Song Emperor Jiangshan

Zhengdan's Great Court will be an important day.It was not the first time for Xiao Shan to participate in this kind of ceremony, but what he never understood was why the ancient emperors were so fond of tossing around people, they would have all their ministers come to work early in the morning of the first lunar month.In future generations, this will be a rest day.

In the early morning of the first day of the Lunar New Year, all officials put on court clothes and went to wait outside the Zichen Hall. Outside the hall, there were 350 people standing in the square in front of the hall, and the sound of musicians playing music was endless.When the sky was bright, Zhao Goucai was wearing a black crown suit and sat on the throne of Zichen Hall.

The following content should be that the officials served Zhao Gou wine according to their shifts. Zhao Yuan, as Zhao Gou's first adopted son and eldest son, naturally also wore a pro-dynasty uniform, and was the first to serve Zhao Gou wine.

Zhao Gou nodded with a smile, said a few more words to Zhao Yuan, and ordered him to sit down.

The next one was Zhao Zhuo, King of Enping County. He also saluted Zhao Gou, but Zhao Gou just let him sit down and didn't say anything else.

The next one was Zaizhi, and there were a lot of ministers in the capital. Zhao Gou just nodded casually, and it was considered as passing.

When everyone was seated, it was the turn of other states and vassal states to congratulate.Xiao Shan, as an envoy from another state, also offered tributes from Ezhou this time. Ezhou is not rich, and there are no special specialties. The more famous Wuchang fish is far away and difficult to bring, so we can only send some wine and tea. thing.

When officials from other prefectures came in, Zhao Gou didn’t show much expression. Only when it was Xiao Shan’s turn, Zhao Gou bowed slightly, with a look of surprise on his face: “Why are you here? What? When did you come to the capital? Where do you live?"

After Xiao Shan saluted Zhao Gou, he answered Zhao Gou's questions one by one. All the ministers who had already sat around whispered to each other. Zhao Gou had already met officials from five or six states without speaking. A few words, it can be seen that this young man in his 20s has a bright future.

Xiao Shan's seat was arranged in the corner of the Zichen Hall. He was a military officer of the fifth rank, and his court clothes were slightly different from those of civil servants, but he didn't have any armor or cloak. It has a heart-curved collar and a small bronze sword as an accessory at the waist.

Xiao Shan was sitting in his seat, and in a blink of an eye, he saw Zhao Yuan sitting next to Zhao Gou. He was wearing a black gown suit and a crown, which was similar to Zhao Gou's attire, except that the beads hanging from the crown were only Nine strings are not like the twelve strings of the emperor.

Zhao Yuan's eyes were also shooting towards Xiao Shan, the two eyes met inadvertently in the air, and then quickly moved to another place.

After the consecration of the states is completed, it is the vassal state's consecration.

Zhao Gou didn't have any vassal states, only Duan Heyu, the emperor of the Dali Kingdom in the south, sent people to give gifts, which showed the friendship between the two countries.

When everyone was seated, they began to give banquets to the ministers. Everyone came early in the morning without eating. They were hungry all morning, especially Xiao Shan. He didn't feel full until after eating three or four bowls of rice. At one o'clock, when Yu Yunwen saw him, he came over and said with a smile, "My dear brother, you are safe here." Xiao Shan also replied, and made a toast to the rest of the people.Zhao Gou is no longer here. After giving the banquet, he will go to the ancestral hall of Tianzhang Pavilion to make offerings, and he will go back to the harem to be greeted by the queen, two sons and other concubines. The banquet is also over, and it's time to wait for the show of fireworks and lanterns in the evening.

It was peaceful at first, but when Zhao Gou passed by the Zichen Hall, he suddenly got off his car and came to the hall. After all the ministers congratulated him, Zhao Gou suddenly sighed: "The lord of gold has just sent the peace letter. May the two countries Good friends forever, my heart is safe at this moment!"

Everyone knew what he meant. Qin Hui died in Xia Tian. After Qin Hui's death, Zhao Gou was afraid that Jin Guo would blame him for not protecting the safety of the prime minister who advocated peace talks. Until now, Wan Yanliang came here through an envoy Congratulating Zhengdan on the opportunity, he expressed his willingness to continue the peace talks with Song Guo.

