Zhao Bing thought that the Sui Dynasty cleaned up the mess of the Wei and Jin Dynasties and established a new world, which required aspirations to reform, but the mistake was that Yang Guangcao was too urgent. The imperial examination was a good thing that would be rewarded for future generations and for future generations; moving the capital to Luoyang and occupying the important land of the Central Plains was also a necessity for consolidating rule; opening the canal to connect the north and south was also a good thing to promote national integration and material circulation; and conquering Goryeo was the need to expand territory and consolidate border defense. It can be said that Yang Guang did not do badly in these things, but why did he become the name of a tyrant in the end?

The current situation facing Zhao Bing should be said to be similar to Yang Guang. In the eyes of the world, he led troops to regain Jiangnan to continue the national vein of the Song Dynasty, but the Song Dynasty had been trapped in the enemy for ten years. It would be better to start a country again. He now also needs to consolidate his rule through a series of reforms, and complete unification of the Northern Expedition to the Central Plains. The reasons why they wanted to launch a war were the same. They all wanted to promote internal reforms through a victory in a foreign war and the power of great victory, and to ease domestic conflicts. The difference between him and Yang Guang is that one is very happy with merits, and the other is forced by the situation.

Yang Guangzheng Goryeo was defeated again and again, but for the sake of face, he insisted on his own and sent troops one after another without taking into account the conflicts between the ruling class caused by the imperial examination. Moving the capital and building canals was already a huge force, and the people and material resources were almost exhausted, which led to the outbreak of conflicts between the ruling class and the ruling class in the country. The nobles took the opportunity to rebel, the interest groups were divided, and they fell into doom, resulting in the demise of the Sui Dynasty for two generations.

Zhao Bing is still clear-headed compared to Yang Guangsheng and is not arrogant because of successive victories. He launched a war to improve his passive defensive situation. At the same time, when he realized that his foundation was too weak, he moved the capital, worshipped the people, and married a series of major events not only exhausted the treasury accumulation, but also had not even left a few of his own private money.

The war is about money and food. Once the war cannot win quickly according to the plan and fall into a stalemate, it has to rely on increasing taxes to maintain the war. The result is obvious. On the other hand, Zhao Bing found that there were signs of division within the court, and he has always been very resistant to his reformed scholar-official class, and his intention to depose himself has never stopped.

Therefore, Zhao Bing stepped on the brakes in time to prevent the conflict from intensifying and repeating Yang Guang's mistakes. He then regained money and grain first, rectified the court, stabilized the hearts of the people and the army, and waited for the opportunity. Then, as the leader of the literati and official class in Jiangnan, the Wu family may become a potential obstacle to their own reforms. However, it will also become a concern for Zhao Bing. If he cooperated with his own reforms, as a meritorious minister, he could only give him a great reward to make his status more stable; if he led the leader, he must suppress it.

‘If you want to add a crime, you will not be able to say anything.’ Zhao Bing has realized the beauty of this sentence. No matter how the Wu family is, even if you keep silent, it will be difficult for him to eliminate doubts. The reason why he led his troops back to the palace with great fanfare was to deal with the queen first to warm up and remove the Wu family’s help in the palace first. However, what he did not expect was that Wu Shuo, a prodigal thing, actually stopped him and made a big fuss, giving him a legitimate reason to deal with the Wu family...

The Lunar New Year was the emperor's family banquet. In previous years, there were only the Empress Dowager and Zhao Bing. This year, he married a wife of five houses. Naturally, it became much more lively. Among them, some were good at singing and dancing, some were good at chanting and writing poems, and the mediation atmosphere of Chen Shu, made a luncheon colorful, without the quietness and dullness of the past. Zhao Bing found that Wu Xi could really hide things, and she was also very decent and did not suffer from family affairs at all.

The family banquet lasted until dusk. It was already time to light the lamp. The ministers invited the emperor, the queen mother and the concubines to climb the city to watch the lanterns and have fun with the people. Zhao Bing approved the comments and personally supported the chariot for the empress dowager, led the concubines to the city tower, and accepted the worship of all the people. At this time, the lamp mountain was lit, illuminating like daytime. Looking into the distance, there were also lights in the city, just like the Milky Way falling to the earth.

A colorful shed had been built above the city. The upper floors were all yellow and green curtains. One of them was the imperial seat. A colorful shed was set up with a yellow hut. An eunuch held a yellow cover and a fan was placed outside the curtain. Two buildings were hung with a lamp ball, about a radius of more than a meter, and the rafters were burned. A band was also arranged inside the curtain. A terrace was built with beams and wood below. The terrace was decorated with color knots. There were guards standing on both sides, wearing new military uniforms, facing the outside with guns. The east shed on the city was playing, and a zabera was performed on the terrace, and there were also guards standing on the door. The people were watching under the terrace, and the musicians were guiding the people from time to time to shout long live.

