The weather is getting colder and colder, and with the arrival of the first snowstorm, Bianjing seems to have entered a period of hibernation, and the bustling streets have become deserted again. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ\qВ5、\\

The delivery period of the four pregnant women in Zhao Mansion is getting closer and closer, and the nervous Zhao Lei directly invited four famous stable women in Bianjing to live in Zhao Mansion and take care of these four Zhao Mansion hostesses with big bellies day and night.

Zhao Lei has been very busy recently, moving around in the four small courtyards in the backyard of Zhao Mansion, the four hostesses of Zhao Mansion seem to be suffering from prenatal depression at the same time, every woman suffers from gains and losses, afraid that she will give birth to a girl, and everyone else gives birth to a boy, Zhao Lei keeps comforting them, keeps saying intimate love words in their ears, and promises to treat them equally, boys and girls like it equally.

After entering the winter, Zhao Lei understood how much the demand for coal in the Great Song Dynasty was, how rich the people of the Great Song Dynasty were, in just one month, the iron case managed by Xue Xiang, only the coal income, has exceeded six million taels, and it has risen steadily, and continues to break through the omen of seven million taels, the booming coal income, so that the hundred officials of the imperial court are red, and it gave the official Zhao Zhen an excuse to continue to blackmail Zhao Lei, so that Zhao Lei painfully allocated three million silver to support the three divisions to build the Yellow River old road.

In the study of Zhao's mansion, Su Xun looked at Zhao Lei gritting his teeth and poking a piece of rice paper with Ye Qingchen's name written on it, shook his head and said with a smile: "It's still painful!" Three stones! ”

"I'm so angry, the tax of Sansi Qiu has increased by three percent, and this year's total income has increased by thirty million taels compared with last year, and it can definitely reach 180 million taels, he Ye Qingchen is so rich, he actually came to exploit me. Exploit three million taels from me! Zhao Lei poked the rice paper in his hand with a knife and said hatefully to Su Xun.

"Forget it! No one in the Great Song Dynasty doesn't know, Ye Qingchen is the first stingy guy in the Great Song Dynasty, the money that the household can not spend, Ye Qingchen will definitely not spend a penny, why should Brother Sanshi be angry! Su Xun snickered and looked at Zhao Lei's annoyed look. whispered comfortingly.

Zhao Lei, who was still annoyed, Su Xun raised the official document in his hand and said in a deep voice: "It's close to the end of the year, this year's annual report of the three divisions will come out soon, I heard that this year, not only the income of the imperial court has increased greatly, but the expenditure is also decreasing, and the population is also steadily rising, think about it carefully, these are the three stones of your credit, this year's annual banquet." Maybe the official family will upgrade your title again. ”

At this moment, Xiao Ruoruo walked into the study, sat next to Zhao Lei, and looked at the two chatting. Curiously asked, "I heard your words from afar, what are you talking about?" ”

"We're talking about Brother Sanshi's exploits! This year, the use of the imperial city has been greatly reduced, the emergence of newspapers has solved the problem of the land of fallen scholars, and the system of participating in the performance of Taiwanese officials has made the number of officials in the Ministry of Officials not increased for the first time since the founding of the country, but has decreased. Sanshi even turned tens of thousands of soldiers in the south into the lowest-level soldiers, and also reduced a lot of expenses, so the expenditure of the imperial court was reduced by nearly one percent compared with previous years. The appearance of the sores and acne vaccines also made the population of the Great Song Dynasty increase steadily, and it is estimated that it will break through the population mark of 110 million in a few years, and these achievements are enough to raise the title of Brother Sanshi to another level. Su Xun laughed and said to Xiao Ruoruo who came in.

"Knighthood! What's the use of the title, except for the silver converted from the food in the Great Song Dynasty, the others are all virtual, even if the official adds a first-level title, but adds three or five hundred taels of silver per month, so it will be the income of the pharmacy for three days. Fold. The income of the fan shop for a day is enough for something! Xiao Ruoruo didn't care much about the title of the Great Song Dynasty, and said to Zhao Lei in a coquettish voice.

