"That's right. I didn't call you Sixth Brother for nothing!”Zhao Xuan said indifferently to Ling Ri.
Ling Ri and the others secretly wiped off their cold sweat. Although they were experts in terms of martial arts, they had still snatched the throne from someone else. In ancient times, this was a huge debt of gratitude and hatred.
After leaving Liu Zi's noodle shop, Zhao Xuan brought them back to the Eighth Prince's Mansion.
"Prince, you're back!" Uncle An, the butler of the Eighth Prince's Mansion, came up and asked with a smile.
When they saw the old and decrepit Uncle An, Ling Ri and the others were shocked once again.
They were originally imperial guards and were experts when they were young. Over the years, their skills had become more profound.
However, the strength of this Uncle An in front of them gave them the feeling that he was as vast as the ocean and unfathomable.
Since when did a steward of the Imperial Residence have such a hidden expert?
Zhao Xuan naturally noticed the expressions on Ling Ri and the others 'faces, and he secretly laughed in his heart.
Uncle An was an old servant who served Xiaoyao Zi. After Xiaoyao Zi left, he stayed in the Eight Virtuous Prince's Mansion as a butler.
Although Uncle An's talent was average, he was still trained into an expert with the help of the powerful Xiaoyao Zi.
However, he had yet to reach the Transcendent Grandmaster realm, so he could not completely restrain his aura, so he showed his sharpness.
"Uncle An, these are my friends. Get someone to arrange a courtyard for them to stay in!”
"Alright! By the way, Prince, during the time you were not around, the Emperor would secretly send people to ask about you every three to five days. He also said that after you return, you should immediately go to the palace to see him!”Uncle An thought for a moment and reminded him.
Zhao Xuan nodded." I understand. I'll go in a while!"”
He returned to his room and changed his clothes. At this moment, Zhao Xuan had changed out of his ordinary clothes and changed into a jade robe embroidered with white dragon gold threads. He put on a feather crown and in the blink of an eye, he had changed from a young swordsman to a noble young master in brocade clothes.
Then, Zhao Xuan rode on his BMW, Wind Chaser, which was a mixed-blood of Arabian horses and Ferghana horses.
Moreover, it could be said to be a super horse king. It was a rare height of 1.65 meters, which was not much different from a Frisian horse.
The fur on his entire body was snow-white without a trace of color. Paired with Zhao Xuan's White Dragon Embroidered Robe, he was truly graceful and charming.
Zhao Xuan left the Eighth Prince Mansion with a few white-robed sword guards and headed toward the Imperial Palace.
The imperial palace of the Northern Song Dynasty could be said to be the most dilapidated imperial palace in all the dynasties because Kaifeng had never been the capital.
Whether it was compared to the Luoyang Palace of Chang 'an in the Han and Tang Dynasties or the Zijin City of the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the imperial palace of Kaifeng could be said to be extremely shabby.
From this point of view, the emperor of the Northern Song Dynasty could be said to be very rare.
The income of the Great Song was the highest in ancient times, with an annual income of 100 million strings. Then, the emperor lived in the most dilapidated palace in the past dynasties.
This was also one of the reasons why Zhao Xuan had no interest in the throne.
The emperor at this time was not like the emperor of the Qing Dynasty, who treated his officials as slaves and killed them as he pleased.
The Great Song respected its officials to the bone. Not only did they have great power and never kill them, but they also received all kinds of benefits.
The officials of the Great Song also had to retire. To put it bluntly, when they retired from their official positions, they would still receive the same salary as before until they died.
Later on, when he became a heroic and divine sect, he even reached a certain level of official position. His son and grandson could directly become a few levels of official status.
To put it bluntly, the treatment of the Confucians in the later generations had come from the Song family.
Of course, Zhao Xuan was not used to Confucianism. However, the Northern Song Dynasty had been established for nearly a hundred years, and the civil officials in the court were very powerful. Zhao Xuan could not attack them for a while.
As the great ancestor said, political power comes from the barrel of a gun.
Therefore, the first thing Zhao Xuan had to do was to forge a batch of spear barrels that belonged to him.
Soon, they arrived at the imperial city of the Northern Song Dynasty. Zhao Xuan flashed his token and walked in without any prior notice.
Who in the palace didn't know that this lord and the emperor had hit it off since they were young. Although they weren't blood brothers, they were more like blood brothers.
To Zhao Xuan, meeting Song Renzong was also a tragedy. If it was Song Yingzong, Song Zhenzong, Song Shenzong, or even Song Taizong, Zhao Xuan would not hesitate to kill them and become the emperor himself.
However, he had no choice but to meet Song Renzong.
The title of Qiangu Renjun was definitely not a bluff. Song Renzong was truly an honest and kind person.
If an emperor was kind for three or two years, you could say that he was faking it. But if he could pretend for decades, could you still say that it was fake?
This was one of the few emperors that Zhao Xuan admired in his previous life. Therefore, in this life, Zhao Xuan did not intend to have any ideas about the throne of Song Renzong.
At the very least, he did not have any thoughts about it.
"Is Imperial Brother inside?"
Zhao Xuan asked the young eunuch at the door when they arrived at the main hall where Ren Zong worked.
"Replying to the prince, His Majesty is inside!”
Zhao Xuan nodded, pushed open the door, and walked in.
"Zhao Xuan, you're back!"
When Zhao Zhen saw Zhao Xuan enter, he did not look happy. Instead, he looked defeated.
Zhao Xuan naturally knew the reason for Ren Zong's defeat. It was because the bet he made with Ren Zong ten years ago had probably reached a conclusion.
Ten years ago, after Zhao Xuan and Zhao Zhen got to know each other, the two of them bragged about each other. In order to show off, Zhao Xuan told Zhao Zhen that the Old Zhao family would definitely be dragged down by these officials and the army in the future.
Zhao Zhen didn't believe him, so Zhao Xuan made a bet with him.
For the past ten years, Zhao Zhen and Zhao Xuan would calculate the state's expenditure on the government and military every year.
Zhao Xuan wanted to show Zhao Zhen how much money he had earned in just ten years.
Because of the Chanyuan alliance, the Great Song was recruiting soldiers like crazy, and the military expenditure was also increasing like crazy.
During the reign of Emperor Taizu of Song Dynasty, there were only 200,000 imperial guards in the world. During the reign of Emperor Renzong, this number had reached 1.2 million, six times more.
Moreover, the expenditure of the officials was also increasing. Although it was not as exaggerated as the military expenditure, it had still increased several times.
Great Song seemed to have a lot of income every year, but 70% of the expenses were spent on the welfare of officials and the army.
Therefore, it was every scholar's dream to be an official in the Song Dynasty, but the Song Dynasty's national strength was the weakest among the Han dynasties.
The dynasties of the Central Plains, be it the Qin and Han Dynasties, the Sui and Tang Dynasties, or even the Ming Dynasty, had all beaten the barbarians to the point that they called them father.
Only in the Great Song, it was truly humiliating for the barbarians to beat him up and call him father.
But after stepping into this door today, Zhao Xuan knew that this humiliation was about to be changed.
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