"Your Majesty, this is a misguided discussion, and it must not be!" Seeing that the emperor was moved by Cai Jing and Tong Guan's proposal, Shao Wu, the superintendent, immediately stepped out to stop him.

Seeing Shao Wu's advice, Cai Jing's face was not shocked, and the fierceness in Tong Guan's eyes showed slightly. Shao Wu still said loudly: "Your Majesty, it takes a lot of money to build a big ship to go to sea, except for winning a false name, it is not beneficial to the country, this is indispensable." There are many overseas states, among which there are quite a few countries that are watching the prosperity of the Middle Earth, and the country with bad intentions suffers from not being familiar with the people and roads of the Central Plains and cannot do trouble. The court suddenly rewarded the countries, which will cause the southeast merchants to have no livelihood, but to take the benefits of the people, to fat foreigners, the wealth of the southeast states and counties will be consumed, these three must not. ”

After Shao Wu finished speaking, he still stood in the hall, his eyes looking directly at Tianyan, as if the emperor did not reject Cai Jing and Tong Guan's proposal, he would never return to the list, and even wanted to admonish each other with the momentum of death. The hundred officials and relatives originally agreed with sending ships to the sea to cherish the distant country, but after hearing his three inadmissibles, many of them became solemn. Wealth was one of the most important concerns of the Song court. This ship went to sea, together with the reward to the overseas countries, but it cost a lot of money, and if it caused the southeast to erode, and only won a false name, it was indeed an unprofitable deal.

Li Bangyan, the deputy privy envoy, said in a group of unpredictable words: "The Shao family is a well-known maritime merchant on Fujian Road, and opposes the official family sending ships to the sea to reward the vassal state, and receiving the envoys. ”

"You?" Shao Wu was stabbed by him, and he was furious in his heart, and angrily reprimanded: "Yuchen, do you think that everyone in the world is as filthy as you? The two actually quarreled in the waterfront hall, but instead put aside Cai Jing and Tong Guan, who proposed to build a ship and go to sea.

It wasn't until Emperor Zhao You snorted slightly that the two of them felt rude, calmed down, and still stared at each other.

At this time, the hall was quiet, and all the ministers were waiting for Zhao Yousheng to make a decision.

Zhao You narrowed his eyes slightly and looked at the important minister in front of him. He knew in his heart that Cai Jing was just exercising power, and although Tong Guan seemed to be mighty and had a sparse beard, he was just a eunuch. Although Li Bangyan sometimes helps Cai Jing, he is not just a court helper, the two look like they are separated, and they are not friends. Although Shao Wu is a little annoying, however, the state has a Ming monarch and a direct minister, and Tang Taizong can still tolerate Wei Zheng.

Emperor Zhao You was born with great talent, and his father laid a solid foundation for peace and prosperity, quite a little bit of seclusion, and even collected the heart of Guanzhong, and loved to govern the palace extravagantly, Rao is so rich in the Great Song Dynasty, and he receives hundreds of millions of taxes every year, and all kinds of money and grain are used to pay for it, which is also insufficient. What Shao Wu said did not touch him, but the loss of the southeast's wealth made him a little suspicious of shipbuilding and going to sea to reward the countries.

The cheers of the armies and the people outside suddenly rose to a height. The cheers broke Zhao You's contemplation, he looked up and looked out, three thousand iron cavalry were passing in front of the Linshui Palace, this cavalry was all black-clad and black-armed, with a high-headed horse in the west of the river under the crotch, everyone held a big gun in their hands, and when they passed through the Linshui Palace, the big gun was raised diagonally upward, and the head of the gun was shaking white, very neat. In front of the three thousand cavalry is a military general with a silver helmet and silver armor, about thirty-seven or eight, full of beard, cold face, he is also like the soldiers behind him holding a large gun, and the soldiers behind him are struggling to raise a cyan flag, with a big "Yang" character written on it.

"This is the prince of Yang Hou of Taiyuan, Yang Yanqing." Seeing that the official family was silent, the deputy minister Zhao Zhifu looked up at the parade again, knowing that the official family did not want to make a decision on sending a fleet to sea to reward the feudal state at this time, so he took the opportunity to introduce the guards and horses that passed through the Linshui Hall one after another.

The Great Song Dynasty was known as the 800,000 forbidden army, and in addition to garrisoning the Beijing division, it also established three major camps in Hebei, Hedong and Xijing. The Hedong camp had 150,000 troops, guarding the key places between Liao, Xia and Song, the Hebei camp had 200,000 troops to prevent the Khitan from moving south, and the Xijing camp had 150,000 troops to prevent the Xia army from Hangu Guandong to attack the Central Plains. Each of these three camps has a hereditary general, among which the Hedong camp is full of cronies of the Yang family and the Zhe family who have been married for generations. At the beginning, these two families had great merit for Wuzong Zhao Dezhao to ascend the throne, and obtained the status of Shizhen Hedong, although the army of the Hedong camp and other forbidden armies took turns to flow into Bianjing Suwei, but they have been under the command of the generals of the Zhe family and the Yang family, and the Privy Council has also arranged for other generals to serve in important positions in the army of the Hedong system, either they were excluded or died in the border friction with the Liao State and the Xia State, and the imperial court gradually recognized this pattern. Although the Ministry of War and the Privy Council have a lot of complaints about the Hedong Camp, the Hedong Camp, which strives to ensure the peace of the party, has the best reputation among the people of the Great Song Dynasty, especially the Yang Family Army, which is known as the first strong soldier in the Great Song Dynasty.

