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光宗循道憲仁明功茂德溫文順武聖哲慈孝皇帝，諱惇，孝宗第三子也。 母曰成穆皇后郭氏。 紹興十七年九月乙丑，生於藩邸。 二十年賜今名，授右監門衛率府副率，轉榮州刺史。 孝宗即位，拜鎮洮軍節度使、開府儀同三司，封恭王。 及莊文太子薨，孝宗以帝英武類己，欲立爲太子，而以其非次，遲之。 乾道六年七月，太史奏：木、火合宿，主冊太子，當有赦。 是時，虞允文相，因請蚤建儲貳。 孝宗曰：「朕久有此意，事亦素定。 但恐儲位既正，人性易驕，即自縱逸，不勤於學，浸有失德。 朕所以未建者，更欲其練曆庶務，通知古今，庶無後悔爾。」 七年正月丙子朔，孝宗上兩宮尊號冊、寶，禮成。 丞相允文復以請，孝宗曰：「朕既立太子，即令親王出鎮外藩，卿宜討論前代典禮。」 允文尋以聞。 二月癸丑，乃立帝爲皇太子，慶王愷爲雄武、保甯軍節度使、判甯國府，進封魏王。 三月丁酉，受皇太子冊。 四月甲子，命判臨安府，尋領尹事。 帝之爲恭王，與講官商較前代，時出意表，講官自以爲不及。 逮尹臨安，究心民政，周知情偽。 孝宗數稱之，且語丞相趙雄曰：「太子資質甚美，每遣人來問安，朕必戒以留意問學。」 淳熙十四年十月乙亥，高宗崩。 十一月己亥，百官大祥畢，孝宗手詔：「皇太子可令參決庶務，以內東門司爲議事堂。」 十五年二月戊戌，帝始赴議事堂，自是，間日與輔臣公裳系鞋相見，內外除擢，自館職、部刺史以上乃以聞。 九月乙巳，又詔：「每遇朝殿，令皇太子侍立。」 十一月，丞相周必大乞去，孝宗諭曰：「朕比年病倦，欲傳位太子，卿須少留。」 會陳康伯家以紹興傳位御劄來上，十二月壬申，孝宗遣中使密持賜必大，因令討論典禮，既又密以禪意諭參知政事留正。 十六年正月辛亥，兩府奏事，孝宗諭以倦勤，欲禪位皇太子，退就休養，以畢高宗三年之制。 因令必大進呈詔草。
Emperor Guangzong (personal name Dun), honored with the posthumous title Xundaoxianren Minggong Maode Wenwen Shunwu Shengche Cixiao, was Emperor Xiaozong's third son. His mother was Empress Chengmu of the Guo clan. He was born at the princely residence on the yichou day of the ninth month of the seventeenth year of Shaoxing (1147). In the twentieth year of Shaoxing he received his current personal name, was appointed vice commandant of the Right Gate Guard Command, and then promoted to military commissioner of Rong Prefecture. When Xiaozong took the throne, Dun was made military commissioner of the Zhentao Army with the ceremonial rank of Kaifu Yitong Sansi and enfeoffed as Prince of Gong. After Crown Prince Zhuangwen's death, Xiaozong found Dun as spirited and martial as himself and wished to name him heir, yet hesitated because Dun was not next in line of succession. In the seventh month of the sixth year of Qiandao (1170), the court astronomer reported that Jupiter and Mars had conjoined in the same lunar mansion, an omen associated with enshrining a crown prince, and that an amnesty should follow. Yu Yunwen was then chief minister and used the occasion to urge that the succession be settled without delay. Xiaozong replied, "I have long intended this, and the matter is essentially decided. But I worry that once the heir is formally named, pride comes easily: he may indulge himself, neglect his studies, and little by little lose virtue. That is why I have waited—to let him train in administration and master history, so I will have no regrets later." On the first day (bingzi) of the first month of the seventh year of Qiandao, Xiaozong completed the ceremony of presenting honorific registers and seals to the two palaces. Chancellor Yu Yunwen pressed the matter again. Xiaozong said, "Once I name the heir, I will send the other princes to govern frontier prefectures; you should study how earlier dynasties handled this." Yu Yunwen soon reported back. On the guichou day of the second month, Dun was formally made crown prince; Prince Kai of Qing was appointed military commissioner of the Xiongwu and Baoning armies, assigned to govern Ningguo Prefecture, and promoted to Prince of Wei. On the dingyou day of the third month he received the investiture register as crown prince. On the jiazi day of the fourth month he was assigned to govern Lin'an Prefecture and soon took charge of the capital administration. As Prince of Gong, Dun debated historical precedents with his tutors and often offered insights they had not anticipated; the tutors themselves admitted they could not keep pace. Once he governed Lin'an as prefect, he threw himself into civil affairs and came to know the truth of local conditions in full detail. Xiaozong often praised him and told Chancellor Zhao Xiong, "The crown prince's gifts are outstanding. Whenever he sends someone to inquire after me, I always urge him to keep his mind on his studies." On the yihai day of the tenth month of the fourteenth year of Chunxi (1187), Gaozong died. On the jihai day of the eleventh month, after the court had completed the major mourning rites, Xiaozong wrote by his own hand: "Let the crown prince take part in deciding routine affairs, and use the Inner Eastern Gate Office as his council chamber." On the wuxu day of the second month of the fifteenth year Dun first attended the council chamber. Thereafter he met the chief ministers every other day in full court dress; appointments from secretariat posts and prefectural commissioners upward, whether inside or outside the capital, were brought to him for approval. On the yisi day of the ninth month another edict ordered that the crown prince stand in attendance whenever the court held audience in the hall. In the eleventh month Chancellor Zhou Bida asked to retire. Xiaozong told him, "These past years illness has worn me down; I mean to pass the throne to the crown prince. You must stay on a little longer." When Chen Kangbo's family submitted Gaozong's Shaoxing-era rescript on abdication, Xiaozong on the renshen day of the twelfth month secretly sent a palace envoy to give it to Zhou Bida and charged him with drafting the rites; he also privately told Vice Grand Councilor Liu Zheng of his plan to abdicate. On the xinhai day of the first month of the sixteenth year, as the Two Departments reported on affairs, Xiaozong said he was worn out by rule and wished to abdicate to the crown prince, retire to recuperate, and fulfill the three-year mourning for Gaozong. He then ordered Zhou Bida to submit a draft abdication edict.
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二月壬戌，孝宗吉服御紫宸殿，行內禪禮，應奉官以次稱賀。 內侍固請帝坐，帝固辭。 內侍扶掖至七八，乃微坐，復興。 次丞相率百僚稱賀，禮畢，樞密院官升殿奏事，帝立聽。 班退，孝宗反喪服，御後殿，帝侍立，尋登輦，同詣重華宮。 帝還內，即上尊號曰至尊壽皇聖帝，皇后曰壽成皇后。 壽皇聖帝詔立帝元妃李氏爲皇后。 甲子，帝率群臣朝重華宮。 大赦，百官進秩一級，優賞諸軍，蠲公私逋負及郡縣淳熙十四年以前稅役。 丙寅，帝率群臣詣重華宮，上尊號冊、寶。 以閣門舍人譙熙載、薑特立並知閣門事。 庚午，詔五日一朝重華宮。 辛未，尊皇太后曰壽聖皇太后。 壬申，詔內外臣僚陳時政闕失，四方獻歌頌者勿受。 遣羅點等使金告即位。 癸酉，詔戒敕將帥。 賜前宰執、從官詔，訪以得失。 乙亥，詔兩省官詳定內外封章，具要切者以聞。 遣諸葛廷瑞等使金弔祭。 丙子，詔戒敕官吏。 己卯，詔官吏贓罪顯著者，重罰毋貸。 辛巳，以生日爲重明節。 丁亥，詔百官輪對。 己丑，詔編《壽皇聖政》。 庾寅，詔中書舍人羅點縣可爲台諫者，點以葉適、吳鎰、孫逢吉、張體仁、馮震武、鄭湜、劉崇之、沈清臣八人上之。
On the renxu day of the second month Xiaozong, still in auspicious mourning dress, entered the Hall of Purple Splendor to perform the inner abdication; attending officials offered congratulations in turn. Palace attendants pressed the new emperor to take the seat; he firmly refused. After the attendants helped him six or seven times he barely seated himself, then stood up again. Then the chancellor led the officials in congratulating him. When the rites ended, Bureau of Military Affairs officials came up to report; the emperor stood to hear them. After the audience withdrew, Xiaozong put mourning dress back on and entered the rear hall while the new emperor stood by; they soon mounted the carriage together and went to the Palace of Double Splendor. Back in the inner palace, he bestowed on Xiaozong the honorific Supreme August Shouhuang Sage Emperor and on the empress the title Shoucheng Empress. The retired Shouhuang Sage Emperor ordered that the new emperor's primary consort, Lady Li, be made empress. On the jiazi day the emperor led the court in audience at the Palace of Double Splendor. A general amnesty followed: every official was promoted one rank, the armies were richly rewarded, and public and private debts plus prefectural and county taxes and corvée levies owed before the fourteenth year of Chunxi were forgiven. On the bingyin day he led the court to the Palace of Double Splendor to present the honorific register and imperial seal. Qiao Xizai and Jiang Teli, both gentlemen-attendants of the Gate, were jointly appointed to manage Gate affairs. On the gengwu day an edict required the emperor to hold audience at the Palace of Double Splendor every five days. On the xinwei day the grand empress dowager was given the title Shousheng Grand Empress Dowager. On the renshen day an edict invited officials everywhere to report policy failures, and forbade accepting panegyrics sent from the provinces. Luo Dian and others were sent to the Jin court to announce the new emperor's accession. On the guiyou day an edict issued warnings to military commanders. Former chief ministers and attendant officials received edicts asking their views on what had gone right or wrong. On the yihai day an edict directed Two Department officials to review memorials from inside and outside the court and report the most urgent items. Zhuge Tingrui and others were sent to the Jin court to offer mourning condolences. On the bingzi day an edict admonished civil officials. On the jimao day an edict ordered severe punishment without mercy for officials whose corruption was flagrant. On the xinsi day the emperor's birthday was made the Chongming Festival. On the dinghai day an edict required officials to present themselves in rotating audience. On the jichou day an edict ordered compilation of the Sagely Governance of the Shouhuang Emperor. On the gengyin day an edict told Secretariat drafter Luo Dian to name candidates for censorate and remonstrance posts; he submitted Ye Shi, Wu Yi, Sun Fengji, Zhang Tiren, Feng Zhenwu, Zheng Shi, Liu Chongzhi, and Shen Qingchen.
