Shen Tang, Liu Xiangling, the iron-blooded traitor in the Southern Song Dynasty Chapter 1636: The Thirty Dynasty Meetings, The Southern Border's Memorial
Chapter 1636: The Thirty Dynasty Meetings, The Southern Border's Memorial
Chapter 1636: Thirty Great Court Meetings, Memorials of Southern Xinjiang
The 30th of the twelfth lunar month!
Today is the last day of the court meeting. After today, the emperor will also seal his pen and the courtiers will take a rest. They will not officially go to work until the seventh day of the first lunar month.
In fact, the Song Dynasty was very tolerant to its ministers. On the surface, it only had seven days of leave. But in fact, starting from the 20th day of the twelfth lunar month, civil and military officials began to take a vacation. Some needed to take a leave, and some low-level officials even stayed at home.
The same is true after the Chinese New Year. If your home is not in Lin'an, you can even take leave until around the 20th of the first lunar month and then come back to work.
The year begins before the first lunar month, which is most appropriate in the Song Dynasty. Compared with the Han and Tang dynasties, it is not so exciting.
On this last day of the court meeting, basically no trivial matters would be discussed. After all, during the Chinese New Year, no one would bother the emperor without opening their eyes.
Generally speaking, it is to reflect on the major events of this year and enjoy the glory of the coming year.
Of course, everything will naturally be said in a nice way.
Today, Zhao Shen also rarely wears Gong uniform, looking extremely majestic! Prince Zhao Ming stood under the imperial steps with a solemn expression, and the civil and military officials in the main hall were arranged in batches.
Zhao Shen obviously attaches great importance to the prince's son! Although he has not really participated in the six ministries of government, he has begun to gradually observe the government. However, Zhao Ming is cautious and rarely interferes in all government affairs. Most of the time, he just listens to the crowd. Chen and Zhao Shen discussed.
Of course, even if the power of the East Palace is still small, as time goes by, some officials, headed by the Crown Prince Fu Yeheng, have gradually gathered.
This is human nature, and even Zhao Shen and Zhao Ming cannot avoid it.
Fortunately, at least so far, the prince sticks to his duties, the emperor is in his prime, and there is no conflict between the two parties.
After the ministers prayed, they began to speak one after another, mainly from the Ministry of Rites. For some important matters, naturally the ministers on the left and right spoke.
Speaking of which, several major events did occur this year, such as the Li Jin rebellion put down by Liu Gong, the assassination incident in Lin'an, and the wiping out of the remnants of the White Lotus Society! All these, although not very glorious, are still considered glorious after all. The emperor’s civil and military skills!
Moreover, in the middle of the twelfth lunar month, Dali Kingdom, Yue Li Kingdom, Southern Xinjiang Barbarian Kingdom, Jin Kingdom, Koryo Kingdom, and even Japan across the sea all sent envoys to congratulate the New Year!
Although it is far from being called the Great Song Dynasty, it is at least much better than the Song Dynasty that people disliked before.
After all the ministers had finished speaking, Zhao Shen laughed loudly and said, "This is the year when my Song Dynasty will be prosperous, but there is another big happy event!"
"Prince, I would like to send a thought to all my ministers..."
Zhao Shen waved his hand, and Wang Quan picked up a memorial on the Long Case and sent it to Zhao Min.
"Your Majesty, Nong Liqiang, the pacifying envoy of Tongchuan Prefecture, pays my respects!"
"...the soldiers and horses of the Dali Kingdom and some of the soldiers and horses of King Wumeng first captured Puli, and then moved their troops to advance north. In more than half a month, they wiped out the lands south of the Baini River, and now they are marching hundreds of miles to the north of Chonghe River! Qiong King Du led the tribes of Qiongbu Prefecture and the Changning Army, a division under the command of King Wumeng, and a division under the command of Chengdu Prefecture's Shiying, to conquer the Luo Shi Ghost Kingdom, and then crossed Jiangmen Village and headed south after their defeat!"
"Lian Ke has reached the south of Chishui River!"
