Rebirth: Overthrow Song Dynasty

In a blink of an eye, Zhao Chen has been on the throne for ten days!

This morning, before dawn, Zhao Chen had already woken up!

After he washed up a bit, the guards had already brought the breakfast!

After Zhao Chen finished his meal, he was about to head towards the Hall of Supreme Harmony ahead!

"Your Majesty, do you still want to go to court early today?" Yue Fei stopped Zhao Chen and said.

"That's right! Of course I want to court early! I am the king of the Song Dynasty, so why not court early!" Zhao Chen said.

"But Your Majesty, you can only deceive people too much! It doesn't matter if you don't go to court this morning!" Yue Fei said.

Zhao Chen smiled, looked towards the sky, and thought of the past few days in his heart!

These days, he has to go to court every day! Now there are more than 20 ministers of civil and military affairs in the court, and these more than 20 ministers of civil and military affairs will also participate in the early court!

In the early court, no matter what Zhe Keqiu said, the ministers below would follow suit! If you can object to anything, the ministers below will also object to it! As long as it is a matter of negotiable disagreement, it will definitely not pass! Even if Zhao Chen and Li Gang disagreed with the things that could be agreed upon, it would have no effect, because he had already implemented them when he reported them! What you can ask for is not to report things, but to inform Zhao Chen and Li Gang of things that have been implemented!

On the contrary, no matter what Li Gang said, the following ministers opposed it one after another! These ministers are all opposed, and Li Gang's policies cannot be implemented!

As for Zhao Chen, he is only eleven years old, so he doesn't speak at all in court! For Zhao Chen's performance, he is extremely satisfied with everything he can ask for!

"If you want to destroy it, you must first make it crazy! Let Zhe Keqiu go crazy for a while!" Zhao Chen said.

He strode forward, walked out of Qianqing Palace, sat on the imperial chariot, and was carried forward by sixteen guards!

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The time of the early dynasty in ancient times was very early, and it was better for Zhao Chen as the emperor, as long as he rushed to the Hall of Supreme Harmony before the sky was dark! And those ministers have to get up at three or four o'clock in the morning, until five o'clock in the morning, when the door of the Han Palace opens, they will enter it!

When Zhao Chen arrived, all the civil and military ministers had already arrived!

"If you have something to play, leave the court if you have nothing to do!" After Zhao Chen sat down, a guard stepped forward and said.

"Your Majesty, I have something to announce!" Zhe Keqiu was the first to stand up and said.

"What's the matter with Zhe Aiqing, just tell me!" Zhao Chen said.

"Your Majesty, the Jurchens are now staring at our Great Song, and Kang Wang's rebels are entrenched in the south of the Yangtze River and stealing the country! At present, our Great Song has only more than 200,000 troops, and 100,000 of them will be stationed on Jingyuan Road! I think that our Great Song The army should be expanded to deal with the enemies from all sides!" Zhe Keqiu said.

"Army expansion?" Zhao Chen was taken aback, he didn't expect Zhe Keqiu to make such a request!

"Your Majesty, absolutely not!" Li Gang stood up and said loudly.

"Why not?" Zhe Keqiu asked.

"Your Majesty has just ascended the throne, and the Quartet's taxation has not yet been received by the imperial court. Now that the imperial court has insufficient financial resources, how can we expand the army?" Li Gang said.

"Master Li doesn't need to worry about this matter! I have already ordered Yanwen and Yanzhi to collect taxes everywhere. Now we have enough financial resources to expand our army!" Zhe Keqiu laughed.

"Finance and taxation belong to the imperial court and should be managed by the imperial court! I'm afraid it's inappropriate for Mr. Zhe to do this!" Li Gang said.

"This is a chaotic world, it has to be like this!" Zhe Keqiu said.

"Your Majesty has ascended the throne, and the people of Hanzhong, Sichuan and Shu live and work in peace and contentment. Although there are foreign enemies, there is no internal strife! General Zhe, as a privy envoy, steals the state's wealth and taxes. This is absolutely unacceptable!" Li Gang said.

"Master Zhe, this is a last resort! In troubled times, there is nothing wrong with Master Zhe managing the taxation!" At this moment, a middle-aged man stood up and said.

This middle-aged man is well-balanced and stable, he was the prefect of Fengxiang Mansion at the beginning, and later fled to Hanzhong with Zhe Keqiu and others, and now he is the Minister of Rites!

"That's right, Mr. Zhe has worked so hard for the Song Dynasty, and there is nothing wrong with managing the national tax!" Another minister stood up and said.

"My minister also believes that the country's finances and taxes should be handed over to Mr. Zhe!" Another minister stood up!

Gradually, more and more ministers stood up. Except for Li Gang and Wang De, all the ministers supported the management of national finances and taxes!

"There is no need to discuss this matter again! Mr. Zhe is also for the sake of the Song Dynasty. From now on, the country's finances and taxes will be handed over to Mr. Zhe for management!" Zhao Chen said lightly from above.

