Guide to Traveling through the Northern Song Dynasty.

Chapter 146 0141 [Smart and stupid emperor]

At this time, among the civil servants of the Song Dynasty, Cai Jing ranked first, and Liu Zhengfu ranked second.

Liu Zhengfu once attached to Cai Jing and helped Cai Jing regain his prime minister for the second time, and also helped Cai Jing bring down Zhang Shangying.

However, Cai Jing used to have a deadly enemy named Liu Kui, and Liu Zhengfu had a close personal relationship with Liu Kui, so there was a rift between the two.

Song Huizong deliberately promoted Liu Zhengfu, the meaning is already very obvious, that is, to make the two prime ministers fight back and forth!
"Father, the government decreed today that from the Ministry of Rites to the Guozijian, all the principals and officials will be lowered and punished!" The second son Liu Fumin ran back happily to report.

Liu Fumin's position is Youge Daizhi, that is, the emperor's library servant, who specializes in serving the emperor's reading and writing, and can obtain information at the first time.

The eldest son, Liu Zaomin, is the Minister of the Ministry of War. Hearing this, he said with a smile, "This is a great event. Although the punishment of the officials of the Ministry of Rites did not shake the foundation of Cai Jing, it means that the officials are becoming more and more dissatisfied with him. Given time, Cai Jing will surely fall!"

But Liu Zhengfu sighed: "This is the official family and all the ministers, put me on the fire!"

Liu Zhengfu didn't want to fight with Cai Jing, he always regarded himself as Cai Jing's henchman.Inexplicably, the emperor pushed him to the front stage, and Cai Jing's opponents also came to attach himself to him, forcing him to sing against Cai Jing.

This time the ministers impeached Cai Jing's henchmen, Liu Zhengfu did nothing, but Cai Jing's anger would definitely be directed at him.

"Oh, I'd better resign." Liu Zhengfu actually started to study ink, preparing to write a letter of resignation and go home to retire.

Liu Zaomin was shocked: "Why is father like this?"

Liu Zhengfu said: "Cai Jing has no bottom line, I can't beat him. I am old and sick, at most I will be dismissed from office and return to my hometown. But you two brothers, you are afraid of being retaliated by him! The case of Liu Gonglu is not far away."

Liu Gonglu was Liu Kui, and Cai Jing attacked his brother. Thousands of people were involved in the case, and dozens of people were executed (most of the dead were subordinate officials, and there were also relatives of Liu Kui).

"Father, there is no need to worry. There is an empress (empress) in the palace to back her up. Could it be that Cai Jing is more likely to please the officials than the empress?" Liu Fumin said.

"You are confused, the queen has not seen Zheng Juzhong for a long time!" Liu Zhengfu said.

Zheng Juzhong is the one who is related to Empress Zheng. In terms of seniority, he is Li Qingzhao's uncle, and he used to belong to Cai Jing's party.Now that the "clan sister" has become the queen, Zheng Juzhong's ambitions have also grown. Song Huizong took the opportunity to promote this person and let Zheng Juzhong contain Cai Jing's forces.

Liu Zhengfu and Zheng Juzhong became the core of the "anti-Caijing alliance" in a muddle-headed way. In fact, it was all arranged by the emperor.

Empress Zheng obviously felt that the wind was not in the right direction, so she forced her father to resign and stopped contacting her clan brother Zheng Juzhong.

Liu Zaomin was still reluctant to part with the glory and wealth, and persuaded him in a roundabout way: "Father, the official will not allow you to resign if you are asked to fight against Cai Jing."

Liu Zhengfu thought about it carefully, nodded and said, "That's right, the officials must take the initiative to let me go."

Therefore, Liu Zhengfu rewrote the letter of advice.

Emperor Huizong of the Song Dynasty was full of ambition recently, and planned to go to Mount Tai to enshrine Zen, but the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty did not dare to persuade him.

Liu Zhengfu has an excellent literary talent and wrote thousands of words eloquently.

He knew Song Huizong's temper, and whoever dared to persuade him would definitely make him unhappy, especially after the advice was successful!
This persuasion is sure to be successful, just wake up, Song Huizong, who wants to save face, will give up—since Song Zhenzong's show operation, Fengchan Taishan has become a joke.

