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Chapter 166

Zhao Sheng's newlywed life is uneventful, and Empress Fu seems to be doing well.

On the contrary, his mother's choice surprised him a little.

"Mother, are you going to live in Qionghua Garden? Is there something in the palace that makes you dissatisfied?"

"What nonsense are you talking about? It's not the Queen's problem. It's that living here is not as comfortable as Qionghua Garden." Empress Dowager Cao said angrily.

Zhao Sheng: The queen's question?

He was puzzled for a while, but he still decided not to speak out the doubts in his heart.

"If this is the case, the eldest lady might as well take turns to live on both sides. After all, the empress is young, and if there is a prince in the future, the eldest lady will have to worry about it." Zhao Sheng knows what to say to make his mother happy.

"What you said, how can the empress come from a famous family and can't educate the prince. Being a mother means bringing a few of the princess's own mothers, and a few older wives of the first emperor to live there with your little empress."

"First, you will inevitably have more and more wives in the future, and there will always be room to spare. Second, the mothers of the princesses are not very old, so you should avoid suspicion when it is time to avoid suspicion."

Zhao Sheng had nothing to say about this.

After Zhao Zhen's death, some childless young ladies have been sent out of the palace.In the Song Dynasty, there was no rule that women who were favored by the emperor could not remarry.Except for those with special identities such as Empress Guo, other ladies who are sent out of the palace can get a sum of money to guarantee their life for the rest of their lives, and there is no problem if they want to remarry.

The ethos of the Northern Song Dynasty is actually closer to that of the Tang Dynasty.

For his mother's consideration, Zhao Sheng naturally wanted to reciprocate. Originally, he wanted to give the remaining few fathers and concubines the title of concubine.It means that he will be responsible for their pension, and I believe they will take good care of his mother in the future.But this proposal was immediately blocked by my mother.

"It's not necessary. If you seal so many people at once, the court will be uneasy. Mother knows that you are not short of money now, but the border is still fighting, and there are still many places to use money in the future."

Zhao Sheng felt that his father was very lucky to be able to marry a woman like Empress Cao.So Zhao Sheng directly ordered people to tidy up Qionghuayuan, and also ordered the Ministry of Internal Affairs to send any good things to Qionghuayuan first.

Empress Dowager Cao moved to Qionghuayuan with a group of women to live a life of retirement.

The harem was immediately empty.

Seeing that the officials had no intention of accepting a wife, Empress Fu wondered whether she should decide to fill the harem by herself, after all, it could be said to be her queen's duty.

Zhao Sheng didn't know what Fu Shi was thinking, he was already busy here, the Song army and the Liao army had already fought a battle on the border, Zhao Sheng was relieved that Wang Yu and Zhong Yi's performance was very good.Not only did he take the lead, but he also won the battle.

Not only did it raise the military prestige, but it also made Zhao Sheng more confident.

The military system reform supported by Zhao Sheng has been progressing slowly due to various reasons, and Zhao Sheng does not dare to be too tough on military matters.This time the new army's outstanding performance on the battlefield will naturally promote the reform of the military system.

Winning a battle is naturally a happy thing, Zhao Sheng is not stingy, Zhong Yi and Wang Yu both gave a title of earl, but this title cannot be hereditary, it is considered an honorary title.Just like the well-known civil servants and courts will also confer the titles of "Guo Gong" and "Jun Wang" and the like.

However, these civil servants are all honors given after death.

In fact, Zhao Sheng also wanted to read a hereditary title to his two companions, but his words were scary, so he didn't care if others said he was nepotism.But Zhong Yi and Wang Yu will be affected.After accumulating enough military merits, it is also possible to give a hereditary title to a Duke.

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"What's the matter with the Liao army, it's over just by touching it like this?" Wang Yu was a little confused. They all rolled up their sleeves and prepared to fight hard, but the other side retreated directly to the city gate when they saw that they were invincible.

"Didn't you say that Liao's army is very fierce?" Zhong Yi was also depressed.He also discussed many strategies against the enemy with Wang Xi.

The corners of Cao Xun's mouth twitched. He knew that the pro-military forces of the four officials were quite powerful.But I never thought that their combat power would be so impressive.What's more, I didn't expect that more than half of the four Qing armies were cavalry, and that equipment was equipped with special armor for both men and horses.

Facing the cavalry of the Liao Kingdom is simply a crushing advantage, and the contrast is even more obvious from the tower. It is like a torrent of steel directly submerging the opponent.If Cao Xun was a local general, he would have to hide on the city wall to understand some situations before talking.

The soldiers under him feel distressed.

"General Cao, the officials sent us here to resolve the border between Song and Liao, at least to make the Liao Kingdom dare not fight the Song Dynasty again for a few years. Even though the Liao Kingdom did not say a truce, the two countries are still in conflict. In the state of war, they came to fight us before, and now it is our turn to fight back."

"Here, do the officials agree?" Cao Xun was a little hesitant. He had guarded the frontier for so many years, and most of the orders he received were orders that he could not stick to it, and that enough was enough.

"The official gave us a secret order to let us act cheaply. There is General Di guarding Gyeongju. These Liao people dare not provoke General Di because they think we are easy to bully. Naturally, this time we have to tell them how powerful we are." Yi didn't want to just go back like this. The officials said that in the past few years, there will be a lot of internal reforms in the country, and a stable external environment is needed.

