After completing the task, the task force retreated to Gaochang via Western Liao to recuperate, and they left a mess in Murayi, and several surviving imams fought for the position of Sheikh, and their strength was weakened again, thus reducing their control over the surrounding area. The kingdoms and lords who had once lived under the threat of the Murai took advantage of this opportunity to unite and crusade against them, laying down a number of fortresses and further encroaching on their territory.

Under the internal and external troubles, the imam and missionaries of the Murayi Kingdom could only hurriedly end the internal strife and elect the Sheikh, and his prestige and strength were not the same as those of the previous two terms. When Fort Alamut was destroyed, they had to choose Fort Mementis, the most precipitous, as their station. However, the new Sheikh was still terrified, and the pervasive assassination of the Song people left a huge shadow on them, and the first thing he did after taking office was to send an envoy to contact the Song people to beg for peace, hoping that the two countries would stop sending assassins to each other's heads.

If they hadn't sent someone to assassinate Zhao Tan, I'm afraid that many people in the Great Song Dynasty would not know that there was such a country, so they could only go to other countries to get in touch with the Great Song Dynasty and enter the Gaochang realm to ask for a meeting with the supreme governor here, send huge gifts and swear that they would never offend the Great Song Empire again, let alone retaliate against the Song Dynasty merchants. Gao Zhong was already angry about their assassination of the emperor, so naturally he didn't have a good face, so he asked the emperor for instructions and let them stay in Gaochang for several months before he reluctantly agreed, and the matter also ended with the complete victory of the Great Song Dynasty.

The task force returned to Bianjing in the spring of the following year, and they were able to complete their mission under such difficult conditions, and Zhao Ta of course did not hesitate to reward them, raising their ranks by two levels and making them knights. In addition to the two victims, they paid a lot of money. It was also knighted by his descendants, and his spiritual position was entered into the Martyrs' Shrine and was forever commemorated by the state. And between the excellent performance of the task force. Zhao Ta decided to keep this team and personally gave the team the name 'Xianglong' Squadron. With Qing Yang as the captain, the establishment is still 120 people, and it is transferred to the internal guard brigade of the Guards Army, becoming another mobilizable force of the emperor......

The 16th year of rejuvenation is destined to be an unquiet year. At the beginning of the new year, Shangshu Province accepted the emperor's establishment and revised the Di Bao, which used to be only distributed to the 'county and regiment level', and officially named it "Imperial Xun Bao", which was distributed to the whole country, mainly to report on recent heavy news, international forms, new government policies and important news. The materials are mainly derived from the recitals and letters received by the provinces of Shangshu and the Privy Council. After the unified compilation, the manuscript was sent by the post station to all roads for typesetting, printing, and distribution by 800 miles.

Because the "Xunbao" has the characteristics of authoritative publishing agency, fast news transmission, and low price, it is possible to 'show talents without going out, but can know the affairs of the world', not only by the attention of the government, the army and the academies, but also by businessmen enthusiastically subscribe, and its price of three cents can be bought even by the poor, and can make it easy for them to get a conversation, so as long as the literate must find a way to buy a copy.

In order to increase the entertainment and audience participation. The newspaper will also issue supplements such as current affairs editions, entertainment editions, business editions, and literary editions from time to time, and no matter who provides articles or news that are adopted, not only can their big names be shown in the newspaper, but they can also get some 'pen polishing fees' according to the situation. And the most attractive thing about these supplements is the 'literary edition'. Not only because of the frequent publication of articles by celebrities, but also because the editor-in-chief is the Empress Zhu of the Dynasty, think about once your article is selected. It is very likely that it will be recommended to the emperor, if the emperor likes it again. Isn't there a broad road in front of you?

Of course, there is no need to ask these questions, but Zhao Ta made up the Tao, in order to unify the national propaganda caliber. Dispelling rumors, guiding public opinion, and supervising the government have become a powerful weapon for ruling the country. Those supplements provide a channel for those scholars and scholars who like to point out the country to comment on current affairs and debate, which is better than letting them talk about the emperor in private and criticize the government, and at the same time give them an extra path of 'words and deeds', so as not to engage in the drama of ambushing the book at every turn, which will cause turmoil in the imperial court.

