"The official family doesn't like pomp, everything is simple, if the minister really follows this way and gives the official family a whole pomp, the official family has to kick the minister." Zhao Ying refilled Zhao Huan with a cup of tea and said with a smile.

If the official family really talks about pomp, how much money does it cost? What scenes can't be put out?

"The minister said that this pomp and circumstance is supported by the people sitting on it, the official family is to make an ox cart and wear regular clothes, and the people of the Great Song Dynasty also recognize the official family, but they don't recognize this Empress Dowager Meng." Zhao Ying said angrily.

"You, you can't talk with your brains, you like to express your words, how to do this ancestor of Bianjing City?" Zhao Huan patted Zhao Ying and said.

Zhao Ying's words reminded Zhao Huan of Zhao Guangyi, the god of donkey carts, who has been in Yanjing all the year round and is busy with side affairs.

However, this is also the reason why the Empress Dowager Meng rose to power, the Emperor of the Great Song Dynasty was not in the capital all the year round, and the ruling Dazai Li Gang was not very easy to participate in the affairs of the clan.

And Zheng Wangzhi, who guards the ministry, is the person of the Empress Dowager, the Great Song Dynasty has been stormy in recent years, and even people like Zhang Xiaochun, Zhao Huan has to be used, it is conceivable how big the talent gap is.

"Hey, and two white elephants?" Zhao Huan looked at Empress Dowager Meng's honor guard, stood up, and there were actually two white elephants following.

This pomp and circumstance is much more generous than when Zhao Huan first met Zhao Ji!

As the emperor of the Great Song Dynasty, Zhao Huan was able to make him stand up to greet him, and the person who was naturally the Empress Dowager Meng was naturally the Empress Dowager.

Empress Dowager Meng stopped at the door of the banquet building, and with the support of the two palace maids, she entered the banquet building, and the originally lively banquet building became silent, and a group of clan relatives bowed their heads and shouted: "I have seen the Empress Dowager, the Empress Dowager Antai." ”

"Zhao Ying, there are many women and children in the palace, turn around and pull down the two white elephants and stew them in Shangshanlou." Zhao Huan turned around and asked.

"Huh? Oh, okay. Zhao Ying grinned and said: "Elephant meat is not delicious, but two ivory is suitable for chopsticks. ”

Zhao Huan nodded with a smile and said, "Cheng." ”

The conversation between Zhao Huan and Zhao Ying was not loud, but in the silent banquet hall after the mountains and seas were drunk, even the ants in the corner heard these two words.

Zhao Huan slowly walked off the platform, walked to the side of the Empress Dowager Meng, and held the arm of the Empress Dowager Meng, and the person on the other side was also replaced by Zhao Shizhen.

Zhao Huan glanced at Zhao Shiyu, ignored him, and helped Empress Dowager Meng to sit on the second seat of the platform.

"When I met the emperor back then, the emperor was only three years old, and he was running all over the streets at that time, and he couldn't catch it. It's all that big now. Empress Dowager Meng's first words were full of love and love for the juniors.

"People, they will always grow up." Zhao Huan responded with a smile, he served vegetables to the Empress Dowager Meng, looking like a grandmother and an emperor's filial piety.

Guarding people and prospering, Zhao Huan can still do this superficial effort.

Empress Dowager Meng said with a look of remembrance: "The emperor has been on the throne for four years, the Great Song Dynasty has gone south to Qiongzhou and north to Yanjing, and the heroic martial arts of the Great Song Dynasty have been sung. ”

"Now it's north to Shenzhou." Zhao Huan smiled and corrected the loopholes in Empress Dowager Meng's rhetoric, and even pretended to make a comparison.

"Oh, that's pretty tight." Empress Dowager Meng said with a smile: "Although my Great Song Dynasty has had many disasters and difficulties in the past two years, the omen of this revival has become clearer and clearer. ”

"In the past four years of the official family's war, this grain and grass has never fallen off the chain, which can be regarded as the merit of the minister."

Zhao Huan nodded and said, "The Queen Mother is right." ”

Empress Dowager Meng's power is not simply only clan relatives, but also countless civil officials gathered together.

