A person who is born hard and should get some peace after death, right? This is the minimum respect for a dead person. But Zhao Guangyi, who has been proud and strong all his life, cannot get it.

It's so sad! He just died and his body was not cold. The two closest people in his life betrayed him: his personal eunuch Wang Ji'en and Empress Li.

Wang Jien weighed in his heart, what is the contribution of letting the crown prince ascend the throne naturally? But if another one is established, then the old things from more than 20 years ago will repeat themselves. He is still the one who supports the new king and makes the most of his contributions. Such beautiful things are so exciting that he thinks of it. It is simply something that the great eunuchs in the Tang Dynasty can do. And he, a eunuch, can actually succeed twice. This will be an unprecedented record, the eunuch among eunuchs! So

He first contacted two accomplices: Li Changling, the chief political officer, and Hu Dan. The three of them joined forces and found that they were not worth enough, so they found the direct heir of Zhao Guangyi's inheritance - Empress Li. What's more, Empress Li's brother General Li Jilong was the commander of the Palace Front Office at this time, and the governor of Jingnan Army. You must know that the Palace Front Office had not inspected the capital at this time, so this commander was the boss of the Palace Front Office! And he was in the capital at this time.

As long as Wang Ji'en looked at the cute little boy beside Queen Li, he would know who the heir to the throne should be - the eldest son of the original emperor, and the now deposed commoner Zhao Yuanzuo.

Queen Li immediately agreed. She had been raising Zhao Yuanzuo's son before. At this time, whether she loved her son and father or the past, she was moved anyway.

The conspiracy started when Zhao Guangyi fell ill, the day before his death. From then on, Wang Jiencai and Li Changling and Hu Dan formed a clique and were preparing to elect Zhao Yuanzuo.

At this important moment, the Crown Prince Zhao Heng was not with the critically ill father! He was isolated and could not even enter the palace! But there was no hurry, someone could go in. The Prime Minister Lu Duan personally went to the palace to visit the disease. There is evidence that Lu Duan, who was already old at this time, had a bad vision. He looked around hard, but found that everyone was there, except for the Crown Prince Zhao Heng, who should appear the most. Lu Duan immediately became alert. He quietly avoided everyone and wrote two words on the tablet he carried with him, "Da Jian" and immediately sent his confidant to Zhao Heng to ask him to enter the palace immediately!

At this moment, Zhao Guangyi died. Wang Jien immediately acted and went to meet Empress Dowager Li. The two of them colluded instantly to reach an agreement. He also realized the most critical point of the problem. He immediately established an emperor, whether the empress dowager or the eunuch, what he said was not the final word. There must be a minister. No matter what inside information or orders there are, there must be an official seal and an edict to confirm the emperor's identity, and these must be carried out by civil servants in order to be justified and effective. Even if these things are forged.

As soon as he walked out of Empress Dowager Li's palace gate, Wang Jien was instantly crazy. Lu Duan disappeared! In just a blink of an eye, the old man who was both old and fat and inconvenient to move disappeared! Go find him immediately! Someone reported that Lu Duan had returned to the Secretariat of the Secretariat. Wang Jien breathed a sigh of relief. Fortunately, it was not too far away. But the matter was serious, so he decided to go out to find Lu Duan in person!

The eunuch's job is to serve and pass on the imperial edict. The Secretariat Political Affairs Hall is so familiar with it. So Wang Ji'en immediately met Lu Duan, and his first sentence was: Your Majesty has passed away!

Lu Duan expressed his grief, but it was very limited. Wang Ji'en was very excited and was simply a surprise. He said that the Empress Dowager wanted to establish Zhao Yuanzuo, but Lu Duan did not object. But after the surprise, Lu Duan suddenly made him feel cold: We don’t have to establish whoever we have to establish, and the Empress Dowager doesn’t have to say anything.

Who counts? Wang Jien was nervous in an instant.

Lu Duan said two words "The will" slowly

Wang Ji'en's mind was running rapidly. It turned out that there was a will! This was a sudden change, but it was only good but not bad for him. At least, if there was no will, the crown prince would have to take over the position. With the will, it would be different. Great! As for what was written in the will, and then read it as, hehe! I thought I, Wang Ji'en, would not recognize the words or could not make any typos?

