Song Emperor Jiangshan

Zhao Yuan said: "Master Shi, I've decided, I can't just ignore that matter, I have to take action to save it!"

Shi Hao was taken aback and shook his head again and again: "Your Highness, it's better for you not to take care of that matter. Now that the Queen Mother is about to return to the south, you don't want to make more troubles and make His Majesty unhappy. Besides, this is beyond your control. matter."

Hearing what Shi Hao said, Zhao Yuan felt a little disappointed. He thought that Shi Hao would approve of his actions. After all, Shi Hao told him about "that matter", but he didn't expect that he would object to meddling in the end.

When Zhao Yuan was practicing martial arts in the afternoon, when he saw Xiao Shan practicing sword with him and sweating profusely, he felt that it was necessary to find another ally.

That night Zhao Yuan invited Xiao Shan to eat together, when they sat at the table together, Xiao Shan felt a little confused.Normally, Zhao Yuan would eat first, and then it would be his turn, but today he suddenly changed, there must be something wrong.

During the dinner, Zhao Yuan didn't bring up serious matters, but just discussed with Xiao Shan the set of swordsmanship taught by the martial artist in the afternoon, and kept adding vegetables to Xiao Shan, persuading him to eat more.

It wasn't until the evening that Zhao Yuan made an excuse to continue discussing sword techniques with Xiao Shan, and when the two of them stood in the empty training ground in the dark, Zhao Yuan finally got to the point.

It turned out that "that incident" was related to the going or staying of court officials.

There have always been two prime ministers in the Song Dynasty, but since Qin Hui came to power four years ago, there has only been one prime minister, Qin Hui. Many officials have expressed opinions on such things that violate the ancestral law, but they are all suppressed by Qin Hui.

After solving Yue Fei, Qin Hui began to take revenge on those who had opposed him one by one.

A month ago, Qin Hui had denounced more than 20 officials who had opposed him.But his behavior has met with more opposition.The voice of opposition this time is not about whether the country should fight or make peace, but is purely aimed at Qin Hui's wanton seizure of power.

Among these people, in addition to Qin Hui's consistent political enemies, there are also some former allies of Qin Hui, such as Wan Qisi, the current political counselor who conspired with Qin Hui to kill Yue Fei, and Zhang Jun, one of the three generals, is also one of them.

Facing the forces opposing him in the court, Qin Hui also found a very effective solution.

The official picket agency in the Song Dynasty was called Yushitai, which specialized in impeaching officials who were unfavorable in handling affairs. All officials who were impeached by Yushi had to write a letter to resign.Qin Hui placed his own direct line cronies in the censor platform and ordered them to compete to impeach the higher-level officials. When the higher-level officials stepped down, these censors would take their place.Qin Hui will find a new censor again, see whoever is disobedient, and let the new censor impeach him.The new censor was greatly encouraged when he saw the role model he set up because of the impeachment of high-ranking officials when he took office.

So the current censor impeached the ruling censor who was promoted by the previous censor, and the cycle continued indefinitely. In the past few years when Qin Hui was in power, almost all the ruling censors were promoted by the censor.Among all the senior officials, except for Qin Hui himself and his descendants, the others have been constantly changing positions, and no one can take the opportunity to become bigger and threaten Qin Hui's status.

Now everyone knows that Qin Hui is going to wipe out the remaining main fighters and those who oppose him in one fell swoop.Because the Song Dynasty had the Taizu's legacy of "don't be convicted of crimes for words", even if Qin Hui attacked those officials, he could only demote them, but could not kill them and get rid of them completely.

But a month ago, Shi Hao got the latest news that Qin Hui was actually looking for evidence of treason by those officials, planning to launch another major rebellion case and kill all political enemies old and new.

Shi Hao once tested the emperor Zhao Gou's attitude, but he found that Zhao Gou didn't care about all this and let Qin Hui do things.During a lecture, Shi Hao once mentioned this matter to Zhao Yuan.

After Zhao Yuan learned about it, he was also taken aback, but he didn't believe that Zhao Gou would ignore this kind of matter, so when he entered the palace on August [-]st, Zhao Yuan also tested the emperor's attitude.

Zhao Gou didn't care, but praised Qin Hui for his reassuring work.

Seeing the attitude of the emperor and the prime minister like this, Zhao Yuan was very entangled in his heart.Since he left the palace, he had been counting secretly in his heart, and in the end he actually drew up a list of nearly one hundred and thirty people who would be killed by Qin Hui.

If there were only one or two people, he could still notify them privately so that the other party could take precautions. But now that there are so many people, if Zhao Yuan informs them one by one, he will definitely be noticed by Qin Hui and become his biggest attack target.

He was very entangled in his heart. On the one hand, he followed Shi Hao's advice. When Qin Hui was in the limelight, he should not go against Qin Hui, but should avoid his edge; He only knows how to protect himself, let Qin Hui continue like this, but in ten years, the Great Song Dynasty will be completely withered by Qin Hui, Qin Hui monopolizes all power, becomes the "Supreme Emperor", and will eventually be killed by him.

Zhao Yuan was in a dilemma, that's why he asked Xiao Shan's opinion, because this matter was too involved, he didn't tell Xiao Shan directly, but used a metaphor of "two countries at war" to describe it.After he heard Xiao Shan's words, he suddenly understood.If Qin Hui is allowed to wantonly cleanse his political enemies and suppress all officials who are not direct descendants, the final result can only be that Qin Hui is as safe as Mount Tai, and himself is in danger.

