Chapter 24: Harmonious Family Feast

After returning to his mother, when the child was reading in the imperial study, he saw an ancient book that said that everything must be investigated before he can have the right to speak, otherwise he should not easily draw conclusions about ambiguous things. Another month is the New Year, the court is just ten days off, the child I am ready to take the concubine to his hometown Huiji (now Shaoxing), Huiji belongs to the West Zhejiang Road, is the place where the public field law is implemented, one can go to the field to investigate the people's feelings, listen to the reflection of the people below, and then judge the quality of the public field law, and secondly, the concubine has not returned to her hometown for several years, just by the way home to save relatives. ”

Xie Daoqing thought for a while and said: "It's right to go home with Jiu'er to save relatives, but Huiji is still some distance from Lin'an, is it safe on this road?" ”

"Don't worry, the queen mother, this distance is nothing, not to mention that this road is the territory of my Great Song Dynasty, the child can bring two hundred imperial guards, all along the way are official roads, all of them are garrisoned, and there will be no problems with safety. In addition, the child plans to form a youth guard, the number of which is no more than five hundred, and only recruit sixteen or seventeen-year-old youths, and if they travel in the future, they can let this team escort them, so that it will not affect the defense of the palace. ”

"It's a good thing that the official family has their own ideas, it's better to read a thousand books than to travel thousands of miles, and the queen mother will support it. It's just that what kind of establishment does the official family classify this young guard into? ”

"The child plans to be assigned to the Imperial Guard first."

"That's fine."

The commander of the imperial guard is Xie Daoqing's younger brother, and Xie Daoqing is naturally relieved.

Xie Daoqing's family has been in difficulty since he was a child, and he attaches great importance to the land, and most of his cronies and relatives are also big landlords, so he should be against the public land law, although Xie Daoqing did not make a statement on this.

The Gongtian Law is Jia Nidao's only "political achievement", and once I completely cancel it, it is estimated that it will be time to turn against Jia Nidao.

"Official, we have snubbed Jiu'er, the birthday star, today is a birthday family banquet, and we are involved in the affairs of the court again, shouldn't we be, come, Jiu'er eats wine and food." Xie Dao counted and changed the topic in time.

Today's small family banquet should be regarded as a very harmonious family banquet, and it seems to be the first time in Zhao Yu's memory.

After being full of wine and food, Xie Daoqing said: "Today is Jiu'er's birth, you should also go back to rest earlier, Jiu'er, you go outside and wait first, I still have a few words to say with the official." ”

"Yes, Queen Mother, Jiu'er will retire first."

After Quan Jiu left, Xie Daoqing said: "The official family, the queen mother drank some wine today, and I want to say a few words to the official family with this wine." ”

I said a little stubbornly: "The queen mother has something to say, please speak." ”

Xie Daoqing looked at me and said: "The queen mother has been in the palace for decades, these years I have been worried about internal and external troubles, although there is Meng Heng to destroy the gold, but Mongolia has risen in the north, the first emperor's surname is weak, there is Shi Miyuan in the front, Ding Daquan in the back, Jia Rudao, etc., although the pro-government at the beginning of the determination to prosper, took the deposition of the history of the party, the pro-promotion of Taiwan, the clarification of the rule of officials, the rectification of finances and other reform measures (known as "Duanping Change"). But in the face of a complex political environment, the first emperor eventually changed his mind so much that he did nothing later, and it was not until his deathbed that he put all his hopes on you. Today, when I heard this poem by the official family, in which the chant of the whip north refers to the end of the world, the queen mother was very happy. Although the official family is not born to the queen mother, but the official family is the person of my Zhao family after all, this great Song Qi number is now in the hands of the official family, and the queen mother is just a woman's family, but I also hope to see my dynasty prosperous, and the official family can become a wise monarch through the ages. ”

From some of the personal records of the first emperor in the imperial study, I can also see that the first emperor Lizong once had the ideal of reviving the Great Song Dynasty, but he has never been able to establish his own team, and he is far from being Shi Miyuan's enemy in the political struggle, so he gradually fell into wine.

