I didn't know that I had survived the threat to my husband's chastity, and after the end of the month's confinement, I thought that I would be liberated, and I heard that I would have to sit for another month, so I was listless and didn't want to eat until the prince ignored the public opinion and went back to the bedroom at night to coax his wife to sleep, so he was a little happier.

It is said that the focus of having a child is not on her husband, but Gu Ci has no chance to experience this feeling at all, every day the prince wakes her up, and the two of them take Ah Sheng, who is full of food and drink, to ask the queen mother for peace, and stay in Cining Palace with the nurse Gan Tang, Ah Sheng did not return to the East Palace until he finished lunch with the emperor and the queen mother, and took a nap. Not to mention Qiang Qiang, Gu Ci wakes up every day to see her, feeds her before napping, plays with her at night to coax her to sleep, and the rest of the time is occupied by Xiao Lu. Yuan Yi was very satisfied with this arrangement, and felt that these two little things were not so annoying, and began to learn Xiao Lu to show his fatherly heart.

Only the new mother is very disappointed and doesn't know what to do.

Everything is on track at Sian Chay Tong. The Sian Chay Hall in Jingxi City has been set up under the auspices of Gu Ke and his sister-in-law Zhan, and Beiguan is naturally led by several brothers and sisters-in-law of the Gu family. There are many boys who have been adopted, and although there are a large number of girls and they cannot be adopted, I didn't feel any injustice when I learned that the female tutors who taught me had obtained women's diplomas, and that the other industries of the crown princess also gave priority to recruiting women with diplomas to work, and that Jiukangtang had opened a special women's medical department.

The women's department has made a good start, almost everyone of the sisters and sisters-in-law of the Gu family has taken the exam, and the role of the diploma is not obvious at first, and everyone just wants to see Xiao Lu's topic and try to get a few points, so the nature of play is the main. However, in the matter of revising the canon, female officials with diplomas were specially selected to participate in the revision, and all those who got high scores in the classics and essays with a second-class diploma or above could sign up to participate, which suddenly made the value of women's diplomas rise sharply. According to Guo San's report, the south has opened four women's departments, and hundreds of qualified female officials are already preparing to enter Beijing. The wages and expenses of these people, judging from the income from the fact that Danqing Pavilion has begun to engrave and sell all kinds of rare books, can fully support it, and there are countless people who are willing to donate money and books.

In the cooperation with the big businessmen, Gu Ci only focused on the Mo family, after Yuan Yi copied the mine supervisor of Tangjin City Iron Mine, the Mo family immediately threw himself into the arms of the East Palace, no, it was the embrace of the country, and eighty percent of the shares were given away in vain, which made countless wrought iron merchants drop their jaws, and they all thought that the prince was oppressive with power, seeking personal gain, and enriching private treasury. But those who visited the Mo family found something different. After the old man Mo handed over his family foundation, he sent his old account to Hongdu and Donggong as the auditor general, and accepted the accounting and exit of the East Palace, not only became the first professor of Hongdu Metallurgy, but also gave the top of the assistant professor of the same level of the Hanlin Academy, but also successfully gave the Mo family priority to get the forging method of steel filling and jade steel. In the future, after the technology is developed in Hongdu, it will be exclusively supplied to the Mo family for one year. Really calculated, pay a lot less filial piety, the sales of new products and dividends are not necessarily much less than the current one, not to mention the identity, technology and endless new drawings, really spend eighty percent of the shares to buy may not be able to buy.

Other wrought iron families also had the same mind under the advice of the local mine supervisor, if they were not willing to learn from the Mo family, the mine supervisor would not be able to explain to the prince, either he would leave by himself, or he would not sell it to them, and the mine supervisors who were beating the iron would not benefit each other. Moreover, if the East Palace builds its own wrought iron shop, it will not even be able to drink the soup if he does not bow his head. Under the advice of Old Man Mo, several companies with flexible minds have surrendered one after another, and they have also been incorporated into the Royal Iron and Steel Plant system, and they have received preferential treatment, but the head of the family is not so high-grade, at most he is an eight-grade assistant, and he only gets the jade steel forging method.

Within two months, new agricultural tools or gadgets of better quality and better quality made by Royal Iron and Steel appeared on the market, and under the circulation and publicity of Wuzhen, almost half of the country was occupied at once. Other companies couldn't bear the sharp compression of market share and the pressure of the mine supervisor to run out of stock, and they also leaned on Donggong, but they could only get a percent share. There are also those who are stubborn, and under the joint efforts of the mine supervisor and the local government, they directly changed the owner's family, and only retained all the technical team. Everyone knows that in the industry handled by the crown princess, a part of the profits must be distributed to the people who work underneath, and those with outstanding skills among them can even get the official status of a Jiupin School like Old Man Mo, and it is no problem for outstanding children to go straight to Honghong.

