Chapter 1 Depressed

Just after the fifth watch, Zhao Ta, who was lying on the bed, was awakened by the sound of beating iron cards, "Pudu sentient beings save the suffering and save the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas, the weather is fine, go out and add clothes" Although it has been back to Beijing for more than ten days, he is amused by the walkers from the temple, Toutuo, holding an iron card in one hand and beating with a tool in the other, with the voice of chanting Buddha that they have practiced on weekdays, loudly speaking at the current time, and also taking out the practice of weather forecasting.

The original intention of these monks at the beginning was to teach people to save sleep, get up early to worship the Buddha and recite the scriptures, and they scrupulously observe the time every day accurately, after a long time, people will become professional dawners, of course, they will not be busy in vain, walkers, heads of the day or the end of the month, they can come to the door to collect fasting and fasting money, now it seems that they are still very economical.

Zhao Ta looked out the window, it was still dark, it was the end of autumn now, the sky had become cold, if he was in Xiangyi, he would have ordered someone to set the earth dragon on fire, but now in Beijing, everything must be obeyed, and if the earth dragon is lit before the day comes, it will make people say that you don't know how to be thrifty and waste taxpayers' money.

"Lord Wang, are you awake?" As soon as Zhao Ta moved, the maid who was on night duty in the outhouse heard it and asked softly.

"Hmm" Zhao Ta hummed, and the outhouse immediately sounded the sound of a rope, and the two little maids entered the house with a lit candlestick and a red brazier with no smoke, ready to wait for the prince to get up. Looking at the two watery, tender little maids, Zhao Ta swallowed his saliva.

"Oh, I'll just come by myself, you guys go out" Zhao Ta soothed the little dd who had an early erection and said, I don't know what his wife thinks, he has just entered puberty, so he sent more than ten little beauties to serve him, replaced the palace maids who were still 'perfect' brought from Xiangyi, and beat them all home.

"Yes, my lord," the two men agreed, but did not leave immediately, but dried his clothes in a brazier before leaving.

Zhao Ta saw the two maids leaving, before getting up, "Alas, when is the end of this day" He sighed while getting dressed, it may be that the old lady felt that she didn't understand the 'personnel' specially selected from the palace to be graceful, ** fat buttocks shu female escort class is responsible for her own daily life, last night this escort class not only warmed the quilt for herself, but also brought a book of 'yellow' to read, scared him even coaxed to drive the resentful woman away, and also hurt him to fall asleep for half a night, but still had a * dream.

"I don't know what this escort class will think of the old lady's report, and won't say that I'm a 'rabbit'?" Zhao Ta had another headache when he thought of this, he knew that the escort sent to him by his mother must be responsible for monitoring him, if this continues, the old lady will definitely think that he is sick, maybe there will be some farce

Zhao Ta was distraught and dressed up, dealt with the top priority first, and then went out to walk early according to the custom, the sky is only bright now, fortunately, there is no need to go to the court today, according to the regulations of the Great Song Dynasty, he, the prince of Yipin, who has no power, will also participate in the Shuowang Dynasty, so he has to get up and wait at the door when he is ugly, this cold day is really hard. However, the Song Dynasty also had many days off, 'officials took vacations, seven days each on New Year's Day, cold food, and winter solstice; three days each on the Shangyuan, Zhongyuan, and summer solstice; The beginning of spring and Qingming are one day each, and the regular holiday is three days per month, with a total of 68 days. In the Song Dynasty, there was also a special provision that official offices at all levels would "seal" and stop official business on December 20 every year, and public servants would not return to the yamen until the 20th day of the first month of the following year to "open the seal" for office. In this way, their actual vacation for the whole year reached nearly 100 days, which is no less than now.

"Prince" Zhao Ta just went out, seeing Xi had already taken two guards Xiao Huangmen waiting at the door, he can tremble now, Huang Jingchen returned to Beijing after the official reinstated, entered the palace and served as the deputy governor of the province, Renming Palace, went to the queen's side on an errand, and the chief manager of Prince Yan's Mansion took over again and became the first person around the prince

Zhao Ta didn't take much time to turn around twice, compared with the palace in Xiangyi, it was similar to a bathroom with three bedrooms and one living room, and it was more than 50 acres of land, although it was also divided into three into two courtyards, but it became a miniature version, but there were a lot of people in life, so that after the old palace, he constantly felt depressed, as if he couldn't stretch his legs.

"See, can we find a bigger piece of land and rebuild a palace, this place is too uncomfortable to live in, Zhao Ta climbed the rockery in the garden, looked around and said.

"Lord, this is not for us to say, the construction of the palace is customized, and it cannot be built casually" Seeing Xi said with a wry smile, after the prince arrived in the capital, he felt that it was not comfortable anywhere, and he knew that the prince was not suitable for this kind of mixed eating and waiting for death. ,

"See, look around, if it weren't for the fact that all the nobles living here are Tianhuang nobles, they wouldn't treat us as a shantytown, crowded like his mother's ant nest." Zhao Ta pointed to the stacked high-rise buildings around him and said.

