In the Southern Song Dynasty, I competed with Mongolia for the world

Chapter 67 This friend, this king has made a deal
Seeing Zhao Yurui entering the mansion, Li Zongmian immediately got up to meet him, and then persuaded Zhao Yurui not to come back so late, it would be dark and not safe, and not to go to some places to play. .

He can't beat around the bush when he speaks. He bluntly said that King Yi has just arrived in Lin'an, but after a long time, some officials may make irresponsible remarks.

Zhao Yurui listened carefully, then nodded: "Professor Li makes sense."

"Come on, come inside, the king is busy and wants to ask the professor."

Zhao Yurui teleported and changed the subject.

Li Zongmian was helpless, but he had no choice but to follow King Yi into the Hall of Qinde.

After the two of them sat down, Zhao Yurui said: "This king met a few young nobles today—"

Zhao Yurui mentioned all five names, mainly to ask Li Zongmian to introduce their parents, Yuan Mihai only said one name, most of them were not very familiar.

Li Zongmian said happily after hearing the words: "Zhao Kui is a good general of my Great Song Dynasty, and Zhao Fan is also a good minister. King Yi can make good friends."

As expected, he was very clear and introduced the situation of Zhao Kui's family to Zhao Yurui. Only then did Zhao Yurui know that Zhao Kui was as famous as Meng Gong and Wu Jie in the Southern Song Dynasty, and now he has a large army.

Zhao Kui was also a prime minister in history, a talent capable of both literature and military affairs.

The pillars behind the Southern Song Dynasty, Yu Jie, Lu Wende, etc. were all cultivated by Zhao Kui.

The Guo family ruled the Forbidden Army for nearly 30 years during Xiaozong's and Guangzong's periods. The forces in the Forbidden Army are intertwined, and now Xia Zhen cannot be completely eliminated.

Xia Zhen was the commander of the Dianqian Division after Guo Gao, and is currently in the Iron Alliance with Shi Miyuan.

"Then Qin Chen is said to be the descendant of the treacherous minister Qin Hui?" When Zhao Yurui talked about the descendants of Qin Hui, Li Zongmian actually objected.

"After Qin Hui, the Qin family also produced some loyal people."

"The world only remembers Qin Hui's evil, which is unfair to their descendants."

In the 14th year of Jiading (1221), that is, last year, Qin Ju, a descendant of the Qin family Qin Yu, who was regarded as Qin Chen's clan uncle, died in battle.

Last year, the Jin army invaded south and attacked Qizhou.Qin Ju and Li Chengzhi, the governor of the county, led the people to fight against the enemy bravely, but they were defeated because they were outnumbered. The soldiers wanted to take him and his family away. In the raging fire of the heroes under the city.

His other two sons, the second son, Qin Jun, went to Sizu Mountain first, returned the soldiers urgently, and died together with his younger brother Qin Yu, and the whole family was loyal to the country.

At the end of Li Zongmian's speech, he sighed: "When the officials (Song Ningzong) called a group of ministers to discuss countermeasures against Jin, when the veteran Zhao Fang proposed to let Qin Ju lead the army to fight against the enemy, they were immediately opposed by everyone. They believed that Qin Ju He is the great-grandson of Qin Hui, a treacherous official. His ancestor was wicked all over the world and was reviled by thousands of people. Using this person will inevitably harm the country. Later, the officials adopted a compromise method and appointed Qin Ju as the general judge of Qizhou and in charge of garrison affairs. Ju had the opportunity to serve the country that time. But Qin Ju himself and his family did their best to serve the country, which proved their loyalty."

"Kaixi Northern Expedition, Qin Zhuo donated 4000 million guan, almost broke his family to support the imperial court, so the faults of the ancestors cannot be remembered and hated on the younger generations."

"What the professor said is true." Zhao Yurui stood up to the case, and said righteously: "How can this king despise and alienate their descendants because of Qin Hui? Qin Chen is a friend, and this king has made a decision."

It seems that you still need to read more history books. If you don't read history books, you don't know that the Qin family is so rich.

