Chapter 4 third quarter

During Jiayou's three years, neither the cochin monster nor Wang Anshi's Wan Yan Shu could attract the attention of Song Renzong and Zhao Zhen for a long time. All his energy was put in one place - the bed of the harem and the bellies of his own women , making the last struggle and effort. Childlessness was the real political crisis of Song Renzong Zhao Zhen's three years in Jiayou. Opening the yearbook of the longest reigning emperor in the Northern Song Dynasty and recognized as the most benevolent and wise emperor today, one can always smell a sense of sadness and sorrow. Forty-eight years ago, Zhao Zhen's father, Song Zhenzong Zhao Heng, also experienced a talent crisis with a vacancy for successors. He gave birth to five sons, and reported to Lord Yan one by one alive and kicking. In the third year of Fu (1010 A.D.), a concubine surnamed Li with a low status in the palace gave birth to a son for him, and he survived tenaciously, not intending to follow in the footsteps of his elder brothers.

That baby is Zhao Zhen.Being born and alive means that he will be the master of this empire in the future. But from the day he opened his eyes to recognize the people around him, his world could no longer see the gentle and kind but lowly mother (although she has been wandering and thinking about him very close to him), he His "mother" became the queen of the empire, and his father Zhao Heng's legal woman-Queen Liu Liu E. This is not as complicated as the legendary civet cat changing the prince. Liu E, as the only empress dowager in the Northern Song Dynasty who had been in charge of politics for ten years (historical books say that she "has the talent of Lu Wu, but not the evil of Lu Wu"), during the Zhenzong Dynasty In the middle and late period, the power was already in the hands. It was too simple to adopt a woman's child in the harem. Li Shi was also very self-aware, and never recognized her son in her life, and Empress Liu's prestige also made this matter unacceptable in the palace during her lifetime. Said the secret.

Empress Liu took good care of Zhao Zhen. Although everything can be seized by power, family affection cannot. There are always irreparable flaws in the relationship between this pair of "mother and son", which makes Zhao Zhen's childhood a little gloomy and cold, and the sun can never shine into the depths of the boy's heart. Where, why in Empress Liu's place, he couldn't find the feeling of maternal love, and why his mother always sat majestically and noblely on the queen's throne and looked at him with rational and cold eyes, as if admiring a rare treasure or a trophy.

As he grew older, this feeling became more and more intense. After his father Zhao Heng died of illness in the second year of Qianxing (1023 A.D.), the thirteen-year-old Zhao Zhen became the fourth emperor of the Northern Song Dynasty. But it was "mother" Liu E. A young man without real imperial power has no major national affairs to take care of. He turns around and smells the breath of spring—he is in love. Among all the beauties, he falls in love with the daughter of the little landlord Wang Mengzheng—a gentle and stunning girl. The girl in the room walked into Zhao Zhen's heart with a smile.

Zhao Zhen ran to Liu E and "asked" his mother for the first time: I want to marry that girl and make her queen. Liu E looked at this innocent young man, and said three words coldly—impossible. Zhao Zhen retreated in despair, but the flower of hope in his heart was still in full bloom. There was no hope for her to become a queen, but it should not be difficult for Xiaojiabiyu's Miss Wang to stay in the harem and be the long-term companion of Yiren Xiaoniao. With three thousand beauties in the harem, will the little lovebird in Zhao Zhen's heart not be tolerated? Love is full and reality is very skinny. His "mother" Liu E actually made a decision that he could not accept for a long time. "Brother" (a large number of unofficial historical evidence, this man named Gong Mei was Liu E's first husband) Liu Mei's son.

When Zhao Zhen saw his woman being taken away from the palace, he felt a heart-piercing pain. Of course, his anger can also be imagined. He wanted to run to his "mother" and ask her—why did he take away my most beloved woman? Dear woman, am I your son? A few years later, his question was answered. As soon as Liu E went to Huangquan, someone told him a secret that only Zhao Zhen himself did not know—his life experience. At this time, his mother, Li Shi, had passed away a year ago, and he asked people to open her mother's coffin. At the suggestion of Prime Minister Lu Yijian, Liu E finally did something that pleased Zhao Zhen—buried Li Li generously. Concubine, soaked in mercury to keep the body intact, so that Zhao Zhen could finally see his biological mother.

