Traveling through Tianlong: Starting from the Zhenlong chess game

Chapter 544 The Bliss of Bliss
Moreover, the civil servants in the Song Dynasty deliberately distinguished Zhao Mu's Qi Kingdom from the Song Dynasty in written form, stripping him from the court system of the Song Dynasty, and even stripping Zhao Mu, the strongest general of the Song Dynasty in the past hundred years.

Under their intentional or unintentional instigation, even ministers like Su Dongpo began to doubt whether Qi was actually the territory of the Song Dynasty.

But after Zhao Mu left, Zhezong, contrary to his usual practice, no longer supported the military group and continued to implement the Song Dynasty's "national policy" of "valuing culture over military" as before.

After sending Zhao Mu away, Zhezong also demoted all the generals who were awarded titles for their military merits. He kicked them out of the capital and sent them to the northwestern border area with poor resources. That is, the border area between the Song Dynasty and the State of Qi. Or he directly took away their military power. Or he put a civil official above them to restrain them.

This is also what the civil service groups in the DPRK would like to see.

The military leaders, led by General Yang and King Zhongxiao, were all very surprised, but they could do nothing about it. Now everyone thought that Zhao Mu was gone and the emperor was deceived by the slander of the civil officials. Now everyone missed Zhao Mu very much.

Seeing Zhao Mu fall silent, Su Shi took another sip of wine and then comforted him, "Your Highness, don't be so depressed. To be frank, your great achievement this time is unprecedented since the founding of the Song Dynasty. It is not an exaggeration to say that your achievement is so great that it shocks the emperor. Back then, General Di Qing was criticized for only defeating the Western Xia. Not only can your Highness escape unscathed, but you can also enjoy wealth and prosperity in your own territory. This is the greatest gift from His Majesty to you."

Zhao Mu then took a sip of wine and said, "Let's not talk about these things anymore."

Zhao Mu then asked, "Mr. Su, how is His Majesty doing recently?"

Su Shi also sighed and said, "Since the prince left the capital, Your Majesty has been indulging in wine and women all day long, and has been a little unwell recently. It's a pity that the prince is not in the capital, otherwise I could have advised Your Majesty a little."

After hearing this, Zhao Mu did not think much about it. He thought that Zhezong was doing so because the Western Xia was pacified and the Liao was weak. Now that the Song Dynasty was in a good position, he could put down the burden on his shoulders and enjoy himself for a few days.

Although Zhezong was in good health, Zhao Mu did not take it seriously. After all, his majesty had worked so hard for so many years, so shouldn't he enjoy himself?

Zhezong had been indulging in women these days because he really wanted to "enjoy" himself. His illness had become more and more serious these days. He thought that during his lifetime, he could pave the way for Zhao Mu and then enjoy the happiness of being an emperor, which would make his life worthwhile.

Zhao Mu held a grand banquet for the marriage envoys in Lingzhou City. After the banquet, Su Shi read out the imperial edict from Zhezong to Zhao Mu in public.

But Su Shi was not an imperial envoy, but an envoy from the Heavenly Kingdom. Although this made Zhao Mu a little uncomfortable, the matter was settled and there was nothing he could do.

However, before Zhao Mu left, Zhezong issued an order to him that he could not enter the capital without being summoned. Otherwise, Zhao Mu really wanted to meet Zhezong in person and explain the matter of separation.

However, although Zhao Mu himself could not go, he still asked Su Shi to take a letter of advice back to Zhezong.

After Su Shi read the imperial edict, he resigned from his position as the head of the marriage envoy, and Princess Chai and Princess Qian also stayed in the palace of Qi.

Afterwards, the whole Qi State held a grand ceremony to confer titles on the two princesses who came from the Song Dynasty. Princess Chai and Princess Xiao Qian were both conferred titles of Imperial Concubine by Zhao Mu and were brought into the harem to live.

Su Shi and others did not delay and immediately returned to Beijing to submit their orders after the enthronement ceremony.

After Su Shi and others left, Zhao Mu couldn't wait to enjoy his two new concubines.

Although he was disgusted with this marriage before, Princess Chai and Princess Qian have grown up and become more and more beautiful. For Zhao Mu, beauty is like Han Xin selecting soldiers, "the more the better". It also saves him from facing several people all day and getting aesthetic fatigue.

Although the two girls were married far away in Qi, they didn't miss home at all. After all, life at home was far worse than that in Zhao Mu's palace. Moreover, many nobles were related by marriage. Princess Qian and Princess Chai also had acquaintances here. At least they got along very well with Mu Wanqing, Hu Yanjin, and Zhao Ji.

Moreover, the two of them came at the right time. Zhao Mu had just integrated the "Yoga Tantra" skills taught by Musa, and the two of them became the next round of test subjects.

Zhao Mu really made them experience the bliss of the world. They both felt that it was right not to break off the engagement, and that their waiting over the past few years was also right.

After the two of them moved in, Zhao Mu suddenly realized that his house seemed a little too small. Although the area of ​​the Xixia Royal Palace was not small, the Xixia King did not have as many "concubines" as Zhao Mu.

Even though the King of Xixia claimed to be the Son of Heaven, his title of imperial concubine was in accordance with the Tang Dynasty system, which had four positions: "virtuous, virtuous, and virtuous". However, Zhao Mu was a person who did not follow these etiquettes. Now he had five imperial concubines: Hu Yanjin, Wang Yuyan, Princess Chai, Azhu, and Princess Xiaoqian. In the near future, there would even be a Princess Anping from Goryeo.

Princess Anping's status is the same as Li Qinglu and Mu Wanqing, both of them are princesses of a country. Giving her the position of a noble concubine is actually a bit unfair to her.

Zhao Mu had no choice but to instruct the Ministry of Works to start expanding his palace, although this kind of large-scale construction was very hateful. But Zhao Mu did not use the country's money, but took money from his own treasury.

The annual tribute given by Cheoljong was used to expand the palace.

After Zhao Mu had completed two marriages, he was free again. Now he was waiting for Princess Anping to marry him again. After the marriage with Princess Anping, Zhao Mu began his next westward expedition plan. That was to annihilate the Uighur tribes and make the entire Western Regions submit to the Central Plains Dynasty again.

Zhao Mu had nothing to do that day, so he began his journey to the harem.

Although Qi was gaining strength, Zhao Mu had already begun to do things that were unworthy of a ruler.

Zhao Mu followed the example of Sima Yan, the Emperor Wu of Jin, and drove a sheep cart in the palace. He would stay wherever the sheep cart went.

However, Zhao Mu sometimes did not stay at everyone's place. Once, the sheep cart ran directly outside Zhao Ji's bedroom. After Zhao Mu entered the house to greet his mother, he ordered mutton and mutton soup.

But despite this, Zhao Mu still enjoyed it.

That day, Zhao Mu's sheep cart stopped directly outside Wang Yuyan's Lianxin Palace.

The female official accompanying him asked, "Your Majesty, would you like to ask the Queen to receive you?"

Zhao Mu got off the goat cart and said, "No need. I will go in and see her myself. You all can go back."

After hearing what Zhao Mu said, the female officials led the sheep carts away.

Zhao Mu stepped into the Lianxin Palace.

(End of this chapter)