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A large group of people had already gathered outside the imperial palace, the official residence, but there was a group of guards standing outside the palace, and no one was allowed to enter without purpose.

Zhou Chen, as the commander in front of the hall, was also guarding outside the hall at this time. Although he wanted to go inside the hall to see how Zhao Heng was doing, Zhao Heng didn't summon him, and even he couldn't go in.

Because of the pure yang internal force, coupled with the enhancement of his own physique, his hearing is far superior to that of ordinary people.

But even so, he couldn't hear the situation inside the hall clearly. There were many people in the bedroom and more people outside, and it was impossible to keep quiet. No matter how powerful he was, it was difficult to distinguish such noisy and chaotic voices.

After a long while, Cui Neishi from the dormitory came out and called several people in, including Zhou Chen.

Zhou Chen walked into the bedroom and saw a group of people kneeling on the ground, including the young prince.

Zhao Heng was lying on the dragon bed, and Empress Liu Wan was beside him.

At this time, Zhao Heng no longer had the demeanor of a king in the past. He was so angry, his body was swollen, and there was no trace of blood on his face, which seemed to be a sign of exhaustion.

Zhao Heng, who was on the dragon's bed, didn't even have the strength to speak now. He just grasped Liu Wan's hand tightly, his eyes were open and his mouth opened and closed, as if he wanted to say something, but he couldn't make a sound.

In the end, in this contest with the god of death, the emperor Zhao Heng, who is the lord of the world, was still defeated, closed his eyes, and hung his hands powerlessly.

"Official!"

A shrill voice sounded, and all the courtiers knelt down to see the official Zhao Heng off.

The third and longest reigning emperor of the Song Dynasty, Zhao Heng, died of illness in the palace in the first year of Qianxing.

However, although Zhao Heng died of illness, enough arrangements had been made before that.

The posthumous edict allowed the crown prince Zhao Zhen to inherit the great power, and the empress Liu Wan was the empress dowager, who had the power to listen to the government and assist the young emperor Zhao Zhen.

Tian Wei also became the chief assistant of the new dynasty, Quantong Prime Minister, and someone from the Qingliu lineage who had been silent before was also selected by Zhao Heng to be awarded a high position to assist the new emperor.

Zhao Heng's thinking also changed when he was dying, and the court formed a confrontation between several major forces, just not wanting to let one family dominate and cause the new emperor to be oppressed.

His idea is good, but it's a pity that power touches people's hearts, and what he did made the struggle more intense.

When the emperor died, as a courtier, he also had to mourn for 27 days.

During this period, there should be no festive events such as marriage and marriage. The emperor cannot use red pens to write instructions when reviewing memorials. Clock thirty thousand times and so on......

The national mourning was still going on, but the struggle within the imperial court had already begun from the moment Zhao Heng died of illness.

When Liu Wan was the empress, she had already started to review the memorials for the officials, and gradually came to power. Now she is the empress dowager, and the new emperor is still a 12-year-old child. Of course, she will not let go of this good opportunity to control the court. What's more, she still has the late emperor's will, so she feels that she can face the court openly.

And Tian Wei, who was promoted to prime minister, faced a young new emperor, of course he also wanted to be in power. In addition, he himself was very ambitious and looked down on Liu Wan. He felt that women should not be in power, so he had already begun to make arrangements , ready to take over the empress dowager Liu Wan and monopolize the government.

The Qingliu lineage is not to be outdone, because the new emperor Zhao Zhen has several civil servants from the Qingliu lineage. They firmly support the young emperor and feel that the young emperor is their hope, so they want to rely on the young emperor to rise again.

But now they are short of arrow figures, and their momentum and power cannot be compared with Empress Dowager Liu Wan and Prime Minister Tian Wei.

Xiao Qinyan, who was transferred not long ago, is equally ambitious, and naturally he doesn't want to see Tian Wei become bigger, so now he is in close contact with the Empress Dowager and has great plans.

Today's imperial palace and imperial court are a huge vortex, and if something is wrong, it may cause serious consequences.

That is to say, during the national mourning period, the forces of all parties are still planning and restraining themselves, otherwise the chaos will only increase.

As Zhou Chen is a new rich man, there are naturally people who push him, but he doesn't see customers directly, and he just performs his duties every day, and he doesn't rely on anyone.

Now that he is the prince Shaobao, he should be more inclined to the new emperor, but the problem is that he has known Zhao Zhen for a short time, and he is no match for those civil servants and advisers around him, especially after Zhao Zhen ascended the throne, he It is even more unreliable.

Of course, it's also because he doesn't want to do that, because he knows very well that the new emperor Zhao Zhen will be a puppet for the next ten years, unless he can defeat the empress dowager Liu Wan and prime minister Tian Wei and become the most powerful minister in the court .

