Chapter 491: Leaving the Palace
The problem of Zhao Xing's empty salary is very simple, and there is no need to make a big fuss.
This alone is enough.
However, Zhao Xing did not intend to make a big fight this time.
Zhao Xing did not agree with the statement that law does not blame the public, but sometimes he had to admit it.
The situation of empty salary is considered a tradition. Regardless of whether the generals in the military are willing or not, they are all participants in the information.
If you don't say anything else, don't the British Duke know about this situation?
I must know it, but it involves too much, which is the default unspoken rule, and he cannot say it.
The generals in the army who were vacant to pay may not have their original intentions.
This is how the officialdom is. If you are not involved in the relationship, you will be excluded.
If others take you or not, will you tell me?
Of course, whether it is greed or because of some willingness, it is wrong that is wrong and cannot be exempted from punishment.
But Zhao Xing could not punish all the generals and schools in the army.
This incident can be regarded as a chance for Zhao Xing to give them.
He did not pursue the number of young and old people laid off in the army, which did not match the number of people who needed to be resettled.
Only those generals are required to report the number of people who have the disarmament difference after disarmament to make up for them.
The original difference between the soldiers in the army was more than 20%, and the part that was actually cut out now looks like 30% or 40%.
But the difference reported by most generals is only more than 10%.
In other words, they still want to keep the difference of 20% to earn a salary.
Less than one-third of the generals reported the real difference.
"I give them a chance. Do they think I don't want to go into it?" Zhao Xing sneered and said, "I want other evidences of their crimes!" "Yes!" Yin Hanzhang replied. . "By the way, how is the investigation into the minting of counterfeit coins?" Zhao Xing asked. "Your Majesty, you have found many clues. You can find them thoroughly within two months at the latest." After Yin Hanzhang finished speaking, he was a little reluctant to speak.
"If you have anything to say, the Imperial City Department is my eyes and ears. What are you going to worry about?" Zhao Xing said unhappily.
Yin Hanzhang hesitated and said, "Your Majesty, Princess Funing's Princess, seems to have also participated in the minting of counterfeit coins."
"It seems?"
Zhao Xing said coldly when he heard this, "Yes," You dare not investigate, do you?"
Yin Hanzhang lowered his head when he heard this, and did not dare to refute.
Zhao Xing was right. He found out that Li Jie might also participate in the minting of counterfeit coins, so he immediately gave up.
Li Jie has a special identity. He is not only the cousin of the Supreme Emperor, but also the son-in-law, and Zhao Xing's brother-in-law.
If you really find something out, wouldn’t it make Zhao Xing embarrassed?
So, in this matter, he did not dare to investigate, and even did not know whether he should tell Zhao Xing. "Forget it this time, remember, no matter who I am involved, you can just do it. The rest is not what you should consider."
Zhao Xing also knew Yin Hanzhang's concerns, so he just knocked on him and did not pursue the matter.
"Yes, I understand!"
"Go."
"I'll leave."
Zhao Xing had a headache when he sent Yin Hanzhang away. Rubbed his head.
He just wanted to kill all those who lied, but he couldn't do that.
You can't even deal with them by eating their empty salary.
Once he does this, if he doesn't delve into it, it will be a little unreasonable.
So Zhao Xingcai said that he needed other evidence from those people.
Li Jie's participation in minting counterfeit coins also gave him a headache.
It’s not that Zhao Xing cares about family affection, but that he is worried about his father.
The Empress Dowager, that is, Zhao Xing's grandmother, had no children. After the father was born, he told the public that Empress Dowager Liu was born.
Although many people know about this, no one dares to discuss it.
It was not until after Empress Dowager Liu passed away that someone told his father.
The person who told his father was the grandfather of King Yong.
Zhao Xing even suspected that the reason why the father chose King Yong in the original play was to repay his kindness.
Otherwise, King Yong will be mediocre and King Yan will be strong and capable, and everyone will know that.
Although there is a possibility that King Yan would deliberately promote it, but did King Yong not know how to promote it?
Everyone knows the ability, no one questiones, which shows that there is indeed a big gap in ability between the two.
The play does not say why King Yong was chosen, as if he thought that Prince Yong had many descendants, while Prince Yan had few descendants.
Zhao Xing felt that this was untenable, and little did not mean that there was no.
Until the disposal of King Yong and King Yan, the father was finally tolerant of King Yong's lineage and left his bloodline.
The father told him after Zhao Xing asked.
When the father learned that he was not born to Empress Dowager Liu, his biological mother Li had already passed away.
The time when Li died was only one year earlier than Liu.
In other words, the father's biological mother was clearly alive and was in the palace, but he never knew about it.
