"Your Majesty, it's getting late, let's go back to the flight?" Chen Dun saw that the little emperor and the other three were drunk and their tongues were short, and the few people had already begun to call each other brothers, but there was no food on the table and the wine was cold, so he stepped forward and said.

"Okay, let's go back to the camp and flatten Ezhou City tomorrow!" Zhao Bing actually didn't drink much, but he couldn't say something clearly, so he used wine to cover his face and distracted the topic. Now he was just going to go down the road and shouted.

"Go back to the camp, go back to the camp! I will follow His Majesty to flatten Ezhou City." Lu Xiufu raised his arms and shouted with the little emperor, but he thought of getting up but fell aside.

"Yes, if you step on the city of Ezhou, I will follow Your Majesty back to the capital. If anyone dares to be unfavorable to Your Majesty, I will protect Your Majesty if I fight this life!" Xie Fangde also shouted, and then he lay on the table and stopped moving.

"Your Majesty has a destiny. I will also be determined to serve the king thousands of miles away. I will never let them arrive before the Holy Driving..." Xie Ao blushed and sprayed alcohol, but before he finished speaking, he vomited from the half-open porthole.

"Okay..." Zhao Bing looked behind him and lay on the couch, saying, "To be honest, I'm really dizzy when I drink for the first time in so many years. However, his mind is still very clear and his thinking is still quick."

Objectively speaking, for most scholars and officials in the Song Dynasty, fighting for power itself did not have any ulterior motives, because to a large extent it was a confirmation and positioning of the power of office. It was a good thing to set up the position of the general official, decentralizing power with the general official, and checking and balanced each other, but because the emperor was in his personal purpose, he did not clarify the specific scope of responsibilities of the general official and general official official, and deliberately created conflicts between the two. Therefore, in order to maintain the administrative power of the general official official, they forced them to please the emperor.

In order to prevent the royal family or relatives from controlling the power of the monarch, the family law of the Song Dynasty specifically stipulated that the royal family did not need to be prime ministers, and no matter what the relatives were, they would not make any progress. This ensured that the literati could directly enter the center of state power. In addition, they could express their opinions and opinions on all major national affairs, including the literati, through their power, and influence or change the decisions of the supreme ruler through the group of literati. Just as Queen Mother Zhang Xian wanted Empress Dowager Zhuang Hui to discuss military and national affairs together before her death, but due to the firm opposition of the literati, the matter finally fell out and his power finally returned to the hands of Renzong.

It can be seen that the emperor of the Song Dynasty had a special relationship with the scholars and officials. On the one hand, the scholars and officials were able to relied on the emperor's favor to be promoted and promoted to great goals. On the other hand, the emperor was able to inherit his blood and unify the country with the support of the scholars and officials. This was the basic motivation for the emperor of the Song Dynasty to make the decision to "share the world with the scholars and officials". But at this moment, Zhao Bing did not want to say this, because he did not want Wen Tianxiang and others to think that he had something to ask for, because he knew that if he could not settle this matter with his personal ability, he would always be caught by the scholars, and it would be difficult to achieve the unique imperial power and end the party struggle that lasted for more than a hundred years.

Of course, the emperors of the Song Dynasty were not all fools, especially the founding king of Taizu Zhao Kuangyin. It can be said that the series of systems he formulated laid the foundation for the three hundred years of the Song Dynasty. Since he dared to speak out and rule the world with scholars and officials, of course there were also restrictions, that is - loyalty. In his previous life, Zhao Bing knew the meaning of the word "Loyalty" but did not know it, it should be said that it was a very vague and general concept. He believed that many modern people were the same as himself.

In this era, Zhao Bing gradually gained a deep understanding of loyalty. From his perspective, there are two forms of loyalty to the emperor, one is foolish loyalty and the other is virtuous loyalty.

The foolish loyalty that is to be a minister who does not know how to judge and argue with the emperor's behavior is just blindly obedient, just like Ni Liang and a group of generals in the army. In terms of theoretical form, foolish loyalty adopts the form of being the only husband of the king of the world, as Ban Gu said: The king covers the sky and the earth and carries the king of the world. Therefore, the final result of this theory must be the great world, and within the four seas, the one who respects the same person." But the political premise of foolish loyalty is that the emperor has absolute power, and in Xunzi's view, this kind of behavior should not be called loyalty, but flattery.

