Chapter 31 The first proposal to establish a crown prince, Wang Gui lost points (please read, monthly vote
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Also on this morning, Wang Gui rode on his horse and set foot on the road to the imperial city with Yuan Sui's response and clearing the way.
When a prime minister travels, he naturally displays great authority, and hundreds of officials avoid their positions.
Wang Gui, on the other hand, was riding a horse, trying hard to maintain his posture and look.
He must not let others see that he is old.
Because, once he is discovered, he is already old and unable to even ride a horse.
Then, there is only one fate waiting for him - the emperor gives him a shoulder carriage!
This is the way for Emperor Song to meet his old ministers.
However, for a prime minister, once he is given a shoulder, it usually means that the prime minister must go!
Why?
Have you ever seen the scholar-official being carried to court?
Scholars have always criticized this kind of treatment of humans and animals.
What is a scholar-bureaucrat?
Wen can bring peace to the country, but force can rule the country!
At least on the surface, scholar-bureaucrats must display these characteristics.
Therefore, in the Song Dynasty, when the emperor gave an old minister a shoulder to shoulder, it was almost equivalent to a polite declaration: It’s time for you to retire!
How could Wang Gui be willing to retire from office?
Even though he has been in power for fifteen years, and even though his family and friends have tactfully advised him, can he consider applying for a county job or becoming an official?
But Wang Gui firmly refused.
In Wang Gui's own words: The railing on the well is not a place for drama - this is not a theater in Wazili, don't make such a joke!
After riding horses all the way from the Imperial Street to the Xuande Gate, Wang Gui's Yuansui bowed to Wang Gui and then dispersed to find a place to drink tea and wine.
Wang Gui rode on his horse and continued forward, entering the Youye Gate from under the towering tower of Xuande Gate.
According to the system, all civil and military officials must dismount in front of Xuande Gate.
However, the prime minister, privy envoys, princes and envoys of Xuanhui are allowed to ride horses in the imperial city. If they enter the palace from Zuoye Gate, they are allowed to dismount as far as Zuoyintai Gate.
If you enter the palace through the Youye Gate, you are allowed to dismount at the Youyintai Gate as far as possible.
That's why, at the end of the sixth year of Xining, the incident of Wang Anshi's dismissal from the Xuande clan caused such an uproar.
At that time, although Wang Anshi was only the Prime Minister, he was also the Prime Minister.
According to the Renmiao system, you can ride a horse in the imperial city and go directly to Zhongshu.
However, the gatekeepers at Xuandemen forcefully pulled him off his horse, severely humiliating this stubborn man. Afterwards, he kept saying that Ren Temple did not have such a system.
The latter was forced to resign that year and recommended Han Jiang to take over.
Wang Gui passed through the Youye Gate, recalling this past event, and felt uneasy in his heart.
At that time, Wang Anshi was respected and trusted as a teacher by today's officials.
In the end, he became disheartened and left.
Nowadays, the official family is suffering from illness, and the Queen Mother's tendency in the palace is unknown.
He was blinded by his natural talent but was so quick that he got into big trouble.
Once someone exposes you, not only will your reputation be ruined, but your entire family may also be convicted!
He oversteps the rank of a minister and is good at discussing the foundation of the country.
Unfaithful, unfilial, unkind and unjust.
The scholar-bureaucrats all over the world will immediately expel him from the ranks of scholars.
Now, Wang Gui can only hope that Li Xian can absorb enough firepower for him.
So that no one in the government and the public would pay attention to his little moves, so that he could get away with it.
With such thoughts in mind, Wang Gui rode his horse to the front of the capital hall without realizing it.
The so-called capital hall refers to the former office of the new province of Shangshu, also known as the capital province.
It was the new central meeting place after Yuanfeng's restructuring.
Wang Gui dismounted his horse in front of the capital hall. Immediately, officials came forward to take the horse away for him and take him to the stable to take care of and feed him.
Wang Gui tidied his clothes and mood.
He raised his head slightly and glanced at the plaque in front of the capital hall.
