Chapter Twelve
Chapter 12 Looking for trouble if you have nothing to do
Ma Zhi's arrival made the emperor and ministers of the Song Dynasty excited. For several days, Zhao Ji summoned the prime minister to discuss the matter. Unfortunately, Zhao Qi, who had the most say in this matter, could only be a living puppet that could only listen but not speak.
He stood aside, not even a cup of tea, and he could only pray for them in his heart. Zhao Ji deeply agreed with everything Ma Zhi said, so he immediately appointed him as Secretary General, granting the country's surname Zhao and changing his name to Zhao Liangsi.
Zhao Qiong watched coldly, watching the fierce debate in the court. The initiator Tong Guan, who had been fighting northwest for many years, had reported major military information and suffered heavy losses, but he had won many victories after all. At this time, he was already extremely inflated.
But he is still very 'calm', knowing that the reason why he can achieve today is due to unmatched military achievements. Now with the rise of Liang Shicheng and Wang Fu in the court, and the cracks appearing between him and Cai Jing, these may be the case.
Let everything in his hands disappear in an instant. To keep all this, we can only continue to fight and try to hold the crown in our hands, but it is a means of self-protection.
The reason why the monarchs and ministers of the Song Dynasty played with fire was nothing more than the long-cherished wishes of the dynasty, the humiliation of reality, and the mentality of taking advantage of the fire. At this moment, it was as if God had given him a good opportunity, so that the monarchs and ministers did not have this qualification at all, and they did not know that
The incomparable characters were heartbroken. In fact, looking at the century-long journey of the Song Empire, the imperial monarch and ministers were all spent in these two extremes of humiliation and calculation. This pair of abominable twins had a congenital deficiencies.
Acquired disorder, naughty, erotic, ugly and cruel, and not lovely at all. The imperial monarch and minister who gave birth to them took all their efforts, suffered all their hardships, and were worried. It is obvious that under the empire tradition, this equation is indeed unsolvable.
.But from then on, the Song Empire was ready to move and began to join forces with Jin to destroy Liao and restore Yan Yun, but he didn't know that he was trying to fight with Hu.
After a few days, Zhao Qie did not gain anything. At least he finally got the latest results of the battle between the Jin and Liao: In the battle of Hedian, Wanyan Aguda defeated the Liao general Xiao Sixianyi with less than 4,000 troops.
Ten thousand people, the total force has developed to 10,000 people, and since then, the myth of "Jourchens are not satisfied with ten thousand, and they are invincible". This winter, it was announced that it was the founding of the country and the reign of the country, and Aguda himself changed his name to "Wanyan Min
”, which kicked off the destruction of the Liao Kingdom.
But after these unreconciled people discussed, a group of people went to do whatever they should do. Tong Guan returned to the northwest again. The emperor was busy writing and drawing to find beautiful women. Cai Jing thought about how to make the emperor forget about this as soon as possible.
Put this moment aside again!
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Zhao Qi's actions for a while were finally discovered by the queen. She called him into the palace and scolded him hard, and warned him not to hang out with those people and not learn well. Zhao Qi is a
The obedient child immediately corrects his mistakes. Except for coming to the palace to pay tribute every now and then, he rarely goes out again and stays honestly in the mansion every day.
As the twelfth lunar month entered, Zhao Qi went to pay his respects to his mother as usual, but she happened to have something to do and went to Yanfu Palace today and didn't see her, but she met Huang Jingchen. The old man is obviously thin and looks much haggard now. It seems
Life in the palace was not very easy. After chatting for a while, Huang Jingchen asked the prince to think of a way to calm the emperor down and could sit in Renming Palace even if he had nothing to do.
Only then did Zhao Qi realize that his mother's life was not very easy. Since the early years of politics, Zhao Ji's favored concubines were no longer Concubine Wang or even Empress Zheng, but Empress Zheng's adopted daughter. After his death, he was posthumously named Empress.
Concubine Liu, who was posthumously named Mingda, but after she died two years ago, the emperor fell in love with Concubine Liu's adopted daughter, his niece. Now he is very fond of her and is unwilling to leave for a moment.
"Uncle Huang, what does this smell?" Zhao Qi suddenly smelled a strange smell, and he asked with a sniff.
"It must be the kitchen cooks who are fiddling with those tributes again!" Huang Jingchen said with a frown.
"Where is the tribute? Why is it so unpleasant!" Zhao Qi asked curiously.
"Go and get some for the prince!" Huang Jingchen knew that the prince liked to go into the kitchen to make some fresh things, so he ordered the little yellow doorways on duty outside the door, "It's all the things that are paid tribute to Chameng and Tianning Festival,
The taste was very bad when made, so the emperor gave it to the kitchens in various halls. They made random adjustments. I tasted it once, and it tasted like wax, which was so unpalatable!"
The little yellow gate was coming soon. As he spoke, he came back with a large bag of things. Zhao Qi put it on the table and opened it. My god, scallops, shark fins, sea cucumbers, abalone, shrimps, all of them were sea things, "Uncle Huang,
These are all good things, how can they be bad!" he asked in surprise.
"Prince, this thing is not delicious, the empress gives it to the cooks!" Xiaohuangmen also said. Most of the imperial chefs in the palace had never seen these things before. He didn't understand why the prince said they were delicious.
"Don't talk nonsense. Since the prince is interested, you can go to various places to search and search, and send it to Prince Yan's mansion!" Huang Jingchen knew the prince best. If he said it was a good thing, it must be a good thing.
It will never be bad.
"Uncle Huang, these things are definitely delicious when you make them. After a few days, you will leave the palace and come to my mansion and I will let you taste it!" Zhao Qi said with a smile. This time he really picked up the treasure.
