Zhao Niannu clapped his hands and laughed, actually hiding the shyness in his heart.

Zheng Lang finally stood up and said, "Your Royal Highness Princess, do you know what you are doing?" ”

If it gets out, I'll kill you.

Zhao Niannu said, "Zheng Xianggong, I'm here to beg you to do something for me." ”

"Can't you talk about things well!" Zheng Lang said. If he hadn't come to the Song Dynasty for a long time and read Confucian books for decades, he would have copied this pretty little girl and beaten her ass.

Zhao Niannu smiled like a flower, now that his mind has opened, he knows what to do, don't look at this big face Prime Minister is so anxious that he wants to roar, he won't do anything to himself. She stood on tiptoe, Zheng Lang hurriedly took a few steps back, and said, "If you have something to say, don't come here." ”

"Zheng Xianggong, I don't want to marry Li Wei, the official of Dongtou."

"What? You say it again," Zheng Lang asked in surprise. Women in the Song Dynasty married early, but it also depends on the situation, the minimum is generally not less than fifteen years old, and some women don't marry until they are almost twenty years old, and this little guy is a little older.

"My father issued an edict in the palace yesterday, letting that Li Wei be the general of the left guard and the captain of the horse, and he chose me."

That is, engagement, not out of the cabinet.

But why did you book so early? Zheng Lang walked around, and he was still relatively clear about this history. It has nothing to do with history, but a picture, Cui Bai's double happiness picture.

Concubine Li Chen was elected to the palace, her parents died, and Li Yonghe was also exiled to Beijing, when Li Yonghe was not very old and had no other skills, so he had to make a living by digging paper money in the capital. It is a nice way to say that paper money is chiseled, but it is actually money for ghosts that are sold and burned to the dead. The Tang Dynasty used Tang Sancai to accompany the burial. It was not until the Song Dynasty that paper money began to be burned, but instead of yellow straw paper, it was chiseled into some patterns with a knife. This can be burned to the dead as ghost money. Li Yonghe and the young man did this job.

Liu E's first husband, Liu Mei, sent someone to find Li Yonghe, so the warmest scene in the history of the Song Dynasty appeared. Liu Mei did not frame Li Yonghe, but searched for Concubine Li Chen's family. Seeing him live in such embarrassment. proposed to Liu E that Li Yonghe could not be reduced to this point, but his sister gave birth to the emperor. Liu E obeyed and was recorded as the third class, and Li Yonghe's life changed. At that time, he didn't know that he was an uncle, and he was too old to marry a market wife hastily. This is why he has sons Li Zhang and Li Wei.

Zheng Lang bombarded the Eight Sages King, which is also the reason.

Although Liu E is not doing very well. But for the mysterious royal family, Liu E is very polite. If Li Yonghe is allowed to die at that time, Liu E can give Zhao Zhen a thousand reasons in the future without any suspicion.

Not only Liu E, but also Zheng Lang had at least a hundred ways to make Li Yonghe die a very "normal" death.

Zhao Zhen knew his family background, and in order to make up for the guilt of his biological mother, he repeatedly promoted Li Yong's official position. Li Yonghe is also angry. Didn't disappoint him. But Zhao Zhen was still very guilty, so he married his eldest daughter to Li Yonghe's second son Li Wei.

married a little late, until Zhao Niannu was twenty years old, Zhao Zhen loved it very much. was first canonized as the princess of Yanguo. The scale of the canonization ceremony is no less than the canonization ceremony. After the canonization, a grand wedding was held. But Princess Fukang's married life was not very happy. The specific reason is varied, some people say that Li Yonghe is from a low background and is a nouveau riche, and the princess is dissatisfied. This statement cannot be established, when Li Wei was born, the situation of the Li family was already improving, and a few years later, Zhao Zhen had already recognized Li Yonghe, and Li Yonghe became the uncle of the country, and he became even more prosperous, that is, when Li Wei was growing up, the family had become the door of the powerful. His brother can also prove that Han Qi is arrogant, but working with Li Zhang, like a spring breeze, admires him very much.

Some people say that it is seniority, and there will probably be some factors in this, Li Wei is Renzong's cousin and the princess's cousin. It's a bit messed up.

