Chapter Twenty-Six: The Imperial City Division of the Great Song Dynasty
In the main hall of the court on weekdays.
Zhao Yi, who was only ten years old, was dressed in a dragon robe and sat on a dragon chair.
Above the back of the dragon chair is a larger phoenix seat, on which sits the young queen mother Liu Mo, who is dressed in full costume, like a blooming flower, beautiful and shining brightly, looking at the world.
A palace maid stood on both sides of the phoenix seat, and the hall was full of Wenwu Mountain.
"Long live my emperor, long live, long live."
"Long live my emperor, long live, long live."
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Behind the dark grid on one side of the main hall, Zhao Zhi stood and watched with Guo Huai, but completed an enthronement ceremony, and from then on Zhao Yi was the emperor of the Great Song Dynasty, and Liu Mo was the empress dowager of the Great Song Dynasty.
In fact, in addition to being grand, it is a little boring.
So Zhao Zhi couldn't help but whisper: "Gonggong Guo, do you know what flowers the Queen Mother usually likes?" β
What kind of flowers do you like?
Guo Huaiwei thought about it and said without hesitation: "The Queen Mother usually likes jasmine, and there are many in the palace. β
Zhao Zhi nodded: "Oh! I heard that the Queen Mother's birthday is March 21, and I want to prepare a gift for the Queen Mother, so I asked Guo Gonggong about it, and Guo Gonggong should not say anything about it. β
Guo Huai immediately moved his eyebrows when he heard this: "If the adults send flowers, there is no shortage of jasmine flowers in the palace, the adults may wish to send some other new things, and the mother seems to like roses again these days." β
Zhao Zhi was stunned for a moment: "What kind of flower does this like, and it can change at any time?" β
Guo Huai thought in a low voice: "Two days ago, the mother suddenly said that she wanted to smell the smell of roses, and the slave maid had arranged for someone to go outside to look for the roses of the four seasons, and she didn't want this string of things to happen one after another. Therefore, if adults want to send flowers, the Queen Mother will like to send roses. β
Zhao Zhi grinned: "My father-in-law doesn't know the meaning of roses, but these roses can't be sent indiscriminately." β
Guo Huai couldn't help but be curious in an instant: "Oh? What does it mean and why can't it be sent? β
Zhao Zhi: "Ahem! This rose in the West represents the love between men and women, although we are the East, we don't know, but we can't send it indiscriminately if we know. But I'm not here to send flowers, I just want to know what kind of floral fragrance my mother likes. β
Guo Huai nodded immediately: "If you are fragrant with flowers, Niangniang originally liked the fragrance of jasmine, but now she is suddenly interested in the fragrance of roses, I don't know what gifts adults want to prepare?" β
Zhao Zhi said directly and mysteriously: "Father-in-law Guo, please keep it secret for the time being, you will know when the time comes, and you can still make a lot of money, do you want to participate in Father-in-law Guo?" β
Do you want to take a handful?
Guo Huai said without hesitation in an instant: "The adult gives the slave a chance, how dare the slave not appreciate his face?" It's just that the slave hasn't had much savings in the palace with the queen mother all these years, and when he prepares in the palace, I don't know if 100,000 taels of silver is enough? β
Prepare? 100,000 taels of silver? Is this trying to smash yourself unconscious? Wooing yourself for the young Queen Mother? This eunuch is too rich.
Zhao Zhi knew that the current Great Song Dynasty treasury was empty, but the Queen Mother didn't know that what Zhao Heng left behind was a mess.
It can be said that not to mention sending New Year's coins to the Liao State every year, and now even the officials can't afford to pay it, so how can Zhao Heng leave behind the throne? It's clearly a black pot, where does Liu Moth go to get money?
If nothing else, soon the Western Xia will send troops again, and the result will be that they can't afford to fight a war, and they can't afford to send money, because the treasury is already empty.
So in Zhao Zhi's heart, he felt that Liu Mo was a little pitiful and a little unbearable, Zhao Heng left such a mess to a twenty-seven-year-old woman, is that called Tuogu? It's clearly called throwing the pot!