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三月壬辰，以周必大爲少保，留正轉正奉大夫。 丙申，遣沈揆等使金賀即位。 詔侍從、兩省、台諫，各舉可任湖廣及四川總領者一人。 己亥，子擴進封嘉王。 癸卯，金遣王元德等來告哀。 戊申，以壽皇卻五日之朝，詔自今月四朝重華宮。 甲寅，以史浩爲太師，伯圭爲少師，少保土歆爲少傅，昭慶軍節度使士峴爲少保。 戊午，金遣張萬公等來致遺留物。 己未，以左補闕薛叔似爲將作監，右拾遺許及之爲軍器監。 拾遺、補闕官自此罷。 詔東宮書籍並賜嘉王。
In the third month, on the renchen day, Zhou Bida was appointed junior guardian and Liu Zheng was promoted to grandee of proper service. On the bingshen day Shen Kui and others were sent to the Jin court to congratulate the new reign. An edict required attendant officials, Two Department staff, and censorate and remonstrance officers each to nominate one candidate fit to head Huguang or Sichuan finances. On the jihai day his son Kuo was promoted to Prince of Jia. On the guimao day the Jin court sent Wang Yuande and others to announce a death in the royal house. On the wushen day, because the retired Shouhuang Emperor refused the five-day schedule, an edict set four monthly audiences at the Palace of Double Splendor instead. On the jiayin day Shi Hao was appointed grand preceptor, Bo Gui junior preceptor, Tu Xin junior mentor, and Tu Xian, military commissioner of the Zhaoqing Army, junior guardian. On the wuwu day the Jin court sent Zhang Wangong and others to deliver goods left by the deceased ruler. On the jiwei day Left Supplementation Censor Xue Shusi was appointed director of palace buildings and Right Reminder Censor Xu Jizhi director of armaments. The posts of reminder and supplementation censor were abolished from this point on. An edict gave all Eastern Palace books to Prince Jia.
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夏四月丙寅，有事於太廟。 丁卯，四川應起經、總製錢存留三年，代輸鹽酒重額。 癸酉，侄抦進封許國公。 乙亥，以兩浙犒賞酒庫隸諸州，歲入六十五萬，尋減三十萬。 戊寅，金遣徒單鎰等來告即位。 以權兵部侍郎何澹爲右諫議大夫。 丙戌，有事于景靈宮。
In summer, on the bingyin day of the fourth month, the court performed rites at the Imperial Ancestral Temple. On the dingmao day Sichuan was allowed to retain classics and manufacture levies for three years instead of paying the heavy salt and wine quotas. On the guiyou day his nephew Bing was promoted to Duke of Xu. On the yihai day the Two Zhe reward-wine storehouses were assigned to individual prefectures, yielding 650,000 per year; 300,000 of that was soon cut. On the wuyin day the Jin court sent Tushan Yi and others to announce their new emperor's accession. Acting vice minister of war He Tan was appointed right remonstrance and discussion grandee. On the bingxu day the court performed rites at the Jingling Palace.
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五月甲午，以王藺知樞密院事兼參知政事。 丙申，周必大罷爲觀文殿大學士、判潭州。 常德府、辰、沅、靖州大水入其郛。 丁酉，詔丞相以下月一朝重華宮。 戊戌，罷周必大判潭州之命，許以舊官爲醴泉觀使。 戊申，以和義郡夫人黃氏爲貴妃。 右丞相留正論知閣門事薑特立，罷之。
In the fifth month, on the jiawu day, Wang Lin was appointed director of the Bureau of Military Affairs and concurrent vice grand councilor. On the bingshen day Zhou Bida was removed from office, made academician of the Hall for Viewing Literature, and assigned to govern Tan Prefecture. Great floods entered the outer walls of Changde Prefecture and Chen, Yuan, and Jing prefectures. On the dingyou day an edict required the chancellor and officials beneath him to attend the retired emperor at the Palace of Double Splendor once a month. On the wuxu day Zhou Bida's Tanzhou assignment was cancelled; he was allowed to keep his former rank as commissioner of the Liquan Abbey. On the wushen day Lady Huang of Heyi Commandery was made honored consort. Right Chancellor Liu Zheng criticized Jiang Teli's conduct of Gate affairs, and Jiang was removed.
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閏月庚申朔，詔內侍陳源許在外任便居住。 免郡縣淳熙十四年以前私負，十五年以後輸息及本者亦蠲之。 壬戌，以趙雄爲甯武軍節度使、開府儀同三司，進封衛國公，仍判江陵府。 庚午，詔罷賣浙西常平官田。 癸酉，詔季秋有事於明堂，以高宗配。 丙子，趙雄疾甚，改判資州。 戊寅，蠲郡縣第五等戶身丁錢及臨安第五等戶和買絹各一年，仍出錢二十三萬緡振臨安貧民。 己卯，階州大水入其郛。 壬午，大理獄空。 乙酉，御後殿慮囚。
On the first day of the intercalary month (gengshen), an edict allowed palace attendant Chen Yuan to live where he chose while on outside assignment. Private debts owed to prefectures and counties before the fourteenth year of Chunxi were forgiven, and interest and principal paid after the fifteenth year were also remitted. On the renxu day Zhao Xiong was appointed military commissioner of the Ningwu Army with Kaifu Yitong Sansi, promoted to Duke of Wei, and kept in charge of Jiangling Prefecture. On the gengwu day an edict stopped the sale of Ever-Normal official land in western Zhe. On the guiyou day an edict scheduled late-autumn rites at the Bright Hall with Gaozong as the associated spirit. On the bingzi day Zhao Xiong fell gravely ill and was reassigned to govern Zi Prefecture. On the wuyin day poll taxes for fifth-rank households in prefectures and counties and commuted silk levies for fifth-rank Lin'an households were forgiven for one year, and 230,000 strings of cash were issued to aid the capital's poor. On the jimao day a great flood entered the outer walls of Jie Prefecture. On the renwu day the Court of Judicial Review had no prisoners. On the yiyou day the emperor entered the rear hall to review prisoners.
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六月庚寅，鎮江大水入其郛。 癸卯，詔自今臣僚奏請事涉改法者，三省、樞密院詳具以聞。
In the sixth month, on the gengyin day, a great flood entered the outer walls of Zhenjiang. On the guimao day an edict required that whenever officials' petitions involved changing laws, the Three Departments and Bureau of Military Affairs must report the details in full.
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秋七月辛酉，儒林郎倪恕等以封事可采，遷官、免文解有差。 戊辰，遣謝深甫等賀金主生辰。 庚辰，下詔恤刑。
In autumn, on the xinyou day of the seventh month, gentlemen of the forest of scholars Ni Shu and others had their sealed memorials accepted and received promotions and varying exemptions from the civil examination. On the wuchen day Xie Shenfu and others were sent to congratulate the Jin emperor on his birthday. On the gengchen day an edict ordered leniency in criminal cases.
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八月甲午，升恭州爲重慶府。 丙申，減兩浙月樁等錢歲二十五萬五千緡。 己亥，王淮薨。 癸丑，金遣溫蒂罕肅等來賀即位。
In the eighth month, on the jiawu day, Gong Prefecture was elevated to Chongqing Prefecture. On the bingshen day monthly quota levies in the Two Zhe circuits were cut by 255,000 strings per year. On the jihai day Wang Huai died. On the guichou day the Jin court sent Wentiha Su and others to congratulate the new reign.
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九月癸亥，金遣完顏守真等來賀重明節。 減紹興和買絹歲額四萬四千餘匹。 乙丑，戒執政、侍從、台諫，毋移書以薦舉、請托。 南劍州火，降其守臣一官，仍令優加振濟。 戊辰，詔侍從各舉公正強敏之士，嘗任守令及職事官、材堪御史者一人。 甲戌，詔監司、帥守，秩滿到闕，薦所部廉吏一二人。 遣郭德麟等使金賀正旦。
In the ninth month, on the guihai day, the Jin court sent Wanyan Shouzhen and others to celebrate the Chongming Festival. The annual quota for Shaoxing commuted silk levies was cut by more than 44,000 bolts. On the yichou day chief ministers, attendant officials, and censorate and remonstrance officers were warned not to use private letters for recommendations or favors. A fire broke out in Nan Jian Prefecture; the prefectural guardian was demoted one rank, and extraordinary relief was ordered. On the wuchen day an edict required each attendant official to nominate one man known for integrity and ability who had served as prefect, county magistrate, or functional official and was fit for the censorate. On the jiaxu day an edict required circuit commissioners and military prefects upon completing their terms at court to recommend one or two upright officials from their jurisdictions. Guo Delin and others were sent as envoys to Jin to congratulate the New Year.
