The next day, March 1911 (the sixth day of the lunar month).

After having breakfast, Zhao Xu went to the Qingshou Palace and accompanied the two palaces to review the memorials.

Recently, nothing big happened.

That is, on the Xihe Road side, there have been intensive reports of Dangxiang people and Tubo people, who seem to be secretly colluding.

Tubo leaders like Wenba Xi and Wen Xixin constantly warned that the Tibetans might join forces with the Dangxiang people to invade.

Just like the memorial that Zhao Xu is holding in his hand now, it is another warning message reported by Zhao Xi: Wenba Xiyan, the leader of Tubo Mochuan - Minzhou Qingyi signed a ghost seal and secretly communicated with the Burmese medicine family in order to

I hope my uncle from the Han family will take precautions when he is near the Han family.

To be honest, the ruling and opposition parties no longer care about such early warnings.

This is because today's courtiers generally feel good about themselves.

I feel that the relationship between Song and Liao is now very close.

The Song Dynasty and the Liao Dynasty were as close as brothers, and the Western thief Tubo was no more than a clown.

Where do you have the courage to join the bandits?

Therefore, some ministers felt that this was probably a performance between the generals of Xihe Road and the powerful Tubo chiefs such as Wenba Xi and Wen Xixin.

He is deliberately creating trouble and even deliberately stirring up trouble.

It’s just a trick, can An lie to me?

Don't be fooled!

At the same time, it is also because Ali Gu of Tubo and Liang Yibu of Dangxiang have recently begun to express goodwill towards the Song Dynasty.

In particular, the party under the leadership of Liang Yibu has returned more than 1,000 soldiers and civilians of the Song Dynasty captured in the Battle of Yongle City to the Song Dynasty through the Huanqing Road and Yanyan Road in the past half month.

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They also sent back the armor and relics of Gao Yongneng, the general of the Song Army who died in Yongle City.

Aligu has been passing through the border to discuss with the Song Dynasty, canonizing him as the king of Wuwei, and recognizing him as the legal successor of Dong Fei.

The negotiations are also nearing completion. If nothing unexpected happens, the two countries will reach an agreement soon.

Under such circumstances, who among the ministers in the government and the opposition would believe that the Dangxiang and the Tubo people were secretly plotting to invade the Song Dynasty?

It's impossible, okay!

Wenba Xi, Wen Xixin, we still don’t know what these two people are planning?

Alarmist and deliberately destroying peace!

With ulterior motives, they wanted to provoke a war and let the Song Dynasty draw chestnuts from the fire for their own selfish interests!

How can this little trick fool us?

Even Li Qingchen, a member of the Privy Council of the main war faction, also held this opinion.

Of course, the ministers in the imperial court are all old-fashioned.

Even if they didn't believe it, the Western thieves and the Tubo people were colluding secretly with the intention of harming the Song Dynasty.

However, based on the principle of not taking the blame.

I still wrote a letter suggesting that all areas along the border should strengthen security and investigation, and at the same time order all villages to prepare for defense.

Xizhou, in particular, requested to strengthen its defense.

Of course, the two palaces followed the good deeds and issued edicts according to the instructions.

But that's all they did. They were really unprepared for other things.

Can't blame them.

Chaotangmiao is like this, it is impossible to account for everything - such a thing cannot be done even in modern times!

You can only choose the most possible correct choice as much as possible.

Fortunately, Zhao Xu is now gradually assuming power and can do some of the things he can do.

So, it was Bingchen (28th) of the leap month of February last month.

Zhao Xu intervened in a trivial personnel appointment - Zuo Shijin. Knowing that Hongde Village was suitable for the collapse, he was promoted to the Xitou Enshrinement Officer and had the power to dispatch the army to suppress the army.

He was also ordered to go to Beijing to see his Majesty.

So far, in Zhao Xu's previous life, he had developed the 4.0 tactics against the party, and successively defeated Liang Yibu, Xiao Liang's best partner Zhang Kai, Zhe Keshi, and completed the integration five or six years ahead of schedule.

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This is the combination that in Zhao Xu's previous life almost brought the party members to the brink of national subjugation.

At the same time, Zhao Xu also used the excuse that there was a severe drought last year and feared that the military and civilians in the border military states would not be able to obtain food and grass, so he issued an edict to Fan Chunchun, the transfer envoy to Shaanxi Province, granting Fan Chunchen the full authority to provide military food for the border villages.

