After Shao Song

Chapter 180 Extra: Official Godson

Since ancient times, raising children has been a very troublesome thing.Anyone with a little common sense knows that the problem of raising a son in an imperial family is even more troublesome.

Because their family really has a throne to inherit.The consequences of poor education for a son are not only a disaster for the family, but also a misfortune for the country.

It is said that during the Jianyan period, although the prestige of the Zhao Guan family was huge, various important ministers and close officials would tactfully advise him to pay more attention to the studies of the princes.Not to mention anything else, the disastrous consequences caused by Emperor Taishang Daojun and Emperor Taishang Yuansheng are enough to make people unforgettable, and they never want to experience it again in this life.

Later, after their sons had spent their childhoods in which people hated dogs, Zhao Guan's family also improved their attitudes.The son he cares about most is definitely his eldest son Zhao Xu.According to this feudal patriarchal society, as long as he does not make any principled mistakes, the future emperor's position will definitely be his, although the Zhao Guan family created a secret reserve system to avoid trouble.But as a prince, he cannot lack the education he deserves.And in addition to this, the wife (the eldest daughter of Han Shizhong) and the teacher chosen by Zhao Guan's family were also the most favorable.

In the 19th year of Jianyan, the matter with the Jurchen Ministry came to an end.Liu Ji, the vice-minister of the capital province who suffered from the sternness of the three ministers of Jia Taixue, finally couldn't bear it anymore and handed in his resignation to Zhao Guanjia, meaning that he was old and could no longer handle so many major agricultural and mulberry affairs, and asked the officials to choose another talented person.

Although Liu Ji and Liu Zhifu were deputy prime ministers, they also served Zhao Guan's family for 18 years and made great contributions to preserving Nanyang and promoting mulberry fish ponds.And to be honest, the commotion here in the Secret Pavilion was indeed a bit outrageous. The Zhao official family thought over and over again and did not retain him. Instead, they gave him an official position and allowed him to retire with the treatment of a prime minister.

I don’t know what happened, maybe God finally opened a hole.In September of the same year.Zhao Ding sincerely apologized to Zhao Guan's family for resigning, because since the Song Dynasty, starting from Song Taizu Zhao Kuangyin, there has been no prime minister who has ruled the world for 15 years. This is not a good thing for others or for himself.What he has to do has come to an end, so he should ask the officials to let him return to his hometown to enjoy the good news and become a farmer.

Before Zhao Guan's family could decide whether to approve the application, something happened again that forced him to agree.Hu Yin's adoptive father Huan Guo, deputy envoy to the Privy Council, died of illness.Hu Yin and his two younger brothers asked Ding You.

There is no other way.The Zhao Guan family had no choice but to appease Zhao Ding first.After thinking about it, he called King Yan to observe and learn how to deal with officialdom. The future Emperor Xuanzong watched with his own eyes that Zhao Guan's family had made great achievements in building wealth and became deputy prime minister of Jindu Province with Lin Jingmo, the Minister of Household Affairs.Zhai Ruwen, the former Minister of Rites who returned from observing filial piety, was renamed Minister of Hubu.The Yanshan economic history produced by Hu Yin was succeeded by Wang Yan.

Fortunately, there are still more people in the Privy Council, and the position of Deputy Privy Council will not be increased for the time being.As for subsequent replacements.Then it will be discussed by the Ministry of Officials, and if the Zhao official family has no objection, it can be passed.

It was also the first time that Zhao Xu came into contact with the appointment and dismissal of officials at the highest level of the empire. He was dumbfounded and said, "Dad, are there any omissions in this?"

Unexpectedly, Zhao Guanjia answered him calmly: "There will be. Personnel is a very complicated job. There is no way to guarantee that there will be no problems between two people who are connected. In fact, it would be good if there are fewer problems. What's more, at the provincial and Privy Council levels, as long as they can correctly implement my general policy, many things will not be so important."

