Chapter 344
When Han Qi and others learned about this, they were naturally relieved. However, Zhao Shu had not been to the court for a long time, and China and foreign countries were worried, which led to a lot of speculation. Just as the capital was worried about drought, Zhao Shu went to Zichen Palace in person. Han Qi asked Zhao Shu to take a car to pray for rain and woke up in a low manner. Only then did the capital feel at ease.
In the winter of that year, the late emperor Zhao Zhen was buried in Yongzhao Mausoleum, with the temple name Renzong, and his eldest son Zhao Zhongyan was named Duke of Guangguo. Later, he was promoted to the prince of Huaiyang and changed his name to Zhao Xu. At that time, Zhao Shu had four sons, all of which were called by Empress Gao. In addition to King Zhao Xu of Huaiyang, the second son was named Zhao Hao, the third son was named Zhao Yan, and the youngest son was named Zhao Feng, and Zhao Yan died young.
The following year, the reign was changed. Han Qi wanted to ask the Empress Dowager to withdraw the curtain and return the power, so he went to the court to report the matter and asked Zhao Zhen to make more than ten rulings. After the ruling was completed, Han Qi submitted another memorial to the Empress Dowager and said, "The emperor made a clear decision, and the ruling is appropriate." Empress Dowager Cao reviewed one by one, and they all praised him. Therefore, Han Qi kowtowed and said, "The emperor personally cut off the affairs, and the empress dowager was in charge. From now on, the palace's plans should be all right. I am old and weak, and I am afraid I will not be able to do it anymore. I am willing to ask for retirement on this, hoping to get the approval!"
Empress Dowager Cao said, "The great affairs of the court depend on my grandfather. How can I go? But I might as well retreat to the deep palace." Han Qi said, "The mother and queen of the previous ancestral family are as virtuous as horses, and Deng can't help but care about their power. Now the empress dowager wants to retreat. It is indeed a virtue and humble battle, not a horse, and it is comparable to Empress Deng. Fortunately, I met Empress Dowager Ciming and admired her. But I don't know when to remove the curtain?"
Empress Dowager Cao said, "I don't want to interfere in political affairs, it's just because the emperor was sick the day before yesterday, so he had to do it. If you want to remove the curtain, you can remove the curtain. Why do you have to set a different day?" After that, he stood up immediately. Han Qi immediately slept loudly and said, "Since the Empress Dowager has ordered the curtain to withdraw the curtain, why did the Luanyisi not follow it?" He walked past Luanyisi and removed the curtain. Empress Dowager Cao hurried in, and could see the empress dowager's clothes behind the imperial screen, and was surprised to be strange inside and outside. Zhao Shu also appointed Han Qi as the right servant, and went to the front and back halls every day to handle political affairs. Zhao Shu also went to the name of the Empress Dowager's palace, called Cishou Palace, and all the empress dowagers went in and out of Yiwei, just like Empress Dowager Zhang Xian Liu E.
At this time, Sima Guang, the Zhijianyuan, reported: "The eunuch Ren Shouzhong, and Jin slandered the two palaces, are the big pests of the country. If it were not for the wise queen and the benevolent and filial emperor, it would have almost caused Xiao Jiang to be killed in the city according to the national law!" Zhao Shu was moved after reading the memorial, but for a moment, there was no edict.
After a night, Han Qi went to the Central Secretariat and suddenly drew a short order. He signed his name and ordered his participation in politics to sign at the same time. After receiving the order, Ouyang Xiu did not say much, and signed it immediately. After signing the name, Han Qi sat in the Political Affairs Hall and summoned Ren Shouzhong, and asked him to stand in the court. He immediately scolded: "Do you know your crime? You should have beheaded you, but now you are leniently dealt with. Let's place you in Qizhou for the time being. You should be grateful for your grace and don't do evil again!"
After Han Qi finished speaking, he took out the empty order, filled it out in person, and handed it to Ren Shouzhong, and escorted it out of Beijing on the same day. Then he deposed all the remnants of Ren Shouzhong, and demoted him far away to the south, and praised him as soon as possible. After a few months, Han Qi came to the palace to meet him, and Zhao Shu suddenly asked Han Qi, "What is the character of the three envoys Cai Xiang?" Han Qi didn't know what he asked this in the five days, but just replied, "Cai Xiang is quite capable and can be appointed." Zhao Shu did not answer.
