The next day, more than a dozen boxes were moved to Guo’s mansion, and Guo Shao opened them in the room for inspection.
One of the boxes was filled with copper coins, not ordinary copper coins, all of which were newly cast and brand new and good-quality, and then wrapped in red silk.
The other opening was a box made of silver with exquisite patterns; when it opened again, it was a golden gold box inside.
The innermost is a large box of gold and gem jewelry, with a large bead the size of a quail egg in the middle.
He couldn't help but pick it up and observe it, thinking in his mind whether this thing is the Night Pearl and how valuable it is.
Guo Shao took the bead and looked at it for a while, thinking: It really costs a lot to marry a wife, I am almost bankrupt now.
Zhao Kuangyin died at the end of last year and needed another marriage; the loss should be quite large, and the money spent on the Ming Dynasty's formal marriage was obviously wasted.
No matter how much money is, it is not enough.
It was not easy to save some money in Guo Shao. When he attacked Shu, he did not hesitate to kidnap prisoners and extort him. After attacking Shouzhou, he robbed the Southern Tang government and plundered the large households in the city. In addition, he received the salary of senior military generals and local officials for a long time.
The money was gone at once... I also asked for a big advantage from Mrs. Chen, otherwise the betrothal gift would have to be paid at least half. I think Mrs. Chen also spent a lot of money, and this money was under pressure on senior military generals and bureaucrats like Guo Shao.
Of course, because of her background, Fu Ermei is not only worth the money. She is not that person who has received so many betrothal gifts and cannot marry her... As Guo Shaozeng said, it is worth changing the Sixteen Prefectures in Huainan. The problem is that the Sixteen Prefectures in Huainan is not his.
Compared with the two sides, it is easy for Yulian and Yang to get it. It is basically the same as Jing Niang.
No wonder women are generally unwilling to be concubines. No one wants to show their value and wealth. It is probably not a pleasant thing to be taken home without any movement.
Guo Shao didn't care much about it. Marrying Fu Ermei would be enough for him to do anything. He had to worry about it for a while.
At the same time, Chen Chenli Trading Company will have a caravan heading to Youzhou to enter and exit goods in the near future.
Guo Shao felt that he would not have the knowledge to find out any valuable information by sending his personal soldiers and his subordinates, so he fooled Zhou Duan and asked him to go to Youzhou as the spy leader; he made the matter well and promised him to be the second leader of the shogunate of Zhongwu Jieduan in Xuzhou (Zuo You Guai Changshi).
Zhou Duan, a branch of the Zhou family in the Southern Tang Dynasty, had no reputation and no achievements. Is there any talent that depends on him to say that it is not easy to become an official; if the official position is so easy to obtain, everyone will become an official.
Although Xuzhou Jie Town has no elite troops, it is a big city at least. The governor does not interfere with the government affairs of local prefectures and counties, he can be a local emperor in a city; Guo Shao and Zuo You are often not in Xuzhou, and if Zhou Duan is the chief minister, his power can directly surpass all the officials in Xuzhou, and he has no reason to refuse.
……
Zhao Kuangyin started marrying the King of Hebei Shizhong before Guo Shao, but now he cannot get married.
The funeral of the Zhao family has roughly ended. He wrote a letter to Ding You, but was rejected if he was not surprised.
The emperor did not want a person he regarded as a capable general, but his father would not be able to use it because he died.
Now the military generals are relatively idle, and Zhao Kuangyin and Guo Shao have no contact. They went to court on the first day of April to meet in the hall.
The military generals did not speak at the court meeting, and the emperor and civil servants were all focused on ensuring agricultural production in various places.
Li Gu submitted detailed measures to prevent and control the Yellow River, and strongly advised the abolition of military farming and the implementation of the new tax system and service laws, and quarreled with several other officials in the hall.
Wang Pu wrote a letter to continue planning, expanding the Tokyo City, and improving the canal transportation system.
Wang Pu presented Hebei water conservancy irrigation map... Some people also suggested various strange ways to prevent locusts.
The emperor finally focused on governing the country, and civil servants all rushed to offer suggestions, hoping to show their achievements and value.
Zhang Yongde, Zhao Kuangyin, Guo Shao and others didn't say anything, regardless of who they were right or wrong.
After finally dispersing the court meeting, the senior generals walked out of the palace boredly.
Zhao Kuangyin and Zhang Yongde were together, and the two did not hide their friendship. One of them was the commander of the Palace Front Office and the other was the inspector of the Palace Front Office. The two people with the most military power in the Zhou Dynasty.
