The bells of the Taoist temple in Beijing rang together, announcing to all the people of the world that the Empress Dowager had collapsed in the Qingshou Palace.

As soon as the bell rang through the clouds and cracked the stones, the millions of soldiers and civilians in Tokyo City came out of their houses one after another, counting the number of bells ringing.

More than half a year ago, because the Empress Dowager was not hesitating, the auxiliary ministers were often ordered to pray for heaven and earth, the temple, the shrine and the shrine in the capital, and the palace temple was also a dojo every three or five times. The men and women in the capital who had no money to buy the degree, so that they had been children, children, and novices for decades and could not be shaved, were also specially given degrees.

But all this failed to save the life of the Empress Dowager. After two hundred days of disturbance, the border war continued, and the capital was always busy, until the Empress Dowager went to the immortal today.

The Empress Dowager went to the immortals and dropped out of the dynasty according to the system.

The Son of Heaven and the courtiers routinely had to come to Qingshou Palace to pay tribute to the Empress Dowager. In the imperial history, Li Ding had the duty of supervising hundreds of officials, so he stared in the palace to see if any official violated the etiquette system.

Prime Minister Wang Qi was dressed in mourning clothes and led the ministers to worship, and the clan and the royal family also saluted in the train. Although the clouds dropped out of the dynasty, the pilgrimage ceremony in the Qingshou Palace was the same as the ritual of the usual dynasty.

Li Ding sat behind the door of the palace, staring at every move of the courtiers in the palace, and the pair of eyes of his subordinates were also like eagles and falcons, from the robe to the outfit, not letting go of any details. When Yingzong died, Ouyang Xiu mistakenly wore a purple robe under the mourning clothes, which caused the imperial historians to exchange stamps. Dress is part of the etiquette system, and the slightest mistake represents disrespect to the Empress Dowager.

At this time, the Son of Heaven was not in the main hall, and the Zaifu were not allowed to get out except for Wang Qi, and the others were not there. They are all discussing in the side hall with Zhao Ji - saying that they are dropping out of the court, it is just not going to the court, and it is impossible to delay the right thing to do.

In Hexi, which has just been recovered, the imperial court has decided to set up a new road, named Ganliang Road. And the Yinxia land, as well as the hundreds of miles of the Yellow River valley from Lanzhou to Qingtongxia, are divided into the original edge of the five roads, and continue to be divided and defended; Or simply set up a Yinxia Road to manage the defense of the north and liberate the soldiers and horses stationed on the five roads on the edge of the edge, but the argument in the court is very strong, and there is still no conclusion.

The newly restored land needs to be governed, immigration, reclamation, pacification of the natives, and extermination of the rogues, which urgently requires a lot of financial, material and human resources, which requires the imperial court to raise money, materials and manpower for this purpose. At the same time, the expanded land also represents more official positions, more merits, and more opportunities for promotion, which makes many officials who have a heart for things to do. Qingtongxia and Yanzhou, which face the Liao State, although few people are willing to take risks, but the Ganliang Prefectures are very safe and do not lack credit. There are many people who have tried every possible way to rush up and go to the door, even on Li Ding's side, there are also relatives and friends who come to the door and beg him to talk about it.

However, today's topic should not be limited to these few matters. Li Ding glanced at several subordinates in the hall with sharp eyes like electricity, and the focus of today's discussion in the side hall of Qingshou Palace is inevitably related to Hedong.

Han Gang's mistake was too great. To dare to report the merit of 23,000 beheadings at once is a little too greedy. If it is three or five thousand, the court will hand out the reward, and no one will discuss it; There are eight thousand children, and the Son of Heaven can also pinch his nose and recognize it; But at the moment, it is 23,000, and the imperial court will not be able to endure it no matter what, and Yushitai will not give up on this.

Among Wutai, famous ones such as Shu Kang and Zhang Shangying, and those who are not well-known such as Ding Zhili and Fan Bo, etc., have a total of only more than 20 imperial histories, and one-third of them have been stamped for this.

