Gongsun Huilan looked at Duhu Hong, and suddenly understood, the palace maids will not all go home, how dare those women in Yangzhou, Jiangnan, and Chengdu go back thousands of miles alone, at present, the Great Sui war is everywhere, and I don't know what the ending will be when I go back; At least half of the palace maids will voluntarily stay in the palace, and Yang Chong is not the emperor, so he can't reward the palace maids to the people below, so doing so is overstepping the system, that is, transgression, and Dong Zhuo, Cao Cao, Hou Jing are no different from the kind of traitors.

What Yang Chong can do is to raise these palace maids and wait until a certain emperor comes to power in the future, but if Yang Chong does not unify the world for ten years, these palace maids will be easy to grow old. Gongsun Huilan laughed loudly and asked, "Does Yang Chong feel embarrassed, why don't you send all the palace maids to Dingxiang?" ”

Duhu Hong guessed that Gongsun Huilan misunderstood what she meant, and explained: "Yang Chong thinks that Empress Xiao can't be the master at all, and sending the palace maid is cheap for the Turks." Yang Chongyi prepared that the palace maids could leave the palace as long as they were willing to marry, and the second was to establish six workshops in the palace for planting flowers, making clothes, weaving, making tea, making snacks, and making perfumes, so that most of the palace maids could support themselves. ”

"Profiteers." Gongsun Huilan couldn't help but scold, but Li Xiujing said appreciatively: "Yang Chong is really a maverick, which saves him a lot of money, whether it is in public opinion or the household department, it is easy to make friends." It's just that for such a purpose, I don't want to set up an emperor, and I will inevitably lose a big one because of a small one. ”

If there is no emperor in Chang'an, it will be unjustifiable, so that those who want to serve will look forward and backward; With Yang Chong's strength today, whether he is a puppet or a self-established king, if there is the emperor's righteousness, I am afraid that many places will be decided. But even a woman like herself can think of it, how could Yang Chong and his group of think tanks not think of it, Li Xiujing shuddered when she thought about it from a different angle, Yang Chong must have other means.

Duhu Hong remembered the purpose of his coming and said: "Don't worry about your younger brothers and sisters, Yuan Wei and Yang Wang are discussing, maybe except for people like Dou Liang and others, most of the officials and family members who are attached to the thieves can pay fines and circle them in a special mansion, but like those concubines, it is impossible to leave Chang'an." ”

Li Xiujing was in a good mood when she heard this, and blurted out: "Duhuhong, you are so powerful, no one knows the news in Chang'an, where did Yang Chong tell you, in the garden or in the room." Well, I'm going to tell Yuan Raider to let her guard against you a little. ”

Duhu Hong's face turned red, spat a word, and got up to say goodbye with a smile, Li Xiujing and Gongsun Huilan laughed and sent them to the door; Seeing the three-wheeled new carriage of Duhu Hong's two turtles, Li Xiujing couldn't stop sighing. Although there are not many times to go out of the house now, Li Xiujing knows that this is a new product of the Yang family's carriage and horse shop, and there will be no more than fifty cars in Chang'an City; Duhuhong explained that it was Cui Yao's work car, and she got into the car a little shy and a little proud.

Yuan raider arrived in Chang'an four days later, the Yue Guo Mansion was suddenly full of distinguished guests, Yuan raider has been living in Chang'an, and has been a female official in the palace, and has managed the two huge family businesses of Yuan and Yang, which can be described as a best friend and friend in Xijing. Yang Chong has not been rewarded on a large scale, and the criminals who are locked in prison are not pardoned, and the powerful lords of Chang'an have long been anxious, and at this moment, they all hope that their daughters and daughters-in-law can go to inquire about the news and go to the door.

Yang Chong didn't seem to see anything, and for a few days, when he returned to the mansion, he teased his son Yang Xin in the study, and no one came to see or ask; Yang Wang and others came to the house to discuss things, Yang Chong held his son in his arms and talked, and one day he washed a diaper. Miao Aimei and Cui Wuniang muttered in private, just this posture of spoiling children, if they are changed to sisters-in-law, then they will not be held to the sky, Zhang Guolao heard it and smiled: "No, in Yang Chong's mind, there are no Confucian frames." ”

Cui Yao heard that Yang Chong was a disciple of the Mo family, and there was no Confucian concubine and concubine at all, and the children in the family were like masters accepting apprentices, and Yang Xin was the eldest son. When Cui Minshou passed the house, Cui Yao learned that Yuan Minren's father Yuan Min was captured alive by Dou Jiande in Wei County and was already on the way to Chang'an, so he immediately understood that the reason why some prisoners were finally allowed to be fined and redeemed was not unrelated to Yang Chong, the father-in-law.

Sure enough, except for Dou Liang, Xiao Zao and others, most of the prisoners, including Li Yuan's children, were allowed to be fined in lieu of their crimes; Yuan Min was freed when he arrived in Chang'an, and the Yuan family and Yang Chong paid a total fine of 200,000 yuan. This number makes most people dizzy, Yang Chong and the Yuan family have this confidence, but it is absolutely unbearable for ordinary people; Subsequently, Yuan Xiren, Duhuhong, and Li Xiujing paid a ransom of 100,000 yuan for Gongsun Huilan, and Li Zhengming, Langzhong of the Criminal Department, specially went to Duanfu to read out the pardon order.

Gongsun Huilan wanted to say out loud that I refused, but Li Zhengming's words shattered Gongsun Huilan's courage: "Gongsun girl, the Duke of Yue Guo divided the original courtyard of Ma Xingfang into five houses, and one of them is for you to live in. Yue Guogong asked me to bring you a sentence, saying that if you really want to work for Li Tang, he can arrange for you to go to Nanyang, but you have to think about it clearly, without the Women's Army, what value do you have to Li Yuan. ”

Surprisingly, Li Xiujing did not argue, what kind of person her father is, Li Xiujing knows too well; Li Xiujing just asked for Gongsun Huilan: "Who are the other four mansions?" ”

Li Zhengming smiled and said, "It's Li Chunfeng, Gao Bei, Duhu Yanshou and Pang Huan." ”

The Duhu family does not lack money for a small house, but the meaning given by Yang Chong is very different, which means that the relationship between the Duhu family and Yang Chong has been restored to a certain extent; Li Chunfeng, Gao Bei, and Pang Huan are all Yang Chong's henchmen, and it can be said that none of the five mansions are outsiders. Li Zhengming knew very well that Yang Chong did not let Duhu Hong come, and the purpose of wanting to spread the word by himself was to not let outsiders and Gongsun Huilan have the feeling that Yang Chong wanted to hide Jiaojiao in the golden house.

It was the idea of the two ladies of Yuan Xian and Cui Yao to give the house to Gongsun Huilan, and at first glance, Li Zhengming was also startled, and wanted to say that it was better to marry Yue Guogong directly. Zhou Ru's bet made the whole Chang'an know Gongsun Huilan's thoughts, and thousands of people were upsetting this girl and scolding Yang Chong for being inhumane; But Yang Chong is absolutely different in this regard, and even Cui Yao asked him if he had prepared a few singers in the house, but he was rejected.

Gongsun Huilan thought about it and understood, this is Yuan Xianren and Cui Yao seeing that they are helpless and want to give themselves some help, living in Yang Chong's house itself is a kind of security, making some timid people shut up. Gongsun Huilan refused: "It's boring for me to live in such a big house alone, and if I leave the Duan Mansion, I will be penniless." ”

(End of chapter)