Northern Song Dynasty Revitalization Strategy

Chapter 277 A Millennium Puzzle
Tong Guan's body was found in an inn outside Bianjing, and Tong Guan left a letter.

Zhao Huan took a look around and realized why Tong Guan died.

He is a eunuch first, and after leaving the palace, he will be useless.

How can someone who has been all-powerful for decades bear this kind of crime?

But now that the Supreme Emperor is being raised in Genyue Palace, he no longer has any existence value.

Therefore, Tong Guan didn't show his ambition with death, and he didn't want to be used by the new emperor, but had another purpose.

Why did Zhao Huan want to use Tong Guan again?Because in the team of eunuchs, Tong Guan is more manly than Zhao Gou.

Zhao Gou lived to be 81 years old and had no children. Zhao Huanmo thought he was an eunuch.

After Emperor Huizong of Song Dynasty ascended the throne, Tong Guan went to Longyou Duhufu ten times as an envoy, and visited the Northwest Fifth Road many times. He was very familiar with the military affairs in the Northwest. Understand the talents of the generals of the Western Army.

This also allowed him to obtain the power to supervise the army for the first time in April of the third year in Chongning.

The Longyou Protectorate's Mansion has always been the focus of struggle among the tribes of Tubo, the countries of the Western Regions, Xixia and the Song Dynasty.

When Zhang Dun established the Longyou Jiedu Army, although Longyou had already belonged to the Song Dynasty in name.

However, only relying on the military fort to occupy, the Tubo tribes even fought with the Song Dynasty repeatedly in the Qingtang area of ​​Huangzhou.

In April of the third year of Chongning, Wang Hou was the commander-in-chief, and he joined forces with [-] troops to attack Qingtang again, intending to retake part of the Qingtang area occupied by the Qiang people.

At that time, [-] soldiers and horses were hoarded in Huangzhou, and Tong Guan received a letter from Emperor Huizong of Song Dynasty, ordering Tong Guan to withdraw the troops.

Because of a fire in the palace, it is unknown.

After Tong Guan read and folded the handbook, he put it in his boots. Wang Hou asked about the contents of the handbook, and Tong Guan said with a smile: "The officials hope that I will succeed in dispatching troops."

Wang Hou is determined!

Then soldiers sent troops to Qingtang to take the land of the four states, completely consolidating the Song Dynasty's position in Longyou Duhufu.

After this battle, the tribes of Tubo knew that they could not win the battle with Song Dynasty, so they bullied Dali.

And the countries of the Western Regions also began to play a rally with the Great Food Kingdom.

In the first year of Zhenghe, Tong Guan finally climbed from Xihe Lanhuang and Qinfeng Road economic strategy appeasement envoy to Wukang Army Jiedu envoy, and crusade against Xige Zangzheng, recovered Jishi Army and Taozhou, and was promoted to inspector Sakong.

In the first year of Zhenghe, Tong Guan went to Liao as an envoy.

Although the Liao Kingdom was exhausted at that time, there were still great talents like Yelu Yujian and good generals like Yelu Dashi.

Before the Jin people killed the Liao Kingdom, the Liao Kingdom had always been a mountain on the heads of the Jin and Song people.

It was also on that mission that Yelu Yujian, the man who set up the horse, lost to the one among the breeders.

In the same year, Tong Guan returned to the Northwest again, and led the army into the Hengshan area of ​​Xixia, completely perfected the military fort tactics left by Zhang Dun, and finally drove Xixia out of Hengshan.

This move changed the offensive and defensive momentum of Xixia and Song Dynasty into a situation where Song Dynasty could send troops at any time to conquer Xixia.

The next year, Tong Guan led soldiers from Qinfeng Road and Jinzhong to go deep into the river and Long, and forced the troops to force Xingqing Mansion. It was only because of Tong Guan's improper command that Liu Fa died in battle, and the Song army was greatly shaken.

In the second year of Xuanhe, the earth dragon in the south of the Yangtze River turned over, and the harm caused by the earthquake was the Fangla Uprising.

At this time, Wang Fu, the prime minister of the Great Song Dynasty, hid the military report of Fang La's uprising, until Fang La actually made a big splash and established himself as emperor.

Only when Fang La showed signs of accomplishing great things with his millions of soldiers, Song Huizong ordered Tong Guan to lead his troops to suppress the rebellion in panic.

In the fourth year of Xuanhe, it took Tong Guan 450 days to go from Taiyuan to Jiangnan, defeat Fangla, and then go to Anwen South.