But this is really too difficult. Compared with Liu Wan and Tian Wei, his foundation is still insufficient, and in the Song Dynasty, the model of literati ruling the world, unless he imitates Wang Mang, otherwise, it is impossible to achieve power over the world.

Throughout the centuries-old history of the Song Dynasty, how many people who were military officials were able to be powerful officials under one person and above ten thousand people?
This place is more of an overhead world, who knows if the final development will be the same as the official history, so Zhou Chen does not want to participate in the power struggle between Liu Wan, Tian Wei and others.

After the national mourning period ended on the 27th, Tian Wei took the lead in launching the struggle. He used his position as chief assistant prime minister to quickly develop his power in the court. A large group of civil servants joined him and became his minions.

The new emperor ascended the throne, and the empress dowager Liu Wan officially stepped onto the stage. She was in charge of the government as a queen before, but it was not justified.

But this time is different, this time she is facing the court as the empress dowager, and she has the last emperor's edict, so she can legitimately take charge of military and state affairs.

It's just that her first court meeting was not smooth, because Prime Minister Tian Weizhen was too strong, and the rhythm of the entire court meeting was controlled by him. Liu Wan spoke several times, but he calmly resolved them, and passed Suppressing Liu Wan enhanced his authority.

It is very rare in history for the empress dowager to come to court, let alone in the Song Dynasty, a dynasty where literati are supreme. These people even dare to fight against the emperor. A woman, even the empress dowager, they are not afraid .

It's just that Tian Wei's power is too strong now, even the empress dowager Liu Wan can't contain it, so he can only find a way to compete with him for power.

On the contrary, Zhao Zhen, the new emperor who has just ascended the throne, has no other support except for some civil servants from the Qingliu lineage and some royalists, but these people will definitely not go with Tian Wei and the empress dowager for the sake of the young Zhao Zhen. to fight.

What's more, the prince is still controlled by the empress dowager and disciplined by the empress dowager, so Zhao Zhen is basically a puppet emperor now.

It can also be seen from this that military officers played a very small role in this process of alternation of imperial power, because a lot of military power in the Song Dynasty was basically controlled by civilian officials, and military officers only had command power on the battlefield. In an imperial city like the city, one can only be restrained by civil officials.

Therefore, as a military officer in the Song Dynasty, his future was naturally worse than that of a civil official by more than one level.

Even Zhou Chen, a second-rank official who had already reached the pinnacle of a military officer, had much less appeal among the court officials than those civilian officials.

The general trend of the world is like this, it cannot be changed overnight, and it is not something that Zhou Chen can change now.

There is only one way to change this phenomenon, and that is to overthrow and start over.

When Empress Dowager Liu Wan and Tian Wei were fighting in dire straits, Zhou Chen became a transparent person, only doing what he was supposed to do and not caring about other things at all.

Although Xiao Qinyan also approached Zhou Chen, Zhou Chen didn't answer him at all, and always talked about him from left to right, and then Xiao Qinyan stopped looking for him.

Instead, Gu Qianfan asked him to have a drink.

Zhou Chen's sense of Gu Qianfan is still very good. Gu Qianfan has a good personality. In addition, Gu Qianfan is now the Imperial City envoy. His grade is not high, but he has a lot of power, so Zhou Chen is willing to make friends with him .

Qingliu wrote several times, wanting Zhao Zhen in his heart to recall Ke Zheng from Leizhou, but this was strongly suppressed by both Liu Wan and Tian Wei.

Now two tigers are fighting each other. If Ke Zheng returns strongly, the situation will be more complicated, so both of them are unwilling to let Ke Zheng return, and they are even less willing to see Qingliu's line rise again.

The civil official group is so complicated, divided into many factions, the main reason is that the civil official is too powerful, and everyone wants to be the first assistant prime minister.

January passed quickly, Zhou Chen was very free now, and he had already set off his duty early. He didn't go back to the Hou's Mansion first, but went to Zhang Haohao's first, and spent two hours happily before returning to the Hou's Mansion.

He returned to the mansion, and as soon as he walked into the side hall, he saw Zhao Pan'er walking in with Madam Zhu.

Madam Zhu bowed to Zhou Chen with a happy face.

"Congratulations to Lord Hou, congratulations to Lord Hou!"

"Congratulations, why are you so happy?"

Zhou Chen was a little puzzled, but he quickly realized that Mammy Zhu had been living in the Hou Mansion and had little contact with people. The joy she said must be a happy event in the Hou Mansion.

Thinking of this, he immediately turned his attention to Zhao Pan'er.

"Pan'er, could it be you..."

Zhao Pan'er smiled: "Master Hou is Master Hou, I guessed it right away, Master Hou, I am not feeling well today, so I asked the doctor to come to the door, but..."

Having said that, she had a look of joy and shyness on her face.

"It turned out to be a happy pulse."

"Okay, okay, Paner."

