According to the salary regulations of the Great Song Dynasty, the queen mother's monthly salary is 10,000 yuan, and Zhao Yu added 10,000 yuan of fat powder money. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info And his salary is only received according to 10,000 yuan, and all the expenses of the East Palace are also drawn from it, including his own food, clothing, housing and transportation and the expenses of the Inner Palace, which makes his economy very tight. Of course, in addition to the money that can be mobilized from the Zuo Treasury Treasury, there is also the 'black money' earned by the Secretariat for one's own use, but it also rarely subsidizes one's own life, and basically spends it on conducting scientific research and subsidizing one's cronies and subordinates.

Now to give a bride price to his future little wife, of course, Zhao Yu must pay for it himself, he secretly calculated that these things are not less than 20,000 yuan, which is enough to save himself some days. And the queen mother's meaning must be to marry more wives by herself, in order to spread the branches, thinking that there will be three palaces and six courtyards in the future, and there are so many wives to marry and raise seventy-two concubines, and the current economic situation is really enough to give people a headache, and I can't figure out whether the emperors can really cope with so many wives.

Now it's just a matter of breaking the fortune and avoiding disasters to deal with this matter first, and don't let the Queen Mother nag. At this time, the Song army had completed the roundabout recovery of Gao, Hua and other prefectures, and the vanguard army of the tentative attack had already broken through Wuzhou, and the reinforcements mobilized by the enemy Jinghu Province were all attracted, but the enemy army in Guangdong did not take the initiative to attack, but only strictly guarded the defensive line, as if they were worried that they had fallen into the plan of attacking the east and the west, and the Song army would attack Guangzhou.

Taking this opportunity, Zhao Yun finally broke up the matter of the big wedding, and the Queen Mother also felt that the courtiers could rarely rest throughout the year, so she exempted the courtiers from accompanying them to let them have a Chinese New Year's Eve dinner at home, and tonight only the two of them spent the last night of the three years of Xiangxing, so he proposed that he personally go to the dining room to supervise and inspect, and the Queen Mother smiled and agreed, so that he could 'escape' and breathe.

The Chinese New Year's Eve dinner began in the afternoon, because the banquet was placed in a warm pavilion in the Empress Dowager's palace, although the courtiers were refused to accompany the feast, but Empress Dowager Yang looked at the huge hall only herself and His Majesty, and then thought about the lively scene of Chinese New Year's Eve in the palace before, she still felt desolate. Fortunately, Zhao Yu had already expected the current situation, so he set up a few more tables at the bottom of the stairs, and called all the attendants and palace maids who were not on duty in the palace to accompany him.

And Zhao Yu didn't deliberately arrange any singing and dancing, but just used his experience of hosting the class party when he was in school, and improvised invited the people present to perform the program, which made the scene lively, and even the Queen Mother was infected, and sang a hometown tune on a whim. Although this is not as exciting as the show in the palace in the past, it is less restrained, more casual, and has a bit of a homely atmosphere.

The queen mother of the dinner said not to waste, and Zhao Yu has always been on the premise of having enough to eat and be full, but considering the special situation today, he still asked the imperial dining room to prepare according to the usual practice. The Empress Dowager and the Emperor routinely had 100 dishes for each meal, and of course the New Year was more abundant, and he saw that there were no less than 4 or 500 dishes, how could people eat this point.

However, there is an unwritten rule in the palace to reward the important ministers of the court with imperial meals during the New Year to show favor and encouragement. So some of the dishes were just exposed, repackaged, packed into boxes, and sent to the mansions of the various governors and auxiliary ministers. The surplus could not be wasted, and after they tasted it, they gave it to the guards and miscellaneous servants on duty. In the end, it doesn't seem to be very rich, and it is always the best use of things.

When the drum sounded, Zhao Yu helped the queen mother to the square in front of the palace to watch the fireworks, and for a time the fire trees and silver flowers illuminated the entire palace city, and the crackling firecrackers in the city also sounded one after another. But his feeling was not very good, the sound of fireworks and explosions reminded people of the long tail flames of rockets flying on the battlefield and the deafening sound of gunpowder smoke and flowering bombs, as if returning to the hell of flesh and blood!

After the fireworks is the same New Year's Eve in ancient and modern times, and in this era, there is no TV and the Internet, and there is no mahjong tiles that are the most popular among the Chinese people to accompany people through this long night, but there are also leaf tiles to pass the time. It is not an exaggeration to say that it is the originator of modern mahjong tiles, except for the difference in the number of cards, the gameplay and algorithm are no different from modern ones.

