A servant is an old woman with a lot of life experience, or an older palace maid with a certain background who serves as a nanny for the princess or the prince's favored woman, and is selected by the queen and the inner government.

The servants have an understanding of food taboos, which foods and drugs can cause infertility, and have summed up a set of quite rich experiences from generation to generation.

To say that all the women favored by the prince have used the same food for a long time to cause infertility, it is obviously impossible, and it is difficult to achieve results in the short term, and it must be used for a long time and continuously to be effective.

Agreeing on the details with the two, Bai Liyan and Wei Xian changed his words and asked about Zhao Anling's current situation

"Mr. Guan Long, what has Gongzi Anling been doing recently, why don't you see anyone else in Yongxing City."

"Oh, Brother An Lingxian is in Chenling, as for where it is, it's hard to say, you have to send someone to find him, or let someone find him to see your lord."

"No, Wei just asked more, and had no other meaning."

After Zhao Anling moved into Yongxing City with the Zhao family, he didn't have anything serious to do, and he took Suihu to travel around the mountains and rivers to make friends, eat, drink and wander around, giving people the feeling of a son. Bai Liyan wanted to ask him to come out to do something many times, but Zhao Anling never gave a positive reply, and every time it was useless.

At noon, Lu Gao and Guan Longqing were invited to have a light meal at home, and the two were quite happy.

Since the soy sauce of Liang Kingdom came out of nowhere and descended on the Central Plains, all kinds of braised delicacies have emerged in endlessly, Baili Yan's cooking skills are also famous in Chenling, and the Xian King has to taste the braised lion's head, sweet and sour pork ribs, and three fresh soups made by Baili Yan. It is even rumored that the latest dishes launched by the Xuanting Houjiaxuan Pavilion are also the true inheritance of Bailiyan, otherwise it is impossible to launch more than 20 new dishes in a row.

In the afternoon, it is rare to find time to accompany Xiao Chunyu to listen to the piano and chat, and Chunrou Chunfang dances and accompanies from time to time, which makes people not realize that time flies.

"It's really wonderful, I haven't heard a wonderful sound for months, Chunyu's piano skills are superb again, this is a new song."

"Adults really have a good memory, it's a new song that last month and Chunrou and Chunfang's sister pondered, and it hasn't been finished yet, and what adults have heard is only the first sound."

"Alas"

Bailiyan sighed for a long time, and Chunrou asked puzzled

"Why do you sigh so much?"

"Life is like a song, whether it is a residual sound or a full score, there will inevitably be a curtain call, no matter how good the music art, no matter how exquisite the skills, no matter how magnificent the country, if no one passes on to future generations, it will not be in vain to waste the light and hard work of the predecessors."

"The general is worried that the new deal will not be able to persevere, and it will be abandoned halfway"

"Well, the new policy has been implemented for a year, and it has only taken effect, the national strength has improved slightly, the people's livelihood has just improved, and the accumulated disadvantages are like Shen Ke's old diseases that have not been cured for a long time.

Chunrou is the second woman in Jiang Rong's house who knows a little about political affairs, compared to Chunrou, Xiao Chunyu doesn't know anything about political affairs, and prefers piano, chess, calligraphy and painting.

Xiao Er is in charge of the department store, Tang Tao is also a good hand, Jiang Rong is both inside and outside, there used to be nothing to talk about this and that, but after running the department store, he was obsessed with making money. Bai Liyan was worried that after the Xuanting County Lord passed the door, he would inevitably have a jealous scene.

Spending the night in Xiao Chunyu's room that night, the first time she was pregnant, Xiao Chunyu was quite unwell, and always felt that it was a disease.

Under the dim candlelight, Xiao Chunyu asked shyly while lying in Bailiyan's arms

"Do adults want boys or girls?"

"Actually, boys and girls are the same, but at present, the number of men in Xianguo has decreased sharply, so it is better to have a boy."

"What if I have a daughter in my life?"

Bai Liyan's restless right hand groped on Xiao Chunyu's bulging jade peach, enjoying the pleasure of being smooth and tender, and said while touching

"A daughter is a daughter, in the future, you can learn from the master of the Ligong School, be a master with a reputation all over the world, or be a virtuous and good woman like you."

"My lord, I'm really, I'm pregnant, and I'm so restless."

"Huh"

Still didn't mean to stop, he blew the lamp and hugged Xiao Chunyu tightly in his arms.

In the next few days, Bailiyan was busy dealing with the official business of the internal history of the Su, due to the withering of agriculture and the serious decline of productivity, the applications reported from all over the country such as seeds, farm tools, ploughing cattle, etc. were overwhelming, but the treasury was empty and had not been cashed, so it could not be processed at all, and it had been handled by Dasi Nong Mo Anzheng on his behalf.

After last year's autumn harvest, the economy of the capital area picked up, and tens of thousands of buffaloes and more than 200,000 iron farm tools purchased from Zhiguo, Weiguo, and Liangguo were concentrated in the labor camp and the capital area, which greatly improved the efficiency of farming.

Soon after the beginning of the spring of this year, the counties sent people to urge the local farm tools and ploughing cattle that had accumulated in the past three years, and Baili Yan sent them back, and if they wanted to plough cattle, they could consider iron farm tools, but they had to wait until the summer harvest to see the progress of the new farming methods in various places, and those who popularized the fastest would give priority to the distribution of iron farm tools.

As an important labor force, ploughing cattle have limited resources, and centralized use is the only means to improve productivity.

