Chapter 10 The important things are over, it’s time to go back to the harem and go to bed
Chapter 10 The important things are over, it’s time to go back to the harem and go to bed
"Also, the matter of summoning Zongze and Li Gang back to Beijing must be kept secret!
The slightest bit of news must not be leaked. Two teams of Imperial Guards must be sent to escort him on his way back to the capital. No mistakes can be made.
I summoned them both back to Beijing just to testify against the evildoer Lin Lingsu."
Zhao Ji emphasized the last sentence, calling these two loyal ministers back to the capital only to testify against Lin Lingsu, and did not mention the real idea of recalling them for reuse, which was because he was afraid that some treacherous ministers would send someone to murder Li Gang and Zongze along the way.<
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"According to the decree, I will draft the decree immediately." Liang Shicheng agreed and immediately started writing the decree...
Zhao Ji saw: Liang Shicheng's calligraphy really has the charm of Su Dongpo's calligraphy.
No wonder he claimed to be Su Shi's "child" (illegitimate son). When he learned calligraphy, he should have copied Su Shi's calligraphy with great care...
Zhao Ji dictated and asked Liang Shicheng to write the above edict, and then he personally sealed it with a jade seal.
Zhao Ji complimented casually:
"Liang Daguan's calligraphy really has the charm of Su Dongpo's calligraphy!
You must have a large number of Dongpo's original works in your house, right?"
A "plop" sound.
Liang Shicheng was so frightened that he immediately fell to his knees, trembling all over, kowtowed repeatedly and said:
"O sage official! This old slave deserves death!
This old slave deserves death!
In the old slave's home outside the palace, there are indeed several family letters from his late father, layman Dongpo.
The old slave really didn’t leave the words ‘Yuanyou Party Member’ on purpose!
After the old slave returned home, he immediately burned all the family letters written by his guilty father."
"Huh?" Zhao Ji was stunned for a moment. Why is this old eunuch so scared all of a sudden?
Zhao Ji combined the historical knowledge he learned before traveling and the memories left by the original owner Song Huizong in his mind...
He remembered that the "Yuanyou Party members" whom Liang Shicheng talked about were a group of ministers who opposed the "New Deal" during the Zhezong period of the Song Dynasty.
The leading figures of the "Yuanyou Party" are, in order, the brothers Su Shi and Su Che, as well as the "Four Scholars of the Su School" Huang Tingjian, Qin Guan, Chao Buzhi, Zhang Lei, and of course there are many supporters. After Zhao Ji remembered the "Yuanyou Party members" who really existed in the history of the Northern Song Dynasty, he knew why Liang Shicheng was so afraid.
Eighteen years ago, in the first year of Chongning (i.e. 1102 AD) when the original owner of Zhao Ji's body, Song Huizong, was in power and one year after Su Shi's death, Song Huizong appointed Cai Jing as the head of the body on the recommendation of Tong Guan.
Phase.
After Cai Jing returned to Beijing and became prime minister, he persuaded Zhao Guan's family and the court reaffirmed Zhe Zong's new policies...
Cai Jingjin slandered that for the smooth development of the New Deal, ministers who had opposed the "New Deal" should be convicted...
The original owner, Song Huizong, believed Cai Jing's slander and designated 120 "Yuanyou Party members" as traitors.
The original owner, Song Huizong, wrote their names in "thin gold style" in his own handwriting, and then ordered craftsmen to carve them on the stele, and erected it outside the Duanli Gate, called the "Yuanyou Party Membership Stele".
After that, Cai Jing made further slanders and implicated the "Yuanyou Party members" to 309 people. The names of the remaining 189 people were written in Cai Jing's handwriting and sent to various states and counties, so that they could follow the example of the capital and establish
Monument 'Promote Evil'.
Imperial court regulations:
The people whose names are listed on the "Yuanyou Party Membership Monument" will never be hired by the imperial court.
"Yuanyou Party members" and their descendants are not allowed to stay in Bianliang, the capital, and are not allowed to take the imperial examination!
All academic work by "Yuanyou Party members" was banned, and the imperial court's persecution of "Su Xue" basically reached the level of "burning books". This was only because the ancestral motto of Song Taizu when he founded the country included the rule "Do not kill scholar-bureaucrats". Otherwise,
It is possible that similar "confucianism" will happen again.
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"Sir Liang, please get back on your feet!" Zhao Ji stepped forward, helped up the frightened Liang Shicheng, and asked curiously:
"Is the monument to Yuanyou's party membership still standing?"
"When I go back to the official house, I'm still standing!" Liang Shicheng replied anxiously:
"Don't worry, officials, we are still standing not only in the capital, but also in the prefectures and counties across the country!"
Zhao Ji frowned. As a time traveler, he remembered the records in the official history he had learned, which were as follows:
In the first month of the fifth year of Chongning (1106 AD), a comet appeared in the sky. The very superstitious Song Huizong thought that he saw a broom star, which must be a bad omen.
So he asked his officials to discuss the comet in the sky. Did I do something bad in the government that offended God?
Liu Kui, the minister of Zhongshu, said: "The monument of Yuanyou's Party membership" was erected in the capital and various places. The sky was angry and people were angry and asked to smash it.
The very superstitious Song Huizong obeyed...
However, when Zhao Ji searched for the memory left by the original owner in his mind, he did not have any impression of smashing the "Yuanyou Party Membership Monument" in the official history he had learned, and judging from Liang Shicheng's reply and performance, it was true.
The Yuanyou Party members have not yet been rehabilitated...
Zhao Ji speculated that it should be the Northern Song Dynasty that he traveled to, or maybe it was just the Northern Song Dynasty in a parallel world. More than 19% of major events are the same as the Northern Song Dynasty on earth?!
