Chapter 16014 Good Girl

Zhao Xu said: "The palace has repeatedly stated that they want to save money and reduced the cost twice. They used this as an excuse and said that the two princesses are also from the Tian family. If they don't follow this example, they are afraid of being punished."

Gao Taotao gritted his teeth and said grimly: "The dispatches are done carefully, but how much can we eat for two little people, Xianjing and Xianhui? Don't forget that starting from last year, all the vegetables and meat in the palace have been made from

Send it to Zhongmou Imperial Manor, and the rest will still be treated as the princess, is it not enough to cover their expenses?"

Empress Dowager Xiang thought of another question: "There are also officials who just hired two wet nurses. It spread like this in the capital. How did this news leak out?"

Gao Taotao's expression calmed down: "The number of people in the palace has been reduced to one hundred, but it still can't stop the internal and external communication of interested people. It seems that they have forgotten how my mother-in-law organized the inner palace after Queen Wen Cheng left."

Zhao Xu didn't understand Gao Taotao's calmness before the storm, but he was secretly frightened by the Queen Mother. The Queen Mother was really angry. In this storm, many people in the palace would die inexplicably.

Zhao Xu said: "My grandson didn't want to upset the ladies about this matter, so he thought of quietly handling the matter, and then implementing a pension system in the palace and paying them salaries..."

Gao Taotao took Zhao Xu's hand and smiled brightly: "I understand your grandson's filial piety, but the officials don't need to take care of it anymore, so as not to be splashed with dirty water by the courtiers again."

"I will take care of this matter personally, and the pension system is also very good. However, it depends on the timing, and it will only work after rectification."

"Anyway, I can still protect my grandson from the wind and rain for a few years. If you have anything to say, let them come to me."

The grandparents and grandchildren agreed on this, and when Zhao Xu sent Gao Taotao and Empress Dowager Xiang back to the palace, they discovered a unique thin-barrel pen on the case of Empress Dowager Xiang.

The pen barrel is etched with a plum blossom, the two ends are flat, and there is also a delicate little seal.

Zhao Xu took the ink pad and used the pen cap to seal the two ends. He found that each had a very small seal character, which together was the word Ruiqing.

In the eyes of outsiders, this is called ingenuity, but in the eyes of Zhao Xu, a science geek, this is called fine electrolytic etching.

Using paper to wipe off the ink pad on the tip of the pen, Zhao Xu casually put the pen into his writing bag.

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On the Wuwu day, Lu Dafang made an announcement and spoke eloquently: "Liu An was a little distant in his life, and asked for a wet nurse even though he was forbidden to speak. This was not what the officials wanted. It was because one or two of the former Emperor's little princesses were sick and needed to drink milk to nurse them back to health."

"The official family often sleeps together in front of my bed. How can I have this? This is just a false rumor."

Fan Zuyu responded: "Although the foreign opinions are empty, they are enough to serve as a warning. I have been attending the banquet and have heard about the road. I really have private concerns, so I dare not avoid the crime of making false statements."

"If you say something before it has happened, it is too much sincerity, and if it has already happened, it means nothing. Your Majesty would rather accept the words that have not happened than make your ministers regret."

Gao Tao said: "At the end of the year, things are troublesome, and officials have many chores. However, the banquet is the way to advance and benefit the world. It is like sailing against the current. If you don't make progress, you will retreat."

"According to Zu Yu's instructions, the banquet will be held until the twenty-seventh day of the twelfth lunar month."

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Bianjing, Xinzhengmen Street, Zhao Xu and Colander were sitting in a carriage. Zhao Xu opened the corner of the carriage curtain and looked at the bustling streets on both sides.

As the festival approaches, the city of Bianjing is decorated with lights and colorful decorations. Nowadays, the West City is becoming increasingly prosperous, with all kinds of new buildings and new gatehouses lined up in rows. Especially, there are many novelty products and food here, attracting merchants to gather, which is about to overwhelm the prosperity of the East City.

From the prosperity of the east and west, we can also indirectly see that the civil and military aspects of the Song Dynasty have gradually become balanced.

Looking east from Xinzhengmen Street, you will find the embassy district after passing Yuxiao Temple. This year, there were dozens of small countries coming to congratulate the Song Dynasty. Zhao Xu could see the officials of Taichang Temple leading the foreign envoys in a ceremony.

After passing the embassy area, there is Baoxiang Temple. However, the most famous Baoxiang Temple in the Song Dynasty is not this one, but is located in Wenshang.

