In Yinlong Villa, Zhao Ji stood in front of the study window with his hands behind his back, staring at the big tree outside the window for a long time. Although Li Yanqing promised to let him go, the conditions offered were a little unbearable. He actually wanted to be the regent of the state. Isn’t this another Cao Cao?

Gao Shen didn't say anything and was patiently waiting for Zhao Ji's decision.

Although Zhao Ji was extremely reluctant, he had no choice. He knew that even if Li Yanqing did not pass through him, he could still be the regent of the ruling state, but if he did not agree, he would have a dead end.

Zhao Ji sighed and asked again: "What other conditions do he have?"

"As for this condition, if Your Majesty agrees, please issue an order as soon as possible. Your Majesty can live up to his old age with peace of mind. After all, he is also Your Majesty's son-in-law and will not treat Your Majesty badly!"

Zhao Ji was stunned for a moment, and a wry smile appeared on his face. He actually forgot that Li Yanqing was still his son-in-law.

Zhao Ji nodded, "I understand, I will issue an order!"

He walked to the table, spread out a blank edict, picked up a pen and wrote down the enthronement of Li Yanqing as the regent of the state, and restored all his old positions and titled king. Finally, he stamped his own seal and handed the edict to Gaoshen.

Zhao Ji asked a little sadly: "Gao Aiqing, will the surname Zhao or Li in the world be?"

Gao Shen bowed slightly, "As long as the Song Dynasty is still here, the whole world will still be named Zhao. Your Majesty takes care of him, and I will leave."

"Will Gao Aiqing come again in the future?"

Gao Shen pondered for a moment and said, "For Your Majesty to enjoy your old age, I would rather not disturb Your Majesty, and I hope no one will disturb Your Majesty!"

Senior advised Zhao Ji tactfully not to repeat the same mistakes. Li Yanqing is not his son Zhao Gou.

Zhao Ji also understood Gao Shen’s advice and nodded, “Okay! Gao Aiqing, let him go over the past, let us forget each other.”

Gao Shen bowed to him, turned around and left quickly.

The gate of Yinlong Villa closed violently, and the guards standing guard at the door had been replaced by those sent by Li Yanqing. From now on, no one could step into Yinlong Villa without Li Yanqing's personal order.

On the day the army entered Lin'an City, Li Yanqing ordered the public execution of Huang Qianshan, Wang Boyan and Du Chong at Wuling Gate.

The three prime ministers, Lu Yihao, Fan Zongyin and Zhu Shengfei, were demoted to the people, making them think of their mistakes. The other nine officials including Qin Hui were removed from all positions and together with their families, they were all exiled to Lingnan to serve as military troops. Their property was confiscated.

The next morning court, 384 officials from the court gathered in Daqing Hall. For the first time, Fan Zhixu, Gaoshen, Cao Yan, Zheng Wangzhi and Li Gang selected five people to form the Xinzhizheng Hall. Fan Zhixu immediately read out the emperor's will, made the crown prince Zhao the new emperor, and read out the emperor's will, and appointed King Jin Li Yanqing as the regent and the state. Because the new emperor was young, he was handed over to his mother Xing to raise him.

Li Yanqing immediately granted Xing the Empress Dowager, announced a series of promotions and transfers of court officials, and at the same time increased the salary of court officials by one level, and promised to solve the problems of official residences and houses of all court officials above the ninth rank within half a year.

This is also the most urgent problem for all the officials of the court. Nearly half of the officials did not have official rooms and could only rely on renting private houses. This series of methods of winning over him have gained the support of most of the officials.

Of course, the reason why most officials supported him was not that he could bring a little benefit to all officials of the court. The real reason was that he opened up territory for the Song Dynasty, destroyed the country of Xixia, fought against the Jin soldiers, upheld justice, sought justice for the emperor, and followed the emperor's will to establish the crown prince as emperor.

Li Yanqing won the trust of all officials with his practical actions, so when he summoned all officials to discuss the new policy, more than 90% of the officials happily came to the court to report.

In the Zhizheng Hall, Li Yanqing held the first prime ministerial discussion.

Fan Zhixu was the right prime minister and presided over the first meeting of the Prime Minister of the Zhizheng Hall.

"We just finished the coup and we were ready to go. We felt that everything was very important and urgent, but no matter what happened, there was a priority. I thought about it. At present, we need three things to deal with urgently."

Fan Zhixu looked back at Li Yanqing. Li Yanqing was only responsible for convening and listening, but he did not interfere with the discussions of Zhizhengtang itself. His power was not reflected here. Instead, Zhizhengtang's resolutions must be approved and printed before they can take effect. He has the right to veto Zhizhengtang's resolutions.