When today's emperor wrote the inscription "Wenchang Mansion", he came into view.
At the same time, I also saw the white exterior walls of the Great Song Dynasty Hall painted with Hu powder, fragrant powder and spices.
This is the origin of Shangshu Province and Fen Province.
Walking straight in from the main entrance of the official office, you can see a wall photo of strange trees and rocks carved on the wall. The painting style of the wall photo is light and ink. Although the paintings are of strange trees and strange rocks, they are partial but can make you feel the breath of the mountains and rivers.
The rhyme of poetry and the fragrance of ink are hidden in the edge of the pen.
Every time Wang Gui sees the photo on the wall in front of the capital hall, he feels relaxed and happy. He can't help but stop here and enjoy it for a while.
It is indeed a work by the national master Guo Xi that even the Liao people requested!
However, today Wang Gui was not in the mood to appreciate paintings at all, and he walked directly into the imperial palace.
This is also where he works daily, and is where the three provinces and two governments gather for meetings.
When Wang Gui walked in, in the imperial hall, the ministers of the three provinces and two prefectures were already sitting on their own, discussing something in whispers.
"Zuo Kui has come to the hall!" accompanied by the serious shout of an old official in the palace.
Everyone stopped what they were doing, stood up one after another, bowed their hands to Wang Gui who walked in, and addressed him respectfully: "Zuo Kui!"
Only an inappropriate name sounded in Wang Gui's ears: "Zuo Kui, you are a little late today!"
Wang Gui raised his head and saw Cai Que, the right minister who was sitting on the right side of the imperial hall. He stood up slightly and bowed to him. He was also the person he hated and hated the most in the court - no one.
one!
Even for Wang Gui, the reason why he was stupid and stupid enough to ask Gao Zunyu a few days ago was because of this right minister!
reason?
It was not just the restructuring in the fifth year of Yuanfeng. Cai Que asked him what he said: "In the new system of the official family, the public should be treated as ministers." Wang Gui happily went to the official family and proposed that the minister Zuopu shoot and lead the ministers and provincial affairs.
, and let Shangshu's right servant shoot, and also take charge of Zhongshu's affairs.
According to the new official system discussed before by the monarch and his ministers.
The three provinces each perform their own duties. Among them, the Zhongshu Province is in charge of drafting general affairs, issuing orders, and doing things that cannot be done at home and abroad. The Menxia Province is in charge of the affairs of the world. All Zhongshu and the Privy Council are ordered, and the Shangshu Province is in charge of legal matters.
, all reported for review and refutation. As for the Shangshu Province, they were responsible for carrying out the emperor's orders, accepting domestic and foreign affairs, and liaising with the Zhongshu and the Privy Council.
In other words, under Yuanfeng's new system, among the three provinces, Zhongshu Province had the greatest power, because he controlled "impossible matters" and had the power and responsibility to go to the emperor to obtain and request edicts, while the Menxia Province was reduced to a mere
Although the review, refute, and check-and-balance agencies also have the authority and responsibility to obtain orders and request orders, they are aimed at "official matters." Since there are legal matters, why do we need to ask for orders? Get orders?
As for Shangshu Province?
It is responsible for the specific implementation and implementation.
Originally, Wang Gui's idea was very beautiful.
As a minister, the natural power is concentrated on himself.
The ministers Zuopushe and Youpushe are all his tools.
His idea cannot be said to be wrong, because in the past, the Song Dynasty had a three-phase system: prime minister (Xiang Zhaowen), secondary prime minister (Xiang Jixian), and last prime minister (supervision of the history of the country).
Nowadays, the minister's order plus the minister's left and right servant shots are exactly three phases.
Unexpectedly, Cai Que turned around to meet the official and stabbed him with a fatal sword.
"The power of the minister's order cannot be delegated to the ministers!"
alright!
The cooked duck flew away!
Not only did he fly away, Wang Gui also jumped into the pit.
Why has he, the left prime minister, and the minister Zuopushe, been called the "three edicts and ministers" over the years?
Isn't it Cai Que and Cai Chizheng who are the initiators of the catastrophe?