Zhao Huan didn't look down on the ministers from the bottom of his heart, what could he do, he was the first to be greedy for money.

This also made Zhao Huan unkind to the ministers in the four years since he ascended the throne. This group of people Zhao Huan did not unite well, which led to these bureaucrats voting for Empress Dowager Meng.

But Zhao Huan does not regret it, the foundation of his ruling and all the decrees are being implemented around the Juntian Order, which is itself to snatch food from the hands of scholars, bureaucrats, he really can't unite, and he doesn't have the capital to unite them.

They naturally rallied around the Empress Dowager Meng.

"Your Majesty, did the old man return to Beijing disturb the emperor's interest? As soon as I returned to Beijing, I stewed the two auspicious rui that I brought back from Lushan. Empress Dowager Meng asked with a smile.

"There are many women and children in the palace, this white elephant is a beast after all, if it is fierce, it will not end well." Zhao Huan smiled and played the edge, as for what a beast is, it is naturally self-evident.

Meng Tianhou has gone through three dynasties, deposed twice, resurrected twice, and listened to politics once, she ignored Zhao Huan's yin and yang weirdness, and said with a smile: "Beast, kill it." ”

"I heard that Chengyou caused trouble in Tanzhou?" Empress Dowager Meng put down the teacup in her hand and got down to business.

This is the reason why Empress Dowager Meng suddenly returned to Beijing, Zhao Chengyou concealed it and did not report it, Zhao Huan personally ordered to Ezhou and escorted her into Beijing, which finally disturbed her.

"It's Ezhou. Now the Ezhou flood epidemic is very fierce, two days ago Zong Shaoqing wrote a letter to me, and Zhao Chengyou snatched Dr. Wang's eagle's beak pocket. Zhao Huan took Zong Ze's notebook out of his sleeve.

He knew that after Empress Dowager Meng returned to Beijing, he specially set up a family banquet, and his purpose today was to be reasonable, so he naturally prepared a summary of the dirty things that Zhao Chengyou did.

"Zong Shaoqing, is it Zong Ze? Back then, he was called outside the Donghua Gate, and he was still the name of Zhang Dan. Empress Dowager Meng picked up a crystal piece and looked carefully at the numbers on the notebook.

"70,000 dead?" Empress Dowager Meng raised her head, with surprise in her eyes, she also knew that Zhao Chengyou was in trouble, and she didn't expect to die so much.

"This is only Ezhou City, now everyone on both sides of Jinghu is in danger, if it weren't for Zong Shaoqing mobilizing the Jinghu Water Army, there might be a big mess." Zhao Huan looked at Empress Dowager Meng's surprise, and realized that his reason today would probably make sense.

"Zong Ze is very powerful." Empress Dowager Meng closed the notebook and said, "The person who wrote the family tree for our old Zhao family for half a lifetime has actually done so many meritorious things when he is old. ”

Empress Dowager Meng was diverting the topic, but Zhao Huan didn't answer at all, and said: "Zhao Chengyou must be escorted back to Beijing after the flood in Ezhou, according to the usual practice, he may be exiled to Lingnan, and I plan to let him go to Beijing." ”

This is Zhao Huan's bottom line, the matter of Ezhou, it is not too much to kill him Zhao Chengyou, but now that the Empress Dowager Meng protects him, Zhao Huan also has to weigh the weight of this.

After all, Zhao Huan will fight the last three mansions of the Jin Kingdom next year, and the domestic situation will be stable for a year, and what he wants to do will naturally be done.

"The old body is old, and the emperor needs to worry about this country, but the old body is only this grandson under his knees, can the old body ask the official family for a favor here?" Empress Dowager Meng said softly.

Zhao Chengyou's father was once adopted by Song Zhezong Zhao Xu as a righteous son in the palace, and this Zhao Chengyou is the grandson of the Empress Dowager Meng.

"Nope." Zhao Huan shook his head resolutely: "Zhao Chengyou must be punished." ”

"Forget about three glasses of wine, after all, this world is the world of our old Zhao family, and no one will say anything." Empress Dowager Meng patted her hem and said, "The matter of Wang Jiedu's envoy, the old man will talk about it." ”

Wang Jie is the envoy, and he is naturally the king.