The team of the tomb sacrifice arrived at the Yuezhou Palace on the fourth day, which is only one day away from the tomb area. Because after the recovery of Jiangnan, the tomb sacrifice became the norm, the Yuezhou Palace was fully repaired. Therefore, the area covers a larger area and has relatively complete facilities than other palaces along the way, which can allow the tomb sacrifice team to have sufficient rest at the last stop.

Thirty miles of road are nothing except boring for Zhao Bing. It’s just that because of the huge team, most of his time is spent on camping and harvesting every day. In addition, he is a idle person and he will not feel tired even if he is a idle person. However, for the concubines who are caring in the palace, the bumpy journey has long lost the freshness of his first journey and feel exhausted.

When Zhao Bing and his group arrived, someone had already cleaned up in the palace. After washing up, he had eaten with the concubines and let them rest. Seeing that it was still dawn, he left the inner palace and came to the residence of the ministers of the escort. The old ministers were almost old. For them, sacrifice to the tomb was a long journey, so it was appropriate to come and visit them.

"See Your Majesty!" After receiving the notice, Ying Jieyan and others were waiting outside the door and saluted them all.

"No need to be polite!" Zhao Bing quickly stepped forward and helped him one by one, "How come all the gentlemen live together?"

"Your Majesty, we are about to retire and return home with orders. It is not good to get together again, and it is so close to you even if we live together." Liu Fu said with a smile.

"Haha, as long as everyone is happy, don't say that I treat the old ministers harshly!" Zhao Bing said with a wry smile.

"Your Majesty, please!" Yingjie asked the emperor to come into the house and said, "It's already very good here. We live in a spacious place and it's convenient to get around!"

Zhao Bing looked while walking. According to the system, the important officials of the escort lived in separate courtyards, but they lived together in a three-entry courtyard, with halls and halls, and they could be placed under the custody, but the servants and their relatives were a little crowded.

"This is much better than walking on the sea back then. Even when we arrived in Qiongzhou, not everyone could have such a large yard." Liu Fu led the way forward and smiled.

"Haha, when I first arrived in Qiongzhou, all the houses in the better city of Fucheng were expropriated. I and Zhiguang lived in the same place, and there were even several of them living together." Ma Tingluan pointed at Chen Zhongwei and said.

"I didn't realize it at that time. I felt very intimate when I lived in the same place. Sometimes I often returned to Qiongzhou in my dreams!" Chen Zhongwei stroked his beard and said very yearning for it.

"We have been remembering it in our ten years in Qiongzhou. We have been sleeping in the firewood and tasting gall. At that time, who would have thought that we would have the day to restore our country and be able to worship the ancestors again? Unfortunately, we may not have the day to return to Qiongzhou!" Xu Zongren said with emotion.

"Hey, what's the difficulty? If you want to go back to Qiongzhou, I can send a clutch to sea in Lin'an and arrive in Qiongzhou in ten days." Zhao Bing answered, "Actually, I want to go back and see it, that's my blessed land!"

"Your Majesty, the old minister has heard that the new ship built by Your Majesty can travel against the wind and travel thousands of miles a day. I wonder if I have the honor to take it to the sea?" Liu Fu asked.

"It is OK to drive against the wind. There is no need to keep turning to borrow the wind as before. However, I have not tried it for a thousand miles a day, but it is not a problem to travel 800 miles a day. If you want to ride, what's the difficulty? Just transfer one boat to it!" Zhao Bing said.

"Your Majesty, please sit down!" He entered the back hall and said in a stern manner.

"Sirs are so elegant. I don't know when I can live such a leisurely life!" Zhao Bing couldn't help but envy him when he saw the room with blankets, soft couches, tea sets, chessboards, and tea cooking on the mud stove next to it, steaming.

"Your Majesty is a daily necessity, no more than us old people who are lying on the verge of life. We can only drink tea, play chess, and pass the time!" Liu Fu said with a wry smile.

"Xiang Liu's words are not bad, so he can't go to the palace to discuss matters, but he can also understand the people's sentiments and provide suggestions to the country!" Zhao Bing knew that these old ministers had been busy all their lives, and the loss of retreating from a high position would create a huge psychological and physiological gap. They still need to adapt slowly and said with a smile.

"We will enjoy our grandchildren and enjoy family happiness!" Liu Fu sighed lightly.

"I have set up a mansion for all my dear friends in the capital. If you want to enter the palace, I will definitely welcome you!" Zhao Bing bowed to everyone.

"Your Majesty is kind to you, so I am so grateful to you!" Ma Tingluan said with politeness.

"I have received the sincere teachings and support from all my gentlemen, so that I can be today. And your achievements are enough to be recorded in history. I don't know how to repay you!" Zhao Bing pressed his hands to let everyone sit down and poured tea ceremony for them with his own hands.

Everyone exchanged a few more greetings and talked about the past for a while. Ying Jieyan frowned and said, "Your Majesty, I have a few words to say, otherwise I may not have a chance after resigning!"

"Sir, please teach me!" Zhao Bing saw that his words were formal, and sat upright and said.

"It is said that 'the emperor has no family affairs', which means that the king's family affairs are also related to state affairs!" Ying Jieyan took a sip of tea and said, "Did Your Majesty be incompatible with the Queen and then not establish the Eastern Palace?"

