Zhao Ji thought about it carefully, although the other party's asking price was extremely expensive, if he could give a correct prediction, it would be enough to bring immeasurable benefits to the country.

After thinking about it again, he gritted his teeth and said, "It's done!"

At this time, the Northern Song Dynasty had not yet been destroyed by the Jin State, because it had not lost the north, so the Song State was extremely rich, and the annual income was almost close to 100 million taels of silver.

Of course, the income is a variety of different materials, and in the end it is converted into silver, not that the treasury of the Great Song Dynasty can store 100 million taels of silver a year.

The reason why Xiao Qiuyu insisted on gold was because on earth, before gold, the exchange ratio hovered between 30:1 and 40:1, while in ancient times, the exchange ratio of gold and silver was almost 10:1.

Three million taels of gold, that is, thirty million taels of silver, is less than half of the annual income of the Great Song Dynasty...... With the savings of the Great Song Dynasty treasury for hundreds of years, it is not difficult to come up with three million taels of gold.

After Zhao Ji agreed, Xiao Qiuyu immediately made a new post in the mission area

【Exclusive Contract Mission】

[Party A: Zhao Ji] [Party B: Xiao Qiuyu]

[Party B promises that Party B will enter Party A's world and predict for Party A his future fate and the future fate of the country under Party A's command within half a year. 】

[Party A promises: After getting the fate prophecy given by Party B, in return, Party A needs to pay Party B three million taels of gold as a reward! 】

After writing the terms of the contract, Xiao Qiuyu sent it to Zhao Ji, who decisively signed it and opened the world's access to the world for Xiao Qiuyu.

"Finally got the honor of seeing the immortal master......" Zhao Ji greeted him with a smile, thanks to which he specially chose to meet Xiao Qiuyu in a palace where no one was, otherwise let the palace maids and eunuchs see such a scene as the emperor, his majesty should be completely swept away.

And Zhao Ji didn't think there was anything wrong with Zhao Ji's approach, although he was a powerful emperor in the world, but he had been in the Ten Thousand Worlds Exchange Forum for a long time, and he knew that there were countless powerful bigwigs in the heavens and ten thousand worlds, including many super existences such as gods, demons, fairies and demons, and a mere mortal emperor had nothing to be proud of.

Xiao Qiuyu was not polite to him, he said straight to the point: "In this way, Mr. Zhao, my prophecy was born from astrology, and the more accurate the prediction, the more effort and effort it will take, and the more time it will take...... So you have to wait for a while, and I will tell you your fate and the national fortunes of the Northern Song Dynasty!"

"I don't know how long it will take......

"If it's fast, it's a month or two, if it's slow, maybe it'......" Xiao Qiuyu comforted: "Anyway, don't worry, the treaty actually states that it will be within half a year, then I will definitely not overtime!"

"By the way, I'm not interested in your palace, there are too many stinky rules here, and I'm annoyed by it...... Arrange another place for me to stay."

"It's easy to say, I'm going to be a saint right away, and I'm going to build a palace for you, what do you think?"

For this big guy who spends a lot of money to hire, Zhao Ji naturally won't be stingy with a little money...... Besides, during his reign, he had already built a large number of palaces, and he didn't care about one more or less.

"When your dormitory is finished, I should have patted my ass and left......

Xiao Qiuyu was quite unimpressed, when it came to luxury, how could the ancient architecture catch up with the island villa in his personal space? At most, it's a wider area and a little more grandiose, but that's irrelevant; And his own villa, just the pure white as snow, smooth as mirror marble floors and wall tiles, is something that the technology of this era cannot do anyway.

"What does the Immortal Master mean?"

"Just find a place to live, I don't have anything to do with this person......

Although Xiao Qiuyu said casually, Zhao Ji would not really arrange him casually...... He directly advocated that Xiao Qiuyu should live in the "Yuqing Zhaoying Palace", and arranged a large number of palace maids to serve his daily life, and even sent a large number of imperial wine and food every day, and Xiao Qiuyu was not polite, it was rare for someone to be the wronged leader, so he naturally ate and drank to his heart's content.

And Zhao Ji was frequented, he was very courteous to Xiao Qiuyu, and he often called the immortal master in his mouth...... Although the courtiers were dissatisfied with this, they were not surprised.

After all, Song Huizong was an emperor who believed in Taoism very much, and during his reign, he made a mess of the country's governance, but he used a lot of money from the treasury to build Taoist temples, and called himself "the Taoist Emperor...... It is not surprising that such a superstitious faint king would do such a thing.

Zhao Ji of Song Huizong in history is like this, not to mention Zhao Ji, who has been brushing in the Ten Thousand Worlds Exchange Forum for many years and knows that immortals really exist in other worlds.

Xiao Qiuyu knows some unpopular historical anecdotes, after the Li Tang Dynasty laid the country, he chose to recognize the famous Lao Tzu (Li Er) in history as the ancestor of the Li family, so he had great respect for Taoism and directly promoted it to the state religion.

The reason why this is so is because the imperial examination system was in the ascendant at that time, and the social atmosphere still attached great importance to family background...... And Li Yuan is not a famous family, and he respects Lao Tzu as the ancestor of the Tang royal family, just to raise his own value and claim that he is a descendant of immortals, so as to create public opinion of "divine authority of the monarch".

In the Song Dynasty, the Zhao family also did the same, in order to raise their own value, they chose to recognize an immortal surnamed Zhao as their ancestors...... However, there are really not many immortals surnamed Zhao, and after looking for them, they barely found one, but they are a plague god, called Zhao Xuantan.

recognized the plague god as an ancestor or something, and his reputation was not very good, so the Zhao family renamed him Zhao Xuanlang (later renamed him Zhao Gongming in the novel), and beautified his priesthood into the God of Wealth......

Although the Zhao and Song dynasties were oppressed and invaded all year round, and the territory they controlled was far less than that of other unified dynasties, their economy was extremely developed, and even capitalism sprouted; When it comes to wealth, the Northern Song Dynasty court is the first among feudal dynasties.

In Xiao Qiuyu's view:

If "Journey to the West" was a book from the Tang Dynasty, the author would definitely be pulled out and beheaded, because Lao Tzu, the ancestor of the Li Tang Dynasty, was pushed to the ground by Sun Wukong and fell.

If "The Romance of the Feng Gods" was a book from the Song Dynasty, the author would also be pulled out and beheaded, because Zhao Gongming, the ancestor of the Zhao Song Dynasty, was cursed to death by a straw man.

The Li family posthumously regarded Li Er as Emperor Shengzu of the Tang Dynasty, so the Zhao family followed the example and posthumously regarded Zhao Xuanlang as the Emperor of Song Shengzu. Like the Tang Dynasty, the Song Dynasty did not hesitate to spend huge sums of money to build palaces and temples in the case of lack of national finances.