The sound of firecrackers is old. Firecrackers were set off in Bianjing City, and fireworks continued to explode in the sky, illuminating the entire Bianjing, and gunpowder smoke rose into the sky, as if a modern war was taking place in Bianjing.

Zhao Ji stood on the Xuande Gate, looking down on Bianjing, the wide dragon robe bulging in the wind, and the snowflakes occasionally hit Zhao Ji's face. Li Xiangan stood silently behind Zhao Ji, and the two of them had been standing for half an hour.

Since returning to the palace, Zhao Ji has been depressed, tired of being in the martial arts room of the Wende Hall all day long, lifting the stone pier to boil his strength, and then eating, bathing and sleeping, ignoring anything, and not even asking the two palace maidens to say goodbye, almost not out of the gate of the Wende Palace.

It wasn't until Chinese New Year's Eve that Zhao Wei walked out of the Wende Hall and came to Xuande Gate, and this stop was half an hour, and I didn't know how long I would stand.

Li Xiang'an didn't dare to disturb Zhao Xuan, for fear of touching the emperor's scales. The emperor's reverse scales, Li Xiangan has been speculating.

This official family is very tolerant of his subordinates many times, informal, and unsuspicious, which is the appearance of a wise monarch through the ages. But sometimes, Zhao Ji can't listen to any suggestions, is arbitrary, and doesn't even give you a chance to speak.

In previous years, at this time, the ministers had already received the benefits of the New Year and were happy to celebrate the New Year. But this year, in the Daqing Palace, when Wen Yanbo asked Zhao Ji for a reward according to the practice of previous years, Zhao Ji brushed his sleeves away without saying a word, and ended halfway through the meeting.

During the Song Dynasty, the welfare of officials was very good, and the reward for the New Year was equivalent to an extra month's salary, or even exceeded.

The cabinet did not dare to show favors on behalf of the emperor, and as a result, the welfare was lost. The emperor locked himself in the Wende Palace, and no one was seen, and the ministers did not even have a chance to plead.

Not only are officials not happy, but soldiers are also having a hard time. It's Chinese New Year's Eve, and the forbidden army is still training in the snow. The officials either cleared the snow in the royal streets or patrolled the city, and the city guards were still on duty on the city walls one by one.

Being a soldier is much more difficult than being an officer, and being an officer only receives a little less welfare, at least you can eat Chinese New Year's Eve dinner at home, and those who are soldiers do not have such good blessings.

Zhao Ji really made the soldiers respect and fear, and the result of the prank when he returned to the palace that day was that all the soldiers who were guarding the city gate were executed, and the civil and military officials on duty in Kaifeng Mansion executed eighteen, and more than 800 heads are still piled up outside the city gate.

This is still Zhao Ji personally led a group of guards to take the people directly, was taken, no trial, no imprisonment, no words, directly pulled outside the city gate to cut off the head, and the ancestral system of not killing the scholar doctor was also broken in Zhao Ji's hands for the first time.

Killing so many people did not affect the normal Chinese New Year at all, and many people who lost their property because of Zhao Ji's prank were compensated. But it greatly deterred the children of the powerful and the dereliction of duty officials, lazy soldiers. It also filled Bianjing with a little blood.

In the blink of an eye, the snow was falling even bigger, and Zhao Ji took a sharp breath of cold air and sighed.

"Dusk Jun, how did you come here for the New Year, the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner is almost ready, let's go!" Li Peiling ran up to the city tower and said with a big grin. All court etiquette was thrown aside.

"It's beautiful! Bianjing City is really the most beautiful city in the world! Li Peiling turned around and looked down at Bianjing City and sighed.

Bianjing is covered in silver, and every house is brilliantly lit, like stars dotting the starry sky!

The only beacon in the Middle Ages and the only city that never sleeps is this prosperous and extravagant Bianjing!

"Yes! I don't want to believe that it will be a pile of ruins in the future. Zhao Ji remembered that when Huizong broke through Bianjing, the Jin soldiers let out a sigh, turned around and walked down the city tower.

"What did you say?" Li Peiling chased after her.

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Qingshou Palace.

"Dumplings! Chinese New Year! Zhao Ji shouted, and grinned and brought the two plates of hot water dumplings on the end plate to the table of the two palaces.

"It's childish!" Empress Dowager Cao said with a smile.

"It's all what the imperial aunt is used to." Empress Dowager Gao answered with a smile.

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"Give me the fire fold." Zhao Ji took the fire fold from Wang Huangmen's hand and lit a firecracker in front of the palace gate.

After lighting the firecrackers, Zhao Ji ran into the main hall. In the sound of firecrackers, say goodbye to the old and welcome the new.

"Well, it's delicious. The dumplings made by the imperial chef are delicious! "Li Peiling has already started eating.

"I don't know the rules." He whispered to the queen, expressing strong dissatisfaction.