For mahjong, a modern national entertainment game, Zhao Yu is naturally no stranger to it, and he quickly got started. However, he knows that if he wants to make people happy at the poker table, the only way is to lose money, as long as he loses enough, not only the leader will be happy, but there is nothing that cannot be done. So the little emperor at the card table turned into a boy with scattered wealth in a blink of an eye, and the queen mother listened to the cards and he lit the cannon, and he had to play the cards if he lacked them.

As a result, the Queen Mother, Wang De, and Dou Xing all won their mouths, but Zhao Hao's purse quickly deflated. Others said that the little emperor had poor luck and low card skills, but only Su Lan saw the reason, how could there be such a skill in losing cards in the world. It is always the queen mother who wins the big head, and although the two companions are constantly opening their beards, they can only get a few small bucks. This kind of card skills that can master the rhythm of the card table and control the winning and losing are not magical, but they will not lose in a mess, in the final analysis, His Majesty wants to fight the Queen Mother!

Playing until the ugly time passed, the Queen Mother saw the little emperor's eyelids fighting, thinking that there would be a New Year's Day court meeting after dawn, if His Majesty faced the ministers listlessly, wouldn't it be too undignified, so she said that she was tired and wanted to rest for a while. And it was too late, so I let Zhao Yu stay in the palace, and didn't let him go back, and then we would participate in the court meeting together after dawn......

Although the New Year's Day court meeting is the largest gathering of officials of the year, Zhao Yu is not much interested in meaningless ritualized things, and he thinks that this kind of ritual is not only the constant change of personnel, but I am afraid that the procedures and steps have not changed for hundreds of years. And the purpose of holding the great court meeting with his intention is to show the grace of heaven and the accident of the Quartet; The other is likely to let everyone see that your emperor is still alive and in good health.

According to the regulations, those who can participate in the grand court meeting must be officials of the fifth rank or above, and others are not qualified. However, some changes have been made this year, inviting some meritorious junior officers and soldiers in the army, promising officials in the townships, and skilled farmers who have worked hard to promote the use of guano to fertilize the fields to achieve high yields, and craftsmen who have contributed to the fields of engineering and manufacturing.

Of course, it is impossible to have a place in the main hall with the identity of these people, so they can only sit under the corridor outside the hall with the last seat, but this is the first time in this dynasty. And being able to have a place at the New Year's Day court meeting is an extremely honorable thing in itself, so the people who are regarded as the last are the most grateful and shouting the loudest people.

For so many Bai Ding and low-level officials to go to the palace to participate in the court, most people thought that the little emperor was on a whim, and he was mixed with these people in his early years, and now that he is developed, let them go to the palace to see and understand, and they have shown that they will not forget the old people, so they are not surprised. But those old oilmen who have been in the officialdom for a long time smelled an unusual smell and felt that the sky might change.

Lu Xiufu also felt this way, although the current Great Song Dynasty is still nominally the imperial court, but in fact the pattern has changed greatly, not only most of the land has been lost, the royal family has withered, and the nobles of the past have also died or surrendered, and even he himself is a descendant who took the opportunity to rise when the country was broken and no one was available. He knows very well that the current restoration of the country is actually no different from the reopening of the country, and every time the dynasty is changed, it is also a time for the world's heroes to compete and the upstart to reappear.

The current situation Lu Xiufu is very clear that the Great Song Dynasty has been raising scholars for a hundred years, treating scholars well and ruling the world with them, but when the country was in danger, countless scholars turned to Song Shiyuan. The little emperor, who experienced the pain of losing his country, witnessed the then prime minister Chen Yizhong escaping from the battle at the moment of life and death, and ran away from the master without returning. The wisdom of the display of wisdom will of course arouse suspicion among scholars. He was already aware that while he was using scholars to help him manage the dynasty, he was also secretly re-cultivating new forces.

Lu Xiufu knew that the most vulnerable groups would always be the 'vulgar' warriors and the 'ignorant' villagers, who had lived under the people for a long time and had an urgent desire to change their status, and they did not ask for too much.

Moreover, Lu Xiufu has already discovered that the little emperor is a pragmatist, and he does not like the tricks of scholars and empty talk, but the final efficiency and results. Just look at the people around him who have been reused, you can know that a city official can enter and leave the provincial department, a small businessman can also control the wealth of the world, and the commander of an ordnance station can also hang the title of director of the Ministry of Works, but it is these people who have helped the little emperor solve the financial difficulties, create weapons that make the enemy fearful, and solve the problem of feeding hundreds of thousands of people in an orderly manner.

