If Shi Miyuan had not supported Zhao Yun with all his strength back then, the position of the Nine Five Supreme in the Song Dynasty would not have been the turn of Zhao Yun, a country boy who was still living under the roof of others in the countryside.

Zhao Qi was a royal family member, and his status, and his bloodline were much higher than Zhao Yun at that time. However, things were impermanent. In the middle and late Southern Song Dynasty, it seemed that it had become a common practice for ministers to control the government. The royal family members could not even decide the throne that belonged to the internal affairs of the royal family. It was obvious that they had to obey the arrangements of Shi Miyuan, a minister.

In addition to the increasing authority of the prime minister, what is more important is that under the internal and external troubles, the Zhao clan, as the royal family, not only has fewer people, but also has basically never produced talented talents.

Since Zhao Yun ascended the throne, because he came from the people and had a distant blood, he did not enjoy the slightest respect he deserved as a royal family, so Zhao Yun's relationship with the royal family has never been very good.

In the original history, Zhao Yun knew that Zhao Hu, the son of King Rong, was born with an IQ below normal level due to poisoning, and was weak and incompetent. Even the prince Zhao Hu, who was chosen by himself, was so angry that he almost fainted. He was still unwilling to obey the advice of the royal family and also selected the prince from the royal family to inherit the position of emperor of the Song Dynasty. He insisted on making Zhao Hu the crown prince to inherit the throne. Even if the Song Dynasty was not concerned, it could be seen how Zhao Yun had a relationship with those direct royal relatives.

Zhao Yun distrusts and even hates the royal family, and those royal family members who have countless times more chances of inheriting the throne than Zhao Yun, also do not have much awe of Zhao Yun, a country boy from the people.

After all, both sides are just for the sake of basic face.

Zhao Qi knew this in his heart, and Zhao Yun also knew it very well.

Zhao Qi's commander in front of the palace was just a product of compromise between the two sides. However, to put it nicely, Zhao Qi still controls the most important yamen among the three yamen. However, with the Privy Council above and the head commanders of various war zones below, although the Palace Front Office is nominally in charge of the most elite imperial guards of the four great Song dynasties, what exactly are the four imperial guards? As the emperor, Zhao Yun and Zhao Qi, as the commander in front of the palace, are also very clear about it.

The Palace Front Office, the Guards and the Guards and Infantry Office are collectively known as the Three Yas, which are responsible for the protection and garrison of the two important places in the capital of Lin'an City of the Song Dynasty and the accompanying capital Jiankang. Therefore, the three commanders in charge of the Three Yas are also held by the royal family.

The fourth imperial guards of the Palace Front Office are responsible for the defense of Lin'an City, the fourth imperial guards of the Guard Infantry Command are responsible for the defense of Jiankang City, and the fourth imperial guards of the Guard Horse Army Command are stationed between Lin'an and Jiankang. Once there is something wrong, they can raise troops to support the two cities at any time, and they are also fighting each other.

These twelve routes, the Imperial Guards of the Three Yas, controlled by the royal family, can be said to be the last guarantee of the Song Dynasty. There were wing troops and various local soldiers in the local area. However, what was the real situation of the hundreds of thousands of soldiers of the Twelve routes of the Three Yas, which was nominally responsible for the defense of the capital and important areas of the capital, is actually not only the Three Yas, but also the important officials of the Privy Council and even the entire Song Dynasty were well aware of it.

Shi Miyuan was in charge of the Privy Council, so he began to divide the three yamen and twelve imperial guards, constantly drawing the elites from these 12 imperial guards under the pretext of responding to the Mongols' southern invasion, and sent all these imperial guards under Shi Song, who was the commander of Jinghu at that time. After Shi Miyuan's death, Zhao Yun was in charge of the government and took advantage of the reason for re-establishing the imperial guards in the Yangtze River and Sichuan and Shaanxi, and continued to draw the limited elites from the three yamen and imperial guards. In the end, Zhao Yun formed ten imperial guards, but these ten imperial guards were not affiliated with the Three yamen, but directly under the Privy Council, which was directly obeyed the orders and the emperor.

After all kinds of things, coupled with hundreds of years of destruction, the number of people in the Imperial Army was falsely reported and the number of soldiers was insufficient to receive military pay. In fact, the current Imperial Army of the Three Ya Twelve Routes has only one empty shell left.

In other words, the current imperial capital of the Song Dynasty is actually unprepared except for the two imperial troops with only 100,000 people controlled by Zhao Yun. As long as the Mongols break through the defense lines of Jinghu, Huaixi and Huaidong, and then break through the Yangtze River defense line composed of two imperial troops, the core boundary hundreds of miles south of the Yangtze River will be smooth and there will basically be no more obstacles.

There are many people who say that there are many troops, but it is not enough to be seen in the area that is distributed in a radius of hundreds of miles.

The twelve imperial guards belonging to the Three Yaya are the foundation for the royal family to maintain their lives. Now this foundation is gone, and the royal family naturally has many dissatisfactions with Zhao Yun. However, even if they are dissatisfied, they are helpless.

Zhao Yun stared at Zhao Qi who was crawling on the ground and his face changed a lot, but he didn't continue to say anything in the end.

Zhao Yun himself knew the situation of the three yamen, including the Palace Front Office, the Guards Horse Army Office and the Infantry Army Office. Now, except for the two imperial troops, the three yamen are basically empty.

"There will be a thorough investigation by Zheng Qing in charge of the Lin'an Prefecture Commander's Office. If there is no news in three days, I won't need to teach you how Lin'an Prefecture and Zhao Qing should do it."

Zhao Yun changed his mind but directly pointed out the general of Zheng Qingzhi, who had been unemployed at home for a long time, to be responsible for verifying the assassination.

When a group of important officials, including Qiao Xingjian and Shi Songzhi, their faces changed when they heard Zhao Yun's words.

The failure of Duanping's Battle to Luoyang made Zheng Qingzhi always bear the reputation of being in the court and the country. This is also the main reason why Zhao Yun has been issuing an order to reinstate Zheng Qingzhi while Zheng Qingzhi insisted on resigning.

Of course, it is also sufficient to command Lin'an Prefecture and the Palace Front Office as Zheng Qingzhi. However, did the emperor want to take such an opportunity to force Zheng Qingzhi, who had been resigning, to come out of the mountain?

Otherwise, there were so many important officials in the court, but Zheng Qingzhi was the one who wanted to investigate the matter thoroughly.

If Zheng Qingzhi is really reinstated, it will not be very good news for Qiao Xingjian and Shi Songzhi. Qiao Xingjian's position as the left prime minister was obtained by trapping Zheng Qingzhi. Shi Songzhi has been taking a contrary route with Zheng Qingzhi, fighting back the practice of overthrowing Shi Miyuan by Zheng Qingzhi back then, expelling all the people of Siming from the court.

Therefore, whether it is reasonable or not, no matter what it is for, whether it is Qiao Xingjian who trapped Zheng Qing and Shi Songzhi, who should have been an ally of Zheng Qing, they are actually unwilling to see Zheng Qingzhi appear in the court.

What's more, if Zheng Qingzhi came out of the mountain, what kind of official position would he be, who was already Duke Shen?
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