Chapter 723

However, in terms of the influence of the Song Dynasty, Your Majesty must listen to her words, not to mention that Your Majesty left all the civil and military officials in the court and ignored them. This matter really made people feel uncomfortable.

"Why is the official family here? Shouldn't you be in court at this time?" Not long after getting up, Gao Taotao, who was using an exquisite and light breakfast after washing up, looked at the emperor Zhao Xu who had stepped into the Spring and Autumn Palace in amazement.

She could naturally see that the emperor must be in a bad mood at the moment, and he could even describe it as angry. In the past, even if the officials had great troubles, they would never be so obvious.

"My grandson meets the emperor's grandmother. My grandson received a joint memorial from Shaanxi Road General Su Xueshi, Yan, You, and Hong Jingluo's pacification envoy Wang Yang. Please take a look at the emperor's grandmother..." After bowing to the Empress Dowager Gao Taotao, Zhao Xu took a deep breath to control his temper and placed the memorial he held tightly in his hand carefully on the desk table in front of Gao Taotao.

"There is a problem on the other side of Shaanxi Road?!" Gao Taotao's voice couldn't help but rise a few degrees. His hand, who was about to pick up the memorial, trembled slightly. Finally, he gently pressed on the cover of the memorial. "It was still something wrong with the three states."

"Grandmother of the Emperor, you think it's not because something happened on Shaanxi Road and the three prefectures, but because of the results of the interrogation of 783 salt smugglers arrested after I retaken from Yanzhou in the Song Dynasty. You, take a look at it yourself..." Zhao Xu shook his head quickly and explained the situation.

"How could they do this? They are simply a bunch of untrustworthy, unfaithful and unfilial bastards..." Gao Taotao opened the thick memorial, saw Su Dongpo's familiar handwriting, and saw the shocking content in the memorial clearly, even though he was as heavy as her, he couldn't help but change his brilliance and shouted loudly.

After hearing Gao Taotao's comments about those guys, Zhao Xu's anger seemed to be shared, but he calmed down a little. "Grandma, please calm down. Your body is important. Don't be angry if you get angry."

"They are really too much. The Ai family never thought that the court treated them so generously that they could do such a traitor. It was simply unheard of affection and righteousness." Gao Taotao cursed a few more words without losing his anger, and then gradually calmed down.

"Yes, my grandson didn't expect that they were not just smuggling supplies such as salt and iron, but there were people selling my Song Dynasty military secrets... Grandson, do you think my grandson can't get angry?" Zhao Xu breathed a breath, looking so bleak and helpless.

Just as the grandparents and grandson complained about the forces behind the smuggling merchants, a little eunuch appeared at the gate of the palace and Gao Taotao summoned him into it. "What's going on?"

"Empress, Liu Xiang asked his servants to come and ask why, why did the officials place all the civil and military officials in the court..." The little eunuch glanced at the emperor who had not yet disappeared in fear and replied carefully.

"The Ai family knows, you retreat, Your Majesty will go back later, let them wait honestly." Gao Taotao naturally did not mean to take his anger on the little eunuch. After giving a few simple instructions, the little eunuch left with relief.

"Your Majesty, no matter what you want to do, just do it. You are the emperor of the Song Dynasty. Sometimes, although you can't rely too much on your own nature, if you have time, you should let the people of the world know the emperor's authority, not just a threat." Gao Taotao had a gloomy face, gently shook the hand of the young emperor Zhao Xu, and said in a deep voice.

"The Emperor's Grandmother..." Zhao Xu was shocked. He originally thought that even if the Emperor's Grandmother was angry and frustrated, she would probably endure it for the sake of the stability of the court, and at most it would be to kill chickens and respect monkeys.

But I never thought that the emperor's grandmother, who was ruthless, was even more radical than himself. According to Zhao Xu's own ideas, at most, he would take out nearly one-third of them to kill chickens and monkeys, and then the rest would be demoted, scolded, or punished, and beat them up.

"The Ai family knows what you are thinking. Perhaps, my Song Dynasty has been promoted to peace for too long. Since Emperor Renzong, my Song Dynasty has no longer had the ambition to forge ahead. Over the years, the Ai family has really indulged them too much, so that they think that betrayal and forget their righteousness, being unfaithful and unfilial."

"If this continues, they may even forget the way of the king and the ministers in their hearts." Gao Taotao took a breath and said with emotion.

Zhao Xu nodded deeply with conscience. "The grandson follows the order of the emperor and grandmother." Then, Zhao Xu walked away quickly, while Gao Taotao sighed tiredly and leaned against the couch, without any appetite.

"Empress, will you please…"

"What will happen? Will many people die?" Gao Taotao raised his gray brow and said. "Don't forget that the most admired by the government is his father, and his father is not an emperor who kills indiscriminately. He will not."

"As for me asking him to let go, it will be far more effective than the Ai family stopping him. In this way, he will weigh and consider how to deal with this matter more perfectly, how to stabilize the court and conquer the world..."

"What is important is that the ambition of the official family should be comparable to that of Emperor Taizu of the Song Dynasty and Emperor Taizong. We naturally need a good opportunity to establish our authority and trustworthiness. Now, this is this good opportunity."

When Xu Degong heard this, he couldn't help but take a deep breath. Emperor Taizu of the Song Dynasty and Emperor Taizong had a very obvious consciousness. The two emperors at that time were enterprising and determined to retake the sixteen prefectures of Youyan to restore the homeland of the Han and Tang dynasties.

Although they all failed, the Song Dynasty was barely established at that time. Although the troops were strong, the national strength was not strong.

However, in the current Song Dynasty, even if the three great Liao kingdoms are placed together, they can only follow behind the butt and eat bad things.

At this time, if Zhao Xu really had such ambitions, and... Wang Wushan, a pillar of the country whose talent is no less than Xiao He and whose wisdom and vision is no less than Zhang Liang, may really have the possibility of restoring the old land of the Tang Dynasty.
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