Wen Yue was just joking.

There are indeed wealthy families in Jiangnan who ask people to say goodbye to Xu Daizhuo, and the four wealthy families of Jia Shiwang Xue, as well as some young ladies from other gentry families, the total number of people is afraid that there are dozens of people.

Several of these people were contacted through Wen Zhong, and Wen Yue had to meet a few people because of her brother's affection, but on the grounds that her father was seriously ill and it was not appropriate to talk about these things now, Wen Yue did not agree to any family affairs.

In fact, Wen Yue is very strange now, why do these wealthy families in Jiangnan think that with their current pattern, they can look down on their young lady?

No matter how approachable your own family is, it's also royalty! And the whole world knows that the unification of the empire is imminent, and they should also understand the situation (otherwise they will not come to the marriage).

If it weren't for the fact that the empire is not unified for the time being, and they are in Jiangnan outside the empire's sphere of influence, they should not even have the opportunity to see themselves.

Wen Yue could see that the current idea of these families seemed to be to stuff their daughters to the future Son of Heaven in order to maintain their current luxurious life without participating in the upcoming social changes.

They are too conservative and outdated.

After all, it has been almost twenty years since she married Xu Shiyang, and she has been working in the cabinet for more than ten years, Wen Yue still has a certain understanding of her husband's ideas and the layout of the empire - Xu Shiyang is very dissatisfied with the original traditional social atmosphere, and the common people have small peasant ideas that can be slowly corrected and guided, but if the wealthy are too conservative, the empire usually will not be polite to them.

To escape this change by marrying into the royal family and becoming a relative is really underestimating the empire.

It's a bit of a pity, the girls Wen Yue has seen are at least outstanding in their own morality, appearance, and cultural level, and if they follow their wrong family to a dead end at that time, it will be too tyrannical.

After all, Wen Yue is the leader of the Empire's Women's Rights Department, and she has now begun to think about what work these young ladies can do to support themselves when the Empire has raided all the homes of these old wealthy families.

At this moment, a servant girl of the Wen family stumbled over and shouted, "Miss! Miss! Big things are wrong! ”

"What's going on? So flustered. ”

The descendants of the Wen family still habitually call Wen Yue the eldest lady, even though her children are almost adults.

"Sir! Master! ”

There is only one master of the Wenfu.

Wen Yue stood up abruptly and knocked over the chair.

Xu Daizhuo also looked at the people who came to report the news with surprised eyes, and they all realized that the situation of Wen Xianggong might not be good.

In 1795, on the fifth day of February in the 13th year of Longdao, it was somewhat sudden, but not too sudden, and Wen Jiefu, who had served as the prime minister of the Great Zhou Dynasty twice, passed away peacefully.

Because the world is somewhat prepared, the obituary spreads quickly.

The first to react, of course, was the Great Zhou court, and Emperor Longdao immediately posthumously crowned Wen Xianggong as the king, gave him a nickname, and allowed him to enjoy the Temple of Literature.

There was an endless stream of officials below the emperor who came to express their condolences, and the emperor of Longdao even planned to imitate the example of Marquis Wu and hold a state funeral for the Duke of Wen.

But at the same time, preparations for war are also in full swing - Emperor Longdao is not stupid, and Xu Shisong is the same, they all know that Wen Xianggong is the last insurance that has not torn his face in the north and south of the river.

Now that the insurance is broken, it's time to cut it off.

Xu Shisong followed his plan and quickly mobilized his troops to the front line of Jianghuai to prepare for battle, and Emperor Longdao had no generals around him, as long as Tong Guan, who had been refrigerated for several years, was activated again - he at least had the record of quelling the Fangla rebellion.

Tong Guan's task was to lead a 150,000 forbidden army (500,000 claimed to the outside world, 200,000 to the full strength, and 150,000 in real numbers), and to use several important defensive lines on the Huai River and semi-fortified cities to delay the Chinese army's offensive and create opportunities for Xu Shisong.

Xu Shisong himself led 100,000 men of the New Army (real number) as a mobile force, preparing for a decisive battle with the Chinese army near a certain breakthrough in the Jianghuai battlefield.

If he can win, Xu Shisong thinks that he can still fight for Da Zhou for a while, there will be a few years, but there is still a chance.

……

The seventh day of the first month of February 1795.

Liaobei.

Xu Muhai yawned heavily, pushed away the few undressed girls on his body, and got up from the couch covered with thick cotton mats and bear skins.

His action woke up several partners, and at least five young women surrounded him and quickly dressed Xu Muhai.

He now lives in a large wooden house, which is directly supported by thick wood from northern Liaobei, and is 30 centimeters above the ground, mainly to prevent small animals from escaping into the house.

The floor of the big house is covered with thick wool carpet, and it is very comfortable to lie directly on the floor.

There was a brick fireplace on both sides of the house, and the bore fire was now blazing, and two wonderful girls were standing guard by the hearth, taking care of the fireplace and the roasted pheasants set up inside.

Seeing that the owner had woken up, a young girl hurriedly brought an enamel iron basin with warm water at just the right temperature, as well as a thick towel and soap.

Another girl came up and gently wiped Xu Muhai's face with a towel dipped in warm water.

Soon, the whole big house woke up, and more than a dozen girls were busy with their masters, and their movements were gentle and waiting for their masters.

"Ask the cook to fry some oil stew, make some tofu brains by the way, and put more dogwood."

Xu Muhai lazily commanded:

"Ask Master Huineng to come and eat together."

The girls hurriedly did what the master ordered, and the two of them put on thick coats and went into the ice and snow outside the house, one of them went to the room next to the big house to find a cook to open a small stove for the master, and the other person was responsible for finding Huineng.

The others wore light clothes in the warm room, snuggled up to Xu Muhai, and someone brought a pot of warm wine.

A glass of wine had just been eaten, Xu Muhai's breakfast and Huineng, who was holding two young girls, walked into the house together:

"Hahaha, San Lang, you're having a good time here!"

"Well, that's good."

A young girl picked up a piece of oil stew and gently placed it on Xu Muhai's mouth, he took a bite and said vaguely:

"I was sad for a while when I first arrived, but then I got used to it."

It has been several years since Xu Muhai was assigned to Liaobei, and at the beginning, he was very panicked about leaving his hometown and coming to Liaobei, and he always felt that he might not live long here.

But it didn't take long for him to realize that things weren't so bad.

Although it was a distribution, it was also the imperial clan of the empire, and the local officials in charge of reclamation did not mean to let him do heavy work, but only asked him to be responsible for contacting several local Waibo Saurons and arranging for them to collect Ding, grain, trade and other work.