On the other hand, these scholars who accompanied the dynasty to move to Qiong, when the little emperor first came, was also full of expectations for them, hoping to govern Qiongzhou with their help, lay the foundation for the restoration of the country, and arranged positions and salaries for them under great financial pressure. But many of them did not use this as a motivation to repay the grace of heaven, but as the reward they deserved for their escape. Just got rid of the drifting and frightened days, he didn't want to forge ahead, and took the little emperor's money to buy a house and land, raise a concubine, and become a princess.

In this way, the scholars will inevitably disappoint the little emperor and incur his disgust. Lu Xiufu knew that although these people could not represent the entire group of scholars, as the so-called rat feces spoiled a pot of soup, the sins they created had to be borne by the entire scholar clan. Since last year's slang rebellion, he has noticed signs of the little emperor's alienation from him, and has instead appointed local gentry and officials. And the use of provinces and governance, weaken the power of the minister, regardless of the previous suspicions of the reuse of Zhang Shijie and other military ministers who had opposed it, and at the same time strengthen the rectification and control of the forbidden army in front of the palace.

The last time the little emperor in the temple talked to them in detail about the military reform, Lu Xiufu knew that the little emperor wanted to strengthen the combat effectiveness of the army at the same time, but also to further improve the status of the army to pave the way, and the subtext is that His Majesty is cultivating a group of new upstarts, and the peasants, workers, merchants, and soldiers sitting at the bottom of the hall will be the foundation of the new imperial power structure, and they will inevitably squeeze and encroach on the living space of the scholars in the government and the opposition.

Lu Hidefu sensed a potential crisis, and he knew that something had to be done to strengthen the position of the scholars in the court and strengthen their influence among the people. At present, confronting the emperor is the most unwise choice, he knows that on the surface, the court is still controlled by the old ministers who control the administrative affairs of the empire, in fact, the power of the little emperor has already penetrated into the important ministries and provinces, and the local states and counties are under its control, and the military is also completely turned to it.

Since it is not feasible to solve the problem by persuasion, it is not possible for them to use force. Lu Xiufu thought that he could only regain the trust of the little emperor and enhance the prestige of the scholars in the court and the opposition through a roundabout way. Then you can also use this method to exert influence. The first is to hold a sutra feast as soon as possible, so as to influence His Majesty's behavior; The second is to open government schools and county schools, restore Taixue, in order to attract young talents to enroll, revive the style of Chongwen among the people, and then open the imperial examination to make more scholars enter the office, so as to reoccupy the court.

"Lu Xiang, we're having a drink together!"

"Well, thank you, Your Majesty!" Lu Xiufu, who was immersed in thought, suddenly heard His Majesty's invitation, and was stunned and hurriedly raised his glass, but looking at his harmless and innocent appearance, he felt a little trance, wondering if this child would have such a deep scheming?

"Zhongqing, last year, Qiongzhou was full of grain, the treasury was filled, and Fan Qiong's enemies were repelled, all of them were governed by Lu Xiang, and I and Zhongqing saluted Lu Xiang with a cup!" Zhao Yu and Lu Xiufu drank a cup together, and then raised their glasses to the ministers below.

"To Lu Xiang!" The little emperor proposed, and all the ministers responded and toasted together.

"Qiongzhou is all about the Queen Mother and Your Majesty's kindness today, and your colleagues are serving, how dare I take credit!" Lu Xiufu said a few words modestly, and drank all the wine in the cup, not a taste in his heart, is it true or false that this little emperor exalts himself like this? It's unpredictable.

"Eh, don't be humble, I see all the merits of Lu Xiang in my eyes and remember them in my heart!" Zhao Yu raised his glass again. He saw that Lu Xiufu's expression was uncertain, his brows were tightly locked, and he looked thoughtful, and from time to time he peeked at himself, thinking that he might be puzzled about inviting those Bai Ding to participate in the court meeting, and after toasting him two glasses of wine in a row, he still looked preoccupied, so he raised his glass again.

"Thank you, Your Majesty!" Lu Xiufu thanked him and drank the wine again.

"Ladies and gentlemen, the good news of the Northern Army has been spread frequently, and the two righteous soldiers have responded when they heard the wind, and more soldiers loyal to the imperial court have come across the sea, which has greatly boosted the momentum of our court!" Zhao Yu said, "I want to reopen Taixue and educate talents for the country, what do you think about Lu Xiang and your Aiqing?" ”

"Obey the order!" Lu Xiufu immediately responded when he heard this, and he felt ashamed in his heart, could it be that he was thinking too much......