After the end of the small days of resignation, Yuan Yi didn't seem to take care of official affairs, and only messed with her every day, the queen mother didn't bother the young couple with interest, and the emperor didn't bother him with the fact that Qianyi and the Xiongnu raised troops at the same time. It's just that Yuan Yi has no plans to round the house, and is only very enthusiastic about her at night, which always makes her heart shake, a little uneasy and a little expectant.

Fortunately, she still adheres to the reserved ladylike line and can't help but ask!

The emperor had decided to send Yuan Yi and Gu Xi to Beiguan and the west with incendiary bombs, improved long-arm bows and chain crossbows respectively the day after Gu Ci's birthday, and ordered Duan Ang, the general of Pingnan, to enter Beijing to stand by, and to transfer more than half of the Pingnan army from Pingnan City to Changli City to reorganize the army, and if necessary, immediately respond to Yumen Pass.

On his birthday, the prince invited his two uncles and Xiao Lu to accompany his daughter-in-law to eat a birthday cake at the Zenzhu Xiaoxie in the Chongwen Pavilion, invited Yuyi into the palace for dinner, set up a banquet in the Qingliang Pavilion, and ate longevity noodles with the Empress Dowager.

After the meal, everyone had a tacit understanding to let the young couple go back and say goodbye.

Gu Ci was very well-behaved all night, he was taken to take a mandarin duck bath, or met frankly under the starlight and moonlight, soft as clouds and soft as water, and cooperated in everything, Yuan Yi gritted his back molars and endured it, so he didn't break through the defense line directly.

When he was panting and sweating and holding her to calm his heartbeat, he said with love and hate, "If I can't leave tomorrow, I will not let you get out of bed!" ”

Gu Ci, who had been hugging his waist, had a sour nose when he heard this, and buried it tightly on his shoulder, "Brother must be careful and come back safely." I'll take care of my grandmother and the family! ”

In the past few days, Yuan Yi has explained all kinds of things to her, and his private seal of the East Palace has been kept close to her arms, and now even the crown prince's treasure seal belongs to her. Something really happened, and it would not be a problem for the Wurate Mansion and the female guards to protect her all the way north or west to find her father.

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The next day, Gu Ci woke up, reached out and couldn't touch anyone, the outside of the bed was cold, she didn't have low blood sugar for the first time, she sat up, and looked at a brand-new bamboo hairpin on the pillow in a daze. The polished hairpin is carved with a jade bottle of spring swallow and a few plump apples, all of which mean 'peace', and there is a small fat bird standing next to the apple, which looks like a saddle below. Gu Ci laughed out loud when he saw it, remembering that he had jokingly said before that bottles and apples should all have the word 'ping', and the word 'an' is probably only saddle and quail.

This man actually remembered her joke that she really carved a quail standing on the saddle.

The sorrow and sorrow in her heart dissipated, and she cheered up and asked people to dress up, ready to appease the Queen Mother, but she didn't know if it was appropriate to build a magpie bridge for her old man. Obviously, the Queen Mother is not confined to the personal affairs of her children, and after she went, she didn't say a few words, threw her a handwritten message, and sent her back. This year's gold festival is followed by the 80th birthday of the Queen Mother, and what to do depends on what she has as the newly appointed granddaughter-in-law.

After Gu's little daughter-in-law returned to the East Palace, she stayed in the study of Mingde Hall for a while, and then called Mingting and Chamomile to sort out what she needed to do.

The most anxious thing is not the birthday of the Queen Mother, you have to take over the daily government affairs and personnel arrangements of the East Palace, which should be under the care of Yuan Yi, and then smooth out the things at hand, so that you can free up your hands to handle the Shengshou.

First of all, there is a political participation in the East Palace, when the prince is there, the report and the recital of major events will be abridged by Zhan Shifu and submitted to him for review, and now that he is not there, Zhan Shimen still have to continue to work, but the people who read the report have become Gu Ci. There are a total of ten people in the East Palace Zhan Mansion, three Zhan Shi and seven Zhan Shi. The three Zhan things basically belong to the temporary staff, from Yang Yushi of Yipin, Guozi Jian Kou Zhangyuan and Lu Shangshu of the Ministry of Industry. Seven Shao Zhan do work, the division of labor is clear, three people each look at two departments, one person looks at the four armies, one person is the procuratorate, one person is the cabinet, one person is Dali Temple. Gu Ci knew a Gu Zhuangyuan Gu Ce back then, and it was quite appropriate for him to keep an eye on the affairs of his father-in-law's Ministry of Officials and the Ministry of Rites.

