Emperor Renzong of the Great Song Dynasty

Zhao Yiyi pursed his lips: "I understand what the emperor means."

Eight Wise Kings said: "It's good that the officials understand."

Zhao Yiyi said: "What does the emperor mean, even if there are wolves around, we still have to abandon the only barriers and barriers, and let the foreign enemies drive straight in, rob our people and rob us of our wealth?"

The Baxian King frowned: "I have no such intentions. What I mean is that the current foreign invasion is not as serious as imagined, and the officials are too fond of Di Qing, which will only make him think that he shouldn't have, which is not good for the foundation of our country. .”

Zhao Yiyi sneered: "Can he have any thoughts that he shouldn't have? He is not my brother, my father!"

The Eight Sage King's complexion suddenly turned pale.

He's not my brother, my father—

It means that the thought that should not have arisen is——

The Baxian King gritted his teeth: "I would rather die than have such disrespectful thoughts!"

Zhao Yiyi said indifferently: "It doesn't matter whether you have thoughts or not. I don't care about my deeds. I don't care about my heart. I don't care about people in the world. As long as I don't really do anything that endangers the community, I don't care. Please go back, uncle, today's matter , I just pretend it never happened."

Eight Wise Kings said anxiously: "The matter of Di Qing..."

Zhao Yiyi said: "Di Qing's appointment has been decreed by the Second Mansion, and the order cannot be changed overnight. There is no need for the emperor to mention it."

The Eight Sages said: "Officials, this matter is really..."

Liu En stepped forward to persuade him: "Qiantui, go back. You can't just change the matter of Jinkou Yuyan. Why do you have to fight against the officials because of this matter of your life's name?"

The Eighth Sage King said angrily: "I am talking to the officials, when will I get you to intervene!"

Zhao Yiyi said: "Uncle Huang is unhappy, why make things difficult for others?"

Eight Wise Kings looked at him fixedly, and suddenly said: "Beneficiary."

Zhao Yiyi's eyelids twitched.

It had been a long time since anyone had called him by that name.

Since he was named the prince, his name has been changed to Zhao Zhen.Song Zhenzong preferred the name Zhao Zhen, which was bestowed by him himself. Occasionally, when he was not so seriously ill, he liked to summon him to the bedside and call him Zhen'er.

Liu E prefers to benefit him, which will make her feel that he is still the child under her control.But Liu E is not a person who likes to deceive himself and others. Since he has grown in wings, she has only calmly called him emperor.

The last time this name was called out from the mouth of the Eight Sage Kings was before he entered the palace at the age of seven.

Even when he was the youngest son of the Nanqing Palace, the Eight Sage Kings seldom called him by his name directly, and it was more of a kind of respect that he avoided and feared.

Perhaps because of this, in the days before getting the system, Zhao Yiyi also vaguely realized that he and the Nanqing Palace family of three were not the same.

But at this moment, after he had ascended the throne for five years, the Eighth Wise King suddenly called him in a fatherly tone——

Zhao Yiyi sighed: "Uncle Emperor, if you have nothing to do, go back first. Niang Niang and Shizi are still waiting for you in Nanqing Palace."

The Eight Sage King said: "Yie, since you were young, you have always had the temperament of not bumping into the south wall and not looking back. But this time, you can no longer go your own way. My Zhao family, Jiangshan, cannot be ruined in your hands. Otherwise, under the nine springs, Daddy will have nothing to do." Yan to see Taizong Taizong, let alone Yan to see the late emperor!"

Zhao Yiyi pressed his temple: "Uncle Emperor, I just let a young general with outstanding ability become a privy envoy, and I haven't reached the point of ruining the country. Di Qing is very talented. He is born to be the God of War. His country is guarded tightly. Moreover, he is loyal and will never betray me. Uncle Huang can rest assured about this."

The Baxian King said: "He lives in the courtyard next door to me, how can I not know what kind of person he is? But people will change after benefiting. Otherwise, how could Taizu be able to bear Zhou Shizong?"

At the beginning of the founding of the country, Tai Zu Zhao Kuangyin wanted to reward the generals who followed him to conquer the world, but Prime Minister Zhao Pu persuaded him to limit the power of the generals.Zhao Kuangyin said, I trust my subordinates, and they will live up to me.

Zhao Pu asked him, how could His Majesty defeat Zhou Shizong?

Zhao Kuangyin pondered for a long time, and finally decided to release his military power with a drink, and deprived the general of all the power to lead the army.

The Eight Sage Kings uncovered such a piece of old Huang's history, and wanted Zhao Yiyi to wake up like Zhao Kuangyin, and realize that generals are untrustworthy after all, and only by suppressing their power can they ensure the stability of their position.

Zhao Yiyi understands that the Baxian King is just a loving father. He has no bad intentions, but as an elder who has never been directly involved in politics in his life but has been floating in the center of the political vortex, he wants to keep his son away from it. It's just dangerous.

But Zhao Yiyi is not afraid of the danger that the Baxian King said.

Because he knew that the real danger came from the north, from the south, and even from the sea, but never from within.

As long as he is willing to spend his time monitoring the loyalty of the generals and the army.

For a golden finger player like him, this is a breeze.

To suppress generals to ensure the stability of the throne, for him, it is not because of choking, but because he refuses to drink water because he is afraid of being thirsty to death-completely the opposite.

