Chapter 190: Copying the rebellious ministers family, I come to the harem
Chapter 190: Copying the rebellious minister’s family, I come to the harem
Li Gang and Zongze saw that Zhao Guan's family was afraid that the royal meal would be so shabby today.
Even when they were demoted to minor officials, the food they had for three meals a day was better than the imperial meal today. There was also a jug of old wine on the table.
Zhao Ji looked at Li Gang and Zongze looking at Yushan with such different expressions, and said:
"In the twenty years since I have been king, I have indulged in extravagant pleasures and squandered money.
Now, I suddenly wake up and realize that the words of the sage Confucius are true and even ancient sayings:
"A basket of food and a ladle of drink, in a back alley, can't bear the worries, and the joy will not change even after returning."
Now, I feel that I should learn from Yan Hui’s noble qualities, live in poverty and be happy, and more importantly, strive for self-improvement!
I have four dishes and one soup for every meal. I am not as good as Yan Hui in the path of poverty and happiness.
I look back on the past. In the past, every imperial meal I had had hundreds and eighty dishes. I would only eat one bite of each dish, and some of them would not even be eaten. It was a waste of a lot of money.
From now on, I and my concubines must be diligent and frugal.
If the courtiers and wealthy merchants also imitated my frugality, the money and food saved by the Song Dynasty every year would probably be in the tens of millions. If this money and food were used to finance the army and strengthen our army,
Why worry about the golden enemy?!"
"thump!"
"thump!"
Li Gang and Zongze were so moved by Zhao Ji's words that they both knelt down and cried bitterly. They were determined to imitate the frugality of Zhao Guan's family, and to praise Zhao Guan's frugal virtues, so as to spread the trend of frugality throughout the Song Dynasty...
Li Gang and Zongze, who were deeply moved, were moved to tears and ate up the royal meal given by Zhao Guan's family...
Although this imperial meal only consisted of four dishes and one soup made with ordinary ingredients, it gave Li Gang and Zongze a different kind of joy, that is, they saw the Zhao Guan family's transformation from arrogance and extravagance to today's thrift.
Due to thrift and the Zhao Guan family's awareness of the dangers of the foreign enemy, the Jin Kingdom, the Zhao Guan family had even been preparing for a war against the Jin Kingdom.
Zhao Ji, Li Gang, and Zongze agreed to come to the palace tomorrow to discuss state affairs...
Li Gang and Zongze resigned from the palace...
After Zhao Ji saw off Li Gang and Zongze, under the dusk, he looked in the direction of Longde Palace where Master Li temporarily lived in the harem.
The little eunuch who served in the chamber asked empathetically:
"After the official returns in triumph, will he return to the harem and inform the ladies in the palace of his good intentions in pacifying the Fangla bandits?"
Zhao Ji smiled and knew that this young eunuch was Xiao Liang Shicheng's apprentice, and he learned to be as understanding as Liang Shicheng.
Obviously, the little eunuch who served in the chamber had noticed that I wanted to go to the harem, but the little eunuch saw through it but did not point it out. He made it sound like I wanted to go back to the harem to pamper the beauty, as if I wanted to go back to the harem to deal with national affairs.
Generally high-sounding.
Zhao Ji smiled, patted the young eunuch on the shoulder, and praised:
"Children can be taught. If it is true, I should tell the concubines in the harem the good news that my imperial commander personally marched to the southeast and put down all the Fang La bandits who had been harming the southeast for a long time.
Make arrangements for me to set off from the harem."
The young eunuch who served in the chamber immediately followed the order and arranged for the royal chariot to go.
At this time, the eunuch came to report that Liang Daguan had returned from an errand and asked to see the official family.
Zhao Jidao: "Announcement."
Liang Shicheng walked into the hall, kowtowed and said:
"Old slave, I say, long live my emperor."
Zhao Jidao: "Master Liang, I am exempted from the courtesy. How did you go on this errand?"
Liang Shicheng immediately replied:
"The old slave was ordered to take dozens of imperial city ministers and officials to the residence of the rebellious criminal Zhang Bangchang.
The old slave read out the official imperial edict to Zhang Bangchang's family, saying that Zhang Bangchang had committed a great treasonous crime of surrendering to Fangla's bandit army. He should have killed the nine tribes to show that this official family was holy and benevolent. The chief culprit Zhang Bangchang had been eliminated and only his house was raided.