Before the crown princess gave birth, almost all of the entire wrought iron industry was collected by the state, of which eighty percent of the profits were distributed according to the proportion of three percent of the national treasury, three percent of the inner treasury, one percent of the Hongdu, and one component to the subordinates, and the rest were either all given to the original master's family, or the East Palace took one percent.

Steel-filled technology has been fully applied to the manufacture of ironware, and keels with sufficient toughness and strength are just around the corner, and blast furnace ironmaking has also begun to be developed.

Bai Zhou and Gan Ming also did a good job in Liuling City, not only did they trade with Jiaozhi, but also helped Jia Peng's family successfully break into the officialdom of Zhenla. Both sides of the grain route are open, as long as they do not have civil strife, basically the Yu Dynasty will no longer be short of grain. The military rations have the support of Wan Jia and others, even if the emperor wants to wave his troops to fight the Green Ridge, it is estimated that there is no big problem.

The finances are in good shape, and there seems to be no room for concern......

Losing Sue's paradise, Gu Ci found it necessary to start thinking about whether life had any other meaning!

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It was His Royal Highness the Crown Prince who brought the cream rolls to save the 'Gu' Lang. In order to feed a lot of food taboo Gu Ci ate a very light taste of brioche rolls, contented in her husband's arms, just now that little bit of loss disappeared, and soon set a new goal for himself, must be a simple oven that can bake small biscuits!

Yuan Yi was busy with some official business, so he came to make love to his wife, and brought some irrelevant news to pass the time for her, and by the way, after seducing his wife out of confinement, he went to the study with him to work.

"The Mi family and the Su family took the initiative to find it, and they wanted to make similar dock towns on the coast of Guangdong City and Linan City."

Gu Ci sneered as soon as he saw their proposal, and said it very well, they paid for the construction of houses and buildings with the government, and the property rights belonged to the government, but the property and fees in it were all autonomous, and what was quite conscientious was that they only needed ten years of rent, and I think that after ten years, the imperial court should also understand how profitable it is.

Unlike the anchorage on the waterway, the dock town built there should actually be called the 'Shibosi', a government agency with the power to collect customs duties and diplomatic exchanges. Tariffs are easy to explain, that is, heavy taxes are imposed on imported goods that may pose a threat to the sales of domestic products, and tax rebates can be imposed on domestic products sold to foreigners, increasing the trade surplus. However, in terms of management, it is not simply a proportion, it must be formulated according to the foreign policy of the imperial court towards the countries.

The history of Dayu seems to have taken a big turn since the Tang Dynasty, without the division and integration of the five dynasties and ten kingdoms, and the Song Dynasty, which had received many shames and humiliations from the party members and the Jurchens, was gone, and became a 'Ding Dynasty' that lasted for more than 400 years. Although there are still Yue Fei who resisted the Xiongnu and Qin Hui who booby-trapped the heroes, there are also the 'martial gods' Di Qing who has great military achievements and does not need to be a man with his tail between his legs, but in the later period of the Ding Dynasty, there was no weak and incompetent Southern Song Dynasty, the Yuan Dynasty where the Han people were abused into dogs, the Ming generation who reopened the sun and the moon and the Qing Dynasty, and the pigtail Qing who picked up the leakage. The Dingchao attaches great importance to the Jingbian work, and today's four-way border army is the prototype that the meeting began to set. The former dynasty was called 'Ji', more than 100 years of national history, closed off the country, and the sea trade was restored before the founding of Taizong, otherwise the ports of Linan City and Yuehai City were not open to the outside world at all, and even fought with the foreigners many times, so that Hainan and Penghu and Ryukyu, which are now called Chongming Island, have been the transit points of the foreigners. Therefore, Gu Ci can't say what level the corresponding Western countries are, and it is not easy to develop it with great fanfare, and it can only be operated by businessmen.

Last time, the prince talked with the Su and Mi families, but they didn't go deeper, and now these two families have come to ask for directions.

Yuan Yi couldn't bear to let the little girl work, but when she saw her start writing with great interest, she felt that it was good to be so energetic. However, the palace affairs of the harem still have to be handed over to her, the queen mother is old, and the other palace concubines are not qualified, and the emperor and himself mean to let her take over now to ensure Ah Sheng's safety. Gu Ci's thoughts were interrupted, and when he heard that there was a major task, he said in a good way that he would go to ask the Queen Mother what to do tomorrow.

"Grandmother will definitely let you pick up one of Concubine Lou De or Concubine Feng Xian."

The previous four concubines, except for Concubine Liang Liang, who was still in Huangjue Nunnery, were all dead, Concubine Wu Liang didn't know where the new four concubines were, the emperor didn't mean to let her out, Concubine Lin Shu was already half-crazy, and it was estimated that she was dying, only the two concubines of King Xichuan and King Huixin were still doing well.