The next day, Zhao Shu actually ordered Cai Xiang to be the governor of Hangzhou. It turned out that when Empress Dowager Cao was in charge of politics, he once said to the assistant minister: "The late emperor established the prince."
Not only did the official concubine feel suspicious, but also the famous ministers also had objections, which almost ruined the major matter. I don’t want to pursue it, and I have ruined the memorials." Because of these imperial edicts, many people at that time guessed that it was Cai Xiang’s report. It is impossible to prove whether Cai Xiang had done this. However, he has always liked to joke, and his language is inevitably inadvertent to be incorrect, which aroused others’ suspicion.
Cai Xiang and Chen Ya are in good relationship on weekdays, and Cai Xiang makes Chen Ya talk. He said with a verbal sentence: "Chen Ya is in a heart, it will be evil." Chen Ya immediately responded: "Cai Xiang will decline without words." At that time, everyone next to him agreed to be absolute. Because Cai Xiang wanted to laugh at people, they were ridiculed. In fact, Xiang was good at government administration, and when encountering cases, he could make judgments in conversation and laughter, and officials did not dare to deceive him.
Cai Xiang was once the governor of Quanzhou and supervised the construction of Wan'an Bridge, which was 360 feet long, which was very beneficial to pedestrians. He planted 700 miles of pine trees, providing shade to the people, and all the people in the prefectures praised his kindness. Wan'an Bridge is also called Luoyang Bridge, and Cai Xiang personally wrote the inscription. In the third year of Zhiping, Ding's mother returned to her original hometown, and died at home the following year. She was posthumously awarded the title of Minister of Rites and was later awarded the title of Zhonghui.
After Zhao Shu was in charge of power for half a month, Prime Minister Han Qi and others proposed to him to ask the relevant departments to discuss the title of Zhao Shu's biological father. Han Qi replied: "Don't forget the foundation of etiquette, King Pu Desheng is a high-ranking position, so you should respect the etiquette. Please issue an order to agree on the name of the department!" Zhao Shu approved and discussed it after the burial of Zhao Zhen. Sima Guang of the Zhijianyuan quoted historical comments and said: "Emperor Xuan of Han was the queen of Xiaozhao, and he would never pursue the prince of Wei, grandson of Shi Huang, Emperor Guangwu, and Emperor Sui Yuan, and he would not pursue the respect of Julu Nandun. This is a common law for all generations and can be used as a reference."
In the first year of Zhiping, there was a major flood in the Guanghua Army and Gaoyou Army in the Guanghua Army, Song, Bo, Chen, Xu, Ru, Cai, Tang, Ying, Cao, Pu, Ji, Shan, Hao, Si, Lu, Shou, Chu, Hang, Xuan, Hong, E, Shi, Yu and other prefectures, Guanghua Army, Gaoyou Army, Zhao Shu sent envoys to inspect, clear the rivers, provide relief to the victims, and exempted taxes from the victims.
In the second year of Zhiping, the edict was issued to the officials of the rituals and the above, and they were deliberate to discuss the ceremony of worshipping King Pu. None of the ministers dared to speak first, only Sima Guang made a proposal and said: "If you are a son, you should not take personal relatives into consideration. You should allow the court to be granted to relatives first, and you should be allowed to be granted to relatives first as a regular script." Hanlin scholar Wang Gui and others, based on Sima Guang's manuscript, added a little more and revised, and then submitted a memorial.
After Han Qi looked at it, he said, "The opinions of Wang Gui and others have not been explained in detail. King Pu should call him He Qin, please ask Wang Gui and others to reconsider!" Wang Gui and others discussed again, "King Pu is the elder brother of Renzong, and the emperor won the emperor's name." Ouyang Xiu refuted greatly and said, "As a son, he should be surrendered by his parents for three years. If the biological father is changed to Huang Bo, and the history of the previous dynasties is examined, there is no evidence. For example, Emperor Xuan of Han and Emperor Guangwu, they also called his father Huang Kao, and they did not change to Huang Bo. As for the enthronement of the great power, Youjue was not incompatible with the rituals, so please go to the Shangshu Province to collect the censors of the three provinces to discuss!" So the court officials followed the imperial edict to discuss the etiquette.
