Chapter 201: Mother and Son Meet

Walking near the Xuanyou Gate, Yan Shiliang ran out of breath. "Lord Wang, the officials and the princes are still talking about things, I'm afraid that you will wait for a long time, and you have promised to let the prince go to see the little lady first."

Zhao Yu looked at the nearby terrain and said with a smile: "It's a coincidence, let's go through Xuanyou Gate!" ”

After the Xuanyou Gate is the harem, although the harem is about the same size as the first half of the palace, but there is no palace gate facing the inner city, and the strictness along the way is much greater.

Coming to Baosheng Palace, although it was a mother and son, Zhao Yu could not enter rashly. Yan Shiliang told the old eunuch guarding the door on his behalf, and then the old eunuch passed it on his behalf, and after about five or six minutes, Yang Shufei had already come out with a cane.

"Wu'er!" Yang Shufei is getting older, her appearance has aged a lot, and her eyes are not as good as before, so she didn't see Zhao Yu. Of course, this is also due to the fact that Zhao Yu did not wear an official robe, but only wore a cyan gown.

"Queen Mother!" Zhao Yu stepped forward with an arrow step, supported Yang Shufei, and sighed with emotion in his heart.

Concubine Yang Shufei couldn't help but shed tears of joy, reached out and stroked Zhao Yu's cheek, and said with emotion: "Wu'er, you're strong!" When I saw Wu'er, my mother seemed to see the young emperor! ”

Zhao Yu smiled, but he was not very interested in Yang Shufei's feelings. Although Song Zhenzong is his cheap father, he really doesn't think much of this emperor who has fought many defeats in the history of the Song Dynasty and is still thinking about the inevitability.

Entering the Baosheng Palace, the mother and son narrated the situation in recent years to each other, and talked about the emotional place. Even if it's Zhao Yu, a man. I couldn't help but shed tears.

Zhao Yu is the biological mother Qian Guifei. Also coming. Naturally, it is not a coincidence, but when Concubine Yang Shu received the notice from the old eunuch, she sent Gong E to inform Concubine Qian.

Although they haven't seen each other for almost three years, Zhao Yu still has feelings for Qian Guifei! When the mother and son saw each other, they naturally cried with a hug.

Chatting and chatting, the time unconsciously reached noon. Zhao Yu was not polite, and accompanied Concubine Yang Shu and Concubine Qian Guifei to dine in the Baosheng Palace. Although it is Yang Shufei, she is already the queen mother. But her meals were not extravagant, but shockingly simple. Three people, five dishes and one soup. A plate of boiled mutton, a plate of fried vegetables with fine meat, and a plate of braised carp, but the carp is only six inches long, and in the world, it is just a price of forty or fifty yuan a catty! A plate of shredded cucumbers, a plate of steamed bamboo shoots, the soup is lamb bone soup, and there are no expensive condiments.

The price of a meal for three people. That's about two hundred dollars. In the folk, this is the cost of a meal for a solid family. But who is Yang Shufei? The Queen Mother of a country! In terms of filial piety. Even Song Renzong is not as big as Yang Shufei!

Eating 200 yuan for a meal is not ordinary, but it is a loss of face!

Zhao Yu immediately put down his chopsticks and said angrily: "The queen mother and the mother eat such meals on weekdays? It's just 200 yuan for a meal! If the sixth brother has no money, his son still has 300,000 yuan in the inner money! ”

After saying this, Zhao Yu was a little angry. The king of a country actually wants the prince to raise his mother on his behalf, and he doesn't know what kind of joke it will become.

Yang Shufei knows that her adopted son is over, and it is said that sex is like a fire, but she is definitely a person who will do it firmly after determining things. If he misunderstands this matter, he doesn't know what kind of trouble he wants to make with the official family. "O my son! You don't know it! ”

Qian Guifei also echoed and persuaded: "Son! You have really wronged the officials! Every meal of the official family now is just one soup and two dishes, even if it is mutton, it is only one catty a day! ”

Zhao Yu was extremely surprised, and said, "Could it be that the imperial court's taxes have been unable to make ends meet to this point?" It shouldn't be! Last year, Jingdong East Road sent 1.3 million yuan of real money to Bianliang, and last year's income of Da Song should be more than 10 million! ”

The taxes of the Northern Song Dynasty were very complicated, and the imperial court collected not only copper coins, gold and silver, but also silk cloth, grain, bricks, wood, and so on. Later generations often shouted on the Internet, saying that the Song Dynasty had an annual income of more than 100 million silver, which was actually a complete miscalculation. Because these rice grains and the like, one stone is regarded as a unit in the imperial court statistics, and the same is true of silk cloth, which is the same as the usual money. But is this the case with prices in the market?

Naturally, it's impossible! A stone of grain is usually around 300 yuan, after the famine, the people have more grain, and the price is only 3560 yuan, and what about silk? In Qingzhou, the price of a silk horse is only between 800 and 850 yuan, while the consistent money has 1,000 copper coins. At the same time, the exchange of gold and silver is also different, during the Ming and Qing dynasties, because of the influx of silver from the American continent, the silver depreciated, one or two silver can only be exchanged for consistent copper money, and the Song Dynasty often two pieces of money can be exchanged for one or two silver!

Although there are all kinds of mistakes, it is undeniable that the Song Dynasty in this era was indeed very prosperous economically, and it was impossible to be so poor.

Yang Shufei smiled bitterly: "You don't know, the Jingdong famine, the imperial court has successively recruited 30,000 soldiers and 10,000 forbidden troops, how much more money is spent?" Now in the court, the Privy Council and the three envoys quarrel every day over this money and silver. The Privy Council said that these 40,000 soldiers and horses have been set up for three years to this day, and the armor, military uniforms, swords, guns and sticks are not enough, and the three envoys have to pay for it. Cheng Tianqiu spit bitterness with the official family every day, saying how much money is used here, how much money is used there, there is really no money and so on. ”

After a pause, Yang Shufei continued: "Isn't there no way for the official family? I had no choice but to pay the money out of the inner money, and the money from the inner money went to the third envoy, and we, the people in the palace, naturally had to cut back on food and clothing! ”

Qian Guifei sighed and said, "I just hope that the Great Song Dynasty will have a smooth sail in the future!" In this way, the people in the world are good, and the official family does not have to suffer! ”

After hearing the reason, Zhao Yu didn't want to say anything, but he ate a little sullenly. The atmosphere that was supposed to be good immediately became a little awkward. Yang Shufei knew that Zhao Yu was for her own good, and it was not easy to persuade her, so she could only maintain the atmosphere without embarrassment.

Qian Guifei had no desire and didn't want to continue to stay in the atmosphere, so she retired after lunch.

As soon as Qian Guifei left the Baosheng Palace, a eunuch from a distance shouted at the throat: "The official family is coming to the Baosheng Palace!" ~Miscellaneous people and other avoidance! ”

Yang Shufei looked at Zhao Yu with a somewhat complicated gaze, and said with words: "When you see the official family later, don't make a fuss!" ”

Zhao Yu wondered in his heart, although he complained about Song Renzong just now, but in the end, Song Renzong was not bad to him, he was still his only brother in this world, how could the two brothers get angry when they met again after three years? Is this a vaccination for me? Or is it a plain word?

PS: The number of words is a little less today, but today I changed classes. Mu Mu threw away the two hours of riding back and forth, the hour of eating and bathing, and only five free hours, which had to include sleeping. Please forgive me! (To be continued......)