I studied in modern times

Chapter 66
Surrounded all the way, Sima Guang crossed Zhouqiao and arrived at Yujie.

On the Royal Street, he met the envoy of the Empress Dowager who came to comfort him.

Then the empress dowager's envoy also brought the empress dowager's edict to personally comfort her.

Finally, the envoy of the Son of Heaven came here on festivals.

In the crowd of countless people, the emperor's envoy brought a copybook written by the emperor himself.

And it was handed over to Sima Guang in public.

When Sima Guang received the emperor's handwritten letter, his hands were trembling.

Because, on the thin piece of Yuanshu paper, the Guange regular script used had eight characters written in a correct manner.

The Song room of the thigh and arm, the teacher protects the people!
This moved Sima Guang more than any words, any encouragement, or any condolences.

The teacher protects the people, is from the Zuo Zhuan. The 14th year of Xianggong: the old uncle, the grand duke, protected my ancestors, the Zhou family, and the teacher protects the people.

Son of Heaven, he is indeed studying Spring and Autumn.

And, read it!

Sima Guang further imagined all kinds of legends about the young master.

"Your Majesty, I am encouraging this old man with the righteousness of a sage!"

Sima Guang suddenly felt that his whole body was full of strength and energy.

Sima Guang had never felt this kind of feeling of being trusted, expected, and even vaguely dependent and relied upon.

But it is also something that Sima Guang has been looking for all his life, but has never been able to get it!

In the early years of Xining, when Emperor Daxing met Wang Jiefu...

Treat him with the protection of the teacher, entrust him with all the trust, and give him all the power!
Now, is it the old man's turn?

Deep in Sima Guang's heart, a little untraceable satisfaction rose.

"Your Majesty has high hopes..." Sima Guang declared in public: "The old minister dares not to be loyal to him to the death?!"

The onlookers cheered even more.

The emperor sent an envoy to comfort Sima Xianggong, and also gave him a personal letter saying: "The Song Dynasty, the teacher protects the people!"

This Sima Xianggong, if he can't enter the court as a prime minister.

Who can do it?

……

at dusk.

Sima Guang's first letter after entering Beijing was sent to the two palaces through the Tongjian Department.

After reading it to the Empress Dowager, she specially brought Sima Guang's letter to the Hall of Funing and showed it to Zhao Xu.

Zhao Xu held it in his hand, looked at it once, then raised his head to look at the queen mother, and said: "The queen mother, the teacher chosen by the emperor for my son, is indeed outstanding in Wenhua, and the words are exquisite!"

Nodding to the queen mother satisfied.

Zhao Xu pondered Sima Guang's words.

I have to admit that Sima Guang's writing is as sharp and sharp as his calligraphy.

At least, there is no problem in fooling the empress dowager and the empress dowager.

The entire letter is only a few hundred words, but from the beginning to the end, every word is closely related to political correctness, leaving no loopholes or opportunities for people.

More importantly - Sima Guang's letter does not seem to say a word that the new law is wrong, nor does it say that Xining and Yuanfeng did something wrong.

But every word is blaming the new law, and every sentence is denying everything since the reform.

It is indeed worthy of being Sima Guang who has studied Zizhi Tongjian!

It is indeed worthy of the red flag of the old party that even Wang Anshi is afraid of.

In Zhao Xu's eyes, this submission is the same as Wang Anshi's "A Hundred Years of Nothing in This Dynasty" is a submission.

This is a declaration of war against the new law and all kinds of things since Xining.

why?
Because Sima Guang wants to speak out!
After experiencing the reforms of Xining and Yuanfeng, especially since Yuanfeng, Zhao Xu's father, Emperor Qiankun, ruled arbitrarily.

From the local to the central, a lot of complaints have accumulated, a lot of grievances.

As soon as the words are opened, all states and counties in the world will boil.

Countless people will seize this opportunity to add obstacles to the new law and the new party.

Not to mention that the new law has a lot of problems.

Even if there is no problem, it can create a problem.

Now, let's see how Zhang Dun, Li Qingchen, and Zhang Yan in the capital hall will deal with it?

Zhao Xu is looking forward to this.

Empress Dowager Xiang was full of surprise: "Can my son understand Sima Gong's letter?"

Zhao Xu nodded and replied, "My son can probably understand..."

"Sima Gong is asking to speak out, to set the record straight!"

Empress Dowager Xiang was overjoyed immediately.

