Chu Tianxiu took Zu'er and hurried back to Yu Garden in Pingwang's Mansion by car.

Along the way, Zu'er looked at her uncle with a solemn expression, and she didn't dare to ask more.

Yu Garden.

Li Yu was practicing swordsmanship in the snowy courtyard of the courtyard.

She was dressed in a snow-white tight-fitting robe, delicate and graceful, with a concave and convex silhouette, and a sword in her jade hand was shining with cold light, wielding it arbitrarily.

A cloud of cold sword light flew in the snowflakes, and it was still fast, and the wind broke through the air, and it was swift and terrifying.

Di'er was doing a sparring partner for Li Yu.

Chu Tianxiu saw two beautiful delicate shadows, flying in the snow, and was stunned for a while.

"Husband is back!"

When Li Yu saw Chu Tianxiu coming back, he instantly put away his sword, his cheeks sweated slightly, and said with a smile: "Yu'er will go and change his clothes first." ”

"Well, I have something to discuss with my lady."

Chu Tianxiu nodded, returned to the study, and paced back and forth.

He looked distressed, thinking about how to explain this matter to Li Yu.

Could it be that he said directly, lady, for her husband, this little marquis "pointed out the country and promoted the words" on the Jinluan Palace, and accidentally lost one of your copper mountains?

His handsome face is a little unbearable!

After a while, Li Yu changed into a snow fox coat and cape and came to the study to look for him.

As soon as she saw Chu Tianxiu's worried face, she knew that there must be something wrong with the palace test.

However, it doesn't really matter.

Anyway, Chu Tianxiu is a little marquis, and the Pingwang Mansion has a big business, and she, the county lord, has a fief and a copper mountain, and she has a lot of income, so she doesn't have to worry about lacking anything.

As long as Chu Tianxiu doesn't hang out with fox friends and dogs in Jinling City, doesn't hang out in King Ping's mansion, and goes to tinker with his papermaking workshop in his free time, he can be regarded as on the right path.

As for the husband being an official or something... With it without it, the same New Year.

"Husband, this is your first time in the palace exam, and you are inevitably nervous. It's also reasonable to play abnormally, anyway, there are years to move every year, and then make plans for the next year! ”

Li Yu immediately smiled and comforted.

"Lady... Being a husband is not playing abnormally, but playing too hard! ”

Chu Tianxiu smiled more and more bitterly, and said, "When I tried in the palace, I saw that the countermeasures of the few lifters next to me were very good.

I thought that I couldn't be compared to them, and for a while, I wrote a "Policy for Prohibiting Private Minting of Copper Coins", asking the emperor to collect all the copper mountains in the world into the imperial court, and strictly prohibiting private minting of copper coins. ”

"Prohibition of Privately Minting Copper Coins? Husband... This is a hornet's nest and a big trouble! ”

When Li Yu heard this, his face changed.

"I didn't know before I was a husband that my wife also had a copper mountain. If I had known, I would not have written about it. ”

Chu Tianxiu said helplessly.

Li Yu was stunned for a long time, and said: "Yu'er, this is just a copper mountain, it's nothing.

It's just that in this world's copper mountain, the imperial court only accounts for 30%. The remaining six or seven percent are in the fiefs of the major princes, princes, and princesses, as well as the hands of the ministers and the families of the major lords.

Since Taizu opened the dynasty to divide the princes, he allowed the princes and gate lords to dig their own fiefs and mint copper coins.

Up and down in Dachu, there are copper mountains in their own fiefdoms, and there are hundreds of them, all of them are royal relatives, relatives and important ministers. Once the "Prohibition of Private Minting of Copper Coins" is implemented, it will offend at least hundreds of families. ”

She couldn't even imagine... What will be the attitude of these hundreds of royal relatives?

Chu Tianxiu was stunned and hid his face.

I feel that I have put a map cannon and blown up all the magnates of the Manchu Dynasty!

