The two words seem to be close to the people who are rich and the country is strong, but in fact, there is a world of difference between the two.

First of all, "the country is rich and the people are strong", this is the common vocabulary of the Great Wei Dynasty today, it is based on "country", emphasizing the definition of "country" before "people", and what kind of existence is "country"?

"Country" is Sheji, is the ancestral foundation of the royal family surnamed Zhao of the Ji family, the so-called Son of Heaven and the country are not separated, in the Great Wei, the Son of Heaven is the country, and the country is the country of the Son of Heaven of the Great Wei.

This sentence is in line with the national conditions of today's Great Wei, "country-oriented" and "loyal to the monarch and patriotic".

The phrase "the people are rich and the country is strong" is exactly the opposite of the previous sentence, although the literal interpretation is, "the people are stable and prosperous, and the country can be strong", but the problem is that it puts the "people" in the first place, before the Great Wei Sheji and the Great Wei Emperor, and its real meaning is "people-oriented".

This involves political will, you must know that today, whether it is the Great Wei or other countries, its national system is "country-oriented", and the country and the Son of Heaven are both in the first place, that is, the "loyalty" advocated by Confucianism, but the sentence "the people are rich and the country is strong" defines the national system as "people-oriented", putting the people's livelihood before the imperial power, which is to the left with the idea of imperial power, in other words, this sentence has made a mistake in political ideology in today's Great Wei.

It is no exaggeration to say that fortunately, the person who proposed this sentence was Zhao Hongrun, the eighth son of Zhao Yuanxi, the emperor of the Great Wei Dynasty, otherwise it would be a shame if an ordinary scholar proposed this sentence.

Because of this, Zhongshu Ling He Xiangxu, Zhongshu Zuo Cheng Lin Yuyang, and Zhongshu Right Cheng Yu Ziqi, these three Zhongshu Provincial officials dare not say anything, you look at me, I look at you, a look of secrecy.

Perhaps they are still speculating in their hearts, guessing whether this sentence will come from the mouth of a young scholar who has just stepped into the official career, because only those fledgling and enthusiastic scholars will unruly ignore the high imperial power because of their young relationship, and put the people at the grassroots level in the first place, until a number of years have passed, and they will gradually understand that the meaning of their existence as officials is not to benefit the people, but to assist the imperial power to rule the people of this country.

It was precisely because of the clear understanding of all this that none of the three ministers of Zhongshu Province dared to speak.

Seeing this, the old eunuch Tong Xian reminded Zhao Yuansi in a low voice: "Your Majesty, if you don't tell the truth, I'm afraid the three adults won't dare to talk about this matter in detail." ”

Seeing Tong Xian's relaxed tone when he spoke, Zhongshu made He Xiangxu's heart move, thinking that if it was really from the mouth of an arrogant scholar, Tong Xian's tone would never be so relaxed.

That's a guiding light!

However, what should be asked, He Xiangxu still has to ask: "Dare to ask Your Majesty, I don't know this sentence...... From whom? ”

In fact, the Great Wei Tianzi also understood the truth, but he didn't expect that even the three ministers of Zhongshu Province who he trusted the most were secretive about it.

He smiled and explained, "That's what my eighth son, Hongrun, said. ”

As soon as they heard that it was the prince who said it, the three ministers of Zhongshu Province breathed a sigh of relief, thinking that since it was mentioned by the prince, there was no political problem with this sentence.

The expressions of the three ministers were all seen in the eyes of the Great Wei Tianzi, and he scolded with a smile: "I just asked casually, look at you, all of you are timid." He Xiangxu, you are still 20 years older than me. ”

Zhongshu Ling He Xiangxu didn't care when he heard this, blinked his eyes and said humorously: "As the saying goes, the older a person lives, the less timid he is. Your Majesty doesn't know, the old minister's heart is just like this, but it's pounding. ”

The Emperor of Great Wei laughed when he heard this: "You old thing, you were a bold lord when you were young, I don't believe it." ”

The monarch and the ministers joked happily, and as they talked, they shifted the topic to the phrase "the people are rich and the country is strong", and this time the three ministers of Zhongshu Province had no worries and started to discuss one after another.

