The following days were like a disaster for Chu Chengping.

All the palace people found that since His Majesty's wedding, the female officials in the Queen Mother's palace came to the front hall too diligently. But after thinking about it, the queen has married in, as long as the queen is pregnant and has a concubine, it will definitely be a concubine, and it is normal for the female officials to run diligently.

But soon someone with a heart found out that these female officials were not looking for the emperor, and they tried to avoid coming when the emperor was there, most of them were looking for the queen for various reasons.

And the queen was actually very happy to see them, and anyone with a discerning eye could see that it was not fake.

Speaking of this queen, hundreds of years ago, there was no precedent for a queen and emperor like Da Chu to live in the same palace and not move to the East Palace, and this queen lady did not look stunning, let alone tender like water, but she was stunned to lose the emperor's soul, not only did she want her company day and night, but in addition to asking the queen mother for peace, even the harem rarely set foot in it.

Besides, this queen can be described as extraordinary and heroic. Get up every day and ride a horse to practice archery in the small school field of the Imperial Garden, and then practice boxing around the Imperial Garden for a while, and then go back to the front hall to deal with the harem affairs.

It's nothing more than how much rouge gouache the palace people in the harem use, how many palace clothes have been cut, and other trivial things.

At first, the queen mother was still helping the council, but out of respect, she sent a female official to send the account book and the council book every day to show the queen the situation.

This gave the female officials around the Queen Mother the opportunity to come to Hanyuan Palace. Especially the two female officials, Xiao Siji and Zhu Siji, almost broke their heads in order to compete for opportunities.

Li Mei was also very happy to see a few friends when he went to the south of the Yangtze River. Generally speaking, she went down to Jiangnan to pick up the Queen Mother with Pingping, although there were some twists and turns, but they were all thrilling and dangerous. She has rarely been out of the house since she was a child, and she is happy to be able to go out to play.

Of course, it is great to be able to see the old friend again.

Li Mei never thought that Chu Chengping would "take a concubine", because before marriage, her father had a secret talk with Pingping, and Chu Chengping assured his father-in-law that there would only be one woman in the future, Li Mei, and all his princes must be born by Li Mei. Unless Li Mei has no heirs, she will not be blessed with other women.

No one knows if the emperor's words will be done, now that the Li family is powerful and Li Rui is fighting abroad, the emperor will naturally guarantee it in order to gain trust, but if the Li family fails one day, the emperor may not be so "affectionate".

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The above are the troubles of smart people.

The fact is that Li Mao, who got by, received the emperor's assurance, so he went home with a smile and a happy face to help his daughter prepare for marriage. He has been with the young emperor as a Taibao for so many years, so he naturally knows that Chu Chengping met his daughter, and he was only bullied by his daughter, and he never bullied him.

Even if he went off fire this time, it was his daughter who forced His Majesty the Emperor (fog). For such a headache girl, she can still be favored by the emperor, even if it is only for a while, Li Mao feels unjust.

Even if Li Mei marries an ordinary person, who can guarantee that he will still be so affectionate after ten or twenty years? It has nothing to do with what identity you are, it still depends on the person.

Li Mao thought very openly. He has paved the way for his daughter, he has done everything he should do as a parent, and the emperor has promised that his children and grandchildren will have their own children and grandchildren, he can just hug his grandson at home, and there is no need to worry about it anymore.

Now Li Ming and the daughter of the Sun family, Yan Niang, have given birth to three sons. The little girl of the Sun family looks petite, but she is unexpectedly very capable of giving birth, married for eight years, gave birth to three sons, and each of them is handsome and cute, and the happy Li Mao and his wife tease their grandson at home every day, and they don't want to go out.

Li Ming has liked scriptures since he was a child, and he has been influenced by many grandmothers and absorbed many advanced ideas. He is different from his eldest brother Li Rui, Li Ming has always been a child who is good at thinking and summarizing, Li Rui will put his grandmother's teachings into action, while Li Ming prefers to write books, summarize these teachings and truths, and pass them on to others.

Today, his "Qiu's Book of Teaching Sun" has become a must-have scripture for the children of the major Mongolian schools.

Back then, he wrote this book just to educate himself well, and in order to be able to scrutinize the text, he had asked many Confucians for advice. Later, when the book was engraved, Li Ming invited Qi Shao, the governor of the dynasty and the prince of the dynasty, to draw illustrations, and the Duke of Jin Guogong made the preface, which can be said to have taken a lot of thought.

