Tong Guan's body was found at an inn outside Bianjing, and Tong Guan left a letter.

Zhao Huan probably looked at it and knew why Tong Guan died.

He was first and foremost a eunuch, and after leaving the palace, he would be useless.

After decades of dominance, how can you endure this crime?

And now that the Emperor Taishang is raised in Genyue Palace, he no longer has any value of existence.

Therefore, Tong Guan did not want to die, not for the use of the new emperor, but for another purpose.

Why does Zhao Huan want to use Tongguan again? Because in the eunuch team, Tong Guan is more gentlemanly than Zhao Gou.

Zhao Gou lived to be eighty-one years old and childless, and Zhao Huan defaulted to him as a eunuch.

After Tong Guan ascended the throne of Huizong of the Song Dynasty, he had sent ten envoys to the Longyou capital to protect the mansion, and many times in the northwest five roads to investigate, very familiar with the military of the northwest, many times in the Yang family, the folding family, the seed family, the Yang family, the Yang family, to understand the talent of the generals of the Western Army.

This also allowed him to obtain the power of supervising the army for the first time in April of the third year of Chongning.

The Longyou Protectorate has always been the focus of the struggle between the Tubo tribes, the Western Regions, the Western Xia and the Great Song Dynasty.

When Zhang Dian established the Longyou Jiedu Army, although Longyou had nominally belonged to the Great Song Dynasty.

However, they only relied on the military fort to occupy it, and the Tubo tribes were even more involved with the Great Song Dynasty and repeatedly in the Qingtang area of Huangzhou.

In April of the third year of Chongning, Wang Hou was the commander and combined 100,000 troops to attack Qingtang again, intending to recapture a part of the Qingtang area occupied by the Qiang people.

At that time, 100,000 soldiers and horses were hoarded in Huangzhou, and Tong Guan received an edict from Song Huizong, and the order given to Tong Guan was to retreat.

Because of a fire in the palace, unknown.

After Tong Guan folded the edict and put it in his boots, Wang Hou asked about the content of the edict, Tong Guan smiled and said: "The official family hopes that we will succeed in sending troops." ”

Wang Hou's heart is determined!

Then Bingfa Qingtang took the land of the four states, and completely consolidated the position of the Great Song Dynasty in the Longyou capital protectorate.

After this battle, the Tubo tribes knew that they could not win the battle with the Great Song Dynasty, so they went to bully Dali.

And the countries of the Western Regions also began to play a rally with the Great Food Country.

In the first year of Zhenghe, Tong Guan finally climbed from Xihe Lanhuang and Qinfeng Road to the Wukang Army Jiedu envoy, and then crusaded against Xige Zang Zheng, recovered the Jishi Army and Taozhou, and was added to the official as the inspector.

In the first year of Zhenghe, Tong Guan sent an envoy to Liao.

At that time, although the Liao State was exhausted, there were still great talents like Yelu Yujian, and there were good generals like Yelu Dashi.

Before the Jin people killed the Liao people, the Liao State had always been a big mountain on the heads of the Jin and Song people.

It was also that envoy, Yelu Yujian, a man who set horses, who lost to the one of the breeders.

In the same year, Tong Guan returned to the northwest again, ordered the army to enter the Hengshan area of Western Xia, completely perfected the military fort tactics left by Zhang Dian, and finally drove Western Xia out of Hengshan.

This move made the offensive and defensive momentum of the Western Xia and the Great Song Dynasty become that the Great Song Dynasty could send troops at any time to conquer the Western Xia.

In the following year, Tong Guan led Qin Fenglu and Jinzhong soldiers to go deep into the river and Long, and forced Xingqing Mansion, but because of Tong Guan's improper command, Liu Fa was killed in battle, and the Song army was greatly shaken, and the general died, and the army was not strong, and finally had to withdraw the troops.

In the second year of Xuanhe, the Jiangnan Dilong turned over, and the harm caused by the earthquake was the Fangla uprising.

At this time, Wang Huang, the prime minister of the Great Song Dynasty, hid the military report of Fang La's uprising, until Fang La actually made a big noise and established himself as the emperor.

When Fang La's millions of soldiers showed signs of great success, Song Huizong panicked and ordered Tong Guan to lead his troops to quell the rebellion.

In the fourth year of Xuanhe, Tong Guan spent 450 days from Taiyuan to Jiangnan, then defeated Fang La, and then stabilized the south, implemented Song Huizong's policy of drawing one household out of ten, and returned to the dynasty in victory.

