The capital of the Great Song Dynasty, Kaifeng Bianliang.

This is the largest city in the north, majestic, large-scale, with a population of more than one million.

And the Great Song Dynasty Palace is even more splendid and splendid, the building complex is row upon row, undulating, the high wall is heavy, the courtyard is deep, the corridor pillars that can be seen everywhere are towering, the corridor is gorgeous, the bricks and tiles are exquisite, the carved beams and painted walls highlight the royal style and majesty.

In the imperial study, there is a bronze stove that is very conspicuous, showing a three-story pagoda shape, the four walls are inlaid with gold hollow, the animal charcoal and sandalwood inside are mixed and burning, emitting light smoke, which not only gives warmth to the inner room, but also adds a bit of aroma.

At the end of March in the north, it is not as warm as in the south of the Yangtze River, the spring cold and cool air are still there, and the heater in the palace is still not in use.

Thirty-eight-year-old Zhao Kuangyin, with big ears, thick eyebrows and a wide mouth, a burly figure, wearing a golden dragon and yellow robe, sitting on a wooden chair carved with a dragon, engrossed in reading the folds, and doing his best.

In the history of China, there is the reputation of "Tang Dynasty and Song Ancestor", this Zhao Kuangyin ended the chaos of the five dynasties and ten kingdoms, and has a huge role in promoting the development of history, and has always been highly evaluated. Looking at his rise to the road, it was quite smooth, Zhao Kuangyin was a fledgling, defected to the privy envoy Guo Wei in the Later Han Dynasty, and fought in the army during the reign of Chai Rong of the Later Zhou Shizong Chai Rong, repeatedly made military exploits, and gradually became an important general of the forbidden army.

When Chai Rong was seriously ill, Zhao Kuangyin was promoted to the palace capital and became the supreme commander of the forbidden army. In the seventh year of Xiande (960), he pretended to be ordered to resist the Northern Han and Khitan coalition forces; But immediately in the "Chenqiao Mutiny", he was proclaimed emperor by the generals of the forbidden army under his command, and returned to Beijing to force Emperor Zhou Gong to take the throne. In the same year, Zhao Kuangyin ascended the throne as the emperor, changed the Yuan Jianlong, and the country name was "Song".

Now it is the fifth year of the Great Song Dynasty, and the year name is the second year of Qiande, after Zhao Kuangyin's five or six years of hard work, rearmament, stabilization of the people's minds, and improvement of the reorganization and new construction of the government organs, this new dynasty has been completely controlled. With his gestures and smiles, he already had a graceful and noble bearing.

At this time, Zhang Dejun, the chief eunuch, slowly walked into the imperial study, holding a secret note with a fire seal in his hand, stepped forward to the desk, and said in a low voice: "Qiqi official's house, Wu Desi has sent the secret music in Jingchu and Jiangnan!" ”

Zhao Kuangyin stopped the pen in his hand when he heard this, glanced up at Zhang Dejun, and said, "Present it." ”

Wu De Si originated in the five dynasties, is a spy organization, its name can be traced back to the five dynasties after the Tang Dynasty, the historical records recorded: "Wu De makes Shi Yanqiong, to be fortunate as an official, the emperor treats him with the responsibility of the heart, in the capital, Weifu himself!" "Later, Emperor Yin of the Han Dynasty killed the ministers, "at the end of the Qianyou Dynasty, the Emperor Yin used martial arts to make Li Ye and others conspire, and punished the minister Yang Bi and others", all through this spy organization, and the martial envoys have always been the emperor's minions, with very heavy authority, to contain the "Su Guard Generals" and the Privy Council.

After Zhao Kuangyin ascended the Song Dynasty, he appointed his cronies Wang Renzhen as a military envoy, in the second year of Jianlong, Wang Renzhen was promoted to the right leading army guard general, serving as a privy councillor, when the Nanping monarch Gao Jichong to Song Taizu asked for auxiliary jurisdiction, he was unable to vacate the place, Zhao Kuangyin appointed Wang Renzhen as the Jingnan inspection envoy, so he resigned as the military envoy, and changed to the eunuch chief Zhang Dejun supervision.

Zhang Dejun nodded when he heard this, opened the two secret letters, and after checking them, he respectfully handed over the secret letters.

After Zhao Kuangyin took it, he first swept the secret letter from Changsha Mansion, to the effect that Jingchu had been completely taken, and Wang Quanbin, the general who conquered Jingchu, was like a bamboo, and only some small counties had not yet been distributed, and the remnants of the local rebels were being cleared.