Zhao Lei knew Xiao Ruoruo's experience, which made her very dissatisfied with the imperial court, if she continued to talk about it, she might not say anything unpleasant, thinking of this, Zhao Lei hurriedly changed the topic and asked Xiao Ruoruo: "Ruoruo! Didn't you help Xinlan check the folding fan paving accounts! How do you have time to get here? ”

"By the way, this is the latest information from Xixia!" Xiao Ruoruo immediately took out a secret letter and handed it to Zhao Lei and said.

Zhao Lei nervously opened the secret letter, he already knew the news of the defeat and disappearance of Yuan Hao in Western Xia, and what he was most concerned about now was whether Yuan Hao was still alive, and whether Western Xia was in turmoil during the period of his disappearance.

After Zhao Lei carefully read the secret letter, he shook his head and smiled, and after handing the secret letter to Su Xun, he said with admiration: "I admire Yuan Hao, he has been defeated in several battles and has been missing for nearly two months. ”

"I'm also very strange, the king has been missing for two months, except for a concubine who made a little move, the whole Western Xia is actually calm as if Yuan Hao is in Xingqing Mansion, if our Great Song Dynasty and the king of Liao have been missing for two months, I'm afraid the country will be turned upside down." After reading the secret letter, Su Xun also said to Zhao Lei with admiration.

"Humph! What kind of deterrent, obviously I am afraid of Yuan Hao's butcher's knife, look at how many people Yuan Hao killed after succeeding to the throne, Maoniucheng was slaughtered, Yuan Hao killed tens of thousands of people in a few days, the matter of the Queen Mother of Western Xia, Yuan Hao killed his mother with his own hands, and also slaughtered the three clans of his uncle's family, a person who even dares to kill his own mother, is simply a beast, this kind of beast, who is not afraid! It's easy to be happy to sort out, so those people in Western Xia are so afraid of Yuan Hao, and when there is no news of Yuan Hao's death, no one dares to act rashly. Xiao Ruoruo, who was sitting next to Zhao Lei, glanced at the sexy red lips, and said with contempt.

"Not bad! Yuan Hao of Western Xia has a tyrannical temperament, cruel and ruthless, this is a kind of deterrence, unless those powerful ministers of Western Xia see Yuan Hao's corpse with their own eyes, they will definitely not dare to resist Yuan Hao. Su Xun also agreed with Xiao Ruoruo's statement, nodded and said in a deep voice.

"Swimmers drown! Yuan Hao was cruel and ruthless to his relatives, and died at the hands of his relatives sooner or later, although Western Xia seemed to be powerful, once Yuan Hao did not have a capable successor after his death, I am afraid that it would soon fall apart. Zhao Lei remembered the last miserable ending of Yuan Hao in history, and said with a sneer.

"Not necessarily! Yuan Hao is not a fool, he is eloquent, and he also has a group of capable ministers to assist, especially Yeli Ren Rong, known as Wang Zuozhicai, they will not see the current situation of Western Xia, I estimate that after the defeat of Yuan Hao, he will focus on domestic affairs. At that time, it will definitely weaken the strength of various departments in the Western Xia, paving the way for the future development of the Western Xia. Su Xun said solemnly with a calm face.

Hearing Su Xun's words, Zhao Lei was taken aback, and now he finally felt a little peep at Su Xun, a famous writer in history, to know that after the defeat of Yuan Hao in history, he did turn from the outside to the inside. It began to strengthen the centralization of power in the Western Xia, weakened the local strength of various domestic departments in the Western Xia, laid a solid foundation for the transformation of the Western Xia from a nomadic tribal system to a feudal system, and laid the foundation for the later emperor to divide the world with the Song and Liao.

Although Zhao Lei knew these things for a long time, he saw them from the history books of later generations, and Su Xun was able to deduce from Yuan Hao's defeat and the domestic situation in Western Xia, which shocked Zhao Lei.

"Brother Ming Yun thinks that after this defeat of Western Xia Yuanhao, how long will he return to China and lurk?" Zhao Lei put away his playful mood and asked Su Xun very seriously.