Da Chu does not have a three-character scripture, and the children have always used "Thousand Character Text" and "Primary School". There are many examples and fables used in Qiu's teaching of grandchildren, as well as some small stories about the Three Kingdoms and the Red Chamber told by Qiu, which can be said to be the first fairy tale book and admonition book for children in ancient times.

Because it is rumored that Qiu Lao Taijun is the king of heaven, even the Taoist sect of Longhu Mountain calls Qiu's family "not mortal", and the descendants of the Li family are all instruments, and even Li Zhao and Li Jun of the side branches should not be underestimated, so this book came out under countless relatives and friends to ask for it, because it is catchy, easy to understand and thought-provoking, and it has suddenly become the darling of major book-carving workshops after it has been circulated.

In the end, the Guozijian and the Royal Book Engraving Workshop included this book, which became a necessary classic for Mongolian learning in the world, and Li Ming also became a rare young scholar.

Li Ming became addicted to compiling books, and began to compile other books under the auspices of the emperor. After three generations, Dachu can already begin to compile the history of the previous dynasty and the history of the current dynasty, he took a group of great Confucian celebrities, began to search for the historical materials and family history of the previous dynasty, and compiled a new "library book" under the instruction of the emperor, and reorganized the subset of the scriptures and history.

Luoyang was destroyed by the fire of the thieves, and countless subsets of scriptures and histories were destroyed, but fortunately, the Li family used to be because of Qiu Laotaijun's repeated advice, and the family Weishuangtang and Zhang Suyi married all the books in the ancestral tomb as an appendix, and many families did not go to save the family property but saved the books, so Chang'an was able to retain a lot of rare books from the past, and the Guozijian was not damaged, and many students snatched out many books, which became treasures left behind.

The blessing of the old lady of Tuoqiu, now a wide range of movable type printing, the speed of writing books is more than ten times faster, the folk printing industry has also become very developed, Chu Chengping listened to Qi Shao's suggestion, and completely opened up the business scope of private engraving workshops.

As long as these engraving workshops are willing to pay a tax, are high-quality engraving workshops that are legitimately operating and actively paying taxes, and have officials as guarantees, they can borrow rare books stored in Chang'an Guozijian and copy and engrave.

This move is undoubtedly an earthquake in the cultural circles of the Great Chu, since ancient times in the hands of the world books and knowledge has become an ordinary thing that can be read, many unique books have also flowed into the people, so that many poor children have a way to study, it is foreseeable that ten years, decades later, the monopoly situation of the endless Confucianism in the high school of the world will soon be broken, and there will always be amazing and brilliant children of the poor family to enter the court, and really begin to affect the future selection of talents.

Soon after Li Mao waited for his daughter to enter the palace, he gradually transferred his power to Qi Shao's side, and regarded Qi Shao as his successor. He knew that he was not a talent like the Duke of Jin, and his daughter became the queen, if he still cherished the throne, he would really become a relative of the tail.

And he has never had the ambition to replace him with one side, at this time he retreated bravely, firstly, to give his daughter a better relationship between husband and wife, and secondly, he really can't play in the court, now it is the world of young people, his brain is a little insufficient, and he only wants to skip work.

So soon Li Mao said that he had a "headache", he couldn't get up early in the morning, he couldn't sleep well at night, and he had to "say goodbye" at a young age. He also asked Li Ming, the son of the Feng family, to inherit the position of "Xinguo Gong", and he was completely retired.

The Queen Mother and Chu Chengping didn't expect that Li Mao would retreat so simply, and the clan faction was also overjoyed, only the Duke of Jin was worried, thinking about whether he would also withdraw from the center of the government and the opposition, and leave a better reputation.

He and Li Mao have been playing the drama of "fighting for peace in the dark" for so many years, today I pretend to eat your loss, tomorrow you will pretend to eat my loss, on the whole, it is always balanced, and the results are acceptable to everyone. Now that this scale pole is no longer dry, his scale is also dangerous, and Chu Chengping is getting older and older, Li Mao made it clear that the emperor is getting married and he is going to return to power, and standing in the court as the emperor's uncle will delay the future of the children in the clan.

Therefore, Li Mao's retreat brought a group of old ministers, including the retreat of the Duke of Jin. The new emperor's own henchmen have occupied important positions, and everyone in the new court is holding back three fires, eager to burn Da Chu into a red.

