At the end of March in the second year of Chongqing, there was a vision in the sky. Taiyin and Taibai meet the sun together, and are separated by more than a chi.
A few days later, there was an unexplained riot in Zhongdu City, and a fire broke out in the imperial city for no reason. Penglaiyuan, Ruizhu Palace, Ruizhu Palace, Longhe Palace, Longhe Palace, and Xiangying Palace were burned down. The treasures of the past dynasties were destroyed and the losses were countless. There were also hungry people who broke into the royal temples and palaces, looted supplies, and damaged hundreds of cities in the south of the city.
In recent years, many high-ranking officials and nobles in Zhongdu have interfered with merchants to make huge profits. This situation certainly made many officials angry. The next day, someone scolded him in the court, saying that although this disaster was extraordinary, he could not speak exclusively about the way of heaven, and he would have to deal with human matters first. As for personnel affairs, the Holy Lord uses them for his own purposes, the prime ministers flatter him, and hundreds of ministers neglect their duties. This is the real reason.
The person who said this was probably because his shop was burned down, so he was heartbroken and couldn't help but speak out.
This made everyone angry, and no one wanted to hear it.
But the emperor immediately seized on the two sentences "The prime minister is flattering, and the hundred divisions are derelict in their duties." He blamed the third division of the Forbidden Army. He cursed and mentioned Shan Nanping, the official of Daxing Prefecture, who had neglected his duty. Tu Dan Nanping was very close to the emperor, so everyone knew that the emperor's talk of Tu Dan was not to put pressure on Tu Dan Nanping, but to target Shangshu You, who had been in charge of the security of Zhongdu since he sent troops to defend the country in the third year of Da'an. Prime Minister Shan Yi.
Although the prime minister Tu Shanyi wanted to please the emperor, he would not be able to get in for a long time. But the emperor insisted on using two nonsense words as proof and started spraying them in the court. Who could stop him?
Tu Shanyi said last month that he had to rest for a year and a half because he fell off a horse and injured his foot, unable to recover. So he didn't go to court today. Since the right prime minister himself is not here, most of his party members are weak Confucian ministers, who can only act in the face of the emperor's wrath. Even Zhang Xingxin, the Zuo Jianyi doctor known as the leader of Qingliu, could not directly confront the emperor's majesty.
The emperor suddenly attacked, and many people began to wonder whether there was going to be a huge change in the court situation. Did the emperor want to take this opportunity to eliminate the influence of Confucian ministers and instead install some real confidants in the court?
As soon as this idea came up, it was immediately extinguished.
It turned out that Zuo Cheng Wanyan Gang, who had been having a fierce fight with Tu Shanyi recently, suddenly showed his strength. Interestingly, Zuo Cheng was commanding an army of 200,000 troops in Jinshan, and he was not in the court.
The group of military veterans who were close to Wanyan Gang had always been dissatisfied with the Confucian ministers. In the past year or so, the civil and military parties had exchanged bloody blows more than once. But this time, Wanyan Gang's forces were more protective of Daxing Mansion and even the Third Division of the Forbidden Army, and even took the initiative to explain that the chaos in Zhongdu was probably not caused by the imprisonment of the Third Division of the Forbidden Army, but a loophole in the Jinshan front line, which led to the Mongolian invasion. People's sentry horses and fine horses ride deeply.
This statement is tantamount to taking the initiative to share the pressure for Tu Shanyi. So all the ministers knew that the whole matter was closely related to Prime Minister You, and Tu Shanyi had already voluntarily given up some interests and surrendered to Wanyan Gang during the communication outside the court.
Now that the two prime ministers have secretly reached an agreement, what else is there to say? Now everyone is convinced that this is indeed the case, it is really so, it is not that we are incompetent, it is really those Mongolians who are too cunning and hateful, and they must come up with effective methods to strengthen the defense of Zhongdu.
In an instant, all the officials came to the table one after another, impeaching some people and recommending others. Until the end, Tu Shanyi's party members even came forward to argue that Wanyan Gang's younger brother, the Zhenxi Army Jiedushi, and the Hebei Road Inspector Wanyan Dingnu, were outstanding talents. He also served as the right deputy inspector and managed the bodyguards. , so he can be regarded as the commander of the capital.
Gongweizhi is responsible for the strict ceremonial guard and is the emperor's closest force. The commanders of the imperial guard and the direct capital have always been served by close ministers who were from the imperial family, such as Shang Yi, Fu Bao, and Feng Yu, after serving abroad. For example, Wanyan Gang himself is like this.
