The next day, Zhao Yao slept until he woke up naturally. It was already the same time when he woke up. Before he was studying, he would sleep until late every day. Since he started studying this year, he can only sleep until midnight when he takes a nap.
Zhao Yao likes to sleep in late and hates getting up early. This is one of the reasons why he hates reading.
"Yao Yao, why don't you sleep a little longer? Are you hungry?" Liang Run said, "Second uncle bought you breakfast and put it in a pot to warm. Now I will bring it to you."
"Do you have my favorite sesame biscuits?" Not far from Liang Run's house, an old couple set up a stall selling sesame biscuits on the street. The taste of their sesame cakes is outstanding. Zhao Yao would eat their sesame cakes every time he went out of the palace.
"Yes, yes, yes, I bought you a lot, and also bought you soy milk and tofu." His nephew was obviously a prince, but he liked to eat things that ordinary people eat.
"Great, I'm going to wash up now."
After Tongxi served Zhao Yao to wash up, he served him breakfast.
Liang Run had already had breakfast. At this time, he was sitting opposite and watching Zhao Yao eat breakfast.
Zhao Yao was eating sesame seed cakes and drinking soy milk, his little face was full of happiness.
Seeing Zhao Yao eating with gusto, Liang Run laughed and said, "Is it so delicious?"
Zhao Yao nodded vigorously: "It's delicious, it's so delicious."
"Isn't the food cooked in the imperial kitchen delicious?"
"Of course the food made by the Imperial Kitchen is delicious, but it lacks a bit of human touch."
"Lack of human touch?" Liang Run looked confused, "What do you mean?"
Zhao Yao couldn't explain it for a while, so he could only say: "Anyway, folk food is also delicious, not worse than what is made in the Imperial Kitchen."
"I think you eat too much delicacies from mountains and seas, so you think folk food is delicious."
"Second uncle, you are wrong." Zhao Yao put down the bowl in his hand, his expression suddenly became a little serious, "In the palace, we don't just eat delicacies from all over the world. Whether it is my father, my mother, my concubine and I, we usually The ingredients we eat are all common dishes, and there are no exotic animals.”
"Ah?" Liang Run was surprised, "Is it true?"
"Of course it's true. It's just that the process of the dishes we eat is more complicated than what you eat. There is no other difference. Even beef can't be eaten on weekdays. It can only be eaten on important festivals or banquets. Eat it.”
Liang Run was shocked and said, "I thought you were eating delicacies from all over the world."
"My grandfather and father are both frugal people and do not allow extravagance and waste in food. They only have a few dishes for each meal, which is similar to that of ordinary people." Although his father did not favor him and even bullied him, he was not a person. Good father, but father is a good emperor.
It was the first time Liang Run heard about this kind of thing, and he was quite shocked. He exclaimed: "I didn't expect it!"
"Although the emperor's grandfather established the Great Zhou Dynasty, there is no real peace in the world. There are still rebellions in many places." It has only been more than ten years since the emperor's grandfather established the Great Zhou Dynasty. "The most important thing is that people in many places still don't have enough to eat."
During the reign of Emperor Xia Ling, there were frequent natural disasters, either floods or droughts, and there were also locust plagues, which caused grain harvests to stop in many places. In addition, there are man-made disasters. Officials exploited the people and blatantly stole their fields and food, causing many people to starve to death.
After the establishment of the Great Zhou Dynasty, the weather became smooth. In the past ten years, there have been no natural disasters, but during the previous dynasty, a lot of fields were destroyed and many of them turned into wasteland. In the past ten years, although it has been recuperating and recuperating, it is impossible to allow the food supply to skyrocket. When the late emperor was still alive, granaries in many places were still full and food was still in short supply.
After Emperor Wu of Zhou came to the throne, food harvests began to be abundant in many places, but there were still many places where the food output was not high.
"The late Emperor and Your Majesty are truly benevolent kings."
"Both the emperor's grandfather and father have experienced famine. They both attach great importance to food. How could they be extravagant and wasteful." Both the emperor's grandfather and father have lived through hard times and have a deep understanding of the suffering and hardship of the people, so they can be considerate of the people and want to Let the people live a good life. "Although there are still many unresolved problems, I believe things will get better and better."
"Life is much better now than before." Liang Run experienced various natural and man-made disasters in the previous dynasty when he was a child. Although he was very young at that time, he will never forget the suffering at that time in his life.
"Second uncle, have you been to Ping'an Guest House?" Zhao Yao asked hurriedly, "Did you find out anything?"
