Coming out of the Baoci Palace and walking in the corridor leading to his dormitory, Zhao Hao was diametrically opposed to the bright moonlight in the sky, and his face was always gloomy. Princess Feng also walked two steps behind her with a blank face, and after three years of marriage, the relationship between the husband and wife became more and more tense. The two palace maids holding Zhao Hao's children and a group of attendants didn't dare to get too close and hung far behind. Except for the sound of clattering footsteps, there was no sound between the movements of the group, as if they were marching in silence, and the atmosphere was as oppressive as a night of wake.

A small yellow door with medicinal soup for the Empress Dowager Gao came over, and when he saw Zhao Hao's mournful atmosphere along the way, he shrunk his neck, and even felt that the corridor was wide enough to parallel the carriage was too narrow, so he hurriedly retreated to the corridor in two steps, knelt down in the snow and waited for the Yongwang family and his party to pass.

Zhao Hao's face was gloomy, and he didn't even glance at the little yellow door. His mood was seven parts anger, three parts hatred, and he didn't care about the changes in the outside world at all. He had just been reprimanded in the Baoci Palace, and his brother, now the Son of Heaven, was pretentiously persuading the angry Niangniang on the side.

Zhao Hao earnestly defended Zhao Hao and persuaded his mother to calm her anger. But Zhao Hao knew that his brother's heart was now like outside the palace, and the sound of cheerful firecrackers was ringing.

Outside, the great victory of Hengshan, Luo Wukefu, and Xining's three-year continuous war have a perfect summary; Internally, the new law has been implemented smoothly, and after deducting expenditures from last year's tax revenue, there is a surplus of nearly one million yuan; Compared with the Yingzong period, the deficit of 15 million guan is much better. And this is still based on the continuous war in Xining for three years, and it began to increase the amount of money to the officials.

Even if the palace just gave birth to a princess, not the long-awaited prince inside and outside, it didn't hurt his eldest brother's mood. On the contrary, the second daughter of the newborn emperor was named Princess Baoqing the next day.

And he Zhao Hao is very unlucky, not only because of a small thing as a sesame seed, he has become a villain in the mouth of the world, but now he has been impeached by the courtiers repeatedly, saying that he is detrimental to the dignity of the heavenly family and should not live in the palace for a long time - 'Take care of your own crotch first, and be embarrassed to compare with me which one is more shameless!? Zhao Hao wanted to scold like this. However, he didn't have that opportunity, and if he wanted to scold the courtiers, he had to sit on the emperor's throne first. This time, Zhao Hao was not in the mood to go to the lights on the night of Shangyuan, standing on the tower of Xuande Gate and giving people pointers, he was not so good.

But who is responsible for all this? Zhao Hao doesn't hate the wrong person.

Han Gang started up, and Zhao Hao remembered it in his heart. clearly said that he wanted to suppress the matter, but in private, he was the brother who added fuel to the trouble, and Zhao Hao also remembered it.

Isn't it just to kick him out of the palace? Brotherhood was all thrown aside, and he really learned Li Shimin's example to the fullest.

Zhao Hao knew that his eldest brother had always revered Li Shimin's great achievements. I heard that Wang Anshi faced the saint for the first time and asked him who admired the merits of the past emperors, and Zhao Ji's answer was Li Shimin.

But if you really want to talk about Li Shimin, I'm afraid that his eldest brother will also worry that he Zhao Hao has this thought, and it happens that the eldest and second eldest and fourth are lined up like this. However, Zhao Hao is not a crazy person, he has ideas in his heart, and he is not now.

'I'm really going to be kicked out of the palace.' ’

Zhao Hao returned to the dormitory assigned to him, and Feng led his two children to it without paying attention to him. And Zhao Hao sat down outside, looking at the carved and mottled beams and pillars overhead. They are all old goods, decades have passed, and they have not been repaired a few times, just like the buildings in Zhongshu Province, which are so dilapidated that they are not as good as the restaurants outside.

However, this is a temple in the imperial city. Just like an antique, the three colors of the Tang Dynasty are more valuable than the current official kiln, and the value is not in the texture.

But the palace soon lost its chances of beyond. When the ministers went to the book, they fell to the ground on one side, and the contradictions between the old and new parties could not be seen. Zhao Ji took advantage of the situation to force Niangniang to nod, and after the first month, he would start building the second prince's mansion outside the palace. When the two royal mansions are completed, it is time for him Zhao Hao and the fourth Zhao Hao to move out of the palace.

A dignified prince was almost humiliated and kicked out of the palace for a humiliating reason, even if he did a beautiful job on the surface, but among the people, he was already infamous.

"Where's the tea?!" The more Zhao Hao thought about it, the more angry he became, and he slapped a few cases hard and roared angrily.

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On the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, Han Gang spent it in Luowu City.

Thick snow covered the mountains and valleys, and the sky and the earth were white, but the night was not so deep. The moon in the sky is shining, and the construction site under the city is brilliantly lit. If you stand on the head of the old city of Luowu and look down, the glow of the long bonfire is shining, reflected by the snow on the hillside, as if there is a galaxy in the sky reflected on the surface of the earth, flowing in the valley.

As long as you look at it from above, it is difficult to see such a magnificent view even on the night of the first year in the middle of Tokyo. Literati and artists in fur coats and holding a stove may be poetic.

