Li Mao and Gu Qing said some arrangements, and Gu Qing wrote them down one by one and agreed.

Li Mao has been almost sleepless for the past two days, and after putting down the burden, he is really much more relaxed. said goodbye to Gu Qing first, and went to the Splendid Courtyard alone.

He entered the gate of the Splendid Courtyard, and found that his wife was still the same as countless times in the past, and after receiving the reward of his subordinates, he began to stand by the door and wait for him, and he couldn't help but feel a sour nose and walked forward.

He has a lot of things to say to her, Li Rui and his mother have already let go of their knots, and they just hope that she can also cut off her demons as soon as possible and be reborn from the fire.

Early in the morning of the second day, Li Mao put on his official uniform and went to the court.

It has been more than a month since he left Beijing this time, and many things have changed in both the DPRK and Beijing.

For example, if there was a hailstorm in the capital, how did the students unite to provide relief, and even promoted the speed of the imperial court's disaster relief; For example, Zhang Yun, the old prince of the Jin State Mansion, has been seriously ill recently, and he has invited the imperial doctor three times a day, but Zhang Nuo has not been to the court for several days.

If Zhang Yun dies this time, the Jin State Mansion will definitely be silent for a few years, just like the Xinguo Mansion back then.

Li Mao had already heard a lot of things during the time when he was waiting to ascend to the hall outside the main hall.

When he gets to his position, he doesn't need to inquire about anything, someone will send the news and sell it well.

Li Mao's safe return to Beijing this time is very important to Chu Rui.

And the impetus brought by Li Mao was an unexpected surprise for Chu Rui.

The first is the remnants of King Qiyang.

Back then, the son of the king of Qiyang absconded, and he tried all means to find out the people, and the people killed batch after batch, but these people just didn't know.

King Qiyang is the only one among the county kings who is not sealed in the bitter cold land. Because the emperor and Li Laoguo were imprisoned that year, it was all because the king of Qiyang led people to rob the prison, and after rescuing the two, he scattered all his family wealth and rebelled with his brothers.

In the following decades, the king of Qiyang followed the emperor to the east and west, and made outstanding achievements. But because he was arrogant, he contradicted the emperor several times, and he was only a county king at the end, and he was even under Li Mao and Zhang Yun.

At the beginning of the second year of the founding of the Great Chu State, he reversed. Not only did he rebel, but he also dragged one of Chu Rui's half-brothers to rebel together.

This matter is an eternal pain in Chu Rui's heart.

When the son of King Chu Ke of Qiyang escaped, they searched for so many years without any whereabouts, and it turned out that they were hiding in the north.

If it weren't for the fact that Li Mao had left traces in the crossbow of the Shenji crossbow and captured so many prisoners in Fenzhou, I really don't know what year I would have found out.

Again, it's those extra horses. The Great Chu cavalry is scarce, and a cavalry needs at least two horses to change to maintain mobility, which is also the key reason for the scarcity of the Great Chu cavalry.

Da Chu does not produce war horses, good horses are rare, and good horses that can be transferred are even more luxurious.

With so many more good horses this time, and all of them have not been gelding, how many horse breeds will be left?

Thinking of the Tongzhou snow disaster again, Li Mao proposed to slowly return to the hermit with disaster relief, and now he has also obtained excellent results.

According to the Tongzhou report, Tongzhou has absorbed more than 10,000 displaced people, and even if this household is counted as three people, it is still more than 30,000 people. How much fertile land can these 10,000 households open up and how much taxes can they pay?

He wanted to make every state do the same.

It's a pity that Chu Rui also knows that this is impossible. The thing in Tongzhou can be done because of natural disasters. But if he wants to forcibly absorb hidden households, it will become **.

In any case, although this Li Mao does not have his father's wisdom and bravery, nor does he have his brother's strategy, but at present, it is really a lucky star.

Not only can he turn evil into good fortune every time, but he will also bring many surprises.

There are too many cases of jealousy of talents in this world, and a talent like Li Mao, who is favored by God, is really a blessing that people can't envy.

Chu Rui ascended to the court, first the envoys from all the tribes came to the court, and the Hu people wearing various leather clothes and leather pants knelt on the ground, shouting "Tian Khan", which caused Chu Rui to be very happy, and the rewards continued.