This kid is so smart!

So, she tentatively asked, "What does my son think?"

Zhao Xu thought about it seriously, then looked at the Queen Mother and said, "I think Sima Gong is right!"

"It is beneficial to open up the way of speaking and let people in the world talk and talk about world affairs!"

"Father has taught his son: A politician must be spoken by others!"

Zhao Xu knew that after implementing the new law for so many years, there should be a channel to release the accumulated grievances and complaints.

Blocking is worse than sparse.

And, these things are right now to do.

Can't Zhao Xu do it after he grows up?
A son never speaks of his father's faults, and to deny his father is to deny Zhao Xu himself.

Now, it would be nice to borrow the hands of the old party to do this.

Well done, that is the Son of Heaven, Sheng Ming, who will rule with his bow.

Do poorly and cause trouble.

That is the treacherous party harming the country and the villain messing up the government.

I want to set things right!

So, it's a win-win!Zhao Xu won twice!

Empress Dowager Xiang immediately became happy, hugging Zhao Xu: "My son will be Yao and Shun in the future!"

She has already made up her mind.

When the sixth brother is 14 years old, he will grow up and be able to govern.

So he took the aunt and retreated to the back garden together, and returned the power of the country to the sixth brother.

With Sixth Brother's intelligence, at that time, he must be able to handle the country's affairs well.

Zhao Xu gently closed his eyes in the arms of the Empress Dowager.

Ten years of studying abroad in modern times not only allowed him to complete his fascination with Confucianism.

It also allowed him to jump out of all the shackles and restrictions of Confucian ideology.

It even jumped out of the information cocoon of the new party and the old party.

He was no longer that young emperor who would take matters into his own hands.

He was no longer that young emperor who would struggle with right and wrong.

When he was studying at Imperial University, Zhao Xu had already been educated by the society to understand that children only care about right and wrong, and adults only care about success or failure.

……

The ripples caused by Sima Guang's entry into Beijing were endlessly turbulent inside and outside Bianjing.

The first to bear the brunt are naturally the government offices implemented by the new laws such as the Municipal Affairs, the promotion of the Bianhe embankment department, and the miscellaneous shopping department.

However, the smart people in Bianjing City all stared wide-eyed, observing the development of the situation.

Many people are keenly aware that another new reshuffle is imminent.

Just like the Xining reform, this time, as long as you bravely step on the wave of the times.

Then, there will be another group of trend-seekers.

And the courageous ones have already begun to take action.

After seeing Sima Guang and being comforted by the two palaces and the emperor.Early the next morning, a memorial was sent to the official office of the Tongjian Division.

After reading the contents of the memorandum and the signature of the memorandum, the people from Tong Jiansi did not dare to neglect, and immediately sent it to the two palaces.

The Empress Dowager and the Empress Dowager Xiang were overjoyed after reading the memorial.

Empress Dowager Xiang even took the memorial to Zhao Xu and showed it to Zhao Xu.

After reading the memorial, Zhao Xu already laughed in his heart.

However, he was still very calm on the surface.

Calm is like a fisherman sitting on the bank of a river with a fishing rod and fishing.

As we all know, fishermen can catch anything except fish.

The same goes for Zhao Xu.

He himself did not expect that he could catch such a big fish by writing a copybook yesterday.

Moreover, the fish actively bite the hook!

Zhao Xu assured that he didn't even lift the rod, the fish just swung its tail and jumped into Zhao Xu's fish guard.

"What a good fish!" Zhao Xu said in his heart.

He looked at the name signed on the memorial: Li Ding, Minister of the Household Department.

A man of the new law, even a disciple of Wang Anshi!
Back then, Wang Anshi offended a lot of people in order to protect him.

However, now that the new law is facing turbulence, it is the disciple of Wang Anshi Libao who stabbed the new law with a fatal sword!
However, what does this have to do with Zhao Xu?
The fish was the hook he bit, and he insisted on jumping into Zhao Xu's fish protection.

……

This morning, in the Palace of Funing, the Empress Dowager took the memorial and carefully taught Zhao Xu sentence by sentence.

Naturally, this is the result of Zhao Xu's performance.

He deliberately pretended not to understand, and deliberately asked some questions that belonged to children.

Queen Mother Xiang is very patient. Of course, this is also related to Zhao Xu's always timely feedback.

