The Struggle of the Reborn Prince

Chapter 71 Big Event

Zhao Tong finished explaining all the matters and embarked on the journey back to the capital again. This time, except for Zhao Xin, who no one dared to marry, he only had Wangfu, Xifu and other ten guards who did not need to marry and more than thirty

After having a daughter-in-law and a baby, the guards all stayed in Xiangyi.

On their honeymoon. When they came back this time, they didn’t even have to enter the inner city gate. They went directly to the new palace inside the West Water Gate. It is adjacent to Jinming Pool in the north and Qionglin Garden in the south. It is a place with great scenery, but there are few neighbors.

No one lives next to him except restaurants and shops.

The new palace is more than twice the size of the old palace. It took eight months to build the new palace. The furniture and furnishings were all from the palace. There are three to four hundred rooms in three spans and four entrances. The amount of work is not small. Again.

Looking at the inner courtyard, it breaks the common architectural pattern in the north. Instead, it is built after the scenery of the south of the Yangtze River. Pavilions, pavilions and pavilions are scattered among it, and dozens of small courtyards are built according to the trend of the landscape. People feel like they are living in a painting.

"Second Master, this place is completely modeled after the Winter Garden in Xiangyi Prefecture, and the furniture inside is the same as there!" Jianxi, who had returned early, showed the prince around and led him into a larger courtyard.

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"Oh, it's really the same!" Xin Zhao rushed in and took a look at each room.

"Alas, the shape is similar but not the spirit. It doesn't feel like the one in Xiangyi!" Zhao Tao sighed as he touched the pillar that still smelled like paint.

"Second Master, this is the order of the empress. She knew that you have been nostalgic for living in Xiangyi for a long time, so she built this courtyard just like that!" Jian Xi said. He saw that the prince's face darkened and said nothing.

Entered the house.

After dinner, several senior officials of the palace gathered together again to listen to their report on the situation during the period after leaving the capital so as to make early preparations. If you don’t listen, you don’t know that a lot of things happened in the capital during this period.

Demons danced wildly inside and outside the palace, and there were overt and covert struggles in the court, creating several firsts in the history of the Song Dynasty!

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Zhao Ji had never left Kaifeng in his life. He had only read tens of thousands of books and never traveled a hundred miles. The palaces built in the past dynasties were nothing more than inlaying gold and silver, or carving bricks and tiles. They were all man-made art. Cai Jing was unique. He came from Suzhou in the south of the Yangtze River.

, Taihu stones were transported from Huzhou and Huzhou, and they were skillfully embedded in the palace. They immediately gave out a fresh breath of life in the majestic, upright, and rigid atmosphere. Zhao Ji had never seen these big stones before.

He was suddenly fascinated by the masterpieces of nature, and ordered a special department to be set up in Jiangnan to collect these worthless stones for him. Soon, a trouble came to him. In the past few years, through the efforts of many officials, he had accumulated nearly ten stones.

Tens of thousands of stones were built, so much that there was no room for them in the palace. Even with the newly built Yanfu Palace, it was still too tight. He turned his attention to the mountains outside the inner city.

Speaking of that piece of earth, it is a mountain of meritorious service and a mountain of legend. There is a kind of trouble that is almost common to all human beings. No one can escape it and no one can control it - that is the problem of the successor. It is as if Zhao Guangyi's descendants have been cursed.

The son just works hard, Emperor Zhenzong, Emperor Renzong, Emperor Zhezong, all

The problem of his son caused a big problem, affecting the national economy and people's livelihood. When it was Zhao Ji's turn, the problem still existed. Before he came to Dabao, he had more than 40 wives and concubines, but none of them were up to par. But at that time, it was just a personal problem.

It's different for the emperor, then it becomes a national problem!

Zhao Ji's daily work, in addition to going to court and working overtime, returned to the harem and worked overtime, but there was not much movement. Just as good luck came during the crisis, Liu Hunkang, a living immortal Taoist, walked around Kaifeng and said to him,

As long as the land in the northeast corner of the capital is raised, princes will be born in batches. This is how things work.

Strangely, since the terrain in the northeast corner became higher, the concubines in the harem suddenly became pregnant collectively, and really gave birth to a series of boys. Up to now, the living ones, the dead ones, and even half-dead ones like Zhao Yu have come back to life.

All of them are included. Not counting the girls, there are already about twenty. There is no need to find outsiders to organize the football match.

In order to express his gratitude to Taoism and to have more sons, Zhao Ji ordered the northeast corner of the capital city to be raised twice as high, turning it into a mountain. Then it was lengthened and turned into a mountain range.

All the stones were moved there. Because it was built by the current emperor for his successor, it was named Longevity Mountain. Since it is located in the northeast corner, calculated from the innate Bagua orientation, it is in the "Gen" position, so it was nicknamed Genyue.

The mountain is ready-made, but it is not easy to decorate it. Everyone knows that decorating means pasting hundreds of dollar bills one by one in the house. In some places, two or three layers of bills are required.

, is simply more violent than having an affair. With Zhao Ji’s artistic taste,

With the cultural essence of the Song Dynasty and the rich products of the Chinese land, is it conceivable how far Gen Yue could be decorated? This is simply a mountain of subjugation that could be built without the help of the whole country, and it would be possible for future generations to spend military funds to build a garden.

Lafayette can fight him twice!

Another major event is the rapid rise of Taoist priest Lin Lingsu, who ascended to the altar of the Song Dynasty. This is in line with Zhao Tao's saying that a traitor must have a genius. If you think of a wild Taoist priest who has no foundation and is wandering around.

