If you talk about the abundance of books in the world, there is no right of the royal family.

The Great Song Dynasty has been 160 years since the founding of the country, the palace collection of books is not abundant, from the pre-Qin to the present, the books of the past dynasties can be said to be full of Han cattle, not only the current printed version, but also the previous manuscripts, and even the bamboo slips and silk books of the pre-Han and pre-Qin periods, and the books that write the characters of various countries before the Qin Dynasty are also countless.

Maude Diji's words undoubtedly reminded Lotte.

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After dinner, Lotte is happy, is in the back of the house to watch their own a few babies frolic, Lang Erlang is now more than two years old, has been able to clearly shout dad and mother, chasing each other on the ground, the three girls are also one and a half years old, the road is not too stable, walk a few steps will stretch out your hand to daddy hug, whenever this time, Lotte will run over to pick up the little girl.

Aunt Ying and Concubine Wang's children are not yet nine months old, they are all swaddling, at this moment by the two brothers running on the ground to chuckle, saliva with laughter flowed a belly pocket, watching the third sister open their hands to hug, the two little guys also learn to open their hands to hug, babbling in their mouths, saying that they want to let their father hug.

Lotte put the three girls in his arms in the hands of Concubine Yao, and held a pair of children born to Aunt Ying and Concubine Wang in one hand, and they hurt together, which made the two dolls laugh excitedly.

The baby born to Concubine Mo Yan has just reached the full moon, and she is squinting and dozing off at the moment, with crystal saliva hanging on the corners of her lips, Concubine Mo Yan looked at the children and looked at the baby who was sleeping in her arms, her eyes were full of happiness.

Aunt Mei looked at Lotte's special love for the three girls and the two little babies, and couldn't help but be envious and good, and said to Concubine Yao: "The masters of other people's families are very annoying when they give birth to daughters, but our master is different, but he has a preference for his daughter!" ”

originally gave birth to a daughter, and Concubine Yao was also very unwilling, but seeing that Lotte was so kind of to her daughter, she was satisfied.

While speaking, Aunt Mei involuntarily touched her belly, and she couldn't help but feel a little bad in her heart, she hadn't been pregnant with a son and a half daughter for Lotte for so long.

Not only Aunt Mei, but Mei Hong, who was successfully promoted to a concubine, is also a little uncomfortable, it stands to reason that she has been with Lotte for a long time, why do other people have children, but she is not pregnant yet.

Not only Aunt Mei and the concubine Mei Hong, but also Emperor Mao and Princess Lando, seeing that this child is also motherly, teasing a few children from time to time, and even more eager for Ma to give birth to a son and a half daughter for Letian.

Obviously, Aunt Mei and her concubine Mei Hong, as well as the eyes of Emperor Mao and Princess Lando, all fell on Lotte's eyes, and Lotte smiled: "If you haven't given birth to a child at home, you have to work hard, and you have to remember to leave the door for me at night!" ”

Aunt Mei and the concubine Mei Hong just sneered, while the faces of Emperor Maude and Princess Lando immediately turned red, and only Lingzi pouted and was angry.

In Lingzi's view, all the concubines in the family are all wet with rain and dew, but he has always been in the name of a concubine, and he has no husband and wife with Lotte, and his heart is not happy.

Thinking of this, he looked at Lotte and muttered, "The slave family will also leave a door for the master tonight." ”

As soon as the words fell, Lingzi immediately felt that something was wrong, and walked to his house with a blushing face, and all the concubines laughed together.

"The children have grown up, don't say these boring things in front of the children!" Emperor Maude wanted to laugh, but he had received a strict education from the palace since he was a child, and he tried his best to restrain it, and after the smile was restrained, he deliberately said with a straight face.

Lotte is still a smiling face, but at this time it is bad, looking at Emperor Maude and said softly: "It's you!" ”

Hearing Lotte say this, Maude Diji turned pale, covered her face and walked towards her room. Even so, thinking of Lotte's words is full of light words, but listening to the ears of Emperor Maode, although his face is red, but his heart is extremely stimulated, and the whole person's heartbeat has become faster.

"It's not early, let's rest early!"

Seeing that Emperor Maud had returned to the room, Lotte got up and stretched and said.

"Master, someone wants to see you!"

At this moment, the voice of Shakuchi came from outside the crescent moon door of the back house.

It is that before Lotte did not marry Emperor Maode, Lejia had strict family rules, from the crescent moon door as the boundary, the male descendants of the family could not set foot in the back house half a step, after the marriage of Emperor Maode, the family rules were even stricter, and even the crescent moon door was guarded by two palace women who accompanied the marriage, and the hand was holding the mallet that was given, and some people dared to cross the thunder pool and fight half a step without forgiveness.

The voice was in his ears, and Lotte answered from a distance and walked towards the house.

"What?" Seeing shakuchi, Lotte asked.

Shakuchi said softly: "The Tong Lan Tong official is here, and he is waiting in the front hall in front of him!" ”

"Tong Lan is back from Dongying?" Lotte asked.

"It's back!" Shakuchi hurriedly replied, and said more: "Tong Guanren returned to Beijing this time, and he also brought the silver ingots produced in Dongying, and he is stopping near the earthen bridge of the Bianhe River at this moment, waiting for the Hou Ye to inspect the back bank!" ”

Since the previous year, the affairs of the Dongying Island Root Silver Mine were guarded by Li Liang, Tong Lan, and Zhang Biao for half a year, and after half a year, one person went to take over, and the person on duty was responsible for leading the team to escort the silver to Biandu and hand it over to Lotte.

Listening to Shakuchi's words, Lotte nodded.