"I... I can only say that there is something wrong with it, but it is not the main cause!" This question surprised Zhao Bing, a little embarrassed, and very sensitive. But he knew that the master asked this question at this time, and he must have another profound meaning, so he pondered for a moment and replied.

"The Empress is the mother of a country. Your Majesty cannot forget the public privately and do rude things." Ying Jieyan said.

"Oh, it's hard for me to do it!" Zhao Bing also sighed, "You are my beloved teachers and elders, and I am not afraid of family sluts being made public."

"Your Majesty, I will never talk about right or wrong!" Several people understood that the matters in the inner court involved the emperor's private affairs, and they must not be spread out. If the little emperor said this, they dare not really spread out the truth.

"This is related to the previous memorial. Before that, the empress's family had frequently entered the palace and asked the empress to lobby me to stop the 'official and gentry'. In the name of the empress, he secretly encouraged the gentry to write a letter to provoke the conflict between the government and the gentry. For this reason, I scolded the empress and asked him to strictly restrain his family. Wu also wrote a letter to blame himself, but he was very perfunctory and really made me..." Zhao Bing said with a wry smile and shook his head.

"The Wu family is really inappropriate. Your Majesty has been kind, but it is really not worthy of being so perfunctory!" Xu Zongren frowned.

"Your Majesty is worried that the queen will give birth to a dragon son. If she is made the prince, she will definitely become more arrogant. It will become more troublesome to pack up again at that time!" Liu Fu said.

"That is, when the Wu family was in front of the lantern festival, I have dealt with it severely. I thought they would restrain themselves. As royal relatives, they should be more of an example for the people, but now they have turned against the court's laws for their own selfish interests, which disappoints me!" Zhao Bing shook his head and said, "Compared with the Chen family, there are children from the clan who participate in writing the letter. Although they are distant relatives of the clan and no longer have the list of the Chen family genealogy, the Chen brothers still immediately wrote to apologize for crimes, and sent the offenders back to their hometowns in accordance with the clan rules and were severely punished."

"At that time, Wu was the queen, and she thought that she was a great family in Jiangnan and a family of officials, and she had great prestige among the scholars, which could help Your Majesty stabilize Jiangnan. But now it seems that it has not met expectations, and it should be reversed. However, Wu's family is like this, and she must also think that the queen would be the crown prince of our dynasty and then despise the court!" Liu Fu said.

"It seems that Your Majesty is wise and has already understood everything. He has cut off the Wu family's path to becoming an official, making it difficult for his disciples to influence the government. Otherwise, they would put pressure on the court and establish a crown prince as soon as possible. Today, they would be in a dilemma." Xu Zongren said. At this time, he understood why both relatives of the outside world, but the Chen brothers became important officials of the court at the same time, controlling the most important Ministry of War and Revenue. Of course, this is also related to their establishment of special merits for the country. The most important reason is that the Chen family has not deep foundation and lacks support in the court and the country. To support him as a new crown, he can use it to restrain the Wu family.

"It seems that although it is contrary to the normal rules for Your Majesty to establish the crown prince, I think there is nothing wrong with the current situation, otherwise the Wu family will become more domineering. If the tail is too big and not lost, it will be harmful to the Song Dynasty." Chen Zhongwei nodded and said.

"Our dynasty is the chief of the dynasty. Your Majesty should think twice and deal with it carefully!" Ying Jieyan did not say much.

"This is also a headache for me. If it is severe, it will affect the harmony between husband and wife; if it is mild, it will not hurt or itch, but it will make him think that I am indulging you!" Zhao Bing rubbed his forehead and said distressedly.

In fact, he knew that he had made this matter clear, so they would not ask again. Because since the founding of the Song Dynasty, the literati and officials have been very alert to the trouble of foreign relatives interfering in politics and eunuchs in the previous dynasty. They would be very cautious when they were involved in this situation, and they would try to kill them if there were any signs. The Wu family's behavior had already begun to show signs, so they would naturally understand what they did and were also preventing the incident of foreign relatives interfering in politics.

"Your Majesty, now that the Mongol Yuan has been defeated continuously, will he ask for help from other Khanates? If they send troops at the same time, our dynasty will be very passive!" No one was willing to talk about this sensitive topic, but they all pointed it out. Seeing that the purpose had been achieved, Liu Fu changed the topic.

"Well, I was also very worried about this problem!" Zhao Bing took a sip of tea, and wiped his mouth with the back of his hand without any image, "After regaining Jiangnan, I not only sent spies to the Western Regions to inquire about the news, but also ordered the maritime merchants who went to Persia to collect relevant information. This Northern Expedition captured many senior officials of the Yuan Dynasty. I personally inquired and learned about the specific situation. The situation was much more optimistic than what we thought!"

In ancient society, due to traffic restrictions, the spread of information was slow, and the movement of people was generally limited to a hundred miles, and there was little knowledge of the outside world. The northwest region was controlled by the Mongol Yuan, so it was very difficult to obtain information there. The four major Khanate countries in Mongolia spanned the current Central and West Asia regions, and were separated by the Mongol Yuan, which was more than ten thousand miles away from the south of the Yangtze River, and had almost zero understanding of them. It is no wonder that these important officials of the imperial court knew nothing about the situation there.
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