Chapter 486: Entertaining the Masses
The reason why Zhao Gou made a reading turmoil was that weighing the courtiers was the most direct factor, and another potential purpose was that he hoped that the eyes of the government and the opposition could be removed from Zhao Ying and Zhao Xuan.
They are still too young, although the crown prince of Zhao Song is a young age, and Zhao Ying is the eldest son of the queen, and it seems natural to inherit the throne. But he still wants everyone to lose interest in the matter of the crown prince.
After the year, the companion study of the palace school is to cool down this matter, and at the same time, a few happy masters who are jumping up and down will also receive re-education. That will make the Xing and Pan families understand one thing - they have been fooled, and it will also make the civil and military personnel of the Manchu Dynasty understand this truth.
And after pouring this bucket of cold water, they will think of a question: why is the emperor so free to tease them? What does this mean?
Really, who would dare to put the word 'prince' on his lips after this, Zhao Goujing is a man!
Although he can't say how long he can suppress the 'prince' turmoil by doing this.
He has two sons, no matter how young they are, as long as no new heirs are born, these two little ones are destined to attract the attention of all people, and it is difficult not to make people guess about the Sacred Heart. And under speculation, they will stand in line, and once they stand in line, they will inevitably divide into camps and start opposing each other.
This is the last thing he wants.
Because such a consequence can only make a group of talented people be broken out of the next 'big era'. After Yong Laosi took the throne, few of the masters who followed Lao Ba waving their flags and shouting had a good end.
According to this, after Zhao Ying and the winner of Zhao Xuan took the throne, Zhao Song also had to pay a big loss. It's completely unnecessary, isn't it?
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The New Year came, and the entire Bianjing city was buried in the snow.
The snow is extraordinarily heavy, and the autumn grain has been put into storage, and there are one or two million people around Bianliang City, among which there are countless producers who do not do anything, and grain is always a matter of concern to those in power. As a result, Zhao Gou kept transporting grain to Bianjing on the one hand, but on the other hand, he couldn't help but have the idea of moving the capital.
The heavy cost of this Zhao Song's transportation is really terrifying.
Of course, the matter of moving the capital still has to be discussed in the long run, but the food in this city is conservatively estimated to be enough for the military and civilian officials and gentry in the city to chew for a year.
In today's Xiaoice period, the temperature is cold in winter, and it is impossible to transfer rice grain into Beijing on a large scale.
What the imperial court can ensure is that enough grain and rice have been transported to the capital before Caoyun is frozen, otherwise once there is a shortage of grain in the market, it can cause great trouble.
And every time the Chinese New Year comes to the world, there will be a large number of displaced people from all directions flocking to Bianliang. Some of them will be intercepted by the outer states and counties, and they will not be allowed to go any further.
But there will always be a lot of 'fish that slip through the net' and continue to swim to Bianliang.
Every year, Kaifeng Prefecture will set up sheds in its subordinate counties, and even outside Bianjing City, to take in refugees and set up porridge shops to count the population. Even in and around Tokyo, there are many people who beg for food.
No way. The Northern Song Dynasty did not suppress land annexation, and land annexation near the outskirts of Beijing was the most serious in the country, and almost all of them were occupied by the magnates. Almost none of the small people in the vicinity have their own land. If you don't go to work, you have to work in the city. The Song Dynasty hired expensive labor, and the prosperous capital had countless job opportunities because of the existence of countless dignitaries and royal relatives, that is, to do a small job in the city, and the income seemed to be better than farming. As a result, the city of Tokyo is obviously short of food, but a lot of land outside the suburbs has been abandoned and shelved. How ridiculous?
However, it is precisely this situation that makes the ability of ordinary people to resist disasters very weak. It is not easy to live in the capital. The wages in Bianjing are very high, but the cost of living is also high. When encountering bad weather such as blizzard, or other reasons that make it impossible for people to work, it is common for people to have no rice to cook, no firewood for heating, and starvation and cold.
In this case, there will naturally be more people in the criminal department. Because there must be people who don't want to starve to death.
Now Zhao Gou asked people to build sheds and give porridge, on the one hand, to appease the people, and on the other hand, he also wanted to hold the initiative in his hands. It's better to call it as safe as possible near the capital.
The out-of-town refugees wanted to enter Beijing when they were hit by the disaster because they knew that there was porridge to eat, and the emperor was much better than their parents, at least willing to give them a bite to eat.
And before this time, it was time for the major imperial merchants in the capital to show their sense of existence. One by one, they gave generously, lest they would be weak.
Among them, in addition to the merchants directly controlled by Zhao Gou, the real imperial businessmen are really happy to brush up on their sense of existence.
As long as you are willing to bleed, you can not only get the approval of the imperial court, leave your name on the monument, but also get the blessing of the emperor - it is really a blessing, and the word 'blessing' is given during the New Year, isn't it a blessing. In addition, it can be published in the newspaper and widely advertised. The positive image blessing of individuals and businesses is great, after all, the word 'benevolence' is much better than profiteers.
And if the amount of donations has accumulated enough, you can directly "exchange" the people, which is really not a loss at all.
Zhao Gou occasionally goes out of the palace for a private visit, and if he sees it with his own eyes, his heart is stable.
In previous years, Ding Zhuang among these refugees would become the soldiers and horses of the Great Song Dynasty in the blink of an eye. Because in this way, even if the refugees want to make trouble, without a large number of Ding Zhuang as the backbone, they will not be able to set off a big storm.
The wind and waves in the capital are calm, and it is time for the New Year's Festival to be peaceful.
Then some of the chaos caused by the palace banquet soon spread throughout Bianjing City and became the entertainment of more than one million soldiers and civilians.
For example, in the Jiying Palace, who fought with whom, and who lost his manners, or cried, or yelled, and there were fights, I don't know if they were really drunk. Of course, it is indispensable to write poems and paintings, anyway, the eight immortals crossed the sea to show their magical powers, just to show their faces in front of him.
And the scene in the Jiying Hall was quickly spread outside, and those big newspapers would not publish it, but don't forget the tabloids in Bianliang City.
The Beijing tabloid is a kind of newspaper that is freely distributed by the people, which is an illegal publication, which is strictly investigated and cracked down by the imperial court, and does not even have a formal name, and even the publisher is not fixed.
But it's really marketable.
Because the people at the bottom, including many middle-class people who don't have to worry about eating and drinking, are full of love for the gossip of the upper class. Just like the celebrity scandals and wealthy gossip exposed by the paparazzi in later generations, it made countless groups eat melons and eat so unpleasantly.
But correspondingly, how much those celebrities and wealthy families hate the paparazzi, and now Zhao Song's dignitaries are tired of tabloids, but unfortunately they can't be eliminated at all.
Because the identity of the latter's behind-the-scenes boss is not simple.
The tabloids have no advertising sponsorship, and the means of making money depends on expanding sales, and if you want to increase sales, the content of the revelations must attract people's attention. Each publisher has its own secret information channels, and there are a large number of paparazzi under their hands, and there are even those who specialize in asking eunuchs and palace maids to inquire about the secrets of the palace, called "internal detectives"; Some people go to various ministries of the DPRK and the central government to inquire about the appointment and dismissal of officials and the privacy of officials, which is called "provincial investigation"; The yamen are also scattered with "yamen" who are investigating the progress of the case......
Thinking deeper, this thing is even a 'dagger' secretly prepared by some people.
Just like in the fourth year of the Great View (1110), the Tokyo tabloids made a shocking news.
A tabloid newspaper pretended to be Song Huizong and published an edict denouncing Cai Jing's crime of betraying the country and joining the enemy. So much so that Huizong personally came forward to clarify.
Those 'new things' in the Jiying Hall can't hide the 'eyes and ears' of these people at all.
It's also a real entertainment for the public.