Minister, painted by Gao Gong. ”

"Minister, Gao Gongji."

"I've seen the Queen Mother."

The Empress Dowager Gao Zhengyi waved her hand and said: "You and I are close relatives, so there is no need to be polite, or call my aunt to listen to it." ”

"Yes, auntie."

Gao Zhengyi's starting point in life is very high, how high is it? When she was a girl, she was photographed by her aunt and prepared to make her husband small. If it were an ordinary person, it would certainly be a despicable act condemned from the depths of the soul. But it's another thing that her aunt is Empress Cao, and her uncle is Emperor Renzong.

The affairs of the heavenly family, no matter how excessive they are, no one dares to say it.

Speaking of Emperor Renzong, he was also unlucky. Since the pro-government, in the first half of his life, he worked diligently and conscientiously to resolve the threat of Western Xia to the Great Song Dynasty, and he also thought about reforming the government of the Great Song Dynasty and completely solving the two fatal problems of the heaviest burden on the government of the Great Song Dynasty.

As a result, Fan Zhongyan, who had miraculous feats against Western Xia, was caught by him. Fan Zhongyan also reciprocated the favor by writing to Emperor Renzong, "Answering the Edict of Chen Shishishu", commonly known as "Shitiao Shu", which solved a series of problems in the imperial court, such as appointing officials, favoring the system of favor, suppressing land annexation, and easing the expenditure of the state treasury.

Unfortunately, in less than two years, there were many opponents in the court. In the end, the New Deal could not be reached at the local level, and finally it was abandoned.

Renzong, who suffered a heavy setback in his political career, did not collapse, but Emperor Renzong, who was past his age, found that he had no son. So, although he still had ambitions in the second half of his life, he had to be delayed by the great cause of giving birth to a son.

Besides, Queen Cao is also sad. He has no son, and he doesn't even have a son with the concubines in the palace. It's not that Emperor Renzong didn't have a son, there was, there was more than one. The problem is that they didn't feed the big ones and they all died. Seeing that her husband is getting older and older, and there is no son to inherit the throne, isn't it going to cheapen the princes and princes in the clan who block her husband all day long?

King Xiangyang gave birth to more than 30 sons like a piglet, and his husband, who was the emperor, was so angry that his eyes were red.

Gao Zhengyi is the daughter of Queen Cao's sister, she has been likable since she was a child, and she is a rare beauty when she grows up. In addition, Queen Cao raised Gao Zhengyi as a daughter, and she loved her even more. Rather than letting her husband fool around with other, it is better to cheapen her niece in her own family. With this in mind, Empress Cao decided to include Gao Zhengyi among the concubines of Emperor Renzong and give her an official title.

Fortunately, Emperor Renzong was a little uncomfortable with Gao Zhengyi, who grew up in front of him and was raised as a daughter, so he married Yingzong.

It can be said that the Gao family has lived in the palace since he was a child and has never gone out.

This is also what makes her special, she also has brothers and sisters, but it's hard to say how close she is.

It is absolutely impossible for a queen mother who can properly handle the relationship between the family, the royal family, and even the court not to be praised. Even if the Gao family rose rapidly because of Gao Zhengyi's entry into the palace, compared with other relatives, the Gao family did not do anything excessive in Bianliang.

Summoned by my aunt.

The two brothers, Gao Gonghua and Gao Gongji, were a little trembling. On weekdays, their aunt would not send her cronies to look for them at home. Obviously urgent.

For relatives in the eye of the regime's storm, urgency is likely to be fatal.

Therefore, the two brothers rushed to their aunt in a hurry, and stood silently as they looked at their aunt.

Empress Dowager Gao Zhengyi sighed slightly, these two nephews are inferior to their brother Gao Shilin, how can they support the Gao family after a hundred years?

"Do you know what other branches my Gao family has in Yingzhou?" The ancestral home of the Gao family is Bozhou, so it is naturally impossible for a son-in-law to go to Yingzhou for development. If it's either a side branch, or a child who has been punished by the family and given up, it is possible to go to Yingzhou.

"Yingzhou?"

Gao Gonghua and Gao Gongji looked at each other, and said in their hearts: It won't be so coincidental, right? A relative from Yingzhou in their mansion just came to send money, and it was 100,000 yuan as soon as they made a move. It's very arrogant. Could it be that as soon as you collect the money, something happened?

Can you still let out the money that can be delivered to your door?

It's only been a few days since I received the money, and I let my aunt know, but the question is, it's not a big deal, is it? At most, it is an exchange of courtesies between relatives.

