The afterglow spills over the palace.

In the long corridor, Xiao Wu was dressed in white and walked towards the study with a delicate food box in her hand, the setting sun cast a halo on her body, and her beautiful cheeks were as beautiful as a painting. It's just that there is a faint sadness in those autumn eyes, and tonight her husband didn't move his chopsticks to let people go, and when he returned to the back garden, he locked himself up, looking preoccupied.

Xiao Wu knew that her husband had encountered a problem, and he must have forgotten to eat, since he moved to Yecheng, he has often done this. In order to manage the government nearby, sometimes even sleep in the Chaotian Hall and the Chaoyang Palace...... And it was only two or three miles from there, but in order to save time, he would not come back from such a short distance...... Xiao Wu felt that the opportunities to see her husband were becoming fewer and fewer, and when she did, she often greeted her, and then buried herself in official business and had no follow-up. It seems that as time goes by, the husband becomes more and more cold, calm, and wise, and the common topic between husband and wife seems to be less and less. Although she knew that the love of children should not be her focus, and that maturity and independence were what he should show, she couldn't help but think, "My husband may not like me anymore." Whenever she thought about it, she was heartbroken.

Although she also knows what Da Sui is like, she also knows that her husband is right to pay attention to state affairs, and she also knows that her husband likes herself the most among her sisters! But no matter how she is also a woman, what woman doesn't want her husband to care about and love her? She doesn't expect to be like the imperial grandmother, the assistant of the imperial grandfather in his career, and he is not so great, she only hopes that her husband will think more about her and love him, even if it is only occasionally remembered that it is her good, then she will be satisfied......

It turns out that loving someone is like this, thinking about him all the time, thinking about him, thinking about everything for him, even if you lower yourself into the dust, you don't hesitate......

Women often have a crush on a man because of curiosity and fall for worship!

She has heard too many comments about her husband, and she has also seen his wisdom in strategizing to win thousands of miles......

However, when she thought of her husband's desperate appearance of not eating as soon as she was busy, Wei Fengwu wrinkled her nose cutely, and her face was unhappy! Fighting like this, how can the body be able to eat.

Thinking about it, I have arrived at Yang Dong's study, this so-called study, in fact, is an independent palace in the Xiahui Palace, covering an area of five acres, in addition to a three-storey main building, all pavilions, bamboo, wood, mountains and stones, and a lake covering an area of one acre, the lake is clear, surrounded by green trees, flowers and trees are luxuriant, there is a two-zhang high stone platform not far away, and an octagonal wind hall is built on it.

Xiao Wu knocked lightly on the door, "Husband, it's me." ”

"The door is open, come in by yourself." Yang Tong's lazy voice came from inside.

Xiao Wu smiled heartily, every time the husband was annoyed by government affairs, he would hide here, not so much a study place where outsiders were not allowed to enter, but a place for leisure and relaxation, and there were no secrets inside, at most there were just books, not much different from the library in the Shenwu Palace, but many strange policies were written by Yang Tong here, and then passed out, so under the false rumors, everyone thought that there was a big secret.

Pushing the door in, I saw that the window in the room was open, and the setting sun was pouring in, smearing a faint halo on the room, and her husband was sitting on a 'master chair', and the golden crown exposed on the back of the chair could be faintly seen.

Xiao Wu put the food box on the table, smiling like a flower, and her voice was always as delicate and crisp as a yellow bird, "Is the husband writing poetry?" ”

"What kind of poems do you write? I'm sick of it! ”

With the warm glow, Yang Tong saw Xiao Wu's handsome face shining with a warm jade-like light, her body curved like a spring mountain, smooth and graceful, graceful, slim and elegant, exuding an intoxicating faint daughter fragrance, the young little beauty, like a budding magnolia in May, with the morning dew of youthful rain, bright and fragrant, and her whole body was filled with a light and familiar charm.

Yang Tong lay quietly, without saying a word, looking at Xiao Wu with a smile, his eyes were gentle and full of love. The two looked at each other, Xiao Wu smiled nervously, her ears were red with shame, and she said angrily: "Why do you look at me like this?" ”

Yang Tong opened his arms and said with a smile: "Come here, let the husband hug you." ”

Xiao Wu obediently leaned her soft body into his arms, leaned over and kissed Yang Tong's cheek, and meekly hung her head on his neck.

Xiao Wu looked at his lack of energy, and said distressedly: "If you are tired, go to bed early, you have slept in Chaoyang Hall for the past few days, and you must have slept too......"

"The county guards all want the people to have a share of the income during the slack time, and report the local construction plans such as road construction and water canal repair in the counties under their rule, how can they be in time if they don't deal with it quickly?"

"Isn't there an audit department? Just grasp the last hurdle. Why are you so tired, no matter how much the government can never be handled, you have to pay attention to your body occasionally. ”

Yang Tong sighed, "I also want to, but the Audit Department is a brand new department, it is not yet mature, as the founder of this department, many development directions of the Audit Department need me to lead, I have to bring them out like students!" ”

He took his wife into his arms, put his forehead against each other, and said softly: "I not only want to lay down a big country, but also improve the various governing systems, and leave our children a real peaceful and prosperous world that boasts of eternity, do you think I can?" ”

"I believe in you..."Xiao Wu's eyes turned red, and she hugged her husband tightly.

Husbands and wives cheer each other up, and there is no need to have too many sweet words, just a "I believe in you" is enough.

