The two of them were just stunned for a moment and bowed slightly to Zhao Gou.

Cruel Garden

Just as Hu Yanzhuo said, Chu Yi and his group had returned to the garden not long ago without disturbing too many people.

Although it is not difficult for everyone to cross a thousand miles, after returning to Zhuyuan, except for Chen Tuan, Luo Zhenren and others, the others all returned to the mansion of the capital.

When Zhao Gou and Hu Yanzhuo, Tong Guan and his group arrived at Zhuyuan, Chu Yi had just finished taking a shower and changing clothes. When the servant came to Tongbing, Chu Yi was just stunned.

In the front hall, Zhao Gou, Tong Guan and Hu Yanzhuo, the king and minister, stood beside him, except for Zhao Gou.

A sound of footsteps came, and the three of them looked up at the entrance of the living room, and saw Chu Yi slowly coming in plain clothes.

When I saw Chu Yi, Hu Yanzhuo, Tong Guan couldn't help but feel tight, and bowed his hand slightly to Chu Yi and said, "I've seen Your Highness."

Chu Yi just waved his hand and stepped forward to Zhao Gou and bowed to him, "Your Majesty is here, Chu is in a position to welcome him, but he is rude."

Zhao Gou smiled and shook his head and said, "The King of Song doesn't have to be polite. I really want to say something, but I didn't tell you, which disturbed the King of Song to rest. It would be better if the King of Song didn't blame me."

The king and his ministers politely made a fuss and each took their seats. Zhao Gou then looked at Chu Yi and said, "I didn't expect that King Song would return to the capital quietly this time. I had said before that when King Song won the victory and returned to the court, he would lead all civil and military officials out of the city to greet him ten miles away."

Chu Yi glanced at Zhao Gou, and Zhao Gou's words came from the heart. No matter how much Chu Yi's expedition was, all the gains he gained from the court. Even if Zhao Gou had many thoughts in his mind, Chu Yi's expansion of territory was a great merit for the Song Dynasty and even the royal family, and no one could erase this.

Tong Guan smiled and said, "The Chief Executive is not aware of it, but the officials are very concerned about the Chief Executive's expedition. They have personally urged officials from various departments to ensure the future of the expedition."

Chu Yi smiled and said to Zhao Gou: "If the frontline soldiers knew this, they would definitely be grateful to Your Majesty."

Zhao Gou said seriously: "This is just my duty."

With a light cough, Hu Yanzhuo looked at Chu Yi, and said with a little curiosity: "The chief manager, but I am confused, don't you know whether to speak or not?"

Chu Yi chuckled and said, "What do you mean by General Hu Yan's words? Just say it bluntly."

Hu Yanzhuo nodded and said, "I will hear that the chief executive is preparing to ascend and be able to take people to ascend? Could this be because someone deliberately spread rumors and slandered the chief executive."

Who doesn't know that this news was coming from Chu Yi's confidants. Naturally, it was impossible for it to be a rumor. It was just that Hu Yanzhuo was a military general and could not hide his thoughts in his heart. It was just because he didn't believe it in his heart. So Hu Yanzhuo asked directly in front of Chu Yi.

As soon as Hu Yanzhuo said this, Tong Guan and Zhao Gou on the side also looked at Chu Yi. They were also like Hu Yanzhuo. It was rare for Hu Yanzhuo to ask, so they also wanted to hear what Chu Yi said.

Chu Yi laughed loudly, and said to Zhao Gou who was sitting there: "I still have to ask Your Majesty to make this matter clear. Even if I don't mention it today, Chu will beg your Majesty to the morning court in the future."

Zhao Gou looked at Chu Yi for a moment and said curiously: "Oh, I don't know what King Song wants to do? I will allow it all."

Chu Yi said solemnly, "Chu begs His Majesty to allow him to build an altar outside the city. When Chu ascends, he will perform sacrifices to heaven. Only in this way can one achieve the effect of one person ascending to heaven."

After hearing what Chu Yi said, Tong Guan and Hu Yanzhuo all showed surprise, while Zhao Gou felt a little joy in his heart and said to Chu Yi without hesitation: "It turns out that what King Song mentioned is just such a small matter. This matter is easy, I will be sure of it."

Chu Yi nodded and said, "I would like to thank Your Majesty for this."

Hu Yanzhuo opened his eyes wide and said, "So, can you really take people to ascend with me?"

Hu Yanzhuo, who was already suspicious, saw what altar Chu Yi was going to build, and he looked confident, which made Hu Yanzhuo feel a little uncertain.