In fact, as early as the Tang Dynasty, Annan, south of China, appeared on the coast of Vietnam, and began to make seafood such as shark fins, sea cucumbers and other seafood into food. Some neighboring countries presented it as tributes to the Chinese emperor. Zhao Qi was always surprised by the food in the palace.
He also ate it several times, but did not find any famous dishes such as shark fins and sea cucumbers from later generations. He thought he had not worn them in the past. It turned out that after receiving the shark fin tribute, the emperor rewarded it to the chefs, so he could only
They blamed them for not finding the deliciousness of these things. But again, shark fin is not delicious, but the chef turned it into deliciousness. Some seafood itself is tasteless, and its taste is all brought by condiments. If there is no fresh ingredients, it will definitely taste like chewing wax.
We can only blame the chefs for not understanding the true meaning of "tasteful and tasteless".
My mother's affairs were his own. Zhao Qi took it upon himself and said goodbye to Huang Jingchen. It was still early, so Zhao Qi turned to Lingxiao Palace and wanted to see his junior brother Wang Laozhi. In the past, he had been living in Cai Jing's mansion.
It was not very convenient for me to visit him. I heard that he had moved out of Cai’s Mansion a few days ago and happened to visit him.
When he got there, he asked someone. The Taoist priest who received him was very surprised, but he still led Zhao Qiong and his group to Wang Laozhi's residence. "Cao, why did he live in such a place?" Zhao Qiong arrived in front of the door and cursed inwardly.
,This house may be the second most popular room in Lingxiao Palace, and it is not much better than the woodshed in his own mansion. When he saw his junior brother Wang Laozhi, he looked even more scary, wearing an old Taoist robe and wearing it.
The bed was thin and the quilt was sitting there like a zombie, with a gray face and a black Yin Tang. I don’t know if it was frozen or excited, and I was trembling. I don’t have to count Zhao Qi, I also knew that this kid was either sick or unlucky!
"Senior Brother..." Wang Laozhi saw the 'relatives', reluctantly got up and bowed, and said in tears.
"Why are you still so hardworking? Didn't you be given a name by your father and have a salary?" Zhao Qi asked. Now Taoist priests are divided into twenty-six levels, just like government civil servants, and they are all paid according to the level. Wang
A high-ranking official like Lao Zhi has a lot of income.
"Senior brother, it's hard to say anything..." Wang Laozhi sighed. After he entered Beijing, he wrote the whispers of the late Concubine Liu when she served Zhao Ji with her friends during his lifetime. The bosses of the famous officials in the capital came to him.
When asking about future, the method is to measure the characters. One word determines life, and one word determines wealth. It is so powerful. Every day, the crowds of people are crowded, but it makes Cai Jing unhappy after a long time.
Cai Jing has reason to get angry. There is a fun phenomenon in the officialdom. Whether in ancient times or modern times, officials are superstitious that they want future and wealth, but these things are not level. If they work hard, they will be in place.
What can be done is more about luck, which is the unpredictable and extremely elusive goodwill of superiors. These very ethereal things are the decisive. Even in good luck, an emergency will ruin everything. Now, it is obvious that in good luck.
Everyone in the officialdom treated Cai Jingjing and Jingruo's biological father. Wang Laozhi ate and drank his own father and kept him in the mansion as his father, but he killed him to grab the business. After he calculated that the officials had a clear understanding of the situation.
The deterrent power of himself has been greatly reduced. How can he not be upset?
So Cai Jing wrote a memorial asking Zhao Ji to order the scholars and officials to strictly prohibit fortune-telling and to maintain discipline in the official team! Wang Laozhi was silent. He closed the door and refused to meet guests. His frugal life was even more difficult, and he only ate one meal a day.
All the meals were just four taels of soup cakes, plus one set of winter and summer clothes, and I lived the past life again. Thinking about waiting for the boss to change his mind, Cai Jing was even more cruel and found another colleague a few months ago.
-Wang Zaixi, also kept in his own mansion, was introduced to the emperor through packaging and star creation, obviously trying to use the two of them to weaken his influence.
It is said that the peers are enemies, and two masters are under the same roof, but one is just favored and the other is frustrated. Wang Lao Zhiming wisely moved out, but the world is in a bad state. In the past, he alienated all the people who worship him as gods. Now he
I am plagued by illness and can’t even go home!
"Senior brother, save me!" Wang Laozhi seemed to know that he could not beat Wang Zaixi by relying on his "Taoism", so he could only ask him for help.
"Junior brother, don't panic, wait for me to calculate!" Zhao Qi clasped his magic tricks, squinted his eyes, thinking about the treasure book he had read in his previous life - "History of the Song Dynasty". Now he is in a mess, Wang Laozhi
Damn it but didn't die. It's very likely that he was "changed" by himself. He was so unsafe. This kid was more upright than the Taoist priests who were favored by him. He even said good things to him. Besides, he was also "his own people".
He doesn't do anything bad for him, so he can't ignore it!
"Killing!" I wonder if history will change too much. Wang Zaixi should have fought with Cai Jing and was starved to death in prison. Zhao Qi recalled and wrote two words with his pen.
"Senior brother is saying that Wang Zai has not been around for too long?" Wang Laozhi said with blue lights on his eyes when he looked at the words.
"Stay the green mountains without worrying about burning firewood!" Zhao Qi did not directly answer his question, and said with a smile on his face, "There is a small temple in my mansion that no one presided over. I want to ask my junior brother to go there." Zhao Qi said again.
"I can't ask for it!" Wang Laozhi understood that if he stayed like this, he didn't know if he could survive this winter and immediately responded.
Chapter completed!