A few days later, news finally came from the palace that Zhao Xu had discussed with Empress Dowager Gao and others and decided to make Meng the queen. After hearing this news, Zhao Yan couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, although the queen's candidate is the same as the original history, it is this Queen Meng, but in fact, there is an essential difference, in the original history, the affairs of the post-establishment were handled by the Empress Dowager Gao, Zhao Xu could only passively accept it, but now it is Zhao Xu's own consent, obviously he has already figured it out, and there will be no turmoil after the abolition in the future.

The matter of the establishment has been confirmed, but there is no official edict to the world, and as for the wedding, it will take a long time to prepare, and it is estimated that it will not be held until the next year at the earliest. However, Zhao Xu's wedding could not be held, but Zhao Jia's wedding was held a year ago, because Cao Ying and Yang Huaiyu's wives had already started to handle it long before he came back.

Zhao Jia is Zhao Yan's eldest son, the little prince of the Yue Palace, his wedding naturally attracted the attention of the entire Great Song Dynasty, not to mention that this time he is going to marry the daughter of the Yang family with the greatest military merit among the generals, it can be said that it is a good match, and now their two families are married, which naturally caused the entire capital to be shaken, and Zhao Yan has a wide range of friends, this wedding is enough to invite thousands of people to the banquet, and every day on the streets of Tokyo City, you can see the subordinates of the Yue Wangfu trotting to send invitations to others.

Waiting until the twentieth day of the lunar month, it is a good day to get married, so under the personal auspices of Zhao Yan, the wedding of Zhao Jia and Yang Yan was finally held grandly, and even Zhao Xu personally participated in the wedding, and at the wedding Zhao Xu said to Zhao Yan with great envy, hoping that his wedding would also be presided over by him, at least not worse than the eldest brother's wedding, which made Zhao Yan laugh, Zhao Xu is the king of a country, his wedding is simply a National Day. Where is Zhao Jia's wedding comparable?

According to general customs, Zhao Jia is considered a complete adult after marriage, and needs to move out of the house to live, so Zhao Yan and Cao Ying specially built a new house next to the palace for Zhao Jia and his wife to live in, but only one month after marriage. Zhao Jia proposed to go back to the south to report in the army, after all, even if he asked for marriage leave this time, he only had two months, and after staying at home for so long, it was time to go back.

Sure enough, Yang Yan and Zhao Jia had a strong relationship after they got married, so they naturally didn't want to stay in the capital alone, so she also had to follow Zhao Jia to the south, but it was okay. At least Zhao Jia has a caring person around to take care of her, Zhao Yan and Cao Ying are also at ease, as for Agnes, although she can also take care of Zhao Jia, she is a European after all, and she is still not very good at some things, so it is Yang Yan who makes Cao Ying feel more at ease.

However, before Zhao Jia could leave, he was suddenly interrupted by a big event, that is, the Empress Dowager Gao, who had been lingering on the sickbed for many days, died suddenly. This surprised everyone, Zhao Jia is a grandchild. Naturally, he had to stay for the funeral, so in this case, he could only ask for leave from the army again.

Speaking of which, the Empress Dowager Gao has been ill for a long time, as early as three years ago, the serious illness almost made the Empress Dowager Gao unable to persevere, but then she miraculously improved. However, since then, Empress Dowager Gao's health has been worse year by year, and her serious illness and small love have hardly been broken, which is also the main reason why she slowly handed over the government to Zhao Xu, because her body really can't hold it.

A few months ago. Empress Dowager Gao fell ill again, and this time the condition was menacing, although after several diagnoses by the imperial doctor, but the body has not improved, but even so, it is estimated that she knows that her condition this time is not good, so Empress Dowager Gao is in a hurry to prepare for Zhao Xu's post-mortem, originally Zhao Xu has promised to be the queen of Meng Mei, but I didn't expect that Empress Dowager Gao still couldn't wait to see Zhao Xu's wedding with her own eyes, and suddenly left.

For the death of the Empress Dowager Gao, many ministers in the court are very sad, although Zhao Xu and the Empress Dowager Gao are a little discordant, but after all, she is his own grandmother, when he learned the news of the sudden death of the Empress Dowager Gao, the whole person was stunned there, and he couldn't recover for a long time. And Zhao Yan was also very shocked when he knew the news, and his heart was mixed, but he quickly came to his senses, and personally saw Zhao Xu in the palace, and then discussed with him the future of the Empress Dowager Gao.

In the past two years, although the Empress Dowager Gao has slowly withdrawn from the government, but when Zhao Xu was young before, it was her woman who supported the Great Song Dynasty, and her policy of recuperation and recuperation also allowed the Great Song Dynasty to slowly recover from the failure of the previous reform, so whether it is the court or the people, the Empress Dowager Gao has great prestige, and when the news of her death came out, the Great Song Dynasty was also mourned by the whole country, and even Yelujun of the Liao State sent envoys to mourn.