The story is too dark and humorous for the young emperor, but he seems unable to blame and resent anyone.Is the lack of family affection and love an inescapable fate for emperors? There is hatred, and of course there is resentment. After Zhao Zhen came to power, the empress Guo, who used to be backed by the empress dowager, suffered a disaster. Zhao Zhen designed a court farce to "mistakenly criticize her neck", and she did not care about the public. The minister obstructed her and abolished her (Northern Song Empire, it is very rare for an abolished queen). And the girl surnamed Wang who almost became his queen at the beginning was implicated by her father Wang Mengzheng (who became a magistrate because of his success in the wealthy family) almost ten years after marrying into the Liu family. punish.At that time, Wang Mengzheng made a small mistake—slept with a girl next to his father and gave birth to an illegitimate child. He imposed a special punishment - he was no longer allowed to enter the palace as a relative of the state, and the Wang family was no longer allowed to intermarry with the royal family.

The sad past cannot be pursued. Since he has become someone else's wife, why see him again will only increase his sadness. Zhao Zhen ended his sad youth with such a whimsical administrative order. Even without Liu E, Zhao Zhen found that the land of love is still not something he can control.He abolished Empress Guo, but his two beloved women, Shang and Yang, were still unable to restore justice.And the other woman Zhang Guifei who was beloved in the later period could only be given the title of queen after her death.In the third year of Huangyou (1051 A.D.), Zhang Meiren's uncle just wanted to find a vacant position as a Xuanhui envoy, but Zhao Zhenjin spoke only, but what was waiting for him was the saliva of Bao Zheng, a court of knowledge.After returning from Xia Dynasty, the beauty asked him about the appointment letter of Xuanhui envoy. Zhao Zhen said that Xuanhui envoy is shit, didn't you see that my face was full of Bao Heizi's saliva?

Zhao Zhen began to understand that as an emperor, his marriage was attached to politics, and he had no bargaining power. This realization made Zhao Zhen no longer toss about, and began to be his emperor in a law-abiding manner. The emperor's duty is done, and the world will be peaceful.Isn't this what the courtiers want? Time passed day by day, but Zhao Zhen discovered another crisis. The sperm in his body was as dead as him, unable to be active, unable to reach the other warm bank, and even if it did, it failed to become a big man with a handle. Fat boy, even a big fat boy, unfortunately died young.

In the third year of Jiayou, the forty-eight-year-old Zhao Zhen still had no son, and his country and empire could fall into the hands of outsiders at any time. No one expressed any sympathy for Zhao Zhen's situation.For the imperial literati in the Northern Song Dynasty, as long as the empire’s surname is still Zhao, their happy life is considered to have bought long-term insurance, and a successor must be there, regardless of whether he is Zhao Zhen’s son or not. They didn't have time to wait for Zhao Zhen's efforts. Entering the Jiayou period, establishing the successor of the empire became the most concerned issue of the imperial civil servants and generals.

