The Imperial City of the Song Dynasty is a slightly square palace. There are seven gates on all sides, three gates in the south (Xuande, Zuoye, Youye), two gates in the east (Donghua, sliding gate), Xihua in the west, and Xihua in the north.
Gongchen.
Among them, Donghua Gate and Xihua Gate face each other, opening a wide east-west street, dividing the Song Dynasty's imperial palace into two parts, the north and the south.
The south is the outer dynasty, and the north is the forbidden country.
To the north of the horizontal street, there is Xuanyou Gate and Gongchen Gate directly opposite, opening an equally spacious north-south straight street, thus dividing the palace into two areas: east and west.
The east is where the king, concubines, princes live and listen to politics, and the west is where the inner court institutions and life services are.
As a result, this majestic imperial city was divided into three independent areas by two avenues running through it: the southern area, the northwest area, and the northeast area.
Among these three districts, the northwest district is the most core and important.
Because, this area is divided into four halls: Zichen, Chui Gong, Chongzheng and Yanhe.
In particular, Chongzheng Hall and Yanhe Hall were the brain and heart of the Song Empire.
Today, Zhao Zhen, an official of the Song Dynasty, conducts his daily affairs and summons ministers in these two halls.
As usual, Zhao Zhen had been summoning ministers frequently since he got up in the morning to listen to the affairs arrangements of Zhu Yousi and handle the appointment and dismissal of personnel in relevant states and counties.
After working hard until night, Zhao Zhen could finally take a breath.
Therefore, the ministers who had been standing behind him immediately brought various meals and various soups for the official's choice.
However, Zhao Zhen looked at the dazzling array of delicacies in front of him and suddenly remembered something, so he asked: "Is Duke Shou's daily life going smoothly in Chunfang today?"
"Back to the official house, I heard that Yang Huaimin reported that the Duke is in Chunfang, everything is going well, and he is living well!" As the most capable minister around Zhao Zhen, Zhang Weiji immediately stepped forward to report, and he also got a copy from the Ministry of Internal Affairs
Records of his daily life were given to Zhao Zhen.
Zhao Zhen then took it and read it hastily.
Then, the official's brows furrowed.
"What nonsense!" He threw the book that recorded his beloved son's daily life in front of Zhang Weiji: "What's going on with the Queen? Zhang Qing, tell me!"
Although this daily record contains only text and no specific description.
But in Zhao Zhen's view, it was his queen who was deliberately competing with his beloved concubine.
Zhang Weiji hurriedly lay down on the ground, motionless: "Your Majesty, I think that the Queen may have a reason..."
"Huh?" Zhao Zhen knocked on the table in front of him, thoughtfully.
He knew that Zhang Weiji was only an internal minister loyal to him.
Moreover, he is a man of integrity and backbone, full of knowledge, and deep in his chest.
Even the ministers from other dynasties said, "Zhang Duzhi has the style of an ancient gentleman."
This is an extremely rare and rare comment for a minister!
And Zhang Weiji is worthy of the evaluation of him by his ministers!
From a small yellow door to the current position of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, everyone knows that Zhang Weiji has been promoted step by step and has done an outstanding job in every position.
He was asked to take charge of the tea tax, and he exceeded the three-year tax quota in one year. Moreover, public opinion spoke highly of him and did not think that he had engaged in excessive taxation or corruption and perversion of the law.
He was put in local prison and a dozen corrupt officials were arrested in three years.
Among them, there are even important officials like Zhizhou.
He was asked to serve as Yuan Hao's envoy to inform Yuan Hao. When he came back, Zhang Weiji immediately reported Yuan Hao's rebellion and requested that the border defense be rectified immediately and military deployment along the border be strengthened!
However, that was still Jingyou's third year.
What is even more valuable is that this minister has military merit!
Last year, Zhang Weiji was ordered to go to Bingzhou and Fenzhou to recruit soldiers to support Fan Zhongyan's Qiyan Road.
When he rushed to Qiyan Road with the troops recruited from Fen and Fen, he happened to encounter Yuan Hao's attack. After carefully examining the situation between the enemy and ourselves, Zhang Weiji ordered the soldiers not to underestimate the enemy and advance rashly, but to fight steadily and successfully, so he successfully forced them back.
Yuan Hao.
This is incredible!
The official families of the Song Dynasty always liked to use ministers with military merit.
Therefore, after Zhang Weiji came back, he was appointed as the internal minister of the province, and promoted all the treasurer affairs in Beijing with his own official position.
In short, let him take care of Zhao Zhen's money bag.
His trust and love for Zhang Weiji are beyond words.
"I may think that the queen knows something..." Zhang Weiji lay on the ground and said: "I heard that on Xinsi day, after the Duke woke up, he expelled the king from the inner palace to observe the rules..."
"Later, Brother Shougui, Shouzhong, begged the Duke of the country and invited himself to know Jingdong Road..."
"Today, I kept the rules but suddenly moved to Ninghua Palace..."
Zhao Zhen's expression gradually became solemn as he listened.
After a long time, the official suddenly laughed: "Zhang Cairen is really fooling around..."
"Talented people like to abide by the rules, be loyal, and be meticulous. If you want to abide by the rules and serve, you can tell me directly..."
"In this way..." The official stood up and ordered: "Zhang Qing, go to Ninghua Palace for me, tell Zhang Cairen what I mean, and tell Zhang Cairen that things about Chunfang will be dealt with in the future.
Don't worry about it, just let the talent raise the princess in the palace with peace of mind..."
"Zhang Qing will go to the Baoqing Palace for me again and ask the Miao Cai people to move to Chunfang tomorrow to take care of and raise Duke Shou!"
Zhang Weiji immediately accepted the order and said: "I respect the official's will!"
"Zhang Qing, wait a minute!" Zhao Zhen stopped Zhang Weiji, who was about to say goodbye, and ordered someone to find a piece of rice paper, then took pen and ink, wrote a paragraph on the rice paper in Feibai font, and then handed it to
Zhang Weiji: "You left the palace overnight to deliver this edict to Duke Shen and ask him to do what I asked him to do..."
This means that the text must be handed down to the ministers, and the ministers must be ordered to follow it.
Since Zhao Zhen came to the throne, he has rarely intervened in the governance of the two governments by sending down letters.
So, Zhang Weiji took a deep breath and said: "I respect the imperial edict!"
Everyone knows that things may get serious.
Because the official letter cannot be hidden from others, and it will be known sooner or later.
Why does the Prime Minister of the Song Dynasty have such a semi-derogatory title as "Qiantai" today?
It was because of the official letter that the then Prime Minister Zhang Shixun was ordered to open the back door for Zhang Cairen's uncle Zhang Yaozuo on his behalf, and the name was written on the paper as "thousand years old".
So, all of Bianjing knew about it all of a sudden.
Zhang Shixun had no choice but to quickly build himself a mansion, named "Qiansitang", which came from the underworld, so that he could survive the danger.
From then on, the prime minister of the Song Dynasty would be ridiculed by his enemies as "thousand years old".
Therefore, Zhang Weiji did not dare to neglect, and with the emperor's decree, he quietly opened it except Yanhe Hall and took a look.
With just one glance, the magistrate shrank his neck, then shook his head and sighed: "Liu San has become a romantic figure, but... now it seems that today's official family is the real romantic..."
For the sake of a beloved concubine, she spoke favorably to the Prime Minister and interceded.
This is already the second time for this official!
