77 Preparation for marriage
The follow-up of this matter is the first to marry Gu as the crown princess, and the prince's heroic appearance that day fully shows that he is still far from being terminally ill. Many of those who understood were eerily quiet, waiting for the sound of another boot falling. Chen Su was ineffective in disciplining his own soldiers, and stayed in Beijing to wait for investigation, and Chen Wanli hooked up with the bandits to commit misdeeds and was dismissed from the meritorious military status. Chen Su was given a stripping rod and twenty boards in front of the Jinluan Palace, and led the dying Chen Wanli home, and Mrs. Chen, who was stimulated by Chen Xiangxiang's illness and falling into the water in public, was almost paralyzed this time. Within three days, the Chen family hung up white flags for Chen Wanli, Mrs. Chen Su and Mrs. Jingtian Botai, Chen Su and Jingtian Boshang asked Ding Wei to keep filial piety for his mother for three years, and the emperor approved it, and he didn't plan to let Chen Su, a general, return to the border of the town.
For Gu Ci, these are not important, there are only a few things that are closely related to her.
One is that less than half an hour after she returned home, Xiao Lu left the palace and accompanied her granddaughter to do some psychological counseling, and then happily called Gan Wei back to Tiemei Temple to test the effectiveness of various blood components and study new fields of medicine.
Second, Gu Yi and Ma Jia will get married, and they will marry on April 16 after the spring apricot list next year, and Gu Qi's marriage date will be set after Gu Yi. The crown prince, who was supported until next year, said depressedly that the latest good day after that was only May 6, and he had to stay up for another half a year!
Gu Ci is now feeding Prince Shunmao in the Mandi Dock, and specially stewed a pot of beef brisket for him with newly discovered tomatoes, which will make him almost eat up. After the marriage, he came to report almost every day, so diligent, and sure enough, he was not kicked out by Gu Yao.
"The Chen family is all right?"
"How could it be. Waiting to settle the reckoning with them! ”
"What else did they do?"
Yuan Yi ate and drank to his heart's content, comfortably enjoying the feeling of beauty in his arms, and then told Jingtianbo's family about it.
Mrs. Jing Tian, as her mother-in-law, tortured Chen Su's aunt to death, so everyone felt that Jing Tian Bo and Chen Su must be incompatible, and when Chen Shufei and the two princes were still alive, Chen Su did not lean towards his own family, he was a pure minister. Who knows that people's hearts are actually very broad, and while secretly making face love brothers with Jing Tianbo, they also contact the palace through Wang Yan 'Mr. Yan'.
Insert a sentence, Wang Yan's great-grandfather Wang Meng was the top boss of Chen Su's family, and the two carried guns together to guard the city, so Chen Su also sympathized with Wang Meng, a notorious Wang family who was killed in vain, Wang Yiqing and his two sons have been protected and supported by him. With the help of Qian Fugui, Wang Yan, who had both hands and a poisonous voice, was caught and got the opportunity to commit suicide without confessing anything, but he was still found out by the king of Runan County and Gu Xi, and Chen Su was involved, so that Chen Su's family entered Beijing.
After Chen Su returned to Beijing, he found Concubine Chen Shu, who had two dead sons, after all, she was the only concubine who had the same position and a princess, as for the prince, what does it matter who gave birth to her? As long as it is Concubine Chen Shu who becomes the queen mother, it will be fine. So Chen Su was never in a hurry, and leisurely let Concubine Chen Shu choose between the eighth prince and the two infant princes.
Moreover, Chen Xiangxiang fell in love with the prince at first sight, and Feiqing did not marry, so naturally the possibility of her daughter becoming the queen was more attractive. It's a pity that Chen Xiangxiang is really unsightly for the prince, so he died after learning about the situation in Beijing, and turned to the idea of talking about Chen Wanli, which provoked Chen Xiangxiang to show his abnormal side.
Chen Wanli did a lot of things to seduce the girl of the good family in Jingxi City, first let the ruffian hooligan go to ruin the reputation of the girl's family, and he took advantage of the weakness to enter the hero to save the beauty. If the girl sees through it, he will take advantage of it himself, and let the people under him also feel good. These girls whose innocence was destroyed either died or became monks or married far away, and their families did not dare to speak out. He arrogantly thought that he could also play this hand in the capital, but he didn't expect to kick Gu Ci's super hard kryptonite steel plate, which not only killed almost half of the two hundred private soldiers that Chen Su brought into Beijing, but also put the most relied on master in prison.