When the army turned back to Bianjing and then back to Taiyuan, they didn't take a moment's rest.

In the fourth year of Xuanhe, he began to attack Liao with the Kingdom of Jin.

The exhausted army was naturally defeated.

What's more, there is also a wonderful marching guide of "If you dare to kill a person, follow the military law" that will be defended from the middle.

What kind of victory can the restrained Song Junan achieve?
When the Jin people went south, Tong Guan's [-] victorious troops were stationed in Taiyuan City. Hearing that the Jin people's troops were unstoppable, they fled overnight. The army traveled hundreds of miles overnight, and ran back to Bianjing in a few days.

However, the Jiesheng Army was left on standby near Maling Pass.

If we only look at the first half of Tong Guan's life, Tong Guan's actions, if there were no Jin people who abandoned the city and fled when they went south, he would not be judged as a traitor in history.

In fact, Zhao Huan didn't ask in front of so many people.

In fact, he really wanted to ask Tong Guan if he had fled from Taiyuan City when he traveled thousands of miles away, or had he received Zhao Ji's orders.

The reason why Zhao Huan had such doubts was because Tong Guan's behavior was really unbelievable. He, an eunuch who was crowned king when the Jin soldiers went south, actually led the troops to escape, not to mention extremely abnormal.

The most important thing is that Zhao Huan knew that when Tong Guan handed over the military power of the Jiesheng Army, he ran to find Zhao Ji to be loyal.

Zhao Ji once ordered Tong Guan to lead the troops to go south with him.

So Zhao Huan really wanted to know whether Tong Guan's drama of traveling thousands of miles to the palace in Taiyuan City was his original intention, or did it come from Song Huizong's instruction?
It's a pity that this question will never be known after Tong Guan hanged himself, and Zhao Huan also knows that the history books of later generations will never give Tong Guan an objective evaluation, because he is an eunuch.

History books often blame women and eunuchs for the subversion of the dynasty.

Whether it was his intention or Zhao Ji's instigation to escape from Taiyuan has become a mystery for thousands of years.

Zhao Huan didn't intend to rehabilitate Tong Guan either, he knew this because he needed people to train soldiers.

He thought about it carefully for a long time, and felt that Tong Guanxuan's vision was extremely accurate, so he wanted to use it.

Anyway, holding Zhao Ji, Tong Guan didn't dare to think about anything else.

Zhao Ji, his childish master, is not going to make decisions for him, nor is he going to do so.

How many truths of history are hidden in the wind and sand?
Zhao Huan shook his head, he must die.

"Officials, what should we do with Tong Guan's body?" Zhao Ying hurried in from outside the hall and asked beside Zhao Huan.

Zhao Huan was taken aback, is he so ignorant as a great eunuch?Do you have to ask yourself such a small thing?

"Of course it was buried. What else can I do? Waiting for him to establish a government office and thousands of people will dress him in mourning? Once he dies, those people he had befriended at the beginning will definitely disperse. Why are you still planning to make a mess for Tong Guan?" The mourning hall?" Zhao Huan asked curiously.

Zhao Ying shook her head and said: "It is estimated that the ministers will speak up tomorrow and hang his body on the top of the city. That's why the old minister asked this question."

Only then did Zhao Huan realize that Zhao Ying had asked this question. He thought for a while and said, "Bury it."

"Tong Guan died, the body was reused, hung on the top of the city to appease the hearts of the people? What do the ministers guess mean?" Zhao Huan asked.

Zhao Ying nodded and said: "Maybe the disaster of the Jin soldiers, the death of one Li Zhuo and one Wu Min, is not enough to stop the people of the world. There must be someone who needs to bear the responsibility. No matter how you say it, Tong Guan is also a king. It stands to reason that the portion is enough.”

When Zhao Huan heard this, his pen stopped.Only then did he understand why Tong Guan committed suicide so resolutely. Someone had to take the blame when the Jin soldiers went south, but Tong Guan himself stood up and chose to take the blame.

Eunuchs who become kings must be evildoers.

With a little publicity, his childlike notoriety spread.

Now that the culprit of the Jin people going south to threaten Bianjing has been found, and he took the responsibility for the blame, Zhao Ji naturally doesn't have to carry it.

"Tong Guan was still alive when you arrived." Zhao Huan asked suddenly.

Zhao Ying knelt down with a puff, kowtowed repeatedly and said, "The official is wise."

