The Storm of the Dead

In November, the court sent Jianghuai grain to rescue victims from Jingdong.

However, compared to this incident, what made Zhao Qian even more shocked was that Fan Feng surrendered to Lu Yijian and, as a pioneer officer, got Queen Guo! Queen Guo can be said to be Zhao Qian's reinforcements in the palace.

Unexpectedly, Lu Yijian's methods were so thunderous!

Strictly speaking, the reason why Empress Guo was deposed is that Lu Yijian is so capable. In fact, it is also the reason why Empress Guo is not aware of advance and retreat!

In the previous article, it was said that Empress Guo was not loved by Emperor Renzong of Song, and was made the queen, which was entirely due to Liu E. In return, Empress Guo often reported to Emperor Renzong of Song and monitored Emperor Renzong of Song's every move, which made Empress Guo quite arrogant and domineering in the palace.

After Liu E passed away, Zhao Jin also persuaded Empress Guo to restrain herself.

Despite this, it cannot completely change the mind of Song Renzong. Without Liu E's restraint, Song Renzong no longer pretended to be favored by Queen Guo, but instead favored the newly-entered beauty Yang and Shang Meiren. These two beauties were both in their 28 years old, with a beautiful appearance and a graceful figure, so naturally they were much better than Queen Guo, who was not very beautiful in appearance.

Because of Zhao Jin's persuasion, Empress Guo also endured it. She didn't expect that two months had passed, and Song Renzong only spent three days overnight at Empress Guo's place.

As the saying goes, the country is easy to change, but nature is hard to change! Empress Guo has Liu E as her backer and is arrogant and domineering in the palace for ten years. How could it be changed because of Zhao Chen's words? Not to mention that Zhao Chen is not in Bianliang City, so there is no chance to persuade Zhao Chen.

Queen Guo couldn't help but went to Shang Meiren and Yang Meiren's residence many times and cursed them. How could Meiren, the monk, and the beauty, be willing to wait for death? She complained like Song Renzong many times.

However, after all, Emperor Renzong of Song was a couple for ten years, so he was mixed with the two. However, he could not help but feel dissatisfied in his heart.

Just one day in September, Song Renzong came to Shang's family, and Shang Meiren told Song Renzong again that what Empress Guo was wrong. As soon as Empress Guo arrived, Empress Guo was naturally angry after hearing Shang Meiren's attack on her.

Beauty Shang is not a good-looking lamp. She claimed that Song Renzong was relying on her back. The two of them started arguing on the spot in front of Song Renzong. Empress Guo was angry and raised her hand to slap the Shang family. Seeing this, Song Renzong hurriedly stepped forward to rescue Shang. Empress Guo could not stop and just hit Song Renzong's neck. Song Renzong was immediately furious and wanted to depose Empress Guo.

Although he wanted to depose Empress Guo, Song Renzong was nostalgic after all, and after saying this, he felt regretful. He didn't expect that there was a little traitor around him, and this person was no one else! It was Yan Wenying, who told Lu Yijian about this matter.

Do you remember the one who went to the court by Lu Yijian himself? Wasn’t it Zhao Chen and Empress Guo who sang together? Zhao Chen and Lu Yijian did not find a handle, but Empress Guo Lu Yijian was unwilling to let go.

However, Lu Yijian did not charge first in this matter. After all, he had a scourge with Empress Guo, which inevitably gave others a feeling of avenging private revenge. Lu Yijian asked the censor Fan Feng to take the opportunity to make a statement: "It has been nine years since then, and he has no son yet, so his righteousness should be abolished."

Lu Yijian himself echoed the news. As Lu Yijian's ally, the eunuch deputy minister Yan Wenying was naturally not willing to be outdone, and persuaded Song Renzong to have his neck stamped for the minister to watch.

Faced with the remarks of the ministers, Song Renzong was undecided. Deposing the empress was a big deal after all. How did Fan Zhongyan, the right censor who valued tradition, agree with it? He said angrily: "The empress should not be abolished. It is better to stop this discussion early and not to be passed on to the outside."

After a while, under Lu Yijian's lobbying, Song Renzong finally made up his mind to depose the queen. In order to achieve the purpose of deposing Empress Guo, Lu Yijian ordered the censor's memorials to be unable to accept the censor's memorials. Song Renzong issued an edict saying: "The queen was willing to enter the Taoist temple because she had no son and specially appointed her as Jing Concubine, and was named Miaoxian Master of Yujing, and was given the name Qingwu, and lived in Changning Palace to support her."

To put it nicely, this edict is to let Queen Guo go to the Taoist temple to practice in purity. What is pure cultivation? Practice means to practice without asking about trivial matters in the world and quiet. To put it bluntly, it is to put it under house arrest.

Zhao Qian naturally submitted a memorial to persuade him, but the memorial was not surprisingly sank to the sea.

Zhao Jin had no choice but to stay away from Bianliang City, but Fan Zhongyan and the others still gritted their teeth to confront Song Renzong.

Fan Zhongyan and the chief censor Kong Daofu led the Censorate Sun Zude, the Censor Jiang Tang, Guo Quan, Yang Kai, Ma Jiang, Duan Shaolian, the Censor Duan Shaolian, the Zuo Zhengyan, and the You Zhengyan Liu Huan and ten others knelt outside the gate of the Chuigong Hall to report the matter. They shouted loudly: "The Empress should not be abolished, I hope the official will give me all the words!"

The imperial guard guarding the palace gate closed the door and was silent about it. Kong Lao Er's son Kong Daofu was furious and stroked the bronze beard on the palace gate and shouted: "The queen is deposed, why don't she listen to the advice of the censors?"

The palace gate is still closed.

There was no way, Fan Zhongyan and the others went to the Secretariat to settle the scores with Lu Yijian. Kong Daofu angrily scolded Lu Yijian: "We ministers are like our sons serving our parents to the officials and the queens. Now that their parents are not in harmony, what you should do is to advise their parents and resolve conflicts. How can we divorce our mothers according to their father's last wish?"

Officials in the Secretariat were upset when they heard about it and rushed to persuade them.

Lu Yijianqiang showed a calm expression and said, "The abolition of the queen is not as simple as you think. The queen has seriously injured the official family. In this case, there were verdicts in the Han and Tang Dynasties, so it should be!"

Kong Daofu and Fan Zhongyan said together: "People and ministers are in power. How can the king use Yao and Shun to quote the unvirtuousness of the Han and Tang dynasties as examples? Just referring to the Han Guangwu to persuade the superiors. Is it because Guangwu’s loss of virtue, so what is the law?"

Lu Yijian had no choice but to act helplessly, bowed to Fan Zhongyan and others and said, "You guys should go to see Chen Zhi, the official family."

Kong Daofu and Fan Zhongyan had no choice but to give in, Lu Yijian was still able to pursue and fight hard? So he retreated and secretly prepared to lead all officials to fight against the Prime Minister tomorrow.

Lu Yijian turned around and stabbed Fan Zhongyan and the others, and submitted a memorial: "The censors asked for advice, it is not a peaceful and beautiful matter. Please discuss the support of the Taoist supporter."

Lu Yijian’s meaning is very simple. These censors chattering are definitely not a good thing that is conducive to peace. We should discuss driving them there now!

Song Renzong also felt it made sense, and within a few days, he issued an edict: "Kong Daofu came out to govern Taizhou, Fan Zhongyan govern Muzhou, Sun Zude and other eight people each fined twenty kilograms of copper."
Chapter completed!