There was a fish belly color in the east, and Emperor Zhenzong let Qing'er go; This trip to sleep can be described as wind, rain, thunder and snow, and the emperor is like a fierce cheetah; Qing'er could barely bear it.

But Qing'er's heart is relieved and happy, isn't this night what she has been looking forward to in the past few years after entering the palace?

This night came a little suddenly and a little strangely, since Liu E followed the emperor; The queen, palace e, and concubines in the palace have very few opportunities to get close to the emperor, and Qing'er is the emperor's personal maid, but Liu E didn't notice her.

As expected, Liu Niangniang went back to her bedroom to rest in peace after listening to the confessions of Kou Zhun, Wei Sheng, and Wei Chun on the shore of Yishu Lake; Qing'er stayed by the emperor's side on duty, and the emperor actually had this request.

The reason why the emperor has a request is that he is in a good mood, think about it; The Song State, which rarely defeated the Liao State, captured Xiao Tzu Rin, the king of the Southern Court of the Liao State, and 293 soldiers and generals after Zheng Shuangchu became the marshal of the unified army; He also had to be sent to Bianliang for beheading, which had never been done since Emperor Zhenzong ascended the throne; I'm afraid that there has been no such good news in the hands of Emperor Taizong of Laozi.

Can Emperor Zhenzong be unhappy? If you are unhappy, you are an idiot or a fool, and the emperor who is excited on a page will inevitably give birth to six fingers; Qing'er became a big dish for the emperor when she was on duty.

Qing'er greeted the emperor wholeheartedly, and after finishing the matter, she obediently put her green black hair against his wide chest and said: "Official, from now on, the slave and maid will be your person!" ”

Emperor Zhenzong stroked Qing'er's smooth body and smiled intoxicatingly, he was originally an amorous and righteous man; When he was 14 years old, he saw Liu E singing on the street with a drum, and he couldn't give up.

Although the nurse Mrs. Qin Guo and her father Emperor Song Taizong thought that Liu E was from a humble background and drove her out of the Xiangwang Mansion, Zhao Heng and Liu E broke off the connection; Promise is promise.

Zhao Heng is a good man incomparable, he knowingly hid Liu E; also built Yishu Garden in the sour jujube gate for Liu E to cultivate here, Zhao Heng will never forget the scene when he and Liu E walked hand in hand on the shore of Yishu Lake in his spare time; and Liu E have been secretly dating for 15 years, and finally come together.

Such a legendary story seems normal if it is left in the folk, but it is a bit very rare to happen in the royal palace; There are so many beautiful ladies in the palace, and the officials also pay tribute to the beautiful and beautiful women of the people every year; As the prince, Zhao Heng wants as many women as he wants to fulfill his wishes, but he prefers to fall in love with a scene where he wants to shake drums and sing small songs on the street.

There is no doubt that Zhao Heng is a lover, he can't help but fall in love with the drama Liu E, and he is good to other queens, concubines, and beauties.

That night, after Li Lanhui went to bed, Song Zhenzong kept thinking about her, and Liu E said that Li Lanhui might have been pregnant with the dragon seed; Shinshu was happy for several days.

Emperor Zhenzong, who is extremely excited tonight, may also let Qing'er conceive the dragon seed, if good things come true; That Qing'er will be another noble person after Li Lanhui.

For Emperor Zhenzong, if only there could be two princes; Then there is much more room for manoeuvre; It is a pity that there is a shortage of male men in the imperial family, and Emperor Zhenzong had three princes before; Unfortunately, he died at an early age, which was too great a blow to Emperor Zhenzong; And Emperor Zhenzong didn't think of reinvention at that time, and it didn't take long for him to be fortunate with Li Lanhui and Xu Qing'er during the Jingde period, if these two women could give birth to a smart and wise prince with benevolence and generosity, to inherit the unfinished business of Emperor Zhenzong; I'm afraid that the sky has eyes.

Emperor Zhenzong had already felt that the disadvantages of the imperial court were getting worse and worse, especially the infinite expansion of the ranks of officials and the continuous growth of soldiers in the army; Half of the treasury was used to pay the salaries of officials and the salaries of soldiers.

Since the Song Dynasty, the salaries of officials have been high, and the soldiers are also the best-paid army in history; The method of "recruiting soldiers in the year of famine" inherited by the ancestors is an important reason for the accumulation of redundant personnel in the army.

