On the third day of March, the official family issued an order to avoid court.
The reason for leaving the court is that the imperial concubine is happy, so the whole world will celebrate it, and at the same time, all civil and military officials in Beijing will receive a reward.
When they first heard the good news, all the officials were happy for Zhao Guan's family. After all, adding a new child is a great event for ordinary people's families, let alone the Tian family, which has always had difficulty in producing heirs.
But after the joy passed, the officials began to feel upset again.
"The official family must be overjoyed. They couldn't wait to celebrate her as soon as she got pregnant, and they weren't afraid of offending the Xingsha spirit..."
In this era, the infant mortality rate was extremely high, and it was unavoidable for both the royal family and the common people. In order for the child to be born smoothly and grow up healthily, various taboos and customs were created. After pregnancy, you should not be too high-profile to avoid attracting ghosts and gods. After birth, it is customary to give the child a nickname to avoid the attention of ghosts and gods.
"The crown prince turmoil has just calmed down a bit, and if something like this happens again, won't it add to the troubles again?"
"This year has been really eventful. From the beginning of the year to now, I have been struggling endlessly, which is really tiring."
"Hey, we all came together. Yesterday, Prince Zhong made a big fuss in the Qian Mansion, and now the imperial concubine is pregnant. The reserve position of our Song Dynasty is difficult to predict after all."
While the officials were discussing endlessly, Dong Huai, who was temporarily in power, was also worried. Since there was a happy event in the official family, it would take a long time for Uncle Xie Fang to resign. He didn't know how long his temporary title would last. when.
But at this moment, several more edicts came from the palace. Upon seeing them, Dong Huai was relieved of his sorrow and cheered up.
The first edict was to appoint Dong Huai as Prime Minister and Privy Envoy!
The prime minister system of the Song Dynasty went through many changes. By the time of Xiaozong, the three provinces were completely merged, and the power of the prime minister was divided into two parts, namely the left and right prime ministers.
The prime minister on the left generally has the powers of Shangshu Province plus the Ministry of Menxia, while the prime minister on the Right has the powers of Shangshu Province plus Zhongshu Province. The difference between the two lies in the powers of Menxia and Zhongshu.
To put it simply, Menxia Province is responsible for reviewing edicts, while Zhongshu Province is responsible for drafting edicts. However, after the merger of departments, the court’s decisions were basically discussed on the spot, and many times were decided in court. In this way, Menxia Province had no authority to review It has no effect, it is just a signature and a seal.
Therefore, in fact, the real power of the right prime minister is higher than that of the left prime minister. When the two exist at the same time, the right prime minister will naturally be respected. In other words, even if Uncle Xie Fang does not resign, he can only retreat to the second-in-command position.
The second edict was to repair Yousheng Palace, with funds coming from the internal treasury. Dong Songchen was appointed as the officer, and Lu Yun was promoted to assistant.
This edict made Dong Huai frown a little. He was opposed to it at first, but he just thought that he had just been nominated as the Right Prime Minister, and this first political order was against the officials. It was really inappropriate, so he had to sign an approval and handed it over to Follow-up review.
The third edict promotes Chongrong, a Hanlin doctor, as a good Hanlin doctor and takes charge of the Hanlin medical official bureau.
He was just a medical officer and had made great achievements, so Dong Huai passed it easily.
The fourth edict promoted the imperial censor in the palace to the position of censor and censor.
Dong Huai didn't have a good impression of Ding Daquan. He felt that this person had some evil intentions. However, the appointment was within the normal scope of transfer and there was no big problem, so he hesitated for a while and finally approved it.
Let’s talk about Dong Huai. He loves the people and is diligent in government, honest and honest, knows the general situation and takes into account the overall situation. However, he has a problem that he is too soft-hearted and considers things too carefully. In fact, he is not very suitable to serve as prime minister at a time of internal and external troubles.
But in any case, it was not a surprise that he took over as Prime Minister. All officials knew that it would happen sooner or later, so the process went smoothly, and no one made trouble for the first batch of edicts issued after becoming Prime Minister.
Therefore, it has to be said that Zhao Guan's family is very political. The imperial edict, which could easily attract criticism, hitchhiked on the Prime Minister's wish and passed unimpeded.
Officials of Uncle Xie Fang's group became increasingly anxious after learning that Dong Huai had officially paid homage to the Prime Minister. In order to create opportunities for Uncle Xie Fang to make a comeback in the future, they became more active in launching actions against Zhao Mengqi.
After Ding Daquan took over as the censor, he began to take charge of the censorship. Nearly half of the ministers were attracted by him. In addition, he secretly spread the rumors and revealed his relationship with Concubine Yan, intentionally or unintentionally, which caused many people who wanted to follow Long. The officials who had made great achievements fell in favor of him, making him more and more popular. At the same time, he and his party members stepped up their arrangements to brew public opinion among the officials and gentry that was unfavorable to the loyal king.
Dong Songchen, Lu Yunsheng and others, when they started planning the renovation project of Yousheng Palace, they did not forget to fabricate some sensational rumors and let people spread them around.
On the contrary, the Qian family, which had been beaten up, has been silent. Qian Tao even entrusted all the official affairs of Taifu Temple to his subordinates, began to stay at home due to illness, and refused all visits.
Zhao Guan's family basically never left the Ciyuan Hall. Although they still reviewed memorials, they did not go to court for four or five days in a row. Occasionally, some officials who acted like roving soldiers came to impeach the loyal king Meng Lang for his misconduct, but they were all detained. , making people confused about his attitude towards this matter.
But everyone can feel that a big storm is brewing and will sweep over at any time.
What is strange is that the loyal king Zhao Mengqi who caused all this seems to be completely unaware of this. He goes out of the palace incognito every day like a normal person and is busy working for the new clan school.
On this day, Zhao Mengqi finally found a satisfactory place. He stood on a small hillock, looked around, and was full of ambition.
The area where he is located is bounded to the west by the north-south Waisha River. On the other side of the river is the earthen wall of Lin'an Outer City. To the north is the Jiangnan Canal, which runs five miles eastward from the junction of the Waisha River and then to the southeast. Turn a corner and travel another six miles to meet the Qiantang River.
If the Beitumen of Lin'an is used as the east-west horizontal line, north of this horizontal line is a rough square with a side of five miles, with a total area of 12,000 acres.
The place where Zhao Mengqi is standing now is the area of Zhejiang University in later generations. The water area about one mile long and wide not far away from him is the Huajiachi in later generations, but it is much wider than that in later generations. Zhao Mengqi decided to rename it "Dong". pool'.
Others thought that he was only interested in the area near the pond for building a school. However, they did not know that he was actually interested in the entire area with a radius of five miles.
What he wanted to build was not just a school, but a city!