Suluk's tribe, as the first tribe to lend a helping hand to the Han Chinese, received a large amount of gold, silver and silk. It even got the right to trade with several cities on the border of Fenzhou.

From then on, there were special bazaars in Dachu that would be set aside, and there were also special officials in charge of management, as a Hu market, to trade with the Hu people.

If the Hu market in Fenzhou is successful, the Hu market will gradually open up in the following states and Liangzhou, allowing Hu and Han people to trade with each other, do business, or buy and sell slaves.

This decision was the result of discussions between Chu Rui and many ministers.

Judging from Li Mao's recital, these Hu people are brave and good at fighting, and they are not afraid of death, and if they develop, they will become a catastrophe in the future.

In the past, when Xihu invaded the Central Plains, it was also because a huge country in the west expanded eastward, and these people who drove it united to seize resources and land in the east.

The Hu people are good at fighting but not good at defending, but together with the war, the Central Plains is full of devastation, and even if they can regain the lost land, they have to recuperate for a long time. The place where the Hu people live is not as rich as the Central Plains, and if they can spend some money, they can gradually get used to the life of the Han people and domesticate them, which is naturally very good.

Allowing the slave trade was a bad policy. The official who proposed this policy was only a young secretary of Honglu Temple, but when he proposed this policy, everyone was taken aback.

Dachu is now very short of people, and the manors of various clans have many hermits and tenants, and outside the manor, a large area of land is gradually becoming barren.

Although the grassland herders do not know how to farm, they are very able to endure hardships and are much stronger than the Han people. They originally had a tradition of becoming slaves or dying after defeat, and it was better to sell them to Han people as slaves than to kill them.

In this way, if it is really difficult to endure outside the northern border this year, and the Han people want a large population, they will slowly consume themselves, and they will slowly fight internally, and wars with other tribes to produce slaves, or sell the old and weak of the tribes in exchange for food and other necessary things.

In such a long-term war, the strength of the northern ethnic groups will become weaker and weaker for hundreds of years, and the Han people will gradually assimilate the various ethnic groups they have absorbed, which will eventually make them lose their wildness.

The various tribes of Fenzhou and Liangzhou have already survived in the local area for a long time, and some have integrated into the local area, and even intermarried with the local Han people, these people can get other preferential treatment from the Han people, and can even be allowed to enter the fortress and do business, so that for their own interests, they will not want the Great Chu to be in turmoil.

These are all national policies for long-term peace and stability, and governing a large country is like cooking a small meal, and we must be careful and tentative, and constantly improve the policy according to various circumstances until we find the most suitable method.

Chu Rui is not in a hurry.

He is in the prime of life and can take his time.

The Western Army has already received a military order, and the Chinese Army will also be drawn immediately, if Wang Taihe of the Northern Army leads his troops to rebel, they will be suppressed on the spot.

The imperial envoy Zhou Qing, as the overseer, will join them in Fenzhou and go together.

Originally, half of the officials in Fenzhou were dismissed, and there were many more official positions in Fenzhou, and the threshold at Zhang Ning's door was about to be stepped on for a while.

Liu Peng, the former senator of Fenzhou, was promoted by one level and became the political envoy of Fenzhou, while Wang Zhiming, the county magistrate of Lingyuan County, took over Liu Peng's position and was promoted to three levels.

The county order of Lingyuan County is vacant, and the county orders of the surrounding four counties have all sent out troops and have meritorious help, and they have all been rewarded.

After the snow disaster in Tongzhou is over, I am afraid that many officials will be taken captive.

Many students of this class are gearing up, and the academicians of the Hanlin Academy are also red-eyed. Most of these people are from poor backgrounds, and they have studied hard for so many years, just to have a half-official position and be able to display their talents.

Now that you have such an opportunity, how can you not work hard?

Within a few days, the resignation of the military department was also approved, and Li Mao took over as the new secretary.

The youngest Shangshu in the history of Great Chu was produced. Li Mao is just in his early thirties this year, none of the six Shangshu is less than forty years old, when Zhang Ning, who was one in the previous forty, took over as the secretary of the ministry, everyone called him young and promising, and Li Mao's rise was as fast as his brother Li Meng back then.