The information sent back by Wu Desi's spies was several days faster than the good news that Wang Quanbin wrote an excerpt to the military department, so that the Great Song Emperor already knew the battle situation on the front line in advance, so that he could know it in his heart, so as not to be deceived by the exaggerated merits of the generals on the front line.

"Yes, although this Wang Quanbin is usually greedy for money, he is still a good hand at leading troops to fight, and he is the only one to crusade against Xishu." Zhao Kuangyin smiled and put down the secret letter, and picked up the secret letter from the Tang Kingdom in Jiangnan.

He glanced at it and saw that it was full of small things: for example, Li Yu was obsessed with poetry and Buddhism and was not enthusiastic about the government, and the Tang court was indifferent after learning that the Song army was attacking Jingchu, although the two factions had quarrels in the court but there was no result, then Han Xizai was still in the process of dismissal. At the end, a line of words was added, describing that Tang Guo produced a great talent for writing words, Su Yixuan, whose writing was astonishing, and he wrote many masterpieces, and became famous for a while.

Zhao Kuangyin sneered: "Little Li Tang, when he reached the third generation, he was weak, he was dedicated to writing lyrics, and his style was very strong, and the readers of the entire Jiangnan followed suit, and the popular sound of the lazy voice, and countless ten years ago, Yang Wu led the black clouds to be elite, and he wanted to attack the domineering of the Central Plains. is a great talent, but he just writes poetry, it seems that I can speed up the attack on Shu, forgive him Li Yu, the lord of Jiangnan, and he will not dare to make a mistake! ”

Zhang Dejun smiled lightly: "The official Shengming! The small states of the southern princes will all be wiped out by our Great Song Dynasty, end the troubled times, and when the time comes, the north and the south will be unified, and the official family will be able to catch up with Yao Shun, which can be compared with the Qin Emperor and Han Wu. ”

Zhao Kuangyin smiled and said, "You, you know how to make me happy." ”

Zhang Dejun also laughed softly: "The official family is eloquent and strategic, and the old slave is just telling the truth."

Zhao Kuangyin pointed his finger at him, smiled slightly, and the monarchs and ministers of each other tacitly knew each other, and they were used to patting horses every day.

Zhang Dejun asked again: "Official, does the newly emerging Su Dacai in the Tang Kingdom need to pay special attention, send someone to find out his identity, and then monitor it?" ”

Zhao Kuangyin shook his head and said: "No, I asked Wu Desi to pay attention to the real talent, practical and capable people in the territory of the princes, like this kind of weak scholar who can only write words, it is useless in this troubled world, and it can't help anything." Forget it, don't pay too much attention and waste their energy. ”

"Whew-" Zhang Dejun agreed.

………

Of course, Su Chen didn't know that he was almost noticed by Zhao Kuangyin, the son of the Great Song Dynasty, and at this time, holding an oil-paper umbrella, walking through the alley with gray tiles and white walls, he returned to his mansion with a smell of alcohol.

Yang Ling'er supported her chin with her hands and was sitting in front of the window sill table, looking at the rain curtain outside, and fell into cranky thoughts.

She is already twelve years old, in the prime of her cardamom years, and it is also time for the girl to be pregnant.

Originally, she was raised by Su Mingyuan, and once Su's father half-jokingly said that when she grows up, she can marry Su Chen as a concubine, and there is no need to marry outside, but Su Mingyuan has been convicted and died in prison a few years ago, she and Su Chen depend on each other, the previous Su Chen's brother did not take much care of her little girl, and did not communicate much, only knew that she went out to mess around, and constantly sold her ancestral property and belongings, and was a gentleman.

At that time, Yang Ling'er was full of fear and panic about the future, but Xiao Nizi always kept Su Mingyuan's words in her heart, even if Su Chen's brother was a gentleman, she also thought that when she grew up in the future, she would find a way to make money by herself, and she couldn't let him starve to death.

But in the past half a month, Su Chen suddenly opened up, showed unprecedented talent, even changed her personality, and took great care of her, and even treated her as a sister-in-law, talking about everything and taking care of everything, so that Ling'er sometimes doubted that this Su Chen was fake!

At this time, when she saw Su Chen's figure walking into the house, she suddenly let out a cheerful sound, jumped up, rushed to the door of the house, and shouted obediently: "Brother Su Chen......"

Regardless of whether he is true or not, in short, what she likes in her heart is the current Brother Su Chen!