Marrying a wife and taking a concubine are completely different experiences, and the same is true for Zhang Zhao, who is taking a concubine.

When he was married, he was overwhelmed by various red tape, but now he has been much more relaxed when he has accepted Dafu and Gao E's wife. He even has no choice but to wait in the palace.

Here, the Gao family and the Fu family equipped their daughters and dowry, and reached outside the Suzaku Gate of Qianyuan Palace on time at auspicious times.

Then, Gao Eniang's brother Gao Xingzhou and Dafu's eldest brother Fu Zhaoxin were accompanied by him and sent to the inner palace.

Then Gao Xingzhou sent someone to report to the attendants of the Inner Palace, the Empress Cao Yanxi had already prepared long ago, so that at this time, the eunuchs, the palace maids and guards arrived at Xuanwu Gate, one of the main gates of the Inner Palace.

The courtesy minister invited by the bride-sending team was He Fujin. This lord was one of the thirteen loyalists of the Xingjiao family certified by Zhang Zhao. He was a friend of life and death with Dafu's father, and was highly respected.

More importantly, after Zhang Zhao entered Kaifeng Prefecture, Tokyo, he highly praised loyalty and righteousness in order to change the atmosphere.

In the past, the thirteen people and descendants who were the last to protect Zhuang Zong Li Cunxu in Xingjiao Sect were all valued.

The "Picture of Thirteen Loyal Ministers and Masters" with the story of "The Story of Protecting the Lord" has been completed halfway.

When Zhang Zhao returned to the Central Plains from Yangzhou, he issued an edict to order Li Jing, the lord of the Southern Tang Dynasty, to let Gu Hongzhong, a famous painter in the Southern Tang Dynasty, accompany him to Kaifeng Prefecture, Tokyo, first painted portraits for thirteen people, and then completed the pictures of the thirteen loyal ministers protecting the lord.

Gu Hongzhong is a famous painter who painted "Han Xizai's Night Banquet" in history, and is especially good at drawing characters.

Among the thirteen people, Fu Yanqing, He Fujin, Wang Quanbin and others who are still here are all valued.

Hou Yi and others, who already had moral flaws, reused their son Hou Renbao.

Those who have passed away, such as Shaluchi's eldest son, would highly reward their descendants for their wealth.

Although He Fujin has not been released yet, Zhang Zhao has already given his official position to the position of Taiwei, the General of Zuo Longxiang Guard. Both of these are empty titles, which are obviously for the qualifications for the release of the outside.

At the same time, He Fujin's son He Jijun was also transferred from Chenzhou to Tokyo and went to the Zhongsuwei period of Hanshandu.

It is also obvious that he will be gilded like Gao Huaide, the son of Gao Xingzhou, and then put it as a general.

With the Halo bonus of Thirteen Zhong, the Fu family and Gao family carefully selected He Fujin to be the prime minister.

Even Empress Cao Yanxi was going to wait for the talisman in the palace, and the second-year high school girl went to see her, but when she saw He Fujin outside the palace gate, she personally got up and went out to greet her.

But don't underestimate Zhang Zhao's actions. With his strong praise, He Fujin and the thirteen people were like dazzling pearls, shining above the heads of all the warriors.

No one said anything on the surface, but An Shuqian, An Shenyue and others had long been envious of it, and they wanted to go back to Xingjiao and become a loyal minister once again.

And the younger generation suddenly realized in their hearts after the development of the thirteen schools of Xingjiao.

It turns out that if I don’t have much power, I can just be a loyal minister, but I can still benefit my descendants!

It can be said that after Zhang Zhao's deliberate pursuit, being a loyal minister has not mentioned much for almost a hundred or two years. Recently, I have been talking about it all the time.

Outside Xuanwu Gate, after a complicated etiquette, the team who sent the brides returned home, and the two girls followed Cao Yanxi to pay homage to Zhang Zhao.

Zhang Zhao, who once again became the groom, sat upright in the inner palace, waiting for the two delicate little ladies to salute her.