That’s all!
For Wang Gui, the most unacceptable thing was an incident that happened last year.
Last year, the official family recruited the prince of Yan'an County to serve as Yan, and the officials congratulated him.
Wang Gui originally thought that since the official family wanted to establish a heir apparent, he would naturally have to entrust him with an orphan.
Minister Tuogu, besides him, the left prime minister, who else could there be?
But Wang Gui was waiting at home, but he did not wait until the officials recruited him to the palace and gave him the important task of entrusting Gu Gu to his fate!
Not only that, Wang Gui soon heard a piece of news that deeply disturbed him.
A piece of news I heard from Zhang Hong, the Vice Minister of Zhongshu.
It turns out that as early as the autumn of the sixth year of Yuanfeng, when Cai Que and Zhang Hong entered the Chongzheng Hall to perform affairs, the officials had already entrusted Cai Que with their orders.
The officials bypassed the left prime minister and went to the right prime minister to take care of his fate.
What kind of distrust is this?
It is also an insult to Wang Gui!
When Wang Gui heard Zhang Hong narrating the incident in front of him with high spirits and excitement, his heart felt like a bolt from the blue, but he did not dare to show it at all.
For fear of it, Zhang Hong knew that he, the leftist prime minister, had never received the emperor's order from the beginning to the end, and was entrusted with three feet of loneliness.
I could only smile and nod while enduring the humiliation and resentment in my heart.
This is Wang Gui's motive and the reason why he is even more frightened now.
Right Prime Minister Cai Que has been entrusted with the task of entrusting an orphan, which means that once the new emperor takes the throne, he, the left prime minister, will have to pack up and get out - although this has always been true in the system: when the emperor dies, the prime minister must be the envoy to the mountain.
When the Shanling envoy returns to the court, he must invite the county!
This was to prevent the powerful ministers from arrogating the emperor and avoid the recurrence of Yang Jian's story in the Northern Zhou Dynasty.
Therefore, Han Qi, the Prime Minister of Zhiping, became the envoy of Shanling after the death of Yingmiao, and then invited himself to go out.
However, the status of a prime minister who has Tuogu Gu Gu's fate and a prime minister who does not have Tuo Gu Gu's fate are two different things in history books and in reality.
Moreover, once people know about it, outsiders will ask: Why didn't Wang Yuyu get entrusted by the late emperor to take care of his life?
As long as others think about it, Wang Gui knows that he will face endless troubles.
Everything he has ever done will be dug out, put under the sun, carefully scrutinized, and screened bit by bit.
Even if you do something wrong, you will be found out and criticized!
Wang Gui was thinking about these things in his heart, pretending to be nonchalant, walked to the left side of the hall, sat down, and said to Cai Que: "Your assistant is here early!"
Cai Que smiled and said nothing.
An Tao, who knew the Privy Council at the same time, saw the two prime ministers seeming to be fighting in secret. He laughed in his heart and came out to calm the atmosphere and said: "Two ministers, have you heard that the Yushitai is impeaching the internal minister Li Xian?
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Suddenly, smiles appeared in the entire capital hall.
Although, Li Xian was a meritorious commander of Xining and Yuanfeng.
But he is a minister, a member of the eunuch!
Every civil servant naturally welcomes and is willing to see a minister suffer misfortune.
This point does not matter whether it is a new party or an old party.
Besides, how many years has Li Xian occupied the carrot pit in Xining?
Counting from Wang Shao's time, it has been at least ten years.
He served as the commander-in-chief of a single minister and commanded an army of nearly one hundred thousand, and he was a brave and capable army.
What makes people's scalp tingling even more is that there are many foreign troops and generals in these armies!
Internal ministers, generals, soldiers, brave and good at fighting...
Anyone who has read history books will immediately and subconsciously think of the soldiers of Beiya in the Tang Dynasty!
Those commanders of the Shence Army, those eunuchs and generals who killed civil servants like chickens during the Ganlu Temple Incident, those rebellious ministers who deposed the emperor and ignored the laws of the country!
