Chapter 60: Taking advantage of Zhao Gou’s luck and reusing the princes
"From today on, I personally take charge of the Imperial City Division! King Yun Zhao Kai has been promoted from the Imperial City Division to... the Chief of Staff of the Imperial City Division!"
As soon as this statement came out, all the officials and Zhao Kai were in a state of confusion! They had never heard of the position of "Chief of Staff"!
Zhao Ji explained: "Everyone, you should have heard of the post of political advisor above the court, right?
The appointment of Zhao Kai, the king of Yun, as the chief of staff of the Imperial City Department is equivalent to the political adviser in the Imperial City Department."
Hearing the emperor's explanation, the officials of the Imperial City Department suddenly realized. Moreover, they also knew that during the twenty years of the Zhao family's reign, they always liked to randomly change official names and common titles that they had previously used.
For example: During the Zhenghe period of Zhao Guanjia, Cai Jing was appointed as prime minister and called himself "Taishi". He was in charge of the affairs of the three provinces, Zhongshu and Shangshu. He reported to Zhao Guanjia to change the left and right servants of Shangshu to "Taizai".
, "Shao Zai", consisting of the Dazai who is also the minister of the family, and the Shao Zai who is also the minister of Zhongshu. The Zhao family actually agreed, and even praised Cai Jing for changing the official name of Qiu Xiu.
Not only that, the original owner Zhao Renji also changed the name of nuns to "Nv De" and the royal princess to "Emperor Ji" throughout the country...
Therefore, after Zhao Ji's simple explanation, all the officials who had long been accustomed to changing their official names according to Zhao Guan's family were no longer surprised.
All the officials of the Imperial City Division also understood. It turned out that the Zhao Guan family wanted to personally command the Imperial City Division, and they demoted King Yun Zhao Kai to the position of Chief of Staff. In that case, they did not directly transfer the power to command the Imperial City Division, but only gave him the power to command the Imperial City Division.
Today, Zhao Guan’s family is just coming up with ideas.
However, King Yun Zhao Kai was extremely unhappy at this time. His father had clearly demoted him and used him!
Zhao Kai, who has a very high IQ and good emotional intelligence, forced a smile and kowtowed: "I would like to thank my father. I will definitely work hard to be the chief of staff of the Imperial City Department."
Zhao Ji also smiled and nodded. He was not fooled by the superficial phenomenon of fatherly kindness and filial piety.
He was thinking in his mind that even if the third son Zhao Kai was promoted to the position of Imperial City Division, I would still personally lead the Imperial City Division. However, my work is so busy and I still need to take care of Wanji...
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Ahem...
It’s time to take care of everything!
Then, it would be easy for King Yun Zhao Kai to serve as the Chief of Staff of the Imperial City Division, but he would have the same power as when he promoted the Imperial City Division. This is not possible.
Zhao Ji secretly decided that he must further divide Zhao Kai's power in the Imperial City Division. This method of decentralizing power for civil servants and military generals has been practiced in the Song Dynasty since the founding of the country!
For example, regarding the decentralization of power among the prime ministers, the Song Dynasty established a group of prime ministers to divide the power of the prime ministers, and also used small officials such as supervisory censors to directly impeach the prime ministers.
Zhao Ji came up with a good idea, which is to set up several deputy chief of staff positions in the Imperial City Division in addition to the chief of staff position.
Who will be in charge?
Zhao Ji felt that it would be more reassuring to let his biological sons take charge first.
First, are they the biological sons of the original owner of this body? If they can be loyal to me, secondly, they can be trained, and thirdly, they can truly decentralize power to the chief of staff, King Yun Zhao Kai.
Zhao Ji searched the memory left by the original owner of his body and found out that his second son Zhao Yu was born in September of the first year of Jingguo's reign. He died in infancy the next day. He was posthumously named King Yan and given a posthumous title.
For Chong Xi. The third son is Zhao Kai in front of him, who was granted the title of King Yun.
The fourth son was named Zhao Ji. He was born in February of the second year of Chongning (i.e. 1103 AD) and died in April of the third year of Chongning. He died at the age of more than one year. He was posthumously named King Jing and given the posthumous title of Mourning.
Min.
The fifth son born to the original owner and Wang Guifei is called Zhao Shu, named King Su. He was born in June of the second year of Chongning (1103 AD). This fifth son did not die in infancy and is still alive and well. He is seventeen this year.
Years old, available.
The sixth son born to the original owner and Concubine Qiao is called Zhao Qi, King Fengjing. He was born in August of the third year of Chongning (AD 1104). This fifth son did not die in infancy and is still alive and well. This year has passed.
Even if you are sixteen years old, you can still use it.
The seventh son born to the original owner and Concubine Qiao is called Zhao Xu, the king of Fengji. He was born in February of the fifth year of Chongning (1106 AD). He is already fourteen years old today and is barely usable.
The eighth son of the original owner, King Yi Zhao Chu, and the ninth son Kang Wang Zhao Gou, are only thirteen years old this year. They are still children, or at most they can be called teenagers.
However, my ninth son, King Kang Zhao Gou, can be said to be the chosen son of destiny. Before the Jingkang Incident, Zhao Gou took the initiative to send an envoy to the Jin camp and won the respect of the Jin army generals with his brave performance. The savage Jurchen Jin soldiers
The general did not detain him, but actually released him intact.
Moreover, during the Jingkang crisis, the only person from Song Taizong's lineage who was not in the capital was Kang Wang Zhao Gou. Therefore, Zhao Gou was spared from being captured by the Jin soldiers as a prisoner and transported to the Five Kingdoms City in the bitter cold land of the north.
Moreover, after Zhao Zhuozhi proclaimed himself emperor, he was chased by the Jin soldiers and fled to the sea in a big boat. The Jin army made up its mind and worked hard to "search the mountains and seas to catch Zhao Gou", but Zhao Gou was not caught by the Jin soldiers.
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In the end, Zhao Gou, Qin Hui and other treacherous ministers recalled the anti-Jin hero Yue Fei with twelve gold medals, killed him on "unfounded" charges, and negotiated peace with Jin. Even with this stupid act of breaking his humerus, he was able to save the Song Dynasty.
Half of the country was established, and the imperial court known as the Southern Song Dynasty was established in history, which allowed the Song Dynasty to survive for hundreds of years.
In history, how could Zhao Gou be so lucky if he hadn't been blessed by luck?
Zhao Ji decided that even if Zhao Gou is only thirteen years old now, he must still be with him. I want to get a share of his luck!
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[ps: The plot of this book requires that in the second year of Xuanhe, the original owner of Zhao Ji's body had already canonized Zhao Gou as King Kang.
According to the official history, Zhao Gou was granted the title of King of Guangping County on the Gengshen day of the first month of the second year of Daguan (1108). On the Renzi day of the December of the third year of Xuanhe (1121), he was granted the title of King Kang. In this book, let
Zhao Zuo became King Kang a year early.
The reason is that in the second year of Xuanhe, if Zhao Gou has not been named King Kang, then the time traveler Zhao Ji will definitely not let the allusion of "King of Clay crossing King Kang" exist in history. Maybe Zhao Gou will be named "Rabbit".
"King" or "King of Deer", because rabbits and deer run away very quickly when they are in danger! (Just kidding)]