When the army turned back to Bianjing and then back to Taiyuan, there was no rest.

In the fourth year of Xuanhe, he began to invade Liao with the Jin State.

The exhausted army was naturally defeated.

And what will be from the imperial "if you dare to kill a person, and from the military law" of the strange marching guide.

What big victory can the restrained Song Junan achieve?

When the Jin people went south, Tong Guan's 70,000 Jiesheng army was stationed in Taiyuan City, and when he heard that the Jin people were going south, the soldiers were unstoppable, and they slipped away overnight, and the army traveled hundreds of miles overnight, and ran back to Bianjing in a few days.

However, the Jiesheng army was left near Maling Pass to stand by.

If you only look at the first half of Tong Guan's life, Tong Guan's actions, if there was no Jin people who abandoned the city and fled when they went south, he would not have been judged as a traitor in history.

In fact, Zhao Huan didn't ask in front of so many people.

In fact, he really wanted to ask Tong Guan whether he had escaped from Taiyuan City and received an order from Zhao Ji.

The reason why Zhao Huan has such doubts is because Tong Guan's behavior is really incredible, Jin Bing went south to him, a eunuch who was crowned the king, and actually led the troops to escape, not to mention the extreme abnormality.

The most important thing is that Zhao Huan knew that Tong Guan handed over the military power of the Jiesheng Army at the beginning, and he went to find Zhao Ji to be loyal by himself.

Zhao Ji had ordered Tong Guan to lead his troops south with him.

So Zhao Huan wanted to know very much, was Tong Guan's drama of going thousands of miles to Taiyuan City his original intention, or was it from Song Huizong's instructions?

It's a pity that this question will never be known anymore with Tong Guan's self-hanging, and Zhao Huan also knows that the history books of later generations will never give Tong Guan an objective evaluation, because he is a eunuch.

History books often blame women and eunuchs for dynastic subversion.

Whether he fled Taiyuan was his original intention or Zhao Ji's instruction has become a thousand-year-old puzzle.

Zhao Huan didn't plan to rehabilitate Tong Guan, he knew this, because he just needed people to train the army.

He thought about it carefully for a long time, and felt that Tong Guan's vision for selecting people was extremely accurate, so he wanted to use it.

Anyway, holding Zhao Ji, he didn't dare to think about anything else.

His Tongguan master, Zhao Ji, is not ready to call the shots for him, and he is not ready to do so.

How much of the truth of history is hidden in the sand?

Zhao Huan shook his head, let's die.

"Official, what to do with Tong Guan's body?" Zhao Ying hurriedly ran in from outside the hall and asked beside Zhao Huan.

Zhao Huan was stunned, is he, a big eunuch, so ignorant? Do you have to ask yourself about such a small matter?

"Of course it's buried. What else can be done, waiting for him to establish a government office, and the thousands of people will dress him in linen and filial piety? As soon as he dies, the people he had been with at the beginning will definitely disperse. Why are you still going to build a mourning hall for Tong Guan? Zhao Huan asked curiously.

Zhao Ying shook his head and said, "It is estimated that the ministers will speak tomorrow and hang his body on the head of the city." That's why the old minister has this question. ”

Only then did Zhao Huan know that Zhao Ying originally asked this, he thought for a little and said, "Bury it." ”

"Tong Guan died, the body was reused, and hung on the city to appease the people? The ministers guessed that this was what they meant? Zhao Huan asked.

Zhao Ying nodded and said: "Maybe the disaster of the Jin soldiers, the death of one Li Zheng and the death of one Wu Min is not enough to block the mouths of the people of the world." Someone must be responsible, no matter what Tong Guan said, he was also crowned the king, and it stands to reason that the weight is enough. ”

When Zhao Huan heard this, the pen in his hand stopped. Only then did he understand why Tong Guan committed suicide so decisively, Jin Bing went south, someone had to take the blame, and Tong Guan himself stood up and chose to take the pot.

If a eunuch is crowned a king, he will be a demon.

With a little publicity, his notoriety spread.

Now that the culprit of the Jin people going south to coerce Bianjing has been found, he has carried this pot, and Zhao Ji naturally doesn't have to carry it.

"Tong Guan wasn't dead when you arrived." Zhao Huan suddenly asked.

Zhao Ying knelt down with a puff, kowtowed again and again, and said, "The official family is wise." ”

Zhao Huan shook his head, this big eunuch of his own, is very afraid of things, he is actually not very sure just now, he is this head, he does not admit himself.

