Lin'an City, Imperial Palace, Funing Palace.

The darkness enveloped all the palaces of the palace, and only the stubborn and stubborn Great Internal Forbidden Army that passed by from time to time brought a little vitality to this deathly silence.

In his later years, Zhao Kuo rarely went to the concubines, due to physical reasons, he became obsessed with Taoist cultivation, and under the cultivation, he lived in a simple place, and it was rare to meet people.

Zhao Kuo, who was groggy and sleeping, seemed to have a nightmare, his eyelids suddenly opened, his face was pale, and he was sweating profusely.

He struggled to his feet, sat down on the yin-yang patterned carpet, crossed his legs, put the dust whisk, and began to sit up.

Looking at him wearing a Taoist robe and meditating, he is extremely pious, and he really has a bit of the taste of fairy wind and bones.

In the early period of his reign, the government was controlled by the minister of power, Han Yanxuan, and in the later period of his reign, it was controlled by the treacherous minister Shi Miyuan and the empress Yang Guizhi.

This may be the reason why he often waved his pen, made arbitrary decisions, and directly issued orders for implementation without going through the decision-making organs of the two governments.

"Tai Chi is born without poles, yang is born without poles, and yin is born when still...... A cultivator is to maintain the balance of yin and yang in the human body, to rule by doing nothing, and to refine into a pure yang body......"

Thinking of Zhao Hong's words, Zhao Kuo's heart moved, slowly stood up, stood solemnly, and started Tai Chi.

One move and one style, I don't know if the middle formulas are correct, one set is down, and Zhao Kuo's body has already warmed up.

"Come again!"

Zhao Kuo cheered up and started the second round of practice.

I don't know how many times I practiced, until my face was covered with sweat and panting like a cow, Zhao Kuo lay down, closed his eyes to recuperate, and fell asleep unconsciously.

This sleep woke up naturally, and then was woken up softly by the waiter Li Gu.

"Official, Jiguo Gong Zhao Hong is here to see you!"

"Let him wait a moment."

Zhao Kuan got off the meditation couch, and the eunuch had already brought hot water and green salt for washing.

"Official, do you want breakfast or Jindan first?"

Li Gu followed and continued to ask.

"I don't need Jin Dan today, let Jiguo Gong go to Jiaming Hall and have breakfast with me."

Zhao Kuo's eyes couldn't help but flash a trace of hatred.

Jiaming Palace, the dining place of the emperor of the Southern Song Dynasty, except for the Great Inner Forbidden Army and a few palace maids and eunuchs, there are few people.

Zhao Kuo, the emperor, is also frugal enough.

Thinking so in his heart, he followed the eunuch into the main hall, and when he saw Zhao Kuo sitting at the table, Zhao Hong hurriedly stepped forward and bowed.

"Erchen has seen Your Majesty!"

"Sit down and have dinner with Daddy."

Zhao Kuo said gently, just like in the homes of ordinary people.

The court etiquette of the Song Dynasty, especially the Southern Song Dynasty, may be the simplest and most down-to-earth in the past dynasties.

"Daddy, you're going to eat these?"

Seeing the gruel, cooking cakes, and a few small plates of vegetarian dishes in front of him, Zhao Hong couldn't help but be stunned.

This puppet Taoist non-commissioned officer is really thrifty.

What was he thinking about all day?

"The people outside have nothing to eat, how can I be arrogant and lascivious."

Zhao Kuan's face did not change, waved his hand, and motioned for Zhao Hong to sit down and eat.

Zhao Hong drank the hot porridge and looked at the tableware and wine utensils on the table, none of which were gold and silver.

Looking at Zhao Kuo's dress again, he was plainly dressed, and the color of his boots was whitish, and he seemed to have worn it many times.

Zhao Hong shook his head secretly. He suddenly remembered that during the Shangyuan Festival, Zhao Kuo did not invite the ministers. Is this also because of frugality?

Zhao Hong ate and unconsciously made a sound.

Zhao Kuo looked at Zhao Hong, unmoved, still calm, harmless to humans and animals.

This is a good man, but a terrible emperor!

"Daddy, for the New Year's Day, thank you for your father's cultivation!"

After breakfast, the father and son talked in front of the hall, which was also the purpose of Zhao Hong's visit.

"It's all father and son, so there's no need to be polite."

Zhao Kuo said softly, with a faint smile on his lips.

"I've heard people say that you are proficient in the piano, but I didn't expect you to be so perfect and convince foreign envoys. "Smiling Proud Jianghu" and "Linjiang Immortal" are all shocking, and you are a poet. I am very pleased. ”

It turned out that in front of foreign envoys, he earned face for the Great Song Dynasty.