It's just that his brother took the position of Hanlin in the Hanlin Academy, and he started as the vice minister of the military department and climbed to the main position of the military department little by little.

Purple clothes and gold ribbons, Li Mao was in the limelight for a while, and even when Zhang Ning saw him, he changed his usual reserved appearance and greeted him politely.

In the study room of the Zichen Palace.

"You mean, the Aiqing Mansion is willing to accept my call?" Chu Rui looked at Li Mao with a complicated expression, "Your family is thin, and your wife is ...... I have already given up on your family, and I am ready to pick people again in the future. ”

"I can't find a more suitable situation than in the minister's house." Li Mao tried his best to make his appearance look very sincere. "Although the minister has no great talent, the minister is loyal, and the sun and the moon can be seen. His Majesty wants to use his ministers, which is a blessing for his ministers. ”

"To tell you the truth, Chen's nephew is the smartest person in the court's house, he has the talents of my father and brother, but he lacks training. Although this matter is dangerous, it is also an opportunity for the nephew of the minister. After the minister consulted with the two children, the two children were willing to be loyal to the country and go down to the Jingping court for His Majesty. ”

“…… In the Shinkoku Mansion, do you still have to discuss major matters with the children? Chu Rui asked in surprise.

How far is there a shortage of people in their house?

Thinking that the foundation of the Xinguo Mansion was so shallow, Chu Rui was even more relieved about this family.

"The minister's mother consults everything with everyone, and the minister is nurtured by the minister's mother, and if there is a major event in the family, she tries not to hide it from her family. There are few people in the minister's family, and even the children have to help if they do anything on weekdays. I'm not afraid of jokes, every year is busy, the two children are busy with the trivial things at home, and every time the New Year is over, the two children have to lose weight......"

"Even this year's family sacrifice was presided over by the minister's nephew Li Rui on behalf of the minister."

Li Mao kept saying good things for his nephew, and he was more valued by the emperor, and it would be more beneficial to him in the future.

"This time, the minister was able to return safely, thanks to his thousands of miles to help, and he brought rescue soldiers for the minister. In fact, if it weren't for His Majesty's desire to use Li Rui, the minister would have been going to fold it up when he came back, and please crown Li Rui as the son. ”

"What did you say?" Chu Rui had also heard about the practices of Li Mao and the Fang family, and he was really surprised that he could say this.

Isn't it a show?

That's exactly what the minister thinks. Li Rui is brave and strategic, and he has the legacy of his father, and he is more decisive than his ministers. Compared to the son of the minister, he is actually more suitable for this title. It's just that now that he has to take on such a big responsibility, he naturally can't mention this matter again. ”

Li Mao suddenly knelt down.

"Your Majesty, the minister has no complaints about this plan, only one point, I ask Your Majesty to look at the minister's brother for the sake of loyalty to the country, everything takes the safety of the minister's nephew Li Rui as the priority, and leaves a little ......blood and blood for the minister's brother Li Meng."

Li Mao had to force each other with affection. He had been with the emperor for two years, and although he could not say that he knew him very well, he was very sure of one thing.

- That is, His Majesty is very proud.

If he can promise him personally, even if it is for the sake of face, he will think twice.

Sure enough, as soon as Li Mao mentioned Li Meng, the emperor was immediately moved, and hurriedly helped Li Mao up and made an oath.

"Li Aiqing, rest assured, the three generations of your Li family were born and died for my Da Chu, I see it in my eyes and remember it in my heart, and I will live up to it! If he is in danger one day, I will save him. If Li Aiqing is not at ease, when there is a suitable opportunity, I will issue a Danshu iron coupon to the Xinguo Mansion to calm Qingqing's heart. ”

"Thank you to my emperor Longen."

Li Mao knelt extremely fast this time, and he didn't need to be modest at all. He bowed his head deeply.

The Danshu iron coupon is equivalent to a gold medal for avoiding death, which can exempt the descendants of meritorious heroes, and since the founding of the Great Chu, there has never been a precedent for awarding iron coupons.

If he has this thing in hand, Li Mao will have another guarantee.

This head, to knock hard, must be remembered by the emperor!

