Bingshen (the fifth day) of May in the eighth year of Yuanfeng.
Zhao Xu personally issued an edict: the empress dowager's mother-in-law, Mrs. Li of South Korea and Yue, and the empress dowager's mother-in-law, Mrs. Zhang of Lu and Qin, according to the story, the money should be one hundred and fifty guansu each month, and spring and winter clothes respectively. One hundred pieces, three hundred taels of winter clothes, one hundred pieces of pink money for holy festival makeup, seventy pieces of large summer clothes, one hundred pieces of winter drama money, one hundred pieces of white silk from the southern suburbs, and two hundred taels of silver! From today on, everyone will be given double the amount!
After the edict was issued, the Gao family and Xiang family outside the palace suddenly became as lively as the Chinese New Year.
It's not that they lack the money.
In fact, this was not only a special edict issued by the emperor himself, but he also personally urged the ministers to implement it as soon as possible. Even today, he even personally printed the edict to show his favor to the two queens!
What does this mean?
He, a small official, is looking towards us, our fellow countrymen!
Sure enough, Gao Gongji and Xiang Zonghui were right!
The good days for us compatriots are yet to come!
But because of this, the hatred of the Gao family and the Xiang family for Sima Guang increased to a new level.
Because both the Gao family and the Xiang family found that the Xiaoguan family was really good to them.
Personally follow up, personally supervise, and personally handle the things you promised.
so……
If it weren't for Sima Guang and the others, wouldn't everyone have a fat job long ago? !
Zhao Xu's actions were seen by the two palaces, even though they said, "Just leave it to Yousi to handle matters like this for the official family (sixth brother), and you don't have to do it yourself."
But the smiles on their lips had already betrayed them deeply!
The next day is Dingyou (the fifth day of the lunar month).
The Ming Dynasty decreed that the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month was the emperor's holy day: Xinglong Festival.
On the occasion of the Xinglong Festival, rewards will be given to all the ministers and female officials in front of the imperial court, including the imperial medicine hospital and the imperial kitchen.
The Ministry of Rites immediately reported: According to the seventh and eighth chambers of the Imperial Ancestral Temple, the ancestors have established laws, and the emperor Daxing and the god are in the eighth chamber of the Imperial Ancestral Temple. Emperor Yizu is the master of the temple. The temple must be moved. Emperor Jian Gongruide and Queen Jianmu of the Liu family were hidden in the West Room, and lived in the back room where Emperor Shunzu and Queen Huiming moved to the main house.
Edict: I respect you!
So, surrounded by Empress Dowager Xiang, Zhao Xu came out of the palace again, dressed in filial piety, and as a filial son, surrounded by ministers, in Jingling Palace, respectfully worshiped the Emperor Daxing and the God Lord into the Ancestral Temple - today's God Lord Card There is no posthumous title or honorific title, only eight words: the title of Emperor Daxing of the Song Dynasty.
This is because it is not time to go to the southern suburbs to ask for a posthumous title.
After asking for the posthumous title in Nanjiao, he had to go to the Ancestral Temple again to respectfully add the posthumous title and honorary title of Emperor Daxing given by God to the god's main tablet.
When the god entered the temple, Zhao Xu paid homage as a dutiful son, toasted wine, offered incense, and cried again, and the Queen Mother also cried.
The ministers cried politely thirteen times.
In the midst of crying, Da Zongzheng and Taichang Qing read out the prepared sacrificial text for the Emperor Daxing to enter the Imperial Ancestral Temple in front of his ancestors.
Then the ministers gathered around Zhao Xu and went to the East Palace Temple of Jingling Palace where the Daxing Emperor Zi Palace stayed temporarily. They went to worship the Daxing Emperor Zi Palace, which had been sealed tightly and completely by countless pieces of wood.
All the rituals were over and it was already dusk.
Only then did Zhao Xu get on the jade chariot and return to the palace.
On the second day of Wuxu (the sixth day of the Lunar New Year) after Emperor Daxing entered the temple, the examination of the Ministry of Rites began again in the north courtyard of Kaibao Temple.
