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Section 83 False Edict

What Zhang Shuye was worried about was whether he would hate his child after Zhao Huan came back and attack him, so that he would harm the child. But in the end, he still thought: "If you wait for the emperor to worry about the private affairs between the father and son of the Tian family."

Then he began to consider a more pressing question: Can the prince be convinced by the people? With the empress behind the curtain, the empress is so young and has no experience, how can it convince the subjects?

Zhao Huan made his son, who was still a child, the crown prince in May last year, which attracted a lot of criticism, saying, "No matter whether he cares about the second crown prince, he is responsible for establishing the crown prince." Uncle Zhang said at night: "It is better to ask the prince to supervise the country." In addition to Prince Yun, who was hostage in Jin camp, there are five younger brothers who can supervise the country.

"Of course, the queen wants to supervise the country." Hu Yangeng said, "If King Xin or even King Kang is supervising the country, how can they deal with themselves after the emperor comes back?" Zhao Huan's younger brothers have all grown up. Will they be willing to give up the throne when Zhao Huan comes back? Wouldn't it be another tragedy in the palace?

Zhang Shuye then made up his mind. The next day he went out and visited the homes of all the important officials.

The prince was allowed to supervise the country. Now that the emperor was not in the capital, he had to be promoted by the ministers. Almost half of the important officials in the court were taken away by Zhao Huan, and a few others were following King Kang Zhao Gou to seek peace north, and they were not sure whereabouts of the time.

Zhang Shuye first found Li Ruoshui, the Minister of Personnel. Li Ruoshui had always had an official reputation, and Wang Shiyong, the Minister of Personnel, was not there, and the Ministry of Personnel was headed by him, so he was considered an important official of the court.

Li Ruoshui was quite suspicious: "The master was kind, filial, kind and frugal, and he had never made any mistakes. How could he easily discuss the destruction and establishment?" If it weren't for knowing that Zhang Shuye had always been loyal to the country, Li Ruoshui would almost have banished his sleeves.

Zhang Shuye said: "It is not just abolishing the establishment, but only let the prince supervise the country. On the one hand, it gives hope to the subjects, and on the other hand, it will cut off the Jin people's thoughts and they may put them back to the Lord."

Li Ruoshui said: "Can you agree to the Jin thieves' terms first and let them be put back to the master?"

"Not to mention the nature of the golden thief and jackal, I will definitely not keep my promise and let others go. Where will I raise tens of millions of gold now?"

Li Ruoshui said: "The people of Bianliang have been grateful to you, and each household raises ten gold ingots." Speaking of this, Li Ruoshui himself felt it was unreasonable. At that time, there was no standard exchange price for gold and silver and copper coins. About one tael of gold and about twenty taels of silver, and one tael of silver for ten jin of coins. Ten jin of gold is equivalent to at least two hundred taels of silver and two million coins, which is approximately equivalent to the income of each ordinary family of one hundred years.

Li Ruoshui himself got stuck for a while before turning around and said, "It would be better to argue with the Jin people first, let them take a step back, and put the master back on a lower condition."

Zhang Shuye was very disappointed. He couldn't even pass Li Ruoshui's level. How could he persuade others?

Sure enough, former prime minister Tang Ke stayed in the door and Li Hui wanted to "put living creatures first and never fight again", while Li Bangyan "would rather die than serve in the two kings."

He asked Liu Ziyu to communicate with his father Liu Li, but Liu Li's attitude was consistent with Li Ruoshui: I would like to find a way to get the emperor back first.

At night, Wang Bing said to Hu Yangeng in a frustration: "The government and the people do not agree to let the prince supervise the country. Why can't they figure it out? The prince supervise the country is the only way to maintain people's hearts and continue to fight the enemy."

"Jingshou, it's not that they can't understand it, but that they have their own selfish intentions." Hu Yangeng remembered his reactions from all walks of life and time after the Tumu Fort change in the Ming Dynasty in history. He secretly made up his mind to insist on fighting against the enemy, and never let the change of siege take place in this era.

"Then let Li Ruoshui go to the peace talks and let him take the official back by himself." Hu Yangeng originally respected Li Ruoshui, but seeing that he was so loyal to Zhao Huan, he was not very happy and called him his name, "If you hit a nail, you won't be so old-fashioned."