The two of them went out from Donghua Gate, then rode to the palace's official office, and walked to the rest room to drink tea.
Zhao Kuangyin was one year older than Zhang Yongde, but he respected Zhang Yongde very much in his words and often called Gong: After the Battle of Gaoping, if Gong had not prayed for me with all his might, Zhao would not have been today, and he would not have been able to forget his kindness.
Zhang Yongde shook his head and said: The official family is the one who has the kindness of knowing Brother Zhao. I just discovered the talent for the official family.
Because there was no outsider, Zhao Kuangyin poured tea for Zhang Yongde himself. He opened his mouth as if he had something to say, but he swallowed it from his mouth and then said: The government is determined to govern local affairs, which is also to have sufficient supplies during the Northern Expedition to avoid worries.Didn’t Wang Pu say that as long as you have a bumper harvest in summer and autumn this year, you can start the Northern Expedition next year!It seems that there is no major disaster this year, and we will be on the battlefield after a few months.
Zhang Yongde said seriously: Not only this year's preparation... After the Jinyang Battle, it has been three years since then. When will the government not prepare for the Northern Expedition?The attack on Qinfeng and Huainan were all to eliminate the worries of the Northern Expedition.Since Shi Jingtang presented Youzhou to the Liao Kingdom, it has always been a pain in the Central Plains. If this place can be recovered by the government, it will definitely be a great achievement that has been praised in history for generations.Our imperial guards fought so many battles, and they were waiting for that day!
From this point of view, the key to this battle is to capture Youyun, and you only need to drive the Khitan soldiers out of Hebei.Zhao Kuangyin said.
Zhao Kuangyin felt that the emperor was in a hurry... Could it be because his body was getting weaker?
He and Zhang Yongde were both people who often saw the emperor. They could observe the emperor's complexion and physical condition attentively.
There was no expression on his black face, and Zhao Kuangyin pondered for a long time.
He wanted Zhang Yongde to say something in front of the emperor, but he didn't know where to persuade Zhang Yongde... He opened his mouth before, just to start by borrowing Guo Shao's marriage with King Wei; but he also thought that he had a marriage with Guo Shao, so it was too obvious to mention Guo Shao, so he looked at him from the left.
There is a very obvious thing that lingers in Zhao Kuangyin's mind: Once the official's family dies, the longest prince Chai Zongxun is only three years old, and the queen of the talisman will inevitably be regent.
Zhao Kuangyin had to consider that Guo Shao was a military general and the queen who was born in the Wei Wang Mansion. Now he wanted to marry the Fu family and go further. If Queen Fu took power, would he Zhao Kuangyin have any good results?
This situation is irrelevant as long as Emperor Chai Rong is in power, but now seeing that Chai Rong is in a weak state, Zhao Kuangyin is under great pressure.
After a serious illness in Huainan, Fu Hou didn't hear anything wrong with her. She was still so young and should have lived longer than the official family.
And Guo Shao, who is in his twenties, is lively and lively.
Zhao Kuangyin felt more and more that it was not Guo Shao who threatened him, but his grudges with him were just accelerating the conflict... The most difficult thing to deal with was Queen Fu.
The queen has not shown up for several months, but as long as she pays attention to her layout, it is not difficult to find that everything is very beneficial to her.
The queen's title is also in the name of the mother of Prince Chai Zongxun; no one can threaten her in the harem. In recent months, she has been cautious in her words and actions and has been silent and has refused to make any mistakes at all.
The imperial guards showed great favors, and they had a very high prestige in the hearts of the soldiers. She even surpassed Zhang Yongde in terms of prestige and support... Not only that, she also promoted her confidant, concretized the military power, and further consolidated the power of the imperial guards through marriage.
Then Guo Shao has a great influence in the Guards Department.
The elite troops are not as strong as the Palace Front Office, but it doesn't matter at all. In the future, as long as he is inserted in Tokyo, it will be enough to threaten everyone and dare not resist, so as to ensure the will of the Regent Center.
And the position is just right. If Guo Shao had arrived at Zhang Yongde's position now and was the queen's personal position, the emperor would not be willing to reuse it.
The Fu family was granted the title of queen more than a year ago. Zhao Kuangyin did not pay any attention to this woman at that time, and he couldn't take care of himself at that time.But just a year later, looking back, I had already deployed everything.