At this time, Shakuchi seemed to think of something, and hurriedly said: "By the way, Master Hou, the Tong official came from Dongying this time, and when the little one received the Tong official in front, the Tong official said that there was good news for the official!" ”

"Good news?" Lotte narrowed his eyes and asked, "Do you know what the good news is?" ”

Shakuchi said with a smile: "How dare the little one talk more, it's better for Hou Ye to ask!" ”

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"I've seen Master Hou!"

As he spoke, Lotte arrived at the main hall of the front house, and just stepped into the door, Tong Lan, who was drinking tea, stood up and saluted.

"You and I are brothers-in-law, why don't you want that kind of false courtesy!" Lotte hurriedly stepped forward to help, looked at Tong Lan again, and sighed: "I haven't seen you for more than a year, but this time I went to Dongying, and I lost a lot of weight!" ”

Since last year, the child came to Biandu with the escort silver, and it was another year in the blink of an eye.

The two of them exchanged courtesies, and Tong Lan continued: "Congratulations to the Hou Ye, the joy of the emperor, the younger brother was still in the sea half a month ago, but he didn't come to drink the wedding wine, but today he wants to come back!" ”

"Today, you and I are drunk and resting!" Lotte laughed, hurriedly ordered the back kitchen to buy wine and food, and instructed his subordinates: "Go and invite my sister-in-law quickly!" ”

Li Liang, Tong Lan, Zhang Biao and Lotte all have nepotism, and they are naturally the most trusted people in Lotte, and they can be said to be confidants, and Lotte secretly gives the three people dividends that are not less than those shareholders, or even more, in addition to Lotte also took official positions in the yamen for the three people, and the three of them are naturally willing to work hard for Lotte.

After the order, Lotte smiled again: "You are really blessed, I still have a few altars of palace here to give good tribute wine, if it is two days later, I am afraid that I will drink it all alone." ”

The words fell, and the two burst into laughter.

After the laughter fell, Tong said: "I remember that Master Hou once said, walking thousands of miles, such as reading thousands of books, a trip to Dongying, I am worth this trip, I have grown a lot of knowledge, I don't know if I don't move, there are so many incomprehensible things in this world, and there are so many things that books don't have!" ”

Lotte nodded: "There are too many unknown things in this life, and I am afraid that I will not be able to figure it out in this life."

At this time, Tong Lan's face became solemn, and he whispered to Lotte: "Master Hou, as you expected, Dongying is not only one place in Shimagen that has a silver mine, and his subordinates have sent people to check it, in addition to Shimagen, there is also a silver mine in the place called Shengye, according to the records of the locals, in the last years of my Huaxia Tang Dynasty, silver mines were found there, but those Dongying dwarves did not mine it. ”

"According to the beating nature of those Dongying people, I think that the smelting technology is not up to par, so it is not mined." Lotte thought for a moment and said.

According to the perception of Rakuten's later generations, Toei is not only a place with volcanoes and earthquakes, but also silver mines in Toei, and mining an island root silver mine obviously cannot satisfy Rakuten, so Lotte deliberately sent many prospectors to shuttle around the Toei Islands under the guise of trade, and find ore veins everywhere.

It's just that there has been no news for a long time, not to mention that prospecting is also a time-consuming thing, and Lotte himself has gradually forgotten about it.

Speaking of this, Tong Lan became excited and took out a map from his arms.

Lotte looked at the map that Tong Lan took out from his arms, only glanced at it, and immediately recognized it, this map is a picture of the Dongying Islands, although it is not much similar to the map of Dongying in later generations, but the outline is not much different.

After a closer look, Lotte clearly saw that the main cities depicted on this map were not Dongying, but black dots were marked on the surface.

"Master Hou, this is Dongying's map!" Tong Lan said, his eyebrows fluttering: "Master Hou, not only Shimane and Ikuno, in a place called Echigo, our prospectors have not only discovered silver mines, but also gold mines, in addition to Imagawa, Izu, Bungo, Hida, Kai and other places in Toei, many gold and silver mines have been discovered, and the number and scale of mining are worthwhile.

According to the prospector, I have never seen such a good vein in my Great Song Dynasty, and even these silver and gold mines are enough to mine for several generations. ”

Speaking of this, Tong Lan deliberately accentuated his tone and pointed to the black dots marked on the map of Dongying, and said: "This is where there are silver and gold mines wherever there are markers. ”

According to the memories of his previous life, Dongying used to produce gold and silver, but in modern times, the ore veins are almost mined, but what Lotte didn't expect was that Dongying's gold and silver reserves would be so large, which was completely unexpected by himself.

Putting his thoughts back, Lotte said, "In this way, we will have to recruit a large number of smelters and hired sailors and soldiers!" ”

Tong Lan smiled and said: "Master Hou, don't you know, Dongying is poor there, their princes and ministers, and even the emperor is not as good as a rich family in our Jiangnan, the emperor of Dongying is scary to hear, but it is similar to the decoration, and he has become the puppet of those ministers, although those generals in Dongying have some soldiers and horses, but in our eyes, they are similar to a group of bandits." ”

Facing the humiliation suffered by later generations of China, Lotte has a deep memory, and said with a solemn face: "Dongying people are just lagging behind us now, if they surpass us one day, they will definitely bite us with wolf ambitions, the former Tang Taizong Dynasty Dongying people tried to capture Goryeo, and then used Goryeo as a springboard to invade our Great Song Dynasty, and was beaten back by Emperor Taizong of the previous dynasty, so it should not be underestimated." ”

Hearing Lotte say this, Tong Lan remembered something and said: "What Hou Ye said is very true, that Dongying dwarf is very obscene, but they are quite scheming, in addition to this, the skills of Dongying people in making knives are extraordinary. I found the best craftsman in Dongying and created a few knives, one was to keep the protection, and the other was to bring it back to Hou Ye to play with. ”

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