Zhao Lei's question made Su Xun frown and groan for a long time. Only then did he hesitantly reply: "It's hard to say!" After this defeat, Yuan Hao has already injured his vitality, and it is difficult to recover without two or three years of cultivation, but if Yuan Hao takes advantage of this time to concentrate on pacifying those unstable tribes in Western Xia. Once he truly unifies the Dangxiang tribes in the territory of Western Xia, he will definitely increase his strength by then, and he will soon be able to send troops to attack and plunder the Quartet. ”

"Raid the Quartet! Does he Yuan Hao have that ability! You must know that the south of Western Xia is the Great Song Dynasty, the northeast is the Liao State, although the west is a plate of scattered sand Tu Domain, but it is a tribe of scattered sand Tu Domain, which makes Yuan Hao lose more than 200,000 soldiers and horses, Yuan Hao must now be trembling when he hears the name of the man, and it is estimated that he will not dare to go west for the rest of his life. After calculating it, there is only one plate left in the neighboring countries of Western Xia. Huangtou and Xizhou Uighurs in the northwest of Western Xia, he Yuan Hao only had this one choice left, the only choice, and what did he say to attack the Quartet, it was really funny! Xiao Ruoruo played with the brush in her hand, smiled lightly and sarcastically said to Xixia Yuanhao.

"Ruoruo is right! Thinking about it carefully, Xixia Yuanhao now drew his sword and looked around. I'm afraid that he can only do it against the Uighurs, and he doesn't want to provoke the Great Song and Liao, and he is not an opponent, so even if he recovers, he will definitely send troops to the Uighurs. Zhao Lei looked at Xiao Ruoruo appreciatively and said.

Facing Zhao Lei's appreciative smile, Xiao Ruoruo smiled happily, and suddenly remembered that Sophia, the foreign princess concubine of Yuan Hao in the Western Xia intelligence, was smuggling to Bianjing, and hurriedly asked Zhao Lei: "Official!" The intelligence said that Yuan Hao's concubine Sophia had passed through the border pass and came to Bianjing on the way, did you say that the imperial court would accept that Suo's? ”

Zhao Lei heard Xiao Ruoruo's question, and also began to ponder this matter, the thing is obvious, Sophia is a political figure who came to the Great Song Dynasty to ask for political refuge, and she is a very sensitive person, if the Great Song Dynasty accepts Suo's, it will definitely make a bad deal with Western Xia, but if you don't accept Suo's, I am afraid that the prestige and reputation of the Great Song Dynasty will be damaged, and the most important thing is that Sophia is just a concubine of Yuan Hao, although her identity is noble, but she has no use value, and she offends Xixia by accepting a woman who has no use value, Zhao Lei felt a little unworthy, not to mention the most war-resistant scholars in the imperial court! Therefore, Zhao Lei thinks that Da Song will definitely not accept Suoxh.

"I'm afraid the imperial court won't accept Suo's!" Su Xun also came to the same conclusion as Zhao Lei, and said slowly to Xiao Ruoruo.

Zhao Lei also nodded, Xiao Ruoruo sighed and said: "It's a pity, I heard that Yuan Hao, the concubine, is golden and blue-eyed, looks like a monster, comes from a distant country in the extreme west, and is still a princess. ”

Xiao Ruoruo's words of sigh shocked Zhao Lei's heart, the land of the far west, the place where the Silk Road needs to travel for a year to reach, isn't that Europe! You must know that after the Tang Dynasty, due to the Central Plains years of war, the Silk Road was cut off, and since then it has been cut off from the West, coupled with the closure of customs after the Ming Dynasty, the East and West have lost communication for nearly 800 years, and occasionally see a European, it is as strange as seeing monsters, and Zhao Lei knows that although the commerce and naval forces of the Great Song Dynasty are very good, but the influence is only in Asia, and it is impossible to reach Europe through the sea.

It is not easy to find a European, you must stay, figure out the situation in Europe, and then use 6 transportation or sea transportation to reproduce the glory of the Tang Dynasty during the Silk Road, and then the Great Song Dynasty may be named the Song Dynasty.

Sheng Song! Great Song Empire! Very good name, we must leave Sophia, a European, in the Great Song Dynasty, Zhao Lei thought of this and resolutely made up his mind.

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