Zhao Kuangyin had to look up to this woman.He said to Zhang Yongde quietly: I used to go to court and occasionally saw the queen, but I have never seen her and the official family enter and leave the palace in recent months.
Zhang Yongde looked upward and thought for a moment and nodded to say yes.
Zhao Kuangyin said again: Fan Zhi once talked to Dou Yi about a secret matter. Have you heard of it all?It is rumored that when Taizu died, he mainly focused on two people. One was to let Wei Renpu be the Privy Councilor, and the other was to strictly order the official family to be the queen.Taizu believed that only with these two people could one live in peace and hand over the great position to the government.
Zhang Yongde shook his head and said: I have never heard of this before.However, the queen today is extraordinary, with the demeanor of being a mother in the world.
Zhao Kuangyin thought to himself: Wei Renpu's role is completely understandable. At that time, the official's position was not stable at the beginning of the first ascendance to the base, and a person who was both capable and reliable needed to control the military power of the Privy Council; what direct effect could it have after the talisman?
Could it be that Taizu's eyes have a long-term vision and has considered that all the descendants of the Guo family were massacred and no successors were left, and he wanted to think about the third generation of the throne?
If the queen was devoted to maintaining the Great Zhou royal family, she would have been much more stable if she was the one who presided over the government affairs a hundred years later.
But now it seems that no matter what she thinks, it will not be a good thing for Zhao Kuangyin... If the Zhao family could marry the Fu family and did not have the Queen Guo Shao, the confidant general, Zhao Kuangyin would naturally not feel the threat from the queen.
It was the queen's actions that made him very uneasy.
He said quietly: Taizu's will was a long-term plan, and Wei Renpu is still the Privy Councilor.
Zhang Yongde said without hesitation: I see the situation, Wang Pu may replace Wei Renpu as the Privy Councilor.
After hearing this, Zhao Kuangyin said again: The empress was also what Taizu said earlier.If the government is on an expedition or not in the court, the queen can also take charge of the overall situation.
After hearing this, Zhang Yongde was stunned and felt that his tone was a little wrong.Isn’t that whether there are emperors in the world and that even if there is an empress, can you control the court?
Zhao Kuangyin ignored the consequences and hinted: Please think carefully about the prestige and strength of the queen, whether she can preside over the military and political affairs... Now the official family and the queen are respectful and harmonious with each other, which is indeed a blessing in the world.
One of the boxes was filled with copper coins, not ordinary copper coins, all of which were newly cast and brand new and good-quality, and then wrapped in red silk.
The other opening was a box made of silver with exquisite patterns; when it opened again, it was a golden gold box inside.
The innermost is a large box of gold and gem jewelry, with a large bead the size of a quail egg in the middle.
He couldn't help but pick it up and observe it, thinking in his mind whether this thing is the Night Pearl and how valuable it is.
Guo Shao took the bead and looked at it for a while, thinking: It really costs a lot to marry a wife, I am almost bankrupt now.
Zhao Kuangyin died at the end of last year and needed another marriage; the loss should be quite large, and the money spent on the Ming Dynasty's formal marriage was obviously wasted.
No matter how much money is, it is not enough.
It was not easy to save some money in Guo Shao. When he attacked Shu, he did not hesitate to kidnap prisoners and extort him. After attacking Shouzhou, he robbed the Southern Tang government and plundered the large households in the city. In addition, he received the salary of senior military generals and local officials for a long time.
The money was gone at once... I also asked for a big advantage from Mrs. Chen, otherwise the betrothal gift would have to be paid at least half. I think Mrs. Chen also spent a lot of money, and this money was under pressure on senior military generals and bureaucrats like Guo Shao.
Of course, because of her background, Fu Ermei is not only worth the money. She is not that person who has received so many betrothal gifts and cannot marry her... As Guo Shaozeng said, it is worth changing the Sixteen Prefectures in Huainan. The problem is that the Sixteen Prefectures in Huainan is not his.
Compared with the two sides, it is easy for Yulian and Yang to get it. It is basically the same as Jing Niang.
No wonder women are generally unwilling to be concubines. No one wants to show their value and wealth. It is probably not a pleasant thing to be taken home without any movement.
Guo Shao didn't care much about it. Marrying Fu Ermei would be enough for him to do anything. He had to worry about it for a while.
At the same time, Chen Chenli Trading Company will have a caravan heading to Youzhou to enter and exit goods in the near future.