"Get up and speak. You look like this, how can you be the ancestor of the Great Song Palace? There are still more than 100 eunuchs waiting for you to preside over justice, you are like this, how to preside? ”

"I'll just say, Zhao Ying, you don't care about the outer court at all, you don't care at all, how did you think of asking me how to deal with the corpse. It seems to be Tong Guan's words. ”

"What did Tong Guan say about his corpse?" Zhao Huan asked, dealing with other people's corpses, but also asking the opinions of the dead.

Zhao Huan suddenly thought that he still had the nickname of the Ten Palaces of Yama, and he was living more and more like the King of Yama like this.

Tong Guan said that the head of the owl was displayed to the public and hung on the head of the city, and the punishment was corrected. However, he asked the minister to let the minister hang on the high point, Tong Guan said that he was ugly, for fear of scaring the child. ”

Zhao Huan nodded and said, "Then do what Tong Guan said." ”

Zhao Huan originally planned to bury Tong Guan directly, if it was a civil official who admonished him like this, he would definitely refuse, there are many kinds of party disputes in the court, and the two thousand years of incompatibility between civil officials and eunuchs is also part of the party struggle.

Zhao Huan will definitely not drop this blade of grass and let the eunuchs and civil officials fight.

So how do you check and balance the civilian bureaucracy?

Such a complicated problem, of course, is left to Li Gang to have a headache!

The emperor's control of the prime minister, the prime minister's control of hundreds of officials, and the check and balance of civil officials were originally the affairs of the prime minister.

"Alright, let's go." Zhao Huan asked Zhao Ying to go down, and smiled when he watched Zhao Ying walk out of the hall.

If this Zhao Ying went to fight on behalf of the eunuchs, wouldn't he be hung and beaten by the civil official group headed by Li Gang?

This combat power level is really too low, Zhao Huan can see his careful thinking at a glance, when he arrives in the court, he will not be eaten alive by the civil officials who are like wolves and tigers?

Zhao Huan shook his head, continued to review the notebook boringly, and said to himself: "Zhao Ying, when will you grow up, you are the ancestors of the palace, can this mind be more complicated?" ”

Zhao Huan suddenly stopped his pen, looked at Zhao Ying's figure walking out, and frowned.

What if Zhao Ying deliberately let herself see it? No, he shouldn't have such a heavy scheming.

Is it because you are thinking too much?

Zhao Ying walked out of the Wende Palace, out of the Dongye Gate, and walked to Yizhuang, where Tong Guan's corpse was placed, and there was also a work here.

Before he entered the palace, he asked him to come over to examine the autopsy, and also asked Li Ruoshui, the young man of Kaifeng Mansion, to come to Zhuangzi and watch Tong Guan's head be cut off.

He breathed a long sigh of relief, he had to be cautious when he ran an errand for the emperor, so he found a job to do an autopsy, and there were many differences between being strangled to death and strangling himself before death.

The servants of the Great Song Ti Criminal Division are good at reasoning in this regard, and he Zhao Ying has a clear conscience.

Naturally, he dared to let Li Ruoshui and others take him to conduct an autopsy in person.

And the reason why Zhao Ying asked Li Ruoshui to come was to let him represent the ministers of the Great Song Dynasty and watch this result.

"Zhao Duzhi, this head also let a certain look, you are really sincere to make a certain night unable to sleep." Li Ruoshui vomited several times before he could be regarded as vomiting the noon food in his stomach.

Zhao Ying also vomited several times in a row, and said: "Do you think you want to see it, isn't it that I represent the official family, and you represent Wenchen, making it clear that he Tong Guan is dead?" ”

Zhao Ying said with a smile: "To do things for the official family, you must be thorough, our family is a eunuch after all, and many things are very taboo." ”

"The official family should wait, let the hundred officials write the book, and then the official family repeatedly shirked it, and then had to make a decision to show the public under the advice of the ministers. In this way, the benevolence of the official family is demonstrated. Li Ruoshui said with a wry smile.

The death of this Tong Guan was originally a big event, but it ended so quickly, which really made Li Ruoshui a little stunned, and the civil officials once again lost the opportunity to perform.

"You'd better not connect the guilt of Tong Guan in the book, although the official family beheaded Tong Guan, but also admitted that it was Tong Guan's last words, and the official family doesn't like to connect with the party very much." Zhao Ying reminded him and went to the palace.

Zhao Ying reminded the civil officials that this sentence was not to interfere with the outer court, what he preferred was that the official family had a good idea, and the civil officials in the province made trouble for the official family.

