At that time, the literati and officials lived a wealthy life and had the atmosphere of taking concubines and raising prostitutes. However, Sima Guang was an extremely rare person who did not take concubines or storm prostitutes. More than 30 years after the marriage, his wife, Mrs. Zhang, had no children. Sima Guang did not take it seriously, nor did he think about taking concubines and having children. Mrs. Zhang was so anxious that she died. Once she bought a beautiful woman on her back and placed it in the bedroom, and then went out on excuses.

When Sima Guang saw it, he ignored it and went to the study room to read. The beauty followed him to the study room. After making a fuss, she took out a book, flipped it out casually, and asked coquettishly: "Sir, what kind of book is Zhongcheng?" Sima Guang stood ten feet away from her, raised his face and bowed and replied: "Zhongcheng is Shangshu, an official position, not a book!" The beauty was very bored and left in disappointment.

Another time, Sima Guang went to his father-in-law's house to appreciate the flowers. Mrs. Zhang and her mother-in-law secretly arranged a beautiful maid. Sima Guang was not polite and said to the maid angrily: "Go away! Madam is not here, why are you here to see me?" The next day, the guests of her father-in-law's house knew about this and admired her very much, saying that it was a copy of "Sima Xiangru and Zhuo Wenjun" who grew old together. Only one laughed and said, "It's a pity that Sima Guang can't play the piano, but only knows how to kick me!" Mrs. Zhang had not had a child for her life, and Sima Guang adopted Sima Kang, the son of the tribe, as an adopted son.

The Lantern Festival in Luoyang is famous all over the world. During the Lantern Festival, Mrs. Zhang wanted to go out to see the lanterns. Sima Guang said, "Lights are also lighted at home, why should I go out to see them?" Mrs. Zhang said, "It's not just looking at the lanterns, but also looking at tourists." Sima Guang smiled and said, "Look at people? It's weird, am I a ghost!"

Sima Guang himself did not take concubines, did not care about his feelings, and was also disgusted with his colleagues' affair with singing girls. When he was working as Dingwu, his colleagues would do whatever they had to do in private camps. Once, he heard that a colleague had a private meeting with singing girls in a temple, so he went to catch the adulterer. The colleague was so scared that he told the singers to escape from the wall. The singers were timid and refused to jump over the wall, so he hurried into the monk's bed. When his colleagues saw Sima Guang, they were scared and had to explain the truth in detail. Sima Guang shook his head and sighed, and wrote a poem to tease his colleagues: "I have been busy with time in the past year, and I stumbled on the old monk's bed. I was shocked to go back to my dream of traveling to the fairy, and then went through the short wall."

Sima Guang was appointed as the Fengli Lang and a minor official of Dali. Later, he was recommended by Pang Ji, the deputy envoy of the Privy Councilor, and then he went to Beijing to be a proofreader of the Pavilion. In the first year of Zhihe, he followed Pang Ji to Bingzhou as an official and was changed to the position of the General Judge of Bingzhou. In the second year of Jiayou, Pang Ji was convicted of the matter, and Sima Guang left Bingzhou. Soon, he served as the Tianzhang Pavilion and the attendant of the Tongzhi Censorate. He wrote to Zhao Zhen one after another "three words" and "five rules" and submitted many requests to Zhao Zhen to solve the problem of succession.

After Zhao Zhen saw it, Ren felt that Sima Guang was really considering the country and the country, so he turned his memorial to the Secretariat. At this time, Han Qi came in to meet Zhao Zhen, and Zhao Zhen asked, "I have long been interested in appointing the crown prince. Who do you think is the most suitable?" Han Qi replied, "This matter is not something that the ministers dare to discuss in private. Please decide for your own decision!" Zhao Zhen said, "There were two sons in the palace. The young man now doesn't seem smart enough now, so he's the big one!" After hearing this, Han Qi asked to tell his name. Zhao Zhen said, "It's Zongshi." Han Qi strongly agreed.

Zhao Zongshi is Zhao Guangyi's great-grandson, Zhao Heng's younger brother Zhao Yuanfen, and Zhao Zhen's cousin Pu Anyi, Zhao Yunrang, and his mother is the Junren family of Xianyou County. Jiangning Jiedu

Zhao Yunrang dreamed that two dragons fell with the sun, so he continued with clothes. On the third day of the first lunar month of the Ming Dynasty, when Zhao Zongshi was born in Xuanpingfang's house, red light shone everywhere in the living room, and someone saw the yellow dragon swimming in the red light.

