The crown princess, who finally sat for two months, was resurrected full of blood and blue, except for being more vigorous, there was no discomfort!

First of all, on the day of Shengshou, he and the Queen Mother met with the wives who asked for peace, and they entertained for three whole days. Then officially take over the palace affairs, seal up the places that are not needed or no one lives, sort out and streamline the personnel, the responsibilities and work content of each position are carefully stipulated, and the duty schedule is arranged to ensure that 'one thing, one responsibility, one person', and there will never be a phenomenon of passing the buck. After a performance rectification similar to that of the court, the last rank was eliminated once a year, and the lowest 5 percent of the people were sent to remote areas to serve as school supervisors to supervise the education of the degraded and exiled prisoners. It's a double win!

Then encourage the young university acquaintances and palace maids to help revise the canon, and promise that their names will also appear in the proofreading list, and those who have expertise are willing to go to Hongdu or local schools, and also support them to take the diploma. The harem has never shown a new atmosphere, and we all know that even if we go out of the palace, we will have a head, so why bother to fall into such a fateful thing as the palace concubine and even the heir.

Seeing that Layue was coming, the princess and her husband discussed when to deal with the Sumi family.

"What do you think?"

"When did they re-enter Beijing?"

After the charity meeting, they should all go back to their respective homes.

"The Su family returned home after the meeting, and he was with Shi Geng on the way. Old Man Mi has never left, and has been in Beijing. "Shi Geng is Lai's brother-in-law's word.

Gu Ci looked at Yutu in a daze, always feeling that he had overlooked something, Yuan Yi was afraid that she would hurt her spirits, so he hurriedly continued, "Old Man Mi seems to be quite familiar with the Xiao family, he went to Gongqiao Pavilion, Liuying Pavilion and Jiukang Hall several times, bought a lot of things, and even wanted to ask the doctor of Jiukang Hall to go to sea with him. ”

"Do you want them to come with you?"

It is impossible for the sea ship to be without a doctor, they should have taken a fancy to some of the special treatment techniques of Jiukangtang. However, Jiukangtang has never hidden its secrets, and all kinds of new methods have been printed out and sold in Danqing Pavilion, and they are subject to correction and modification by peers. Therefore, Xinglin changed the conservative atmosphere, and various academic exchanges were very frequent, especially many people took the initiative to provide ancestral prescriptions to Jiukangtang in various places for syndrome differentiation.

"Master Mingxu received them and said that he mentioned some symptoms unique to the sea, and that he wanted to sell overseas medicinal herbs. Master Mingxu should take charge of the medicinal materials, and then asked them about their symptoms, but they didn't understand, so they introduced them to Danqing Pavilion to buy medical books, and Jiukangtang will also open to Linan City after the year, if there are patients can be sent over, Jiukangtang's pulse is exchanged every month, and there is no need to come to the capital for medical treatment. ”

"I'm afraid it's not our people who are sick, it's they who see that Waiyi has such a disease and want to make a fortune......" Gu Ci suddenly had a flash of inspiration, remembering the famous epidemics in the Age of Navigation, the Black Death and malaria, and hurriedly gave the prince science the necessity of 'killing rats, fleas and mosquitoes and flies', and the special effects of the American cinchona tree.

"If malaria can be introduced to the Central Plains, won't they be able to use cinchona trees to make black money?"

Gu Ci nodded to Changli City near Chongqing in his previous life, "Artemisia chrysanthemum here can also be treated, but the amount is small, it seems that the vicinity of Linan City and Yuehai City is also good, and it is not easy to use it elsewhere." However, that kind of special mosquito is only found in the damp and hot miasma forest, and ordinary mosquitoes are not so powerful. ”

"The Mi family has a big picture."

"It's okay, first learn about the situation outside through them, I think they want naval support, so we have to let them make a big effort."

"What does it mean to be strong?"

"For example, take down Penghu and give him the land to seal the marquis."

"My daughter-in-law is so generous?"

Gu Ci knew that his emperor's illness was the most serious in the country, and he could not be separated, so he explained to him flatteringly, "At present, our navy is indeed inferior to others, there are not enough charts and sailors, and we don't know what the strength of the foreign Yi is, so let them go dog eat dog." When the ships and sailors are equipped in the future, Penghu is just a slightly more convenient supply depot, we just need to take here," she pointed to the place where Singapore is located in the Strait of Malacca, "Hold here, the entire sea area in the east can be blocked, and then we will not have the final say?" Merchant ships without the support of artillery, that is, fat sheep. I believe that Old Man Mi already knows the benefits of incendiary bombs, but his wooden boat does not dare to use them. ”

