The next day, Renyin (ninth day of the third lunar month).
The ministers made three representations to persuade the government to listen, and the two palaces finally replied: Yes!
So that day, under the Yingyang Gate, the two palaces embraced Zhao Xu, and in the small curtained hall, the government was formally heard for the first time.
The ministers then came to the table and begged for rewards for the military achievements of Xihe Road in February.
And submit the border inspection report sent from Xihe.
A great victory indeed!
The formation killed more than 10 Western thief generals including Sedai Chenchu and below, and obtained more than 4,700 heads, and no less than 80,000 cattle, sheep, horses, and armor. The department reported it, and all of them have been verified!
Therefore, the two palaces followed the rules and rewarded them based on their merits.
After Wu Xinjun stayed, he served as the envoy of Gyeongbokgung Palace, the deputy governor of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and the pacification envoy Li Xian of Xihelanhui Road.
After still leading Wu Xin's army to stay, he was promoted to be the envoy of Yanfu Palace. He was also appointed as the deputy governor of the inner chamber and the governor of Xihelanhui Road.
The meritorious generals below Li Xian also received rewards.
Wang Wenyu, the envoy of the Sifang embassy and the training envoy of the Rongzhou regiment, was promoted to the position of introduction envoy. Hengxingguan was still the training envoy of the Rongzhou regiment. As long as he achieved similar military merits, he would have the opportunity to receive a special order and be dismissed, and he would become a full-time official.
Hengxingguan, the country and the dynasty can have up to dozens of people.
However, apart from the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China, there have been only a few official military ministers in the past dynasties.
Almost every official military minister who started in Renmiao eventually entered the capital and served as the military commander of the third government office and the palace commander.
Under Wang Wenyu, Kang Shi, the governor of Jiazhou and Hemen envoy of Dongshang, was promoted to lead the training envoy of Rongzhou regiment, and Song Andao, the envoy of Dongtou, was promoted to Chongban of the inner hall.
Rousseau, the imperial envoy and the governor of Zhongzhou, also led the Kangzhou regiment training envoy; Cao Linling, the imperial envoy, was appointed the governor of Jiazhou, and Akmi, the imperial envoy, was appointed the governor of Changzhou.
Other meritorious generals and assistants were each moved to the third rank, and their rewards varied.
The two palaces naturally agreed to the reward letters prepared by the three provinces and two governments.
Neither the Empress Dowager nor the Empress Dowager Xiang have enough political sensitivity yet.
However, Zhao Xu was beside him, looking at the merit list, and already sighed in his heart.
Take a look at the list of requests for credit from the three provinces and two governments.
Except for the three standard Han names Wang Wenyu, Song Andao, and Cao Lingli.
The name Kang Shi sounds a bit like someone from the Western Region.
Rousseau's name barely looks like a Han Chinese.
But Akemi is the standard title.
And these three people were indeed marked as "generals" on the provincial documents.
Xihe has six meritorious generals, and three of them are generals!
At best, this proves that Li Xian made outstanding contributions to uniting ethnic minorities in Xihe and building the paradise of the Song Dynasty.
However, those who are interested only need a little provocation.
It can easily remind people of the Anshi Rebellion and the story of the Beiya Imperial Guards in the Tang Dynasty who disrupted the government.
Then just wait for Asano to fry the pot!
The sensitive and fragile sense of security that had no place to rest among the scholar-bureaucrats of the Song Dynasty would make them jump.
Therefore, Zhao Xu knew that after Li Xian returned to the court, he could not let him go.
Stay in the capital and be raised in honor for a few years.
Otherwise, as long as he goes back, he will not end well!
As for Xihe Road?
Several names flashed through Zhao Xu's mind.
There are veterans, commanders, future famous ministers, and even people from the old party.
He needs to think carefully about the character and pros and cons of these people.
Then think of ways to promote one of them to perform their duties.
Before and after Sima Guang and Lu Gongzhu entered the court, it was best to handle this matter to avoid unnecessary complications.
After the ministers finished their performance, they retired.
The first time the two palaces listen to politics, it is over.