As he walked, he pondered what the official family would have for dinner.

It's strange to say that most of the three meals of the Great Song Dynasty are noon, evening and supper, and when they arrive at the official's house, they are morning, noon and evening.

This has brought a certain amount of trouble to the Imperial Diet Bureau, so Zhao Ying has been staring at the Imperial Diet Bureau for this reason recently.

His main purpose was not to appear again, the prince ate a month of pancakes.

As the official said, he is now the ancestor of the palace people in the Great Song Dynasty, and it is a serious crime to be killed directly in tandem with the foreign dynasty.

He did this to protect the palace people.

He walked leisurely to the Imperial Diet Bureau, stared at the room to make dinner, a bowl of porridge, a few dishes, and ate a few bites of the remaining dishes, waited for a long time, and after being fine, he took a few eunuchs and walked towards the Wende Palace.

The official family has not gone to live in Yanfu Palace since returning to the dynasty, this heir is not prosperous, but it is a taboo in the harem, and the official family must be persuaded to be.

Zhao Ying waited for Zhao Huan to have dinner, and said, "Is the official family's dinner okay?" The minister cooked for an afternoon, and felt that if he didn't eat all night, the official family would be hungry at night, so he made his own decisions, put some minced meat, took some good preserved eggs and cooked some porridge. ”

"Not bad. Your porridge with preserved eggs and lean pork tastes very positive. Zhao Huan nodded, Zhao Ying's skills are getting better and better.

"Xie Guan's family gives the name." Zhao Ying also said with joy on her face.

With the endorsement of the official family, this porridge should be popular all over the country.

Zhao Huan suddenly asked: "Zhao Duzhi, tell me how Tong Guan died." ”

What Zhao Huan asked was whether Zhao Ying deliberately killed Tong Guan, after all, there can only be one ancestor in a palace.

Zhao Ying touched his head and said, "When the minister arrived at the inn, he saw Tong Guan hanging on a three-foot white silk, and hurriedly hugged Tong Guan off the rope. ”

Then he announced his will.

He laughed and praised a few words of official wisdom, and knocked the old minister unconscious, and the minister felt that if a person dies once, he will be very afraid of death. Momentary oversight. Several pro-servant officials were also careless and were succeeded by Tong Guan. ”

"We woke up, tied to the stool by the five flowers, Tong Guan kowtowed to the minister a few more times, Tong Guan said, how can there be two ancestors in a palace, so let the minister be optimistic about the palace people, and let the minister help the emperor a little, just help some."

Then Tong Guan committed suicide. The minister and several personal servants were rescued by the inn's junior two. ”

Zhao Ying's face was full of embarrassment, this matter was already very embarrassing.

The official asked, but he couldn't help but say. This is even more humiliating.

"In other words, you added five pro-servant officials to announce the decree, not only did you not succeed, but you were also tied up by Tong Guan? You can't do it! Zhao Huan looked at Zhao Ying suspiciously, Tong Guan was in his sixties, and a few strong guys were cleaned up like this.

"The minister can't beat Tong Guan anyway." Zhao Ying's face couldn't hold back.

He took the plate and said, "There are five of them in person!" I can't beat it! There is no shame in the minister. The minister sent the dishes and chopsticks to the Imperial Catering Bureau. ”

Zhao Ying slipped away as she spoke, and the six people couldn't beat a bad old man, and they were tied up.

"Shen Cong, you go to those pro-servant officials and ask if it's the same as what Zhao Ying said." Zhao Huan didn't like to listen to bias and prejudice, and it was not only the imperial envoys who announced the decree, but also the personal officials.

It's also a check and balance.

"The official family, a few relatives from the official brought it, which is similar to what Zhao Duzhi said. It's just to add some details. ”

"Zhao Duzhi was beaten down by Tong Guan two or three times." Shen Cong returned, and there were several pro-servant officials standing behind him, with embarrassment on their faces.

"Alright, let's go down." Zhao Huan asked, and he understood. Although Tong Guan is old, he is still not something that these young people can deal with.

After confirming that Tong Guannai really hanged himself, he would not have so many worries.

If the people around you suddenly become detached because of their power, they will be in trouble.

But fortunately, what kind of emperor there is, what kind of eunuch there is. As a great eunuch, he is still loyal, and as for being weak, it is not a big problem.

That Tong Guan is the great eunuch who has been crowned the king, and Zhao Yingbi is normal.