Li Rui was fighting outside the border at this time, and the Praetorian Guard was handed over to the emperor (Li Mei laughed), and he reported successively, recovering the territory all the way, plus Li Jun has been contacting all the tribes in the grassland, and using the method of differentiation or reward to let them help Dachu encircle and suppress the Hu of the ten tribes of Hanhai, and soon, the biggest threat to Dachu is also being weakened day by day.

In addition, Li Mao has retired so simply, it is even more crisp than his father Li Shuo, and the emperor also intends to sell his personal favor, Chu Chengping directly awarded Li Rui the title of "Champion Marquis".

Who is Champion Hou? The most well-known champion Hou is the famous Huo Quzhi, who is also a relative of the queen and a big hero among the Han people.

Chu Chengping sealed Li Rui as the Hou, which is the greatest affirmation of Li Rui. For many warriors, there is an emperor in their lives who is willing to crown him as a "champion marquis", and he has died without regrets, which is enough to glorify his ancestors.

Although Chu Chengping did not fulfill his father's promise of "one door and two princes", Li Rui is young after all, and his future is even more limitless in time.

Li Rui relied on his own efforts and outstanding military exploits at such a young age to get a marquis, which undoubtedly made all the young people of Dachu crazy, and Dachu blew a burst of "imperial examination fever" and "military fever", with the retirement of old ministers one by one, the imperial court is indeed short of people.

Fenzhou, Youzhou and other places were gradually recovered, and new officials were also needed to preside over the local reconstruction.

The Duke of Jin "said goodbye", and Qi Shao had taken over as the new Pingzhang political affairs and became the chief assistant of the current dynasty.

He and Li Rui's ambitions in the restaurant were really realized one by one, and both of them were on the most glorious moment in their lives.

Hanyuan Hall.

"Mother, how can you do this all the time! You have to settle the accounts yourself. The county lord of Wanning took out the brocade bag, took out the account book from the middle and handed it to Li Mei. This is the account for this year that my grandson has calculated for you. The income of "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" and the Three Kingdoms Killing is 14,000 taels this year, and the total of the four bookshops is 7,000 taels. plus the dowry Zhuangzi collected by the government for you, the sum is 38,000 taels. ”

Li Zhao's crazy infatuation with the lord of Wanning County was known to the world, but because he was only a small six-grade official in the household department, he was never qualified to propose marriage.

Then the Queen Mother returned to Beijing, and the county lord of Deyang mentioned it before the queen mother, and the county lord of Wanning himself and the queen mother confided in him, hoping to marry the Li family and live a life of a couple, so he ordered Li Zhao to be the guest of honor and let the county lord of Wanning marry.

Although Li Zhao is a small official, he is quite worthy. He has been learning to take care of foreign affairs with the Chen family since he was a child, and the share of the family property distributed by Mrs. Qiu in the Xinguo Mansion has always been handed over to Li Zhao to take care of.

Wanning is only the county lord, and there is no princess mansion and county lord's mansion, but Li Zhao was stunned to build her a courtyard that all Chang'an ladies envy (for this garden, Li Zhao borrowed a lot of money from Li Rui).

This garden is the guest of honor of the lord of Deyang, the drawings drawn by Xiong Le, the chief supervisor of the prison, and the design made by Qiu Jing of the Ministry of Industry, although it is by no means as big as the lord of Deyang County in Luoyang, but the subtlety is no less than several famous gardens in Beijing.

Li Zhao has many friends, Li Jun also got a lot of exotic flowers, Li Mei heard that the new sister-in-law likes flowers, and even more grinded Chu Chengping to give a lot of tribute from the imperial garden to the newlyweds.

After some decoration, this new garden is rare and gorgeous, fragrant flowers and different species are dizzying, and it is modeled on Luoyang Xinguo Mansion to make a "return to the countryside", planting a lot of vegetables and fruit trees, raising ducks and chickens.

The relationship between the county lord of Wanning and Li Zhao for many years finally blossomed, although Li Zhao could no longer show his ambitions in the imperial court, but his business was what the royal family needed most, and his status was not low.

Li Zhao later took care of the inner treasury for the emperor, Chu Chengping heard that Li Zhao took care of the inner treasury for his brother to get dividends, so he took great care of Li Mei's mother's family, and also gave him dividends according to the income at the end of each year.

It's just that he is low-key, and he often takes Wanning around in the name of "inspecting business" or "taking care of the shop", and people in Beijing rarely see him, so his true net worth has not been known.

