Northern Song Dynasty Revitalization Strategy

Chapter 753 The soft sedan chair carried by eight people
Empress Dowager Meng is another strange woman in the Song Dynasty.

During the rebellion between King Su and King Jing, Zhao Huan once asked Cheng Chu to investigate the two empress dowagers of the Song Dynasty, one of which was Empress Meng.

Her grandfather was the defense envoy of Meizhou, Ma Jundu Yuhou, and Taiwei Meng Yuan. In the seventh year of Yuanyou, Meng Tianhou was killed by Song Zhezong, Zhao Xu, the brother of Song Huizong Zhao Ji.Canonized as a queen.

But Zhao Xu was just ten years old when he came to the throne, and his grandmother, Empress Dowager Gao, came to rule the court and listened to politics behind the curtain for eight years. Empress Dowager Gao was an extreme conservative and opposed all reforms and new policies.

Song Zhezong Zhao Xu has been the marionette of Empress Dowager Gao from the age of ten to these eight years, both in court and in the palace.

After the death of Empress Dowager Gao, Song Zhezong officially took charge of the government, and he, who had accumulated deep grievances, started a frenzied counterattack, pushing the conservatives to the end.

Empress Meng was also reviled along with the conservatives.

Because Empress Meng also took advantage of Empress Dowager Gao and Empress Xiang to take charge of the Central Palace, and Song Zhezong was in charge, which naturally made her leave the Central Palace.

Empress Dowager Meng was demoted because of this, and was placed in the Yaohua Palace where the abandoned concubines and concubines lived as monks. She was named "Huayang Leader", "Yuqing Miaojing Immortal Master", and her legal name was "Chongzhen".

In the third year of Yuanfu, Song Zhezong died, and the members of the Yuanyou Party, headed by the Queen Mother Xiang, raised their heads again, and Queen Meng was once again promoted to become the Queen Mother, and moved from the Yaohua Palace to the Bianjing Palace to become the high-ranking Queen Mother.

However, the Empress Dowager Xiang died of illness only nine months later, and Zhao Ji immediately took charge of the government, using the stele of Yuanyou party members as the fuse, and reused Cai Jing and other new parties.

Empress Dowager Meng was implicated by this, and was driven out of the Bianjing Palace again, and lived in Yaohua Palace again.

Then the Jin people went south, Song Huizong Zhao Ji was timid and incompetent and prepared to give up Nan Xing, so he invited the archway of Queen Mother Meng out again, and stood it in the palace to appease the old party.

But Zhao Ji left too hastily. Before Empress Dowager Meng moved to Bianjing Palace, the Yaohua Palace where she lived caught fire. Two days after moving to Yanning Palace, Yanning Palace caught fire again.

At that time, the situation was turbulent, the capital was besieged, and Taiyuan was in danger of being destroyed at any time, so the Empress Dowager Meng went out of the palace to live in the private house in front of Xiangguo Temple.

This is why Zhao Huan has never met the Empress Dowager Meng herself.

After Zhao Huan's personal conquest, Song Huizong's 26 sons fled Bianjing, and Empress Meng left Bianjing directly from the private house of Xiangguo Temple and went to Lushan to recuperate.

This training lasted for four years. Zhao Huan had been running the business for four years in the Southern and Northern Wars. The Empress Dowager Meng was a representative figure launched by the old members of the Yuanyou Party, so naturally she also ran it for four years.

The hole that Zhao Ji Nanxing dug now needs Zhao Huan to fill it.

"Your Majesty, I don't know how many chapters I wrote back then, how many edicts I wrote at that time, how could I know that there is still the matter of Empress Meng's recovery, this, this is what to do." Zhao Ji stood sideways, his face extremely frightened Said.

He was in a hurry back then, he didn't even know how many edicts he had signed and how many great seals he had stamped, he didn't even read the edict to restore Empress Dowager Meng as empress dowager.

Seeing that Zhao Ji's dog meat was not on the table, Zhao Huan became very angry.

He thought that Zhao Ji knew exactly who his opponent was, so he hid in Genyue Palace and dared not move, but he didn't expect that he just smelled something, so he directly grounded himself.