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冬十月庚子，罷樞密院審察諸軍之制。 壬寅，蠲楚州、高郵盱眙軍民負常平米一萬四千余石。 甲寅，大閱。
In winter, on the gengzi day of the tenth month, the Bureau of Military Affairs' system for inspecting all armies was abolished. On the renyin day more than fourteen thousand shi of Ever-Normal granary rice owed by the people and troops of Chuzhou, Gaoyou, and Xuyi Army were forgiven. On the jiayin day the court held a grand military review.
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紹熙元年春正月丙辰朔，帝率群臣詣重華宮，奉上壽聖皇太后、至尊壽皇聖帝、壽成皇后冊寶。 壬申，再蠲臨安府民身丁錢三年。 壬午，何澹請置《紹熙會計錄》。 詔何澹同戶部長貳、檢正、都司稽考財賦出入之數以聞。
On the bingchen new moon of the first month of spring in the first year of Shaoxi, the emperor led the court to Chonghua Palace to present the jade seals and registers to Grand Empress Dowager Shousheng, Retired Emperor Shouhuang, and Empress Shoucheng. On the renshen day Lin'an Prefecture poll taxes were again remitted for three years. On the renwu day He Tan requested the compilation of the 《Shaoxi Accounting Records》. An edict charged He Tan with the Ministry of Revenue's senior officers, verification officials, and directorate staff to audit revenue and expenditure and report their findings.
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二月丁酉，雨雹。 辛亥，殿中侍御史劉光祖言：道學非程氏私言，乞定是非，別邪正。 從之。
In the second month hail fell on the dingyou day. On the xinhai day Palace Attending Censor Liu Guangzu memorialized that the Learning of the Way was not private doctrine of the Cheng family alone and urged the court to settle right and wrong and distinguish orthodoxy from heterodoxy. The request was granted.
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三月丁卯，詔秀王襲封，置園廟。 班安僖王諱。 錄趙普後一人。 庚午，以久雨，釋杖以下囚。 夏四月乙酉，詔兩淮措置流民。 己丑，以伯圭爲太保、嗣秀王。 丁未，殿中侍御史劉光祖以論帶御器械吳端罷。 戊申，賜禮部進士余復以下五百三十有七人及第、出身。
In the third month, on the dingmao day, an edict ordered the Prince of Xi title to pass in succession and a garden temple to be established. The taboo name of Prince Anxi was given its place in court precedence. One descendant of Zhao Pu was granted an appointment. On the gengwu day prolonged rain led to the release of prisoners punishable by beating or lesser penalties. In summer, on the yiyou day of the fourth month, an edict ordered measures for refugees in the Two Huai region. On the jichou day Bo Gui was appointed grand guardian and successor Prince of Xi. On the dingwei day Palace Attending Censor Liu Guangzu was removed for impeaching Wu Duan, Attendant with Imperial Arsenal. On the wushen day five hundred thirty-seven Ministry of Rites jinshi led by Yu Fu were awarded jinshi degrees and chushen status.
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五月乙卯，趙雄坐所舉以賄敗，降封益川郡公，削食邑一千戶。 己未，出吳端爲浙西馬步軍副總管。 丙寅，修楚州城。 丙子，太白晝見。
In the fifth month, on the yimao day Zhao Xiong's nominee was ruined by a bribery scandal; Zhao Xiong was demoted to Duke of Yichuan and stripped of one thousand fief households. On the jiwei day Wu Duan was removed and posted as deputy overall commander of the Zhexi horse-and-foot army. On the bingyin day the walls of Chuzhou were repaired. On the bingzi day Venus was visible in daylight.
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六月丁亥，遣丘崈等賀金主生辰。 丙申，以上供等錢償廣州放免身丁錢數。 甲午，御後殿慮囚。
In the sixth month, on the dinghai day, Qiu Ke and others were sent to congratulate the Jin emperor's birthday. On the bingshen day superior-tribute funds were used to cover Guangzhou's remitted poll taxes. On the jiawu day the emperor entered the rear hall to review prisoners.
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秋七月癸丑，詔秀王諸孫並授南班。 甲寅，以葛邲參知政事，給事中胡晉臣簽書樞密院事。 乙卯，以留正爲左丞相，王藺樞密院使。 癸酉，建秀王祠堂於行在。
In autumn, on the guichou day of the seventh month, an edict granted all grandsons of the Prince of Xi Southern Ban ranks. On the jiayin day Ge Bi was appointed vice grand councilor and Hu Jinchen, supervising secretary, was made deputy signatory of the Bureau of Military Affairs. On the yimao day Liu Zheng was appointed left chief minister and Wang Lin director of the Bureau of Military Affairs. On the guiyou day an ancestral hall for the Prince of Xi was erected at the capital.
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八月辛卯，立任子中銓人吏部簾試法。 己亥，帝率君臣上《壽皇聖帝玉牒》、《日曆》于重華宮。 己酉，詔造新曆。
In the eighth month, on the xinmao day, regulations were issued for the Ministry of Personnel curtain examination of yin-privilege appointees. On the jihai day the emperor led the court to present the 《Imperial Genealogy of Emperor Shouhuang》 and the 《Daily Records》 at Chonghua Palace. On the jiyou day an edict ordered the creation of a new calendar.
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九月丁巳，金遣王修等來賀重明節。 己未，升劍州爲隆慶府。 辛酉，雷。 庚午，遣蘇山等使金賀正旦。
In the ninth month, on the dingsi day, the Jin court sent Wang Xiu and others to celebrate the Chongming Festival. On the jiwei day Jian Prefecture was promoted to Longqing Superior Prefecture. On the xinyou day there was thunder. On the gengwu day Su Shan and others were sent as envoys to Jin to congratulate the New Year.
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冬十月丁酉，詔內外諸軍自今毋置額外制、領以下官。 丙午，詔內外軍帥各薦所部有將才者。 庚戌，詔諭郡縣吏奉法愛民。
In winter, on the dingyou day of the tenth month, an edict forbade all armies henceforth from creating supernumerary posts of commander, leader, and below. On the bingwu day an edict required military commanders throughout the realm to recommend capable generals from their units. On the gengxu day an edict admonished prefectural and county officials to enforce the law and care for the people.
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十一月甲寅，安南入貢。 壬戌，潼川轉運判官王溉撙節漕計，代輸井戶重額錢十六萬緡，詔獎之。 十二月辛巳朔，贈左千牛衛大將軍挺爲保甯軍節度使。 壬午，賜王倫諡曰節湣。 丙戌，罷王藺樞密使。 戊子，以葛邲知樞密院事，胡晉臣參知政事兼同知樞密院事。 癸卯，詔歲減廣東官賣鹽。 丙午，金遣把德固等來賀明年正旦。 戊申，浦城盜張海作亂，詔提點刑獄豐誼捕之。
In the eleventh month, on the jiayin day, Annam sent tribute. On the renxu day Tongchuan transport vice commissioner Wang Gai trimmed the transport budget and paid one hundred sixty thousand strings to cover excess levies owed by salt-well households; the court commended him. On the xinsi new moon of the twelfth month General Ting of the Left Thousand-Ox Guard was posthumously made military commissioner of the Baoning Army. On the renwu day Wang Lun was given the posthumous title Jiemin. On the bingxu day Wang Lin was removed as director of Military Affairs. On the wuzi day Ge Bi was appointed director of the Bureau of Military Affairs and Hu Jinchen vice grand councilor and concurrent vice director of Military Affairs. On the guimao day an edict ordered annual cuts to government salt sales in Guangdong. On the bingwu day the Jin court sent Ba Degu and others to congratulate the coming New Year. On the wushen day the Pucheng bandit Zhang Hai rebelled; an edict ordered judicial intendant Feng Yi to apprehend him.
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二年春正月庚戌朔，命兩淮行義倉法。 壬子，詔尊高宗爲萬世不祧之廟。 庚申，修六合城。 辛酉，金主母徒單氏殂。 戊寅，雷電，雨雹。
On the gengxu new moon of the first month of spring in the second year the Two Huai region was ordered to implement the charitable granary system. On the renzi day an edict enshrined Emperor Gaozong in an eternally undiminished ancestral temple. On the gengshen day the walls of Liuhe were repaired. On the xinyou day the Jin empress dowager of the Tushi clan died. On the wuyin day there was thunder and lightning, and hail fell.
