At the fifth o'clock, the morning bell rang. Zhao Bing went out in a neat manner and went to Cining Palace to greet the Queen Mother. He had already prepared chariots and ceremonial guards outside the door according to the rules, but he had no habit at all. Instead, he walked in front of him. However, the group did not disband as before, but followed him step by step.
"Don't follow me, let's part!" After walking for a while, seeing that the group of serving people had not yet dispersed, Zhao Bing turned around and waved his hand.
"Official family, don't make things difficult for the younger ones!" Liu Ling stepped forward and bowed.
"Bastard, I'll let you go. If you don't have to wait for the team, it's just a embarrassment!" Zhao Bing stood up and cursed with his hands on his hips.
"The official family doesn't know anything. The Queen has issued an imperial edict, saying that the palace is too lazy, so she has set new rules. The official family not only needs to prepare sedan chairs when going out, but also has an indispensable ceremonial guards. Even if the official family does not sit at the seat, it must be kept at any time." Liu Ling said with a wry smile.
"Oh, what are the rules I set? You don't need to bother me if you are fine. I have legs and feet, and I am young and young, what is the meaning of making a plan at home? Let's break up!" Zhao Bing tilted his head and looked at Liu Ling, stretched out his hand and pointed his nose.
"This..." Liu Ling became even more distressed. The gods fought, but he was unlucky, and he didn't know how to answer for a while.
"What this one, that one, let's disperse quickly and leave a lighter!" Zhao Bing said with a frown.
"You can't tell the big cats, why not hurry up!" Seeing Liu Ling hesitating, Wang De couldn't stand it anymore and scolded him sternly. Although they couldn't understand what this big cat meant, the little emperor often said this, and they gradually gained their own understanding - which side to stand.
"Yes!" Liu Ling quickly bowed and asked everyone to disband. He personally carried the lanterns to lead the way.
Only Wang De, Su Lan and Liu Ling were left beside Zhao Bing along the path of the Imperial Garden, walking up the bridge in the middle of the lake to the other side, and then turning to the West Palace. Even after the transformation of the North Palace, the North Palace may be the smallest palace in the Song Dynasty, or even the smallest palace in the historical dynasty. The outer dynasty only had the Daqing Hall, the Wende Hall and the Chuigong Hall. According to the construction method, the three main halls of the inner palace should be on the central axis, the six palaces on the left and the east and west, and the last one is the Imperial Garden.
Zhao Bing has no aesthetic view, and is also a "stingy man" who is fond of money and lives. He makes the harem unkind. After the outer court, it is the Imperial Garden. Then, with the Imperial Garden as the boundary, the Cining Hall on the west side and the Ciming Hall as the hall for the Empress Dowager to live, while the Renming Hall on the east side and the Ciyuan Hall on the east side are the residences of the empress and concubines, which makes it appear narrow and chaotic.
Fortunately, in addition to the palace, there are halls, pavilions, towers, towers, halls, temples, and pavilions in the inner court. These can be transformed into the residences of the concubines, so that they will not be crowded together, and they have their own residences. Of course, this also leads to the entire imperial garden for paying homage to the empress dowager, and he chose to live in Zhiyuan Hall, so there was a series of succession.
"I pay homage to Your Majesty, long live, long live!" When Zhao Bing came to Cining Hall in a row, Wu Xi had already led a group of concubines to wait for him and greeted him when he came.
"Forget it, I'll be casual, there's no need to be so polite!" Zhao Bing saw the colorful and beautiful ladies kneeling on the ground. This is the so-called royal life of respecting each other and holding a close eye. There is still no fun in the family's worship. He was a little embarrassed at first, but at this moment he felt disgusted and raised his hand to let everyone stand up and say.
"Thank you for your understanding, but I think that without rules, you cannot make a square basis. Your Majesty is polite and kind, and you cannot break the rules in the palace!" Wu Xi did not get up, but politely said again.
"Since the queen is not complicated, you can follow you if you like it!" Zhao Bing frowned and raised his hand.
"Thank you Your Majesty!" Wu Xi stood up after hearing this, but turned to Wang Dedao, "Why don't your Majesty take servants or ceremonial guards when he goes out today?"
"Immortal, it's a little mistake!" Wang De said.
"I asked them to disperse, it's not their business!" Zhao Bing waved his hand.
"I would like to ask your Majesty..." Wu Xi turned to Zhao Bing and said.
"Let's talk about it later, don't let the queen wait for a long time!" Before she could finish her words, Zhao Bing interrupted Wu Xi's words and turned around and walked towards the palace.
"See Your Majesty, Empress!" Seeing the emperor coming, the palace maids and eunuchs standing on both sides saluted.