He said: "My decision has nothing to do with the emperor's uncle. The emperor's uncle is my elder, but the throne still belongs to me after all. Please stop meddling in the affairs of the previous court."

The Eight Sage Kings were silent for a long time, and said: "Your Excellency will leave."

Zhao Yiyi said: "Uncle Huang, go slowly."

Watching the Eight Sage King's back disappear between the palace walls, Zhao Yiyi sighed again, turned to Liu En and said, "Tell me, is he going to get the golden mace out?"

Liu Endao: "It must be. Otherwise, it would be impossible to go so decisively."

Zhao Yiyi smiled and said, "Fortunately, I was prepared, otherwise the beating would be in vain."

He picked up Fan Zhongyan's note again, and started reading from where it was interrupted before.

Because of the previous floods, agricultural production across the country has been greatly damaged.Farmers in many places have been displaced, and there is not a single labor force in the strong fields. This year's autumn harvest is not optimistic. I hope the emperor will be mentally prepared that he may not be able to collect much tax this year...

Zhao Yiyi closed his eyes, wishing to swear all the swear words he could think of.

In the past, all parts of the country were doing disaster relief and repairing cement embankments, which basically emptied the national treasury. Fortunately, Kou Zhun and Di Qing wiped out Xixia, and only recovered a wave of blood with the money they looted from the Xixia treasury.A wave of military pensions was issued, miscellaneous and some expenditures, and the national treasury quickly went from very rich to moderately rich to barely balanced. As a result, this year's autumn harvest is not optimistic...

The Xixia side was not flooded, but that side had just been included in the territory of the Song Dynasty, and the resistance was still fierce. Zhao Yiyi didn't dare to collect too much tax there yet.

This thing is making a fuss...

He pulled a piece of paper over, wrote a few words, crumpled it, threw it away, and said to Liu En, "Send someone to Nanqing Palace and bring Xia Yuqi to me. I have something to say to him face to face."

After thinking about it again, he said, "Forget it, call him and his apprentices together. Let them pack up their luggage and take away everything they can take away. The house at Yan Shu's side should have been almost built, just ready to move in." Say goodbye to King Baxian, and thank him for his hospitality these days. King Baxian is a kind person, even though he is angry, he should not embarrass them. But in the future, don’t bother others.”

Liu Endao: "Xia Yuqi's master and apprentice have moved out, what about Di Qing? He is also living in the Nanqing Palace, and he will still have to borrow the Nanqing Palace when he gets married."

Moreover, Di Qing was the one who was angry with the Eight Sage Kings. If it was said that the master and apprentice of the Xia family were embarrassed to live in the Nanqing Palace because they were the emperor's guests, then Di Qing's embarrassment should be more than ten times that of theirs.

Zhao Yiyi gritted his teeth: "Let him move out too. If we get married, I will give him a house."

I didn't want to attract people's tongue before, so I didn't give Di Qing a house. After all, the houses in Bianliang City are quite expensive.In the end, they sent candles and fabrics, and so many other things were involved.

Zhao Yiyi finally understood that there was no way to win over Di Qing and keep a low profile—he simply didn't keep a low profile, and gave him what he should give.So what if everyone in the world knows that the emperor favors the privy envoys?

Can someone pull Di Qing to rebel?

Liu Endao: "Which house to give?"

Zhao Yiyi thought about it seriously.

Speaking of Grange, he still has quite a few emperors.In addition to the Huangzhuang exclusively for him as the emperor, he can also bestow unowned fields to a certain minister.

But when it comes to houses in the city...

He really didn't have any in his hand.

He entered the palace as a prince at the age of seven, and became emperor at the age of 12. What's the use of having a house outside the palace?

Moreover, Di Qing is now a privy envoy, and there are really not many houses in Bianliang City that are worthy of his status.

Fan Zhongyan is the prime minister now, but he still lives in a simple old house, which is because he is thrifty.Since your emperor wants to reward, is it possible to reward others for thrift?

This is not possible.

"By the way," Zhao Yiyi suddenly thought, "Did King Xiangyang have a house in the capital before?"

King Xiangyang is the youngest son of Emperor Taizong. He has been favored since he was a child. He has ample money and loves luxury.There are naturally good houses in the capital.

Later, he was sent to Yingtian, and he didn't give up the hope of the king's return. Of course, the mansion in the capital was still kept and not sold.

Now he is about to go to the ground to rest in peace, and his family property has been confiscated and temporarily kept by Zongzheng Temple.A few days ago, Tianzongzhengsi wrote a letter asking him if he wanted to sell the property of the King of Xiangyang as the expenses for the clan wedding and funeral. He seemed to let them know together when the accounts were reconciled at the end of the year.

"Okay, let's give Di Qing the mansion of King Xiangyang."

He said to Liu En: "Let Zongzheng Temple demolish and tidy up the places that violated the regulations, just in time for Di Qing and Miss Fan's wedding. As for the wedding, let's go to Qingbei University and Xia Yuqi for a while. Anyway, they have been neighbors in Nanqing Palace for a while."

In the Nanqing Palace, the Baxian King walked into the main hall angrily, and Princess Di rushed up to greet her: "My lord, what's the matter?"

Eight Wise Kings closed their eyes: "Please come out with my golden mace!"