At this time, Tong Jiansi's people brought the bullets that Yushitai had sent into the palace to the two palaces.
"The Empress Dowager, the Empress Dowager, Your Majesty..."
"This is the imperial censor's bullet that Tongjian Si received today..."
Thick piles of ammunition were piled up on the desk.
Both the Empress Dowager and the Empress Dowager were shocked when they saw this legendary sight of "a series of articles" for the first time!
There are at least dozens of bullets here!
If you look at the two palaces one by one, don't even sleep tonight.
But, this is not over yet.
The person who met with the Secretary quickly sent Wang Gui his own self-impeachment letter and a memorial to the county again.
The Empress Dowager looked at Wang Gui who was sent to him and asked him to impeach himself.
He glanced at Zhao Xu and saw the child with a curious and puzzled look on his face.
The expression of the Queen Mother suddenly changed.
Therefore, the Empress Dowager did not even read Wang Gui's self-impeachment and petition to the county.
I am afraid that my eyes will be stained, and I am also afraid that I will be soft-hearted for a moment.
She directly told her left and right: "Bring the imperial censor's bullets and seals back to Ouchi. The Queen Mother and I must review them carefully to avoid unjustly accusing the prime minister of the country!"
As she said that, she looked at Queen Mother Xiang.
Queen Mother Xiang naturally stood up quickly and saluted the Queen Mother: "On this matter, the Queen Mother can make up her mind!"
Queen Mother Xiang also smelled something unusual.
However, Wang Gui actually dared to say that kind of thing in the capital hall? !
The Queen Mother's impression of him was extremely bad.
Therefore, no matter how the Queen Mother wanted to deal with Wang Gui, the Queen Mother Xiang had no objection.
He even wished he could demote Wang Gui to the end!
However, the Empress Dowager must take the Empress Dowager Xiang to deal with this matter together, because only in this way, when the emperor grows up in the future, he will not be suspicious and will not investigate further. She said: "The Empress Dowager should discuss it with me. Punish it!”
Empress Dowager Xiang could only say helplessly: "The bride must obey your orders!"
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The two palaces took Zhao Xu back to the back of Funing Palace.
The Empress Dowager sent Liang Weijian and ordered Liang Weijian and Shi Deyi to accompany Zhao Xu to study in the palace.
These days, the two palaces have not relaxed at all about Zhao Xu's studies.
Except for the two days when the emperor was newly mourned, Zhao Xu was not urged to study.
The rest of the time, he was supervising Zhao Xu's homework.
They seem to have reached a tacit understanding, one teaches, the other counsels, each getting what they need.
Zhao Xu's performance also satisfied them.
Smart, sensible, and extremely understanding!
We can often draw inferences from one instance, and sometimes we can even borrow the meaning of the Analects of Confucius and the Classic of Xiao to interpret the meaning of the Spring and Autumn Period.
This not only shocked the two palaces.
It also surprised the two Hanlin bachelors behind the two palaces.
Zhao Xu doesn't know these things, he doesn't need to know, and he doesn't care about these things.
He just did what he was supposed to do step by step.
Just like a chameleon, before launching a fatal blow to its prey, it will quietly stay motionless in place, playing the role of branches, stones, and moss.
Therefore, no matter whether there was no one to accompany him, he read seriously and wrote his thoughts carefully.
This keeps the people around him.
Both female officials and ministers are always amazed and amazed.
Everyone in the imperial city, from top to bottom, now knows that the emperor is fond of reading, loves reading, and loves reading.
If these people know about it, then everyone in Bianjing will naturally know about it too.
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Zhao Xu was studying in Funing Palace.
The Empress Dowager and the Empress Dowager Xiang were in a side hall of Baoci Palace, looking at the bullets one after another.
As she watched, Queen Mother Xiang was also moved emotionally by the words on the bullet.
In fact, these censors found too much material and dug out too many details.
For example, some censors said that last year, Wang Gui instructed the officials of the capital to secretly erase the crime of "substitution" recorded by his son Wang Zhongxiu in the capital's diary.
