In early spring, in February, the flowers in Bianliang City were already blooming.
Zhao Guangyi, the second emperor of the Song Dynasty, was a gardener. After he came to the throne, he began to order people to plant various precious flowers and trees in the palace according to his own preferences. After more than 20 years of continuous work, the entire imperial city turned into a huge
's garden.
The third emperor, Zhao Heng, was not as obsessed with flowers and plants as Zhao Guangyi, but he did not like to change things that were insignificant. Therefore, the flowers, plants and trees in the imperial city became increasingly lush.
This year is the sixth year of Xianping, and it is also the sixth year that Zhao Heng became the emperor of the Song Dynasty. In the imperial city, the flowers are blooming particularly vigorously.
Especially outside the Wende Hall where Zhao Hengping usually handles government affairs, plum blossoms, spring jasmine, crab apples, and snow tassels are all in bright purple and red, vying for beauty.
Since the beginning of spring, good news has been delivered one after another to the Hall of Wende.
The first, and most important, piece of good news is that the Champa rice seeds bred by water diversion from Jinmingchi have been successfully grown, and large areas have not been frozen to death because the weather in Bianliang is colder than Champa.
In this way, after one or two generations of breeding, when the new rice seeds have completely adapted to the weather in the Central Plains, they can be distributed to Hebei and Jingdong.
If the promotion is successful, the grain yield per mu of the Song Dynasty can easily exceed three stones, and the large amounts of dry fields planted with wheat on the north bank of the Yellow River can be directly transformed into square ponds for planting rice.
When thousands of square ponds are connected together, they form a flat Great Wall. It becomes a daydream for the Liao cavalry to attack Bianliang as they did in the Five Dynasties. (Note: Opening rice fields to resist the cavalry was an invention of Song Taizong
.It flourished during the Zhenzong period of the Song Dynasty, and the rice yield exceeded three stones per mu.)
The second good news is that the Bipala people traveled thousands of miles to come to the court and presented ten buckets of gold sand. Although the Song Dynasty's gift to Bipala far exceeded the value of the ten buckets of gold sand. However,
But Zhao Heng saw that his father and uncle's dream of reviving the prosperous Han and Tang Dynasties was gradually becoming a reality in his own hands. (Note: Bipaluo is now Somalia.)
The third good news is that the Red Lotus Sect was uprooted by Kou Zhun.
Although the influence and strength shown by the Red Lotus Sect when it was first exposed last year shocked Zhao Heng and the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty. However, as Kou Zhun arrived at the Yongxing Military Road, the Red Lotus Sect turned out to be like dry grass met with flames.
Generally, it quickly disappears into ashes.
The destructive power caused by the Red Lotus Sect to the Song Dynasty was far from worthy of its scale. It even felt that it was somewhat vain. The imperial court easily eliminated it without mobilizing large-scale troops. Even the Yongxing Military Road was
Didn't suffer too heavy a loss.
In recent days, many ministers have sent memorials praising Zhao Heng for knowing people, being good at handling tasks, and for his profound merit. Although Zhao Heng knew that these people were just flattering him, his smile was as bright as the spring flowers outside the Wende Hall at this moment.
He thought he was more or less worthy of the words "Knowing people and being good at their duties."
Although Song Shouzheng, the Yongxing military transport envoy, and Zhang Qixian, the economic and strategic pacification envoy, both disappointed him in dealing with the Red Lotus Sect. But then he decisively sent Kou Zhun to turn the tide.
As for the depth of merit, Zhao Heng thinks that compared to his father, he must be slightly inferior. But more or less, he can be regarded as a "blessed" king.
Otherwise, the Red Lotus Sect would have been forced to rebel in advance by a small patrol officer who was casually demoted to Jinniu Village without waiting for preparations, and then encountered the Suppressing Army Army who had been ordered to form a division!
According to Chen Tuan's close disciple Huo Long Zhenren, emperors with "great merit" are reincarnations of gods in the sky. Zhao Heng now somewhat believes this statement.
