On September 3 of the fifth year of Jingkang, Emperor Zhao Huan looked into the barracks in the deep palace after finishing a day's work.

It's the golden autumn, and the long-hot weather is starting to cool down. Although he climbed high and looked far away, his eyes were full of gray-brown roofs, dry and dusty streets, Zhao Huan still likes to climb high and look far away every evening, with the setting of the sunset, the lights are lit, and a vivid human weather hits his chest, making him feel extraordinarily relaxed and comfortable, and the fatigue of the day is slowly dissipated in the noise of the market not far away, in the quarrel of the husband and wife, and the cry of children.

Sometimes, he is also very self-deprecating, he was a cow and a horse in his previous life, and he is an emperor in this life, and he is still a horse and a cow.

Everyone has inertia, and now he needs to do a lot of things, bury a lot of chess pieces, use the world to play, and enjoy it. However, if it is a change to the prosperous era of Daping, it is really difficult to say whether he is willing to spend so much energy to toss instead of enjoying the pleasure brought by the position of emperor.

When the sun was sinking and desperately exuding the last brilliance, Zhao Huan was full of tiredness, smiled faintly, and finally turned around.

Beside him, there were countless palace maids and eunuchs waiting, observing his every move at any time.

The palace room, which is not very large, is densely packed, and there are hundreds of nail-like guards standing to guard his safety.

In his dormitory, there are beautiful young girls at all times, serving him in his daily life and meeting all his requirements.

It's just that every time I climb high and look into the distance, step on the wooden stairs one by one, and hear the sound of the creaking stairs, a feeling of loneliness and boredom that cannot be resolved always comes and lingers.

"Official, please wash."

Under the tall building, there are several palace maids who are twenty-eight years old. Shyly and timid, he held a copper basin and asked the emperor to wipe his face and wash his hands.

Chang'an is prone to windy days and dusty, and every time he goes downstairs, Zhao Huan always has to be like this.

He took the towel and wiped it on his face a few times, finally perking up like those troubles and anguish things. With this dripping water, it fell into the dirt and disappeared.

"Official, do you want to pass on the food?"

"Pass it on."

When I first came back, every time someone asked about the food place. Zhao Huan also subconsciously asked, and later found out. No matter how angry he was, he ordered, the old rules in the palace for more than 100 years were difficult to change, and the emperor's diet and daily life had already been regulated, and he couldn't do what he wanted. In addition, Meng Hou is even more worried, if the emperor is greater than the frugal province, the eldest lady will naturally follow suit, which is equivalent to Zhao Huan's mean empress. If it is spread out, it is the unfilial piety of the Son of Heaven.

is a small daily life, and the topic is so big, Zhao Huan is also very helpless.

He agreed. The chief eunuch who accompanied the servant gave the order to go, and after a short time, near the Qingkou Pavilion where Zhao Huan lived, the lights were bright, and the pavilion was divided into front and back, the front was the place where Zhao Huan met with officials and approved documents, and the back was the residence.

The dining is naturally in front of the pavilion, five rooms hugging the building, blue bricks and blue tiles, Zhu block jade steps, small and chic, there are flower beds into a forest, and a few cranes are stocked outside, so that when the emperor lives, he feels pleasing to the eye.

Zhao Huan strolled leisurely, slowly pacing towards the Clear Leak Pavilion.

Yue Fei had already been ordered to be promoted, and the military discipline training was completed, and more than 10,000 people in the headquarters, plus more than 30,000 people in the annexed Liu Guangshi department, and nearly 50,000 Yuejia troops had already arrived at the shore of Tiaoting Lake, and Xue Qiangdi's imperial army was left and right, and began to crusade against Zhong Xiang, who was doing chaos.

Han Shizhong and Yang Yizhong also began to mobilize troops and horses, and tentatively attacked Shandong and Jingdong to help Guanzhong reduce the pressure from the Jin soldiers.

Here in Guanzhong, 200,000 troops went to the front line, and Zhao Ding, as an envoy, went to Rongji on behalf of the emperor to boost morale. A few days ago, I came to the book and said that I was in harmony with Qu Duan. The main force of 150,000 people is ready to defend the Tongguan Pass at any time, and coupled with the natural favorable terrain formed by the Weihe River Valley, it is estimated that it will not be easy for the enemy to break through the pass.

For the time being, military affairs are not worried, and civil affairs are also in full swing, and they have begun to have their own capable team and perfect political concepts.

Collecting power, integrating the financial and legal system in the hands of the central government, restraining and whipping officials with the examination law, intimidating with the study of Ban Dengwensi, and using Qin Hui and others as thugs, this is Zhao Huan's best and most confident side.

According to his estimates, at most three years, he will definitely be able to order and prohibit him, and make any moves, and he will be able to do it without the need for force as a backing.

Since Jingkang escaped from Beijing in the late autumn of three years, after many hardships and nearly two years of operation, he can finally take a breath, and Zhao Huan is also very pleased.

Slowly to the front of the pavilion, but saw a few classes of guards in the young children, is leading a horse to train, the horse is very fierce, long neighing, four hooves flying, back and forth, these several class guards, are less than twenty young people, usually very much Zhao Huan's love, the palace got these good horses, they rely on Zhao Huan's favor, they were on duty from the stable, want to train the emperor to ride, but in public out of the ugly, see the emperor walking, anxious, the horse is still disobedient, the moment one by one anxious sweat.

