"The Empress Dowager is the highest decision-maker in the entire Great Song Empire, and all major military affairs must be approved by this Anhui woman named Gao Taotao. It's hard for us to influence her decision-making by influencing the ** members around her. Even if we can use our wealth to influence the civil service and the medical class not to introduce policies that are unfavorable to us, it will be difficult for them to abolish policies that are unfavorable to us and establish a new market economy system that is in line with liberal capitalism in our favor. After all, they represent a powerful class of large landowners and aristocrats who have unlimited resources and rights. We cannot develop in emerging industries forever, and we will eventually have irreconcilable life-and-death conflicts with these old forces. There is an irreconcilable contradiction between the exploitation of minerals and the pricing power of consumer goods such as grain and essential commodities such as salt in various regions. We cannot passively wait for the day when our industry will not tolerate their hindrance and will need to eliminate them through a revolution from below. We are a prescient traverser, and we should and must take the initiative to vigorously promote the transformation of traditional landlords into agricultural capitalists or commercial capitalists. ”

"You mean to make this process happen through the Empress Dowager, the de facto head of the empire?"

"Zhao Shouzhong, who knows me, is also." Li Ji praised Lao Zhao by name.

"In terms of mastering the psychology of high-ranking and powerful female surnames, the most experienced person is the fashionista Gao Jing, he is the only one of us who has patted the female general manager's buttocks, and he is responsible for all our luxury, jewelry, and clothing industries, and he is an authority on how to please women. Let's listen to the authorities. Wang Neng, who reacted the fastest, immediately pulled out the low-key talent Gao Jing of the top cylinder.

"Don't listen to his nonsense, although I studied design, but I haven't studied the psychology of female surnames, and I have only recently finished reading half of the electronic psychology books, but I can't make a strategy for a queen mother at all. After all, the main direction of historical scientific research in our country is the psychology of the emperor, not the empress, the empress dowager, or even the empress dowager. The closest female ruler to our time, Yehnara Xingzhen, also known as the Empress Dowager Cixi, died in 1908. For more than a hundred years, it is difficult to understand and dissect her psychology, let alone the Empress Dowager Gao thousands of years ago. Although she and Empress Dowager Gao are both strong women who have gone through three dynasties, their essence is different. ”

"How is it different, aren't they all women in power! Could it be that one is Nuwa and the other is a demon woman? Liu Jiao, dean of the School of Electronic Information, said with a big grin.

"You don't read history, but you're right. Although Empress Dowager Gao opposed Wang Anshi's reform faction, she had very good governing skills. During her reign, she was industrious, thrifty, honest, and hardworking, so during this period, the politics were relatively clear and the economy was very prosperous. Therefore, the Yuanyou period was the last period of economic prosperity, moderate prosperity, political clarity, and strong national power in the Northern Song Dynasty. This is inseparable from the virtue of the Empress Dowager Gao. Let me tell you a few anecdotes to understand this honest and self-serving, fair manner, known as the Empress Dowager of the Female Zhongyao Shun.

Empress Gao's younger brother Gao Shilin served as the inner temple Chongban for a long time, and when Yingzong wanted to promote him to an official, Empress Gao refused and said: 'Shilin can be an official in the court, which is already too much grace, how can it be used to follow the practice of the previous generation to push the grace and descendants?' Shenzong wanted to build a luxurious mansion for the Gao family several times, but the Empress Dowager Gao did not agree, and finally the court rewarded a vacant land, and built a house at her own expense, without using a penny from the treasury.

Empress Dowager Gao's two nephews, Gao Gonghua and Gao Gongji, should be promoted to observers, but she insisted on not allowing it. Zhezong repeatedly asked for it, and it was only then that he was promoted to one level. Once Gao Gong painted a piece of music, asking the court to respect the family of Zhezong's biological mother, Concubine Zhu, and Empress Dowager Gao. Empress Dowager Gao saw that Gong Hui summoned Gong Hui and asked: 'You are not highly educated, how can you write such a concerto?' Gong Hui said that this was Xing Shu's idea and drafted it on his behalf, and the Empress Dowager Gao not only refused to allow the invitation, but also expelled Xing Shu from the court.

In the autumn of the eighth year of Yuanhu, that is, five years later, when Gao Hou became seriously ill, he summoned Zaifu Lu Dafang and Fan Chunren into the Great Inner Palace, and said to them: 'After I die, the emperor (Zhezong) will not use you again. The two of you should be self-aware, and take the initiative to retreat earlier, so that the emperor can use someone else to avoid disaster. A few days later, Empress Dowager Gao fell ill and died in Bianjing. At the age of 62, she was nicknamed Empress Xuanren Shenglie.

Can Cixi, the old witch who only embezzled military funds for herself to build gardens and humiliate the country, be compared with the representative of the elite with female surnames among the Han rulers? I think it's hard for us to buy this empress dowager. She is not as easy to buy as a simple patriotic minister like Su Shi, and it is useless to use money and technology to benefit the country and the people, after all, as long as she has the stability of the Zhao dynasty, she wants her grandson to become a Ming monarch. That's exactly what we can't give. Zhao Shouzhong sighed and said the difficulty.

"Lao Zhao, your surname is still Zhao! There is no level at all that Emperor Taizu released his military power with a glass of wine. Haven't you learned Maslow's pyramid of needs? What kind of five needs are she not met, including physiological needs, safety needs, social needs, respect needs, and self-actualization? Li Ji was dissatisfied with Zhao Shouzhong's show of historical theory and strengthened the limelight.

"Are you saying that a high-profile expression of honesty and self-dedication and fairness is to satisfy self-realization?"

"Even if you react quickly, she, as a woman, has reached the extreme in domestic affairs. Our focus is on diplomacy, and I say so, you know what to do? Li Ji said with an expression of understanding.

"Western Xia and Liao are too difficult, which of the neighboring countries of Goryeo, Yueben, Dali, and the Li Dynasty of Vietnam should be selected as a gift to the Empress Dowager Gao?" Gao Jing asked Li Ji.

"Don't choose, we will attack it unprepared, choose Ryukyu and Tibet!"