In July, Nanjing was as hot as fire, and many workers in the original Liangjiang Governor's Mansion and Tianwang's Mansion were sweating and working.

Some of these workers were hired from the surrounding areas of Nanjing, while others were ordinary people in Nanjing, many of whom could be seen men and women, and after entering the city, the Chinese Empire built a large number of office buildings, roads, and bridges in addition to building the imperial palace.

On the one hand, this is of course due to the dilapidated Nanjing and the lack of many office buildings, but on the other hand, it is also an important measure of the Chinese Empire to relieve refugees: work for relief!

Affected by the continuous war, after the Chinese army conquered Nanjing, it was faced with more than 100,000 hungry people in the city, and Lin Zhe could not sit idly by and watch these people starve to death, so he launched a large-scale relief operation.

In fact, the so-called relief is more important than directly distributing rice and noodles to them, but allowing them to find jobs and obtain income to buy rice and grain, after all, the Chinese Empire cannot always provide for these people.

However, during the occupation of Nanjing by the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, almost all commerce and handicrafts in the city were destroyed by the use of the sacred treasury system, and it was not easy for ordinary people to find jobs to support their families in a short period of time.

To this end, on the one hand, the Ministry of Industry and Commerce, the Ministry of Civil Affairs and other cabinet departments began to encourage the reopening of shops in the city on a large scale, and on the other hand, the construction of large-scale construction and relief for work, so that the people in the city can get temporary jobs to support their families.

However, this also caused the Chinese Empire to spend a lot of money, and the construction office responsible for the reconstruction of the city of Nanjing, the construction of the imperial palace, and the construction of government office buildings had already spent nearly 600,000 yuan in just a few months, a small amount of which was used to buy materials, and most of the other was used to pay the wages of employees.

After tens of thousands of people received income, they took the money to buy rice grain, which led to the fact that the first business in Nanjing to resume was not anything else, but rice and grain-related industries.

As a result, other industries are also gradually recovering, which can be seen from the gradual popularity of shops in Nanjing in the past few months.

However, the reason why commerce in Nanjing has recovered so quickly. It is also related to the fact that the Chinese Empire was set in Nanjing, and at the same time brought a large number of soldiers and officials, you must know that after the Chinese army entered Nanjing. At one time, there were as many as 50,000 or 60,000 soldiers stationed in the city, and the remaining population of Nanjing at that time was only 150,000.

In addition to the military, a large number of officials and their families have migrated from Shanghai and other places, and there are tens of thousands of people in this part.

A large number of military and political people have entered Nanjing, and these people are in need of consumption. And they are not short of money, and if there is a market demand, then there will be businessmen who will hear about it.

So along with these military and political populations into the city of Nanjing, there were also merchants from all over the world!

With the resumption of Nanjing's commercial market and the demand for qiē materials, especially rice and other daily necessities, farmers around Nanjing began to send their own grain, vegetables, chickens and ducks into the city.

By July, the city of Nanjing had barely shaken off the bad influence of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and had initially recovered to what a normal city should be.

Only occasionally people can still see the rubble of the broken wall. From the remains of the many palaces of the former Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, you can still feel the existence of the former Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.

However, the wreckage of these palaces has not been able to survive for a long time, in order to subsidize the finance, the Ministry of Finance has sold some real estate on a large scale, including the requisitioned by the Taiping Army in the past, but now it is impossible to find the owner's ordinary shops, mansions, and some buildings built by the Taiping Army, as for those palaces, although they have been burned down, but these palaces are all covering a large area, and most of them are located in the core of the city. Just buying a plot of land is worth a lot of money.

For example, the land of Shi Dakai's Yiwangfu was purchased by the powerful money village 'Tongsheng Qianzhuang' located in southern Jiangsu for a huge amount of money, and then began to build new buildings, of course, people did not live by themselves. Even the owner of the money bank did not have the luxury to such an extent, but acted as the headquarters of the money bank.