Zhao Huan saw that they were in a hurry, far away, so he smiled first: "Don't worry, this horse has been sent for several days, and the horse breeders in the army can't adjust it, so it's not surprising that you can't accept it." ”

As he spoke, he walked a little closer, and the eunuch beside him hurriedly bent down and stepped forward to protect him, preventing the horse from injuring people and breaking a little oil skin of the emperor, and everyone was guilty and couldn't afford it.

They used Zhang as a possibility, so they were loyal and brave, Zhao Huan glanced at him, and he didn't care, he only looked at the horse at the moment.

This horse is extremely high, there are no good horses in the Song Dynasty, although it has ordered the people to raise horses, but it is completely ineffective, there is no natural pasture and good breeds of good horses, it is impossible to be effective in the people. There was a shortage of horses in the army, and there was only one horse until seven or eight people, and even some cavalry teams had eight or nine people riding one horse in wheel.

And the height of the horse, the average is only about one meter three or four, the horse in front of him, all black, only four hooves snow white, is the famous dark cloud cover, and the height is also five feet one inch, about one meter six or so, is a rare horse in the Song Dynasty. Originally, it was the two quasi-festivals that made Han Shizhong get it from the hands of the Jurchen officers, and Baba sent someone from Zhenjiang to send it, and only said: "This horse is a divine horse, and it is not dared to be ridden by human ministers." ”

This is naturally a nonsense, this horse was originally ridden by a junior officer of the Jurchens, and he was a festival envoy, so he didn't dare to take it. When Zhao Huan received the book, he couldn't suppress his laughter, thinking that this famous upright minister, a military leader, would also make trouble, but it was interesting.

At that moment, he ordered someone to write a pen: "What Lan Qing said, I am grateful for Qingqing's sincerity, and I am very relieved. ”

In this way, a small reward was given to this martial minister, and this divine horse became a scene in the palace, and many close attendants ran to see it when they were on duty, and even many civil officials made a special detour before meeting the emperor, ran to watch, pointing, and it was very lively.

Every time he sees this situation, Zhao Huan is very emotional, in this era of cold weapons, a good horse is undoubtedly a German-made tiger tank in later generations, which makes people red-eyed and enthusiastic when they see it, and they are extremely admired.

He stood and watched for a while, only to feel that this horse was extremely stubborn, and his strength was great, but he was afraid that he would not be able to tame it when he was idle, so he ordered: "I will take it back in a while, Lian usually does not ride a horse, but slowly tames it." ”

A squad guard raised his head and replied: "We are waiting in front of the official family, we can't do any trivial things, and we don't have any face." The official family can rest assured, in a few days, it will definitely be obedient. ”

He dared to talk to the emperor like this, but it was because Zhao Huan rarely put the emperor in the driver's seat, not even him, Song Yan's rules have always been like this, and the children of Ban Zhi are the most favored and respected, so it is not surprising that he talked back to the emperor a little.

Zhao Huan didn't care, he smiled and entered the room and went to eat by himself.

The lights in the room are blazing, extremely bright, and the palace lamps are arranged in the middle of the four walls, and the day in the house is also illuminated.

No matter how provincial Zhao Huan is, he is never frugal in this regard. Modern people, who are accustomed to bright lights, can never accept the life of a bean at night.

In the left side room of the cabinet, it is where he eats, in front of a long table, there are more than 20 dishes, palace meals, also known as jade food, all have fixed recipes, such pomp, or Zhao Huan repeatedly issued strict orders, the result of reducing more than half.

He sat down in front of the desk, and looked at it, what sheep's head sticks, sea salt snakes, fried three-color fresh, paste-fried field chickens, arrow lying birds, swallow fish, wine and quasi-white fish, all placed in the silver basin marigold, the color, fragrance and shape are complete, which makes people move their index fingers at a glance.

These dishes look simple, but they are extremely luxurious. Tubu fish, only take two gills, sheep's head stick, only take two wings, with the crab's crab claw meat to wrap wontons, only take its meat, and the crab body is discarded.

This is not only a tradition in the palace, but even in the scholar's house, the folk restaurant, is also not tired of eating, Zhao Huan, as the emperor, can ask himself to be thrifty, but he can't change an era in terms of eating habits, but he can only submit to this era.

Besides, people love food, and as an emperor, it is not too much to enjoy a little food and drink.

It's just that these dishes are all boiled and boiled, and they are very greasy, Zhao Huan used a few bites, and then said with a smile: "Xiang Wu ate smoothly, I ate an extra bowl, but I couldn't eat it at this time." ”

The surrounding servants smiled and said: "The official family must be considerate of the subordinates, and use less chopsticks to reward people." ”

This is Zhao Huan is afraid of being too wasteful, as long as he has not touched the chopsticks, he ordered someone to take them down and reward them to the guards on duty to enjoy, thinking that it is a precedent for these eunuchs to be so flattering.

Zhao Huan nodded and said: "Yes, these guards who will be rewarded to the horses outside the pavilion will be tired and sweaty, and they must be able to eat deliciously." ”

I ordered this, but I was still hungry in my stomach, and I looked at the table full of dishes, but I felt that I had nowhere to start.

He sighed slightly, and finally sighed in his heart: "No wonder there are idiots in the Eastern Jin Dynasty who say that it costs 10,000 yuan to eat every day, and there is no place to put chopsticks." ”