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二月庚辰朔，大雨雪。 壬午，遣宋之瑞等使金弔祭。 癸未，名新曆曰《會元》。 甲申，福建安撫使趙汝愚等以盜發所部，與守臣、監司各降秩一等，縣令追停。 乙酉，詔以陰陽失時，雷雪交作，令侍從、台諫、兩省、卿監、郎官、館職，各具時政闕失以聞。 出米五萬石賑京城貧民。 權罷修皇后家廟。 辛卯，布衣余古上書極諫，帝怒，詔送筠州學聽讀。 丁未，金遣完顏回等來告哀。
On the gengchen new moon of the second month there was heavy rain and snow. On the renwu day Song Zhirui and others were sent to the Jin court to offer mourning condolences. On the guiwei day the new calendar was named the 《Huiyuan》. On the jiashen day, after bandits erupted in their jurisdiction, Fujian pacification commissioner Zhao Ruyu and others, along with local guardians and circuit commissioners, were each demoted one rank and county magistrates were removed from office. On the yiyou day, citing yin-yang disorder and simultaneous thunder and snow, an edict required attendant officials, censorate and remonstrance officers, Two Department staff, directorate officials, department officials, and academy appointees each to report current policy failures. Fifty thousand shi of grain were issued to relieve the capital's poor. Work on the empress's family temple was temporarily suspended. On the xinmao day the commoner Yu Gu submitted a forceful memorial of remonstrance; the emperor was angered and ordered him sent to the Yizhou school to study under supervision. On the dingwei day the Jin court sent Wanyan Hui and others to announce a death in the royal house.
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三月丙辰，詔監司、郡守互送以贓論。 丁巳，詔自今邊事令宰相與樞密院議，仍同簽書。 丙寅，詔福建提點刑獄陳公亮、知漳州朱熹同措置漳、泉、汀三州經界。 丁卯，增廣州摧鋒軍三百人。 癸酉，建寧府雨雹，大如桃李，壞民居五千餘家。 溫州大風雨，雷電，田苗桑果蕩盡。 丙子，出右司諫鄧馹。
In the third month, on the bingchen day, an edict required circuit commissioners and prefects to report one another for corruption when handing over office. On the dingsi day an edict required border affairs henceforth to be deliberated by the chief minister and the Bureau of Military Affairs and jointly signed. On the bingyin day an edict charged Fujian judicial intendant Chen Gongliang and Zhangzhou prefect Zhu Xi with conducting the land survey in Zhang, Quan, and Ting prefectures. On the dingmao day Guangzhou's Cuifeng shock troops were increased by three hundred men. On the guiyou day hail as large as peaches and plums fell in Jianning Superior Prefecture, damaging more than five thousand homes. Wenzhou was struck by violent wind and rain with thunder and lightning; crops, mulberry trees, and fruit trees were completely destroyed. On the bingzi day Right Remonstrance Officer in the Department of State Affairs Deng Ma was removed from office.
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夏四月乙酉，從壽皇聖帝、壽成皇后幸聚景園。 丙申，詔侍從、兩省、台諫及在外侍從之臣，各舉所知嘗任監司、郡守可充郎官、卿監及資歷未深可充諸職事官者各三人。 辛丑，徽州火，二日乃滅。
In summer, on the yiyou day of the fourth month, the emperor accompanied Retired Emperor Shouhuang and Empress Shoucheng on a visit to Jujing Garden. On the bingshen day an edict required attendant officials, Two Department staff, censorate and remonstrance officers, and attendant officials serving in the provinces each to nominate three men known to them who had served as circuit commissioners or prefects and were fit for department or directorate posts, or whose experience was still limited but who could serve as functional officials. On the xinchou day a fire broke out in Huizhou and burned for two days before it was extinguished.
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五月己酉朔，福州水。 辛亥，詔六院官許輪對，仍入雜壓。 庚申，詔侍從、經筵、翰苑官，自今並不時宣對，庶廣諮詢，以補治道。 戊長，金州大火。 己巳，潼川、崇慶二府、大安、石泉、淮安三軍、興、利、果、合、綿、漢六州大水。
On the jiyou new moon of the fifth month Fuzhou was inundated. On the xinhai day an edict permitted Six Institutes officials to take rotating audiences with the emperor and to enter the mixed seniority roster. On the gengshen day an edict allowed attendant officials, lecture officials, and Hanlin officials henceforth to receive ad hoc imperial audiences, so as to broaden consultation and improve governance. On the wuchen day a major fire broke out in Jin Prefecture. On the jisi day Tongchuan and Chongqing superior prefectures, the armies of Da'an, Shiquan, and Huai'an, and Xing, Li, Guo, He, Mian, and Han prefectures were struck by major floods.
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六月戊寅，詔監司到任半年，條上裕民事，如郡守。 庚辰，遣趙ＮＵ等賀金主生辰。 丁亥，以伯圭判大宗正事。 癸巳，詔宰臣、執政，自今不時內殿宣引奏事。
In the sixth month, on the wuyin day, an edict required circuit commissioners, six months after taking office, to submit welfare measures, as prefects did. On the gengchen day Zhao Rushu and others were sent to congratulate the Jin emperor's birthday. On the dinghai day Bo Gui was appointed director of the Imperial Clan Court. On the guisi day an edict allowed chief ministers and executive officials henceforth to be summoned ad hoc to the inner hall to report on affairs.
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秋七月丁未朔，詔故容州編管人高登追復元官，仍贈承務郎。 己未，出會子百萬緡，收兩淮私鑄鐵錢。 乙丑，復置太醫局。 己巳，興州大水，漂沒數千家。
On the dingwei new moon of the seventh month an edict restored the late Rongzhou exile Gao Deng to his former office and posthumously enfeoffed him as gentleman for meritorious service. On the jiwei day one million strings in huizi notes were issued to buy up privately cast iron coins in the Two Huai region. On the yichou day the Imperial Medical Service was reestablished. On the jisi day a major flood in Xing Prefecture submerged several thousand households.
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八月戊寅，何澹以本生繼母喪去官。 甲申，寬兩浙榷鐵之禁。
In the eighth month, on the wuyin day, He Tan left office to observe mourning for his birth mother and stepmother. On the jiashen day restrictions under the Two Zhe iron monopoly were relaxed.
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九月壬子，金遣完顏兗等來賀重明節。 召知福州趙汝愚爲吏部尚書。 壬戌，禁職田折變。 癸亥，遣黃申等使金賀正旦。 乙丑，以久雨，命大理、三衙、臨安府及兩浙決系囚，釋杖以下。 己巳，詔侍從于嘗任卿監、郎官內，選堪斷刑長貳一二人以聞。
In the ninth month, on the renzi day, the Jin court sent Wanyan Yan and others to celebrate the Chongming Festival. Zhao Ruyu, prefect of Fuzhou, was recalled and appointed minister of personnel. On the renxu day the conversion of official farmland into cash payments was forbidden. On the guihai day Huang Shen and others were sent as envoys to Jin to congratulate the New Year. On the yichou day prolonged rain led the Court of Judicial Review, the Three Palace Commands, Lin'an Prefecture, and the Two Zhe circuits to review detained prisoners and release those punishable by beating or lesser penalties. On the jisi day an edict required selection from among attendant officials who had served as directorate or department officials of one or two men fit to serve as senior criminal-review vice ministers, to be reported to the throne.
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冬十月丙子朔，詔罷經界。 丁丑，築福州外城。 庚辰，減百官大禮賜物三之一。 甲申，復吳端帶御器械。 辛卯，詔守令毋征斂病民。 庚子，下詔撫諭四川被水州軍。
On the bingzi new moon of the tenth month an edict abolished the land survey. On the dingchou day construction of Fuzhou's outer walls began. On the gengchen day grand-ceremony gifts to officials were cut by one third. On the jiashen day, Wu Duan was again restored to the privilege of bearing imperial weaponry. On the xinmao day, an edict forbade local magistrates from collecting taxes from afflicted commoners. On the gengzi day, the throne issued an edict offering consolation and guidance to flood-stricken prefectures and garrisons in Sichuan.
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十一月戊申，安定郡王子肜薨。 己巳，冊加高宗徽號曰受命中興全功至德聖神武文昭仁憲孝皇帝。 辛未，有事於太廟。 皇后李氏殺黃貴妃，以暴卒聞。 壬申，合祭天地於圜丘，以太祖、太宗配，大風雨，不成禮而罷。 帝既聞貴妃薨，又值此變，震懼感疾，罷稱賀，肆赦不御樓。 壽皇聖帝及壽成皇后來視疾，帝自是不視朝。 十二月庚辰，築荊門軍城。 丁亥，帝始對輔臣於內殿。 乙未，增楚州更戍兵一千五百人。 庚子，復出會子百萬緡，收兩淮鐵錢。 辛丑，金遣完顏宗璧等來賀明年正旦。 壬寅，資、簡、普、榮四州及富順監旱。 甲辰，詔慶遠軍承宣使、內侍省都知楊皓懷奸凶恣，刺面杖脊，配吉州； 和州防禦使、內侍省押班黃邁私相朋附，決杖、編管撫州。 尋送皓撫州、邁常州居住。 是歲，建寧府、汀州水，階、成、西和、鳳四州及淮東旱，振之。
In the eleventh month, on the wushen day, Zi Rong, Prince of Anding, passed away. On the jisi day, Gaozong was given the posthumous honorific title "Emperor Xiaoshou Mingzhong Quan Gong Zhide Sheng Shen Wu Wen Zhao Ren Xian Xiao." On the xinwei day, sacrifices were offered at the Imperial Ancestral Temple. Empress Li murdered Consort Huang, but the court reported that she had died suddenly. On the renshen day, a joint sacrifice to Heaven and Earth was held at the Circular Mound, with Taizu and Taizong enshrined as associates; a violent storm broke out, the ceremony could not be completed, and it was abandoned. Having learned of the consort's death and then facing this ominous disruption of the rites, the emperor was deeply alarmed, fell ill, canceled the celebratory observances, proclaimed a general amnesty, but did not appear on the imperial tower. The retired Emperor Shouhuang and Empress Shoucheng came to inquire after his illness, after which the emperor ceased holding court. In the twelfth month, on the gengchen day, construction of the walls of Jingmen Military Prefecture was undertaken. On the dinghai day, the emperor held his first audience with chief ministers in the inner palace. On the yiwei day, Chuzhou's rotating garrison was increased by 1,500 troops. On the gengzi day, the government again issued one million strings' worth of huizi notes in exchange for iron cash circulating in the Two Huai circuits. On the xinchou day, the Jin court sent Wanyan Zongbi and others to offer congratulations for the approaching New Year. On the renyin day, drought afflicted Zi, Jian, Pu, and Rong prefectures and Fushun Superintendency. On the jiachen day, an edict condemned Yang Hao, Military Commissioner of Qingyuan Army and Director of the Palace Domestics Service, for treacherous and brutal conduct; he was tattooed on the face, beaten on the back, and banished to Jizhou. Huang Mai, Defender of Hezhou and Sub-director of the Palace Domestics Service, was punished for forming a private clique; he received a beating with rods and was placed under restricted residence in Fuzhou. Soon after, Hao was reassigned to reside in Fuzhou and Mai in Changzhou. That year, floods struck Jianning Prefecture and Tingzhou, while drought afflicted Jie, Cheng, Xihe, and Feng prefectures and the Huaidong region; relief was distributed.