On the contrary, the scholars and officials of the Song Dynasty thought that loyalty to the emperor was a virtuous and loyalty. They gradually reached a common sense of sharing the world through their interactions with the emperor. For example, those who are ministers said: The world is the world of the world, not the private ownership of one person; while those who are kings also said: The world is the greatest, how can a monarch be governed by one person? It is precisely this concept that permeates the political and life fields that the checks and balances between imperial power and ministerial power have a certain degree of relaxation, and the result of this change is that imperial power is subject to a certain degree of limitation.

Since the royal family has gained loyalty to the scholars and officials through exchange of power, they naturally have to use and restrict it. In this context, the scholars and officials have created a book called "Loyalty Sutra", and this book can also be regarded as a textbook for their self-education and self-discipline of the idea of ​​loyalty to the emperor. It shows that their loyalty to the emperor is not unconditionally obeying the emperor's personal subjective will, but rather making the emperor obey the subjective will of the scholars and officials as much as possible without touching the emperor's personal interests. This can also be regarded as a typical feature of the political personality of the scholars and officials.

However, after research, Zhao Bing found that the confinement of "the scholar's rebellion for ten years" was also applicable to these scholars. Although the dispute between cliques in the Song Dynasty had surpassed the dispute between power and interests to a certain extent and was regarded as the practice and application of the self-consciousness of the scholars and officials in the political field, according to their actual results, no new political situation was opened up. And they intervened in determining the crown prince, controlling the government affairs, and undermining the emperor, but they still did not dare to take another step forward - to replace the dynasty. This shows that although the scholar-official class gained great power in the court, they still adhered to the bottom line...

After drinking, Zhao Bing slept well. He woke up the next morning without any headache. After washing up, he went out to walk by the lake. The winter morning was still a bit cold, and the clear lake surface was waving layer by layer under the wind. He looked around. The guard brigades were arranged on the commanding heights around, and the naval warships on the lake also set up guard posts, and patrols were also patrols around to patrol, building a tight protection net around the palace, and guards were accompanied by him.

Think about the early days of his army, he had only one personal guard to protect himself. Now he has expanded into a powerful imperial guard. Now he has three infantry brigades, one cavalry brigade and one artillery brigade, a total of five combat brigades and a baggage brigade. The inner guards are the personal guards and guard battalions. In addition, there is a navy army with more than 200 warships, with a total force of nearly 80,000, which is equivalent to the number of seven reorganized divisions.

Among the guards, senior officers were promoted and appointed from the old team. Most of the grassroots officers were orphans from the old camp and selected from the new army training camp. The soldiers were also innocent children of good families. The guard brigade was selected from various departments with practical experience, and was composed of various military units, including infantry, cavalry, cannon and baggage. It was a small army, responsible for the internal guards of the imperial city and palace and the guards during travel.

The Guards Camp is Zhao Bing's last line of defense. The selection is stricter, politically innocent, and loyal to the emperor are the primary condition. Otherwise, the greater the ability, the greater the threat to oneself. Secondly, it is excellent in military quality and good at close combat. They are only equipped with light weapons, but they are different from conventional weapons. There are many Qimen weapons, and they are divided into different teams according to different tasks, and they are protected according to different levels and environments. It is not an exaggeration to say that the Guards Camp are full of strange people and hiding dragons and lying tigers.

With such a direct army that is loyal to him, Zhao Bing is of course brave. As a result, he has the ability to quell any rebellion, suppress the aliens in the court and the army, and even win a foreign war. Moreover, he also has an omnipresent spy organization in his hand, holding a lot of money in his pocket. Even if all the court officials betray him, he can establish a new central government and create a new world with this force. Of course, this is the worst possibility. Zhao Bing believes that those court officials who have followed him for many years will not all oppose him, and the army he has built up will not all turn to his opponents.

Now Zhao Bing is actually facing the same situation as that of Emperor Gaozong Zhao Gou after he was transferred south. His little brother Zhao Xian was captured and traveled north. Although he had been denied the emperor's title by the Mongols, he was a serious throne taken over from the father of the dead emperor. He was the throne inherited from the brother supported by the ministers, so he was not very righteous in the roots. When he was staying in Qiongzhou, no one thought about these things, but now he is still in Lin'an. Seeing that Jiangnan was recovered, some people were ready to think about it.