No wonder, the emperor saw his countermeasures and had such a strange attitude, he didn't even reward him, but threw him out of the Jinluan Palace.

The imperial court can take back the copper mountain in the world, which can greatly fill the treasury, and it is no problem to triple it. But this will make the princes, gate lords and magnates cut a lot of meat!

Those who come up with this strategy, the princes and gate valves of the world must hate it deeply.

They can't help the emperor, but they will definitely think of ways to deal with him.

It seems that he has to honestly hide in the Pingwang Mansion during this time, and he can't go out.

Listen to the wind and see if there's any wind outside.

Li Yu thought about it carefully and said, "However, the husband doesn't have to worry too much. Even if the emperor knew that the benefits of banning privately minted copper coins were huge, he would not rush into it. The ministers of the court will inevitably oppose it.

Now Da Chu has been recuperating for more than ten years, the court is rich, and the warehouse is full of money and grain. The emperor will not use it easily, this kind of strategy has attracted too much opposition.

Unless one day, the court is short of money.... ”

Chu Tianxiu pondered for a while.

Now the imperial court is not short of money.

However, Chao Fangzheng's book "Cutting Feudal Strategy" is a national policy that requires the use of a large army.

Emperor Xiang Yanran may not be tempted by the cutting of the domain. Once the imperial court fights, hundreds of thousands of soldiers, horses, grain and grass are supplied, burning money like running water, and there will definitely be a shortage of money... Naturally, the "Policy for Banning Private Minting of Copper Coins" comes to mind.

Chu Tianxiu was very uneasy and said, "I don't know what the emperor is thinking.

No matter, let's dig it first.

Yu'er, you send someone to dig up more copper quickly, and it is best to dig it out in a year and a half. When the emperor is short of money one day, he will think of this trick, and he will issue an order to seal the copper mountain, and it will be too late to dig it again. ”

Li Yu nodded, "Okay!" There are only a few dozen miners digging in my copper mine on weekdays, so that the copper mine will not be quickly exhausted.

Although most of the princes and gatekeepers have copper mountains in their homes, they dig slowly little by little, so that future generations can enjoy the shade.

It's winter now, and the farmers in Danyang County don't farm, but go up to the mountains to collect firewood and earn some change. So I asked all the 3,000 farmers in my food town to go to the copper mountain to mine. ”

"That's great!"

Chu Tianxiu nodded.

Li Yu immediately instructed Di'er to go to Danyang County.

Danyang County is not far from Jinling City, and it is about 100 miles, which can be reached in one day by horseback. A large number of farmers in the fiefdom of Danyang County were hired to mine copper in Ma'anshan.

Dig hard to minimize losses.

...

After Chu Tianxiu finished doing this, he rested in Yu Garden, waiting for Xiao Han's release four days later.

Once the imperial court releases the list, it will probably be able to guess what the emperor is thinking.

He was a little weak-hearted.

I did this thing that was enough to make the Manchu elites crazy, if they knew, would they be assassinated if they went out?

Forget it, it's safest to stay in Yuyuan.

The stove was burning fine charcoal, and in the study room, which was as warm as summer, Chu Tianxiu was lying on a long recliner, eating cold watermelon, looking at the snow scene in the courtyard of Yuyuan, and he was also quite carefree.

After feeding the last watermelon, Zu'er said a little worriedly: "Uncle, this is the last one!" "The melons and fruits of this whole winter were all eaten up by my uncle alone.

"Gone so soon? Isn't there a lot of melons and fruits planted in the greenhouse of the palace? ”

Chu Tianxiu was stunned.

He only ate two or three watermelons in total.

"The greenhouse in the palace is not large, most of it is planted with vegetables, and there are only a few melons and fruits. There is only one watermelon vine, and it bears three, and you eat it all. ”

Zuer shook her head.

She hadn't even tasted it yet, but she ate a small slice.

There are only three melons in a greenhouse.