Liu Zhengfu has only one thought left now, the emperor will soon hate me, let me resign early and go back to my hometown.

……

"This Liu Zhengfu is simply old and confused!"

Song Huizong was very angry after reading the exhortation memorial.

Although he was angry, he didn't intend to let Liu Zhengfu go.

When Cai Jing dismissed his prime minister for the second time, there was already a rift between the monarch and his ministers.Even Cai Jing's resignation was arranged by Emperor Huizong of Song Dynasty, and he also used the star change incident to imply that Cai Jing had the intention of detrimental to the country.

However, Song Huizong couldn't do without Cai Jing. While dismissing the prime minister, he gave the house and was ready to reopen it at any time.

You have to use it, Cai Jing is good at making money.

Then promote officials to check and balance Cai Jing, and promoted two consecutively, but Cai Jing kept them down. Song Huizong decided to start from within, splitting Cai's party and making them fight endlessly.

Liu Zhengfu is the key chess piece, and Zheng Juzhong belongs to the reserve force.

"Officials, Xueshi Cai asks to see you." The servant came to report.

Song Huizong immediately showed a smile: "Let him wait, I will go now."

This emperor is a master at manipulating people's hearts. He is writing a very outrageous script: promote and reuse Cai You, and let Cai Jing and Cai You compete with each other!
Historically, Song Huizong succeeded.

Cai's father and son were turned against each other, and Cai You repeatedly asked to kill his fourth brother.

At first, Cai Jing was probably acting with his son so that the emperor could rest assured.But as he acted, the fake became real, and Cai You even forced his father to stop acting for the third time.

Song Huizong sat on the imperial chariot to go outside the Temple of Needing Clouds, and Cai You had been waiting for a long time.

"Come up!" Song Huizong waved and shouted.

Cai You actually ran over, got on the imperial chariot with a smile, and rode in the same carriage with the emperor.

The monarchs and ministers went to the large construction site in the northeast corner, where the Shangqing Baolu Palace was being built.After it is completed, it will be used exclusively for Taoist sacrifices, and the emperor will summon Taoist priests here in the future.

In addition to the Shangqing Baolu Palace in the imperial palace, many Taoist temples were also being built inside and outside Tokyo at the same time, some of which were directly rebuilt from Buddhist temples.

Let’s just say that the construction of this palace has never stopped since Emperor Huizong of Song Dynasty came to power.

Liu Hunkang, a Taoist priest who is good at Fengshui, is standing on the construction site at this moment, seeing the imperial chariot driving towards him, he hastened to meet him.

Song Huizong asked: "Can a real person gain something?"

Liu Hunkang said: "Reporting to Your Majesty, the location of Tokyo is gentle, and the situation in the northeast of the royal family is slightly lower, and the Yin Qi is extremely strong, which is not conducive to the birth of a prince. The terrain must be raised and the palace garden should be built to suppress the Yin Qi."

"That's how it is," Song Huizong finally understood why the previous emperors had a lot of princesses, but the princes were so scarce, "then demolished the palace in the northeast corner, raised the ground, and rebuilt the palace. Baolu Palace, so I went to build it there, and it was called... it was called Long Live Mountain."

Longevity Mountain, namely Genyue, is the root of Huashi Gang's intensification.

Cai You quickly flattered: "The officials are wise, once the terrain is changed and the Yin Qi is suppressed, my Great Song Dynasty will surely last forever!"

Song Huizong returned to the carriage and said to the attendant: "Let Liang Shicheng be in charge of supervising the construction of the Longevity Mountain, and then send an order to Zhu Xi to bring more strange stones from the south of the Yangtze River."

"Yes!" The eunuch rushed to deliver the order.

Song Huizong said again: "The real person is also coming, let's go to the theater together."

Liu Hunkang got into the car carefully and sat beside Song Huizong.

This old Taoist priest, in fact, did not want to serve the emperor, he declined the conquest several times, and was almost tied to Tokyo by eunuchs.During this period, he also resigned many times, and was rewarded every time. Song Huizong even wanted to confer him the title of "Sanmao Zhenjun"!
Liu Hunkang has completely laid down, and he can do whatever the emperor asks him to do, and never participates in court battles.

He thought that nothing would happen like this, but he didn't know that what he said just now was about to trigger a huge Fang La uprising.