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三年春正月乙巳朔，帝有疾，不視朝。 庚戌，蠲秀州上供米四萬四千石。 歲蠲四川鹽酒重額錢九十萬緡。 出度僧牒二百，收淮東鐵錢。 丁巳，命夔路轉運使通融漕計糴米，以備凶荒。 壬戌，罷文州民雜役。 詔輔臣代行恭謝之禮。
In the spring of the third year, on the first day of the first month (yisi), the emperor was ill and absent from court. On the gengxu day, the court remitted 44,000 shi of tribute grain owed by Xiuzhou. That year, the court waived 900,000 strings of Sichuan's heavy salt-and-wine surcharge. The government issued 200 ordination certificates to recall iron cash from Huaidong. On the dingsi day, the Kuilu transport commissioner was instructed to reallocate transport-grain funds to buy grain as a reserve against famine. On the renxu day, the court abolished miscellaneous corvee duties imposed on the people of Wenzhou. An edict directed chief ministers to carry out the thanksgiving ceremony on the emperor's behalf.
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二月甲戌朔，復以兩浙犒賞酒庫隸戶部。 丁酉，申嚴錢銀過淮之禁。
On the first day of the second month (jiaxu), the Two Zhejiang reward wine depots were again subordinated to the Ministry of Revenue. On the dingyou day, the ban on moving silver and copper cash across the Huai River was strictly reinforced.
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閏月丙午，禁郡縣新作寺觀。 甲寅，以王藺爲端明殿學士、四川安撫制置使，藺辭不行。 壬戌，詔州縣未斷之訟，監司毋得移獄，違者許執奏。 甲子，成都府路轉運判官王溉以代民輸激賞等絹錢三十三萬緡，詔進一官，仍令再任。 詔賣郡縣沒官田屋及營田。
On the bingwu day of the intercalary month, the court prohibited counties and prefectures from constructing new Buddhist and Daoist establishments. On the jiayin day, Wang Lin was appointed Duanming Hall Academician and Sichuan Pacification Commissioner, but he declined the appointment and did not go. On the renxu day, an edict forbade circuit supervisors from transferring unresolved local lawsuits; offenders could be reported directly to the throne. On the jiazi day, Wang Gai, transport judge of the Chengdu circuit, was promoted one rank and retained in office for having paid 330,000 strings of jishang silk tax on the people's behalf. An edict authorized the sale of confiscated local lands, buildings, and military colony fields.
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三月甲戌，修天長縣城。 辛巳，帝疾稍愈，始御延和殿聽政。 以子濤爲安定郡王。 甲申，罷雅州稅場五。 築峽州城。 乙酉，留正乞去位，不許。 庚寅，宜州蠻寇邊，改知郁林州沙世堅知宜州討之。 辛卯，復監司列薦法。 丁酉，罷廣東增收鹽斤錢。 己亥，詔技藝補授之人毋得奏補，著爲令。 庚子，監察御史郭德麟以察事失體，出爲湖北提舉常平茶鹽。
In the third month, on the jiaxu day, repairs were made to the walls of Tianchang County. On the xinsi day, as the emperor's illness eased somewhat, he resumed holding court at Yanhe Hall. Zi Tao was enfeoffed as Prince of Anding. On the jiashen day, five tax stations in Yazhou were abolished. Construction of the walls of Xiazhou was undertaken. On the yiyou day, Liu Zheng asked to resign, but the request was denied. On the gengyin day, tribal forces from Yizhou raided the frontier; Sha Shijian, formerly prefect of Yulin, was reassigned as prefect of Yizhou to suppress the incursion. On the xinmao day, the system of collective recommendations by circuit supervisors was restored. On the dingyou day, the supplemental salt levy in Guangdong was abolished. On the jihai day, an edict barred holders of skill-based appointments from seeking further preferment by petition, making the rule permanent. On the gengzi day, Supervising Censor Guo Delin was demoted to Hubei Intendant of Ever-Normal Granaries, Tea, and Salt for impropriety in an investigation.
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夏四月癸卯，補童子吳鋼官。 甲寅，振四川旱傷郡縣。 乙卯，以戶部侍郎丘崈爲煥章閣直學士、四川安撫制置使。 戊午，帝朝重華宮。 丁卯，蠲臨安民元年二年逋賦。
In the fourth month of summer, on the guimao day, the child prodigy Wu Gang was granted an official appointment. On the jiayin day, drought relief was distributed to affected prefectures and counties in Sichuan. On the yimao day, Qiu Ke, Vice Minister of Revenue, was appointed Direct Academician of Huizhang Hall and Sichuan Pacification Commissioner. On the wuwu day, the emperor went to Chonghua Palace to pay his respects. On the dingmao day, the court remitted tax arrears from the first and second years owed by residents of Lin'an.
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五月，帝有疾，不視朝。 乙未，命漢陽、荊門軍、復州行鐵錢。 己亥，蠲四川水旱郡縣租賦。 仍以兩浙犒賞酒庫隸諸州，令戶部郎官提領，歲以四十五萬緡爲額，庚子晦，常德府大水入其郛。
In the fifth month, the emperor fell ill and again absented himself from court. On the yiwei day, the court ordered Hanyang, Jingmen Military Prefecture, and Fuzhou to circulate iron cash. On the jihai day, the court waived rent and taxes for flood- and drought-stricken areas of Sichuan. The Two Zhejiang reward wine depots were again placed under individual prefectures, overseen by Ministry of Revenue officials, with an annual quota of 450,000 strings; on the last day of the gengzi cycle, Changde Prefecture was inundated as floodwaters breached its outer walls.
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六月辛丑朔，下詔戒飭風俗，禁民奢侈與士爲文浮靡、吏苟且飾偽者。 以權禮部尚書陳騤同知樞密院事，甲辰，遣錢之望等賀金主生辰。 丁未，罷四川諸軍歲起西兵。 廢光州定城監。 壬子，慮囚。 戊午，以伯圭爲太師。 甲子，增捕獲私鑄銅錢賞格。 丙寅，以太尉郭師禹爲少保。
On the first day of the sixth month (xinchou), the throne issued an edict calling for moral reform, banning popular extravagance, ornate literary affectation among literati, and lax, deceptive conduct among officials. Chen Kui, Acting Minister of Rites, was appointed Associate Director of the Privy Council; on the jiachen day, Qian Zhiwang and others were sent to congratulate the Jin emperor on his birthday. On the dingwei day, the court abolished the annual levy of western recruits for Sichuan's military commands. The Dingcheng Superintendency in Guangzhou was abolished. On the renzi day, the emperor reviewed cases of imprisoned convicts. On the wuwu day, Bo Gui was appointed Grand Preceptor. On the jiazi day, the bounties offered for seizing illicitly cast copper coins were raised. On the bingyin day, Grand Marshal Guo Shiyu was appointed Junior Guardian.
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秋七月己巳，刺沿邊盜萬人爲諸州禁軍。 壬申，監文思院常良孫坐贓，配海外。 益國公周必大坐繆舉良孫，降滎陽郡公。 省廣西郡縣官。 甲戌，台州水。 壬午，瀘州騎射卒張信等作亂，殺其帥臣張孝芳。 甲申，軍士卞進、張昌擊殺信。 增嘉王府講讀官二員。 壬辰，修揚州城。
In the seventh month of autumn, on the jisi day, ten thousand frontier bandits were branded and enrolled as garrison soldiers across the prefectures. On the renshen day, Chang Liangsun, supervisor of the Wen Siyuan, was found guilty of embezzlement and banished overseas. Zhou Bida, Duke of Yiguo, was demoted to Duke of Xingyang for having improperly recommended Liangsun. The number of prefectural and county officials in Guangxi was cut. On the jiaxu day, Taizhou was inundated. On the renwu day, Zhang Xin and other cavalry archers at Luzhou mutinied and killed their commander, Zhang Xiaofang. On the jiashen day, soldiers Bian Jin and Zhang Chang killed Zhang Xin. Two tutoring readers were added to the staff of the Prince of Jia's household. On the renchen day, repairs were made to the walls of Yangzhou.
