This prince is so sinister

Chapter 26

In the main hall that usually goes to court.

Zhao Yi, who was only ten years old, was wearing a dragon robe and sitting on a dragon chair.

Behind and above the dragon chair is a larger phoenix seat. On the phoenix seat sits the young empress dowager Liu Mo in full dress, like a blooming flower, with beautiful eyes shining on everyone, looking down on the world.

On both sides of the phoenix seat, there is a maid waiting on it, and the hall is full of Wenwu Mountain.

"Long live my emperor, long live, long live."

"Long live my emperor, long live, long live."

……

Zhao Zhi stood and watched with Guo Huai after the side of the main hall was hidden, but after completing a enthronement ceremony, Zhao Yi was the emperor of the Song Dynasty from then on, and Liu Mo was the empress dowager of the Song Dynasty.

In fact, apart from being grand, it is a bit boring.

So Zhao Zhi couldn't help but whispered: "Eunuch Guo, do you know what flowers the Queen Mother usually likes?"

What kind of flowers do you like?

After thinking for a while, Guo Huai said without hesitation: "The queen mother usually likes jasmine flowers, and there are many in the palace."

Zhao Zhi nodded lightly: "Oh! I heard that the Empress Dowager's birthday is March 21st. I want to prepare a gift for the Empress Dowager, so I will ask Eunuch Guo. Eunuch Guo must not tell you about this."

Guo Huai immediately raised his eyebrows when he heard this: "If my lord is sending flowers, there is no shortage of jasmine flowers in the palace. My lord might as well send some other fresh things, and the empress seems to like roses again these days."

Zhao Zhi was stunned for a moment: "What kind of flower do you like, and can it change at any time?"

Guo Huai thought in a low voice: "Two days ago, the empress suddenly said that she wanted to smell the roses. The maidservant had arranged for someone to go outside to look for the roses of the four seasons. This series of things happened one after another without thinking. So if you want to send flowers, you should send them to me. The Empress Dowager Rose will love it."

Zhao Zhi grinned: "Elder-in-law doesn't know the meaning of roses, but these roses cannot be given randomly."

Guo Huai couldn't help being curious for a moment: "Oh? What does it mean, why can't you send it?"

Zhao Zhi: "Ahem! This rose represents the love between a man and a woman in the West. Although we are in the East, it's fine if we don't know it, but we can't send it randomly if we know it. But I'm not sending flowers. What kind of floral fragrance do you like?"

Guo Huai nodded immediately: "As for the fragrance of flowers, my mother used to like the fragrance of jasmine, but now she is suddenly interested in the fragrance of roses. I wonder what gift my lord wants to prepare?"

Zhao Zhi said directly and mysteriously: "Eunuch Guo, please keep it a secret for now, you will know when the time comes, and you can still make a lot of money. Do you want Eunuch Guo to join in?"

Do you want to join in?
Guo Huai immediately said without any hesitation: "My lord gives me a chance, how dare I not show my face? It's just that I haven't had much savings in the palace with the empress all these years. I don't know if 10 taels of silver is enough when I go to the palace to make preparations." ?”

Get ready? 10 taels of silver?Is this trying to knock yourself out?Win yourself over for that young empress dowager?This eunuch is too rich.

However, Zhao Zhi knew that the treasury of the Great Song Dynasty was now empty, but the empress dowager didn't know that what the faint king Zhao Heng clearly left behind was a mess.

It can be said that it is necessary to send new year coins to the Liao Kingdom every year, and now it is even more difficult to pay the salaries of officials. How can Zhao Heng leave the throne?It was clearly a scapegoat, so where did Liu Mo go to get money?
If there is no accident, Xixia will soon send troops again, and the result is that they cannot afford to fight, nor can they afford to send money, because the treasury is already empty.

So in Zhao Zhi's mind, he felt that Liu Mo was pitiful and unbearable. Zhao Heng left such a mess to a woman who was only 27 years old. Was that called Tuo Gu?It's clearly called dumping the pot!
But how can Da Song become stronger?Zhao Zhi had already thought about it calmly, and started by giving gifts to Liu Mo. After making perfume and soap, he would naturally get back the money of Song officials and merchants.

Because although the national treasury of the Song Dynasty is empty, the officials and merchants of the Song Dynasty are all very rich. If they make perfumes and soaps by themselves, ordinary people can't afford them, and the money will naturally be recycled.

As for making money for yourself?However, Zhao Zhi directly surpassed that realm. It is meaningless to earn money for himself, because the emperor is his younger brother, and the entire Song Dynasty can also be said to be his own.

So Zhao Zhi's goal has also been sublimated directly, just as he said to Queen Liu Mo, that is to let the Song Dynasty swallow the mountains and rivers one day, let the sun and the moon shine on the Song soil, let the fierce generals of the Song Dynasty be bloody, let the Song Dynasty The map extends infinitely outward.

One day, let all nations come to court and bow down to their younger brother Zhao Yi, and also bow down in front of the virtuous empress of the Song Dynasty.

As for myself, what's the point of asking for money?It is better to let the money of Song Dynasty circulate and create an unprecedented prosperity.

So when he heard about 10 taels of silver, Zhao Zhi couldn't help but patted Guo Huai on the shoulder and said, "Eunuch Guo sent charcoal in the snow, and Zhao wrote it down, and he will return 20 taels of silver to Eunuch Guo within a year."

Guo Huai immediately smiled and said: "My lord, you are welcome. If you need it, you can just use it. If you don't want to pay it back, you will be out of the way. Mr. Kuang just took over the imperial city department, and it is also the time when you need to use money. As long as you can help the empress dowager."

In an instant, Zhao Zhi understood that the 10 taels of silver promised by Guo Huai was probably still the queen mother's share, and the queen mother would never be stingy in order to buy him off if he needed the money.

As a result, after the boring enthronement ceremony was completed, Zhao Zhi appeases the real emperor Zhao Yi, then puts on casual clothes and goes out of the palace with Liu Jingchang and Li Si. Zhao Fu" two words.

And Bao Zheng, as the supervisory censor, was also assigned a small house, but unfortunately there was no Zhao Zhi anymore, and he was not used to being alone.

Chao Mahan often went to the place where Bao Zheng lived, naturally to pick up Zhao Zhi, but he never saw Zhao Zhi.

Obviously, only Bao Zheng and Liu Mo knew that the Imperial City Secretary of the Great Song Dynasty was in the hands of Zhao Zhi. Bao Zheng also knew that Zhao Zhi must be busy, and at the same time, he had already recognized Zhao Zhi as his brother.

There is a courtyard without a house number outside the Great Song Palace, but it is not far from the palace. It is obviously specially arranged for Zhao Zhi Palace to run around both inside and outside the palace.

As soon as Zhao Zhi entered the courtyard, more than a dozen military officers knelt down together, saying, "Your Majesty is waiting to see you."

There were 11 people in total, five of them were about 1.9 meters tall, and the rest were a little shorter, but Zhao Zhi could identify them by looking at their height.

The ones who are obviously tall are the commanders of the front of the palace, and the ones who are slightly shorter are the commanders of the Imperial City Division. Originally, the two divisions were not under each other, and even restricted each other. In order to prevent changes, they were only under the same emperor.

But it is obviously different this time. The Imperial City Division has been handed over to an 'outsider'. It seems that the first division in front of the temple and the first division of the Imperial City will also be integrated into one body. How can they restrict each other?

Zhao Zhize couldn't help but look at everyone quietly, and then said calmly: "Get up, everyone. Do you want to change into official uniforms?"

　The third change, ask for a recommendation ticket.

　　


(End of this chapter)