Coming to the main hall of the Qinzheng Palace, which is where Zhao Ziliang manages his daily affairs, he sat on the throne and asked, "Fan Li, what do you have to report alone?" ”

"Please retreat from the king!"

Zhao Ziliang saw that Fan Li was solemn, and immediately waved his hand to the eunuchs on both sides, the palace maids, the commander of the Dragon Guard Army under the steps, Nuer, and other armor soldiers: "You and others all retreat!" ”

After everyone had withdrawn, Fan Li took out a scroll and presented it with both hands and said: "This is the design of the entire palace, because the buildings in many places are arranged in formations, and the roads inside it are intricate, not people who have lived here for a long time, they will inevitably get lost when they come in for the first time." Pen, Fun, Pavilion www.biquge.info please take a look at the king! ”

"You can just store this design in the palace management office, why do you specially present it to this king?" Zhao Ziliang said suspiciously and took the design drawing.

Fan Li said: "Back to the king, the minister has already stored a design drawing in the government affairs yuan and the palace management office, but this one is different, it is unique, even the minister has not opened it, and the person who drew him has been ordered to be executed by the minister!" The external defense of the palace can be said to be solid, but if a rebellious person launches a coup d'état in the palace and takes control of the Xuanwu Fort, then the outside minister of civil and military affairs and the army of King Qin will not be able to break through the Xuanwu Fort in a short period of time and enter the palace King Qin. Therefore, in order to prevent a palace coup from endangering the safety of the king or the heir to the throne in later generations, the minister ordered the slaves to dig a secret passage from the palace to the bottom of the mountain. The thousand slaves, the overseers, and the people who drew up the drawings were secretly executed by order of the ministers, and no one in the world knew where the exit and entrance to the secret passage were, except for the king! ”

Zhao Ziliang opened the design drawings and looked at them, and sure enough, he saw that there was a very conspicuous red line on the drawings, and there were small block letters at both ends of this red line to explain in detail, one of the entrances was under the throne of this Qinzheng Palace, as long as you stomped your feet nine times in a row at the foothold in front of the throne, the throne would automatically move away to reveal a big hole, and there were stairs leading to the passage. And the exit is in the Taoist Temple in Henglus City! At the beginning, the exit can only go out but not enter, someone must come out of the passage, the outside switch can be activated, and then you can open the mechanism from the outside to enter the passage.

The other entrance is in the Qianquan Palace of the Inner Palace, which is the residence of the king in the Inner Palace, and if the king does not want to move around, he lives in the Qianquan Palace, and the eunuchs and palace maids send the concubines who are fortunate that night into the Qianquan Palace.

The fact that the two entrances to the secret passage were within the king's reach, and in places where no one else had the chance to touch them, was a deliberate designer.

Zhao Ziliang closed the design drawing, looked at Fan Li and said, "But you still know that there is such a secret passage!" ”

"This ・・・・・・ the king spares his life, the king spares his life" Fan Li was so frightened that he knelt on the ground and kowtowed loudly and begged for mercy, he killed everyone else who knew about this secret passage, but he forgot about himself.

Zhao Ziliang closed his eyes and leaned on the back of the throne, his hand on the armrest kept tapping on the armrest, and at this time, Fan Li was dripping with sweat all over his body.

After a long time, Zhao Ziliang opened his eyes and looked at Fan Li and shouted, "Someone! ”

An attendant officer walked in and hugged his fists and said, "What does the king command?" ”

Zhao Ziliang said: "Fan Li is talented, loyal and commendable, and has made great contributions to the supervision and design of the palace, and has been canonized as a first-class baron!" ”

"King Xie, King Xie Longen! The ministers will not dare to live up to the king's expectations! ”

Zhao Ziliang's meaning is very clear, if you are knighted and don't kill you, you have to keep your mouth shut, once you leak a word, you will think about the consequences. Fan Li is not a fool, how could he not understand this, the king appreciates his talent and is reluctant to kill him, give him glory and wealth, and let him keep secrets.

August 15, Mid-Autumn Night, Royal Palace, Thousand Springs Palace.

Dozens of members of the royal family sat around the rectangular dining table to eat, candles were lit around the hall, Zhao Ziliang asked while eating: "It's only half a month before the founding ceremony, are your dresses ready?" ”

Chen Qingying said: "A month ago, the Garment Department sent a master tailor to measure all of us, and tomorrow I will send someone to ask them to see how they are cutting!" ”

"Well, you have to confirm it, if it's done, take it and give it a try, if it's not suitable, you have time to redo it, don't make a fool of yourself in public at that time!"

"I see!" Chen Qingying agreed, hesitated for a moment and asked, "The boss will not come back?" ”

Zhao Ziliang said: "I have already sent a fast horse to inform you, how can there be no eldest son of the king at the founding ceremony?" ”

Chen Qingying hesitated again and asked again, "I heard that the officials, ministers and generals are arguing over who should be named the queen?" After all, she is the princess of the imperial court, the princess of Emperor Xuanzong, the sister of Emperor Suzong, and the imperial aunt of the current emperor, with a noble status, unlike me, I am just a remarried woman, if I am made queen, I am afraid that my husband and the Western Qin Kingdom will become the laughing stock of the world."

