Who's home tonight, Bian Zhouzi

Chapter 11 1

In the sixth year of Yuanhua, Zeng Jingzhao finally made the courtiers into a monolith.She feels that they have finally become a whole that is loyal to the royal family, working together to manage the world together.She can hear the beneficial arguments she wants to hear in the court, and such arguments can really solve the problem.The criticism of her or the New Deal that cost so many lives in the past has dissipated.In her opinion, her New Deal has worked very well in terms of the appearance of the imperial court.She could already imagine how many acres of land and cattle and sheep were allocated to all the people in the world, how many people had their own production industries, and how much more corvee labor was registered by the government. In the future, their Zeng family's country will become stronger.

She still listens to Duan Dizhi's report on the monitoring report of the Bi An School Office on time. In order not to let these tigers and leopards be idle, she continues to arrange for them to monitor the courtiers, and it is even better to extend her minions to the rivers and lakes to see those heroes. , Are you still doing something in secret?She believed they were restless.She believed she needed to keep an eye on them forever.Anyone who has a stake will rebel.She has bought the hearts of ordinary people, but she doesn't think she still has the opportunity and benefits to buy the gentry.Zeng Jingzhao's idea is very simple: without the efforts of the royal family and the court, how could these unkind people get rich and keep getting rich?For this reason, they should be grateful to Dade, and should not ask her for anything they shouldn't get.She believed that in a few years these people would learn how to behave, and it would be easier to control them and make them obey the emperor's authority.

The world she wants to build, the world left to Dezhao, is a world that can be easily controlled by the emperor.

The result of the surveillance was just as expected. Now everyone is afraid of the emperor and behaves cautiously.But she was still not very satisfied with the gentry, and had nowhere to start, so she could only let it go.But at this time, Liang Lie reminded her before the autumn harvest that she should pay attention to bridging the relationship with the gentry. It is impossible for the common people and the gentry to destroy the relationship with either party. Pay attention to balance.He even said convincingly that the art of the emperor is to balance all kinds of relationships, and the words seemed to persuade her not to use the Bi An school office anymore.Zeng Jingzhao didn't comment, thought for a while, and began to feel that although Liang Lie was an upright minister, in the final analysis, he was still the same type of person as the gentry, so he didn't intend to pay attention to his suggestion.

No one can stop the world she wants to build.She herself thought so, and Duan Dizhi also said so.At this moment of thinking like this, she began to miss Duan Dizhi again.Even if the other party is only working in her own house, even if the other party just left her bedroom this morning, even if she wakes up in the morning and sees Duan Dizhi's sleeping face, she can't bear to wake her up, and instead hugs him and sleeps for a while, she still think.She knew she couldn't, but she almost wanted Duan Dizhi to sit beside her and watch the memorial with her.But if that was the case, she probably wouldn't be able to read it.

I really want to ask her to be my pet, it's enough to be with me.But I also know that she is a bird of prey that will be released after all, not a fancy oriole in a cage.For this reason, great ambitions were even born, just like the king who wants to rule the world and retreat to the mountains and forests to sensuality.She wants to collect the soldiers of the world, trample down all the obstacles in the world, and create a brand new world with Saar's arrogance, just to live in seclusion in a place without disturbance with Duan Dizhi.

Thinking this way, with a sweet smile on her face, she wrote down on the memorial that she agreed and requested to report her dissatisfaction with the New Deal and the correction report as soon as possible.

At the same time in Duan Dizhi's residence, she looked at the red silk girl in front of her with some doubts. "I thought you wouldn't come in autumn and winter." "Why? I'm not allowed to visit your Central Plains clothes?" "No, I'm afraid you think it's too cold." "It's not cold in our mountains." "How long do you plan to stay?" If you are not satisfied, sleep in my bed." "I'll sleep with you, where will you sleep?" Duan Dizhi didn't answer, and the red silk girl saw her blushing, and felt bad for a moment, and then You can't say it clearly, let alone lose your temper.His eyes lowered, and he saw her smile again, ah, that smile is so pretty, even with a kind of shyness.

It's all hers, not mine.

The red silk girl took a deep breath and said, "I said you are going to live in your Princess Emperor's Palace?" Sometimes I need to stay here too." The red silk girl didn't ask any more questions, and there was another burst of silence.The girl in red silk had mixed feelings, Duan Dizhi was shy and embarrassed, and the surroundings were completely silent.In the end, the red silk girl said, "That's fine. It's rare to come here in winter, and I want to drink and eat meat with you." Duan Dizhi smiled, "If you want, we can go to the palace together." The red silk girl smiled "I'm afraid we barbarians on the frontier won't be able to learn all kinds of etiquette." Duan Dizhi laughed loudly, "Yes, etiquette is the most annoying."