Chu Yi smiled and said, "Yes or not, when the altar is completed, everything will be known."

As he said that, Chu Yi looked at Hu Yanzhuo and said, "Could General Hu Yan be prepared to ascend to heaven with Chu? If so, General Hu Yan would just speak..."

Hu Yanzhuo quickly shook his head and said, "My general is just curious and has no other intentions."

He Huyan's family has been loyal to the Song Dynasty for generations, and Huyanzhuo was regarded as a confidant by Emperor Zhao Gou. With his nature, how could he be willing to give up his family and give up everything and ascend with Chu Yi?

Grand Court Meeting

Generally speaking, the grand dynasty meeting will only be held once every half a month. Every grand dynasty meeting, any official at the capital who is in the capital will definitely be present.

Moreover, the grand dynasty meeting is usually an occasion to discuss major matters, but this grand dynasty meeting was held in advance, and everything was because of Chu Yi and his group returning from the Western Expedition.

When the civil and military officials looked at the more than twenty figures that appeared in the court, they were all shocked. These figures were all Chu Yi's confidants. They had followed Chu Yi to the west and now they appeared in the court. This means that the rumors they had heard about Chu Yi and others' return were not rumors.

Just as the civil and military officials were speculating in their hearts, the sharp voice of the eunuch rang out of the hall and said, "The world's military commander, King Song Chuyi, arrived."

Everyone looked towards the entrance of the hall and saw Chu Yi wearing a dress slowly walking over. Although Chu Yi restrained his aura, the name of the tree shadow. Even if Chu Yi showed no power, it naturally caused a lot of pressure to the officials when Chu Yi appeared.

Just at the head of the imperial seat, a seat was already prepared early. Looking at the position of the seat, it was almost the same as the imperial seat. It can be seen how powerful it is to be able to sit in this position.

Chu Yi walked over, and the officials bowed to Chu Yi and said, "We will pay homage to His Highness, King Song."

This is at the dynasty meeting. Apart from paying homage to the emperor, the civil and military officials did not need to worship anyone with great ceremony, but Chu Yi was an exception.

Chu Yi waved his hand slightly, then turned around and sat down on the chair. Until then, the civil and military officials breathed a sigh of relief.

Not long after Chu Yi sat down, the extremely sharp voice of the eunuch sounded from outside the hall again: "Your Majesty is here!"

Zhao Gou's figure appeared at the entrance of the hall and walked over under the service of Tong Guan, the eunuch. When he saw Chu Yi's figure, Zhao Gou nodded slightly to Chu Yi.

When Zhao Gou turned around and sat on the dragon throne, Tong Guan, who shook the whisk in his hand, whispered loudly: "By!"

Suddenly, a group of civil and military officials bowed to Zhao Gou, but Chu Yi, who was sitting there, did not get up, but just bowed slightly to Zhao Gou.

Zhao Gou waved his sleeves and said in a deep voice: "All the Lords are exempted from courtesy, and they are calm!"

When all the civil and military officials returned to their posts, Zhao Gou glanced at them and said, "Do you have something to do to report?"

Everyone, look at me, let me see you. Because the Song Dynasty has been expanding to the outside world, redundant officials and redundant government were originally one of the biggest drawbacks of the Song Dynasty, but now this situation has long disappeared.

A large number of officials were released, and even an extremely shortage of officials appeared, which made the officials' staff very nervous. Originally, a department might have to have thirty or fifty officials in charge, but now after a series of draws, it would be nice to have one-third of the officials in a department left.

The number of personnel decreased greatly, but the things that should be done did not decrease at all. In this way, whether an official has the ability will be highlighted suddenly.

After all, with the decrease in the number of people, it is almost a radish and a pit. Without the object of shirk responsibility, the test of an official's own ability.

In this case, because there were many officials and shirking each other, a large number of government affairs were delayed for ten days and half a month, and suddenly disappeared.

Although I dare not say that anything can be solved at once, the large amount of government affairs accumulation has almost disappeared.

It has only been three days since the last grand dynasty meeting. The matters that should be handled were handled not long ago. This grand dynasty meeting itself was very sudden. It can be said that it was held temporarily because of the return of Chu Yi and others. Many officials were not prepared at all, so naturally there was no need to take the government affairs here to discuss decisions.

But at this moment, a figure stood up. When the civil and military officials saw that figure, even if they were considering whether the government affairs in their hands should be taken out to discuss it, they all suppressed their thoughts.