It is said that Li Mao, the prince of Xinguo, is extorting more support from the emperor for his family, and Gu Qing is teaching Tana brought back by Li Mao how to knit sweaters in the mansion.

Since Gu Qing heard Tana's idea of using sweaters as a specialty of the tribe to trade with the Han people, she also admired this little beauty very much. When she was her age, she would never want to find any way to get rich and improve her family.

What's more, people come all the way, and after receiving the reward, they have to go back to the grassland, and during this time, if they can't teach them to knit sweaters, it will not be easy to come back in the future.

It's just that admiration is admiration, kindness is kindness, and that's how cruel it is......

"Come around here......" Gu Qing pointed to a certain gap.

Tana pulled the thread awkwardly and pricked it down.

"Ahh

The muscles on Gu Qing's face tugged.

"Come on, get muscle-building hemostatic cream! Get the bandages again! ”

A needle poked between the fingernails or something, it's too brutal and bloody!

She couldn't stand it anymore.

Tana dropped the needle in frustration, and pointed out the blood to her hand as if she had not seen it, and said straight:

"Why am I so stupid that I can't even knit a single dress!"

It's not a stupid question anymore.

Gu Qing sighed secretly in his heart.

Even the sweater started to wrap threads, she had been teaching for a morning, until she was tired to death, and she was about to lose energy, so she finally taught her how to start.

But it is a simple flat needle, she can also skip the needle, poke the leak, and wrap the wrong line, so that she keeps dismantling and correcting the error......

Girl, with such talent, don't learn to make sweaters! Aren't there ten more little girls! You let someone else come!

Tana was also discouraged.

As the only daughter of the chief, she was raised as a boy since she was a child, but she could ride horses and shoot arrows, slaughter sheep and cattle. It's a belt, although she doesn't knit it very well, but she can also weave it. Why can't she even hold these two bamboo needles in her hand!

She speaks the best Chinese, and she wants to go back to teach others after learning from Mrs. Qiu. As a result, now that she looks at it, I'm afraid she's going to be the one who pulls her back!

Tana casually took some medicine, wrapped it in gauze, and said unwillingly to Gu Qing: "Mrs. Tai, come again!" ”

Gu Qing smiled dryly and said, "Miss Tana, what are you best at?" ”

"I'm the best at archery."

"Yes, what you are best at is archery, so you should make good use of this specialty."

"You persuade me not to study? Well, I've never given up so easily! ”

Gu Qing persuaded bitterly: "Don't be in a hurry to learn things, I see that your hands are injured, it's better to heal the injury first, and then come to learn." ”

"But ......"

"Mrs., there is a young man outside the mansion who asks to see her, saying that he is a friend of Miss Tana, named Lu Mo." Menzi interrupted Tana's words as he reported the news outside the house. "Young Master Rui is accompanying him in front, can Mrs. Tai see it?"

"Rumer? What is he doing here? Tana blinked inexplicably, turned her head and said to Gu Qing: "Roulmo is my lover, probably coming to me." ”

The girl was so embarrassed that she covered her faces, stammered, and her ears were red.

When Gu Qing heard that there was another man, and he was Tana's lover, he almost couldn't help but slip out of his mouth The lyrics of "The man who sets the horse, you are mighty and majestic".

When she arrived in ancient times, the teenagers she saw were all handsome, and when she heard that a grassland boy was coming, she looked at Tana's appearance and made up all kinds of handsome Central Asian guys.

"Tell them to come to Zhiyun Temple." Gu Qing said with a smile. "I want to see how handsome Tana's sweetheart looks."

"He's not handsome, but he's a very good guy." Tana replied with a smile on her face.

When Li Rui took Lu Mo and an elderly man into the outer room, Gu Qing couldn't help but be a little disappointed when he saw that "Lu Mo" was obviously a Han boy.

Say that the handsome guy in the Western Regions is good!

None of the others could guess Gu Qing's thoughts, but they only saw that Old Taijun Qiu glanced at the young man a few times, revealing a look of "pity, pity". As for what it is a pity, only Old Taijun Qiu knows the truth.

The young man named Lu Mo and the old man wanted to kneel down for Gu Qing, but Gu Qing hurriedly called someone to stop them.