Therefore, when the prime ministers of the dynasty were not around, Zhang Shuye used Zhao Huan's secret decree to "replace the heaven and stay behind" and used Li Ruoshui and Xu Bingzhe as peace talks to go to the Jin camp to negotiate conditions.

Li Ruoshui had a bitter face and brought back the Jin people's reply, which was also Zhao Huan's imperial edict:

"The Great Jin army had already entered the city, and all the public and private property in the capital was the trophy of the Great Jin. Now the Great Jin Kingdom is concerned about the millions of creatures in Kaifeng City, so it does not fall into the city wall. This is the supreme kindness of preserving the country of the Song Dynasty and living the creatures in the capital.

Therefore, the gold, silver, money and silk that Dajin requires should naturally be fully rewarded, and no one or two pieces of money cannot be preserved. Officials, civilians and common people can plunder them at will, and their property should be lent to the court to repay Dajin's kindness."

After Li Ruoshui finished speaking, Liu Ziyu, a military officer in the hall, immediately shouted: "I wonder who Mr. Li would send to plunder, or to be the 'robber' in person?" Li Ruoshui's face turned red and white, and he closed his mouth tightly, without saying a word.

After the church was disbanded, Zhang Shuye sent his son Zhang Bofen to ask Li Ruoshui for advice. Li Ruoshui said, "I have no objection. I have all followed Mr. Zhang's orders, but I only ask the Lord to return."

In this way, Zhang Shuye contacted Liu Li, Li Ruoshui, and Sun Fu, and gathered up several important officials to write a letter to Empress Zhu, asking the prince to supervise the country. According to the practice of asking for three requests and three resignations, Empress Zhu rejected the request and waited for the minister's second letter to be submitted.

Everything was going well, but on February 27, Kaifeng Prefect Xu Bingzhe came to cause trouble again. It turned out that all kinds of daily necessities of Bianliang residents were imported from outside the city. Since the Jin soldiers attacked the city, they have not been imported for three months. At present, Bianliang has a shortage of all things. Although there is reserve of staple food, the price of grain is also high.

It was Kaifeng Prefecture’s responsibility to solve the livelihood of the people, but now Xu Bingzhe has left this mess to Zhang Shuye.

Uncle Zhang was exhausted and exhausted. He had to ask Liu Li to handle official duties on his behalf, and asked Hu Yangeng to move to the Privy Council to give Liu Li advice. Hu Yangeng and Liu Ziyu, Zhang Bofen, Zhang Zhongxiong and others participated in the military to discuss the matter one by one.

First of all, we agreed to write another letter tomorrow and submit it to the crown prince to supervise the country.

The second is to open Genyue, and send Xiangjun to pick and capture the animals inside to solve some of the firewood and meat that have passed through the winter. Genyue is the imperial garden built by Zhao Ji. Now the Xiangjun is asked to cut down the trees, bamboo and other trees inside and tear off the houses to obtain firewood. The animals raised inside are also allowed to be killed, and then the firewood and meat are sold at various relief points hosted by Lei Guan.

The third thing is to ask Xu Bingzhe to go to the Jin camp again, which was stormy. Xu Bingzhe threw a mess for Zhang Shuye, and Hu Yangeng sent him to the Jin camp to suffer some hardships.

But Hu Yangeng did not expect that he made a big mistake in this third point. On the afternoon of February 28, Xu Bingzhe came back from the Jin camp and brought back four people: He Li, Wang Shiyong, Wang Xiaodi, and Sun Wei. In order to express his sincerity in peace talks, the Jin Bing released these four people back.

These four people didn't even go back to their homes, and went straight to the Secretariat Political Affairs Hall, which is the real highest government agency in the Song Dynasty.

Dazai He Li sat in the capital hall and ordered all the officials of the Xuanfu Department to come to the capital hall. Zhang Shuye and Sun Fu were ordered to arrive at the capital hall. Seeing that even the Shangshu Youzheng, who was not in charge of the affairs of the Shangshu, Li Hui, the judge of the Xuanfu Department, was there, he suddenly felt that the situation was not good.