Zhao Huan shook his head, his great eunuch was very afraid of things, he was actually not very sure just now, with his head, he didn't ask himself.

"Get up and talk. With your appearance, how can you be the ancestor of the Great Song Palace? There are more than a hundred eunuchs waiting for you to preside over the palace. How can you preside over it with this appearance?"

"Let me just say, Zhao Ying, you don't care about the foreign court at all, and you don't care about it. How did you think of asking me what to do with the corpse. It seems to be Tong Guan's words."

"What did Tong Guan say about his corpse?" Zhao Huan asked, dealing with other people's corpses, and asking the dead for their opinions.

Zhao Huan suddenly remembered that he still had the nickname of Yan Luo in the Ten Palaces, and that he was living more and more like King Yama.

"Tong Guan said that the head of the owl was hanged on the top of the city in front of the public, and the punishment will be enforced. But he asked the minister to let the minister hang higher. Tong Guan said that he was ugly, and he was afraid that he would scare the children."

Zhao Huan nodded and said, "Then do as Tong Guan said."

Zhao Huan originally planned to bury Tong Guan directly. If it was a civil official who made such a remonstrance, he would definitely refuse. There are many party disputes in the court.

Zhao Huan would never leave this blade of grass and let eunuchs and civil officials fight.

So how to check and balance civil servants?
Such a complicated problem, of course, is left to Li Gang to have a headache!
The emperor controls the prime minister, the prime minister controls hundreds of officials, and it is the prime minister's job to check and balance civil officials.

"Okay, let's go." Zhao Huan asked Zhao Ying to go down, and smiled when he saw Zhao Ying walk out of the hall.

If Zhao Ying represented the eunuch in the battle, wouldn't he be hanged and beaten by the civil official group headed by Li Gang?
This level of combat power is really too low, even Zhao Huan could see his careful thinking at a glance. When he arrived in the court, he was not eaten alive by the wolf-like civil servants?
Zhao Huan shook his head, continued to review the papers boredly, and said to himself: "Zhao Ying, when will you grow up, you are the ancestor of the palace, can you be more complicated?"

Zhao Huan stopped writing suddenly, looked at Zhao Ying walking out, and frowned.

What if Zhao Ying deliberately let herself see it?No, he shouldn't be so scheming.

Are you thinking too much?

Zhao Ying came out of Wende Hall and Dongye Gate, and came to Yizhuang, where Tong Guan's body was placed, and there were still Wu Zuo.

Before he entered the palace, he asked Wu Zuo to come over for an autopsy, and also asked Li Ruoshui, the governor of Kaifeng Prefecture, to come to the village to watch Tong Guan's head being cut off.

Only then did he heave a long sigh of relief, he had to be cautious when doing business for the emperor, so he found a foreman to do the autopsy. There were many differences between being strangled to death and strangling himself before death.

The officials of the Criminal Division of the Song Dynasty are good at reasoning in this area, and he, Zhao Ying, has a clear conscience.

Naturally, they dared to let Li Ruoshui and others take Wu Zuo to conduct an autopsy in person.

The reason why Zhao Ying asked Li Ruoshui to come was to let him represent the civil servants of the Song Dynasty and watch the result.

"Zhao everyone knows, let someone see this owl head, you are so sincere that you can't sleep at night." Li Ruoshui vomited several times, and finally vomited out all the lunch in his stomach.

Zhao Ying also vomited several times, and said: "You think that someone wants to see it, this is not me representing the officials, you represent the civil servants, are you sure that Tong Guan is dead?"

Zhao Ying said with a smile: "When dealing with officials, you must be considerate. After all, our family is a eunuch, and many things are taboo."

"The officials should have waited and asked all the officials to write a letter, and then the officials repeatedly shirked, and then had to make the decision to show off to the public under the advice of the officials. This only shows the benevolence of the officials." Li Ruoshui smiled wryly. Said.

This child's death was originally a major event, but it ended so quickly, which really made Li Ruoshui a little disappointed, and the civil servants once again lost the opportunity to express themselves.

"You'd better not link up the guilt of Chen Biao Tong Guan in the letter. Although the officials took Tong Guan's head, they also recognized that it was Tong Guan's last words before his death. The officials don't like linking up and party disputes." Zhao Ying reminded In a word, he went to the palace.

Zhao Ying reminded the civil servants that this sentence was not for the purpose of interfering with the foreign court. What he liked more was that the officials had good ideas and the provincial civil servants made trouble for the officials.

