Just washed, the palace attendant came to Yuefu to announce the edict, and the edict asked the quasi-horse to wait at the Donghua Gate, and the Son of Heaven was going to meet Lotte and other things in the palace.

Things within the program must be done in accordance with the program. Lotte hurriedly cleaned up and led a group of people out of the house to Donghua Gate.

In addition to the many heirs of Zhao Ji of Huizong, the heirs of the emperors of the Northern Song Dynasty are relatively thin, and the marriage of the princess is naturally a major event.

Early in the morning, Empress Zheng, who was the lord of the three palaces, came to see Zhao Ji.

"Zitong is here, sit down and talk, and have dinner with me!" Zhao Ji had just finished washing up and was having breakfast, and then he was a little strange: "Usually at this time, this girl from Mao De came to greet us early, why is she missing now?" ”

"The concubine has eaten!" Empress Zheng thanked her and sat down, and said with a smile: "Today is the day when the emperor summons the prospective horse, this girl is about to get married, but the concubine has heard about it, this girl is shy and tight, and she is embarrassed to go out of the door." ”

Zhao Jiwan smiled: "This girl has always been very bold, and she dared to go to see Lotte behind my back, but now she knows that she is blushing." ”

Empress Zheng sighed and said: "The children are growing up, the concubines have counted, Jiade, Rongde, and Ande have been married successively since the seventh year of politics, and now the girl Maode is also going to get married, and the married daughter has spilled the water and raised it in the palace for more than ten years. ”

"Zitong thinks too much!" Zhao Ji smiled lightly: "The emperor's daughter is the daughter of the heavenly family, how can she be bullied!" ”

In this regard, Empress Zheng expressed her worries: "Your Majesty, it's not that the concubines think too much, then Lotte has no meritorious service for my Great Song Dynasty, and he ranks third at a young age. ”

Zhao Ji asked rhetorically: "Zitong, why don't you think about it the other way around, Maode is the most ideal and happy person to marry?" ”

"Fame and fortune, what the world wants, even if the courtiers are ten years old, they also say that they will show their ambitions for what they have learned, but they will not escape here." Empress Zheng sighed and said, "Then Lotte has the talent to be a master of Zaifu, how can he be willing to be idle?" ”

Zhao Ji nodded and said, "That's why I sold it to him and gave him a beautiful house, and I also plan to give him one of my biggest and best imperial mansions!" ”

Empress Zheng sighed: "Although this girl Maode is not my biological child, the children of the palace all want to call me a mother, and this girl of Maode is well-behaved and obedient, and the concubine has to think more about this girl, and besides, the Lotte family has eight concubines, and the concubine is really afraid that this girl will be left out in the cold." ”

"This is Zitong, you think too much." Zhao Ji shook his head and said: "Lotte's character, I still know a little, this person is not only smart, but he still treats his own people with great affection, which can be described as love and hate, so there is no need to worry about anything with Maode." ”

Empress Zheng couldn't help laughing: "Love and hate are clear? lost his future because of Maude, how he loves and hates clearly. ”

At this time, Zhao Ji had already used the good meal, and motioned to the little eunuch to withdraw the breakfast, "Le Qing's family affairs, I have also heard of it, although there are more concubines, but they are all very close, and there is no estrangement and spoiling, take a balance between the left and right, I believe that in the future, Mao De will marry in the past, and Lotte will also deal with the relationship between Mao De and the concubines." ”

Empress Zheng said again: "Is that Xia Ren princess going to marry together on the same day?" ”

"As the king of a country, I can't go back on my word!" Zhao Ji shook his head and said with a wry smile: "It's because I have wronged Maode, I don't know if Cai Jing's five sons are so prodigal, and now they are so ......."

Subsequently, Empress Zheng gave a gift: "Your Majesty, although Mao De was not born to a concubine, he was regarded by the concubine as his own, and Mao De's biological mother was of a low grade, and the concubine also wanted to go with him on the day of the marriage, and I hope Your Majesty will approve it!" ”

The hierarchy of the harem is strict, the queen, the concubine, the virtuous concubine, Wanrong, Jieyu, and the talented people represent the status of the harem women respectively.

"I know I'm afraid that Maude's girl will be angry at Lotte!" Zhao Ji smiled, thought for a while, and said: "Maode's girl's mother is usually very virtuous and polite, so she will be promoted to a higher level!" ”

When Zhao Ji was eating tea, a small chamberlain bowed in and said, "Your Majesty, the Marquis of Pingyu has already taken Donghua Gate!" ”

Hearing that Lotte was waiting outside the Donghua Gate, Empress Zheng hurriedly said: "Your Majesty can be good at Lotte, don't wronged our Maode." ”

"Yes, yes!" Zhao Ji couldn't help laughing, and then ordered the little chamberlain: "Let Lotte go to the side hall and wait, and I will go." ”

……

The ministers entered the palace to discuss matters, and the court all walked through the Xihua Gate or the Xuande Gate in front, but the Xihua Gate Lotte had not walked a few times.

Unlike those horses, this Ouchi Lotte has come to I don't know how many times, not nervous at all, under the guidance of the little eunuch into the Xihua Gate, was taken to a side hall, and then there was a little eunuch to serve tea, Lotte sat down calmly to drink tea, the tea entrance, smacked his lips, Lotte Jue's tea in today's palace used to be much better.

When these little eunuchs saw Lotte, they felt a little chill in their hearts for no reason, this is a famous character, who brought down Yang Jian, one of the three ancestors of the palace, not only killed the heads of Yang Jian, but also implicated countless eunuchs, cleaned countless eunuchs, and when he was talking to Lotte, he couldn't help but stutter, and he didn't see the appearance of sharp teeth on weekdays.