Of course, as the most profitable and the most picky emperor in history, Zhao Ta will not pay for the newspaper out of his own pocket, and those corners are left for businessmen to spend money on advertising, and the official can also use this to attract consumption and promote the development of commerce. The only exception is the literary supplement, from the sorting and distribution, publication and printing to the payment of the author from Zhao Tan's small treasury, and he did so to make up for his debt to the queen.

The marriage between Zhao Ta and Zhu Shuzhen can be said to be a misunderstanding caused by an encounter, and he admired this talented woman more back then, and even was a little afraid, and he couldn't talk about love at all. I borrowed wine in the post house to plagiarize the masterpiece of my predecessor, but I wanted to take this opportunity to take off the label of 'no learning and no skill' on my body before entering Beijing, but I didn't expect it to attract the girl Huaichun and fell in love with my own 'old boy', so that she was later named the princess by Queen Zheng under the impetus of Huang Jingchen.

In the years that followed, Zhao Ta was inseparable from his appearance, but it was difficult to change the emperor's order, so he could only passively accept such a talented woman. After the wedding, he was still close to each other at first, trying to accept her, but he always had a thorn in his heart. And Zhu Shuzhen did not live the romantic life of the fantasy of talented and beautiful women, and she herself couldn't adapt to Zhao Ta's ups and downs of 'cherishing the country and looking at the world', which finally made the two unable to integrate into their respective lives.

After Zhao Ta succeeded to the throne, Zhu Shuzhen became the mother of the country in charge of the harem, and as the concubines gave birth to children one after another, she worried about whether her son could succeed to the throne, and the quarrel with the emperor deepened. In the end, when Zhao Huan returned to China, he directed a farce that shook the government and the opposition, which angered Zhao Ta, although he did not abolish his position as queen, but he also left her out in the cold, deprived her of her power, and raised her in the deep palace.

After all, Zhao Ta is a person from a previous life, with the idea of equality between men and women in modern people, and as he gets older, he also feels that the reason why he and Zhu Shuzhen are like this is that he also has a certain responsibility, especially because of the rebellious psychology caused by the marriage, so that he did not accept Zhu Shuzhen from the bottom of his heart. So he took advantage of the opportunity of last year's assassination and the easing of the relationship with his eldest son to restore his relationship.

But Zhao Ta knew that people would make trouble if they had nothing to do, so he paid out of his own pocket to get the queen a page editor-in-chief to give full play to his strengths. Find something for her to do too. Unexpectedly, this investment has achieved fruitful results, and Zhu Shuzhen has become popular with her status and excellent literary literacy. became a celebrity in the poetry circle of the Great Song Dynasty, and she was busy selecting manuscripts every day. Summoning everyone to discuss the pros and cons. In addition, sometimes Zhao Ta also participated in it, improvised 'stealing' a few masterpieces to help him, the relationship between the husband and wife became more and more harmonious, and his backyard was calm, which can be called the first model family in the Great Song Dynasty......

But God doesn't seem to see Zhao Ta's goodness, and he has to find something for him if he has nothing to do. At the beginning of the year, when the Yellow River thawed, Qin Tianjian reported that the Yellow River was clear, because the Yellow River was clear and auspicious, and the ministers congratulated one after another. Zhao Ta knew that this was just a natural phenomenon. It may also be a precursor to drought, as the runoff slows down due to the decrease in water from the upper reaches, the premature deposition of sediment, and the clearing of the river.

And the appearance of Heqing is obviously related to what 'saints come out'. When his father Zhao Ji was in power, there were three times of 'Heqing', the emperor and hundreds of officials celebrated each other, and used various forms to sing praises of virtue, and even in the first year of Daguan, the Qianning Army reported that 'the Yellow River Qing'. More than 800 miles, where seven days and nights', his father also issued an edict to change the Qianning Army to Qingzhou, in fact, everyone knows that it is the faint monarch registered in history.

