MTL - Poor Family-v2 Chapter 996 Re-establish a new king
Chapter 996 Establishing a new king again
In Yinlong Villa, Zhao Ji stood in front of the study window with his hands behind his back, staring at the big tree outside the window for a long time. Although Li Yanqing promised to let him go, the conditions he offered were a bit unbearable for him. Isn't it just another Cao Cao?
Gao Shen did not speak, patiently waiting for Zhao Ji's decision.
Although Zhao Ji was extremely reluctant, he had no choice. He knew that even if Li Yanqing didn't approve him, he could still be the regent of the country, but if he didn't agree, he would only die.
Zhao Ji sighed, and asked again: "What other conditions does he have?"
"On this condition, if His Majesty agrees, please make an order as soon as possible, and His Majesty can live in peace of mind in the future. After all, he is also His Majesty's son-in-law, and he will not treat His Majesty badly!"
Zhao Ji was stunned for a moment, with a wry smile on his face, he had forgotten that Li Yanqing was still his son-in-law.
Zhao Ji nodded, "I know, here's the decree!"
He walked to the table, spread out a blank volume of imperial edict, and wrote down the canonization of Li Yanqing as the regent of the country, and restored all his old positions and princes. Pass it to Gao Shen.
Zhao Ji asked a little sadly: "Gao Aiqing, in the future, will the surname be Zhao or Li?"
Gao Shen saluted slightly, "As long as the Song Dynasty is still alive, the surname of the world will still be Zhao. Take care, Your Majesty, and I will retire."
"Will Gao Aiqing come again in the future?"
Gao Shen pondered for a while and said: "In order for His Majesty to enjoy his old age in peace, it is best for me not to disturb Your Majesty, and I hope that no one will disturb Your Majesty!"
Gao Shen tactfully persuaded Zhao Ji not to make the same mistakes again, Li Yanqing is not his son Zhao Gou.
Zhao Ji also understood Gao Shen's advice, nodded and said: "Okay! Gao Aiqing, let him pass the past, let us forget each other in Jianghu."
Gao Shen saluted him, turned around and left quickly.
The gate of Yinlong Villa was closed with a bang, and the guards at the gate had been replaced by people sent by Li Yanqing. From now on, no one can enter Yinlong Villa without an order from Li Yanqing himself.
On the day when the army entered Lin'an City, Li Yanqing ordered Huang Qianshan, Wang Boyan and Du Chong to be beheaded in the public place of Wuling Gate.
Three prime ministers, Lu Yihao, Fan Zongyin, and Zhu Shengfei, were deposed as civilians, making the three of them face the wall and think about their mistakes.
In the early morning of the next day, 384 court officials gathered in the Daqing Hall. Fan Zhixu, Gao Shen, Cao Yan, Zheng Wangzhi, and Li Gang were selected by voting for the first time to form the new Zhizheng Hall. In the imperial decree of the Son of Heaven, Prince Zhao Yang was established as the new emperor, and the will of the Supreme Emperor was read out, and Jin Wang Li Yanqing was canonized as the regent and supervisor of the country. Because the new emperor was young, he was entrusted to his mother Xing to be raised.
Li Yanqing immediately honored the Xing family as empress dowager, and announced a series of promotions and transfers of court officials, and at the same time increased the salary of court officials by one level, and promised to solve the problems of official residences and official residences of all court officials above rank nine within half a year.
This is also the most urgent problem for the court officials. Nearly half of the court officials do not have official housing and can only rely on renting private houses. This series of win-win methods has won him the support of most court officials.
Of course, the reason why most court officials support him is not that he can bring a little bit of welfare to the court officials. The real reason is that he opened up the territory for the Song Dynasty, destroyed the Xixia Kingdom, fought against the Jin soldiers, supported justice, and avenged the emperor. , And follow the emperor's edict to make the prince emperor.
Li Yanqing won the trust of hundreds of officials with his practical actions, so when he convened hundreds of officials to discuss the new policy, more than 90% of the officials came to the court to report.
In Zhizheng Hall, Li Yanqing held the first ministerial meeting.
Fan Zhixu was the right minister, and presided over the first Zhizheng Tang Xiangguo meeting.
"The coup has just been quelled, and everything is waiting to be dealt with. We feel that everything is very important and there is no need to delay, but no matter everything has a priority, I thought about it. Right now, we need to deal with three things urgently."
