The rise of the late Song Dynasty reigns supreme

Chapter 10

When the prime minister Cai Jing was dismissed by Song Huizong Zhao Ji, he was demoted to go to Hangzhou to meditate on his past behind closed doors.Cai Jing took off his court uniform and official boots, and left the Golden Luan Hall surrounded by guards.At the same time, Song Huizong Zhao Ji's eyes stayed on Yang Jian who was beside him again, making him tremble all over.

At the beginning, Song Huizong Zhao Ji asked Yang Jian to thoroughly investigate Cai Jing's affairs, but he had no clue.Now, the censor and others have found out the evidence of Cai Jing's crimes, which made him lose face.Looking at Song Huizong's cold gaze, Yang Jian trembled all over, knowing that he would also be implicated.

Zhao Ji, Emperor Huizong of Song Dynasty, glared fiercely, and wrote lightly: "Back to the court!"

"Retreat!" Yang Jian quickly echoed, shouting in his unique sharp voice, everyone could feel the trembling meaning in his voice.

Everyone looked at Yang Jian gloatingly, and shouted in unison: "Long live my emperor, long live, long live!"

Zhao Ji, Emperor Huizong of Song Dynasty, got up from the dragon chair, walked away quickly and walked towards the side hall; Yang Jian hurriedly chased after him.Everyone saw Song Huizong's expressionless, cold face, concealing his inner anger, and speculated that Zhao Ji was in a very bad mood, and Yang Jian would also be punished by Song Huizong.

Zhao Ji rushed to the side hall angrily, and retreated everyone, even the maids and others, leaving Yang Jian alone, which made him even more terrified.Yang Jian lowered his head, not daring to look into Song Huizong's eyes.At this time, Song Huizong didn't have any weakness, and the light in his eyes seemed to be able to see through people's hearts. Seeing Yang Jian's true inner thoughts made him feel like he was sitting on pins and needles.

Song Huizong looked at Yang Jian intently, never said a word, and didn't even take a sip of the tea beside him; Yang Jian kept his head down from the beginning to the end.Zhao Ji said coldly: "Since I ascended the throne, you have followed by my side, thinking of how talented you are and knowing what I want, so I have always kept you by my side. I ask you, have you ever treated me badly?" Pass?"

"Never!" Yang Jian replied solemnly.

"I am the king of a country. As the son of heaven, my subjects are all in the world. Why did you join forces with Cai Jing and deceive me!" Zhao Ji, Emperor Huizong of the Song Dynasty, calmly narrated, and heard Yang Jian more Trembling unceasingly, Zhao Ji went on to say: "It is really a great kindness for me to let you serve in the court as an eunuch. Why do you still lie to me? If it weren't for Yushi, Master Zhang impeached today, you still want to hide it from me. By when?"

Yang Jian drooped his head, feeling weak, and replied with dull eyes: "I dare not!"

"Don't dare? Humph!..." Zhao Ji laughed back in anger, and said, "I appointed you as the military envoy of the Changhua Army. I thought of your achievements, so I am so merciful. Relying on my favor, I acted recklessly and satiated myself. Private pocket, these years are probably more prosperous than my life. Do you know why I didn't punish you in front of the officials, and why I just dismissed him and didn't kill him. The things he committed, any one of them, are all heinous mortal sin!"

Yang Jian replied tremblingly: "I don't know!"

"I will tell you the reason!" Song Huizong Zhao Ji sneered again and again, and said: "Cai Jing is the prime minister of the court. If I kill him, the balance between the court and the court will lose its restraint. I know in my heart that Cai Jing used power for personal gain and filled his pockets. How about it? But he is still a real minister, subject to me. As long as I give an order, I can take his head. Over the years, I have been obsessed with calligraphy and painting, and he is in charge of all major affairs in the court."

"Whether it's good or bad, I have never held him accountable. Just because the merits and demerits of these years have offset each other, I just turned a blind eye. There are some things that I can't do as the emperor. Only It can only be done with the help of some people. As the king of a country, sometimes he is very helpless."

"I ordered you to investigate Cai Jing's matter. Firstly, it is to remember the old relationship, and secondly, it is to give you a chance to be loyal to me wholeheartedly. It is a pity that the two of you really let me down. If you don't Cai Jing's restriction will inevitably lead to factional disputes in the court. When the first emperor was alive, he advocated reforms and wanted to strengthen the country, but there are too few people in the court who really think about the country and society, and they cannot be reused."

Yang Jian was dumbfounded, looking at Zhao Ji who was talking eloquently, as if seeing a stranger, he couldn't help thinking of Zhao Ji's side for the first time when he followed Song Huizong Zhao Ji this year. From the beginning, everyone felt that he was an incompetent emperor, reused Cai Jing, and let himself enter the court as a eunuch to serve as a Jiedu envoy. All of this was Song Huizong's strategy.