They attacked Zhao Zhen one after another. Fan Zhen was the first to shoot at the emperor. During the Jiayou period when there were many famous ministers, Fan Zhen from Huayang could only be regarded as a second-class role. If he becomes the first person to eat crabs, he may disappear into the ocean of history forever. Fan Zhen's teeth are good and he is patient, so he has the intention of not turning back if he hits the south wall.In the second year of Jiayou, he wrote nineteen petitions on the issue of heirs. The time span lasted for more than half a year, and he kept the frequency that Zhao Zhen received a petition every Monday when he went to work. Killing one thousand enemies would cause eight hundred losses, and Lao Fan's hair turned white because of this. Faced with Lao Fan's serial offensive, Zhao Zhen could only choose passive defense, and transferred Fan Zhen from his job in Zhijianyuan. The matter is of course not over. After three years of Jiayou, a more ruthless character stepped forward again. Who else but Bao Zheng! If you read the life of the most famous Qingtian in Chinese history, you will find that Bao Zheng was able to go down in history in the real history, but it is not like a god in the folklore. "Bao Qingtian" only worked in Kaifeng Mansion for a short year and didn't handle many criminal cases.And his brilliant political achievements can be summed up in one word-remonstrance. Bao Heizi has been an official for more than 20 years. When meeting gods and admonishing gods, meeting Buddhas and playing Buddha, no matter who you are, as long as you make mistakes, he will dare to tell you. In Bao Longtu's personal anthology "Bao Zheng Collection", he collected 174 memorials, more than 50 of which were impeachment of important officials of the dynasty, and more than 60 people were publicly named. At that time, people had already given him a second name-Bao Dan. Baobo has even changed from a noun to a verb, a cultural saying and a popular term. When officials met at that time, a common greeting was-hey, buddy, have you been boo-bombed recently? As an admonisher who can reach the level of Bao Zheng, there is only one person in history who can stand side by side with him, and that is Wei Zheng of the Tang Dynasty. In order to save office paper this time, Lao Bao didn't bother to write the report, so he went straight to the point in the court. Boss, we don’t know how many times we have whispered in your ears the issue of the heir to the empire. You keep pushing back and forth. What do you mean?The current empire is like a Ferrari out of insurance, what if there is a car accident?Are you worthy of the ancestors of the ancestors like this? The Tieguanyin that Zhao Zhen just drank all spit out all at once, Bao Heizi, you are so fucking unjust, stepping on Zhao Zhen's sore feet in front of so many employees!In a rage, Zhao Zhen smashed the teacup to pieces. Bao Zheng, who do you think will be the crown prince?You come and make a decision (whoever you want to stand)! The whole court was silent, waiting for the storm to come. Bao Heizi raised his head, drooling all over the sky, and ran towards the emperor again—you ask me who to stand for, what do you mean?Doubt that I want to plot against you?Establishing a prince, it is for the benefit of the entire empire, is it for me to hire a person?You don't have a son, and I'm almost seventy this year and I don't have a son (Bao Zheng's son died of illness five years ago), so how much can I gain from the new boss in the future!Am I doing it for my own personal gain?Even if you kill me today and punish my nine clans, the matter of setting up a prince has to be put on the table. No children, not those who invite future blessings). Bao Zheng's sonorous voice echoed in the court hall.The two stared fiercely at each other, trying to kill each other with their eyes. With such a minister who is not afraid of death, what can Zhao Zhen do? Of course, Bao Zheng doesn't have to be afraid of death, because in the Northern Song Dynasty, there has never been a civil servant who was beheaded for colliding with the emperor.To offend the emperor, at most, he could travel to Hainan for two years. It was still Zhao Zhen’s eyes that surrendered first, and began to show more begging (Old Bao, give me Lao Zhao another chance, let me try again, the traditional Chinese medicine prescribed by the old Taoist in Wuyi Mountain recently is very good). Bao Zheng's heart softened, and he thought of the loneliness and desolation of sitting in the empty living room every time he came home from get off work, and gave Zhao Zhen a step down, turning the topic to court officials and other innocuous topics. The most intense confrontation between the monarchs and ministers of the Northern Song Dynasty. Don't think that only Bao Qingtian, who is rare in a thousand years, dares to do this kind of thing. Among the literati in the Northern Song Dynasty in the three years of Jiayou, there are only more ruthless, not the most ruthless. Zhao Zhen's civil servants followed Bao Heizi closely, regardless of time They "strike black hands" against their emperor in different places, with only one purpose, to stimulate the boss to solve the problem of the heir to the empire. At that time, Zhao Zhen wanted to get Zhang Liangzuo, Zhang Guifei's uncle, to be an official Xuanhui envoy. In addition to encountering Bao Zheng's saliva, Tang Jie (zifang), the royal servant in the palace, was also a "fierce animal". Of course, Zhao Zhen couldn't stand it together, so he could only find helpers and excuses, saying that Lao Zhang's appointment was approved by the Ministry of Education, and you can see that Prime Minister Wen's signature was written on it in black and white. Tang Zifang said that it was Wen Yanbo's fault, and I want to impeach him. Tang Zifang did what he said, and the next day he impeached Wen Yanbo, the prime minister of the Northern Song Dynasty. I took the position of prime minister after giving the emperor a blowjob by the pillow, and today I took the initiative to lick Zhang Guifei's white and tender ass, and flattered the emperor's prospective father-in-law to be promoted. I really don't deserve to sit in the prime minister's position. Wen Yanbo dismissed get out of class. Wu Kui, the admonisher who initially stood on the same front as Bao, Tang, and others, saw that Tang had complicated things, and the flames of war had reached Prime Minister Wen, who had always been kinder, which might have hurt the harmony of government departments and the supervisory