Chapter 597: Regent

"The Nanliang of the Dou family, the Wu of the Liang family, the Qi of the Han family, the pseudo-Song established by the Xie family, and the Fan family who want to establish a country in Yunzhou, it is said that the country name is ready, called Pingnan, and it will be established soon. Read"

Royal Courtyard, Zhao Heng's residence.

The four rooms in the middle courtyard were connected and transformed into a temporary meeting place.

When the news of the establishment of the Han family came, Zhao Xu summoned Yang Feng, Mi Yan and other ministers to meet Zhao Heng.

During this period, in addition to the prince of the Ryukyu Kingdom, there were also many royal merchants, royal families, some poor officials, and ordinary merchants who arrived in Yanzhou.

As he had expected, with the influx of these people, Yancheng prospered a lot, and the prices of various houses rose sharply, allowing the royal palace to make a lot of money.

However, everything has its pros and cons, and there are also some troubles.

The shrewd royal merchants, royal families, and officials came to Yancheng and came to visit him as soon as possible.

And those with more stubborn brains often cried and howled in Zhao Heng's courtyard.

It means that the King of Yan neglected Zhao Heng.

The mansion arranged for Zhao Heng was ordinary, and there was no place for the emperor to hold court.

Zhao Xu naturally didn't bother to pay attention to the noise of these people.

But think about it carefully, the powerful families have established countries one after another, and each of them has palaces and palaces, and the ceremonial guards are very decent.

Emperor Zhao Heng lives too poorly, isn't it as the Xie family slandered him, it really seems that Zhao Heng was coerced by him.

If the news spreads, the name of the new imperial city of Yanzhou will probably not be loud, affecting his ability to attract royal merchants, poor scholars, etc.

After all, the Xie family also realized this and has been slandering him, using the eldest prince to compete with him for these resources.

So he decided to resume the court meeting and let Zhao Heng look like an emperor.

In this way, every time he takes the imperial edict, he won't look too casual, as if he wrote and printed it himself.

Although there is no difference in essence, in general, some sense of ceremony is more appropriate.

The contemporary Emperor Xian of Han still lived in a nice palace, and a group of ministers pretended to attend court all day long.

It was just Cao Cao who said everything.

In addition to restoring the court meeting, he also planned to build Wuji Palace in the north city.

Of course, this Wuji Palace was not a palace built specifically for Zhao Heng.

With the increase of officials and institutions in Yanzhou, the government office has become very crowded.

Moreover, new institutions will continue to emerge in the future, and he feels it is necessary to prepare for a rainy day.

Therefore, the name of Wuji Palace sounds like a palace, but it is actually the office area for officials.

He will only build a larger house in Wuji Palace for Zhao Heng to live in.

At the same time, for the construction of Wuji Palace, he will not consider the wooden structure like the palace building, but adopt a brick-concrete structure with concrete columns.

In simple terms, it is bricks, cement, and concrete columns.

In this way, the cost of Wuji Palace will be much lower.

According to his design, Zou Rong calculated that it would only cost about 300,000 taels of silver.

This little bit of silver is nothing compared to the wealth that the imperial merchants brought to Yanzhou.

"These powerful families have long been hiding their evil intentions, and now they have finally revealed their fox tails one by one." Yang Feng was so angry that his face turned red.

The flourishing Dasong is now full of countries. What does it look like?

"They think that Dasong will perish if they establish a country. As long as the Dasong court exists, they will always be rebels." Mi Yan was also there, and he clenched his fists at this time.

In addition to the two of them, there were Liu Fu, Chang Wei, officials from Zhutuo government office, and civil and military officials from Jinling.

These officials were all officials who chose to join the royal palace.

Compared with the past, Zhao Heng was obviously more energetic.

The restoration of the court meeting made him feel like an emperor again.

The most important thing is that he was really bored in Yancheng, and he finally had something to do.

Of course, he always remembered the tacit understanding he reached with Zhao Xu.

Therefore, the final result of the court meeting still needed Zhao Xu's nod.

"It's all my fault that I was too confused. I thought these powerful families would have some good intentions towards the royal family. Now it seems that it was just wishful thinking." Zhao Heng sighed.

The Jinling Rebellion made him completely disappointed in the powerful families.

This sigh was also from the heart.

Now that Dasong has split into so many countries, he feels even more guilty.

Compared with Beidi, these powerful families are equally dangerous.

After saying that, he looked at Zhao Xu, "King of Yan, now Dasong is the only one who can turn the tide. Various powerful families have established their own countries. What do you think?"

The purpose of Zhao Xu's visit this time was for this matter.

When they discussed with Liu Fu and Chang Wei, they planned to observe for a period of time and examine the movements of various powerful families.

Now the movements of the powerful families are basically finalized.

It's time to start cleaning up the chaos in Dasong.

He said: "Father, the powerful families establishing a country is the greatest contempt for our royal family. I think we should make a decisive move and take the initiative to prevent the powerful families from spreading the war to Yanzhou."

The powerful families establishing a country means that they no longer recognize the court of Dasong, but become the enemy of Dasong.

For the enemy country, there is only a life-and-death struggle.

Moreover, Xu Ke also told him that on the day when Qi was established, the powerful families shouted the slogan "Swear to destroy the King of Yan and enforce justice on behalf of heaven."

It can be seen that the powerful families in the world hate him to the bone. The future war will not only be a war between him and the powerful families, but also a war between him and the powerful families.

But he is very confident of victory.

Before coming to the Royal Courtyard, he had already asked Mi Wen's Propaganda Department to start propaganda in Qizhou.

The powerful families rely on the powerful families, and he relies on the people. Let's see who will laugh last.

Hearing this, Zhao Heng looked at Zhao Xu deeply.

The news that powerful families had established their own countries still shocked and frightened him.

This meant that in the vast territory of Dasong, only the area controlled by the King of Yan still belonged to the royal family.

If he were in charge of Yanzhou, he would only shrink in Yanzhou and defend it strictly.

But the King of Yan had the courage to take the initiative.

However, thinking that the King of Yan had taken down the Ningjin Dusi on his own, he was relieved again.

He, the ninth son, was really beyond his comprehension. It would be better for him to continue to eat, drink and have fun and spend his days leisurely in the future.

At the same time, he was grateful to Zhao Xu for building the Wuji Palace and restoring some royal ceremonies, such as leading officials to discuss politics with him every time there was a major event.

Thinking of this, he felt more at ease and felt that the only right thing he had done in his life was to choose to come to Yanzhou.

As if he had made up his mind, he said, "From today on, I order the Prince of Yan to be the Regent of Dasong. All government affairs of the court will be handled by the Prince of Yan, and there is no need to report to me."

After a pause, he said to the ministers, "From now on, when you see the Regent, you should see me as if I were you. You must not neglect me, and you don't need to complain for me. I live very comfortably here. It's rare for me to have a few days of peace. Don't make me upset."

"Yes, Your Majesty." The officials responded.

Zhao Xu was stunned. Zhao Heng was ready to be a hands-off boss.

The Regent has an overall view of state affairs, which is equivalent to supervising the country for the emperor.

Although in Yanzhou, there is no difference whether or not there is this title.

But it is naturally better to have it than not. In this way, any order he issues in the future will be equivalent to the order of the court.