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八月甲寅，詔兩淮行鐵錢交子。 戊午，總領四川財賦楊輔奏：已蠲東、西兩川畸零絹錢四十七萬緡、激賞絹六萬六千匹。 詔獎之。 自是歲以爲例。
In the eighth month, on the jiayin day, an edict mandated the circulation of iron cash and jiaozi notes in the Two Huai circuits. On the wuwu day, Yang Fu, chief fiscal officer of Sichuan, reported that he had waived 470,000 strings of miscellaneous silk levies in eastern and western Sichuan and 66,000 bolts of jishang silk. The emperor issued an edict praising his service. Thereafter this practice was established as an annual precedent.
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九月甲戌，修德安府外城。 乙亥，金遣僕散端等來賀重明節。 戊子，遣鄭汝諧等使金賀正旦。 丙申，勸兩淮民種桑。
In the ninth month, on the jiaxu day, repairs were made to the outer walls of De'an Prefecture. On the yihai day, the Jin court sent Pusan Duan and others to offer greetings for the Chongming Festival. On the wuzi day, Zheng Ruxie and others were sent as envoys to the Jin court to congratulate the New Year. On the bingshen day, the court encouraged the people of the Two Huai circuits to cultivate mulberry.
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冬十月壬寅，修大禹陵廟。 丙午，修潭州城。 辛亥，帝詣重華宮進香。 庚申，會慶節，丞相率百官詣重華宮拜表稱賀。
In the tenth month of winter, on the renyin day, repairs were undertaken at the shrine of Great Yu's tomb. On the bingwu day, repairs were made to the walls of Tanzhou. On the xinhai day, the emperor visited Chonghua Palace to burn incense in devotion. On the gengshen day, the Huiqing Festival, the chief councilor led the full court to Chonghua Palace to present a congratulatory memorial.
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十一月壬申，振襄陽府被水貧民。 癸酉，減蘄州歲鑄錢二十萬緡。 丙戌，日南至，丞相率百官詣重華宮拜表稱賀。 兵部尚書羅點、給事中尤袤、中書舍人黃裳皆上疏請帝朝重華宮，吏部尚書趙汝愚亦因面對以請，帝開納。 辛卯，帝朝重華宮，皇后繼至，都人大悅。 癸巳，蠲湖南北、京西、江西郡縣月樁、經總製錢歲二十三萬餘緡。 戊戌，詔李純乃皇后親侄，可特除閣門宣贊舍人。 十二月癸卯，帝率群臣上《壽皇聖帝玉牒》、《聖政》、《會要》于重華宮。 丙午，蠲歸正人賦役三年。 辛亥，以留正爲少保。 乙丑，金遣溫敦忠等來賀明年正旦。 是歲，江東、京西、湖北水。
In the eleventh month, on the renshen day, relief was granted to impoverished flood victims in Xiangyang Prefecture. On the guiyou day, Qizhou's annual coinage quota was cut by 200,000 strings. On the bingxu day, the winter solstice, the chief councilor led the full court to Chonghua Palace to offer congratulatory memorials. Minister of War Luo Dian, Supervising Secretary You Mao, and Drafting Official Huang Shang all memorialized urging the emperor to attend Chonghua Palace; Minister of Personnel Zhao Ruyu also pressed the point in audience, and the emperor accepted their counsel. On the xinmao day, the emperor went to Chonghua Palace, the empress arriving shortly after; the capital rejoiced. On the guisi day, the court remitted over 230,000 strings of monthly allotment and consolidated finance levies owed by prefectures and counties in Hunan, northern Hunan, Jingxi, and Jiangxi. On the wuxu day, an edict granted Li Chun, the empress's nephew, a special appointment as Gate Provisioner and Herald. In the twelfth month, on the guimao day, the emperor led his ministers to Chonghua Palace to present the 《Jade Register of Emperor Shouhuang》, the 《Shengzheng》, and the 《Huiyao》. On the bingwu day, the court waived taxes and corvee for returned loyalists for three years. On the xinhai day, Liu Zheng was appointed Junior Guardian. On the yichou day, the Jin court sent Wendun Zhong and others to offer congratulations for the approaching New Year. That year, floods struck Jiangdong, Jingxi, and Hubei.
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四年春正月己巳朔，帝朝重華宮。 辛卯，蠲臨安府民身丁錢三年。
In the spring of the fourth year, on the first day of the first month (jisi), the emperor went to Chonghua Palace. On the xinmao day, the court waived the per-capita household tax for residents of Lin'an Prefecture for three years.
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二月戊戌朔，詔陳源特與在京宮觀。 丙寅，貸淮西民市牛錢。 出米七萬石振江陵饑民。 甲戌，皇孫生。
On the first day of the second month (wuxu), an edict granted Chen Yuan a special sinecure appointment at a capital temple or monastery. On the bingyin day, the court extended loans to the people of Huaixi to purchase oxen. The government distributed 70,000 shi of grain to relieve famine victims in Jiangling. On the jiaxu day, an imperial grandson was born.
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三月丙子，帝朝重華宮，皇后從。 辛巳，以葛邲爲右丞相，胡晉臣知樞密院事，陳騤參知政事，趙汝愚同知樞密院事。 甲申，監察御史汪義端奏：汝愚執政，非祖宗故事，請罷之。 疏三上，不報。 辛卯，義端罷。 癸巳，帝從壽皇聖帝、壽成皇后幸聚景園。 乙未，修巢縣城。
On the bingzi day of the third month, the Emperor attended audience at Chonghua Palace, accompanied by the Empress. On the xinsi day, Ge Bi was appointed Right Grand Councillor, Hu Jinchen director of the Bureau of Military Affairs, Chen Kui vice grand councillor, and Zhao Ruyu associate director of the Bureau of Military Affairs. On the jiashen day, Supervising Censor Wang Yiduan submitted a memorial arguing that Zhao Ruyu's participation in government violated ancestral precedent and asking that he be removed. He submitted the memorial three times; the court gave no reply. On the xinmao day, Wang Yiduan was removed from office. On the guisi day, the Emperor accompanied the Retired Emperor Shouhuang and Empress Shoucheng on an excursion to Jujing Garden. On the yiwei day, the walls of Chaoxian were repaired.
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夏四月己酉，罷括賣四川沿邊郡縣官田。
In the fourth month of summer, on the jiyou day, the forced sale of confiscated government land along Sichuan's border prefectures and counties was halted.
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五月丙寅朔，復永州義保。 己巳，賜禮部進士陳亮以下三百九十有六人及第、出身。 進士李僑年五十四，調成都司戶參軍，自以祿不及養，乞以一官回贈父母。 帝嘉其志，特詔以本官致仕，父母皆與初品官封。 丙子，淮西大水。 丙戌，紹興大水。 召浙東總管姜特立。 丞相留正以論特立不行，乞罷相，不報。 壬辰，太尉、利州安撫使吳挺卒。 四川制置使丘崈承制以總領財賦楊輔權安撫使，命統制官李世廣權管其軍。
On the first day (bingyin) of the fifth month, the Yibao militia system in Yong Prefecture was restored. On the jisi day, 396 successful candidates of the Ministry of Rites examination, beginning with Chen Liang, received degrees or qualifications. Li Qiao, a successful degree-holder aged fifty-four who had been posted as revenue clerk in Chengdu, petitioned that his salary was too slight to support his parents and asked to retire in his current rank so that they might receive posthumous honorary titles. The Emperor commended his devotion and issued a special edict allowing him to retire at his present rank, with both parents granted honorary titles at the lowest official grade. On the bingzi day, catastrophic flooding struck west of the Huai River. On the bingxu day, catastrophic flooding struck Shaoxing. Jiang Teli, circuit intendant of eastern Zhe, was summoned to court. Grand Councillor Liu Zheng, his memorial on Jiang Teli having gone unheeded, asked to resign as chief minister; the court gave no reply. On the renchen day, Grand Marshal Wu Ting, pacification commissioner of Lizhou, died. Qiu Jun, Sichuan military commissioner, was authorized to appoint Yang Fu, chief finance officer, acting pacification commissioner, and ordered unit commander Li Shiguang to take temporary command of Wu Ting's forces.
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秋七月乙丑朔，太白晝見。 丙寅，大雨雹。 己巳，留正復論薑特立，繳納出身以來文字、待罪于範村。 丙子，以不雨，命諸路提刑審斷滯獄。 戊寅，命臨安府及三衙決系囚，釋杖以下。 壬午，以趙汝愚知樞密院事，吏部尚書余端禮同知樞密院事，陳源爲內侍省押班。 癸未，禁邕州左、右兩江販鬻生口。 乙酉，敘州夷賊沒該落無等寇邊，遣兵討平之。
On the first day (yichou) of the seventh month of autumn, Venus was visible in daylight. On the bingyin day, violent hailstorms struck. On the jisi day, Liu Zheng again submitted a memorial concerning Jiang Teli, turned in all official papers he had issued since taking office, and withdrew to Fancun village to await punishment. On the bingzi day, drought prompted an order for judicial commissioners in every circuit to expedite cases backlogged in prison. On the wuyin day, Lin'an Prefecture and the Three Palatial Guard Commands were ordered to resolve pending cases and release prisoners whose offenses warranted punishment lighter than the cane. On the renwu day, Zhao Ruyu was made director of the Bureau of Military Affairs, Minister of Personnel Yu Duanli associate director, and Chen Yuan appointed head escort of the Inner Service Bureau. On the guiwei day, the sale of captives in the Left and Right Rivers region of Yong Prefecture was banned. On the yiyou day, Yao bandit leaders including Mogai and Luowu raided the frontier from Xuzhou; troops were sent and the rebellion was put down.
