Dingyou (the ninth day of the lunar month) is the second leap month in the first year of Yuanyou.
I went to the imperial court to serve as an official, and the Tianzhang Pavilion was waiting for the system. I learned that the German army Liu Jin died.
Dr. Guanglu, who knew that Teng Yuanfa and Long Tuge in Yangzhou were waiting for the system; Dr. Zhengyi, who knew Xie Jingwen of Yingzhou, who was a direct bachelor of Baowen Pavilion; Dr. Chaoyi, the king of Langzhong of Cangbu said that he knew Mizhou; Dr. Chaoqing, Simen Lu Tao, the doctor, was the imperial censor in the palace.
The court official, Kong Zonghan, the Shaoqing of Sinong, came forward to beg for the bones.
According to the imperial edict, Confucius Zonghan, the empress of the Most Holy King Wenxuan, knew Jeju as usual and worshiped Confucius.
Zeng Xiaokuan, the minister of the Ministry of Rites, petitioned the Imperial Academy to appoint a doctor of the Spring and Autumn Period, and because he was the emperor who read the "Spring and Autumn Annals" for the first time and read the "Spring and Autumn Annals" of the saints.
Zhao Xu looked through these recent important appointments between the government and the public.
Just put it aside.
"I heard that there are recent discussions in the court about promoting the officials around me?" Zhao Xu asked Shi Deyi.
Shi Deyi replied: "It is true!"
"Su Song, the Attendant of Jiying Palace, will be added as a bachelor of Longtuge. He will still serve as an official in the counties and towns of Kaifeng Fu Street."
"Sun Jue, who serves as the minister, plans to take over as secretary to the young eunuch and move to the right to admonish the officials or give him advice."
"The minister Lu Dafang plans to move from the position of minister of the Ministry of War to the minister of the Ministry of War."
"Jiyingdian Shushu Su Zhe, Shushu Cheng Yi, Lu Xizhe, etc. all have proposals to be appointed censors."
Zhao Xu nodded, this is what the question should mean.
It is also a tradition through the ages.
The so-called attainment of enlightenment means that chickens and dogs ascend to heaven.
However, the current situation is rather special. Zhao Xu himself has not yet taken charge of the government, but his close ministers will gradually take power.
This can be regarded as a gesture of goodwill from the capital.
According to their arrangement, in a few years, these current officials will be able to gradually rise to high positions.
Like Lu Dafang, he could even enter the Xifu and serve as the governor.
Zhao Xu just nodded and did not express his position on this matter.
He is not suitable to express his opinion either.
"Let's go!" Zhao Xu stood up and said, "Go to Kunning Hall!"
Tomorrow is the day when Empress Dowager Xiang will move to Baoci Palace.
In other words, if Zhao Xu wanted to go to the Queen Mother in the future, he would have to go to Funing Palace.
When Zhao Xu arrived at Kunning Hall, most of the artifacts in Kunning Hall had been moved away.
The entire hall was empty.
Zhao Xu went into bed alone without anyone alerting the Queen Mother.
Then they saw Empress Dowager Xiang kneeling in front of the Buddhist niche where she was sleeping, chanting something to the Bodhisattva.
"Is the Queen Mother missing the Emperor's brother and sister again?" Zhao Xu walked to the Queen Mother Xiang, then knelt down on the futon behind her and bowed to the Buddhist niche.
He sighed to the Queen Mother and said, "The Queen Mother is an unlucky person..."
As she said this, she shed tears.
The thing she was most worried about when she moved away from Kunning Palace this time was the soul of her poor child. If she came back and couldn't see her anymore, would she be sad?
"Queen Mother, don't cry, Queen Mother, don't cry..." Zhao Xu could only console her.
"I will issue an edict later, confer the title of Imperial Brother, and order the monks of Daxiangguo Temple and Kaibao Temple to pray for Imperial Brother!"
As Zhao Xu spoke, he shouted: "Shi Deyi!"
Shi Deyi bowed from outside the curtain and said: "I am here!"
"Take my oral instructions to the Academy of Sciences and ask Student Deng to draft an imperial edict to crown my elder brother, the legitimate son of the late emperor, my eldest brother and the son of the Queen Mother, as the king of the great country!"
"promise!"
The Queen Mother finally felt relieved.
With Wang Jue, that poor child can be with his ancestors under the Nine Springs and in the ancestral temple.
So, she hugged Zhao Xu gently and said, "Fortunately, Brother Six is here!"
…
The next day is Wuxu (the tenth day of the Lunar New Year).