He also sent people to modify Wang Zhongxiu's personal report in the Ministry of Civil Affairs, and secretly hid the record that he had been reprimanded by Emperor Daxing.
In this way, if someone goes to the Ministry of Personnel to check the case, they will not be able to see Wang Zhongxiu's fault in his appointment as the transfer envoy to Huainan.
And this is just the lightest of the many charges that the censors impeached Wang Gui.
The remaining charges are each more exaggerated than the last, and the wording used is also more intense than the last.
The most extreme censor has even shouted: Gui is in the three provinces and two governments, harboring treacherous intentions, appointing traitors, messing with the laws of the ancestors and national laws... If you don't kill Gui, you can't thank the world!
"It seems that what Zuo Xiang did has really shocked the government and the public!" After placing down another bullet to the Queen Mother, she was too lazy to read any more.
She looked at the Empress Dowager and asked, "Unknown Empress, have you made a decision?"
The Empress Dowager sighed softly and said: "It is unfortunate for the country that there are such unfaithful, unfilial, unkind and unjust traitorous ministers in the capital!"
"It's not enough to peel off the hemp to quell the world's hatred!"
When the Queen Mother heard this, she took a deep breath.
Even if she wanted to kill Wang Gui, she actually wanted to kill him.
However, I was still shocked by my concubine’s decisiveness and ruthlessness!
After becoming the prime minister, did the Queen Mother know what peeling hemp was?
The nightmare of all civil servants and officials, the nightmare of all ministers.
Peeling Ma is the opposite of Xuanma worshiping the prime minister.
It is also the ultimate method for the country to deal with ministers!
This is because of the ancestral family law and there is no law of killing and execution.
The Song Dynasty co-ruled the world with scholar-bureaucrats, so they had to retain the dignity of their ministers.
Therefore, there is a method of peeling hemp.
First, Xuan Ma was ordered to surrender, and the honors of his national heroes and ministers of society were destroyed.
Then he was punished and demoted again, taking away his official position and all the glory as a minister.
Then he was demoted one level at a time, until he could no longer be demoted, and he was demoted to the seventh-level judge, Bo Wei.
This was the fate of Kou Laigong, Ding Wei, and Cao Li.
At this point, all the officials and ministers have lost their reputations and all their achievements have been ruined.
If the emperor does not reverse the verdict for him, he will never be reincarnated!
"Empress..." The Empress Dowager took a deep breath: "Since our ancestors, we have not stripped a minister for sixty or seventy years, let alone a prime minister?"
The Empress Dowager closed her eyes: "But Wang Gui's crime is extremely serious!"
Queen Mother Xiang naturally did not want to appear again.
If you can strip off Wang Gui today, you can naturally strip off another prime minister tomorrow, and even strip her of the honor of the Xiang family!
This is absolutely impossible.
So, she could only step forward and salute: "Please think twice about the past when Kou Laigong was demoted to Yazhou and Leizhou!"
The Gao family, the Xiang family, and the Cao family all had an old relationship with Kou Laigong in the past, and they were all the families who continued to avenge and fight for Kou Laigong after he was demoted.
The Empress Dowager closed her eyes and said nothing.
The small figure of the official family kept popping up in her mind.
"Could it be that I have been wronged?" A childish voice, like a demonic voice, was running around in the Queen Mother's mind.
The officials suspected that they were unjustly accused.
Then we can only make it a solid case!
It's better to peel off the hemp and reduce one to the lowest level!
In this way, Wang Gui's crimes will be in the tens of thousands.
As officials grow up, they have no way of identifying them one by one, let alone distinguishing which ones are true and which ones are false.
I won't go into it further.
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Note: Today’s reward was recorded in the March Renyin article of "The Continuation of Zi Zhi Tong Jian Long Chapter". Only Li Xian’s reward was changed. According to the history books, at this time, Li Xian had been dismissed from his post as an internal minister due to impeachment and was demoted at the same time. He was granted the title of Observer of Xuanzhou and received a reward today. Li Xian was reinstated to the remote county position of Wu Xinjun, but soon Li Xian was dismissed again.
