When he returned to the yamen, Bao Heizi went back to the house to continue reading. Mr. Gongsun, who was the master, came to ask.

The Dynasty said Su Miao's words and immediately went to the kitchen to get some snacks. He asked Mr. Bao to go into the food and serve him carefully in the study courtyard.

Mr. Gongsun entered the study room and saw Bao Heizi's face was black and said, "Sir, you look sad, don't you know you're sleepy because of your dream?"

When Mr. Bao saw Mr. Gongsun coming, he wrote with confidence and said, "The hen is in the morning."

"After all, that's someone else's housework. Otherwise, there is a saying that it's hard for a clean official to make a decision." Mr. Gongsun said.

"Oh, according to the sir, isn't it just a corrupt official who can stop family affairs?" Suddenly, a voice came, either someone else was Xiao Yuer. After coming in, he apologized: "Sir, I heard from Brother Wang, are you looking for me?"

"Haha, that's right." Bao Heizi smiled after hearing Xiao Yuer's words. Indeed, it is difficult for honest officials to cut off family affairs. Only those corrupt officials can cut off family affairs because they like it.

"That's the case? I had a dream yesterday." So Lord Bao told his dream about it.

Bao Heizi looked at Xiao Yuer with relish and suddenly asked, "Xiao Yuer, what do you think?"

Xiao Yuer thought to herself, "Sir, to be honest, we have a low status. There is a saying that if you don't have a position, you are too worried."

When did they talk about the chaos? It was naturally the government, that is, the matter between the current emperor and Empress Dowager Liu. If outsiders hear and discuss the royal affairs, they will definitely be beheaded.

Xiao Yuer knew that Empress Dowager Liu was not too bad, but on the contrary, it was very good. If she was too bad, she would have been Wu Zetian by herself? Or later Cixi. However, after Empress Dowager Liu, it was in the prosperous era of the Song Dynasty, and there was a good emperor like Song Renzong.

Liu E was originally from Taiyuan, and her father and grandfather were both senior generals of the Five Dynasties. This was sent by Hanwei, after she became the powerful, to cover up her family affairs. It was precisely for the same consideration that after Liu E became the queen, she always used the beauty as bait to attract high-ranking officials from the Liu family to identify with her clan. She first asked Quan to teach Liu Zongpan of Kaifeng Prefecture. Liu Zong said that she was from Hezhong Prefecture and had no relatives in the palace. Soon, Empress Liu summoned Quanfa to send Liu Ye of Kaifeng Prefecture. Although he was a famous clan, he was from Luoyang. Empress Liu said to him in a hurry: "If you want to see your family tree, why are the two of them probably the same clan?" Liu Ye hurriedly said, "I dare not.

It was precisely because Liu E was not a ruined family in Taiyuan that Zhenzong planned to make her the queen and was fiercely opposed by ministers when he planned to make her the queen. However, Zhenzong still opposed the public and made her the queen in the fifth year of Dazhong Xiangfu (1012). She had no relatives in her mother's family. Her former husband Gong Mei was a brother and changed her surname to Liu. This marriage shows that marriage in the Song Dynasty no longer paid much attention to family background, and also shows that women remarried in the Northern Song Dynasty were not bound by the concept of chastity later.

Empress Liu was a vigilant and wise, well-known in history, the court affairs, and could remember the whole story. When there were any matters in the palace, Zhenzong could ask questions, and she could refer to the truth and respond properly. Her political talent was highly dependent on Emperor Zhenzong. In the spring of the fourth year of Tianxi, Emperor Zhenzong was seriously ill at one time, so she decided most of the government affairs. In the late Tianxi period, when Kou Zhun was dismissed, Li Di and the handling of Zhou Huai's political affairs, she not only played a crucial role, but also established the absolute status of the Later Party.

After Zhenzong's death, he ordered the queen Liu to be the empress dowager. He was important to the military and national affairs, and he was punished. Ding Wei strongly advocated the removal of the word "quan". The king once said: "Priority is enough to show the future generations. What's more, the addition and reduction of edicts have their own rules. Do you have to break the rules first?" Ding Wei gave up. The next year, the reign of the Tiansheng, and the word "Tiansheng" was dismantled as "Two-Man Saint", which refers to the two saints of Song Renzong and Empress Dowager Liu. Mingdao was the second year of Empress Dowager Liu's life. The character "Ming" was composed of the sun and moon. Like Tiansheng, it was also to please Empress Dowager Liu. From then on, she ruled the politics behind the curtain for eleven years and became the first mother to preside over the dynasty of the Song Dynasty. The early politics of the Renzong Dynasty was the product of her rule.

