After the Shangsi Festival, Xi Qi of the East Palace, accompanied by the chief steward of Xiao Dingchuan, set off with the princess's men and horses and more than a dozen chamberlains, shouldering extremely complex tasks. Soon, the news of the emperor's sea patrol spread all over Shenzhou, and the route was to start from Tianjin Port and pass through coastal cities such as Fengjin City, Jinling City, Andong City, Linan City and Yuehai City, and then go north from the Tongyun River of Guangdong City, passing through Yingdu City, Xiangyuan City, Guangling City, Dingkang City, and Shuofang City to return to Beijing.

In these eleven cities, there are 1,000 taels of 'one-way driving tickets' and 'imperial seat tickets', and each city has a palace quota, allowing local wealthy merchants and gentry to participate in the bidding with their own houses, and the winning bidders can receive the emperor's imperial pen inscription and royal thanks. Since the 'living' has to be bid, 'eating, wearing, and using' are indispensable, and every restaurant designated to hold the imperial banquet, the merchants who supply the imperial rice, grain, meat and vegetables, the silk merchants who provide the curtain of the drapery, the special carriage and the big ship according to the regulations of the Ministry of Rites must engage in bidding, and the winning bidder can hang a 'royal special' sign to show screening.

Although the merchants heard the concept of 'bidding' for the first time, but the crown princess's charity had a far-reaching impact, and they all felt that it was also 'the one with the highest price', but unexpectedly, this time the Guanglu Temple Gu Zhangsi, who was responsible for purchasing goods, put forward detailed specifications, and attached the budget given by the household department, indicating that the emperor did not want to hurt the people's livelihood, and the household department only used so much money for careful planning, and the officials were not allowed to levy additional conscription, so that people who were willing to contribute to the imperial drive could see clearly and then decide whether to bid.

The wealthy businessmen and gentry knew in their hearts: Doesn't it mean that the emperor has no money and no one, we can make up for it, no problem!

This hand blocked the mouth of the imperial history who wanted to 'be loyal and straightforward', and it can't be said that the people are not allowed to follow and not let the emperor and the people have fun, right? If you want to make a fuss about the emperor's safety, the Xiongnu have been defeated and disabled, is it possible that the domestic security problem is worse than that of foreign enemies? Besides, the 'God of War' Protector is accompanying him, where does he dare to mess around?

The bidding of the eleven cities is in full swing, and the Dragon Boat Festival has come to an end.

By the middle of June, when the imperial court was small, the eleven cities, which had thought that they would work hard and hurt their wealth and vitality, actually doubled their tax revenues, and more good citizens were spontaneously registered, and even many of the lords who did not want to release their citizenship were accused to the yamen, and the government sentenced them to heavy fines and ordered the dismissal of excess slaves on the grounds of 'private slaves and maids'.

These cases made the evaluation of the Criminal Department this time excellent, and Wu Shangshu was happy.

Gu Ci asked her husband curiously, "Is there a limit to how many slaves are used for this?" ”

"The rules set by Taizong, 'There are 200 kings and princesses, 100 people in the third grade, 30 people in the 7th grade, 10 people under the 7th rank and the people, more than 50 years old, under the age of 10, not in the number', and the officials and slaves are not subject to this limit."

“…… Isn't that too much? ”

The quota of the first-class protector plus the eldest princess is only three hundred, and the Qingyi Yuan is only three hundred!

"What are you going to do?" Yuan Yi teased her.

“…… Can you sign up for all those who are not in the house as hired workers? ”

"Not afraid of leaks?"

After thinking about it carefully for a while, Gu Ci said with some uncertainty, "There is a deep interest relationship, and the leak has little to do with whether there is a deed, right?" And in all the industries with technology, I require assembly line work, and except for a few people, no one can know all the production secrets. ”

Since the industry was turned into a joint-stock system, Gu Ci gave them all the identity deeds of the people below, but he didn't ask if they were registered as Qi Min. The advantage is that their children can go to school as good citizens, and the disadvantage seems that Uncle Qing didn't report it to her, so she doesn't know if it's okay. She can only point fingers at the management system, and she is really not good at controlling people.

Yuan Yi smiled and didn't speak, he just dealt with this kind of trivial matter. Many families who want to be stimulated by fines will voluntarily dismiss slaves or transfer to hired workers.

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The emperor asked Wanshou to celebrate his birthday in Langyatai in Langya City on the day of his birthday, so he traveled in early August. As soon as the examination results at the end of June passed, the accompanying list was decided. a group of people who played with them, such as Yuyi and the Queen Mother; A group of people who go to work, like Gu Xi, a bitter child who is responsible for security; A group of people who support face, Gu Yao and Xiao Lu are indispensable. Then there was a large number of sergeants, and after seeing the military appearance of the Five Rates Mansion, the emperor smiled at the five hundred men, and the Imperial Forest Army retreated to guard the deck.

At the end of the mighty royal fleet there will be a 'lucky boat', which is the local tyrants who bought a 5,000 taels of 'one-way ticket'.