So they must hurt the Liao Kingdom this time, so that they will not dare to provoke again in a short time.When the domestic affairs are straightened out, then it will be a battle to destroy the country.

Cao Xun is an offshoot of the Cao family, and the current official family is the grandson of the Cao family. Although the Cao family has not been reused after ascending the throne, it has not been suppressed.But people in the whole world know that the officials are very filial to the Queen Mother.Even if the officials are indifferent to the Cao family, no one would dare to disrespect the Cao family with the Empress Dowager present.

And this is enough for the Cao family, if the officials are not partial to the Cao family, then there will be much less criticism of the Cao family in the court.

When looking at the first emperor, the Zhang family of Concubine Wen Cheng, and even the Li family of Empress Zhuang Yi, were favored by officials, but they were often impeached and punished.The reputation is extremely bad, although it is much richer than when it was not developed before.But now it's just an empty shell.

The Cao family is different. Both the Zhang family and the Li family suddenly became rich because of their nepotism.The Cao family made their daughter a queen because of the Cao family's family background.

Since it was the intention of the officials, Cao Xun naturally supported it, it was just food and grass...

Cao Xun was worried about the problem of food and grass, but this problem was quickly resolved.However, a large amount of food and grass was sent to the front line in three days.

"When did those gentlemen in the court become so sympathetic to us?" A lieutenant under Cao Xun was surprised to see this large sum of food.In the past, they hadn't been the ones who asked for it with shamelessness, so that they could get some food and military pay.This time before they spoke, so many things were sent from above, which made them a little flattered.

Cao Xun rolled his eyes: "What good thing do you think, this is a reward from the government."

"The official family is so rich!" the lieutenant exclaimed.

Zhao Sheng is rich, but this horse of grain and grass is really not his private property, but copied from his home.

Didn't Cao Hua lead the Secret Service to be optimistic about who would dare to attack the grain and grass?Although Zhao Sheng gave orders in earnest, he warned more than once.But some people are just stupid and greedy.

In this case, Zhao Sheng would not be polite, and directly sent people from the secret spy department and the imperial city department to copy them one by one.No matter how much you take, as long as you reach out, you can't hide.

Confiscating the house is a must-have meal for these guys. As for other punishments, it is determined according to how much they take.Rolled from top to bottom, it can be said that the harvest was full, and then Zhao Sheng asked people to deposit a large part of the stuff, from Bianliang to Youzhou, and sold them along the way to buy food.Buy it all the way.

Only then did he have the pile of grain and grass sent to Youzhou.

It is said that the three armed forces went first without using food and grass. With these food and grass, both soldiers and civilians on the border were much more stable.After all, the army has nothing to eat, so they will collect food from the people.

Of course, Zhao Sheng didn't favor one over another, and several important defensive locations on the border raised some food and grass in this way.The amount varies, anyway, he didn't take any of the proceeds from the house raids.

This time, the big and small officials who were frightened by Zhao Sheng's thunderous methods never dared to reach out to these things.

Money is important, but life and fame are also important.

The names of the families whose houses were ransacked were announced by the royal family in the form of a newspaper.It is simply a rush to leave a bad reputation for thousands of years.

It was also a sudden idea for Zhao Sheng to open a newspaper. Originally, he wanted to wait until the people's wisdom was opened, but in order to deter these corrupt officials, Zhao Sheng also directly opened a royal newspaper.

Basically, the rewards and punishments of the imperial court will be published in this way in the future.There are very few people who can read and write in this era, and most people want to know what's in the newspaper, but they still have to listen to others read it.Fortunately, Zhao Sheng didn't have the idea of ​​using the newspaper to make money.

Of course, Zhao Sheng's business is not losing money. In order to maintain the royal majesty, the royal newspaper cannot advertise on it, but a newspaper does not necessarily have only one reading material.Run another magazine with more miscellaneous content, and more things that women and children are interested in.At that time, the advertising fee will also be able to earn a lot of money.

To whom should this magazine be handed over, Zhao Sheng thought about it, and immediately thought of a good candidate, his mother.

Empress Dowager Cao lives very comfortably in Qionghua Garden, but Empress Dowager Cao is not a person who only likes to have fun.In the past, Empress Cao was not favored, so she didn't cry and make a fuss, but devoted her energy to the queen's duties.The silkworm ceremony is held every year very well.It can be said that Empress Cao is a career-oriented woman.

This is probably the reason why Zhao Zhen is always on guard against her.

Now, because of Zhao Sheng, Empress Dowager Cao no longer has the opportunity to listen to the government behind the curtain, and the affairs of the harem are handled by the empress again.Living in Qionghuayuan for the elderly is comfortable, but it is a bit boring after a long time.

So after hearing what her son wanted her to do, Queen Mother Cao was moved.

"It's just that if you do this kind of business business in your old age, I'm afraid it will attract the impeachment of the imperial censor."

"Mother, I plan to build a few royal care homes in Bianliang to take in the orphans. And I have an idea. In the future, the royal family members will do more charitable things and pray for the country and society."

"It should be. If your father hadn't been kind, I'm afraid you wouldn't have existed. You don't have any heirs yet. Do more good deeds to accumulate virtue and good fortune." Empress Dowager Cao nodded in agreement.

The corner of Zhao Sheng's mouth twitched, why his mother could get involved with his heirs no matter what.

It seems that he wants to have a prince as soon as possible. If it is delayed, not only his mother may have discordant voices from the previous court.

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