The daily life of the crown prince of the Song Dynasty

After not coming back for nearly two years, Song Renzong and Empress Cao naturally missed Zhao Yang very deeply, and of course they had a lot to say to him.

Zhao Yang also had a lot to say about Empress Cao and the others. After all, many things have happened in the past two years.

The family recounted the past for many days, and only then did they recount the past two years.

When Zhao Yang returned to Bianjing City, not only the palace became lively, but even the Chaotang and Bianjing City became much more lively.

However, Zhao Yang did not go to the morning court as soon as he returned to the palace.Song Renzong and Empress Cao asked him to take a good rest for a while, and then go to court after rest.

Zhao Yang was not hypocritical. After returning to Bianjing, he rested for more than half a month before going to the morning court.

As soon as he came to court, in front of civil and military officials, he once again explained in detail how he had led troops to fight in the past two years.

The military generals were full of enthusiasm when they heard it, and they praised His Royal Highness for his bravery and godliness.Although the civil servants didn't say anything, they didn't open their mouths to disappoint.

In the past two years, news of Zhao Yang's victory has been continuously spread back to Bianjing City, and the civil servants can't say anything no matter how much they object.

This time he defeated Xixia, and successfully regained the states that were previously occupied by Xixia.Not only that, the former Xixia royal family also paid a lot of money and good things, and the civil servants can't say anything more.

When Zhao Yang and the others attacked the Xixia royal capital, they conducted a thorough "cleaning" of the Xixia royal family and gained a lot of property.It is no exaggeration to say that these properties are more than the money that Song Dynasty gave Xixia in these years, which shows that Xixia is very rich.

Over the years, Da Song has given Xixia a lot of money every year.Xixia himself also made a lot of money, and the royal family naturally accumulated a lot of wealth.

The money recovered from Xixia will naturally be used for people's livelihood.

Seeing that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince brought back so much money from Xixia, Shangshu couldn't help but smile from ear to ear.Not to mention that he no longer opposes attacking Xixia, he now completely supports His Royal Highness to attack Liao next time.He felt that the Liao Kingdom must be richer than Xixia.

The treasury has so much money all of a sudden, not to mention the Minister of the Household Department is happy, even Song Renzong, and many civil servants are also happy.With money in the treasury, their life as officials is also easier.

Song Renzong and Zhao Yang carefully discussed the money brought back from Xixia, and decided to spend more than half of it on people's livelihood, such as building infrastructure to make people's lives more convenient.The rest of the money was invested in the barracks.

This time, Zhao Yang came back from Xixia, whether in the court or among the people, his status and reputation have been raised several degrees.

Now, Zhao Yang has another nickname among the people, that is "God of War".

In the eyes of the common people, it took His Royal Highness the Prince two years to defeat Xixia, and how much he won and lost was not the God of War.

Not long after Zhao Yang returned to Bianjing, he personally sent Princess Fukang to marry.

The day Princess Fukang got married was very lively and grand.Especially the dowry, it is not an exaggeration to describe it as ten miles of red makeup, which opened the eyes of the people in Bianjing and saw the royal wedding.

The third son of the Yao family and Princess Fukang had always liked each other, but after they got married, they fell in love even more.It is most appropriate to describe them with Mili Tiaoyou.

Song Renzong, Empress Cao, and Miao Zhaorong saw the happy smile on Princess Fukang's face, and they were also very happy as elders.

After Princess Fukang's wedding was over, Zhao Yang's wedding was next.

As the crown prince, his wedding is naturally more grand and festive than that of Princess Fukang.However, there are also many rules and etiquette.

Zhao Yang sighed that it was not easy for him, the crown prince, to get married.At the beginning of October, Zhao Yang and Zheyun got married, and the whole country celebrated together.

When he rode out of the palace to Zhejia to marry Zheyun, the common people in Bianjing City stood on both sides of the street, watching the excitement and congratulating His Royal Highness on the wedding.

Zhao Yang's reputation among the people has always been very good, and the common people love him very much.Seeing him getting married now, of course the people in Bianjing would congratulate him in person.

Sensing the sincere congratulations from the common people, Zhao Yang sat on the horseback and bowed to the common people on both sides of the street with his fists in his hands.

The Zhe family was also very satisfied with Zhao Yang's son-in-law. When he came to greet him, he didn't make things difficult for him.

Zhao Yang greeted Zheyun, walked around the city of Bianjing again, and then returned to the palace after an auspicious time.

After entering the palace, Zhao Yang and Zheyun paid homage first.After the worship was finished and sent to the bridal chamber, Zhao Yang and Zheyun drank a cup of wine.

After performing all the etiquette with Zheyun, Zhao Yang went out to drink with the ministers.

His Royal Highness is getting married, and the ministers will naturally enter the palace to congratulate.

The generals were not polite and kept pouring Zhao Yang's wine.Fortunately, Zhao Yang made preparations in advance so that he would not be drunk by the generals.

After drinking with the ministers for a while, Zhao Yang pretended to be drunk and was helped down by Yuan Song and Yuan Bai.If he doesn't pretend to be drunk, he can drink some wine.

Zhao Yang and Zheyun ate something together, and after that, the spring night was worth a thousand dollars.

After getting married, Zhao Yang was not in a hurry to attack Liao.

Today, the smallpox in the Liao Kingdom is still not healed.To attack the Liao Kingdom at this time is to seek death.

