At the court meeting on March 15th, a bunch of edicts were announced.
Among them, the one that attracts the most attention is naturally about Zhao Mengqi. An edict contains more than 300 words, which is more than the canonization of a prince, which is staggering.
Ignoring those lengthy and grievance scenes, the core meaning is that Zhao Mengqi was granted the title of King of Yan, opened a palace, was given a halberd, and joined Ping Zhangjun in state affairs. Promote new learning and new city affairs.
The meaning of his opening a palace is not just a palace to live in, but also a government office where he can recruit staff and set up officials. It also has very large autonomy. It is not wrong to say that it is a small court, and it also provides the opportunity to establish a palace. The power of the Guards has not yet limited its establishment.
That is to say, it is similar to Li Er's Qin Palace and Jin Palace before Zhao Er succeeded to the throne, but Zhao Er does not have the right to build a guard army yet.
In a sense, Zhao Mengqi had the ability to rebel after he founded the government. At first, the ministers were naturally strongly opposed, but after arguing for a long time, they also figured out that the officials were not afraid of King Yan's rebellion, so why should we worry about it? What's more, judging from the current situation, King Yan will become the family of the Song Dynasty sooner or later. It is not a big deal for him to establish a team in advance and gain power.
The following Ping Zhangshi and Lin'an Prefecture Yin were just fictitious titles, but given names, they could hand over real power at any time as long as the officials were willing.
The imperial censor is a bit weird, because this official has a high position and heavy powers. He is the country's highest censor and has veto power over all political orders and edicts.
In fact, there was no official imperial censor in the Song Dynasty. The person who had the most hope of taking up this official position was Sima Guang, but he failed to give up in the end.
There is "concurrent censor doctor", which is just an additional title or a false title. One is awarded to envoys or foreign officials to enhance the authority and prestige of the officials. The other is a false title in the early Song Dynasty, awarded to foreign monarchs. and the leaders of the country’s ethnic minorities.
There is also a kind of "photographing censor doctor", which is to take photos temporarily due to business reasons, but cancel afterwards, and this is very rare.
The one given to Zhao Mengqi now does not have the words "concurrent" and "photograph", which means he is a full-time official, which means that he can say "no" to all decisions of the court.
Let's talk about the "check in front of the palace". The name does not look majestic or domineering, but he is the highest commander of the Forbidden Army and commands all the Forbidden Army.
Zhao Dahuang Paojia had this official in front of him. When he became emperor, he abolished this official position, divided the command of the imperial army into three, and established three yamen, that is, the front department of the palace, the guard and infantry department, and the horse department. But even the "Commanders" of each of the three yamen were vacant most of the time, just to allow the emperor to better control the military power.
Of course, Zhao Mengqi's current position is still a virtual title, and the real military power is still firmly in the hands of Zhao Yun. Unless one day Old Zhao hands over the power of personnel appointment and dismissal, then the title will be fulfilled.
However, for the time being, he was given some practical rights. He was in charge of the bodyguard and pro-military Ma Junsi, that is, Qu Moxuan was directly subordinate to Zhao Mengqi, and there was also someone to supervise the Zhejiang Navy.
Sanya gave one of them, and said it was a little, because there were actually two Ma Junsi.
The Ma Army Division nominally has 30,000 soldiers and horses, but the main force has been stationed in Jiankang Mansion during Zhao Jiumei's period to show his intention to move north. The cavalry is used for offense, so it must not be ready for the Northern Expedition at any time.
In the past hundred years, the imperial court had only rarely thought of the Northern Expedition. Ministers often proposed to transfer the main force of the Ma Army back to Lin'an. The red men of the Ma Army also wanted to come back, but in the end they gave up. After Jiankang was stationed there, a "Ma Jun Xingsi" was formed, which was headed by low-ranking generals and rotated frequently.
As for the old division that stayed in Lin'an, there were only three commanders, Longwei, Yunqi, and Wuqi, with a total of only a thousand cavalry. These three melons and two dates were previously under the control of both the infantry division and the infantry division. Now they have regained their independence, with Qu Mo Commander Xuan, because he had few soldiers, actually gave him the official position of 'Capital Commander'.
This is the continuation of the idea of checks and balances in the Song Dynasty. Small officials hold great power, while high officials take care of small things. After Yuanfeng's restructuring, the court improved a lot, but it was still common in the army.
As for the Zhejiang navy, it was newly built last year, with a total of 2,800 soldiers and about 30 large and small ships. The courtiers didn't care much. If King Yan wanted it, just give it to him.
Then this 'promotion of new learning and new city affairs', the new learning was the 'new sect' that had been decided before, but the new city made the ministers confused. When they understood that it was to expand a private city equivalent to the King of Yan in the east of the city ’ After that, everyone objected.
The reasons are both public and private. The "private" inconvenience is put to the fore, because although most of the land in the east of the city belongs to the Qian family and has been "sold" to King Yan, there is still a considerable part of the land owned by the powerful. of officials.
The "public" reason is that building a city costs countless money and food. The government's finances are now declining, and everyone's life is "tight". If the King of Yan robs the money to build the city, what will everyone eat? The court can't handle it. Doing other things?
So Zhao Mengqi had to explain patiently, guaranteeing that the land would not be expropriated by force and would be purchased at a premium to the market price, and that no money from the national treasury would be used to build the city. Even the internal treasury would only provide a start-up capital, and the rest of the money would be paid by Zhao Mengqi himself. Think of ways to.
Not only did he buy land, but he also spent his own money to build the city. The ministers did not believe that King Yan would have such astronomical amounts of money. Even if he emptied all the money from the inner treasury and Prince Rong's palace, it would still not be enough for one-tenth. Taking a ten thousand step back, it would be impossible for the entire Qian family to go crazy and donate all their money to King Yan.
However, King Yan made his promise, and the ministers reluctantly nodded, secretly waiting to see his joke. The new city was half the size of Lin'an City.
In addition to watching jokes, the ministers also had an inhumane thought in their hearts. This King of Yan was too tossing and unruly. If he wandered around the court all day long, who knows how many troubles he would cause, so why not let him play by himself? It will take at least three to five years to build a city after removing the mud. During this period, everyone can have some peace and quiet, which is still very pleasant.
After this edict, there were several more.
Zhao Yu was granted the title of 'Princess of Fengguo', King Yan's original mother Huang was granted the title of 'Mrs. of Shangdang County', Zhao Fei, the biological daughter of old Zhao, was granted the title of 'Princess of Zhou Kingdom', Yan Guifei was consecrated to Zhaoyi, and Cheng Yuanfeng was given the title He has the right to participate in political affairs, and there are also a series of personnel adjustments in the court, which are not big moves.
In addition, he approved Uncle Xie Fang's resignation and was awarded the title of Councilor for Political Affairs, Tejin, Bachelor of Guanwendian, Quanzhou Prefecture, Fujian Road Comfort Envoy, and Southeast Coastal Institutional Envoy. He also issued government decrees on visiting people's sufferings and They are allowed to "act expeditiously" in matters such as preparing troops and promoting and demoting officials.
This edict caused many middle and lower-level officials to speculate, and they were not sure what the mystery was in it.
The criminal officials who were previously sentenced to prison and exile were all sent to a place that was unfamiliar to all officials, 'Pinghu Island'.
Then at noon that day, under the supervision of officials from the Ministry of Punishment, Ding Daquan and other prisoners will be identified in the Dali Temple Prison and hanged. Their bodies will then be collected by their family members.
In addition, Dong Songchen, Lu Yunsheng, and more than 30 accomplices involved in the case will also be executed at the Caishikou outside Dongqingmen.
