On October 15, after the court meeting, three holy decrees came out of the palace.

First, the Privy Council was responsible for the dispatch of the army, with Wang Shiyu as the commander, leading an army of 100,000 to attack Dali.

Second, the imperial examination system was changed to an examination every three years.

Third, when the treasury bonds mature, anyone who buys the treasury bonds can go to the local government to receive the principal and interest of the silver money by virtue of the treasury bonds they have obtained at the beginning.

The latter two wills are excusable, but the first will made Xin Xi stunned for a long time, it stands to reason that the funds for the attack on Dali are he is preparing, and the connection with Tianzhu is also what he is doing, and he has proved his military talent in the Western Xia War, and in all aspects, he is the best commander to attack Dali.

But it's a pity that Zhao Shu still can't believe him after all, or rather, Zhao Shu thinks that attacking Dali is a low-hanging fruit, so he doesn't want to let himself get this credit, and then let him have the possibility of high merit? !

As for Wang Shiyue, at the beginning of September, Princess Dening had already agreed with Wang Shi, and the wedding was tentatively scheduled for next year's Shangyuan Festival, so it seems that Wang Shiyue is already Zhao Shu's own family, and it is also a good plan to hand over this credit to his own family.

"Eleven Lang!" Xin Yi suddenly appeared beside Xin Yi and said, "Look, the people of the Zhao family, most of them are such people who have no strength and mind, when they came back, they should have taken advantage of the voice of the people to directly seek that position!" ”

Xin Yi really felt worthless for Xin Zhen, obviously loyal to the country, but was suspicious and neglected.

Sima Yun's face was a little stiff, but he finally spoke: "Eleven Lang, no matter how you choose, I will stand on your side, and besides, Daddy's approach is indeed a bit excessive." ”

Xin Xi smiled, rubbed Sima Yun's head, and said freely: "No, I have more important things to do now, this matter of attacking Dali, it's okay to leave it to others." Besides, isn't your father also distressed that we are getting together and leaving?! ”

"You see, Master Wang and your eldest sister only met after we met, and now they are talking about marriage, but we are still ...... with unjustified names" Xin Zhen laughed.

Sima Yun's face was slightly red: "Then you should go and propose marriage to your father!" ”

It's just that her voice is so small that Xin Xi didn't understand much.

"What are you talking about, I didn't hear it clearly just now......" Xin Xi's face was full of curiosity, expecting Sima Yun to say it again.

Sima Yun raised his head and gave Xin Zhen a blank look: "I didn't say anything!" ”

Xin Yi shook his head slightly, but finally turned his head to look at Xin Yi and asked, "How is the investigation of the firearms of the Tubo people?!" ”

Xin Yi paused slightly, and said, "There is no news for the time being. ”

"No news?" Xin Xi was a little puzzled, in this era, gunpowder technology is still the patent of the Song people, except for the Song people, where can firearms be made? !

"Eleven Lang, it was the Tiance Army that took over Bianjing, and the Firearms Supervisor was also under the jurisdiction of the other party, our people were stopped by the Tiance Army, they couldn't enter, and they couldn't investigate!" Xin Yi spoke slowly, a little apprehensive.

She was very worried, worried that Xin Zhen, who heard the news, would gather the Shadow Guard Army to prepare for a fight with the Tiance Army, if it was a fight for the purpose of rebellion, she was very much in favor of it, but if it was just a fight to vent, she felt that the gains outweighed the losses.

Xin Zhen nodded and said, "I know, this matter, there is no need to investigate it first." ”

Xin Yi's face was full of doubts, but he didn't ask more.

Xin Xi thought for a while, and then asked, "Have you taken down that piece of land in the northern suburbs?!" ”

Xin Yiyi: "I took it, there are a total of 8,000 acres, because it is a wasteland and mountains and forests, plus the will of the palace, the third division only symbolically collected 10,000 yuan, and gave us all the land deeds." ”

"Well, yes, Xin Yi, you go and inform Xiang'er, budget two million yuan, and hand it over to Zhou Sanlang, let Zhou Lang find someone to rest the land, and then, according to the drawings I drew yesterday, go to build the future Gewu Academy!" Xin Xi slowly stretched out his hand.

To be honest, even when he extorted 140 million yuan in war reparations, Xin Xi was not as excited as he is now.

After all, Gewu Academy, on behalf of the Academy, is the real prelude to a new era!

With the acceptance of Gewu Academy by the Great Song Dynasty, the development of Chinese civilization will no longer suffer so many setbacks as it did in history!

After arranging what should be done, Xin Yi waved her hand, and Xin Yi flashed away, but before leaving, she glanced at Sima Yun more.