Listening to Xie Daoqing's words, I suddenly felt pleasantly surprised, surprised that this Xie Daoqing saw my ambition only from this poem, so that the hidden dragon in my plan has been seen through the yuan, and the joy is that Xie Daoqing seems to hope that I can rejuvenate the Great Song Dynasty, if I can get Xie Daoqing's support, then my plan to pull Xie to fight Jia can be implemented, two of the three powers are combined in one place, and it should be able to fight with the power forces headed by Jia Rudao.

"The queen mother, the child must live up to high expectations."

Xie Daoqing showed a hint of a smile: "It's so good, I think the first emperor was also ambitious when he first ascended the throne, but he didn't last long, the official family needs to look at the world, clean up after life, and don't give up halfway." ”

"The child knows."

"Official, I am very pleased to talk about my mother today, you can accompany Jiu'er tonight."

"Yes, Queen Mother."

As soon as Quan Jiu and I left Ningkun Palace, Quan Jiu asked impatiently: "Is it true that the official family said that he would bring his concubines back to his hometown after the New Year?" ”

"Of course it's true."

Quan Jiu excitedly took my hand and said, "Xie Guan's family, the concubine really misses her hometown." ”

"I remember Concubine Quan said that your old house is backed by Huiji Mountain, where the mountains and rivers are beautiful, and there are few people, so there is a big area."

"Yes, the concubine's manor is very large, but most of it is mountainous, overgrown with grass and trees, but it is not suitable for growing crops."

"And is there anyone else in your hometown?"

"My youngest brother Quanjue is still there, a few years ago, after the concubines entered the palace, the first emperor rewarded the concubines' families, except for Quanjue, they are all in Lin'an City."

"Then why doesn't Quanjue want to come to Beijing?"

Speaking of the concubine this younger brother is also very interesting, Quanjue since childhood smart but stubborn, curious and strange things, often have unexpected ideas, the family invited countless teachers, because they could not answer their questions and was angry, so at the age of ten he got a "strange boy" name, later, it happened that his teacher Shen Yiqiu passed by Huiji, an old and a young do not know how to meet, Quanjue proposed to the family to worship Shen Yiqiu as a teacher, by the way, this Shen Yiqiu is a descendant of Shen Kuo, that Mr. Shen likes the scenery under Huiji Mountain very much, and also likes the younger brother, and lived in the concubine's house, and it has been almost ten years. Quan Jue was reluctant to leave, mostly because of Mr. Shen, because he had been in his hometown. ”

"Shen Kuo's descendants? Is Shen Kuo, the author of "Dream Creek Writings"? ”

"Well, exactly, Quanjue admires his teacher so much."

Later generations know that Shen Kuo was an outstanding great scientist in the Song Dynasty, and he can even be said to be a rare generalist in the scientific world, involving almost every field. In ancient China, many sciences were classified as alternative and were not taken seriously, let alone applied. Shen Kuo's era is the period of Wang Anshi's reform, Shen Kuo is upright, this surname leads to his displeasure in the political struggle, after Shen Kuo's death, no one built a monument for him, and no one wrote an epitaph for him, and even his life biography is only attached to the "History of the Song Dynasty: The Biography of Shen Yu", so its popularity is far less than that of later generations.

Shen Kuocai was famous, and he was criticized before and after his death, and he only ended up depressed.

As a scientist, Shen Kuo is a success, and as a politician, Shen Kuo is a loser.

If Shen Yiqiu has half of Shen Kuo's ability in the field of science, I will even pick up a treasure, not to mention the strange boy Quanjue.

Thinking about this, I couldn't help but laugh out loud: "Really? Haha, these are two talents. ”

Quan Jiu asked puzzledly, "Talent? Isn't this "Dream Creek Writings" good? Don't think so about the official family, when my father was alive, he said that Quanjue would not have much success in the future. ”

People in this era naturally don't know the important surname of science, and if they are literati, Shen Kuo's name is far inferior to Zhu Xi, Su Shi and others.

I didn't explain, and I couldn't explain it, so I had to laugh it off: "Concubine Quan, let's go, go back to Ninghan Palace." ”

The night was deep and the breeze was gusting.

The sky is full of stars.