It's been a year.

The same day last year was a heavy day for the entire Great Yan Dynasty.

On July 16 of the twelfth year of Zhenshun, Emperor Zhenshun dragged a heavy sick body, kissed the Emperor's Palace, performed a great gift of Zen, and awarded the seal to the emperor. Due to the early death of the crown prince many years ago, the second prince Bai Yuanchen ascended the throne as the emperor, and the year name of the following year was Xianjia.

On the top of the Chang'an Gate Tower, the official of the Honglu Temple of the Ministry of Rites, congratulated the Emperor Xianjiaqin and served the Taishang Emperor, passed on the edict, and the golden phoenix issued the edict to declare the world.

The edict clearly stated: "After returning to the government, from the important affairs of the military state to the trivial affairs of the people, all affairs will be decided by the emperor alone, and I will not ask about it." I hope that all the ministers will do their best to assist him. ”

Emperor Zhenshun thus became the first emperor of the Great Yan Dynasty since the founding of the country 287 years ago, and did not want to train the government, so he handed over all the government affairs to his son, and went to recuperate with peace of mind.

On the same day, in the inner house of the Pingyuan Marquis Mansion, people were far from realizing the impact of this national event on themselves, and their focus of concern was on the suicide attempt of the eldest lady Zhao Qiwen.

In fact, Liu did not lie in the mourning hall, no matter how reckless she was, she did not have the courage to hide from her father-in-law and marry her sister-in-law privately, and it was indeed Zhao's father who agreed to marry Qiwen into the Dongchang Hou Mansion to fill the house, after all, the bride price of the old Dongchang Hou was very attractive. If she hadn't seen her father and couldn't count on it, Qiwen wouldn't have been cornered and had to commit suicide.

For the sake of his daughter's almost death, this family business naturally stopped, and Father Zhao was also a little sneering, and after comforting his daughter, he went out of Beijing and returned to Liaodong to take office, and he didn't realize that his daughter on the sickbed had changed her head.

Qiwen was a nominal little actor before, and when she was in school, she was a good student in the eyes of her teachers and classmates, but she lost her job after graduation, and she never got a serious role to play.

Facts have proved that people who are unwilling must not use wine to drown their sorrows, especially not to borrow wine to drown their sorrows at home alone with the stove and doors and windows closed. If it weren't for this practice, Qiwen wouldn't know that she would not be able to sleep if she drank too much. For the first time in her life, she drank high, and she ended up being smoked to death by gas.

Alas, God is jealous of the talent! If God could give her a chance to do it all over again, she wouldn't have lit a honeycomb coal stove in her rental house to save a few dollars on gas bills. There are not many people who use honeycomb coal these days, and she will probably be the last poor worm in history to die of carbon monoxide from honeycomb coal.

But there is always a good side to things, and after the crossing, she finally used her professional specialty. When she woke up, her body was weak and her memory was scattered, and she also entered the play in time and did not show any horses in front of the family.

After this turmoil, the Liu family temporarily stopped and did not come to provoke her. The subordinate was explained by Father Zhao, and he was also thoughtful to Qiwen. Qiwen was able to recuperate and recuperate, and had enough time to sort out her memories and familiarize herself with the environment.

Daddy Zhao worships the Governor of Jiliao, which is equivalent to the commander-in-chief of the military region, and the official has done a lot of work. I don't know whose temperament his two children followed, and they became a pair of children. Father Zhao wanted to find a powerful daughter-in-law to take care of the house for him, so he married Liu for his son and entered the door.

Qiwen can't understand that Liu is also the eldest lady from a hairpin family, and there is a father who is a scholar of the official worship department, why didn't she see a little literary fan, but a poor and crazy ** silk appearance?

Liu's life creed is only in and out, and when the wealth comes, he will be happy, and when the wealth goes, he will jump to the foot and scold the street. From the income and expenditure of the grange shop to the monthly money of her family and maids, she will be thrifty if she can be thrifty, deduct what she can deduct, keep the money she has saved as her own, and send it back to her parents' house if she can send it back to her parents' home. Relying on her father-in-law's absence from home all year round, she is in charge of the world and the land at the top, and the air in the middle.

With Liu's stubborn grip like this, it is inevitable that the government will encounter tight expenses. At this time, Liu's solution is to sell Zhao Shijin's house at a good price, and then sell the girl and the maid at a good price. The reason why I contacted the family of the Dongchang Marquis Mansion was because the Liu family found that the sister-in-law was in good condition and should be able to sell it for a good price.

