After the rain, the air in Tokyo became extremely fresh, and a storm washed away the rich blood.
However, from Tokyo's powerful people to the common people, they remain silent about the earth-shaking incident that had just happened.
On March 28, it rained heavily. Wang Lin, the general manager of the Fuhu Army, led his army to serve the king and killed the six thieves in Tokyo!
"If you make a bucket (Tong Guan) and splash vegetables (Cai Jing), it will be a good world on earth."
This rumor spread throughout the streets and alleys, and everyone applauded!
No one knows what happened, but everyone knows that the current officials and princes almost died. Cai Jing, Tong Guan, Liang Shicheng, Zhu Xie, Wang Fu, and Li Yan, who have been in power for a long time, have become a permanent history.
It swept into the garbage dump of the Song Dynasty and was nailed to the pillar of shame forever!
The six thieves have countless disciples, old officials, family members, relatives and friends.
Compared with the people of Tokyo who were excited behind their backs, these people stayed behind closed doors and didn't know what would be waiting for them.
According to the Song system, "On New Year's Day, the first day of May, and the winter solstice, the officials set up imperial seats in the Daqing Hall, and the emperor accepted congratulations from all officials."
The New Year's Day dynasty meeting was cancelled due to the emperor's illness. The subsequent dynasty meeting was originally a drama that Cai Jing planned to force the palace. Now Cai Jing is dead, and the ministers are still the emperor's meeting to take the opportunity. As a result, it was reported from the palace that night.
The imperial edict said that the grand dynasty meeting will be held as usual.
The first year of Xuanhe, March 29, early in the morning.
The sky on the east side of the Song Dynasty Palace just revealed its white belly. The official Zhao Ji changed into a crown dress that he rarely wore since he ascended the throne and became emperor. His face was solemn. He entered the Chongzheng Hall under the escort of a group of palace maids and eunuchs, and turned around and sat on the Danmu.
The dragon throne on it.
The Crown Prince Zhao Huan also came in dressed up and stood on the elixir below Zhao Ji.
The civil and military officials who had been waiting for a long time began to worship according to etiquette: "Long live my emperor, long live my life!"
Zhao Ji sat upright on the dragon chaise, staring at the dark ministers under the danmu.
It can be said that there are all the soldiers in the hall and the important officials in purple robe everywhere.
The officials in the red and green robes couldn't see clearly because of the distance.
As far as Zhao Ji's vision is concerned, except for the Zhao Song royal family, almost all of them are the confidants of Cai Jing and Tong Guan.
For example, Cai Jing's sons Cai You, Cai Shu, Cai Ma, and Cai You's son Cai Xing were all promoted to the Grand Secretary, which was equivalent to rule.
Cai Jing and others' disciples were at the forefront at this moment.
These people occupy key positions everywhere.
If they were to take them all, the Song Dynasty court would be paralyzed.
Perhaps because of this, Cai Jing's sons were calm and composed.
Zhao Ji's heart was filled with endless anger, but at this moment he had to grit his teeth and hold it back. Only then did he realize that killing Cai Jing was not easy, but killing Cai Jing was not easy either.
He remembered the repeated decisions with his son Zhao Huan at the Yanfu Palace banquet yesterday, and turned his head and looked at his son Zhao Huan.
Zhao Huanlang said: "Today's grand court meeting, the officials and the ministers discuss the affairs of the court. Before that, the palace will issue an edict."
The ministers' breathing became rapid.
Everyone understands that the emperor is going to announce the plot of the six thieves in Cai Jing. These six people are dead, but I don’t know how many people will be involved.
However, the result was beyond everyone's expectations.
Zhao Huan announced Zhao Ji's edict without hesitation, which was nothing more than a public announcement of Cai Jing and Tong Guan's six men as rebellious, demonstrating that the emperor only punished the evildoers and explained the rest of the handling principles. Anyone who followed the thief would be killed without mercy and his family would be exiled.
Three thousand miles.
The six thieves were naturally happy and excited, and the ministers who were not the six thieves were hiding behind and were disappointed.
