Liu Ru was escorted by Liu Wenxiu and happily came to the capital.

Gao Junshan welcomed her into the palace and lived in Xianfu Palace, where she was neighbor to Dong Xiaowan, and canonized Liu Ru as a concubine, with the same status as Dong Xiaowan.

In the days when Liu Ru entered the palace, Gao Junshan slept in Xianfu Palace every day, accompanied Liu Ru every day, and took her around the palace, admiring the garden architecture of the palace, and at the same time admiring Liu Ru yes' talent in piano, chess, calligraphy and painting.

On this day, Gao Junshan couldn't accompany Liu Ru because of something in the court, Liu Ru was bored in Xianfu Palace alone, and walked out of the palace by himself, accidentally offended the domineering eighth princess.

Liu Ru wandered aimlessly in the Imperial Garden, the garden is very quiet, the flowers are in full bloom, the shade of the green trees, and the stream is leisurely, as if falling into a paradise.

Suddenly, she heard the crisp call of a thrush coming from the tree, and she followed the call softly, and found that the sound came from the birdcage hanging from the toon tree. This birdcage is a purple bamboo thrush cage, the lacquered bamboo strips are clean and neat, the big cage hook on the top of the cage is bright and bright, and a big red line spike on the cage door is very good-looking!

What fascinated her even more was the thrush in the cage, the cry of the thrush in the cage, sometimes flickering, like a gurgling stream; Sometimes it is high, as if the guzheng is playing; Sometimes Schumann, as if he were a hole flute under the moon, whimpered; Sometimes it's rough, like the sound of a wooden leaf. A pure, raw musical ......

She even whispered along with the thrush, closing her eyes and enjoying the picturesque scenery.

Just as she was intoxicated, the thrush's cry stopped abruptly, and she opened her eyes to see the thrush poking at the cage door.

"He wants to be free?"

Thinking so in her heart, Liu Ru involuntarily went up and opened the door of the birdcage, and the thrush that jumped out of the cage flew high freely, and then landed on the green grass in a circle, and jumped on the moon flower branch for a while, raised its head, sang for a while, and then jumped into the flowers, and its tail was cocked, looking at Liu Ru.

Who is this thrush? Of course, it's the eighth princess and the eighth sister, and now Liu Ru can offend the eighth princess.

The temper of the eighth princess is not easy to provoke, she immediately went to Gao Junshan to sue the royal court, the eighth princess is Gao Junshan's heart, he immediately took the face of the eighth princess and beat Liu Ru into the cold palace, this is the first time he used the cold palace in the palace, when he first entered the palace, he suggested that the cold palace be changed into a servant's dormitory, because he did not have many domestic servants, and he could not use it for the time being, so it has been empty, but he did not expect it to be used now.

The eighth princess was happy, she jumped out to play, Gao Junshan shook his head helplessly, and went back to the imperial study to deal with the official documents.

Before sitting down, Sun Kewang reported to Zhao Shichun, and Zhao Shichun asked to see him.

"Shichun greets Your Majesty!"

Zhao Shichun is still so bookish, Gao Junshan said with a smile: "Zhao Aiqing is exempt!" ”

Zhao Shichun said: "Shichun heard that Liu Du Yushi punished salt merchants in Jinling? ”

"It is true. What is Zhao Aiqing's opinion? ”

Zhao Shichun asked, "What is the fault of the salt merchants?" Want to kill them? ”

"Open the Kill Ring?"

"Don't Your Majesty know?"

"What's the killing?"

Zhao Shichun said: "Jinling City has been in an uproar, those small traders who deal in salt have closed their doors and hid in the countryside, and the people of Jinling now have nowhere to buy salt if they want to." ”

Gao Junshan remembered that Zhao Shichun was a Chang acquaintance in Jiangsu, and now the interests of the salt merchants were moved, and his family must have been implicated.

"Now that the price of salt is high, it may not be ordinary people who can afford salt, right? The price of salt in Jinling has soared to 20 wen a catty, buying a catty of soju in Jinling is only 16 wen, and buying a catty of pork is only 14 wen. ”

Zhao Shichun didn't expect Gao Junshan to understand the price of salt so clearly, and he was speechless.

