Great Zhou Empire: Kill Zhao Kuangyin at the beginning

Chapter 10 Prince Consort Zhang Yongde

Queen Mother Fu nodded and said:
"Your Majesty is smart and wise, just like your father in martial arts!
Zhao Ni will be eliminated immediately, and the queen mother will come to the court to help you manage the government for a while. From now on, you can make decisions about the government. "

Chai Zongxun knew in his heart that his mother had agreed to 80% to 90% of the matter. As long as he managed the government in a legal and orderly manner in the future, his mother would feel free to hand over the power to him.

Chai Zongxun said: "Mother, please rest assured! My son will definitely take care of government affairs and live up to his father's reputation.

Queen Mother, the situation in the capital and the palace is now in chaos. We will wait in this palace with peace of mind for Zhang Yongde and Li Chongjin to take control of the situation. "

The mother and son sat in the palace and chatted for a while. Queen Mother Fu asked:

"Your Majesty, is it really safe to eliminate Zhao Kuangyin immediately and let Zhang Yongde and Li Chongjin take charge of the Guards and Pro-Army Division and the Guide Army?

On that day, Emperor Qin's father passed away suddenly. Prime Minister Fan Zhi and deputy prime ministers Wang Pu, Wei Renpu and others in the court demoted these two people to local military envoys on the grounds of stabilizing the imperial power of the Great Zhou Dynasty. They were worried that they would be in trouble in the army. If the prestige is too high, you will have bad intentions. "

Chai Zongxun smiled and said: "Queen mother, Zhang Yongde and Li Chongjin are both royal relatives of our royal family in the Zhou Dynasty. They have high status and no doubt about their loyalty to our royal family.

I want you to tell me that all the prime ministers in the court have lost their minds and are guarding against the wrong target!
At that time, Zhang and Li held two of the most elite armies of our dynasty, the Imperial Guards and the Gui De Army, but they immediately obeyed the orders. Doesn't this further prove their loyalty?

However, the queen mother was right to be worried about the generals, and her son had already figured out a way to control them. "

Queen Mother Fu was very interested and immediately asked.

Chai Zongxun pondered for a moment and said:
"Mother, the imperial court cannot be popular with the public now. There are two reasons for this:
First: The civil servants and generals in the DPRK believed that the secondary prime minister Wei Renpu was from a minor official and had not participated in the imperial examination, so his talents were insufficient;

They think Fan Zhi and Wang Pu will only follow the rules; they also think Han Tong is brave and foolhardy.

Second: The Forbidden Army is our most elite army in the Great Zhou Dynasty, accompanying my father in the north and south, and has achieved great results through hard work.

However, after the death of his father, Prime Minister Fan Zhi, in order to suppress the power of generals and stabilize the government, added many measures to restrict the imperial army, and also reduced the salary of the soldiers, from 1 tael per month to cents.

As a result, the Imperial Guards were dissatisfied and dissatisfied.

After her mother, her father was wise and powerful. During his reign, he vigorously promoted economic development and increased fiscal revenue. After several years of accumulation, the national treasury was quite rich.

A few days ago, I learned that there are more than 22 million taels of tax money in the national treasury (actually, I use taels in writing).

The son's approach was, first of all, to remove Wang Pu, the second prime minister who had secretly communicated with Zhao Kuangyin, and hand it over to the Third Division for discussion.

The ministers of the DPRK will elect a minister who is highly respected by the public and serve as deputy prime minister.

Fan Zhi is loyal and can stay in office.

The second item: Increase the monthly salary of all sergeants in the Forbidden Army from the current reduced eight hundred wen to one tael and five cents.

These soldiers live a worry-free life and are able to support their families, so they will definitely be loyal to my royal family! "

Empress Dowager Fu said happily: "Your Majesty is really a new person compared to before. It seems that your father has entrusted you with a dream and enlightened you!"

Huang'er's method directly targets Guan Jian, and it is indeed feasible. "

While Chai Zongxun accompanied Empress Dowager Fu to prepare in the Baoci Palace, Zhang Yongde and Li Chongjin, who were ambushing outside Bianjing, received the secret order from Emperor Chai Zongxun and led their troops into the city. They made a surprise attack in the middle of the night, surrounded and killed Zhao Kuangyin's party. Controlled the Guards and Pro-Army Division and the Returned Army.

That night, there was great chaos in the city of Bianjing. From time to time, the sounds of weapons being handed over and shouting could be heard.

After all, Zhao Kuangyin's trusted generals were only a handful compared to the entire Forbidden Army and the Returned Army. Rumors that Zhao Kuangyin had been executed and that the emperor had ordered a crusade against Zhao's party spread throughout the capital, and people were panicked for a while. Under the historical prestige of Zhang Yongde and Li Chongjin in the military, most of the sergeants who were neutral and watching immediately obeyed their orders.

Zhao Kuangyi, Zhao Pu and Zhao Kuangyin's "Ten Brothers of the Righteous Society" and others waited for a long time but no news came back from Zhao Kuangyin. While they were hesitating, things started in a hurry. It was not until they were surrounded by Zhang and Li in the middle of the night that their respective houses were surrounded by an army. I feel a sudden change.