However, Zhang Zhao, who was originally planning to see the beautiful figures of the two women, was immediately disappointed.

Because the two little ladies were directly flooded by the gorgeous Zhaiyi, and their heads were covered by nine dragons, phoenixes, and even their faces were almost covered.

However, Zhang Zhao still observed with interest, and it was not until the eunuch came to remind him that the time for the grand ceremony was up, and Zhang Zhao nodded and left.

Queen Cao Yanxi sent the two girls to the harem with a little sorrow.

But she was just a little bit sour because she knew the importance of the emperor taking these two concubines.

From the ceremony, we can see that this time we used the folk marriage model, instead of being sent directly to the palace according to the original convention, the emperor would nod and store it after he was satisfied with the "taste". Then he started from the lowest-level beauty and talented person, but was directly the concubine.

Zhang Zhaoxuan held a grand court meeting on the day of his concubine's appointment because he had to make big moves.

A group of Hebei rich people who had a lot of fun just now were taken to the scene of the Grand Court.

Although these people are the only ones in the states, counties and villages, and have the power of life and death, the national-level formal activities of the Grand Court of Great Destiny are enough to shock them.

Just like Uncle Dong of Tazhai, if you get him to Zhongnanhai and scare him, he will still be like Huisun.

And what Zhang Zhao wants is this effect.

In such a solemn occasion, as well as the powerful oppression of Zhang Zhao himself and tens of thousands of guards.

It was said that the Hebei rich people came to Tokyo to negotiate terms with the emperor, but in fact they were just the rich people kneeling on the ground and listening to the emperor's orders.

Of course, if Zhang Zhao does it too much, these people will definitely not do it after returning to the local area and recovering, so Zhang Zhao still has to give them some sweet things to try.

The specific solution is that Zhang Zhao will not demolish their fort at all, but the population of the fort must be subject to statistics and registration from the court.

No amount of tax that should be paid can be reduced, and at the same time, people who cannot be supported by the fort must be released.

Don’t think that everyone can eat enough after arriving at the fort. There will be no such paradise in troubled times.

In fact, the level in the dock is even more cruel. It is normal for the farmer at the bottom to starve to death.

However, compared to those who are scattered in the wild, they have the freedom to starve to death, but in the fort, as long as the person above does not agree to you starve to death, you will not have this freedom.

This is why all dynasties have hoped to eradicate the forts. It is not that they can fight to the point where the state machinery cannot destroy it, but that this closed social structure is very suitable for raising dead soldiers.

You can't beat you on the battlefield, but he can raise dead soldiers, and then use dead soldiers to assassinate imperial officials who are royal relatives, and can also use dead soldiers to disrupt grassroots public order and even collude with foreign enemies.

If there is a little turmoil in the countryside, it is likely that it will be a big deal with the fuel caused by these people.

Zhang Zhao asked them to open the fort for inspection for the court in order to break the pattern of the fort being a whole sky.

If there are fewer people in the fort, the hierarchy and oppression are not so deep, and independence will soon disappear.

At the same time, the fortress tyrants must agree to betray half of the mature fields to the court, and the court will use these mature fields to all the people who do not belong to the fortress.

The payment method of Zhang Zhao is to sell one acre of mature land to the court, and the court will give you the ownership of five acres of wasteland, and then give you the usual price of the land as a purchase.

Of course, the most important thing is that the local tyrants of the forts should quickly organize Dingkou in order to respond to the imperial army heading north and contribute the food and grass stockpiled. The imperial court should buy it according to the market price.

In addition to these requirements, the rest are benefits. Zhang Zhao gave Hebei a total of 50 places to pass the imperial examinations in Mingjing, Mingsuan and other subjects.

This is to let them go down and assign official hats to themselves, and the candidates who pass the exam will be appointed to the other states and the central government as officials.

At the same time, Zhang Zhao also decided to draw brave and healthy men from the people of Hebei to organize Zuo Qianniuwei and Changshan Town. Zuo Qianniuwei has a quota of 3,000 people, and will be the personal army to accompany the left and right, while Changshan Town is designated as an imperial guard.