His family members were expelled from the capital and will never be allowed to enter the capital."
Zhao Ji nodded and asked: "How much illegally obtained money was confiscated from Zhang Bangchang's house?"
Liang Shicheng immediately said: "A total of more than a few hundred taels of gold, a thousand taels of silver, and more than 154,000 taels of money were copied. There are also more than a hundred pieces of rare calligraphy and paintings.
In accordance with the official will and with benevolence in mind, the old slave gave more than 4,000 yuan of the annual monthly salary of the criminal Zhang Bangchang to the family members of the criminal Zhang Bangchang for travel expenses and relocation expenses for repatriation to their place of origin, and ordered them to
Leaving Beijing overnight.
The rest of the Zhang Bangchang family property that was copied was all transported back to the palace and put into the official Zuotang treasury."
Zhao Ji nodded and couldn't help but sigh in his heart:
The evil of Zhang Bangchang recorded in history books is that he was made a puppet emperor by the Jin State and betrayed the country for glory.
It turns out that Zhang Bangchang, the minister Zuocheng, is also a corrupt official!
Although the amount of money he embezzled was not as much as that of Cai Jing and Gao Qiu, judging from the wealth confiscated from his house, even with such a high salary as an official in the Song Dynasty, he had accumulated enough money after working as Minister Zuo Cheng for three lifetimes.
Not that much wealth.
Zhao Ji said with a smile to Liang Shicheng, who had brought another unexpected fortune to my inner treasury:
"Master Liang did a great job on this errand. He worked hard all the way and was given a drink of royal tea."
Liang Shicheng knelt down excitedly and said, "Old slave, I thank you for your kindness."
Zhao Ji smiled slightly and said: "Liang Daguan has a normal body."
The waiter's announcement immediately sent word to the palace maid who served the tea, and went to the palace to offer a cup of royal tea to Liang Shicheng.
Liang Shicheng was so moved that Zhao Guan's family valued him so much and gave him royal tea. His eyes were red with emotion, and he took the tea cup handed by the palace maid with trembling hands.
In fact, before Liang Shicheng's temperament changed drastically, let alone drinking imperial tea from the official family, it was common for Liang Shicheng to drink at the same table with Wang Fu, the young prime minister of the Zhao official family.
However, Liang Shicheng, who was honest on the surface and resourceful on the inside, saw the great change in Zhao Guan's temperament and killed Taoist priest Lin Lingsu first, then Cai Jing, Gao Qiu, and Wang Fu;
On the way to the southeast, the imperial commander personally killed Zhu Chong and Zhu Meng's father and son;
Then he used a conspiracy to send Zhang Bangchang, Liu Yu and Liu Lin to the bandit camp of Fangla, forcing him into a desperate situation. These three court officials all surrendered to the bandit leader Fangla because they were greedy for life and feared death. Zhao Guanjia personally shot in front of the camp.
Kill these three traitors...
Whenever Liang Shicheng secretly recalled these things, he would be so frightened that he shivered. Therefore, he restrained his past arrogance in front of Zhao Guan's family, whose temperament had changed greatly.
Now that Liang Shicheng had received tea from Zhao Guan's family, he was naturally very excited.
"It is reported to the officials that the chariot to the harem has been prepared," the chamberlain's young eunuch reported.
Zhao Ji nodded, stood up, and walked towards the door of the palace.
Liang Shicheng hurriedly drank the imperial tea, ignoring that it was still hot, and drank it all in one gulp. It was so hot that he opened his mouth and breathed out the hot air.
Liang Shicheng trotted behind Zhao Guanjia and asked with a smile:
"Guan family, are you going to Longde Palace where 'Li Taizhen' practices?"
Zhao Ji smiled and said nothing.
At this moment, Li Shishi, who was deep in the high-walled courtyard of the harem, had already heard that the Zhao official family, whom the slave family longed for, had returned in triumph this morning after personally conquering the Fangla bandits and returning to the court with his troops.
However, at this time, in front of the gate of Longde Palace, Master Li's delicate body was leaning on the railing, looking at the royal road ahead, looking through the autumn water...