Some people say that it is age, saying that Li Wei is dozens of years older than Zhao Niannu, wrong, the reason why Zhao Zhen is engaged now is about the year when Li Wei reached the crown, only ten years older than Zhao Niannu, not much older, and it is not too difficult for husband and wife to communicate. …,

Some people say that Li Wei is vulgar by nature, but he is very hypocritical, he likes to be vassal, he practices more white body, and he also likes to spend a lot of money to buy calligraphy and paintings. However, the history books record that this person is good at making ink and bamboo, and he writes about it on weekdays, and discards it when he is happy, and he does not want to be known, and there are few works handed down. However, there are still several pictures handed down, such as "Ink and Wash Pujia Picture", "Lake Stone Picture", and "Bamboo Forest Secluded Residence Picture", which are not top-notch, definitely not bad, and are quite collectible. Therefore, Zheng Lang was quite skeptical of this statement.

Another theory is that Li Wei's mother, Zhao Niannu and the chamberlain Liang Huaiji, at this time Zheng Lang thought of the fair-eyed eunuch outside the building, I am afraid that Liang Huaiji, this Liang Huaiji, the princess's personal attendant, drinking a glass of wine is nothing. Just let Li Wei's mother see that she was born as a foolish woman in the market, regardless of her identity, and quietly monitored. Just let the princess see her sneaky behavior, she was displeased, and said a few words, Mother Li was unconscious, and blamed the princess indiscriminately. Where is the princess the opponent of a market woman, under a bitter scolding, she blocked the door late at night and asked Zhao Zhen to let her divorce Li Wei.

It was originally something in the family, but it spread, and the ministers headed by Sima Guang successively wrote a book, and Sima Guang himself connected two notes, demanding that the princess be severely punished by the ancestral family law. Zhao Zhen was forced to take the title of princess, Li Wei went out of Weizhou, Li's mother was raised by Li Wei's eldest brother Li Zhang, and Liang Huaiji was sent to Xijing to sweep the imperial tomb. Hit by this, the princess had a nervous breakdown, and several times she committed suicide and once burned the palace. Zhao Zhen regretted it a little late at this time, and recalled Liang Huaiji, and the princess's madness was not all good.

Many people in the palace like the little princess's smart and filial piety, understand etiquette, and resentful of Li Wei's family in their hearts, and even some palace people said to Miao Guifei that they used a secret decree to kill Li Wei to vent their anger for the princess. But because Zhao Zhen cherished his uncle's family, the matter was stopped. The court painter Cui Bai knew the truth, but he didn't dare to say it, so he made "Double Happiness Picture" to express his sympathy for the princess and Liang Huaiji, and used pen and ink to depict the hare on the picture, mocking the panic of the enemy Li Wei.

In the end, Zhao Zhen agreed to their divorce, but the little princess was crazy and not good, and Li Wei was also very bitter. The lover Zhang Guifei died, and the daughter she loved the most became like this, Zhao Zhen was under this double blow, and her body was not as good as day by day, and finally she died of illness.

Zheng Lang treats this little princess as a junior at most. There's no emotion either. Now there is a little, after all, he has become a guardian knight, but he is still a junior. Mainly Zhao Zhen. wants to stop the door of the family, or because of Zhao Zhen.

It was supposed to be a happy event of kissing and kissing, but it turned out to be like this. Why bother!

But I didn't expect the engagement to be booked so early.

I was negligent, and I talked nonsense in my previous life, saying that Li Wei was ugly, so he was very old and didn't have a wife. Gab. With Li Wei's family background, don't say that Li Wei is ugly, even if he is like Zhu Bajie, he can also marry a woman who looks like a fairy.

The reason why they got married late. It's waiting for the little princess to come of age. And Li Wei has only won the crown this year, and if he doesn't set a family affair, Li Wei will marry another woman.

Zheng Lang Khan, he knew this was the case, and when he returned to Beijing, he put aside other affairs and would rather let others gossip about himself. asked Cui Xian to come forward and let Li Wei set up a family affair first, and let Cui Xian be a matchmaker. Li Wei has a master, so why did he get this marriage contract?