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八月丙申，蠲紹興丁鹽、茶租錢八萬二千餘緡。 丁酉，罷郡縣賣沒官田。 癸丑，詔三省議振恤郡縣水旱。 丁巳，贈吳挺少保； 其子曦落階官，起復濠州圖練使、帶御器械。 戊午，振江東、浙西、淮西旱傷貧民。
On the bingshen day of the eighth month, Shaoxing was granted remission of more than 82,000 strings in poll-tax, salt, and tea levies. On the dingyou day, the sale of confiscated government land by prefectures and counties was halted. On the guichou day, the Three Departments were ordered to devise relief measures for flood- and drought-stricken prefectures and counties. On the dingsi day, Wu Ting was posthumously ennobled as Junior Guardian; his son Wu Xi was stripped of rank, then recalled to service as militia commissioner of Hao Prefecture with the privilege of bearing imperial arms. On the wuwu day, drought relief was distributed to the poor in Jiangdong, western Zhe, and west of the Huai.
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九月己巳，金遣董師中等來賀重明節，庚午，重明節，百官上壽。 侍從、兩省請帝朝重華宮，不聽。 己卯，上壽聖皇太后尊號曰壽聖隆慈備福皇太后。 壬午，遣倪思等使金賀正旦。 甲申，帝將朝重華宮，皇后止帝，中書舍人陳傅良引裾力諫，不聽。 戊子，著作郎沈有開、秘書郎彭龜年、禮部侍郎倪思等鹹上疏，請朝重華宮。
On the jisi day of the ninth month, Jin dispatched Dong Shizhong and others to offer felicitations for the Chongming Festival; on the gengwu day, the festival itself, officials presented longevity greetings. Attendants and officials of the Two Palaces asked the Emperor to visit Chonghua Palace; he refused. On the jimao day, the Grand Empress Dowager Shousheng received the honorific title Grand Empress Dowager Shousheng Longci Beifu. On the renwu day, Ni Si and others were dispatched as envoys to Jin to offer New Year's greetings. On the jiashen day, as the Emperor prepared to visit Chonghua Palace, the Empress blocked him; Secretariat Drafter Chen Fuliang seized his robe and remonstrated vehemently, but the Emperor would not listen. On the wuzi day, Shen Youkai of the Composition Bureau, Secretariat Attendant Peng Guinian, Vice Minister of Rites Ni Si, and others jointly submitted memorials urging the Emperor to visit Chonghua Palace.
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冬十月丙午，內教三衙諸軍。 己酉，朝獻于景靈宮。 夜，地震。 庚戌，朝獻于景靈宮。 夜，地又震。 壬子，秘書省官請朝重華宮，疏三上，不報。 甲寅，雨土。 工部尚書趙彥逾等上疏重華宮，乞會慶聖節勿降旨免朝。 壽皇曰：「朕自秋涼以來，思與皇帝相見，卿等奏疏，已令進御前矣。」 明日會慶節，帝以疾不果朝，丞相葛邲率百官賀于重華宮。 侍從上章，居家待罪，詔不許。 嘉王府翊善黃裳上疏，請誅內侍楊舜卿。 台諫張叔椿、章穎上疏，乞罷黜。 戊午，太學生汪安仁等二百一十八人上書，請朝重華，皆不報。 己未，丞相以下奏事重華宮。 庚申，帝將朝重華宮，復以疾不果。 丞相以下上疏自劾，請罷政，彭龜年請逐陳源以謝天下，皆不報。
In the tenth month of winter, on the bingwu day, the Three Palatial Guards conducted internal drill exercises. On the jiyou day, the court presented offerings at Jingling Palace. That night, an earthquake struck. On the gengxu day, offerings were again presented at Jingling Palace. That night, the earth shook again. On the renzi day, officials of the Secretariat asked the Emperor to visit Chonghua Palace; they submitted memorials thrice, but received no reply. On the jiayin day, dust fell from the sky like rain. Works Minister Zhao Yanyu and others memorialized Chonghua Palace, asking that no edict be issued exempting the Emperor from attendance on the Huiqing Sacred Festival. The Retired Emperor Shouhuang replied, "Since the weather turned cool in autumn I have longed to see the Emperor; I have already had your memorials forwarded to him." The next day, the Huiqing Festival, illness kept the Emperor from attending; Grand Councillor Ge Bi led the officials to offer congratulations at Chonghua Palace instead. Attendants submitted memorials of self-reproach and withdrew to their homes to await punishment; an edict forbade this. Huang Shang, tutor to the Prince of Jia's household, submitted a memorial calling for the execution of the eunuch Yang Shunqing. Censorial remonstrators Zhang Shuchun and Zhang Ying submitted memorials demanding Yang's dismissal. On the wuwu day, 218 Imperial Academy students led by Wang Anren submitted a joint petition urging the Emperor to visit Chonghua Palace; again there was no reply. On the jiwei day, the chief ministers and below reported on affairs at Chonghua Palace. On the gengshen day, the Emperor prepared to visit Chonghua Palace but once again illness prevented him. The chief ministers and their colleagues submitted self-censuring memorials and asked to resign; Peng Guinian demanded that Chen Yuan be expelled to satisfy public outrage—all to no avail.
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十一月辛未，日中有黑子。 壬申，侍從、兩省趙彥逾等十一人同班奏事。 癸酉，太白晝見，地生毛，夜有赤雲白氣。 戊寅，帝朝重華宮，都人大悅。 遣右司郎官徐誼召留正於城外。 庚辰，正始入朝，復赴都堂視事。 命薑特立還故官。 日中黑子滅。 癸未，帝率群臣奉上皇太后冊、寶于慈福宮。 十二月戊戌，帝朝重華宮。 壬寅，右司諫章穎以地震請罷葛邲，疏十餘上，不報。 甲辰，命沿邊守臣三年爲任。 己酉，詔監司、帥守毋獨員薦士。 庚戌，趙雄薨。 甲寅，復四川鹽合同場舊法。 丁巳，振江、浙流民。 己未，金遣完顏弼等來賀明年正旦。
On the xinwei day of the eleventh month, a sunspot appeared. On the renshen day, eleven attendants and Two Palaces officials including Zhao Yanyu presented business together in a single roster. On the guiyou day, Venus appeared in daylight, woolly mold sprouted from the ground, and at night crimson clouds and pale vapors filled the sky. On the wuyin day, the Emperor visited Chonghua Palace, to the capital's great rejoicing. Vice Director Xu Yi of the Right Bureau was dispatched to summon Liu Zheng outside the city walls. On the gengchen day, Liu Zheng finally entered the court and resumed his duties at the Chief Council. Jiang Teli was ordered restored to his former post. The sunspot faded. On the guiwei day, the Emperor led the officials in presenting the honorific register and imperial seal to the Grand Empress Dowager at Cifu Palace. On the wuxu day of the twelfth month, the Emperor visited Chonghua Palace. On the renyin day, Right Bureau Remonstrator Zhang Ying, citing the earthquakes, repeatedly—more than ten times—memorialized for Ge Bi's removal; the court gave no reply. On the jiachen day, frontier prefects and magistrates were assigned three-year terms of office. On the jiyou day, an edict forbade circuit supervisors and prefects from recommending candidates for office on their own authority. On the gengxu day, Zhao Xiong died. On the jiayin day, Sichuan's former system of government salt depots and contracts was restored. On the dingsi day, relief was extended to displaced persons in Jiang and Zhe. On the jiwei day, Jin dispatched Wanyan Bi and others to offer New Year's greetings for the coming year.
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五年春正月癸亥朔，帝御大慶殿，受群臣朝，遂朝重華宮，次詣慈福宮，行慶壽禮。 推恩如淳熙十年故事。 癸酉，壽皇聖帝不豫。 丙子，大理獄空。 癸未，葛邲罷。 丙戌，寬紹興民租稅。
On the first day (guhai) of the first month in the fifth year of Shaoxi, the Emperor presided at Daqing Hall to receive the officials' New Year audience, then visited Chonghua Palace and proceeded to Cifu Palace to perform birthday rites. Grace was extended as in the precedent of the tenth year of Chunxi. On the guiyou day, the Retired Emperor Shouhuang fell gravely ill. On the bingzi day, the prisons of the Court of Judicial Review stood empty. On the guiwei day, Ge Bi was removed from office. On the bingxu day, rent and tax burdens on the people of Shaoxing were eased.
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二月乙未，趙汝愚、餘端禮以奏除西帥不行，居家待罪。 戊戌，荊鄂諸軍都統制張詔爲成州團練使、興州諸軍都統制。 庚戌，禁湖南、江西遏糴。
On the yiwei day of the second month, Zhao Ruyu and Yu Duanli, their recommendation for a western frontier commander having been ignored, withdrew to their homes to await punishment. On the wuxu day, Zhang Zhao, commander-in-chief of the Jing-E armies, was appointed militia commissioner of Cheng Prefecture and commander-in-chief of the Xingzhou armies. On the gengxu day, hoarding of grain purchases in Hunan and Jiangxi was banned.
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三月癸亥，合利州東、西爲一路。 己巳，壽成皇后生辰，免過宮上壽。
On the guihai day of the third month, eastern and western Lizhou were merged into a single circuit. On the jisi day, Empress Shoucheng's birthday, the Emperor was excused from crossing to her palace to offer birthday felicitations.