After fierce resistance, Zhao Kuangyi and others were outnumbered and either died in battle or were captured. The rebellion was quickly put down by Zhang Yongde and Li Chongjin.

Zhao Kuangyin's trusted generals in the front department of the palace were in chaos when they first heard that Zhao Kuangyin had been executed by Emperor Chai Zong.

Even though many generals wanted to lead the imperial army to attack Baoci Palace, their prestige was far less than that of Zhao Kuangyin, and since Zhao Kuangyin was dead, only a few buddies followed and attacked Baoci Palace several times, but they were all stopped by Han Tong who was guarding outside the palace. The faction's Custodes were beaten back.

In the early morning of November 26th, the sixth year of Xiande, Zhang Yongde and Li Chongjin, who had already controlled the situation in Bianjing, rushed to the palace with 50,000 guards and troops led by Zhang Yongde, and quickly calmed down Zhao Kuangyin and several others in the palace. A thousand remnant rebels.

After Tang Qi, the chief eunuch in front of the palace, went inside to report to Chai Zongxun, Zhang Yongde was summoned into Baoci Palace.

Zhang Yongde saluted and said:
"Your Majesty, Zhang Yongde, meets the Queen Mother!
Chen and Commander Li have taken control of the capital and have wiped out the rebellious Zhao Ni party! It is estimated that more than 7 people have been killed.

Commander Li is arranging city defenses in the capital to clean up the hidden remnants of Zhao Shun. "

Chai Zongxun and Empress Dowager Fu were overjoyed when they heard this.

Chai Zongxun learned that now in the Great Zhou Dynasty, the subjects all thought that they were young, and all the power was in the hands of the Queen Mother who listened behind the curtain, and they couldn't help but sigh in their hearts.

Empress Dowager Fu glanced at Chai Zongxun and said, "Zhang Aiqing's body is flat!

Today's execution of Zhao Ni was all planned and decided by the emperor after discussion with me. Since the emperor received a dream from the late emperor a month ago, the emperor has become more wise and decisive than before.

The emperor's will is the palace's will. Zhang Aiqing can just obey the emperor's arrangements. "

Zhang Yongde was greatly surprised when he heard this.

Zhang Yongde was born in the third year of Tiancheng in the Later Tang Dynasty (928). When Guo Wei, Taizu of the Later Zhou Dynasty, was a guard, he was friendly with Zhang Yongde's father, Zhang Ying, so he married his daughter to Zhang Yongde.

In the first year of Guangshun of the Great Zhou Dynasty (951), after Guo Wei, Taizu of the Later Zhou Dynasty, proclaimed himself emperor, he named his daughter who married Zhang Yongde the princess of Jin, and awarded Zhang Yongde the title of General Zuowei, Commander-in-Chief of the Fourth Squadron of the Inner Palace Zhixiaodi, and Commander-in-Chief Prince-in-law. , collar and governor of the state.

Since then, Zhang Yongde has become an imperial prince in the Zhou Dynasty who is deeply trusted by the imperial family.

In the first year of Xiande (954), shortly after Zhou Shizong Chai Rong came to the throne, Liu Chong, the founder of the Northern Han Dynasty, took the opportunity to collude with the Khitan to invade.

Zhou Shizong went on a personal expedition and fought with the Northern Han army in Gaoping. Not long after the battle began, the later Zhou generals Fan Aineng and He Hui fled and led their troops to surrender to the Northern Han Dynasty.

When the situation was critical, Zhao Kuangyin and Zhang Yongde each led two thousand troops to fight back. Zhang Yongde's men were good at riding and shooting. Under the leadership of Zhang Yongde, they fought bravely to kill the enemy and inflicted heavy losses on the Northern Han and Khitan coalition forces. As a result, they reversed the war situation and achieved a high victory. After the victory of the battle, more than 7,000 Liu Chong's troops were surrendered.

In the sixth year of Xian De's reign, Chai Rong withdrew to Bianjing due to an acute illness during the Northern Expedition. Zhang Yongde, who had a steady and gentle temperament, was originally intended to continue to serve as the chief inspector in front of the palace. However, a wooden sign was found among the memorials submitted from various places, which said "Inspection is for the emperor." " This made Chai Rong greatly worried that after his death, the orphans and widowers of the Zhou royal family would be deprived of the throne by Zhang Yongde, so he devalued her.

More than ten days ago, Zhang Yongde, who was the governor of Chanzhou, received the secret order from the palace. He thought that the Queen Mother was going to remove Zhao Kuangyin, but he never thought that the 7-year-old little emperor Guo Zongxun was planning the whole thing.

Chai Zongxun saw the surprise on Zhang Yongde's face and said with a smile:

"Zhang Aiqing is a relative of the emperor of Zhou Dynasty. According to seniority, I should call Zhang Aiqing my uncle.

Today, Zhao Ni's party has been eliminated, but the world is still fighting endlessly. I ask my uncle to spare no effort and help me with all his strength! "

(End of this chapter)