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

Chapter 183 Holding the military and political power firmly
Shi Miyuan and Xia Zhengang readily agreed to hand over power, and the emperor waved his hand to call people into the palace.

After a while, someone came in, Shi Miyuan looked back and found that it was the imperial doctor Zeng Fang.

Zhao Yurui said, "Just tell Zeng Aiqing if you have anything."

Zeng Fang said loudly that he suspected that there was something wrong with the golden pill that Ning Zong served last year. After Ning Zong died, he took care and brought home the unfinished golden pill. After testing, it was found to be poisonous.

Shi Miyuan's face flushed red.

The emperor immediately said: "The prime minister admits that the golden pill was given by you, but he didn't know it was poisonous, so it was an accidental injury."

"I assigned you to Lingnan, but actually arranged for you to be on Jeju Island."

Zhao Yurui's intentions were obvious, they wanted to overthrow Shi Miyuan completely, convict him of poisoning the emperor, but promised to save his life.

Will Shi Miyuan admit it?

It doesn't matter if he doesn't admit it.

Zeng Fang can testify against him, and his two sons Shi Zhaizhi and Shi Yuzhi are now in the hands of the emperor.

After finishing all the affairs that night, it was already eleven o'clock in the evening. Zhao and Rui were newly married that day, and he didn't dare to recruit the queen and others. After sleeping alone for a while, he still couldn't sleep, and felt quite nervous.

I kept thinking in my mind, if there is anything left to do, what should I do next?
There has never been such a big mutiny in the history of the Song Dynasty. Usually, according to the "customs" of the Song Dynasty, as long as the emperor ascends the throne and the capital is stable, except when the old Zhao Chenqiao rebelled and founded the country, it is almost impossible for the lower places to rebel against in other periods.

But Zhao Yurui did not simply want to seize power, consolidate the throne, but also restructure the Southern Song Dynasty.

Restructuring will involve contact with vested interest groups, so merely controlling the capital is not enough.

The next step is to send reliable people to the provinces to gain control of the national army, and then to gain control of the whole country.

Once the power is in hand, you can change the system as you want.

Of course, now is the middle and late period of the Southern Song Dynasty, domestic stability is unstable abroad, and the top priority is to stabilize Xixia, Mongolia and Jin.

As long as there is no external pressure, he will be able to gain stable control of the country within two or three years.

Early the next morning, when some people woke up, they found that the capital seemed to have changed a lot.

Many people saw a large number of troops running around in the capital yesterday. Today, there are no large-scale soldiers and horses on the streets, only a small number of soldiers and horses will come to patrol. There are armored sergeants patrolling the main streets. Room offers a [-]% discount to the soldiers of the imperial army, and the discount period is set for one month.

And the yamen of Lin'an Prefecture was already full of people around Chen's hour in the morning.

In addition to distant counties, including government officials, Qiantang County, Renhe County, Lin'an County, Yuhang County and other counties close to the people, supervisory officials have arrived at the scene, about 34 people.

Many people got the news last night.

There are armored soldiers standing outside the yamen, and someone is reading the imperial decree in the yard.

Everyone knelt on the ground.

The imperial decree announced that Li Zongmian, a member of the Privy Council who signed the letter, also knew Lin'an Mansion, and Hong Zikui, a meritorious examiner, was the general judge of Lin'an Mansion.

Hong Zikui was impeached and dismissed for offending Shi Miyuan back then, and stayed at home for seven years until Lizong came to power.

Now also, after Zhao Yurui came to power, Hong Zikui was activated immediately.

Some officials were appointed and dismissed in the imperial decree, such as Liu Kezhuang, the editor of the Privy Council, who knew Qiantang County, Cui Shusi, the general official, as the county captain of Lin'an County, Dali Temple Secretary Zhiyou, who knew Renhe County, and Cheng Gongxu, the governor of Shizhou, who promoted Lin'an City Bosi, Li Xing, a doctor of martial arts, taught Yuhang County, etc., and Song Ke, a small official of the Privy Council, knew Fuyang County.

Almost [-]% to [-]% of the government officials and county-level officials in Lin'an Prefecture were replaced, and those who were interested soon discovered that a large number of new officials were related to Cui.

Cui Yuzhi was a famous minister in the Southern Song Dynasty. He resigned last year and lived in Guangzhou.

After Yuan Shi resigned from office, the imperial court invited him out of the mountain many times. He's "eight speeches to participate in political affairs, thirteen speeches to the right prime minister." The appeasement envoy also knew outside Guangzhou, but he never served in an official position.