Gu Ci knew that it was difficult for people who had not experienced the scenery of the sea to understand the meaning of the Age of Sail, so he really wanted to participate in the conversation with Su Mi and the two families, at least let her listen to a corner, so as to help Yuan Yi make the right decision, and began to nag about Anli, "You see that the land area is so large, it only accounts for three-tenths, and the rest is all seawater, and a shipload of goods is not ten times more profitable, and it is not worth going to sea." Now the two companies are smuggling, but they found that there was a movement in the Anton Army, and they were afraid that we would engage in official smuggling, so they wanted to set the rules of the game first and launder their own money. But we don't have to be afraid, we are officials, there is no pressure to ask for a price, they want to pay back the money on the spot, and they have to see if they have such a big confidence. It is still very cost-effective to exchange tariffs or sea trade profits for time and control, and in the end, to put it bluntly, it depends on who has the big fist! ”

Yuan Yi's eyes were like torches, his expression was like light, and he looked at a sea area on the map and did not speak.

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The crown princess, who finally won the qualification to observe, nested behind the screen in the small section of the side hall, and peeped at the prince receiving the guests of the Sumi family.

The spokesperson of the Su family is Master Su, Gu Xiaolian wrote to Xie Ran about the situation of the Su family along the way, and the East Palace already knew the attitude and sincerity of the Su family. Old man Mi is an old fritter who is not easy to deal with, but fortunately, Yuan Yi has been through his daughter-in-law's make-up class in the past few days, at least he can abuse his old man in terms of knowledge.

The topic of everyone was very relaxed, basically talking about what the situation of the Waiyi people they had seen over the years.

The crown prince is very familiar with Hongmaoyi, Britain, Gaul and other countries, and knows that the Franc machine is divided into Iberia and Boqiuge, and understands the differences and history of these countries very clearly, so that the two families tightened their hearts and reassessed the positioning of the East Palace on sea trade, after all, the sea trade was started by the Xiao family, and they were just picking up people's teeth. When the prince asked about the several famous naval battles of Waiyi, and the fleet that is still not the strongest in the Great Eclipse, even Old Man Mi's face became solemn.

"Your Highness is really well-read and admirable!"

Yuan Yi laughed and played with them, never mentioning their excerpts, and continued to chat according to the established strategy, even talking about the monsoon route and the trade of various countries.

Old man Mi sighed in his heart, the two of them did not get much benefit in Nanyang and Penghu, and they were taken up by the Francophone people, so they wanted to get a piece of the pie from Dongying, although the water army of Fengjin City and Andong City did not do too much smuggling work, but they couldn't stand the fact that people are officials, they are people, and they have the family background of the crown princess, if there is no way to cut in, it will definitely be troublesome in the future, so they spare no effort to cooperate with Donggong. Looking at the prince's understanding of sea trade, I am afraid that they thought too beautifully before. He immediately said: "Your Highness, the Mi family is willing to devote all the strength of the family to carry out the new waterway, as for the matter of Wuzhen, it is all up to His Highness to take the idea." ”

The Su family naturally followed up and said that the Pingnan Army had no water army and was willing to merge into the Anton Army.

Things went smoothly a little unexpectedly, Yuan Yi remembered Gu Ci's reminder, and didn't dare to pick up the stubble, so he brought the topic to overseas products, saying that the more the merrier, especially asked about the illness encountered by the old man Mi. This time, the Mi family did not hide it, and a swarthy and thin old sailor told him in detail about the condition he saw.

Gu Ci in the small room didn't have time to think, so she could only write down every sentence with shorthand skills, she was really pregnant and stupid for three years, and she felt that her brain was not as good as before.

Yuan Yi attached great importance to this matter, and said that he would immediately let Jiukangtang study the treatment plan, especially in the coastal areas, and specially reminded Danqingge that he could buy all the prevention and treatment manuals compiled by Jiukangtang.

Master Su praised him, "His Royal Highness and the Crown Princess are really husband and wife, and they are not separated from each other!" ”

Yuan Yi showed the first sincere smile today, thinking that he was the only businessman who did not send a woman to the East Palace, and secretly decided that in order to praise his superiors, Haimao could consider letting the Su family take the lead in the future.

The corner of Old Man Mi's eyes jumped, and then he believed that the status of the crown princess in the East Palace was not the woman he thought before that she could only gain a firm foothold in her husband's family by virtue of her family background and children, so the property under the name of the East Palace, including all the income, is also in the hands of the crown princess, which should also be true! Fortunately, the girls in the clan have not yet been sent to the palace, and there is still room for maneuver. If you can't talk about anything with the crown prince today, you can consider starting with the crown princess.

