Zhao Zhen was gradually confused by them and actually transferred Du Yan, Han Qi, Fan Zhongyan, Fu Bi and others one after another, and promoted Chen Zhizhong to Tongpingzhang and the same position as Jia Changchao.

Because Jia Changchao and Wu Yu had a disagreement with each other, Zhao Zhen dismissed them all and summoned Xia Qian to serve as a member of the Tongpingzhang. However, Xia Qian was repeatedly impeached by the censor and censor, so Zhao Zhen appointed him as the Privy Councilor and ordered Wen Yanbo to participate in politics.

Xia Xun was afraid of Ming Hao's contribution, so when he encountered Ming Hao's memorial, he had to obstruct him from many ways. Wen Yanbo was angry, so he went to Hebei to talk about this matter with Ming Hao. Ming Hao had expected this result and felt that he had a way to deal with it. Wen Yanbo said to Ming Hao: "The deputy envoy is like a god, but there is no need to worry about it from now on. I have submitted the memorial to the emperor and have the authority to be authoritarian. Just ask the deputy envoy to do it boldly!" Ming Hao replied: "It's so good. It's only the last ten days to break the city and capture them."

Wen Yanbo asked about his plan, and Minghao explained in detail the situation of digging the tunnel. Wen Yanbo was overjoyed. The next day, the tunnel was dug. So the Song army selected some heroes and secretly entered the city from the tunnel, working inside and outside. Wang Ze released a fire bull to resist, and the official army shot the bull in the nose with guns. The fire bull returned in pain, so the enemy was defeated, and Wang Ze opened the east gate to escape. The general manager Wang Xin hurriedly led his army to chase him and captured him alive. The remaining people walked into the village and were all burned to death by the official army.

The good news came to the capital, and Xia Shu also said that the one he captured was not a real thief. Zhao Zhen then issued an edict, ordering him to the capital. Wen Yanbo immediately escorted Wang Ze himself and arrived at the capital. After interrogation by the two prefectures, Wang Ze was killed in the city. The general Wang Ze rebelled and was together for 66 days. Zhang Deyi was beheaded for surrendering the thieves. Zhao Zhen issued an order to reward merits and promote his title, and appointed Wen Yanbo as Tongpingzhang, Ming Hao as a scholar in Duanming Palace. Beizhou was changed to Enzhou, and Jia Changchao was granted the title of Duke of Anguo.

Yang Kai, a scholar-school student, reported: "The thief is a subordinate of Jia Changchao, and Jia Changchao did not go to attack. Such people should be punished and should not be rewarded indiscriminately." After the memorial was submitted, there was no response. Later, Wen Yanbo recommended Minghao and said that he could be of great use. Therefore, Zhao Zhen promoted Minghao to the governor of the government. The case of Beizhou rebellion was settled.

It just so happened that this year was the first month of the leap year, so there were two Lantern Festivals. Zhao Zhen wanted to set up a lantern to celebrate. Empress Cao used the excuse of spending money and harming it but tried her best to persuade her. Empress Cao was Zhao Zhen's second queen and the granddaughter of Cao Bin, the founding hero. She came from a high-ranking family, was familiar with the classics and history, was good at writing books, was kind and cautious in dealing with things.

In the second year of Mingdao, after the death of Empress Dowager Liu E, Zhao Zhen's first empress, Empress Guo, was deposed by him on the pretext of having no son and lived in Changning Palace. The eighteen-year-old Cao was ordered to enter the palace and was attracted by Zhao Zhen's adoptive mother, Empress Dowager Yang. In September of the following year, Cao was made the queen.

Empress Cao was kind and frugal, cautious in dealing with things, and dared to act. However, because of her poor appearance, she never gave birth to children for life. Zhao Zhen, who valued beauty, did not appreciate her virtues and did not favor her. Empress Cao was very good at dealing with herself. Zhao Zhen favored Concubine Zhang, and she didn't care. She also valued farming and often planted grains in the palace, raised silkworms and picked mulberry trees.

In the first month of the eighth year of Qingli, Zhao Zhen was preparing to set up colorful lanterns to celebrate the Lantern Festival again on the fifteenth night of the first lunar month, but was persuaded by Empress Cao. Three days later, some guards made trouble and took the night to cross the house and force Zhao Zhen's dormitory.