It's too late to regret it, but it's okay. There are ten years of operation. The difficulty lies in Li Yonghe's identity. In the past, when I was a teenager, I didn't become an official, so I had nothing to do with each other. I became an official, and the official became bigger and bigger, and the happiness of thousands of families often lies in the stroke of my pen. But the more shy it is, the more it is.

Whether he is the prime minister or the prime minister of Xifu, it is possible to talk about the future, and no one in the entire Great Song Dynasty can match his own future, so he must be more careful in doing things. If he were to deal with his uncle's family now, he would let Yanchen spit and drown.

looked at Zhao Niannu. He bent down and asked, "He is your cousin, you married him, you are close to him, why don't you agree?" ”…,

"I don't like it," Zhao Niannu said, looking at Zheng Lang affectionately, but unfortunately Zheng Lang turned his head to look out the window and didn't see her affectionate eyes. is a relative, Li Wei also often enters the palace, and he has Li Yonghe's character, and he is only promised.

Zhao Niannu is lively by nature, and very smart, there is only one normal man in the palace, her father, so the standard of men in her heart must be like her father, gentle, wise, elegant, talented, and that kind of faint authority.

There is mildness and wisdom, and there is also the faint authority of Zhao Zhen, and there are a few people in this world. Even the cousin Zhao Zongshi, who was taken to the palace for adoption since he was a child, has more gray and feminine, and lacks Zhao Zhen's unique sunny temperament.

Poor Li Wei asked Zhao Niannu to compare with Zhao Zhen, how big is the gap in this comparison?

But there is one more.

When I was a child, I didn't understand it, but as I grew older, I saw Zheng Lang many times, this minister who had a lot to do with his fate, this minister who risked his life for himself and sent an envoy to Khitan! Zheng Lang's appearance is not very good, not as good as Zhao Zhen. But that kind of temperament is something that few people can match.

The little princess was moved, but she didn't know how to express it, the main thing was that she was too young, her father set up a family affair, and the little princess used Zheng Lang to compare with Li Wei, at least Zheng Lang was very calm every time she entered the palace, and even Zhao Zhen repeatedly called her Wei and Jin style, not to mention the little princess. Li Wei's submissiveness was compared with Zheng Lang's demeanor, and the little princess fainted.

Then find a confidant Liang Huaiji, you have to find a reason, take me out of the palace, and let me see Zheng Lang for a secret talk. Liang Huaiji is only less than twenty years old, he is a little eunuch, he doesn't know much, it was his master's request, regardless of the consequences, to bring the little princess out.

Zhao Niannu wanted to say: "What I like is you." ”

But I couldn't say it, so I had to say that I didn't like it, why I didn't like it, but I didn't say it. And he said, "You said that you would protect the happiness of my life." ”

Zheng Lang stared at her, you still rely on me! But there is no need for her to say that Zheng Lang also plans to block this family business. But how to stop it, it is difficult to say to Zhao Zhen, you can't marry your daughter to Li Yonghe's son. As long as he said it, even if Zhao Zhen trusted him again, he would be furious.

walked away, came to Zhao Niannu, and said to her: "You are Her Royal Highness the Princess, I am the minister, it is not good to meet like this, you go back to the palace first, I will ask for you, if the horse is good, you will listen to your father's opinion." If it's not good, I'll protect your happiness. Hurry back to the palace. ”

Push Zhao Niannu out.

Then he ran out like a thief, so as not to be seen by others.

When I returned home, I didn't say it to Cui Xian, but to Fan Yue'er, the Fan family has a very large social circle in the capital. And Fan Yue'er came forward, which will not attract many people's attention. Fan Yue'er quietly shouted to the side and said, "Yue'er, Your Majesty has set up a family affair for Princess Fukang, and it is Li Wei, the second son of Uncle Li Yonghe. ”

"Your Majesty is so kind to Uncle Guo's family."

He is an uncle, so he doesn't want his uncle to be wronged, and it is also a kind of parasitism for the queen mother. But the little princess didn't like the new colt. Sneaking out of the palace, Yang asked me for help. ”

"Official, this is a royal affair. How do you meddle? ”

"There's no way, back in the day, I said I would be her guardian knight. I wanted to protect her happiness, I didn't want her to marry Khitan at that time, I said it because it was insulting to the country, but I didn't want her to remember my words, and I didn't agree. If you want to pay a visit for me, what is this person, and what is his mother's character? ”

"Why did you visit her mother?"

