Chapter 168: Hate the Birds
In late spring, the city of Tokyo was hit by an earthquake.
But to be honest, it is difficult for Zhao Jiu to empathize with these people, especially the incident in Hebei.
If you talk about it from a personal perspective, Zhao Jiu has never met many of these people, so it's a bit unreasonable for you to ask him to do this or that. If you talk about it from a sense of justice, you may have some sympathy, but later he went to the battlefield, from Bozhou to Lianghuai, then to Nanyang, and then to Tokyo. He saw too many families broken up and people killed along the way, and that little bit of sympathy had been almost worn away by the even more miserable situation...
So this leads to a question: if you traveled through time and space and became the emperor of the Zhao Song Dynasty, would you immediately put yourself on the throne? Would you treat hundreds of millions of people as toys for your personal strategic game?
Or if you have a more advanced ideology, do you think this country is an appendage of the Zhao Song royal family, or do you think the Zhao Song royal family is an appendage of this country?
For Zhao Jiu, the answer was self-evident, and for most civil and military officials, the answer seemed self-evident as well.
The only problem is that there is no way to communicate about it, so it's very annoying.
Back to the past, the whole city of Tokyo was in shock that day, as if they had lost their parents. There were rumors that Queen Xing and several princesses did not die before, but were killed by the Jin generals who lost their family members when the Jin army retreated this year to vent their anger. Later, they were found by Talai, Wuzhu, Nianhan and others, who discovered that only two children were left. They felt it was a loss, so they made up a story and sent the two children back.
This is very possible, but it is meaningless, especially for Zhao Jiu. He couldn't understand why he couldn't just kill Zhao Ji and his son to vent his hatred, but instead killed innocent women, and even kept those two people to disgust him from a distance?
Comparatively speaking, as for the Yangzhou incident, to be honest, people in Tokyo were just lamenting Li Gang's bad luck, and the so-called shock only remained at the official level...and the reason for this was very simple, because the death of young children was a very normal thing in those days, and the Zhao Song royal family could not escape it, and they even had a tradition of dead babies.
However, for Zhao Jiu, it was the other way around... If he had to say which of the two things he cared about more, it would be the one in the south.
There are two reasons:
First of all, from a public perspective, just as Emperor Zhao reacted when he heard the news that day, he was really angry that this incident had shaken the court structure and shaken the stability of the court that he had worked so hard to maintain!
You have to know that he has been avoiding internal friction and party struggles, and trying his best to maintain the stability of the overall structure of the court, because he knows that he is incompetent in governing the country, and when he is unable to truly handle various state affairs, he needs a stable civil service system to manage the country for him... But who could have imagined that such an accident would happen?
Zong Ze is dead, and if Li Gang leaves office again, it means that the court will have to carry out a new round of large-scale personnel reshuffle from the top down...but where is the time to waste on personnel development?
Secondly, from a personal perspective, as the person who had been by his side since he first crossed over, if Zhao Jiu really had any feelings for any of the high and mighty Zhao Song royal family figures, it would definitely be Concubine Pan, whom he had always felt a little sorry for...
This kind of emotion, coupled with certain male instincts that cannot be concealed, whether good or bad, has resulted in Princess Pan and her son always being a stone weighing on his heart.
Now that the stone has loosened, the fragile side of the heart below, which cannot be described as a wound, can no longer be concealed.
However, even so, he still has to make arrangements and respond.
"Mrs. Wu is young and has no experience in raising children. May God and Buddha bless them..." In the deserted Chongzheng Palace, facing dozens of important officials who were currently in Tokyo, Zhao Guanjia paused in the middle of his words. "The two children are only four or five years old. Send them to the Wu family first and find an older woman to take good care of them and raise them... whatever is necessary."
Lu Haowen, the head of all officials who was standing alone at the imperial steps, immediately bowed in response. Although this incident caused a shock to the whole city and indeed made everyone feel uneasy, from the surface, if it really wanted to deal with it, it would only take this one sentence.
The only thing worth mentioning is that although Emperor Zhao returned to the old capital of Tokyo, the officials of the court could not say a word of leaving even for the sake of a righteous cause. However, this place is adjacent to the front line after all. When the weather is clear, the Jin flag can be seen across the Yellow River. In addition, the production in Henan was severely damaged, so it is impossible for this city to recover to its former size.
In fact, among the so-called top officials, wealthy businessmen and wealthy people, only one family, the former Pearl Wu family, moved back with their entire family... It was Mrs. Wu's family.
The rest are Empress Xing’s maiden family, the Xing family, and Concubine Pan’s maiden family, all of whom are now following the Empress Dowager in Yangzhou in the southeast.
Even most of the royal family of Zhao Song, including Zhao Shizhen, the chief minister of the Zhao Song Dynasty, and an old princess or princess with the most prominent status who was over 80 years old, were currently wandering in the southeast.
When the court talked about the relatives of the royal family in Dongjing City, they usually referred to Wu and Zhao Shiyi's relatives, Wang. Wang was not bad, after all, she was a roundabout way to get to know him, but Wu was deliberately avoided by everyone, and only the emperor's close confidants like Wanqi Xie and Yang Yizhong would deliberately get close to her.
so……
"Of course Wu is appropriate..."
I don't know if it's an illusion, but since these two pieces of news came on the same day, the atmosphere in the imperial court has become much more harmonious. Prime Minister Lu Haowen nodded slowly at this time, and the people around him didn't even show an expression.
However, after these words were spoken, the deserted Chongzheng Hall could not help but remain deserted... because even though the court meetings were not resumed until a day later, everyone was still caught off guard by the next few things to be discussed.
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