Zhao Shu didn't survive much time. During the New Year, Zhao Shu died as soon as the ministers in front of him were listed in the Daqing Hall. [Full text reading.baoliny.] The appearance of Zheng Lang led to an extension of Zhao Zhen's lifespan by half a year, but Zhao Shu died early. But behind this, there are scenes of stories that many people don't know about.

Especially Zhao Shu suddenly burst into tears, why did he cry?

Of course, Han Qi cannot say that there is no contribution at all. Although the possibility of the palace change is extremely small, it cannot mean that there is no failure, because with Han Qi, at least, it can ensure the smooth handover and transition between the emperors of the two dynasties. However, it is still too urgent.

First, he hurriedly handed the pen to Zhao Shu and wrote down the name of the crown prince.

For the sake of the country, there is something to wish.

Then something happened during the Chinese New Year. News came from the palace that Zhao Shu was in charge of the Yan Dynasty. All officials entered the Funing Palace to express their grief, and the official announcement of the system was announced. Zeng Gongliang suddenly pounded Han Qi's elbow and thundered his mouth to show his words. It turned out that Zhao Shu was lying on the hospital bed and was moving his fingers.

From a medical point of view, shock was originally not considered a real death.

But in this era, medical conditions are backward, so the imperial physician cannot be blamed for being careless.

Now Zhao Shu woke up from shock, continued to be in a coma, or woke up, because he was seriously ill, no matter how he moved, it was unknown. But his fingers were moving, he must have woken up and had not really died.

Han Qi looked at Zhao Shu with a despise and said, "The late emperor is resurrected, and he is the Supreme Emperor."

Then he said to the propaganda officer: "Read quickly."

After reading Zhao Xu, he became the emperor. Even if Zhao Shu woke up, he could not change it.

The Xuanzheng official continued to read the book of Zhao Xu's succession.

After hearing about the loss of the throne, Zhao Shu swallowed it in one breath. After finishing the book, his fingers stopped moving.

It can be said that Han Qi has selfish intentions and wants to achieve success again, or it can be said that Han Qi is taking care of the overall situation. In the end, no one can know Han Qi’s true thoughts.

When Zhao Xu took office, Han Qi made great efforts.

It depends on what Zhao Xu thinks. If he thinks he is the eldest son and the legitimate son. Empress Dowager Cao is honest, his two younger brothers have not grown up and are obedient to him. His mother is very respectful to him and may not be able to receive this affection. After the more terrifying crown prince, Zhao Shu lived for a while. His ministers forced him to establish the crown prince, which made him cry. But everyone would not stay in his bedroom all the time. Although he could not speak, he was still very conscious. Have you ever explained anything to Zhao Xu, Gao Taotao and his son with paper?

If Zhao Xu, like Zhao Shu, was a ruthless and unfilial child. He wanted to be the emperor in a hurry, then he would continue to favor Han Qi.

Zhao Xu was the emperor.

Summon Sima Guang to the palace.

Ask a question, when the Song Dynasty lost face during the alliance of Chanyuan, what should I do? So I got some advantage in terms of titles. The Song Dynasty was brother, the Liao Kingdom was brother, and Zhao Zhen was promoted. Liao Xingzong was promoted, and Zhao Zhen was still brother, so there was no big problem. Yelu Hongji came to the throne, Zhao Shu was promoted, and Zhao Shu was still brother. However, Zhao Shu died, and now Zhao Xu was born, so I could no longer call him brother. The Khitan envoy arrived, but he did not expect that the Song Dynasty emperor died young, but died. This series of problems was exposed.

The Privy Council summoned the ritual officer to ask how to call the Khitan State. He wanted to value his nephew and called him the grandmother. Li Jianzhi and Song Minqiu of Taidang Temple said that he called himself the nephew and grandmother, and he called his grandmother.

Zhao Xu was a little dissatisfied.

Asked Sima Guang, Sima Guang said: "The northwest is peaceful, and Yue Zuo is ambitious..."

"I understand," Zhao Xu said helplessly, and asked again: "Is Zheng Gong'an good?"

