Inside the Great Song Palace!

A special plate of mosquito coils curled in the incense burner, emitting a strange aroma (for the emperor, of course), and the golden carpet on the floor was not enough to cover a room.

An antique mahogany table was placed on the top of the right, and a man wearing a white robe with dragon patterns sat on a dragon chair that was not gorgeous, his eyes were empty and forward, and his thoughts had already flown far away!

After a long while, Song Huizong Zhao Ji came back to his senses, his lips pursed, and his brows furrowed, as if he was troubled by something.

"I'm poor!" When he was young, the emperor sighed and muttered to himself.

After saying this, Zhao Ji walked to the window of the room and swept around the palace.

Some people may feel ridiculous when they hear the emperor say that he is poor. After all, in the imagination of the people, the emperor is rich and rich, and he is the most powerful and wealthy person in the world. Under the whole world, if it is not the king's land, why is there poverty?

Moreover, the economy and taxes of the Great Song Dynasty were the richest of all the surrounding countries in this year. How can you be poor?

However, in fact, the emperor was really poor.

Look at this palace, it still started from the Liang of the Five Dynasties, followed by the Tang and Jin dynasties. Imitated the model of Luoyang Palace, built on the basis of the old palace of five dynasties.

If Zhu Zilong was here, he would definitely agree with the emperor's speech.

Anyway, the Tang Dynasty later built the Daming Palace, and the Northern Song Dynasty did not build a new main palace until its demise. Modern people in later generations know that the imperial palace of the Tang Dynasty is called Daming Palace, and the imperial palace of the Ming and Qing dynasties is called the Forbidden City. And the imperial palace of the Northern Song Dynasty did not even have a name.

It's called the Imperial Palace, because it's too poor and too small. I can't do it!

If you say that the imperial palace of the Tang Dynasty, it takes more than half a day to run on horseback. Then the palace of the Song Dynasty, if one person walks, it will take less than an hour, and it will be all over. Poor like this, it is really a rare palace in the world.

When he was young, Zhao Ji returned to the dragon table.

As soon as he had finished writing a decree, a eunuch came in, shouting long live and sending a new note.

Soon!

He finished reading the key recitals of the past few days, of course, the reason why it was so fast was because someone commented on it first. This is also Zhao Ji lazy, so he plays like this. Therefore, after a while, there are only the last two parts of the recital that I haven't seen yet.

They are all made of a special folding shell, which is particularly important. Eight hundred miles expedited!

Zhao Ji opened the first one, which was sent by the veteran driver agent of the Imperial City Division who was arranged by the border pass, and the content was to talk about the general combat situation of Tong Guan and the situation of the border defense army. It also mentions suspicions that some will be ahead and seem to be collaborating with the enemy.

This made Zhao Ji a little angry, picked up the brush and wrote down, asking the Imperial City Division to continue to investigate in depth, and let Liang Shicheng on the side take it down and send it urgently.

The Imperial City Division was the name of the forbidden military officer department in the Song Dynasty, and Zhu Zilong usually paid special attention to it. The reason for this, there is no other reason, because its former name is Taketokuji, which is located in Tokyo's Zuojotenmon Gate. It is a spy agency of the Song Dynasty, similar in nature to the Jinyi Wei of the Ming Dynasty. In charge of the palace ban, Zhou Lu's guards, and spying on intelligence.

It was not under the jurisdiction of the three yas, and it was a spy agency directly under the emperor, which made the civil officials of the Great Song Dynasty extremely unhappy. Of course, this is also understandable, no official will like the superior leader, and there is a spy agency that may secretly investigate itself from time to time. He has been criticized, and from time to time some ministers have written to impeach him.

In the last years of Renzong, Sima Guang once went to "On the Imperial City Division Inspecting the Family Affairs Officials". It is pointed out that the Imperial City Division is rampant and reckless. In the seventh year of Xining, Sima Guang wrote in Luoyang, "Dispatch the lawyers, and those who listen to the people of the city will be punished for slander." He also set up a list of rewards, and recruited people to arrest those who slandered the government. I don't know the government of the Holy Emperor Ming since ancient times, so yes? ”

However, this is a necessity for the system, and it has been present in all dynasties. They can't object if they want to!