In the first year of Dazhong Xiangfu, Zhenzong enshrined Mount Tai in Zen and passed through Qufu and Zhongdu. The imperial edict changed the name of Zhaokong Temple, a famous temple in the Northern Wei Dynasty, to Baoxiang Temple and stayed there.

A large pagoda was built there during the Shenzong Dynasty, imitating the iron pagoda in Bianjing, which is also the inspiration pagoda of Kaibao Temple. However, the whole body is covered with yellow glazed tiles allocated by the workshop. The common people call it the "golden pagoda". It is said that the tooth relic of the Buddha is hidden inside.

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However, the monks of Baoxiang Temple in Bianjing often used this method to deceive people from other places.

There were many people in the Song Dynasty who only knew that there was a Baoxiang Temple in the Song Dynasty. There was a golden pagoda with Buddha's tooth relic in the Baoxiang Temple, but they took it for granted that the Baoxiang Temple must be in the capital, so the abbot of the Baoxiang Temple in the capital was actually made of gold.

He built a small pagoda and placed glass beads as Buddhist treasures inside the pagoda, which attracted a lot of incense.

Feng Jing once wanted to rectify this matter when he was the governor of Kaifeng. However, the great monk argued that our temple was indeed called Baoxiang Temple, and there was indeed a golden pagoda in the temple. The glazed beads in the pagoda were indeed one of the seven treasures of Buddhism.

1. May I ask Fu Yin, what is wrong?

The handsome guy Feng was so smart that he couldn't laugh or cry, so he helplessly waved his hand and told the monk to get out, and continued their bluffing and deception.

Su You told Zhao Xu this incident as a classic case of political governance. The behavior of the monk of Baoxiang Temple in Bianjing was within the scope of the national law.

Although such an existence is suspected of misleading the ignorant people, which is unreasonable, the government really has no way to interfere except to popularize the knowledge for the people, or Zhao Xu orders one of the two Baoxiang temples to change its name.

Because the monks did not do any other bad things besides "not informing", and they had no obligation to tell others that Bianjing Baoxiang Temple and Zhongdu Baoxiang Temple were not the same.

Therefore, the monks were at best just taking a pass and did not break the law.

The monks are so cunning that the golden pagoda in their own temple contains only "Buddha treasures" and not "Buddha's tooth relics". This does not constitute actual deception.

Many people subconsciously think that Buddha Treasure is the honorific title given to the Tooth Relic by the monks, and thus are deceived.

But you can't say that the monks are wrong, because the glass beads are indeed "Buddha treasures".

Therefore, Feng Jing's handling of this matter was correct. He did not use administrative orders to force the monks to "correct", which is quite admirable.

As a religious place that the common people love to go to, rather than struggling to "match wits" with the monks or posting notices outside the temple to popularize science, it is better to let it go.

This means that if the water is clear, there will be no fish.

If you can't put sand in your eyes or wear small shoes on your feet, then you are not a politician.

Politicians must be able to understand and tolerate such ridiculous existence as the Buddha Golden Pagoda of Baoxiang Temple in Bianjing.

Looking at the bustling scene on both sides of the street, Zhao Xu turned to look at the colander: "I'm short of money."

Colander was dumbfounded and a little annoyed: "It sounds like I have money to use."

The two top three rich men in the Song Dynasty, because of their loving elders, have countless expenses every year, but now they have no pocket money.

The two of them first made a glider some time ago, using hollow aluminum tubes and Meishan silk. The aluminum thing requires the black technology of molten electrolysis, and is currently very expensive.

Su You had already told everyone that they could do whatever they wanted to do with the colander, but the raw materials had to be paid according to the market price, and they couldn't develop the bad habit of the second generation ancestors who just ask for it at their fingertips.

Originally, there was still some leftover, and he could probably hold on until the Chinese New Year to receive the lucky money, but when Zhao Xu saw the diesel engine blueprint, he wanted to make a copy to show off to the ladies. After finishing it, the two boys were really in trouble.

Zhao Xu looked at the hot Malatang Chuanchuan incense stall on the street and swallowed: "Your junior sister has made a lot of money recently, can you borrow some from her?"

"What about my little junior sister?" Colander immediately retorted: "My little junior sister is quiet and virtuous. Officials cannot slander her reputation."

"Tsk tsk tsk..." Zhao Xu couldn't help but complain: "Pai Gow mahjong is all about skill. He knows how to exploit the loopholes in horse racing odds to smear the royal family's oil. He encourages his senior brother to steal the Yongchun dew from home for her to taste, and makes up slang tunes to make Baoxiang laugh.
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