No matter what it is, as long as the queen mother teaches it, Zhao Xu "thinks about it a little bit" and asks at most one more time, and it can be understood.

Therefore, although the Queen Mother taught each sentence sentence by sentence.

But she doesn't feel tired at all.

On the contrary, the Queen Mother has a great sense of accomplishment!The pride in my heart is even more indescribable!
"Does Sixth Brother understand?" Xiang Hou put down the memorial and asked.

"I understand in general!"

"Then Sixth Brother, tell the Queen Mother, what is the memorial about?" asked the Queen Mother holding back her excitement.

"My son probably knows that what this memorandum says is that an official named Wu Juhou on the east and west roads of Beijing, he seems to have done a lot of wrong things when he implemented the law of protecting horses in the local area, and caused the people to suffer. Therefore, the person who wrote the letter asked the empress and mother to send someone to investigate the local situation..." Zhao Xu said, looking into the eyes of the queen mother, and asked: "Empress, is what I said right?"

"My son will surely be the Son of Heaven!" The Queen Mother hugged Zhao Xu proudly.

The eight-year-old sixth brother, under her guidance, actually understood the content of a letter written by a minister.

Moreover, these contents are directly related to state affairs and political affairs!

Of course, in order to make sure that Zhao Xu really understood what was said in the memorandum, the Queen Mother asked, "Sixth Brother, tell the Queen Mother what is the law of protecting horses? What did this Wu Juhou do?"

After thinking for a while, Zhao Xu carefully repeated the content of the horse protection method taught to the Queen Mother in a childish voice.

Then he recited it completely and told the queen mother all kinds of things Wu Juhou had done on the East and West Roads of Beijing.

Finally, he looked at the Queen Mother: "Queen Mother, did you say something wrong?"

Empress Dowager Xiang's eyes are almost blooming.

She held Zhao Xu's hand and said to Zhao Xu: "Go, Sixth Brother, Queen Mother will take you to see Taimu, this good news must be told to Taimu!"

Yes.

Although the sixth brother is young, he is very smart, and everyone in the government and the public knows about it.

However, the Empress Dowager Xiang did not allow anyone to know that under her education and teaching, the officials understood the minister's letter and state affairs!

Therefore, the Queen Mother is not only going to tell the Queen Mother.

I have to tell the courtiers.

Even, at the next ceremony to pay homage to Emperor Daxing, she will submit to the gods of Emperor Daxing before Emperor Daxing's Zi Palace.

It's not just for showing off.

It is also to tell the people of the world-the official sage Congjun!
Thus, the possibility of Baoci Gong not being willing to return to power after the sixth elder brother grows up in the future is blocked!

The Empress Dowager Xiang remembered very clearly that when she was in the boudoir, her father and brother taught her the stories of the Kingdom of China, focusing on teaching Zhang Xian Ming Su Shi.

However, Zhang Xian Mingsu failed to return to the Zhengren Temple in time, which almost resulted in the end of the Liu family's genocide, which is still fresh in the memory of the Queen Mother.

Today, she and her sixth brother have a deep mother-child relationship.

Sixth Brother will never treat Xiang Jia badly when he grows up in the future.

Even if she is a hundred years later, the Xiang clan will still be valued and loved by the sixth brother.

Just like the Yang family of Empress Dowager Yang of Baoqing in Renmiao.

Back then, the wealth and favor of the Yang family was the best in the world!

It's not that Renmiao has no children, otherwise, at this moment, the Yang family is still one of the most influential families in the country!
It is enough to rest with the country!

Thinking of this, the Empress Dowager became more concerned.

She remembered the story of Ci Shengguang offering to raise the Empress Dowager in the prison.

He also remembered the adopted daughters Zhang Xianming raised.

The empress dowager and the mother-in-law are the sons of heaven, and they choose virtuous and virtuous daughters to live in the palace, and teach them the affairs of the palace from childhood.

This is the matter of the queen mother and mother.

In particular, considering the difficult past of the sons and heirs of the emperors and heirs of the Song Dynasty.

The queen mother knew that this matter must be put on the agenda.

After the funeral of Emperor Daxing, the Cao family and the Gao family can choose some daughters to enter the palace.

Thinking of this, the Empress Dowager took Zhao Xu out of Funing Hall, surrounded and protected by Yu Longzhi, echoing all the way to Baoci Palace.

　Sima Guang wrote a book today, I will post it at the end of the article, if you are interested, you can move it.

　　
　
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