But how can you make Da Song strong? Zhao Zhi had already thought about it quietly, so he started by giving gifts to Liu Mo, and when he made perfume and soap, he could naturally recover the money of the officials and businessmen of the Great Song Dynasty.
Because although the treasury of the Great Song Dynasty was empty, the officials and merchants of the Great Song Dynasty were all very rich, and if they made perfume and soap, ordinary people could not afford to use it, so they could naturally let the money circulate back.
As for earning money for yourself? Zhao Zhi directly surpassed that realm, and it was meaningless to earn money for himself, because the emperor was his younger brother, and the entire Great Song Dynasty could also be said to be his own.
Therefore, Zhao Zhi's goal has also been directly sublimated, just as he said to Queen Liu Mo, that is, to let the Great Song Dynasty swallow mountains and rivers one day, let the sun and the moon shine on the Song soil, let the fierce generals of the Great Song Dynasty be bloody in a hundred battles, and let the map of the Great Song Dynasty extend infinitely.
One day, let all the countries come to the court, bow down to the elder brother Zhao Yi, and also bow down in front of the virtuous queen of the Great Song Dynasty.
As for yourself, what's the point of asking for money? It is better to let the money of the Great Song Dynasty circulate and create an unprecedented prosperous era.
So when he heard about 100,000 taels of silver, Zhao Zhi couldn't help patting Guo Huai on the shoulder and said: "Father-in-law Guo sent charcoal in the snow, and Zhao wrote it down, and he will return 200,000 taels of silver to Father-in-law Guo within a year." β
Guo Huai immediately smiled and said: "My lord is polite, if you need it, just use it, say something and don't return it, but you will see the outside." Besides, the Lord has just taken over the Imperial City Division, and it is also the time when he needs to use silver, as long as he can help the Queen Mother. β
In an instant, Zhao Zhi understood that the 100,000 taels of silver that Guo Huai promised was only afraid that there was a share of the queen mother, and he needed silver, and the queen mother would never be stingy in order to buy herself.
As a result, when the boring enthronement ceremony was completed, Zhao Zhi'an appeased Zhao Yi, who had really become the emperor, and changed into civilian clothes and went out of the palace with Liu Jingchang and Li Si.
And Bao Zheng, as the superintendent of the imperial history, was also arranged in a small mansion, but unfortunately there is no more Zhao Zhi, and he is a little unaccustomed to it.
Wang Dynasty Mahan often went to the place where Bao Zheng lived, in order to pick up Zhao Zhi, but he didn't see Zhao Zhi, and it seemed that the corner of Bao Zheng's wall was going to be returned to Bao Zheng.
Obviously, only Bao Zheng and Liu Mo know that the Imperial City Division of the Great Song Dynasty is already in the hands of Zhao Zhi, and Bao Zhengzi also knows that Zhao Zhi must be busy, and at the same time, he has recognized Zhao Zhi's brother in his heart.
In a mansion without a house number outside the Great Song Palace, it is not far from the palace, and it is obviously specially arranged to facilitate the running of both sides inside and outside the palace of Zhao Zhi's palace.
As soon as Zhao Zhi entered the mansion, he didn't want to have more than a dozen military attachΓ©s kneeling down together: "The lower officials will wait to meet the adults." β
There are eleven people in total, five of them are about 1.9 meters tall, and the rest are slightly shorter, but Zhao Zhi can determine the identity of the group by looking at the height.
The obvious height is the commander of the front of the palace, and the slightly shorter is the commander of the Imperial City Division, but the two divisions are not subordinate to each other, and even restrain each other, in order to prevent changes, but they are under the same emperor.
But obviously this time it is different, the Imperial City Division has been handed over to an 'outsider', and the First Division in front of the palace and the First Division of the Imperial City seem to be merged, how can they restrain each other?
Zhao Zhi couldn't help but glance at everyone quietly, and then said lightly: "Get up." Would you like to change into a uniform? β