According to the salary regulations of the Song Dynasty, the Empress Dowager's monthly salary was 10,000 guan, and Zhao Bing added 10,000 guan of cosmetics. His salary was only collected for 10,000 guan, and all the expenses in the Eastern Palace were also withdrawn from it, including his own food, clothing, housing and transportation, and the expenses of the inner palace, which made his economy very tight. Of course, in addition to mobilizing the money from the Zuozangku, there was also the "black money" earned by the Affairs Bureau for himself, but he rarely subsidized his life and basically spent on scientific research and funding his trusted and trusted staff.

Now that I have to give my future wife a bride gift, of course, Zhao Bing will pay it himself. He secretly calculated that these things are no less than 20,000 yuan, which is enough to save some time for him. The empress dowager must have married more wives to make a living. She thought that there will be three palaces and six courtyards in the future, and there will be so many wives to marry and raise them. With the current financial situation, it is really a headache. I can't figure out whether the emperors can really deal with so many wives.

Now I just want to deal with this before the loss of money and avoid disaster, so as not to let the empress dowager nag. While speaking, someone sent a good news from the Northern Army and a congratulatory statement signed by the generals led by Wen Tianxiang. At this time, the Song army had completed the roundabout recovery of Gao, Hua and other states, and the vanguard army that tentatively attacked had already broken through Wuzhou. The reinforcements mobilized by the enemy Jinghu Province were all attracted. However, the enemy in Guangdong did not take the initiative to launch an attack, but only guarded the defense line strictly, as if they were worried about the plan to attack the east and the west, and were ambushed by the Song army.

Taking this opportunity, Zhao Bing finally broke the wedding. The Empress Dowager also felt that the ministers could have a rare rest throughout the year, so she gave up the ministers to accompany them and let them have a New Year's Eve dinner at home. Tonight, only their mother and son spent the last night of the three years of Xiangxing. He suggested that he personally go to the kitchen to supervise and inspect. The Empress Dowager responded with a smile, so that he could "escape" and have some breathing.

The New Year's Eve dinner began in the afternoon. The banquet was placed in a warm pavilion in the Empress Dowager's harem because there were few people. Although the ministers were refused to accompany the banquet, Empress Dowager Yang saw that he was the only one of him and His Majesty in the huge hall. Thinking about the lively New Year's Eve scene in the palace before, he felt very desolate. Fortunately, Zhao Bing had already expected the current situation, so he set up a few more tables at the steps and called all the eunuchs and palace maids in the palace to accompany him.

Zhao Bing did not arrange any singing and dancing, but just used his experience of hosting class parties when he was in school, and improvised to invite the people present to perform the show, making the scene lively. Even the empress dowager was infected and sang a minor tune in his hometown on a whim. Although this was not as exciting as the programs in the palace in the past, it was less restrained, more casual, and had a homely atmosphere.

The Empress Dowager said that she should not waste the dinner. Zhao Bing always took it as the premise of having enough food and having enough food. However, considering the special situation today, he still asked the imperial kitchen to prepare according to the usual practice. The common practice of the Empress Dowager and the Emperor required hundreds of dishes for each meal, and of course the New Year Festival was richer. He could not count four or five hundred dishes. How could people eat this?

However, there was an unwritten rule in the palace to reward the imperial meals of the important officials in the court during the New Year to show favor and encouragement. So some dishes were just exposed and repacked, packed, and sent to the palaces of the ministers and assistant officials. The excess was not wasted. After they tasted it, they rewarded the rotating guards and servants. In the end, they seemed not very rich, and they were all used to the fullest.

The drums passed by at midnight, and Zhao Bing helped the Queen Mother to the square in front of the palace to watch the fireworks. For a moment, the fireworks and silver flowers illuminated the entire palace city, and the crackling sounds of firecrackers in the palace city also sounded one after another. But his feeling was not very good. The fireworks and explosions made people think of the long tail flames of rockets flying on the battlefield, the smoke covering the sun, and the sound of flowering bullets deafening explosions, and it seemed like they had returned to the hell of flesh and blood flying!

After setting off fireworks, it is the same thing as ancient and modern times. In this era, there are no TVs or Internet, and there are no mahjong cards that the Chinese people are most keen on to accompany people through this long night, but there are also leaf cards that can pass the time. It is not an exaggeration to say that it is the originator of modern mahjong cards. Apart from the different numbers of cards, the gameplay and algorithms are no different from modern ones.