The Song Dynasty implemented a conscription system, so that every soldier could drag his family with him; More than half of the military camps in the capital are inhabited by the families of the forbidden army, and the redundancy and size of the army have never been seen before or since.

The number of troops increased dramatically, but they were repeatedly beaten by the Liao State and the Western Xia people; This is a question that Emperor Zhenzong has been thinking about.

Emperor Zhenzong thought about the problem, his son Renzong Zhao Zhen, and his grandson Yingzong Zhao Shu all thought about it; It wasn't until the hands of his great-grandson Zhao Ji that he was taken seriously, and Zhao Ji vowed to change the law; The resourceful Jiangxi native Wang Anshi was enabled.

However, the conservative faction led by the physician Ma Guang carried out a large-scale encirclement and suppression attack on the reformers, resulting in the repeal of the new law; The vigorous change ended in failure.

Of course, these Zhenzong Emperors don't know and won't know, but he already feels that the Great Song Dynasty needs to carry out a big change in order to continue the national fortune Hengchang......

The resident birds in the forest by Yishu Lake have woken up from their sleep, and they are whispering good morning to each other.

After a moment's pause, the birds became loud and noisy; Little sparrows, spotted pheasants, thrushes, birds and magpies, all singing; A flock of crows also flew in and called out of nowhere, passing over the treetops and catching the winter light.

The morning full of music was so intoxicating that Emperor Zhenzong listened to the birdsong outside the window with pleasure; Zhou Huaizheng shouted heavily: "Start the saint, the time is coming!" ”

Zhou Huaizheng followed up all the way to record the good days of the emperor and Xu Qing'er, which is his duty and his obligation.

The emperor is the head of a country and the head of a family, and what he wants to do in the palace cannot be stopped by others; In Zhou Huaizheng's impression, Emperor Zhenzong was a gentleman who was "clean and self-conscious"; He has had two queens.

The first queen was Empress Zhang Huai Pan (968 AD - 989 AD), the eighth daughter of Pan Mei, the envoy of the Zhongwu Festival; Empress Zhang Huai, Pan died of illness in May of 989 A.D., that is, the second year of Duangong, at the age of 22, leaving no children.

When Empress Zhang Huai Pan died of illness, Zhou Huaizheng had not yet come to Emperor Zhenzong.

After the death of Empress Zhang Huai, the Southern Court of Xuanhui made Guo Shouwen's second daughter, Guo Shi, the queen of Zhenzong, Empress Zhang Mu, and Guo Hou gave birth to three sons; The prince Zhao You died at the age of nine, and then several princes died one after another.

Liu E, the queen of Song Taizong, was taken by Emperor Zhenzong, and Zhou Huaizheng followed Liu E's belly bulging after not seeing him for a long time; Zhou Huaizheng was anxious for Emperor Zhenzong.

And that night, the emperor slept with a nun named Li Lanhui.

At first, Zhou Huaizheng didn't know, Zhang Di told him that Liu Niangniang found him from the nunnery named Li Lanhui; asked him to rush to the scene to record the time and details of Li Lanhui's service to the emperor; Zhou Huaizheng didn't dare to slack off, and immediately rushed over to stand at the door of the emperor's bedroom and recorded the situation of Li Lanhui's bed in detail.

Zhou Huaizheng saw the plot of the emperor's favor Xu Qing'er, and Zhou Huaizheng dutifully recorded the time he experienced before and after; Seeing that the sky was immediately bright, he shouted out out of his duties.

As soon as Emperor Zhenzong finished washing up under Qing'er's service, the deacon asked outside the door: when to start.

Emperor Zhenzong replied energetically: "Start driving immediately......"

The Great Song Dynasty has not held a prisoner sacrifice ceremony for more than 40 years since its establishment, and yesterday afternoon after Kou Zhun, Wei Sheng, and Wei Chun finished reporting; Emperor Zhenzong issued an edict and asked the Ministry of Rites to take the lead in preparing the Great Command Book.

It is the highest honor guard of the emperor, mainly composed of the guide, the driver, the front and rear guards, the front and rear propaganda band, the emperor's driver, etc., by the Kaifeng order, Kaifeng Mu, Taichangqing, Situ, the imperial historian, and the military department Shangshu in front, called the "six introductions".

Then there are the twelve "big flags", that is, the big flags, each of which is supported by several people.

The banner was followed by a "cleansing team" that patrolled the clearing of the site, and its members were armed with bows, crossbows, and lances.

