The first prince of Song Dynasty

Chapter 1167 Zhao Xu's Future Gift

"It's not very far from the Song Dynasty. We will send you to the Great Song Dynasty. In fact, the old man's words are already wrong. Now the entire Shu Kingdom has become a place of the Song Dynasty. The place where we stand is the Great Song Dynasty." The territory of the old man, the two of us sent you back to Bianjing in the Song Dynasty, what do you think?"

Gongsun Tian wanted to send Zhuge Qingyun back to Bianjing, and he also knew the relationship between Zhuge Qingyun and Zhao Xu, so he was thinking of sending Zhuge Qingyun back to Bianjing.

"Senior, my thought is that we don't want to be in contact with the secular people anymore. Now I think that I can spend the rest of my life with him. I don't want to do anything else. I want to take her to live in the mountains and forests. We have suffered too much, so I decided not to go into their struggle, so I still hope you don't send me to Bianjing."

Zhuge Qingyun had already thought of retiring to the mountains and forests at this time, and this is not his fault, because he thought of going into seclusion when the Demon Sect was destroyed, and left everything to Wanwan. In fact, there was no Tianmo Sect left at that time Nothing left, and basically nothing left.

That is, he appeared once when Zhao Xu designed Zhu Qianchou, and recently in Shu Kingdom, he got the news that someone was going to deal with Wanwan, and there were quite a few people involved, so he came to Shu Kingdom, otherwise He also won't come to Shu Kingdom, what's more, he won't meet Jue Xin, and this situation won't happen now.

"The old man knew you would think this way, but if you want to save Juexin, you must go to Bianjing, because only there are medicines that can make her recover quickly. Do you think you should go or not? It’s still here and it’s almost the Spring Festival, but I heard that your apprentice misses you very much now?”

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The Spring Festival existed in the Song Dynasty, but at that time it was not called Spring Festival but New Year’s Day. Of course, this New Year’s Day was different from what we call New Year’s Day now. Their New Year’s Day was the first day of the first lunar month, which included three parts: Busy Year, Chinese New Year, and Troubled New Year.

The Spring Festival in the Song Dynasty was also a holiday. It was good for officials to take a break and have a rest. There were also a lot of Spring Festival holidays at this time. It took more than a month to add up, which was more than the current civil servants. There are many, but they are not free, because as long as the emperor has any needs, they will be there on call.

Of course, these officials are all of a certain level. These officials are talking about people around Bianjing. They are all Hejing officials, who are at a higher level.

How should I put it, if you are a senior official, you have to work with the emperor, so everyone can’t go home on holiday, right? The holiday is until the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, and you can’t do it. You can’t take a holiday. First of all, you have to keep watch , you can’t ask for leave, and you have to get dressed and go to the morning court in the early morning.

Didn’t you say it’s a holiday? You don’t know why there is an early court. It’s necessary to go to the early court. The early morning court on the first day of the first month is not called the early court. It’s called the Zhengdan Dachaohui. The important officials of the Song Dynasty, ordinary people are really not qualified to participate in such a conference, this specification is there, just like there is a Central Party School in later generations, not everyone can go there to study.

So these officials who can attend these court meetings are very satisfied. Although they don't have a big holiday, they can spend the New Year with the emperor. Is this a major harvest?Ordinary people do not have such qualifications!
The so-called Zhengdan meeting refers to paying New Year's greetings to the emperor. The emperor then rewards these officials with some things, such as food and clothes. These are the things that these officials are most happy about.

Of course, the emperor will hold a royal family banquet when he is happy, and some ministers can also attend, and the ministers can bring their family members with them at this time, and let them use "public funds to eat and drink" openly. In fact, this is a kind of honor. Well, the ministers brought their family members, so that these family members could gossip with those empresses in the palace and get closer.

These are the treatment of the ministers, and the local officials are happy. They go on vacation directly. They can live in the county office or go home temporarily, but they must return to their own office to handle government affairs within the stipulated time limit, otherwise the consequences will be severe. It was unimaginable, but they also lost a chance to have dinner with Da Song's top two dishes.

The folk celebrations are more colorful, especially since Meng Chang posted the first Spring Festival couplets in Chinese history, this custom has slowly spread, and now Bianjing also has a custom, and It is a variety of forms, which adds a lot of joy to the Spring Festival.

"This year we should be even more happy. Jingnan has been pacified, and we should be happy. In the twelfth lunar month, the Kingdom of Shu will be taken over by my Song Dynasty. This is what I am happy about. Therefore, this Zhengdan is more happy than ever. Festive."

Zhao Kuangyin couldn't hide the joy in his heart. The pacification of Shu this year was the best gift for him. Nothing excited him more than the land.

"You are satisfied with this, don't you want half of the country in the south? Then I will give you a bigger gift when you are 40 years old, so I advise you to let go of your joy first." Keep it in your heart, otherwise you really don't know how to express your feelings when the time comes."

Zhao Kuangyin's father and son braved the heavy snow and stood on the drum tower looking at the silver-clad Kaifeng city. The two father and son were very interested, especially Zhao Xu.

Now Zhao Kuangyin is only 37 years old, and there are three years left before he turns 40. Zhao Xu's gift Zhao Kuangyin also knows that in three years, he wants to level the kingdoms and rule the world. This is Zhao Kuangyin's best gift.

He also knew that his son was talking about this, otherwise he would not propose to give him this gift before the age of 40, but he didn't know if he could unify the world in the past three years. There is no bottom line, and he himself can't guarantee that he can recover the Southern Tang, Southern Han, Dali, Northern Han, Wuyue, etc. within three years.

This is really a difficult task. No one can say that I can kill these countries and complete the unification. However, Zhao Xu gave Zhao Kuangyin such a vision, that is, I will give you these countries as gifts. Complete this quest before turning 40.

At least Zhao Xu had such an ambition, and it was enough to have such an ambition. At this time, Zhao Xu couldn't imagine how many difficulties he had encountered in the process of implementing this promise.

"Okay, I'm just waiting for this gift from you. I'd like to see when you can bring it to me. Haha, when the time comes, I will go to Mount Tai with a shovel and become famous for thousands of years in the Song Dynasty."

Zhao Kuangyin actually thought of Feng Chan from this matter.

(End of this chapter)