Zhao Bing is naturally familiar with the modern national entertainment game such as mahjong and soon got started. However, he knew that if he wanted to make people happy at the poker table, the only way was to lose money. As long as he lost enough, not only would the leader be happy, but there was nothing that could not be done. So the little emperor on the poker table turned into a boy with money in a blink of an eye. The queen mother took the cards and ordered the cannons, and he had to play whatever he needed to dismantle the cards.

As a result, the Empress Dowager, Wang De and Dou Xing both won the enemy, but Zhao Bing's purse quickly became weak. Others said that the little emperor was not lucky and had low card skills, but only Su Lan saw the whole story. There were no one who lost cards and lost cards in the world. Every time the Empress Dowager won the big boss, and although the two robbed players kept getting a lot of money, they could only get a few small money. Although this kind of card skills that could master the rhythm of the card table and control the winning and losing, they would not lose a lot. After all, it was His Majesty who wanted to fight the Empress Dowager for fun!

After playing until the ugly time, the empress dowager saw that the young emperor was fighting with his eyelids, thinking that there would be a New Year's Day ceremony after dawn. If His Majesty was listless to the ministers, wouldn't it be too decent, so she said she was tired and wanted to rest for a while. It was too late, so she let Zhao Bing stay in the palace and did not let him go back, and would attend the ceremony together after dawn...

Although the New Year's Day ceremony was the largest gathering of officials in the year, Zhao Bing was not very interested in meaningless ritualization. He thought that apart from the continuous changes in personnel, the procedures and steps of this kind of ceremony were afraid that the procedures and steps had not changed for hundreds of years. Zhao Bing, who had experienced it once, was naturally of little interest, but he must be absent as the protagonist. And for the purpose of holding the grand ceremony, one was to show the great grace and the threat of the people everywhere; the other was likely to let everyone see that your emperor was still alive, and he was in good health, and he was delicious.

According to regulations, officials of the fifth rank or above must be admitted to the dynasty meeting, and others are not qualified. However, some changes have been made this year, and some meritorious grassroots officers and soldiers in the army are invited to manage the promising officials in the village, and also to promote farming experts who have made high yields with bird deer and fertilizer fields, craftsmen who have contributed to the engineering and manufacturing fields, etc. In the past, they were regarded as people who have engaged in low-profile careers.

Of course, it is impossible to have a place in the main hall as these people. They can only accompany the last seat under the corridor outside the hall. However, this move has been the first to open up the world in this dynasty. It is a very glorious thing to have a place at the New Year's Day dynasty meeting, so the people who are regarded as the last are the most grateful, and Long Live shouting the loudest.

For so many Bai Ding and low-ranking clerks who went to the palace to attend the dynasty meeting, most of them thought that the little emperor was on a whim, and he hanged with these people in his early years. Now that he is developing, he let them go to the palace to see things, and he has shown that he has never forgotten his old people, so he is not surprised. However, those old men who have been hanging in the officialdom for a long time smelled an unusual smell and felt that the sky might change.

Lu Xiufu also felt this. Although the current Song Dynasty is still nominally there, the situation has actually changed drastically. Not only is the land largely lost, but the royal family has withered, the past nobles also died or surrendered. Even he himself was a descendant who took the opportunity to rise when the country was destroyed and no one was available. He knew very well that the restoration of the country is actually the same as the re-founding of the country, and every time the dynasty changes, it is the time when the heroes of the world compete for the new crown.

Lu Xiufu was very clear about the current situation. The Song Dynasty raised scholars for a hundred years, treated scholars well, and ruled the world with them. However, when the country was in danger, countless scholars turned to rebel against Song and Shiyuan. The young emperor who experienced the pain of the country's destruction also witnessed Prime Minister Chen Yizhong escaped at the critical moment of life and death, and left without returning. With his wisdom, he would certainly have doubts about scholars. He had already realized that while using scholars to assist him in managing the dynasty, he was also secretly re-cultivating new forces.

Lu Xiufu knew that the groups that were most easily exploited were always "vulgar" warriors and "ignorant" villagers. They lived under the crowd for a long time and had the desire to change their status. They didn't want much. Just draw a false "big cake" and give some benefits, and they would sacrifice their lives to follow them. However, they did not seek much like the aristocrats who wanted to rule the world with the king.

In addition, Lu Xiufu had already discovered that the little emperor was a pragmatist and did not like the mysterious and innocent style of scholars, but the ultimate efficiency and result. Looking at the people around him who were valued, you will know that a city official can go to and from provincial and ministers, a small businessman can also control the wealth of the world, and a commander of a military weapon station can also be appointed as the head of the Ministry of Works. But these people helped the little emperor solve the financial difficulties, created weapons that scared the enemy, and solved the problem of hundreds of thousands of people eating in an orderly manner.

