Chapter 14 To govern the country, scholars must be used

Meng Chang died, and his mother also passed away. Mrs. Huarui entered the palace and became Zhao Kuangyin's concubine. The villa awarded to Meng Chang could not be left idle.Zhao Kuangyin ordered the eunuch to take back the property rights of the house, including all the utensils inside, but he added that all the things used by Mrs. Huarui returned to the original owners. When cleaning the room where Meng Chang lived, a drowning vessel was cleared out, which is commonly known as a chamber pot.The guard in charge of the cleaning work solemnly reported the matter to Zhao Kuangyin. Zhao Kuangyin reprimanded the person who made the report, saying that he made a fuss out of a molehill, "I take care of everything every day, so why do I have to report such a small matter as a drowning vessel? I manage it so carefully, so I won't be exhausted." The guard argued that it was not a chamber pot, but a Rare treasure, after finishing speaking, I will present the chamber pot to Yulan.

The chamber pot is a very common utensil, and it can't be elegant, so there should be no fuss.It's just that the chamber pot used by Meng Chang is really extraordinary, not to mention that Zhao Kuangyin has never seen it before, even from the emperors who created the world, there is no one who has seen this kind of chamber pot. What is so unique about the chamber pot Meng Chang used?It turns out that this chamber pot is inlaid with seven treasures. It is unique in style, exquisite and extremely rare. If there is any priceless treasure, this chamber pot is ten times as valuable as this priceless treasure.There are also many rare treasures in Zhao Kuangyin's palace, but none of them are as valuable as this chamber pot.Unexpectedly, after watching for a while, Zhao Kuangyin dropped the chamber pot on the ground, and it smashed to pieces with a bang.

Looking at the wide-eyed guard, Zhao Kuangyin sighed: "A drowning vessel must also be inlaid with seven treasures. If such a precious vessel is used to hold urine, what should be used to hold food? Meng Chang is so extravagant, how can he not?" Subjugated country?" What a pity!Such a strange object must remain a rare treasure and a priceless cultural relic.But in Zhao Kuangyin's eyes, no matter how precious a treasure is, it's just a utensil, and it's nothing. He doesn't want to follow in the footsteps of Meng Chang, who is extravagant, greedy for enjoyment, chasing new novelties and perishing the country.Therefore, he wants to destroy this chamber pot and keep his country. This is his real purpose.

Zhao Kuangyin ordered the guards to clean up the broken chamber pot, and added, those fragments can still be sold for a few dollars, so I will reward you!It's not a question of how much it costs. Although the chamber pot is broken, the gems are still there, and they are all priceless treasures!This guard, I don't know how many lifetimes of virtue his ancestors have cultivated, to receive such a heavy reward. That night, Zhao Kuangyin was still staying in Mrs. Huarui's bedroom, and the one night's love went without saying.In the early morning of the next day, after Zhao Kuangyin got up, he went to the yard to fight a set of long fists, danced a sword, and went back to the palace to wash up. Seeing that it was still early and it was not yet time to go to court, he saw Mrs. Huarui dressing up and waiting for the maids beside her. , some are holding hibiscus mirrors, some are holding gold boxes, some are holding on to marriage makeup powder, some are shaking phoenix tail fans, thousands of strands of blue hair hang down naturally, and their shy faces are even more charming.Zhao Kuangyin couldn't help staring at it for a while, then took a bronze mirror to play with, and saw the words "Casted in Four Years of Qiande" engraved on the back of the mirror.Unconsciously said in surprise: "I changed the year name before, and I told all the prime ministers that the old year name that was used in the past should not be used for the year name. Why is there also the word "Qiande" on this mirror?"

Mrs. Huarui didn't know why, so she couldn't answer for a while. Zhao Kuangyin brought the bronze mirror to the court, and after the ministers had finished playing and dispersed, he specially left Zhao Pu and other ministers behind, showed them the bronze mirror he had brought from Mrs. Huarui, and asked behind the mirror "Qiande was cast in four years "What's the matter with five words.Unexpectedly, the ministers were half jealous, and they looked at each other, but no one could answer.Some people even said, how can this happen?Could it be that the Mirror Casting Workshop got the year name wrong?

Zhao Kuangyin glanced at the ministers, said nothing, and ordered people to summon Tao Gu and Dou Yi, the academicians of the Imperial Academy. The faces of the ministers couldn't bear it anymore, and they blushed from their foreheads to the roots of their ears, especially Zhao Pu. He was the main person responsible for discussing the reign name at the beginning. generational repetition.Now that there is a question, but he can't answer it, the emperor summoned the Hanlin scholars, obviously he looks down on them.In fact, they are self-inflicted. Who told them that they are not as good as others if they don't study at ordinary times!

