Chapter 56 The emperor has confused eyes

Song Lizong's succession as emperor was the result of Shi Miyuan's single-handed support.So as soon as he came to the throne, he claimed to be filial piety to Ning Zong for three years in the palace, and entrusted Shi Miyuan to take charge of the government.In order to show respect, he was called "teacher", and he was promoted many times, and all his relatives were promoted.As a result, Shi Miyuan has monopolized power for a full ten years, in charge of the military and government, formed cliques for private interests, and has his hearts spread all over the government and the public.Known as the "three evils" and "four woods".Once there was a fire in Lin'an City, the fire was so fierce that not only burned down the houses and government buildings, but even the Taimiao dedicated to the Song emperors of the past dynasties were reduced to ashes, but Shi Miyuan's prime minister's mansion was in good condition.It turned out that the leader of the forbidden army at that time was his confidant. As soon as he saw the fire, he ignored the government office and the people's house, and hurried to protect the prime minister's mansion.At that time, people wrote poems and satirized: "The general in front of the palace was as fierce as a tiger, and he saved Fenyang Linggong's mansion. The ancestors and gods flew to the sky, and the poor nine temples were turned into scorched earth."Shi Miyuan had no choice but to exile this person.

The abolished prince Zhao Mian was granted the title of King Ji after Lizong succeeded to the throne, and lived in Huzhou.Not only the officials in the imperial court felt that Shi Miyuan was arbitrarily arbitrarily arbitrarily arbitrarily arbitrarily arbitrarily arbitrarily arbitrarily arbitrarily appointed, but even ordinary people were very dissatisfied.As a result, a group of fishermen from Taihu Lake in Huzhou wanted to embrace Zhao Mian as emperor and go to Beijing to attack Shi Miyuan.Zhao Mian was unwilling, and joined forces with the local garrison to put down the rebellion.Seeing that Zhao Mian still had such great influence, Shi Miyuan felt very frightened, so he sent his cronies to Huzhou after suppressing the rebellion, hanged Zhao Mian to death on the grounds of seeing a doctor, and even pursued his king after death. Lord.As a result, people's resentment was even more aroused. In order to suppress public opinion, Shi Miyuan did not hesitate to create literary inquisition.At that time, there was a bookseller named Chen Qi who published a collection of poems "Jiang Hu Ji", which contained two poems "Autumn Rain Wutong Prince's Mansion, Spring Breeze Yangliu Xianggong Bridge", which Shi Miyuan thought was mourning Zhao Mian and satirizing himself.So the collection of poems was destroyed, and the author and editor were exiled.The imperial court even issued a ban on writing poems, so that those who can write poems as a career had to write lyrics instead.This is the "Jianghu poetry case".However, such pretentiousness can only show that Shi Miyuan has a guilty conscience.

Shi Miyuan had monopolized power for ten years, and Li Zong was completely emptied out. Although he was dissatisfied, he was helpless. After all, his throne was supported by Shi Miyuan. The throne can also drive him out of power.Besides, it was Shi Miyuan's effort to ascend the throne, and denying Shi Miyuan is undoubtedly denying himself.So he has always trusted Shi Miyuan very much.In October of the sixth year of Shaoding (1233), Shi Miyuan, the prime minister of power, died. Song Lizong, who had been held hostage by him for ten years, began to rule independently. Let's do it. It should be said that Lizong did a good job at the beginning. He first relegated Shi Miyuan's minions who were very angry with the public, and then promoted some loyal and virtuous people who were excluded by Shi Miyuan. He also reformed the government and finance. The new name is "Xiao Yuanyou".But at that time, the Southern Song Dynasty was full of long-standing disadvantages, and even if it was reformed, it would be difficult to achieve results in a short period of time.With the political setbacks and the increase of age, Li Zong's idea of ​​striving for governance gradually began to decline, so those treacherous villains surrounded him one after another.At that time, someone wrote eight big characters on the gate of the court, "Yan Martin is the king, and the country is about to perish." It satirized Emperor Lizong's use of traitors to disrupt the government, and the Southern Song Dynasty was about to perish.Lizong was very angry when he saw it, and ordered to track down the author, but how to find out this kind of thing, he had to let it go in the end.

The "Yan" in "Yan Martin" is the concubine Yan Gui who is most favored by the sect.Lizong rewarded Concubine Yan unreasonably. Concubine Yan Guizong wanted to build a meritorious temple. Lizong did not hesitate to use the treasury for it, and sent officials to collect timber in various states and counties. I want to cut down the ancient pines of the Jin Dynasty in front of Lingyin Temple.Fortunately, Yuan Zhao, the abbot of Lingyin Temple, wrote a poem: "I don't want to plant poria cocos for the sake of planting pine trees, but because the mountains are green all the time. The old monk is not allowed to remove the pine trees, but leave them with the West Lake as a painting screen." Presented to the imperial court, Lizong saw that he aimed to protect historical sites and decorate lakes and mountains, so he issued an imperial decree not to cut down these pine trees.Concubine Yan's Gongde Temple took three years to build, which cost a lot of money. It was even more magnificent than the Gongde Temple of Li Zong's own ancestors, and it was called "Sai Lingyin Temple" at that time.Concubine Yan Gui was so favored by Emperor Lizong of Song Dynasty, some villains who were speculative and profiteering naturally followed her way, so they became arrogant and domineering, interfering in power and messing with politics.