The corners of Zhao Ji's mouth rose slightly, he saw a good opportunity to win people's hearts.
"Master Liang, continue to prepare decrees for me."
"Promise!" Liang Shicheng promised, but he was confused in his heart. The imperial edicts issued by Zhao Guan's family tonight were more than the total number issued in a month!
Zhao Ji originally wanted to write this edict in his own hand on the blank imperial edict.
However, he is still not sure whether the memory of calligraphy and painting left by the original owner can allow him, a time traveler, to write exactly the same "thin gold body".
Never reveal any clues until you can check yourself when you are not alone.
Zhao Ji cleared his throat. He was once a top student in liberal arts in high school and a top student in the history department at university. He picked up the literary literacy cells left by the original owner and absolutely followed the imperial edict from his emperor, so he casually said:
"Ying Yuanyou and Yuan Fu's descendants have been relegated for many years and have been punished. They can be restored to official status and allowed to make a new start."
"The stone carvings in the court hall are now ordered to be destroyed. If there are stone carvings by Yuanyou Party members elsewhere, they are also ordered to be destroyed."
"From now on, we are not allowed to correct past matters. We will always make the Yushitai aware of it, and those who violate it will be punished."
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Liang Shicheng, who was writing, heard every word that Zhao Guanjia vindicated the "Yuanyou Party members", and his heart trembled with excitement!
Liang Shicheng secretly thought:
"The 'Yuanyou Party members' have finally been rehabilitated! My late father's soul can rest in peace in heaven!
The 'Yuanyou Party members' who are still alive are allowed to join the officialdom!
Their descendants can also take part in the imperial examination!
The extremely insulting ‘Yuanyou Party Membership Monument’ can also be completely destroyed!
Official sage, official sage!
Liang Shicheng's hands trembled with excitement, and he calmed down for a while before finishing the imperial edict.
With a "plop", Liang Shicheng knelt in front of Zhao Ji, held the newly drafted imperial edict high in his hands, raised it above his head, and said with tears streaming down his face:
"The official family is really a wise king through the ages!
The old slave has drafted an imperial edict and asked the officials to review it."
Zhao Ji looked at Liang Shicheng and was probably moved to tears from the bottom of his heart. He just smiled slightly.
He felt that it would be better for him to move a close eunuch to tears than to offend him or make him fearful.
Even if I have to ask you about Liang Shicheng's crime tomorrow, I will make sure tonight that you don't see that I have any bad thoughts towards you.
Of course, Zhao Ji's original intention to deal with the Six Thieves of the Northern Song Dynasty has not changed, but he cannot rush for success.
Zhao Ji took the imperial edict prepared by Liang Shicheng and read it over.
The call to rehabilitate the "Yuanyou Party members" is word for word.
Zhao Ji picked up the jade seal and stamped it...
At this time, Liang Shicheng saw the jade seal falling and knew that this imperial edict to vindicate the 'Yuanyou Party members' had really taken effect!
Suddenly, he couldn't control his excitement and burst into tears...
"Boom! Boom! Boom!"
Liang Shicheng put his forehead to the ground, kowtowed hard, and said:
"The sage of the official family, this old slave thanks the saint for his late father!"
Zhao Ji secretly thought: "Originally, my original owner was too harsh on the 'Yuanyou Party members' headed by your father Su Shi, and it was considered a wrong case. Now that he has been rehabilitated, I'll see how moved you are!
In fact, I not only want to move you, but also more people in the Song Dynasty!"
Zhao Ji walked up to Liang Shicheng, who was still kowtowing, and stretched out his hand to help him up.
Zhao Ji also took out a silk handkerchief from his sleeve and wiped his tears.
"How dare you ask an official to wipe away the tears of an old slave?" Liang Shicheng was even more moved and burst into tears.
Zhao Ji actually just meant it, to symbolize it, and then he handed the silk handkerchief to Liang Shicheng and asked him to wipe his tears.
"Stop crying! Pass on my decree!"
"Obey!" Liang Shicheng wiped away his tears and immediately obeyed the order. He walked out of the Daqing Hall holding the imperial edict and handed it over to the eunuch who delivered the order...
Zhao Ji took advantage of Liang Shicheng to walk out of Daqing Hall,
He was thinking, taking advantage of the first night when he had just traveled through time, when he was very conscious and had not yet been dazzled by beauty and wine,
I must rely on my prophetic advantage as a top student in the history department of the university.
Take a note and write down the list of the current and future threats to our Song Dynasty.
When Zhao Jisi got here, he felt that in this blacklist, if the name of the person should not be recorded in full, it would be enough to only take one word so that he could understand it. After all, there are still high-ranking officials here!
He walked back to the dragon chair and sat down, took the brush on the dragon table, and wrote the following name and the abbreviation of the enemy country on the imperial silk: "
Six, Jiang, La,
Huan, Chang, Yu;
Miao,Liu,Hinoki,
Structure, gold, yuan."
Of course, Zhao Ji used ancient writing methods and did not use modern punctuation marks. He wrote from right to left, with three characters per line, a total of four lines.
When he saw it, he could write a "thin gold body" that was exactly the same as the original owner of his body. It can be seen that he inherited the calligraphy talent of the original owner, Song Huizong.
Now, Zhao Ji only thinks of these as the bigger threats for the time being; if he feels there are more in the future, he will continue to fill them in.
Zhao Ji folded the imperial silk with the blacklist written on it and put it in his arms.
At this time, Liang Shicheng walked back to Daqing Hall and reported that he had handed over the imperial edict to his eunuchs...
After listening to Liang Shicheng's report, Zhao Ji nodded and yawned...
Liang Shicheng was particularly discerning and said flatteringly:
"Guan family, the state affairs have been dealt with, it's time to go back to the harem and go to bed!
I wonder which imperial concubine the official family will visit tonight?