Cai Jing and his six people rebelled, and their confidants, especially those of Cai Jing's sons, were not questioned. The official was so weak that he had no memory. What else would he say?
Cai You, Cai Shu, Cai Shi, Cai Xing led the first to kneel down and bow to the ground: "My father was punished, but I am loyal to the official family and the Song Dynasty. I am not grateful to the official family, so I will not be grateful to the official family, so I will not be able to do so because of the official family.
The crime implicates innocent people. I will continue to be brave enough for the court and die before I die!”
A large group of people followed the Cai family and knelt down, shouting long live to thank them.
Zhao Ji's mouth twitched, and he clearly saw the faint and proud smiles hanging on Cai You and others.
It seems that after the whole day of conspiracy yesterday, these people have long been fearless. Zhao Ji sneered in his heart.
In order to protect themselves, they quickly pushed Cai You to the forefront and replaced Cai Jing as the new leader of the Cai Party.
So what if Cai Jing died? They still control the government affairs, and even the officials dare not act rashly. Today's facts seem to prove this.
Zhao Ji and Zhao Huan looked at each other and both read the rage from each other's eyes.
But Zhao Ji felt that he could not catch all these people in one place for the time being, so he could only raise them first.
Because Cai Jing and Tong Guan's followers were not only in the court, but also in important military towns in various places, there were countless disciples and officials. Once this layer of window paper was pierced, there would be great turmoil and civil strife in the Song Dynasty.
Zhao Huan then announced several major personnel appointments.
Originally, these appointments were completed by Cai Jing's control of the Political Affairs Hall when Cai Jing was alive, and the emperor was just a sign and stamped.
Zhao Ji took advantage of the critical moment when the six thieves in Cai Jing were killed and made an appointment directly. Naturally, no one dared to stand up and jump around at this time.
Hebei's capital transfer envoy, famous minister Lu Yihao recommended Ba as the Grand Prince and was granted the title of Grand Master.
Wu Min returned to the court and Li Gang assisted him.
Zhang Shuye recommended Ba as the Grand Marshal, and found the Yitong Sansi to control the imperial guards in the Beijing camp.
The veteran general of Jin, Zhong Shidao, was the Duke of Jin, and was appointed as the Western Army. He was appointed as the Young Guardian of the Procuratorate, the Jiedushi of Huaide Army, the Hebei General Envoy, the Three Routes of Xuanfu Envoy, and the Northwest of the General Town.
The gap in Tong Guan was filled, and the weight was greater than that of Tong Guan.
On the list of recommended and promoted exceptions, there are also unknown people such as Zhao Ding and Chen Gui, as well as middle-level and lower-level generals such as Han Shizhong and Wu Jie in the Western Army.
The above is the advice Wang Lin gave to Zhao Ji.
In this way, although the six thief party members are still full of the court, the power has fallen into the hands of Lu Yihao and others. As long as the emperor gives full trust and support, the government will gradually turn around and gradually cleanse and realize the "de-Tai Jinghuai".
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The control of the imperial guards was directly handed over to Zhang Shuye, whom Zhao Ji trusted the most.
The most important Western Army was controlled by the old husband. Although this old general was old, he was very capable and had a high prestige in the army. He was in charge of the northwest and the Song Dynasty could be stable for a while.
When the overall situation gradually settles, it is time to settle the accounts with the Cai Party.
Cai You and others remained silent.
The emperor gave the vacant post to Lu Yihao and other inconspicuous people as soon as he died. They were not fools, so they naturally understood what the emperor was going to do, but at this moment they could only recognize it.
Otherwise, if Zhao Ji is angry, it will be a matter of nonchalantism and a death-death battle.
If the court is paralyzed, it will be paralyzed. Anyway, the court of the Song Dynasty is also very scattered.
There is also the tragic King of Yue Zhao Wei.
Zhao Wei was dismissed from the throne, exiled to the capital, and exiled to Lingnan.
The dynasty meeting was held in turn, because the Cai Party lost its backer and no longer made trouble collectively, and the order of discussion was well-organized.
