When Zhao Xu returned to the palace, the two palaces had personally brought people down to the inner east gate to pick him up.

not only that.

The wives of the Gao family and the Xiang family also dressed up and followed the two palaces to greet him.

"I, my concubines, respectfully welcome the official's triumphant return!"

The married women saluted together.

Wen Xunniang, Di Qiang and Wang were also among the crowd, bowing with admiration.

The Empress Dowager and Empress Dowager Xiang looked at Zhao Xu with smiles.

When Zhao Xu arrived, he saluted and said hello.

The Empress Dowager smiled and helped Zhao Xu up: "I know that officials can revitalize the country!"

Queen Mother Xiang came to Zhao Xu and gently held Zhao Xu's little hand, her eyes full of joy and relief.

"This kid has really grown up!"

"This winter, after the Xinglong Festival, Sixth Brother will be eleven!"

"At that time, it is time for the ministers to go to the Funing Hall to request orders if they have something to do."

With this thought, he looked at the Queen Mother in front of him.

She was not sure whether the concubine would agree.

However, before Sixth Brother's Holy Day, she should take her aunts with her to see the 'Longevity Palace' prepared by Sixth Brother for them.

When the Wanshou Palace was built, she took her aunt and moved in together.

According to the plan, the Longevity Palace will be built in the current rear garden.

Houyuan was deep in the forbidden area. Once she and her concubine moved in, the governors would have a good excuse to go directly to Funing Palace to request orders.

Just as she was thinking about these things, the Queen Mother heard her child ask.

"Mother, Queen Mother, why do you mobilize troops and mobilize people like this?"

Empress Dowager Xiang looked at her daughter-in-law with a smile, and heard the Empress Dowager say: "The official family has triumphed, I should lead the queen mother and the wives of the palace to welcome her!"

"Not only that, I have also sent Da Zongzheng to the Ancestral Temple to report to the late emperor and our ancestors..."

"Tell the ancestors that if there are successors to my Zhao family, the country will prosper!"

The Sixth Brother seemed to be stunned for a moment when he heard this, and then said: "How worthy and capable are you, Sun Chen? How dare you bother your mother-in-law, who mobilizes troops and mobilizes people like this?"

Empress Dowager Xiang finally found an opportunity at this time. She gently touched the futou on the child's head and said softly: "Sixth brother's success today is a blessing to the country and the world!"

"The Queen Mother and the Queen Mother are very happy for Brother Six!"

"Of course we have to offer sacrifices to the Ancestral Temple and report to the gods of our ancestors. We should also send the governor to Yongyu Mausoleum and Yonghou Mausoleum to report to the gods of the late emperor and Emperor Yingzong!"

Today's grand occasion was actually led by the Queen Mother.

Take this opportunity to establish prestige and authority for her children.

At the same time, it also tells the world that although the young master is young, he is a virtuous king and a successful king!

have a look!

A Jing'an square was sold for 6.75 million yuan!

It’s almost catching up with the country’s salt class income!

Moreover, there are no additional taxes or apportionments.

It is truly achieved that the people do not receive any tax, but the national treasury is full!

Throughout the ages, have any of the emperors in the past been able to achieve this?

What's more important is that Sixth Brother got this incredible wealth, but he didn't use it to enjoy it, nor did he use it to fight.

Instead, it was used to support the two palaces and promote education and religion.

Serving two palaces is filial piety!

Promoting learning and teaching means governance and benevolence.

The young master is kind, loving, and filial.

Everyone in the world should be attached to you!

Therefore, Queen Mother Xiang prepared for today early.

I beat the side drum early in the Qingshou Palace.

However, she never expected that more than two hundred houses in a small Jing'anfang could be sold out in one morning, and could be sold for a high price of 6.75 million yuan!

This shocked her so much.

Originally, she thought it would be great if she could sell two million strings. Three million strings would be a super performance.

Unexpectedly, it sold for 6.75 million yuan!

And it was sold in one morning!

What does this mean?

Of course it’s clear to the Queen Mother!

This shows that both the government and the public have returned to the Sixth Brother - Empress Dowager Xiang's understanding of the world was still limited to the Zhiping three years before she entered the palace.

At that time, 30,000 yuan was already more than half of the wealth of many people in Bianjing.

Therefore, it is easy for her to think that the people who buy the houses in Jing'anfang are nobles in the court, military ministers from distant counties and above, and rulers of other families.

Little did they know that in the past twenty years, the entire Song Dynasty had undergone earth-shaking reforms.

It was not just Wang Anshi’s reforms that profoundly changed the Song Dynasty.

At the same time, money supervisors in various places in the Song Dynasty minted millions of new coins every year. Including Shaanxi, Sichuan and other places, the scale of new cast iron coins cannot be calculated at all.

All of this has made the current wealth of the Song Dynasty far exceed that of the Song Dynasty before Empress Dowager Xiang entered the palace.

As for why, wealth has increased so much.

Is the Song Dynasty still experiencing a money shortage?

This issue is a bit complicated and cannot be explained clearly in a few words.

But one fact is clear - it has always been the common people who are short of money.

The local households in the Song Dynasty, the big merchants and scholar-bureaucrats, military ministers, and nobles in the city were never short of money.

Therefore, Zhao Xu sold the house and then used the money to build palaces and establish schools and religions. This was actually a method of redistributing wealth.

But even he himself has not thought of this now - he has not even thought of using this matter to promote himself.

His original intention is simply to use this opportunity to make money and develop the industry chain.

Real estate can effectively promote the development of various industrial chains in modern times.

Although Zhao Xu has never eaten pork, he has seen pigs running away.

Naturally, we know how to use this opportunity to accelerate and incubate various industrial chains.

Use other people's money to do your own thing.

This is something that Zhao Xu has long been numb to in modern times.

…

There is no need to elaborate on the excitement in the palace that day.

Under the control of the two palaces, especially the will of the Queen Mother.

Later, the ladies of each family came to the palace to congratulate him.

At the same time, everyone in the palace also received rewards.

The next day, the ministers came together to express their congratulations, praising Zhao Xu and complimenting the two empresses.

On the Taixue side, after knowing that the palace decree has been made, half of the income from Jing'anfang will be used to build new schools and new residences. Money will also be used to reward the outstanding gentry of Taixue, and After subsidizing some poor scholars, they were all so happy that they completely forgot what they had said in the past.

In such an atmosphere, it was June 24th of the first year of Yuanyou (Xinyou).

Xixia's envoy Chunyue Guan Erlu, and deputy envoy Lu Zeguan Tian Huairong, led the envoy, and finally were allowed to enter the capital.

Also arriving in Beijing at the same time as Nianlulu was a delegation from Tibet.

The emissary sent by Aligu was his confidant and his half-brother by blood—Sunan Dangzheng, the lord of Jiezhan City, came to court.

Jie Zhan City, also known as Yuechang City.

It was the westernmost fortress of Tubo in the Qing and Tang dynasties (roughly located in the Qiemo County area of ​​modern Xinjiang), and was the result of the westward expansion during the Xianzanpu Xisiluo era.

no way!

Xian Zamp was very lucky.

The middle and late period of his reign was also the period when Qing, Tang and Tubo were at their strongest, and they happened to encounter a golden opportunity for expansion.
To be continued...