Zhao You's face was quite complicated to accept the cheers of the guards and horses who participated in the school parade, and he suddenly turned his head to Zhao Qi, the king of Jing who was accompanying him, and said, "Qi'er, how old is this year?" I remember, I haven't made a concubine yet, right? ”

"Back to my father, after August, my son will be twenty-seven years old." Zhao Qi replied respectfully, on such a big scene, the father and emperor paid great attention to his Nian Geng and marriage.

"Well," Zhao You nodded, and said after a moment of silence, "I heard that the eldest daughter of Cao Di is a scholar and virtuous and virtuous in the Zhangxin Army, so I will marry you and make her a concubine." ”

Zhao Qi was overjoyed when he heard this, and immediately bowed to the ground to thank him, while the crown prince Zhao Ke beside him changed his face suddenly. Cao Di is the successor of Cao Bin, a famous general of this dynasty, and the official residence of Xijing is deployed, and the commander of the 150,000 forbidden troops stationed near Luoyang is located. Xijing camp is the closest to Bianjing among the three major camps, and the Cao family has had generals from generation to generation since the founding generals Cao Bin and Cao Han, and the deployment is all over the Xijing camp, but they are the most loyal to the emperor. The father gave Cao Di's daughter to marry him, which added a great boost to his competition for the East Palace and even the inheritance of the throne in the future.

The preference of the official family for the three princes is obvious. Prime Minister Cai Jing, who supported the re-establishment of Zhao Qi as the crown prince, exchanged glances with Tong Guan and Liang Shizhong, and saw a hint of joy in their eyes. And Zhao Zhifu, the governor of the political affairs of the crown prince Zhao Ke, and Shao Wu, the superintendent of the imperial history, showed a worried face, just because the emperor's arrangement of the prince's marriage was a family matter, and it was difficult to oppose it for a while. A marriage involving the dispute over the position of the East Palace was settled.

The front division of the palace, the division of the guard horse, the division of the guard infantry army, the Hedong camp, the Hebei camp, and the Xijing camp all discharged their guard of honor, and passed through the Linshui Hall in turn to shout long live to the emperor. But in the eyes of Yelu Dashi, the envoy of the Liao State, the iron cavalry from the Hedong camp has a kind of awe-inspiring murderous atmosphere, which is not the army of the Hebei camp and the Xijing camp behind, although the Xijing camp is the most valued by the imperial court, and has always been known for the most rewards and the best armor, but there has been no war between the Song State and the Xia State for decades, and the armies of the Xijing camp have been affected by the extravagant and mercantile atmosphere in the Luoyang area, and the spirit is the most sluggish. Compared with the elite of the three battalions of border troops, the Sanya forbidden army, which is stationed in the interior all the year round and takes turns to guard the border passes, is even more unbearable.

"If this Yang family's Xuanjia cavalry and your country's Praetorian Guards meet on the battlefield, I don't know who is better?" Yelu Dashi whispered to Xiao He, the envoy of the Xia Kingdom beside him. Xiao was not teased by him, and sneered at each other: "The Anton Military Division does not often go to the Song Realm to fight the grass valley, but he has never fought with this Xuanjia cavalry seriously, the Yang family's big gun is powerful, the army of Xijing Road in your country must have some deep understanding, right?" ”

Yelu Dashi smiled slightly and said, "How can you see the real strength of such a small fight." However, in my opinion, this Yang family's Xuanjia cavalry seems to be a few points stronger than the Banzhisu Guards in Bianjing. Li Ruobing, the supervisor of Duting Xiyi, heard the meaning of discord in his words, although he ignored it, but secretly worried in his heart, he just returned to Beijing from Pingyang Mansion in Hebei, and was familiar with the situation of the Bianjing Forbidden Army and the border armies of various camps.

"There was no danger to defend in the north, and the imperial court had to set up camps in Hebei and Hedong to use each other as horns to contend with the Liao State. The border hoarded heavy troops, and the camp was self-contained, which led to a situation in which the border generals were weighted. For the sake of today's plan, the recovery of Youyan should be the top priority, and then the three major battalions can be abolished, redundant troops can be reduced, and the people will rest, so that the world will be peaceful. This is also the testament of Emperor Taizu. Li Ruobing thought secretly, and forgot to pay attention to the verbal war between the envoys of the two countries beside him.