Duan Dizhi was very cooperative and often went home obediently to drink and eat with the red silk girl.Zeng Jingzhao advised her to drink less alcohol, what if she drank too much and the old injury relapsed.She laughed to herself and said, "Don't worry, all she brought is medicinal wine." Zeng Jingzhao also smiled, her eyes flicked around Duan Dizhi, and said, "Speaking of which, I haven't thanked her properly for so many years. You If you go today, you might as well bring a message and ask her to have a banquet in the palace when she is free. Just the three of us." "Okay, then don't review the papers too late tonight, go to bed earlier." Responding to her smile, she turned and left.Early in the morning, I sent someone to order three sheep to go home, treat myself, and comfort my subordinates by the way.

The red silk girl was noncommittal about whether to go to the palace for the banquet, and she only focused on persuading Duan Dizhi to drink the medicinal wine she brought that night, always trying to mend her before winter to prevent her old winter injury from recurring.Knowing her kindness, Duan Dizhi naturally ate and drank a lot.Seeing this, the red silk girl felt a little sour. After all, they were in love, so what could she do?If she could take away Duan Dizhi, where would today be?Maybe it's not the wrong time, it's clearly the wrong person who can't be wrong again - you love deeply, but you can never get it.

"I came all the way, but I heard a lot of people talking about your princess emperor, what." "What?" "What new policy." "Oh, what did you say?" "You don't know?" A piece of meat, with wine in his hand, "Say what's not good, and what's good. Some people scolded harshly, and some people cursed back if they liked it." "Oh, are they all common people?" "Could it be our common people? The emperor's imperial government of yours hasn't been carried out yet." Duan Dizhi ate his food to himself and remained silent.The red silk girl continued to describe what she saw and heard on the road, so and so, and so and so.Duan Di was calm on the face, but he never thought that ordinary people would be dissatisfied with their new policies.Her eyes and ears were devoted to those powerful and powerful people she considered a threat.Ordinary people, in her subconscious mind, should regard the New Deal as a favor, and it is impossible to have any dissatisfaction.But it's a mistake to think of anything going in one direction.She was ignorant of this, and so was Zeng Jingzhao.Sure enough, he was sitting in the deep palace, too far away from the common people.

The red silk girl talked to her for a long time, feeling bored, so Duan Dizhi took the opportunity to interrupt: "Forget it, why bother to talk about these things."The two drank the cup, and the red silk girl said: "Is this a good night? I'm afraid you think your princess and emperor will go back. It looks like you won't be able to leave for a night." Duan Dizhi was so ashamed that he blushed, and the tip of his chopsticks was about to blush. Aya girl.Who would have thought that the girl in red silk had a surprised expression on her face—she was pretending to be brave enough to say this, she thought it was reckless, how could she have known that Duan Dizhi was really blushing?

She had no choice but to adjust her surprise to face Duan Dizhi's fight.

She lived in Duan Dizhi's house, and occasionally went out to drink with friends in the rivers and lakes, and always returned drunk, and the housekeeper didn't mind—Duan Dizhi was basically not at home, and this Miao girl didn't do anything wrong.As time went by, the two even became friends.For example, this night, the girl in red silk didn't drink too much, and when she came back, she ran into the butler in the courtyard, and the butler happily told her that Duan Dizhi was at home tonight.

She smiled, with a bit of debauchery, and thought, so what if she is here, I can't pretend to be drunk to belittle her.Even if she puts up with me, I can't do it.

However, she still smiled and asked the housekeeper, where is Dizhi?The butler said it was in the study.She laughed again, saying that Dizhi was just a man of wielding knives and guns, what was he doing in the study?The housekeeper said, I heard that there was a big debate about His Majesty's New Deal in the court today, and when you came back, your lord brought several books, so if you don't know anything, read more.

The red silk girl staggered to the door of the study, and saw that Duan Dizhi was really focused on reading at night.

It looks so pretty on your face when the candlelight shines on you, and you are so pretty.But you are for her.

She felt that she was absurd and wanted to fall asleep by herself, but in the end she went to Duan Dizhi and sat down next to her, leaning on her shoulder, and fell asleep in an instant.

