The Empress Dowager finally agreed to the whimsical idea of the Son of Heaven's royal expedition, the purpose was just to test Liu Xiu's reaction, and Yang Xiu's main purpose in coming here was also this. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info But now Liu Xiu's reaction has come out, but it makes Yang Xiu cry and laugh.

Liu Xiu was in favor of the Son of Heaven's personal expedition and told all Jingzhou people as good news, but the most important point was that he did not say what he would do. Yang Xiu's subconscious reaction was that Yang Xiu wanted to watch from the wall, watching the Son of Heaven take the only 20,000 forbidden troops in Luoyang and Cao Cāo to join forces to attack Yuan Kui and Yuan Shao, who had at least twice as many troops. The mouth also shouted loudly, Your Majesty's grace is there, and peace can be expected.

What if defeated? Isn't the Son of Heaven discredited, and he has no face to see people from now on?

Can the Son of Heaven win?

If Liu Xiu didn't send troops to help, it would be strange if the Son of Heaven could win.

Yang Xiu's heart felt a chill. He knew that he and Zhou Yu had a bad idea for the Son of Heaven together, and if this bad idea was not done well, it would hurt the Son of Heaven forever.

Yang Xiu didn't know how he sat next to Yuan Shu later, and he didn't know what the wine and food in his mouth tasted like, anyway, his feeling was that his mouth was a little bitter, and before he started drinking, his head was a little dizzy.

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In the back hall, the eldest princess, Wang Chu, Guan Yu's wife Du, Zhang Fei's bride Feng, and the three sisters of the Cai family and dozens of powerful ladies of Jingzhou sat together, women ate of course not as lively as men, they did not fight wine, nor did they laugh loudly, more than a dozen cases formed a half-circle, a thin-necked and big-bellied pitcher was placed in the middle, and several people carried a bamboo arrow. I am throwing a pot in a race.

Liu He leaned on Wang Chu's side and listened respectfully to the eldest princess talking to these women. Wang Chu said that she will be thirteen after the New Year. If you want to participate in these banquets in the future, it is inevitable that you will have more contact with these people and learn more rules. Among these women. The most conspicuous are of course the three sisters of the Cai family, who are sitting closest to the eldest princess. Needless to say, Cai Qi is Huang Chengyan's wife, the eldest princess's mother-in-law, and Cai Lin, the eldest sister of the Cai family, is also amazing, she is Zhang Wen's wife, Zhang Wen is now the young mansion in the imperial court, and meets the Son of Heaven and the Queen Mother every day. Zhang Wen entered the palace as a lang when Emperor Xiaohuan was a lang, and Emperor Xiaoling respected him when he was alive.

This time, Cai Lin was invited by Cai Qizhi to Jiangling to attend the eldest princess's New Year's banquet, and brought her two sons and a daughter, the eldest son Zhang Cheng is fifteen years old, and sat with Cai Mao and Zhang Yun in the atrium, the younger son is seven years old, and the daughter is five years old. They were playing hide-and-seek in the yard with Liu Ye, Liu An, and a dozen other children who were about the same, listening to their giggles, and these pampered women all had relieved smiles on their faces.

"The eldest princess, Yizhou is rich, and then the eldest princess is in the middle of the dispatch. Yizhou's progress in the past two years has been really fast. Cai Lin smiled lightly: "We have been looking forward to it for a long time, and finally we have come to Jingzhou with the general of the Che Cavalry." If I want to implement the new policy next year, I will also be in Jingzhou. It's just a pity that Nanyang is still too far away from Chengdu, and it's not convenient to ask for benefits from time to time. ”

The eldest princess smiled gently: "It's okay, it's okay, although I'm not in Jingzhou, but my sister Achu will be stationed in Jiangling for a long time in the future, she can read and calculate, but she is much more capable than me, a false god." No matter how far Nanyang is, isn't it also Jingzhou? Very convenient. ”

Cai Lin raised her glass to Wang Chu and said with a smile: "Then I will use this wine first to congratulate Xiangjun and ask for a prize." ”