After the review of the soldiers and horses of the elite soldiers of the three yas and the camp, the dragon boats of the bidding armies on the water have also been withdrawn, and then the various painting boats prepared by the armies have been used out of the water, and there are all kinds of drums, acrobatics, tricks, etc., which are very good-looking, and from time to time attract the people who watch around the Jinming Pond to burst into bursts of colorful sounds. At the same time, Honglu Temple arranged envoys from Liao, Xia, Dali, Goryeo, Ri~Ben and other countries and ministers of the Great Song Dynasty to bow to the emperor together. Not far away, the army and the people saw the officials bowing, and they also knelt on their knees, bowing to the golden umbrella cover of the Linshui Palace, looking from afar, with the Linshui Temple as the center, the worship of hundreds of thousands of people of the Great Song Dynasty was like a wave of water rippling in a circle, and the cheers were getting louder and louder, and the atmosphere of the peaceful and prosperous era had risen to the extreme.

Zhao You was satisfied to accept the courtesy of his subjects, his eyes were slightly closed, his hands were slightly raised, and he was about to signal that he was flat, but his eyes suddenly froze, and he saw the envoy of the Liao State, Yelu Dashi, standing among the envoys of the countries kneeling down like a flock. Not far away, Wang Heng, the young secretary of Honglu Temple, who knelt on the ground, hurriedly looked at him with a white face, but Yelu Dashi bowed calmly, and the person behind him also bowed and saluted, and did not bow to the Emperor of the Great Song Dynasty.

The more calm Yelu Dashi was, the more it seemed that he didn't take the imperial authority of the Great Song Dynasty in his eyes. Zhao You's face suddenly sank, and he forced his anger to calm his subjects, and then asked, "Yelu Dashi, the envoy of the Liao State, why don't you bow down?" ”

"Your Majesty, since the alliance of the Yuanyuan, when the envoys of the Southern Dynasty saw my Empress Dowager Chengtian, they only bowed, and since then, I have seen Emperor Wuzong in the envoy court, and they have also bowed and bowed. After the Liao and Song dynasties were about to be brothers, the envoys from the north and south all followed this example, and they only bowed down and did not bow when they saw each other, and the lower officials just acted according to the rules. Don't the officials of Honglu Temple know? Why did Your Majesty ask so many times? ”

Yelu Dashi looked up at the emperor on the dragon chair with some disgust, and even though he had lived in Bianjing for several months, he had met the emperor of the Song Dynasty for the first time.

Zhao You was speechless for a while, what Yelu Dashi said was indeed the truth, the envoy represented the country, after the alliance of Lanyuan, the three kingdoms of Song, Liao, and Xia had no subordinate relationship, and there was really no need for the envoy of the Liao State to bow down. The so-called two countries did not fight each other, and he couldn't vent his anger to Yelu Dashi, so he had to force himself and turn his head to Lin Wenxing, the secretary of Honglu Temple. The etiquette of this vassal Chaoga was arranged by Honglu Temple, and if something went wrong, someone naturally had to be responsible.

The emperor's heavenly power is what Lin Wenxing can bear, under Zhao You's forced gaze, Lin Wenxing only felt that the two strands were trembling, and the cold hairs on his back exploded, if it weren't for this scene, he would almost fall soft. According to the report he received, the envoys of the Liao State and the Xia State had clearly agreed to bow to the officials, and the Liao envoys had accepted a bribe of 2,000 yuan, and the Xia envoys had taken the advantage of increasing the value of the horses in the mutual market by 10% in the future. Seeing that the anger of the official family was about to explode, Lin Wenxing immediately looked at Wang Heng, the young secretary of Honglu Temple, if Wang Heng could not give a promise, he would have to participate in him to deceive Shangguan, so that he would lose the national body.

Wang Heng didn't think about it, turned his head to Li Ruobing, the supervisor of the Duting Xiyi beside him, and glared angrily: "Lord Li, aren't you making it clear to this official that the envoy of the Liao State claims to admire the majesty of the Heavenly Empire, and wants to bow down to my emperor?" ”

Li Ruobing was only transferred back to Bianjing from Pingyang half a month ago, and he had just become familiar with the desk affairs, and when he saw Wang Heng suddenly push the black cauldron on his head, his face changed, and he argued: "Lord Wang, the lower officials are only responsible for arranging the court meetings of Dali and other vassals of this dynasty, and the envoys of big countries such as Liaoxia are personally contacted by the lords, how can they blame the lower officials." ”

Wang Heng smiled coldly, and said in a deep voice: "It is clear that you are greedy for merit and falsely reported the words of the envoy of the Liao State, and the correspondence documents in the Honglu Temple are all there, and when I read out the documents for the arrangement of the etiquette of this ceremony, do you dare to confront me in front of Your Majesty?" ”

Li Ruobing listened to him mention the documents prepared for the ceremony, and his heart sank, many of the documents of this ceremony were handled by him and then submitted to Honglu Temple, no less than dozens of documents, many details of the arrangement were originally all aspects of the yamen reached a tacit understanding, by the Duting Xiyi scribe master, and as a supervisor Li Ruobing could not approve them one by one, only selected important parts related to the royal family to review and then use the seal to present Honglu Temple.

He consciously fell into someone else's design, the sweat on his forehead couldn't help but fall, and he looked up at Shao Wu, the superintendent of the imperial history, above the court, Cai Jing and Zhao Zhifu each have their own henchmen, Li Ruobing is neither the Cai Party nor the Zhao Party, and the only thing he can rely on is a clean stream official who has made friends with him.