It is precisely for this reason that the father was full of guilt towards Li, thanking the grandfather of King Yong for telling him the truth, and was always compensating the Li family.
Not only did Li's brother be named as his husband, he also gave the Li family a title and married his daughter into the Li family.
After Princess Funing married Li Jie, the couple was in a bad state, and she even beat Princess Funing. Even so, her father did not investigate it in depth.
This shows the father's favor to the Li family.
When Li Jie made counterfeit coins, Zhao Xing naturally wanted to deal with them according to the law.
Even if it is executed, it doesn’t matter. Anyway, there is no restriction on widows from remarrying. As a princess, even if she has married someone, it is easy to remarry.
But my father would definitely not agree. My father could let him do anything, but he would not let him touch the Li family.
"Let's take one step at a time." Zhao Xing shook his head.
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Xixia sent envoys to the Liao Kingdom, and at the same time sent envoys to the Song Dynasty.
Generally speaking, the condemnation would send people to inform him in advance, but this time the situation was urgent. While Xixia sent people to inform him, all the envoys had already set off.
When Zhao Xing received the news, the envoy of Xixia was not far from Bianjing.
Not only did Xixia send hours to the Song Dynasty, Zhao Xing actually sent envoys to Xixia and Hehuang after the Liao envoy left.
So, Zhao Xing knew the purpose of the Western Xia condemnation envoy without guessing.
Zhao Xing summoned all the ministers to discuss and waited for the arrival of the envoys of Xixia.
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"Why don't the queen eat it? Isn't it to your appetite?" Zhao Xing said in confusion when he saw Zhang Guifen was a little confused. "No... nothing." Zhang Guifen shook her head.
Zhao Xing put down his chopsticks and looked at Zhang Guifen and said, "Do you look like you are fine? You and my husband, what can you say?"
Zhang Guifen hesitated for a while and said, "Your Majesty still remembers the time when he came back from the polo stadium and encountered someone drowning in the baby?"
"Huh?" Zhao Xing was stunned when he heard this, and soon thought of what Zhang Guifen said about that time Mrs. Wu came back from the polo stadium and encountered a drowning incident.
"I naturally haven't forgotten, what's wrong?"
Zhao Xing nodded and said, "Is the queen blamed me for not taking action since I succeeded to the throne?" >
"No." Zhang Guifen shook her head and said, "After that time, I asked someone to investigate. In addition to drowning, there are many people who cannot afford to support their children and abandon their children. I asked someone to ask someone to ask someone to investigate. In addition, I asked someone to find someone to do so. I bought a house in the south of the city to collect the discarded children. "
"Why haven't you told me?" Zhao Xing didn't expect that Zhang Guifen had been adopting orphans over the years . "I can't bear it, just do good deeds and accumulate virtue." Zhang Guifen said with a smile.
"How many people have you adopted?" Zhao Xing asked. "There are 331 brothers, and the younger sisters are less, and there are 216. The oldest one is only five years old." Zhang Guifen said.
There are so many more brothers than sisters, and it looks a bit incredible.
No mistakes, one poem, one post, one content, one in 6, one book, one bar, one read!
After all, the ancients valued bloodline inheritance.
In fact, the reason for this situation is that Brother was abandoned because the people could not afford it. The abandonment was that he hoped to be adopted by a kind-hearted person.
Even if my sister can't afford it, she can still keep it for a few years and sell it, and some people will drown her.
But my brother is too young and no one wants it at all, so there is such a big gap in the proportion of adopted orphans. "You told me that I had no money?" Zhao Xing asked. "Yes." Zhang Guifen nodded and said, "There are still very few cases of abandoning children near Bianjing. As long as someone sends them to the abandoned children, I will ask someone to pay a sum of money."
Raising more than 500 children actually doesn’t cost much.
But placement and care costs money, and those who send children have to pay, and the pressure is getting greater and greater.
Although Zhang Guifen is the queen, she only has no worries about food and clothing. In fact, she doesn’t have much money to use.
She has a lot of dowry, but the money is all in the palace, so it is difficult to take it out.
The money for raising these children was all the money she saved when she was in the boudoir, as well as the income from the dowry in the past years.
As the news spread, more and more children were sent, and many parents even sent their children hundreds of miles away, and the cost was getting bigger and bigger.
The several houses that Zhang Guifen bought were already full of them.
If you want to accept it, you have to buy a house.
Because there are too many people living there, others are unwilling to rent and can only buy it.
She just wanted to tell Zhao Xing that she would allow her to take the dowry out of the palace, buy a house, and place the orphans.
"I am the emperor. What I should have done is that I am an incompetent emperor." After hearing this, Zhao Xing grabbed Zhang Guifen's hand and said. "Didn't Your Majesty say that we are one husband and wife?" Zhang Guifen said with a smile.