Qiwen didn't plan to avenge the original owner, she wanted to be the daughter of the Hou Mansion and wait for her to get married, but she expected that her father would see that she had died once, and he would not find her a too unreliable family affair again.

It's just that as a five-good young man who has grown up in a society under the rule of law for more than 20 years, he once saw a little maid who was about to be beaten to death by Liu's order for breaking a palace lamp, and Qiwen still couldn't help but make a move. The method used is simple.

"Now is the moment of strict law and discipline today, I heard that the wife of Lord Lu's family got into a lawsuit for killing a maid the day before yesterday, and was ordered by the palace to be fined for two months."

After all, Liu's number of paragraphs is not high, and he was immediately frightened, and when he heard the strangeness from his subordinates afterwards and thought about it, the little maid had already taken the private money and deed given by Qiwen and ran away.

Some people and things just don't get rid of it, and it's hard to get rid of it if they get a little bit of it.

Liu Shi looked at it, okay, if I don't care about you, you should be grateful to Dade, and you dare to provoke me, you are obviously dead!

That's how the flames of war are ignited. Liu began to treat her harshly, and Qiwen maintained her image as a white flower while looking for the major people in the mansion to "cry and ask for help".

Most of these subordinates have foresight than Liu, and they have long been unable to look down on the style of the eldest grandmother, and they have kept in mind the entrustment of the Hou Ye to take good care of the young lady when he left home, and was easily united by the "weak and helpless" eldest lady, and started a battle with the Liu family.

It is not good for unmarried women to participate too much in managing the family, and they always need to cover up a bit of edge. Qiwen's expertise has been fully played, and every time she makes a move, she will be accompanied by "I don't know if it's appropriate to deal with it like this." "It's not easy for my sister-in-law to take care of the house, so please understand." and other innocent language, plus white flower expressions such as frowning willow eyebrows and hesitating to make a decision.

Even the most loyal subordinate at hand didn't realize that the eldest lady was scheming, compared to the original, the eldest lady seemed to have just a little stronger personality and a little better luck.

Liu always thought that it was the betrayal of the subordinates who led to his bad luck.

The authority of the housekeeper was held in Qiwen's hands step by step, and Liu was clearly jumping and splashing, secretly playing tricks to make trips, and all the tricks he could think of were used, but it was still to no avail.

Mastering the economic lifeline of the Hou Mansion, Qiwen saw more and more that although Father Zhao was too lazy to take care of things, he was not a stupid person, and the family's property seemed to be distributed by the Liu family, but in fact, most of it was in the hands of Father Zhao himself. The Liu family has the heart to move the entire Hou Mansion back to his parents' house, as long as Father Zhao lives for one day, he will not want to do it for a day.

But this involves another question - why can a fraction of the property make the Liu family so happy?

The former Miss Zhao didn't care about everything, and Qiwen couldn't summarize much useful information in her memory, so she could only listen and explore it by herself. A hidden crisis also emerged in front of her eyes - her family was really rich, and it was abnormally rich.

Let's just say this sheep's horn palace lamp, I heard that the thing is to take the sheep's horn to boil soft, stuff it into a mold to prop it up, then cook it softly, and then stuff a bigger mold to prop it up, back and forth many times, and finally prop a sheep's horn into a big lantern shape, the texture is like frosted glass, light and thin like paper. When it was used as a lampshade, it was completely impossible to see that it had a woolen relationship with animals like sheep.

In the process, if it is broken or unevenly supported, it will be declared invalid, which is an extreme test of craftsmanship. It is conceivable that this is an extremely valuable thing, with a market price of at least a dozen taels of silver. But their family actually used this kind of lantern as a street lamp, and hung it everywhere in the yard and under the porch.

Of course, it is necessary to emphasize that these were all purchased by the Liu family before she married in, and since she was a housekeeper, the family has never added anything valuable, otherwise how could the little girl be almost sentenced to death by the Liu family because she broke one.

Then again, how did this huge fortune come about?

Their family's title was only awarded by Qiwen and her grandfather's generation, Zhao's father and his grandfather were just junior officers in the army, and his grandfather survived step by step to the position of the general soldier, and in a large-scale counter-chaos campaign in the northwest, he and his father Zhao died heroically together, and the father Zhao and his father who stayed behind also fought for half his life.

In the end, the battle was won, and the Zhao family made the first contribution, and the court gave Zhao's father and his father the title of marquis, and gave him a mansion and gold and silver. Father Zhao inherited his father's martial skills, and he probably came out of the blue, and with his own ability, he became a governor from a military general.