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After the end of the lunar month, the New Year will be celebrated, and after the New Year, it will be rested until the sixth day of the second month, which is the auspicious day supervised by the Qintian, before the first great court meeting of the new dynasty begins. This is the first time that the results of the examination have been announced since the implementation of the examination law for a year, the relationship that should be found, the way to run, and the incense should be burned during the New Year, which will depend on how the emperor disposes of unqualified officials.

I have to say that it is always the social elite who can be officials, at least the IQ and resources are not comparable to the working masses, and the results half a year ago have made most officials understand the efficacy of the test method, but the current cheating methods have not yet developed, and there is no good enough way to avoid risks, even if the subjective evaluation is high, it does not exceed 15 points. The completion is not completed, horizontally compared with people at the same level, the upstream and downstream are docked, the problem is clear and clear, whose fault, whose credit, falls on the paper in black and white.

The emperor listened to the summary of the officials, and no one could see what was in his heart.

After the evaluation of the hundred officials, there are six summaries, each Shangshu speaks in turn, and then the public discusses how to reward the good and punish the bad. Let's put it seriously, I always feel that I can't get over the face, they are all subordinates of the same dynasty as officials, let's put it lightly, eight out of ten things in a year can't be done, who dares to protect it? What's more, I was given a chance half a year ago, but there is still no improvement, which is obviously a problem of ability.

All of a sudden, there was silence in the Jinluan Palace.

The emperor was not surprised to let the prince speak, Yuan Yi knew that he had to do this kind of offending people, fortunately, there was a daughter-in-law who could steal the teacher, and she was very calm - if you want to set the rules, the last position of each level will be eliminated, the lowest tenth will be demoted, and the best five percent of the lower level will be promoted, and the next level will not change the guard, and the demoted will go to the lower county, and the promoted will go to Fucheng, and then take out a sum of silver from the inner treasury and reward it according to the assessment results.

If I take the lead in offending people, then the emperor's pocket will bleed.

The tone is certain, and the people below immediately know how to work, but the excerpts of Linan City and Yuehai City who asked to set up a city division were quietly handed directly to the prince by the emperor and asked him to make a supervision.

Under the leadership of Tang Shangshu, the agricultural director of the Ministry of Officials began to refine the last elimination system, and well-informed people would naturally know that this was one of the new policies that the crown princess had come out of since she took charge of palace affairs, so Gu Ci suddenly found that he had received more invitations from the East Palace Gatekeeper and the Inner Affairs Office......

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Yuan Yi took the excerpt of the city department and went to discuss with the people in the Zhan Mansion first, everyone did not approve of starting this matter now, under the assessment of the examination method, the local officials were not necessarily willing to invest manpower, material and financial resources to do it, the prince was not the emperor, and the officials did not need to listen to the command of the East Palace. Moreover, if it is done very well, it is easy to leave the impression that the East Palace is 'misappropriating state-owned assets and competing for profits with the people', and it is not appropriate to do it well. To put it bluntly, it takes a lot of effort to do it, and the cost performance is too low.

After that, Yuan Yi went to Xiao Lu, who had just sent Qiang Qiang back to Gu Ci, to discuss. Judging from the news obtained before, Fengjin City had a private deal with Dongying very early with the tacit consent of the Andong Army, and the Mi family was frustrated south of Penghu, and it was also the right intention to transfer to Dongying, and the Su family's goods were originally interconnected with Cochin, Khmer and even Siam, but after being opened up by Aluan by land, the scale shrank a lot, and they could only seek cooperation with the Mi family, either to take a piece of Nanyang south of Penghu, or to squeeze in and collectively divide Dongying. Speaking of Dongying's mutual trade has been continuous, thanks to the support of the Xiao family, the little girl thinks that it is a matter of course to earn money from Dongying, except for the rectification of Xie Qiang's family once, even if it is good not to say anything at other times, it is no wonder that the two families directly went to the East Palace. Although Xiao Lu also feels that now is not a good time to open the market, he is very much in favor of subduing the Sumi family, which is currently at a disadvantage, and the excerpt is the attitude of the Sumi family to test the waters of the East Palace, and now if he can come up with a way to not make the emperor unhappy and control the two families, he will definitely get twice the result with half the effort in the future. But he is not good at business and trade, so he can't provide any too good ideas, so he only told Yuan Yi not to let Xia Ji get involved in this matter.

After returning to the dormitory, the prince ate supper and washed in silence, and was still thinking until he slept in bed. For the first time, he thought that it would be nice if he had ascended the throne now, and there was no need to be so constrained.

Gu Ci noticed that this person was in a bad mood from the moment he entered the door, and did not let the two children come to play parent-child games, and served him to lie down comfortably. When I saw that I was going to sleep in seconds, I was directly hugged by the person next to the pillow and overwhelmed the harmony.