It's fine if Zhao Gou didn't say this, but once he said this, it would be like pouring cold water on the officials who had just kindled a little hope for him.

Everyone thought that after Qin Hui's death, Zhao Gou was going to rehabilitate and reform everywhere, and he was going to cheer up. Now that he heard this, he clearly knew that Zhao Gou had no such plan at all!

The Zichen Palace, which was still lively at first, became quiet all of a sudden, and the conversation disappeared, only the musicians continued to play.

The atmosphere became a little subtle, and Zhao Gou felt it himself. Before he could speak, a new censor stood up, saluted Zhao Gou, and said, "Your Majesty, dogs and sheep have no faith, and the gold master Wan Yanliang When he was usurping the throne, he threatened to win the world, but now that he is the patron, he has absolutely no intention of making peace, His Majesty must not take it lightly, and should actively prepare for war!"

The censor's face was slightly red, he must have been a little drunk from drinking, that's why he had the courage to openly challenge Zhao Gou at Zhengdan.

The original smile on Zhao Gou's face gradually disappeared and turned a little pale, but he didn't speak.But another sixth-rank official sitting in the corner got up and said: "The Qin thief negotiated peace, harmed the country and the people, and the country's decline is due to this, Your Majesty!"

Zhao Gou's mood suddenly sank to the bottom. At this time, most officials were a little bit drunk. Hearing what the sixth-rank official said, they all started to discuss, and even Shi Hao stepped forward to say to Zhao Gou: " Your Majesty, upon returning from the Kingdom of Jin, the Lord of Gold, Wanyan Liang, definitely has the intention of invading the south, Your Majesty should make preparations early!"

After Qin Hui's death, Zhao Gou maintained a good mood for more than half a year, and finally disappeared at this time.

It is not wrong for Zhao Gou to get angry on such an occasion, and it would be even more disrespectful to scold him. He snorted heavily, and said to the officials beside him, "Negotiating peace is a national policy. It is my own will and has nothing to do with Qin Hui. Qin Hui The prime minister has been prime minister for many years, although he has lost his virtue, he has made one great achievement, which is the successful negotiation of peace."

Now that Zhao Gou said that, all the officials who were discussing the matter shut up one after another, but the drunken censor refused to let go, and refused to borrow the slope to get off the donkey. Instead, he walked up to Zhao Gou and said Zhao Gou saluted and asked Zhao Gou to order immediately to strengthen his defense with tears in his eyes.

Zhao Gou shook his sleeves fiercely, turned around and left, the drunk Yu Shi was also framed out by the eunuch, the good New Year's party was disturbed in this way, no one of them had the intention to stay for a feast, However, some courtiers refused to leave and surrounded Zhao Yuan, hoping that Zhao Yuan could persuade Zhao Gou.

Zhao Zhuo walked with Zhao Gou when Zhao Gou turned around and left. Now Zhao Gou angrily returned to the inner hall, cursing angrily: "A group of people who don't know what is good or bad!" Looking back, he saw only Zhao Gou Zhuo was alone, and asked, "Why are you the only one here, where is Pu'an County King?"

Zhao Zhuo took two steps forward, bowed to Zhao Gou, raised his head again, and said to Zhao Gou, "Officials, the Prince of Pu'an County is still in the Zichen Palace, surrounded by all the ministers to praise him!"

Zhao Gou snorted, a little dissatisfied in his heart, glanced at Zhao Zhuo, and said, "Go and call the Pu'an County King here! Why is he a prince messing with ministers?"

Zhao Zhuo was overjoyed when he heard Zhao Gou's words, so he hurriedly turned around and went out, and found a eunuch to call Zhao Yuan.

After Zhao Yuan also left, the officials gradually dispersed, Yu Yunwen and Xiao Shan walked together, whispered to Xiao Shan: "Do you know, in the past six months, the government has changed five prime ministers!"

Xiao Shan nodded, and said: "The officials are scared by the Qin thieves, and they don't want to lose power."

Yu Yunwen sighed slightly, a little worried and disappointed: "The officials only care about these things, but they can't see the real disaster. I have a friend in Jiangbei, and I heard from him that Wan Yanliang is recruiting a lot. He once discussed with his courtiers that he planned to move the capital from Yanjing to Bianjing, and I am afraid that he will invade the south in a short time."

