Coming out of Qingshou Palace, Zhao Hao was already tired, and by the side of the imperial brother and grandmother, half an hour was like a year and a half, but now his steps were much brisker.

Grandmother is finally dying.

Thinking of the appearance of the imperial brother Zhao Hao crying beside the bed, Zhao Hao deliberately expressed the pain and worry between the eyebrows in his eyes, and he was almost unable to keep it, and the smile was about to float at the corner of his mouth.

The only one who controls the harem is soon the mother who loves him the most, and there is no longer an old grandmother who is the age of a sixtieth birthday and has listened to politics with a curtain on her head.

Zhao Hao followed the two chamberlains to the Baoci Palace where the Queen Mother lived, and his mood was unprecedentedly relaxed.

Every time he entered the palace to meet his titular grandmother, he was tormented. The Empress Dowager only values her eldest brother Zhao Hao, and does not pretend to Zhao Hao and his younger brother.

is now sick and about to breathe, but the kind of rejection, suspicion and even disgust that shoots out of his grandmother's eyes still puts great pressure on Zhao Hao.

Fortunately, I won't see her for too long, and I'm so sick that I only have bones left, and there is still any possibility of curing her. In less than two months, it's time to become immortal. Going to heaven to accompany Emperor Renzong should be a happy thing.

Walking on the corridor connected by the pillars, Zhao Hao looked around.

Since he was expelled from the palace a few years ago, Zhao Hao has rarely entered the palace several times a year, but every time he sees majestic, gorgeous, or exquisite palaces and pavilions, he will always have some thoughts that only dare to rise when he dreams back at midnight, but in the blink of an eye, he pressed down and didn't dare to think about it.

I didn't see my brother in Qingshou Palace, I don't know if it's in Baoci Palace. But even if he didn't see his brother from his mother, Zhao Hao was not surprised.

This New Year, the Son of Heaven, the court, and even the millions of soldiers and civilians in the capital are all focused on the upcoming war.

Almost everyone thinks that they should seize the opportunity given by God.

Although there is still a bit of noise in it, his brother, the current Emperor of the Great Song Dynasty, has been on the throne for 12 years since he ascended the throne at the beginning of the fourth year of Zhiping. The control of the court is becoming more and more tight, Weifu is almost rigid in his own use, and from the beginning of the implementation of the new law, he is bent on going his own way, once he makes a decision, it is useless to persuade anyone at the moment. Not to mention that there are very few opponents.

But Zhao Hao felt that this time he might not be successful, after all, among the opponents were the only two remaining important ministers in the court, one Guo Kui and one Han Gang. A veteran general, a new talent, are all advocating prudence. If the situation is as expected by the two of them, it will be interesting.

The corners of Zhao Hao's mouth twitched, full of self-deprecation. He can only think like this now, otherwise it will be despair.

Since today's son ascended the throne, the official army of the Great Song Dynasty has hardly been defeated. It was the four-year battle of Hengshan in Xining, which was also a crime of non-war, beheading thousands, although defeated, it was still victorious.

Purely in terms of martial arts, among the six generations of the Son of Heaven since the founding of the People's Republic of China, Zhao Hao's brother is second only to Taizu and Taizong, completely overpowering Zhenzong, Renzong and Yingzong.

Wang Shi's successive victories made Zhao Ji's prestige soar. At the same time, the old party's attack on the new law had to be silenced.

At present, there is an opportunity to solve the troubles of the northwest for a hundred years in one fell swoop, and even after that, it is possible that even the Liao State will be overwhelmed, abolish the Lanyuan Alliance, and recapture Yanyun.

Once this is done for the elder brother, he will be the lord of the prosperous world, not to mention that the old party has to bow down to the ear, even his own brother, he has to live tremblingly. For the brothers who threaten the throne, there will be no tolerance for the emperor who has become more and more powerful.

Heaven is really unfair. Zhao Hao has been thinking this since the day his father Zhao Shu became the crown prince. It's just the difference before and after birth, so that I can only be a prince who has been raised.

And it's just that the brother who was born two years earlier than his own family is just a little lucky, and in the past, he has never shown much outstanding intelligence, and his health is not good, but his heart is higher than ordinary people. When he was still an inconspicuous grandchild in King Pu's mansion, he thought about making meritorious contributions, and after becoming the prince, he was looking for good recipes and talents to enrich the country and strengthen the army.

But he won't use it! After ascending the throne, he caused chaos in the world, appointed non-people, and it took ten years for the country to settle down a little.

Although in these years, Wang Shi has won consecutive victories, but there are more elements of luck. Especially this time, the three kingdoms of Song, Liaoxia and Xia fought for hundreds of years, and the two countries were in civil strife, while the other country happened to be prosperous and had enough soldiers and food.

Where can you have such good luck?! It's clear that God is favoring.

Zhao Hao never thought that he was worse than anyone, but he sat in the position in the Daqing Palace, and he would never make a storm in the court for the sake of changing the law, nor would he let the court split, and let one party dominate in the end. In Xining's ten years, most of the court's energy was spent on quarrels, if the rebellion of the courtiers could be calmed down and they could focus on state affairs, within three or five years, the world would be stable.

As for Western Xia and Khitan, as long as the court is single-minded and the ministers work together, as long as there is half of the luck now, Pingxia will destroy Liao, where is there still a little difficulty!

Zhao Hao turned his mind to rebellion, but the two attendants who were leading the way in front suddenly slowed down.

"Chen Yan, what's wrong?" Zhao Hao's expression froze, and he asked vigilantly.

