Immediately, with the permission of King Cheng and the imperial court, the 70,000 grain army all picked up hoes and sickles to reclaim land in the wasteland of Liaozhou. The 70,000 Liaozhou troops put down their swords, but picked up farm tools and became farmers. This made the entire court feel at ease with Zhao Xiu. However, in the eyes of some old people, this practice is tantamount to self-destruction in such troubled times.

Fortunately, in the past seven years, Liaozhou has not caused civil turmoil in Liaozhou because of the decrease in officers and soldiers, but the countryside of Liaozhou has become more and more stable.

Zhao Xiu is the only contradictory character in Liaozhou, Zhao Xiu is sitting in the carriage with his eyes slightly closed, thinking about the things in the restaurant.

On the surface, Zhao Xiu is just a young man about twenty years old, but only he knows that in fact, his inner age has far exceeded this skin.

Zhao Xiu has to be like this every day, and summarize in his heart what is wrong with this day's behavior. Zhao Xiu seems to be the most expensive, but in fact, he walks on the tip of the knife all the time.

"It's another day, another day less. Alas! Zhao Xiu was very irritable in his heart, and he habitually scratched his head.

"Zhang Jin, that old fox, is honest on the surface, secretly doing gangs and factions, but he has never rested. Now it's all on the officials' families. It's a lot of work. Take great pains to! ”

"Miao'er's girl, she really doesn't know how much to go out and walk around, and the people outside are already so careless, so they have to pay it back. I still have the power to pretend to be stupid, but Miao'er, this girl is also pretending to be stupid, who will take care of her. That girl's heart is still too soft. ”

"I haven't been to the West Courtyard for three or four days, it's time to go and see her, and she shed tears again."

The carriage runs on the streets of Nanning, and the streets of Nanning are paved with large bluestone bricks, which are relatively smooth, so it is not very bumpy to sit in the carriage. Zhao Xiu sat a little sleepy and remembered a lot of previous things in a daze.

In front of the carriage was a slightly older man driving a carriage, this old man was Zhao Xiu's groom, who drove the carriage specifically for Zhao Xiu.

The old man skillfully drove the carriage towards the palace, and soon came to the gate of the palace. There are only two courtyard gates in the alley in front of the Chengwang Mansion, one is the main gate of the Chengwang Mansion, and the other is the back door of the largest art in Liaozhou, "Xianghualou".

The two doors are not facing each other, but are intertwined. Generally, the gate of Chengwangfu will not be closed, even at night. The back door of the Xianghua Building is closed all the year round, and the back door of the Xianghua Building is only open to one person.

The carriage stopped at the gate of the palace, and the guards at the gate of the palace hurriedly ran forward to wait for Zhao Xiu.

As soon as the carriage stopped, Zhao Xiu naturally felt it, opened his eyes, and got out of the carriage in a daze. A palace guard in armor hurriedly lay on the ground, using himself as a bench, and let Zhao Xiu borrow his strength from a high place, so that he could get off the carriage smoothly.

The gate of Chengwang's Mansion is magnificent, there are two stone lions carved from white marble at the door, with their big mouths open to make a roar, with strong deterrence, and slightly bow their heads down to make a squatting posture. He has curly hair and embroidered ribbons with a beast's head hanging in the center of his neck, and a bell underneath, and a tassel on each side of the ribbon, and his body is very smooth and round.

The male lion steps on a hydrangea ball, which is carved with fine patterns and ball hoop patterns; At the feet of the lioness is a lion cub with her back facing the sky. The brocade pavement on the pedestal is engraved with a grass beaded pattern.

Zhao Xiu got out of the carriage, and the eight guards in front of the door who tried on armor knelt down one after another and saluted Zhao Xiu.

Zhao Xiu didn't bother much, walked straight to the mansion, and a shadow wall appeared in front of Zhao Xiu in the door. The central area of the wall is made of diagonal square bricks, and the huge shadow wall is carved with four four-clawed dragons, which is very magnificent.

The whole shadow wall is in the shape of a line, the grinding brick joints are very neat, the brick carvings on the shadow wall mainly have the center and four corners of the central area, and there are mixed owls and beads in the place where they intersect with the roof. The central brick is carved with a central flower and a fork on the top of the brick, and the brick carving of the word Fushou is also inlaid around the shadow wall.

After passing the shadow wall, you will reach the middle courtyard of the palace. Chengwang's Mansion is divided into three courtyards, including the East Courtyard, the Middle Courtyard, and the West Courtyard. Among them, the Intermediate Court is the largest. There are only three halls in the entire middle courtyard. The three halls have dozens of zhang high, the momentum is extremely magnificent, and the three halls are the front hall, the middle hall, the Gongtian hall to the north.

The west courtyard of the palace is where the ladies live, and the poor king Zhao Xiu is not young, but there is no heir in the family. The west courtyard of the Chengwang Mansion wishes these two masters, one is Wang Miao, the princess of Cheng, and the other is Jiang Wanqing, Zhao Xiu's mother.

More than a dozen gardens in the huge west courtyard are empty, only the Nianci Garden where Zhao Mu Jiang Wanqing lives and the Cuixiu Garden where Princess Cheng lives have owners, and the rest of the gardens are distributed to the people to live in. Although there are two masters in the west courtyard, there are indeed many subordinates waiting for the masters. There are more than 200 maids in the entire west courtyard.

Zhao Xiu's mother has never asked about the palace, let alone outside the palace, and she either stays in Nianciyuan all day to worship the god of life and music, or goes to the garden south of the palace to take care of flowers and plants, and she only has one hobby on weekdays.

The garden in the south of the palace is the largest place in the palace, and the flowers in the garden are taken care of by Zhao's mother every day.

Chengwang Zhao Xiu usually does not stay in the west courtyard, but in the study of the east courtyard. The entire east side of the palace is a forbidden place in the palace. In the northeast and southeast corners were two guard battalions, plus one outside the western wall of the palace, and the three guard battalions had a full two thousand guards.

A courtyard in the middle of the east is the East Courtyard, the East Courtyard is a special existence in the palace, and only a very small number of people in the East Courtyard can enter it. Even Princess Cheng and Wang Miao can't enter at will without Zhao Xiu.

The reason why the East Courtyard is so secret is because Zhao Xiu's secrets are almost all in the East Courtyard.

Zhao Xiu lowered his head slightly, walking on the stone road in the middle courtyard, and he was walking towards the east courtyard. At this time, it was the middle of October, the breeze was wafting in the air, and the middle courtyard was large and wide, which could not stop the cool wind from drilling straight into Zhao Xiu's body, and Zhao Xiu was blown goosebumps.

Zhao Xiu's mind was full of things about Zhang Liu's banquet in the restaurant today, and he always felt that something was wrong.

"Zhang Jin has always been stable in his work, and he will never easily win over people before he has a clear understanding of a person's pulse. As a member of the Shangjing Shi family, Zhang Jin didn't need to make any big moves at all. It doesn't look like he's done it for a long time. ”