system. , It will be very detrimental to future work, so I come out to fight and act as a peacemaker. Tang Zifang's eyes are already red, friends and foes are irrelevant, saying that Wu Kui, as an admonisher, turned out to be a good person on both sides of the wall, and I even played you together. Tang Zifang made a mess in the court hall. The result after a chaotic battle was that Zhang Yaozuo did not become a Xuanhui envoy in the end, and Prime Minister Wen and Wu Kui were transferred from their current posts, and Bao and Tang's admonishment group won a complete victory. However, Lao Tang’s stalking and biting in the court hall also made the emperor feel that it was too detrimental to the image of imperial officials, and soon Tang Jie was demoted from the capital to serve as a local official. Tang Jie walked very smartly, he knew that what he took away was a series of reputations of "Straight voice moving the world" and "True imperial historian must call Tang Zifang". As for Tokyo, Tang Jie will come back again. In the third year of Jiayou, Tang Jie really came back and sat in the seat of Zhijian Yuan. Zhang Liangzuo, the head of the country who was the topic of the year, has long since passed away, but Tang Jie's stinking mouth is still sharp.One day, when Zhao Zhen and Tang Jie were free from work, they mentioned the events of the year. Zhao Zhen said with some emotion, Zifang, back then you strongly opposed my reuse of Lao Zhang, saying that if Lao Zhang controlled the government, I might do it. Tang Minghuang, and Lao Zhang are the Song version of Yang Guozhong, I am afraid it is exaggerated. Tang Jie snorted coldly, saying that the metaphor I used back then was wrong, how can you compare with Tang Minghuang? Zhao Zhen said why not, I can't compare Tang Zong and Song Zu, but it shouldn't be a problem to compare Tang Xuanzong! Tang Jie's voice raised an octave, saying that Tang Minghuang's heavy use of his relatives led to the "Anshi Rebellion" and was driven out of Chang'an to taste the bitter fruit, but his son Li Heng helped him quell the rebellion and inherited the Tang Dynasty.But boss, do you have a son?It doesn't matter if you don't have a son, do you have an heir now? This sentence hurts my self-esteem too much!Zhao Zhen's face suddenly turned from red to white, from white to purple, from purple to blue.If he were an ordinary citizen, he would raise the butcher's knife and fight Tang Jie desperately.But he is the emperor, the emperor of the Northern Song Empire, so he can only endure. In the end, even the old, weak, sick and disabled semi-retired cadres were bullied by Zhao Zhen. Zhang Gaoqing (Zhang Sheng), a native of Hancheng, was sixty-six years old in Jiayou three years ago, and his health was not good, so he was in a semi-retired state.Zhao Zhen is a boss who cares about his employees very much. He once thought of Zhang Aiqing and specially sent someone to invite him into the palace to have a good time.Boss Zhao said, Lao Zhang, you are also a lonely person when you are old, and you often come to the palace to sit and chat with the widow when you have time. Lao Zhang took the wrong medicine, his butt immediately bounced off the bench, and his voice also raised an octave. Where am I lonely?I have a family, a room, a son and a daughter, and the family is happy. I don’t know how united and harmonious it is, but the boss, you are almost fifty, and you don’t even have a son. It doesn’t matter if you don’t have a son. Probably the only one who can get close to her is Concubine Zhang Gui.You are the lonely person! Zhao Zhen was speechless. It is said that after Lao Zhang left, Zhao Zhen ran to Concubine Zhang and told Zhang Sheng's words of bullying the emperor. , just like Zhao Zhen's helpless heart. Amidst the voices of opposition, Sima Guang, who was in charge of Tianzhang Pavilion at the time and also known as Admonishment Court, was undoubtedly a moderate. He saw the emperor's pain, helplessness and unwillingness.Sima Guang didn't go straight to the point like Bao and Tang, but was gentle and gentle. When talking about the issue of heirs, Sima Guang seemed casual and relaxed. He said, boss, you are still very young in your forties, and you will definitely have a son, but The empire has no heirs, and the employees are not at ease. Boss, you can first choose one of the family's nephews as a backup cadre--backup cadres, sometimes they are just backups. A new prince is born, and the previous backups are sent home. What should I do? What are you doing. This is also a two-way policy. Zhao Zhen reluctantly accepted this suggestion that sounded pleasing to the ear.But in the three years of Jiayou, he still did not give up his efforts on the bed. He once thought that the belly of the women in the palace was too delicate to hold the dragon species, so he went to the folks and found more than a dozen country women to enter the palace, hoping for a final miracle. It can still happen. Does Zhao Zhen still have a chance?No one could give him an answer, and people could see an old man's weak struggle in the slight groans of a village girl from the Tokyo Imperial Palace shrouded in Jiayou's three colors. In the seventh year of Jiayou, the helpless Zhao Zhen finally gave up struggling and accepted the suggestion of the imperial literati. The former "reserve cadre" - Zhao Shu, the son of his cousin Zhao Yunrang, was established as the crown prince. In the eighth year of Jiayou (1063 A.D.), Song Renzong Zhao Zhen died of illness at the age of 53. This emotional, kind and benevolent emperor spent his whole life giving and compromising to those around him, sacrificing for the achievement of a prosperous and prosperous world. himself, and history gave him very little in return.Today everyone is fascinated by the carols of Qin Huang Han Wu, Tang Zong and Song Zu, and people also remember the cultural giants and top civil servants under his rule - Sima Guang, Ouyang Xiu, Su Shi, Wang Anshi, Zeng Gong, Liu Yong, Shen Kuo, including Zheng and so on, and few people will remember the poor child Zhao Zhen, even if they remember, they only remember his relationship with a civet cat in the past, or the scandal of being beaten badly by the Xixia people. The third year of Jiayou was recognized by later generations as the most dull year in the celebration of Jiayou's prosperity. Too many great and brilliant names spent their peaceful year. In two or three hundred years, it was considered by many people to be the birth of a demon star in a peaceful and prosperous age.There is a saying: