When Zhao Zhifu said again that "it is difficult to take care of both", Zhao You's face was already gloomy, obviously Zhao Zhifu's words were not in the heart of the official family, Cai Jing coughed dryly, bowed down and said: "Although Zhao Xiang's words are reasonable, however, the so-called predecessors planted trees, and later generations took advantage of the coolness. Lao Chen has been the prime minister for many years, if he does not open up the sea frontier because of the slow results, he will inevitably be short-sighted. ”

He didn't care about Zhao Zhifu's pale face, he was already a little unbearable, and continued to say slowly, "This dynasty respects Confucius and Confucianism, and the rule of virtue and politics directly pursues the rule of three generations, and the so-called heroic Han and Tang Dynasty are insignificant." Your Majesty wants to create an unprecedented prosperous situation, and this is an indispensable step to open up thousands of miles of sea territory. Zhao Xingde, the supervisor of the 'Ten Strategies for Expanding the Sea', is also a rare talent, if he cultivates it well, he will be a pillar of the country. ”

When Cai Jing said this, Zhao You smiled and nodded: "What Cai Xiang said is very true. But I heard Cai Jing say again: "However, if you read this policy carefully, you can see that the pride is all superior, but there is a little bit of calm and steady kung fu." Thinking about it, Zhao Xingde is certainly talented and full of poetry and books, but after all, he is only a prisoner and has little experience. The old minister has a proposal, since Master Tong will go to Hebei, it is better to order this son to accompany him, let him experience a year and a half, one to increase his knowledge, and the other to give him a chance to make meritorious contributions. In the future, His Majesty will deliberately cultivate him, and even entrust him with the important task of opening up the sea frontier, and it is difficult to say that His Majesty's favor is too much. ”

Zhao You pondered Cai Jing's suggestion, and felt that there was some truth, Zhao Xingde's "Ten Strategies for Expanding the Sea" was the situation that Kaixiong Han and Tang Dynasty had not had, and he wanted to become a saint who chased the rule of three generations. But thinking about it carefully, Zhao Xingde did not hold any official position before, although he was full of poetry and books, and he was extremely smart, but he was suddenly entrusted with a heavy responsibility, which was inevitably neglected. It's better to let him go to Hebei with Tong Guan and see how big things are done.

"Then according to Prime Minister Cai's discussion, what kind of official position should be given to this Zhao Xingde?"

Cai Jing seemed to be thinking carefully, and Zhao Zhifu, the governor of the political affairs, coughed lightly and said: "Your Majesty, the scholars of this dynasty are all proud of their Jinshi backgrounds, and although it is also the right way to be elected by Taixue, there are still some regrets.

The minister thought that since His Majesty intended to cultivate Zhao Xingde, it was better to let him live in the shogunate of Lord Tong as a prisoner, and with this talent, he would definitely be able to overwhelm the group by participating in the Gongyuan competition in the coming year. If he is favored by the Holy Grace to enter the ranks, that is also his blessing. ”

Jinshi and the first refer to the top three in the national imperial examination, and the champions, list eyes, and tanhua hand-picked by the king are the glory of the literati's life. The three ministers Cai Jing and Zhao Zhifu here are from Jinshi, while Li Bangyan is not Jinshi, no matter how favored he is, he usually feels a head lower than these two. Zhao You also thought that even if the third prince Zhao Qi was born noble and talented, he would envy the glory of Jinshi and beg him to let him go to the imperial examination.

Thinking of this, Zhao You couldn't help but smile and said: "This is also the nature of young people, no matter what, it is the luck of Zhao Xingde and the blessing of my Great Song Dynasty to promote the backwards like this, so let him live in the Daofu Shogunate as a prisoner, and when he comes to the Gongyuan Competition, he will come back to participate in the imperial examination." ”

The monarch and the ministers made arrangements for Zhao Xingde in a few words, and then discussed how to raise taxes in the southeast to raise the cost of Jingluyouyan, and the prime minister reported that the tax was levied on the valuation of houses in Bianjing and other cities through the interstitial method, and the imperial court could increase the wealth by 20 million guan this year, and the land auction method was used to compete for land, and the imperial court also increased the financial endowment by 13 million guan, and the two together were not only enough to support the expenses of redundant soldiers and redundant officials, but also only needed to increase the tax rate, and even the expenses required to pass through Youyan and open up the sea frontier were also enough to cope.

This discussion lasted until the evening, during which Zhao You deliberately had a royal meal with six ministers, and after the imperial meal, he also watched the song and dance, and after watching the song and dance, he discussed a lot of national affairs, and the officials felt tired, and the ministers retreated.

Seeing that the official family was rubbing his temples a little tiredly, Liang Shizhong, the chief inspector of the school, respectfully presented the ginseng tea, and asked in a low voice: "Your Majesty is diligent, do you still want to see those courtiers in the Mingguang Palace?" ”

"Mingguang Temple?" Zhao You unconsciously repeated, a wave of tiredness came to his head, and he said casually: "It's gone today." If there is something to play, let them leave the recital, and I will see it tomorrow morning. He took a sip of ginseng tea, stood up staggeringly with the imperial chair, only felt a sore back and legs, I heard that the emperor of Xia Guo will be all the national affairs of the commission and ministers, watch more on weekdays, rarely directly decide on national affairs, quite a bit of "government is the prime minister, sacrifice is widowed" style, I am so happy, I am afraid that within five years, the world will not be surnamed Zhao.

Zhao Xingde almost fell asleep several times, he was the same as the officials waiting in the Mingguang Palace, from morning to evening, the grain of rice did not enter, only drank a dozen imperial ginseng tea, during which there were more than a dozen small explanations, and in the end, he saw that the officials waiting around him were all looking peaceful, so he simply closed his eyes, put his hands on the seat, and exhaled and inhaled for a long time with the technique of concentrating and practicing qi that he learned from Li Rui, until someone patted him on the shoulder.

"Your Majesty is tired today, please go back." The steward eunuch of the Mingguang Hall said to him condescendingly, with a hint of chagrin in his disdain, and he thought that Zhao Xingde was a new favorite.

Zhao Xingde looked left and right a little blankly, only to see that the waiting officials had slowly stood up, a few acquaintances were still saying goodbye to each other, and a few took out the medallion from their sleeves and handed it to the attendant on duty.

When he came, the horse carriage was gone, and Zhao Xingde had to walk out of the palace from the right armpit door of Xuanhe Building under the leadership of the eunuch. In fact, Taixue is not far from the Donghua Gate in Miyagi, but the officials who have always come to see him come out of the right armpit door. The right armpit gate is west to the south of Miyagi, and you have to go around half a circle outside Miyagi to return to Taixue.

Zhao Xingde was snorting, dizzy, only to hear the belly drumming like thunder, looking along the royal street, only to see the two hundred steps wide royal street seems extremely empty. There are two rows of vermilion lacquer forks inserted in the middle of the royal street, and in the middle of the vermilion lacquer forks is the royal road, and pedestrians can only walk outside the vermilion lacquer forks. Outside the vermilion lacquer fork each fork a row of black lacquer forks, between the two forks are called the imperial corridor, there are two royal rivers of brick and stone repair in the imperial corridor, the river is planted with lotus flowers, the bank is planted with peaches, plums, pears and apricots, at this moment it is the turn of spring and summer, look at it, a beautiful color of purple and red. However, Zhao Xingde had no intention of looking at the scene, and a fragrant and soft evening breeze blew, and he felt even more hungry.

Originally, this imperial corridor also allowed small vendors to buy and sell soup and tea cookers inside, but unfortunately it was banned during the Zhenghe period because of the impact on the city's appearance. Zhao Xingde cursed while walking along the imperial corridor, while calculating, after crossing the Zhou Bridge, the plum blossom buns in Wanglou Cave, Wang Pobo Meat Cake Shop, or Li Sifen Teahouse, he wanted to eat back what he owed.