Therefore, even if Li Xianyuan is in Xihe, he cannot be tolerated in this court!
In the past, Li Xian had official support, but the officials could do nothing.
Now, when you get the opportunity, why don't you just take it with your hands?
Wang Gui saw that all the governors in the capital hall were overjoyed that Li Xian was impeached.
He also let go of his heavy heart!
"Sure enough, it is best to deal with the internal ministers!" Wang Gui said in his heart.
That Li Xian was already a dead man in Wang Gui's eyes.
The prime minister cannot tolerate him!
I’m afraid the Queen Mother won’t be able to tolerate him either!
The world's scholar-bureaucrats cannot tolerate him!
If Li Xian is removed, Xihe Road can be put in charge of a civil servant and senior official.
Wang Gui looked at the Prime Minister present.
He calculated in his mind that he knew that some of the people present must be tempted to want to pick peaches on Xihe Road.
A peach that has been cultivated by Li Xian for more than ten years and is already ripe and full of juice and honey!
I think back then, Han Jiang and Han Zihua, for the sake of border service, used the dignity of prime minister to visit the border in person to smooth things over with Zhongshu's disciples. The bachelor of Zhaowenguan also served as the Shaanxi economic strategy appeasement envoy, hoping to seize Hengshan, and then bring the monstrous power with him.
Returned to the DPRK and became Prime Minister!
However, due to the Gyeongju mutiny and the domineering military officials who did not obey restraint, the success fell short.
However, becoming a general and becoming a prime minister is always the highest pursuit of a scholar-bureaucrat!
Wang Gui believed that among the officials sitting here, there must be someone who is interested, and someone must be planning the location of Xihelanhui Road.
And this is an opportunity for him, Wang Gui, to trade.
Therefore, Wang Gui sat quietly and listened to the various discussions and verbal criticisms about Li Xian's affairs by his colleagues present, with a smile on his face from time to time.
The more fiercely the courtiers attack Li Xian, the safer Wang Gui will naturally be.
Wang Gui was feeling proud when suddenly, a cold voice broke his inner peace and plunged him into panic.
"My lords, now that I am seriously ill and it seems that I am getting worse every day... shouldn't we make some preparations?"
Wang Gui looked at the person who spoke in astonishment.
Shangshu Youcheng, Zhongshu Minister Li Qingchen and Li Bangzhi!
Li Qingchen didn't seem to feel Wang Gui's eyes at all. He stood up and bowed to everyone: "For example, the story of Yi Zhiping?"
The story of Zhiping is what Han Qi Wenyanbo did.
The ministers stayed in the palace and were on duty to guard the emperor.
Then he petitioned for the appointment of a crown prince, and summoned Hanlin scholars to go to the imperial court to establish the crown prince and compose lyrics.
Then the ministers of the three provinces and two prefectures signed and stamped their signatures in turn, presented them to the emperor, gave the emperor's approval, and invited the queen mother and empress to come out to witness. Finally, the ministers went to invite the prince of Yan'an County to accept the worship and congratulations of the ministers.
This...how is this possible?
Wang Gui panicked for a moment and accidentally dropped the tea cup in his hand to the ground.
Snapped!
A crisp sound spread in the hall.
Everyone looked at Wang Gui.
Wang Gui could only hide it with a fake smile: "I am old...I am old!"
Li Qingchen seemed to have discovered something. He looked at Wang Gui, bowed his hands and asked, "What do you think Zuo Kui said?"
For Li Qingchen, now that he has said that.
Naturally, he will not change his words, and he will defend to the death his identity as the person who "initiated the establishment of a prince."
Wang Gui was also a little panicked. Although he concealed it well, when faced with Li Qingchen's questioning, his mind did not turn around immediately. In panic, he panicked and blurted out: "This is a matter for the heavenly family, why should the foreign court interfere?"
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Suddenly, pairs of eyes looked at Wang Gui like wolves and tigers, as if they wanted to eat Wang Gui alive!
Especially Cai Que, who stood up immediately.
Then everyone stood up.
The ministers in the court may have different political views or different positions.
