Zhao Xuan's answer was very much in line with Zhenzong's wishes.

The cause of the fire this time was found out, and what was surprising was that the blame fell on Zhao Yuanyan, the eighth prince! The reason is that a maid surnamed Han in the palace was greedy for gold, and he burned the vault for fear of being discovered, but he didn't expect the fire to spread to the palace so much, and he directly burned the secret pavilion and the left treasury.

Zhenzong was unprecedentedly cruel once, and executed Han's severed arms, and King Rong was demoted to King Duan. But it did not affect many more people, and hundreds of people in the province were spared.

Zhao Xuan can see the ruthlessness of the royal family from this punishment, and also understands why Zhenzong will take advantage of the topic to play, and even kill a hundred people, no matter who the mastermind is, he will have to die if he threatens the imperial power.

Zhao Yingying also sighed, King Rong is not at fault, because the maid steals gold, he will be implicated, and no prince can be spared, no wonder the brothers killed each other for the throne.

"The severity of the fire exceeded my expectations." Zhao Xuan was a little depressed, he proposed to His Majesty to severely punish the arsonist, but he didn't expect His Majesty to really come up with imperial means this time, and sentenced him to death with a heavy sentence, which not only hit those clansmen who had good popularity, but also had a deterrent effect on the civil official group in the court. This is unaccustomed to a time when there have been no random killings for decades.

"Your Majesty only kills the main culprit, and it is very good if there is no fluctuation of innocence, if these hundreds of people in the previous dynasty have to fall to the ground, then it will be another bloody storm." Zhao Yingying said.

"How is it, what did the queen say when she summoned you?" Zhao Xuan asked.

"Speaking of the seriousness of this fire that burned down the Zuozang Vault, maybe the Liao State will take the opportunity to come to extort, and if the extortion fails, it will even take the opportunity to go south."

"Well, the queen has a very clear view of the court situation, and the burning of the Zuozang Treasury has a great impact on the imperial court."

"But I feel very breathless, the dignified Song Dynasty still has to look at the face of the Liao State, if the Liao State is unhappy, he wants to fight, and he will fight."

"Second brother, you are excited again, is it time for war? Anything that can be settled with money is not a thing. ”

Zhao Xuan listened to Zhao Yingying's words, and thought, it's amazing, these words can actually come out of the mouth of this wooden man, it seems that he is not a simple person. Indeed, compared with human life, money was the most willing thing for the Great Song Dynasty, and the essence of the Liao State was greedy for money, inheriting the characteristics of nomads, that is, robbing a vote and leaving. 300,000 guan is already an astronomical amount for them.

In fact, Zhao Xuan's judgment is that the reason why the Liao State signed the Tanyuan Alliance was actually the result of Empress Dowager Xiao's transfer of internal contradictions, and pointed the vent of the contradictions to the Great Song Dynasty, so that the whole country would attack, with the purpose of extorting a sum of money through a big war.

Her goal has been achieved, but the current situation of the Liao State will not be much better than that of the Great Song Dynasty, and after the civil strife, the Liao State is also quite tired. Empress Dowager Xiao is dead, leaving behind a little emperor, who will not act rashly until he has full wings.

However, a wolf is a wolf after all, and once it finds meat, it will chase after it even if it is thousands of miles away. Therefore, this news must be blocked, especially the Liao State is very good at this kind of tactics of robbery for profit.

"I have already advised Your Majesty to block the news about this matter, and now that Your Majesty has punished this matter so severely, no one dares to leak the news."

"Big brother, in fact, the civil strife in Liao back then was a good opportunity for the Great Song Dynasty to take the opportunity to regain the lost territory. At that time, the Liao State will inevitably collapse. ”

Zhao Ying was silent, this second brother Zhao Xuan had a lot of things in his head, just listen to these words yourself.

"By the way, the palace maid named Xiang'er you told me before, I specially ordered someone to find it, I don't know if it's the person you are looking for." Zhao Ying secretly said in Zhao Xuan's ear.