At the beginning of the reign of the government, Empress Dowager Liu and Ding Wei were completely consistent with Ding Wei. Kou Zhun was demoted to the army of the Sihu in Leizhou, and Li Di was demoted to the deputy envoy of Hengzhou Tuanjia. The king once thought that the blame was too heavy, Ding Wei stared at him and threatened: "Is there anything else to say to your residence? I'm afraid you will inevitably!" Ding Wei also accompanied someone to conspire to force the two of them to death. Kou Zhun wanted someone to come out with an edict to give him a death sentence, but the person who came could not take it out, so he still drank his wine; Li Di was going to find a brief look and was rescued by his son. Someone asked Ding Wei, if Li Di was demoted to death, how would you face the Shi Lu? His rogue answer: "In the future, I will just say 'The world cherishes it'."

In order to abus the power, Ding Wei colluded with Lei Yungong to join the house to the inner robber, and asked the empress dowager to issue an edict: "The new emperor visited the ministers twice a month. The major matters were decided by the empress dowager summoned the auxiliary ministers; general political affairs were passed on to the empress dowager, and then issued a letter to the empress dowager. "The king once pointed out to Ding Wei: "The two palaces are different and the power belongs to the eunuchs is a sign of chaos." He believed that according to the story of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the emperor was on the left and the empress dowager was on the right, and he ruled the government from behind the curtain. Dante said that at this time, the power was in power and did not take Wang Zeng seriously at all.

Empress Dowager Liu was on the sidelines. She knew that Ding Wei had arbitrarily cut off the government's bad deeds. She also knew that Ding Wei asked her to issue an edict to actually undermine her. At that time, he was rushing to build a tomb for Zhenzong. Ding Wei was the envoy of the mountain tomb, and Lei Yungong was the chief supervisor. Lei Yungong heard that the mountain tomb could be moved by a hundred steps, so he made his own decision. With Ding Wei's consent, he moved the tomb position. Unexpectedly, the groundwater rose and the tomb project was stranded. The king seized the opportunity to explain the truth to the empress dowager alone. The empress dowager

Without hesitation, she took this as an opportunity to execute Lei Yungong, dismiss Ding Wei's position as prime minister, demoted him to the military of the Yazhou Sihu, and finally took back the power of the court. At that time, the folk song said: "If you want to win the world, you should win the Ding in your eyes; if you want to win the world, you should summon old man Kou." Empress Dowager Liu demoted Ding Wei very pleased, but she did not adopt the other half of the folk song. She and Kou Zhun's political style were a bit self-righteous, and the two could not cooperate.

Regarding the achievements of Empress Dowager Liu, there is a generally fair comment on the "History of the Song Dynasty": "On the day, the emperor was rich in the Spring and Autumn Period, and the mother and queen were the ruler, but the inside and outside were solemn, and the discipline was carried out, so there were no major shortcomings in the court's government."

Of course, for more than ten years, she also relied on eunuchs to indulge in foreign relatives. This was often a twin phenomenon of her mother's empress's reign, but it did not reach the level of harming the government. In terms of eunuchs, although later generations said that she "controlled her destiny from a tent and her power was faked by an internal official", Luo Chongxun and Jiang Deming, who she valued, were not qualified to be included in the "History of the Song Dynasty? Biography of Eunuchs", which shows that their harm is not great.

As for the relatives, she had no complicated family foundation. Her brother Liu Mei had already passed away before she was behind the curtain. Qian Weiyan, the only minister in charge of the ruling relatives, married Liu Mei, and later married Ding Wei, who was in power. He was a shameless person who specialized in kinship. During the lifetime of Emperor Zhenzong, he was the deputy envoy of Privy Councillor. After the empress dowager was promoted to Privy Councillor. But soon after, he was dismissed from the court on the grounds that the empress dowager's in-laws "can't be with the government". Later, he sought a position twice, but was strongly opposed by the imperial court. The censor Ju Yong even said: If Xiang Weiyan, the imperial edict would be tore up the imperial decree in the current dynasty. Empress Dowager Liu did not dare to let him realize his dream of becoming a prime minister.