"Horse" refers to Ma Tianji, who is even more ridiculous when he gains power.Song Lizong had no son, only one daughter, Princess Zhou Han, who loved her like a jewel in his palm and wanted to marry her to the champion of the new department, but the princess thought the champion was not handsome enough and refused to marry, so Lizong had to let her marry the grandnephew of Empress Dowager Yang.When the emperor's only daughter got married, all the officials naturally gave her gifts.So gold, silver, treasures, silk, satin and silk are innumerable.Ma Tianji was ingenious, thinking that so many gifts must be packed in a box, and using an ordinary box would not be in line with the status of the princess, so he presented a hundred luxurious and exquisite mother-of-pearl and fine willow boxes.As expected, Li Zong was very pleased with Longyan, and he was doubly favored by appointing him to be in power.

"Ding" refers to Ding Daquan.This person is said to have a blue face, which looks like a ghost, and the traitor Lu Qi of the Tang Dynasty has the same strange face.Ding Daquan not only looks like a ghost, but also acts like a ghost.He was born in a humble family, and his wife was originally a maidservant in a relative's family.So he put on a humble attitude, tried his best to please the servant Dong Songchen who was favored by Li Zong, and also tried his best to curry favor with Concubine Yan Gui, so that he was promoted steadily, and became a government official close to the emperor. member.This man was greedy for money and lustful, when he was the magistrate of Huaixi, Zheng Yu, the governor of Huaixi, was a rich man from the Wu family, he wanted to befriend Zheng Yu when he saw the money, but Zheng Yu knew that he was a man, so he politely refused.He was so angry that he ordered people to impeach Zheng Yu after he took power, and then ransacked his family and annexed Zheng's property.Ding Daquan married his son a daughter-in-law. Hearing that the girl was very beautiful, he snatched her and made him his concubine.People at the time laughed at his behavior, but due to Dong Songchen and Yan Guifei's kind words, Lizong favored Ding Daquan very much.But he still wanted to be promoted further, so he regarded the prime minister Dong Huai as his obstacle, and impeached Dong Huai to Lizong for forming a party for personal gain and plotting wrongdoing.The memorial was submitted, but Li Zong hadn't done anything yet, Ding Daquan couldn't wait any longer, so he mobilized more than a hundred soldiers in the middle of the night, and surrounded Dong Huai's mansion with knives openly, claiming that he would send it to Dali Temple for review. The ultimatum forced Dong Huai to come out.Dong Huai was unprepared, and came out when he heard his hoarse scream.A group of people left the city gate, Ding Daquan ordered Dong Huai to be abandoned, shouted a few times and dispersed.When Dong Huai walked slowly into the city gate, the edict to dismiss the Prime Minister was handed down.Ding Daquan's move shocked the government and the public, but Lizong still trusted him and named him prime minister.Ding Daquan was even more arrogant and arrogant.

"Dang" is Song Lizong's personal servant Dong Songchen.He is a eunuch.Eunuchs in the Han Dynasty used peng to decorate their hats, so "Pang" was also used as a synonym for eunuchs.Dang Pang has the same pronunciation, so "Dang" is used here to refer to Dong Songchen.He is good at flattering, and he is very popular with Li Zong.In his early years, Li Zong flaunted frugality and seldom played in the palace.Once when I went to enjoy the lotus, the weather was very hot, and I had to put up an umbrella behind the emperor to block the scorching sun. Lizong was a little unhappy.Dong Songchen saw it, and built a pavilion next to the lotus pond the next day.Lizong went to enjoy the flowers again, and sat in the pavilion, feeling spacious and comfortable, very happy.When he went to enjoy plum blossoms in winter, Dong Songchen had already built a plum pavilion there.Although Lizong liked it, he still had to put on a frugal look, so he blamed him for "working people and wasting money".Dong Songchen said very cleverly that this plum pavilion was demolished from the pavilion by the lotus pond in summer.Li Zong praised Dong Songchen even more.Dong Songchen also relied on Lizong's favor to act unscrupulously, enlisting power and accepting bribes, seizing people's fields, and doing everything.In order to confuse Lizong, he secretly recruited prostitutes into the palace.He also colluded with Ding Daquan, and many officials in the court came from his disciples, and even Taiwan's admonitions did not dare to impeach him for his crimes. He was known as "Dong Yanluo", and he was extremely arrogant.

Lizong reused the four treasures of "Yan Martin" to govern the country. How can the country's major affairs be good, and "perishing" is just around the corner.But he still didn't seem to feel that it was enough, and in his later years he used the famous "Cricket Prime Minister" Jia Sidao. It was this person who finally brought the Southern Song Dynasty to the point of extinction.