Li Zhao quickly paid off the money that Li Rui borrowed from him to repair the garden, and helped his eldest brother Li Jun buy a lot of houses in Liangzhou, Fenzhou and other places. He is now the head of the Hu people in Honglu Temple, and he is in charge of all the Hu people's mutual markets in Dachu, and when the mutual markets are opened, they often have to run around.

He is now old and young, it is inconvenient for the old to live in the government office, and Li Zhao is very rich, so he simply bought houses everywhere, so that his brother's family can live in Fenzhou in the spring and Liangzhou in the autumn, which is also fast.

Li Mei and the county lord of Wanning are the same as the unkind female workers, especially disgusted with settling accounts. As soon as she married into the palace, the countless account books and books every day almost collapsed her, and there were many complicated things for her to avoid.

Before Qiu Lao Taijun died, he gave all the dividends from the Romance of the Three Kingdoms and the Three Kingdoms to his granddaughter as a dowry, as well as the money used for the annual patent for movable type printing, plus so much dowry to take care of, Li Mei couldn't go out of the palace often, so he had to ask his cousin Li Zhao to help take care of and clear the accounts, and often called the county lord of Wanning to come in to "accompany the driver", which was actually to send the account book.

It's just that Wan Ning and Li Zhao often run around the Huangzhuang in the north and south of the river, and they can't help all the time. Especially after the queen mother returned power to the queen, Li Mei intensified her efforts to even let her take the account books in the palace back to Li Zhao for accounting.

Relatives to relatives, rules to rules. If Li Zhao really did this, he would make a big mistake.

Therefore, the county lord of Wanning refused to bear it, and even told Li Mei the consequences.

Li Mei and the four sisters-in-law in the family have an extremely close relationship, and seeing that the sister-in-law was scared like this, she had to give up and began to worry about what to do.

"I heard that Jiang Nushi and Xiao Siji have been helping the Queen Mother before, so you might as well borrow them." Wan Ning knew what these female officials from Jiangnan did, but they were just borrowed and used, so they should be safe.

"What else to borrow, I...... Bengong Ming'er is looking for the Queen Mother to go! Li Mei slapped the table, and it was decided.

Dear sisters, now is the time when you need to save your lives!

Zhang Shaoguang has long been worried about what to do with these female officials, and the Jiangnan clan has long been waiting for the emperor to flood the harem after his wedding, but these girls have been working as female officials in her palace, and they have hinted many times when they see the Duchess of Jin, the Jiang family, entering the palace.

Seeing that Li Mei took the initiative to ask for someone, Zhang Shaoguang was also overjoyed, and immediately formed a group, and the five girls walked together, everyone was happy, and they couldn't wait to move over overnight to serve Li Mei.

Li Mei has these four more female officials around her, which makes her look mediocre. But Li Mei has a unique temperament, Youlan Fangcao, Gladiolus Xiangling, everyone has their own love, no matter how mediocre she looks, no one can hide her brilliance.

Li Mei's unique temperament comes from the strength and self-confidence in her heart, and from her natural peace, which are incomparable to her peerless appearance, and make Chu Chengping deeply obsessed.

"Niangniang, this is my new Qingtuan, this is the food of Jiangnan, you can taste it......"

"Niangniang, this is this month's fat powder money, there is another old lady in the harem, and tomorrow will be the ...... of Taining Palace."

"Niangniang, I have checked the account book sent by the county lord of Wanning, you have four shops that are losing money, I suspect it is ......"

The three female officials of the Jiang family, the Xiao family and the Gu family diligently served Li Mei's diet and daily life, and even helped wipe her sweat and hold the sword when she practiced martial arts.

Zhu did not participate in these struggles, and she was given the new champion by Chu Chengping at the beginning of this year. This champion is also a person from Jiangnan, and he is the cousin of the Zhu family back then.

Chu Chengping cherishes his talent, Qi Shao appreciates his style, plus the Zhu family has been delivering good news to Jiangnan for so many years, appeased the Zhu family in Jiangnan for many years, and now the major families in Jiangnan have roughly figured out the new emperor's personality and style of doing things, and he is indeed a rare benevolent monarch, and the sense of crisis back then has also decreased a lot.

Therefore, the Zhu family left the palace and married the champion of the new department as a third-grade female official, which became a good story at that time, and it was even more envious of countless older female officials in the palace.

The Jiang family gradually became interested in taking care of the queen's industry, especially the shops and granges, which were simply Li Mei's right-hand man. Shaw and Gu are longer in housekeeping, Shaw is shrewd and skilled in personnel, and Gu is careful and methodical. Coupled with Li Mei's original two female officials, they couldn't be too happy.

