On the second day, Zhao Xu had breakfast and went directly to Baoci Palace with the memorial sent to the palace by the Tongjian Si last night.

"Mother! Queen!" Zhao Xu held the memorial in his hand and showed off proudly like a general who had won a great battle: "The two close relatives have made meritorious deeds again!"

With that said, he presented the memorials of Xiang Zonghui and Gao Gongji to the two palaces like a treasure.

The two palaces had actually read it a long time ago - Tong Jiansi sent them a copied side report early in the morning.

They were a little uneasy, even nervous.

I always feel that Xiang Zonghui and Gao Gongji have done something wrong, and I don’t know how to face the fierce public opinion from both the government and the public.

But now, seeing Zhao Xu's appearance, the two palaces felt inexplicably at ease.

The official family (sixth brother) was so happy, and when Xiang Zong returned, Gao Gongji naturally did the right thing.

However, the Empress Dowager still had some worries and asked: "Guan, the Song Dynasty just signed an alliance with the Xia Kingdom..."

"Will this be suspected of betraying the alliance?"

"Moreover, the Lord Xia is young now. It is said that he is only three years old... The Queen Regent who is coming to the court is only in her early twenties... This mother has a young son and a young son. It is indeed very pitiful!" The Queen Mother said with some sympathy.

Already.

Zhao Xu listened and sighed in his heart.

He remembered that in his previous life, the Empress Dowager was made a farce again and again by the Empress Dowager Xiaoliang.

But the Empress Dowager Xiaoliang is a tragedy.

She kept leading troops to attack the Song Dynasty. First she met the combination of You Shixiong + Di Yong on Xihe Road, and was beaten all over.

He turned to attack Huanqing Road, which seemed harmless to humans and animals, but was hung up and beaten by veteran Zhao Xie again.

After finally surviving Zhao Xi's death, he met the real nemesis of the party members - Zhang Kai.

It will be as miserable as it is.

Finally, the Empress Dowager Xiaoliang was forced to drink a glass of poisonous wine in front of her filial son Qian Shun in the main hall of Xixia Palace amid internal and external troubles.

This ended her fourteen-year history of ruling Xixia.

Thinking of the Queen Mother Xiaoliang and her filial son.

Zhao Xu sat next to the two palaces and said: "Mother, it's okay for the queen. As long as you don't publicize this matter, how will the Western thieves know about it?"

With the speed of information circulation in today's era, Song, Liao and Xia are basically in their own information cocoons.

Not to mention that the Song Dynasty kept it secret, even if the Song Dynasty publicized Renduo Baozhong's coming to vote in the country, as long as no one took the initiative to tell the party members, Renduo Baozhong would still be in the Song Dynasty.

So within a year and a half, the party members will not be able to get any news.

"But..." The Queen Mother still hesitated: "If this leads to war..."

Zhao Xu shook his head in his heart. The Empress Dowager sincerely longed for peace.

It's no wonder that she was teased by that Empress Dowager Xiaoliang again and again in her previous life.

It wasn't until later that she finally discovered that they were playing tricks on her.

So, furious!

From then on, he no longer accepted the party's sues for peace, and firmly supported the policies of Lu Dafang, Fan Chunren and other moderate militants.

Only then did Liu Zhi and other leaders and factions withdraw.

"Mom, don't worry..." Zhao Xu comforted him: "Even if the army of Western thieves comes, if I guard the city and defend it, I will surely defeat them and return!"

Seeing the Empress Dowager, she also tried to persuade her: "Madam, when Sixth Brother comes to the throne, the general from far away will surrender... If we return it like this, it will not only hurt the country and the court, but the bride will also worry that no one will want to return to our court from now on."

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The Empress Dowager then nodded and said: "Empress Dowager, what the officials said is indeed reasonable!"

"It's just that if next month's official festival is celebrated, the Western envoy will use this to question him..."

"How to reply?"

Next month, it will be Zhao Xu's birthday, and as usual, envoys from various countries will come to congratulate him.

The envoys from Liao and Xixia will definitely appear in the celebration procession.

If the Xixia envoy took the opportunity to attack, the Song Dynasty would probably lose all face.

And this empress dowager has the best face in her life!