Seeing that his son was married, Song Renzong simply handed over all the political affairs to Zhao Yang, and he was happy to be at ease.

When Zhao Yang came back from the battlefield, he was even more majestic, and the ministers of the Manchu Dynasty did not dare to underestimate him at all.Moreover, he has been on the battlefield, like a sword that has been unsheathed and stained with blood, and the ministers really dare not take Joe in front of him.

Seeing that Zhao Yang had become more mature and regal after returning from Western Xia, Yan Shu and his fellow gentlemen were both relieved and sighed.They also felt that it was wrong for Zhao Yang to take the initiative to attack Xixia, even if Zhao Yang led his troops to win Xixia.They still hope that Zhao Yang will not send troops to fight again.

From Yan Shu's words, Zhao Yang naturally felt that they disapproved of his attack on the Liao Kingdom.However, he didn't take it to heart.

It is imperative to attack the Liao Kingdom, no matter how much the civil servants object, nothing will change.

Although during this period of time, we will not attack the Liao Kingdom, but we still have to make preparations.Besides, attacking Liao is not an easy task, and it will not be as smooth as attacking Xixia.

Zhao Yang made a five-year plan to attack Liao.Of course, five years is the slowest time.His ideal time is three years.

Zhao Yang didn't come back for two years, but he was very experienced in dealing with court affairs.

By the way, because of Zhao Yang's marriage before, Song Renzong decreed amnesty for the world.Not only that, but also reduced a lot of taxes.

Zhao Yang felt that the tax was still too much, and it was reduced a lot, which was a good thing for the common people.

When the common people saw the prince coming back, they gave them a tax reduction or exemption. They immediately praised the prince as a benevolent king, which made Zhao Yang's reputation among the people even better.

Zhao Yang also issued an order to various places to ask the local yamen to build roads, reservoirs, city walls, and schools.

When it comes to school, we have to mention the medical school.At present, medical schools have been established in many places, and they are in full swing.

Zhao Yang also ordered that free schools be opened everywhere so that more and more people can read and write.

By the way, there is also the matter of land annexation.

In the past two years, although the imperial court has been severely punishing the annexation of land, many nobles still ignored the law of the court and continued to annex land.

After Zhao Yang returned to the court, he immediately sent people from the Imperial City Department to investigate which nobles knew the law and broke the law.After the evidence was conclusive, Zhao Yang was severely punished according to law.

The nobles originally resisted and wanted to put pressure on Zhao Yang and force Zhao Yang to compromise, but they did not expect that His Highness the Crown Prince was very tough and was not afraid of them at all.

These nobles who occupy the land do not know how to repent. Those who should be beheaded will be beheaded, those who should be confiscated, those who should be exiled, and those who should be imprisoned.

Seeing that His Highness the Crown Prince was so harsh, the other dignitaries dared not confront Zhao Yang anymore, and honestly handed over the occupied land.

The dignitaries were all frightened. Where would those gentry or rich people dare to annex the land, and they all handed over the land very honestly.

Zhao Yang distributed the recovered land to the common people.

When ordinary people have land, they have food to eat.

Because of this, the common people were very grateful to Zhao Yang.

Zhao Yang originally wanted to use the contracting system of later generations, but he thought that doing so would be equivalent to giving the rich and powerful the opportunity to contract land, and then the common people would have no land.So, after thinking about it, the land is still controlled by the court.For this reason, Zhao Yang also decreed the establishment of the State | Land Bureau.

The role of the State | Land Bureau is to manage the country's land.Every place must have it, and more than that, these Land | Land Bureau officials often have to go to the folks to check to see if anyone is occupying the land.

At the end of the year, there are three good news.

Gao Taotao is pregnant.

Not long after she became pregnant, Grandfather Fukang was also diagnosed as pregnant.Unexpectedly, within a few days, the princess concubine Zheyun was also pregnant.

In fact, according to Zhao Yang, both he and Zheyun are too young to have children, but he is going to attack Liao next year.If the princess is not pregnant, the courtiers and common people will be worried.To put it bluntly, if something happens to him, at least he will have a future.

Unfortunately, Zhao Yang was unable to witness the birth of his child with his own eyes.In March of the following year, he led an army to attack Liao.

At the end of last year, the Liao Kingdom finally eradicated smallpox.It is the most suitable time to attack them before they have recovered from the disaster of smallpox.

Although the Liao people guessed that Song Dynasty would attack Xixia after they attacked them, they also took precautions, but because of the heavy losses in smallpox before, they were not Song Dynasty's opponents.

Zhao Yang and the others attacked the Liao Kingdom very smoothly at the beginning, winning several games in a row, which brought great confidence to the soldiers of the Song Dynasty.

In the past, the soldiers of the Song Dynasty were very afraid of the soldiers of the Liao Kingdom.Because the soldiers of the Liao Kingdom were very fierce and cruel, and their cavalry was powerful, the soldiers of the Song Dynasty were no match at all.Today, the soldiers of the Liao Kingdom are vulnerable in front of them, not as powerful as they imagined, which makes the soldiers of the Song Dynasty no longer afraid of them.

In these few battles, Zhao Yang did not use hot weapons.However, it shouldn't be long before using thermal weapons.

When Zhao Yang led troops to attack the Liao Kingdom, Zhao Zongshi saw that the time had come and started his plan.