Guo Shao felt that he would not have the knowledge to find out any valuable information by sending his personal soldiers and his subordinates, so he fooled Zhou Duan and asked him to go to Youzhou as the spy leader; he made the matter well and promised him to be the second leader of the shogunate of Zhongwu Jieduan in Xuzhou (Zuo You Guai Changshi).
Zhou Duan, a branch of the Zhou family in the Southern Tang Dynasty, had no reputation and no achievements. Is there any talent that depends on him to say that it is not easy to become an official; if the official position is so easy to obtain, everyone will become an official.
Although Xuzhou Jie Town has no elite troops, it is a big city at least. The governor does not interfere with the government affairs of local prefectures and counties, he can be a local emperor in a city; Guo Shao and Zuo You are often not in Xuzhou, and if Zhou Duan is the chief minister, his power can directly surpass all the officials in Xuzhou, and he has no reason to refuse.
……
Zhao Kuangyin started marrying the King of Hebei Shizhong before Guo Shao, but now he cannot get married.
The funeral of the Zhao family has roughly ended. He wrote a letter to Ding You, but was rejected if he was not surprised.
The emperor did not want a person he regarded as a capable general, but his father would not be able to use it because he died.
Now the military generals are relatively idle, and Zhao Kuangyin and Guo Shao have no contact. They went to court on the first day of April to meet in the hall.
The military generals did not speak at the court meeting, and the emperor and civil servants were all focused on ensuring agricultural production in various places.
Li Gu submitted detailed measures to prevent and control the Yellow River, and strongly advised the abolition of military farming and the implementation of the new tax system and service laws, and quarreled with several other officials in the hall.
Wang Pu wrote a letter to continue planning, expanding the Tokyo City, and improving the canal transportation system.
Wang Pu presented Hebei water conservancy irrigation map... Some people also suggested various strange ways to prevent locusts.
The emperor finally focused on governing the country, and civil servants all rushed to offer suggestions, hoping to show their achievements and value.
Zhang Yongde, Zhao Kuangyin, Guo Shao and others didn't say anything, regardless of who they were right or wrong.
After finally dispersing the court meeting, the senior generals walked out of the palace boredly.
Zhao Kuangyin and Zhang Yongde were together, and the two did not hide their friendship. One of them was the commander of the Palace Front Office and the other was the inspector of the Palace Front Office. The two people with the most military power in the Zhou Dynasty.
The two of them went out from Donghua Gate, then rode to the palace's official office, and walked to the rest room to drink tea.
Zhao Kuangyin was one year older than Zhang Yongde, but he respected Zhang Yongde very much in his words and often called Gong: After the Battle of Gaoping, if Gong had not prayed for me with all his might, Zhao would not have been today, and he would not have been able to forget his kindness.
Zhang Yongde shook his head and said: The official family is the one who has the kindness of knowing Brother Zhao. I just discovered the talent for the official family.
Because there was no outsider, Zhao Kuangyin poured tea for Zhang Yongde himself. He opened his mouth as if he had something to say, but he swallowed it from his mouth and then said: The government is determined to govern local affairs, which is also to have sufficient supplies during the Northern Expedition to avoid worries.Didn’t Wang Pu say that as long as you have a bumper harvest in summer and autumn this year, you can start the Northern Expedition next year!It seems that there is no major disaster this year, and we will be on the battlefield after a few months.
Zhang Yongde said seriously: Not only this year's preparation... After the Jinyang Battle, it has been three years since then. When will the government not prepare for the Northern Expedition?The attack on Qinfeng and Huainan were all to eliminate the worries of the Northern Expedition.Since Shi Jingtang presented Youzhou to the Liao Kingdom, it has always been a pain in the Central Plains. If this place can be recovered by the government, it will definitely be a great achievement that has been praised in history for generations.Our imperial guards fought so many battles, and they were waiting for that day!
From this point of view, the key to this battle is to capture Youyun, and you only need to drive the Khitan soldiers out of Hebei.Zhao Kuangyin said.
Zhao Kuangyin felt that the emperor was in a hurry... Could it be because his body was getting weaker?
He and Zhang Yongde were both people who often saw the emperor. They could observe the emperor's complexion and physical condition attentively.
There was no expression on his black face, and Zhao Kuangyin pondered for a long time.
He wanted Zhang Yongde to say something in front of the emperor, but he didn't know where to persuade Zhang Yongde... He opened his mouth before, just to start by borrowing Guo Shao's marriage with King Wei; but he also thought that he had a marriage with Guo Shao, so it was too obvious to mention Guo Shao, so he looked at him from the left.