On the other hand, the scholars who accompanied the dynasty and moved to Qiong, when they first came, the young emperor was full of expectations for them, hoping to manage Qiongzhou well with their help, lay the foundation for restoring the country, and arranged positions for them under great financial pressure and paid salaries. However, many of them did not use this as a motivation to repay the kindness of heaven, but used it as the reward for the companion to escape. Just as they got rid of the drift, they were not enterprising in their days of fear, and they took the little emperor's money to buy a house, buy a concubine, and became an apartment man.

In this way, the scholars will inevitably disappoint the young emperor and arouse his disgust. Lu Xiufu knew that although these people could not represent the entire group of scholars, as the saying goes, a rat shit ruined a pot of soup, and the evil they committed was to be borne by the entire aristocratic clan. After the slang incident last year, he discovered that the young emperor had alienated himself and instead appointed local gentry and clerks. He also adopted the province-district governance, weakened the power of the prime minister, and reused Zhang Shijie and other military officials who had opposed it without considering past grudges, and at the same time strengthened the rectification and control of the imperial guards in front of the palace.

The last time the young emperor in the temple talked about military reform with them in detail. Lu Xiufu knew that the young emperor wanted to strengthen the combat effectiveness of the army, and was also paving the way for further improving the status of the army. The subtext was that His Majesty was cultivating a group of upstarts. The farmers, workers, merchants and soldiers who lived at the bottom of the hall sitting outside the hall would be the basis of the power structure of the new empire, and they would inevitably squeeze and invade the living space of the aristocrats in the court and the country.

Lu Xiufu felt a potential crisis. He knew that he had to do something to consolidate the position of scholars in the court and strengthen his influence among the people. However, confronting the emperor at the moment was the most unwise choice. He knew that on the surface, the old ministers in the court were still controlling the administrative affairs of the empire. In fact, the power of the little emperor had already penetrated into important ministries and provinces, and the local prefectures and counties were under his control. The military also completely turned to him. Once the defeat was turned, they would be further suppressed by this as an excuse.

Since it is not feasible to solve the problem by persuasion, it is not possible for them to use force. Lu Xiufu thought that he could only regain the trust of the young emperor and enhance the prestige of the scholars in the court and the opposition through roundabout ways. At present, the young emperor wanted to train the new army to promote the style of martial arts. Then he could also learn from this method to exert influence. First, he held a lecture as soon as possible to influence His Majesty's behavior; second, he opened a prefecture, county school, and restored the Imperial College to attract young talents to school, revitalize the style of worshipping literature among the people, and then held the imperial examination to enable more scholars to enter the government, thus occupying the court again.

"Lu Xiang, we are drinking a drink together!"

"Okay, thank you Your Majesty!" Lu Xiufu, who was immersed in thinking, suddenly heard the invitation from His Majesty. Shen'er was stunned and raised his glass and said, but when he looked at his harmless and innocent look, he felt a little dazed, wondering if this child would have such deep scheming?

"My dear ministers, last year, Qiongzhou's grain warehouse was filled with the national treasury. Repelling Fan Qiong's enemies, all of them were good at governing the country. I would like to respect Lu Gong with all my friends!" Zhao Bing and Lu Xiufu drank a cup and then raised their glasses to the ministers below.

"Respect the Prime Minister Lu!" The little emperor suggested that all the ministers responded and raised their glasses together.

"Today, Qiongzhou is full of reliance on the Empress Dowager. Your Majesty's kindness, and my colleagues serve you, how dare I take credit!" Lu Xiufu said a few words of modestness and drank the wine in the glass. He felt uncomfortable. Is this little emperor's praise of himself in this way true or false? It's really unpredictable.

"Hey, don't be humble. I see all the achievements of Lu Prime Minister Lu and remember them in my heart!" Zhao Bing raised his glass again and said. Seeing that Lu Xiufu looked unstable, his brows frowned, and he looked thoughtful, and he glanced at him from time to time. He thought that he might be confused about his invitation to the Bai Ding to attend the court meeting. After tribute to him for two glasses, he still looked worried after raising his glass again.

"I thank Your Majesty for your kindness!" Lu Xiufu drank the wine after thanking him.

"My dear friends, the news of the military victory in the north is frequent. The soldiers of the two and Guangxi were moved and responded one after another. Some scholars loyal to the court came across the sea, which greatly boosted our dynasty's momentum!" Zhao Bing said, "I want to reopen the Imperial College and cultivate talents for the country. What do you think about Prime Minister Lu and your dear friends?"
Chapter completed!