"Who are there those stages!" Zhao Bing sat in the middle, and the others were in their own positions. He looked down at the city and saw dozens of stands had been built on the street in front of the palace gate. He turned his face and asked Wang Dedao.

"The officials, there are all left and right prime ministers, Privy Councilors, the six ministers and their families on the stage." Wang De heard His Majesty's greeting and immediately came over and replied.

"Oh, what about the other officials?" Zhao Bing nodded, watching the lights upstairs himself. The ministers could only watch the lights in the stands downstairs. He looked down and asked.

"Officials, those officials with insufficient rank can only crowd in the crowd and crowded to enjoy the lanterns!" Wang De said with a smile.

"Well, this is what it means to have fun with the people. I sit here to enjoy the lanterns but cause trouble for the people." Zhao Bing said with a wry smile.

"The official family must not go downstairs. It is fake to admire the lanterns of all people, but it is true to want to see the dragon's face. If the official family goes downstairs, wouldn't it cause the people to compete for the first time to see the dragon's face? Then the world will be in chaos." Wang De was really afraid that the little emperor would go downstairs and have fun with the people on a whim, so he hurriedly explained his strong relationship.

"Haha, just kidding, I'm scaring you!" Zhao Bing smiled and asked as if he noticed something, "Hey, where are Zhao Zhimen and others?"

"The official family probably is in a restaurant on the side of Yu Street. But it is not necessarily true that in previous years, those smart and rich people with foresight in the past would book a seat in the restaurant on the street more than ten days in advance, while watching the lights, while drinking with relatives and friends. It was too late for others to book a seat. Zhao Zhizhi and others were in the camp with the official family for a long time, so it was afraid that it would be difficult to find a seat." Wang De replied.

"Why don't you prepare a coloring shed for them?" Zhao Bing asked with a frown.

"There has never been such a rule in the palace, so naturally there is no preparation." Wang De quickly explained when he saw the little emperor's face unhappy.

"Hmph, you immediately go find them, then set up tables, chairs, wine and food on my left hand, and invite them to the city tower to enjoy the lanterns with me!" Zhao Bing snorted.

"Official family, this...yes, the young one is here!" Wang De hesitated for a while, thought about it and politely said.

"Slowly, please come up with Prime Minister Lu, Prime Minister Wen, Supervisor Zhang Shushu and three masters!" Zhao Bing thought about it and said.

"Yes, I'll send someone to invite me!" Wang De said politely again, turned around and told someone to go and search.

"Your Majesty, try this candied fruit that I just called!" Chen Shu ran over with a plate of candied fruit, sat down next to him and picked up a piece of it.

"Greedy ghost!" Zhao Bing gave her a blank look and muttered.

"Nonsense, this is what Concubine Shu called. Everyone said it was delicious, and everyone asked for some!" Chen Shu stuffed the candied fruit into his mouth and said, pouting.

"The taste is good, it tastes better than the palace!" Zhao Bing chewed, "Did you give some to your mother?"

"The queen has been sent here, I'm filial to Your Majesty!" Chen Shu broke his head and pointed at him.

"Don't be rude under the eyes of everyone, sit down quickly!" Zhao Bing indeed saw Wu Xi accompanying the Empress Dowager to look at the lamp, and there was a smile on his lips. Seeing Chen Shu still hanging on him, he patted her back and said with a deep face.

"Okay!" Chen Shu said coquettishly, then she sat down and said, "What does Your Majesty like to eat? You can ask you to come upstairs. My sister buy it for you!"

"What do you mean? Do you think I can't afford it?" Zhao Bing looked at Chen Shu with his neck tilted and said in confusion.

"Who doesn't know that Your Majesty's life is simple. His daily meal expenses are less than the usual amount of money. Where can I get money for fruits!" Chen Shu said with a smile.

"Okay, I'll go to your place in the future, otherwise I won't even be able to eat meat!" Zhao Bing said happily after hearing this.

"Your Majesty, you won't tell me the truth, right?" Chen Shu was stunned, half happy and half suspicious.

"You don't know how much the Shangyuan Lantern Festival costs, which is 100,000 yuan. The local area also spends a lot of money to make lamps. It is often half the price for the lamp households. I can only give the remaining money. But now the storage warehouse is almost over, so I can only save money to pay back the debt!" Zhao Bing sighed.

