With the joy of victory, the Great Song Dynasty ushered in the end of the four years of Jingkang, in December, Zhao Huan announced to the world, starting next year, change the Yuan Hongzhi, announce the end of the noisy Jingkang era, announce the beginning of the more brilliant Hongzhi era, the Spring Festival of the first year of Hongzhi, everyone is spent in a jubilant ocean, the news of the great **** extermination of Western Xia made most of the tribes in the west extremely frightened, and sent envoys to make offerings, striving to be the vassals of the Great Song Dynasty, so as not to suffer from the pond fish, and be destroyed by the Great Song Dynasty.

The grassland tribes were also shocked by the strength of the Great Song Dynasty, and sent envoys to congratulate the Shang Confession, in order to live in peace, and by the way, they expected that the Great Song Dynasty could order the exchange of markets, stop fighting, and not continue to fight.

Because of this batch of tributes, the Great Song Dynasty monarchs and ministers finally have the materials for the New Year, otherwise, the miserable and miserable empty Great Song Dynasty treasury that can run carriages is not enough for the courtiers and the people of Beijing to live a comfortable year, and this batch of cattle and sheep tributes has preserved the face of the royal family, Zhao Huan finally has something to reward, or meat, for the Great Song Dynasty courtiers to explain that perhaps at this moment, meat is more effective than money.

The sound of firecrackers in the year old, the spring breeze sent warmth into Tusu, accompanied by the sound of firecrackers and everyone's celebration, Jingkang year has become the past of history, Hongzhi year slowly comes.

Zhao Huan has become very calm, peaceful, compared to the original radical and irritable, now Zhao Huan seems to be like a philosopher who has understood the great truth of the world, a great Zen master, or a master of the Tao, wearing a dragon robe, Yue Huan feels that Zhao Huan is like a person who is about to become an immortal at any time, he rarely deals with government affairs, he has delegated most of the power to the East and West Erfu and the Imperial History Tower, and most of the government affairs are handed over to the courtiers to deal with. And he basically doesn't interfere in these things.

At first, people didn't get used to it. Prime Minister Zhao Ding often asks Zhao Huan to make decisions with some trivial things or not so important government affairs, every time it comes. Zhao Huan looked up at the top of the palace, silent, Zhao Ding asked many times, Zhao Huan just ignored it, the eunuch next to him whispered to remind the emperor, Zhao Huan said with a displeased face: "The major affairs of the military state are related to the life and death of the country. Why bother? ”

In the past two years of Jingkang, Zhao Huan has monopolized power, and he has to ask about everything, and he has developed the habit of courtiers often relying on the emperor, and is accustomed to the emperor's final decision, and now, the era of the emperor's strong intervention has passed, Zhao Huan's body and energy are not as good as before, and Jingkangnian's high-intensity work has greatly damaged Zhao Huan's health. Zhao Huan has gradually become difficult to support these tasks.

In addition, Zhao Huan had a hunch that he would not live long, and the crown prince was still young and could not be pro-government, so he did not cultivate the awareness of courtiers to handle government affairs independently at this time. It is very likely that after the new emperor ascends the throne, he will be seized by the royal family, relatives and even eunuchs, then it is too bad, Zhao Huan does not trust the imperial family. Don't trust it at all, if those soft-boned bastards are in power. It's not bad if you don't move the capital to Hangzhou, let alone that the emperor is still there. I may not be able to live past Zhao Ji.

Relatives are not credible, eunuchs can not be trusted, looking at it, except for the Jingkang Zhongxing ministers who work hard with their own hearts and minds, no one can be trusted, Zhao Ding, Yue Turn, Yue Fei, Zhang Shuye and other Zhongxing ministers are loyal and can be trusted, so at this time they need to cultivate some of their consciousness, by that time, it is enough to fight against the imperial family and relatives, and ensure the safety of the Great Song Dynasty and the young emperor.

As for whether he will cultivate a powerful minister to threaten the throne, Zhao Huan has also made corresponding preparations, decentralization, mutual checks and balances, so that no courtier can be dominant, even if he trusts Yue Fu who leans on the Great Wall the most, he can't give this power, the east government is responsible for government affairs, the west government is responsible for military affairs, not subordinate to each other, equal status, the prime minister and the privy envoy have equal status, not subordinate to each other, the province of the door is independent from the east province again, and the squire of the door is the supreme official, responsible for reviewing the government and military orders.

For some trivial matters proposed by Zhao Ding, Zhao Huan didn't care at all, Wu Yong proposed some state and county thieves and training soldiers, Zhao Huan basically ignored it, let them deal with it themselves, draft opinions, government affairs attached to the signatures of the prime minister and vice minister, military affairs attached to the signatures of the privy envoy and the privy deputy envoy, and then handed over to the ministry for review, after the province passed the signature, no matter which decree, if there is no signature of the three people, it cannot be implemented, once it is implemented, the three need to be responsible for it.

The emperor will get a copy of the decree to be kept, once something happens, you can take the copy accountable, after such a thing appeared several times, Zhao Ding and Wu Yong understood that the emperor was going to delegate power, it was true, he could respect the decision of the courtiers, not to intervene, the decision they made, after the three people signed and countersigned, directly implemented, there was no link of the emperor's approval.