As one of the representative figures of Chu Yi in the court, Lu Shinang stood up now. As long as he was not a fool, he knew that Lu Shinang spoke at this time, no matter what the matter was, it must represent Chu Yi's meaning.

The crowd stared at Master Lu, obviously very curious about what Chu Yi and his group suddenly returned from the West.

Master Lu naturally ignored the curious eyes of these officials, took a deep breath, bowed to Zhao Gou, and then bowed to Chu Yi. Then he took out the memorial from his cuff and presented it: "Report to Your Majesty, I have this memorial."

An eunuch came forward to respectfully take the memorial and submit it to Tong Guan, and then Tong Guan presented it to Zhao Gou.

Zhao Gou glanced at the memorial, nodded slightly and said, "Lu Aiqing doesn't know what's wrong, so let's just report it."

Mr. Lu said slowly: "I beg your Majesty to order the court departments to repair an altar that is 99 meters high outside the city!"

Zhao Gou had just glanced at the memorial and naturally had some understanding of the content of the memorial. Moreover, when he went to Zhuyuan yesterday, Chu Yi had already mentioned it to him, so he was not surprised by the content of the memorial presented by Lu Shinang.

It can be said that this is just a formality in yesterday's incident at the recent grand dynasty meeting, and it can also be regarded as an explanation to all officials.

After all, repairing a large altar nearly a hundred feet high is not a trivial matter. If it is repaired quietly, many officials will definitely come to the court. Since this is the case, it is better to directly clarify the matter in the court, and at the same time, you can also use the power of the court to repair the altar as quickly as possible.

Standing among the civil and military officials, Zhang Shuye, Li Gang and others were now confused, and it was obvious that they did not get the news in advance.

Especially, Zhang Shuye, now in charge of the Ministry of Revenue, stood up and spoke to Master Lu, "Mr. Lu, I would like to ask, why is the construction of this altar? What is the scale and how much does it cost?"

He glanced at Zhang Shuye lightly, and Master Lu said calmly: "It's nine miles in radius and ninety-nine feet high. If you say it costs money, you'd like to ask for millions of coins of silver."

Zhang Shuye couldn't help but raise his eyebrows. Although millions of coins were nothing to the Song Dynasty court, especially now that the Song Dynasty has a vast territory and a lot of taxes, the taxes collected in a year are hundreds of millions.

However, the income is too much, and the expenses are also too much. Therefore, as the steward of the Ministry of Revenue of the court, no one knows how difficult it is to get money from Zhang Shuye. Now, Master Lu has to spend millions of coins to repair an altar with unknown purpose. It is normal for Zhang Shuye to stand up as soon as possible.

Hearing Master Lu said that, Zhang Shuye almost instinctively wanted to object, but Zhao Gou suddenly interrupted Zhang Shuye and said, "Zhang Aiqing, I am sure of this matter. You are just as necessary, just allocate money."

As he said that, Zhao Gou looked at the Minister of Works and said, "The work is mainly for repairing the altar, and the six ministries assisted it. It is necessary to repair the altar successfully as quickly as possible."

Even the fool reacted. Obviously, the altar must be inseparable from Chu Yi, otherwise Zhao Gou would not have such an attitude.

Uncle Zhang took a deep breath and respectfully accepted the order before he returned to the court officials.

The matter of repairing the altar was settled like this. The next few ministers seemed to avoid the dynasty being too deserted, so they tried their best to find a few political matters for discussion.

The dynasty will disperse, and with the mouths of a group of civil and military officials, the news that the court was going to repair a large altar as high as a hundred feet outside the capital. The news spread like a hundred feet high for the chief executive Chu Yi was like wings growing.

In less than half a day, almost everyone in the capital learned about the news.

"Hey, didn't the Grandmaster enter the Western Regions? Why did he suddenly return to Beijing quietly?"

"Why did the Grand Chief Manager suddenly need to repair a large altar? It was not because I wanted to sacrifice to the sky and abdicate the emperor to be in the Grand Chief Manager today."

"Is that more than that? Otherwise, why did you need to repair such a large altar if you don't go to sacrifice to heaven? If you want me to say it, the Zhao family's country will change its ownership this time."

Of course, these are just various rumors and rumors circulated privately by ignorant people in the market.

Of course, these are just various rumors and rumors circulating privately by ignorant people in the city. Of course, these are just various rumors and rumors circulating privately by ignorant people in the city.

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