So Fan was allocated hundreds of thousands of pure tea and salt coins so that the Shaanxi Transshipment Department could attract merchants and transport grain to China.

In this way, preparations have been made from both human and material aspects.

With enough troops and food, we should be able to cope with the coming war.

Soon the two palaces have almost finished reviewing today's memorial.

They also have time to talk to Zhao Xu.

"Guanjia, if you are not practicing calligraphy in Funing Palace today, how can you come to Qingshou Palace in time?" the Empress Dowager asked with a smile.

In recent days, Zhao Xu has rarely come to Qingshou Palace to accompany the two palaces in reviewing memorials.

First, because the Queen Mother would tell him and discuss important matters with him, and she would just talk with him when she came.

The second reason is that Zhao Xu has more things to do.

The affairs of Kaifeng Mansion, the affairs of Jiaozi of Song and Liao Dynasties, and the affairs of the Ordnance Bureau.

He has to deal with it and discuss it with others.

Zhao Xu laughed: "Why, my mother-in-law doesn't like Sun Chen coming to Qingshou Palace?"

"How could it be?" said the Empress Dowager: "Officials should come to the Qingshou Palace more often."

Zhao Xu suppressed his smile and said, "But I can't hide it from my mother-in-law's wisdom."

"Sun Chen came to Qingshou Palace specially today."

"Oh?" the Queen Mother asked, "Is there something wrong with the official family?"

Zhao Xu nodded, looked at the Empress Dowager seriously, and looked at the Empress Dowager who raised her head at this time, and said: "Mother, Empress, Sun Chen has heard that the stories of the past generations from our ancestors must be given to the Empress, Grandmother

Build a palace!"

"It has been a year since Sun Chen took the throne. Why has no one in the government or the public mentioned this matter? Could it be that the officials have forgotten this rule?"

When the Empress Dowager heard this, she immediately laughed and said, "The officials, the left prime minister, and the right prime minister have been mentioning this matter since last year."

"It's just that both I and the Queen Mother felt that this matter was not important, and the official family was still in the dark, so it was not appropriate to carry out large-scale construction in the palace, so they declined the good intentions of the ministers."

This is the human weakness of this empress dowager.

She cares too much about the political and public affairs, and also cares too much about other people's evaluations of her.

However, if the two palaces do not build palaces, what will Zhao Xu do?

Zhao Xu was thinking about expanding the back garden in the future, and even building the back garden into a royal vacation garden similar to the Old Summer Palace.

Zhao Xu said: "Since our ancestors, the story has always been like this. Please don't refuse me, my mother-in-law!"

The Queen Mother and Queen Mother Xiang looked at each other.

Then, Queen Mother Xiang touched Zhao Xu's head and said, "The Queen Mother and Mother-in-law appreciate Sixth Brother's kindness."

"But the construction of the palace will definitely waste the country's money. It is all the people's fat and the people's anointing. The queen mother and the mother-in-law can't bear it!"

This is the advantageous side of Confucianism.

As long as rulers want to show shame, they will be restrained by Confucian moral values ​​and will not dare to be blatantly extravagant and wasteful.

Because, in the eyes of Confucian values, large-scale construction and extensive palace construction can directly be linked to ignorance or even the destruction of the country.

In the Song Dynasty, Du Mu's Afang Palace Fu was deeply rooted in the hearts of the people!

Especially after the major renovation of the Zhen Temple and the Yuqing Zhaoying Palace, the Yuqing Zhaoying Palace was burned down by a thunderbolt from God.

Everyone knows about Afang Palace Fu. Even a four-year-old child in Bianjing City may be able to recite this sentence: Those who destroy the six kingdoms are the six kingdoms, not Qin; those who belong to Qin are also Qin. , not the world!

As a result, no one dared to overhaul the palace.

Renmiao didn't dare, Yingmiao didn't dare, Zhao Xu's father didn't dare, and Zhao Xu's previous life also didn't dare.

Until Zhao Ji came to power!

Without morals, anything is possible!

Obviously, neither the Empress Dowager nor the Empress Dowager dared to let anyone recite the Afang Palace Fu.

Zhao Xu smiled and said: "The Queen Mother, the Great Mother, and the minister came to persuade the Queen Mother, the Great Mother, to agree to the request for the welfare of the people of the world!"
To be continued...