Not two days after Queen Mother Xiang's birthday, Zhao Xu got a younger brother.

Yes, Emperor Ying Liewu Shengxiao had another prince six months after his death.

When this younger brother was carried and brought to Zhao Xu.

Zhao Xu looked at the crumpled little guy in his swaddling clothes and laughed: "The emperor is so cute..."

Then she shed tears: "If my father were here, I don't know how happy I would be..."

Both sides lowered their heads.

Zhao Xu laughed again and ordered: "Order the Imperial Medical Bureau to send an imperial doctor to work day and night to take care of the emperor's younger brother..."

"Yes..." Feng Jing accepted the order.

Therefore, Zhao Xu ordered people to carefully send his newly born fourteenth brother back to his biological mother, Lin, for the care of him.

And his brother's love ends here.

See you again later, it’s time to bestow names and confer officials.

Zhao Xu returned to Funing Hall and continued his reading journey.

The "Book of Rites" could not trouble him, but Li Gou's articles had to be carefully thought out.

Personality is something that needs to be maintained.

And it cannot collapse. If it collapses, people will see the reality.

The biggest taboo of an emperor is for others to know his true and false status.

Therefore, Zhao Xu has been working hard recently. In his spare time, he occasionally summons the ministers sent to Shen Kuo to inquire about the progress of the bureau, which specializes in manufacturing weapons.

Among those ministers, a guy named Tong Guan came into Zhao Xu's sight.

Zhao Xu summoned Tong Guan twice, and after listening to Tong Guan's report, he knew that this minister Guan was very observant and thoughtful. He was indeed worthy of being the later Captain Tong Guan.

Therefore, he was promoted to the director of the firearms department with the authority to promote firearms, and he was asked to assist Shen Kuo and preside over the preparations for the firearms department.

Zhao Xu never cares about the personal ethics of capable people.

Time flies by like this, August flies by in a blink of an eye, and September is here in the blink of an eye.

Zhao Xu followed the instructions and played his role.

The ministers in the court were already making final arrangements for the funeral of Emperor Ying Liwu Shengxiao.

On Renchen in the ninth month (the first day of the lunar month), the envoy of Zuozangku in Xijing, Dou Shixuan, the governor of Gaozhou, Zhao Shichang, the chamberlain's guard, compiled a guard of honor for Da Shengzhi, Shi Deyi, the vice-president of the capital, inspected the capital, and Xiang Zongliang, the governor of Xiuzhou,

Shi Lin, deputy envoy of Zuozangku, inspected Dashengzhi.

On the ninth day of September, Guisi (the second day of the lunar month), the posthumous title of the Daxing Emperor was officially promulgated in the military states of the world.

According to the Ministry of Rites, Emperor Yu of Daxing returned to the capital and went to Qionglin Garden to pay his respects. According to the story, he begged the Empress Dowager for a welcome ceremony.

Respectfully.

On the third day of the ninth lunar month, the deputy capital commander of the Ma Infantry Army, Miao Shue, the observation envoy of Rongzhou, were appointed as the guardian of the mountains and mausoleums, Yuhou of the infantry army, the training envoy of the Xiongzhou regiment, and Liu Changzuo, the strategic envoy of Xinzhi Yanzhou and Yanyan Road, was appointed as the spirit commander.

A line of managers.

After these personnel appointments were issued, in addition to the Shanling envoy Cai Que, the ceremonial envoy Han Zhongyan, the ceremonial envoy Wang Cun (formerly Huang Lu, Huang Lu Ge, changed to Wang Cun), and Lu

Bo envoy Xu Jiang, Qiao Daodun envoy Cai Jing.

All mourning officials and ministers were in place.

Therefore, the two palaces issued an edict: On the eighth day of this month, all ministers gathered in the Funing Hall to listen to the filial son and heir Emperor Xu respectfully announce the mourning book of the martyred and martial emperor Emperor Xiao.

The mourning book jointly written by the Ministry of Rites and the Hanlin Academy of Sciences was then presented to Zhao Xu.

…

Zhao Xu looked at the mourning book on the imperial case.

It is made of stepped jade, each volume contains sixty strips, and a total of fifty strips are written on it.

The jade album is plated with gold and silver, with ridges all over the ground and Luo flowers, decorated with coiled dragons. It has a red brocade holder, and a silver ribbon is used to thread the couplet. In addition, two flowers are knotted with silver wire at both ends of the jade album to line the album.

