Emperor Nagasawa [Rebirth]

When the small-scale disaster relief in various counties and counties ended, the first day of the year was already approaching.

From this time on, as for the first day of the next Lunar New Year, it used to be the busiest time for the imperial court.

According to the law of Jiang State, every year from this time onwards, the county officials or their subordinates must bring accounting books to the prime minister's office to report their achievements for one year, which is called "Shangji".At the first seven quarters of the first night of the first lunar month, the Son of Heaven accepts envoys from the three lords and nine lords, the royal family and relatives, and others. The officials followed the emperor to the imperial mausoleum to worship the ancestors.After the ceremony of offering sacrifices to the ancestors, the emperor returned to the court to reward the emperor with banquets, dances and music. Officials debated business affairs in the palace, and they could leave on their own until the emperor exited the court, ushering in a five-day bathing holiday.

The civil and military affairs of the Manchu Dynasty have been busy for more than half a month, and New Year's Eve is coming as scheduled.

It was night, and Jiang Ze accompanied Jiang Su to have dinner with his two younger brothers who hadn't seen each other for a long time.

After Jiang Feng's death, Jiang Ze sent all the childless women he left behind out of the palace or buried them with them, and the palace became increasingly cold.Not long ago, his two younger brothers who were under eight years old and their mother moved out of the palace, so he and Jiang Su were the only people with the surname Jiang left in the palace.

Now on New Year's Eve, these two handsome and lovely little Tuanzi were kneeling in the hall, speaking auspicious words tremblingly and inarticulately.

They are afraid of Jiang Ze.

Of course, Jiang Ze didn't care about their fear—it's just that he often felt very puzzled. He obviously didn't do anything. Why did these two people always look terrified when they met him?He couldn't figure it out, and after a few times, he didn't even bother to look at them.

Regardless of past life or present life, he has always cared about only one person.

Jiang Ze yelled "Let's get up" lightly, rewarded them with lucky money, and the people at the table quietly watched the new year.

Perhaps when the time came, the sound of firecrackers in the palace could be heard endlessly.Jiang Ze looked out of the window, and the whole palace was brightly lit, just like daytime.

He looked at a lamp not far away in the cold wind, with a slightly dazed expression.

During the more than 20 years of losing Jiang Su in his last life, he spent about half of his time fighting in the east and west.Fortunately, Zhuge Yu always kindly sent a lot of things during the Chinese New Year during the war, so that he could hold a banquet to reward the soldiers and relieve everyone's homesickness.Every time at this time, Jiang Ze would not participate in it, and would just choose to stay alone and quietly elsewhere.

He listened to everyone's wanton noise, and drank a pot of strong wine alone without saying a word, all night until dawn.

He is so lonely.

But since that year when Jiang Su was discovered to be rebellious, he was so angry that the whole country of Jiang was bleeding like a river, and the name that could make him less lonely became a taboo of the whole country.Even the historian who "writes the facts directly without concealing his flaws" only dared to record the eldest prince who died in his prime with extremely brief words with lingering fear.No matter how talented or virtuous that person was, how gentle or helpless that person was, they were all annihilated in the torrent of history bit by bit following the earth-shattering massacre, so that after decades, no one in the whole world really remembered such a person.

Only Jiang Ze - how forgetful I am when I get old, only Sauvignon Blanc remains.

He missed Jiang Su so much.

Now, the person he missed has finally returned to him.It wasn't the rotting corpse that frightened him beyond recognition, it was the ashes that he held in his hand and scattered, but the young and warm youth who carried all his memories and joys.

Jiang Ze suddenly buried his face in the arms of the person beside him.

That's great, he thought, with him personally watching in this life, he will definitely not make the same mistakes again.

He blinked, blinked away the wetness in his eyes, and coquettishly said in a nasal voice: "Brother, I'm so tired." Whether it was the hysteria after Jiang Su's death, or the despair afterward, they almost exhausted him Life force.

Jiang Su was startled.

He felt the way his child was desperately trying to nest in his arms, and when he was sleepy, he stretched out his hand to caress his head in a funny way, and coaxed him softly: "Don't sleep tonight, brother will stay with you, be good."

Usually, whenever he said that, Jiang Ze would definitely listen to him even if he was reluctant.But this time Jiang Ze didn't know what happened, instead of raising his head from his arms, he went so far as to wrap his hands around his neck and get closer to his arms.

Jiang Su touched his head, but didn't speak.

He tilted his head slightly.

The two little dumplings on the side were staring at them silently with round eyes.Seeing Jiang Su looking over, they all turned their heads back in unison, sitting solemnly and upright, waiting for the arrival of the New Year.