Renzong Zairen, this ancestral system still hasn't listened to Wenchen. Even if Bao Heizi sprayed him in front of him, he did not cancel the Imperial City Division, and even grew the number of people from dozens at the beginning to more than 7,000 at the most. And most of them are martial arts masters!

From this point of view, is Renzong really benevolent? Hehe, it's just half-packed and half-benevolent. And Zhao Ji is certainly not like a saint, but he is not stupid enough to cancel the Imperial City Division. Even at the suggestion of the Gao family, some people in the forbidden army were thrown in. The number of people has doubled again, and of course, the quality has decreased. It's a pit, too!

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After dealing with the affairs of the Imperial City Division, the emperor picked up the last note.

After opening and scanning the content, he threw it under the dragon table on the spot in the next second, and cursed softly in his mouth. Liang Shicheng, who was accompanying him on the side, was startled, knowing the emperor's habits, and hurriedly stepped forward to pick up the fold while taking a few looks with his eyes.

I thought, no wonder the emperor is upset, if he is the emperor, he is also annoying.

Moreover, there is still a troublesome thing that makes people cry and laugh!

This recital was given to the emperor by the prefect of Shandong Road, and the general content of what was said was that the descendants of the princes of Anding County who lived in Shandong once again refreshed the birth record of the prince of the Zhao family. There are hundreds of people in total!

Because recently, the court's tax revenue has been important to supply the border troops and disaster victims, and they have not been paid on time, and they are collectively asking the prefect for their salaries.

"Nonsense, do these clans still have the country in their hearts, but there are still all the people in the world? Usually everyone has a lot of money, but they are just in arrears for a few months, so they do it. It's really unseemly! The corners of Zhao Ji's mouth twitched fiercely a few times.

Later generations only know that the number of Ming clans after the Song Dynasty doubled every 30 years or so. By the end of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang's children and grandchildren had multiplied to nearly one million.

Moreover, the royal family of the Ming Dynasty did not have to work, according to the ancestral system. They pay a fixed high amount of money to each person according to the population, and the source of the income is directly from the local government. Once the population of the imperial family shows a geometric increase, it means that the state finance will have to spend dozens or hundreds of times.

However, few posterity knows.

The practice of Lao Zhu in the Ming Dynasty was actually improved by learning from the royal family of the Song Dynasty. It's just that the more you change, the more you cheat!

The population of the Song Dynasty clan is also terrifying, not to mention that the emperor has very few children. Except for Zhao Ji, they can't bear to look at it directly! However, the clan is not, from the first generation (Zhao Kuangyin, Zhao Guangyi, Zhao Tingmei's sons), multiplied to the present.

The total population of the clan is 159495, excluding those who died early and have not yet been named, and of course, these populations refer to the male population. If you include family members, women, and related people, etc. There are only about 500,000 fewer people, and they can't run away.

Otherwise, the Divine Sect adjusted the clan policy and distinguished between close and distant subordinates, resulting in a gap between the rich and the poor within the clan and a slowdown in population growth. It is estimated that in a few years, the population of the Song Dynasty clan will be close to one million.

"Spread my will, the clan's money, for the time being, will be issued for a month. Wait for the tax to come up after the autumn and talk about other things! The emperor confessed with a burst of pain.

This time, Zhao Ji finally took a lot of advantage from the second prince Zhu Zilong, and now he took out a lot of breeding pigs for nothing. But you can't help but give money, pit!

"I'm so short of money, the new jewelry of the master, the body of the harem concubines, the money for cultivating the Ten Thousand Beasts, and the money for the Flower Stone Gang. I don't know, what kind of agency Ta'er is talking about, has it been done well. If it is good, I will have a lot more money, alas! Zhao Ji sat back on the dragon chair and sighed.

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