"The ghost soldiers of the Luo family wanted to plunder eastward, but they were sniped by the Nanping Army and the Zunyi Army!"
"Currently, there are only more than 30,000 ghost soldiers left in the Luo family's ghost kingdom stationed in Guizhou. On behalf of all the troops, I will pay homage to Your Majesty. I will capture the capital of Guizhou within this month and deliver the ghost king of the Luo family as a prisoner to Lin'an..."
After Zhao Wei finished his words, everyone in the court, both civil and military, prostrated themselves, and naturally a series of flattery followed.
What great talent and great strategy, knowing people well, Yao and Shun were alive, etc. Anyway, Zhao Shen was smiling from ear to ear! After all, in a sense, completely conquering Luo's ghost country is better than conquering Wumeng Mountain and Qiongbu Prefecture. Even higher.
This is a serious war to destroy a country, even though this country is not big, just a small part of the country.
"Okay! Sirs, please get back on your feet!"
After a long while, Zhao Shen waved his hand and asked the ministers to stand up!
"This achievement of destroying the country depends on the lives of the officers and soldiers of the three armies and the joint efforts of the ministers in the court! After the New Year, the ministers will discuss the rewards as soon as possible! The officers and soldiers are fighting for the country, and I cannot let the officers and soldiers feel cold!"
Naturally, everyone had no objections and everyone obeyed!
After talking about some trivial things, he announced that he was going to leave the court and take a vacation.
Zhao Shen returned to the Qinzheng Hall, sat on the couch and rubbed his brows!
"Your Majesty, the Queen Mother has sent Zhou Zhong to pay her respects!"
Hearing Wang Quan's words, Zhao Su on the side quickly said, "Father, please leave first!"
Zhao Shen sighed helplessly, "Just stay here and Xuan Zhouzhong comes in!"
After a while, a chamberlain was lured over by Wang Quan!
"See Your Majesty! The Queen Mother has said that Your Majesty's harem cannot be left without an owner. Please make a decision as soon as possible..."
Since Queen Xia left, Zhao Shen has not established a queen, but the Queen Mother has been urging her! Although Zhao Shen was helpless, he also understood that it would be bad if the harem was unstable.
It's just that he only has two or three big and small kittens in his harem, so he really doesn't have much choice.
"Get up, go back and tell the Queen Mother that I have decided to make Concubine Xie the Queen, and ask the Queen Mother to make a decision!"
The chamberlain bowed and returned to reply.
This Xie family is a descendant of Xie An of the Eastern Jin Dynasty. His parents died early when he was young, and he was adopted by a family named Zhai, so he changed his surname to Zhai.
Later, she was selected into the palace and became the maid of the Empress Dowager Wu.
Then the Wu family gave her to Zhao Shen, the king of Pu'an County who had not yet ascended the throne, and named her the wife of Xianyang County! At the same time, she also changed her surname back again, and she became a noble concubine after Zhao Shen succeeded to the throne.
To say that this Xie family is no less virtuous than the previous queen Xia family!
Even though she is a noble concubine, she still lives a simple life. She washes her clothes by herself and wears very simple clothes on weekdays.
In addition, she also has a younger brother named Xie Yuan! When she was canonized as a noble concubine, Zhao Shen wanted to canonize Xie's relatives at the same time, but was rejected by Xie.
The reason for canonizing this Xie family is one of them, her kindness and virtue, and the other reason is that she comes from the Queen Mother Wu family. Canonizing her can make the harem harmonious, and like the Xia family, she can help herself to do her best in front of the Emperor and the Queen Mother. filial piety.
After the chamberlain left, Zhao Shen picked up Nong Liqiang's memorial again and read it excitedly.
In fact, he only received this memorial last night, and he asked people from the Imperial City Department to help deliver it, so other civil and military ministers did not know about it.
Looking at Zhao Shen's face, Zhao Ming couldn't help but raise his hands and said, "My father is a wise king in terms of civility and martial arts! Looking at the history of the Song Dynasty for 200 years, apart from Taizu and Taizong, only my father has the ability to destroy the country." Achievements!”