Fu ship is the latest type of transport ship of Gongqiaoge, with two sets of masts, two sets of masts, two rows of oars on both sides, stable and wide, at first glance it is easy to think that it is a warship, so the water or naval battles at this time are based on 'big ship crushing, sailor boarding, hand-to-hand combat' as the mainstream, and shipbuilding craftsmen are more familiar with this type of ship, and they are not familiar with the light and small boat type driven by the triangular sail wind. Therefore, there has been a debate about the development of new ship types, either to learn from Waiyi to study sailboats with larger sails and more masts, or to insist on large ship types.

Gu Ci himself does not understand maritime affairs, and he cannot say the advantages and disadvantages, but only his knowledge -- since aircraft carriers are the development direction of the navy, then large ship types are definitely the trend of the future, whether they are equipped with artillery fire or sufficient troops, the manned and cargo capacity is first-class, negotiable and combatable, no matter how good it is, the problem to be solved is only the problem of a stronger power system.

She drew the style of Zheng He's treasure ship that she had seen in the Zheng He Memorial Hall in her memory, the head and tail were wide and upturned, and the difference between the Fu boat and the Fu boat was only that the bottom was a pointed bottom, and the draft did not affect the docking in the shallow sea, and other features such as 'bow wrapped heavy iron' can hit the boat, 'double rudder design', 'multiple mast combination', etc., were written for the reference of the shipbuilders of Gongqiao Pavilion, and it took so many years to create the first usable Dafu ship.

Of course, she will not give up the kind of small sailboat that can participate in the Olympic racing competition, and pulls behind the Daifuku boat, one is to use it as a lifeboat backup, and the other is that the boat is extremely fast and maneuverable when the sail is downwind.

Thanks to her being a local tyrant, ordinary people will be poor and bankrupt if they work on two fronts.

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The emperor's fleet began to drift on the sea, and the red-faced Steward Xiao followed Xi Qi and Xi Pingzhi to Linan City in high spirits, while learning about the maritime trade between the Mi family and Linan City, while waiting for the old man Mi who accompanied the royal driver to come back to negotiate. They have already run the southern tour route, not only under the strong and intensive publicity, the price of the driving tickets and royal seat tickets in various places has been inflated, but also helped the household department to complete the entire bidding process, and even the winning bidder's various renovations, procurement and supply have been pulled, you can imagine how prosperous the princess's own industry and local business are.

Xi Qi thinks back to the negotiations and transactions he has handled during this time, and he feels more terrifying than the silver that he has not copied from Shunshang, so much flowing silver money has been collected and handed out from his hands, and the business of eleven cities has been driven by a whole, which is the vitality that the imperial court can not do to persuade farmers to do tax exemption. Looking at the disapproving appearance of Steward Xiao, remembering that he said that the dock town of Yuehai City relied on the southern tour, and this year's income was barely on par with Langyawu Town, and there were other chamberlains, stewards, and accountants who discussed that the time for the crown princess this time was too tight, the scene was not big enough, and the surplus was 'average', I felt that I was a complete turtle compared to Bai Ding, who wrote these words too quickly and ugly!

He began to really look at what he had seen and heard in the East Palace over the years, and he had to admit that the crown princess was like a god in the way of management, she loved money and was not greedy for money, and she was definitely the most suitable woman for the prince. He regretted once again why he didn't resolutely refuse to stuff a concubine from the clan to Donggong Nanyuan! Otherwise, the prince would not have sent him out to do such a crazy thing to accumulate money, which may have added another layer of the title of 'greedy official' to the name of the Xi family's 'minister', right?

From the first month when he took the Zhongguan to 'collect debts and sell tickets at a high price', the excerpt of the impeachment of the East Palace was like snowflakes, and the old yellow calendar of the Xi family when he was in Gaozong was implicitly turned out again, and the prince kept pretending to be stupid, busy preparing for the emperor and did not respond, until the Ministry of Officials and the Ministry of Households came up with a bidding plan, and did not say that he was ordered to help organize the bidding. As for why the ticket price is raised, of course, it is under the inspiration of Dide Tianyi, everyone is scrambling to see the face of the real dragon, and the businessman is not used to the high price.

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At this time, the prince and his wife, who were left in prison, were in the palace, playing happily with the two one-year-old babies. The Queen Mother and the Emperor are not there, they are the biggest, and the office location has been changed to the Mingde Hall of the East Palace, and everything seems to be no different from the Crown Princess Prison National Association.

It's not that no one stayed in the palace, Gu Ci thoughtfully got a set of amusement park equipment for Hongwen Hall and Quenyu Pavilion, the walls and ground were covered with thick cotton mattresses, and all the utensils were wrapped tightly in thick cotton cloth, and many clan children were at least very happy in the amusement park regardless of their parents' embarrassment.