However, in order to improve efficiency and minimize Li Yanqing's veto, Li Yanqing would also put forward his own opinions when Zhizhengtang discusses major military and national affairs, so that Zhizhengtang's resolutions will be compromised.

Fan Zhixu continued: "The first thing is to restore order and cancel martial law. We should issue a pardon order to pardon other people involved in the palace coup.

The second thing is to abolish all rules and regulations formulated by the fake court, dissolve the supervision bureau, and cancel all rewards from the fake court. Large rewards must be recovered.

The third thing is to issue a certificate to all local governments in the world, requiring all the chief officials of all states to take the initiative to express their opinions, support the court, and be loyal to the new emperor. If the local governments who refuse to express their opinions within two months will immediately send the supervisory censor to enter and impeach and dismiss the situation. Do you have any opinions on the above three points?"

Gao Shen said: "Let me add a little more! This time, the officials who were dismissed from the pseudo-government have been restored to their original positions, and officials who were promoted by the pseudo-government were also dismissed. This result is very exciting, but this adjustment only involves the court. But as far as I know, officials in the seven prefectures and twenty-three counties near Lin'an Prefecture have the same problem. I think this is also an urgent task and should be adjusted together."

Fan Zhixu nodded, "Yes! Then even if it is four o'clock, do you have any opinions?"

"I'll say a few words!"

Li Yanqing, who had been silent, smiled and said, "I have a few things that are urgent here, so why not add them."

"Please say this!"

Li Yanqing said slowly: "One is the issue of severing prisoners of war. There are still 70,000 prisoners of war in the military camp. I hope they can be dismissed back to their hometown as soon as possible. It will cost about 200,000 jin of money and 100,000 shi of food. The money and food do not need to be taken out by the court. There is enough money and food in the materials we seized, but the court should handle this matter.

The second is the issue of rewarding the meritorious soldiers. According to convention, the land should be mainly rewarded. For meritorious generals, I should also give them the reward as appropriate. I can take out the plan and hope that Zhizhengtang will be approved as soon as possible. As for the insufficient finances of the imperial court and the adjustment of officials in the fifth northwest route, we can slow down and solve these two things first."

Fan Zhixu smiled and said, "It is no problem to solve these two things of Your Highness. However, how much money and grain in your hand should be handed over to the court? Now the court is so poor that it doesn't have money to repair houses for the court officials. Your Highness also promises to solve the housing problems of half a year, and we don't know what to do."

Li Yanqing nodded with a smile, "There is not much money and grain, there are about 500,000 stones of grain and 5.2 million stagnant of coins. This is actually military expenses, and these money and grain cannot be given to the court for the time being.

However, if you confiscate the property of Huang Qianshan and others, you can give it to the court. You may not have expected that the silver copied from Huang Qianshan's mansion alone would reach 3 million taels of gold, 50,000 taels of copper coins in the cellar. It was even more amazing in Du Chong's mansion that the silver alone would be copied out 5 million taels of silver. According to his son's instructions, he served as the shipbuilder for three years and embezzled two million taels of silver. There were still more than 100,000 taels of gold in his mansion. All of these searched money could be handed over to the court. In addition, I would also hand over a huge amount of money to the court."

Fan Zhi blurted out, "But is the confiscated wealth of Xixia?"

Everyone laughed loudly, and Li Yanqing pointed at Fan Zhixu and said, "Who dares to say you are confused? You are still obsessed with that wealth!"

Gao Shen smiled and said, "It's not that we will never forget it. If we destroy the country, Xixia, we should have gained something! It is said that their national treasury is empty, so wherever the wealth of Xixia has gone, it must be concentrated in the hands of princes and nobles. But when these princes and nobles moved to Lin'an, they all had no spare wealth. Then where did their wealth go? Isn't this an obvious thing?"

Li Yanqing said lightly: "This wealth is indeed huge. I have not taken any personal penny. I originally planned to use this wealth as military expenses for the recovery of Hebei and Central Plains, but now the situation has changed. I will transport them all back to Lin'an to supplement the court's finances and serve as the capital for the court to issue Xinjiaozi."

Everyone was so happy that they rubbed their hands. The court's finances have been very tight in recent years, especially the huge military expenditures and the court has been unable to make ends meet. Everyone can guess that the wealth of Xixia is extremely huge. With this money supplement, the court's life will be much better.
Chapter completed!