On the night he was born, a big star in the sky suddenly became extremely bright. Therefore, he was noticed by his uncle Zhao Kuangyin, and he could enter and leave the palace at will since he was a child.
He was very envious of his uncle Zhao Kuangyin's biological sons who could become the emperor's heirs, but although he was favored, he was not qualified. Unexpectedly, when he was eight years old, Zhao Kuangyin died, and his father Zhao Guangyi became the emperor of the Song Dynasty.
!
Among his brothers, he was not the one who was favored by his father, and his mother was not the queen. Originally, the position of prince was still not his turn. However, his eldest brother Zhao Yuanzuo died due to the death of his uncle.
, became depressed and became bedridden. His second brother also died young because he fell off a horse and injured his head while hunting.
After he was established as the prince by his father, he was almost deposed because he secretly fell in love with Liu E, who was still someone else's wife at the time. At this time, his father's favorite son, King Yi Zhao Yuanfen, took too many pills and became ill.
Life is in danger.
But when his father gave up the idea of ​​establishing a crown prince for the sake of the Song Dynasty, Zhao Yuanfen's condition immediately turned around...
After he became emperor, everything went smoothly for four consecutive years, and the treasury and official warehouses filled up at a speed visible to the naked eye...
In addition, the Red Lotus Sect was exposed by Han Qing before it took off, and Li Jihe and Kou Zhun tried their best to put an end to this matter. It can be seen that God is deeply caring for him.
The only thing that made him feel that there was a fly in the ointment was that both of his sons died of illness. As a result, so far, there is no way to establish a prince.
However, Zhao Heng is not in a hurry. He is only thirty-six years old this year, which is when he is in the prime of life. As long as he works harder in the harem, sooner or later a dragon will be born.
Thinking of having to work harder at night, a damp heat immediately filled his heart. He quickly looked up from behind the imperial desk and saw that the spring scenery outside the window was extremely bright.
"Your Majesty, it's midnight in the afternoon. Please refresh yourself with some tea soup before you continue to work on state affairs." Before he could decide whether to be lazy today and leave the Wende Hall early to go to the harem, a voice sounded behind him.
A gentle female voice.
Immediately afterwards, a familiar fragrance penetrated his nostrils.
It's not incense with ambergris added, nor is it the essence of flowers, but the unique body fragrance of the talented Liu E.
Ordinary people couldn't smell it at all, but when he was a prince, he was wandering in the market incognito. He smelled it clearly when he first saw Liu E selling silver-plated jewelry in exchange for money to treat her husband, a silversmith.
Although he was obsessed with the other person's body fragrance and forced the silversmith to sell his wife, which made Emperor Taizong furious and almost deposed him as prince. However, Zhao Heng never felt regretful.
And Liu E also lived up to his long-lasting love.
No matter when they were forced to separate from him, or when he secretly entered the palace under his orders, they always worshiped him as a god. No matter what he said or what arrangements he made, he always obeyed and never asked him.
The reason is not to compete for the limelight.
"Why are you here? Isn't there no palace maids and eunuchs here?" Zhao Heng quickly turned his gaze to the origin of the fragrance, and asked with a smile, his brows and corners of his eyes were full of love. "What if the officials find out?
I have to cause trouble for you again!"
"Your Majesty, please forgive me. I have just cooked a small dragon dumpling. I was afraid that the palace ladies would walk too slowly and it would be cold on the road. So I brought it to your Majesty in person!" Liu E grew up in Sichuan and has extremely fair skin.
She has a petite figure. Although she is twenty-six years old, she looks like a girl who has just grown hair.
Holding the heavy tray between her eyebrows with both hands, she squatted down slowly, her beautiful eyes flickering, "As for impeachment, as long as the Holy One is willing to forgive me, it is useless no matter how much the officials say!"
As she spoke, she playfully stuck out her pink tongue, making Zhao Heng even more dazzled.
