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The deceased is like a husband, reluctant to give up day and night!

I didn't think it before, but since I was over thirty years old, Zhao Zhao felt that time passed really quickly!

Especially when you see people leaving around you, you will feel more and more that life is short and time is short, and the word white horse passing through the gap is not an exaggeration at all. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

In the second year of orthodoxy, Mrs. Meng died, and Zhao Zhao posthumously named her grandmother Mrs. Wu Guo and buried her ceremoniously. Five years of orthodoxy, Uncle Cao Guo in his twilight years, died.

A year later, after a peaceful and happy old age, Empress Dowager Cao died. Zhao Zhao was grief-stricken, and according to the etiquette system, he kept filial piety for his mother-in-law, and then buried him with Emperor Renzong in the Yongzhao Mausoleum.

Eight years later, in the spring of the fourteenth year of orthodoxy, Zhao Zhao would once again go to the Yongzhao Mausoleum, a person who was vital to his life and to the Great Song Dynasty was dying.

A generation of famous generals, Emperor Renzong's most loyal minister Di Qing came to the end of his life.

Looking at Di Qing, who was old and haggard on the hospital bed, Zhao Zhao felt very uncomfortable, he took Di Qing's hand, and did not dare to let go, lest as soon as he let go, the old man would never go back.

If it weren't for his twenty years of loyalty and perseverance, how would he have the opportunity to know his background, return to the royal family, and sit on the throne again?

Now that this old man has come to the end of his life, Zhao Zhao feels very reluctant and even more guilty. Thirty-eight years ago, Di Qing became a living dead, and he has been secretly dedicating himself to finding and protecting the bloodline of the Great Song royal family. For this reason, he took off the golden mask given by Emperor Renzong himself and became an iron-masked man.

Zhao Zhao promised him that when he ascended the throne, he would personally bring him a golden mask. But it really came that time. But he was not allowed to do so. If you let the world know about Di Qing's existence. Then many of Zhao Zhao's previous behaviors will seem very deliberate. It is even a bit despicable, and it may affect the reputation of Emperor Renzong, and there will be more royal scandals exposed.

For an emperor who was about to leave the capital at the beginning of his ascension to the throne, this would hurt his great and upright image, which was not conducive to the stability of his rule. So, Di Qing chose to sacrifice again, and he was still a living dead who couldn't see the light.

Until today. At the end of his life, Zhao Zhao felt guilty.

Di Qing said indifferently: "Official, the proudest thing in Lao Chen's life is not that he has made great achievements in the northwest, not that he has quelled Nong Zhigao's rebellion, but that he has recovered the official family." The destruction of Western Xia, the restoration of Yanyun, the final realization of several generations, the first emperor must be very pleased in the spirit of the sky, and the old minister can be regarded as living up to the trust. You can go to see the first emperor calmly. ”

How many years has it been since "Di Gong ......", how could the emperor who reigned over the world ever shed tears? This is the second time since the death of Empress Dowager Cao.

"Your Majesty does not need to be sentimental. Lao Chen was very relieved and satisfied to see the Great Song Dynasty so strong in his lifetime, and now it was time to go to see Emperor Renzong. Di Qing smiled, and the old man's face was full of gratifying smiles.

"Official, since my father-in-law said so, don't be sad, let my father-in-law go calmly!"

"Good!" Zhao Zhao turned to the Qinghe County Lord and said, "What about the golden mask?" ”

The county lord of Qinghe immediately presented a box, and the red silk inside was wrapped in the golden mask of infinite glory!

Zhao Zhao held it in his hand, couldn't help but tremble a little, and muttered for a long time before saying: "Di Gong, it's been fourteen years late, and I'll bring it to you today, you can rest assured." ”

"Okay, so that the old minister can go to see the first emperor heroically, I am still the mighty Di Hanchen back then!" Di Qing smiled again, if he could fulfill this wish before he died, he would have no regrets at all.

Zhao Zhao picked up the mask with both hands and slowly put it on Di Qing's face, and for a moment his gloomy eyes suddenly became heroic, and under the mask was still the terrifying General Di.

After a while, the heroic spirit disappeared, his eyes gradually began to drift, his dry and thin hands slipped down, and a generation of famous generals left like this! Di Fuzhi suddenly cried and shook the sky, and two lines of hot tears slipped from the corners of Zhao Zhao's eyes.

The next day, Zhao Zhao announced in the court that Di Qing was posthumously crowned as the king of Heyang County, and the tomb was moved to be buried in the Yongzhao Mausoleum (actually a burial).