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五月辛酉朔，辰州徭賊寇邊。 甲子，侍從入對，未得見。 宰執詣重華宮問疾，不及引。 陳傅良繳上告敕，出城待罪。 丁卯，以壽皇聖帝疾棘，命丞相以下分禱天地、宗廟、社稷。 戊辰，丞相留正等請帝侍疾，正引裾隨帝至福寧殿，久之，乃泣而出。 辛未，丞相以下以所請不從，求退，帝命皆退，於是丞相以下遂出城待罪。 知閣門事韓侂胄請宣押入城，許之。 追封史浩爲會稽郡王。 乙亥。 帝將朝重華宮，復不果。 戊寅，以壽皇聖帝疾，赦。 權刑部尚書京鏜入對，請朝重華宮。 庚辰，丞相以下詣重華宮問疾。 癸未，起居舍人彭龜年叩頭請奏事，詔令上殿，乃請朝重華宮。 甲申，從官列奏以請，嘉王府翊善黃裳、講讀官沈有開、彭龜年奏，乞令嘉王詣重華宮問疾，許之。 王至重華宮，壽皇爲之感動。 丙戌，權戶部侍郎袁說友入對，請朝重華宮。
On the first day (xinyou) of the fifth month, Yao bandits from Chen Prefecture raided the frontier. On the jiazi day, attendants requested audience but were not received. The chief ministers went to Chonghua Palace to inquire after the Retired Emperor's health but were not admitted. Chen Fuliang returned his commission and withdrew outside the city to await punishment. On the dingmao day, with the Retired Emperor Shouhuang critically ill, the chief ministers and below were ordered to conduct separate prayers at the altars of Heaven and Earth, the ancestral temples, and the state altars. On the wuchen day, Grand Councillor Liu Zheng and others begged the Emperor to attend his father's bedside; Liu Zheng seized the Emperor's robe and followed him to Funing Palace, where he waited a long while before weeping and withdrawing. On the xinwei day, the chief ministers, their pleas rejected, asked to resign; the Emperor ordered them all to withdraw, whereupon they left the city to await punishment. Han Tuozhou, director of palace gate affairs, requested an imperial summons to bring them back inside the city; permission was granted. Shi Hao was posthumously enfeoffed as Prince of Kuaiji. On the yihai day. The Emperor prepared to visit Chonghua Palace but again failed to do so. On the wuyin day, an amnesty was proclaimed on account of the Retired Emperor Shouhuang's illness. Acting Minister of Punishments Jing Yong gained audience and urged the Emperor to visit Chonghua Palace. On the gengchen day, the chief ministers again went to Chonghua Palace to inquire after the Retired Emperor's health. On the guiwei day, Daily Recorder Peng Guinian kowtowed and asked to speak; summoned to the hall, he urged the Emperor to visit Chonghua Palace. On the jiashen day, attendant officials jointly memorialized on the matter; Huang Shang, tutor to the Prince of Jia's household, and lecturers Shen Youkai and Peng Guinian asked that Prince Zhao Kuo be sent to Chonghua Palace to inquire after the Retired Emperor's health; the request was granted. When the prince reached Chonghua Palace, the Retired Emperor was deeply moved. On the bingxu day, Acting Vice Minister of Revenue Yuan Shuoyou gained audience and again urged the Emperor to visit Chonghua Palace.
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六月，遣梁總等賀金主生辰。 戊戌夜，壽皇聖帝崩，遺誥改重華宮爲慈福宮，建壽成皇后殿于宮後，以便定省。 以重華宮錢銀一百萬緡賜內外軍。 先是，丞相留正、知樞密院事趙汝愚、參知政事陳騤、同知樞密院事余端禮聞壽皇聖帝大漸，見帝於後殿，力請帝朝重華宮，皇子嘉王亦泣以請，不聽。 至是，丞相正等聞壽皇聖帝崩，乃率百官聽遺誥于重華宮。 己亥，丞相以下上疏，請詣重華成禮。 庚子，遣薛叔似等使金告哀。 辛丑，丞相率百官拜表，請就喪次成服。 壬寅，壽皇大斂。 皇子嘉王復入奏事，詔侯疾愈，過宮行禮。 丞相以下請皇太后垂簾聽政，不許； 請代行祭奠禮，許之。 仍有旨：皇帝有疾，聽就內中成服。 夜，白氣亙天。 乙巳，尊壽聖隆慈備福皇太后爲太皇太后，壽成皇后爲皇太后。 己酉，白氣亙天。 乙卯，遣林湜等使金致遺留物。
In the sixth month, Liang Zong and others were dispatched to offer birthday felicitations to the Jin emperor. On the night of the wuxu day, the Retired Emperor Shouhuang died. His testamentary edict renamed Chonghua Palace as Cifu Palace and ordered a hall for Empress Shoucheng built behind the palace to facilitate daily visits. One million strings in cash and silver from Chonghua Palace were distributed as gifts to the palace and capital garrisons. Earlier, when Grand Councillor Liu Zheng, Military Affairs Director Zhao Ruyu, Vice Grand Councillor Chen Kui, and Associate Director Yu Duanli learned that the Retired Emperor's condition was critical, they met the Emperor in the rear hall and urgently begged him to visit Chonghua Palace; Prince Zhao Kuo of Jia wept and pleaded as well—all in vain. When they learned of the Retired Emperor's death, Liu Zheng and his colleagues led the officials to Chonghua Palace to receive the testamentary edict. On the jihai day, the chief ministers submitted memorials asking to proceed to Chonghua Palace to complete the funeral rites. On the gengzi day, Xue Shusi and others were dispatched to Jin to announce the mourning. On the xinchou day, the grand councillor led the officials in a memorial asking to assume mourning dress at the mourning hall. On the renyin day, the encoffining rites for the Retired Emperor were performed. Prince Zhao Kuo again entered to report on affairs; an edict instructed him to wait until the Emperor recovered before crossing to the palace to perform the rites. The chief ministers asked that the Grand Empress Dowager assume the curtain regency; permission was denied; they then asked to perform the sacrificial rites in the Emperor's stead; this was granted. Separate instructions allowed the Emperor, on account of illness, to assume mourning garments within the inner palace. That night, a white vapor stretched across the sky. On the yisi day, Grand Empress Dowager Shousheng Longci Beifu was elevated to Supreme Grand Empress Dowager, and Empress Shoucheng became Empress Dowager. On the jiyou day, the white vapor again stretched across the sky. On the yimao day, Lin Shi and others were dispatched to Jin to deliver the deceased's bequest gifts.
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秋七月辛酉，丞相留正稱疾，乞罷政，遂逃歸。 初，正等屢請立嘉王爲皇太子，帝許之。 正擬指揮以進，奉御筆：「曆事歲久，念欲退閑。」 正得之，大懼，乃謀退焉。 甲子，太皇太后以皇帝疾未能執喪，命皇子嘉王即皇帝位於重華宮之素幄，尊皇帝爲太上皇帝，皇后爲壽仁太上皇后，移御泰安宮。 慶元元年十一月戊戌，上尊號曰聖安壽仁太上皇帝。 六年八月庚寅，太上皇帝不豫。 辛卯，崩于壽康宮，年五十有四。 十一月丙寅，諡曰憲仁聖哲慈孝皇帝，廟號光宗。 嘉泰三年十一月壬申，加諡循道憲仁明功茂德溫文順武聖哲慈孝皇帝。
On the xinyou day of the seventh month of autumn, Grand Councillor Liu Zheng pleaded illness, asked to resign, and fled home. Earlier, Liu Zheng had repeatedly asked that Prince Zhao Kuo of Jia be made crown prince, and the Emperor had agreed. Liu Zheng prepared a directive for submission but received the Emperor's own brush note: "After so many years in office, I mean to withdraw into retirement." Liu Zheng was terrified when he read it and began planning his own withdrawal. On the jiazi day, citing the Emperor's illness and his inability to observe mourning, the Supreme Grand Empress Dowager ordered Prince Zhao Kuo of Jia enthroned at the plain mourning canopy in Chonghua Palace, elevated the Emperor to Retired Sovereign and the Empress to Retired Empress Shouren, and moved the Imperial residence to Tai'an Palace. On the wuxu day of the eleventh month in the first year of Qingyuan, he received the honorific title Retired Emperor Sheng'an Shouren. In the eighth month of the sixth year, on the gengyin day, the Retired Emperor fell ill. On the xinmao day he died at Shoukang Palace, aged fifty-four. On the bingyin day of the eleventh month he was given the posthumous title Emperor Xianren Shengche Cixiao and the temple name Guangzong. On the renshen day of the eleventh month in the third year of Jiatai, his posthumous title was extended to Emperor Xundaoxianren Minggong Maode Wenwen Shunwu Shengche Cixiao.
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贊曰：光宗幼有令聞，向用儒雅。 逮其即位，總權綱，屏嬖幸，薄賦緩刑，見於紹熙初政，宜若可取。 及夫宮闈妒悍，內不能制，驚憂致疾。 自是政治日昏，孝養日怠，而乾、淳之業衰焉。
The encomium reads: Guangzong enjoyed a fine reputation from youth and favored men of Confucian learning. At his accession he gathered authority into his own hands, pushed aside favorites, lightened taxes and eased punishments—as his early Shaoxi reign showed, he seemed a ruler worth approving. But when jealousy and ferocity inside the inner palace arose, he could not contain them, and fright and grief brought on illness. Thereafter governance grew daily more confused, filial duty daily more neglected, and the achievements of the Qiandao and Chunxi eras faded away.