Fan Zhixu turned his head and glanced at Li Yanqing. Li Yanqing was only in charge of convening and listening in, but he did not interfere with the Zhizhengtang's discussions. His power was not reflected here, but the Zhizhengtang's resolutions must be approved by him and approved by him. It will not take effect until it is reprinted, and he has the right to veto the resolution of Zhizhengtang.
However, in order to improve efficiency and minimize Li Yanqing's vetoes, Li Yanqing will also put forward his own opinions when discussing major military and state affairs in the Zhizheng Hall. In this way, the Zhizheng Hall's resolutions will be compromised.
Fan Zhixu continued: "The first thing is to restore order and lift martial law. We should issue an amnesty order to pardon other personnel involved in the palace coup.
The second thing is to abolish all the rules and regulations formulated by the puppet court, disband the Supervision Bureau, and cancel all rewards from the puppet court. Large rewards must be recovered.
The third thing is to send ultimatums to the governments all over the world, asking the chief officials and sub-officials of all states to take the initiative to express their opinions, support the imperial court, and pledge allegiance to the new emperor. Impeachment and recall under the circumstances, do you have any opinions on the above three items? "
Gao Shen said: "Let me add something! In this adjustment of court officials, many officials who were dismissed by the puppet court have returned to their original posts, and officials who were promoted by the puppet court have also been dismissed. This result is very exciting, but this adjustment is only It involves the imperial court, but as far as I know, officials from the seven state capitals and 23 counties near Lin'an Mansion also have this problem, and I think this is also an urgent matter and should be adjusted together."
Fan Zhixu nodded, "Sure! Then it's four o'clock, do you have any comments?"
"Let me say a few words!"
Li Yanqing, who had been silent all this time, smiled and said, "I also have a few things that are urgent here, so you might as well add them in."
"Please speak, Your Highness!"
Li Yanqing said slowly: "One is the issue of the removal of prisoners of war. There are still 70,000 prisoners of war in the barracks. I hope to send them back to their hometowns as soon as possible. It will cost about 200,000 guan and 100,000 shi of food. The court does not need money and food. , We already have enough money and food in the supplies we seized, but it is up to the court to deal with this matter.
The second is the issue of rewards for meritorious officers and soldiers. According to the usual practice, it should be based on land rewards, and meritorious generals should also be rewarded as appropriate. I can come up with a plan. I hope that Zhizheng Hall will pass it as soon as possible. You can take a while to adjust the matter and settle these two matters first. "
Fan Zhixu smiled and said: "There is no problem in resolving these two matters concerning Your Highness, but how much food is still in your Highness's hand, should it be handed over to the imperial court? Promise to solve the housing problem for half a year, we don't know what to do."
Li Yanqing nodded with a smile, "There is not much money and food, there are about 500,000 shi of food and 5.2 million guan, which are actually military expenses, and these money and food cannot be given to the court for the time being.
However, confiscating the property of Huang Qianshan and others can be given to the court. You may not have imagined that the amount of silver confiscated from Huang Qianshan's mansion alone reached 3 million taels, 50,000 taels of gold, and 2 million copper coins in the cellar. Du Chong's mansion is even more amazing. Only five million taels of silver were confiscated. According to his son, he was a shipbuilder for three years and embezzled two million taels of silver. He still has more than a hundred thousand taels of gold in his house. All the seized wealth can be handed over to the court. In addition, I have a huge fortune that will be handed over to the court. "
Fan Zhixu blurted out, "But Xixia's confiscated wealth?"
Everyone burst into laughter, Li Yanqing pointed at Fan Zhixu and said with a smile: "Who dares to say that you are confused, but you can't forget that fortune!"
Gao Shen smiled and said: "It's not that we don't forget, destroying the Xixia country, there should be something to gain! It is said that their treasury is empty, so where is the wealth of Xixia, it must be concentrated in the hands of the princes and nobles, but when these princes and nobles move to In Lin'an, each of them had no money left, so where did their wealth go, isn't that obvious?"
Li Yanqing said indifferently: "This wealth is indeed huge. I personally did not take any money. I originally planned to use this wealth to recover Hebei and Central Plains military expenses, but now that the situation has changed, I will transport them all back to Lin'an. Supplement The imperial treasury is used as the capital for the imperial court to issue Xinjiaozi."
Everyone was rubbing their hands with joy. In recent years, the imperial court’s finances have indeed been very tight, especially the huge military expenditure. Much better.
Fan Zhixu waved his hand, "Let's talk about the business first, plus the two things His Highness explained just now, then there are six points in total. While His Highness is here, let's all vote on it! After the approval, we can start implementing it immediately."
(end of this chapter)