Looking through the reports of the Zhan people, she had a rough number, and planned to study it in detail later.

The second is how to arrange the guards of the Five Rate Mansion. It is definitely impossible for a thousand people from the Wurate Mansion to be placed in the East Palace, Yuan Yi's regulations are to fix a hundred people with him, and the East Palace will replace three hundred people every month, and the remaining six hundred people will be on standby in the camp in the western suburbs. This time he took 500 people away, and Gu Ci planned to put a hundred female guards and 15 soldiers from the mansion with chamomile in the East Palace, but Ming Ting disagreed, so she asked her to divide the remaining 400 people into two batches, which were also replaced every month, to ensure that there were 35 female guards and 100 female guards in the East Palace.

The advice of professionals must be adopted.

When the personnel problem is solved, it is the turn of food and accommodation. Although Gu Ci tossed the imperial dining room many times, but before the guests, I didn't know what the internal structure was, now I know that the Qianqing Palace, Cining Palace, East Palace and the four concubines all have their own small kitchens, and the imperial dining room is only in charge of the big banquet and the food of the people in the palace of other concubines, which is divided into seven divisions: wine, tea, meat, goods, food, utensils, and kitchens. One director, two deputy directors, two directors and one deputy director of each department.

Gu Ci found Ganquan and Guan Donggong's dining room, and wanted to ask about the monthly consumption and supply. Ganquan knew her habits, and said the chewing of the female guard and the two masters in an orderly manner, but the meal was a little unsatisfactory. Gu Ci glanced at Ming Ting suspiciously, and seeing that he was still smiling, he asked Gan Quan to make a table of the questions just now and let Shan Zheng go down to fill it out. In less than a quarter of an hour, a complete and clear content was handed over to the meal, and compared with the one in Ganquan, Gu Ci probably understood the oil and water situation in it. She made a new table, asked Shanzheng to change the number a few times according to her intentions, and then according to this table every month, she went to the imperial dining room every three days to get something, if there was any additional need, she would mention it to the imperial dining room separately, and then waved her hand to let the bitter Shanzheng retreat.

As for the security of the East Palace, Gu Ci just listened to Ming Ting's introduction and didn't intervene much. In addition to the main gate Yuanqing Gate, only the northwest corner has a corner gate that leads directly to the Donghua Gate, which is very close to the palace school, but no one has ever walked through this door, and usually three or five small attendants take turns to guard. Gu Ci asked curiously about this 'pure army' route, it turned out that there were four 'coupon holes' in the palace, in addition to the two coupon holes on the east and west moats in the south, the other one was at the east end of the road between Cishou Gate and Yong'an Gate, and one was at the west palace wall near Yaositai. Every day, the clean army loads the manure tank through the clean car, collects the dirt from the toilet bowl everywhere, transports it to the coupon hole and pours it in, flows into the clean car parked outside through the sewage discharge hole, and then transports the clean car to the manure field through the North Clean Gate in the northeast corner of the capital.

Gu Ci frowned beautifully, in a place where the northeast wind often blows, the source of the smell is placed in the northeast, which is really incomprehensible......

Again, the Gu family has married a lot during this time, and she is about to add a little niece/nephew, all of which have to be listed by Gan Tang so that she will not forget. Gu Ci decided to immediately put a calendar schedule out, let Danqing Pavilion print more large desk calendars, one page a day, mark the important days, and then write the calendar of the day on time and hour every day, it is best to be specific to half an hour!

In the end, it was the turn of Shengshou Day a month and a half later, and Gu Ci could only find old examples as a reference, preparing to do homework in the evening.