They were followed by the Suzaku team with the Suzaku flag, lance, and crossbow.

This was followed by twelve dragon flags: one each for Fengbo and Yushi, one for Lei Gong and one for Dianmu, one for wood, fire, earth, metal, and Mercury, one for each of the left and right flags, and one for the Beidou flag.

Behind the flag is a special fleet of vehicles, including guide cars, Jili drum cars, egret cars, Luan flag cars, evil car, Pixuan cars, etc.

Each car was pulled by four horses, with fourteen drivers and one craftsman.

At this point, the guard of honor of the guide is over, and then the guard of honor is followed.

The guard of honor is different from the guard of honor, which is mainly based on music and battles, and the civil and military officials who accompany the emperor on his journey are also among them.

The leader of the guard of honor is a guard composed of twelve rows of cavalry holding horizontal swords, bows and arrows, arranged separately, which is called "guiding the twelve".

It was followed by a large drum band, in front of which two drum commanders were in charge of the performance.

The musical instruments of the band are mainly all kinds of drums, mainly including drums, big drums, cymbal drums, festival drums, small drums, feather bao drums, etc., as well as wind instruments flute, flute, flute (also known as Hu Ji, a kind of wind instrument of the northern people), long and middle sound (both are trumpets), big horizontal blowing (horizontal flute), 筚篥 (wind instrument) and other percussion instruments such as gold cymbals, the whole band is composed of nearly 1,000 people.

The band is followed by a banner formation consisting of various flags (rectangular flags in the shape of a droop), sho (flags decorated with feathers), and flags.

Some of the accompanying officials and the emperor's imperial horses were also mixed in the flag array.

After the flag array, there are the green dragon flag and the white tiger flag on the left and right.

Behind the two flags is an accompanying procession of court officials.

In the middle of this team, there were also interspersed and mixed with cavalry and infantry soldiers armed with weapons.

Behind the guard of honor is the jade chariot that the emperor sits.

The Emperor's chariot was the heart of the entire guard of honor, so the guards were extremely tight.

The jade chariot was controlled by the imperial servant, surrounded by dozens of drivers in front and behind, and the two sides were escorted by the left and right guard generals (senior generals).

He was followed by the high-ranking generals and eunuchs of the forbidden army.

On the periphery of these escort officers were teams of cavalry and foot soldiers of the forbidden army, each of which was led by a general.

Armed with bows, arrows, knives and other weapons, the forbidden soldiers were ready to deal with unexpected situations.

Following the forbidden soldiers were the honor guards composed of peacock fans, small group fans, square fans, yellow lu, jianglu, xuanwu and so on.

Behind the emperor's chariot was a "rear drumming" band, which was equipped with similar instruments to the drum band in front of the jade chariot, but it was relatively small in size, but there were hundreds of people.

Immediately following the "rear propaganda" were all kinds of chariots for the emperor, including the chariot, the chariot, the waist chariot, the golden chariot, the elephant chariot, the leather chariot, the five chariots, the root car, the Anche, the Siwang car, the sheep chariot, the subordinate car, the Huang Yue car, the leopard tail car, etc.

The commanders of the two capital armies each led hundreds of soldiers, divided into four horizontal rows, holding halberds, swords and shields, bows and arrows, and crossbows, and followed the leopard-tailed chariot as a cover.

Each vehicle was drawn by horses and accompanied by an unequal number of drivers. Walking at the end of the guard of honor was the rearguard troops, in front of which were the left and right wing infantry teams led by two generals, divided into two phalanxes in the front and rear, with a flag as the lead.

The soldiers wore scarfs and armor, and carried bows, swords, and shields, and each team was dressed in the same color, alternating with each other.

In the middle is the left and right compartment of the yellow battle, divided into 12 rows, respectively holding a bow, a knife, a halberd, a shield and a peacock (a flag made of feathers), goose feathers, chicken feathers, etc. After the battle, Huang Lu was a soldier, holding ancient honor guard weapons such as guns. Finally, it is a flag array composed of cavalry and flag teams on the left and right sides of the guards.

The flags held by each flag team are painted with the same kind of legendary gods and monsters, such as evil spirits, jade horses, yellow dragons, unicorns, dragon horses, triangular beasts, Xuanwu, golden bulls, etc. Behind the flag array, there is a yellow battle composed of infantry soldiers, and there are cavalry guards......