Zhao Hong thought for a moment and then spoke.

"Daddy Xie appreciated. The child said last time that playing music and lyrics is just a small skill, and how to solve several stubborn diseases of the Great Song Dynasty is the right way. Although the Great Song Dynasty is a Yanping in the sea and the people live and work in peace and contentment, only by being prepared for danger in times of peace can the Great Song Dynasty truly move towards rejuvenation and prosperity. ”

While complimenting, Zhao Hong raised questions and hidden dangers by the way.

He also knew that Zhao Kuan was generous and benevolent, and he would not be angry because of some "nonsense".

Otherwise, all these years of qi cultivation and self-cultivation will be in vain.

"In the fourteenth year of Jiading, the Tatar army entered Bianjing, the Jin State, and came into contact with our Northern Expeditionary Wang Division, the Jiaoxi army fled south, and the Jingdong army surrendered directly to the Tatars. My Great Song also had to send envoys to communicate with the Tatars. ”

Zhao Kuo said slowly, as if he was talking about a trivial thing that happened to others.

"Daddy grew up in the deep palace and didn't know anything about the side. You can tell me that this Tatar, he can drive the Jin people from the north to the south of the Yellow River, and the strength of the army is just like the Jurchen back then. What kind of being is he? ”

"Daddy, this Tartar is really a big trouble for my henchmen!"

Zhao Kuo mentioned Mongolia, and Zhao Hong couldn't help but perk up and continued.

"Has Daddy heard of the law of the jungle?"

"What is the law of the jungle?"

Zhao Kuo raised his head in shock, and there was finally a trace of fluctuation on his calm face.

"The so-called law of the jungle is the law of survival, the law of the jungle, the survival of the fittest. Qin Shi Huang destroyed the Six Kingdoms, Wuhu Chaohua, the Jin people destroyed the Liao, and the Tatars attacked the Western Xia and the Jin people, all of which were like this. If you want to adapt to the law of the jungle, you have to be self-reliant, otherwise you will be eliminated. The state of Tatars, birds and beasts, does not practice Chinese civilization, and pursues the law of the jungle. My Great Song Dynasty is far richer than the Western Xia and Jin Dynasty, and Tatar will definitely go south. A war with the Tatars is imperative. That's why the ministers said that Tatar is a big trouble for my dynasty. ”

Zhao Kuo listened, silent by default.

"Daddy didn't know, and the retainers heard that in this Tatar army, there was a group of Buddhist tomb robbers, who specialized in stealing and digging up the tombs of the emperors of previous dynasties. Not to mention the burial goods in the tombs, these guys also like to make the emperor's skull into drinking utensils, which is extremely cruel. ”

Yuan extinguished the Southern Song Dynasty, Tibetan Tibetan Buddhist monk Yang Lian Zhenjia stole and excavated the Southern Song Dynasty Emperor's Mausoleum, stole the treasures, among which the body of Zhao Yun of the Song Dynasty was soaked in mercury when he was buried, and before it decomposed, the tomb robbers dragged his body out of the mausoleum and hung it upside down in the woods in front of the mausoleum to drain the mercury. Later, Zhao Yun's head was cut off and made into a drinking vessel, which was sent to the rulers of the Yuan Dynasty to make a drinking vessel. Zhao Yun's head was not found in the palace of Yuan Dadu until Ming Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang captured Dadu.

In the second year of Hongwu in the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang buried the skull of Song Lizong in Yingtianfu (Nanjing, Jiangsu) with imperial rites. The following year, Zhao Yun's skull was buried at the site of Yongmu Mausoleum in Shaoxing to restore the Southern Song Dynasty Imperial Mausoleum.

Therefore, Zhao Hong is not talking nonsense, but telling the truth forty or fifty years in advance.

"Be prepared for danger in times of peace, take precautions, you have a sense of worry."

Zhao Kuo's face turned pale, and he was no longer as calm as he always was.

specializes in tomb robbing, and also likes to make the emperor's skull into drinking utensils. Doesn't this mean that even after a hundred years, even if you are in the dragon and bintian, your bones will still be ruined?

"Tell me, how can you resolve it?"

How to resolve it, of course, you can't meditate all day long, you need to work hard, and work hard to rejuvenate the country.

Of course, if you think like this in your heart, you don't dare to say it.

"Daddy, do you know the three major drawbacks of my dynasty?"

If you didn't finish it last time, you don't want to miss it this time.