She first read the report of Zhan Shifu to understand the situation in the DPRK. Although Yuan Yi didn't hide it from her before, she always had no time to ask about the front-line war, and she comforted herself with anxiety that no news was good news. Now seeing the battle report, Gu Chong and Ren Saiyuan are very firmly guarded in the North Pass, and they have rebelled against the leaders of the Galang Department in the northwest of Yinshan, and they have a great chance of winning by attacking the other Qiangyi troops on the northern defense line. There is Xia Ji in Yangguan, Gu Yao guards Yanmen Pass, and the two face the main force of the Hun army, as long as they do not lose the city, as soon as the new weapon arrives, they can quickly turn the tide of the war.

Then there is Li Zong's request to transfer grain from the south to the north, and Gu Ci plans to send a message to Xiao Da Steward in a while, so that all Wu towns can fully assist in transporting grain. As for the matter of stabilizing grain prices, wait for the emperor to speak before considering, but you can send a letter to Gu Ao first, if there are grain merchants near Langya who dare to raise the price, her grange can throw out half of the stored grain for Gu Ao to issue food stamps to the local people, and now book the quantity and price of grain to be collected from other granges next year, these actions are enough to bankrupt the black-hearted traders who sell grain at high prices when the price of grain rises. Anyway, she has enough food, even if she sells it cheaply, the money she loses can be earned back from the income of Dock Town.

Putting down the important things in his heart, Gu Ci thought about where his dear brother had gone, and looked at what to do with the Queen Mother's sixty or seventy birthdays.

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Yuan Yi set off before dawn with a baggage team of 3,000 people from the Five Rates Mansion. This time was different from going back to Beiguan last time, the transportation of ordnance was very important, and he had been hesitant to follow the large team step by step, but that day Gu Ci mentioned the matter of Fushun City, so he still made up his mind to take Mingjin and a hundred personal guards to leave first, and go to Fushun City, which he had not been to last time, to investigate the situation. Ming Ting was left behind by him to assist Yuan Zhao, the son of the king of Hejian and the elder brother of Yuan Minhe, to lead the team to continue to move forward. Thinking of the little girl who was serious and seriously endorsed, his heart was soft and hot. It seems that he will not have much chance to gallop in the future, and he is really reluctant to leave her for too long. If this time we can complete the battle in one battle, with the ability of Gu Chong and the Zhenbei Army, it should not be a big problem to advance north in the future.

Yuan Yi kept an eye on it, and after leaving Beijing, he went straight to Dingwu City, where he contacted the Jiukangtang branch in Fushun City, took medicinal herbs, pretended to be the second ancestor of the merchant, and went north to Fushun City along the Zhuan River.

Fushun was originally a small military fort, but it only really flourished after the opening of the market with Qianyi a few dynasties ago, and six of the big merchants became local representatives. What is more special is that all the border cities are guarded by the defenders, and the people live and work in peace and contentment in the inner city, but Fushun is outside the military fort city, and there is another city where the six major Shun merchants gather to live, just like the Dominion, and the Zhenbei Army calls it 'Shunbao'. The armament in the fort does not belong to the official court, but the merchant guards, buys their own ordnance, and many of the ordnance that reaches the goods and smuggles are in their hands.

Yuan Yi stroked his fake beard with interest, it seems that these merchants are very powerful, they are not afraid of the Qianyi at all, and they do not need the protection of the guards.

Jiukangtang was in the military fort, Yuan Yi went to ask about the situation, and roughly understood why the little girl said that the foreign 'sinicization' here was very serious. Neither the Qiang Yi nor the Shun Shang were commodity manufacturers, and the Shun Fort was just a place of trading. Shun Shang bought plunder from the herdsmen at low prices and sold them to the hinterland, even the area south of the Yangtze River, in order to make huge profits, and then sold grain, salt and iron to the 'kind foreigners' at high prices, in fact, so that the Qianyi had the ability to invade and plunder again.

In addition, in addition to selling stolen goods, it is also very important to take news from them, for the sake of mutual benefit, Shunshang will try his best to investigate the strength and generals of the Zhenbei army in various places, and then sell the news to a certain tribe in Qianyi. Every time the Qianyi attack and sneak attack, they will avoid Shunbao, and it is impossible for the Zhenbei army to make a move against their own people, and the people of Shunbao will close the door of Wubao, and the two will not help each other, they will never hurt the Zhenbei army, once the Qianyi has a dispute with them, sometimes they have to rely on the Zhenbei army to clean up.