Ding Zhili, Fan Bo and others said that Han Gang's royal majesty was inappropriate and was threatened by his generals. And Shu Kang, who has always been close to Lu Huiqing, and Zhang Shangying, who was recommended by Zhang Dian in the old years, were impeached by Han Gang for being greedy and murderous, and killing tens of thousands of newly attached people in vain.

A number of imperial historians jointly impeached one person, and there is not necessarily one in several years. Every time it appears, it will trigger a violent shaking of the court. Basically, every time the target is a high-ranking official at the level of the ruler. Under normal circumstances, even if Han Gang has already managed to defend the border and important counties, he is still not qualified. It can only be said that he is a man of the hour today, and he is on the cusp of the storm, which has attracted the attention of everyone who supervises the imperial history, so he has enjoyed the treatment of the chief executive in advance.

entered the Imperial History Terrace to supervise hundreds of officials for the Son of Heaven, and he couldn't be afraid of offending people. Although the supervision of the imperial history is to select prestigious but junior young officials, in order to use their youthful momentum to suppress the powerful Zaifu for the Son of Heaven. But no matter how young you are, there is a limit, basically you are thirty or forty years old, and you can only be qualified for more than ten years of officialdom.

A term of imperial history, is the end of the south shortcut to become a ruler, if you can make a Zaifu retreat, even if you can be famous in the world, with a reputation, it is the foundation of the two mansions in the future. Therefore, being elected to Wutai is an opportunity that everyone admires in the officialdom, and it is also the confidence of the supervising imperial historians to stand up to their peers and dare to face the important ministers of Zaifu. But Han Gang's existence overshadowed them, seeing that he was about to reach the position of ruler in his twenties, who didn't want to trip him. And Han Gang acted carelessly, and gave the handle away by himself, who was willing to let it go. As long as this case is certain, even if he can make a comeback in the future and want to take revenge, I am afraid he will not be able to help the royal historians who are already in a high position.

Regardless of whether it is close to the New Party or not, the imperial historians regard Han Gang as a thorn in their side. Overnight, Han Gang became the target of public criticism. By tomorrow, there will be more people impeaching Han Gang, that is, Li Ding himself, if he can't push the boat down the river, it is very likely that someone who is staring at his position will be impeached for the crime of not saying anything about Han Gang.

The Imperial Historian can influence the direction of the impeachment of the Imperial Historians to a certain extent, but has no right to interfere with or prevent their impeachment, otherwise, the Imperial Historian Zhongcheng will also become the target of impeachment. Li Ding didn't want to offend Han Gang, but he couldn't stop the following imperial history from treating Han Gang as a thorn in his side, not to mention that because he had a bad reputation in the Qing Dynasty, he couldn't control the imperial history below.

Li Ding sighed with emotion.

stabilized the situation in Hedong and captured the great victory of Jialuchuan, Han Gang has made great merits in his tenure as the envoy of Hedong Road. Later, the move to recover Shengzhou was simply a snake to add to the problem, and everyone shouted and beat him, and he was also to blame for himself, and he couldn't complain about others. I don't know what the Son of Heaven, who is discussing this matter in the side hall of the road, plans to deal with him.

But Li Ding was wrong, and the side hall at this time had not yet talked about the disposal of Han Gang. For the Empress Dowager who died of illness, the matters that need to be finalized need to be discussed, one after another, and there is no time to target Han Gang.

Zhao Ji listened to the courtiers' report on the Empress Dowager's future preparations, but he didn't belong to his thoughts.

In the real grandparents and even the mother, there was no affection, the Empress Dowager who had just died gave him. Whenever he dealt with political affairs too late, the Empress Dowager would inevitably come to inquire in person, and if the diet was delayed, she would personally send someone to arrange it, so that for more than ten years, there was no exception.