When winter came, Zeng Jingzhao was extremely troubled by the reports from various states.She originally thought that the people of Limin would be grateful to her for getting her own land, but she didn't know that not everyone wanted to leave their old master for a free life, and some of them even had no skills other than being a slave.But due to strict restrictions, they must not go back to work, or find another one.After the forced granting of land, some people lost their money day by day due to poor farming or drought in famine years, and the land was useless. Landlords and gentry were afraid for a long time and did not dare to take the opportunity to merge. In such years, some people guarded their fields and starved to death.There are also landlords and gentry, the shrinking property has accelerated the exposure of some people's shortcomings of poor management. Over the past few years, some people have gone bankrupt and even become beggars.There are even many uncultivated wastelands in the counties and counties where individual phenomena concentrated.However, regardless of whether these people farm or go bankrupt, the tax burden and corvee on their heads will never be less.

At this point, honest prefectural and county officials began to report that the New Deal was bad, and hoped that the imperial court would pay attention to it and make corrections as soon as possible.

It's not that Zeng Jingzhao is unwilling to make corrections, but she needs someone to discuss why.She wants to discuss with Duan Dizhi the part of her own extreme thinking.In order to clarify the problem, Duan Dizhi read a lot of books, but both of them were deadheaded, so they still thought in that direction.In their eyes, her plan is based on her bottom line, and she hopes to go further.As a result, now someone asked her to take another step back, where to go?Zeng Jingzhao felt that there was no way out.She felt that at this moment the whole country was clearly standing on a precipice from which there was no way to retreat, and taking a step back was nothing more than a waste of all previous efforts, and it was clear that her body would be crushed to pieces.

The discussions in the court were as intense as she wished, but there was not a single suggestion she liked.She felt that the suggestions of the supporters were too radical, and the opponents revised the parts that she believed could not be revised.They are honest officials and unyielding opponents.Unlike the diehards who opposed the New Deal for no reason before, they each had their own reasons, which were difficult to persuade and refused to compromise.Zeng Jingzhao got a headache from hearing them quarreling every day, but as a king, he was powerless to heal.Discussed and noisy every day for most of the winter, with no progress.Zeng Jingzhao, who was in her thirtieth year, stood in the middle of the bedroom, thinking of this serious trouble, she was very worried.

There was no one around, so Duan Dizhi walked over and hugged her from behind, and whispered into his ear: "It's only today that I rest all year long, and I'm thinking about the failure of the government?" Zeng Jingzhao smiled tiredly, turned his head and leaned against Duan Dizhi's face: "Don't worry Don’t let it go.” “Don’t worry about drinking enough wine, come.” Duan Dizhi pulled her to sit down on the couch together, sifted a glass of warm wine and handed it over, “Just today. Don’t think about those things.” Zeng Jingzhao drank it with a smile , When she opened her eyes, Duan Dizhi still saw the worry in her eyes, like smoke when a fire failed. "Zhuge Kongming sighed for a long time, and finally died of illness in Wuzhangyuan." Duan Dizhi took the wine glass and put it aside, stretched out his hand to hold her cold hands, "I only wish I couldn't solve your worries and make you so haggard." Zeng Jingzhao smiled helplessly He said: "Everyone is incapable. Isn't the emperor the same? Sigh." He leaned against Duan Dizhi's arms, "I just want to do my best to do things well, especially not to make big mistakes. But now the Manchu court Civil and military, but I don't know who to trust." It was quite helpless for a king to be overwhelmed by a high place, Duan Dizhi was ignorant of political affairs, and could not help with anything, and her bunch of methods were useless under such circumstances. Kissed Zeng Jingzhao's forehead.Captivated by her gentleness, Zeng Jingzhao relaxed his mind, and said, "That's all. Why don't you drink more wine. By the way, Master Teng?" Zeng Jingzhao was very friendly to the red silk girl, and the red silk girl was also very respectful, although informal , but there is no meaning to be intimate with him.On New Year's Eve, she got so drunk at the emperor's banquet that Duan Dizhi had no choice but to take her away himself. "It's time to rest. I don't know why I drank so much." "It's also a good drinker. I wouldn't dare to drink like this. There will be all kinds of things tomorrow." When do you wait?"

She smiled, turned around and kissed Duan Dizhi, so as not to say any more tempting words from his mouth.Duan Dizhi's face was pale all the year round, only his lips were bright red, and his eyes were like dots of ink.

That snowy night passed, and it was the seven years of Yuanhua that Zeng Jingzhao didn't want to recall.