As soon as the holy decree came out, there was an uproar, Di Qing had been dead for decades, what happened when he was suddenly posthumously crowned king? Di Yong has made meritorious contributions to guarding Youzhou over the years, and it is reasonable to be crowned a prince. But in any case, it won't be posthumously crowned by his father, right? There is also the ability to enjoy the Taimiao, which is generally the honor of the prime minister, how can a warrior from a thief with a military background have this qualification?

Some people were not convinced, and the two imperial historians came forward to impeach, but no one expected that the officials who had always been generous and open-minded would be furious and demoted the two imperial historians to remote areas. All the courtiers were shocked, and some of them tried to admonish, but after learning some vague news from some old courtiers, they were all silent.

They were very glad that their notes were not handed over, Di Hanchen was fully qualified to be crowned king, and those two imperial histories deserved to be unlucky.

After Di Qing's burial, Zhao Zhao personally went to Yongzhao Mausoleum to pay respects. Seeing off an old man, Zhao Zhao's mood was a little heavy, and he decided to go on a tour to relax.

Jiangning, Zhao Zhao decided to go to Jiangning, revisit the old place, he first came to this world there!

As soon as they heard that they were going to Jiangning, Meng Ruoying, Gu Yuelun and Mu Sihong were all clamoring to revisit their old places, and Zhao Zhao had no choice but to take them with them.

There was no brigade of men and horses and imperial pomp, only a few personal guards, and the guards of Mingyuezong were secretly protecting, so they went to Jiangning for a private visit.

Today's Great Song Dynasty is no longer what it used to be, and there have been many changes in terms of territory, military strength, economy, and chemistry. In the first year of orthodoxy, after the recovery of Hexi, Jing Sili and Zhao Yuankai led their troops into the Western Regions and incorporated the north and south of the Tianshan Mountains into the territory of the Great Song Dynasty in two years. The Anxi Prefecture and the Beiting Prefecture reappeared, and the western frontier of the original dynasty once again reached the Green Ridge.

As for the south, in the fifth year of orthodoxy, the land of Jiaozhi projectile was ready to move again, and the general Guo Kui once again led the army to the battle. This time, the main force of Jiaozhi was defeated in Bailianjiang, and Da Song Shengsheng chased him to the seaside of Zhancheng and killed the king of Jiaozhi. The Song army then moved to incorporate the entire Southern Peninsula into the Great Song Dynasty.

When he returned to the school, Guo Kui unexpectedly found that the local rice yield was very high, so he introduced it to the Great Song Dynasty. Champa rice began to be widely cultivated in the southern states and counties of the Great Song Dynasty. The yield has increased quite a bit.

And so it goes. Dali in the southwest was attacked by the Great Song Dynasty from both sides, and its living space became smaller and smaller, and it was often harassed by the Tibetan tribes. In the orthodox year, Emperor Duan Zhengming surrendered to the Great Song Dynasty, and the southwest belonged to the Great Song Dynasty, Zhao Zhao immediately canonized him as the King of Dian, and asked Duan Zhengming if he had a nephew named Duan Yu, I don't know if it will be a divine sword?

Tibet on the plateau. is still in the fragmentation, and the slightly stronger Dong Yu department has been calling himself a minister to the Great Song Dynasty and guarding himself. Zhao Zhao was not interested in attacking the plateau, burying the lives of the soldiers, and blindly expanding the territory, the current Great Song Dynasty did not have this need, and Zhao Zhao did not want to be infamous for being a reckless soldier after his death.

As for the territory of the northeast, it stopped at the ten states of Yanyun and was garrisoned by Di Yong. A strong line of defense has been forged over the years. Zhao Zhao no longer has any ambitions for the territory, but the ten-year-old Tai Zhao Hong has ideas. With the continuous development of the Great Song Dynasty sailors, Shen Kuo gradually improved, and installed firearms on sea vessels.

Zhao Hong had the idea to send a fleet to teach the king of Goryeo a lesson, don't think that across the ocean, you can be arrogant, and don't take the Great Song Dynasty in your eyes. Then you can also attack Liaodong by the way, Wanyan Aguda and Gu Dongping, who are quite interested in there and are willing to be pioneers.

Zhao Zhao did not object to Er's behavior, and even said that since he was going to sea to attack, he could consider the four large islands further east of Goryeo, and the Great Song Dynasty did not mind having a few more prefectures and counties there.

As for the Liao State, it has long been much worse than before, and its existence does not threaten the Great Song Dynasty in the slightest. On the contrary, it effectively curbed other nomadic peoples in the north, allowing them to consume each other, which greatly relieved the border pressure of the Great Song Dynasty.

However, the economic and chemical invasion carried out by the Great Song Dynasty by means of mutual market trade was very good, and the dependence of the Liao State on the Great Song Dynasty had reached a very high level. Zhao Zhao is very happy, and also pays attention to the exchange of courtesy, and every year he will send some Longjing tea to Beijing, and it is said that the Empress Dowager Xiao likes it very much.