Counting that their family has only been in business for more than 20 years, and they were not from a rich family before, it stands to reason that they should not have saved so much money.

Judging from the fact that Father Zhao and Liu have the same hobby of worshipping money, Qiwen can be sure that he is not a clean official. But where can the ill-gotten wealth of a border commander come from?

There are very few people in the inner house who know about the big things outside, and Qiwen doesn't have much contact with the male servants outside, so it took a few months of intermittent work to answer these questions in general.

The Great Yan Dynasty implemented the Weisho military tun, the border army farmed for self-sufficiency during the non-war period, and Zhao Lao Dad led the troops to garrison Liaodong for nearly ten years, and has become an officer landlord with countless lands under his hands, and the military land that should have been handed over to the country is eight tenths of the income. Jiudu put it into his pocket.

Qiwen broke out in a cold sweat when she heard this, but later learned that it was actually nothing. It is not a new thing for local commanders to embezzle the income of military land, and at most they will be sentenced to corruption and fined.

However, Daddy Zhao also got his hands on the border trade business. If foreigners in the northeast want to do business with the Great Yan Dynasty, they need to pay tribute to Daddy Zhao first, which has become another important entry in addition to Daddy Zhao's military field.

Qiwen broke out in a cold sweat even more, but later learned that it was nothing, and that the border governors almost did it.

The treasury is in deficit all year round, the army cannot pay military salaries, and there are often mutinies, so it doesn't matter, all the feudal officials are rich and rival the country. It doesn't matter if the local people don't have enough to eat, or even if they change their children, government officials at all levels are full of children and grandchildren.

What's more, government officials are clearly marking prices. Why is Liu that virtuous? Just because her father is a money-making person.

What a hellish time this is? When Qiwen determined the number that the Great Yan Dynasty had been founded for 287 years, it was not surprising. 276 years of the Ming Dynasty, 267 years of the Qing Dynasty, and more than 50 years of semi-colonies, this Great Yan Dynasty has long enough.

The new emperor ascended the throne on the same day that her soul pierced, and I heard that he was diligent in government affairs, vigorous and resolute, with the intention of turning the tide, helping the general to dump the building, especially vigorously suppressing corruption, and in a few months, he had already killed several huge corrupt leaders, and Qiwen didn't know whether to be happy or panicked.

She doesn't want to change the dynasty, and she doesn't want to be beheaded all over the house.

I'm afraid of what's coming, something happened after the New Year's spring. The Rongdi alien race in the north invaded Liaodong on a large scale, and the defender Zhao Shunde had no choice but to abandon Jinzhou, an important city in Liaodong, retreat to Ningyuan, and resist the enemy outside Ningyuan.

At first, this incident was reported as a war exploit, as if it was said that without Father Zhao's wisdom and martial arts, Ning Yuan would not be able to hold it. But soon the people of the capital heard different news. said that Father Zhao negotiated the conditions with the leader of Rong Di privately, collected dozens of taels of gold, and sold Jinzhou City to others.

Qiwen didn't break out in a cold sweat this time, but made a swing - this is not corruption and perverting the law, but a proper collaboration with the enemy and treason! Whether the emperor sentences the whole family to behead or exterminate the nine clans, her biological daughter will never escape.

The subordinate who told her about this incident also comforted Qiwen and said that this matter must be a rumor, no matter how much Hou Ye loves money, he doesn't have the courage to do such a big deal.

In fact, Qiwen also thinks so. According to her speculation, Father Zhao was probably fooled by the enemy, and the enemy representative gave him dozens of taels of gold, claiming that he was going to enter the city to do business, but then he led people into the city to burn, kill and loot, which should be like this.

In other words, Daddy Zhao's crime was dereliction of duty, and he was still a cut below the boss than the deliberate treason of collaborating with the enemy. Although they are all capital crimes, there is an essential difference between the death of one person and the death of the whole family or even the whole clan.

But she sees it this way, it doesn't mean that the emperor in Zhiyang Palace also sees it this way, judging from the style of constantly punishing and confiscating the major giants for most of the past six months, he is afraid that he is deliberately using this method to generate revenue for the treasury.

Qiwen felt that her fat was probably on the emperor's blacklist. Maybe the rumor that Daddy Zhao was derelict in his duties as treason with the enemy was deliberately put by the emperor.

A few days ago, Daddy Zhao suddenly went home, and Qiwen guessed that he came back to transfer his property and clear the way to save his life. Probably because of excessive mental pressure, Father Zhao fell ill and died just two days after returning home.