When Yang Jian was young, he worked in the harem, in charge of the back garden, and was good at guessing the emperor's intentions.Since Chongning, he has been favored by Emperor Huizong of the Song Dynasty more and more, and was appointed by Zhao Ji as an official in the court, serving as a minister of internal affairs. official.

He asked himself that he knew Zhao Ji's thoughts well, and after seeing Zhao Ji's different side, Yang Jian felt that he was very ridiculous.In the past, I always thought that I could see through Song Huizong's intentions, but now I understand that everything is in vain. All these are pretended by Zhao Ji to deceive the ministers of the court and the servants around him. The real Zhao Ji is a person who hides his secrets.

When everything became clear, Yang Jian remembered that Zhao Ji, Emperor Huizong of Song Dynasty, ascended the throne as emperor. Of course, getting the support of the queen mother is very important, but the real thing is that Zhao Ji himself has some means.Back then, when he first ascended to Dabao and took power in his hands, Song Huizong Zhao Ji couldn't wait to settle accounts with those who had happened in the past and reactivate a group of officials.

Thinking about it now, Yang Jian finally understood why Zhao Ji reused them, in fact, to cultivate his own power.The dispute between factions in the DPRK and China intensified, so that Zhao Ji, Emperor Huizong of the Song Dynasty, did not tire of bothering, but did not dare to blatantly punish the leaders of the reformist and conservative factions.

Therefore, Song Huizong Zhao Ji reused Cai Jing and others in order to contain the dispute between the two factions in the court and to balance the balance of power among court officials.It never occurred to Cai Jing that he was ambitious, greedy, high-profile, and ignorant of forbearance, so that he offended Zhao Ji's bottom line, directly dismissed the position of prime minister, and relegated him to the position of prince Shaobao.

Although it is a bit risky to do so, it is actually a good way to kill two birds with one stone. As long as Cai Jing exists, the dispute between the two factions will not happen again.The most important thing is that Cai Jing was under Song Huizong's control, and he never had the slightest fear.It's a pity that there are several things that Zhao Ji didn't know about the things played by the censor, so he was demoted.

Although Cai Jingquan was in favor of the government and the opposition and monopolized most of the official positions in the court, Song Huizong Zhao Ji also turned a blind eye. In fact, he wanted the two factions to have no time to fight, and deal with Cai Jing wholeheartedly to achieve a balance. effect.It's a pity that Cai Jing grew up so fast that he almost got out of Zhao Ji's control. In the end, he simply became a hands-off emperor, ignoring everything and ignoring the government, forcing everyone to work together to deal with Cai Jing.

This trick is very dangerous, if it is used well, it is good, if it is not used well, then he will really be infamous for thousands of years and become the emperor that everyone despises.Moreover, if this trick is not used well, then Cai Jing will control the government. He is also an emperor in name only. All this is Zhao Ji's plan, and it is also a gamble, using his own reputation and the power of the Song Dynasty to gamble.

"Accompanying you is like accompanying a tiger!" Yang Jian felt bitter in his heart, and thought to himself: "The miscellaneous family thinks they can see through the emperor's mind, but today they know how to guess and understand the emperor's mind? If this is really the case , then the emperor has deceived everyone, even himself, and only in this way can the clothes be seamless, and no one will be able to detect it."

Song Huizong Zhao Ji said coldly, "Cai Jing still has some uses for me. As for you who know so many secrets about me, you should know what the final outcome is. After following me for so many years, you should know what I think. That's it. For one thing, I don’t need to say too much, you can figure it out yourself!”

Yang Jian nodded bitterly. What he thought in his mind was that he had blind eyes and guessed people's hearts all day long, but in the end he still couldn't guess the emperor's mind.He looked at the glass of wine beside Song Huizong's desk, kowtowed respectfully and said, "I thank the emperor for the reward!"

He held up the wine glass with trembling hands, and drank it all in one gulp. As the emperor's servant, Yang Jian sent hundreds of wines from his hands.Because, this glass of wine is soul-severing wine, and the wine is filled with extremely poisonous crane crest red.In the palace, as long as this kind of wine appears, it is basically bestowed with death.

Yang Jian never thought that one day he would get such a "reward"!So, Yang Jian gave a wry smile and drank it all in one gulp.After a while, the wine glass in his hand fell to the ground.Yang Jian bled from his seven orifices and died, so he reported directly to the King of Hell, his eyes widened until he died, and he seemed unbelievable, as if he didn't believe that what happened before him was real, and that he was really bestowed to death by Song Huizong Zhao Ji.

Song Huizong Zhao Ji was expressionless, sneered again and again, whispered, and murmured indifferently: "I have told you so much, only the dead can keep this secret!"

(End of this chapter)