On this day, the two palaces issued an edict to reinstate Gao Zunyu as the general of the Youtun Guard, and to promote the envoy of the West Taiyi Palace.
But Gao Zunyu didn't refuse anymore, because he was sick, and it was more serious, it was a stroke!
So Qifu actually did it to cheer him up!
…
Gao Zunyu actually didn't know why he had a stroke.
Obviously last night, when I was drinking with Gao Zunhui, it was normal. But when I woke up in the morning, I didn't feel well, and I couldn't move half of my body.
His son Gao Shichong quickly sent for the imperial doctor.
The imperial doctor came and looked at the pulse and shook his head.
"What a disease of wind!"
Gao Zunyu's wives, concubines, and sons were all frightened!
All of a sudden, they all fell on Gao Zunyu's bed and started crying!
They know that if Gao Zunyu is alive, they are relatives of the country. If Gao Zunyu is dead, will the Empress Dowager still recognize them? Do the petty officials still recognize them? This really raises a big question mark.
Gao Zunyu was annoyed by their crying.
"I'm not dead yet!"
"What a howl! What a howl!"
After Gao Zunyu scolded his wife, concubines and children, they immediately stopped crying.
Because it seemed that Gao Zunyu could only move half of his body.
Seems like there's still hope?
Then, everyone looked at the imperial doctor.
The imperial doctor sighed. If Feng Shu's disease was so easy to cure, it wouldn't be a terminal illness.
Even if he is lucky enough to survive, this countryman will probably have to stay in bed for the rest of his life.
Gao Zunyu could almost guess the look on his face when he looked at the imperial doctor.
So he said to Gao Shichong: "Go and invite Uncle Xing and Uncle to your house immediately!"
"I want to discuss future matters with Uncle He!"
Gao Shichong, the traitor, doesn't look very smart.
I can only ask Uncle Xing He to help take care of him in the future, but don't let Gao Shichong, the bastard, spill the beans one day and reveal that Wang Gui asked him about setting up a heir apparent. !
…
Zhao Xu also quickly learned about Gao Zunyu's stroke.
After hearing this, he shook his head and thought of the innocent soldiers who were drowned in the Yellow River by Ren Duo alone under Lingzhou City.
So, is this retribution for Gao Zunyu?
Let him stay in bed for more than a year like Zhao Xu did in his last life, and slowly torture him to death?
But, no matter what, Gao Zunyu served Zhao Xu's father well.
Except for the big mistake Li Ling Zhihun made under Lingzhou City, Gao Zunyu was normal at other times.
And it was he who had always supported opening and expanding the border since he was in Xining, blocking the mouths of many relatives in the clan.
Let Bianjing City not make too much noise because of the frontline matters.
So, Zhao Xu went to Kunning Palace and asked the Empress Dowager to go to Baoci Palace with him to comfort the Empress Dowager.
By the way, Zhao Xu proposed going to Gao Zunyu's house to express condolences tomorrow.
The Empress Dowager and Empress Dowager Xiang refused.
The reason is simple - the official family is still young!
Besides - Zunyu's condition is fine now!
Zhao Xu had no choice but to agree, but also sent someone to deliver some medicine.
It’s better than nothing!
…
Just when Gao Zunyu was lying on the bed, waiting for Xing Shu to pass the palace.
Lu Huiqing, who had been waiting in Fuzhou for several days, received a report from the scouts who went deep into the hinterland of the Western Bandits. He met the leader of the Qiang tribe in Hengshan and said: The Western Bandits Army Envoy has been in great need of mobilizing civilians and food supplies recently!
And it wasn't a scout reporting such a thing.
There were seven or eight scouts reporting from different locations and directions that the Western Bandits were recruiting food, grass, and young men.
Lu Huiqing read all the scout reports and even personally questioned the two returning scouts.
He immediately knew that there was a fish, somewhere in the left wing of the West Pirates in front of him, in the Divine Warrior Supervision Department.
Moreover, this fish is not small!
