Chapter 345 Report (Merry Christmas to everyone, happy birthday to the poor)

Tokyo is still bustling in autumn, but it is just a little bit bustling and you get used to it. From this perspective, this autumn in Tokyo is relatively dull.

It had been a long time since there had been foreign envoys, so the arrival of envoys from Goryeo and Japan together was certainly a bit novel, but when envoys from all directions visited Tokyo City continuously and repeatedly, people soon got used to it.

There is also lottery. As soon as this thing came out, all the common people flocked to it... Of course, they are still flocking to it now. The limit on the number of Northern Expedition lottery tickets has even caused dissatisfaction among the rich. Some people in the cabinet have already suggested conducting Northern Expedition gambling in the Cuju League, allowing large bets per ticket.

The lottery has only been around for a few days, and it has already become like this. As for the treasury bond stall in Xuande Building, the green seedling loans and short-term goods loans in temples and large warehouses, the gradually increasing number of Western Regions and grassland items in the market, the takeaway carts running all over the streets, and the annual joint examinations and palace examinations, there is no need to say more.

People have even become accustomed to the Mid-Autumn Festival.

There is no way. Although the occasion is serious, the fact is that no matter who you are, it is difficult for you to have such frank emotions as the first time. This seems a bit sad, but there is nothing to criticize. Because this is life, life itself will bury any past experiences, and bury the most intense emotions along with them.

But then again, this seems to be the situation that Emperor Zhao, who planted mulberry trees in the harem, is most worried about, otherwise he would not be calling for a Northern Expedition every day.

But even with the slogan of the Northern Expedition, everyone had gotten used to it in just one year.

This autumn was the seventh year of Jianyan.

In the autumn of that year, Li Gang requested to retire and return home, but was rejected by Zhao Jiu.

In the autumn of this year, Zong Ze's eldest son Zong Ying was transferred back to the central government from his post as a county magistrate to serve as a deputy minister of the Ministry of Works.

In the autumn of that year, Prime Minister Zhao Ding's eldest son Zhao Fen still did not take part in the imperial examination, and still had not found a wife.

In the autumn of that year, Wang Zhongfu, who came from a martial arts background and had served as a guard of Emperor Zhao, left Tokyo and returned to Kansai. He immediately became a reserve general of the left army of the Imperial Camp. As he had a bright future, he changed his name to Wang Shixiong because he had the same name as Zhang Zhongfu, the commander of the Imperial Camp Cavalry.

Before leaving, he hesitated for a long time and finally did not ask his acquaintance, Uncle Wu, to help him find the young lady in the veiled hat whom he had seen in front of Yuetai that day.

In the autumn of that year, after two years of martial arts training, Yue Yun, who was fifteen years old, did not stay in Tokyo to get married as he had imagined. Instead, he was sent to Zhang Xian's unit in his father's army to receive military training as an ordinary cavalryman.

In the autumn of this year, like her elder sister Foyou, Princess Shenyou was promised to the son of another general, Wu Fu, the second son of Wu Jie... Up to this point, all the daughters of Emperor Zhao had been promised to the sons of appropriate age in the families of generals of the current dynasty.

In the autumn of that year, from the Imperial Academy examination before the Mid-Autumn Festival to the Palace Examination after the Mid-Autumn Festival, in addition to the further increase in the share of original studies, there was also a considerable number of questions that were not related to classics, the most prominent of which were mathematics and geography... After the palace examination, the huge map drawn by Emperor Zhao himself, which covered the East China Sea, the Western Regions, the Northern Wilderness, and the South Seas, shocked the entire court and the public.

In the autumn of this year, the two retired emperors and the current emperor began serializing literary works at the same time. Following the Three Caos, the Three Zhaos were also set to make a significant contribution to the history of literary creation.

In the autumn of that year, as the old general Lu Xing resigned from his military post and entered the public cabinet due to old age, Wang De's controversial title of Jiedushi was officially awarded after the expansion of the army. Han Shizhong, Yue Fei, Zhang Rong, Li Yanxian, Wu Jie, Qu Duan, Zhang Jun, Wang Yan, Ma Kuo, Wang De and other ten generals who were both military officers and Jiedushi were called the Ten Jiedushi of Jianyan by the people.

Together with Li Qiong and Li Bao, who did not have the status of Jiedushi due to seniority issues, they were collectively known as the Twelve Governors.

After the expansion of the Imperial Camp, a count of all the commanders who actually led the troops totaled nearly a hundred people. However, some people with a liking for gossip pieced together a total of 108 generals. The two leading commanders were none other than Yang Yi Zhong and Liu Yan.

In the autumn of that year, there was a slight flood in the east and west of Beijing, but the situation was immediately controlled by Yue Fei and Wanqi Xie.

No matter how you calculate it, this autumn was the seventh year since Emperor Zhao fell into the well in Mingdao Palace.

When autumn ended and winter came, Concubine Wu became pregnant again, and Emperor Zhao finally grew a beard... He was almost twenty-eight years old.

No matter how much you deceive yourself, you are still considered middle-aged.

"Let's get started."

It was a sunny day in October. After returning from target shooting, Emperor Zhao walked back to the stone pavilion. After sitting down, he learned that no urgent secret letter had been sent at night, so he nodded to Yang Yizhong and others.

At this time, there were only many close ministers inside and outside the stone pavilion, but no important officials from the outer court... and what Emperor Zhao wanted to "start" at this time was, of course, just the daily routine intelligence briefing.

Many close ministers looked at each other, but Ren Baozhong was the first to step forward and bowed: "Reporting to the emperor, there were five things recorded by me yesterday... First, the official document arrived in the capital, saying that there was a fire in Hangzhou, burning down hundreds of houses; second, the Privy Council reported that bandits in Qianzhou have invaded the county again, and the general manager Guo Zhongxun has personally arrived in Qianzhou; third, the Daqin sea merchants in Quanzhou gathered at the Maritime Customs Office and asked to be allowed to purchase official ship flags, seals and documents in the same way as Han merchants; fourth, the chieftain of Gongzhou in the southwest rebelled and has been captured by the Yang family of Bozhou; fifth, the market under the city of Dongshengzhou was burned down by the cavalry of the Jin Kingdom..."

Besides, China is too big. Fires, droughts, floods, and even rebellions are all common occurrences as long as they are not large in scale. Emperor Zhao has always been a person who is not afraid of natural disasters. Even if he is struck by lightning, he would not take it seriously as long as he is not killed. What's more, there have been countless military activities before this year... Therefore, such matters have always only reached the capital province, and Emperor Zhao does not ask about them.

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