The king can decide the life and death of others at will. Although the political ecology of the country is good, the king also has this right.
Sometimes Zhao Xi can't tell whether he is a person of this era or not.
Fundamentally speaking, Zhao Xi is just doing things, or trying to integrate into this era when handling government affairs. After all, he is not a person of this era.
In Zhao Xi's heart, he still needs a reason to do anything. If there is no reasonable reason, or something that cannot be put on the table, he will eventually do it unpleasantly and make himself uncomfortable.
Even though he is a king now, he still hasn't lost his original identity...~That's why it's so easy to break away?
He doesn't know what other kings are like, but anyway, he can't be willful, can't act wantonly, can't make random decisions regardless of reputation and the life and death of the people.
The name Zongze touched the malice in Zhao Xi's heart, and he decided to decide life and death at will, which also made him unable to calm down.
This kind of emotion cannot be relieved by anyone, Zhao Xi can only calm it down on his own.
"Wang Yaban, why are the officials unhappy?"
My father was not in the Qinzheng Palace, nor in the palace of his mother-in-law. Instead, he called off his entourage alone and walked along the palace wall alone.
The prince also knew that his father was unhappy, and it was related to court affairs.
I want to know, this is not considered deviant or anything, after all, he is already in charge of all court affairs now.
"Go back to His Majesty the Crown Prince, little... little...~"
"If there is any prohibition or inconvenience from the officials, I won't ask."
It was quite embarrassing to see the king of kings. The prince had no intention of embarrassing the king of kings. Although he was just a servant, he had won the trust of his father.
If he hadn't thought it was government affairs, he probably wouldn't have spoken.
Seeing the king of kings hesitate, the prince really couldn't continue.
"Your Highness, it's not a secret matter. I just don't know the reason."
The king of kings hesitated because he was planning to kill the prince's close eunuch, and was somewhat uneasy when he saw the prince.
As for why the officials were unhappy, how could he know?
He said that the officials acted like this because they met Zeng Bu and had been under supervision? Don't say that he thought that the officials' meeting with Zeng Bu had nothing to do with the officials being unhappy. Even if it did, he couldn't interfere with it.
He is a member of an official family, and his first priority is not to talk about official affairs casually.
Why was his father unhappy? The prince returned to the Qinzheng Hall and reorganized the government affairs he had dealt with in the past few days. After feeling that there were no omissions, he returned to the East Palace with peace of mind.
The prince really didn't want to probe his father. He was worried that there would be mistakes in the government affairs he had handled, which would make his father unhappy.
The fact now is that if nothing unexpected happens, he will definitely be the heir to the great unification. The key is that if nothing unexpected happens...
There are seven or eight brothers who covet the position of unification, and it is not just the second and fourth brothers who covet the position of unification. It is just a matter of showing or not showing.
Although the prince is also confident, it is still decided by his father's will.
The more familiar he became with the government, the more the prince dreamed of one day ascending to the throne and continuing the prosperous age created by his father...
The main reason why Zhao Xi is not calm is his own problems.
Some things are unclear. Once upon a time, Zhao Xi thought that he had completely integrated into his current role, but in the past few years, those memories that were originally closed would appear in his mind from time to time, leaving him at a loss as to what to do.
Especially in reality, there are some triggering factors that will make him unconsciously change his identity and position to his original self.
It's messy, really messy.
Fortunately, Zhao Xi is a person with relatively strong self-control, otherwise, just two changes in his identity would cause him to collapse.
After Zhao Xi recovered, it was already late at night. He didn't know that the prince was still checking the gains and losses of the government affairs in the Qinzheng Hall at this time. However, when he walked into the Qinzheng Hall, he noticed the prince's diligence and did not disturb him.
He took Zongze's article with him... he could read it attentively even if he wasn't in the Qinzheng Hall.
Even in such a huge palace, there is no place where the king can be alone...
Zongze's ability is indeed in line with the evaluation and praise of him by later generations...~ He is also connected with later generations. Zhao Xi can't avoid this feeling.
Zongze's article is an article comparing the comprehensive national power of the Northern Liao Dynasty and the Song Dynasty.
Due to the obsession of the Guo Dynasty and the Northern Liao towards the Sixteenth Prefecture of Yanyun... don't think that only the Song Dynasty needed the Sixteenth Prefecture of Yanyun, the Northern Liao also needed it.
The Song Dynasty's desire for the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun was based on defense, while the Northern Liao's obsession with the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun was based on survival.
The survival of Bei Liao can be said to be the result of the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun being a traditional farming area, supplementing the nomadic peoples of Bei Liao. It can also be said that with the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun, Bei Liao was a deterrent to the Song Dynasty.
It will always exist, in a favorable position where you can advance, attack, retreat and defend.
One can imagine what kind of resentment the Northern Liao had towards the Song Dynasty after the Yunying Four Prefectures were recaptured by the Song Dynasty.
This point is explained in Zongze’s article.
Precisely because the Song Dynasty and the Northern Liao Dynasty focused on the Sixteen States of Yanyun, Zongze naturally focused on the military confrontation when he comprehensively elaborated on the comparison of the comprehensive national power of the Song and Liao Dynasties in his article.
Zongze compared the economy, political system, wise kings, military strength, and armaments of the Song Dynasty and the Northern Liao Dynasty in the article.
Even in the article, Zongze also used the people's will as one of the factors that determine the outcome of the war for the first time...
Because Zongze's travels were not limited to the imperial dynasties, he even traveled to the Northern Liao Dynasty, as well as the former Dali and Xixia regions as a merchant.
Therefore, he mentioned in the article the degree to which the entire party, Tubo, Uighur and southwestern barbarians recognized the Song Dynasty after the country regained Dali and the northwest, and connected this with future wars.
Zongze believed that if the Guochao could not effectively solve the problem of the return of the original Xixia and Dali, it would inevitably affect the Guochao's final recovery of Yanyun.
Although Zongze's article slightly criticized the court's decision-making of making things easy first and then making things difficult, Zhao Xi had to admit that Zongze's views were quite comprehensive.
At the same time, Zong Zelian's distribution of powerful people in Northern Liao... Of course, this is all hearsay. These are also mentioned in the article.
It also mentioned the identity orientation of Yanyun Han people and so on.
Even the food dependence of the Song Dynasty and the Northern Liao Dynasty was explained. This is a fact. The Song Dynasty relied on the small countries in the south, while the Northern Liao Dynasty relied on Yanyun.
Zongze also elaborated on the hidden dangers to food in both countries once the war started.
I have to say that this is the most comprehensive and clear understanding of the situation in Song and Liao.
It seems that Zongze is the person who understands Zhao Xi best, or the person who understands the court's delay in fighting the Liao Dynasty.
Of course, once the content of this article is published, whether it is the Song Dynasty or the Northern Liao Dynasty, there will be a certain degree of judgment on future operations.
Zhao Xi was very glad that Zongze was from the Song Dynasty. Based on the evaluation of Zongze by later generations, Zhao Xi was not worried that Zongze's article would be known to people in the Northern Liao Dynasty.
Ordinarily, after reading this article, the first thing to do is to control Zongze...