The unlucky master just knew that the little master was going to do bad things that day, thinking that Gu Ci's identity was not ordinary, he saw the opportunity to persuade him next to him, but he didn't think about it, and the master and servant played together. He is no more determined than Wang Yan, and he recruited everything he knew at the moment.
The reason why the emperor hasn't done Chen Su and Jing Tianbo's family yet, is just because the master said that another team of private soldiers has been sent by Chen Su to Yumen Pass and Yangguan, and he doesn't know what to do. In fact, most of the business of Uncle Jingtian over the years has been secretly given to Chen Suyang private soldiers, many of whom were horse thieves in the northwest, and there were many people who did business with the Huns. If Chen Su was really in a hurry, it was not impossible for him to order these people to open the city gate and let the Huns enter the customs.
"So now it's time to prepare for war?!" Gu Ci asked nervously.
"There must be a war between Beiguan and the west. I am also preparing to recover the Hetao area and the south of Yinshan Mountain, so that I can make a ceremony for Ah Luan. ”
"You're going to war too?!"
"Not necessarily, it depends on whether the emperor is willing for me to be in charge of the army."
"Ye Ye and the third brother are going to the battlefield, right?" Gu Ci was depressed.
"With what you have prepared, we won't lose." Yuan Yi was very happy, and the little girl thought of herself first.
"I don't know if the doctors in Jiukangtang and Tai Hospital are enough...... The blood was not ready. I'm afraid that saltpeter for making ice is not included in the armament, and it will be wasted if the ice is not enough blood at that time! Gu Ci hurriedly wanted to make a list.
Yuan Yi hugged her, "You say, I'll arrange it." It's not in a hurry, it won't be so fast, and it will have to be after the autumn harvest. ”
"It's not a few months before the autumn harvest, don't you have to prepare for armaments a year in advance?"
"Most likely, the war will start next year."
"Why?"
"Uncle Wang of Runan County has already set off for Tianshui City, and now the traces of these private soldiers are in his hands, as for what news to pass on to the Huns, it depends on the emperor's meaning. If he fails, it will be possible to go to war this year. ”
Gu Ci breathed a sigh of relief, then hooked his neck and looked at him seriously, and asked with some apprehension, "You, what's the matter...... Also called ...... "'Emperor'?"
Yuan Yi buried his head in her arms, and said angrily, "...... Remember when you were eight years old, I was suspected of being poisoned? The emperor came out this time, and the poison was given by Chen Su to Jing Tianbo, and Jing Tianbo gave it to Chen Shufei, ready to be used on me. In addition to poison, Chen Su also comes with longevity cream, and Chen Shufei plans to use both for the sake of insurance. At that time, I lived in Cining Palace, pretending to often sneak back to the East Palace to drink, and sure enough, I found that a few attendants who stayed in the East Palace put longevity ointment or poisoned my favorite white dew wine. So I tried to seduce the second and fifth children to drink, and helped them cover up, and when they became addicted, I drank up the poisonous jar of wine while I was not stealing it myself......"
"You didn't touch it!"
He smiled and amazed her, "Of course I won't touch it, I'm just pretending to be a symptom of poisoning." ”
Gu Ci then remembered that he should have been tricked in his previous life, so he was able to hide and know the symptoms.
She kissed him distressedly, "Why do these women have to be like this?" Don't even let the children go? Didn't they think about what would happen to their family and their son after the defeat? ”
Yuan Yi's heart was warm, like a hot spring, as if he had drawn infinite strength from her, and said nonchalantly, "The emperor has raised their hearts." At the beginning, they were allowed to compete for the back position, but it turned out that it was the queen mother who came, how could they be willing? The queen mother is dead, isn't there still me? ”
Gu Ci felt sorry for him and kissed his lips and eyebrows gently and seriously.
“…… In order to protect my brothers, the emperor is not willing to be cruel to his own women, after all, they spend much more time with him than the queen mother. If it weren't for Concubine Lin De's death and the death of the queen mother, I'm afraid she would still be alive and well today......"
"Did Concubine Lin De do it?!" Gu Ci's angry little face turned red.
“…… It is only said that it is related, and the jury is still inconclusive. Yuan Yiyin's tone was as ethereal as smoke, but when he saw that the little girl was crying for him, he immediately eased up and comforted him with a kiss gently.