It's a guest from afar, that old grandfather can be her grandfather's age, and she really can't bear to let him kneel for her.

"Kind and generous old lady, I have come this time with the wise man of the tribe to ask for a portrait of you." Lu Mo bent down and stroked his chest and said, "Lord Li and the old lady are kind to us, and the rules of our people are to treat those who are kind to the tribe, and we must leave a portrait and sing it from generation to generation. You are an elder, and according to tradition, the wise man wants to draw it for you, please agree. ”

Painted by people, and then sung from generation to generation......

It's a little exciting to think about.

Mama Hua laughed and quipped, "Mrs., this is a good thing." What's more, it's also the rule of the karma people, so you should do it. This is probably the same as our Han people lighting longevity lamps for longevity tablets. ”

Gu Qing originally wanted to agree, no one had ever painted a portrait of her, but she agreed to be too unreserved, as soon as Mama Hua handed over the steps, Gu Qing immediately pretended to be embarrassed, and then nodded slowly with a smile.

"Since Mama Hua has said so, then I'll paint it for you. Am I going to sit here all the time? ”

Tana is in a hurry, she's only halfway through her sweater!

"But I've only learned a few stitches!"

Lummer turned and asked the wise man a few words in the dialect, and the wise man quickly replied.

"Old lady, the wise man said, don't be too deliberate, you just do as usual."

It's quite humane.

"Then trouble this elder." Gu Qing smiled and nodded to the wise man.

The girls brought a chair to the old man, and the old man who was painting waved his hand, and sat down on the floor in a random place in the room. He took out a roll of parchment paper from the backpack behind him, as well as brushes and paints of various colors, asked the girls for some water, mixed them, and began to paint.

The people were curious to watch this person paint, but Tana couldn't wait to take Gu Qing's hand and pester her to continue to teach herself to knit clothes.

If she goes back tonight, she won't be able to teach her sisters, she's so ashamed!

Gu Qing was helpless to be pestered by Tana, and the other convenience was indeed conquered by her stubbornness, so she had to cheer up and teach again.

It's just that she teaches seriously, and Tana learns more seriously, but she just took this needle and twisted the wrong needle, and she didn't know how to make some strange stitches.

If she hadn't asked her subordinates to sharpen these needles to a round one, I'm afraid that a few of her fingers would have been rotten.

Li Rui watched it for a while and sneaked away.

"You don't have to hook your little finger tightly, if the thread is too tight, this needle will not be easy to enter, so you keep poking the wrong ......" Gu Qing sighed, reached out and took her needle, faded it and let her do it again.

This is not a sweater, but the simplest flat-pin scarf, which has been tossed for several hours.

This kid is so stubborn, should she laugh? Or should I cry?

Another moment passed.

"Here ......"

"That's not right here, you poked two needles together." Lummer, who had been quietly watching Tana knitting a sweater, suddenly spoke.

…… Tana turned her head stiffly.

"You just look at it and learn it?"

Loomer touched his chin.

"I haven't knitted before, but it looks easy, you can try it."

Tana handed over the item in her hand.

Lu Mo reached out and took the thread and needle and thread from Tana's hand, adjusted his posture slightly according to the method taught by Gu Qing, bypassed the thread with his fingers, injected a needle first, and then looked at Gu Qing inquiringly.

Gu Qing nodded excitedly.

O God! Finally one has learned!

Lu Mo saw that he was weaving correctly, so he continued to weave according to the first stitch, quickly made a row, then changed sides, and played another row.

He weaved fast and densely, and compared to Tana's large holes and small holes below, it was a world of difference.

Tana looked at Lummer with tears in her eyes, wondering if she was devastated or depressed.

Gu Qing looked at the little couple speechlessly, and didn't know what to say for a while.

Won't quarrel, right?

"Great!" Tana burst into two lines of tears. "Finally stop fighting with these needles!"

"Lu Mo, you quickly learn first, and then you can teach us all later!"

Oh yes!

Gu Qing cheered in his heart!

Sure enough, behind every female man, there is a virtuous helper!

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After a long time, the wise man finished his portrait.

Gu Qing was very excited to take it over and take a look.

His mouth opened wide in shock.

This, this, this...... This grandfather, are you a Fauvist?