Based on the information collected by the Affairs Bureau, Zhao Bing learned that those who wanted to replace him were, one was the bureaucrats who had ulterior motives and had been suppressed; the other was against his own failure to comply with the family laws of his ancestors, improving the status of warriors, and valuing officials, abolishing the titles of the late emperor and the empress dowager, and even the Duke of Sheng Yan was not spared, and they listed them as traitors; the other was the rebels and the soldiers who fled in the enemy during the national crisis. They were frightened by their own severe suppression methods, and if they wanted to escape punishment, they could only take him off the throne.

These people with ill-hearted intentions are not very powerful in the court, but the convergence of the three forces can form a force that cannot be underestimated. If they echo each other in the court and the opposition, it will still cause great trouble. As far as Zhao Bing knows, they want to take the banner of "the Northern Expedition to the Central Plains and welcome the emperor back", but they have not been in power in name only, but they are just supervising the country, which can be used for them and create excuses to depose them.

At the same time, he caused quite a lot of trouble for himself. If he wanted to rely on the throne, he could only follow the example of Emperor Gaozong, shouting to welcome the two emperors back, but in fact he suppressed the pro-war faction and weakened their power. Everyone knew that the pro-war faction in the court now can be said to be the pro-war faction occupying the majority, and they were the basis for Zhao Bing's rule. Giving up the Northern Expedition would inevitably clean up his team, so that those people could naturally fill the gap and take advantage of the situation to get to power. But Zhao Bing knew that this would destroy the Great Wall, which also went against his original intention.

Zhao Bing knew that even if he let these people go, they would not let them go, because they did not need a strong emperor, but only wanted an emperor who "follows advice and obeys public opinion". And those people also understood that we could not do it with their ability to welcome the "emperor", but they could choose a "loyal, honest, kind and filial" emperor from the royal family and let the empress dowager agree.

As for how to deal with the current undercurrent, Zhao Bing has not yet thought about it, but the force purge is the last method and the result he least wants to see. Yesterday, Wen Tianxiang and Xie Fangde and Xie Ao were brought up to investigate the terrain. Zhao Bing actually had the intention of exploring their words, because these three people are not only officials in the court, but also leaders of scholars. Their attitude can affect a large crowd. The result of the test still made him very pleased. Wen Tianxiang and Xie two have a high prestige in Jiangxi. With the three of them helping each other, they can stabilize the Jiangxi Shilin and divide and disintegrate their power.

"Chen Dun, didn't you go see your sister?" Zhao Bing breathed a long sigh towards Dahu and asked Chen Dun with a twisted face.

"I met in a hurry when rewarding the army, but I didn't talk about it in detail. I wanted to visit you last night, but Your Majesty drank too much, so how dare I stay away from you!" Chen Dun said with a drooping face.

"Oh, then you have a lot of opinions about me!" Zhao Bing said with a smile.

"How dare I? My sister learned that I was commanding the guard camp next to His Majesty, and repeatedly reminded His Majesty to have recreational kindness to our Chen family, and to serve the emperor with loyalty and not to be lazy." Chen Dun said in a muffled voice.

"As a saying, I have to thank Mrs. Chen. Otherwise, you kid will be careless and not take me to heart." Zhao Bing squeezed his eyes at him.

"I don't bring such an unjust accusation. Since I entered the guard camp, I can't sleep or eat. I'm afraid that something will happen to Your Majesty, and I've lost several pounds now." Chen Dun touched his face and said, "When I left Qiongzhou, the gentleman repeatedly reminded me not to be careless and to protect Your Majesty. This time, the fool Ni Da was unable to come and clean up me up before leaving. If Your Majesty really had something to do, that guy would tear me up!"

"So that's it. After a long time, you are afraid of your sister, your husband, and Ni Liang. You have to serve me carefully." Zhao Bing said sadly with an extremely disappointed look.

"Your Majesty... You are so petty!" Chen Dun said angrily, "Although Chen Dun is often in trouble, he has also learned the principle of loyalty to the emperor since he was a child. Since he entered the General's Mansion, he has never been ungrateful to His Majesty. Even if he loses his life, he will protect His Majesty. Besides, His Majesty regards me as a brother and will never betray His Majesty at any time!"

"Haha, I'm also saying that I'm petty and can't even make a joke!" Seeing Chen Dun's swearing, Zhao Bing patted his shoulder and said with a smile.

"Your Majesty, you can make any jokes, you must not make such jokes..." Chen Dun didn't buy it. He suddenly heard the alarm bell ringing loudly, "There is a policeman, protect Your Majesty!"
Chapter completed!