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The expected western war did not come, Chen Su's private army leader surrendered to the king of Runan County, and exposed Chen Su's illicit relationship with the Xiongnu to sell grain and smuggle, etc., it is logical that Chen Shufei, Chen Liangfei, Jing Tianbo, Chen Su and Chen Su's biological mother's family were all punished by the nine clans, and Ningyang was demoted to a commoner.
There was not a single one of the four concubines left back then.
The emperor then issued a series of decrees, appointing Gu Yao as the Tai Lieutenant and Li Fang as the Tai Shi, and the most shocking thing to the world was that Xiao Lu was also a common man.
What followed was the prince's vigorous crown ceremony.
Gu Yao temporarily led the Jingxi Army, and Xia Commander, who should now be called Deputy General Xia, went to Yangguan and Yanmen Pass together, and Xia Bufan and Chi Qiyu, two golden bachelors, also followed. If there is no accident, General Xia will be the new Jingxi General in the future. The prince accompanied the crying prospective daughter-in-law to send his father-in-law to Xiquemen, although Gu Ci didn't notice the existence of two gossip objects in the team at all, but the prince was still unabashedly admired by the two and his face was as jealous as the bottom of the pot.
At the same time, Gu Ao's ransom in Langya City did a good job, the channel from Langya City to Bohu Lake has been opened, and the emperor's order is to Tangjin City, Linan City, Yingdu City, Yuehai City and Liuling City to do the same, and repair the West Canal. The canal from Xiangyuan City to Yingdu City was also dredged together.
Gu Ci built a logistics center everywhere - called 'Wuzhen' by Gu Ao, has begun to operate, the situation is good, many businesses have seen business opportunities have settled in or follow suit, for a time the Jiangnan market is unprecedentedly active, many people are scrambling to be willing to be registered as the people, hidden fields greatly reduced. Moreover, many places have subverted the concept of 'grain-based' planting, and under the guidance of Xinnongshu and Fengqingsi, cash crops have been widely promoted. The Xie family and the Xiao family were very brave to be the first to eat crabs, and paid for a batch of futures for these crops in advance, waiting for the harvest to show off the value of cash crops. Xie Qiang, who is ready to live in the Shengqiang grain store, will be completely out of spirit, he has no customers and goods here, and the merchants are all concentrated in Wuzhen Town, loading and unloading goods, trading, resting, catering, and entertainment integration, who will go to a separate small grain store, not to mention that the golden light on the wharf 'Xie Jiawu Town' is the inscription of Xiao Lu's own handwriting, and the food and residence are all in the store under the name of the future princess, maybe they can be touched. Xie Ran and Xie Jin, who represented the Xie family to marry the lord of Jinghe County, happily told Gu Ci that Xie Qiang may not be able to hand over the rent this year, even if the rent is more than half cheaper than in Wu Town.
Just look at the name, you can know that the two girls are the same generation as Gu Ci's grandmother Xie Yun in terms of kinship, but they strongly ask Gu Ci to only call her sister. And this time I entered Beijing, I also had the motive to find a son-in-law. In order to avoid embarrassment, although Xie Yin is still the patriarch, he has already divided the sect, and the current genealogy is Xie Tao's son Xie Zhiwen in Liuling City, all of whom are ordinary farmers, the eldest son Xie Rong, a son Xie Su and a daughter Xie Fei, the second son Xie Zhi, a daughter Xie Bei and a son Xie Rui. Xie Yin specially asked Xie Ran to ask Gu Ci if he would let them go back to Langya. Gu resigned to Xie Qing in Yuehai City, asking his opinion, if he is willing to return to the sect, the whole family will bring the capital, if he is unwilling, he will go out separately.
As the crown princess, the quality of her teammates is key.
The other news brought by Xie Ran was not so wonderful, although many red-eyed businessmen did not dare to directly attack the county lord Qifeng, they were already trying to spread the rumor that 'the crown princess was competing with the people for profit'. She didn't care about this excuse at all, she had a plan, and when the time came, she would slap these people's faces swollen.
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The Protectorate sent Gu Yao away, and was busy with Gu Xi's marriage in the Mid-Autumn Festival, and the next thing was to be busy with a series of family affairs of the Gu family, which was older than Gu Ci, not to mention that he had to get married in front of Gu Ci, at least he had to get married.