"Young master guessed it right?!" Lu Huiqing immediately found the edict that was rushed from Bianjing last month and looked at what the two palaces on the edict told him in the tone of the young master.
"The Western thieves are really going to take advantage of my lord's young country's suspicion and invade in large numbers!"
Lu Huiqing suddenly broke into a cold sweat when she thought of this.
If he hadn't come here, if he hadn't prepared.
So once this sudden Western bandit invades in large numbers, a major town in the Hedong border fortress or the border fortress he is responsible for on Yanyan Road will fall.
Then Lu Huiqing would be giving the old party a handle!
"Straight bitch!" Lu Huiqing used a rare expletive.
He didn't even go to hunt the grass valley, but the western thief actually wanted to hunt his grass valley!
It is unbearable!
He immediately summoned Zhe Kexing and ordered him face to face: "Please send more scouts, general!"
"Send out all the Fuzhou scouts!"
"General, if there are internal agents in the hinterland of the Western Bandits, please activate them all!"
Lu Huiqing's nose is very good.
He could smell it now.
His heart was beating loudly, and his intuition told him that the leader of the army of Western thieves gathered opposite him must have a high status!
Maybe Liang Yifu, the uncle of the Western Thieves, is leading the army himself!
Because they can force the Hengshan Qiang people to forcefully seize young people and food, and they can also make those Western bandit generals who dare not resist the Qiang people, there are only a few of them.
And Liang Yifu, the Prime Minister of the Western Bandit State, is the most likely!
"If we can capture this thief!" Lu Huiqing was so excited that she was about to dance for joy: "Three provinces and two prefectures, I, Lu Jifu, am back!"
Therefore, Lu Huiqing made an offer to Zhe Kexing that Zhe Kexing could not refuse: "If we can detect the details of the Western thieves, I will judge the merits in court one day, and I will definitely give the general the first credit!"
Zhe Kexing immediately bowed and said: "I will obey the orders of the Prime Minister, General Jinglue!"
Zhejia has been operating in Fuzhou and Linzhou for so many years, so it naturally has its own channels.
I have friends among the Western Bandits and the Northern Barbarians.
For example, smuggling smuggled materials to make extra money.
The Ori family usually doesn't dare to expose these relationships.
But now, Lu Huiqing made an offer that Zhe Kexing couldn't refuse - to be the best in terms of merit in the future!
And Zhe Kexing knew that although Lu Huiqing had an arbitrary style.
But he keeps his word and never breaks his promise!
Therefore, it is possible to take risks and activate some old relationships or even family friends.
Therefore, countless spies and scouts all took advantage of the opportunity to make up and set off from the border area where Fuzhou and the Western Bandits intertwined on that night.
Most of these people are originally Dangxiang people and Qiang people. Their language, habits, and lifestyle are no different from the Dangxiang people and Qiang people in the left wing Shenyong Supervisory Army Department opposite.
Wearing local clothes and heading into the mountains, you will be either a hunter or a Qiang man on his way.
Many servants of the Zhe family also got into these ravines.
They followed their memories along the mountain roads they had walked countless times, went deep into Hengshan Mountain, and entered the gathering area of the Qiang people.
It was almost when these scouts, spies and servants of the Zhe family soaked into Hengshan like rain.
In Jialu Village, a border village in the Song Dynasty, several Qiang tribes came to trade.
These Qiang people are the so-called "two-loser households" near Jialu who paid taxes to the Song Dynasty and the Western Bandits at the same time.
Most of the defenders in Jialu Village knew them.
Although he was surprised to see a few unfamiliar faces mixed in, he didn't pay much attention.
No one would be bored and report such trivial matters to Wang Ying, the commander of Jialu Village.
So, unknowingly, the number of defenders in Jialu Village was roughly estimated - a thousand at most!
But that's not enough!
Therefore, after these Qiang people finished trading in Jialu Village, they proposed to go to nearby Zhaibao to also trade.
No one suspected them, they were released directly, and transaction certificates were issued.
(End of chapter)