Zhao Zhao and the others originally took the waterway by boat, but after arriving in Sizhou, the waterway was not smooth. With the rapid economic development of the Great Song Dynasty, the material exchanges between the north and the south became more and more frequent, and the demand for cargo transportation was also higher. Although the canal has been dredged several times and even widened, it still does not seem to be able to keep up with the need.

Fortunately, the Hanshui River of the Ezhou generation has been renovated, and the materials of the two lakes and Shu can choose to be transferred from the Yangtze River to the Han River, land in Xiangyang, and be transported to the original places.

Seeing that the Sizhou Canal was busy, Zhao Zhao and others also abandoned the boat and landed on the shore and took the dry road to the south. Along the way, many cities and towns were noisy, and the popularity of the Great Song Agricultural Bank was already very high. The original intention of the Qingmiao Law proposed by Wang Anshi at that time was actually not bad, but if it was implemented in his way, there would inevitably be problems.

After several years of discussion and reform, the Agricultural Bank with the characteristics of the Great Song Dynasty, an advanced financial institution, came into being. The use of banks instead of regular liquidation has also completely severed the relationship between Qingmiaoqian and the performance of officials. They can't intervene at all how the people want to borrow and how the banks are willing to lend.

As for the top boss of the Great Song Agricultural Bank, it is the Great Song Household Department, which is separate from the three divisions and manages it. With the incorporation of Dali, a large number of Yunnan copper mining, coupled with wet copper smelting, the dilemma of copper shortage in the Great Song Dynasty has been improved to a certain extent, and the quantity and texture of copper coins have gradually increased. Coupled with the implementation of the improved version of "Jiao" (paper money), the financial and economic situation of the Great Song Dynasty gradually improved.

In this way, the policies that Wang Anshi could not realize at the beginning, or that were counterproductive, can be gradually improved and implemented.

Coupled with the expansion of the Song Dynasty in the northwest and south, more and more displaced people began to be relocated to reclaim land rather than be incorporated into the Xiang army. The Great Song Dynasty did not need to raise so many soldiers, and the expansion of territory also meant that more magistrates were needed, and as the reform progressed, the number of new departments that needed to be opened up gradually increased.

Zhao Zhao took the opportunity to fine-tune the administrative system of the Great Song Dynasty, and the checks and balances were not completely broken, but the problem of redundant officials was improved to a certain extent. The most important thing is that the people's lives are gradually improving, and Zhao Zhao, who went out on patrol in microservices, was very pleased to see such a situation.

The grief of Di Qing's death was also alleviated, and he traveled all the way to Jiangning. It has become the most prosperous city in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River in the Great Song Dynasty, and it is economical.

The area of the city is expanding, and the banks of the Qinhuai River are more prosperous than in the past. Wang Anshi returned to his hometown, never served as the prefect of Jiangning twice, and Xuanwu Lake also escaped the fate of being surrounded by the lake to make fields, and now it is a place with excellent scenery in Jiangning City.

Standing on the edge of Xuanwu Lake, Zhao Zhao couldn't help but sigh and came to the beginning of the Great Song Dynasty. There is a very simple wish. Take a look at the scenery on the Purple Mountain. Poetry by the Xuanwu Lake. Looking for flowers on the Qinhuai River and asking willows, who ever wanted to make people made, he became the emperor of the Great Song Dynasty in a daze.

Now standing on the edge of Xuanwu Lake, I want to write a poem but I have no clue, and I can't brew emotions at all. Since you can't do it yourself, listen to other people's ......

Zhao Zhao walked across the shore of Xuanwu Lake, and Li Cheng quietly followed with the bright moon secret guard until he stopped in front of the Wind Lotus Courtyard.

Li Cheng looked up. A young man seems to be giving a lecture, the content seems to be the "Biography of the Goods and Colonies" of Taishi Gong's "Historical Records", and the audience is a group of fifteen-year-old schoolchildren. The schoolchildren don't know much about it, they seem to understand it or not, but they can hear it. The young man talked eloquently, spoke in a well-organized manner, and enjoyed it very much.

Zhao Zhao just watched and listened like this, and didn't come forward to disturb. The teachers and students over there were very engaged, and they never noticed that there was an audience on their side.

Until half an hour later. After the lesson, the children dispersed. The young man saw Zhao Zhao. At first, he was slightly surprised, then threw down the scroll in his hand and hurried over to salute.

Zhao Zhao waved his hand and asked with a smile: "After many years, Yuan Ze is okay?" ”

Who is the young man who teaches is not Wang Yan? It's just that he has changed from a personable male brother to an uncle in his forties.

