Great Zhou Empire: Kill Zhao Kuangyin at the beginning

Chapter 526: The nd Year of Kaixi (Special thanks to book friend yyangtq for the monthly ticket!)

Princess Tifa sighed:

“Your Majesty’s words are so good!

"Things have changed since ancient times, but the mountains and rivers remain the only things that never grow old."

This is a very good statement. I feel strangely touched after hearing it, but I don’t know how to express it.”

Princess Tifa was taken into the imperial palace by Chai Zongxun at the beginning of the 41st year of Kaixi and has lived here for more than eight months.

In addition to having almost learned all the court etiquette of the Great Zhou Dynasty, he had also learned Chinese to about 80% to 90%.

During this period, Chai Zongxun was very satisfied with Princess Tifa and sent an envoy to the east to reward her father with rare treasures twice.

Chai Jijun sighed:
"Father is truly the greatest poet throughout the ages!

"Who in the world knows me? I have crossed the sky with my sword many times. I press the jade dragon, its neighing continues, the moon is cold and the waves are chilly, I am going back." This sentence is full of immortal spirit and looks down on the world, which is exactly the situation that my father has conquered Maya and is about to return to the capital in triumph. "

Xiao Chuo sighed:

"I never thought that besides being a great writer and martial artist, Your Majesty could also compose such wonderful poems. You are worthy of the title of 'Emperor of Poetry'!"

Yelu Longxu said:
"Your Majesty, this poem is written by an immortal!

"I recognize the screen of clouds and smoke as my home, and let the ground be covered with moss, which I never sweep year after year."

The free and easy meaning here is the first in the poem. "

Everyone at the banquet praised him highly, except Xiao Ya, the wife of Yelu Longxu and daughter of the leader of the Mayan Dongshan tribe. She had no idea what the words meant and did not utter a word.

Yelu and Gudian saw this and felt pity for him. They approached Chai Zongxun and said:

"Your Majesty, this is the first time I have met my nephew and niece-in-law. I would like to reward them. Is that possible?"

Chai Zongxun smiled and said:
"It is natural for an aunt to love her nephew. Once upon a time, Qin Qiong was exiled, but the aunt and nephew recognized each other and escaped from prison.

My beloved concubine can reward them as she wishes."

Yelu and Gudian hurriedly expressed their gratitude and immediately rewarded Xiao Ya with six personal maids and Yelu Longxu with a thousand taels of gold.

Yelu Longxu hurriedly took Xiao Ya away to express his gratitude.

By early September, "Local Worthies Bureaus" had been established in all Mayan states.

Seeing that the weather was gradually turning into autumn, Chai Zongxun finally decided to lead a large army back home by sea on a Royal Navy warship in March of the 42nd year of Kaixi.

After receiving the imperial edict, the thousands of warships of the Royal Navy docked at the port began to inspect the warships and transport supplies on board.

On September 4, the st year of Kaixi, several eunuchs from Bian Jing and sent by Tang Qi finally arrived at Xinshangjing after sailing for more than four months on several naval warships.

After reading Tang Qi's memorial, Chai Zongxun slammed the table in anger and said:
"I considered Kievan Rus' barren land and the Star Religion countries to be the biggest enemies of my Great Zhou, so I did not conquer them. Who knew that the Russian devils were so cruel and brutal that they dared to invade my territory and kill the people!
Alas! Yu'er's experience in ruling a country is still a little shallow. If he wants to send four corps, even if he draws a corps from the garrisons in Goryeo and Liao, he should not draw it from Beiming, where he knows that the Russian devils are cruel.

The Russian devils love aggression, how dare they kill my people? When I return to the capital next year, I will make the Russian devils pay their blood debt a hundredfold! "

Chai Zongxun felt better when he thought about how he had led an expedition to Maya and finally lured out the stubborn conservative forces hidden deep in the country.

Chai Zongxun thought:
"Lu Duosun and other deeply hidden official-centered forces finally couldn't hold back and wanted to restore the bureaucratic privileges. They couldn't help but take a risk, which made me lead the army thousands of miles away. Yu'er is indeed a wise ruler who resisted the temptation of the throne. Tang Qi's methods are sophisticated and he lived up to my expectations, and he didn't have to use my secret decree."

