The things of this world, what should come or will come, whether you are ready or not.

Interestingly, the Song Dynasty New Year's official house holiday, but also a long holiday of seven days, from the twenty-eighth day of the lunar month to the fourth day of the first month, Renzong's famous minister Bao felt that this holiday was too long, and then advised Renzong to change the New Year's holiday to five days.

By the time of Zhezong, the old practice of a seven-day long holiday was changed again, and it was not without reason that Master Bao did not like his colleagues.

On the fourth day of the Lunar New Year, the official family really came to the palace, letting Yang Huairen enter the palace to face the saint, and also said that the Tongyuan County Duke would bring two ladies and a pair of children, and the official family wanted to meet.

Yang Huairen was worried and angry in his heart, worried that entering the palace this time might mean that he would be sent to Liao, and angry that Zhao Xu said a word, he had to drag his family to the palace.

Isn't this a toss-up? Yang Huairen said that when the sun was shining two days ago, it was good to say, but now the sky is gloomy and gloomy, as if he has not eaten, and it seems that it is a lot of snow.

The child is still young, and I don't know if there will be any illness on the bumpy road, Yang Huairen is annoyed, but he doesn't dare to disobey, who makes the family the emperor?

Yang Mansion had a lot of tossing, eating and drinking on the road, eating and drinking prepared for Zhao Xu, all kinds of gadgets prepared for fear of children, small quilts, small mattresses, and a lot of diapers.

Guihong looked at Yang Huairen's departing team, nodded and said, "I didn't expect my brother-in-law to be a celebrity in front of the emperor, I can't see it, I can't see it." ”

The poppy sighed, "This is not necessarily a good thing......

entered the palace and saw Zhao Xu, Zhao Xu was very interested in Yang Huairen's children, asked for their names, and even hugged them personally.

Children, innocent and cute, always make people's hearts softer, and Zhao Xu, who is the emperor, is no exception.

After chatting a few words, Zhao Xu asked He Zhiyun and Wang Xialian to take the child to the harem for the Queen Mother to see, leaving only Yang Huairen to talk in the warm pavilion.

Yang Huairen's experience in Dali, he had already sent an accompanying record to write down the notes in detail and handed them to the palace, and Zhao Xu is now also asking a little about some undetailed places, and Yang Huairen easily answered correctly.

"Zhiyi, what do you think is the improvement of the imperial court's policy towards all ethnic groups and tribes in the southwest today?"

Yang Huairen replied, "Under the whole world, it is not the king's land, and the shore of the land is not the king's minister." This sentence is the same in reverse, the land and people of the world are His Majesty's territory and His Majesty's people.

Since this is the case, then there is no need to distinguish between Han and Yi, whether it is the people of the Central Plains or the ethnic minorities in the border areas, they are all His Majesty's people, and His Majesty should also treat them equally.

Today's situation is that the Han people's places are good, with relatively abundant food and materials, while the border people live in a place where the land is barren and materials are scarce, resulting in most of their lives still in a state of poverty.

Therefore, in the future, the imperial court will be inclined to the people in these places in terms of governance and policy, so as to help them get rid of poverty and become rich and live a good life. ”

At that time, there was no relatively open policy of ethnic integration, and the Han people and the people of ethnic minorities in the Great Song Dynasty were basically in a situation of separate land and rule.

Like this is the case in the Great and Small Liangshan Mountains, Zimo is the emperor of the soil, and in their territory, Zimo has the final say, and the lives of ordinary people are very difficult.

The imperial court's policy towards them is a way of ruling by inaction regardless of whether they ask or interfere, as long as they don't make trouble and don't make trouble, they can be given the title they should have, and the court is too lazy to care about how they live.

Zhao Xu was also influenced by this kind of thinking, and was a little surprised by what Yang Huairen said, but he did not immediately deny Yang Huairen's statement, but explained, "It's not that the court doesn't want to take care of it, but because the court doesn't have the manpower and material resources, and secondly, these border people and mountain people have been free and comfortable for a long time, they live very well, and they will not be easily restrained by the court." ”

Yang Huairen also knew that it was very difficult to change the traditional concept of the official family, so he changed his way and used a metaphor.

"Your Majesty, have you ever heard a saying that unity is strength?"

Zhao Xu was stunned by his question, and subconsciously shook his head.

Yang Huairen continued, "Then Your Majesty thinks that our Great Song Dynasty has the greatest resource advantage compared to Western Xia and Liao? ”

Zhao Xu thought for a while, although the Great Song Dynasty was militarily weaker, compared to other aspects, it was too much of a resource advantage over those two foreign countries.

"That's a lot, our Great Song Dynasty is vast and rich in products, like our land, the grain grown is good and abundant, the silk in the south of the Yangtze River, the tea in the south of the Lingnan, the list goes on."

Yang Huairen asked again, "The minister has a sentence, and if he says it, he is afraid that His Majesty will blame him, so the minister does not dare to say it." ”

Zhao Xu didn't think about it, "If you have anything to say, between us is not just a relationship between monarchs and ministers." ”

When Zhao Xu said this, he showed great trust in Yang Huairen, and Yang Huairen asked rhetorically, "As Your Majesty said, the Great Song Dynasty is rich in products and the people are rich, so why is there a feeling of being embattled and surrounded by wolves?"

If our Great Song Dynasty is really so rich and powerful, why do we still have to pay the Khitan people every year? ”

Zhao Xu's face turned green when he was asked a few words, and it was very ugly. Yang Huairen didn't dare to say any more, no matter how good a friend was, he couldn't insult his ancestors in front of him, let alone that he was an emperor.

Yang Huairen changed his words, "In fact, the resources of our Great Song Dynasty are indeed the richest, and it is precisely because of the vast fine land and abundant products that our great civilization has been born."

But many of these resources given to us by God are dead, and the most important thing to use these resources to create wealth and make the country strong is people.

This person is not just a talent, but the people of the Great Song Dynasty all over the world, including the Han people, as well as the people of other ethnic minorities, these people are all His Majesty's people.

Your Majesty loves the people, and you must not only love the Han people, but also those ethnic minority people in the border areas who are still living in hardship, and you must also truly cherish them.

To do this, we don't have to need much manpower and material resources, what we need to do is to help them get rid of poverty and become rich, and gradually live a better life.

This time Weichen visited the southwest, and made an experiment in Daliang Mountain, the new vegetables grown in the Yang family Zhuangzi, as well as the two princes and Huangzhuang, seem to have a lot of output, but they are still in short supply.

Especially outside the Central Plains, the distance is long, the transportation cost is very high, and the ordinary people in those places cannot enjoy the benefits of new vegetables at all......