"What are the three major drawbacks? You name it. ”

That is the "three redundancy", "redundant soldiers", "redundant personnel", and "redundant expenses". Because the problem of "three redundancies" could not be solved, our dynasty was poor and weak, and it was unable to devote its efforts to the Northern Expedition, so we could only stick to the old ways and could not extricate ourselves. ”

Zhao Hong's words finally gave Zhao Kuo's eyes a hint of brightness.

"Three redundancies", "redundant soldiers", "redundant personnel", and "redundant expenses" are really to the point.

"Child, how to solve the "three redundancies" you mentioned? ”

Zhao Kuo asked softly.

The "three redundant" problems, "redundant soldiers", "redundant personnel", and "redundant expenses", are interlocking. If there are more soldiers and officers, the cost will naturally be higher.

However, since the founding of the Great Song Dynasty, these "three redundancies" have existed, and there has always been no suitable way to solve them.

"Daddy, the solution is nothing more than to lay off redundant personnel, clear redundant soldiers, and solve the redundancy naturally. In addition, it is also necessary to thoroughly investigate the fields and endowments, develop businesses and mines, connect the sea and enrich the country, and expand the field of the Hejin people. If the imperial court pays enough taxes, it can organize and train new armies and forge sharp weapons for border affairs. ”

Zhao Hong combined the "experience" of later generations, as well as the knowledge in this body's mind and what he saw and heard, and slowly said it.

Commercial taxes accounted for more than eighty percent, and land taxes accounted for less than two percent, and the economic bubble was severe. This is not the industrial leather of later generations. In the post-machine age, where did so many industrial products come from to support business? If you don't believe me, you name a few large machine manufacturing factories to try.

People always have to eat. In the final analysis, the Great Song Dynasty was still an era of handicrafts and agriculture, and agricultural products were still important.

There is no other way but monopoly and exorbitant taxes. And these people's fat and people's ointment have been carved up by the scholars and magnates.

"How easy is it to thoroughly investigate Tian Fu?"

Zhao Kuo sighed softly.

"Daddy, in the early years of Jiading, the consistent Huizi could be exchanged for 400 copper coins, and after fifteen years, the consistent Huizi was only worth 100 copper coins. The indiscriminate issuance of paper money, inflation, economic collapse, and the people are already miserable. ”

Zhao Hong continued to talk bitterly, wanting to increase his impression in Zhao Kuo's heart.

"The Taihu Lake Basin in Pingjiang Prefecture, with tens of thousands of acres of fertile fields, is owned by the families of the powerful. In the area of Jianhu Lake in Shaoxing Prefecture, more than 2,300 hectares of fertile land are also occupied by wealthy people. The powerful seized the people's land, encroached on the whales, and the people became tenants, leaving them to eat and drink. ”

Zhao Hong looked at Zhao Kuo and bowed.

"Your Majesty, forgive your arrogance. I rule the world with the scholars and doctors, the imperial power is extremely weakened, and the scholars are the only ones, this matter is extremely harmful, and it has shaken the foundation of the country! “”

"In a hurry, if you want to make a drastic move, I am afraid that the world will shake and the government and the opposition will be uneasy. At that time, Emperor Xiaozong and Emperor Guangzong both wanted to get rid of the disadvantages of land annexation, but in the end they failed. ”

Recalling the past, Zhao Kuo's face seemed to have some melancholy.

"Your Majesty, there is no need to be in a hurry, just choose one road and one government for a trial implementation, wait for the results, build a model for the whole country, and then implement it in all directions."

Zhao Hong said softly. In fact, this idea is not difficult, and the establishment of special economic zones in later generations is a reason.

"Emperor, you are much calmer than before."

Zhao Kuo nodded slightly, changed the topic, and stood up.

"You and my father and son practice boxing together, speaking of which, there are a few moves that I have forgotten."

"Daddy, just do whatever you want."

Zhao Hong and Zhao Kuo stood up together and began to practice.

Since Zhao Kuo doesn't want to talk about it, don't force it.

"Daddy, my son is here to thank you. Tomorrow, Erchen will go to the ordnance station. ”

"Just do things carefully, and no fault is a credit. Wait a while, you go to Kunning Palace, and also greet the queen. ”

Zhao Kuo understated, the speed of boxing practice remained the same, and the expression on his face remained the same.

"Erchen understands!"

Zhao Hong's heart fluttered, and he hurriedly agreed.

It seems that this puppet father, the emperor, also understands it very well in his heart. He's teaching himself how to do things.

However, from beginning to end, Zhao Kuo did not mention Shi Miyuan. I don't know if I hate Shi Miyuan.

The king is weak and strong, and I believe that every king will not feel comfortable in his heart.