Empress Dowager Xiang officially moved from Kunning Palace to Baoci Palace.
Kunning Hall will be sealed from now on until it welcomes a new mistress.
When the Empress Dowager moved to the palace, the ladies of the Xiang family, the Gao family, and other relatives came to the palace to congratulate her.
Even the wives of the prime minister's family came to congratulate him.
The renovated Baoci Palace, like Qingshou Palace, maintains a simple and simple style.
There are no more walls and screens stained with cinnabar, no more pilasters decorated with lead powder and mercury.
Everything becomes simpler.
Of course, Queen Mother Xiang’s aesthetics is still online.
Therefore, although the renovated Baoci Palace looks simple and plain, it also contains Zen and elegance.
The placement of all utensils and the furnishings inside and outside the palace have their own profound meanings.
Even the Empress Dowager couldn't help but praise him several times when she saw him.
Zhao Xu likes it here even more.
So, he couldn't wait to have someone set aside a special resting room for him in the East Pavilion of Baoci Palace.
From now on, Funing Hall will really become a pure sleeping place.
Queen Mother Xiang was naturally very happy about this.
When the wives of the Xiang family heard about this incident, their mouths almost burst into laughter.
That is to say, the wives of other families are also there, otherwise, I am afraid I would have burst into joy on the spot.
On this day, Zhao Xu was in Baoci Palace, accompanying the Empress Dowager and talking to her. He waited until about midnight before bidding farewell and returning to Funing Palace.
Returning to Funing Palace, Zhao Xu washed his feet under the service of Feng Jing.
Shi Deyi was beside him, reporting on the happenings in Bianjing City.
It was mainly about price fluctuations. After Zhao Xu heard this, he asked Shi Deyi to record the relevant prices on a piece of paper that he ordered to hang on the wall of the inner bedroom of Funing Hall.
It was a large piece of paper with a form drawn on it.
The table shows the prices of charcoal, meat, rice and vegetables in Bianjing.
This is what Zhao Xu started asking people to do after the Bianjing New News was released.
This table is updated every month and also summarizes price fluctuations every month.
Zhao Xu used this to track the prices of major commodities in Bianjing on a monthly basis.
This is important!
Because the prices of major commodities in the Song Dynasty remained unchanged all year round, or even showed a downward trend.
This is a manifestation of deflation.
Money is expensive and things are cheap.
What Zhao Xu has to do is to take advantage of price fluctuations and command Yousi in a timely manner to put coins into the market or recycle coins.
This matter used to be done by the Municipal Affairs Bureau.
Now that the city affairs are gone, can the Imperial City Department directly under the emperor take care of it?
Overall, Zhao Xu has done a pretty good job so far.
I even made some small profits.
Wait until Shi Deyi writes today's prices on the table on the wall.
Zhao Xu also finished washing his feet, put on his wooden clogs, walked to the wall, looked at the prices on it by the light, and sighed in his heart: "What a pity..."
“For the time being, we can only maintain stable prices!”
He actually wants to keep prices rising at a moderate rate, by one to two percent every month.
In this way, people will be willing to spend their money.
Only when people start spending money can the coins in the market truly begin to circulate.
However, the problem of money being expensive in the Song Dynasty was brought about from the Tang Dynasty.
The entire society is accustomed to saving.
Therefore, even in modern times, Song coins are the least valuable coins among ancient coins.
The price of most money made in the Song Dynasty is a few yuan, a dozen yuan, or dozens of yuan for better quality ones.
Hundreds of them are treasures.
This is because if you dig up money from the Song Dynasty, you will find a basket full of money.
There is already a copper shortage, and people still like to save their money and are reluctant to spend it, which further leads to copper shortage.
It's a vicious cycle.
"That's right!" Zhao Xu suddenly turned around and asked Shi Deyi: "How are the six righteous merchants preparing now?"
“When will their liquor be available?”
Shi Deyi replied: "I've told everyone, as I know, every family is almost ready."
"Except for Wang's Taihe Restaurant, which still needs time to prepare, all other restaurants will probably launch new products around the Cold Food Festival."
The Cold Food Festival is one of the most important festivals in the Song Dynasty and even in the entire known world.
Its status is the same as the Mid-Autumn Festival, Hungry Ghost Festival and Lantern Festival.
Naturally, the Cold Food Festival is also a traditional peak season for the business community in the Song Dynasty.
Merchants in Bianjing City will launch new products or invite actors to set up performances in front of their stores before and after the Cold Food Festival.
The most important activity of the Cold Food Festival is ancestor worship.
At the same time, due to folk customs, fire is prohibited during the Cold Food Festival.