Empress Cao was serving Zhao Zhen at that time. When she heard that there was an accident, she immediately put on her clothes. Zhao Zhen also stood up and wanted to go out to check it out, but was stopped by Empress Cao and advised him: "There must be a rebellion in the palace bedroom. Now in a hurry, your Majesty should not go out. You can only send an order to go out and urgently summon the Minister Wang Shouzhong to lead troops in to protect him, so that he can ensure everything."

At this time, the eunuchs and guards on duty had already stood up. So Zhao Zhen ordered people to summon Wang Shouzhong and come to protect him quickly. The soldiers killed the concubines and maids in the palace in front of the palace, and shouted throughout the emperor's residence. Empress Cao's face changed drastically and said, "Wang Shouzhong has not arrived yet, but the soldiers have already come in. We must be prepared in advance." So she ordered the eunuchs to gather together, line up and guard the palace gate.

A eunuch responded: "Is it because the nanny in the palace who was beating the little palace maid, so he cried." Before he could finish his words, Empress Cao fell down and shouted loudly: "The soldiers killed people outside the hall with wine, how dare you talk nonsense?" She estimated that the soldiers would set fire, so she ordered the eunuchs and servants to prepare cold water. When the cold water was ready, she held scissors in her hand and cut off all the hair of the servants.

Empress Cao said, "You are trying hard to guard the palace gate and wait for foreign aid. Tomorrow, we will give rewards based on our hair. When the servants heard this, they immediately jumped up and came to the front of the door to refuse to guard. Empress Cao personally supervised the battle and adapted to the situation. Suddenly, the torch outside the door Qi Ming and the soldiers had arrived. But someone shouted, "It's better to set fire to the door."

Empress Cao hurriedly ordered people to move the prepared water to the side of the palace gate. When the soldiers set fire to the palace gate, they used water to put out the fire, so the fire could be destroyed as soon as possible. When the two sides were stalemate, they knew that Wang Shouzhong had already arrived and captured all the thieves within a moment. Then Wang Shouzhong shouted to report that the thieves had been captured and knocked on the door to pay their respects.

Empress Cao passed a message inside the door and asked, "How many rebels are there?" Wang Shouzhong replied, "There are about dozens of people in total. The leader of the thief is the guard Yan Xiu." Empress Cao Huang said, "I understand. You take it out first and hand it over to the Ministry of Justice immediately. If you are sure that it is a captured thief, you can immediately rectify the Dharma and do not implicate it!" Wang Shouzhong left on order.

Seeing that Empress Cao was well arranged in an orderly manner, Zhao Zhen immediately quelled the rebellion and said happily: "You are so calm and have a good response. I think it is the family law passed down from ancestors." Empress Cao replied: "This is because of your great blessings, you can quell the civil strife. How can I have any strategy?" As he was speaking, the concubines came one after another and asked him out of the door. Empress Cao then ordered to open the door to welcome him in.

The leader came in was Zhang Meiren, Zhao Zhen’s first favorite concubine.

Zhang Meiren's father Zhang Yao was named Jinshi and died very early. Her mother Cao wanted to take her daughter to join her uncle Zhang Yaozuo, but Zhang Yaozuo refused to take her in on the grounds that she was long. Because of her beautiful appearance, Cao was able to be a singer and dancer in the house of the eldest princess of Qi. When her daughter Zhang was eight years old, she was brought into the palace by the eldest princess and was raised by the palace maid Jia. When she grew up, Zhang looked charming.

At a banquet in the palace, Zhang was attracted by Zhao Zhen because of her bright appearance, well-behaved by nature, versatile, smart, eloquent, and good at guessing the emperor's thoughts. She was favored by Zhao Zhen in the first year of Qingli. In the year of Qingli, she was named the King of Qinghe County. She was immediately promoted to Xiuyuan and gave birth to three daughters, Zhuangshun Dachang Emperor, Zhuangding Dachang Emperor, Zhuangding Dachang Emperor, Zhuang Ding Dachang Emperor, Zhuang

Emperor Shen Dachang.