The eighth sister Gu Xiaoyu finally chose her husband, and Zhou Mai, the third concubine of Qi Xianghou, who had planned to tell the second sister Gu Xiaosu, was an older young man, and he still became the son-in-law of the Gu family. He was delayed by his mother-in-law for a spring festival, but he won the Jinshi in the last subject, which was the same year as Gu Yue's husband Luo Jing. This is a matchmaker made by Gu Yue and Yuan Minhe, the eighth sister's future mother-in-law can only pinch her nose and admit it, as for the sister-in-law's uncle, next year he will take the exam with Gu Yi, and he should be able to get into the same jinshi.
The ninth sister Gu Jing and Fang Ju passed the marriage book under the auspices of Gu Pu, and Gu Ying and the fifth lady died of heart, so they had to shake hands and make peace. As for Fang Luan, who was already twenty-three years old and still wanted to be the prince's concubine, she could only cry and cry that Gu Pu was married to one of Gu Yao's relatives in the Zhenbei Army, otherwise she could only fill the house for Gu Pu's son who was a close follower, but now her husband is still an official from the head of the seventh grade.
Under the decision of the fourth lady, the tenth sister Gu Xiaolian did not discuss marriage with the Xia family's concubine, but chose a Lai Juren who was ready to end like the above sisters. Lai's brother-in-law is from Guangdong City, and if he passes the exam, he will return to his hometown to serve as an official. Gu Yi, who still firmly believes that the crown prince will die young before the emperor's death and will not be able to leave an heir, and history will eventually set things right, expressed great regret about this, feeling that his family does not understand the future scenery of the Xia family and misses the potential stocks. However, Gu Xiaolian and her biological mother Aunt Chun are very happy, the scale of the crown princess's industry in GDH City is not small, and the Lai family will definitely hold Gu Xiaolian in the future, isn't this kind of day better than being a military wife? In the future, Aunt Chun wants to see her daughter's grandson, so she will go south by boat directly through the canal, which is much more convenient than taking a carriage to Tianshui City for more than three months! People who knew the inside story of this matter secretly despised Gu Yi's practice of disregarding his sister's happiness and only wanting to cling to the powerful.
Under the maneuver of Gu Wenkai, the eleventh sister Gu Xiaoxi married Jia Peng, a Jia Sheren of the East Palace, this person is the youngest son of Jia Shangshu of the original Ministry of Rites who was disgraced by the scourge of King Guangen, who was not afraid of meat and vegetables, and went to Liuling City to build infrastructure. The emaciated camel is bigger than the horse, the Jia family will rely on this youngest son and the prince to live in the future, and the whole family will support this son's career, Gu Xiaoxi's status will definitely not be bad, and the two families are very satisfied with each other.
Liulang Gu Wenkai is worthy of being second only to Gu Xi's flexibility, he vowed to be frank and would not mention marriage until he finished the Spring Festival, but within a few days, he squirmed and found Gu Xi, saying that he wanted to marry Xie Ran. Gu Xi told her sister as a joke, but Gu Ci thought about it very seriously, and specially asked Xie Ran to ask her, creating an opportunity for her to get close to Gu Wenkai. I have to say that Gu Wenkai's appearance took a big advantage, and this matter was finally done, he was ecstatic, and he was angry and tried to prepare for the exam. After Xie Ran understood the situation of the fifth room, he bought a set of three-entry large courtyard and a small courtyard next to it in the capital, and prepared to marry in the capital, and then threw the other brothers in the fifth room into the big courtyard and lived in a small courtyard by himself. Gu Wenkai, as the son-in-law of the Xie family, will naturally suppress the people in the fifth room in the future, even if it is Aunt Fang's grandmother, and cooperate with Xie Ran to support the fifth room is more than enough, and he will definitely not let the fifth room have any more problems. Gu Ci was very relieved that his pig teammates had a powerful Dinghai Shen Needle, and they took care of the decoration and furniture with a lot of money.
However, the marriage date of these people can't be set now, and there is an older candidate on it, Wulang Gu Xin, who has not yet scored!
Xie Ran decided to stay in the capital, and Xie Jin refused to return to Langya, and came to confess warmly and affectionately to Gu Ci, 'Where the county lord is, I will be there, and I will live and die with the county lord'.
Yuan Yi thought that she was another woman who wanted to climb the dragon and attach the phoenix, but chamomile reported that Xie Jin took advantage of being a woman, not only took advantage of being a woman, not only held her hand and touched her shoulders and hugged her waist, but almost wanted to wash a mandarin duck bath with the county lord and attack her chest, his face was green, and he forced Gu Ci to arrange heavy work for Xie Jin, and sent him to check the accounts and inventory, and he was never allowed to be alone with this kind of woman!
