On the New Year's Eve reunion night, every household looks happy.
This is people's best wishes for New Year's Eve. No matter how far apart the family is during this year, as long as the New Year's Eve comes, the family will always reunite for a New Year's Eve dinner and describe their respective situations and lives during the year.
However, this is a bit of a luxury for the royal family.
After attending the annual New Year's Eve banquet for hundreds of officials, Emperor Song left the venue a little tired and asked Prince Zhao Ming to host the rest of the banquet on his behalf. Then he took Cao Shuang to the Derong Palace with him.
Sitting lonely in the store, memories kept coming back to me like a dream.
That woman, the woman who gave birth to her son, who always comforted herself softly when she was most tired, who stood behind her and gently massaged her head to brush away the fatigue of the day, was no longer there.
Some people say that you don’t know how to cherish until you lose it. This is right.
When she was here, whenever she was upset by various things from her previous dynasty, she would hide here with him. After her comfort, she would be able to regain her fighting spirit the next day.
But now, every time in the dead of night, he would always think of that woman, that gentle woman who never seemed to be angry, that harbor where he could take a break.
But he left, leaving him forever on the day Lao Liu was born. This also made him more or less disgusted with Lao Liu?
Sometimes I can't help but wonder, if Lao Liu hadn't been born, would that gentle woman still be by his side? When he encountered difficulties, he would have had a place to hide, instead of just carrying on. Go down.
So after Lao Liu was born, he left Lao Liu to be raised by the queen and never paid much attention to his son. He was afraid that if he paid too much attention, he would miss her more.
The disturbances in the court made him exhausted, and he could not hear any good news all year round. Either there was a disaster here, there was a drought somewhere, or the Huns came to imprison him again.
After a whole year, Zhao Duan felt that he had aged more than ten years.
But there was no peace in the court either.
The four elders and the fifth elders are at loggerheads with each other, and each has its own group of courtiers who support each other and attack each other all day long.
The prince sat firmly on the Diaoyutai, in an invincible position, watching the two younger brothers dancing wildly, and from time to time he would give them a big showdown to let them know who was the eldest brother.
I wanted to support the prince. According to the order of seniority, it was the prince who should inherit his position.
The second prince is also the most qualified heir, while the fourth and fifth princes have various flaws. The most important thing is that their maternal relatives are too powerful. Once these two are allowed to take the throne, the Song Dynasty will inevitably welcome their maternal relatives. In the era of autocratic power, this was very detrimental to the Song Dynasty.
But he couldn't blatantly support the prince. He could only try to increase the pressure on the prince secretly, secretly suppress the two boys and balance their strength.
It's not that he doesn't want to cut the knot quickly and deal with their maternal family, but his current strength doesn't allow it.
Behind the fourth son is the military. The Ding family is a famous general in the Song Dynasty. The children of the family can be found in all the armies of the Song Dynasty. They can directly or indirectly influence nearly half of the army in the Song Dynasty.
It was only through continuous suppression over the years that the Song Emperor regained most of its military power. Otherwise, the Ding family's power would be even more terrifying. During the reign of the late Emperor, the Ding family could directly or indirectly control nearly 80% of the Song Dynasty's army.
When the late emperor passed away, the Ding family had evil thoughts. It was only after the Song Emperor used a series of tricks to show the enemy that they were weak and took advantage of the Song family's inattention to take back most of the military power in one fell swoop that the Ding family became honest. , did not dare to act rashly.
But in order to stabilize the Ding family, he had to marry the daughter of the Ding family as his concubine.
After having the fourth child, the Ding family turned to supporting the fourth child, hoping that the fourth child would inherit the throne so that they could have another chance.
But Lao Wu is more complicated. Behind Lao Wu is not one force, but two!
On the one hand, his maternal grandfather, Prime Minister Zhang He, was behind him, and he received support from most of the civil service group.
On the other hand, a force that has been hidden in the Song Dynasty for a thousand years is also secretly supporting Lao Wu and providing help to Lao Wu. Only in this way can he not fall behind in the duel with Lao Si who has the help of the Ding family. .
Thinking of that force, a cold light flashed across Zhao Duan's eyes!
If it weren't for them, he would have eliminated the Ding family long ago.
When he had the chance to deal with the Ding family, they were the ones who stood up and forced him to give up targeting the Ding family.
Now, seeing that the Ding family who wanted to support them ignored them, they supported their other son to compete with the Ding family.
What do they think of the royal family of the Song Dynasty?
The reward for winning the duel?
One day! One day!
Zhao Duan's fists clenched loudly!
One day I will wipe out all of you!
What Ding family! What a thousand-year-old family!
I am determined to turn you all into powder!
He breathed a sigh of relief, letting go of the depression in his heart.
Zhao Duan stood up and looked at the palace in front of him that although no one had lived in it for twenty years, it was still clean and tidy.
Zhao Duan sighed and ordered: "Double the money and supplies for Lao Liu this year."
When Cao Shuang heard this, he immediately frowned and reminded in a low voice: "Your Majesty, there is no reason to suddenly double the material silver allocated to King Yun. The Central Household Ministry may not agree."
Zhao Duan snorted unhappily, and then said: "There is no need to go through the Ministry of Household Affairs, the extra money will come from my own funds! It is not their turn to pay for the subsidy for my son myself!"
Seeing that His Majesty said this and also gave a solution, Cao Shuang immediately and respectfully agreed.
Then the two returned to Funing Palace.
At the palace banquet, Zhao Ming, who was hosting the New Year's Eve banquet for hundreds of officials, soon learned that his father wanted to double the money allocated to Lao Liu at his own expense.
After pondering for a moment, he found a place and whispered to his personal attendant to take ten thousand taels of silver from his treasury and fill it in as well.
The young eunuch took the order and left. In Funing Palace, Emperor Song, who was preparing to take a rest, suddenly heard that the prince had given Lao Liu 10,000 taels of silver, and a happy smile appeared on his face.
He is worthy of being his most satisfied son, brother, friend and brother. This is the scene he wants to see the most.
The night is getting darker.
The palace banquet also stopped at the beginning of Haishi. Officials from various ministries went back to their homes to find their mothers. The concubines, princes and princesses in the palace also went back to their own palaces to rest.
The fourth and fifth elders snorted to each other and left with a group of people.
The palace returned to silence again, with only the bright lights still burning, illuminating the entire palace.
It is a custom in the palace that all candles in the palace must not be extinguished on New Year's Eve every year until the Jade Rabbit disappears the next morning.
The cool breeze blew through the imperial city, causing the candlelight to flicker on and off, as if the Song Dynasty today did not know the way forward...
Let’s transition to two pages first, and explain some of the things that are still explained, otherwise many book friends will be a little confused.
(End of chapter)
