Chapter 2 The Past
After a while, Mama Lin came back again, "Why did you come back so soon?" Chu Shuhuang asked. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info
"The prince may have gone out in an emergency, and only a few people were left, and when the prince came back, he would report to the prince that he knew. The two men were left in the courtyard over there, and the old slave saw that there was nothing to arrange, so he came back to report first. Mama Lin replied one by one.
"Oh, then Mama, go and rest with some fasting, it's been a tiring day." Chu Shuhuang arranged for Mama Lin to go down to rest.
This cousin, named Hua Chang, is now the son of the Anguo Mansion.
Chu Shuhuang didn't have much impression of Hua Chang, but he knew that his background was miserable, An Guogong was his grandfather, but his father was not An Guogong's biological son. Duke An fell in love with Princess Jing'an, that is, Chu Shuhuang's aunt and grandmother, at first sight, and it was because of this that he took refuge in the team of the former emperor.
After the step-wife of An Guogong's brother gave birth, there was no hope of survival after bleeding, because he fell in love with Princess Jing'an, so he entrusted Princess Jing'an to take care of the child. An Guogong's brother already has three sons-in-law, and Princess Jing'an has never been pregnant after marriage, so An Guogong and Princess Jing'an simply passed on this child.
Both husband and wife were very fond of this child, but when the baby was twelve years old, Princess Jing'an suddenly fell ill and died, and An Guogong was grief-stricken and widowed ever since. It wasn't until Hua Chang was four years old that An Guogong suddenly found a woman similar to Princess Jing'an and brought her back to the mansion as a concubine.
Everyone is still pleased with the arrival of this woman, so everyone inside and outside the house is very generous to her. The so-called rich and charming eyes, this little concubine gradually became a long-looking mind in the Anguo Mansion, and when Hua Chang was six years old, the former Anguo Gongzi and his wife were poisoned by this woman, because she thought she was pregnant.
That day, Hua Chang suddenly fell and changed his clothes again, and he would have been late for dinner, otherwise he would have been a family of three.
After the incident, when everyone found this woman, she had committed suicide, and none of the people who were waiting for her survived. At that time, Hua Chang helped Ling to return to his ancestral hometown, and after three years of mourning, he still refused to return to Beijing.
When Empress Chao and Hua Chang's mother have been friends for many years, Hua Chang and the fourth prince, Chu Shuhuang's late second brother are childhood playmates, and the two often play together. After the accident, the queen was very sad for a while, and took care of Hua Chang in every way, not only allowing him to enter and leave the palace freely, but also sending appropriate people to take care of him.
Grandpa An felt very guilty because of what happened back then, and now that Hua Chang has returned to Beijing, the queen mother and Grandpa An can breathe a sigh of relief.
Mama Lin didn't go out, but continued: "I heard that Mrs. Cheng's daughter's family had an accident on the way to transfer, and now Mrs. Cheng's grandson Li Yan is in Ning Si Hall for his parents. ”
Chu Shuhuang thought for a while and asked, "Is it Mrs. Lizhen Cheng?" ”
Mama Lin practiced her promise, "It's this Mrs. Cheng, I heard that it was his son-in-law who was transferred, and he encountered a bandit on the boat at night, and the whole family was killed." Only this grandson, who passed the examination last year, came to visit his grandmother on the order of his parents, and opened his eyes in the capital by the way, so he escaped. ”
"How could such a thing happen?" Chu Shuhuang said sharply. Although the Chu State was founded not long ago, the people's aspirations, the emperor's prestige is flourishing, and the water bandits dare to blatantly rob official ships, is it really a bear's heart and a leopard's gall?
Mama Lin couldn't answer this question, so she stood beside her and was silent.
Mrs. Cheng's son-in-law is only a six-rank official, and Chu Shuhuang is only seven years old, so there is no need to go. But Mrs. Cheng is the emperor's grandmother, and it can be said that she took care of the emperor to grow up, so the emperor named her Mrs. Lizhen, eased her emotions and ordered: "Mama will go to worship on my behalf if she has time in the afternoon." ”
Mama Lin went down, Chu Shuhuang wanted to take a nap quickly, there was still something to do in the afternoon. It is not easy to get out of the palace, and it is even more difficult to get out of the capital, Chu Shuhuang doesn't want to waste this opportunity.
I have to say that although Chu Shuhuang is only seven years old, her soul is the soul of an adult. In her previous life, she was born frail and sickly, and she lived to the age of twenty-two and finally couldn't survive it, and she was born with the memories of her previous life, and when she knew that she was a princess, she began to plan.
Before the founding of the Chu State, there were decades of war, and small regimes emerged one after another. After the first emperor conquered the country, his health failed, and then Chu Shuhuang's father succeeded to the throne, and in the past 20 years, the Chu emperor has been conscientious, made great efforts, and implemented various policies conducive to the development of the Chu state.
But God is not beautiful, natural and man-made disasters have continued in Chu over the years, and the lives of the people have improved, and they don't have to worry about the suffering of war, but their lives are still poor. The development of political power in the surrounding areas was relatively stable, especially in the east of the Sang Kingdom.
The Sang country is vast but barren, and has always relied on the purchase of foreign materials to survive in history, but the steady development of these years has made the Sangguo country rich and strong, and the national power has been faintly higher than that of Chu.
Such a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, if you want to say that Sang Guo has no plans for a rich place like Chu State, even a three-year-old child will not believe it. Chu Shuhuang felt a lot of pressure, she had studied history, and she knew that there was a word closely related to the ancient princess - harmony.
Fortunately, there is another word - plan ahead! The love of the father, the queen and the queen doesn't need her to fight in the palace, but she is also a layman in the conspiracy of the court!
Then let's rejuvenate the country with commerce and support the eldest brother of a mother's compatriot to ascend to the throne, only the state of Chu is strong enough, and with the favor of his parents and brothers, he can be a carefree princess when the sky falls.
When Chu Shuhuang was four years old, she not only seized the opportunity to go to the Anguo Mansion to secretly practice martial arts, but also asked her father to give her a grange. Chu Shuhuang has always asked people to look for some crops with high yields that can improve the lives of the people, and even sent people to the border and Xihu and other surrounding foreign areas.
The year before last, several new varieties were brought back, including cotton, a crop that played an important role in the ancient Chinese economy.
Chu Shuhuang thought to himself, he should also be blessed!