Gao Gonghui accompanied him and said carefully: "Aunt Qiyu has a relative who went to Yingzhou from the clan, and it has been two generations. Now that she is the third generation, she happens to be in Beijing, does her aunt want to see her? ”

The Empress Dowager said disgustedly: "Forget it, it's good not to see it, so as not to get into trouble." ”

This can be regarded as an aunt's mention of two stupid nephews. I don't understand anything, I just know how to make money. Of course, the way of making money in the Great Song Dynasty is not corruption, but the kind of partnership that does business, guarantees income in drought and flood, eats dry stocks, and does business without capital.

Su Shi said too many things that were not conducive to the old party in the recital, and these things were indeed a headache. Because of the repeal of the "Seedlings Law", land annexation in various places is becoming more and more serious. As a direct result, a large number of people who have lost their land have been displaced from the countryside to the cities to earn a living. And their land has changed from a state of heavy forced labor and taxation to the property of large households.

Meritorious families, even large families with meritorious families, do not need to pay taxes, or only need to pay a small amount of taxes. And the conscription is completely exempted. As a result, the number of conscripts available in various places has been greatly reduced.

This is a real problem that cannot be avoided or avoided.

This is also the weakness of the old party, because there are fewer and fewer people who can collect taxes, and the levies and levies are becoming more and more insufficient, and the burden on the local people is getting heavier and heavier, making it more and more difficult to maintain the "Errand Labor Law" that the old party adheres to.

As for Wang Anshi's "Conscription Law", the object of expropriation has become a large household, which is simply robbing the rich and helping the poor, which is intolerable.

What you insist on, even if it is wrong, you have to swallow it in your stomach if you lose your teeth.

It is inevitable that she will be frightened, once she is attacked by someone with a heart, even she, the queen mother, will be embarrassed. She is already sixty years old, and she will take care of the Great Song Dynasty for another year or two, and then she will be handed over to her grandson to take care of. She didn't want to be at this juncture, because after her family's broken foot was caught, she was beaten up for a while, and finally had to issue the most embarrassing edict in the emperor's family - the edict of sin.

"One more thing, does the official family want to promote your rank?" Empress Dowager Gao Zhengyi asked.

Gao Gongji couldn't help but be overjoyed, and said in surprise: "Auntie, you agreed?" ”

"Nonsense." The Empress Dowager Gao Zhengyi said in a deep voice: "If you want to be an observer today, you want to be an envoy tomorrow." Do you still want to open a house and fail to do it with the three divisions? Resigned, although the Gao family has a good fortune, it can't allow a few of you to squander it so much. The power and official position you have obtained today, but you have lost the affection of the heavenly family, this kind of reason, can't you both see it when you are so old? ”

Gao Gongji is unwilling, this is the observer, although there is no fart power, but this is the most important part of the promotion of the festival envoy, if there is no identity according to the identity of the inspector, the two brothers' festival envoys will not be in vain?

Where the interests are, Gao Gong Ji is really reluctant, he also wants to be the same as the old Cao family, his status is extremely noble, and the money is not less, and he has also gathered a large number of interest alliances, becoming the most noble general and wealthy family in the Great Song Dynasty. And the degree of identity is an important part of this kind. Thinking of these benefits, Gao Gongji said boldly: "Auntie, but listening to the official family, he really wants us to be promoted to observer envoys. ”

"He's it!" Empress Dowager Gao Zhengyi shook her head and was silent.

After all, he is the grandson of his own family, or the emperor, so he can't say much.

Emperor Zhao Xu looked at Mu Na on weekdays, but a child who could upgrade himself to a father at the age of thirteen, would he be a simple child?

Don't look at the grandmother who is afraid that her grandson will not study well and play small, Zhao Xu can only be accompanied by little fairies when he usually plays, and he has to be monitored by a group of old palace maids, even when he usually sleeps, Zhao Xu can't go back to his bedroom, but sleeps in his grandmother's palace. In addition, a group of old masters follow him every day as if they were chanting scriptures, and they are not stupid.

But two years ago, there was an unexpected thing in the palace, and the internal officials were looking for a nurse in the capital.

Zhao Xu, who committed the crime, sat on wax, although he was only thirteen years old, but the ministers didn't care how old he was, and threw a big hat at him. made him embarrassed, but fortunately he was protected by Gao Zhengyi, so that the worst situation did not occur and he faced the questioning of the ministers.

This incident once again sounded the alarm for Zhao Xu.

There are too many spies around, all of them are spies.

I have too little power to speak.

Grandmother is pro, and it's okay if it's wrong.