This made Zhao Huan think of the words "shrinking turtle".

"Old Zhuo ate too much yesterday, he felt a little bloated and unwell, can he go back to Genyue for now?" Zhao Ji looked at the silent Zhao Huan, felt guilty for a while, and even thought of running away.

Ok?
Zhao Huan was silent, didn't the cowardly tortoise flatter him a bit?

The family banquet was attended by relatives of the Song clan, and of course it was divided into distances. Now most of the people in the banquet hall are Zhao Ji's brothers and his heirs.

This naturally also includes Zhao Huan, who is the emperor and sits on the main seat, but there is another seat beside him.

Zhao Huan knew whose seat it was, it wasn't that Zhu Lian wanted to sit here, Zhu Lian was a concubine, not a queen, and as long as she was not a queen, she couldn't sit on the side of the main seat.

This seat is the seat of the Empress Dowager Meng.

People, it's already here.

Zhao Huan didn't like this kind of family banquet very much, and was absent every time. This time, the Ministry of Internal Affairs took the lead to organize this family banquet. When it was said that the emperor was coming, these princes and counties rushed to the banquet building faster than anyone else. within.

Only without Queen Mother Meng, everyone is eagerly waiting for Queen Mother Meng to come over.

"The emperor still puts his health first, and he usually rests mainly on recuperation. Let the imperial doctor from the imperial hospital go to show the emperor." Zhao Huan agreed with Zhao Ji's statement, and allowed him to escape the battle.

"Zhao Ying, are you ready for the banquet?" Zhao Huan asked with a half-smile.

This time, the old party headed by Queen Mother Meng made a comeback again, and it held most of the courtiers of the Song Dynasty in its hands, and it was coming fiercely.

Zhao Ying said in a low voice: "The dishes are all delivered from the Shangshan Building outside the Xihua Gate. We can start the dinner only when the Queen Mother arrives."

"Do you need to pass on dishes from outside the palace?" Zhao Huan suddenly stopped holding the records of Zhong's family in his hand.

Zhao Ying shook her head and said: "Since the high official's family returned to Beijing, there was a ghost incident in the Wenhua Building. Before the ghost was caught, I was really worried about the food ingredients of the Imperial Food Bureau."

"Several eunuchs who tried the dishes have died."

Zhao Huan took a deep breath, sat up straight, nodded and said: "Then pass the food from Shangshan Building. Why don't you report it?"

Zhao Huan knew that the situation was tense and the old party was fighting back fiercely, but he never thought that in this palace, Zhao Ying's Ministry of Internal Affairs, there were several dead eunuchs who tried vegetables.

"Someone in the Imperial Food Bureau is suppressing this matter. The minister only found out that he died today. The first bite the official family ate when they returned to Beijing was the dishes handed down by Shang Shan Lou." Zhao Ying wiped the sweat from her forehead.

If it wasn't for the haunting that made Zhao Ying more aware, the one who died trying the dishes might not be the eunuch from the Ministry of Internal Affairs, but Zhao Ying himself.

Zhao Huan nodded and rubbed his face vigorously.

Mrs. Meng came later.

Meng Tianhou wears a dragon, phoenix, pearl and emerald crown, and wears a gown with colorful Zhai patterns. The collar, sleeves, and skirt are all inlaid with red cloud and dragon patterns. Xi, sitting on a soft sedan chair carried by eight people.

From far to near.

Servants gathered in front of her and behind her, and before anyone arrived, the eunuch who had heard the news had already passed from Funing Palace to the banquet hall.

Cao Xian arranged for Zhao Huan to live in the Funing Palace before Zhao Huan went to Yanjing, and within a few days, she was forced to move into the [Qingya Chic] small building again.

The vacated Funing Palace was naturally given to the Empress Dowager.

"Zhao Ying, look at it, look at it, there are dozens of servants in the front and back of his trip, the big one, the canopy, and the big one carried by the eight people, and there are bird cages hanging on it. What is this? That's class and elegance."

"I go out every day, four horses and a modified car left over from the Tang Dynasty, and I'm done. Learn!" Zhao Huan said to Zhao Ying with a smile.

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