The Empress Dowager was in a bad mood for a long time. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Jiang Xian and Bai Su had to go into the palace often to accompany them.

Fortunately, it is not completely devoid of joy.

After the Dragon Boat Festival, the Zuo family sent someone to report the good news, saying that Li Dong gave birth to a second son on April 28.

Jiang Xian was naturally very happy, and prepared a lot of gifts to send Aji over, and Guo even sent a letter to talk about Mrs. He's joy.

Things are also going well on Li Qian's side.

Because of the good results of last year's decrees, this year he sent people to inspect everywhere in the name of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, demanding that the local government offices must collect taxes according to his requirements, and not levy more or less taxes.

In the summer, the torrential rain in the south of the Yangtze River was repeated, Jiaxing, Huzhou, and Songjiang were all affected, and for a time the price of grain soared, and the people who fled were everywhere, but it was the north that the officials in the north were afraid of being picked up by Li Qian, and became the "chicken" that was killed in the monkey, so everyone was trembling, and did not dare to have the slightest sloppiness, not only was it a bumper harvest year, but also very stable in various places, and even there were not many bandits, and the people could live in peace and stability, which was completely different from the hustle and bustle in the south of the Yangtze River. provoked many Jiangnan businessmen to go to Shaanxi and other places to buy grain.

The people under the roots of the imperial city have always liked to discuss the government and politics, and after a while, the restaurant teahouse made up a lot of jokes, talking about how Li Qian would govern the government, and the court continued to have no food to eat after going south. Others made up what the imperial court just set up a palace in Jinling, and now the south of the Yangtze River is not peaceful, and the emperor, the queen mother and those dignitaries in the court will soon return to the capital.

Baijie and his lover couldn't laugh when they heard it, and came back to tell Jiang Xian.

Jiang Xian told Bai Su, Shi and others again.

Bai Su was a little gloating, and said: "You deserve it!" At the beginning, our grandfather persuaded Wang Jidao and others not to go south easily, but they didn't listen, but now it's okay, even God can't stand it, and he's helping us!"

A few days after she said this, a large number of Japanese robbers in Fujian and Liangguang came ashore to loot, and Zhao Xiao rushed from Jinling to Fuzhou to fight against the Japanese. However, due to the fact that Fujian and Liangguang have been looking forward to Zhao Xiao's horse for many years, and many generals have not received instructions from others in Jinling, they cannot help but be a little timid in dealing with the Japanese invaders, so that many prefectures and counties in Fujian and Liangguang have been lost, and the war has affected more than 50 counties and six or seven prefectures for a time, and the casualties among the people are incalculable.

The Marquis of Jinghai has never faced such a defeat.

After Zhao Xiao returned to Fujian, he immediately reorganized the mountains and rivers, and in November, the wars in various places have subsided one after another, but many places have been ten rooms and nine empty, the dead can not live, the living are heartbroken, the white paper is flying, new graves are everywhere, and it is very depressed. Zhao Xiao also caught a few big businessmen who colluded with the Japanese Invaders, and asked for the will of the imperial court, not to mention confiscating all the family property, or exiled for thousands of miles, or raiding the family and beheading. There are those who are not convinced, walk from Fujian to Jinling to shout grievances, write a blood book and hang it on the city wall, and the whole family dies in front of the yamen, and the situation has been chaotic.

Some people think that they should use heavy canons in troubled times, some people think that Zhao Xiao is fierce and violent, and he is not suitable to be an official, and some people say that Zhao Xiao is fighting against dissidents and wants to be in charge of maritime trade alone.

It wasn't until May of the following year that Zhao Xiao barely stabilized the situation.

God seems to be particularly fond of Li Qian. In the past two years, the wind and rain in the north have been smooth, Qinggeltai has been defeated repeatedly, I don't know who reminded him, he suddenly changed his strategy, sent people to negotiate peace with Li Qian, and asked to open the border cities of Yuzhou and Datong, coexist peacefully with each other, and never fight again.

