When Empress Dowager Xiang arrived at Baoci Palace, the Empress Dowager told her that this morning, Mrs. Han and Mrs. Lu entered the palace to work as lobbyists for Wen Yanbo.
After hearing this, Empress Dowager Xiang was stunned for a moment, and then she laughed: "Mother, even Grand Master Wen is eyeing Brother Six!"
"It seems that Sixth Brother has indeed won the support of both the government and the public!"
Since the founding of the Song Dynasty, has there ever been a senior official who thought about sending his granddaughter to the palace after the new king came to the throne?
Most people avoid it for fear of not getting there!
Because becoming a relative means that future generations will probably not be able to enter the three provinces and two governments again.
At most, it is a noble and generous position among the local magistrates or among the six ministries.
Wealth is wealth, but there is no chance to dominate national affairs, and it is no longer possible to influence the world.
Therefore, as long as there is still hope for an ordinary family of senior officials, they will never take the path of their relatives.
Now, Grand Master Wen Yanbo is actually willing to make this bet!
The Queen Mother was really surprised and overjoyed.
reason?
Even Grand Master Wenyan Bowen eagerly sent his granddaughter to the palace.
It is clear at a glance which people in the world are opposed to each other!
The Queen Mother was also very happy.
After all, this matter is too embarrassing for her!
"Queen Mother, you might as well send someone to inform each family to postpone the date of each family's young lady entering the palace by a few days..."
This means leaving enough time for Wen Yanbo's granddaughter or great-granddaughter.
He smiled and nodded to the Empress Dowager: "Just follow your Majesty's wishes!"
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When Zhao Xu arrived at Baoci Palace, he found that the two palaces seemed to look at him differently than in the past.
"Mother, Queen..." Zhao Xu sat down and asked, "Why are you looking at me like this?"
"Is there flowers on my face?"
The Empress Dowager and Empress Dowager Xiang immediately laughed, and the Empress Dowager said: "Although there are no flowers on the official's face, it's almost the same!"
Zhao Xu probably guessed something. He sat calmly between the two palaces, touched his little face, and pretended to be suspicious: "I washed up before coming here..."
The two palaces laughed again.
Empress Dowager Xiang stopped teasing the child, touched his head and said, "My son has no flowers on his face!"
"But my son is already able to attract bees and butterflies!"
"Um?"
"My son will know for himself in the future!" Queen Mother Xiang didn't want to, so she just said this.
Although Sima Guang's words were a bit silly, there was some truth to them.
Especially when it comes to women!
Sixth Brother is young, so he should be careful not to get infected prematurely.
According to historical records, Emperor Zhao of the Han Dynasty seemed to have died young because of his premature exposure to women.
Another thing is that the adopted girls are indeed prepared for Brother Six.
But whether they can please Brother Six depends on themselves.
At this time, Liang Weijian's voice came from outside the palace: "The Empress Dowager, the Empress Dowager, everyone...good news..."
"Pass!" The two palaces looked at each other.
Then there was an internal minister, holding a side newspaper delivered to the Tongjian Department by horseback. He knelt outside the curtain and read the words on the side newspaper: "Quan Tiju Xihelanhui roadside to prevent wealth and use the Secretary Chen Zonghui , colleagues in charge of Gouxi Helanhui roadside to guard against finances, ministers and officials, etc. bowed their heads before paying homage to His Majesty the Emperor, the Merciful Saint of the Two Palaces..."
The two palaces suddenly frowned and their expressions darkened.
It's only been a few days, but the two bastards Xiang Zonghui and Gao Gongji have already provoked Bian Pan?
Then I heard the minister say: "The benevolent sages of the two palaces of Fuwei are wise, wise and far-sighted, and His Majesty the Emperor is powerful in the world... I am equal to Qin Fenglu, and when he encountered an army and a bandit king, he rushed into a group... Thanks to the blessings of the benevolent sages of the two palaces and the blessings of His Majesty the Emperor, More than a hundred people below Wang Chong have been captured, and more than four hundred have been beheaded..."
The expressions of the two palaces turned from gloomy to clear.
Military thief Wang Chong? !
They all remembered that it was Wang Chong, the rebel sergeant who had been reporting to the local magistrates since last year?
After the two palaces took charge of the government, they heard more than once reports from Yousi about the Wang Chong thieves who used the terrain of the border areas to continuously harass and guerrilla.
Some local officials even shouted: After Zhang and Guo Erni, they are the most vicious thieves!
It means we have to hit hard!
Zhang and Guo Erni, the two palaces certainly knew that they were the leaders of the Shaanxi mutiny that caused a sensation in the world during the Renmiao era.
At their peak, these two rebels traveled across most of the world's military states and repeatedly defeated the Song Dynasty's official army.
The government and the public were in panic.
Finally, under the personal deployment of Renmiao, more than 8,000 elite Yang Wenguang troops under Fan Zhongyan were recruited, and ministers from all directions were appointed to dispatch the Eighth Route Army to block the entire Shaanxi traffic.
Only then did this group of thieves be strangled to death!
When Zhang and Guo Erni were active, the Empress Dowager was still serving Cisheng Guangxian in the palace, but she remembered clearly that there were three surprises in the palace at that time, and Renmiao did not think about it until the side report said that he had been captured. After killing Zhang Ni and Guo Ni and eliminating the rest of the evildoers, I finally became happy.
As for the Queen Mother?
When she was a child, even though Zhang, Guo and others had already been executed, the names of these people were still very loud among the people, which had the effect of stopping children from crying!
The traitor Wang Chong was based in the Shangluo area where Zhang and Guo Erni started their careers.
What Zhang and Guo Erni followed were also imitated.
