Zhao Ji said loudly: "Today, Genyue opens for business! I am so relieved that all my beloved friends can come!"
Nearly a hundred civil servants kneeling in front of Genyue's entrance gate were all a little confused after hearing this.
"Genyue is open for business?!" The ministers wondered: Aren't only wine shops and commercial shops called "open for business"? Why did the royal garden, which took several years and cost tens of millions of money, use the market? What about the word "opening"?
However, no one among the ministers dared to question Zhao Guanjia's use of the wrong word "opening" to his face.
Zhao Ji looked at the group of civil servants from the first to sixth grades who were kneeling in front of him. Today, they did not imitate the officials and wear robes like before. Instead, they all put on purple with a pressed bottom to represent their grade. They wear a vermilion "congshengfu" with a curved collar and big sleeves, a leather belt around the waist, and a small fish bag made of gold or silver. They also wear their own long-winged official hats on their heads. p>
This kind of long-winged official hat, which is characteristic of the Song Dynasty, is not worn on ordinary occasions except for formal events in the court and officialdom.
Zhao Ji knew that the inventor of this winged hat was Zhao Kuangyin, the eldest brother of Song Taizu, the true blood ancestor of the original owner of his body, Zhao Guangyi.
According to historical records, Song Taizu Zhao Kuangyin wore a yellow robe and sat on the dragon throne. He was very worried about his colleagues who had conquered the world together. He especially disliked the ministers of civil and military affairs whispering to each other in the court and commenting on government affairs.
One day, Zhao Kuangyin went to court in the morning and while listening to the memorials of the ministers, he found that many officials on both sides were whispering and not understanding etiquette. Zhao Kuangyin was angry, but he kept his face.
After retreating from the court, Zhao Kuangyin came up with a way and sent an order to the officials to add long wings to the back of the original futou gauze hat. The long wings were either made of iron sheets or bamboo strips as the skeleton, and then wrapped with cloth and sand. The official hats of the Song Dynasty had iron wings that were more than a foot long on both sides.
And these ministers of the first to sixth grades no longer follow the example of officials wearing Taoist robes but also wear Taoist robes. Instead, they wear the Song Dynasty official uniforms with curved collars, big sleeves and leather belts around their waists - "From "Provincial service".
Zhao Ji saw that the group of civil servants kneeling in front were wearing purple provincial uniforms, and the group of civil servants kneeling behind were wearing vermilion provincial uniforms. It can be said to be "a group of nobles"!
This is because Zhao Ji summoned civil servants in Beijing to visit Genyue this time, and the officials summoned were all officials from the sixth to first grades. Therefore, among these civil servants, there were no seventh-grade officials wearing green robes, and there were no eighth-grade officials wearing blue robes. A ninth-grade official.
The official uniform of the Song Dynasty - "provincial uniform", with colors used to distinguish grades.
Before the Yuanfeng Year of the Song Dynasty, the official uniforms of the ninth- and eighth-rank officials in the Song Dynasty were cyan; the seventh- and sixth-rank officials wore green uniforms; the fifth- and fourth-rank officials wore vermilion uniforms, and the third- and above-rank officials wore purple uniforms. Serve.
This is also the case in ancient times. When it is said that a certain family has many high-ranking officials, a word is used to describe it: "the family is full of nobles".
However, the time traveler Zhao Ji, who is a top student in the history department, knew that the original owner of his body, Zhao Ji's biological father, Song Shenzong, slightly adjusted the colors of the provincial uniforms of each grade during his years of prosperity.
During the Song and Yuanfeng years, the colors of officials' provincial uniforms were: purple for the first, second, third and fourth ranks; scarlet (i.e. vermilion) for the fifth to sixth ranks; green for the seventh, eighth and ninth ranks.
According to the regulations at that time, those who could wear purple and crimson (i.e. vermilion) provincial clothes were required to wear a gold and silver-decorated fish bag around their waists. Gold and silver money bags could more clearly distinguish high and low from the inside to the outside.
Position.
Zhao Ji deliberately asked: "My dear friends, why don't you wear Taoist robes today instead of provincial uniforms that you haven't worn for a long time?"
Ministers, you look at me, I look at him, no one is willing to take the initiative to reply.
They also know that in the last two days, the Zhao Guan family has issued too many imperial edicts and decrees, which are incredible to them compared with the past. Therefore, no one wants to be the first.
Zhao Ji's eyes glanced at the ministers kneeling in front, including the Grand Prime Minister Yu Shen, the Young Prime Minister Wang Fu, and the left and right Prime Ministers Zhang Bangchang and Li Bangyan. The only one who did not see the ministers was the cunning Taishi Cai.
"Hahaha..." Zhao Ji laughed and said: "Since ancient times, it has been: if the superiors do something good, the subordinates will follow suit.
The King of Chu has such a slim waist,
In the past, I was so fond of seeking immortality that I wore a Taoist robe.
In order to please me, you also wear Taoist robes, instead of wearing official uniforms!
I don’t blame you all for loving me!
However, I passed the case of Demon Dao Lin Lingsu,
Only then did I know that when I cultivated immortality and sought Taoism in the past, I was just like the First Emperor of Qin who was deceived by Xu Fu!
I shall personally write an edict of my sin and inform the world!
You also need to investigate yourself. Why didn't you remonstrate with me in time about the mistakes I made in the past?"
As soon as Zhao Ji said this,
The ministers really couldn't believe their ears. The Zhao Guanjia standing in front of the Genyue Garden was still the same Zhao Guanjia who only indulged in the sounds of dogs and horses, extravagant pleasures, and asked the immortals, "Isn't it the same Zhao Guanjia who would never admit his mistakes?
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The group of civil servants in purple and vermilion uniforms were immediately in an uproar. Even if they were wearing winged hats two or three feet long, they could not stop the ministers from talking among themselves...
Zhao Jidao: "Everyone be quiet, I still have something to say."
Yang Jian, the eunuch beside Zhao Ji, immediately shouted in his high-pitched, neutral and penetrating voice:
"My lords, please stop arguing. What kind of behavior is this?
Who dares not to listen to Zhao Guanjia’s oral edict?”
The ministers immediately fell silent.
Zhao Ji said solemnly: "Nowadays, the national treasury is empty, and many places in the country are hit by disasters. The people are in dire straits, and there are many people who are revolting.
Disaster relief requires money to help the victims.
Sending troops to defeat rebels requires money,
Border defense between Liao and Xia requires money...
However, the treasury of our Song Dynasty is now empty!
My dear friends, do you have any good ideas to solve the urgent problem of the emptiness of the national treasury??"