In the spring, summer, and autumn of last year alone, the battalions concentrated on the use of cattle to reclaim more than 3 million mu of wasteland, and adopted the method of rotational fertilizer and fallow, so that the 50,000 battalions always kept 1.6 million mu of land under cultivation, and the rest of the tuntian and grain fields used the fallow period to store land fertility.

In the summer and autumn of last year alone, the Wagon Battalion and the Liang State garrison obtained more than 16 million stone of grain and grass, minus the expenses of the whole country for a year, debts and foreign debts. By the end of this year's summer harvest, there was a slight deficit in the minimum spending of the state treasury.

Compared with the embarrassment of the past two years, when we were unable to make ends meet and borrowed money everywhere to raise grain, this year's situation has greatly improved, and the livestock storage rate has continued to increase, relying on the intensive use of resources.

Iron farm tools are also being produced in Yongxing City, and it is difficult to meet the needs of all the farm tools of millions of people in the country in the short term under the condition of ensuring the priority of military production and earning foreign exchange through exports.

The counties came to urge the farm tools, and Bailiyan could only use the strategy of delaying the army, first forcing all localities to implement the new cultivation and fertilizer method as soon as possible, and then use them to prevaricate the localities after the new batch of farm tools were in place. In order to fundamentally solve the problem, it is necessary to increase the iron-smelting capacity significantly after the New Deal year.

The weather is getting hotter and hotter, the sun begins to cross the Tropic of Cancer to the equator and the Tropic of Capricorn, this year's summer heat comes especially early, and it is the hottest season of the year to sell ice in Chenling.

Yongxing City now produces ice cubes all year round, and when the temperature is low from autumn to early spring, all ice cubes are stored in the underground ice cellars of Yongxing City, for which King Xian also excavated several huge ice cellars in the palace. In this way, the ice produced in winter is hidden in the ice cellar, and the ice supply will not be delayed in the summer.

The weather was just hot, and the department store received a large order from the Liang State Legation's Office, requiring that fifty stones of cold ice be delivered to the Legation within three days. Previously, due to the Black Turban Army's transfer of troops to the west to attack Changsun Kingdom, Uncle Guang and An Taihou urgently returned to China. Therefore, the Liang State Legation Office has not ordered ice cubes for ten months since June last year, and this sudden order is mostly due to An Taihou's desire to stir up the wind and rain.

In mid-April, when news of the landing of the Marquis of An Tai in Dongyuan County reached Chenling, the Xian king did not welcome the Liang army into Xianguo as he did in 626 in the Sheng Yuan Dynasty, but began to worry that the situation, which had just improved slightly, might fall into a dangerous situation again.

In order to get the title of "county king", King Xian ignored Bailiyan's warning, and was stunned to fight the rebels, but the result was that his head was broken and he almost lost the throne.

Now Changsun Guo has lost Shutian, Qingtian, Gaochu three counties, plus Sangnan and Sangbei two counties, Changsun has lost almost two-thirds of Xianguo in three years, if it goes on like this, the Black Turban Army will go all the way to the west, and it is estimated that it will be able to reach the northeastern border of Liang in less than three years.

An Taihou came back after ten months, and he definitely didn't come to evacuate the 100,000 Liang troops of Xianguo, and he definitely wanted to empty the gloves of the white wolf.

On the twenty-first day of April, the carriage and horse of Antaihou arrived in Chenling, and the king of Xian held a grand ceremony to banquet Antaihou and his party. Unexpectedly, it was Li Dai, the son of Jing Shanggong, Bai Liyan's brother-in-law, his wife, Bai Liyan's sister Bai Lijuan, and his son Li Yi, a family of three gathered in Xianguo. For this reason, Bai Liyan began to worry about whether Xihuan would think of him if he saw Bai Lijuan.

After all, the two are sisters and brothers, although they are half-siblings, Bai Lijuan is fifteen years older than Bai Liyan, but if he hits his face, the consequences are really hard to say, and when Li Yi first came to Qiling, he was quite similar to Bai Liyan when he was young, and now he is eighteen years old, which is even more similar to him.

Hundreds of miles of Yan did not show up for the dust washing banquet, and went to Yongxing City to inspect under the pretext, but he was afraid of what would come, and on the fourth day of Antaihou's arrival in Chenling, he sent someone to invite him to the minister's palace for a banquet.

In other words, some vassal states have begun to discuss the possibility of the fall of Sun, or at least in the form of land cession, in exchange for the united front of the princes of various countries to send troops to crusade against the Black Turban Army.

The fundamental impetus for this result was obviously the increasingly aggressive northward movement of the Jinxuedi people, which made the defense line of Qianyue Mountain difficult to parry, and continued to drag on, and no vassal state could stand alone, including the Weiguo who was still outside of it.

Judging from this, the first to put forward the theory of Sun Guo's demise should be Weiguo, and the one who least wants Sun Guo to die is precisely Zhiguo, because Sun Guo has been disabled, Xianguo has also been disabled, and Xu Guo still has half a life left. As long as the Black Turban Army is extinguished, Sun Guo retains its complete territory, and it can still shield the country from reaching out to the Central Plains in a short time.

Looking around the entire Central Plains, the only one who can argue with Zhiguo is the Jin State, and in the absence of a coalition army to surround and fight together, the Jin and Zhi countries face off alone, and Zhiguo has a good chance of winning.

Therefore, it is absolutely impossible for Zhiguo to propose to carve up the Sun State, and besides, the partition of the country is the remnants of the Sun State, not only not the economic benefits, but also the huge economic burden of the post-war ruins, only the Weiguo, which borders the western border of the Sun State, proposes to ask Sun Guo to cede the western economic integrity of the territory, is the biggest beneficiary.

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