I studied in modern times

Chapter 179
After waking up from an afternoon nap, Zhao Xu drank a bowl of chilled lotus seed soup.

Feng Jing was right in front of him, and said in a low voice: "Everyone, something new seems to have happened in Bianjing today..."

"A lot of people are rushing to buy gallstones in pharmacies and deli pharmacies... They all say that they should study things to know..."

Zhao Xu listened and nodded slightly.

This matter can make such a big fuss in a short period of time, naturally it is the credit of Shi Deyi and the detectives under Shi Deyi's command.

In the past two months, under Zhao Xu's remote command, the Investigation Department has become more and more like a media agency rather than an intelligence agency.

Letting go, leaking secrets, stirring up public opinion...

Most of the five hundred people who were stroked in the investigation department have now become human trumpets.

On weekdays, apart from inquiring about the news circulating in the market, he is responsible for amplifying certain voices when Zhao Xu needs them.

Thus subtly influencing public opinion.

Now, Zhao Xu is still very cautious.

He will only do this for the time being, and will not use those things learned in modern times in Bianjing City.

Too scary and too dangerous.

Those things can only be used slowly when he is three or four years older and can control the situation.

Feng Jing lowered his head, and continued beside Zhao Xu: "The Gao family and the Xiang family seem to have sent some people to Xinzhou... Cao's and Liu's, some people went to Tanzhou..."

The three major venues in the Song Dynasty were Xinzhou Qianshan (now Qianshan County, Jiangxi), Tanzhou Yongxing (probably present-day Liuyang, Hunan), and Shaozhou Censhui (now Qujiang, Shaoguan, Guangdong).

Xinzhou is the closest, followed by Tanzhou, and Shaozhou... all of them have gone to Lingnan, and most of the foreign relatives dare not go there.

Zhao Xu has been to these three places in modern times.

I checked the unearthed ruins of the Northern Song Dynasty on the spot, and also saw the local county annals and the real objects in the museum.

Therefore, Zhao Xu is very aware of the conditions of the mineral deposits in these places, and also knows that their potential is far from being fully utilized.

It should be noted that according to records, these places, especially the Censhuichang in Shaozhou, in the era of Zhao Ji and later in the Southern Song Dynasty, after using the gall water immersion copper method, the annual output of copper exceeded 600 million kilograms!
In this place alone, the copper produced every year is enough to cast more than 400 million copper coins.

In addition, these three large fields have associated silver and gold veins.

However, these are subsections.

So, Zhao Xu just hummed.

Feng Jing immediately closed his mouth, and said in his heart: "Everyone's relatives are really excellent!"

If it were the Emperor Daxing, anyone from the Gao family or the Xiang family who dared to stretch out a finger to these places would have their entire arm cut off immediately!
and so……

Feng Jing can also understand why almost all the clan and relatives are now loudly praising the young master together.

So much so that what can be heard in the two palaces are all hymns, and everyone is saying: The benevolence and filial piety of officials has been rare since ancient times, and the empress is really lucky!
……

After drinking lotus seed soup in Funing Hall, Zhao Xu went to Kunning Hall to greet the Queen Mother.

Today, there are not many government affairs, so the queen mother took a rare break at noon.

Seeing Zhao Xulai, she hid the things in her hand in the screen behind the curtain.

Then he sat on the chair and waited for Zhao Xu to come to her.

"My son greets the queen mother..." Zhao Xu came to the queen mother, knelt down and bowed his head.

The Queen Mother immediately helped him up, and asked lovingly, "How is my son sleeping?"

"My son's nap is always very good!" Zhao Xu replied, and then asked: "Why didn't the mother take a nap?"

Laughed at the queen mother, touched the child's head, and said: "The queen mother is an adult, and adults don't need to take a nap!"

"Oh!" Zhao Xu nodded, and then said to the Empress Dowager: "I heard that in a few days, there will be a sutra feast?"

Nodding to the queen mother, he said: "The ministers have played many times, please open the sutra feast!"

"The mother and the empress can't hold them back! I can only agree!"

Jingyan was the most effective tool for scholar-bureaucrats to cultivate and shape the emperor's ideology.

Since ancient times, in all dynasties governed by culture, Jingyan has been the most important thing!

Because it turns out that Jingyan can indeed influence the emperor himself!
In the Song Dynasty, Ren Temple is a living example!

Therefore, the scholar-bureaucrats have path dependence, so naturally they will not let Zhao Xu's education rights be occupied by the two palaces.

Zhao Xu nodded and said, "I heard that Jingyan is in Miying Pavilion?"

"I haven't seen Miying Pavilion yet!"

Empress Dowager Xiang smiled and said, "Then Empress Dowager will take Sixth Brother to see Miying Pavilion!"

She hasn't seen it either!
When Zhao Xu mentioned it, the Queen Mother immediately became interested.

That's where the sixth brother will study in the future!

How is it?
Empress Dowager Xiang is very concerned!

So, the mother and son got up and drove to Miying Pavilion under the guidance of Shi Deyi.

When the Empress Dowager Xiang walked into the Miying Pavilion, her face was immediately pulled down.

"Why is it so simple?" She asked Shi Deyi.

In her eyes, Miying Pavilion is small and broken!

The small hall is at most a dozen steps forward and backward, and no more than seven or eight steps wide.

Moreover, the furnishings are very old!

The most unacceptable thing to the queen mother is that there are not even a few windows in this place.