When it comes to which son the Queen Mother likes the most, just look at who is leading the way for Zhao Hao. After entering the palace, Zhao Hao went to visit his grandmother first according to the rules, and when his mother heard the news, she sent her cronies and eunuchs to wait outside the Qingshou Palace, but the third brother did not have this treatment.

Chen Yan, a close confidant of the Queen Mother, turned around and said, "My lord, the foreign wife is meeting the Queen Mother, so it is not appropriate to rush." It's better to wait a little longer. ”

Zhao Hao listened and looked over.

In front of the queen mother is the Baoci Palace, the palace is now gathered in front of the hundreds of foreign women, one by one according to the quality of the makeup, dressed in a real red sleeve shirt, draped in a xia veil, wearing a flower hairpin crown, in order to enter the palace.

After Zhao Hao glanced at it, he stopped far away and stopped stepping forward. Whether intentionally or unintentionally, if you collide with the gift of a foreign woman, you will only be scolded by the imperial history, and your reputation will be ruined at the end. Anyway, their visit to their mother will end soon, and it won't be delayed for long.

As Zhao Hao expected, a ceremonial visit did not delay him for long, and the women soon came out of the hall.

A group of foreign women had met the Empress Dowager earlier, and now they have met the Empress Dowager, and they should go to see the Empress next. On the first day of the new year, after the Son of Heaven exempted this year's court meeting, their husbands or sons no longer had to work hard to go to court, but it was inevitable for them to enter the palace to visit.

They continued to walk in order, but on the way, an attendant came, and after a few hurried words with a woman in four or five costumes in the procession, he left again.

Zhao Hao looked at it suspiciously, this group of women is the wife of the mother of the court official, not the relatives of the clan, how can they have a relationship with the palace. Even if there is a relationship, it should not be so blatant. He guessed in his heart, and his eyes narrowed, but he was far away, and he couldn't see who it was when he squinted his eyes.

Chen Yan was accustomed to observing words and feelings, and whispered in Zhao Hao's ear: "It's Wu Bai beside Concubine Zhu Xian, and the one he found should be the Wang family of the Longtu Bachelor Han Gang family." ”

"I see." Zhao Hao nodded, and he didn't need to explain much to know what his sixth nephew's biological mother was looking for Han Gang's wife. smiled, "It seems that the Han Wang clan should have entered the palace often." Every time I enter the palace, I have to go to the Yuhua Hall of the Houyuan, and I don't know how late it will be to get out. ”

Chen Yan was about to say a few words with a smile, when another attendant turned around and said, "King, the rules in the palace are strict, and the slave maid has never heard of a foreign woman who can stay in the palace for a long time." ”

As soon as the waiter spoke, Chen Yan's face changed suddenly, and he looked at Zhao Hao in disbelief.

In the past, there was an Emperor Taizong who often stayed for three or five days after Xiao Zhou, if it was rumored that Han Gang's wife stayed in the palace for a long time, the reputation of the Son of Heaven, Han Gang and Wang Anshi could all be ruined.

Zhao Hao frowned and glanced at the chamberlain, who was tall, had a dark complexion, and did not have much eunuch femininity, looking like a martial artist.

Staring deeply at the servant, Zhao Hao walked forward with no expression on his face.

If you want to know how suspicious Zhao Hao is of his younger brother Zhao Hao, just look at how much Zhao Hao has been around since he entered the palace, and he has not been around the inner servants of the Imperial Medicine Academy. From Qingshou Palace to Baoci Palace, I don't know how many times I walked in the past, and I was accompanied by Chen Yan, and I still sent someone to lead the way.

Zhao Hao was unintentional, but this waiter who was on an errand in the Chongzheng Palace and was named in the Imperial Medicine Academy treated him as a thief. During the New Year's Festival, even the sixth nephew didn't let himself get close. Zhao Hao hated it to the extreme, his imperial brother was really surrounded by fine people, and he sent someone casually, he was so wary of himself, and he said casually, as if he was facing a great enemy.

Tong Guan did not leave until he sent Zhao Hao to Baoci Palace, and returned to Zhao Hao's dormitory, Funing Palace, and waited for the Son of Heaven to return in order to pay the decree. Next, there were other people waiting for the two kings outside the gate of the Baoci Palace.

As a nominal chamberlain in the Imperial Medicine Academy, although Tong Guan cannot be compared with personal cronies such as Li Shunju and Shi Deyi, nor can he be compared with Wang Zhongzheng, who led the troops outside, and his master Li Xian, but he is also a legitimate servant.

For the mind of the Son of Heaven, Tong Guan is very accurate. was sent by the emperor to escort King Yong to Baoci Palace, which had the meaning of escort at all. At any time, there are cronies and ministers around the Son of Heaven staring, even if King Yong has any tricks, don't want to play in the palace.

But Tong Guan didn't expect King Yong to dare to ask some questions with ulterior motives, but fortunately, he broke it directly in person, otherwise it would be very troublesome in the future.

Now that he has pointed it out, he doesn't dare to make a mistake for the two kings. If there are any rumors outside after this, whether it was done by King Yong or not, they will immediately catch up on Zhao Hao's head.

Tong Guan's steps were brisk, and after meeting the Son of Heaven, he still had to talk about this matter. The king is only loyal, to put it mildly, the Son of Heaven understands it, and if he doesn't understand what happens in the future, he will say it.

Tong Guan chuckled proudly, although he didn't have the opportunity to go to Shaanxi to earn credit this time, but on the side of the Son of Heaven, why worry about having no credit to stand on?