Everything was developing in the direction preset by the emperor, and Zhao Ji's anger calmed down a lot.
However, as Wang Lin expected, when discussing the Murong Yanda case, the Cai Party and his men who had been silent and bowed their heads and feet were finally unable to hold back and jumped up one after another.
Because Murong Yanda's private silver mining and massacre of the people had already been discussed as an iron case in the court, there was nothing to argue about, and the focus of the dispute was on the conclusion of Wang Lin's personal merits and demerits.
Cai You bowed and said, "Officials, I think that Murong Yanda is certainly unforgivable for his death, but Murong Yanda is a fourth-rank official in the court and guards one side. Wang Lin is just a fifth-rank general, but he is below.
If you commit a crime against the emperor, you will kill Shangguan without being discussed by the court. This is a serious crime!”
Li Bangyan, a clerk of the Secretariat, also reported: "I reported to the official family, but Murong Yanda's crimes are not allowed to be punished, there is no dispute. However, the Fuhu Army was originally stationed in Yizhou, and Wang Lin marched into Qingzhou without the orders of the court.
, interfering with the military and political affairs of Qingzhou and killing officials of the imperial court without any severity, this trend must not be long-lasting. If it is not severely punished, it will be difficult to convince the public."
The Left Chief of the Shangshu Bai Shizhong also jumped out: "Wang Lin has always been arrogant and domineering, and he has ignored the laws and military disciplines of the court. Not to mention that he marched into Qingzhou without authorization and killed the officials of the court without authorization. This time, he led his army back without following the imperial edict.
Jing is an irrefutable death penalty!”
Then dozens of people knelt on the ground one after another and participated in Wang Lin.
Among them, there are several censors who do not belong to the Cai Party.
Zhao Ji was very annoyed, but was a little helpless.
Because at this moment, most of the officials who could speak up for justice were humble and even if they stood up, their weight was too small to ignore.
Zhao Huan could no longer control the anger in his heart.
He thought that Zhao Ji would let the Cai party members temporarily spare their lives and spare their lives. He did not ask these people to change their past mistakes, but at least he should be kind and be honest for a while.
The result is as always.
Zhao Huan remembered what Wang Lin said last night that he had done everything and eliminated the roots, and couldn't help but feel a little regretful.
It was time to go to the death with this thief.
But his father was still a little too weak. He looked forward and could not make a decision.
Zhao Huan knew very well that the reason why Wang Lin became a thorn in the eyes of the Cai Party’s court officials was closely related to Wang Lin’s killing of the six thieves, and was also related to the ironclad evidence that Wang Lin had about Murong Yanda’s bribery of the court officials.
Zhao Huan slowly walked down Danqiu, looked around everyone, and suddenly said angrily: "Cai You, Bai Shizhong, Li Bangyan, and you! You accused Wang Lin of entering Qingzhou without authorization and killing the imperial officials without authorization, but do you know that Wang Lin
It was my order to lead the Fuhu Army to Qingzhou to practice troops and practice!"
"Wang Lin wiped out two bandits in Qingzhou and made great contributions to the court."
"Wang Lin also discovered that Murong Yanda had private silver mining, massacred the people, seized a huge amount of silver worth one million taels, and made great contributions to the court."
"Zhai Sheng, the general general of Zhenhai Army, raised troops to rebel. The Fuhu Army sent troops to quell the rebellion in time, recovered the three states of Deng, Lai and Mi occupied by Zhai Sheng's rebels, consolidated the coastal defense, and made great contributions."
"You guys say that Wang Lin is the best and kills the officials of the court without permission. So, I would like to ask you, Murong Yanda knows that he has committed the unforgivable crime of killing the nine clans. If Wang Lin did not decisively take action to kill this thief, Murong Yan
Da must have colluded with Zhai Sheng to rebel, and the court will lose the four states of Qinglai as a result!”
Speaking of this, Zhao Huan paused slightly, and his voice suddenly rose several times: "So tired and unparalleled achievements have become a failure in your eyes. We must punish you according to the law.