Use brocade cushions.

Zhao Xu stretched out his hand and touched it for a moment, then closed his eyes and asked Shi Deyi beside him: "Has Yousi chosen the day when the spirit chariot will be launched?"

Shi Deyi bowed respectfully and said: "I want to inform you that an auspicious day has been decided: Dingmao day in October (the sixth day of the lunar month), the spirit will drive from Jingling Palace..."

"Concubines, concubines, and ministers will send Yongyu Mausoleum together..."

"How is Shanling?" Zhao Xu asked.

"Youxianqingdu, it is said that it is very spectacular and has beautiful geomantic omen..." Shi Deyi replied.

Zhao Xu nodded and let out a breath.

What he knew was that his era had already begun.

After his father was buried, Lord Yu returned to Beijing and completely became a god and the late emperor.

In two months' time, even Yuanfeng's reign name will be changed to the already chosen Yuanyou.

…

Song Yongchen rode his horse and came out of the mountain forest in disheveled clothes, surrounded by dozens of horsemen and entourage.

Although he was embarrassed and exhausted, his face was full of excitement!

According to the decree, he has already surveyed the mountains and rivers of Laizhou and Dengzhou.

Sure enough, as everyone said, the gold mines in Laizhou and Dengzhou are not limited to Linglong Mountain.

Instead, it exists widely in the mountains, rivers, and valleys of Laizhou and Dengzhou.

Not only that, he also discovered rich mineral resources such as cobalt, iron ore, and lead ore during his exploration in the past month.

And many of these mineral veins were found in the direction everyone named or even directly at the place everyone named.

Song Yongchen was just thinking about the exploration experience in the past ten days, and he was still in a trance.

Sitting in the deep palace, everyone can actually know where Deng Lai's mineral vein is!

Could it be...

When everyone dreams at night, do they have divine guidance?

In Song Yongchen's understanding, there is only one explanation.

It is a gift from gods and humans, so we can have this gift of wisdom and knowledge.

Only then can we know where the mineral veins between Dengzhou and Laizhou are.

Song Yongchen knew that he had to keep these things in his heart unless everyone asked him to tell them.

…

Bingshen (the fifth day) of September in the eighth year of Yuanfeng.

When Zhao Xu came down from the banquet, Feng Jing had already sent a wax-sealed secret report to him.

When Zhao Xu took it into his hand, he knew it was Song Yongchen's handiwork.

He opened the letter and smiled.

"Good!" he praised: "Finally found the bait!"

Dengzhou and Laizhou have been known to everyone as a golden place since the Song Dynasty.

During the Jingde reign of the Zhenmiao Dynasty, general Pan Mei presided over the development of the Linglongshan gold mine in Laizhou. This gold mine is still the main official gold mine in the Song Dynasty.

During the reign of Jingyou in Renmiao, the Lai gold mine flourished. There were more than 100,000 homeless people from all over the country. They abandoned the farmland and dug up mulberry trees. There were more than 20 taels in pieces, which was inexhaustible. Thousand taels' - During this gold rush, at least more than 100,000 taels of gold were mined, but only 20,000 taels fell into the hands of the imperial court, and the rest flowed into the private sector.

Therefore, everyone knows that there is gold in Dengzhou and Laizhou during the Song Dynasty.

But why doesn’t anyone mine it?

This is because the Linglongshan gold mine discovered during the Jingde period of Zhenmiao has been gradually depleted with mining in the past dynasties.

Nowadays, only a few hundred taels of gold can be produced every year.

During the reign of Renmiao Jingyou, the super natural gold rich mine discovered was sealed by an imperial decree and mining was prohibited!

Why?

Because Renmiao felt that this gold mine should be used as a reserve for Jingdong Road.

Only when natural disasters occur, people are allowed to go in and mine.

This is called mine disaster relief!

The effect is indeed very good - because those who can go gold mining must be young and strong, and those who can lead people to gold mining must be "dynamic people" with prestige and appeal in the countryside.

These people plunged into the gold mine, and Chen Sheng and Wu Guang disappeared.

Once the disaster was over, even Chen Sheng and Wu Guang could only be obedient subjects of Zhao Song.

It is precisely for this reason that the rich gold mine in Laizhou can be preserved to this day.
To be continued...