Zhou Chen was overjoyed, no matter who was present, he hugged Zhao Pan'er.

He and Zhao Pan'er have been married for half a year, and there has been no movement. Although he is not in a hurry, Zhao Pan'er has been very anxious recently.

After all, when she married into the Hou's Mansion, she was already underestimated by others. If she was still barren, the pressure would be even greater.

Zhou Chen never said anything, but she herself was under great pressure.

Now that she is finally pregnant, her stress has been reduced by more than half, and she is in a very good mood. She walks and talks with joy.

"Master Hou."

"Pan'er, you are pregnant, you must be careful in the future, and if you have something to do, tell the nanny and the servants to do it, and don't run around anymore, and..."

Zhou Chen is very experienced in taking care of pregnant women, and he talked a lot about the maintenance and protection of pregnant women in one breath, which left Zhao Pan'er and Nanny Zhu dumbfounded.

A woman is pregnant, Zhou Chen is a man, and he is still a dignified Lord Hou, who knows better than these women, isn't it, too abnormal?

"What do you think?"

Zhao Pan'er shook his head and said, "It's nothing, I'm just happy, Hou Ye, don't worry, I will definitely protect myself, even if it's for this child, I will definitely."

At this moment, she regards the child in her stomach as more important than herself.

Zhou Chenxun said: "What stupid things are you talking about? Children are important, but to me, you are more important."

Zhao Pan'er showed a happy smile. Zhou Chen's words warmed her heart, but what she said was also sincere. For Zhou Chen's child, she will definitely protect herself.

Back in the room, Zhao Paner dined with Zhou Chen.

"Master Hou, I heard that the court has been chaotic recently, are you alright?"

"It's a bit messy, the fight is serious, but it doesn't have much to do with me, and they didn't provoke me."

Zhou Chen's attitude is already obvious, he just doesn't stand in line. Although this attitude makes some people dissatisfied, but his power and status are not bad, so the forces of all parties dare not target him, so they all selectively ignore it. he.

"That's good."

Zhao Paner breathed a sigh of relief. Now that she is pregnant, she has more thoughts. The most worrying thing is that something will happen to the Hou Mansion. For her, everything is safe and secure.

In the blink of an eye, another two months passed, and Zhao Pan'er's belly had already begun to show.

But the biggest thing that happened during this period was that the struggle between Empress Dowager Liu Wan and Prime Minister Tian Wei had come to an end.

In the end, the queen party headed by the empress dowager won the victory. Liu Wan used Tian Wei to deceive the top and bottom, emptied the two palaces, and colluded with the eunuch Lei Jing on the grounds that he wanted to kill Tian Wei.

But they were dissuaded by many civil servants. They were not all for Tian Wei, but a large part of the reason was for themselves.

Tian Wei is the prime minister. If Liu Wan is allowed to kill the prime minister, it will inevitably damage the interests of the civil society. Even the prime minister can be killed. If the civil official makes a mistake in the future, will he be killed as he wants?

These civil servants and scholar-bureaucrats regard their status as superior to others, and they absolutely cannot tolerate such things happening, so they try their best to dissuade Empress Dowager Liu Wan.

The officials dissuaded her, even if Liu Wan was reluctant, she could only agree, and in the end she just sent Tian Wei to the family.

Tian Wei escaped with his life, but what happened to Lei Jing and others were all executed and ransacked their homes.

Lei Jing, the former envoy of the imperial city, was a double-faced villain in order to survive and get promoted, and finally died under his own ambition.

After Tian Wei was removed, the Empress Dowager Liu Wan officially took control of the power and became the ruler of the world above tens of millions. In name, Zhao Zhen was the emperor, but in fact, the person who exercised the power of the emperor was Liu Wan. .

The rise of Empress Dowager Liu Wan naturally benefited most from her descendants, including Xiao Qinyan.

Xiao Qinyan, who was dismissed at the beginning of the year, paid homage to the prime minister again and took over Tian Wei's position.

Zhou Chen watched the development of the situation from the beginning to the end. Tian Wei's ability is good, but unfortunately, he is too inflated. If he plays steadily and takes time to take his time, he may not have a chance.

It's a pity that he was too anxious, too eager to evade the new emperor and the empress dowager, offending the interests of too many people, and finally was attacked by the crowd, and ended up in a fate that was several times worse than Ke Zheng's.

It may be that after fighting wits and courage with Tian Wei in the past few months, or becoming the actual lord of the world, Liu Wan has changed a lot compared to before, and her handling of government affairs is much more mature and stable than before.

Liu Wan's rise to power also had a certain influence on Zhou Chen. Liu Wan specially summoned him once and talked with him for a long time.

Then he was removed from the position of Prince Shaobao, but he was awarded the honor of Shangzhu Kingdom. Although it is also a false position, his power and status are undoubtedly higher.