Zhao Yuan decided to destroy Qin Hui's action at this time, but he was also confused about how to do it. Shi Hao did not discuss this issue with him at all because he did not approve of him going against Qin Hui now.

After much deliberation, Zhao Yuan decided to discuss it with Xiao Shan.

After Zhao Yuan told Xiao Shan the ins and outs of the incident, Xiao Shan was very surprised.

Xiao Shan had been to Hangzhou, and among the few kneeling statues he saw in the Yue Temple, Wan Qisi and Zhang Jun were among them.Now that Zhao Yuan said that Qin Hui would not let these two go, he couldn't help but lament that these two were really unlucky.He didn't hold Qin Hui's thigh tightly during his lifetime, let alone throw it away after being used by him, and he would kneel on his knees for thousands of years after his death.

Zhao Yuan said: "Because I was afraid of attracting Qin Hui's attention, I didn't dare to send too many people. I only sent two confidantes to investigate the situation. Initially, there are about 130 people who will be implicated in this new trumped-up charge. Zhao Ding who resigned from office, Zhang Deyuan who advocated the Northern Expedition, Li Guang, the former deputy prime minister who was good at financial management, Wang Shu, the deputy privy envoy who refused to cooperate with Qin Hui, Huang Guinian who was always fair during his tenure as Yushi, and the He Zhu, who Yue Fei spoke to, and so on. The last time Qin Hui created Yue Fei’s injustice case, which greatly lowered the morale of the army, and now he is planning to repeat the old tricks and carry out a big purge in the court, which will definitely ruin the court’s morale Exhaustion. There are too many people involved, and it is impossible for me to notify them one by one. Although I am the adopted son of the official family, I have not been formally established as a prince until now, and I cannot write a letter to participate in the government. But it is impossible to sit idly by Ignore it, I really don’t know what to do!”

Xiao Shan saw that Zhao Yuan's brows were congealed into the word Sichuan, and under the shadow of the moon he looked very depressed.

Xiao Shan didn't know how to comfort Zhao Yuan, he sat beside Zhao Yuan silently, patted Zhao Yuan's shoulder, and said: "There must be a way for the car to reach the mountain, don't worry too much."

Zhao Yuan shook his head slowly, and said: "Actually, as long as the Holy Majesty does not approve of this matter, Qin Hui will definitely not be able to do it. But when I entered the palace a few days ago, the official said that they agreed with Qin Hui's approach. Hey, he You are really confused, you regard Qin Hui as the commander of the country, and you trust him so much..."

Halfway through speaking, Zhao Yuan suddenly realized that he was criticizing Chengyu, so he quickly stopped talking.

Xiao Shan followed Zhao Yuan's words and said casually: "Where would the emperor completely trust his ministers..." When he said this, the two looked at each other, as if they saw a ray of light in the dark night at the same time.

Zhao Yuan stared at Xiao Shan with wide eyes, Xiao Shan said: "Don't you want to be the emperor in the future? Put yourself in the position of an official and think about it, then you will know how to separate Qin Hui. I guess no emperor likes it." Seeing the power being taken away by others and being emptied."

Zhao Yuan showed hesitation on his face, he slowly moved his eyes to the dark sky, the expression on his face fluctuated.After a while, Zhao Yuan shook his head and said, "I won't be so suspicious of someone I trust. Even if someone maliciously slanders me, I can tell the difference."

Xiao Shan said: "But..." He only said a word "but" before closing his mouth.Xiao Shan knew that Zhao Yuan had a father-son affection for Zhao Gou in his heart, so he tried not to speak ill of Zhao Gou in front of him.

Zhao Yuan pursed his lips, continued Xiao Shan's words with some difficulty, and said, "But daddy is not me, he has been betrayed countless times by people around him, he will not trust anyone around him..." Zhao Yuan said in the second half of the sentence Yuan didn't say anything, because among everyone, including himself.

Although Xiao Shan didn't know what Zhao Yuan was thinking, he could feel Zhao Yuan's frustration.Xiao Shan didn't know why, whenever he saw Zhao Yuan frowning, or seeing Zhao Yuan depressed, he always had an urge to use his own power to get rid of all the things that made him distressed and depressed. Everything cleaned up.

Zhao Yuan was only depressed for a moment, and then immediately began to think about the specific operation method.Now that he has figured out what is wrong with Zhao Gou, it is very easy to persuade Zhao Gou to stop Qin Hui, but the specific difficulty is what kind of time and opportunity should he find so that Qin Hui will not find out that he did it himself.

Zhao Yuan had to meet the emperor before he could start persuading him.There are many people in the palace, so it is not easy for Zhao Yuan to avoid others every time he goes out; there are more people in the palace, and they are all over Qin Hui's eyes and ears, as long as Zhao Yuan meets the emperor and talks privately, Qin Hui will definitely know about it.Qin Hui is not an idiot, he only needs a little analysis to understand that it is Zhao Yuan who is doing the sabotage.

It is very difficult for Zhao Yuan who does not live in the palace to find the emperor to have a private conversation without anyone knowing about it.It's not okay to meet by chance, even if you sneak into the palace in the middle of the night, you may be discovered.

As soon as Zhao Yuan and Xiao Shan were free these two days, they began to analyze how to meet Zhao Gou alone.But the two analyzed Zhao Gou's itinerary and found that no matter when, it is impossible to meet Zhao Gou in the deep palace without being discovered by anyone.

When the two were having a headache because they couldn't find the opportunity, a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity was presented to them.