Because Zhao Zhen had no son in his early years, in the second year of Jingyou, Zhao Zhen was taken to the palace by Zhao Zhen and handed over to Empress Cao to raise. Zhao Zongshi was extremely filial by nature, liked to study, did not do things like a playful and fun, and his clothes were frugal and simple like a Confucian. He often went to see his teacher in court clothes and said, "You are my teacher, and you dare not meet with courtesy." At that time, Wu Chong, a professor at the Palace of the King of Wu, presented the "Six Proverbs of the Clan", and Zhao Zhen handed it to Zongzheng, and Zhao Zongshi wrote the content on the screen to restrain himself.

In the third year of Jingyou, Zhao Zongshi was named deputy commander of the left guard guard, and later promoted to general of the Right Yulin Army and governor of Yizhou. Later, after Zhao Zhen's biological son, Zhao Zongshi left the palace and returned to his biological father Zhao Yunreng. After Zhao Wang Zhao Xin died young, Zhao Zongshi was promoted to general of the Right Guard and the governor of the Yuezhou Tuanjian.

Before the death of King Zhao Yunrang of Pu'anyi, he distributed the toys he had worn to his sons. Zhao Zongshi gave all the gains to the old people of the royal family who were about to leave after burying his father. Some of the royal family borrowed gold belts, but returned them with copper belts. The supervisor told him about this, but Zhao Zongshi said, "This is really my belt!" and accepted it. He once asked the attendant in front of the palace to sell him the rhinoceros belt. The rhinoceros belt was worth 300,000 yuan, but it was lost, so Zhao Zongshi did not ask.

Prime Minister Han Qi, Bao Zheng, a scholar in Longtu Pavilion, and others mentioned the issue of Zhao Zhen's establishment of the crown prince. Zhao Zhen said that there was a pregnancy in the harem, and this matter would be discussed later. Not long after, a concubine did give birth to a child in the harem, but she gave birth to a daughter. At that time, Zhao Zongshi was mourning because his biological father Zhao Yunrang died.

Therefore, Zhao Zhen also said: "Zong is mourning, and he must issue an order to be promulgated before he can be enthroned." Han Qi said: "If things are feasible, they cannot stop halfway. Your Majesty's decision will naturally not be wrong. Please give it from the inside!" Zhao Zhen said: "Then the Secretariat will first pass the imperial edict and appoint him as Zongzheng Temple. How about?" Han Qi followed the imperial edict and immediately issued an order to appoint Zhao Zongshi. Zhao Zongshi was mourning, but he refused to accept it when he saw that there was an edict.

Zhao Zhen summoned Han Qi again, and Han Qi replied: "Your Majesty is planning for the clan society, so he chose the wise and established it. Now he refuses to accept it and wants to fulfill his filial piety. This is the so-called great wise man. Please let him finish his mourning period and take it upon himself." In the autumn of the seventh year of Jiayou, Zhao Zongshi finished his mourning period.

Han Qi then went to the court to report: "Zongzheng's edict has been met with Mingwen. Chinese and foreign subjects already know that Your Majesty has chosen the prince, so it is better to justify him as soon as possible." Zhao Zhen said: "What you said!" Han Qi retreated to the Central Secretariat and summoned the Hanlin scholar Wang Gui to make a name. Wang Gui said excitedly: "This is a national event. You must accept the emperor's order in person before you can write an edict." Han Qi replied: "Since this is the case, go and ask for instructions in person!"

Wang Gui then met Zhao Zhen the next day and knelt down and said, "I hope that Your Majesty will be the crown prince in the country, which is no less than looking forward to the New Year. Is this really out of the will of the holy?" Zhao Zhen said, "My intention has been decided." Wang Gui bowed and congratulated again, so he retired from the court to curse the law. After hearing the edict, Zhao Zongshi said that he was sick and refused to be the prince. He asked Zhou Mengyang, a professor at the Tan Palace, to write a memorial, and the memorial was posted more than ten times.