Seeing that all the seventh-rank and above officials related to the war in Bianjing were gathered, He Li immediately took out an imperial edict, Zhao Huan's imperial edict: "The generals and soldiers in the capital were almost in danger, and they still depended on the Jin people to make peace, and they stopped cede land..." The imperial edict said three meanings:

First, Zhang Shuye, as the envoy of the two capitals, could not defend the capital, and the emperor was captured. He almost went to the clan and the society to be in danger. He was unforgivable. He was arrested and was personally interrogated by Emperor Zhao Huan. In addition, all ministers who advocated resistance during the Jin Dynasty invasion were guilty of angering the Jin people, and "take forty-five guards to belong to the army." Even the families of these guards must be punished together.

Second, He Li was originally the Dazai, and now he sent He Li back to Bianliang to take charge of the capital and preside over the overall situation. Dazai He Li, the Minister of the Secretariat Wang Xiaodi, and the Right Prime Minister of the Shangshu Li Hui, have formed a minimum number of magistrates, while Sun Wei is the Minister of the Central Secretariat, who can draft various government orders. Zhao Huan sent a complete administrative team to return to execute his orders.

The third said: The Jin people already knew that there were 10 million ingots of gold, 20 million ingots of silver, and 10 million pieces of silk. The Song court could not raise the price for a while. Apart from trying their best to plunder among the people, they could use women to pay for it.

The imperial concubines offer two thousand gold ingots per mouth, the imperial concubines, the imperial concubines (princesses), the princesses offer one thousand gold ingots per mouth, the princesses (daughters of princesses) offer five hundred gold ingots per mouth, the county lord (daughters of princesses) offer two hundred gold ingots per mouth, the palace maids, the clan wife give five hundred silver ingots, the singing girl gives two hundred silver ingots, the good woman gives one hundred silver ingots, and the genius gives fifty taels of silver.

As soon as this imperial edict was released, everyone was stunned.

He Li said: "Come on, escort Zhang Shuye, Wang Bing, Zhe Yanzhi, Liu Li and others to question."

However, no one moved. Because the front office of the Palace had already left the capital with Zhao Huan and was killed by the Jin soldiers. At present, the Long Jie Army's infantry was guarding near the capital hall.

He Li was still urging: "Hurry up, take down Uncle Zhang."

The whole audience was in a state of ignorance. However, after so long, so many hard battles, the residents of the city were starving and frozen, would they get such a result?

Suddenly, a young general from the hall rushed to the capital with a silver mace in his hand: "This imperial edict is not in line with the system, and it is not allowed to be published without the review of the subordinates."

Of course, Hu Yangeng rushed up. While rushing to the capital, he shouted: "Where are you here to do the national system?"

In the Song Dynasty system, an edict could only become a formal government order after three levels: "making lyrics" by the Secretariat, "book series" and "reading books" in the service, and it must also be signed by the Prime Minister.

Hu Yangeng didn't know if He Li and the other four had taken the edict to the school for review, but he found that there was no school for the school in the four team, so he made a quick decision to rush to the court.

He Li and others were all civil officials, so how could they hold back Hu Yangeng? Hu Yangeng took the imperial edict and glanced at it. Sure enough, there was no seal given to the officer, so he shouted: "This is a false edict."

Of course, he was already prepared. If there was a seal from the branch office, he would break the edict in the court and destroy the evidence.

Wang Shiyong was the first to react: "This reckless man actually roared at the capital, and he was carrying weapons. He should drag him down and behead him."

Note: The system of issuing edicts in the Song Dynasty

In the Song Dynasty, the three-provincial system was still followed in the process of the Secretariat formulated policies, reviewed by the Secretariat, and implemented by the Secretariat. The specific implementation process was as follows:

Psychology: When the emperor decides to do something, he tells his intentions to the Minister of the Secretariat and the Secretariat. The Secretariat drafts according to the emperor's intentions, which is called lyrics. If the Secretariat does not agree with the emperor's policies, he throws the draft back to the emperor, which is called "Feng Return to the Ci"

Bookstore: After the lyrics are completed, it must be sent to the prime minister and the ruling government to read and listen to their opinions. The ministers of the disciples must read it and send the draft edict to the province of the disciples, which is called Bookstore.

Book reading: After seeing the edict, the Ministry of Education has two choices. One is to disagree with this policy, and then throw the edict back, which is called a ban. If the content of the edict is agreed, it will be published to the relevant institutions, which is called Book reading.

The edict can only be effective after three steps of lyrics, writing, and reading.

The loophole that Hu Yangeng caught was that the edict did not cover the "reading books" in the door.

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