Afterwards, Xin Xi took Sima Yun to play and hang out in Bianliang City together.

Bianjing Imperial City, living hall.

Ouyang Xiu, Han Qi, Zeng Gongliang, and Wang Si visited Zhao Shu together.

Zhao Shu raised his head unhappily: "Come in!" ”

If it was just one person, he could ignore it, but when the four of them came to meet him, he couldn't ignore it.

"Your Majesty, why don't you use Xin Xi as the commander in charge of the attack on Dali, Xin Xi is the general who printed the hunt of the Three Kingdoms after all, if you take him as the commander and attack Dali, you must be able to minimize the loss!" Ouyang Xiu said indifferently.

This morning, the official family suddenly issued these three holy decrees, but they were really caught off guard, Zhao Shuke had never discussed this matter with them at all, but at that time, they didn't agree.

After all, this morning's court meeting, Zhao Shu did not issue a holy decree at the beginning, but they were discussed there by the four ministers, and after the interests of the four phases were dealt with, the younger generations of the protégés who should be promoted were all promoted, and the emperor suddenly issued the holy decree, and the first way was to attack Dali to be the commander of the king's division.

Ouyang Xiu had just shown a hint of resistance, and Zhang Jian, the doctor in the imperial history, jumped out and accused him, and at the same time listed a bunch of trumped-up charges against the junior he had brought before.

Everyone knows that Yushitai is the tongue of the official, and Zhang Jian's actions must have been authorized by the official.

In other words, if the four of them did not agree to that holy decree and dared to contradict Zhao Shu, Zhao Shu would have the ability to rely on the trumped-up charges listed by those officials in the Imperial History Observatory to overturn all the things that the four of them had discussed at the beginning.

After hesitating for a moment, Sixiang nodded and exclaimed, "Your Majesty is wise." So, Zhao Shu also scolded Zhang Jian, the doctor in the imperial history, and suppressed Zhang Jian's duties and those trumped-up charges.

In the court, as long as the position of prime minister, or a position with a similar function, still exists, then the so-called court meeting is just an exchange of interests between the prime minister and the emperor.

agreed to the first holy decree, and the last two were for the benefit of the country and the people, so naturally there was no disgusting Zhao Shu's thoughts, and the four of them all agreed.

After all, the Northern Song Dynasty was really an era of extremely high patriotic feelings, and it was an era when scholars had the most sense of ownership of the country, so they would not be like Li Linfu in the Tang Dynasty. Yang Guozhong is like that, he only cares about his own interests and cares about the interests of the country in vain.

However, although they agreed to the official decree at the court meeting at that time, after all, it did not mean that they did not say a word.

If they really don't say anything, the officials may end up completely ignoring the ideas of these scholars!

So, at this moment, the four phases are coming together.

"Xin Zhen has other important things!" Zhao Shu opened his mouth indifferently, too lazy to explain too much.

Han Qi raised his head and said: "Since Xin Qi has something important, then, he should also take Chong Ge as the commander, or Yang Wenguang as the commander, Wang Shiyue, but he has never had war experience, and if he is directly put in charge of the 100,000 army, he is not afraid of accidents?!" ”

"Yang Wenguang is old, the two boys of the Yang family are too young, and they are guarding Qingjian City, responsible for the safety of Qinfeng Road, so naturally they can't be transferred rashly!" Zhao Shu said indifferently, these were all words he had prepared for a long time, and at this moment, he was even more calm and unhurried.

Wang Si smiled: "Your Majesty said that Xin Shiyi has something important?!" ”

"Huh?" Zhao Shu turned his head to look at Wang Si.

Wang Si smiled lightly: "On the way to the palace, Kechen only saw Xin Shiyi and a woman playing in the market!" ”

"Are you saying I'm suppressing Xin Shiyi?!" Zhao Shu raised his head, he felt that he needed to be stronger, especially after yesterday, Xin Zhen, who had always been strong to him, chose to show weakness, he felt that it would be more comfortable to be a strong emperor.

"Don't dare!" Wang Si arched his palm, his eyes rolled wildly, and he retreated.

There is no need to say everything, leave a little blank, and give others space to think, just like the blank space on the top of a landscape painting.

Zhao Shu's face became serious: "The woman who played with Xin Shiyi, you won't know Wang Si, right?!" ”

Wang Si was slightly stunned, at this time, he could never admit that he knew.

"I haven't seen it!"

"That's my daughter, the county lord of Shuguo!" Zhao Shu opened his mouth indifferently, his expression was a little happy, as if to say, look, Lao Tzu even handed over his daughter to Xin Shiyi with confidence, does Lao Tzu still want to suppress him?!