Together, one monarch and one minister, returned to the Palace of Needing Clouds in a carriage.

Need cloud hall is the place where the emperor watched the opera, next door is the Jiying hall where the palace examination is held.

The three watched the play for a while, and Liang Shicheng also came to discuss with the emperor how to build Longevity Mountain.

After watching a scene, Cai You suddenly said: "Officials, my acting skills have improved recently, maybe I can make you smile."

"Let's go and change clothes." Song Huizong said.

Liang Shicheng said: "Officials and ministers are the same."

Song Huizong said: "You go too."

Ever since, a scholar of Xuanhe Palace and a great eunuch in the palace went to make up and change clothes together.

Not long after, they ran back and made Song Huizong laugh before they started acting.

I saw the great eunuch Liang Shicheng with a beard, wearing an ill-fitting costume and armor, and the helmet was deliberately tilted. It was very funny at first glance.

And Cai You wore short clothes and shorts, painted with makeup and powder, and dressed up like a woman.

The two sang, read and fought, and the performance was very lively.

Liang Shicheng is dull-tongued and not good at words. When he plays the general, he looks like a fool. He is played by Cai You's woman.

Song Huizong looked at it and laughed until he covered his stomach.

If Su Dongpo knew, he would probably kick the coffin boards and beat Liang Shicheng until he couldn't take care of himself.

Because Liang Shicheng is proficient in poetry and books, he likes to be arty, and he claims to be Su Shi's illegitimate son...

Yang Qiu, who often imitated the emperor's handwriting to send Zhongzhi, was actually Liang Shicheng's subordinate.Liang Shicheng is deliberately cultivating eunuchs, imitating and practicing Song Huizong's calligraphy. In the future, more and more people will be able to forge the emperor's handwriting, and his "hidden appearance" will become more and more worthy of the name.

The monarchs and ministers had fun for a while, and the sky gradually darkened.

Seeing that the emperor had no intention of staying overnight, Cai You, Liang Shicheng and Liu Hunkang quit the palace one after another.

Song Huizong also got up to leave, caught a glimpse of Fu Dexiang, who was in charge of the theater troupe, and immediately summoned him to ask, "What kind of eight-element scholar..."

"Zhu Chenggong." Fu Dexiang said.

"Yes, it's called Zhu Chenggong," Song Huizong said, "He used the imperial examination speech to explain, let's go and see if this person has come to Tokyo to take the exam."

Fu Dexiang received the emperor's order and immediately went out of the palace to inquire.

He thought it would be very difficult, so he went to an inn at random, only asked a few scholars, and found out that Zhu Chenggong had arrived in Beijing.

This guy inquired about the situation carefully, went back to report in a hurry, and was jealous that Zhu Ming didn't give him face, so he added fuel and slander: "Officials, Zhu Chenggong has gone to Tokyo, and Chen Guan's nephew, Chen Yuan, is spreading evil talks by the Cai River. Kaifeng Mansion Yin, Guozi Siye, and Guozi Jiancheng went to stop him, but Zhu Chenggong incited the scholars and humiliated the governor of Kaifeng. This person has many disobedient words, but he claims to be the inheritor of new learning. He has ulterior motives and doesn't know what he wants to do."

Song Huizong was not angry when he heard it, but felt very interesting.

The Governor of Kaifeng is from Zhu Yu, and he is also very close to Cai Jing.Guozi Siye and Guozi Jiancheng are Cai Jing's hard-core confidantes.

A candidate for the examination offended both Cai Jing and Zhu Xi when he first came to Tokyo.

Song Huizong felt that this person could be promoted, like throwing a stone into a latrine, the situation must be different.Given time, Cai Jing and Zhu Xi would be disgusted enough.

The emperor intentionally left several old trolls behind to impeach Cai Jing.

He decided to train Zhu Ming as a speech officer, and create a young and powerful troll.

The more I thought about it, the more interesting it became. Song Huizong called Hou Meng, the deputy prime minister, the next day, and said: "There is a candidate named Zhu Ming who is successful in the word, and you can give some pointers. If he fails the ranking, he will be recommended to enter the Taixue."

Song Huizong still doesn't know that someone has recommended Zhu Ming to enter the Taixue long ago.

(End of this chapter)