Xiao Wu's eyes were full of tenderness, and the corners of her mouth showed a sweet smile, although she was very infatuated with this warm feeling, but when she thought that her husband had not eaten, she writhed in her arms, "Oops, let me get up." ”

"What's so urgent?"

"Husband, I'm bringing you food."

"Deliver food?"

"What do you say?"

Xiao Wu asked her husband coquettishly, opened the food box, put a few plates of side dishes and a bowl of rice in front of him, and took out a cup of beef bone soup from the food box.

"Eat it while it's hot!"

Yang Tong was also a little hungry, he picked up the chopsticks, picked up the rice bowl and ate it, suddenly stopped the chopsticks and asked, "How much is the rice now?" ”

Xiao Wu sat opposite Yang Tong, "About forty-five Tongbao!" The wheat is cheaper, and it costs thirty-five tongbao. ”

Yang Tong frowned, he remembered that before he went to rob the Turks, it was thirty dollars a bucket, and one stone was only three hundred new dollars, how could it have risen by fifteen dollars in a short period of time.

Just as the price of pork in later generations was an important indicator to measure prices, the direct standard of grain prices in the Sui Dynasty was that the people took food as the sky. If you don't have anything to eat, you will rebel. Therefore, the rulers of all dynasties have regarded the price of grain as heavier than the sky! He knew that Xiao Wu was not pampered in the courtyard of the deep house, she often communicated with the palace people and knew the outside world very well, so he asked his wife again: "Why did the price increase by half?" ”

Xiao Wu filled her husband with a bowl of soup and said crisply: "I don't know very well, but I heard that it has suddenly risen, and it is still rising." ”

"It shouldn't be! We have a surprisingly large amount of food, could it be that someone is behind the back? ”

"But this year is different! The Great Sui has one more two major burdens of the state and the Guannei Province, and the state delayed the agricultural time last year because of the war, although it will not be a complete harvest, but it is far from being self-sufficient, and the husband has collected millions of victims of the Central Plains and a Guannei Province where the people's livelihood is withering, of course, the people's grain is not enough, there are more people and less grain, and it is normal for grain merchants to raise prices. ”

One sentence reminded Yang Tong that in the past few years, the government has purchased surplus grain at a high price higher than 10% above the market, so as not to hurt the peasants. Then put it into storage, and when there is a shortage of grain during the famine, the grain will be sold at the market price, which can not only help the people but also stabilize the price of grain and maintain the people's livelihood.

At the same time, the government has taken grain, an important livelihood and military material, into its own hands as much as possible. In addition, in order to prevent the outflow of grain, grain merchants are prohibited from hoarding grain, so there is very little grain that can be circulated among the people, and when the people are small, the people can still supply themselves at market prices.

It's just that Xiao Wu's words "suddenly rising, and it's still rising" made him vigilant.

Xiao Wu scooped a bowl of soup and put it in front of him, but when he saw that her husband's chopsticks stopped in the air for a long time and did not move, she glanced at him with disgust, and persuaded softly: "Actually, we are good here, I heard that the Central Plains and Guanzhong, Doumi is close to through." (Note: In the case of coins, 'guan' is used instead of 'hanging')

"Their rotten money is no match for ours!" Yang Tong is very proud, the strength of the Kanto family is really unimaginable, even in the midst of the war, they also have a way to buy a large number of physical goods from Bashu, and deliver them to Jizhou in the way of door-to-door delivery, and exchange for more than ninety percent of the five baht rotten money, Jizhou, Youzhou, and Bingzhou under the rule have completed the cashing of the old and new money, and there is no longer a shadow of the old money, it is said that the families in Bashu there have been empty in addition to five baht money, and they have made a lot of money one by one, counting the money to the hand cramps. And several counties in Guannei Province are also stepping up the exchange and recycling, and put into the market of Chang'an by the Pegasus Firm, with the cover of the name of Li Yuanji, the king of Qi, these inferior money will be exchanged for the wealth of Chang'an, and when the Pegasus Comptoir uses all the inferior money to attack the iron ingots and grain, it will be the day to give Guanzhong a fatal blow, and then Li Yuan will find that Guanzhong is so poor that there is only money left.

"I know that!" Xiao Wu said again: "But the food problem, the husband doesn't have to worry too much, in fact, if the people can survive, they won't rebel." The key is that the government should be effective, not like in previous years, when the official warehouse clearly has grain, but it refuses to release grain, forcing people to rebel. ”

Yang Tong drank all the hot soup she handed over, and commented: "The princess is amazing! I understand such a big truth. ”

Xiao Wu said proudly: "My sister and I are now grandmothers, and we have learned a lot of great truths." ”

"Very good, very good, you will all be my right-hand man in the future." Yang Tong laughed, Empress Xiao went from the princess of the dead country, to the princess of Jin, the crown princess, and finally the queen for 14 years, not only is it as simple as being beautiful and virtuous, but also has a wise mind, super high political skills, with her words and deeds, Xiao Wu and innocent and smart and studious, it is definitely more than enough to be the princess and the queen's concubine.

After the meal, the husband and wife walked hand in hand in the courtyard of the 'study'.

The cool evening breeze blows on the couple, refreshing the spleen. The insects kept singing, and there were a few long and short bird cries in the distance. Light, shadow, sound, and the ubiquitous warmth of the sunset make up this tranquil and gorgeous sunset scene.

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