"Mr. Zheng and several gentlemen are studying Confucian history. In addition, they heard that the court's financial situation was tight, so they brought some students and craftsmen to develop steel. Once they succeeded, they would add a safety supervision to the court. They originally wanted to offer it to the late emperor, but they did not expect the late emperor to die." Sima Guang said with emotion.

What is Zheng Lang’s intention? He can guess two or three, but can he say it?

"Mr. Zheng is a loyal minister," Zhao Xu looked around and said in a low voice: "When the father was dying, he repeatedly told me and my mother that the real person that the country can entrust is Mr. Zheng. It's a pity that Mr. Zheng and his concubines passed away one by one in recent years and could not serve the father."

Sima Guang felt ecstatic when he heard this.

Still calmly, he said calmly: "Young Master Zheng often communicated with me. In fact, he was very lazy at that time and did not dare to take the lead. He said that I only had my heart to Renzong. Later, the process of practicing Confucianism and the process of cultivating Confucianism was also a process of self-reflection. Now, in terms of virtue and talent, Your Majesty is not a minister who praises Zheng Gong, and is unparalleled in the world. This is also my blessing for the Song Dynasty and your Majesty."

"My luck?"

"Although Mr. Zheng made great achievements in his youth, he was still young. His ideas were not so perfect and his wisdom was not harmonious. Now he is the best time and just for His Majesty. Isn't it your Majesty's blessing?"

"I would rather not use it for my own sake than hope that my father can live in the world," Zhao Xu said and shed tears.

Sima Guang was very pleased. It was easy to treat conscience, but he was afraid that he would not be conscientious like Zhao Shu, and would not eat soft and hard food, and he would be fine.

He whispered, "Your Majesty, within two months, you must be quiet."

Don’t be anxious. Even though the imperial power has been successfully transitioned to you, there are still some uneasy factors. If you want to use a certain person, it will take two months for everyone in the world to admit that you are the emperor before you can apply for the imperial edict. Now you are the emperor, you still have to compromise!

Zhao Xu bowed respectfully.

Strictly speaking, they are brothers of the same family, Sima Guang is also his brother.

An edict was issued to designate Han Qi as the envoy of the mountain tomb, and since the first year of Jiav, he was the Privy Councilor and the Prime Minister in the third year. Han Qi served as the prime minister for 11 years, the Prime Minister for 9 years, and the envoy of the mountain tomb twice. In terms of scenery, few people in the early Song Dynasty could match it.

Someone wrote a letter to ask Zhao Xu to recall Zheng Lang. However, Zhao Shugang died and "the whole country expressed his grief". Not many people wrote a letter and did not report it.

Han Qi knew that Zheng Lang would recall the Secretariat. This was not a big problem. There were still a few months to schedule. It depends on what the new emperor thought.

Undercurrents surging below.

First, Zhang Fangping reported that the country had no money and could no longer reward the ministers and soldiers like when Zhao Zhen died.

Han Wei suggested that according to the story, Emperor Daxing should have leftovers to his subordinates (that is, the old emperor died and took out the property in the inner warehouse to reward them). However, the national finances are not as serious as those in his later years in Renzong. The three departments are in debt, and the inner warehouse is probably empty. Whether it is mountain tombs or rewards, saving should be the basis.

Zhao Xu had long heard of financial difficulties.

In fact, he didn't understand. The Song Dynasty attached importance to internal governance. Whether during the reign of Taizu or Taizong or Zhenzong Renzong, the finances were tense. However, they were not as nervous as their father's life. Even the Zhao Zhen Dynasty was tense, and it was also a fierce battle in the northwest for three or four years. In the first two years, the northwest was also fighting, but it was not like the Qingli period, which was a large-scale battle of tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of people, which often lasted for several months. Where did this money be used?

After seeing Han Wei's memorial, he summoned Han Jiang, the three envoys, into the palace for inquiries.

Han Jiang was from that place. Everyone knew it. But instead of having a reply with Zhao Xu, he had a small test, and had to understand the emperor's intentions. He deliberately took more than a year to receive the local gentry and officials.

