Zhao Defang's road to the virtuous king

Defang wiped away tears and pulled Concubine Di, holding her and Wei Xu's hands, "Ma'am, Xu'er, I will definitely protect you, never, ever, this kind of thing will never happen again." Then she hugged her tightly them.

After more than a month, Shen Yuanyang resigned due to illness after recovering from his injuries, and left the capital with his grandson Shen Xiong to return to his hometown. Wang Bin cremated his son's body and disappeared with the ashes in his arms.

In March, the imperial court re-examined the candidates who passed the examination of the Ministry of Rites. A total of 170 and 310 candidates were selected, and 20 and 76 candidates from other subjects were passed on.Among these people were Li Zong'er, the son of Prime Minister Li Fang, Lv Mengheng, the cousin of Lv Mengzheng, the political adviser, Wang Fu, the son of Wang Ming, the salt and iron envoy, and Xu Daiwen, the son of Xu Zhongxuan, the Duzhi envoy. But Taizong read the list and said: These four are all They are close relatives of important officials of the imperial court, but the people who take the scientific examination with them are civilian students. Even if they are born as Jinshi with real talents and knowledge, the common people will take care of them by the imperial court. At the same time, Wang Congshan, a 300-year-old Qingzhou student, took the "Five Classics" exam and claimed that he could recite all the Five Classics, so Taizong conducted an assessment on him. Wang Congshan really recited it fluently. He was awarded a Jinshi background, a green gown, a silver belt, and [-] yuan in person. The officials reported to Emperor Taizong, saying that there was still a possibility of missing talents, so a few days later, the imperial court re-examined the students again, and got [-] Jinshi students, and [-] people with Jinshi backgrounds in other subjects. .

In April, Emperor Taizong summoned the prime ministers, Shenzhizhengshi, privy envoys, three envoys, Hanlin, privy direct bachelors, ministers of the fourth rank in Shangshu province, and above five ranks in the two provinces, and the bachelors of the third hall held a banquet in the imperial garden, enjoying flowers and fishing with the officials , Listening to music and drinking wine, composing poems with everyone, shooting arrows, and decreed to take this as an example, to have fun with important officials of the court every year in the Palace Royal Garden.

In May, Emperor Taizong of Zhongshumen sent a petition, suggesting that officials who had been demoted but pardoned should be reassigned. Distinguish. As the ancients said, you should correct yourself first, just like running a family. If you are not correct, your family will be in chaos. If you listen to slanderous words, you will separate your flesh and blood. They are officials who have made serious mistakes. I will always think of their hardships when offering sacrifices. However, what these officials have done has harmed the people and the country. If these sinister people are restored to power again, they will definitely form friends and plant cliques. Frame upright colleagues, they are like black sheep, how can I forgive them so easily!"

In June, the deputy general of the frontier, Wang Yu, and other generals led troops from Yinzhou to break through the villages in Xili occupied by the Dangxiang tribe. More than 120 households of the 53 five Dangxiang tribes occupying Yinzhou, Linzhou, and Xiazhou surrendered to the Song Dynasty.In the same month, Lu Duoxun, the prime minister who was demoted to Yazhou, was [-] years old.

In July, the imperial court issued an edict: all the transfer envoys, state governors, inspectors, warehouse officials and small officials, etc. should pay attention to the warehouse millet according to the time, and there should be no damage. , or sold and loaned to the common people, or transported to the capital, if officials fail to take responsibility and cause food to be destroyed, the imperial court will dismiss them and severely punish them.

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