So the next question: Where is the will?

Lu Duan stood up and muttered, "Where else can you be? The Edict Pavilion in the Secretariat Political Affairs Hall... Hey! Don't be anxious! Let's get it together." Before he finished speaking, Wang Jienji started again. The eunuch shot out with the extraordinary agility of the sixty-six-year-old man and rushed towards the Edict Pavilion.

In this way, Wang Ji'en led Lu Duan and rushed into the imperial edict pavilion, and everything ended. This was the biggest and only mistake he made this night. His life ended...

The Zhaoshu Pavilion was silent, and the Man Pavilion Zhaowen faced him silently. Behind him, the gate of the Zhaoshu Pavilion suddenly closed, followed by the sound of the iron lock falling key...

Wang Ji'en turned around in horror, and there was a big door between him and Lu Duan. The vast world outside was isolated from him from then on. He suddenly realized that he had been plotted against by Lu Duan! But from beginning to end, Lu Duan did nothing. He jumped into the cage himself and was still excited and happy! That night, Wang Ji'en could only watch Lu Duan leave with flesh in the crack of the door of the imperial palace...

That night, Lu Duan staggered into the Wansui Palace. It seemed that the old story of more than 20 years ago was repeated. In the Wansui Palace, there was still a dead emperor, plus the dead emperor's wife.

Empress Dowager Li told the prime minister directly that she advocated "The emperor died. It is natural to establish the eldest son ascend the throne. What will happen to you now?"

After Lu Duan replied, "The last emperor appointed the crown prince, for today! How can there be any objections?", Empress Dowager Li immediately fell silent. All resistance to Zhao Heng's ascension to the throne disappeared immediately. The answer given in the official history was that because Wang Ji'en was not present, Empress Dowager Li lost the strength to compete with Lu Duan and had to give in.

But the real answer is to find the mystery from the sentence Lu Duan answered, "The last emperor appointed the prince, for today..." You are careful. This is what your husband has prepared long ago. Looking back at the dead body, do you think this man who has been sleeping with you for many years really doesn't notice your motive at all?

It was not until this time that the real protagonist Zhao Heng arrived in time. The prince transformed into an immediate situation. Wen Zhongshu, the deputy minister, read out the legacy system in public and upgraded him from the crown prince to the third Song Zhenzong, the official official of Song Dynasty.

After confirming the identity, everyone left the dead old emperor and went to the political hall in front of him. Only after receiving the worship of civil and military officials in the most formal place could Zhao Heng be considered to be 100% successful in transformation. At this last pass, Lu Duan suddenly became abnormal.

On March 30, 997, Lu Duan stood in the hall, and the new emperor sat down with his curtains, but he had no intention of kneeling. In front of everyone, he suddenly made an unprecedented move. Without any request, Lu Duan walked from the position of his minister to the throne of the emperor! He also lifted the curtain in front of the emperor with his own eyes. He was so dizzy that he stared at him at close range. He finally stepped down from the palace again after confirming that the person in front of him was Zhao Heng. He led all officials to worship the new emperor.

Success...it was finally over. Lu Duan, who was "not confused about big things", finally completed the most important task in his life.

On April 4, the newly ascended Song Zhenzong selectively lost his memory of what had just happened. The original Empress Li was officially confirmed as the queen mother. On the 9th, he appointed the fourth brother Zhao Yuanfen as King Yong and the fifth brother Zhao Yuanjie as King Yan. The other two younger brothers Zhao Yuanwei, Zhao Yuanwei as Prince Pengcheng and Prince Anding.

On the 10th, Li Zhi, a guest when he was the crown prince, was promoted to the position of governor.

On May 11, Emperor Zhenzong of Song took action against Li Changling, Wang Jien and Hu Dan. From his revenge on Queen Li and Zhao Yuanzuo and his handling of these three mortal enemies, I have to say that this is a benevolent lord. The former chief political officer Li Changling was appointed as a high-ranking official of Zhongwu Jiedu, and he enjoyed his life from then on. Wang Jien was appointed as the general of the right guard of the governor of Junzhou and was resettled. He continued to support his old age and died two years later. The most unlucky one was the former chief edict Hu Dan. But he was only exiled to Xunzhou and at least saved his life, right?