However, Han Qi was a good assistant, and the officials wrote a letter to the court to summon Zheng Lang back, but did not report it, so Han Jiang couldn't figure out Zhao Xu's intentions.

Zhao Xu was finally young. After a cat-catching conversation, Zhao Xu said depressedly: "I know that the Secretariat has made a mistake. Is the Sansi not at fault?"

Han Jiang understood, and went back to the three departments to take the account books. Many account books and several minor officials worked together to move in.

Han Jiang first handed out the general ledger book, and Zhao Zhen opened it to check it out.

In the seventh year of Jiav, cashiers were normal, with a slight savings, but there were not many. Hegong was mostly the surplus generated by banks and the loans maintained. In the eighth year of Jiav, when Zhao Zhen died, the expenditure was much larger than that of the expenses. By the first year of Zhiping, the money was 59 million yuan. The expenditure was less than 40 million yuan. The savings were more than 16 million yuan. The expenditure was more than 8 million yuan. The savings were more than 20 million yuan. The expenditure was more than 30 million yuan. The expenses were less than 30 million yuan. The payments were close.

30 million bundles, the expenditure is flat. (In history, the money is 3.62 million bundles, and 33.17 million bundles are spent. The silk is 740,000 pieces, and the output is 7.23 million pieces. The grain is 26.94 million pieces, and the output is 3.47 million pieces. This refers to the cashier of the three corpses, which has an internal warehouse, even if the three corpses have some other income. This figure accounts for about 60 to 70% of the total income of the Song Dynasty. There are more than one expense, and there is a greater expenditure behind it, which is very expensive!).

If the bill is still good, it can at least maintain the fiscal balance.

Actually, it’s not. There is a huge bad debt behind it. Zhao Xu continued to look down irritably. The biggest gap was the second year of Zhiping.

All incomes were severely shrinking, including money. The income from the second year of Zhiping was only 55 million yuan. This money included gold, silver and copper, of which silver income accounted for 24 million taels. The source of silver was somewhat scattered. Some were privately stored by the people, part was from major domestic silver mines, part was brought from overseas, and this part gradually became the main body, including the silver mines of Ping'anjian, the gold and silver brought back from trade with Japan, and the gold and silver from other countries. However, because government affairs gradually became corrupt, the expenditure reached more than 14 million taels, and it was still a surplus. If this were the case, Zhao Xu was not in a hurry.

There is also a new term, very expensive. This extravagant expenditure reached more than 12 million taels (in history, silver income was 16134 taels, regular expenditure was 123431 taels, very expensive 115212 taels). But silver was only part of it. The Song Dynasty was not so luxurious that it completely used silver as currency like the Qing Dynasty. The income included gold, silver, copper, iron, tin, lead, mercury, etc., as well as grain, silk, grass, and various local specialties. It was a bit messy, and this was also a product of insufficient currency.

So what is the total income this year? Nearly 135 million yuan, it is really hard to calculate how many guans it is. This is a total of all kinds of money and goods, which is also quite good. At least 110 million yuan. Think about it, the total income of the Ming Dynasty was only a few million taels of silver for a long time, and the two were almost a world of difference.

But don’t be anxious. The normal expenditure is 130 million, and the surplus is 115 million. (In history, it is a little over 116 million, the normal expenditure is more than 123 million, and the extraordinary expenditure is more than 115 million).

Looking at the thick mountain of accounts, Zhao Xu was stunned. In other words, there was a loss of 15 million in just two years of Zhiping! Is there any way to live this life?

After three years of Zhiping, Zhao Xu stopped watching, and if he continued to watch, he would vomit blood.

He stroked his chest and asked, "Han Qing, what is extraordinary?"

"Your Majesty, that is, unreasonable expenses, such as the non-system appropriation of the Secretariat, and some very appropriation of the late emperor and some in the palace. I have written a letter to the late emperor to mention this matter."

"Then will the income and expenditure be better last year?" Zhao Xu said and wanted to turn it over again.