"This woman is not simple!" Zhao Bing looked at her with his own eyes, and saw Wu Xi following him half a step behind him. What surprised him was that he knew he wanted to kill his brother, but Wu Xi could still remain calm. He did not pretend to be pitiful and pretend to be pitiful in front of him, nor did he cry and ask for trouble. Instead, he was ashamed of the harem as the lord of the harem and kept admonishing him with a look of nothing. His calmness could even be said to be a little cold, which surprised him a little.
"I am paying homage to my mother!" Before I could think too much at this time, Zhao Bing entered the palace to pay tribute to the Empress Dowager.
"This New Year's Day, the government has been there for a long time, so I will forget the Ai family!" Empress Dowager Yang said angrily with a stern face.
"It's my fault that I haven't paid any respect to my mother for many days. I'd like to calm down my anger!" Zhao Bing said again.
"The official family is about to get up. The Empress Dowager has been talking for a long time when she learned that the official family has returned to the palace. She said this, but she missed her heart tightly." Dou Xing stepped forward to help the little emperor and said softly with a smile.
"Hmph, sit here!" Although Empress Dowager Yang's face was still stern, she could not hide her smile and waved her hand to let him sit next to her.
"I am Wu and my sisters to pay tribute to the Empress Dowager!" Seeing the little emperor sitting down next to the Empress Dowager, Wu Xi led everyone forward and saluted.
"I'm fine, I'm fine, I'll sit down!" Empress Dowager Yang raised her hand with a smile.
"The Empress Dowager is the most partial and always says that she loves me the most, but the official family throws me aside as soon as she comes back." Chen Shu stood up and pouted.
"Then you come here too!" Empress Dowager Yang patted the other side of the soft couch and said with a smile.
"Don't joke about the imperial concubine. The official family has not returned for many days. Let the official family talk for more time with the Empress Dowager!" Wu Xi smiled and stopped him.
"Okay, we get it." Chen Shu rolled her eyes and said.
"Go, listen to the queen, I have prepared your favorite snacks there. He is really a crazy girl!" Empress Dowager Yang waved her hand and asked Dou Xing to lead them to the side palace.
"Yes, I'm just going to see how the luncheon is prepared. The Empress Dowager will talk to the official family!" Wu Xi said with sensible crossing hands.
"Wurang, what happened to you when you lead your troops back to the palace?" Seeing that everyone retreated, Empress Dowager Yang waved his hand and asked the eunuchs to withdraw, turned around and asked the little emperor.
"Some trivial matters also alarmed the queen of my mother. It's a sin!" Zhao Bing was stunned and said, but he was relieved. Although he blocked the news first, the one who guarded the palace was a personal guard brigade, so such a big noise outside the palace could naturally be hidden from the empress dowager.
"Does Wulang want to depose the queen?" Empress Dowager Yang did not listen to Zhao Bing's false conspiracy, but asked directly.
"Why did my mother say this?" Zhao Bing also smiled.
"Oh, Wulang, don't hide it from the Ai family." Empress Dowager Yang sighed, "The Ai family knew that it was not happy to make Wu the queen and the official family, so they avoided it after the wedding. This time, the seventh prince of the Wu family stopped the Holy Lord again and was caught by the official family. He could use this to depose the queen."
"My mother misunderstood me. Although I am not happy to make Wu the queen, I am not at the point of deposing him. It is really because Wu's behavior is inappropriate!" Zhao Bing sighed.
"After entering the palace, the queen has always been in line with the rules, with rigorous words and deeds, and doing things very appropriately. Why did something wrong?" The empress dowager said in surprise when she heard this.
"Since that's the case, I will not hide it from my mother's queen." Zhao Bing thought for a while, "I left the palace before because of the establishment of the queen, but because of the urgent military situation. At that time, the Mongolian Yuan retrained the navy and built a large number of warships, and wanted to invade Jiangnan. Only then did the generals discuss with the generals how to deal with it in martial arts!"
"Oh, so that's it, is there a decision?" Empress Dowager Yang said in surprise.
"No!" Zhao Bing shook his head and said, "This time, the Mongol Yuan mobilized a large number of troops. I originally wanted to seize Huaixi by tempting the enemy to go deeper. However, I need to mobilize more than 200,000 troops. But now my wedding and personal sacrifices are huge. The money and grain stored in the Zuozangku are only enough to maintain various expenses, and the silver and money accumulated in the internal warehouse is only more than one million chunks, which is not enough to support a war, and I can only give up the plan to recover Huaixi."
"With the strong enemy on the side and financially tight, the queen actually spent a huge amount of money to organize the Shangyuan Lantern Festival, consuming all the storage of the two warehouses, and collecting the lamps from the lamp households at half price, which made the people of Pingjiang Prefecture complain, and the military funds cannot be used to prevent me from defending the enemy, and how can I stop the Meng Yuan from going south!" Zhao Bing said excitedly.
