Three years have passed.

For three years, everything was business as usual in the Prince's Mansion.

It's just that the children are older, but Mochizuki gave birth to a daughter, so he can't come in this year.

His Royal Highness the Crown Prince and the eldest lady are still in love, and because of the passage of time, they have become more and more tacit.

On the night of early winter, Zhao Tuo came back from the palace with a cold body.

Zhuang Jiaojiao stepped forward to greet him: "It's so late today." ”

"For the north, I didn't come back yesterday, okay at home?" Zhao Tuo sighed.

In the autumn of this year, a handful of Liao people in the north robbed the border people.

It was originally a small friction, but because of the strong resistance of the local people, it became a big trouble.

Quite a few people died.

Although it is not to the extent of starting a war, it is also a big event, and people have been sent. As the crown prince, he naturally can't help but care.

The official family can't keep up with it now, so why is it that he is also an old man in his prime.

Although the spirit is still good, after all, the body is old.

The brain is still clear, the ears are good, and the most powerful thing is that every mouth of teeth is good, and everything you eat is delicious.

But the problem is, his eyes are gone, and he doesn't have reading glasses now.

You can't see the words when it's dark, and you have to get close to see them even in broad daylight.

In this case, it is impossible for him not to rely on the crown prince.

Fortunately, the official family didn't add suspicion, because he couldn't keep up, so he let it go very neatly.

This caused the prince to be tired into a dog, after all, the prince is the prince, after he made a decision, why did he have to ask the official family, right?

Don't look at the seventy-three people in modern society, they are still all kinds of physical sticks in modern society, and it is not a problem to climb mountains and dance.

But this is the ancient Song Dynasty, with an average age of fifty years old.

The official family is like this, which is quite powerful.

Several of the courtiers have retired, and Lin Daxiang Gongguang has been on the sword twice this year to say goodbye.

He originally wanted to wait until the official family was gone, but the result was that his body was not as good as the official family......

Therefore, if there is no accident, if something happens, the prince may not be able to go home for two or three days when he enters the palace.

"What can happen at home, the children go to school every day, and everything else is fine." This year, her daughter named Li also went to the palace to study together.

This will be the same rule in the future.

With her taking the lead, some of the concubines in the clan also entered the palace to study.

There are also officials who say that this is not in accordance with the rules and the like, and Zhao Tuoyi went back, saying that women don't need to read and read to be reasonable? Dignified courtiers, what is the matter with not allowing women to read and write?

Anyway, the prince doesn't eat oil and salt, and the official pretends to be deaf and dumb, and that's it for the official to beep a few words in this matter.

However, the officials have also counted, and it seems that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince ...... Tsk, it's hard to think about.

Zhao Tuo was tired today and ate a lot for dinner. Then he was paralyzed.

I didn't want to get up, I didn't want to move, so I looked at the big lady.

Zhuang Jiaojiao made him a big pot of tartary buckwheat tea. Then pour it into a cup and give it to him.

Zhao Tuo didn't answer, and looked at it blankly.

Zhuang Jiaojiao fed him to the extreme, but he was not skilled and poured someone by the neck.

Fortunately, it's almost dry, and it's not hot.

But because it wasn't hot, someone didn't move......

"Shall I find you a bottle?" Zhuang Jiaojiao was speechless.

Zhao Tuo also said: "It's too big." ”

Poor Highness didn't know what a milk bottle was, and thought it was a pot for milk or something.

Zhuang Jiaojiao sighed and wiped his neck: "You're tired like this?" ”

"What do you say? If it's a big fart, I'll fight back. Can you be afraid if you don't hit them? What does it mean that you can't start a war with the Liao people because of this thing, and you will hurt your peace. I don't know that fighting a war costs people and money? ”

"The problem is that people have grabbed it, what? Still want to let? What bullshit we and other ceremonial states don't care about barbarians, and if they are afraid of death, they say they are afraid of death! ”

"It's the woman who didn't rob their family, the woman who didn't rob their food, right?" The more Zhao Tuo said, the more angry he became.

"A group of civil officials will govern the country with their mouths, and one will speak better than the other! One courage is smaller than a small! ”

Zhuang Jiaojiao listened silently, okay, this is probably an indispensable thing in all dynasties.

Most people, of course, do not want to go to war.

What can be solved by sitting is solved by sitting.

But sometimes you don't fight, people do bully you.

"Lady?" Zhao Tuo saw that Zhuang Jiaojiao didn't speak, so he called her.

"Huh?"

"You say, do you want to fight or not?" Zhao Tuo asked again.

"Did I say it worked?" Zhuang Jiaojiao simply relied on him to be lazy.

"That's hard to say, maybe it's useful?" Zhao Tuo hugged her and rubbed her on the back a few times.

"Don't you have all the ideas, it must be bad to fight, I don't know how many people will suffer. But it's definitely not okay to just leave it alone. It's not like catching a team of people, you can't just put it back. Zhuang Jiaojiao said.

"Well, either ask the King of Liao to exchange money for grain, or behead and hang on the border line! As long as they don't change, they will cut off their business! ”

Nowadays, the annual grain trade between the Liao King and the Central Plains is inevitable, and their grain is not enough to eat.

But there were horses and cattle and sheep in exchange for grain, salt, cloth, and so on.

"Cut off trade?" This is also ruthless.

"I've calculated it, even if it's broken, it's broken on the surface, and it definitely can't be broken in private. However, the break on the surface also made the Liao people unable to eat and walk around. Within a year, they will be out of cooking. When the time comes, even if they want to go to war, they will not have the confidence. ”

Most of the Liao people are nomadic, and men, women, and children can fight, and they are soldiers on horseback.

But they all eat and drink the same.

But because of the nomadic herding, there is very little farming, and the environment there is not suitable.

So they are naturally short of food.

"But there might be a fight in between, right?" Zhuang Jiaojiao asked.

Zhao Tuo snorted for a moment: "That's why all parties need to mediate, hey, I'm really tired." I often think of the time when the Jin Dynasty was in the palace, how good. Every day, I don't want to come back and talk to you. ”

"You didn't order every day at that time, so you often didn't go." Zhuang Jiaojiao laughed at him.

"Ah......" Zhao Tuo shouted, burying his head in her back.

The more I think about it, the more sad I become, what a prince to be.

"Cheer up, when you reach forty, you can call your son to take over." Taisun is already ten years old.

"Yu'er is only ten years old...... Zhao Tuo said in despair: "I'm still a prince......"

"Uh......" Zhuang Jiaojiao could only clapped his hands: "Then you bear with it." ”

"It's okay not to say it." He sat up: "Daddy's eyes are not good now, and he is more and more careless." For such a big matter, it was said that the prince was in charge. ”

"That's also a good thing, the official family believes you, if the official family also has to take care of it, won't it become more and more chaotic?" Everybody thinks differently.

One person has one statement, who does the people listen to?

Originally, there was a large wave of courtiers who did not approve of the hard coming, and if the officials were to manage it a little more, wouldn't it be a trouble.

Therefore, over the years, Zhuang Jiaojiao has really felt a little funny when he looks at it.