Xiao Shan only knew that Wan Yanliang's invasion of the south was still more than ten years later in history, but Qin Hui died seven or eight years earlier. Whether the situation will change this time is unknown.

However, what he knew was that Wan Yanliang was indeed actively preparing for the battle, but Zhao Gou was so elated just because he got a piece of peace agreement, and any hope for him would only be disappointed.

Originally, Xiao Shan should have gone back after the Great Court Meeting ended, but when he just returned to the station, he received a letter from Li Dao, hoping that he could stay in the capital for two more days, and there is another more important thing Things need him to do.

Xiao Shan could only stay temporarily. On the second day after Zhengdan, under Li Fengniang's strong request, he took Li Fengniang to the West Lake to play.

This time when he was swimming in the lake, he accidentally bumped into Queen Mother Wei.

After the Zhengdan court meeting, Zhao Gou was in a bad mood and was bored in the palace.Empress Wu, Empress Dowager Wei and other harem women all went to the West Lake to play. When they were sailing on the lake, they happened to meet Li Fengniang. Empress Dowager Wei remembered Li Fengniang, so she called her over.

Empress Dowager Wei was quite surprised to see that Xiao Shan was accompanying Li Fengniang.And Xiao Shan never thought that he would meet many female relatives in the harem at this place.

Ordinary female relatives just need to avoid it, but when they meet the Queen Mother Wei, they have to go to bow and bow.A sampan was set up on the royal boat, Xiao Shan picked up Li Fengniang, walked across the sampan and boarded the royal boat, and went to salute Empress Wei and Empress Wu.

Empress Dowager Wei was indifferent to Xiao Shan, but she liked Li Fengniang very much, saying that the little girl was pretty and had a happy face.

Li Fengniang put away all her usually arrogant side, and she behaved like a lady of a family, and occasionally pretended to be innocent, coaxing Queen Mother Wei to joke.

Empress Wu recruited Xiao Shan to come over, and asked him a few words about the situation in Ezhou. After Xiao Shan answered one by one, he withdrew and returned to his boat.After Xiao Shan left, Empress Wu turned her head and smiled at Empress Dowager Wei who had been teasing Li Fengniang: "Since Empress Dowager likes this child so much, why not keep her in the palace as a companion, wouldn't it be better?"

Empress Dowager Wei shook her head and said, "How can an old woman snatch someone's daughter?"

At this time, a noble concubine surnamed Liu suddenly interjected, "Queen Mother, if Miss Li becomes the daughter-in-law of the Zhao family, won't she be able to stay in the palace for a long time?"

Empress Dowager Wei was startled for a moment, then smiled, said yes repeatedly, and said to Empress Wu: "Huang Futan once told the fortune of this child, saying that her husband will own the world, and it just so happens that the King of Pu'an and the King of Enping..."

Empress Dowager Wei hadn't finished speaking before she was interrupted by Empress Wu, who said with a smile, "The empress dowager is a good idea. The King of Pu'an County and the King of Enping County both have sons, and they are about the same age as Feng Niang, so they just happen to be married."

Empress Dowager Wei originally wanted to make Zhao Zhuo the wife of the palace, but she was a little unhappy when she was interrupted by Empress Wu before she finished speaking, but she was relieved after listening to Empress Wu's next suggestion: Li Fengniang is only seven years old. Although it is not too early to talk about marriage, it is always a little inappropriate. It is better to let her become the great-grandson's wife, and bless the Great Song Dynasty at least in the generation of the great-grandson, and said: "You are right, old man The wife thinks this is a good marriage. If the county king can get Feng Niang as his daughter-in-law, maybe he will be able to return to Bianjing in the future."

As soon as the Empress Dowager Wei mentioned Kaifeng, no one here dared to say anything. She was the Empress Dowager, so it didn't matter if she said it, but the rest were Zhao Gou's concubines, so no one dared to say such things.

Empress Dowager Wei went back that night and said to Zhao Gou: "You are not young anymore. The emperor's heir has never been determined. Today I found you a good grandson-in-law. Whoever can marry her will be the emperor's heir! But Huangfu Tan has a fortune-telling fortune teller."