As he walked, he was thinking about what to have for dinner at the official's house.

It's strange to say that the three meals of most people in Song Dynasty are noon, evening and supper. When they arrive at the official's house, they are morning, noon and night.

This has brought some troubles to the Imperial Food Bureau, so Zhao Ying has been keeping an eye on the Imperial Food Bureau for this reason recently.

His main purpose is not to show up again, the matter of the crown prince eating pancakes for a month.

As the officials said, he is now the ancestor of the palace people in the Great Song Dynasty, and it is a felony to be directly beaten to death in connection with foreign courts.

He did this to protect the palace people in the palace.

He leisurely walked to the Imperial Dining Bureau, staring at the kitchen to prepare dinner, a bowl of porridge, a few small dishes, and a few mouthfuls of leftover dishes. After waiting for a long time, he took a few eunuchs with him, Walk towards Wende Hall.

The official family has not lived in Yanfu Palace since returning to court. The unlucky heir is a big taboo in the harem, and the official family must be persuaded.

Zhao Ying waited on Zhao Huan for dinner, and said: "Is this dinner okay for the official family? I cooked it all afternoon, and thought that if I didn't eat for one night, the official family would be hungry at night, so I made the decision and put some minced meat. I took some good preserved eggs and cooked some porridge."

"Not bad. Your porridge with preserved eggs and lean meat tastes very good." Zhao Huan nodded, and Zhao Ying's cooking skills are getting better and better.

"Thank you for the name from the official family." Zhao Ying also said with a happy face.

With the official endorsement of this porridge, it should become popular all over the country.

Zhao Huan suddenly asked: "Zhao Duzhi, tell me how Tong Guan died."

What Zhao Huan asked was actually whether Zhao Ying killed Tong Guan on purpose, after all, there can only be one ancestor in a palace.

Zhao Ying patted her head and said: "When I arrived at the inn, I saw Tong Guan hanging on the three-foot white silk, so I hurriedly hugged Tong Guan off the rope."

"The minister announced his will."

"He laughed and praised a few words about the wisdom of the officials, and knocked out the old minister. The minister thought that after a person died once, he would be very afraid of death. He was negligent for a while. The few relatives who followed the officials were also careless for a while. Tong Guan got it."

"We woke up and were tied up on the stool by five flowers. Tong Guan kowtowed to the minister a few more times. Tong Guan said, how could there be two ancestors in one palace, so let the minister be optimistic about the palace people, and let the minister be able to Help the Supreme Emperor a little, just a little."

"Then Tong Guan committed suicide. The minister and several other officials were rescued by the waiter at the inn."

Zhao Ying's face was full of embarrassment, this matter was already embarrassing.

The official asked, but he had to say nothing.This is even more embarrassing.

"That is to say, you and five other officials went to proclaim the decree. Not only did you fail, but you were also tied up by Tong Guan? Can you do it?" Zhao Huan looked at Zhao Ying suspiciously. Tong Guan was over 60. A few strong boys were dealt with like this.

"I can't beat Tong Guan anyway." Zhao Ying couldn't hold back anymore.

Holding the plate, he said: "The five of them are self-serving officials! They can't beat them! I don't want to be ashamed. I send the bowls and chopsticks to the Imperial Food Bureau."

As soon as Zhao Ying said that, she ran away. The six of them couldn't beat a bad old man, and they were even tied up.

"Shen Cong, go to those close officials and ask if it's the same as what Zhao Ying said." Zhao Huan didn't like to listen to prejudice. Not only the imperial envoys but also the close officials announced the decree.

This is also a check and balance.

"The official family, a few relatives brought it from the official, it is similar to what Zhao Duzhi said. Just added some details."

"Zhao knows the specific situation of being beaten down by Tong Guan two or three times." Shen Cong reported, and there were a few relatives standing behind him, with embarrassment on their faces.

"Okay, let's go down." Zhao Huan asked and understood.Although Tong Guan was getting older, he was still not something young people like them could handle.

After confirming that Tong Guannai really hanged himself, he wouldn't worry so much.

If people around you suddenly become alienated because of power, it will be troublesome.

But fortunately, there are eunuchs for every kind of emperor.The great eunuch himself is still loyal, as for being a little weaker, that's not a big problem.

That Tong Guan was the great eunuch who was appointed king, and Zhao Yingbi was nothing but normal.

(End of this chapter)