Sima Guang learned that, and hurriedly entered the memorial: "The prince has resigned for more than a month, and he is a wise man.

The virtue is extraordinary. However, the king ordered the emperor to call him and did not wait for the emperor. This is also the righteousness of the minister. If you ask Your Majesty to take the righteousness, the prince will naturally not dare to violate it." Zhao Zhen issued an edict to judge the important affairs of the great clan, Duke Anguo and others went to advise Zhao Zongshi to obey the order.

Zhao Zongshi still refused to accept it, and Zhou Mengyang asked him privately what it meant? Zhao Zongshi replied, "I dare not invite blessings, I really want to avoid disaster." Zhou Mengyang said, "Now the emperor has repeatedly issued edicts, but you will not accept it. If the official is in charge of others, it will become suspicious, can you still feel at ease?" Zhao Zongshi woke up, so he followed Conggu and others into the palace. Before leaving, he said to his family, "Be careful of the house! When the emperor has a legitimate son, I will naturally come back." After entering the palace, he paid homage to Zhao Zhen in the Qingju Palace, and Zhao Zhen gave him the name Zhao Shu. From then on, he worshiped Zhao Zhen twice a day, and sometimes went to the palace to serve. In September, Zhao Shu was named the defensive censor of Qizhou and the Duke of Julu County.

In a flash, it was the eighth year of Jiayou. Zhao Zhen was bedridden again and could not take the court. So he ordered the Secretariat to report the matter. After being treated by the imperial physician, Zhao Zhen improved slightly. In early March, his condition gradually became worse, and he died. The emperor's will, the prince Zhao Shu, ascended the throne, and Empress Cao, was the empress dowager. Zhao Zhen reigned for forty-two years at the age of fifty-four.

When the news of Zhao Zhen's death reached Luoyang, the people voluntarily stopped the market to mourn. The smoke of burning paper money filled the sky above Luoyang City, causing "the sun to be gone". At that time, an official went to Sichuan and passed by Jiange and saw women in the ravine wearing paper-pasteed filial hats mourning the emperor's death.

The obituary of Zhao Zhen's death was sent to Liao Kingdom. People from Liao Kingdom cried no matter how far and near. Yelu Hongji was also shocked and rushed up to grab the hand of the envoy of the Song Dynasty and cried bitterly, saying, "I have not learned about military reform for 42 years." He also said, "I want to build a tomb for him to express my grief."

During Zhao Zhen's reign, he accepted advice. One day, Zhao Zhen retreated to the court and returned to the bedroom. Because his head was itchy, he took off his hat and didn't take off his robe. He asked the eunuch to come in to comb his hair. When the eunuch combed his hair, he saw a memorial in Zhao Zhen's arms, and asked, "What kind of memorial did Your Majesty receive?" Zhao Zhen said that the censor suggested reducing the palace maids and attendants in the palace. The eunuch said, "There are still singers in the minister's family. Once promoted, they will have to be added. Your Majesty does not have many attendants, but they suggest reducing them. Isn't it too much!"

Zhao Zhen had no contact, and the eunuch asked again: "Is your majesty ready to adopt their suggestions?" Zhao Zhen said: "I will of course adopt the suggestions of the censor." The eunuch believed that he had always been favored by Zhao Zhen and said dissatisfied: "If it is adopted, please use slaves as the first person to reduce the reduction." Zhao Zhen immediately stood up and called the eunuch in charge to enter, check according to the list, and cut the twenty-nine palace servants and eunuchs with hair combs out of the palace. Afterwards, the queen asked: "The eunuchs with hair combs are His Majesty's long-term confidant, and they are not redundant people, why did he cut them too?" Zhao Zhen said: "He advised me to reject the censor's loyal advice. How could I keep such a person by my side!"

The censor Wang Su once advised Zhao Zhen not to get close to women. Zhao Zhen replied: "Recently, Wang Deyong has indeed presented a beautiful woman to me. Now in the palace, I like it very much, so let me keep her." Wang Su said: "I am giving advice today because I am afraid that Your Majesty will be deceived by women." After hearing this, Zhao Zhen still ordered the eunuch to say: "The women sent by Wang Deyong will each give 300 stagnant of money, and send them out of the palace immediately, and come to report after the completion of the work." After that, he was still in tears.
Chapter completed!