After Prime Minister Cai Jing returned home, he instructed the servants to arrange a small banquet, in a moment, the Qionghua glass lamp is tall, reflecting like day, just boiled pigeon porridge, steamed buns, salty beans, and the Western Regions Sanle pulp will be sent to the warm and fragrant flower hall, don't look at this little snack, a single plate of steamed bread is worth a hundred times, it is made of crab roe as the main ingredient, in Cai Xiang's kitchen, cut shredded green onions, make crab roe, and noodles, make noodles, and steam are all exclusive to their own people, out of Cai's mansion there is no such delicacy in the world. This chicken porridge has been boiling more than ten pots with fire, and it will be discarded after the fire, when Cai Xiangguo wants to drink porridge, there is good porridge to drink. Salted soy bean is the Jiangxi official offering, purely made of the gizzard of the yellow finch, a cake of salty soy is the life of hundreds of yellow finch, the three leshi pulp is the special product sent by Xiao He, the envoy of the Xia Kingdom, the thirty-year-old wine syrup is used in the Khotanese white jade bottle to be placed inside, and there is a double-layer silver box specially for ice outside, in order to even in the hot summer, Cai Xiangguo can also drink the iced wine syrup, Xiao and also intimately sent an ice cellar. In the past few years of the Great Song Dynasty, the courtiers in power have all advocated the Northern Expedition rather than the Western Expedition, which Xiao did not make a great effort.

As soon as the small banquet was arranged, the privy envoy Wang Fu, the privy deputy envoy Li Bangyan, and the commander of the guard infantry army Tong Guan came to disturb him. The four of them went to the flower hall to sit down, Cai Jingping retreated left and right, and Li Bangyan smiled and said: "Zhao Zhifu has to be promoted by Cai Xiang, and he does not want to repay his kindness, but instead takes refuge in King Wei and goes against Cai Xiang. ”

Li Bangyan spoke lightly, was the head of the rat at both ends, and privately showed favor to the crown prince Zhao You many times, and showed that he and Cai Jing were not advancing and retreating together in the court. Therefore, Zhao Zhifu wanted the crown prince Wei Wang to patrol the Hebei camp on behalf of the sky, so he first found Li Bangyan and asked him to propose to His Majesty with him, and at the same time, he used the deployment of Tong Guan as the capital of the Hebei camp as a bait, and got Tong Guan's support. As a result, three of the six most trusted ministers of the official family all agreed with the prince's tour of Hebei, Shen Yun has never intervened in the dispute between the crown prince, and Wang Fu is less responsible, even if Cai Jing opposes it, he is alone. If this matter is successful, the crown prince Zhao You will inherit the unification in the future, and he will definitely repay Li Bangyan for his secret help.

Li Bangyan agreed on his face, and secretly immediately informed Cai Jing of Zhao Zhifu's wooing, Cai Jing will make a plan, discuss with Tong Guan, and support him to take charge of the Hebei camp. The battle of the East Palace is the foundation of the rise and fall of the Cai Party and the Zhao Party, as long as the prince loses power, Zhao Zhifu will be implicated, the Zhao Party is naturally scattered, Cai Jing is not afraid that His Majesty will promote a deputy minister to check and balance himself, the new will always be tender, as long as the third prince Zhao Qi inherits the throne, he is an old minister of the two dynasties, and he has the merit of supporting, the power will only get heavier and heavier, and he does not want to seek the usurpation of the dynasty, only to seek the supreme minister in this life, glory and wealth, it is enough.

Zhao Zhifu didn't know what the plan was, he got the promise of Li Bangyan and Tong Guan, he was very happy, and the three of them made an alliance to support the prince Zhao You, Zhao Zhifu also made Shao Wu and Li Tong release their suspicions, Li Bangyan and Tong Guan promised not to promote shipbuilding to go to sea, and compete with the southeast sea merchants for profit.