The next morning, when Zhao Xu woke up, he suddenly remembered.

"Yes……"

"I remembered it!"

In his previous life, the Han Jie-Guo Xian-Lu Shiminwo case was the trigger for Han Zhen's downfall.

After Han Zhen united with Sima Guang of the old party, Lu Gong fought against Cai Que and drove away Zhang Dun.

He ushered in the liquidation of him by the old party.

The introduction is this case.

The prime minister protected his grandnephew and even instigated local officials to protect him.

For this reason, the Yushitai people who were controlled by the old party became angry and continued to criticize, and finally Han Zhen was driven out of the court in despair.

However, the current facts prove that it was completely a frame-up of Han Zhen by the old party.

Because it is Han Jiang who is in the capital hall now, and Han Jiang is busy all day reviewing the Youth Law.

There is not so much effort and time to take care of such small things.

Zhao Xu guessed that this case was probably very simple, a case in which local officials protected each other in order to cling to power.

However, since Han Jie relied on his grandfather's name to be able to show off in the outside world, even if he made trouble, someone would help him wipe his behind.

Then don't blame others. They used this matter as an excuse to attack Han Jiang for protecting his grandson, and even instigated the local officials to conceal the truth and deceive the court.

This is the integration of rights and responsibilities in feudal society.

There are benefits and the whole family can enjoy it together.

Naturally, if something goes wrong, the entire family will have to bear the consequences.

Therefore, it is natural for others to use this matter as an excuse in the officialdom.

Anyone who doesn't do this is a fool!

You gave me the handle, why don't I use it?

With this thought, Zhao Xu had already finished washing.

Then, under the service of the female officials, he changed into pure white mourning clothes and took a bamboo stick.

Queen Mother Xiang also came at this time.

"Queen Mother." Zhao Xu stood up to greet her.

Empress Dowager Xiang had also put on mourning clothes. She looked at Zhao Xu, nodded and said, "My condolences, Brother Six."

Zhao Xu nodded: "I know this!"

The mother and son had breakfast in Funing Palace. Not long after breakfast, Feng Jing came to inform: "I want to inform you that everyone, including all the ministers in the hall, have gone to Dongshang to close the door to express their condolences." .”

With that said, Feng Jing respectfully delivered the condolence form given by the ministers to Zhao Xu.

Zhao Xu just looked at it casually and said: "I ordered the Academy of Academicians to prepare an imperial edict to thank my ministers."

This all has a process.

The condolences of the ministers were written a long time ago and passed the review.

The Academy also prepared letters of thanks to the officials long in advance.

Everything is a routine, a process, performed for the world to see.

"No!" Feng Jing bowed again and left.

Zhao Xu was busy this day.

In the morning, he led his ministers in Jinling Palace to pay homage to the portrait of the late emperor, and personally presided over the sacrificial ceremony at the Imperial Ancestral Temple.

In the afternoon, surrounded by the ministers, he came to Prince Ying's Mansion, where the late emperor lived when he was Prince Ying - a palace complex in Da Nei, where Zhao Hao and Zhao Chen lived in the past.

This place has now been renamed Ruicheng Palace.

In Ruicheng Palace, Zhao Xu presided over the worship of the late emperor's old palace.

He also ordered people to give some relics left by the late emperor to the ministers - mainly calligraphy and painting, pen and ink and some gold and silver utensils.

After doing all this, it was already dusk. Zhao Xu dragged his tired body back to the palace. As usual, he went to Qingshou Palace and Baoci Palace to pay his respects to the two palaces, and accompanied the Empress Dowager Xiang in Baoci Palace.

After dinner, we returned to Funing Hall around three o'clock in the morning.

As soon as he returned to Funing Hall, Feng Jing quietly told him: "Everyone, Shi Duzhiyan, has found out the details of the businessman who purchased Jiaozi in Bianjing City."

"So fast?" Zhao Xu was surprised.

"It is said that the people from the Detective Department saw the merchant entering and leaving the Prince's residence in Jiyang County, so they sent someone to bribe the concierge of the Prince's family in Jiyang County to find out his details!" Feng Jing replied.

Zhao Xu nodded to express his understanding.

In the Song Dynasty, a society where everything was about money, even people around the emperor could be bribed to leak forbidden information.

The concierge of a mere county prince's family is naturally greedy for money.

Not to mention that someone paid to find out the details of a merchant who came to his master's house.

As long as they are willing to pay, these people are willing to sell even the owner's whereabouts.

In a commodity economy, anything can be turned into a commodity.

This is why Zhao Xu keeps rewarding the people around him, even if it is a female official who helps him dress or cleans his little yellow door.

If you give them enough money, their loyalty will naturally increase, and they will naturally keep their mouths shut.

"What's the background of the merchant?" Zhao Xu asked.

Feng Jing handed a report into his hands.

Zhao Xu walked back to his bed, sat down, took apart the paint, and started reading.

Then he laughed.

The above content shows that the man's name is Huang Liang, a soldier from Shaowu, Fujian Road, and he is the clan brother of Huang Lu, the magistrate of Xuzhou.

His grandfather and Huang Lu's grandfather were brothers.

now it's right!

Zhao Xu put down the report and said to Feng Jing: "Tell Shi Deyi to send someone to contact this Huang Liang. If possible, next time I go out to inspect Kaifeng Mansion, I will bring this person to Kaifeng Mansion and I will talk to him personally.

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The commodity economy of Song Dynasty society was abnormal and had congenital defects.

According to Zhao Xu’s modern teacher, the economy of the Northern Song Dynasty was a symbiotic form of the government-run monopoly economy and the bureaucratic privileged economy.

The evidence is that the government and official elite groups control most of the production, manufacturing, circulation and sales channels of goods.

Raw materials, technology, and markets are almost entirely controlled by the government and bureaucrats.

Ordinary people simply cannot get involved in those truly profitable businesses.

Therefore, according to normal circumstances, even if the Song Dynasty was given another hundred years, it would not be able to develop capital in the modern sense.

If you want to point out the national policy of mercantilism, there is no social basis.

no way!

Zhao Xu could only go up by himself.

By supporting a group of foreign relatives and dignitaries, we allowed them to develop and grow.

Xiang Zonghui said that Gao Gongji was in Xihe and Gao Zunhui was in Guangxi to do such things.

At the same time, taking advantage of the Song-Liao trade, Zhao Xu was also trying to support several capable large-scale handicraft merchant groups.

Financially, he also has to provide support and guidance.

This is a bureaucratic command economy.

It was also a method he came up with after thinking about it after he ascended the throne.

To learn from South Korea’s experience, first support a few chaebols.

Only when the plutocrats rise up can they have the opportunity to do other things.

Otherwise, even if he wants to do something, without the support of a determined, powerful and financially capable interest group, he will be doomed to fail in the end.

This is the key to the success of Shang Yang's reform but the failure of Wang Anshi's reform.

Ren Shang Yang supports the noble group of military meritorious deeds!

Who does Wang Anshi support? Who is completely bound to your new law? Which group will shed blood to defend your reforms?

The answer is no!

Even Zhang Dun, Cai Que and others did not sacrifice everything to defend the new law.

Instead, he surrendered before the old party.

Had it not been for the fact that the old party later acted too radically and did not give the new party any room for maneuver, it even intensified political persecution.
To be continued...