Soon, the holy decree in the imperial court was issued, and the request of 10 million taels in the northwest was agreed, or the imperial court gave 5 million taels of silver, and the remaining 5 million taels of silver were borrowed by the Dachu Bank. However, because this year, the imperial court wanted to increase the principal and interest of the four million taels of silver last year and this year, so the imperial court borrowed another four million taels of silver like the Great Chu Bank to repay the loan.

Chen Wenhui didn't care about the imperial court's method of repaying the money by borrowing, and agreed to it. Anyway, she has the income of several cities in the northwest in her hands, and she is not afraid of the imperial court defaulting on her debts.

Naturally, he is not afraid of the court defaulting on the debt, the more the court borrows, the more Chen Wenhui earns. Naturally, it is a happy thing.

In addition to making this money, she is very happy, and she is also happy about another thing, that is, the court has made it clear. If the three cities are built, they will send Qin to patrol the border, this time the Qin mission is the fifth prince, and his father Chen Yuanheng. This is what a happy thing Chen Wenhui is.

Chen Wenhui also received letters from her father and mother at home. Chen Yuanheng and his wife said that when the time comes, they will come over together to see their daughter, son-in-law, and little grandson Zhao Honglie, who has not yet met.

Chen Wenhui was beaming for several days in a row.

Thinking about where to live for your parents all day long? How should the room be cleaned up and what should be furnished?

Also, when the time comes, prepare gifts for your parents. In addition to gifts for parents, they also need to take a lot of things with them when they leave. Some are for parents, and some are for overseas brothers and sisters-in-law. There are relatives and friends in the capital, and even those concubines in the palace who have good relationships.

Zhao Chongyi looked at the busy Chen Wenhui and smiled, took Chen Wenhui's hand and sat down and said, "It's only the New Year now, and it may take half a year before my father-in-law and mother-in-law come over?" Why are you in such a hurry? ”

"However, at the moment, if you want them to come quickly, the top priority is to hurry up and build three new cities. In this way, there can be a Qincha patrol. Parents can come over quickly. ”

Chen Wenhui thought about it too. I laughed, no longer busy with this, but began to urge to hurry up and catch up with the progress of the project.

With Chen Wenhui's full effort, the entire grassland. The Iron Wall Pass is running rapidly. The progress of the project is fast. The project was expected to be completed in June, but now it will be completed in April. Two months ahead of schedule.

Of course, the money given by the imperial court was almost spent.

Zhao Chongyi once again folded the past, as if the imperial court asked for five million taels of silver. This time, the silver was used to build roads for the entire grassland. It is not easy to connect the roads of the five cities.

Of course, in the imperial court, although many ministers were opposed, the emperor still did not hesitate to borrow five million taels of silver from the Dachu Bank and gave it to Zhao Chongyi in the northwest.

Now the imperial court has borrowed nineteen million taels of silver from the Great Chu Bank. The number is staggering. Although 6 million taels of silver have been repaid, and there are still 13 million taels of silver in debt, this amount is still very huge, and even more than the annual income of Shanghai City.

There was a lot of discussion in the court. You must know that the debt of 13 million taels of silver is not all, but also a huge amount of interest. However, the emperor was not worried at all, because he knew that after the road was built, next year, there would be no need to send money to the northwest, and the five million taels of silver saved would be enough to pay off the debt every year.

If you pay it back for three or five years, the debt will be over.

However, the Northwest should have stabilized as well.

Therefore, the emperor's heart was very happy, even excited.

After the money passed, the emperor had already sent the Qincha to inspect, and of course, Chen Yuanheng and his wife were also in the team to inspect the Qincha.

This team, in Chen Wenhui's ardent anticipation, has been until almost July before going to the northwest, this is still Chen Yuanheng's constant urging, after arriving in the three northwest provinces, because the road is very good, the speed of travel can be so fast.

In Chen Wenhui's hope to penetrate the autumn water, she finally ushered in this team at Tiebi Pass.

The fifth prince is interesting, and when he saw Chen Wenhui and his wife, he didn't have any arrogance at all, and even called Zhao Chongyi, the Duke of the Northwest, his brother. Because when he was a child, he was not taken care of by Zhao Chongyi in the palace. The fifth prince is about the same age as Chen Wenhui, and the little Chen family did not take care of him in the palace back then, so he was very respectful to Chen Yuanheng and his wife along the way, and he was also very affectionate when he saw Chen Wenhui.

After Chen Wenhui arranged the five princes and his entourage to the luxurious post station that had been prepared, she took her parents into her mansion.

Entering the mansion, the Bai couple didn't have time to appreciate their daughter's house, so they hurried to the main room and pulled their daughter to talk.

This made Chen Yuanheng and his wife very happy. The Bai family even hugged Zhao Honglie into his arms, screaming heartily.

