July 20 of the first year of Dalong Ruian.

Liu Dashao, who had not long been married, was still living a three-month retreat leisurely in the house.

Liu Ying's behavior of listening to the root of the wall still left a deep shadow on Liu Dashao.

To this day, I haven't come to my senses, and when I hear Liu Ying's name, I feel a chill in my heart.

The practice of the Great Dragon Dynasty is that the courtier's family has a mourning period to go back to keep filial piety for three years, and the courtier's family has a three-month wedding day.

The welfare is good, and you don't want it.

The reason why Liu Dashao was promoted to the position of Zuo Shilang of the household department was because the former Zuo Shilang was going home to keep filial piety for his late father for three years.

coincided with his meeting, Liu Dashao was promoted to the position of the left servant of the household department, as for the position of the former Zuo Shilang returning to Beijing after the expiration of three years, it is not Liu Mingzhi's concern, since the emperor must have his reasons for doing this.

"Big brother, the people from the East China Sea have news!"

An Gou'er let go of an eagle falcon standing on his shoulder and hurried over.

Liu Mingzhi was stunned and put away the folding fan in his hand: "What's wrong?" ”

An Gou'er sent a note to Liu Mingzhi: "Big brother, the cronies of the people in the East China Sea have found a suitable place to study artillery, it is a desert island in the sea, more than thirty miles away from the coast, it can accommodate more than 4,000 people to study artillery there with peace of mind, and the sound will not reach the ears of the local government, it is simply the best place!" ”

Liu Mingzhi took the note with a happy face and looked at it carefully, and when he saw the last few words, Liu Mingzhi's brows furrowed slightly: "Nearly a thousand people don't want to go to the island?" ”

An Gou'er nodded calmly: "They are worried that they will not be able to come back if they go, let's force them to be different from the agreement when we first looked for them, but I am afraid that it will backfire!" ”

Liu Mingzhi took a deep breath: "Add silver, tell them that as long as they are willing to go to the island, each person will pay a hundred taels of silver for settling in, and add five taels of silver to each month's silver!" ”

An Gou'er sat on the stone bench and poured a cup of herbal tea and drank it, and looked at Liu Mingzhi with a somewhat embarrassed face: "Big brother, in this case, the expenditure will be too great, the research of artillery itself is a bottomless pit, plus after landing on the island, you have to make various supplies and houses, so you can't get down without hundreds of thousands of taels of silver." All of a sudden, so many settling-in expenses have to be millions of taels of silver, which is too wasteful, they don't want to go and change people, and some of the ten taels of silver a month are people who go, and they can't get used to them too much! ”

Liu Mingzhi shook his head: "No, let's not talk about the replacement of people, the efficiency and skills of the newcomer are incomparably compared with the old man, in case the mouth of more than 1,000 people is about to leak the news, wouldn't the artillery matter be known to everyone, you know better than anyone how powerful the artillery is, in case the emperor knows that the eldest brother I am doing such a powerful thing in private but I don't tell him, what will he think?" Although we are now in-laws, the eldest brother is always surnamed Liu instead of Li, so we have to guard against it! ”

An Gou'er clenched the teacup in his hand tightly and thought deeply, and after a while, An Gou'er had a trace of the same dark eyes in his eyes as Liu Yi.

"Big brother, these 1,000 people from the rest of the more than 1,000 brothers who are willing to go are all stragglers recruited from all over the country, and now they want to be a white-eyed wolf who sits on the ground and starts to pay a price when they are full of such a rich amount of silver, do you really think that An Gou'er is a bully? In my opinion, it's better to .............."

An Gou'er's gloomy eyes gestured to Liu Dashao with a hint of murderous intent.

Liu Mingzhi frowned and stared at An Gou'er a little serious, I don't know when An Gou'er was so murderous!

"Jiang He, what you said is certainly a good way, but don't forget one thing, the rabbit dies and the fox is sad, once you put the butcher's knife on these people who are unwilling to land on the island, what do the remaining people think? They will have no intention of studying artillery and unintentionally casting cannons, worrying that the butcher's knife will one day fall on their heads, so our losses will be greater, and the gains will outweigh the losses! ”

An Gou'er was stunned for a moment and looked at Liu Mingzhi apologetically, with a hint of remorse in his eyes.

"Big brother, I'm sorry that the younger brother thought too simply, and almost made a big mistake! What should the eldest brother say? ”

Liu Mingzhi played with the teacup and pondered, he didn't have any good ideas for a while, the settlement fee was not a lot of money, but the casting cannon was a bottomless pit as An Gou'er said, and the cost was too great.