"If you don't get married, you will be a family when you get married. If the mother-in-law is not good, the daughter-in-law will be wronged. ”

"But the little princess is a princess, alas."

Zheng Lang was speechless, yes, this is the princess, how could this woman think of scolding the princess. said: "It's hard to say, Guo Ziyi's son is still drunk and beating the golden branch, and besides, the princess of my dynasty is far less expensive than the Tang Dynasty." ”

Fan Yue'er didn't believe it.

"No matter. You ask by the way. I have a number in my heart, if it is good, I will persuade Her Royal Highness the princess for the emperor. If it's not good......" Zheng Lang shook his head. It's not that it's bad to shake your head, it's definitely not good, and the key to health has been booked. How to make the emperor regret it? …,

This is too difficult, Zheng Lang wants to scold.

"Okay."

"Don't let others know about this, otherwise Yanchen will scold me to death."

"The concubine knows."

Zheng Lang drank tea desperately, it was really not smooth today, first let Xia Zhu make a knife, and then came out again.

As for the little princess's kiss, Zheng Lang didn't think about it at all and deliberately forgot it.

One day in the unkempt, the next day to the Privy Council. It is important to get down to business, and continue to handle government affairs. But it didn't take long for the eunuch to come in and call a few bigwigs from Xifu to the capital.

came to the capital hall and sat down, in addition to a few bigwigs in the West Mansion, there were also a few bigwigs in the East Mansion, but at a glance it was clear that the atmosphere was not right, Chen Zhizhong, Song Zhen, Xia Zhu, and Wen Yanbo were all not close to the living, only Ding Du was a little better, but his qualifications were too shallow and didn't work.

Zhao Zhen also has a headache, Chen Zhizhong doesn't make friends, he is alone and makes him valued, Xia Zhu, Song Zhen and Ding Du are his teachers, or Wen Yanbo has nothing to do with it, but the problem is not Wen Yanbo, but Xia Chen and Song, Song Zhen is Ye Qingchen's friend, so he hates Chen Zhizhong, but he calls himself a gentleman, and he can't get along with Xia Zhu, Xia Zhu and Chen Zhizhong have been in conflict for a long time. Now Dongfu is very good, and I will never worry about the occurrence of friends, but in this way, can I do things well?

In addition to a few bigwigs in Dongfu, there is also Zhang Fangping, the third division. Today's talk is about the process of several imperial histories going down to investigate, and their Chinese warehouses were officially assigned to the three divisions for full supervision. But Zhao Zhen didn't regret it, because what he found out was shocking.

Several imperial histories were deliberately selected by Zhao Zhen, and they were all Qing gentlemen who opposed Xia Zhu. Yes, you go down first to do the right thing, you go down, Xia Zhu is the prime minister, and there will be no one to be verbose. Since he regards himself as a pure gentleman, his character may not be very good, but it will not be very bad.

And because of Xia Zhu's matter, there was a fire in his heart, but unfortunately before Zhao Zhen let them go down, he deliberately followed what Zheng Lang said, not to be private, not to be implicated, not to cover up, and not to compare. Although you are asked to act as inspectors for all directions, what you can do is not according to the authority of the inspectors before, and this time it is only for two things. The first is the issue of Baoding's household, which was divided into two ways in the Song Dynasty, first divided into five classes, with land property, industrial assets, residential property and real estate combined, including trees and livestock in the family. Later, he acquiesced in Zheng Lang's move, in order to encourage the increase of large livestock in the country, cattle, horses, donkeys, mules, camels, and even elephants in the south could not be taxed as assets, and were not included in the category of assets. The effect has been significant, and the number of large livestock has been increasing for several years. However, pigs, sheep, and poultry are still included in the assets. Even bamboo and stone and so on.