Before dawn the next day, Jiang Ze had already changed into court attire to accept worship and gifts from all the officials; when the sky was slightly brighter, he changed into the mian attire again, and led all the officials to the imperial mausoleum to worship the ancestors.

Compared with his previous life, his expression was more awe-inspiring.

Same as offering sacrifices to heaven, offering sacrifices to ancestors is still presided over by the emperor himself.He first recited the sacrificial oration written by himself with grief, and sang praises to all the ancestors in the imperial tomb. Even Jiang Feng got the name of "diligence, pragmatism, and dedication".

But in fact?

A hundred years ago, the dynasty collapsed and the country was lost, and the world was divided into five parts.It is orthodox for the monarch of Chu to inherit the blood of the previous dynasty, and he was originally the head of the five kingdoms.Qi State was next, followed by Han Sui, and Jiang State was at the bottom.Later, Jiang Ze's grandfather accepted advice widely, wise and wise, and developed Jiang Guo to its peak.In the early years of Jiang Feng's reign, he worked hard with the help of Wen Renmin and others. Although it was difficult to open up a prosperous age, he never regressed.However, Jiang Feng became more self-willed after hearing that the power in the court changed after Renmin's death.He drastically abolished the policies of the ancestors, promulgated new laws, and attempted to re-create the prosperity of the world.

It's a pity that too much was too late, and when Jiang Ze ascended the throne, Jiang's levies and miscellaneous taxes were already extremely heavy, and the people complained everywhere.So Jiang Ze casually issued an order to reduce or exempt taxes by [-]%, which also made the people rejoice for a long time.

In addition to policies, when Jiang Feng wantonly suppressed the faction of Wenren, most of the virtuous officials were discouraged, died of depression, or simply lived in seclusion in the mountains. A typical example is Chen Mozhi, the right-hand man-in-law. Ze left behind a group of good and bad Sangong Jiuqing to fight for power and profit.

——If the prime minister on the left doesn't have much intention to fight for power and profit, and if the prime minister on the right doesn't have any intention of rebellion, these two people are barely useful.

Of course, it's also good that the two of them are so minded, instead of using political achievements as a game of chess, making Jiang Ze feel lazy, and can easily solve most of the government affairs.

Even though most of the reputation belongs to Jiang Su.

But what does it matter?In his previous life, Zhuge Yu carried out all his decisions on government affairs, and his reputation rested entirely on Zhuge Yu alone.Instead of letting that magic stick enjoy the fame alone, it is better to let everyone in the world remember his Jiang Su.

After the ancestor worship was over, the officials relaxed.

Jiang Ze led a group of people back to the palace in a mighty manner.At this time, the attendants had already set up a banquet in the hall, and they could enjoy it only after Jiang Ze ordered it.

Although the food was already cold, it didn't matter much. The officials were already used to being hungry at this time, so they just focused on their colleagues and the rare court operas and dance music.

There are fish and dragons stretching outside the hall, and there are women in the hall who are constantly dancing back and forth on the beams and ropes... The skill is so superb that it shocks the world.

Jiang Ze watched these performances boredly, and glanced at Jiang Su from time to time.

But seeing that Jiang Su didn't know anything about it, and he didn't have much expression on his face, but he was quite intent on admiring the dance of the woman in the palace, he felt very unhappy!

So the singing and dancing were not over yet, and the emperor left the table.

Hundreds of officials became more and more casual, toasted and chatted everywhere, and then talked about books and Taoism in groups of four or five, and drank freely.

When Jiang Su returned to the bedroom, he saw Jiang Ze resting his chin and playing with the teacup listlessly with one finger, with the resentment of "I'm not happy, come and coax me" all over his body.

Jiang Su laughed.

He put away the teacup that Jiang Ze pushed back and forth and put it back on the plate, he pinched Jiang Ze's pink and soft cheeks, and felt an indescribable satisfaction in his heart: "Ah Ze is tired It's been two days, come here, let's go to bed quickly."

Jiang Ze snorted and ignored him.

Jiang Su smiled.He didn't care about Jiang Ze's awkwardness, he took off his coat calmly and lay down on the couch, casually flipping through the miscellaneous notes that Jiang Ze had left aside, and was going to sleep with him in his arms after Jiang Ze's awkwardness was over.

Jiang Ze puffed up his cheeks.

He got up, deliberately walked around in front of Jiang Su's couch with extremely heavy steps, and when his brother's attention finally shifted from the bamboo slips to himself, he opened his extremely soft and wet eyes and said: "You Don't watch them dance—I'll show you how, will you?"