Zhao Ding's decision to exempt the three states of Guanzhong from drought was successfully implemented by the emperor without intervention; Wu Yong's decision to suppress thieves in Xiangyang, the emperor did not intervene, and it was successfully implemented, except for asking some major national affairs on the third day, the emperor no longer seems to deal with the rest of the small things.

Zhao Huan still often summons Yue Fan, and doesn't talk much about government and military affairs, but likes to talk about some old things, the panic of ascending the throne for the first time, the despair of being captured and abolished, the excitement when he was rescued, the anger after arriving in Yingtian, the joy of the Great Song Dynasty's final victory over the Jurchens, the ecstasy of recovering Yanyun, the satisfaction of eliminating Western Xia, and now again.

"These days, I always feel that I didn't have a long time as an emperor, and it was only five years when I was full, but in the past five years, I seem to have done a lot of things that emperors can't do in fifty years. Zhao Huan smiled, as if he was saying something very ordinary.

Yue Fan heard some different meanings, and hurriedly said: "Your Majesty is in the prime of spring and autumn, and it is the time to lead the Great Song Dynasty to continue to create a prosperous era. ”

Zhao Huan smiled and waved his hand: "Defeated the Jurchens, shamed the past, recovered Yanyun, fulfilled the last wish of the ancestors, destroyed the Western Thief, and ended the dispute of one hundred and forty-seven years, the things that have not been solved for more than a hundred years have been solved now, Peng Zhan, what do you think, what else do I need to do?" ”

Yue was stunned, he didn't know what he should say, as an emperor, it seems that it is really not easy for him to do these things, it seems that it is really good, how many emperors have done nothing in their lives, and even done all the wrong things, and for Zhao Huan, he has not done anything wrong, he has done the right thing, what he has done, what he has made, I dare not say how good it is, but at least in the eyes of so many emperors in the Great Song Dynasty, he is in the top three.

He didn't do anything hurtful, or he didn't have a chance to do it, but after that, he obviously had the opportunity to escape and compromise, just like Zhao Gou, escape, compromise, retreat to a corner, be an emperor, or retreat, hide, and be cowardly to the extreme, as he did before.

Zhao Huan chose a completely different path for Zhao Gou, for this, he paid a huge price, but at the same time, he also got great glory, and the Great Song Dynasty also got great glory, in this time and space, the Great Song Dynasty is destined to be a legendary country, this era is a legendary era, no one will be ashamed of this, everyone will only feel a strong sense of unyielding and enterprising.

Zhao Huan is the end of the old era, but also the beginning of the new era, the Great Song Dynasty got rid of the old era, rushed out of the shackles of the old era, went to the present, and went to the future, maybe for him, this is his dream, he did all this, so, he is very satisfied, very relaxed, get rid of all the shackles, relaxed and happy, like a fairy in the world.

Yue Tuo never thought that an emperor could be so free.

The five-year tax holiday period began in September of the second year of Jingkang, that is to say, it will continue until the end of September of the third year of Hongzhi, and the Great Song Dynasty will receive the most normal tax in the country, and before that, in September of the first year of Hongzhi, a group of three-year tax-free states and counties can begin to pay taxes.

When the transfer envoys from all over the country escorted the taxes to Beijing, the officials who had been poor for three years looked at Zhao Huan with big watery eyes like a long drought and looking forward to a rainy day, and saw that Zhao Huan was uncomfortable, and always felt that their eyes were the same as those concubines of the inner palace who had not been fortunate for a long time, very terrifying, and after goosebumps, Zhao Huan promulgated the latest regulations on officials who had been discussed with the Eastern and Western Prefectures and the Ministry of Supervision in the past few days.

Seriously, in the past few years, it is the poorest moment in the entire Great Song Dynasty, even when Zhao Kuangyin just ascended the throne, when the country has not yet come out of the war, the Great Song Dynasty has never been so difficult, the two prime ministers of the Jingkang Dynasty have lived an ascetic life, Li Gang used to be very luxurious, after the shame of Jingkang, Li Gang learned from the pain, got rid of his extravagance, only left two servants at home, and had to buy vegetables and cook with his own wife to complete.

The clothes are all sewn by the old wife herself, and if they are broken, they will be sewn and repaired, except for the official robe worn outside, which is new, without patches, take off the official robe, none of the old Li Gang's own clothes have not been patched, and the food is extremely simple, usually it is steamed porridge and pickles to deal with it, and only once in three days to eat meat, and occasionally drink broth to replenish the body, otherwise it is really unbearable, and a lot of meat food is still given by Zhao Huan after learning that Li Gang lives a hard life.

Zhao Ding is similar, although he is not as exaggerated as Li Gang, he lives very simply, dresses very simply, eats very simply, how ordinary people live, how he lives, at most he doesn't let himself go hungry, he declares in Dongfu, don't feel that it is a glorious thing to feel hungry and cold, but you can't do it, you make yourself hungry and cold, and you can't handle government affairs, so as to delay national affairs, that's a sin!

Yue Chuan also agreed, Li Gang did too much, everyone actually couldn't hold on, although the days were not good, but the steamed buns and pickles can still be eaten to a certain extent, it is not difficult to eat meat once every three or five days, the emperor is also often sympathetic to officials, and gives meat and vegetables to the officials to make up for their bodies, making it too much, but not beautiful. (To be continued.) )