"I can't play...... It's better to find something to do for them......"

"What?"

"Let the children of the clan come to the Hongwen Pavilion, King Huixin and the Nine Emperor Princes can teach them lessons, and the Quenching Jade Pavilion will be opened together."

Qinwentang has been open for several years, and many of the chamberlains and palace maids with good grades are ready to go out to become school teachers, or take the exam to get a diploma, and there are only eight or nine princes in these two places, which is really a waste.

"Let the two Guan Hongwen Pavilion and Quenyu Pavilion?"

"Yes, Concubine Lou De Guan Hongwen Pavilion, Concubine Feng Xian Guan Quenyu Pavilion, and other people who are imprisoned, let the children come to school together, anyway, they are all accommodation. Be each other's company, and the palace can be more lively. "Be reasonable and then be ashamed, as long as the child is not too unbearable, their family will have something to rely on in the future.

Besides, the two places are close to the East Palace, even if there is an abnormal one like Yuan Jin, the Wurate Mansion and the female guards of the East Palace will be directly crushed.

"You're going to send our children in the future?"

The parent-child topic is the most loving, and Gu Ci immediately opened his mind, "Look at them." When they are six years old, they will go to Sian Chay Hall, Lingde, Hongdu, Gongxue, and Heming for a month to try out, whichever one they choose. ”

Yuan Yi laughed when he heard it, how could he let his grandson go to study outside the palace, it is estimated that Ah Sheng will be appointed by the emperor to have a few masters to study in the East Palace or Chongwen Pavilion, and Qiang Qiang must be taught by Xiao Lu himself. The two red little monkeys turned into white and round buns in a few days. Qiang Qiang doesn't look like his parents, but he is really similar to Xiao Tong, Ah Sheng is completely a copy of the emperor, and the elders can't love it well, but Gu Ci, who has just become a mother, is still a little unskilled in holding children.

But he wouldn't interrupt his wife's imagination so carelessly.

"The eighth may want to go to the canon."

"He doesn't like to do this, so why make trouble?"

Yuan Yi was in a bright mood, "Xu thinks that if I send the fourth brother there, it will be safe there." ”

"The heart of a villain. Can he really guarantee that the work will be done according to the calendar? ”

Although Huixin Wang is low-key, but his studies are really not good, even if he goes to revise the classics, there is a fixed number of books to proofread and transcribe every day, and the Xi Chuan Wang, Hanlin and talented women who really love this way are addicted to sleep and food, and they exceed or even double the task every day, and all kinds of skewers and straw cups that are convenient for eating and drinking have become the standard configuration of Chongwen Hall and library. With the continuous transportation of books and collections from Guo San's side, the manpower will only become more and more tight, if King Huixin doesn't really want to do this, I'm afraid he will delay the work of going up and down the line and be disliked.

"I'll show him something. Lao Jiu mentioned to the emperor that he wanted to open a mansion, but he only said that it was not suitable to live in the palace when he was old, but he did not say anything about getting married. ”

"Hongwenguan will soon bring a group of small radish heads by himself, as long as he doesn't go out, there is nothing inconvenient." King Huixin's wedding date is scheduled after the Golden Festival, and the mansion is also ready, unlike the Nine Emperors, who have to be twenty years old to get married.

"His Aunt An is pregnant."

Gu Ci, who was stunned for a while, remembered that Aunt An was the Maiko of Uncle Wuling's family, "...... Is this the end of the world to abandon the past suspicions and compose a new love song? ”

The Nine Emperor Princes didn't dislike, didn't mind, didn't get angry, and the first thing the pillow person said when he woke up was, 'Why aren't you the prince?!' ’

Yuan Yi, who burst out laughing, liked her kind of clever words, "That's." Lao Jiu is so easy to get drunk, there are one and two. ”

“…… Since both parties are so willing, is it that Aunt An wants to restore her identity? ”

"Wu Lingbo is now anxious to urge his children and grandchildren to make progress, and resolutely refuses to recognize Aunt An, it is said that she has already sold her biological mother."

“…… Can you still buy it back...... "No matter how bad the concubine of the Nine Emperors is, he is still a clan, and his biological grandmother is a lowly person, so it doesn't sound good."

Yuan Yi didn't answer, these were all Xi Qi's hands and feet after figuring out his thoughts, which made Uncle Wuling's family chaotic, frequently made mistakes, and offended the East Palace several times, not to mention that Lao Liu and Lao Jiu were trampled on in a row like this, and their family estimated that they would collapse if they couldn't survive their ascension to the throne.

"The Qiao family seems to already know about Gu Yi."

