After speaking, Ying Chang picked up the silver chopsticks and jade bowl and ate it unceremoniously, while Tang Hua knelt beside the dragon chair respectfully, serving Ying Chang Food.

"Nice, delicious!"

"No, this shouldn't have been done by the Imperial Dining Room, right?"

Ying Chang is used to eating things in the imperial dining room, so he immediately guessed that this dish was not made by the imperial dining room, Tang Hua heard Ying Chang's words, couldn't help but smile, and said a little shyly: "It's the concubine who made it, Your Majesty likes it, and the concubine is afraid that Your Majesty won't like it!" ”

Ying Chang took out a free hand and pinched Tang Hua's chin, which tasted interesting: "I didn't expect that Concubine Ai would be able to go to the dining room, it seems that I am not wrong at all to accept you as a concubine!" After saying this, Yingchang took a bite of rice, and asked while eating: "Why didn't Bei'er come!" ”

As soon as Yingbei was mentioned, a look of helplessness suddenly appeared on Tang Hua's face, "I'm embarrassed to say it, Your Majesty has visited Bei'er only a handful of times since he came back from the Northern Expedition, and now Bei'er is sulking again, and said, when Uncle Wang enters the palace, I want to sue Uncle Wang and let her Uncle Wang teach you a lesson!" ”

"Haha!" Ying Chang was immediately amused, "This girl, I still want to find someone to teach me a lesson, haha!" ”

Seeing Ying Chang's heartless laughter, Tang Hua's heart was as bitter as eating bitter gourd, everything in Tang Hua seemed to be seen by Ying Chang, Ying Chang's face changed in vain, and he said solemnly: "As the saying goes, ruthlessness has been the emperor's family since ancient times, and the emperor is not ruthless, but there is no time to show it at all!" ”

"You look at the imperial case, hundreds of folds, and a batch will be sent over later, I am such a daughter now, you say that I like it or not, it hurts or not, but there is no way, I can only let Bei'er be wronged, I hope that when she grows up, she can understand my hard work!"

The emperor is never ruthless, quietly on the contrary, the emperor has always been the most affectionate one, if the emperor is really ruthless, how can the people of the world survive, but the emperor will love, goodwill, affection, have given the subjects of the world!

Tang Hua got up from the ground, squatted down and saluted to Ying Chang with a solemn expression: "The concubine can understand Your Majesty, although Your Majesty can deal with the government affairs, there are still concubines on Bei'er's side!" ”

Ying Chang reached out and grabbed Tang Hua's hands, gently stroked the smooth back of his hand with his thumb, and looked at Tang Hua in a deep tone: "I am destined to practice all my life, so you have to take care of Bei'er for me, understand?" ”

Tang Huayin bit his thin lips and nodded heavily.

"Your Majesty!"

At this moment, a Praetorian Guard stood outside the temple and saluted and shouted.

Ying Chang let go of Tang Hua's hand, put his hands on the imperial case, and looked at the guards outside the hall without anger and said, "What's the matter?" ”

"Back to Your Majesty, the Prime Minister and the Lord of the Five Books ask to see Your Majesty, and they are waiting outside the Chengde Gate!" The Praetorian Guard bowed respectfully and replied.

"I know, let them in!" Ying Chang nodded expressionlessly, and when Tang Hua next to him saw this, he squatted again and saluted: "The concubine will retire first!" ”

"Hmm!"

Tang Hua removed the dishes and chopsticks and the leftover delicacies, and only Ying Chang was left alone in the huge imperial study, looking at the empty surroundings, Ying Chang leaned back, closed his eyes, and sighed softly in his heart, alas! This emperor is really not easy to be!

Sometimes, Ying Chang really wants to be a faint king, and he can do whatever he wants, but the responsibility on his shoulders is like Mount Tai, and he fiercely suppresses his idea of being a faint king.

After a period of time, the left and right prime ministers Zhang Feizi and Chang Zifei, the five Shangshu Li Ke, Yang Ze, Jia Luo, Jiang Haiyou, Kong Wen, seven people each dressed in decent court clothes, walked into the imperial study together, as soon as the seven people entered the imperial study, they all bent down and saluted and shouted: "The ministers meet Your Majesty, long live my emperor, long live, long live!" ”

Ying Chang opened his sharp eyes, leaned forward, and said softly with an expressionless face: "What is the so-called matter when you enter the palace today?" ”

The seven looked at each other, as if to say, who will come first?

Kong Wen, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, was the first to stand up, only to see him bend down his old body, raise his hand respectfully and salute: "Your Majesty, the Ministry of Rites has prepared for the big wedding ceremony, and has also sent a large number of envoys to the countries of Kyushu, all the first things have been done, and the Yan Empire has not declared war, and the minister has sent Wang Ya, the left attendant of the Ministry of Rites, to go!" ”

Ying Chang blinked and asked, "Is there a messenger who has come back now?" ”

"Not yet, the minister estimates that in another half a month or a month, the envoy to Jin and Qi should be back!" Kong Wen replied respectfully.

Ying Chang nodded expressionlessly, indicating that he understood, after Kong Wen finished speaking, Jia Luo, the head of the household department, bent down and saluted: "Your Majesty, the population of the Xiongnu in the Northern Desert has been counted, excluding the Grassland Legion and the Ningta Legion, a total of 3.6 million Huns!" ”

"Of the 3.6 million Huns, there will be 3 million people as slaves, 600,000 people will be restored to civilian status, and according to His Majesty's 210,000 people in one county, it needs to be divided into seventeen counties, which is one more county than expected!"

"Seventeen counties are also divided, the Northern Desert accounts for nine counties, of which five counties are distributed in the western and central regions of the Bailan Prairie, the remaining four counties are distributed in the western region of the Guyuan Prairie, the Western Desert accounts for eight counties, the Mofer Prairie accounts for six counties, and the southern part of the Shanshi Prairie accounts for two counties!"

"In addition, the total number of cattle, sheep and horses in the Great Northern Desert is 11 million, of which the number of horses is 2.7 million, the number of cattle is 3.3 million, and the number of sheep is 5 million, which is worth about 70 million taels of silver!"

According to the ordinary speed, it is impossible for the household department to be counted in this way, and the household department is so fast to count it, all thanks to the help of Du Changjing, when Du Changjing was in the third battalion of the Northern Expedition, he had already counted the population and the number of cattle, sheep and horses, and the territory area could also be counted as a military flag.

As for how the household department calculated that there were 600,000 people restored to civilian status, it was naturally calculated the quota given by Yingchang, in the first battle of the Western Expedition, the 100,000 Ningta Legion killed 50,000 warriors, and the three immediate family members of each fallen warrior were directly removed from slavery, and the warriors who did not die were rewarded with two places, plus their military exploits, plus some scattered ones, and finally calculated that 600,000 people were restored to civilian status, and 3 million Huns were still slaves!

Ying Chang was silent for a while, and after digesting what Jia Luo said, he opened his mouth and replied: "The Huns who have restored their civilian status should not be placed in the same county as the Xiongnu slaves, but should be placed separately, otherwise it will be difficult to manage the seventeen county officials!" ”

"Yes!" Jia Luo replied respectfully.

After Jia Luo finished speaking, it was the turn of Yang Ze, the secretary of the Ministry of War, and I saw Yang Ze bending down respectfully and saluting: "Your Majesty, the Ministry of War has sent a million arrows to the northwest of Yan and the camp in northern Yanbei, and it is expected to arrive in two months!" ”

(End of chapter)