Lin Yuyang, the left secretary of the Chinese book, took the lead in saying: "Aside from anything else, the minister thinks that what His Royal Highness said 'the people are rich and the country is strong' is indeed a policy to strengthen the country and strengthen the people." The strength of a country must first look at the military force, that is, the strength of the army. And how to evaluate the strength of the army? One looks at the training of the soldiers, and the other looks at the armament. …… The armaments of our Great Wei in the past generations have cost a lot of money, where does this money come from? Taxes too! Taxes, on the other hand, are taken from the people. If the people are rich, the tax revenue will naturally be smooth, and the treasury will be full, and it will naturally be able to take out a large amount of money to support the army. On the other hand, if the common people can't even eat, how can they pay the taxes? If there is no tax and the treasury is difficult, how can the household department have the money to support the army? ”

The Emperor of Great Wei deeply believes that taxation is the foundation of the country, which is a well-known thing.

But how do you make the people rich?

Yu Ziqi, the right of the Chinese book, seriously put forward a strategy: "Heavy business!" ”

The Great Wei Tianzi frowned and was silent.

The implication of the so-called mercantile is to vigorously support the people in China to develop commerce, and encourage them to sell local specialties to other places to earn the difference. But the problem is that the way of making money through business has been controlled by the rich and powerful in various places for generations, and if Zhao Yuanxi vigorously supports the development of commerce by the private sector, it will undoubtedly damage the interests of those rich and powerful.

Behind the general rich and powerful, almost all of them are aristocratic ministers, and even royal princes, that is, the upper class, and the various problems and relationships involved during this period are intricate, and they cannot be solved by simply proposing a "mercantil" national policy.

As if seeing the concerns in the heart of the Son of Heaven, Yu Ziqi said in a low voice: "The wealth of my Great Wei is only that much, and this is the principle of heaven. …… The crux of the matter, he argues, is not the amount of wealth, but the use of it. The so-called Zhumen wine and meat stink, and there are frozen bones on the road. Some people have no food to eat, but some people can throw thousands of taels of gold in the Qinglou......"

"Ahem!" He Xiangxu coughed and interrupted Yu Ziqi's overly radical words, after all, Yu Ziqi's words were aimed at the elite class in the Great Wei Dynasty.

Yu Ziqi glanced at He Xiangxu, and also realized that he had lost his words, so he didn't say any more.

From the side, Lin Yuyang saw that the topic was a little heavy, so he was busy making amends, and said with a smile: "Lord Yu is too cynical, the rich son who threw thousands of dollars at the time and laughed at the beautiful woman, and it was a good story for a while, but he didn't want to be in the mouth of Lord Yu, but it was so unbearable." ”

"Humph!" Yu Ziqi, the right of the middle book, snorted lightly and didn't say much.

The Great Wei Tianzi listened silently, in fact, he had also heard what Yu Ziqi said, but the son of a rich family squandered the family wealth, and this kind of thing was not under the care of the Great Wei Tianzi. Besides, is it true that there are fewer similar things happening to the children of the royal family?

In the first two years, the sons of the two county kings were not jealous for a Qinglou female concubine, and lost the face of the royal family surnamed Zhao of the Great Wei Ji clan?

"Your Majesty, the hour is almost up, why don't you eat first?"

Next to him, the old eunuch Tong Xian saw that the Great Wei Tianzi had a bad face, so he quickly changed the topic.

"Hmm." Zhao Yuanxi nodded.

Seeing this, Tong Xian sent someone to order him to deliver a meal.

Although he is the emperor of Great Wei, Zhao Yuanxi's daily meal is quite simple, just a few dishes. Only on major festivals, will a banquet be held in the main hall to entertain all the courtiers.

On the rest of the days, Zhao Yuanxi would basically order people to send the meals to the Vertical Arch Palace, including the meals of the three ministers of Zhongshu Province, and then the four monarchs and ministers would have a meal in this Vertical Arch Palace, and after eating, they would go to the side hall next door to rest, or they would directly start the afternoon work and continue to approve the chapter folds that would never be approved.