"It's not good either. I can only say it's slightly better than in the second year of Zhiping. However, because the ministers and the prime ministers of the two prefectures had conflicts, the government orders were not smooth, and they did their own business, plus the extra cost of drought and military affairs in the northwest. Although the ministers restricted the extraordinary expenditure, the regular expenditure increased by 60 million."

"You just say how much deficit the country has in total?"

"I don't know, but the deficit of the three departments and the internal warehouses will not be less than 250 million yuan, and there may be 300 million yuan. However, because officials in various places have borrowed money, some officials have some waste, and there may be more in fact."

"So many losses were all borrowed?"

"Not that, the loan is part of it. There are also some surplus left by Renzong in the past, such as warehouses and some money in the warehouse, but since last year, the finances have become increasingly difficult, so officials from all over the country had to increase their ruthlessness to the people, and some often levy taxes for the next five or six years. This is not serious. If not corrected, the death of the late emperor this year will be even greater, that is, the deficit will continue this year next year and the following year..."

Having said this, Han Jiang didn't dare to continue.

Now a river worker has been lost. But this pressure is still within the scope of the people's endurance. If the deficit continues like this, the country will have to do something big.

Zhao Zhen had a split headache and said to Han Jiang: "You go down."

Han Qi led his ministers to the palace to discuss the mountain and mausoleum.

While reporting, he looked at Zhao Zhen's face. Zhao Zhen checked the three officials and the cashiers in the warehouse, which caused discussion among the ministers. This made Han Qi very worried. In fact, if there were no Zhao Shu and Zheng Lang, Han Qi would rather hope that Zhao Shu would die early and reincarnate early.

Without Zhao Shu's misconduct, he could handle government affairs with peace of mind and stabilize the political situation before Zheng Lang became the Secretary of the Central Secretariat. With the contribution of the resignation of the king and the minister, he would not have been delegated.

Zhao Xu's expression was still very calm and said to the ministers: "The country is difficult. In four years, it has suffered major destruction. Public and private difficulties are exhausted. It is better to ask Wang Tao to reduce the redundant expenses."

The Shanling Envoy was Han Qi, who was only responsible for the Governor General. Wang Tao was the one who went to Gong County to supervise the work.

Han Qi dissuaded.

Zhao Xu said: "The death of Renzong was far from disliked by the former emperor and dared not cut it down. Now there is no doubt about it."

I am the biological son of the late emperor, so should I avoid suspicion?

However, some rules are inevitable. Some property was taken out from the pitiful inner warehouse to reward the close ministers of the royal family, and said: "Renzong has been in power for more than 40 years, and the palace is rich, so it is very rich. The former emperor has been in power for only four years, and he is not comparable to Renzong, but he must not be without it."

Sima Guang made it very clear that in the past two months, it would still be based on a stable transition. It would not be possible to not reward, but it was reduced by one third. It cannot be said that my father did not do well, and he would slapped his father in the face. It can only be said that Zhao Zhen has been in charge of the world for a long time, and his father has been in charge of the world for too short, so the in-house warehouse has no money.

This even covers Han Qi's fault.

Han Qi let out a long sigh.

What I fear most is finance. Since Zhao Zhen said that, what else can he say? He took the lead: "I obey the order."

However, Zhao Xu had nightmares every night, and was preparing mountain tombs in the temple. Zhao Xu issued two orders to Wang Tao. I am very poor in the mountain tombs. Now the treasury is exhausted and the people are in decline. Just when the country is helping the danger and drowning, the country suffered great disasters at the age of four. Although it is determined to simplify the situation, it is also worrying that some officials cannot follow the order of obedience. Now I will send you to Henan Prefecture to make plans. Everything must be saved. If you have to do it first, you should also report it to me.

I wanted to send you to Henan Prefecture to save money on mountain tombs and follow the order. I thought about it repeatedly and the use of mountain tombs is all in the three departments and the young government supervisor. I wanted to ask you to discuss the reduction of the rules and regulations with you, but I have ordered the assistant ministers to issue an imperial edict. I also said that you are in the Eastern Palace and sincerely assist me. At the beginning of the government, I am relying on you and me to work hard to govern, so I will not send you off immediately.
To be continued...