Xinping hurriedly said: "What did my sister say, before I got married, my sister had already given birth to children for her husband and accompanied her husband through the most difficult period, she is a real wife who shares wealth and hardship, inside and out, if this family is not taken care of by my sister, I will not agree to it first!" Besides, I'm lazy, let me be the queen, I really can't do it, my sister is still reluctant to continue to be this family! ”

Mrs. Meng also said: "Yes, it is most suitable for my sister to be the queen!" ”

Wang Zhiyun is not easy to speak, after all, Chen Qingying is her mother, she should avoid suspicion.

Among these five women, only Chen Qingying and Princess Xinping are qualified to compete for the position of queen, one of them gave birth to the king's eldest son, Zhao Lei, and Zhao Ziliang is a troubled couple; The other is extremely noble, not comparable to several other women. The ministers and generals were arguing over which of them should be.

The elders are talking, and the juniors are silent, and it is difficult to interject, which is an extremely important event after all.

Zhao Ziliang put down his chopsticks and wiped his mouth, turned his head to look at the eldest brother Zhao Zishan and his wife, and asked: "Big brother and sister-in-law, as the saying goes, the eldest brother is like a father and the eldest sister-in-law is like a mother, which of them do you think is the best queen?" ”

Zhao Zishan and his wife glanced at each other, Zhao Zishan shook his head and smiled bitterly: "You are embarrassing us, the palms and backs of your hands are full of meat!" ”

Zhao Ziliang looked at a few women and said with a smile: "The officials and ministers and generals outside are arguing about this matter, but you are here to be polite!" ”

Zhao Rui, a seven-year-old grandson, couldn't help but say at this time: "Grandpa, my grandson thinks that the matter of canonizing the queen should be a family matter of our family, and it should not be decided by ministers and officials, but by grandpa." If they are allowed to intervene in the matter of the establishment of the queen this time, setting this precedent, they may interfere in the affairs of other royal families in the future, and even interfere in the canonization of the crown prince! Grandpa often said that there should be a clear distinction between public and private, and of course family affairs and state affairs should also be separated."

Zhao Ziliang looked at the little guy in amazement and asked, "Did you think of these words yourself, or did you listen to other people?" ”

Zhao Rui said: "Of course it's me!" ”

Zhao Ziliang didn't say anything wrong with his grandson's words, and regardless of whether it was right or not, it was rare to be able to have his own thoughts at such a young age! Moreover, to a certain extent, these words reminded Zhao Ziliang that on the issue of canonizing the queen and the crown prince, the courtiers should not be allowed to quarrel about who is suitable, but in this kind of matter, legislation should be carried out to stipulate, and the legal system to safeguard the rights of the royal family and the succession to the throne and other issues can reduce a lot of troubles, disputes, and even reduce the occurrence of rebellions.

Zhao Rui's mother, Liu, saw her son interjecting, and was so frightened that she hurriedly scolded: "Rui, what nonsense are you talking about, adults talk, children don't interject, you know?" After speaking, he hurriedly got up and saluted Zhao Ziliang and said: "Father forgives sin, it is the daughter-in-law who did not discipline well, please punish the father."

Zhao Ziliang waved his hand and said: "The mouth is on the person, the person has a mouth in addition to eating and drinking to speak, as long as a person speaks reasonably, no matter how old he is, we have to take it seriously, we can't just treat it because he is young!" Not to mention whether he is right or not, just because he can say these words shows that he has his own ideas, which is unique among children of this age, but it is also rare! Ruier is good, he must be a promising person when he grows up, but he must not be complacent, he must study hard, learning makes people progress, and learning can keep up with the pace of the times, and will not be abandoned by the times! Why are people called antiques when they are old? Because many elderly people are still living in the past, they can't accept new things and learn new things! I'm not just saying this to Rui'er, I'm saying it to you people as well! ”

At this time, Princess Xinping said: "Husband, whether it is in the Central Plains or in the Western Qin, literati love to write poems, which is also what all readers like. Some dignitaries and local officials also held special competitions for chanting poems, but none of them formed a certain scale and influence. What I want to do is to hold a poetry and song couplet contest every three years within the scope of my Western Qin, which is divided into four parts, namely composing poems, composing lyrics, composing fu, and composing couplets. First of all, the winners of the competition are selected by the county schools, and these people will compete in each metropolitan palace, and finally the winners of each metropolitan protection house will go to Hengluo for the final competition, and each subject will select three rankings, respectively, the champion, the leader, and the flower, and give them rewards! ”

Zhao Ziliang nodded and said: "This idea is not bad, and it should have a great influence for you to preside over it, which is good for promoting the culture and scholarship of my Western Qin." However, I don't think you can organize and hold it as an individual, you should set up an association, invite some celebrities who are quite talented and accomplished in these aspects, and form such an association together, such as Li Bai, Wang Wei and so on, these people's attainments in poetry have been recognized by the world, and if they join the association, your poetry association will be recognized by the world. But where do you get the money to run this kind of event and the money to buy prizes? ”

Xinping said: "You can pull advertising, when you presided over the martial arts in Chang'an, you used the method of pulling advertisements not only for the imperial court, but also made a lot of money, this matter has long been known to the local government and businessmen, and now our Xiqin government every time there is a big competition, will find merchants to pull advertising sponsorship, we can also do the same, right?" ”

Zhao Ziliang said with a smile: "Of course, as long as you can make achievements, don't operate illegally, and don't rely on your identity, I support it." It's the same for the rest of you, do whatever you like, preferably do something meaningful, and don't discredit the royal family."