Dou Yi came, looked at the bronze mirror, and said with certainty that this mirror belonged to the later Shu Dynasty. Zhao Kuangyin was very surprised when he heard this, and asked him why he was so sure. Dou Yi said: "Wang Yan, the lord of Shu, used this year name back then. Presumably this bronze mirror was cast at that time." Zhao Kuangyin sighed and said: "It seems that to govern the world, the prime minister still needs scholars! Dou Yi, you have the talent of a prime minister!" Hearing Zhao Kuangyin's words, Zhao Pu seemed to have been slapped severely, and lowered his head in shame.

Zhao Kuangyin took the bronze mirror back to Mrs. Huarui's bedroom, told Mrs. Huarui the story of the bronze mirror, praised Dou Yi for his talent as a prime minister, and planned to promote him as a prime minister. Since Mrs. Huarui entered the Song Palace, she abided by the harem's rule of not discussing political affairs, and never said much about political affairs. Therefore, after listening to Zhao Kuangyin's words, she only spoke nonsense and didn't talk much. Zhao Kuangyin saw Mrs. Huarui no longer asked, so he pulled her along and went for a walk in the Imperial Garden.

After the Bronze Mirror incident, Zhao Pu began to study, and Zhao Kuangyin also began to reuse scholars. Opening a course to obtain a scholar is an excellent proof. After the bronze mirror incident, the ministers of the DPRK and China talked a lot, saying that Dou Yi was going to be the prime minister.Dou Yi also secretly thought that her wealth of knowledge could finally come in handy. Zhao Kuangyin told Zhao Pu his idea of ​​calling Dou Yi as prime minister, and asked him what he thought. Zhao Pu was beating a small drum in his heart at that time, and thought to himself, I usually only read one book, read too little, and have no knowledge, but Dou Yi is very talented, well-educated, so talented, if he becomes a minister, he will be more knowledgeable than him. I am far from his opponent. He must look down on me. After a long time, whether my prime minister's seat can be secured is a problem. Why don't you trip him up so that he can't get into the prime minister, so that you can consolidate your power? Even if he finds out later, there is nothing he can do about it.Therefore, he deliberately paused and said: "Scholar Dou is indeed talented in literature, but he has no economic acumen. If your Majesty asks him for advice on any unclear issues in literature and history, you will find the right person. If you let him be a prime minister to govern the government, I’m afraid it’s not the right person to use.”

Zhao Pu's understatement had the effect of four or two thousand catties, and immediately dispelled Zhao Kuangyin's idea of ​​appointing Dou Yi as prime minister. There is no impenetrable wall in the world. Dou Yi knew that Zhao Pu was stumbling in front of the emperor. She knew that as long as Zhao Pu was still the prime minister, she would have no future. A good person is so angry to death. Zhao Kuangyin also lamented Dou Yi's death, and ordered someone to bury Dou Yi generously. Bronze mirror is a story, but this story has led to a new story.A Hanlin bachelor with great talents and rich learning, but because of the story of the bronze mirror, he lost his life for nothing.It can be seen that the knife can kill, and jealousy can also kill.Zhao Pu's jealousy killed Dou Yi.