Wang Yan said: "Thanks to the blessing of the official's family, everything is fine!" ”

"Is Lord Lingzun okay?"

"It's okay, it's just that I'm older, my eyes are a little flowery, and my ears are back!" Wang Yan said: "Thanks to the grace of the official family, I asked my father to come to Jiangning to heal and recuperate, and he also gave him a residence in the Wind Lotus Hospital." ”

"Does the prince like it?"

Wang Yan smiled: "I like it, but my father has been frugal all his life, and when he sees the surging water of Xuanwu Lake every day, he sighs how good it would be if he could waste the lake and make fields!" ”

"Haha!" Thinking of this, Zhao Zhao couldn't help laughing, even if the history and life trajectory have changed, Wang Anshi's heart of the lake is still immortal!

Zhao Zhao immediately asked: "I just heard you talk about "The Biography of Goods and Colonies", and you have studied the way of wealth economy? Then you tell me, should I hide the wealth from the people, or from the country? ”

Wang Yan hesitated for a moment, looked at Zhao Zhao and laughed. When the two met for the first time, Wang Yan asked this question.

"In fact, as long as agriculture and commerce develop and the people are rich, changes will naturally occur imperceptibly, so why bother to promote seedlings? If one is not careful, it will backfire. Wang Yan sighed: "In the past, my father and I were too anxious and shallow. ”

"Hmph, it's really not easy to make Yuan Ze bow his head and admit his mistakes!" Zhao Zhao smiled and said: "Go to Bianliang, no one has made up for the lack of the household servant, it's you!" ”

"Uh......"

Happiness came too suddenly, or for some other reason, Wang Yan was a little stunned on the spot.

"What? Don't want to? Zhao Zhao smiled, Wang Yan deliberately taught by Xuanwu Lake, the purpose was to attract his own attention, indicating that he still had the heart to be a leader. Mingyuezong had already reported the news, and he came to Xuanwu Lake today to see Wang Yan and fulfill his dream.

Wang Yan said: "Thanks to the high opinion of the officials, I can't ask for it, and I should have obeyed it immediately, but I just ......"

Zhao Zheng followed Wang Yan's gaze, and Wang Anshi, who was nearly seventy years old, was trembling over, followed by a little old man who was close to his sixtieth birthday.

The little old man's eyes were dull and stupid, but he was extremely courteous and respectful to Wang Anshi, which was very different from the treacherous and cunning Lu Huiqing in the past.

When Zhao Zhao ascended the throne, he cleaned up the remnants of Zhao Xu, and most of them surrendered to the law, and Han Qi and others also committed suicide. But Lu Huiqing is an exception, who disappeared from Bianjing like evaporation from the world.

Unexpectedly, fourteen years later, he appeared in Jiangning, next to Wang Anshi, his former mentor and enemy of life and death.

"It's no wonder that the official family doesn't know about it, he has suffered a lot in exile all these years, his brain has been broken, like a stupid child. When my father found out, he was being bullied by beggars, and he was really pitiful. Wang Yan said: "He seems to remember his father, and then he asked for help, and his father took him in, please forgive me!" ”

"Do you still hate him?"

"Hate?" Wang Yan shook his head: "After all these years, is there still any point in hating?" He deserves it, so what do I have to hate? ”

"Good!" Zhao Zhao instructed: "Lord Ling Zun is taken care of by Jiangning Mansion, you go to Bianjing, I believe that Ling Zun also hopes that you can complete his unsuccessful career." ”

Zhao Zhao knows that Wang Yan is no longer what it used to be, and today he is more mature, more open-minded, and can really take on a big responsibility. After finishing speaking, Zhao Zhao turned around and walked away.

The old-eyed and dizzy Wang Anshi stood at the intersection, looking at the direction of Zhao Zhao's departure in a daze, unable to withstand the old tears!

"Teacher, why are you crying?" Lu Huiqing, who is almost ten years old, has a bit of milk in her tone, which is very funny, but also very sad, or she deserves it!

Zhao Zhao glanced back at Xuanwu Lake, the wind and sun were beautiful, and the scenery was just right. Crowds of people are weaving, playing to their heart's content, street vendors are trying to sell, and business is booming......

Men and women, young and old, with happy smiles on their faces, Zhao Zhao was relieved and full of emotion.

These are my subjects, happy and happy; This is my country, picturesque!

……

Back in the Meng Mansion, which has been converted into a palace, the three imperial concubines who have become mothers are swinging in the courtyard, and their hearty laughter is almost exactly the same as back then.

For a moment, Zhao Zhao had some illusions, as if he had returned to twenty-one years ago.

Under the swing frame, the dew is thin, and the sweat is light and the clothes are transparent. The beauty leaned on the door and looked back, but sniffed the green plum!

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(End of the book) (To be continued.) )

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