Li Gang glared at Zhe Keqiu, and Zhe Keqiu had a smug smile on his face.

"Even if we have enough financial resources and want to expand the army, I'm afraid the people in Hanzhong will not agree! The people in Hanzhong lived and worked in peace and contentment in the past, so they may not want to join the army!" Li Gang said again.

"The country is in danger, and the people of the world should dedicate themselves to the country! Your Majesty, my lords, I have an idea!" Zhe Keqiu said.

"What idea?" Zhao Chen said.

"Weichen believes that for the common people in Hanzhong, if there are more than two males in the family, one of them must join the army! If someone refuses to comply, the whole family will be thrown into prison!" Zhe Keqiu said.

"This..." Zhao Chen was stunned for a moment, looking at the discount in disbelief!

Since the establishment of the Song Dynasty, there has never been a reason to force ordinary people to serve as soldiers! The military strength of the Great Song Dynasty generally came from three parts, one part was hereditary military households, the grandfather was a soldier, the father was a soldier, and I was a soldier, and my son and grandson were naturally soldiers. The biggest amount! The second part is when encountering floods and droughts, the imperial court recruited refugees into soldiers and provided them with a bite of food! Another part is recruited, and this part has the smallest number of soldiers!

But the principle of forcing people to serve as soldiers never happened in the Song Dynasty!

"Ridiculous, this is absolutely impossible!" Li Gang shouted angrily.

"The country is in danger, this is the only way to do it now!" Zhe Keqiu said.

"Master Zhe is right. The country is in danger, and this is the only way to do it now!" Han Ping stood up and said.

"That's the only way to do it now! I also think what Zhe-sama said is right!" Another minister stood up!

Not long after, all the ministers stood up and supported it!

"Your Majesty, this is absolutely impossible!" Li Gang knelt down and said.

"Although Li Aiqing is the prime minister, the expansion of the army is a matter of military affairs, and the military is under the jurisdiction of the Privy Council! Zhe Aiqing is the envoy of the Privy Council. Since he has decided to expand the army, let's expand the army!" Zhao Chen said flatly.

"Your Majesty is wise!" Zhe Keqiu said happily.

Therefore, without any suspense, the decree of "army expansion" can be expected to be issued! If you can ask for a discount, you can freely expand the army!

Then, another minister stepped forward to play! This minister thinks that Hanzhong is simple, the palace is simple, Zhao Chen has just ascended the throne, and there is a lack of eunuchs in the palace, so this minister thinks that eunuchs should be recruited! Zhao Chen refused this matter without hesitation. He traveled from later generations. Although it has been a long time now and has gradually integrated into this era, he is very concerned about the existence of eunuchs who are neither male nor female. Absolutely not interested, and he doesn't approve of mutilating other people's bodies! When he was in Kaifeng back then, he had a group of eunuchs by his side, there was nothing he could do about it, but now he doesn't want to have eunuchs by his side anymore!

Zhe Keqiu now only wants to expand his power and control the court, and he is obviously not interested in recruiting eunuchs! There is no compromise to ask for support, and Zhao Chen objected, so this matter was dropped!

Another minister came forward to play, thinking that there should be more maids in the palace! Zhao Chen didn't object to this matter, so this matter was passed temporarily, but he didn't have the mind to take care of this matter now, so he handed this matter over to Han Ping, the Minister of Rituals, to handle it!

The morning court lasted for a full hour, and when the court was over, Zhe Keqiu looked at Li Gang with a smug look on his face, and Li Gang snorted coldly, and strode away outside! Over the years, Li Gang has endured a lot of hardships, and he didn't care about today's embarrassment at all!

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Late at night, back in Zhefu, Zhe Keqiu and Zhe Yanwen sat together!

The two of them just had dinner and are now discussing the situation between North Korea and China!

"Father, Li Gang is against us everywhere! We should expel Li Gang from the court as soon as possible!" Zhe Yanwen said.

"Now is not the time!" Zhe Keqiu shook his head and said.

"Isn't it time yet?" Zhe Yanwen asked in surprise.

"Your Majesty has just ascended the throne. Sichuan, Shu, Hanzhong, and Guanshan are still not stable. There are many soldiers and civilians in various places who want King Kang! After all, King Kang is old, and many people think that King Kang is the wise king in troubled times! Li Gang's reputation is extremely high. If Get rid of Li Gang now, I'm afraid the place will be even more unstable! I'll get rid of Li Gang after the place is stabilized! But, now we can get rid of the few unimportant warriors around His Majesty first!" Zhe Keqiu sneered.

"Father mean Wang De?" Zhe Yanwen asked.

"In addition to Wang De, there are also the three personal guards beside His Majesty, Yue Fei, Wang Gui, and Zhang Xian, these three people must also be removed!" Zhe Keqiu said.

"It's just three warriors, they are insignificant, isn't father worrying too much?" Zhe Yanwen said.

"Those three people are extremely skilled in martial arts, staying by His Majesty's side is always a hidden danger! They must be removed!" Zhe Keqiu said.