1124. Getting Started

Wen Tianxiang, Lu Xiufu and others stood up one after another.

They all looked at Zhao Dongting, with smiles emerging in their eyes.

Originally, they were still a little worried, worried that the emperor would not be able to arrive at Lin'an Mansion on time.

If the military parade was not presided over by the emperor, it would also cause countless public opinion to arise inside and outside the court and the country.

Now, that kind of doubt is eliminated.

Zhao Dongting's eyes flashed across the ministers, and then he took the initiative to bow to Wen Tianxiang and Wang Yinglin and other frontier officials, "Thank you, thank you for your hard work."

This made everyone, including Wen Tianxiang, feel a little panicked, and even didn't know how to face Zhao Dongting's kindness, and he just didn't dare to.

This kind of honor is really scary.

But in Zhao Dongting's view, this is a matter of course.

He never thought that the emperor should be arrogant, and the entire Song Dynasty should work hard for him, Zhao Dongting.

In recent years, he has been in charge of Changsha. Thanks to Wen Tianxiang and other ministers, Wang Yinglin, he should be more polite to them.

These people deserve the respect of Zhao Dongting.

Zhao Dongting knew in his heart that compared to himself, Wen Tianxiang, Wang Yinglin and others had to pay much more for the Song Dynasty.

The helpless appearance of Wen Tianxiang and others also made him laugh and cry.

He didn't say much at the moment and just took everyone to the government office.

When he went to the official hall of the government, the monarch and ministers sat down in sequence, Zhao Dongting looked at Wang Yinglin and other ministers on the west road of Jiangnan and said, "Sir, how are you doing Jiangnan West Road recently?"

Wang Yinglin stood up and bowed, "Go back to the emperor, I ask you to be prosperous, the people's livelihood is stable on the West Road of Jiangnan, and your many new policies have been effective."

Zhao Dongting nodded gently, "Have greenhouse planting ever been popularized?"

Wang Yinglin smiled and said, "Since you, the emperor, you invented the greenhouse planting method, I have implemented it on Jiangnan West Road. At present, there are many cities and people who are well aware of the greenhouse planting method. With the support of agricultural cooperatives, the harvest has increased by several points compared to the past. Every family has surplus grain, and there is no need for yamen runners to urge it. After harvesting, all the grain and grass will be sent to the grain storage warehouse."

Zhao Dongting smiled on his face, "That's it, I'll feel relieved."

He always believed that the problem of eating was the biggest problem in this era.

As long as the people have enough food to eat, the prosperity of the Song Dynasty is a foregone conclusion.

Now, this problem has been completely solved under his policy of vigorously developing water conservancy and developing agriculture.

Then he said to Wang Yinglin: "Jiangnan West Road was originally the hometown of fish and rice in our Song Dynasty. Only when the Jiangnan West Road is rich in food and grass, I don't need to worry about where the people in the Song Dynasty will go hungry. Wang Transportation Envoy, you can send an order immediately and ask officials from all cities in Jiangnan West Road to count the food and grass reserves and prepare to submit them to the imperial city."

Wang Yinglin was stunned when he heard this, "Your Majesty, in the past, did you not submit these statistics when you reported your duties in front of you?"

Zhao Dongting only laughed, "Isn't you going to Lin'an Prefecture this time? It's better to report the number to the court in advance."

Wang Yinglin and other ministers were still puzzled.

The Song Dynasty is stable now, and the emperor really has no reason to let them count the number of food and grass reserves so quickly.

Although this is not a big deal, it is always a bit hasty.

Before he could knock down, he was stopped by Zhao Dongting and said, "Captain Zhang, please give up on the gift!"

Zhang Hongwei looked up and saw Zhao Dongting's smiling face.

This moment made him feel a little.

My thoughts seemed to suddenly float away, back to when the emperor was still on the island of Juzhou.

When the emperor defeated the Yuan army and the rebels of the Leizhou prefect Ge Lijun, he smiled like this afterwards.

At that time, the emperor was young and looked at his eyes, but it seemed to be as mature as it is now.

Then he asked Zhao Dongting, "I wonder what the Emperor Xuanmo will do?"

Zhao Dongting said: "Captain Zhang, you just came back from Dali. Maybe you will tell me what is going on in Dali now?"

Zhang Hongwei replied: "When the last general led the Tianji Army to leave Dali, Deputy Jiedushi Lord Yu and others had already established government offices in various cities, and the people of Dali were not dissatisfied with this. Except for a very small number of places where people were in chaos, Dali was considered stable. Just in terms of people's livelihood, Duan Qilin was invincible in the first place, which made the food and grass in Dali empty, and the civilian laborers were extremely short of people. Now the people in Dali can only be considered poor."

Zhao Dongting nodded slightly when he heard this, pondered for a moment, "What's the movement of those sects and the original court officials in Dali?"

Zhang Hongwei said: "The generals have never heard of any movement from them. If a Buddhist sect takes the lead in submitting to our Song Dynasty, those sects seem to have agreed. And the ministers who were originally subjugated by Marshal Liu's army also expressed their surrender to our dynasty. When the generals left Dali, many city guards had already been taken over by our dynasty generals."

Zhao Dongting nodded softly when he heard this and said, "You guys have worked so hard."

Then he said, "Zhang Hongwei heard from him!"

He rewarded all the generals at the beginning, but because Zhang Hongwei and his men were far away in Dali, they had not been pardoned. Now that Zhang Hongwei is close, Zhao Dongting will certainly not favor one or the other.
Chapter completed!