"You are truly worthy of being the son of a great general of our dynasty and a famous minister!"

"This is a great compliment!"

When the two palaces heard Zhao Xu's words, they felt happy in their hearts.

Of course, Lianggong still pretended not to care.

"Young man, I just managed to capture and kill a thief by luck!" The Empress Dowager said calmly, "It's nothing to congratulate!"

Empress Dowager Xiang also said: "Xiang Zonghui is just lucky, not much credit!"

"Besides, Sixth Brother has already awarded them a beautiful official, no more rewards!",

"Lest the world think that the Queen Mother and the Grandmother are nepotistic!"

However, the smiles and looks on their faces had already betrayed them.

Zhao Xu said: "Seven to eight hundred people gathered together to cause chaos, and thieves roamed the prefectures and counties? Where have such thieves come from since ancient times?"

"These giant bandits and thieves are a nuisance to the country!"

Zhao Xu looked at the two palaces seriously, like an adult: "My mother-in-law, mother-in-law, and two relatives of the country, if you capture and kill the giant bandit for me, you must be rewarded!"

"Otherwise, rewards and punishments will be unfair, and the country will be ruined!"

This is the truth that Zhao Xu has engraved in his mind after reading the deeds of emperors in the past dynasties, ancient and modern, Chinese and foreign emperors in modern times, and studying the deeds of several outstanding ones.

For the army, reward must be quick!

When good news comes from ahead, the prepared rewards must be distributed immediately without delay!

You can't imitate Emperor Taizong and be stingy with the reward money, and end up losing your whole life's reputation!

Note: The uprising of Zhang Hai, Guo Miaoshan, and Shao Xing was a great uprising in the Qingli era that shook the entire Northern Song Dynasty.

Fan Zhongyan, Ouyang Xiu and others were all frightened by it and believed that if they were not wiped out quickly, the Song Dynasty would take jujube pills.

The scale and destructiveness of this uprising exceeded that of the later Liang Shanshui Po.

Moreover, this is a true rebel army.

On the contrary, the Song army that encircled and suppressed them had broken military discipline and killed good people while taking credit for their merits!

Even Song Ting's own scholar-bureaucrats had to admit: officers and soldiers...are better than thieves!

Therefore, readers are advised to pay attention to screening.

Scholar-officials, the emperor will not sit on the side of the common people!

Note 2: The Wang Chong Uprising was a sergeant uprising that occurred again in Shangzhou, the base of Zhanghai Uprising in the seventh year of Yuanfeng.

The sergeant uprising is a characteristic of the Northern Song Dynasty. Generally speaking, the peasant uprisings in the early and middle period of the Northern Song Dynasty were small-scale and would not form a large peasant uprising. Therefore, in the Northern Song Dynasty, those who resisted were generally sergeants!

According to the records in "Xu Zizhi Tongjian Long Chapter", Wang Chong's uprising was wiped out on Qinfeng Road in mid-June. Based on previous records, it is speculated that Wang Chong met the elite border troops of the Northern Song Dynasty on Qinfeng Road after jumping out of the encirclement of the Northern Song Dynasty official army.
Chapter completed!