After the exercise, Yuan Yi, who had dissipated his depression, hesitated to talk about the affairs of the city, and the thought that could not be put into words just now made his blood boil suddenly, and he was afraid that he would scare the little girl when he said it, so he could only show his excitement with his actions.

Gu Ci feels that these are not problems, if the official channels can't get through, then in business, it is nothing more than to see who has the greatest strength and who establishes the rules of the game. Besides, now that they are trying to get past the emperor to do this, there will definitely be people who will think of doing something in private over him, the future emperor, in what position and in what method, and if there is a problem, it's not a big deal. Her method is to make a joint venture to do a shipping company, with the East Palace accounting for 60%, the two families and each person 20%, the Xiao family ship and the two ships are included, and the land and houses in the port dock town are paid for by the local government. The shipping company pays 30% tax according to the regulations, and the remaining 70% is the shareable profit, so that if there is a market company in the future, the tariff is in this 30%. As for the preferential conditions, first of all, all the goods sold by the shipping company to Waiyi can be refunded, and the goods sold to China by the shipping company are priced at a unified price. Secondly, if necessary, the Anton army will follow. Third, when the time comes, a maritime university will be established to train sailors and naval commanders, and fourth, new merchant ships will be put into operation by the shipyard.

"I'm afraid it's going to be hard to get them all out of the boat."

"If you don't have a boat, you pay for it. Ask them to tell how much they can take. ”

"However, it costs a lot of money to build a port."

This is a political achievement of increasing tax revenue, and officials will definitely want to do it. It's just reluctant to pay for it. Under the authority of the law of the examination, many people dare not do such risky things, and they are raising money and recruiting husbands, and they would rather be stable than excited.

"That Teng Zongliang, remember?"

"Historical commentary 'Teng Zijing is a great talent, and he is a jealous disease for everyone', and 'heroic and conceited, rarely talked about', but 'governance is the first in the world'."

"He's greedy, isn't he? It's just that he's very good at being an official. ”

"How so?"

"He's not going to be in the business of losing money. The purpose of repairing Yueyang Tower is to engage in 'image engineering', and to let Wen Zhenggong write the preface, is to use its 'celebrity effect' to package himself as a 'talent', and ordinary people are easy to think that 'talent must be virtuous'. He didn't pay a penny for repairing the building, he collected the IOUs of the big businessmen and used the officials to collect debts. As a result, it was he himself who became a political achievement project, and no one praised him for his money and efforts. Gu Ci pointed to the other side and said a little embarrassedly, "Sometimes, let's be a scoundrel, it shouldn't be a big problem, right?" ”

Looking at her with a look of praise on her face, Yuan Yi felt as if she was going to kill someone, and the little girl handed her a knife, and her heart was very ironed. He held her mantis head with one hand, hooked the fragrant tongue in his mouth and stirred and rolled, and held her waist with the other hand to caress her. The two were close to each other, and their lips and tongues were intertwined for a long time before they reluctantly parted a little. A few days later, Yuan Yi went to talk to the emperor about the city's ship, and then the news came that the emperor was going to patrol the coastal defense to celebrate his long birthday. Hallomy is in September, and this year is the fiftieth birthday. Hosted by the Ministry of Rites and audited by the East Palace, it was only less than half a year, and Gu Ci really felt that this time he would spend money purely and not make any money at all! Yuan Yi laughed at the nagging of the little money fan for a few days, and he is now very sure that even if the Son of Heaven who 'works the people and hurts the money' goes out on patrol, if he lets his little girl do it, he can definitely make a lot of money. "Do you want to give Nie Shangshu or Gu Zhangsi a trick?" “…… Then tell the third uncle that the charity will have tickets, and this can also be available. In addition to the officials, each place must invite the squire to accompany the table, at most ten people at a table, and now let people take the seats to sell, and when the emperor sets off, the price is definitely more than one thousand taels. "The Ministry of Rites can't do this." Yuan Yi, who laughed in shock, pinched her face. “…… Then let Li Shangshu go with pain. "This is a lot of money, Li Fang knows such a good way to make money, and he can't make a move, he must be heartbroken!" Since we are asked to do the audit, it is impossible to say that this kind of thing has to be done by the East Palace. "The emperor is a good chicken thief! So what to do? Generally, it is the middle officials who will accumulate money like this, but the quality of the servants in the East Palace is no worse than that of ordinary officials, ...... "The quality of the servants in the East Palace!" Even if you do it, I'm afraid it won't make the shrewd businessmen believe it completely. To do this kind of thing, you have to be able to bend and stretch, have a dark heart and a thick skin, and it is also a special talent, not the effect that can be achieved by an elegant and decent gentleman like Ming Ting.

"Don't worry about this, why don't you think about how you can save money?"