The heroine was in power. In ancient China, she was always not recognized by orthodox ideas, so the king once fought for the word "power". At the beginning of the curtain, Empress Dowager Liu had to promise "to wait for the emperor to grow up in spring and autumn, and he should return to power." In the seventh year of Tiansheng, Renzong was at the age of 20 (20 years old), but Empress Dowager Liu did not have any movement to return power. Therefore, in the following years, the calls for Renzong to take charge of the government increased and higher, and these memorials were being ignored, or used excuses to transfer the suggestion from the court, and held the power until his death.

In the records of the Song people, there was a saying that Empress Dowager Liu was preparing to follow Wu Zetian. In the second year of Mingdao, she planned to visit the Taimiao in the emperor's crown. The assistant minister Xue Kui asked her: "On the day of the visit, should I worship a man or a daughter?" But she still wore the modified empress dowager's crown and clothes to worship the Taimiao. When she ordered the relevant departments to write "Xie Taimiao Record", she was boycotted, thinking that the Empress Dowager's visit to the temple could not be used as a method for future generations.

Empress Dowager Liu also asked the ministers tentatively: "Who is the lord of the Emperor Wu of Tang?" Lu Zongdao, known for his integrity, answered without hesitation: "The sinners of the Tang Dynasty are almost in danger of the country!" She said silently. Some ministers pleased and suggested building the seven temples of Liu's family in the imitation of the story of Empress Wu. She asked the prime minister, and Lu Zongdao asked her what to do if she was going to take the emperor, so she had to give up. Cheng Lin, the envoy of the three officials, presented the "Empress Wu's Conquest to the Dynasty" to cater to it, and it threw it on the ground, saying, "I will not do such a thing that would be unfaithful to my ancestors!" It is said that before she died, she pulled her own emperor's crown and seemed to want to say something. Minister Xue Kui thought she was signaling that she could not see the late emperor under the ground while wearing the emperor's crown and was ordered to be buried with the queen's crown and uniform.

Although Empress Dowager Liu may not necessarily not want to follow Wu Zetian, the family law that restricted the female protagonist and foreign relatives from interfering in politics in the Song Dynasty was very strict. Ministers, censors and other ministers were able to refer to the advice and block them, which made Empress Dowager Liu lose his courage even if he had the will, so that she had to express her intentions and did not do anything to shame her ancestors. In her later years, she summoned Li Di, who had opposed her pre-policy and asked, "What do you think I have protected the emperor today?" Li Di expressed convincingly: I didn't know that the Queen Mother's virtue stopped here.

Empress Dowager Liu was a female politician who was rewarded by the rule of the Song Dynasty. It is said in history that "although the government has been out of the palace, the orders are strict and the power of the world." Generally speaking, her political talents and achievements are by no means inferior to her husband Zhenzong and her son Renzong. Her personal character during the reign of the dynasty should be basically affirmed. During the Tiansheng and Mingdao period when she was in charge of politics, not only did she restore the development momentum of Emperor Zhenzong's Xianping, but also laid the foundation for the grand event of Renzong's celebration.

In the second year of Ming Dao, Empress Liu passed away. Only then did Song Renzong realize that she was not the biological daughter of Empress Liu. It turned out that her biological mother, Li, was the servant of Empress Liu. Because of her bright skin, Emperor Zhenzong asked her to sleep and became pregnant. After the child was born, Empress Liu took it as his son and asked Concubine Yang to raise him. He had called Empress Liu the eldest lady since he was a child and Yang Shufei the young lady.

Because of her low status, Li did not dare to argue and was silently among the concubines. People were afraid of Empress Liu, and no one dared to explain the truth. Ascending the throne, Empress Dowager Liu asked Li to guard the tomb for Zhenzong to isolate the biological mother and son to ensure her power. At the same time, she visited her brother Li Yonghe, who had been separated for many years, and made this little worker who had no money to make a job in the third class, and was promoted step by step, and was not very ruthless.

Li died in the first year of Ming Dao. Although he was promoted to the imperial concubine before his death, Empress Dowager Liu still planned to mourn outside the palace with the courtesy of a palace servant. Prime Minister Lu Yijian disagreed, and the empress dowager was very dissatisfied. Yijian said calmly: "I dare not say that if I don't think about Liu, I dare not say it; if I consider Liu, I should follow the rituals." The empress dowager finally realized that he used a ritual and a garrison to be buried with a grand funeral.
Chapter completed!