"Lord, the capital is not as good as when we were in the countryside, there is a large population here, every inch of land is gold, and the land is tight" Seeing Xi crying and saying with a sad face, this is not like Xiangyi, you can buy an acre of land for two dollars, and now they have more than 100,000 acres of land, if they are left in the capital, they can become multimillionaires just by selling land.

"Alas, I can't even stretch my legs out, so I'll find a way to not fuck me back..."Zhao Ta sighed and said, he also knew that what he said was the truth, and he was already good compared to those clansmen. According to the rules of the ancestors, the royal family is not allowed to live in Beijing, and they have to live in the capital, so that it has been passed down from generation to generation, and there are more and more people, and the place to live is not enough, and it has been expanded several times.

During the Renzong period, the south house and the north house were built, the south house is the house of the descendants of Taizu and Taizong, and the north house is the house of the descendants of Zhao Tingmei, and later because of the large number of people, it was relocated to the west house supervised by the eunuchs. After several decades, the government had to build a new mansion in Taizu's Lin Huayuan for the descendants of Taizu and Taizong-Muqin Mansion, the Guangqin Mansion of the Wei Dynasty, the Qinxian Mansion of the second son of Yingzong, and the Dihua Mansion of the fifth son of Shenzong. When Zhao Ji ascended the throne, he had more sons in the past ten years, and he saw that one by one he had grown up, and he had to go out of the palace to live, and he built a new mansion in Fanyan, and tens of thousands of people lived in the land with a big butt, can he not squeeze it? But there are also benefits, everyone is a relative, and when you go out, you meet either uncles and uncles, or grandchildren and nephews

Now it is popular to 'stay', but it can't compare to these people's houses, because although they are all royal relatives, they can't go out of Beijing casually, and they can't stay outside, that is, sometimes they have to go out every day to go to Zongzheng's approval, so everyone is willing to stay at home except for the last dynasty. The royal relatives have been crowned officials, but this official is also boring, the seals are all false positions, most of them are sanitation officials, when they stood in the south of the palace, so the clan is also called the southern class official. The function of these people is to attend the court meeting as a visible and silent whole at the invitation of the court, and they will be punished for four weeks if they are absent. However, in this dynasty, there was also relaxation, and the imperial princes were able to become officials through the imperial examination, but that would have to be removed from the clan.

The clan can be said to be the product of the deliberate cultivation of the emperor system, and the whole clan is living a prosperous life, but cannot have any political power, which is the most important and fundamental business. This trade made the emperor happy to posthumously crown their ancestors and give them generous kinship, even though they were potential contenders for the throne. Most notably, apart from its ceremonial function in ancestor sacrifices and court ceremonies, the clan is actually a useless royal artifact. The clan spent nobility, and relying on the unprecedented wealth of the Song Dynasty country, the generosity of the clan has been maintained in this way.

Not only did the Nanban official order give the clan an official ceremonial role and determine their position in the ceremony, but it also determined their salaries, money (food, clothing, and office expenses), and the rewards they were due to on occasions such as births, weddings, and great gifts. The lowest-ranking prince among the sanitation officers can get 20 taels per month, two pieces of silk and five horses of silk in each season in winter and spring, and 40 taels of cotton and one horse in winter. If the family can have more sons and be awarded an official earlier, life will be good, so everyone is willing to stay at home and do those big things. If compared to them, Zhao Ta lives in a big house and takes a high fortune, it is said that he should be content, but this is not his ideal.

Zhao Ta finished complaining and slipped to the outer courtyard, the guards can now only fight boxing in the palm-sized martial arts arena, do physical exercises, and run a few laps like a donkey to grind and move the body, but they pity the horses who entered Beijing with them, and they can only stay in the stable most of the time every day, and release the wind in batches and at fixed points at regular intervals, one by one they look listless, and it makes people feel distressed to watch.

"Wang Yezao" saw Zhao Ta coming over, Pan Long and several other nursing homes entertained him, and their families were all in Beijing, so they followed back, and most of the other nursing homes stayed in Xiangyi, where they settled down and did not want to return to Beijing.

"Hello everyone" Zhao Ta smiled and said, these people have followed him loyally for many years, and they are already like a family, "Have all the family settled?" ”,

"I've settled down, but I'm used to living in a big house in Xiangyi, and I'm not used to it when I return to Beijing," Pan Long said with a honest smile.

"Brother Pan is content, if it weren't for the prince, I'm afraid we wouldn't be able to afford a yard in the capital for the rest of our lives, don't you see those officials still renting houses around to live" Xue Bao patted him on the shoulder and said.

"Ha Luha, too, when they saw me move into a new home, those brothers and sisters in the past were very envious, and asked me if I was still looking for someone in the house, and they all wanted to come," Pan Long said with a smile.

"Brothers, after a few days, you will settle down, I want to ask you big brothers to go around, you have to think about where you want to go, all the expenses are counted on my head" Zhao Ta looked at it and said.

"Lord Wang, why bother to spend so much, the food and drink in the mansion are good, there is no need," Xue Bao said.

"No, I want to repay my wish, when I went to Beijing for the funeral, I promised you that you would eat all the restaurants in the capital, I don't want you to say that I lost my words," Zhao Ta said seriously.

"Do you remember what happened back then?" Pan Long said.

"The brothers who suffer together are the real brothers, and I will never forget them in this life," Zhao said.