Traveling around, harassing the government, and seizing the county seat whenever possible, opening warehouses to provide relief.
Learn from the anti-king style of the late Sui Dynasty!
Naturally, when the two palaces found out, they were very worried.
Last month, a special edict was issued, ordering the local authorities such as the Yanyan Road, Huanqing Road, and Yongxing Army to carry out strict encirclement and suppression. They also ordered a deputy general from the Yanyan Road to personally lead the elite cavalry of the border army as the main force of the encirclement and suppression. !
Unexpectedly, Wang Chong's traitor escaped to Qin Feng Road, but fortunately he survived and ran into the hands of Xiang Zonghui and Gao Gongji who had gone to Xihe to take office.
Although the two palaces knew it well, Xiang Zonghui and Gao Gongji were forced to sit back and watch the elite generals of Xihe rushing to kill them.
But still very happy!
After all, one is a biological brother and the other is a biological nephew, and both have been discussed.
Now they have achieved such military exploits!
It’s so flattering to them!
The two palaces said almost immediately: "Send the good news quickly!"
Zhao Xu was standing by and took the opportunity to say: "Two close relatives of the country have already made meritorious service to the country even on the road!"
"It can be seen that these two close relatives are actually good ministers of the country!"
The two palaces couldn't close their mouths with laughter as they listened.
Liang Weijian sent the good news to the two palaces.
I opened the two palaces and took a closer look, and the smile on my face became even brighter.
Zhao Xu was beside him and also read the good news.
He was not surprised!
There are a lot of war gods from Xihe Road in the teams of Xiang Zonghui and Gao Gongji!
Wang Wenyu, Akemi, Qin Gui, Li Hao...
They are all brave generals who were killed in the blood sea of the mountain of corpses!
Including the cavalry accompanying them and the cavalry from Xihe to greet them, there are more than four thousand cavalry!
Not to mention a group of wandering rebellious sergeants, even if they encountered the Liao Lord's Pishi Army and Gongzhang Army, they could fight and defeat them!
Therefore, Wang Chong was unlucky. He had just jumped out of the siege on Huanqing Road and bumped into two royal relatives who were eating beef and singing songs and planned to go to Xihe to plant cotton.
"Mother, Queen..." Zhao Xu said: "I remember that someone reported that Wang Chong was causing trouble in the place, killing officials, stealing treasury... he was really a huge thief!"
"Two close relatives were captured and killed in a fight, killing and capturing all their members..."
"You are worthy of being the son of a great general of our dynasty and a famous minister!"
"This is a great compliment!"
When the two palaces heard Zhao Xu's words, they felt happy in their hearts.
Of course, the two palaces still pretended not to care.
"Young man, I just managed to capture and kill a thief by luck!" The Empress Dowager said calmly, "It's nothing to congratulate!"
Empress Dowager Xiang also said: "Xiang Zonghui is just lucky, not any credit!"
"Besides, Sixth Brother has already rewarded their beautiful officials, so they can't be rewarded again!",
"Lest everyone in the world think that the Queen Mother and Mother-in-law are nepotistic!"
However, the smiles and looks on their faces had given them away.
Zhao Xu said: "Seven to eight hundred people gathered together to cause chaos, thieves running rampant across the prefectures and counties? Where have such thieves come from since ancient times?"
"These giant bandits and thieves are a nuisance to the country!"
Zhao Xu looked at the two palaces seriously, as if he were an adult: "My mother-in-law and my mother-in-law, two relatives of the country, if you capture and kill the giant bandit for me, you must be rewarded!"
"Otherwise, rewards and punishments will be unfair, and the country will be ruined!"
This is the truth that Zhao Xu has engraved in his mind after reading the deeds of emperors in the past dynasties, ancient and modern times, and foreign and domestic emperors in modern times, and studying the deeds of several outstanding ones.
For the army, rewards must come quickly!
When good news comes from ahead, the prepared rewards must be distributed immediately without delay!
But we can't imitate Emperor Taizong and be stingy with the reward money, and end up losing his whole life's reputation!
Note: The uprising of Zhang Hai, Guo Miaoshan and Shao Xing was a great uprising in the Qingli era that shook the entire Northern Song Dynasty.
Fan Zhongyan, Ouyang Xiu and others were frightened by it and believed that if they were not wiped out quickly, the Song Dynasty would take jujube pills.
The scale and destructiveness of this uprising exceeded that of Liang Shanshuibo later.
Moreover, this is a true rebel army.
On the contrary, it was the Song army that encircled and suppressed them. Their military discipline was corrupted and they killed good people and took credit for their merits!
Even Song Ting's own scholar-bureaucrats had to admit: officers and soldiers... are better than thieves!
Therefore, readers are advised to pay attention to screening.
The buttocks of scholar-bureaucrats and emperors will not sit on the side of the common people!
Note 2: The Wang Chong Uprising was a sergeant uprising that occurred again in Shangzhou, the base of Zhanghai Uprising in the seventh year of Yuanfeng.
The sergeant uprising is a characteristic of the Northern Song Dynasty. Generally speaking, the peasant uprisings in the early and middle Northern Song Dynasty were small-scale and would not form a large peasant uprising. Therefore, in the Northern Song Dynasty, those who resisted were generally sergeants!
According to the records in the "Continuation of Zizhi Tongjian Long Chapter", Wang Chong's uprising was wiped out on Qinfeng Road in mid-June. Based on previous records, it is speculated that Wang Chong met the elite border troops of the Northern Song Dynasty on Qinfeng Road after jumping out of the encirclement of the Northern Song Dynasty official army.
Xiang Zonghui and Gao Gongji are used here.
(End of chapter)