Wang Si's face was slightly embarrassed, but he didn't say anything more.

After that, Zeng Gongliang made some meaningless opinions on changing the imperial examination system to a three-year examination, completing his mission as a good man.

After that, the four phases retired.

They didn't come to ask Zhao Shu to change the will of the Holy Decree at all, they just came here to declare their existence to Zhao Shu, and let Zhao Shu know that there are four ministers who can also influence national affairs!

Although as early as the Taizu period, Taizu directly vetoed the seemingly indispensable role of scholars to Zhao Pu, but after more than 100 years of development, the four phases and the Son of Heaven ruled the country together, and it has gradually been transformed into a fact!

In particular, every time the four prime ministers have absolute appeal in the officialdom and the literary world, this kind of co-governance is a fact!

Therefore, they came together this time, in fact, to remind Zhao Shu that there can be no more such things as not saying hello in the future, otherwise, everyone's face will not look good.

The four phases retreated, but Zhao Shu frowned slightly, since the founding of the Northern Song Dynasty, since Zhao Pu, the successors of the phases seem to be the ones who are on the roots, from Kou Zhun at the beginning, to Fan Zhongyan, to Han Qi, Ouyang Xiu and others.

Even, if nothing else, among the next four ministers, there will definitely be Su Shi, Sima Guang and others.

They all continued the same set of Kou Zhun back then, so since the beginning of Zhenzong, the imperial power has been restricted in the eyes.

Even at this moment, he had the intention to replace two of the four phases, but he couldn't find a suitable candidate, because these suitable candidates were either the four phases who were deposed in the previous generation, or the protégés of the four phases of this generation.

No matter how you get it, it's still the same set.

Shaking his head, he decided to train a few disciples of the Son of Heaven in this year's imperial examination, and when the time is right, he must replace the four phases with his own talents!

Thinking so, a eunuch suddenly came outside the door and saluted respectfully: "Your Majesty, the commander of the Shadow Guard Army asks to see Xin Zhen!" ”

Xinhu?!

What is he doing here?! Looking at the table in this living hall after all, Zhao Shu couldn't help but recall the day when Xin Xi came to him from the secret passage of the Shadow Guard Army.

Could it be that yesterday's softness was just an illusion, and today it is going to be strong again?!

The corners of his mouth twitched slightly, he didn't want to see Xin Xi in this living hall, because it would bring back the unpleasant memories at the beginning, but he had to see it, because if he didn't see him at this time, Xin Xi would have a way to appear in front of him at any time!

Yes, now that the Great Song Dynasty is rich, if Xin Xi dares to be disrespectful to him, he can indeed mobilize a million forbidden troops to destroy the Shadow Guards, but now, under the investigation of the Tiance Army, half of the Shadow Guards are no longer in the Great Song Dynasty.

If you want to kill Xin Xi, I'm afraid it's very difficult, but if you can't kill him, the follow-up result will be very troublesome, and it will even shake his throne!

"Xuan!" Zhao Shu gritted his teeth and said angrily.

The eunuch was slightly stunned, and hurriedly turned around and ran out.

After a while, Xin Xi walked in slowly and saluted Zhao Shu respectfully: "See Your Majesty!" ”

"Eleven Lang, what is the so-called matter here? Your Gewu Academy, can you start construction?! Zhao Shu tried to make himself look kind.

Xin Zhen was slightly stunned, and said with a smile: "Thanks to Your Majesty's love, the construction of Gewu Academy has begun. ”

"And what are you here for?" Zhao Shu asked.

Xin Zhen's whole person became serious, and said: "When the Three Kingdoms were hunting in September, the Tubo people took out firearms, powerful firearms that could blow up the city wall, and now in the whole world, only I, the Great Song Dynasty, have the skills to make firearms. ”

"Then you go and investigate the firearms superintendent, this kind of collaborator with the enemy, the Shadow Guard Army has the right to cut first and then play!" Zhao Shu opened his mouth indifferently, but the whole person was puzzled, Xin Xi came to see him for this matter?!

Xin Zhen was dumbfounded, and after being silent for a moment, he spoke: "But everything in Bianjing is controlled by the Tiance Army, and the Shadow Guard Army can't enter the firearms supervision to investigate!" ”

"This ......" Zhao Shu was also stunned, there have been too many things recently, and he forgot that he let the Tiance Army control every move in Bianjing a few days ago.

Thinking of this, he said indifferently: "Okay, this matter, I'll go back and let the Tiance Army investigate!" ”

Xin Zhen smiled: "Then, the minister retires!" ”

Saying that, Xin Shu slowly withdrew from the living hall, Zhao Shu's actions were already completely distrustful of him!