From now on, there will be seven personal troops and eight imperial guards, which will give the brave men in Hebei a chance to stand out.

However, the selection of Zuo Qianniuwei and Changshan Town is not their own decision.

This must be selected and evaluated by the court, and strictly followed the rules of the personal army and the imperial guards.

All of this is actually just redistribution of interests.

Zhang Zhao took out some of the shares of the Great Zhou Kingdom and asked the local tyrants in Hebei to offer real money to buy them.

After that, the local tyrants in Hebei were also members of the imperial court.

Guo Tiance explained the plan one by one to the rich people in Hebei. The rich people kneeling on the ground looked at me and looked at you and looked at you, and they all showed a look of satisfaction.

They still very much recognized Zhang Shengren's plan, and they could feel that Emperor Shaoming was indeed exerting goodwill to them.

Many times, when people hear the combination of docks and strong men, the word separatism immediately appears.

But in fact, the local tyrants of the fort were generally not large except for the Eastern Han Dynasty.

There was nothing we could do in the Eastern Han Dynasty. Who said that Han Guangwu had a very weak foundation? In fact, he was pushed to the throne of emperor by the local tyrants in Hebei.

At this time, the local tyrants in Hebei only controlled hundreds of people with one surname, and then the families gathered together to form a fort. They could not fight against the Khitan army southward, nor could they be able to fight against the iron cavalry of the court.

No one is so stupid that he really thinks that he can be independent of the court by relying on the fort.

What they pursue is to try to protect the power of some population as much as possible, and to fight against the rebellion of the court. No one thinks about it.

Originally, they actually had another way to go, that is to support Liu Zhiyuan.

Liu Zhiyuan's small Hedong court plate was much smaller than Zhang Zhao's Great Zhou, and his strength was much weaker.

In addition, without a large base with a population of 60,000 and 7 million, Liu Zhiyuan's bargaining power in the face of Hebei rich people is much lower, and the rich people are more likely to get more benefits from Liu Zhiyuan.

It’s just a pity that they are not a local tyrant in Henan or a local tyrant in Huainan. They are a local tyrant in Hebei.

Since the land of Yanyun was occupied by the Khitan, the number one enemy of the local tyrants in Hebei was the Khitans, no doubt.

Just like Liu Zhiyuan's appearance of being in love with the Khitan, the Hebei rich man who had just experienced the invasion of locusts in the Khitan army was unable to accept it emotionally, could not be ignored in reality, and could not look at it in the long run.

Who knows if Liu Zhiyuan would like Shi Jingtang to sell them to enter the Central Plains like that?

Therefore, after a brief silence, the rich people all put their heads on the ground again.

One of the 70s from Dingzhou raised his head slightly and shouted loudly at Zhang Zhao.

"The grass people thanked the saints for their kindness. The land of Hebei has suffered repeated disasters. Today, a saint king has finally come out and is willing to pity our people who are seeking survival under the iron hoof of Khitan."

At this time, Zhang Zhao finally stopped sitting high on the imperial throne, but walked down quickly and helped the old man up.

"The Khitan will pay a price sooner or later, and I am willing to revive the country with my husband and others!"

Hearing Zhang Zhao say this, the rich people in Hebei stood up, and my Tang Dynasty's repertoire of the mountain dance will soon arrive.

The local tyrants in Hebei were seen as Gao Xingzhou in the middle, An Shenqi and Fu Yanqing were among the others, and Huangfu Chong and the old man followed closely behind.

Hundreds of people first shouted long live the neat and rhythmic mountains, and then jumped up in small steps.

Zhang Zhao could see that the dance movements were not limited, but were free to perform.

For example, Gao Xingzhou was imitating the movements of a heroic warrior on the battlefield, holding a knife in his left hand, and holding a penis in his right hand, making two steps to make a stabbing move, and one step back seemed to be defending.

An Shenqi was a little at will, and his dancing posture was almost the same as the guys jumping around in the bars in later generations.
To be continued...