Shunshang can't be clean.

Gu Yao and the Zhenbei Army didn't want to rectify Fushun City, but first, the place where these merchants settled was the flat land under the hill where the military fort was located, very close to the grassland, and the terrain was open, if the guards included them in the scope of protection, it would not be conducive to defense, on the other hand, the Zhenbei Army would also use them to take the information of Qianyi or hand out false news, especially after Jiukangtang and Brilliant Pavilion began to operate here, they successfully infiltrated the Kalang Department and fought the spy war very lively.

Yuan Yi praised his little baby's 'foresight' and asked about the situation of the guards here.

The military Cao who led the army was Cui Bo of the Yuye uncle's family, Cui Hang's cousin, who took office after Gu Chong's purge, he was very stable but inflexible, and he didn't dare to take Shunshang's filial piety, of course, he didn't necessarily look down on Shunshang's style of carrying a few boxes of silver at every turn, and he was very suitable for guarding here. Because the Zhenbei Army has been preparing for attack in Beiguan and Zhenbei City, and it is almost impossible to fight in this place, there are not many guards left, only 3,000 people, plus the military service of the military fort, etc., the available troops are less than 5,000. It's enough to defend Shun Fort and guard against the Karma, but if you want to do something else, I'm afraid it's not quite right for a while.

Yuan Yi made up his mind, and followed the little shopkeeper of Jiukangtang to Shunbao tomorrow to have a look, and then pondered how to clean up Shunbao and replace it with a little girl to do business. However, if the little girl knew that Shunshang collaborated with the enemy and betrayed the country, she would definitely be indignant and her little face turned red, then even if he went on a killing spree, she shouldn't object, right?

The little shopkeeper of Jiukangtang was a layman and monk, and he knew that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince would bring seven or eight guards to Shunbao tomorrow to investigate the details, and he was bitter in his heart, and he still went down to arrange it lightly. Fortunately, an urgent letter for help came later. Gu Ci knew from the Jiukang Hall in Dingwu City that he was going to visit Fushun, so he asked Xiao Xiao to come to help, and he also brought a letter. She only knew from the financial reports of Bright Pavilion and Jiukang Hall that Fushun City was a window for foreign trade, and everyone wouldn't tell her too much war, so she didn't know that Shunshang's power was so great. Now that she is a married woman, a few chief stewards have pointed out that there is a problem with Shunshang. So she deliberately looked for Xiao Xiao, who had been to Fushun, and a few businessmen to understand the situation, thinking of the Qing army leading the way in the late Ming Dynasty, and the behavior of Chen Shunshang was really treasonous, whether it was a merchant or a farmer, he deserved to die if he collaborated with the enemy. He was also reminded that each family's silver cellar was extremely deep, perhaps several floors, and that there were various places where the silver was hidden. Because the difference between Shun Shang and mainland merchants is that Shun Fort is not where they started, they come from all over the country and gather here to make their fortunes, and as resale traders, the most important property for them is real money and silver that is easy to carry. At present, Dayu does not have a large-scale ticket number business, and the silver building only makes small loans, and the big businessmen are accustomed to carrying gold and silver or collateral to the silver building to borrow money for large transactions. Therefore, it is very likely that Shunshang stored a lot of silver and gold.

Gu Ci also deliberately emphasized that the amount of this silver coin may be hundreds of thousands of 'catties'.

Yuan Yi looked at the translated handwriting, and couldn't believe that the unit she used was 'jin' instead of 'two'. But the next day, Xiao Xiao's steward arrived in a hurry, and as soon as he entered the door, he was puzzled. The wealth of the Shun merchants can be estimated to be a rich country based on their daily flow and trade, and they did not all travel thousands of miles back to their ancestral homeland, so it is most likely that they hid it. Yuan Yi asked him to go down to rest, ready to go to Shunbao again, while sending the message out, staring at the ancestral house of the six Shunshang families, while considering at what time it would be most suitable to catch these people.

According to the culpability of these people, he doesn't mind slaughtering the city, but the little girl may be very concerned that he has lost this reputation because he listened to her, and it seems that the credit is still divided.