There is a very obvious thing that lingers in Zhao Kuangyin's mind: Once the official's family dies, the longest prince Chai Zongxun is only three years old, and the queen of the talisman will inevitably be regent.
Zhao Kuangyin had to consider that Guo Shao was a military general and the queen who was born in the Wei Wang Mansion. Now he wanted to marry the Fu family and go further. If Queen Fu took power, would he Zhao Kuangyin have any good results?
This situation is irrelevant as long as Emperor Chai Rong is in power, but now seeing that Chai Rong is in a weak state, Zhao Kuangyin is under great pressure.
After a serious illness in Huainan, Fu Hou didn't hear anything wrong with her. She was still so young and should have lived longer than the official family.
And Guo Shao, who is in his twenties, is lively and lively.
Zhao Kuangyin felt more and more that it was not Guo Shao who threatened him, but his grudges with him were just accelerating the conflict... The most difficult thing to deal with was Queen Fu.
The queen has not shown up for several months, but as long as she pays attention to her layout, it is not difficult to find that everything is very beneficial to her.
The queen's title is also in the name of the mother of Prince Chai Zongxun; no one can threaten her in the harem. In recent months, she has been cautious in her words and actions and has been silent and has refused to make any mistakes at all.
The imperial guards showed great favors, and they had a very high prestige in the hearts of the soldiers. She even surpassed Zhang Yongde in terms of prestige and support... Not only that, she also promoted her confidant, concretized the military power, and further consolidated the power of the imperial guards through marriage.
Then Guo Shao has a great influence in the Guards Department.
The elite troops are not as strong as the Palace Front Office, but it doesn't matter at all. In the future, as long as he is inserted in Tokyo, it will be enough to threaten everyone and dare not resist, so as to ensure the will of the Regent Center.
And the position is just right. If Guo Shao had arrived at Zhang Yongde's position now and was the queen's personal position, the emperor would not be willing to reuse it.
The Fu family was granted the title of queen more than a year ago. Zhao Kuangyin did not pay any attention to this woman at that time, and he couldn't take care of himself at that time.But just a year later, looking back, I had already deployed everything.
Zhao Kuangyin had to look up to this woman.He said to Zhang Yongde quietly: I used to go to court and occasionally saw the queen, but I have never seen her and the official family enter and leave the palace in recent months.
Zhang Yongde looked upward and thought for a moment and nodded to say yes.
Zhao Kuangyin said again: Fan Zhi once talked to Dou Yi about a secret matter. Have you heard of it all?It is rumored that when Taizu died, he mainly focused on two people. One was to let Wei Renpu be the Privy Councilor, and the other was to strictly order the official family to be the queen.Taizu believed that only with these two people could one live in peace and hand over the great position to the government.
Zhang Yongde shook his head and said: I have never heard of this before.However, the queen today is extraordinary, with the demeanor of being a mother in the world.
Zhao Kuangyin thought to himself: Wei Renpu's role is completely understandable. At that time, the official's position was not stable at the beginning of the first ascendance to the base, and a person who was both capable and reliable needed to control the military power of the Privy Council; what direct effect could it have after the talisman?
Could it be that Taizu's eyes have a long-term vision and has considered that all the descendants of the Guo family were massacred and no successors were left, and he wanted to think about the third generation of the throne?
If the queen was devoted to maintaining the Great Zhou royal family, she would have been much more stable if she was the one who presided over the government affairs a hundred years later.
But now it seems that no matter what she thinks, it will not be a good thing for Zhao Kuangyin... If the Zhao family could marry the Fu family and did not have the Queen Guo Shao, the confidant general, Zhao Kuangyin would naturally not feel the threat from the queen.
It was the queen's actions that made him very uneasy.
He said quietly: Taizu's will was a long-term plan, and Wei Renpu is still the Privy Councilor.
Zhang Yongde said without hesitation: I see the situation, Wang Pu may replace Wei Renpu as the Privy Councilor.
After hearing this, Zhao Kuangyin said again: The empress was also what Taizu said earlier.If the government is on an expedition or not in the court, the queen can also take charge of the overall situation.
After hearing this, Zhang Yongde was stunned and felt that his tone was a little wrong.Isn’t that whether there are emperors in the world and that even if there is an empress, can you control the court?
Zhao Kuangyin ignored the consequences and hinted: Please think carefully about the prestige and strength of the queen, whether she can preside over the military and political affairs... Now the official family and the queen are respectful and harmonious with each other, which is indeed a blessing in the world.
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