"You guys get out!" Empress Dowager Yang said coldly to the maid and maid.

Seeing the aura that the queen mother had never had, the chamberlain and the maid left obediently. When there was no one in the dormitory, Empress Dowager Yang threw herself on the bed and buried her head in the quilt. A moment later, the sound of crying, which had been absorbed by the quilt, sounded in the dormitory.

Empress Dowager Yang has always thought that she is a very quiet person, she originally had no political ambitions, fate let her enter the palace, made her Yang Shufei, and let her give birth to two children to Song Duzong. And the death of the eldest daughter gave Yang Shufei an extremely heavy blow. Now that Concubine Yang Shufei has become the Empress Dowager of the Great Song Dynasty under the arrangement of fate, she has realized how malicious fate is.

In the court, Zhao Jiaren, the prime minister of Zuo, unceremoniously gave Yang Shufei an ugly look. Even a young man in his twenties under Zhao Jiaren dared to openly confront Yang Shufei. The dignified Empress Dowager was actually brought to such a point, and Empress Dowager Yang was only aggrieved.

Zhang Shijie's ear is good, and more importantly, when he was inspecting, he had already stopped the chamberlain and told the maid that Empress Dowager Yang was in a bad mood, so he heard these movements. The Queen Mother was so painful, and Zhang Shijie felt very uncomfortable. originally wanted to go in, but Zhang Shijie felt that it was not suitable. What if he enters? The officials of the Great Song Dynasty have never had the tradition of bending to meet the official family, and the number of officials who shouted angrily at the official family was not rare. Purely from the perspective of the court, Zhao Jiaren's style is not as good as Jia Yidao.

But Zhang Shijie would not so simply regard these as ordinary political struggles. Zhao Taiwei is not as domineering as Jia Yidao in the court, that is because Zhao Jiaren has weakened the power of the official family and the queen mother to the point of no return. Now the only thing left for the official family and the queen mother is the dormitory that is part of the imperial city, plus the names of the official family and the queen mother.

For the sake of the Queen Mother, Zhang Shijie couldn't help but still want to do something. He thought about it, so he simply left the palace directly. The imperial city of the Southern Song Dynasty is on the east bank of the West Lake, and the current residence of Zhao Taiwei is the 'back garden' that Song Lizong rewarded Jia Nidao with in that year. The back garden is also located by the West Lake, and you can see the house of Zhao Taiwei on the wall of the imperial city.

When the Mongols evacuated Lin'an, they took away all the horses they could take, and in order to solve the problem of animal power, Zhao Taiwei provided a large number of donkeys, and Zhang Shijie rode a sturdy black donkey and went straight to Zhao's mansion.

didn't wait too long at the gate of Taiwei's mansion, and Zhang Shijie was taken into the mansion. Zhang Shijie once heard that Jia Yidao's back garden is full of strange flowers and plants, extremely luxurious, and occupies all the beautiful scenery. It was also the first time he had come to the house, and when he walked in the house, he saw that the roads in the house were wide, and there were some square-shaped buildings on both sides. At this time, the sun is slanting to the west, and I can see that those buildings have no flying arches, and there are no common parts of Jiangnan. They're just square, simple and crisp.

Unlike buildings elsewhere, these houses make extensive use of glass. Looking through the glass window, long curtains hang from the room. Other than these, there are no exotic flowers and plants in the courtyard, only a few large glass flower houses sparkling in the setting sun.

Zhang Shijie heard that there was originally a large glass flower room in the palace, which was a place that Song Lizong and Song Duzong liked to go to. And this kind of flower house was paid tribute by Zhao Jiaren. Just as I was thinking about it, I saw an old gentleman wearing a peasant's costume in the field, and another old lady who also looked a little like the field came out of the flower room.

Seeing Zhang Shijie's official uniform, the two didn't care at all. The guards who led Zhang Shijie greeted the two, and Zhang Shijie learned that they were actually Mrs. Zhao's parents. For these two people, Zhang Shijie did not dare to be disrespectful in the slightest. It's not that they are Zhao Taiwei's parents, and the culture of the Great Song Dynasty does not promote honorific titles, because the Great Song Dynasty believes that the dignity of an individual depends on his own efforts. Therefore, the official family is the official family, and the Taiwei is the Taiwei. At best, officials call themselves 'subordinates' when they have to show humility. 'You' and 'I' are the common titles of the Great Song Dynasty. 'Adults' and 'villains' can't even speak about the uneducated Great Song Dynasty.

The reason why Zhang Shijie didn't dare to underestimate Zhao Zhizhuo was because Zhao Zhizhuo was a genuine Jinshi, Zhao Zhizhuo was not only a Jinshi himself, but his son Zhao Jiaren was also admitted to the Jinshi, and he was also a Jinshi in the Fujian Road Examination where thousands of troops crossed the single-plank bridge. In terms of appearance, it was Jinshi's family that gave Zhao Jiaren extra points. So Zhang Shijie hurriedly gave Zhao Zhijian a gift. Zhao Zhizhuo was in the position of the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, and he was also a genuine official.

Zhao Zhizhuo and his wife naturally returned the gift, showing the calmness of the big families. When Zhang Shijie followed the guard to the back, he vaguely heard the two discussing whether to plant some mint and alfalfa after the beginning of spring. Hearing that the two of them wanted to do their own planting, Zhang Shijie couldn't help but immediately have an indescribable good impression of the two. This has nothing to do with it, it's just that Chinese have instinctive feelings for planting.