Therefore, it is naturally a wise choice for these merchants to launch their liquor around the Cold Food Festival.
Because worshiping ancestors requires toasting.
On the day of the ban on fire, there was no fire to warm the wine, and white wine that did not need to be warmed could obviously satisfy the alcohol addiction of the Song Dynasty wineworms.
Zhao Xu suddenly remembered an interesting thing.
He turned around and said to Shi De: "Shi Deyi, send someone to talk to Sun Ci..."
"Name his wine 'Three bowls of wine but no post'."
This is a tribute to the TV series he watched in modern times.
However, in the current Shuibo Liangshan, there are no Liangshan heroes who dominate the mountain and dominate the mountain. There are only three or five incompetent thieves.
…
The next day, Zhao Xu met with the Liao envoy Yeluju and his entourage in the Chongzheng Hall.
And accepted the national gift from the Emperor of Liao Dynasty represented by Yeluju and others.
Zhao Xu also gave some gifts to Liao in return.
Naturally, he will not forget his dear brother of the Daliao Emperor.
As usual, he presented ten volumes of books to the emperor's younger brother as a token of goodwill between the Song and Liao brothers. He also said that the emperor's younger brother of Daliao should write more letters so that he could get closer to him. Yeluju was of course the grandson of the emperor of Daliao who represented the emperor in the palace.
Thank you, and said that the grandson of the emperor of Liao Dynasty has been studying hard recently and has made great progress. The next time the Liao envoy comes to the court, he will definitely bring a letter of thanks written by the grandson of the emperor of Liao Dynasty.
To put it simply, I will do it next time.
Then it was time to get down to business. Zhao Xu ordered him to hand over the money to Ziwu, and as agreed, he handed over the Song and Liao money to the Liao envoy with a face value of one million guan.
Yeluju was naturally elated after winning the trust, so he asked Zhao Xu for permission to purchase related goods in Bianjing City.
Of course Zhao Xu happily agreed, and ordered the official to accompany the envoy Xing Shu, and the general secretary Guo Zhongxiao and others to protect (supervise) and monitor (watch) the Liao envoy's purchases in Bianjing.
Yeluju thanked him profusely for his kindness, bowed and left.
Zhao Xu also laughed as he sent the Liao envoy away.
Because he already had the purchase list from Yeluju and others.
From the finest rouge and gouache, to exquisite porcelain, fine tea, expensive brocade, and even a cup worth more than a hundred dollars.
It’s really all-encompassing.
"The corruption and depravity of the Northern Barbarians is probably not much worse than the Song Dynasty's imperial army in Beijing!" Zhao Xu stroked the list and chuckled.
There was nothing more reassuring for him than this.
The level of decay in the Song Dynasty and Liao Dynasty is very consistent with the current version of the matching mechanism.
But Song Dynasty will soon have a version update.
…
It spread that the Liao envoys had obtained permission from the emperor to purchase related commodities in Bianjing.
All the merchants in Bianjing City celebrated with their hats.
From Maxing Street to Panjialou, from Tushizi to both sides of Zhouqiao.
Everyone was gearing up and eager to give it a try. They put their best things in the most conspicuous place in front of the store, waiting for people from Liao to come.
It was also at this time that relatives of Cao, Liu, Yang, Li and Wang all received a greeting card.
The name on the greeting card is very conspicuous.
When he was appointed to the imperial court, he passed the exam and became a scholar.
"Uncle Xinghe?" Cao Yan took the invitation, thought for a moment, and said, "This is one of the ministers who has been relatively close to the official family recently!"
Today's preferences are still shrouded in mystery, and few people know his true preferences.
For example, last year, Xue Shaopeng, the son of Xue Xiang, took the initiative to present to the officials his private collection of "Dingwu Ben Lanting Preface Authentic Edition".
Therefore, many people thought that this official had "Tang Taizong's habit".
They have collected various treasures and unique original calligraphy works from the market.
As a result, news came out from the palace that the officials had only seen Xue Shaopeng's Dingwu Ben stone tablet a few times, and there was nothing special about it.
And the minister who is close to this official family.
Either he was the banquet official next to him, or he was reading with him.
So far, he has not acted too close to or too distant from a specific minister of the foreign court.
Xingshu can be regarded as the minister who has the most contact with this official family among the ministers of the foreign court except the official Jingyan.
As a result, Xing Shu has been serving as ambassador since last year.
With this thought in mind, Cao Yan opened the famous thorn and just took one look at it. Cao Yan already knew that this sentence was ordered by Funing Palace.
