Zhao Defang's road to the virtuous king

Defang is 19 years old, Concubine Di is 20 years old, but Xu is 1 year old

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In February 978, the third year of Taiping Xingguo, Defang and Mingzhi led Weixu for a walk in the garden, and the guard Chongming ran over, "See Your Highness, Prince Concubine, Your Highness"

"Chongming, what's the matter?" Defang asked

"Return to Your Highness, there are people in the palace to pass the news, Your Majesty has called you to Chongwen Academy."

"Understood, let them wait a while, I will change clothes."

"Yes, Your Highness"

Ming Zhi picked up Wei Xu and asked, "Your Highness, what does Chongwen Academy do?"

"Madam, the Chongwen Academy is a library that was just built at the beginning of the month. When the emperor was there, he collected more than 2000 volumes of books from all over the world. An order was issued to the people to donate books, and the entire library is very full, but with more and more books, the library is too small. The emperor said, how can such a library store the world's books, and how can it better accept the world's talents? , so they ordered the Ministry of Industry to build a new library in the northeast of Zuosheng Longmen, the entire design was determined by the emperor himself, and he named it Chongwen Academy. I heard that this library is even more magnificent than the imperial palace."

"Isn't that huge?" Ming Zhi said, "How many books are there?"

"Now there are at least tens of thousands of volumes, and in order to make a difference and avoid delays in cases in various places, the emperor's uncle also issued an order that all major cases must be completed within forty days, and minor cases must be completed within one month. More than ten days, non-pursuing minor cases shall not exceed three days."

"Uncle Huang attaches great importance to the administration of officials, and the people will be blessed by it, and the Great Song Dynasty will surely prosper."

"It will definitely be like this." Defang smiled and patted Wei Xu, "Ma'am, you take Xu'er to play, I'm going to change clothes, and I'll be back soon."

Defang changed her clothes, took a sedan chair to Chongwenyuan, entered the hall, and saw that besides Taizong, her elder brother Dezhao, the king of Wugong County, was also there, and beside her were three prime ministers Xue Juzheng, Shen Lun, and Lu Duoxun. Liu Yu, the Empress of the Southern Han Dynasty who descended from the Song Dynasty, and Li Yu, the Emperor of the Southern Tang Dynasty, were also present. Seeing Defang coming, Taizong smiled and said, "Defang, I'm just waiting for you."

When Defang heard it, it turned out that she was the last one to arrive, so she hurried forward and kowtowed, "My nephew kowtowed to the emperor's uncle, long live, long live, long live, my nephew came late to see you, and please forgive me."