The debate lasted for eighteen months. The central prime minister, represented by Han Qi, followed Zhao Zhen's wishes and suggested that Zhao Yunrang be respected as the imperial examination. However, it was opposed by Hanlin scholar Wang Gui, the attendant censor Lu Hui and others. They strongly advocated calling Zhao Zhen the imperial examination and Zhao Yunrang be the imperial examination. When the Empress Dowager Cao heard the news, he once drafted an edict to severely blame Han Qi and others. Zhao Shu felt that the development of the situation was not good for him and had to postpone the discussion of the matter. Finally, Han Qi and others persuaded Empress Dowager Cao to sign and agreed to call Zhao Yunrang the "emperor", and his three wives were called "empress", and demoted Lu Hui, Lu Dafang and Fan Chunren to go out. The matter ended.
Zhao Zhen died of sudden illness, and the medical officer should be responsible. The two main medical officers were expelled from the palace by Zhao Shu and sent to the remote prefectures and counties for management. Some other medical officers, for fear of being demoted, pleaded in front of Zhao Shu, saying: "The Emperor was still very effective at first taking the medicine prescribed by these two people. Unfortunately, he died, which was destiny and was beyond the reach of the medical officer."
Zhao Shu said seriously, "I heard that these two people were recommended by the two governments?" The left and right answered, "That's right." Zhao Shu said, "If this is the case, I will ignore it and leave it to the two governments for judgment." When the medical officers heard this, they were so scared that they were scattered and secretly marveled at the new emperor's shrewdness and decisiveness.
? Before Zhao Shu ascended the throne, he heard about Su Shi and admired him very much. After ascending the throne, Zhao Shu wanted to summon Su Shi to the Hanlin Academy according to the customs of the Tang Dynasty and grant him the position of civic and imperial edicts. Prime Minister Han Qi said: "Su Shi can become a great man and will inevitably be valued by the emperor in the future. As long as the court cultivates him well, the literati and scholars from all over the country will serve the emperor. At that time, no one dared to have any objections to this. If Su Shi is suddenly reused now, the scholars and officials in the world may doubt his ability, which is extremely unfavorable to Su Shi."
Zhao Shu asked Han Qi again, "How about asking Su Shi to prepare daily life notes?" Han Qi said, "The daily life notes are the same as those in the official position of Zhizhizhi, and they are close to each other, so it is probably not appropriate." Zhao Shu had no choice but to order Su Shi to try it in the History Museum.
Besides, after Wen Yanbo was dismissed from prime minister, he was sentenced to Henan and was granted the title of Duke of Lu. In the second year of Zhiping, he went to Beijing from Henan to meet him. Zhao Shu comforted him and said to Wen Yanbo: "Most of my ability to obtain success is due to your own strength." Wen Yanbo said horrifiedly: "Your Majesty inherited the throne is the intention of the late emperor and the empress dowager's approval, so how can I succeed? What's more, your Majesty is right outside, and Han Qi and others accept the imperial edict and receive the imperial edict, but I didn't participate in it. Now your Majesty rewards, I really dare not take it."
Zhao Shu replied slowly, "You have been successful and you are not here. Now I am asking you to travel west temporarily, and I will call you back soon." Wen Yanbo then withdrew. Soon, an order was ordered to resign. Wen Yanbo left, and suddenly Fu Bi claimed that he was sick from his feet and asked to resign. Zhao Shu refused to agree. Fu Bi reported the next day, and wrote two memorials on five days, firmly demanding to resign from the position of Privy Council.
It turned out that during the Jiayou period, Fu Bi was the prime minister and Han Qi was the Privy Councilor. At that time, whenever the Secretariat had something to do, he often discussed with Privy Councilor. Now Han Qi and Fu Bi have changed positions, but Han Qi is arbitrary and has never asked Fu Bi, so Fu Bi is naturally unhappy. When the Empress Dowager returned to power, Fu Bi actually didn't know any news.
Suddenly hearing that Han Qi urged to remove the curtain, Fu Bi couldn't help but be surprised and said, "I am the assistant. Other things may not be known in advance. What's the harm in notifying you in advance? Is Han Gong afraid that I would share him with honor?" Han Qi also said to people after hearing Fu Bi's words: "This matter should seem to be out of the Queen Mother's intention, and it is not convenient to say it clearly in advance." Fu Bi always felt unhappy.
Chapter completed!