Chu Tianxiu was a little dumbfounded, did he have no fruit to eat in winter.

He immediately took Zu'er and went to see the conservatory of King Ping's Mansion.

Greenhouses have actually been around for a long time.

During the Qin and Han dynasties, there was "Taiguan Garden" in the palace, planting winter onions, leeks, covered with roofs, burning fires day and night, and waiting for warmth to be born. ”

This is a good thing that only the emperor can enjoy.

Of course, there is also a greenhouse in Pingwangfu, which is dedicated to growing vegetables and fruits in winter.

Zuer took Chu Tianxiu to the "warm room".

Only then did he see that this greenhouse was really small. About half an acre, with walls on all sides, and sheds on top to keep out the snow, which opens when the sun rises.

The conservatory is next to the dining room of the palace, and the residual heat from the stove is used to heat up the greenhouse.

In such a small greenhouse, most of the vegetables are grown, and a small amount of melons and fruits are grown. It can only barely supply the prince, the second lady, the county lord and the aunt.

The kitchen steward saw his uncle coming, and hurriedly bowed and saluted.

"This greenhouse is too small, it has to be expanded by a few acres! Otherwise, wouldn't there be no fresh melons and fruits to eat in winter?! ”

Chu Tianxiu pointed to the warm house and said.

"Uncle, there is still open space in the palace... But the greenhouse of these few acres of land, the daily charcoal fire, the loss is extremely huge. The second lady will definitely not approve this money. ”

The steward said bitterly.

Chu Tianxiu thought for a while, pointed to an open space next to the greenhouse and said, "Build a wall to enclose this area, and then use cow dung and horse manure compost to warm it." Wangfu Maduo, enough. There is no need to burn charcoal.

By the way, are there any hot springs near Jinling City? Buy a piece of land near the hot spring, use the hot spring to water the ground, plant melons and fruits, no charcoal fire, and plant dozens of acres is enough! ”

"It's... Will this work? ”

The steward's mouth opened wide in surprise.

He had never heard of these two methods of greenhouses.

Chu Tianxiu looked at him like this, and knew that no one had ever tried it like this.

"Zu'er, you go and tell the county lord that your uncle wants silver, go to the vicinity of Jinling City, find a hot spring, buy a hundred acres of land to build a greenhouse, and plant fresh melons and fruits in winter. Directly transported back to the house, in the future, the fresh melons and fruits in our palace will be kept enough. ”

He said to Zu'er.

"Okay!"

Zu'er was overjoyed. If it were dozens of acres of greenhouses, she would be able to eat sweet watermelons in winter.

Chu Tianxiu groaned.

As the saying goes, "Fresh fruit in winter, ice in summer." ”

In ancient times, there was no freezer air conditioner, so you could only use ice caves!

"By the way, where is the ice cellar in the Pingwang Mansion, and how much ice can be stored?"

He asked.

"Ice cellar? ... There is no palace in the palace, and the small one heard that there is an ice cellar in the palace. ”

The steward was stunned for a moment, and hurriedly said.

Chu Tianxiu was speechless for a moment, such a large Pingwang Mansion actually did not have an ice cellar.

He remembered that there was an ice cellar in the Duhou Mansion.

Thankfully, he asked more. Otherwise, when it comes to summer, there is no ice in Pingwang's mansion to cool down and quench his thirst, and he will die of heat.

"Zu'er is back. You go to the county lord for a private house money, and quickly dig a large cave of several acres under the courtyard of the royal mansion, before Chinese New Year's Eve! Before the ice melts, go to the river to cut the ice and fill the ice cellar.

By the way, steward, you go and ask the second lady, do she want to invest a sum of money? She doesn't invest money, and when it comes to summer, she doesn't have her share! ”

Chu Tianxiu said.

"This...?"

The steward wiped the sweat from his forehead, and his uncle really spent money like water, "Little one, go and ask the second lady!" ”