"Haha, yes, we are one husband and wife."
Zhao Xing smiled and said seriously: "You are right to do this, but how much can you save me alone? They are big Have you considered how to arrange it? "
"I have thought about it too, but I can't ignore it, I can only think about it slowly."
Zhang Guifen was born with a noble family and did not know the sufferings of the people.
If Zhao Xing hadn't come forward to stop him last time, she wouldn't have known that such a thing was actually happening among the people.
She naturally knew that the adopted children were not bad now, just let them eat enough.
But she can't raise these children for the rest of her life, and the placement of older children in the future is a problem.
As the queen, she couldn't wait for them to grow old and sell them to slaves and maids.
"I look back and think of a solution to the issue of resettlement. I am sure what you said. I will explain to Liu Sanshi in the future." Zhao Xing said. "Thank you, Your Majesty!" Zhang Guifen said with a smile. "I should thank you, you are helping me share my worries." "Your Majesty, I want to see them." Zhang Guifen said.
Before she became a mother, she just felt that the children were pitiful and couldn't bear it, so she was able to adopt them.
But after becoming a mother herself, she was not just pity for those children. "I'll go with you." Zhao Xing said. "Your Majesty is busy with national affairs, I just need to go by myself." Zhang Guifen said. "No matter how busy I am, I don't lack this time. I will accompany you to see and talk about their placement issues." Zhao Xing said.
"Yes."
Zhang Guifen nodded and asked, "How do you want to accommodate them?"
"I am still young now, so I will ask someone to teach them to read and read. Talented people can participate in the imperial examination in the future. If I don't have talent, wait Those who are older can teach them some skills so that they can make their lives." Zhao Xing said.
In fact, Zhao Xing wanted to wait for them to grow older and send them to the Firearms Department, or let someone teach them to practice martial arts.
These taught since childhood are not as good as family members, so you can feel at ease when using them.
But this arrangement is too utilitarian, and Zhang Guifen may not be able to accept it.
Zhao Xing saw that Zhang Guifen is now full of maternal love.
According to what Zhang Guifen said, she has adopted orphans for many years.
To calculate it normally, it is impossible to adopt only this little bit.
It should be that the adoption efforts were increased after the child was conceived.
Zhang Guifen would not regard those adopted children as her own, but in her heart, those children are not much different from her children.
"Your Majesty is considerate." Zhang Guifen said with a smile.
In the evening, after Zhang Guifen fell asleep, Zhao Xing was still thinking about the orphans.
Zhu Yuanzhang hated corrupt officials so much, in addition to seeing corrupt officials rampant in the late Yuan Dynasty, another important reason was that his parents were forced to death by those corrupt officials.
But few people know that Zhu Yuanzhang, who was born in poverty, had a deep understanding of the sufferings of the people, so after he became emperor, he was very concerned about the living conditions of ordinary people.
The nursing home was established to accept the elderly and widowed elderly and orphans who had no support and had a child.
But the earliest orphanage was not established in the Ming Dynasty, but in the Song Dynasty.
The earliest official orphanage was established during the Song Dynasty, but it was during the Southern Song Dynasty.
According to the "History of the Song Dynasty·Food Records", there were 286 Saint-Youth Bureaus in the Southern Song Dynasty and adopted more than 100,000 orphans.
In addition, the father actually introduced corresponding policies, stipulating that as long as a family adopts one orphan, one person’s corvee can be reduced and the adoption of orphans can be vigorously promoted.
In the Southern Song Dynasty, in order to recuperate and breed the population, the court issued a "Feal Restoration Order", which prohibited the poor from abandoning their children and could not afford to raise their children. After the child is born, you can also receive "birth subsidies" to help families reduce the pressure on raising children.
How many people can be raised by Zhang Guifen alone?
The policies designated by the father will have little effect after implementation.
Raising a child is not proportional to reducing the labor service of a person.
The people are under great pressure to raise their own children, so they are not able to adopt orphans.
Zhao Xing felt that the "Feasty Restoration Order" issued in the Southern Song Dynasty was very good, and he was ready to make detailed formulations and promulgate and implement them.
It is impossible to eliminate it, and it is still okay to reduce the situation of abandonment of babies.
But the official orphanage still needs to be built.
I don’t know how long it took to think about it before I fell asleep.
The next day, Zhao Xing handled some important government affairs, briefly told Zhang Qingzhi about the "fetal care order" and the establishment of an orphanage, and asked him to formulate a general charter first, and then went out with Zhang Guifen. It's palace. "It's been more than a year since I ascended the throne, and this is the first time I have left the palace." Zhao Xing sighed.
(This chapter ends)