At present, only Gu Ao and his wife are in charge of the Huguo Mansion, Yuyi and his wife travel by car, Gu Yi takes his wife to travel at public expense, Ma Jiaqi takes a hitchhike to accompany her husband, Ren Saiyuan naturally wants to open his eyes with him, and a group of beans are all under the management of Wu Shenqiu.

After coaxing the two children to sleep at noon, Gu resigned and returned to the study, saw Yuan Yi watching the excerpts, changed the tea for him, and accompanied him to read the palace affairs excerpts.

When Yuan Yi was done, he hugged Gu Ci, who had woken up from sleep, and said, "Old Man Mi is willing to pay a million taels of silver, but he doesn't want to go out of the boat." ”

Originally, neither of them wanted to make a boat company to be a competitor, even if they knew that there was a smuggling fleet in Fengjin City, they didn't want to become a private fleet under the command of Donggong to compete with the regular army.

The Su family did not explicitly refuse the prince, but the old man Mi used the procrastination trick to buy the ticket from Tianjin Port to Linan City, maybe he wanted to lobby the emperor directly on the road. However, they will suddenly change their minds, they should have seen the Fuchuan in Tianjin Port, and guessed the power of the Fuchuan after being armed. It's just that the Mi family is reluctant to give away their fleet, should they smuggle or smuggle, and pay for the East Palace to do a favor, maybe make some extra income.

"Then advance the income to them, count it as a loan, and pay no interest, how cost-effective! In the future, all the ships in the ship line are our new ships, and once the city ship company opens, whether they can keep two percent of the shares is not up to them. ”

Yuan Yi thought for a while, it is equivalent to the Mi family paying for them to build a shipping company, and then they have to pay the Hong Kong ** tax, if they don't follow their rules, their own shipping company can blatantly rob them of their business with their official status, and they are harassed by some 'pirates', and Anton Jun can also stand by and watch. Aren't they bent on opening a market for the public and increasing the country's revenue? Then you won't refuse to borrow money from Donggong, right? Donggong built a fleet to test the water, but the emperor agreed!

This is a bad idea that really won his heart!

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The imperial banquet of Langya Terrace is made into a BBQ mode, which happens to be the Double Ninth Festival, and it is essential to climb the cloud ladder to view the Dragon Pavilion. The Queen Mother and Yuyi and other female dependents did not go up, and Emperor Ren led a group of irrelevant people to go up to reminisce about the past.

In the palace, the prince and his wife, who invited their brother and sister-in-law to come to the East Palace for the festival, sat around the amusement park rebuilt from the flower room, and watched the little adults play happily with seven catties and a bunch of small radish heads. Liuliu and Baliang are the same age as An An, they go to school together every day, they have a lot of fun in the group, they drill and climb, Qijin feels that he has the responsibility to take care of Ah Sheng and Qiang Qiang who are still sitting in the walker, but the other two brothers Ah Lian and Ah Da, who stumble and want to sit on the seesaw, can't take care of them, and they are very distressed. The four adults didn't care, and it was up to him to figure it out on his own, but he left the boys behind and only took the merry-go-round with Qiang Qiang in his arms.

"Seven catties are really personable, and they will take care of their little sister. Oh, second sister-in-law, look, seven catties will wipe Qiang Qiang's saliva. ”

When the father snickered and the other was unhappy: he would please girls at a young age!

Sending away a group of demon kings of the mixed world at night, Ah Sheng and Qiang Qiang were so tired that they fell asleep, and Gu Ci asked a question that had been bothering him for a long time: "Why did the emperor go to Langyatai to celebrate the Double Ninth Festival?" ”

"It is said that he once chased there before he was approved by his mother."

“…… Does this have any special significance in reminiscing about the passing years? ”

"Who knows." After so many years, I guess I don't remember each other's faces for a long time.

Gu Ci rubbed his arm, and the two of them were still sitting on a swing in the glass flower room. Yuan Yi hugged his daughter-in-law and looked up at the moonlight, if the little girl also died due to childbirth, it is estimated that he will also love and hate the two children, right? So he doesn't complain about the emperor now, it's just that it's hard to have admiration.

"Brother, if you ...... in the future Where will you go to miss me? ”

"Don't talk nonsense!" Yuan Yi bit her lip punitively.

"I just want to know when you started liking me."

This question really asked him, Yuan Yi began to seriously look through the memories of the year, when did he like her? It seems that when I found out, I already had a deep roots.

"Is it because I've been beautiful since I was a child? Or am I too smart? ”

“…… I don't remember ......."

"Brother lies!" Gu Ci kissed sweetly, gentle as water.

It seems that the first time I saw her, I was lying on the threshold of Cining Palace, and I thought this little girl was too cute. Later, every time I saw it, I felt more lovely, the little one, it was fragrant and soft to hold, very comfortable, always laughed happily, the mind was so simple that I looked at the end at a glance, and even some small tempers were unbearable to criticize. No matter when she is, it seems to glow in his memory, squeezing those bad things into the shadows of invisible corners, and he can no longer leave a haze and irrelevant people in his heart.

I don't know where it started, and I went deep.