Thinking of the list of thousands of people that Lu Dosun's party had been lured out of, all of whom were corrupt and reactionary people with an official-centered, privileged mentality, Chai Zongxun thought:
"This time, I will wipe out the conservative forces in the country and prevent them from having the possibility of reviving and hindering the long-term prosperity of our Great Zhou!"

Chai Zongxun looked at the eunuchs who were delivering the memorials and asked:
"How are the Queen Mother, Empress Shengci, and Empress Shengyi? How are all the concubines in the palace?"

The leading fifth-rank palace eunuch Zhen Wei saluted and said:

"Your Majesty, the Queen Mother and the two Queens are both in good health, but they miss Your Majesty very much.

With the Empress Dowager and the two Queens in charge, all the ladies in the palace were safe and sound, with nothing to worry about.

When we set out from Bian Jing this time, the Empress Dowager and the two Empresses ordered us to ask Your Majesty when you would return to the capital.
Here are the gifts that the two queens and several concubines asked me to bring to Your Majesty."

Zhen Wei bowed and presented a package. He Yao, the chief eunuch in front of the palace, walked down the jade steps to take it and presented it on the imperial desk.

When Chai Zongxun opened them, he saw only silk scarves, sachets, handkerchiefs and the like. Judging from the patterns on them, they must have been embroidered by his two queens and his favorite concubines.

Chai Zongxun smiled and said:
"The major events in the Maya Continent have been settled. I will lead my army back to my country in March next year. It is estimated that we will be able to arrive in Beijing in the summer of July or August.

I will reward each of you with one hundred taels of silver, and let you eat, drink and have fun in Xinshangjing for a few days. Then I will set off for home and report my safety to my mother, the two queens, the crown prince and others.

Xiao Liuzi, prepare some specialties from Maya these days and have them take them back to Bianjing to present to the Queen Mother and the other ladies."

Zhen Wei and several other eunuchs who brought the news stayed in Xinshangjing for seven days, and He Yaocai prepared the gifts to be brought back to the country.

So on September 20th, the 41st year of Kaixi, he boarded the Royal Navy warship waiting in Jinshan Port and set off for home.

Time passed quickly as Chai Zongxun was busy perfecting the official governance system of the Mayan continent.

After more than a year of vigorous development by three million new Han immigrants, by the end of the 41st year of Kaixi, the number of acres of farmland in the Maya continent had tripled from more than 6 million acres to 20 million acres.
The area of ​​pastures has nearly doubled from more than 5 million acres to 11 million acres.

The number of shops and workshops in more than one hundred prefectures increased tenfold from just over ten thousand during the Liao Dynasty's rule to over one hundred thousand.

The tax revenue of the Great Zhou government also soared from over 200,000 taels per year when it was first established to 3.3 million taels.

Amid the hard work of the entire Mayan continent, New Year's Eve of the 42nd year of Kaixi arrived.

Chai Zongxun also followed the local rules of the Great Zhou Dynasty and set a half-month annual leave for officials and citizens in the Maya continent, from New Year's Eve to the Lantern Festival, and returning to work on the 16th.

This year's Mayan New Year's Eve, with the establishment and development of three million Han immigrants, the atmosphere of the New Year has become 80 to 90 percent of that of the mainland of the Great Zhou.

The climate of the Mayan continent is extremely similar to that of the Great Zhou mainland, but there are more plains.

The streets of each state capital are filled with drama and circus troupes, and almost all the famous snacks from all over the Great Zhou can be found in Maya.

Influenced by the Han people, the Liao and Mayan people also began to learn various customs for celebrating the Spring Festival. Visiting relatives and friends to wish each other a happy new year became popular, and children especially loved to set off fireworks.

After the New Year holiday, on the sixth day of February in the forty-second year of Kaixi, when all the people in the court were busy preparing for their return trip, "King Ya" Chai Jijun asked for a meeting.

Chai Zongxun immediately summoned him to the main hall in the front courtyard of the temporary palace in Shangjing.

(End of this chapter)