so many things that were not done. He could never be squeezed away by Ding Wei for nothing, so he had to choose Mingzhe to protect himself. In this way, Ding Wei's political enemies were beaten to the end from official positions to reputation, but that was not counted. The court sent an envoy to send the demotion system to Kou Zhun and Li Di himself. It was just that there was something in the envoy's luggage, which was Ding Wei's private gift, but it was covered with the official seal of the Song Dynasty. When he saw the two envoys who rushed to Daozhou and Yunzhou's luggage, the people with a little compassionate heart in Kaifeng could not help but cry. Kou Zhun and Li Di were about to die, and they were in different places, and there was no complete corpse... Because each of the two envoys had a long sword in their bags. Anyone knew that it was a Chao Dian who was going to give someone a death...

The envoy went straight to Daozhou Prefecture, with no expression on the way, his sword was half exposed, and the state soldiers and yamen runners were frightened and even forgot to report it to him.

The envoy was happy to find that the state yamen was singing and having a banquet. The wine was fragrant and the singing sounded around the Liang Dynasty. Kou Zhun's luxurious life continued in Daozhou. Very good! What he wanted was this strong deficit! The envoy was very strategic. He ignored the state yamen and entered the inn first, and then sent someone to notify the emperor to order him to enter the city. All the joy was frozen in an instant...

The officials of Daozhou immediately came over, fearless and listened quietly to the orders. But the envoy came and did not answer the other time. What should I do? Go back and continue drinking? But who dared? The envoy's cold face, the edict and the sword meant, the people of Kaifeng understand, and the people of Daozhou understand.

But Kou Zhun didn't understand, so he was still sitting in the government office drinking and listening to music, indifferent. This was confidence, and even more of a trick. At this time, Kou Zhun's performance was completely different from Li Di and Su Shi decades later. His calmness defeated Ding Wei's premeditation and the tricks of the messenger.

After a long stalemate, Kou Zhun sent someone to pass on the message, "If the court wants to kill Kou Zhun, please bring me the edict to read it." The envoy was not allowed to read the edict in public. He was scared and sweated! It turned out that it was just a depressed official system. That sword, perhaps it was just a self-defense weapon for the envoy to walk on a long distance? The edict was not mentioned at all... Kou Zhun laughed, took off the official robe he had just borrowed, and greeted the guests and friends to sit again, and we continued to drink! Tomorrow the world is far away, and there will be a good time to enjoy the wine. At the end of Leizhou, I, Kou Zhun, may not have a day to return, but I should have fun in my life and have no regrets to die. This life is worth it!

In Yunzhou, the envoy's performance was the same as the one in Daozhou. Li Di was completely disappointed and chose to commit suicide. As a result, he was rescued by his son Li Dongzhi and did not die. The next encounter was even worse. Li Di was deprived of his freedom and locked up. If there were relatives and relatives who came to visit, the envoy did not stop him, but just wrote down his names in person. If anyone brought food, he would put it there and let it be moldy, and Li Di would not even think of eating it.

Everything is reasonable and legal. You committed suicide by yourself, and I didn't stop you from visiting me, and no one could say anything. As a result, a guest who called Zheng Yu couldn't bear it and jumped out: Let's just say it out! You are trying to please Ding Wei and want to kill my master. I, Zheng Yu, are not afraid of death. If you kill my master, I will want you to die!

It was not until this time that the envoy read the edict, and Li Di was able to take office in Hengzhou and continue to be his official position.

Looking back on the whole process, it can be said that killing people without blood. If Ding Wei really succeeds, he will definitely laugh at these two seniors: You are so fun, I just hinted for a moment, and they all yelled at the verge of death...

If you want to know why a long sword hidden in your bag can have such power, please refer to the "Li Feixiong Incident" in the early days of Zhao Guangyi's rule, a scammer who impersonated the name of the Song Dynasty. Without even an edict, he could take down all the officials in the border areas of the Song Dynasty and almost beheaded together. Is Li Di's reaction normal, and is Kou Zhun's courage very superhuman?

The news came back to Kaifeng, and someone said to Ding Wei, "Li Di is really dead. Do you think of what will happen to you in the future history books and scholars in the world?" Unexpectedly, Ding Wei doesn't care at all, "So what can you do? At most, 4 words are just 'The world cherishes it', what can you do to me?"
Chapter completed!