"No, Your Majesty has already saved a lot. If you don't eat well, how can you bear it? I still have some private money. Your Majesty can use it as much as possible. In the future, I will provide the three meals!" Chen Shu did take the little emperor's hand and said.

"Haha, my sister still loves me, then I'm not polite, but I have to eat food!" Zhao Bing rubbed his hands and said with a little excitement.

"No problem. I now have 8,000 guan a month. Using less powder is enough for Your Majesty to eat meat!" Chen Shu said seriously.

"I'm determined, I'll go to Qiongzhai for dinner tomorrow!" Zhao Bing also acted like a real act and nodded vigorously.

"Well, when I go back, I ask the kitchen to make more meat. Your Majesty is so greedy these days, right?" Seeing the little emperor agreeing so happily, Chen Shu's doubts disappeared, but she looked at him with pity.

"Yes, I have been eating in the camp these days with the generals. The lowest price of them is the governor, but my meal expenses can only be controlled. Seeing their meals continue to be fish and meat, of course I am greedy." Zhao Bing licked his lips and said.

"Oh, Your Majesty is so pitiful!" Chen Shu was good at the general's family, and of course he knew the difference between the meal expenses of the governor and the governor. However, the young emperor insisted on the rules he had not changed for so many years and couldn't help but sigh.

"It's hard to find a good night. You don't have to compare with me, you can be more wanton!" Zhao Bing looked at the concubines' sanctuary, and saw that they were sending a message to the dance team to perform, and then calling the market food and plate rack to clear the night. So they sang and sang and went upstairs to the imperial court. Some spare money in the palace competed to buy it. The sellers were rewarded with countless gold, silver and jewelry, and they all smiled happily.

"Your Majesty, the rumors in the palace all say that Your Majesty was dissatisfied with the Queen spending a lot of money to hold a lantern festival that he was guilty of the seventh son of the Wu family and wanted to behead him, right?" Chen Shu did not move, but asked with a face turned around.

"When he was in the crisis of the country, he didn't know how to be frugal and so extravagant. Shouldn't I be angry?" Zhao Bing looked at Chen Shutian's innocent eyes and his pretty face, and he felt the urge to kiss her. He could only smile and ask back in front of everyone.

"Maybe the queen just wanted to please His Majesty, but she didn't know the previous rules, so she did the wrong thing." Chen Shu did not step on it, but instead defended her.

"The queen is a smart person. She has long known why Miss Cheng, who has passed the re-elect, was not selected in the end. Now she has been made the main palace, but I don't know if I hate extravagance?" Zhao Bing glanced at Cheng Suyan, who was standing on duty outside the coloring shed, said.

"Your Majesty has been very sensible since he was a kid. I thought it was your Majesty who liked it, so I tried my best to remove Cheng Su and leave the position of concubine to me." After hearing this, Chen Shu made another interpretation and said dissatisfied.

"It is true that I insisted on summoning you into the palace, it is just because I was often bullied by you when I was a child, and now I am just for revenge!" Zhao Bing said with a wicked smile.

"I've been thinking about Your Majesty all the time, so that's how it is!" Chen Shu said viciously.

"Hiss... I have been thinking about your beauty since I was a child. In order to satisfy this evil thought, I insisted on keeping you and being named a concubine. This is the whole thing!" Zhao Bing did not expect Chen Shu to "blackly" and endured the pain and laughed with her.

"Hmph, this is almost the same!" Chen Shu let go, stood up and bowed and left.

"This crazy girl, really do it!" Zhao Bing muttered, rubbing the pain of the thighs, but he felt happy in his heart. In fact, only when he was with Chen Shu in his heart could he feel that he was in love. This could be considered as giving himself some spiritual comfort!

"I'm really unable to understand!" As Zhao Bing turned sideways, Yu Guang was seeing Wu Shuo who was still kneeling in front of the palace gate. He thought about what it would be like to put dozens of pounds of heavy shackles on his neck. No matter how strong a person is, he will feel that life is worse than death after being shackled for a day and a night. Wu Shuo, who has always been spoiled, has now collapsed on the ground, and probably lost half his life if he doesn't die. However, Wu Xi was at least sad about his brother who suffered under his nose, and did not plead with him. He still talked and laughed upstairs, making Zhao Bing even more unable to see through.

"Long live your Majesty, long live your life, long live your life!" At this time, a sudden sound of mountain cries came from downstairs. Zhao Bing leaned down and looked down. He saw that this time it was not inspired by the Jiaofangsi or the musicians, but several important officials bowed up downstairs.
Chapter completed!