After this turmoil, the Empress Dowager took care of Zhao Xu more strictly, and Zhao Xu was not disgusted with these, after all, she couldn't see it on the surface. Especially Zhao Xu's obedience made people look surprised. After all, from the court to the Great Interior, no one wanted to see Zhao Xu become a radical emperor like his father, Emperor Shenzong. Instead, he hoped to train Zhao Xu to be a gentle, conservative, and prosperous Emperor Renzong.

However, the Empress Dowager Gao Zhengyi had already seen Zhao Xu's yang and yin violations.

Zhao Xu is only a teenager, he is clever in front of his grandmother, can he not be seen?

If it was a small family, Zhao Xu's behavior would have been disgusted by his grandmother, and even excluded, and kicked him far away. But don't forget, he is the emperor, and as an emperor, it can't be too simple. You shouldn't put your mind on your face, only the emperor who makes the courtiers can't guess his mind can be a human king. Otherwise, it's a puppet that doesn't make a weapon.

Zhao Xu's performance was seen in the eyes of his grandmother, but he did not blame or dislike it, but it made Gao Zhengyi feel that his good grandson had grown up.

It's just that I've grown up, but I'm a little unkind to myself, and I don't want to say anything, pretending to be a wooden and benevolent look. Gao Zhengyi is not worried about herself, after all, where is the seniority, even if the emperor has grievances, he should understand her hard work when he grows up. But the Gao family has no kindness to the emperor, but it is stupid to get all kinds of rewards from the emperor, if the Gao family is really lifted to the sky, the next moment it should fall to the ground.

Leaving the palace, the two brothers of the Gao family began to ponder, and when the elder brother Gao Gonghui asked, "What does the old man mean by the Holy Mother?" ”

"Xu is asking us to cut off relations with Gao Xiaoli in Yingzhou?" Gao Gongji said aggrievedly.

Gao Gongji said with a painful face: "This is a hundred thousand!" ”

"Xu is Yingzhou's affairs are a bit complicated, let us stay out of the matter. But isn't Gao Xiaoli a big family in Yingzhou, what does it matter? Gao Gonghua was a little reluctant to pay for his money.

Gao Gongji didn't want to talk to his brother about it, anyway, it was absolutely impossible to let his brother spit out the money. Instead, he asked thoughtfully: "It seems that the imperial court sent Qin to Yingzhou, I don't know who it is." ”

"I know, it's Xiao Fan, Fan Xiang." Gao Gonghua doesn't care about the Tao.

Gao Gongji frowned slightly, feeling that something was not right, and hesitated: "Isn't he an old fool?" ”

"Who's to say it isn't?" Gao Gonghua agreed.

Gao Gongji thought about it, and then said with a smile: "Brother, you don't need to return the money, just send Gao Wuyang away." ”

Since Fan Chunren was sent to Yingzhou, it is obvious that their aunt also has the intention of turning big things into small things and small things. After receiving money from the Gao family's father and son, there is not much risk.

Yingzhou.

On the embankment of the West Lake, an old man with white eyebrows and white beard, wearing very ordinary coarse cloth clothes, riding a black donkey, shook his head and hurried ahead. There was also a boy behind him who shouted worriedly, "Master, go slowly." ”

The old man looked back and smiled: "Don't worry, what about it?" ”

Suddenly, the old man sniffed vigorously in the air, urging his mount towards the grass hall on the edge of the riverbank. Sure enough, when I got to the front, I saw two half-sized men dressed in ordinary appearance, frying fish on the river beach.

The batter, spices, and fragrant sesame oil are fried until the small fish is golden brown and sizzles when they are removed from the pan.

The old man slid down from the donkey, looked at the two busy boys with a smile, and asked, "Is the fried fish for sale?" ”

Li Kui and Li Yun went to a prison cell, and after being known by Su Shi, they were punished again.

Clearing land on river beaches.

There is no quota, Su Shi originally wanted to hone Li Kui and Li Yun's temperament, and he didn't care about the harvest at all. On this day, the two brothers faded out of their mouths, so they thought about getting some fried fish to eat.

I didn't expect to be busy, and an uninvited guest came. Li Kui glanced up at the white-bearded old man, the white-bearded old man who wouldn't get into the ring, bad reviews. As for those who want to stutter, Li Kui is not a stingy person, he handed over a pair of chopsticks and said, "Don't sell it!" ”

The old man took the chopsticks a little stunned, but when he heard the second half of Li Kui's words, he immediately smiled.

"If you don't dislike it, let's sit down and eat together!"

After a while, the old man's scholar ran out of breath and came to the old man, and found that his master had actually eaten it, and rolled his eyes angrily and said: "Master......" I wanted to say something to complain, but the ghost asked the ghost: "Is it fragrant?" ”

The old man pulled the chopsticks in his hand, raised his eyebrows and said, "Gaba crispy!" ”