In these years, men have to guard against it, and women have to guard against it!
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The days of Qingyiyuan passed in the busy preparation of a dowry for Gu Ci.
Yuyi is now only in charge of her three grandchildren, and all the housework is given to Qin Xiuyong, Wu Shenqiu has returned to Langya to accompany Gu Ao, Gu Yi retreats as a candidate, Gu Yi has taken on most of the official duties of the king of Runan County, and he is almost tired of becoming a dog. The renovated Huguo Mansion is also divided into courtyards, and after Gu resigns and marries, the four brothers will move there, and the Qingyi Courtyard is only left to Gu Yao and his wife, as for Xiao Lu, I am afraid that he will live in Tiemei Temple for a long time.
Gu Ci was in a very bad mood, but he still arranged meals and supplements for his family seriously, and only occasionally complained a few words when he was sticky with the prince who had not had much time to discuss politics in the court.
Yuan Yi naturally noticed her depression, and finally found an opportunity to take the little girl to Zhishuangzhai on his birthday, ready to relieve her.
"What else are you worried about? It's not easy for a married daughter to go back home, and it's no problem for you to summon your relatives in the East Palace, even once a day. Master and Taiwei could have walked in the East Palace, but it's not easy to see people? ”
Gu Ci obediently let him rub it, panted and said, "I'm a little worried, yes, I still plan to sort out the industry at hand, and I have to discuss this with you." ”
Yuan Yi saw that she was about to get down to business, so she left a cranberry on her chest, so she reluctantly covered her shirt, "Tell me about it." ”
He also knew that the crown princess was competing with the people, but he thought that he could protect the little girl, so he didn't care.
Gu Ci relieved himself, bit his finger, and then opened his mouth while thinking, "There are seven industries under my name, and I plan to divide each of them into ten shares, thirty percent to the state treasury, three percent to myself, one percent to the research fund, one percent to the inner treasury, one percent to the master, parents and brothers, and one percent to the shop and all the subordinates in the family." ”
Yuan Yi's brows suddenly furrowed so much that he could kill mosquitoes, "You don't need to pay attention to those gossip." ”
"I didn't arrange it this because of this nonsense, I had planned it a long time ago." Gu Ci sweetly elaborated to him, "Originally, the merchants had to pay 30% of the tax, so I directly divided the shares to the treasury, and treated these industries as imperial merchants and did not need to pay taxes." The one percent given to the inner library is our filial piety. As for the distribution to my family, I originally wanted to give one person for each family, but the income of each store is uneven, so it is better to divide it together and divide it into seven equals. The dividends of the people are the practice set by me when I manage the shop, and the proportions at all levels are different, and the rewards and punishments are clear in order to restrain them. This also has the advantage that whoever has the most shares has a say in the shop, and if you want to decide major events, you have to vote proportionally. So it looks like I'm giving up the property, but in fact the control is still in my hands. If someone else wants to point fingers, how much effort does it take to surpass my shares? ”
"It's interesting!"
"Also, I don't plan to ask for any fat powder money in the future, thirty percent plus the money I have saved over the years, as well as the income of Zhishuangzhai and Wuzhen, which is enough for our expenses."
Yuan Yi looked at her gently, he and the crown have faded the youthful immaturity, very handsome and handsome taste of a man, the face is like a crown of jade, the phoenix eyes are exquisite, black as ink is unfathomable, no matter how gentle the smile is on weekdays, his eyes clearly reveal a cold as frost, rejecting people thousands of miles away, only in front of her will she turn into autumn water, and from time to time let her be a nymphomaniac.
"Wait for me for a few years, and you can do whatever you want in the future!"
Gu Ci looked at him, "No, you can't lose the bottom line in doing things, you can't compromise or be radical for other reasons, there is a fixed number of when to do something." You don't have to break my principles for me. Saying that, her face turned red, "I, we, will be husband and wife in the future, and we can discuss anything......
Yuan Yi only felt that he was so happy, the two kissed inextricably, and he felt very ** in Zhishuangzhai, and directly indulged in lust for an afternoon.
Gu Ci, who woke up after a very tiring nap, lazily shamed the straight nose of her prince, "Brother, you have the potential to become a faint king......
The prince was arrogant and viciously dragged her up and down, "In a few years, my brother doesn't mind letting you taste the taste of debauchery!" ”