This is the daily life of the Emperor of Great Wei and the ministers of Zhongshu Province.

However, after eating today, the emperor of Great Wei had other thoughts.

"Tong Xian, Hongrun's residence...... Where? ”

"Your Highness Eight?" The old eunuch thought for a while, bowed down and replied, "Naiwen Zhao Pavilion." ”

"Who's waiting?"

"Back to Your Majesty, in the Wenzhao Pavilion, there are twenty little eunuchs who are responsible for serving the living of the Eighth Highness and cleaning up the palace, and in addition, the clan government has sent ten clan guards to serve as the personal guards of the Eighth Highness, a total of thirty people."

"Hmm." The Great Wei Tianzi nodded.

Although there are those who are favored and those who are not favored among the princes, before they leave the cabinet, the treatment specifications of the princes are the same, which is the ancestral system.

"I want to see it." Zhao Yuanxi stood up and said to the three ministers of Zhongshu Province with a smile: "Are the three Aiqing interested in going with me?" ”

Because there was a period of rest after the meal, and the three Zhongshu Provincial Ministers were also curious about the eighth prince Hongrun, who put forward the words "the people are rich and the country is strong", so after the question of the Great Wei Emperor, the three Zhongshu adults expressed their willingness to go together.

So, the group set off from the Wende Hall and slowly walked towards the bedroom of the Eighth Emperor Hongrun.

According to the ancestral system of the Great Wei, the prince is only qualified to go out of the cabinet after he reaches the age of fifteen, and he is appointed by the king. Before leaving the cabinet, the prince's bedroom was placed in the garden in the Bianjing Palace, where the scenery was good, and the second was relatively close to the East Palace and the harem, which was convenient for contacting the brothers, and it was also convenient to enter the harem to meet their respective concubines.

As for the third, that is, it is far away from the main hall of Bianjing Palace, "Daqing Palace", after all, the Great Wei ancestral system clearly indicates that the prince is strictly forbidden to contact any officials in the court before leaving the cabinet, whether it is active or passive, the princes as the emperor's sons, they only need to study in the palace is enough, and they do not have to contact anything else.

It is worth mentioning that the princes' bedrooms have always forbidden the placement of palace maids, firstly, to prevent the princes from losing their child's yang when they are too young and affecting their normal development, and secondly, to prevent some unscrupulous palace maids from seducing young and ignorant princes in order to cling to them.

Therefore, the princes who have not left the cabinet, the only people around them are eunuchs and guards sent by the sect, and the only women they can see are their mothers.

Therefore, the life of the prince is not as good as the world imagined.

After about a stick of incense, Zhao Yuanxi, the emperor of the Great Wei Dynasty, took the old eunuch Tong Xian and the three Zhongshu ministers to Wenzhao Pavilion.

But as soon as he looked up and saw the plaque of this attic, Zhao Yuanxi was stunned.

Because the inscription on the plaque is not Wenzhao Pavilion at all, but Xiaoyao Pavilion.

"Isn't it Wen Zhao Pavilion?" The Great Wei Tianzi looked at Tong Xian, the great eunuch who led the way, in confusion.

In fact, this child Xian was also very puzzled in his heart, and said that this place was obviously Wenzhao Pavilion, how did it become Xiaoyao Pavilion?

"Old slave...... The old slave has never heard of a free pavilion in the palace......"

When Tong Xian said this, Dawei Tianzi also felt strange. As the emperor of the Great Wei Dynasty, Zhao Yuanxi had never heard of any Xiaoyao Pavilion in the Bianjing Palace.

Thinking of this, the Great Wei Tianzi beckoned to call the Lang guard who was on duty in the corridor outside the hall and asked, "Is this the Wenzhao Pavilion?" ”

That Lang Wei bowed to the Great Wei Heavenly Son first, and then replied respectfully: "Back to Your Majesty, this is the Wenzhao Pavilion." ”

"Then this is ......," Zhao Yuanxi pointed to the plaque on the Wenzhao Pavilion in confusion.