Soon, Zhang Shijie was led into Zhao Jiaren's living room. In the Song Dynasty, there were no prefabricated slabs and no concrete, so Zhang Shijie was very surprised by the flat roof and smooth cement floor in the living room. Zhao Jiaren himself didn't particularly care, because the living room was used to entertain guests, so there was no wooden floor. It would be rude to ask guests to put on shoe covers. And let them step on the wooden floor casually, Zhao Jiaren felt very unhappy in his heart.

"Taiwei, I came to visit this time to talk about the Queen Mother." Zhang Shijie got straight to the point.

Zhao Jiaren just hummed, and there was no other correspondence. Empress Dowager Yang will inevitably become the reason why many people oppose Zhao Jiaren, but Zhao Jiaren wants to hear what Zhang Shijie's attitude is.

"Taiwei, don't you think you have persecuted anything against the Queen Mother?" Zhang Shijie directly expressed his opinion.

"What do you think persecution is?" Zhao Jiaren asked rhetorically.

Zhang Shijie immediately told about the poverty in the palace and the pain of the Queen Mother. Zhao Jiaren listened carefully at first, but in the end, he couldn't help it, and laughed.

Zhang Shijie is also a face-saving person, and he really can't talk about being despised like this. "Captain, if you think there's something wrong, just say it." He said with some annoyance.

Seeing that Zhang Shijie was so serious, Zhao Jiaren replied: "Commander Zhang, the Queen Mother is not worried about food and clothing, and there are still 300 people in the Imperial Forest Army. What else is she not satisfied with? ”

"Captain, ......, do you think the Queen Mother only needs food and clothing, and is guarded by the Imperial Forest Army?" Zhang Shijie asked with some emotion. Even though he had long known that Zhao Jiaren did not have any good feelings towards Empress Dowager Yang, he didn't expect Zhao Jiaren to have such an opinion.

"Commander Zhang, I'm not complaining about the official family and the Queen Mother. However, if the Great Song Dynasty were to rule, they would perish. Zhao Jiaren frankly expressed his opinion.

Zhang Shijie did not immediately refute this time. Zhao Jiaren was telling the truth, when Zhang Shijie and others escorted the petty official's family and Empress Dowager Yang to escape, they were desperate. Then Zhang Shijie listened to Zhao Jiaren continue: "Commander Zhang, I want to ask you something. When escorting the official family and the Empress Dowager Yang to the south, do you and those people who are traveling with you really want to listen to the orders of the Empress Dowager Yang and the official family? ”

After being silent for a while, Zhang Shijie reluctantly replied: "...... Things are different now. ”

Zhao Jiaren smiled. The engineering students of New China don't hate history very much, and Zhao Jiaren is similar. Even Zhao Jiaren, who doesn't hate history, only knew that there was such an existence as Empress Dowager Yang after returning to the Great Song Dynasty. In the history of the fall of the Southern Song Dynasty, there are only a few records of petty officials. Although they are officials, they are only subordinates of those adults. When I read that Lu Xiufu committed suicide by throwing himself into the water behind the back of a small official, both the author and the reader were moved by Lu Xiufu's fortitude. As for whether the little official family was so frightened that they cried at that time, or they were completely overwhelmed, Zhao Jiaren was not interested. Because that little doll is just a symbol representing the royal family of the Great Song Dynasty.

Zhang Shijie's reaction proves Zhao Jiaren's thoughts, some rumors do not seem to be groundless, and the petty official family in Zhang Shijie's eyes is just a talisman. From a psychological point of view, human beings actually have no feelings for symbols, and the real existence in the eyes of Zhang Shijie, the commander of the Imperial Forest Army, must be someone. And this person is probably the Empress Dowager Yang.

"Brother Zhang. What I did was not directed at the Queen Mother. Please be clear about this. Zhao Jiaren preached according to the problems he saw, "If the Queen Mother can lead the Great Song Dynasty to defeat Mongolia and recapture my old land in China." Of course, I will only look forward to the Queen Mother. But since the Queen Mother can't do it, I can only fight hard for China. Everyone has an opinion on right and wrong, I want to ask Brother Zhang, do you think what I have done so far is not good for Da Song? ”

Zhang Shijie is also a face-saving person, he knows that it was Zhao Jiaren who saved the Great Song Dynasty. But let him say that Zhao Jiaren did everything right, and he refused. So Zhang Shijie replied: "Taiwei, the Queen Mother just wants to go home." I don't think there's anything wrong with that. ”

"What's wrong with the Queen Mother is that the Queen Mother thinks she wants to do something, so everyone has to do what she wants." Zhao Jiaren immediately made his thoughts clear. He hadn't thought about it that much, but now he was sure where his dominance was. Blindly ignoring the existence of Empress Dowager Yang is not a realistic approach, and the best way is to let Empress Dowager Yang understand her vassal status.

If the intelligence of the queen mother can understand this fact, and in fact become Zhao Jiaren's courtier. Many problems have been solved.

Zhang Shijie bit his lip. After Zhao Jiaren's reminder, Zhang Shijie recalled his mood when he went south, and what Zhang Shijie thought about at that time was just to ask Empress Dowager Yang not to make trouble, so that everyone could rush to Fuzhou, which was relatively stable at that time, as soon as possible. The calmness and calmness shown by the Empress Dowager Yang at that time......

To put it more bluntly, Empress Dowager Yang brought the children quite well at that time, and did not let them cry to affect the mood of adults. Zhang Shijie is very satisfied with this. Now, Zhao Jiaren is making the same demand. However, Zhang Shijie found that Empress Dowager Yang did not seem to be satisfied with this, and Zhang Shijie also felt that Empress Dowager Yang was very aggrieved.

"Please go back and tell the Queen Mother that I have no ill will towards her, but I think it is a hundred times more important to do a good job in government than to please the Queen Mother!" Zhao Jiaren used these words to draw an end to the meeting.