The first prince of Song Dynasty

Chapter 98 The Orphanage

Zhao Xu's original intention was that since the old lady said that his young master was an official, as long as he was an official of the Song Dynasty, he would definitely be able to find him in Bianjing City.

Perhaps Zhao Kuangyin didn't know that Zhao Xu's Feng Ying had spread all over the city of Bianjing, and all the officials' every move was under their control.

However, in order to prevent Fengying from becoming bigger, Jinyiwei will monitor Fengying from the side, and the two organizations will supervise each other and restrict each other, and there will never be a dominance of one family.

After the old woman finished speaking, everyone was shocked. His young master is Gao Huaide, so this child is Gao Huaide's son. No wonder Gao Huaide only has a daughter like Gao Guiying. Mrs. Gao also passed away not long ago. I didn't expect him to have a son.

"Old lady, are you saying that your master is Gao Xingzhou's family, the young master is Gao Huaide, and he has a younger brother named Gao Huailiang, Gao Qiong, who is Gao Huaide's son?" Zhao Xu asked uncertainly.

"Yes, benefactor, you will know my master's name, and you know my young master?"

Zhao Xu said in his heart:
"It's not just acquaintance, it's simply too familiar. I didn't expect this little guy to be my future brother-in-law. This is really fate."

In fact, Zhao Xu was anxious to confirm the identity of this child, and it was all because of a name in his mind, and that name was Gao Qiong.

In the Song Dynasty, there was a famous general named Gao Qiong, who was most famous for urging Zhenzong to conquer Tanzhou himself. Gao Qiong made a generous statement to Emperor Zhenzong in the hall:

"The prime minister's main battle is really a good strategy. If you avoid the enemy and move the capital, the army's morale will definitely be shaken. I hope that His Majesty will personally conquer and revive the army, and he will definitely defeat the Liao army. Although the old minister is almost old, he is willing to fight to the death."

After Zhenzong started driving, Gao Qiong always followed Emperor Zhenzong's side, strengthening Zhenzong's confidence in resisting the enemy.When we arrived at the southern city of Chanzhou, we visited Ma Fei and reported that the Liao army was strong.Zhenzong was afraid of the enemy and did not want to advance.

Gao Qiong persuaded: "If your Majesty does not cross the river, it will be difficult to strengthen the morale of the army, please march quickly!" Feng Zheng, a member of the Privy Council, reprimanded loudly: "The Taiwei is unreasonable!" Gao Qiong also shouted angrily: "Can you write poems to defeat the enemy? " Feng dared not answer.Gao Qiong then embraced the chariot and walked.Arriving at the Yellow River Floating Bridge, Zhenzong wanted to stay again. Gao Qiong hurriedly ordered the chariot-riding warriors to gallop forward until they reached the northern city of Chanzhou.When the Song army outside the city saw the emperor's personal conquest, they all shouted "Long live", and the army was greatly boosted.Gao Qiong immediately led the army to attack, killed Xiao Dalan, the vanguard of the Liao Kingdom, defeated the Liao army, forced Liao to strike, and concluded a peace treaty.

Later, Emperor Zhenzong recalled: "In the battle of Chanyuan, Gao Qiong's achievements were also prosperous"!
However, this Gao Qiong's father was Gao Gan, a famous general during the Southern and Northern Dynasties. According to historical records, Gao Qiong himself was older than the current Zhao Xu. According to historical records, he served under Wang Shenqi's command at the beginning. It would be fine if Shen Qi didn't have this person under his command.

There was no nonsense, Zhao Xu hugged little Gao Qiong, and carried the old woman in a sedan chair to Gao Huaide's mansion. Although little Gao Qiong was already eight years old, the long-term malnutrition at that time looked like a six-year-old child.

Now Gao Huaide is the Jiedu envoy of the Yicheng Army. At the same time, the deputy inspector in front of the official worship hall, the Jiedu envoy of the Wuxin Army, and the commander of the guards and infantry are all guarding Huazhou. This time he should follow Zhao Kuangyin to pacify Li Yun's, but because of the recurrence of the arrow injury, he gave up.

Now the man is recuperating in the mansion, the gatekeeper of the Gao mansion saw that the current crown prince had arrived.Immediately saluted, someone even ran to report to Master Gao Huaide.

"Brother, they all call you the prince. Is the prince going to be the emperor in the future? I heard this from my husband before."

"Haha, you little bastard, let's not talk about this, you look dirty, you look like a monkey, and I will give you a good wash later." Zhao Xu scratched his nose.

"But brother, will they let me take a bath here? I used to wash myself in the river." Little Gao Qiong's big eyes flickered.

"Don't worry, I have my brother here, it's fine." Just as they were talking, Gao Huaide came out, Gao Huaiying followed behind, and he didn't expect Wang Linger to be here too. They played.

"Minister Gao Huaide is joining His Royal Highness, the prince is a thousand years old." Just as Gao Huaide was about to kneel, Zhao Xu put down little Gao Qiong to stop Gao Huaide who was about to kneel.

"Uncle Gao, you don't need to be too polite. This is not the court, but your own family. Why are you so polite? You see, Guiying is going to blame me again." Sure enough, Gao Guiying was looking at Zhao Xu angrily.