Concubine Zhu and Concubine Chen also glared at Li Peiling. But Li Peiling didn't care at all.

Also, Zhao Ji locked himself in the Wende Palace, and Queen Xiang, Concubine Zhu, and Concubine Chen couldn't enter, and were stopped outside by the guard team. But Li Peiling came in and out freely. So the three of them fought against each other and dealt with the wild woman brought back by the official family together.

Just a few days ago, because Li Peiling did not give a salute to Queen Xiang, the three of them insulted Li Peiling with their doors, and asked the palace maids and eunuchs around them to do something to Li Peiling. How could Li Peiling suffer, one person gave a slap, and the palace maids and eunuchs turned their backs. Li Peiling, who is both civil and military, slapped down the five bright red finger prints.

Xiang Xiang commanded the queen to guard Ban Zhi, so she ran to cry to Wen Yanbo and asked the prime minister to call the shots for her. Wen Yanbo said that he couldn't see the official family either, so he had nothing to do. Xiang Queen, and cried to the two palace mothers, and finally the two palace mothers told her how to be the queen of the world for a day.

Queen Xiang bribed Li Xiangan again to inquire about Li Peiling's background. Li Xiangan told her very directly that in the Li family racecourse, the official family was beaten by Li Peiling every day and her nose was blue and swollen. After hearing from the queen, she was disgraced.

"Well, it's delicious. The Imperial Chef will be appreciated later. Empress Dowager Cao didn't seem to hear the queen's complaints, which was tantamount to favoring Li Peiling.

Empress Dowager Cao and Empress Dowager Gao of the two palaces, three brothers Zhao Ji, Zhao Hao, and Zhao Hao, Empress Xiang, Concubine Zhu, Concubine Chen, Concubine Li Peiling, a total of nine people. So I started eating Chinese New Year's Eve.

"Brother Hao, it's already twenty-one!" Zhao Ji said while eating.

Empress Dowager Gao's face changed greatly after hearing this, is this the official family wanting Zhao Hao to go out to become a vassal? In the first year of Xining, the minister of the DPRK mentioned that he wanted Zhao Hao to move out of the inner court.

"When you are old, you have to choose a concubine. The child who stays with his mother will never grow up. I've been too busy to take care of it. Now that the treasury is empty, it is difficult to build a royal palace for his younger brother. Brother Hao might as well move to the East Palace first, it's empty anyway. At that time, it will also be convenient to choose a concubine. Zhao Ji continued.

Zhao Hao's chopsticks fell, knelt on the ground, and didn't even dare to say it. Ruthless is the most emperor's family, although Zhao Ji has no other meaning. But it sounded like he was testing Zhao Hao.

The two palace mothers were also frightened, and secretly said in their hearts: "This official family has good means." ”

"The East Palace is the residence of the prince, how can the official family be a child's play!" Empress Dowager Cao glared at Zhao Ji.

"Our Lady of the Virgin Mingjian, just a house. It's a big deal to change the name to Changwangfu. Zhao Ji said with a grin.

"Don't talk about it again. Eat dumplings. Empress Dowager Cao stood up and pulled Zhao Hao onto the table.

The family, seemingly happy, finished the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner with a dull heart.

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"Li Huangmen, are you ready?" Walking out of Qingshou Palace, Zhao Ji saw Li Xiang'an and immediately asked.

"Ready." Li Xiang'an nodded.

Zhao Ji stepped on the jujube red horse brought by Zhang Ruoshui, and prepared to go to the forbidden army camp, send some food to the soldiers, give a reward, and spend another year with the soldiers.

"Holy Lord, the concubines also have to leave the palace." Empress Xiang knew that Zhao Ji was going out again, so she stopped in front of the horse and said.

"Let's go, then." Zhao Ji turned to the side, drove the horse forward, and picked up Xiang Queen.

Li Peiling also rode a high-headed horse, looked at Zhao Ji, her face was displeased, and she drove the horse forward and said: "Dusk Jun, take the delicate ones to the barracks too, I'm afraid it will disturb the morale of the army!" ”

"Saint, look." Pointing to the Queen's finger prints on her face.

"It's okay, let's go! It's just a flesh wound, and it will be fine in a few days. Zhao Ji said to Li Peiling, and then reassured the queen.

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Most of the people also had the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner and went out shopping, and the streets were crowded with people. Buying things, selling things, performing acrobatics, fortune tellers, soliciting customers, drinking and writing poems, and so on.

Truckloads of wine and meat were transported into the camp of the forbidden army, and most of the soldiers listened to lectures in the barracks, and a few soldiers were on night duty outside. Compared to the rest of Bianjing, the military camp is the most deserted.

"The official family and the queen have come to visit everyone!" A shout after another rang out, breaking the silence of the barracks.