Li Qian felt that this was not bad, and wrote a note to Zhao Xi, hoping that the imperial court would agree to sign a peace agreement with Qinggeltai.

Wang Jidao has been tossed by Zhao Xiao in the past two years, and he sneered again and again when he received Li Qian's recital, and said: "In all dynasties, which agreement has been abided by? !

Li Yao and Zuo Yiming did not speak.

Because of the affairs in the court, the two of them and Wang Jidao almost openly tore their faces.

Zhao Xi, who is already thirteen years old, has not yet been in power, but he has sensed the delicacy of this situation, and he does not want to break this balance, sometimes helping Wang Jidao to speak, and sometimes helping Li Yao to speak.

At this time, he listened quietly, and felt that it was not yet time for him to speak.

Wang Jidao became more and more arrogant when he saw it, and sneered: "I heard those businessmen who went to the north say that after crossing the Yangtze River, in addition to the road guide, you must also get the transit documents issued by the capital garrison, otherwise you can't walk around in the north at will, let alone do business." What is he, Li Qian, going to do? If you want to be the uncrowned king, you can't do it?"

Zhao Xi also heard about this.

He was uneasily in debt.

In the past, the person he trusted the most was Li Qian, but in the past few years, Li Qian has not been as respectful to him as Zhao Xiao, nor as intimate as Zhao Xiao, he is faintly apprehensive in his heart, afraid that after a long time, Li Qian wants to establish himself as the king.

He glanced at Zuo Yiming.

Zuo Yiming has been observing Zhao Xi's actions, and although he seems to be unhurried when he sees this, he is actually a little worried in his heart, and said: "Lord Wang, this is going to button his hat again! A few days ago, he said that the Marquis of Jinghai wanted to dominate the family, and these days he said that the king of Lintong wants to be the uncrowned king. I don't know how the two ministers of the humerus will curry favor with our Wang Ge Lao, so that Wang Ge Lao will not attack them at will in front of the emperor? No wonder I have heard others say that when the officials in the north go to the south of the Yangtze River, they will not be able to do anything if they do not visit Wang Ge Lao. I'm afraid that in the minds of officials in the north, if they don't hand over a post to Wang Ge's old mansion, they will be considered to have come to Jinling for nothing!"

The implication is that Wang is greedy for ink.

He had never accused Wang Jidao so bluntly.

Wang Jidao's face turned red with anger.

Zhao Xi had also heard of this rumor.

It is said that the porter of Wang Jidao's family receives red envelopes according to official products, and if the amount of red envelopes is wrong, they will not hand over the post.

He kind of wanted to change a few times.

But there is no suitable candidate.

He glanced at Li Yao.

Li Yao has the ability to handle relationships, but sometimes his temper is too hard, and if he is made the first assistant, he is afraid that he will not move.

Zhao Xiao is good, he tried his best to turn the tide, but his identity is not good, he is a member of the royal family, and he is a meritorious son, so he can't be a cabinet elder.

Zuo Yiming had also considered it before, but the Zuo family and the Li family were in-laws...... He always felt uneasy.

However, he can think about these things slowly, anyway, it will be after he takes office.

Thinking of this, he remembered what Zhao Xiao said to him when he entered the palace yesterday.

Whether the emperor can be pro-government, the most important thing is to see whether he has become a pro-government.

If you become a pro, you are an adult, and you can mention the matter of pro-government.

But who to marry becomes a matter of great importance.

Although Han Tongxin is not the queen mother of the regent, he makes trouble from time to time, meddles in the government, eats, drinks and has fun with Cai Ruyi, and never mentions his family affairs.

He suspected that Han Tongxin and Empress Dowager Cao had the same idea, and they didn't want him to marry, so that he could drag on not returning the government to him.

Zhao Xi also doubted Zhao Xiao's original intention of telling him about this matter. He even jokingly said: "If Lord Hou has a suitable candidate, you might as well discuss it with King Jian." ”

In the past two years, fortunately, King Jian has restrained Han Tongxin, otherwise Han Tongxin doesn't know how many jokes he will make.

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