On the 24th, Zhao Heng made his second wife, Guo, the queen.

On the 27th, Zhao Heng conferred his dead mother (also Zhao Yuanzuo's biological mother) as a virtuous concubine. In addition to Li, Zhao Heng remembered three other dead relatives. On June 5th, Zhao Heng conferred his cousin Zhao Dezhao as the Grand Tutor, Zhao Defang as the Grand Guardian, and his uncle Zhao Tingmei directly restored his most prominent title of "King of Qin" in his lifetime.

It’s okay for Dezhao and Defang, after all, they died "accidentally". But Zhao Tingmei was demoted and exiled after committing the crime of rebellion and rebellion. Zhao Heng did this obviously slapped his father in the face. Did he be guilty or not? If he was indeed not guilty, is his reputation for forcing his younger brother to death very beautifully?

Looking at the essence through the phenomenon, the core of Zhao Heng doing this is 6 words: "Stand the side and relieve the old grudges". No one should worry about anything anymore. All the delinquency has disappeared with the death of my father. Let's start over...

Song Zhenzong, who had just ascended the throne, said to the prime minister, "It is useless to offer many rare birds, strange animals and auspicious things in various states. But it is useless to make the farming and to obtain virtuous ministers." On the 8th, he ordered the world not to offer rare birds, strange animals and auspicious things. However, at this time, Zhao Heng probably would not have thought that in just 10 years, he would change his original intention and cause the entire Song Dynasty to fall into a crazy activity of praying for gods and worshiping gods, and he became the world's number one charlatan...

On the 11th, Zhao Yuanzuo, the "crazy" brother, had really threatened his throne, regardless of whether he was interested or not. However, Zhao Heng didn't mind at all, and was named King of Chu and wanted to visit Nangong. But Yuanzuo refused and said that even if you came, I would never see you... From then on, they never met again in their lives...

On the 12th, Zhao Heng conferred his first wife, Pan Mei's daughter as the queen.

Starting from Emperor Zhenzong of Song Dynasty, a huge change began to occur. The emperor was no longer the previous emperor, and the prime minister was no longer the previous prime minister... The era of famous ministers in the Song Dynasty began!

Recalling the past when Emperor Taizu stripped the prime minister's military power and financial power, and made the three powers of military, government and finance to eliminate the hidden dangers of prime minister's autocracy. By the time Emperor Taizong, his frequency of changing prime ministers was like changing furniture. The prime minister not only had less power, but he also didn't even know his business. This created a fact that the prime minister of the Song Dynasty would never say "no" to the emperor no matter what. Although Zhao Pu, Lu Mengzheng and others forced the emperor to listen to his own words and use the people he recommended, the rebuttal power was still firmly controlled in the hands of the emperor. After all, they only forced the emperor once, but the emperor forced them every day...

But by the time of Zhao Heng, the situation changed. The prime ministers became extremely noble. They straightened their waists and hardened their faces. They looked up and down at their emperors and looked at them from both sides. Not only national affairs, but also private life would be concerned and guided at all times, and they would be exaggerated if they were not satisfied. And as time went by, this trend became worse until the fall of the Song Dynasty...

Zhao Heng had no choice. He was not as strong as his uncle. Who dared not to accept the power he had made? He could not learn from his father. His father was the prefect of Kaifeng for many years and was the number one official in the Song Dynasty at that time. He was not like two brothers, one was the eldest son with both civil and military affairs, and the other was deeply plotted and even his favorite concubine was extremely poisonous. Zhao Heng had been used to being a low-key person since he was a child. Now it is fate that has pushed him to the forefront, just like Li Yu back then, who was forced to be the emperor...

So Zhao Heng, who was sitting on the throne of the emperor, had a very clear mind. All things in the world were military, politics, people, and wealth. The emperor invited the largest god in the Song army, the former Privy Councilor, the first general Cao Bin, to restore his official position and become the Privy Councilor of the Song Dynasty again. No need to mention any merits and demerits, just with his unique qualifications and kindness and magnanimity, he should be able to appease the army of the Guangyi period of the Later Zhao Dynasty. Therefore, Zhao Heng completely delegated power to military and political terms, and obeyed the Privy Councilor and the Prime Minister.
Chapter completed!