I saw that Lang Wei smiled bitterly, and said hesitantly: "Back to Your Majesty, His Royal Highness thinks that 'Wenzhao Pavilion' is not good, so he ordered the Ministry of Industry to carve a plaque of 'Xiaoyao Pavilion' and replace it with ......."

The Emperor of Great Wei frowned when he heard this, and said in his heart that the palace attic in the Bianjing Palace was ordered by the previous emperor, how could it be changed without authorization?

"There are no rules!" Zhao Yuanxi snorted dissatisfiedly, and ordered: "You go and report it, and say that I am here, and ask the Eighth Prince to come out and pick it up!" ”

"This ......" The Lang Wei was embarrassed when he heard this: "Your Majesty, Your Royal Highness is not in the cabinet......

"Huh?" Zhao Yuanxi was stunned, and then suddenly realized: "Didn't you go to the palace to study?" ”

"Well, I shouldn't be studying in the palace either......"

"Huh? Did he go to the harem to see his mother? ”

"I went to ...... this morning"

"And where did he go?" The more Dawei Tianzi listened, the more confused he became, and said in his heart that since he was not in the palace, he was not in the harem and her mother's concubine, and he was not in this Wenzhao Pavilion, in this case, where did Zhao Hongrun go?

At this time, the Great Wei Tianzi suddenly heard a commotion in the distance.

"I ...... I really flew...... Your Highness, Your Highness, I'm flying......"

"Hahahaha, you guys have pulled up ......"

"Don't worry, Your Highness......"

The Great Wei Tianzi frowned, who dared to make noise in the palace in his heart.

He followed the source of the sound, but when he walked around the corner of the attic, he was shocked to see a group of people laughing in the bluestone brick palace square in the distance.

One of them is clearly the eighth son I saw in Wende Hall this morning, Zhao Hongrun!

Looking up at the sky again, Zhao Yuanxi was shocked to find that there was a strange bird-like thing suspended in the air, and it was incredible that there was a person tied under that thing, judging by the costume, it should be the Zongwei sent by the sect to a certain prince.

"What kind of weird thing is that that can make people fly in mid-air?"

The Great Wei Tianzi was extremely surprised in his heart, and walked behind those people quietly.

Zhao Yuanxi noticed that the nine Zongwei beside his son Hongrun were pulling a thin rope in their hands, and this rope was always connected to the "strange bird" in the sky.

"Ahem!" Zhao Yuanxi raised his hand and coughed.

Previously, whether it was Zhao Hongrun, the eighth prince of the emperor, or his sect guards, their attention was focused on the sky, and they didn't notice that the Great Wei Heavenly Son was standing behind them at this moment.

Now Zhao Yuanxi coughed, and the nine sect guards who were standing on the ground pulling the rope were the first to react and glanced back.

It didn't matter what they saw, when they were horrified to find that the Son of Heaven was standing behind them with an unswerving face, they were almost frightened, and they couldn't care about pulling the rope, and hurriedly bowed to the ground.

"Meet Your Majesty!"

Before the words fell, a terrible howl was heard in the sky.

Zhao Yuanxi looked up and was stunned to see that the "strange bird" in the sky could no longer maintain stability in the wind because it had lost the traction of the rope, and suddenly fell headlong.

"Oh no, no, Mu Qing is going to fall, hurry, go and save people!"

Zhao Yuanxi's eighth son, Zhao Hongrun, didn't bother to salute his father at the moment, and took the nine sect guards to save people in a panic.

Seeing the gang of people rushing into the distance, trying to catch the sect guard who had fallen from mid-air, Zhao Yuansi didn't know what to say.

And behind the Great Wei Tianzi, the three Chinese book ministers also looked at each other with expressions as if they had seen ghosts.

"Your Majesty, it's windy here, and the dinosaur body hurts, why don't you move to Wenzhao Pavilion first?" Tong Xian asked cautiously.

Zhao Yuanxi took a deep breath: "Tell that rebel son that I am waiting for him in his bedroom!" ”

"Yes."