Therefore, Zhao Ta not only did not like to speak. On the contrary, the Ministry of Industry and the Ministry of Households were ordered to closely monitor the water situation and pay attention to the amount of rainfall. Sure enough, the unfortunate thing was expected by him again, and it was not raining until April after entering February. Spring drought occurred in Henan, Hebei, Hedong, Dading and Shaanxi five roads, and spring sowing could not be carried out. The drought is still developing, and the larger rivers are no longer navigable due to their reduced volume. Even the canal is too shallow for large ships, and if it continues, it will lead to a large-scale reduction in grain production in the north throughout the year, and a famine will occur.

In the face of the severe situation, Zhao Ta urgently convened the ministers to discuss the matter, and the occurrence of such a large-scale drought often leads to social problems. Hungry people will leave their homes in search of food and flock to wealthy areas to become displaced people, and some people will also take risks to rob official warehouses and wealthy households, becoming bandits, and then the plague epidemic will follow, leading to the loss and death of the population, which will not only cause heavy damage to the economy, but also plunge the society into turmoil, and it will be difficult to recover after many years.

How to deal with future disasters, some people mentioned the strategy of conscription in disaster years used by the previous dynasty, which pulled the young and strong into the army, so as to reduce the resistance force and maintain social stability; Others proposed to order the state capitals and garrisons to guard their posts to prevent the movement of hungry people. Zhao Ta immediately vetoed these two proposals, and finally solved the problem of redundant troops, and could not let many years of hard work come to naught because of a disaster. In addition, the flow of hungry people cannot be solved by blocking, and if it is not done well, it will cause even greater turmoil.

Of course, the most people are to build yì open warehouses to release grain and help the hungry, but everyone knows that this disaster is serious, the area is wide, the time is long, and it is difficult to deal with the storage of state capitals in various places, but there is still a part of it is the military food used by the emperor to prepare for the Northern Expedition, and it cannot be moved. After consideration, Zhao Ta thought that although the Northern Expedition was a big plan, the stability of the political situation was the premise, and the current disaster relief should be the priority, and he issued an edict at the moment:

The affected provinces were ordered to open warehouses and release grain to help the victims, and at the same time carry out production to help themselves, raise seeds for late autumn crops, and immediately replant them when the disaster situation eases; ordered all the departments under the jurisdiction of the town and pacification department to put on alert to prevent riots, and at the same time, depending on the disaster situation, at the request of the local state capital, to distribute military rations for disaster relief, and send a battalion of doctors to assist the local treatment of the sick to prevent the outbreak of the plague; It is ordered that the summer taxes of the southeast, southwest, and unaffected provinces in Jiangsu and Zhejiang will be delivered in kind and transported to the disaster areas nearby, and if the waterway is impassable, they will be transported to the north by sea.

At the same time as issuing the decree, Zhao Ta sent officials to the state governments to strictly investigate the failure of disaster relief and seize the opportunity to withhold relief materials to crack down on profiteers who raised prices. The northern garrison was ordered to closely monitor the border to prevent the enemy from taking the opportunity to enter the border. After the drought, there are often major floods, and Zhao Ta asked the Ministry of Industry and the Ministry of Households to take advantage of the drought to lead the rivers to dry up and the water level to reduce the water level, gather the young and strong people in the disaster area, and use the method of remuneration for work to repair and strengthen the dangerous sections and embankments that cannot be repaired when the water is abundant, and at the same time solve the livelihood problems of the people after the disaster.

Zhao Ta's holy decree passed through the notice of Guò Shangshu Province and the "Xun Bao" spread rapidly, so that the people of the world understood the severity of the disaster and the severity of the shape, but the country did not sit idly by, but was trying its best to relieve the disaster and help the people, for a time the people's hearts stabilized, the most worried about the problem of displaced people did not happen, and at the same time, the people responded to the call of the imperial court and launched self-help, and there was no turmoil because of the aggravation of the disaster.

Zhao Ta's years of painstaking management have not been in vain, the strength of the national strength has enabled the Great Song Dynasty to store a large amount of funds to deal with large-scale disasters, and the promotion of new crops has also made the warehouses in various places abundant, reducing the pressure on the central government, and being able to distribute disaster relief materials to the victims in the first time. In addition, the business empire headed by the four halls, which he single-handedly controlled, can also be bought and sold at a parity to prevent riots caused by soaring prices...... (To be continued......)