After the grief, Zhao Xu quickly cheered up, and with the help of Zhao Yan, held a large-scale funeral for the Empress Dowager Gao, nicknamed the Empress Dowager Xuanren Shenglie, and was buried with Song Yingzong in Yongyu Mausoleum. In addition, the emperor is different from ordinary people, ordinary people need to keep filial piety for three years, but the emperor only needs to keep filial piety for three months, and it just so happens that Zhao Xu's wedding also takes a few months to prepare, so after the expiration of three months, it is just right to hold a wedding for him.

Zhao Jia's trip was also delayed by the funeral of the Empress Dowager Gao, and it was not until after the funeral of the Empress Dowager Gao that he decided to set off again, but before leaving the capital, he entered the palace again to bid farewell to Zhao Xu.

"Big brother, can't you stay a few more days before leaving?" Zhao Xu in the study said to Zhao Jia in front of him with a reluctant face, since he was in power, there was less time to go to Zhao Yan, and usually only Zhao Jia occasionally came into the palace to talk to him, but now that even Zhao Jia is gone, there is one less person who can talk to him.

"After all, I am a soldier, and this time I have been on leave for too long, if I don't rush back to the army, I'm afraid that my brothers in the army will soon not know me." Zhao Jia smiled at this time and said, with his identity, even if he takes a long vacation, no one dares to take his position, but Zhao Jia has his own plan, and staying in the capital every day with nothing to do is not the life he wants.

Seeing that Zhao Jia had made up his mind, Zhao Xu couldn't help but feel even more lost, and finally said after a long time: "Okay, big brother, don't forget to write to me when you go to the south, especially if you want to introduce me more to the customs and customs of the south, I can't go there in person, I can only have you, Brother Lao." ”

"Don't worry, as long as I don't stay at sea all day, I will definitely write to you!" Zhao Jia patted Zhao Xu's shoulder, and then said with some emotion, "Brother Xu, the Queen Mother has also passed away, and all the government affairs of the DPRK and China are taken away from you alone, although you are still young, don't work too hard, sometimes things that are not too important are handed over to those ministers, after all, you are the emperor, you don't need to bow down to everything, you just need to be able to use people." ”

Zhao Xu also nodded heavily at Zhao Jia's advice, Zhao Yan had also taught him these before, and he also knew that his father made this mistake, and as a result, his body was exhausted, and he died young, but he would never make this mistake again.

At this time, Zhao Jia also felt that the topic was a little heavy, and suddenly said with a smile: "Brother Xu, do you remember what you promised me?" ”

"Huh? What's up? Zhao Xu was stunned when he heard this, he promised Zhao Jia a lot of things, so for a while he didn't know what Zhao Jia was referring to.

"Of course, when I'm ready, you'll send me a fleet and let me travel around the world!" Zhao Jia gently beat Zhao Xu's chest at this time and said with a smile, he has liked the sea since he was a child, and he has long made a wish to lead the fleet around the world, the reason why he entered the navy is to accumulate sailing experience, for his dream, Zhao Xu also strongly supported, as early as when he entered the Naval Academy, Zhao Xu promised to wait until Zhao Jia was ready in the future, he would send him a fleet and support him to travel around the world.

"It turns out that this is the case, with the naval strength of our Great Song Dynasty, it is not a trivial matter to send your eldest brother a fleet, but eldest brother, you will not be ready now, right?" Zhao Xu was also surprised when he heard this, although he didn't know much about navigation, but he also knew that it was not an overnight thing to train an experienced admiral, Zhao Jia had not been in the navy for a long time, and he was afraid that he was not capable of circumnavigating the world, right?

"Hehe, if I rely on myself, I'm afraid it will take more than ten years to accumulate enough experience, but I am not in vain in the navy, the army is a place that pays attention to collective strength, especially in the navy, individual strength is not enough at all, but when hundreds of people work together to drive a sharp warship, it can exert extremely powerful power."

When he said this, he saw Zhao Jia pause for a moment and then said: "And I have met a lot of people in the past few years, some of them have the same dream as me, and they all want to explore what the other side of the world is like, these people have admirals, ordinary maritime merchants, and even some pirates, they are all like-minded with me, and there are many outstanding talents in all aspects of them, who can make up for my shortcomings, so I plan to organize them and gather the strength of everyone to sail away!" ”

Hearing Zhao Jia's words, Zhao Xu couldn't help but glance at his eldest brother in surprise, and only after a while did he speak: "Big brother, your method is not bad, but you have just gotten married, if you sail now, I'm afraid you won't be a sister-in-law, and even the third uncle will not agree." ”

"I didn't say that now, I want to organize these people, and then do some run-in training, and some other preparations, I estimate that it will take two or three years, and then my father will definitely agree." Zhao Jia was full of confidence at this time. (To be continued.) )