"On the contrary, the people-friendly officials below are different. Yuan Zuo, you may not know. During the Northern Expedition, in order to unite the southern clans and get them to contribute money and effort, I specially selected hundreds of Confucian scholars from the southern palaces to accompany the army in the Northern Expedition. He promised them a future and thought it was pretty good. After they recovered a large number of areas such as Hebei, Hedong, and Yanshan, they were also given missions and official positions. However, they did not expect that these people would be beaten back by the provincial government in just one year. Not that My dear friends, you are discriminating because these people, who have been in the south of the Yangtze River for a long time, usually talk a little about righteousness, but they are really unable to bend down and deal with various problems in the occupied areas. This caused so many conflicts that I had no choice but to hold another imperial examination the next year. These new scholars, with high positions and low positions, were slowly replaced. Zhao Fen and Liang Su were in the same situation." After talking for a long time, Zhao Guan's family drank tea to moisten their throats. The emperor taught the prince state affairs, which even Yang Yizhong had to avoid. , so naturally it was Zhao Xu who cooked the tea.After a while, he heard Zhao Jiu continue to say: "Of course, I don't mean that public officials are hopeless. There is more than one way to do scientific research in the world, you should know. Zhang Wugu and Liang Jiaying both have similar backgrounds. , they did a very good job. Not to mention Shi Quan, who has promoted the Maritime Trade Department. But Yuan Zuo, you must remember that the Song Dynasty has [-] military states and tens of millions of people under its jurisdiction. As an emperor , if you don’t make decisions for them, then you are not worthy of being the leader of the Song Dynasty. Therefore, the people’s livelihood issues are the most important and cannot be underestimated. It is the foundation of the Song Dynasty, because as long as the bottom layer is stable, some setbacks at the upper level can be eliminated. "

Zhao Xu obviously listened, but due to limited experience, he couldn't understand it for a while.I can only say yes.

However, Zhao Guanjia did not expect him to understand immediately, even himself.Wasn't it because he was forced into this position when his country was ruined and his family was in ruins, and he had to practice for several years before he became somewhat good at it?
From then on, Zhao Xu officially began to study court affairs.Of course, none of the things he was in charge of were very difficult.But it is very important in the hearts of literati and officials.For example, Jianyan’s 21st year.Li Gang, who once held the world in high esteem, passed away, and King Yan paid homage on behalf of the emperor.

From the time when King Yan was crowned, every time Zhao Guan's family approved a more important memorial, they would make a copy and show it to him.Having been father and son for many years, Zhao Jiu certainly knew that his son was not a genius.He also consciously expanded the power of the Secret Pavilion.But after all, you cannot raise a mediocre master.

Of course, Zhao Xu is relatively worry-free.Zhao Yang knew that his status was embarrassing, and he was usually very cautious. Although Zhao Dan would never grow up, luckily the Zhao family chose a wife with great martial arts for him - Zhang Rongzhi's daughter.King Huai was forced to only dare to invent and create.Concubine Wu was very dissatisfied with her daughter-in-law's bullying of her son, but since this was an order from Guan Zhao's family, she didn't dare to do anything.

Time has passed so slowly for several years.Seeing that the youngest Prince Shen, Zhao Xin, was eight years old and had no fear of dying young, and could choose a concubine, the father of Zhao Guan's family began to make plans for his son.

Unexpectedly, all marriages between princes and princesses before Zhao Xin were decided by the Zhao Guan family.But when it comes to him, something goes wrong.

Don't get me wrong, it's not that the authority of Zhao Guan's family has declined.Even his own son and daughter-in-law can't make the decision.It's really because King Shen's previous brothers and sisters were all married to the Eighteenth King Jianyan, and because of their merit and love, others naturally had nothing to say.But who made Wang Shen born late? Not to mention Wang De and Li Yanxian, Li Qiong, Li Shifu and even the Yang Yizhong family did not have a suitable daughter-in-law. And now, unlike the past, the Zhao Guan family is also planning to choose a daughter-in-law from the emerging Yuanxue family, but the problem is Thanks to your Zhao Guan family, there are now countless Yuanxue families in the Song Dynasty, especially in the Yanjing area.Most of them also have daughters of the right age.After all, she is a princess, so it would be strange not to fight for it.

Didn’t you see that she was the biological mother of King Shen Zhao Xin? Madam Xie’s palace could no longer hold the gifts. Fortunately, she had always been a sensible person and passed the blame to Zhao Guan’s family without hesitation.

Zhao Guan's family is also helpless.Simply because the son is still young, the act of marrying a baby should be suspended.Let’s take a look at your interests and hobbies in two years. It won’t be too late anyway.

But it may be shooting yourself in the foot.As King Shen grew up, Zhao Guan's family found that in Wulue, this son was the most like them. He liked to go hunting with a group of imperial guards when he had nothing to do.Obviously, children from generals' families are more suitable.What's even worse is that he actually fell in love with a noble girl while riding the horse.This also made King Shen lucky enough to be the only one among all the children of Zhao Guan's family who could marry independently.

(End of this chapter)