When Zhao Kuangyin was happy to pacify Western Shu, suddenly, the urgent documents from Shu flew to the capital like snowflakes and flew onto the imperial case.The content is that there is civil strife in Xichuan, and the situation has gotten out of control. It turned out that after Wang Quanbin went to Sichuan and won the battle, he took credit for his pride and became a little smug. He didn't know his surname, drank heavily day and night, and ignored military affairs.Cao Bin and others tried to persuade him many times, saying that the matter in Sichuan was settled, and he should return to the court as soon as possible, but Wang Quanbin turned a deaf ear to it and still went his own way.He thought that if he finally went on a business trip to the Land of Abundance, facing the abundance of wealth and beauties like clouds, if he didn't take the opportunity to enjoy it, wouldn't it be wasteful and worthless?It was for this hobby that he sent troops to plunder the women and wealth of the people, making Shuzhong a mess and the people complaining. Zhao Kuangyin received the emergency document from central Sichuan, and immediately issued an edict: order all the Shu soldiers to go to Bianliang, and each will be paid ten thousand yuan. If there are those who do not want to go to Bianliang, they will be given two months of rations and let them go home to plant. land. After Wang Quanbin received the edict, he came up with the idea of ​​paying the army. The order for Shu soldiers to go to Bianliang remained unchanged, but the payment was reduced from 10,000 to 5,000. Those who did not want to go to Bianliang went to the logistics department to receive rations. , Take the rations and leave, but the number of rations has been reduced from two months to one month. If you want others to not know, unless you do nothing.The story of Wang Quanbin withholding military pay soon spread quietly among the Shu soldiers.The soldiers of Shu were furious and scolded Wang Quanbin for being a black-hearted wolf. When the army arrived in Mianzhou, whoever made the first proposal, just after surrendering to the Song Dynasty, someone withdrew the army's salary. After a long time, is there still life?Let's not go to Bianliang, instead! Reverse it!Reverse it!Everyone responded in unison, and they all spoke one word. They elected Wenzhou Governor Quan Shixiong as the head, and called themselves "Xingguo Army". When Wang Quanbin saw that the Shu soldiers were in chaos, he sent his general Zhu Guangxu to lead thousands of troops to appease the rebellious army.Zhu Guangxu was a muddleheaded man. Instead of trying to appease the rebellious army, he became aggressive and stoked the flames. He ran to the home of Quan Shixiong, the leader of the rebellious army, and killed dozens of members of his family. , leaving only one little girl.It was not out of kindness to keep this little girl, but seeing this little girl as delicate and delicate as a flower, and her beauty was delicious, so he took the little girl back to the camp and became his concubine with the army.This little girl is the daughter of Quan Shixiong. He thought that if he killed Quan Shixiong's whole family, Quan Shixiong would be afraid of him, and if he became Quan Shixiong's son-in-law, others would put down the butcher's knife and come to recognize his relatives. When Quan Shixiong heard the news that his family had been destroyed and his daughter had been robbed to be a concubine, the three corpses jumped out of anger, and the seven orifices smoked.The people of Xichuan responded in unison, and the rebellious army was like a snowball, getting bigger and bigger. Song general Cui Yanjin and his younger brother Cui Yanhui sent troops to quell the chaos, but they retreated steadily. Cui Yanhui unfortunately died in battle, Zhang Tinghan went to reinforce, but returned in complete defeat.Chengdu is in a state of panic. There were more than 27,000 soldiers surrendered in Chengdu.After Quan Shixiong rebelled, the surrendered soldiers in the city did not respond. Wang Quanbin was worried that these surrendered soldiers would respond to Quan Shixiong and make trouble inside the city and cooperate with the chaos outside the city. The small plan is to lure these surrendered soldiers into the Jiacheng, then surround them in groups, burn them with fire and shoot arrows, and kill more than 27,000 captives. Ancient and modern, both at home and abroad, there are conventions not to kill prisoners of war. On the battlefield, they are the enemy, and you will fight with real swords and guns. You can kill as much as you want, and how much you kill depends on your ability and your ruthlessness.Once the opponent disarms and surrenders, the enemy becomes a prisoner. The prisoner is unarmed and cannot be killed. It is inhumane to kill a prisoner. Wang Quanbin was really too inhumane. Not only did he kill the captives, but he killed more than 20,000 prisoners.During the Warring States period, there was a general named Bai Qi in the state of Qin. He killed more than 400,000 prisoners of war in the state of Zhao at one time.If you are unkind, you will suffer retribution, and Wang Quanbin's retribution is coming soon. The people in the counties and prefectures in central Sichuan were terrified when they heard that Wang Quanbin had killed tens of thousands of prisoners of war in Chengdu. They all agreed that with such a murderer, the people of Sichuan would not have a good life, so they picked up hoes, With sickles and sticks, they participated in the chaos of the army and fought against the Song army. The sixteen prefectures of Xichuan responded together. The momentum of anti-Song was like the waves of the sea. Wang Quanbin knew that Lou Zi had stabbed him too much and could not clean up the mess, so he had to report the situation in central Shu to the imperial court and asked for support. Zhao Kuangyin received the military report and issued two imperial edicts one after another: one was to order Ding Deyu, the envoy of Hakka Province, to lead