The soldiers ran out of the barracks one after another, neatly raised their right arms, and shouted: "Long live my emperor, long live my mother!" ”

"The brothers have worked hard, I brought some wine and meat, and tonight the brothers let go of eating and drinking. Starting tomorrow, they will take turns to take ten days off, and each person will be rewarded with ten dollars. Zhao Ji raised his right arm and shouted.

"Long live my emperor, long live my emperor." The soldiers were excited.

Come on, Zhao Ji gave all the benefits that should be given to the officials to the soldiers. The soldiers of the forbidden army are paid no more than 50 yuan a year, and now they have been rewarded with 10 yuan at once, how can the soldiers not be happy.

Then, firecrackers rang out, and dinner tables were set up in the barracks. The soldiers guessed boxing, drank wine and ate meat, and were elated, all saying that they would go home and buy something after receiving ten yuan of money.

Zhao Ji took Empress Xiang to the barracks one by one to toast the soldiers. Of course, Zhao Ji drank boiled water, otherwise, he would definitely have to get drunk in the barracks today. In addition to these soldiers, there are other people waiting for Zhao Ji to appease them. Can't get drunk.

After tossing for an hour, Zhao Ji's stomach was full of boiled water.

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The snow is falling, and this stop is finally busy. Zhao Ji and the others left the forbidden army camp, but they did not return to the palace, but went to the city gate.

"Wow." Zhao Ji couldn't help but vomit again, and spit out all the boiled water. I don't know how many times this is, but Zhao Ji's intestines have been cleaned.

"Saint, it's late at night, go back to the palace!" Xiang Empress said distressedly.

"Go back first!" Zhao Ji commanded.

"Just the first stop? Can't you endure this bit of bitterness? Li Peiling reminded on the side.

"Li Huangmen, you send the queen back to the palace first!" Zhao said.

"Don't go back, concubine, who said I can't endure hardship?" Xiang Empress refused to admit defeat.

Woman! In fact, Li Peiling was talking about Zhao Ji, and Xiang thought that the queen was targeting her.

"That's it! Let's go! Zhao Ji was reluctant to say anything.

According to Zhao Ji's meaning, none of these women is wanted. They are all children who have not grown up. Even if you want to ask for a wife in this era, you are about the same age as yourself, generally one or two years younger. As long as the age difference is more than five years, there will definitely be a generation gap.

However, although Zhao Ji is the emperor, he can't control the cruelty of the times. Zhao Ji was twenty-three years old at the time, and it was too difficult to find a wife who was over twenty years old but not more than twenty-three years old.

In this era, a woman will marry at fourteen, and she will be an old girl after twenty. Unless it was those kabuki, after twenty years, no one cheered, so "the boss married a merchant woman".

It's also unrealistic to let Zhao Ji find a kabuki, those girls who grew up in hardship and suffering, all of them are human spirits, in addition to interests and climbing, where are there any feelings? In contrast, girls from higher backgrounds, because they have had a good and systematic education since childhood, and will not be contaminated with bad habits in society, generally have their own moral bottom line, and they will not go on when they see good, and their eyes will light up when they see money, and they can't see anything else.

"Anyway, I have four wives, it doesn't matter if I'm a little younger, I'll raise it first, and I'll talk about it later." Zhao Ji said in his heart.

Zhao Ji didn't want to be an emperor like Song Zhenzong. Song Zhenzong Zhao Heng was already broken by his nurse at the age of fourteen, and it is estimated that the women in the palace are too monotonous, so they went out of the palace to watch the play in the hook column, and they fell in love with an old girl Liu E who was good at acting.

Liu E had already married, and in the Northern Song Dynasty, where science had not yet emerged, Zhao Heng snatched other people's wives by virtue of his status as the emperor, and he was not opposed by the ministers. Besides, Liu E's husband who is a silversmith is still willing to give his wife to Zhao Heng.

Liu E and his wife thought of a way to deceive Zhao Heng in order to climb up. In the end, Liu E became the empress who had ruled the world for more than ten years, and Liu E's silversmith husband was named a general. The two husbands and wives work together to annex land on a large scale, and there is no end. It can be said that the wind of land annexation in the Song Dynasty began with this Liu E.

These people from the bottom of society often work harder than those who come from good backgrounds and have no worries about food and clothing, and they can do things and can do things compared to those children of landlords and bureaucrats who do not do practical things and are comfortable and corrupt. But because I didn't have a good and systematic education in my early years, what I learned in the predicament was some bad things in society. Where will the fate of the country be taken into account, apart from power and **? As a result, the more you do the more you do, the more damage you do.

Liu E and the current Empress Dowager Cao are a stark contrast.

When they came to the city gate, Zhao Ji, Empress Xiang, Li Peiling, and Li Xiang'an took a group of palace maids and eunuchs to give hot dumplings to the soldiers who were on night duty.

By the time all the gates had been run, it was almost dawn.

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