Hearing the sound of footsteps outside, and then there was a light cough, Lotte hurriedly sat upright, and once again Zhao Ji came in surrounded by a group of eunuchs with his hands behind his back, and hurriedly got up and said, "Your Majesty!" ”

"It's coming!" Glancing at him, Zhao Ji nodded.

The two monarchs and ministers have known each other for a long time, but they don't need to be polite and courteous, because they know the root of Lotte, they are also exempt from courtesy-like interrogation.

"The minister got up in the morning and took the edict, and then came to wait outside the Xihua Gate!" Lotte replied with a smile.

Zhao Ji nodded, sat down in his place, glanced left and right, and the eunuchs beside him hurriedly retreated, and after everyone was gone, Zhao Ji said: "These courtiers of mine, they have always reported worries and not good news, in the court they all said that the price of rice and grain in Biandu has recovered, I don't believe much in their words, I just want to ask you if this is the case?" ”

There are no superfluous words, and one sentence can express his trust in Lotte, which shows that Zhao Ji has not been the emperor for so many years.

Lotte replied: "Back to Your Majesty, the price of grain in Biandu has dropped, but because it is a disaster year, the price is still 30% higher than before." ”

"In a year of great calamity, it is better to have more expensive food, so that no one will waste food." Zhao Ji nodded, and said: "I just don't know if these grain merchants will take advantage of the year of the catastrophe to ignore the law, take the opportunity to raise prices, and rob the people's profits." ”

"Kill a hundred examples, it will work!" Lotte said, and then said: "Your Majesty, there is something I don't know if I should play in front of Your Majesty!" ”

"When or not?" Zhao Ji first raised his eyebrows, then felt a little good, then laughed out loud and said angrily: "Are you still afraid to play in front of me?" In order to impeach Yang Jian, you can make the petty man lose his black yarn in front of me and fall into injustice, what else can't you do in Lotte? ”

"The minister is guilty!" Lotte is busy knowing how to give gifts and ask for sin.

"Say it, say it!" Zhao Ji waved his sleeves and waved his hand, "After finishing the business, you have to accept the reward according to the process, and then there is a banquet, the prince and the king of Yun will also have a double seat, you and I can't sit here dryly, right?" ”

"Yes!" Lotte hurriedly responded, and then took out a notebook from his sleeve and put his hands in front of Zhao Ji: "Your Majesty, please see!" ”

"Today was supposed to be a meeting between you and my son-in-law, but you made it look like a court." Zhao Ji complained while taking the notebook handed by Lotte.

Looking at the fold handed by Lotte, Zhao Ji's brows wrinkled tighter, and his face became more solemn, and after reading it, he looked up at Lotte and asked, "What this note says is true?" ”

"Your Majesty, everything you say is true." Lotte hurriedly replied, and continued: "At first, the minister only ordered the officials of Dali Temple to thoroughly investigate the private land occupied by the public field, but from the land deed file of the public field, he accidentally obtained the number of land occupied by officials in western Beijing and Jingdong, and the records of the household department are even more accurate. ”

Putting the zazi on the table, Zhao Ji's brows furrowed even deeper, and he knocked it with his hand: "You said that the rice and grain in Biandu are all controlled by Cai Jing's family, and Cai Jing's family monopolizes more than 400,000 mu of fertile land in Jingdong and Jingxi. ”

Lotte replied: "Biandu is the most prosperous place in my Great Song Dynasty, the price of grain is the highest in the country, anyone who transports grain to Biandu can get huge profits, but how can Biandu be progressive, and how can those who have no influence in the dynasty get involved?" ”

"Do you have any definite proof?" Zhao Ji then asked.

Lotte replied: "The minister once sent someone to check, and the Biandu rice and grain trading houses are all supplied by the rice merchants controlled by the Cai family, and a large amount of rice and grain held by outsiders is not allowed to enter Biandu'er. ”

With a long sigh, Zhao Ji said: "I will issue an order to transport rice and grain from Hebei, Jiangnan, and Huaidong into Beijing to stabilize the price of grain in Biandu." ”

After that, Zhao Ji got up and said to the little eunuch outside Hou: "Pass the decree and set up a banquet, accompanied by the prince and King Yun." ”

……

Zhao Ji's language seems to be plain, but Lotte can see anger and disappointment from Zhao Ji's eyes, this dynasty does not suppress land annexation, Cai Jing's family has 400,000 acres of land, Zhao Ji will not blame, but Zhao Ji is angry that Cai Jing's family controls the price of rice and grain in Biandu.

The people regard food as the sky, and controlling the rice grain means that Cai Jing will be able to create some small troubles for the imperial court in Biandu at any time.

History Cai Jing has been up and down, and now Wang Huang has the idea of resigning the prime minister because of the reason why Wang Huang has a small door with Liang Shicheng, but who can be in the phase again, there is no suitable candidate for a while, but Lotte knows that I am afraid that in Zhao Ji's eyes, Cai Jing is the most suitable candidate to be the prime minister.

Although Cai Liu's death has nothing to do with himself, it is tied to a dead knot in Cai Jing's heart, with Cai Jing's character, Lotte does not dare to guarantee that he will not retaliate against himself, and Cai Jing's family has many children and grandchildren, and no one will feel good to be stared at by such a family as a thorn in the eye.

Liang Shicheng, Wang Hao, and Cai Jing, Lotte doesn't want to let himself be exposed to the enemy. Everything has to be considered for their own safety, so Lotte has to use some means to stifle Zhao Ji's idea of reversing Cai Jing for the fourth time.

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