In the third year of Qingli, Zhang Xiuyuan's second daughter, Princess Zhenguo, died early. Zhang was seriously ill and said to Zhao Zhen: "I am not very good at being favored by my reputation, so I am willing to be a beauty." Therefore, I was demoted to a beauty. Zhao Zhen wanted to make her the queen, but Empress Liu disagreed, so she enthroned the Guo family. Empress Guo was deposed and Zhao Zhen wanted to make Zhang Meiren the queen, but she refused, so Zhao Zhen changed to the Cao family. She had actually been favored by Zhao Zhen. When she came in to pay her respects this time, Zhao Zhen expressed comfort, and Empress Cao also had no choice but to deal with her.

There was also a beautiful woman Zhou who followed Zhang. She entered the palace at the age of four and was loved by Zhang and adopted as her adopted daughter. When she grew up, she was charming and charming, which attracted Long Xin. So she was adopted by Zhao Zhen as a concubine. Miao Cairen, Feng Dujun and others also met in turn. Miao Cairen was the daughter of Zhao Zhen's nanny, and Feng Dujun was a good woman. Her grandfather was Feng Qi, and she was once the assistant minister of the Ministry of War. Feng Dujun was selected into the harem because of her outstanding virtue. After the concubines greeted her, they returned one after another.

The next day, Zhao Zhen issued an edict to denounce the imperial city envoy and several guard officials. Yang Huaimin, the deputy chief minister, was suspected of being suspected. Ding Du, the deputy chief official, requested to be investigated and severely punished according to law. However, the Privy Councilor Xia Shun, the Privy Councilor, reported that it was related to the palace and could not be made public. He could only be interrogated by the eunuch to close the case. Zhao Zhen was confused and even agreed. By the time he was interrogated, Xia Shumi had already arranged everything for him, so naturally he could not find any evidence. So he only surrendered Yang Huaimin and still acted as an envoy.

Xia Feng knew that beauty Zhang was favored and wanted to make a powerful internal aid. So he reported that beauty Zhang had made contributions to protecting her and should be honored. Zhao Zhen was originally very attached to beauty Zhang and wanted to promote her every day, but he had no excuses. This time, when Xia Feng received the memorial, he suddenly felt that the reason was sufficient, so he immediately enthroned beauty Zhang as the imperial concubine.

Xia Sheng tasted the sweetness and had to make progress. He instigated the censor Wang Zhi to report, saying, "The rebels started in the central palace, please investigate them completely!" He naturally wanted to shake the position of queen, change the banner, and please favor Zhang Fei. Zhao Zhen was provoked by him and couldn't help but have doubts. Zhao Zhen suspected that this rebellion was deliberately arranged by Queen Cao to show her ability and seek credit. Therefore, he not only did not be grateful to her, but instead wanted to depose her and change Concubine Zhang to the queen.

The ministers tried their best to persuade and object, and Zhao Zhen could not provide evidence to prove that the queen was guilty, so he gave up. Empress Cao kept the Fengguan, but never received the emperor's gratitude. Zhao Zhen inferred all the credit on the favorite concubine Zhang Guifei. Zhao Zhen once asked the censor He Tan for this matter, and He Tan replied: "The queen is kind and wise, and she admires both inside and outside. This is a slander by the traitor, so she must be careful." Zhao Zhen then put aside.

There was a palace maid around Empress Cao involved in a rebellion. After the rebellion was quelled, Empress Cao sentenced the palace maid to death according to the system. The palace maid begged Concubine Zhang to avoid death. Concubine Zhang pleaded with Zhao Zhen, and Zhao Zhen agreed to pardon. After Empress Cao learned about it, she wore formal clothes to meet Zhao Zhen and asked to deal with the guilty palace maids according to law, and said: "If you don't do this, you will not be able to clear the bad people in the palace." Zhao Zhen asked her to sit down, but Empress Cao refused to sit down and stood up to her request until Zhao Zhen ordered the palace maids to be killed according to the rules.

Concubine Zhang was arrogant because of favor and often did not abide by the court laws, and Empress Cao did not care about it. Ministers advised him, but Zhao Zhen kept protecting him. Concubine Zhang became more and more arrogant and became the object of fame and fortune among the court.
Chapter completed!