The first Shangyuan Festival in the first year of Tianjia is another feast of thousands of lights, and even Hou Xuanyan is ready to take all the concubines, princesses and princesses upstairs to enjoy the lanterns.

Early in the morning, Li Haoxian hurried into the palace and asked to see the emperor.

Hou Xuanyan held a handful of wooden teeth that would be cleaned, and the ointment had already been applied to it, which was made of mulberry acacia tender technique decoction water and ointment, ginger juice, fine spices, licorice, fine cups, and precious spices such as frankincense and myrrh. The beauty dancing at the New Year's ceremony, Hou Xuanyan only learned yesterday that her name was Ren Yunyao, wearing a brocade silk jacket with two hearts, and she was holding a porcelain basin with clear water, standing aside and waiting.

Hou Xuanyan saw that her legs trembled slightly, her pretty face was crimson, and her delicate appearance was very cute, so he asked, "How is it, does it still hurt?" ”

"Long live Xie cares, the slave doesn't hurt anymore." The sound is as thin as a mosquito, so ashamed that he doesn't even dare to raise his eyes, last night it was like a crack, and it was like a knife drama, where can this kind of thing not hurt.

Hou Xuanyan patted lightly, in exchange for a coquettish voice, and said with a smile: "I also said that it doesn't hurt, go back and rest well, if you don't hurt, how can you see my strengths." ”

Ren Yunyao was shy and timid, packed up the lacquer plates, porcelain basins, etc., bowed her head and retreated.

At this time, Xiao Lizi came in and said: "Your Majesty, the Duke of Qi came to ask to see him, and the slave maid looked at him with an ugly face, and it seemed that there was something big in a hurry. ”

Hou Xuanyan frowned and said, "Swing the Warm Fang Pavilion." ”

Li Haoxian walked around in the Nuanfang Pavilion in a hurry, and finally saw Emperor Luan Yu and hurriedly greeted him.

"Your Majesty, you're here."

Hou Xuanyan said in a deep voice: "Don't panic, what's the matter, say it slowly." ”

"My daughter, since she got the support of His Majesty, she has become more and more dismissive of me as a father, and she actually ran to Shaanxi and Gansu with the people from the Craftsman Hall a few days ago. Weichen also sent someone to take her back to the house for the Yuan Festival, only to find that the person was gone, this is definitely the people in the craftsman hall who deliberately can't get along with the minister, Your Majesty has to give Weichen the master. ”

Hou Xuanyan breathed a long sigh of relief, a big stone fell to the ground in his heart, and immediately scolded: "What a big deal I should do, you are crying and mourning on the big holiday, I thought someone had hit Jinling!" Damn, what's the howl about such a trivial matter, there are not a few female students in the Craftsman Pavilion, and Siqi didn't go by herself, eating and living with a group of female students, isn't it very good. This kid has an excellent temperament, I like it when I look at it, and I am talking to the queen to accept her as a daughter, not that I said you, why are you so feudal. is also a person who has seen strong winds and waves, what if he can't live without his daughter? ”

As soon as Li Haoxian heard this, he immediately stopped doing it, the first fierce general of the Northern Expedition who once crisscrossed the territory is now an out-and-out daughter slave, and said with a crying voice: "How can Your Majesty treat the old minister like this, the minister has shed blood for the Northern Expedition, and the minister has been injured for His Majesty, just such a daughter is now running to Shaanxi and Gansu to dig soil and build roads, that is the work done by the former thieves with the army, the minister doesn't care, it is His Majesty who supported her to let her enter the craftsman hall, Your Majesty must find it back for the minister." ”

Hou Xuanyan raised his eyebrows and said angrily: "If I want to establish a new style, I will use you, an old stubborn, to cure your ignorant feudal stinky problem." I will make her the princess of Qin, and from now on I will be her godfather, so that Siqi doesn't even have to listen to your words, I will see what you can do! ”

After Hou Xuanyan finished speaking, he turned around and left, Li Haoxian not only didn't want to come to Lingjian for the holiday, but even his daughter was snatched away, so it was not miserable.

Li Haoxian walked out of the palace dejectedly, and after a while, a small eunuch who followed him hurriedly went out with the holy decree, and when he saw Li Haoxian, he smiled and said: "The slave maid said hello to the grandfather of the country." ”

Li Haoxian didn't know what to do, and asked, "Hello, what joy?" Where does the country's public joy come from? ”

"Guogong still doesn't know? Your Majesty recognized your daughter as a daughter and named the princess of Qin, this is the holy decree, and the slave is about to go to Shaanxi to deliver the decree. Although the little eunuch was young, he was already quite good at observing words and feelings, and when he noticed that Qi Guogong's face was not good, he stopped making noise, and hurried to the guards after making a salute. The little eunuchs who stayed in the palace liked to announce the decree from afar, and they saw a lot of markets along the way, which was much more novel than serving people in the palace.

Li Haoxian's face was bitter, he didn't know whether to be happy or sad, his daughter had the support of this godfather, and he didn't want to stop her from digging the soil anymore. What he regrets most now is why he had to bring his baby daughter when he followed His Majesty to the Craftsman's Hall in the first place. It was that time that made her suddenly discover her interest, the dignified daughter of the princess, who actually went to study the work of a mason, which is absolutely unacceptable in Li Haoxian's worldview.

What made him even more incomprehensible was that His Majesty actually supported it vigorously, and even took action to prevent him from training his daughter.

As the capital of the empire, Jinling City has been influenced by Hou Xuanyan, and some female workers have come out to work. The Jinling Mansion newspaper reported it hype, did not hesitate to praise them, and even improvised a few stories to praise them.

Hou Xuanyan is more and more discovering the benefits of Di Bao, he is simply the mouthpiece of the imperial court, and he can always convey his thoughts to the people as soon as possible.

After sending Li Haoxian away, Hou Xuanyan was not easy, after this Shangyuan Festival, it was time to go to Wusongjiang Institute to review his sailor.

A few days ago, I happened to hear that the empire's merchant ships had landed in the Western Ocean in the teahouse, and for Hou Xuanyan to think about it now, he was still excited, the competitiveness of the deep blue sea area depends on the ability to sail, and he didn't know how his sailors wanted to compare with the West now.

In fact, the congenital conditions of his own Hua Dynasty were very good, and in the vast sea area of the east, there were no enemies at all. For thousands of years, the whole of Asia has been accustomed to the Central Plains Dynasty as the overlord here, and there is no powerful country around it that can match him at sea, and the people in the West are far away from the mainland, and they cannot compare with the empire that is thousands of kilometers away from the territory of the Chinese Dynasty. What Hou Xuanyan wants to know most now is not whether he can stand out in the eastern seas, but whether he can compete with these Europeans in the Americas, Africa and Australia.

There is no such absolute hegemon in Europe, so all the forces are fighting fiercely with each other, Spain, the Netherlands, and Britain have taken turns to become the hegemon, but the East is different, Hou Xuanyan has initially established his authority, and the rest is to take a group of little brothers around him to compete with the Europeans on a larger battlefield.

In Hou Xuanyan's dormitory, except for the pregnant Chen Yuanyuan, all the concubines gathered in the Heart Cultivation Palace, and everyone was wearing formal clothes and looked very eye-catching.

Hou Xuanyan sat on the top with a smile, Huang Ying'er on the left and Gu Ling'er on the right, accepting the other people's greetings.

"Today is Shangyuan Festival, your family is in Jinling, you can go home to save your relatives, and the rest will go upstairs with me to watch the lanterns."

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