It can be seen that Cui Yuzhi was actually quite disappointed with the Southern Song Dynasty court. He didn't want to come out to do things, but he was worried about the court.

There was only 1234 in the middle, and he came out of the mountain because of the military uprising.

At that time, there was an army in Guangzhou, called the Destroyer Army, which was transferred to Jiankang for four years.After leaving the garrison, he stayed in Jiangxi for another four years before passing Wuling.This army fought everywhere and was invincible.However, the governments did not report their merits, and they refused to return to Guangdong after the garrison period expired. Therefore, the destroying front army launched a mutiny in July of the second year of Duanping (1235).

At that time, the rebel army led by Zeng Zhong returned to Guangdong from Jiangxi via Meizhou, burned Huiyang, and drove to Guangzhou Fucheng, where they fled overnight.Cui Yuzhi was living at home at that time. Seeing the seriousness of the situation, he led the militiamen and went up to the tower to meet the rebels and inquire about the cause of the rebellion.When the rebels saw it, they immediately bowed down under the city and explained the reason for the mutiny.Cui Yuzhi sent his disciples Li Maoying and Yang Wangzhong to lower down from the city wall in hanging baskets, and went to the rebel camp to understand the principle of good luck and fortune, and issued an order to allow the rebels to reform themselves.Most of the rebels returned home and dispersed, and Zeng Zhong led a few people to retreat to Duanzhou (now Zhaoqing, Guangdong)
Look at Cui Yuzhi's prestige, it is equivalent to suppressing the rebellion alone, and people will sincerely worship him when they hear his name.

Cui Yuzhi was a master in military administration, and he recommended a large number of officials throughout his life. His names and surnames were recorded, including You Si, Hong Zikui, Wei Liaoweng, Li Tingzhi, Jia Dayou, Chen Wei, Liu Kezhuang, Li Ding, Cheng Gongxu, Li Bodeng, Li Xingchuan, Wang Chenying, Wang Yu, Gao Jia, Ding Can, Jiayi, Zhang Pi, Du Zheng, Wang Zishen, Cheng Delong, Guo Zhengsun, Su Zhi, Huang Shen, Gao Taishu, Li Kai, Li Xinchuan, Li Maoying, Lin Lue, Wu Yan, Li Rongzhong, Wu Changyi, Huang Xuegao, Song Yi, Wu Chunchen, Wen Ruochun, Xu Juchuan, Yang Wangzhong, etc. It was later proved that the above-mentioned officials were famous for their morality and learning, or for their achievements in government and military affairs. , are indeed rare talents.

This person is now quite disappointed with the Southern Song court and dissatisfied with Shi Miyuan's monopoly, so he doesn't come out to be an official and lives in seclusion in Guangzhou.

Wei Liaoweng, who was recommended by him, of course strongly recommended it to the new emperor.

Zhao and Rui have more routines, and they are more sincere than Lizong in history.

Immediately near Lin'an Mansion, a large number of people related to Cui were employed, and Cui Shusi, the son of Cui and him who was still at home, was appointed as the county captain of Lin'an County.

Zhao Yurui didn't believe that Cui Yuzhi didn't come out to work.

The officials who were replaced were basically promoted by Shi Miyuan, some of them were left idle, and some were directly dismissed.

In this way, the entire Lin'an Mansion was replaced with Boxin officials the next day.
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There are eleven armies in the Dianqian Division, with thirteen chief and deputy commanders, and twenty-one principal and deputy commanders.

There was a mutiny last night, and a large number of commanders and commanders were removed and replaced. The entire front division and infantry division combined, only six returned to their original positions.

But Zhao Yurui promoted only about half of the people, and a small half of them were vacant.

In the early morning of the next day, Li Pingxia brought more than 100 entourages, holding imperial decrees and military amulets, to the Siqian army camp in front of the temple.

An army of soldiers and horses has been called here, with a strength of 700 people, which is the army with the most soldiers and horses in the front of the temple.

When Li Pingxia arrived, all the officers and soldiers in the camp had assembled, and a large crowd stood there.

But the military discipline of this meeting is relatively poor, everyone is whispering, almost everyone knows about the mutiny last night, and a new commander came to meet yesterday.

But what exactly happened, we don't know yet.

When Li Pingxia came to the army, a general on duty immediately stepped forward, first received the imperial edict, checked the military amulet, and then said loudly.

All the soldiers and horses in front of the hall have assembled.