Soon after ascending the throne, the scene when he wore gold armor and ran to show off in front of the Empress Dowager is as clear in his memory as it had just happened yesterday. But the empress dowager, who euphemistically admonished him that the wearing of armor by the Son of Heaven was not a good omen for the country and a blessing for the society, is no longer alive. If you want to show off your achievements to your elders in the future, can you still go to your mother, who has always been cold to you?

"The decree of the Empress Dowager has always been called a holy decree, and this garden mausoleum should also be called a mountain mausoleum."

Zhao Ji suddenly spoke, and Cai Qu, who was reading the book of mourning that had just been written, was stunned.

Several Zaisuke looked at each other, not knowing what to say. The mausoleum ceremony of the Empress Dowager should be called the Garden Mausoleum, and its system is in accordance with the old practice of the two Empress Dowagers Zhaoxian and Mingde. But Zhao Ji had to change it to a mountain that could only be used by the Son of Heaven.

However, the Son of Heaven has always been the closest to the Empress Dowager, what should I do, it is not his words? The etiquette of the Empress Dowager is that compared to the Son of Heaven, she only does not sound the whip. It is also rumored that Zhang Xianming, who was buried in the crown of the Son of Heaven, was in front of Queen Liu, and no one was willing to come out to touch the mold of the Son of Heaven.

"As Your Majesty said." Cai did say first, "In this case, the envoys of the garden should be renamed the mountain tomb. The envoy of the garden tomb can serve as a political officer. And the envoy of the mountain should be changed to the minister. ”

"Everything can be compared to the mountain cemetery." Zhao said.

"Then the prime minister should be the envoy of the Empress Dowager of Daxing, the Taichang Temple should be the ceremonial envoy, the imperial history Zhongcheng should be the ceremonial envoy, the Kaifeng Mansion should be the bridge and the don envoy, and the Hanlin bachelor should be the envoy of the halogen book, and everything will be in its own way."

Lu Huiqing took a cold look at the new governor who is very good at stealing the limelight.

Because the Battle of Vaxia was not a fiasco, the sneak attack of the Liao people relieved the siege of Wang Jue, who was the main battle, and he could sit and watch him Lu Huiqing being besieged. Half a month ago, Cai was promoted to the post of political officer. This appointment, which is biased towards the new party, is likely to be a sign that the Son of Heaven has given up on his own family. It's just that the Empress Dowager has recently made a big move, which makes it inconvenient for the political situation of the court to change for the time being.

Maybe when the DPRK and China are concerned, it will be their turn to leave the capital.

"Cao Ping hasn't come back yet?" Zhao Ji suddenly asked again.

This time, it was Yuan Jiang who took a step forward: "I have already sent Liu Xuan, the deputy envoy to appease the border along Hebei, to replace him, and he will return to Beijing in a few days." ”

The Empress Dowager Cao's immortals, the children of the Cao family have to enter the palace to pay tribute. The rest of the sons and nephews were all in Beijing, and only his nephew Cao Ping served as the deputy envoy of Guoxin and went to Liao with the team. He was the second group of envoys to Liao after the Song and Xia wars, and when the first batch of envoys returned by order because the Liao sent troops to annex Xingling, they were the envoys sent by Zhao Ji to negotiate with the Liao people about the northwest border.

It's just a discussion, but no one expects to take advantage of the Khitans. Cao Ping, the clanman, took the opportunity to go out to occupy a light and mix up his qualifications, and no one cared.

In the past, the soldiers who were in Zi were in Zi, but today, the Western Xia is finally destroyed. It's just that the original intention of watching the army and rejuvenating the spirit has not been achieved. The long-term peace makes people forget that the Khitan is still a man-eating wolf, and the lesson of this time is unforgettable.

Zhao Ji nodded, it doesn't matter who the national messenger and the deputy envoy of the national letter are, just don't lose the face of the court. After a while, he suddenly asked again: "Today, the eight imperial histories of the Imperial History Observatory are on the book, and the impeachment of Hedong to appease Han Gang is greedy and easy to kill, and there is no way for His Majesty." I don't know what you think about this? ”