"I went there early this morning and inquired with the clerk. The clerk said that those people were very weird. After arriving at their guest house, they stayed in the room all day, and even ate in the room. The clerk didn't even look at it. I've seen them go out." Ping'an Guesthouse is not far from where Liang Run lives, and the food in the guesthouse is also sent by Liang Run. He is very familiar with the shopkeeper and waiters in the guesthouse. If he goes to ask, the waiter at the guest house will naturally tell him. "It wasn't until the day of check-out that those people left the room."
Zhao Yao felt more and more strange about the people who went to Pei's house, "Did the guy tell me where their accents came from?"
"I asked, and the waiter said that those people spoke with Sichuan accents." Guests at Ping'an Guest House come from all over the world, and the waiter often interacts with these people, and has long since developed the ability to tell where they are from just by listening to their accents. "Even though they tried their best to hide their accents, the guys still picked up on them."
"Sichuan?" Zhao Yao said in surprise, "He is actually from Shu!"
"Sichuan is thousands of miles away from the capital. Those people came all the way to the capital just to find something in Pei's Mansion. It seems that what they are looking for in Pei's Mansion is very important." Liang Run asked curiously, "Pei Is there anything in the house that is worthy of them coming all the way?”
Zhao Yao shook his head and said, "I don't know."
"Are those people related to the Pei family?"
"It shouldn't matter." Zhao Yao speculated, "The Pei family was wiped out twenty or thirty years ago. If those people were related to the Pei family, they would not have waited until now to come to Beijing to investigate the Pei family."
"The Pei family was framed for treason, so they were executed. All valuable things were taken away, not even a chair was left. What could they have spent so much time searching for? "Liang Run went to Pei's Mansion and didn't find anything good in Pei's Mansion.
"Perhaps they heard something and thought something was in Pei's Mansion, so they came to Beijing to check out Pei's Mansion." Zhao Yao thought for a while and said, "Second uncle, you can ask the old people in the capital about Pei's Mansion. Maybe they’ve heard something.”
"good."
Liang Run saw Zhao Yao frowning and looking thoughtful, and asked, "Yao Yao, what's wrong?"
"The land of Shu is now controlled by the rebels of the previous dynasty and does not belong to the Great Zhou Dynasty. I wonder if those people are remnants of the previous dynasty?"
Liang Run was frightened by Zhao Yao's words and said in horror: "Remnants of the previous dynasty?"
"It's very possible that he is from Han Zhong."
Han Zhong is a remnant of the previous dynasty. Twenty years ago, he and Zhao Yao's imperial grandfather fought for Yongzhou, but were completely defeated by the late emperor, and fled to Shu with his men. At that time, there were only twenty to thirty thousand soldiers who followed him to Shu. Not long after escaping to Shu, he proclaimed himself emperor. Today, he has hundreds of thousands of troops in Shu.
When the late emperor was still alive, Han Zhong went out of Shu to attack Liangzhou, but was defeated miserably by Emperor Wu of Zhou. He was beaten by Emperor Wu and fled back to Shu in despair. Since then, Han Zhong has never left Shu, nor has he attacked Dazhou again.
Emperor Wu of Zhou wanted to destroy Han Zhong and regain Shu, but the terrain of Shu was complex and steep, making it easy to defend but difficult to attack. Recovering Shu is not an easy task, and it will cost a lot of troops and food. The Great Zhou Dynasty was founded in the early days, and it was full of wastes waiting to be renovated. There was not so much financial resources to attack Shu. In addition, there were rebel armies in several other states that needed to be suppressed, and the imperial court had no choice but to give up its plan to regain Shu for the time being.
After the rebels in several other states were completely pacified, Emperor Wu of Zhou would take action to regain Shu.
Emperor Wu of Zhou must take back Shu and would never allow Han Zhong to remain the emperor of Shu. In recent years, although there has been no attempt to recover Shu, the plan to recover Shu has been going on.
"Han Zhong's people?" Liang Run lowered his voice and said, "This is a traitor. How dare he send people to the capital?"
Zhao Yao secretly thought that Han Zhong was a remnant of the previous dynasty, and Pei Mansion was also a member of the previous dynasty. Han Zhong specially sent people to Pei Mansion to look for something, which should be related to the previous dynasty.
"They didn't find anything in Pei Mansion, so they probably won't come again." If they come to the capital again, they will definitely be discovered, and then they will be in danger. "I don't know if anyone in the Pei family survived."
"The whole Pei family was executed. How could there be anyone left alive?"
"Maybe someone escaped." If someone from the Pei family really escaped, they would be anonymous and it would be impossible to find them.
"Yao Yao, do you want to find the Pei family?"
"What are you looking for from the Pei family?" Zhao Yao said, "Even if you look for them, it's hard to find them."
If it is really found, I'm afraid it will cause unnecessary trouble and danger.