She just thought about what if Sixth Brother was studying here in midsummer and it was too hot?
Is such a small place really suitable for lectures?
How many Jingyan officials are there?

The queen mother counted in her heart, even now, there are already seven or eight.

Sima Guang, Lu Gongzhu, Fan Chunren, Su Zhe, Lu Xizhe, Fan Bailu...

In addition to the tradition, Zai Zhi will also attend the sutra feast.

Counting the serving maids and courtiers...

A terrifying image immediately appeared in the Queen Mother's mind - the little sixth brother, surrounded by dozens of people, big and small, sweating profusely, and his little face was flushed with heat.

terrible!

As soon as Shi De heard the question from the Queen Mother, he bowed his head and replied: "Madam, Miying Pavilion has been like this since our ancestors!"

Since the founding of the country, Miying Pavilion has not been used a few times!

The last time it was enabled was the beginning of Renmiao's ascension to the throne!
In the following decades, Miying Pavilion has not been officially opened again!

Whether it is the Renmiao after the pro-government, or the Yingmiao, or the Emperor Daxing, all sutra banquets are held in Chongzheng Hall and Jiying Hall.

No one would come to this small and cramped Miying Pavilion to find pleasure.

Empress Dowager Xiang immediately said: "Miying Pavilion cannot be used as a place for sutra feasts!"

"Change to another place!"

"Chongzheng Hall, Zichen Hall, Jiying Hall..." She looked at Zhao Xu and asked, "Where does Sixth Brother like?"

Zhao Xu looked at the small and cramped Miying Pavilion in front of him.

Memories of the previous life flashed back in my mind.

Hot summer, hot summer and high temperature.

The banquet officials are all sweating, let alone Zhao Xu?

However, no one dared to speak out on this matter - because Cheng Yi, the last Jingyan official who dared to interfere in the affairs of the emperor, had been driven back to Luoyang.

The executives in charge of the court don't even care about Zhao Xu's body, who would care about Zhao Xu's feelings in Miying Pavilion?
In their eyes, little Zhao Xu is just their tool.

A tool to live up to their fame!
So, for nine years, Zhao Xu was forced to study in this small Miying Pavilion year after year.

And, you have to come every other day, rain or shine!

Zhao Xu has always suspected that his early death in his previous life was also related to the fact that he was forced to stay in this small and cramped Miying Pavilion for a long time in his early years. The air was not circulated, which led to inhaling too much toxic dust, and even eating poisonous dust by mistake!

Constantly sweating skin in hot weather, closed environment.

It is inevitable that there will be dust, stained with sweat, and flow to the mouth and nose.

And he is young and has poor resistance.

Nature is the most vulnerable!

Thinking of this, Zhao Xu smiled and said to the Queen Mother: "Mother, although this place is small, simple, and cramped, the air is not very good..."

"However, I think I can persevere!"

It's okay if Zhao Xu doesn't talk about it, but when he talks about it, the image in the Queen Mother's mind becomes stronger.

She shook her head immediately: "You need to have a good environment for studying!"

"Miying Pavilion cannot be used as a place for sutra feasts!"

She directly told Shi Deyi: "Go, tell Yousi that the Miying Pavilion will be abolished from now on, and the official family's banquet place will be decided after the palace discusses with the empress dowager and the official family!"

This is definitely not the place where the sixth brother will study in the future!

If so, she will feel distressed!

It is better to choose one of Chongzheng Hall, Jiying Hall, and Zichen Hall!
So, Empress Dowager Xiang immediately took Zhao Xu to Baoci Palace, and told the Empress Dowager about the situation of Miying Pavilion.

The Empress Dowager was also taken aback: "The Miying Pavilion is so small?!"

So, she also went to Miying Pavilion in person and took a look around.

After returning, he said to the Queen Mother: "I have seen it in Miying Pavilion, and it is indeed as the Queen Mother said, Miying Pavilion is not suitable for officials to study!"

Zhao Xu listened beside him, and laughed heartily!
In his previous life, he had been in Miying Pavilion for nine years, how had this mother ever cared about him?
On the contrary, she also accepted Fan Zuyu's suggestion.

Order to remove all the extravagant things in the Palace of Funing!He also replaced all the maids around Zhao Xu with old maids over 40 years old!
Later, Fan Zuyu and others even intervened in Zhao Xu's marriage.

Forcibly helped Meng Shi, the daughter of a small folk family, to the position of queen, without asking Zhao Xu's opinion at all!

Thinking of this, Zhao Xu said to the Empress Dowager, "Mother, you really don't have to worry so much about your grandson's education!"

"Although Miying Pavilion is a bit older and smaller, it doesn't look good!"

"However, my grandson heard that Mencius said: "Heaven will send a great mission to the people, and they must first suffer from their minds and muscles..."

The empress dowager felt distressed when she saw this child in front of her, so sensible.

"The official house..." she said, "That's the case, but... if the place where the official house studies is so simple and poor... if it spreads, outsiders will say that the mother abused her grandson!"

"Let's choose one of Chongzheng Hall, Jiying Hall, and Zichen Hall as the new sutra feast place..."

Zhao Xu chuckled in his heart: "That's what you said!"

"Sima Guang and Fan Zuyu jumped up, but you have to stop them..."

So, he smiled and said: "In this case, then choose Jiyingdian!"

Jiyingdian...

He thought of his father...and also of that night last year...

(End of this chapter)