With just one mouthful, it took less than a year to make the prime minister who had dominated the court for more than ten years feel a crisis, and then quickly eliminate it. How powerful that is.

After Lin Lingsu gained the emperor's trust, he used Cai Jingxian to get rid of Wang Zaixi and take charge of Baobang Palace. Then he used the Shangqing Baoru Palace as a base and often held fasting festivals. Each time, he gave a large amount of alms, spending tens of thousands or even thousands of dollars.

He spent hundreds of thousands of dollars to buy people's hearts and made an indelible contribution to the popularity of Taoism in the country. Then he used the opportunity of Taoist priests to set up ranks to win benefits for all Taoist brothers and unite them tightly around him.

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Now that they have power, Taoist priests do not need to salute or bow their heads when they see officials. This is not just a courtesy, it is simply beyond the ordinary. Power means money, and Taoist priests are building Shenxiao Palaces and palaces all over the country.

The envoys are no longer part-time jobs for officials

, are all held by brothers in the religion, so the generous wages of the palace guards are all put into the small treasury. Finally, it is an ultimate privilege. No matter who commits any crime, except for being anti-Song Dynasty, anti-dictatorship and anti-hereditary, as long as he joins Taoism, he will immediately be reborn.

, make a new life.

In addition, he passed on the "Yu Qing Shen Xiao Talisman" to the officials and common people in the capital. The Talisman is a certificate for entering the Tao. Lin Lingsu promised that if the official gets it, his official career will be safe; if the scholar gets it, he will be named on the gold list; if the common people get it, his family will be safe.

Peace; those who do business will make a lot of money. Anyway, this thing is like tiger balm, it can cure diseases.

If you are not sick, you can prevent diseases. Those who are infertile can have babies, and those who have babies can have three children. In short, there is no harm. With the strong promotion of Master Lin and the strong support of the emperor, the officials and people in the capital generally followed Taoism, and the lights in the palaces and temples were bright.

When we meet, everyone always asks, "Are you in?" This is exactly Zhao Ji's dream, and the trend of seeking Taoism has finally become popular!

Then Lin Lingsu did another shocking thing. He actually publicly overturned the verdict of Yuanyou's old party. In front of the emperor, he kowtowed to the Yuanyou party monument inscribed by the emperor himself, and called them gods in the sky. He Dare to do this, not only to find out the emperor's pulse, but also to consolidate his position and flatter the two chamberlains Liang Shicheng and Tong Guan.

Everyone already knew about Eunuch Liang. He recognized Su Shi as his father and asked his "brother" Su Guo to admit that Shi Cheng's biological mother was Su Shi's concubine. Tong Guan also wanted to recognize a famous father as his father, but his reputation was not very good. He discussed with Han Cuiyan, the son of Prime Minister Han Qi, but failed; he also had a serious talk with Wang Zhonghong, the son of former Yuanyou Party tycoon and former Prime Minister Wang Gui, and then he became the illegitimate son of Prime Minister Wang. Of course, the son does not want his father to be a guilty minister. After several efforts, the emperor did not even spit out his words, but now Lin Lingsu did it. Of course, the gratitude of the two of them was like the water of the Yellow River, and the three of them formed an alliance!

And the emperor's drunken words aroused Lin Lingsu's murderous intention. Zhao Ji said, "When he was in heaven, he was angry when he saw the dense bald heads on the ground. Even the cassocks, crowns, tin staffs and other things were not pleasing to the eye." He immediately became angry. Recalling the unpleasant experience of becoming a monk when I was young, being mistreated by my master, and being looked down upon by monks when I was begging, how could I not avenge the hatred of the country and the family?

Change, everything needs to be changed. First, the leadership organization has been changed. The management organization, the Senglu Department, has been changed to the Taxi Department. The Left and Right Street Department has been changed to the Moral Yuan. The Moral Department is affiliated with the Moral Yuan. First, it has been downgraded by one level. Then the name has been changed. A monk is called a Virtue, a nun is called a Virtuous Person, a Buddha is called a Golden Immortal, a Bodhisattva is called an Immortal, an Arhat is called a Wuluo, a Vajra is called a strong person, and a Sangha is called a cultivator. The ultimatum should be changed accordingly; the clothes should also be changed, and the crown should follow the flow of the Tao. To change into a half-Taoist priest, even the Buddha statues they worship must be changed. They must wear star crowns on their heads, but they are not allowed to have sun, moon and star patterns. They are just a dark hat. But this hat is not easy to wear, who let them be Bald heads, but this is not a problem for the monks. In order to survive, they all put on wigs. They put hairpins on the wigs and tied them with a belt around their necks. It's okay to look at it from a distance, but it's hard to see. Come on! Historical dynasties have respected Taoism and destroyed Buddhism more than once, but monks wear Taoist uniforms. This is the first in Chinese history and even in the history of the world!

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In the early activities of advocating Taoism, Cai Jing and Cai You were also among the founders, leading the trend and selecting talents. It can be said that several main characters are inextricably related to him. Wang Laozhi, Wang Laozhi, Cai Xi and Zhang Xubai were all recommended by him. Those who were obedient were exploited, and those who were disobedient were immediately punished. It can be said that everything they did was under Cai Jing's control. These people are immortals with infinite glory in front of others, but in fact It's the chess piece in his hand.

But now, Lin Lingsu has become a full-fledged and prosperous person, so she wants to get rid of the Cai family and her son, draw a clear line with him, and set up a new mountain. Master Cai is very angry: You think it is an unlocked bicycle on the roadside. Just ride if you want to ride, throw if you want to throw, I have to let you know whether I am a tiger or a cat! So there are sparks between the famous traitor in history and the famous demon in history.

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