But for Han Gang, he won't appreciate it - the rush to work in the cold night in the middle of winter has made his work much heavier. They will not appreciate the people who have been working all night on the construction site without resting - they just want to stay at home, even if there is only one oil lamp, as long as they can see the smiling faces of their wives and children.

"It's not just about frostbite now, in the past few days, there have been more than 30 people who have self-harmed, and there is a gradual increase." Han Gang came out of the makeshift field hospital and shook his head at Chong Jianzhong with a heavy face, "Uncle Yi, the weight of Luo Wucheng, the junior brother knows it. I will not advise you to let the people rest at night and delay the construction period for a while. But if the current situation does not improve, the situation will get worse and worse, and I am afraid that it will not be able to reach it quickly! ”

Chong Jianzhong frowned, just now he walked around the hospital with Han Gang, and he was also shocked to see it, knowing that it was not okay to go on like this. There are all strong men here, and if there is really a civil uprising, it will be a big trouble.

"I don't know what you can do Yukun?"

"Rejan!" Han Gang didn't answer immediately, but turned around and shouted inside, and a tall and thin doctor in his thirties hurriedly ran out. Han Gang instructed him: "I'm going to go to the big tent, you watch here first." ”

Lei Jian was originally a medical officer sent in Gangu City, Qinzhou, and later presided over the Gangu Sanatorium under Han Gang. However, some time ago, he was transferred to Gyeongju as a medical officer, but in a blink of an eye, he was transferred to the front line again and went to Luowu with Chongge. Before Han Gang's arrival, he was solely responsible for the medical treatment in the army here.

Lei Jian's medical skills are not bad, and the management level is barely good after being trained in Gangu for a while. But he doesn't have the talent to pioneer, only the ability to follow the rules. The rules that Han Gang set in Gangu at the beginning, he inherited them honestly, and he did not do it badly. But when he was transferred to the command of Chong Ge, the original intention was to let him give Han Gang a head start first, but he didn't think about it, but he made a mess. After Han Gang arrived, it took two days to clean up for him, and it took a lot of twists and turns to have some eyebrows.

Leaving the affairs of the wounded and sick camp to Lei Jian, the two young officials walked from the makeshift sanatorium set up at the edge of the construction site under the city to the main tent of the planter in the city. The snow had been cleared of the road and only the ground had been blackened by the trampling. On both sides of the road, bunches of torches are inserted in wooden shelves, illuminating the entire road.

"Yukun ......" walked side by side with Han Gang in silence for a while, and Chong Jianzhong hesitated to speak, "Do you still have any objections to sending troops to Luo Wu this time?" ”

"Uncle Yi, you don't have to worry about anything. Since I have taken this assignment, I will only do my best with my heart. Han Gang did not answer positively, but he had already expressed his intentions.

He walked a few steps faster, and asked Chong Jianzhong, who was silent, in turn, "Uncle Yi, have you considered the reaction of the Liao people?" The western thief proclaimed himself a vassal to the Great Song Dynasty. But they also paid homage to the Liao State. If the western thief asks for the Liao lord, and the Liao army in Yunzhong and Hebei has some changes, even if it does not send troops, can it still be stable here? ”

When a person falls into the water, even the straw will be caught. What's more, no one in the party is a fool. But after saying this, Han Gang noticed that the expression on Chong Jianzhong's face did not change at all.

"You're gambling!" Han Gang exclaimed.

Maybe Han Jiang didn't expect it, but he must have thought about it. It is also possible that Han Jiang and Chong Ge thought of it, but the two of them never mentioned it in the recital to the Son of Heaven. Otherwise, this dangerous proposal will inevitably be difficult to pass in the Privy Council.

Once the Liao State is involved, all plans will be over. The Great Song Dynasty still had some psychological advantages over Western Xia, even when Li Yuanhao was the most ferocious, the Song court did not think about strengthening the Tongguan defense line, in case Li Yuanhao, who was shouting to capture Chang'an, really captured Guanzhong - in the eyes of the Song people, the party item has always been a border problem, and it is just a disease of ringworm.

But as long as there is a wind and grass on the Liao side, the city of Tokyo will tremble. Even after the alliance between the Song and Liao, there has been no war between the Song and Liao for nearly 70 years, but the fear of the Liao people still exists in the bone marrow.

Chong Jianzhong stopped and shook his head: "After the Western Thieves established their own country, there were few times when they asked for the Liao people, and there were many times when they were unruly, how could the Liao people stand up for them." ”

"It's not unprecedented, isn't it unprecedented?" Han Gang asked rhetorically, "The Yuanyuan Alliance only set up 300,000 silver silks at the beginning, but now?" Half a million. Without Yuan Hao's troops, would there be more than these 200,000? ”

"That's only 200,000 coins. It's less than a fraction of the annual consumption on the edge of the four roads! Chong Jianzhong pointed to the north, "It's enough to transfer the annual gift of Western Xia to the Liao." ”

Han Gang sighed and didn't argue again. Anyway, he can be sure that the Western Xia Kingdom is still long and will not be destroyed. In this battle, no matter how hard Han Jiang and Chong Ge tried, it would only be useless. There is no point in arguing with this.

"Let's go...... Let's go see the seed marshal first. Solve the current matter, and the Liao people are not something we can worry about. Han Gang called for Jianzhong, walked into the city, and walked all the way to the big tent.

"Captain!" When the soldiers of Chong Ge saw Han Gang and Chong Jianzhong coming, they immediately announced loudly to the big tent: "Han Guan Gou, the seed machine should ask to see!" ”