"Guiying must not be rude, the courtesy of a monarch and his ministers must not be abolished, no matter what time it is, it must not be forgotten, otherwise it will make people gossip..."

Zhao Xu got a headache when he heard this, and quickly waved his hand to stop him:

"Yes, Uncle Gao, I'm here today. I have something to do and a big happy event. You have to repay me well." After finishing speaking, he blinked funnyly.

"What else can I repay you, you are a prince, my only daughter is about to marry you, what else?" Gao Huaide thought in his heart.

Looking at Gao Huaide's puzzled eyes, Zhao Xu immediately said:
"Uncle Gao, don't believe me, just look at who this person is?" With Liu Hongqing's support, the old woman came out slightly trembling. Before Gao Huaide saw the old man's face clearly, the old man knelt down in front of him:

"Master, I found you! Huh, huh."

"Old man, get up quickly, who are you?" Gao Huaide hasn't recognized who the old lady is yet?
The old man's tears kept streaming down: "Master, this old slave is Wang Ma, and I am Wang Ma!"

"You are Wang Ma, nurse Wang Ma?" "Gao Huaide was a little excited at this time. Wang Ma was his nanny, and it was Wang Ma who took her son who was under the age of one and left. In the end, they found nothing, and they did not expect that Wang Ma was still alive.

"Young master is me, Qiong'er, come quickly, this is your father, this is your father I told you, you call father." The old man pulled over little Gao Qiong, pointed at Gao Huaide and said to him.

Little Gao Qiong didn't cry out. After all, he has never had a parent for so many years. Now someone suddenly comes out and says he is your father. Will you agree?

Gao Huaide didn't care, but was very excited:
"You are Qiong'er, you are my son Qiong'er." Gao Huaide actually started to cry as he said that, unexpectedly, a veteran general in the battlefield actually started to cry here.But little Gao Qiong didn't buy it and just kept pushing into Zhao Xu's arms.

That night Gao Mansion held a grand banquet to welcome his long-lost son back. During the banquet, Gao Huaide cried bitterly. Under Zhao Xu's coaxing and deception, Gao Qiong finally agreed to recognize Gao Huaide as his father.Gao Guiying is even more terrified of this little brother who suddenly appeared, but the little guy is just kissing Zhao Xu.

Zhao Xu got up early the next day because he had an important matter to discuss with the ministers today, which he only thought of after meeting little Gao Qiong yesterday.

He was going to set up a special place to adopt orphans, widows and young children. This was something he thought of on the spur of the moment. I don’t know how many people like little Gao Qiong starved to death on the street that day without knowing that he was there.

"You were alone in the city yesterday and accidentally rescued two people, grandparents and grandchildren. If they hadn't discovered it early, they might have starved to death."

There are people flattering in the next one, and all the benevolence of the prince came out. These people are afraid of being flattered. Zhao Xu secretly made a note that these people must be replaced if they have the opportunity. It is not practical.

"I'm not talking about this, what I'm talking about is how many things like this are happening in this country, how many people will starve to death on the streets every day, these people are all the people of my Song Dynasty!"

"Prince, there is no way to do this. It has happened in all dynasties, and it is not unique to our Song Dynasty, so your Highness need not be so worried." Fan Zhi didn't take such "little things" to heart at all.

"It's the prince. You don't have to care about things like this all the time?"

The people below all joined together.The scholar-bureaucrats always thought that they were governing the world for the emperor, and all they did were big things, and they didn't think about such small things at all.

"Haha, do you all think so? But Gu doesn't do it artificially. They are all our people. Without them, how could our Great Song Dynasty come about?"

"By the way, you may say that they have something to do with our country. Aren't they the subjects of my Great Song Dynasty? My Great Song Dynasty is composed of tens of thousands of such people. If we abandon them now, they will be in the future." It will give up our Da Song."

"Think about why the mighty Great Qin perished. It wasn't because Qin II didn't know the hearts of the people and slowly lost the hearts of the people, which led to the uprising of Chen Sheng and Wu Guang. There were more than tens of millions of responders. Could these people do it willingly? Rebellious ministers and thieves? Isn’t it all persecuted by those in power, whoever has enough food and clothing has nothing to do to rebel.”

"That's why I feel that it is necessary to rescue these people. Maybe a copper coin can save a person's life. Money is dead, but life is the most important thing, and there are precious daughters. Do you have any opinions?"

Zhao Xu could give such a speech for a long time casually. He knew that if these literati and bureaucrats would bow their heads, there must be the highest reason of the country to stop their mouths, otherwise there was really no way.

"The veteran didn't expect His Royal Highness to be a high-ranking man. This is really the blessing of my Song Dynasty, but there are so many people like this in the world, we don't have the ability to take care of everyone, and the court's finances are not enough." Fan Zhi, a member of Zhao Xu After a lot of "education", I immediately thought about this matter and worked hard.

The surrounding officials also kept nodding their heads. The most difficult thing in this matter is money. Without money, everything is just fantasy.

"What Fan Xiang considered was that the ministers were right to be worried, so Gu decided to run several orphanages."

(End of this chapter)