Zhao Xu smiled and asked: "I wonder if my mother-in-law has read the report of the border patrol reported by the Privy Council?"

When Zhao Xu mentioned this, both palaces' eyes lit up.

In the past few months, various roads along the border, as well as the leaders of Qing, Tang and Tubo, have been reporting that there has been a severe drought in the West and the wheat has not sprouted.

In a year of great calamity, how can the Western thieves still have the strength to raise an army?

But Zhao Xu knew that precisely because of the catastrophe, the risk of the party members rebelling again next spring would increase infinitely!

The reason is very simple. For Dangxiang people, what should they do if there is a big disaster in the country and there is not enough food to eat?

A normal person's brain circuit must actively provide disaster relief and restore production.

But party members would never make this choice.

One reason is that during the Five-Road Expedition to Xia, the Dangxiang people dug the Yellow River themselves in order to defeat the Song army.

The turbulent Yellow River swallowed up not only the elite of the Song Dynasty.

There are also countless fertile fields owned by the party members themselves.

Those fields that had been cultivated and worked hard in the era of Li Deming, Li Yuanhao, and even Li Jiqian were all swallowed up by the Yellow River water.

After the flood recedes, can the land be restored immediately?

Anyone who knows a little bit about the concept of yellow zone will understand that this is wishful thinking.

Even though the section of the Yellow River where Lingzhou is located is located in the upper reaches, the sediment content is very low.

However, not only the fertile farmland but also the supporting irrigation systems were destroyed by the Yellow River water.

Therefore, Lingzhou, the most important food producing area for Party members, has definitely not recovered yet.

This is equivalent to saying that when Dangxiang people encounter natural disasters, it is impossible for them to survive by relying on their own strength.

Secondly, the word disaster relief does not exist in the dictionary of Party members.

When they encounter a disaster, they will only do one thing - go south!

If you win the battle and seize food, wealth, people and land, there will naturally be no natural disasters.

It doesn't matter if you lose the battle, as long as the elite main force - the Poxi Army, Iron Kites and other troops can remain intact.

So, the cannon fodder who died actually helped lighten their burden.

As long as there are enough dead cannon fodders, the party members do not need to prepare food for them.

In this way, disasters in the country can also be overcome.

This is why, every time the Xixia people fought against the Song Dynasty, they often claimed 300,000, 500,000, 800,000 or even one million.

However, there is no need for the two palaces to know about these things.

While they were talking, the person who saw the situation came into the palace with today's memorial.

The two palaces also ended their chat with Zhao Xu and began to review the memorial.

As they watched, the two palaces looked a little stiff.

Empress Dowager Xiang put down the memorial in her hand and handed it to Zhao Xu: "Brother Six, take a look too..."

Zhao Xu took it, held it in his hand and looked at it.

It was Liu Zhi's bullet. Zhao Xu lowered his head and looked at the words on it, smiling in his heart, but remaining serious on the surface.

It wasn't until he finished reading the entire memorial that he pretended to sigh and said, "It seems it's still the memorial that impeached the imperial censor of Kaifeng Mansion some time ago?"

"What's going on with this censor?" Zhao Xu frowned: "Mingming's mother-in-law, the queen mother issued an edict to let the censor discuss the issue of how to deal with Monk Huixin..."

"Why is he still here talking nonsense about Kaifeng Mansion deceiving the emperor and committing fraud?"

"What's his intention?!"

"Humph!" The Empress Dowager snorted coldly: "I'm afraid this is the person who deceived you!"

Yesterday, after An Dun, Fu Yaoyu and others reported the investigation results, the Empress Dowager's dissatisfaction with Liu Zhi had reached its peak.

Because the investigation results show that the temple department and Dali Temple have mastered the confession of monk Huixin.

I also learned that it was the officials of the Senglu Division who asked for bribes from the novices, rather than the novices offering bribes to the officials of the Senglu Division.

As soon as the order changed, the Empress Dowager immediately became alert.

At that time, she was a little angry.

That is to say, years of palace life have allowed her to develop a certain amount of palace, otherwise she would have had an attack at that time.

At that time, she had almost concluded that Liu Zhi was testing her and deceiving her like a child.
To be continued...