There is also an algorithm, sometimes for relief, or other factors, and later subdivided below the fifth class households, divided into five, six, seven and other households. The seventh-class household is almost destitute, and the ninth-class household is equivalent to a beggar. The target of this baoding is the households below the fifth class, and even the fourth class households are not good. A few people checked the problem, a large family in Hebei, with more than 700 acres of land, and a granary at home, saw that the price of grain has been rising, not sold, hoarding Juqi, there are 2,500 stones of grain and stone in it, and there is also a small workshop, a mansion. But I don't know how he got it, he turned himself into a fifth-class household, and the second son became a baoding. The family property is approaching 10,000.

After receiving the report from the people, the royal history of the investigation finished counting his family's assets and was happy. You are also a fifth-class household, how much money do we have in the Great Song Dynasty?

There is also a family that is more fun, hearing that the imperial history came down to check, and this time the court is very poisonous, let the people report, the light one will be rewarded with twenty pieces of money, the middle one will be rewarded with fifty pieces of money, and the high one will be rewarded with one hundred pieces of money. If it is particularly serious, he will be rewarded with 200 to 500 guan. It doesn't take 500 guan, but 200 kan can make the people kill.

So there were many people who reported it, and they couldn't escape, so they came up with a way to transfer all the property to his nephew. Yushi came down to check, and I lost the gambling money to my nephew together, but helplessly, Yushi left. As a result, the nephew did not return his family's property, and in a fit of rage, the lawsuit went to the county. The county government is not easy to deal with, and it has made trouble in the state. It's ugly. …,

This is Pauline's.

Other problems are not investigated, there were all kinds of bad things in the past, and now let the low-level generals who have been merged with the battalion be the big guard, a hundred people are the big guard, that is, a small team, a thousand people are a big guard, a big team, let the generals at all levels lead and manage. There will still be problems, but the previous fluid, extensive and free management method has been abolished, and it is not to blame. Now, if something goes wrong, then these low-level generals must be responsible. Therefore, it is only for households, etc.

And then to the warehouse grain.

No matter what tricks these little officials play, check one library by one, check the accounts first, deal with the accounts immediately on the spot if the accounts are not right, check the grain again on the accounts, and check the household books in the county. The literate people of the Song Dynasty were far better than those of the Tang Dynasty, and uncomplicated names could still be recognized.

As a result, I checked it and dizzed one by one.

The problem is even more serious than Zheng Lang said.

Some of the accounts are wrong, most of the accounts are not right, the grain is not right, and a few have a lot of means, and the granary sacks are stuffed with large chaff, and there are also sand and gravel. This is good, there are three small officials in Hebei, who are in charge of five warehouses and nearly 20,000 stone of grain. They were very smart, and when they saw that the drought was severe, although the imperial court was working for relief, they certainly did not do as well as they imagined when they got to the bottom. The family still can't eat, so they borrow, how ruthless was the usury in the Song Dynasty? Later generations could not imagine, some as high as 300 percent. They will not come forward, but collude with businessmen. One is to borrow money, and the other is to sell grain at high prices. After calculating the accounts, if it is out this year, it will be recycled in a good year, and the minimum price difference will be more than four times, and as a result, under greed, nearly 20,000 stone of grain in the four warehouses will be released.

The preferential treatment of scholars and doctors in the Song Dynasty does not mean preferential treatment for small officials. Besides, as a granary official, he is somewhat burdened, and the real local heroes disdain it, and their greedy officials are Confucius and Charge, and then they are the villagers, the Charge, the long name, the guest division, the general official, and the official position, and then it is not a head of the old household to do it. The warehouse officials have to take care of it, and they also have to patrol, prevent rats, theft, moisture, and fire, and even often turn over the grain, which is not a beautiful difference.

Therefore, there is no resistance to dealing with these grain officials. As long as there is a problem, the punishment is severe.

After hearing the news, these three little officials felt bad, they made such a big move, and the people had to report it. So he asked the merchants for the grain, but the merchants ignored them, "I don't care how you got your grain, anyway, we bought it with grain." It's okay to ask for food, but now the price is rising, and you can buy it back at a higher price. In a hurry, the three officials committed suicide by hanging the beam.

Stacks of folds were put together, Zhao Zhen saw that everyone was flipping through them, and said bitterly: "Do these people still know about shame? (To be continued) RQ