Queen Wang rolled her eyes and said angrily: "What the emperor said, sixty is a whole birthday, can it be the same as an ordinary birthday?" Besides, the dynasty rules the world with filial piety, and on the birthday of the queen mother, the concubines should naturally be cautious. ”

"The queen is right!" Zhang Lingyang nodded, and then smiled again as soon as his eyes rolled: "But the queen mother's birthday queen doesn't have to worry too much, I thought of a good idea." ”

"What can the emperor do?" Queen Wang asked hurriedly.

"Tomorrow the queen will know!" Zhang Lingyang smiled and did not express his thoughts.

Early the next morning, in the Taihe Palace.

After dealing with a few court affairs, Zhang Lingyang suddenly spoke: "Cao Rui, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, is it available?" ”

"Weichen Cao Rui knocks to see Your Majesty!" Unexpectedly, Zhang Lingyang suddenly called his name, and Cao Rui hurriedly replied.

Glancing at Cao Rui, Zhang Lingyang said directly: "Another month will be the 60th birthday of the Queen Mother, and the Ministry of Rites must come up with a charter within three days to talk about how to do the Queen Mother's birthday!" ”

"This ......" Cao Rui was still hesitating, not daring to peek at Zhang Lingyang's face, seeing that his face was not very good-looking, how could he dare to hesitate? Hurriedly said: "Weichen obeys the order!" ”

Originally, the affairs of the Queen Mother's birthday should be handled by the harem, and it is unreasonable for Zhang Lingyang to throw this matter to the Ministry of Rites.

However, whoever let the Great Zhou rule the world with filial piety, if anyone dares to come out to oppose it at this time, it is not to let the Son of Heaven be filial to the Queen Mother, and saying it will make people chew the root of their tongues.

Therefore, even if some ministers felt that this was unreasonable, no one dared to stand up against it.

After the next dynasty, Cao Rui did not leave the palace, but went to the Palace of Nourishing Heart to ask Zhang Lingyang: "Your Majesty, Weichen wants to ask Your Majesty what you mean, is the Queen Mother's birthday going to be bigger, or going smaller?" ”

"Today is the 60th birthday of the Queen Mother, and it is the whole birthday, what do you say?" Zhang Lingyang looked at Cao Rui angrily.

"Wechen understands, Wechen will go back and formulate the charter!" Cao Rui confessed and hurriedly left the palace.

On the side of Changchun Palace, Zhang Lingyang had just left the court, and Queen Wang received the news, and said in her heart: "It turns out that the emperor is fighting this idea, in this way, the palace is much easier!" ”

As for Cining Palace, after Empress Dowager Xu learned the news, she was full of smiles, but she couldn't stop complaining: "The emperor is really, an old woman from the mourning family, can he do such a big job?" ”

The queen was relieved, the queen mother was satisfied, and the rest of the harem concubines were naturally even more difficult to say.

However, seeing that Zhang Lingyang attached so much importance to the Queen Mother's birthday this year, these concubines began to work hard and wanted to make people shine on the Queen Mother's birthday, so they began to carefully prepare for the birthday ceremony.

Not only these concubines in the harem, but also those princes and ministers in the court and their families, they are also full of energy to prepare a congratulatory gift for the last scenery, and it is good that the scenery will be beautiful that day.

So, these people began to gather rare treasures everywhere.

Those vassal states also prepare a congratulatory gift every year on the birthday of the Empress Dowager, the Emperor, and the Empress of the Great Zhou. According to the usual practice, these vassal states prepared congratulatory gifts and came to the capital early.

But when these vassal envoys came to Beijing, they saw that the emperor of the Great Zhou Dynasty was going to do a big job this year. Take a look at the gifts you've brought?

Some of them can't be handled!

In previous years, although the congratulatory gifts of their envoys were not the most expensive, they would not make people talk nonsense. Now it's good, the civil and military ministers of the Great Zhou have begun to carefully prepare congratulatory gifts, and the congratulatory gifts that their envoys originally planned to send seem to be sent again.

Now it is less than a month before the birthday of the Queen Mother, and if you return to China to prepare a congratulatory gift, it is too late in time.

There was no other way but to follow those princes and ministers around to collect strange treasures.

There are a lot of treasures in the capital, but their envoys did not bring enough money, so they could only watch those treasures that were already optimistic about each other being bought by the princes and ministers of the Great Zhou.

What can I do?

People always come up with solutions.

The Goryeo envoy Pu Li thought of a way, since his gift couldn't be eyed and he didn't have enough money on him, why not go to the Dazhou Royal Bank to borrow a sum of money?

Thinking like this, Park Ideal walked into the door of the Da Zhou Royal Bank.

Park Ideal showed his identity, and naturally the loan manager came out to receive him.

The attitude of the loan manager is enthusiastic, but no matter how you say it, you don't give Park Ideal a loan, or in other words, don't give him too many loans.

"Mr. Park, with all due respect, in your capacity, you can only borrow no more than one thousand taels of silver in the Royal Bank, and if it exceeds one thousand taels, it will not meet the regulations of this bank."

"Why is it not compliant? I'm an envoy of Goryeo, and I can still afford a thousand taels of silver! Park said busily.

The loan manager said: "With our bank's understanding of the Goryeo Kingdom, and with the official position that Mr. Park is now holding, one thousand taels of silver is your fifteen-year salary, which is also the maximum authority I can give you." ”

"That's right, it will indeed take me fifteen years to make up a thousand taels by relying on Yulu alone, but I have other industries, and the income from those industries will exceed one thousand taels a year!"

"I'm sorry, you said you still have an estate, but our Royal Bank doesn't know, so we can only lend you a thousand taels of silver."

"Is there no other way?" Park pleaded.

"It's not like there's no way!" The loan manager pondered for a moment and said, "Dare to be Mr. Park, are you entering Beijing this time on behalf of His Majesty the King of your country?" ”

"It's nature!"

"That's good!" The loan manager nodded, "Actually, you can apply for a loan from our Royal Bank in the name of Goryeo, and this amount is not small!" ”

"How?" When Park Li heard that things were still going to turn around, he hurriedly said, "Then how much can I borrow at most?" ”

"One hundred thousand taels!"

As soon as the loan manager's words came out, Park Li couldn't help but gasp, "Then I'll lend 50,000 taels of silver!" ”

Park Li felt that it was better to take out more loans, in case the price of the things he saw was too high, and he had no money to pay at that time, it would be troublesome.

"Okay, you can go through the relevant procedures with me!"

The procedures were extremely cumbersome, and after being busy for most of the day, Park Ideal walked out of the gate of the Royal Bank with a silver ticket of 100,000 taels.

Not daring to delay time, Park Ideal hurriedly went to the antique street to find the antique that he had long taken a fancy to.

In the evening, Pu Ideal happily returned to the post house with the antique, and the other envoys saw it and hurriedly asked: "This jade item costs at least 30,000 taels of silver, how did you have the money to buy it?" ”

"Naturally, I applied for a loan from the Royal Bank!" Park Li Li smiled.