I kind of know what Li Sheng and Li Rui were like back then. One moment he was still full of energy and high spirits, thinking that he could make great achievements and try his hand at the world, but the next moment everything was empty, and he didn't know what to do.

I even admire Li Sheng a little, he spent almost every day in such a daze in the last few years, if it were me, I am afraid I would not be able to support it for a long time, but he can still struggle to survive in hardship, and when he left the capital, he still had the heart to ask me to take care of Li Rui.

Did he have long expected that Li Rui would be deposed sooner or later? Did he have long expected that the son of a mother would not end well?

I didn't get along much with this former brother of the crown prince, and I didn't have a lot of affection for him, but after so many years of his death, I still think of him from time to time, and I feel more and more that if he had succeeded in ascending the throne, he might have been a good emperor—but my mother did not give him this opportunity.

Mother is a person who has fought out of the sea of corpses and blood, and it is her principle to strangle all threats early, even if this threat is her own son, her eldest son, and all the hopes she once had.

But I don't know if today, it's me or what I proposed, so that my mother slightly... Feeling threatened?

I walked aimlessly in the palace, retiring from others, just as I did when I was a teenager. But when I was a teenager, there were newly elected palace people who didn't understand the rules to look at me secretly, curiously guessing my identity, and often someone quietly wrinkled their noses and pouted their mouths when they saluted. I can only smile wryly and speculate, presumably because of the majesty that age has bestowed upon me.

Most of the reason is that the road is too familiar, unconsciously I actually went around to the gate of Baisun Courtyard again, stood at the door for a moment, hesitated and did not go in, suddenly saw a person flashing inside, shoved a small stove into my hand, hatefully said: "I won't choose a time to go out of my mind, such a cold day, just standing at my door, who will I tell if it freezes?"

I didn't expect Ah Huan to be inside, so I grabbed her hand and said, "So you're here." ”

She glanced at me, pushed me in half-pushed and half-pulled, and the attendants were about to take off my coat for me, but she glared: "Don't you see the cold? He ordered people to "burn some wine, not to be strong" and "take some hot food", and asked someone to fetch hot water, wiped my hands with hot hand towels, and even wiped my face, and stuffed the stove in my hands again, and Fang personally took off my coat for me: "Why, I am so annoying here, I would rather freeze at the door than come in?"

When I saw her, I had the strength and smiled, "No. After saying this, he sneezed and hugged the stove by himself: "It's me who is not good, I shouldn't stand outside, I make you worry." ”

She looked at me, waved someone away, and poured me a full glass of hot wine: "Just one drink." After I drank this cup, I accepted the cup, changed the fruit drink, and brought a small quilt from the inside of the couch, and asked me to sit on her side, lie side by side with her, take off my socks, and both of them put their feet in the quilt and leaned on the same pillow: "For the affairs of the Fengtian Bureau?"

I nodded: "Auntie... Tell me to hand it over and leave it alone. ”

Her face remained unchanged: "Businessmen are cheap, it is impossible for you to operate for a long time." ”

I was not convinced: "But I just made a start." "In my imagination, in addition to clothes, there are also gold and silver jewelry, as well as bags, shoes and clothing, and even perfumes, spices and many other businesses, once these businesses are done, the income is considerable, and it is beneficial to the country and the people, not to mention that my mother didn't look like she wanted to take my power at first, and she smiled when I talked about collecting taxes and other things.

Ah Huan thought for a moment and asked me, "What did you tell Your Majesty in the first place?"

I said: "It is to raise military salaries - you also know the people of the local officials, the border general asked for 62,000 soldiers, and after discussing the reduction of frugality, it was changed to 40,000, but who knows that the local officials still refused, saying that it was a waste of food and salary, and it was useless, so please cut it to 24,000 people." I told A-Niang that I would raise the extra money, and A-Niang was approved. ”

Ah Huan asked me: "Then how much money did you raise last year? In terms of the store in Shendu, how much can you get in a year?"

I said, "I didn't make much money last year, and all the money was used to make up for new stores." Seeing her glaring at me, Fang said stupidly: "If you don't count the machine yard and the slaves and maids bought, a year... There are always 200,000 pieces. ”

The price of the clothes in the first season was particularly high because of the mother, and the price and quantity of the clothes in the next three seasons have dropped, but even so, the sales price in this year is as high as 400,000 yuan. The expenses in the first year were very large, but mainly there were looms and other tools, as well as the cost of buying slaves and maids, and the cost of the site, if it was really calculated according to the daily expenses, even under my "extremely relaxed" employment regulations, the six or seven hundred skilled slave women, the need for food, clothing, housing and transportation for a year was only a few thousand, and then throwing away all kinds of materials, as well as store maintenance and other expenses, 200,000 yuan is actually said to be less.

Ah Huan looked at me and laughed, I was annoyed by her laughter, and said sullenly: "But if you do what I want, maybe you can have one or two million yuan a year, which is not a decimal." "Nowadays, there are many kinds of currency, and the treasury income is rich and silk, rice, millet and silk, and the value is different, but even if a piece of cloth and a stone of rice are only worth the same money, the annual income is only thirty or forty million yuan, if it is calculated at the current price, it is not more than seven or eight million yuan, this commercial house, it is not too high to be taxed by several large states, and the mother is the son of heaven, and it cannot be ignored.

Ah Huan tilted his head slightly: "Did you have any strange ideas with Your Majesty again, such as your party club, what female official or the like?"

I bowed my head weakly: "I only mentioned to her that I wanted to recruit people openly in the market, and the woman of the Xu Liang family was a helper, signed a contract, and gave me monthly materials, and by the way, I made a name for the Fengtian Bureau." ”

Ah Huan laughed: "So everyone knows that the daughter of a good family can also go out to work, like a craftsman, and make money by handicraft?

I puffed out my face angrily, crossed my fingers between her fingers, palms against each other, and shook her hand one by one: "I think so, but of course I won't say that with Ah Niang - the Fengtian Bureau of Shendu has already used a good family, and Ah Niang doesn't know it." Anyway, it's been used secretly, and now it's just a matter of publicity, what's the matter?"

She looked at me: "You know there's a lot going on. ”

I pressed my head lower and lower, and finally simply lay on the pillow and looked at her angrily: "A-Niang is also a woman, why should women be embarrassed by women." ”

Ah Huan shook his head with a smile, reached out and pinched my nose, forcing me to open my mouth and exhale, and my face naturally flattened: "It is precisely because Your Majesty is a woman who has done things that no one has done before, so you can't do these things." The ministers finally accepted a female emperor and a female general -- these can be said to be special cases that occur once in a thousand years, but if ordinary women can be compared with men, you are a man, what do you think in your heart?

I snorted, and became more and more unhappy: "You just say that A-Niang has vested interests, so you don't want to take any more risks to change." ”

Ah Huan smiled and pinched my nose: "You use this word well, Your Majesty is the 'vested interest'." You don't want to say anything about others, if you were there, would you be willing to maintain the status quo and earn a few decades of good money, or would you risk change, and if anything, decades of business would be ruined?"

I frowned at her, "If I'm really there, of course I'm going to change—what about you? If you do sit someday... What about you?"

The smile on her face faded, and she squeezed my hand unconsciously harder, and only withdrew it after a while, lowered her eyes and said, "It's still hard to protect yourself, it's too early to talk about this." 166 Reading Network