Wang Chu raised his cup embarrassedly, and the two of them drank it all. Cai Huan held a wine glass in one hand and a hem of his clothes in the other, walked in front of Liu He in small steps, raised his glass and said, "How about we have a drink with Master Weng?" ”

Although Cai Huan is a generation older than Liu He, they are only one year old, and under Cai Huan's intent to approach, they are already best friends. Liu He raised his wine glass and took a sip, a red glow flew on his face, and he shook his hand again and again: "Daddy said, I'm still young, I can't drink too much wine." ”

Cai Huan chuckled and said: "The rules of the general are so harsh, our Han women don't let them have eyebrows, why can't they drink?" Come on, come on, drink a little more. As he spoke, he held Liu He's hand and persuaded her to drink more.

Liu He looked at his mother Wang Chu in embarrassment, but the eldest princess smiled and said: "Ah He, it's okay, this is the sweet wine sent by the South China Sea, in fact, it is similar to fruit juice, and it's okay to drink a little." Today is Chinese New Year's Eve, everyone is happy, drink a little. She turned to Cai Huan again and said, "Ah He's alcohol is not good, today is Chinese New Year's Eve, we are going to drink all night." You can't get her drunk, and when the time comes, no one will talk to you, and you can't complain about anyone else. ”

Everyone laughed, Liu He took another sip, lowered his head with Cai Huan, and talked softly. Cai Lin glanced at Cai Huan, picked up the wine spoon with her own hand, added wine to Wang Chu, and continued the topic just now: "In the past few days in Jiangling, I have been talking about the iron ore in Dabie Mountain (now Guishan), I don't know what's going on?" ”

Wang Chu and the eldest princess exchanged a look and smiled knowingly. When the noble ladies who were drinking and chatting heard this, they also stopped their wine glasses and looked at them with burning eyes, and their eyes flashed with golden light.

The eldest princess stretched out her hand to wrap her arms around Wang Chu's shoulders and said with a smile: "Sister, I see that you won't be able to pass the test if you don't reveal some rumors today, so let them rest assured, otherwise, you will only get drunk today." ”

Cai Lin covered her mouth and laughed: "It really makes the eldest princess laugh, you see our ......" She turned her head and said to the ladies who were as anxious as him: "Isn't it too greedy for money?" ”

"Gentlemen also love money, not to mention that we are not gentlemen, just some women who are as difficult to raise as villains." Kuai Yue's wife, Sima Shi, said with a smile. She is a member of the Yingchuan Yang Zhai Sima clan, and Sima Hui is the same clan, and the family has inherited knowledge.

"That's that, we women, we don't have to talk about so many rules." Someone next to him chimed in: "Xiangjun, you can tell us a little bit about it." ”

Wang Chu was helpless, so he had to say: "Actually, this matter will be announced in a few days, and I won't hide it from everyone." The iron ore in the area of Dabie Mountain has been carefully explored, and the current mining scale can be expanded by at least three times, and at the same time, it is necessary to prepare for the construction of iron smelting plants and other ancillary facilities, which requires a large amount of funds, and it is difficult to support it alone with the strength of the Chu Palace, so it is necessary to raise funds throughout Jingzhou. The formation of a cooperative large-scale enterprise will require your support at that time. ”

Cai Lin and the others glanced at each other and smiled in unison. The reason why they are not at home today for Chinese New Year's Eve. I rushed thousands of miles to Gangneung to participate in this banquet, and this is the purpose. Although Huang Chengyan does not understand the affairs of mine governance, he is involved in most of the machinery used in the mine. Cai Qi knew about this, of course he would not hide it from his sisters, one spread ten, ten spread hundreds, and now not only the whole Jingzhou knows that Liu Xiu wants to expand the scale of mining in Jiangxia, but even the people in Yangzhou and Yuzhou know about it.