Poor Chu Chengping watched his wife and a group of women talk to me and me every day, going in and out of pairs, but he was forced to go to the court to manage the government, and the next court returned to the palace to rest in peace, and several female officials around the queen looked at him like enemies, which made Chu Chengping angry, and prevented them from being like thieves.

Chu Chengping's anger finally erupted when Li Mei went out of Beijing to inspect the border when his stand-in went out to inspect the border.

The kiss actually took those women away without the eunuchs and palace maids!

Take it away!

He was alone in the palace and kept the cold room, and she was hugging left and right outside!

Is it tolerable or unbearable!

After Li Mei entered the palace, it didn't take long for Chu Chengping to make a decree, sealing the Jiang family as a concubine, the Xiao family as Jieyu, and the Gu family as Xiuyi, and moving to the harem to live, and not to come to the front hall if there was nothing to do.

"This villain! Just knowing that he wouldn't be happy to look at us! "Xiao's silver teeth are almost broken." This kind of guy with a bad stomach is still called Renjun, and he knows the guy who bullies women! ”

"What should we do, sister, do we really want to go? I...... I don't want to leave......" Gu Shi sobbed, almost fainting.

"What can I do if I don't want to go? Your Majesty made it clear that it was not pleasing to our eyes. Jiang smiled coldly, "He is the emperor, if you disobey the holy decree, it will be a capital crime." Our family is waiting for us to sell ourselves for glory and wealth. ”

The three female officials left the Hanyuan Hall crying, and Chu Chengping easily eliminated the three rivals in one fell swoop, and he was indescribably proud. Although Li Mei was sad that Chu Chengping had removed them, she knew that the feelings of these three women for her seemed to have become a little strange, and they often used their hands and feet on her when they were bathing or sleeping.

She was a little embarrassed, and left at this time, just in time to calm down.

Since then, countless female officials in the palace have sharpened their heads and want to enter the queen's palace and take the opportunity to ascend to the sky in one step, but they don't know that they can't enter the Hanyuan Palace, not because the queen is in the way, but because they are guarded by the "sky" thief.

By Li Mei's side, even the eunuchs will fall for her, this is her personal charm, Chu Chengping has accepted her fate.

Later, the Jiang family couldn't bear the boredom of the harem, so he invited himself to leave the palace with a "violent illness", changed his name and surname, and called himself "Mrs. Mei", took care of the industry for the queen, and also earned a huge family property. At the age of twenty-seven, she married a wealthy merchant in the Western Regions, and after the age of thirty, she gradually walked the Silk Road with her husband, and she can be regarded as a legendary figure in Dachu.

Li Mei and Chu Chengping had a happy life, Li Mei gave birth to many children, the third son and the fourth daughter were a pair of dragon and phoenix fetuses, and they were rare auspicious in the royal family, so Chu Chengping did not have a concubine later, and the queen mother pretended to be deaf and dumb, so no one dared to mention it.

mentioned that he might be beaten by Li Rui's sack, and then Li Zhao's family industry would lose money again and again, so why bother.

Chu Chengping kept his promise, and there was no other woman in his life except Li Mei. Xiao and Gu have been in the palace for many years, Gu can't help but "die" out of the palace, and was given a young general of the Praetorian Guard as a female official, but Xiao fell in love with the days of fighting with Chu Chengping, fighting wits and courage every day, constantly brushing his sense of existence in front of him, brushing friendliness in front of the queen, and even taking children for the queen, just to kill Chu Chengping.

Chu Chengping abdicated at the age of forty-five and became the emperor, and traveled around with Li Mei, protecting Li Rui and his eldest son Li Yan.

Since then, Da Chu has left many emperors and queens to pay private visits, perform chivalrous deeds, and kill corrupt officials and corrupt officials.

Because of this emperor's visits everywhere, officials from all over the country have also restrained a lot, and they dare not show a bad reputation.

The two of them lived until they were over ninety years old, and even Chu Chengping's eldest son became the emperor, and they were still healthy, which is not a miracle. Also long-lived is the Li family, Li Mao lived to be one hundred and seventeen years old, which is simply human.

Someone curiously asked about the secret of their longevity, Chu Chengping smiled and said that it was stained with Li Mei's light, but Li Mei could only snicker.

Why......

She wouldn't tell them that it was because she had seen a special couple and a strange monkey in the Temple of the Heavenly Monarch in Pingping.