“…… All? ”

"What should be found is that Gu Yi was framed by Concubine Du and carried the black cauldron, and angrily asked me to recommend a pillow for help, and was told to the Nine Emperor Princes by his own maid."

"Hmm. I think the fifth brother is a little pitiful......"

Gu Xin took the exam several times before he won the first place, if Ye Momo got the title, he would be a county horse with no career to speak of, and he was pulled back by Gu Yi, and he could only show his ambitions in the future at most.

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The current Baron's Mansion is calm on the outside, but it is chaotic inside.

Qiao Nan handed over the news that the Qiao family had gotten, and the fourth lady fainted immediately, like a headless fly, either came up to inquire about the reason, or hid far away without caring about herself. The idle fourth master couldn't find a trace at all, and Mama Qiao had no choice but to invite Gu Pu to come forward to preside over the overall situation.

Gu Yi was punished to kneel in the ancestral hall, Gu Pu personally went to Qiao's house for help, Qiao Ge Lao drank a meal with him, and euphemistically said that Gu Yi's surname was Gu, and he had folded up and was ready to pay tribute, but there was really nothing he could do.

Then Gu Pu sent someone to invite Gu Yao, but he could only wait outside the Donghua Gate, and the Imperial Forest Army guarding the gate would not disturb Gu Taiwei, who was busy accompanying Qiang Qiang with Taifu every day, for a subordinate of the Baron's Mansion, if there was really an emergency, it would definitely be someone from the Protector's Mansion. Gu Pu had no choice but to let Mama Qiao go to the Protector's Mansion to ask to see Yuyi, only to see Mama Wu beside Mrs. Shizi, Mama Qiao didn't dare to show a word, desperately begged to see the eldest princess, Wu Shenqiu finally came forward, she still wanted to insist, and was almost sent out of the door. In desperation, Mama Qiao said that Gu Yi and the Nine Emperor Princes had a misunderstanding, and wanted to ask Yuyi to help deal with it.

Wu Shenqiu chuckled, "It turned out to be this trivial matter." Because of the affection of relatives, it is inconvenient for the house to intervene, so I don't care. There are often quarrels between children, but fortunately, the Nine Emperors are magnanimous, and the marriage will not change. ”

When Mama Qiao, who was red-faced and red-eared, heard that the Protector Mansion should have known about Gu Yi, since her own girl wanted to seduce her brother-in-law regardless of her shame, how could people help, and returned to Gu Pu and the fourth lady in despair, the fourth lady immediately fainted again when she heard the words, Gu Pu knew that the fourth son could not be counted on, so he wrote to his grandson Gu Xin and asked him to find a way.

At this time, Gu Yi was unconsciously shrunk into a ball in the ancestral hall, she couldn't figure out why she was wrong again and again, even more stupid than Gu Yi in history, and chose such a path. Obviously, at the beginning, I just wanted to find a gentle and honest husband, and live with Hemeimei wholeheartedly, how did I get to this point?!

The Nine Emperors will not withdraw from their relatives, he needs the talisman of the Gu family, and she can't withdraw from her relatives, without this family business, she is already twenty-one and has no one to marry. Even if she doesn't marry, there will be no place for her in the family. As soon as the second uncle died, the baronial title and mansion were withdrawn, even if the mansion was still there, it would belong to the eldest brother's family. Gu Xin will be affected by her and lose her future, no matter how down-and-out the Nine Emperor Princes are, they can also make Gu Xin have no future. And she knows how much this brother despises her shameless approach. Without her relatives and identity, how will she live in the future? Could it be that he would marry Yuan Nian and live his life in his disgust and hatred?

She regrets her stubbornness in obsessing with history, the queen mother, who should have died eight hundred years ago, is now teasing her grandson well, the prince who will not live to be an adult has both children and daughters, and the emperor who should be dead is now old and strong, and the lively princess is a figure who has never been heard of.

History has changed so much, why does she refuse to accept it, and still hold on to the obsession that everything will return to the right track!? Why waste your time on the infinite scenery of jealousy? Obviously she should despise concubines and pursue a lifetime and a couple, but she actually gave birth to the idea of being a concubine willingly! She really liked Yuan Nian, how could she say that kind of thing to the prince and be heard by her fiancé?! Now she couldn't even make up the reason for how to explain this to Yuan Nian, not to mention, the letter couldn't be sent.

Looking back on the step by step, she always seemed to feel as if she had been forced to the point where she had no way out and could only choose this way, but in fact, she could have withdrawn at any time. Without jealousy and grievances, without the idea of climbing the dragon and attaching the phoenix, even if he married Yuan Nian in the end, he would not get into so much trouble. The prophecy and advantage she thinks she has are nothing more than a cocoon that binds herself, and what binds her is nothing more than the word 'unwilling'.

Gu Yi fell to the ground and cried in remorse.