Salt and iron are important materials monopolized by the state, salt is needed for everyone's life, and iron is the same as horses. It is a very important strategic material. Liu Xiu mastered Liangzhou and Bingzhou, the production places of war horses, that is, he controlled the process of the entire battlefield, and now he expanded the production scale of iron ore in Jiangxia, the significance of which is self-evident. With the technical strength of various schools, coupled with the rare open-pit iron mine of Dabie Mountain, the profit from the production of weapons alone is very considerable.

This Dabie Mountain is the Turtle Mountain of later generations, the last years of the Manchu Qing Dynasty. Jang Zhidong, an important minister of the Westernization Movement, built the Hanyang Iron Works here, and built all the rails used for the railway from Běijing to Hankow, and later built the Hanyang Gun Factory, which used iron ore from Guishan, which was at its most prosperous. The iron ore produced here once accounted for more than ninety percent of the entire Qing Dynasty.

In fact, with the economic strength of the Chu Palace, it is not impossible to set up these enterprises alone, but Liu Xiu has never liked to eat alone. Eating alone may be able to make more money, but it also has a grudge, so he decided that the Chu Wangfu will only account for 30% of it, as the start-up capital, and the remaining 70% will raise funds and participate in the entire Jingzhou Haoqiang as the first major project implemented by the New Deal.

Of course, it is not without conditions to be able to participate in shares, which everyone knows. But in the face of huge interests, how many can calm down and be indifferent? Of course, there are people who treat money as dung, but there are certainly not many, not to mention that this is a righteous and bright way to make money. The new policy was allowed to be implemented when the first emperor was there, who would be stupid enough to distinguish whether this was Liu Xiu's new policy or the new policy of the imperial court? Salt and iron used to be official camps, and the profits in them were unimaginable, which one didn't break his head and wanted to squeeze in but couldn't squeeze in, and now Liu Xiu opened the door and raised his hands to welcome, whoever doesn't enter is stupid.

Wang Chu's words suddenly seemed to be like some water spilled into an oil pot, and the noble ladies who were still caring about their identities couldn't hold it back all of a sudden. Most of them are the internal treasurers of their respective families, even if they don't know how to do business, they know that the profits of iron are very high, and they know whether they can participate in shares, how many shares, and how important it is to the development of their own families. In addition to profits, this also involves a question of whether it is a heart with the general of the Che Cai, seeing that the General Che Cai has obtained two-thirds of the world, as long as he is willing, he can annex the world at any time, the people of Jingzhou have fallen behind the people of Bingzhou, Liangzhou and Yizhou, the opportunity is finally in front of him, if he does not grasp it tightly, it is too sorry for himself.

They glanced at each other, and then swarmed up, asking about various conditions, and asked Wang Chu for a while so that he didn't know who to answer first.

"Alas, you are really, you are so anxious, and you are not afraid that the eldest princess and Wang Xiangjun will see the joke." Cai Lin smiled and pushed away those women who were a little out of shape, and giggled: "Today is Chinese New Year's Eve, we are here to accompany the eldest princess and Wang Xiangjun to keep the year, not to sign an agreement, what is the use of you being so anxious, or think about how many shares you can come up with." As for the details, I don't think you need to worry about it, first, those men who have their own to think about it, and secondly, think about it, when did the general of the chariot make the people who worked with him suffer? ”

The women clapped their hands and laughed, "Exactly." ”

"Madame has a point."

"That's right, the credibility of the general is needless to say."

Cai Lin smiled at the eldest princess and said, "It seems that the character of the general is well known, but I am too talkative." ”

The eldest princess smiled lightly: "Not really, some walls are too thick, no matter how loud the sound is, it can't be transmitted." ”

Cai Lin said with a head of his head: "What the eldest princess said is extremely true, but the sky sees itself as the people, the sky listens to the orders of the people, the general is benevolent and loving, and the world is derun, and His Majesty was raised by the general and the eldest princess, he will definitely understand the general's hard work." ”

The eldest princess bowed down and said with a smile: "If you can do this, it is a great blessing." ”

Cai Lin smiled knowingly: "It's also a blessing for the people of the world." (To be continued) RQ