"So the official family was furious and led their troops back to the palace, but they met the seventh prince of the Wu family who blocked the sage in the street and wanted to kill him and blame the Wu family!" Empress Dowager Yang sighed after hearing this.
"Mother, Wu knew that it was the time of national crisis, but he was so extravagant and advocated luxury, so that the national treasury was empty. How did I explain to my ministers and how did I explain to the hundreds of millions of people!" Zhao Bing said anxiously and angrily.
"Don't be angry with the official family. I think the queen did have any mistakes, but she also received the imperial edict from the Ai family. I have also had it. The Wu family has been honest and honest for generations and served the country loyally. Is it a bit too much to blame the Wu family? After all, they have been rooted in Jiangnan for many years and can contribute to the stability of the official family in Jiangnan." Queen Mother Yang thought about it and said.
"The Empress Dowager doesn't know that it is precisely because the Wu family is powerful in Jiangnan and has many old friends and their power is enough to control the government. Chen Yizhong's rebellion case and the former Ministry of Personnel's party committee case were all involved. The seventh prince of the Wu family even shouted in front of me that I, Zhao, would not be able to gain a foothold in Jiangnan without the Wu family. If I did not make the daughter of the Wu family the queen, I would not be able to rule. How arrogant is this!" Zhao Bing said. He knew that this kind of thing could not be hidden, so he would be better informed first. No matter who was explaining it, the Empress Dowager had preconceived ideas and would be skeptical, but he won the initiative.
"It's so arrogant!" After hearing this, Empress Dowager Yang looked angry and clapped the table.
"It is precisely because I am worried that the Wu family is powerful. If they develop again in the name of the queen, they will inevitably become a powerful minister. And if the queen gave birth to a prince, they can still retain my Zhao family's bloodline. If they cannot be afraid, they will use the power of the foreign relatives to resurrect the disaster of the Wu family in the Tang Dynasty." Zhao Bing said.
"Well, the seven sons of the Wu family, the Ai family heard that he was an ignorant playboy and was stubborn and hang out with scoundrels every day. With his knowledge, he could not say such words. He must have heard the Wu family discussing privately, and then he said it. It can be seen that the Wu family has become unjust and let it grow stronger, and it is inevitable that the disaster of the foreign relatives will be caused!" As the invisible head of the Song Dynasty, Empress Dowager Yang knew that her first priority was to ensure that the descendants of the Zhao family were in the world. Anyone who dared to invade would have to eliminate them mercilessly.
"My mother is wise, this is exactly what I am worried about. If the Wu family forces are not expelled from the court, the court will be in a bad state!" Zhao Bing said secretly happily when he saw that his plan was successful.
"How does the official family plan to deal with the Wu family and the queen? Alas, it is also the fault of the Ai family. At the beginning, we shouldn't have listened to others' words, which left the root of disaster." Empress Dowager Yang said a little annoyed, "The Wu family has many good friends with the ministers in the court, and they are in a mixed manner in Jiangnan. Although they have a bad discipline, they are too broad, which may cause the official history books to be kept dirty and criticized by future generations. The queen has no big mistake. If she is implicated and deposed, she will inevitably make the ministers dissatisfied and cause turmoil."
"I am still hesitating when my mother said so much. I was furious yesterday and didn't have a thorough plan, so I rashly led the army back to the palace. Now I feel like I'm not able to get rid of the tiger!" Zhao Bing nodded. He had basically figured out the attitude of the empress dowager and had a clear mind. At worst, he would do it with force. This is just to express his "benevolence and righteousness".
"The official family has already deployed troops?" Empress Dowager Yang said anxiously.
"No, it's the Shangyuan Festival now. People from all walks of life gathered in Beijing, and the population doubled. If troops were to be moved, it would cause innocent casualties. Therefore, it was just to closely monitor the Wu family and prevent the Wu family from taking risks." Zhao Bing shook his head and said.
"Well, it's better to solve the problem by peaceful means. Do not move troops unless it is absolutely necessary. The Wu clan has a large population and is scattered in various parts of the south of the Yangtze River. It is better to solve the problem gradually to avoid chaos in the local area." Empress Dowager Yang nodded.
"Whether to use troops at the moment is all in the Wu family. If they are tough, I will not care much!" Zhao Bing said. He was also surprised by Empress Dowager Yang. Although he lacked long-term political vision, he was still unambiguous in major matters. In order to safeguard the interests of the royal family, he also showed a ruthless side.
"It's just a pity that the queen is tired of her family background..." Empress Dowager Yang saw that the little emperor had made up his mind to get rid of the Wu family, and sighed, obviously she was still sympathetic to Wu Xi.
Chapter completed!