The tens of millions of taels of silver tickets that the old man gave himself on the day he handed over the sixteen Qinglong people were half consumed just by researching artillery, and the number of people who developed the relevant divisions was consumed again, and now there is not much left.

Liu Mingzhi only now found out that the silver was so useless.

I have already promised the old man to set up his own door, and it is nothing to ask for a pocket money of more than 100,000 or 200,000 yuan, and it will be difficult to do it once a large amount of silver taels.

To be honest, my own little money is not enough to drink a meal of flower wine with Song Qing and these people.

The tax revenue of his own fiefdom is only tens of thousands of taels of silver a year, which is a drop in the bucket.

"Husband, the concubine made you an iced sour plum soup to remove the heat, please quickly taste whether it tastes good or not!"

Liu Mingzhi's thoughts were interrupted by the soft voice of the third princess, and when he looked back, the third princess was wearing a pleated phoenix smoke and green skirt, and a light veil covered by a phoenix tail coat standing behind Liu Mingzhi.

Ping'er, the palace maid, was holding a tray with a glazed bowl from an official kiln on it, braving a slight cold.

An Gou'er immediately got up and saluted the third princess: "Little brother Jianghe see sister-in-law!" ”

The third princess smiled lightly and returned the salute: "Uncle is exempt, uncle sit down!" ”

"Thank you, sister-in-law!"

Liu Mingzhi got up and stood up: "Yan'er, sit down too, why did you come out when it was so hot outside and you didn't stay in the house?" ”

The third princess scratched her head coquettishly: "Sister Yun and Sister Qingshi are making watermelons in the ice cellar, and the concubine was kicked out clumsily, so she asked Ping'er to teach her to make a bowl of sour plum soup and send it to her husband!" ”

Liu Mingzhi pretended to have a sinking face: "Yun'er and Qingshi are too different, how can I drive you out, and then my husband will teach them a lesson!" ”

"Don't be a husband, it's the concubine who is not diligent in the palace and doesn't blame the elder sister, if you let them know that the concubine told you this, you still think that the concubine will sue you."

"It's okay, I'll listen to you for the husband!"

Liu Mingzhi was extremely happy about the behavior of the third princess trying to protect Qi Yun's daughters, and he was worried that the backyard fire had not happened once since they got married.

Family harmony is the happiest thing for me.

"Husband, if you taste it or not, if you don't drink it, it won't have any effect!"

"Okay, I'll try your craft as a husband!"

The third princess smiled and put the sour plum soup in front of Liu Mingzhi, and nodded apologetically at An Gou'er: "Sister-in-law didn't know that my uncle was also there, so I prepared a bowl, uncle forgive me!" ”

An Gou'er shook her head indifferently: "Sister-in-law doesn't have to care, little brother is fine!" ”

Serving the sour plum soup to his mouth with a spoon, Liu Dashao's face suddenly became embarrassed.

The sweet, sour, bitter, spicy, salty, and flavorful flavors on the tip of the tongue stimulate Liu Dashao's taste buds.

There is the sour taste of sour plum soup, the taste of dogwood powder, the faint saltiness, and the bitterness of crying lotus seeds, this sweetness is good, and the taste of royal jelly is sweet and a little greasy.

The most important thing is that there is a taste of rice vinegar, which is sour plum soup?

Looking at the expectant eyes of the third princess, Liu Dashao endured the discomfort and swallowed this sour plum soup of love!

"Husband? Does it taste good? ”

"Well, it tastes good, sour and refreshing, and the heart is flying and the heart is cold, but Yan'er!"

The third princess suddenly became nervous: "Husband, what's wrong?" Isn't it wrong to do it there! ”

"Is there still a kitchen?"

"It's gone!"

"It's good if it's gone......... How can it be done? Jiang He must be upset and irritable after just practicing a set of boxing techniques, how can you, a sister-in-law, not make a bowl for her? ”

"This ...... The concubine will go immediately! ”

"Slow, it's late now, let Jiang He drink this bowl for my husband, remember to make a few more bowls next time in case you need to know?"

"The concubine body must be remembered in my heart!"

Liu Dashao nodded with satisfaction and pushed the sour plum soup in front of An Gou'er.

"Jianghe, taste it, this is your sister-in-law's heart!"

"Thank you, big brother!"

An Gou'er looked at Liu Dashao with a moved expression, and he picked up the bowl and raised his head directly.

The entrance of the sour plum soup was shocked, and the sour plum soup was drunk with tears in his eyes holding the soup bowl and looking at the light of the sun in the sky with tears in his eyes.

"Hiccup.........

Liu Dashao waved his sleeves and swept away the smell of vinegar.

"Uncle, why are you crying?"

"Yan'er, don't worry, Jiang He is moved to cry!"

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