He already had Li Pingxia who offended many nobles by his side, and Qin Hui who was reviled by thousands of people.
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It was already nine o'clock when Zhao Yurui returned to the mansion, and the Prime Minister's Mansion not far from him was brightly lit and busy with people coming and going.

This meeting was the critical time for Shi Miyuan to deal with major political affairs. Every night, from all over the Southern Song Dynasty, an endless stream of memorials converged on Shi Miyuan's residence from all directions.

That's right, at this time in the Southern Song Dynasty, the memorials of the main officials from all walks of life were basically reported directly to Shi Miyuan. For example, Zhao Kui and Jia She, the important local military leaders at this time, asked Shi Miyuan for everything. , rarely sent to Ningzong.

How did Shi Miyuan centralize power over Ningzong?

Except that Ning Zong didn't care about things, what he mainly used was to reduce the chances for others to have face-to-face contact with Ning Zong.

You just want to report something to Ning Zong, but you have no chance to chat with Ning Zong alone.

The Southern Song Dynasty did not go to the court every day. The test of the Northern Song Dynasty was basically once every five days, but the emperor had to get up early every day, and then some high-ranking officials had to visit the emperor, such as the prime minister, the chief minister, the privy envoy, and the privy deputy envoy. , Yushi Zhongcheng, etc., they would kowtow to the emperor to say hello, and then turn around after chatting a few words, sometimes they don't chat, this is called "daily life".

Therefore, those who can meet the emperor every day are the prime minister and vice-presidents. Most of these people are now Shi Miyuan's cronies, such as Xuan Zang, who is also a member of the Privy Council, and Xue Ji, who signed a letter to the Privy Council. They are all Shi Miyuan's confidantes.

But seeing the emperor does not necessarily mean that you can talk to the emperor alone.

In order to communicate with the emperor in the Southern Song Dynasty, in addition to meeting the emperor in person, he communicated with the emperor in two ways: playing pairs and writing in chapters.

In the face of the first type of performance, Shi Miyuan followed the system of the two governments' combined performances since Emperor Xiaozong to ensure that there would be no division of divisions between the Privy Council officials in the imperial meeting, and to eliminate the possibility of separation of powers.

In the sixth year of Jiading (1213), Zhen Dexiu advised Ningzong that in the early court, "I met two classes in leisure time, mostly from the next, and I went back and down, or repeatedly... I hope that from now on... I still command guests to praise me. Although there are two classes of ministers, they are all ordered to proclaim, so that the lower sentiments can be communicated and the superiors can listen without obstruction."At that time, the two prefectures played together in one class.The word "leisure" indicates that there are not many opportunities to guide the two classes to go to the temple. Even if they are assigned shifts, they are often separated until the next day, or even repeatedly.That is to say, in Ningzong's early dynasty, most of the time, there were only two governors in charge of a group of performances, and their performance time almost occupied the entire early court time, so that other officials did not have sufficient opportunities to perform.

Facing the second option, Shi Miyuan used a variety of means to concentrate the documents as much as possible on the chancellor instead of the emperor.The most effective way is to give up playing and use Shen.

When officials at all levels in the Song Dynasty made their speeches to the court, they usually had two kinds of documents to choose from: Zuo and Shen.Zou refers to Zhang Zou, which is an official document such as an official's statement to the emperor, congratulations and gratitude, including memorials, Zhazi, Biao, Shu, etc., all of which can reach the emperor directly.The Shenzhi petition is an official document reported from the lower level to the higher level in the bureaucratic system. It cannot be directly sent to the emperor, but it can be sent to the Zaizhi.

Shi Miyuan ordered the officials to use petitions instead of memorials, or to use private letters directly to control the information channel between officials and the emperor, so that all information can be collected in Zaifu, which is convenient for personal monopoly.

Therefore, since the late period of Ningzong, civil and military officials at all levels in the Southern Song Dynasty would send letters to the prime minister's mansion, directly to Shi Miyuan, not to the emperor.

After controlling the channels, Shi Miyuan tried to circumvent the emperor and achieve personal monopoly on specific rulings.

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