Gao Junshan said earnestly: "Zhao Aiqing, when Jinling was surrounded by us, the price of salt was only 14 wen a catty, and in just a few years, the price of salt has risen by 6 wen, why?" Isn't it that these salt merchants see that there is a loophole to exploit, and take advantage of our lax management to sit on the ground and raise prices. Do you think it's time for us to take care of it? ”

"This ......"

Gao Junshan continued: "Salt is related to the people's livelihood, I will never take it lightly, it is imperative to rectify the salt merchants, I have ordered the Ministry of Commerce, they will distribute the salt throughout the country, and the salt merchants' management rights will be fully recovered." ”

Zhao Shichun said: "Your Majesty, if you do this, it will be very unfair to those salt merchants who operate legally, besides, a considerable number of salt merchants have supported us, and we are now dealing with them in turn, which is emotionally difficult to accept." ”

Gao Junshan said: "We will never forget the meritorious businessmen, but the state's control of salt sales cannot be changed, Zhao Aiqing can make statistics, and we will give a way out to all the salt merchants who have supported us." ”

Zhao Shichun said: "Your Majesty's Emperor Enhao soup, Shichun is grateful!" ”

Gao Junshan ordered: "In the future, the Ministry of Commerce will be responsible for the monopoly of salt, and the Metropolitan Procuratorate will be responsible for supervising the business behavior of the Ministry of Commerce. ”

Zhao Shichun said: "Obey the order!" ”

Gongwei Si is equivalent to the East Factory of the Ming Dynasty, Gao Junshan gave them a lot of authority, and now it is reasonable to let them supervise the Metropolitan Procuratorate.

Gao Junshan's tone relaxed, and he asked Zhao Shichun kindly: "Zhao Aiqing, is there anyone in your hometown who is being investigated by Liu Fangliang?" ”

"Back to Your Majesty, Shichun didn't dare to use the public for personal gain, but he just thought that Liu Du Yushi did this, and the attack was too wide." Zhao Shichun explained.

It seems that Zhao Shichun is very dissatisfied with Liu Fangliang, Gao Junshan thought so in his heart, thinking that they should reconcile their contradictions, so he said: "Don't blame Liu Fangliang for this, he is carrying out my will, perhaps, he is acting harshly, I will let him pay attention in the future." ”

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The spring of 1649 came very early, February 3rd Lichun, March 30th is the Dragon Boat Festival, after the Dragon Boat Festival, Gao Junshan received a call from Cao Wenzhao, the Ottoman Empire's 200,000 soldiers and horses, began to attack the Persian Kingdom.

He must help Persia withstand the Ottoman offensive, Gao Junshan has no intention of changing the pattern of Europe, but if it hinders Gao Junshan's strategic approach, he will fight back mercilessly.

The Persian Gulf, the high mountain at the mouth of the sea, must be obtained, so he ordered Cao Wenzhao's army to immediately send troops to aid the Persian Kingdom.

Because now that the Rakshasa Kingdom is at war with Sweden, there will be no more war between the Huaxia Kingdom and the Rakshasa Kingdom, the Western Expeditionary Army has completed her historical mission, and it is possible that Cao Wenzhao's army will be transferred to Persia to fight.

Therefore, Gao Junshan ordered Cao Wenzhao's corps stationed in Xichang, the Uliji Mongol-Kazakh joint army corps stationed in Yuzi, and the Liu Da corps stationed in Mongolia:

Cao Wenzhao's army marched into Persia and participated in the Great Patriotic War of the Persian Kingdom;

The Kazakh regiment in Uliji was responsible for the guidance, logistics, and support of Cao Wenzhao's corps;

Liu Da's army sent a division to take over the defense of Xichang.

At the same time, Gao Junshan sent a telegram to Gao Hanmei, urging the Kazakh Corps to closely cooperate with the military operations of Cao Wenzhao's Corps.

After this series of orders was issued, Gao Junshan ordered the newly formed 20 divisions to be transferred from three divisions to the Persian front in the Military and Political Yuan, asking them to temper and grow up in battle.