Great Song Bianjing, inside the imperial palace.
In the Funing Palace, Song Shenzong Zhao Ji was dying on the hospital bed, in fact, since Zhao Ji was released from the Great Xia Empire, Zhao Ji's body has not been very good, in fact, a big reason is that he was frightened from the Great Xia Empire, and after returning to China, he was intrigued for power and profit, this series of times hit Zhao Ji very hard, causing Zhao Ji's body to deteriorate, and Zhao Ji is basically scared and tired today.
In front of Zhao Xu's bedside to take care of Zhao Xu, the crown prince of the Great Song Dynasty who had just been canonized for a long time, Zhao Xu was only thirteen years old this year, he was Zhao Xu's sixth son, according to the imperial succession system, in fact, Zhao Xu's turn could not be Zhao Xu's turn, after all, there were five brothers in front of Zhao Xu, but it was a coincidence that Zhao Xu's five brothers were all hanging; Song Shenzong Zhao Xuan had a total of fourteen sons, but now only five sons are still alive, and Zhao Xu is the eldest among them.
"Xu'er," Zhao said softly.
Zhao Xu happily ran to Zhao Xu's bed and knelt down and said, "Father, you are awake." ” Zhao Xuan touched Zhao Xu's head and said, "I'm fine, tell my father that you have been obedient these days."
"The sons are very well-behaved, and the father doesn't have to worry about the sons."
Zhao Xu touched his tears and said.
"You're still so young, how can I rest assured."
Zhao Ji said worriedly; "Xu'er, tell me about the situation today and the situation of my Great Song Dynasty."
"Father, since the Xia Kingdom swallowed Liao, the Xia Kingdom has no worries, and now the whole world has my Great Song Dynasty to be able to compete with the Xia Kingdom; However, there are still big problems in the Xia Kingdom, the Xia Emperor divides the princes, and there are many vassal kings in various places, and after a long time, they will support their own troops and no longer obey the orders of the imperial court; Under such a trend, the court of our Great Song Dynasty is united in fighting against the Xia Kingdom, and Erchen believes that if this continues, my Great Song Dynasty will achieve the final victory.
Zhao Xu said to Zhao Xu.
Zhao Xuan leaned on the head of the bed and said to Zhao Xu: "Emperor, you only see some essences, but you don't see potential problems; Although today's Xia Kingdom seems to be full of vassal kings, it is actually monolithic, and the authority of the Xia Emperor is not something that they can shake the princely vassal kings; But my Great Song Dynasty has such a crisis now, some people may not dare to act when I am alive, but once I die, it may be difficult to say, although you are still young, Xu'er, but you also have to show the majesty of the emperor, I will solve some troubles for you before leaving" "Father, are you talking about the Third Emperor Uncle?"
asked Zhao Xu.
"Who else but him?"
"But Erchen is still very loyal to the Third Emperor Uncle."
Zhao Ji said: "He is loyal to the Great Song Dynasty and the Zhao family, not the emperor I; Now King Zhao has a million male soldiers, is the most elite army of my Great Song Dynasty, in addition to King Zhao also holds the power of the two roads in Jingdong and Hebei, is the general manager of the entire East Road camp, in fact, King Zhao already has the strength to rebel, as long as he is willing to send troops from Hebei at any time, it only takes one day to surround Bianliang and control the entire imperial power, the existence of King Zhao has seriously threatened the imperial power, he is the biggest obstacle to your succession to the throne" "Father, the child understands" "Although King Zhao holds this power, you have no way to shake his power in a short period of time, because the northern frontier of my Great Song Dynasty still needs King Zhao to defend it, so I can only find someone to balance King Zhao's power and prevent his family from dominating."
Zhao Ji then said.
"Father is talking about General Dao."
"Although this person is loyal, he is not the opponent of King Zhao, and this person has also served under King Zhao; King Zhao needs to be a political opponent, one of them is in the court and the other is in the opposition, which can play a balancing role; Xu'er, you have to remember that as an emperor, the most important thing is to learn checks and balances, and there should never be a situation in which one family dominates the court, and at least two opposing factions must be in the court, which is the way of the emperor."
"Erchen understood" "Xu'er, rest assured that my father will take care of everything for you before leaving."
At this moment, a eunuch hurriedly ran in and reported to Zhao Jiyu: "Your Majesty, His Royal Highness King Zhao has sent an urgent dispatch of eight hundred miles. ” "Bring it in."
Zhao said.
After reading this piece, Zhao Xu handed it to Zhao Xu and asked, "Xu'er, look at how this matter should be handled." ” This is a letter from Zhao Yu requesting the surrender of Xiao Yuanshan, and after reading it, Zhao Xu said: "Father, we and the Liao State have a feud and I am afraid that it is inappropriate to recruit the Liao army. ” "There's nothing wrong with that."
Zhao Ji said; "Now that the Liao State is dead, there is nothing wrong with even recruiting this group of Liao troops, and my Great Song Dynasty can lack cavalry, and with these tens of thousands of iron cavalry, we can better defend against the southern invasion of the Xia army."
"But Father, isn't the power of the Third Emperor Uncle even greater?"
asked Zhao Xu.
"Emperor, you remember that it was not King Zhao who recruited the Liao army, but me, if used properly, this could become a major force to contain King Zhao."
Zhao Xu's current appearance, many things have to be carefully considered, after all, Zhao Xu's age is still young, Zhao Xu's don't want to be seized by others as soon as he hangs his son, Zhao Xu's current doing all this is actually to maintain his son's future imperial power.
"Come on, Xuan Wang Anshi will enter the palace."
Zhao said.
After Wang Anshi arrived, Zhao Ji said to Wang Anshi: "Aiqing, you go to the north to announce my will, recruit Xiao Yuanshan and let him go to Dezhou to station, his army is under the direct jurisdiction of the imperial court, and he is named the Duke of Liao and the general of the hussars." ” "Yes, Wechen Command" The next morning, Song Shenzong dragged his tired body to the Chongzheng Palace, after the court meeting began, Zhao Hao said to the ministers: "Today I want to announce a thing, Zhao Hao has performed well during this time, and compared to before, it has changed greatly, and now the court is at the time of employing people, I decided to lift Zhao Hao's imprisonment and summon him to the palace for deliberations, I don't know what the ministers think."
The reason why Song Shenzong dared to use Zhao Hao again was because now Zhao Hao's power in the court had long been cleared, and after Zhao Hao's downfall, his people who took refuge in Zhao Hao were also scattered, and Zhao Hao was summoned back again to such a person with a criminal record, in fact, he couldn't make any big waves, and there was also Zhao Hao's nemesis Zhao Hao outside, and the two of them could just form a wonderful balance.
"Your Majesty, Zhao Hao's crime is huge, I'm afraid it's too rash to pardon it like this."
"No matter what Zhao Hao says, he is also my brother, I believe that he is still loyal to the Great Song Dynasty, if Zhongqing has no meaning, this matter will be decided."
"No objection from the ministers" Zhao Ji said so, if he was against it, then these ministers would be too uninteresting.
"Since the first thing has passed, then I will say the second thing, now that the Liao State has been destroyed, there will be a battle between my Great Song Dynasty and the Xia State sooner or later, but now the strength of our army is not enough to compete with the Xia army, I have decided to reorganize and train the army under the command of the emperor himself, as a follow-up force to support the front line."
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