But at this moment, everyone knows that there cannot be any flaws in this matter.
At the back of the imperial hall, there is Cai Bian, the master of the living room, who is from Zhongshushe!
They recorded every word spoken by everyone here word for word, and then sent it to the National History Museum for archiving.
When Wang Gui saw this, he was also frightened. He stood up quickly and said to everyone: "You guys have misunderstood me!"
"What I mean is: Officials have their own sons!"
The ministers in the order hall returned to their seats with hesitation.
However, the way they looked at Wang Gui was completely different from the past.
Especially Cai Que, Zhang Dun, Li Qingchen, and An Tao, the ministers who were personally promoted by the emperor today, their eyes were filled with scrutiny and suspicion.
What are you, Wang Gui, going to do?
Even Han Zhen, who knew the affairs of the Privy Council, looked at Wang Gui suspiciously.
If you, Wang Yuyu, want to die, don't get me involved, and die as far away as possible!
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Note: The railing on the well, next to the ancient well, would use a square structure to prevent people from falling into it. At that time, there happened to be a bed with a similar structure. In the Northern Song Dynasty, beds with this structure were very popular.
Wazili, the place where storytellers tell stories, has a similar structure, with four sides and a venue in the middle.
Note 2: According to historical records, in the new system of Yuanfeng, the pictures on the outer walls of the official offices of the three provinces all read "Guo Xi painted trees and rocks." Guo Xi was a master of the Northern Song Dynasty. Now every painting handed down by Guo Xi is worth a sky-high price!
Note 3: The content of Cai Que's biography that was deleted in the Southern Song Dynasty and recorded in the "Xu Zizhi Tongjian Long Chapter" written by Cai Que Shenzong Tuo Gujian: In the autumn of the sixth year of Yuanfeng, Que and Hong met at the Chongzheng Hall to perform an event, and they were overwhelmed with grief:
The affairs of the world have stopped here! The emperor said: Dare I ask the reason? The superior said: What can I do if you are young? The emperor said: Your Majesty is in the prime of the Spring and Autumn Period, but suddenly there are ominous words, and you do not judge the so-called? The emperor said: The affairs of the world should be maintained by the elder.
No? The report said: "The King of Yan'an County, your Majesty's eldest son, I don't know anything else. I'm dead, so I don't dare to obey the edict!" He said: "If you can plan for the country, you should make a decision early!" He said to Xu Jin: "I want to die."
Guard it for Your Majesty.
When Shaosheng was born, Cai Mao also recalled that his father Cai Que told him that it was a similar version, but the dialogue was different, but it should be affirmative to care about his life.
Note 4: Wang Gui has told people many times: I will not care about his family affairs after he is established. Huang Lu, the censor at the time, wrote a letter to impeach Wang Gui at the end of February in the eighth year of Yuanfeng, talking about Wang Gui and Li Qingchen
Privately, he said: The outer court should not care about other family matters! It can only be used in the capital hall.
Note 5: At this time, the list of the chief academic officers of the three provinces and two prefectures is as follows: Shangshu Zuopushe, minister under the door, Wang Gui, Duke of Xi, Shangshu Youpushe, minister of Zhongshu, Cai Que, founder of Qingyuan County. Shangshu Zuocheng,
The minister Zhang Dun, the minister Youcheng, the minister Li Qingchen, the minister Zhang Hong, the minister of the Privy Council Han Zhen, the minister of the Privy Council Tongzhi An Tao, the Hanlin bachelor Deng Runfu, the Hanlin bachelor Zeng Bu, and the commander of the Sanya Palace.
Yanda, the deputy capital commander of the front division of the palace, Miao Shuo, the deputy capital commander of the guards' infantry, were guarding the border on Jingyuan Road at this time, and Zequguan, the commander of the fourth wing of Longwei Shenwei of the Sanya Administration Army (the previous one held this position)
The official position is Zhong'e. Moreover, this official title has always been used as an honorary title and is never awarded to military ministers in Beijing), so Yanda is actually the commander-in-chief of the palace.
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