But Wanyan Dingnu didn't have this qualification... He had been a close minister of the emperor, yes, but that was when Emperor Zhang Zong was still alive. The friendship between the current emperor and Emperor Zhang Zong is a secret that everyone in the court keeps silent.
The recommendation of Wanyan Dingnu was completely against the rules. Bringing this matter to the court for discussion was even more disrespectful to the emperor.
But the emperor suddenly realized that he was powerless to stop it.
After experiencing two disastrous defeats in the third year of Da'an and the first year of Chongqing, the prestige of the Dajin court was shaken to a terrifying degree, and what was even more shaken than the prestige of the court was the prestige of the current emperor.
Usually, all parts of the imperial court tried their best to mount the paper, but at first glance it seemed that everything was fine. He was still the emperor who kept his word.
But after an emergency occurred... no matter how ridiculous the incident was, the emperor suddenly lost the initiative. The ministers from the civil and military factions in the court suddenly joined hands and arranged everything in three strokes, five divisions and two divisions.
That series of appointments reached a point where the emperor had no choice but to approve them. And the emperor couldn't stop it at all.
Nothing seems special. Just like his gentle and courteous appearance, Tu Danyi once again shrunk his strength; while Wanyan Gang followed the trend and easily took over everything Tu Danyi gave up. This is not the first time this has happened in the past year.
But this is the first time that everything goes as planned without the emperor's personal guidance!
Could it be that the Tudan clan was trying to show off to the emperor? Or is Wan Yan Gang too arbitrary and having ideas that he shouldn't have? The emperor couldn't understand.
He could only try his best to maintain the situation and try to suppress the two rulers at the same time.
How could a person who could become the emperor of the Jin Kingdom be a fool? Especially in political disputes, the emperor is by no means inferior to others. He quickly gathered enough support to launch an immediate counterattack.
In the following months, the emperor did three things.
One thing was a sudden announcement at the beginning of May that the power to command the approximately 3,000 people of the Armed Guards Division would be handed over to the new right deputy marshal Hu Shahu, and he would be stationed outside Tongxuanmen.
Perhaps the emperor felt that even though Hu Shahu, a rough warrior, had thousands of shortcomings, he was more reliable than the noble men and talents in the court. After Hu Shahu obtained the military power in Zhongdu, he indeed stood by the emperor's side and alienated himself from Wanyan Gang.
The second thing was to appoint Xu Ding, the Minister of Hubu, and Wang Weihan, the Shangshu of the Ministry of Justice, as political advisors, which meant that the number of prime ministers in the dynasty was expanded from two to four.
Xu Ding's father was Du Shisheng's old master, the ruling Xu Zhiguo who was overthrown and criticized during the Zhang Zong Dynasty and sadly stepped down. And Wang Weihan was the man who assisted Xu Zhi in governing the river and made great contributions.
After the political power of Xu Zhiguo failed, the group of Xu clan officials fell into pieces, and even the best among them had been immersed in complicated affairs for a long time.
Now that the emperor has made him a consul again and made him the second prime minister, he will save trouble... It seems that he has high hopes, but who knows what the effect will be?
Another thing is to change the Yuan.
"So, I hope that Lang Jun will know that it is not July of the second year of Chongqing, but July of the first year of Zhining."
"Zhi Ning?"
Guo Ning burst into laughter: "I heard that there is another severe drought in Hedong, Shaanxi and other places this year, causing hunger and devastation. In the Central Plains, Shandong and other places, people can earn up to 12,000 yuan per bucket of rice, and the people are struggling to survive. In such a situation , can it really be peaceful?"
The servants around Guo Ning couldn't answer his question, and neither could Du Shisheng.
Du Shisheng dressed up as a wealthy businessman and was dusty. Not long after he returned from Zhongdu, someone in Zhongdu asked Guo Ning the same question, but no one could answer it either.
It was late summer and early autumn and the weather was still very hot. Under the scorching sun, large cracks appeared on the ground around the pond. The branches and leaves of the trees beside the road were scorched and they looked listless. Before and after the army marched, dust was flying.
Even the wind blowing over Pitang is hot and smells of sand.
Looking at the walled city in front of me, I saw swaying figures on the city and some people running back and forth in panic. Someone staggered up and set up the flag, but the flag could not be firmly planted. The north wind blew and it was crumbling.
Guo Ning looked at it for a moment and then asked, "Qing Jin, what do you think?"
7017k