Chen Yuanheng was also very happy and said: "Honglie, this child is very good. ”

Bai Shi was also busy saying: "Yes, this kid looks like a tiger, and his body looks sturdy, which is really good." Hui'er, you want to reward the talents around Honglie. ”

Zhao Chongyi hurriedly said: "This is their duty. ”

Bai said: "Then you should also be rewarded." Red carp, reward the people around the little master. ”

The red carp hurriedly came down and took out the seal that had been prepared a long time ago, and the people around Zhao Honglie were ten taels of silver each. Among them, Zhao Honglie's four grandmothers each have an extra pair of red gold bracelets, and the four big girls around Zhao Honglie each have an extra pair of red gold bracelets and a pair of red gold hairpins. Zhao Honglie's two nursing mothers each have an extra pair of red gold bracelets, a pair of red gold earrings and a red gold collar in addition to a pair of red gold hairpins.

In addition, Mama Zhao and Mama Su, who were in charge of affairs, added a pair of agarwood prayer beads, a pair of mutton fat jade bracelets, and a pair of mutton fat jade pendants to Zhao Honglie's nursing mother.

The Bai family's lavish reward made the whole room beaming.

Bai also asked the red carp to bring gifts to Zhao Honglie, from clothes, utensils, toys, to jade furnishings, to ornaments, to the four treasures of the study, and some calligraphy and paintings. It's a four-car thing.

That's not all, Bai Shi also personally took out a jade pendant of mutton fat jade with a white body from his body, and said to Zhao Honglie: "The gentleman is as warm as jade." ”

The nurse hurriedly took Zhao Honglie to salute and thanked her.

Chen Yuanheng asked his entourage to bring an inkstone, which was a high-grade inkstone. It was given to Zhao Honglie as a meeting gift.

Zhao Honglie played with the jade pendant in his hand for a while, and then gave it to the nurse, but it was the inkstone, and Zhao Honglie played it over and over again.

Chen Yuanheng was very satisfied and said with a smile: "Honglie, this child is good, I know that those toys and ornaments are all things outside the body, but this inkstone for reading is a good thing, after playing for so long, he must be a lover of reading in the future." The future is limitless. ”

Chen Wenhui really couldn't cry or laugh, and said, "Father, mother." What can he, a child less than two years old, understand? It's just to see something new and play for a while, where do you know which is the jewelry, which is the inkstone for reading? ”

"Look at it, you came all the way from the capital and brought him so many things, I don't know, I thought it was Honglie who was already going to get married, what about the dowry you gave Honglie for marriage?"

The room full of people laughed.

Bai smiled and said, "You little monkey, you have children, and you are still so poor." How do you become a mother? ”

Chen Wenhui said: "I just became a mother, aren't I still a child in front of you and my father?" ”

Chen Yuanheng and Bai laughed again.

The family talked and laughed, and soon it was time to eat, Chen Yuanheng and Zhao Chongyi did not eat at home, but went to the city lord's mansion, where a banquet had been set up.

Chen Wenhui was also going to go. However, she has a special identity and is a woman, so Zhao Chongyi sued him and stayed at home to eat with his mother.

Also eating together was Mrs. Hu, who came over on purpose. Mrs. Hu and the two old sisters of the Bai family have not seen each other for two or three years.

Originally, Mrs. Hu was going to greet Bai and Chen Yuanheng when they entered the city. However, because a woman in the maternity hospital gave birth to a child and encountered difficulties, there was heavy bleeding, and there was no way, so the hospital people called Mrs. Hu over. After acupuncture, medicine, moxa and other means, Mrs. Hu finally saved the woman's life, got out of danger, handed it over to the apprentices, and hurried to Chen Wenhui's house.

At this time, Chen Yuanheng had already gone out. Mrs. Hu could only see Bai. However, the two old sisters were naturally happier to meet.

Bai first helped Mrs. Hu to sit on the upper seat, and took Chen Wenhui to give Mrs. Hu a solemn gift.

Mrs. Hu hurriedly stood up and said, "How can this be done, how can I be a great gift from my sister?" ”

Bai was helped up by Mrs. Hu and said to Mrs. Hu: "Sister, Wen Hui is pregnant and giving birth in this place, I am not around, and her mother-in-law is like that, thanks to you." You are the great benefactor of our Xiao Chen family. I didn't take it for granted to be saluted by my sister? ”

Mrs. Hu smiled and said, "If you say that, Mingzhu and I don't want to salute you husband and wife every day?" ”

Chen Wenhui smiled and said, "Anyway, Sister Mingzhu and I are grateful for your kindness." Sit and talk. ”

Mrs. Hu smiled and said, "No, what Wen Hui said makes sense. We hurried to sit and talk. We haven't seen each other in a long time. (To be continued......)