his troops into Sichuan to support Wang Quanbin; Recruitment work. The former edict was to wield a big stick to suppress the rebellion of the people of Sichuan, and the second edict was to appease the people of Sichuan with some small favors. Suppression and appeasement, both grace and power, have been busy for a while, and finally put down the chaos in central Sichuan. The news of Keping Southwest's success spread to Bianliang, Zhao Kuangyin finally felt relieved, and immediately ordered Wang Quanbin's troops to return to the court, lest a large number of troops stay in Sichuan and cause any trouble. Since the chaos in central Shu was caused by Wang Quanbin and others withholding military pay and brutally killing prisoners of war, after the army returned to the capital, Zhao Kuangyin ordered to demote Wang Quanbin, Cui Yanjin, Wang Renshan and others. When Wang Renshan went to court, he wantonly slandered everyone in order to reduce his responsibility.Only Cao Bin was greatly appreciated.He said to the emperor: "During the march and battle, the only person who is honest and honest and loyal to His Majesty is Cao Dujian." Zhao Kuangyin asked someone to check Cao Bin's luggage. There were only a few books and a change of clothes in it, and there was nothing else. On this day, Zhao Kuangyin summoned Zhao Pu in the side hall, and had two matters to discuss with Zhao Pu.One is the issue of the year name, and the other is the issue of the queen. Zhao Kuangyin said that the title of Qiande had already been used by Hou Shu, and he didn't want to eat the leftovers of Hou Shu.Ready to change the name.Zhao Pu also had no objection to changing the year name, and the emperor and the prime minister quickly agreed on this issue. On the second issue, differences emerged.Zhao Kuangyin wanted to make Mrs. Huarui the queen, but Zhao Pu objected.Zhao Pu believes that Mrs. Huarui is the concubine of Meng Chang, the empress of Shu. Zhao Pu's words can only go so far, and he can't go on, and if he goes on, the words will be a bit ugly. Zhao Kuangyin is a smart person, of course he understands what Zhao Pu means.But still a bit unwilling to ask: "Then what kind of person can mother the world?" Zhao Pu also knew that Zhao Kuangyin asked the question knowingly, and replied: "Lady, only a lady can mother the world." Zhao Kuangyin thought for a long time and said: "The eldest daughter of General Zuowei Song Xie has both virtue and appearance, can she be made a queen?" Zhao Pu said: "Your Majesty is wise, the choice must not be wrong." It seems that Zhao Pu has no objection to Zhao Kuangyin's choice. Zhao Kuangyin decided to make Song Nv the queen. Song girl was twenty-eight years old, just in the age of cardamom, and she was very handsome. Zhao Kuangyin had summoned her many times and wanted to make her his queen. Later, with the beauty of Mrs. Huarui, he let go of his love for Song girl. My heart fell on Mrs. Huarui.Zhao Pu said that Mrs. Huarui could not be the mother of the world, so he thought of Song Nu again, and asked Zhao Pu for his opinion, and he agreed, and the matter was settled like this. Zhao Pu obeyed Zhao Kuangyin's will and immediately went to see Song Xie to convey the emperor's will. Who doesn't want their daughter to enjoy all the glory and wealth, and who doesn't want to be the head of the country?This is a once-in-a-thousand-year favor that cannot be bought with money.Now, the prime minister of the court personally comes to the door to protect the media and pass on the decree, so there is no reason for his unwillingness to go up to him at home.After Song Xun received the order, he happily sent his daughter to the palace. At the end of the fifth year of Qiande, Zhao Kuangyin issued an edict to change Yuan Kaibao. In February of the first year of Kaibao (968), the Sitian Supervisor chose a good day and named the Song family as the queen.At this time, Song Nu was seventeen years old, and Zhao Kuangyin was forty-two years old.It's just that old husbands match young wives, old cows eat tender grass, and Zhao Kuangyin fell into the land of tenderness again. However, Mrs. Song is very docile and pleasant. Whenever Zhao Kuangyin retreats from the court, she always greets her with all her clothes on. She has to cook all the meals herself. When everything is ready, she sits quietly by the side. , watching Zhao Kuangyin eat.Zhao Kuangyin was even more pleased to see this petite and exquisite beauty serving her side like a bird.Zhao Kuangyin is just the prime of life like a wolf and a tiger. With this little beauty who is like a flower and a jade, he is really like glue, and he doesn't want to be separated for a moment. The infatuated woman's heartless man refers to the infatuation of women and the heartlessness of men. It is really appropriate to use it on Zhao Kuangyin and Mrs. Huarui at this time. Mrs. Huarui originally had hopes of becoming a queen, but she didn't want a Song girl to appear suddenly and snatch the queen's throne.That's all, who knows that after Zhao Kuangyin canonized Song Nv as queen, he actually stayed in the new empress's palace every night, leaving the flowery and jade-like Mrs. Huarui alone to guard the empty room. In the dead of night, there are always Zhao Kuangyin's voices Laughter, but Mrs. Huarui's bedroom is deserted.Mrs. Huarui is lonely and quilted, facing the mirror empty, watching her charming face gradually fade away, her loneliness is beyond words, and she secretly shed sad tears, mourning the death of the motherland, regretting that the new dynasty fell out of favor, and the feeling of sadness arises spontaneously. Resentment arises from grief, and illness arises from resentment. A good, peerless beauty is depressed all day long, and ends up in a state of despondency. Zhao Kuangyin missed the old relationship with Mrs. Huarui, and couldn't help but shed a few tears of lovesickness, and issued an order to bury Mrs. Huarui.As time went by, the woman who made him fascinated and brought him happiness was gradually forgotten.