Li Pingxia looked at the scene and said with a sneer: "This commander sees that there are 700 people, so there are more than 9000 people here?"

That face was turning red, so he had to say, the actual number is 600 people.

Holding the grass, the corner of Li Pingxia's mouth twitched. Unexpectedly, there was also a serious shortfall in the imperial army.

Lin'an City Dianqian Division and Infantry Division had more than 9 personnel and 4 armies. When he came to the first army, he heard that there was a shortage.

And these vacancies have been eaten up in the past.

Li Pingxia didn't say much, and with a wave of his hand, more than 100 people behind him each took a piece of paper and ran into the crowd.

That is going to be inexplicable, I don't know what Li Pingxia wants to do, but I can only watch.

Then it was discovered that the more than 100 people were divided into various places, and then called the sergeants around them and began to read aloud.

The emperor wants to recruit the son of heaven to join the army, and the treatment is favorable.

Everyone read it twice, and the surrounding sergeants who watched and listened widened their eyes in disbelief.

"The emperor is close to the army, and the salary is going to be increased."

"Five times a month."

"No deduction is allowed. Whoever dares to despise will be beheaded from the beginning of control, and the whole family will be punished."

"real or fake."

"Damn it, the emperor said it himself. I've read it all over the place. There can still be fakes."

"I heard it last night. A fellow from Long Mengjun saw the announcement at the gate of the camp."

"Then I don't want to be in the imperial army, I want to go to the emperor's army."

"Where do I sign up?"

"Registration will start next month. Didn't you hear it? Next month, register at the Imperial City Division's Commander Camp."

There was an uproar at the scene, discussing this matter everywhere.

The generals of the Forbidden Army all looked at each other in blank dismay, but couldn't control it.

After reading it, these people posted the announcement on the spot in various parts of the barracks, and then Li Pingxia signaled everyone above their heads to stay, and the others dismissed.

The scene immediately dispersed, and the soldiers all went to read the announcement. Some who could read were dragged away: "Go and help read it again."

"What is the seal below?"

"Don't touch it, it's His Majesty's seal."

"Where is the commander's camp of the Imperial City Division?"

"North of the imperial city."

"What time do you sign up at the beginning of next month?"

"There is time below. Our former army is from the first to the third year of junior high school."

"It seems that each army signs up at different times."

The soldiers were discussing, shouting that they should not be the army that broke the forbidden army, and they were going to be the emperor's pro-army.

On the other side, Li Pingxia was recruiting the capital above the head.

There were hundreds of people above the head.

Li Pingxia looked at it and shook his head secretly.

Dutou is commanded by 5000 people, and they actually have more than 100 people. It is said that there are more than 260 people in Dutou including chief and deputy, but there are more than [-] people in Dutou on site. These are basically related households.

Not to mention all above the head.

"Your Majesty has a decree. Those who are willing to join the Son of Heaven's army can apply at the Imperial City Division. After passing the assessment, all generals will be promoted to a higher rank, and military officers will have jobs in the future, and their monthly salary will increase."

Everyone at the scene looked excited, and many people forgot about the mutiny last night.

Because the mutiny had nothing to do with them, except for those confidantes who had a good relationship with Xia Zhen and the others.

After Li Pingxia finished speaking, there was an immediate preparation on the spot to declare that he would join the Son of Heaven's army and pledge his allegiance to His Majesty.

This was a public statement, and then some people expressed their opinions one after another, and some remained silent.

Li Pingxia then waved his hand, and someone beside him came out with a list and began to roll the roll.

"Xia Hezhong."

As soon as the first name was reported, everyone at the scene looked over.

Xia Hezhong's face was livid, and he walked out silently.

This is Xia Zhen's family nephew, former three generals of the army.

Yesterday he was not enough to command and did not enter the imperial city, but today he cannot escape.

The people around Li Pingxia were doing a roll call, and some people stood up one after another. Some people's legs were weak and they couldn't stand up, and they were immediately dragged out by the armored soldiers.

The others bowed their heads in silence, with various expressions and moods.

"Are you going to kill us?" Xia Hezhong said loudly at this moment: "What charges? Conspiracy?"

He questioned in public, obviously dissatisfied.

Li Pingxia said in a deep voice: "If your Majesty doesn't kill Xia Zhen, you count as a ball?"

Xia Hezhong: "..."

"Stop talking nonsense, let's go." Quan Si led a group of people behind him, and dragged them all out of the barracks.

(End of this chapter)