Perhaps it is influenced by the rows of luxurious and atmospheric major commercial banks and bank headquarters on the Bund of the business district, so that many commercial banks now like to build a luxurious and huge commercial bank headquarters as a façade, and it is generally a Western-style brick and stone building, which has appeared in Hangzhou and Suzhou before, and now Nanjing has also begun to appear.

In this city of construction. The temporary palace is very quiet, and in the backyard of the typical Jiangnan water town style, there is a courtyard in the rockery and flowing water.

And this small courtyard is inhabited by Lin Zhe and his wife, the emperor and empress of the Chinese Empire, and their daughter Princess Shuchun.

Chen Jing looked at Lin Zhe, who was pinching her daughter's face and making her daughter scream, and she felt a little comforted in her heart, but it was rare for her to see Lin Zhe so childlike, and even Lin Zhe's smile was rare.

Most of the time, Lin Zhe and Chen Jing are respectful to each other, and they are very polite to each other, although Lin Zhe never puts on a face in front of Chen Jing, but he rarely laughs from the bottom of his heart like now.

Looking at the father and daughter, Chen Jing herself also had a smile on her face, when her daughter was born last year, she was still a little worried that Lin Zhe didn't like it, but she didn't expect Lin Zhe to love this eldest daughter so much, and just called the emperor, that is, she named the eldest daughter Princess Shuchun.

However, even if Lin Zhe loves this daughter himself, in fact, other people actually have some opinions about Chen Jing's birth of a daughter instead of a son, last year it was just the Lin family, but Mrs. Lin personally said to Chen Jing: The old Lin family is thin, so they expect Lin Zhe to have a few more sons to inherit the lineage!

And after Lin Zhe became emperor, the problem of his descendants became even stricter, as the emperor of the empire, Lin Zhe did not have a son, how could this reassure the imperial ministers.

Since the beginning of being the emperor, there have been people who have been asking Lin Zhe to accept the harem, and some of these people certainly want to send their daughters to the palace, but more are still worried about Lin Zhe without a queen.

Today, the question of Lin Zhe's descendants is not just a problem for him alone, but a problem for the entire empire.

Bi Yutong wrote more than once, asking Lin Zhe to accept the harem in order to consolidate the country.

What is Kunimoto?

Crown prince!

There is a huge empire, and there is not even an heir, how can you let Bi Yu and the same number of officials not worry!

In the face of this situation, Lin Zhe is also not very good at pressing, although he said that marrying a wife pays attention to one to look at the right eye, and the original thought was that if there is one who is pleasing to the eye, he will be accepted as a concubine, but unfortunately, there has been no one who has seen the right eye for most of the past half a year.

Why?

Because Lin Zhe faces officials every day, and those who serve people in the house are some maids, but if you want to make Lin Zhe and a maid fall in love, it will be very difficult.

Lin Zhe didn't look for it himself, no, the officials below just acted on their own.

Last month, more than a dozen cabinet ministers joined forces to put pressure on the Internal Affairs Department of the Palace Affairs Department, and Jiang Daoquan, who was born in the former Qing Dynasty and later served as the political envoy of Zhejiang, and then took the initiative to serve China, and was appointed as the Minister of Education, directly approached the Internal Affairs Department of the Palace Affairs Department, asking them to do their best to draft Lin Zhe and enrich the harem.

After half a month, the Internal Affairs Department selected many beauties from Zhejiang, southern Jiangsu and other places, and Lin Zhe's mother, that is, the queen mother of this empire, has selected more than 50 beauties according to the rules, waiting for Lin Zhe's final selection.

Chen Jing also knows this, but she didn't make the same fuss about it as the women of later generations, she was born in a scholarly family and had no aversion to three wives and four concubines, her father had married several concubines before, although she was a little appreciative of Lin Zhe's enriching harem, but she definitely didn't dare to show any hint of it, but was more active than the queen mother to help Lin Zhe in the draft.

The reason is very simple, she is the queen, because she has no son, it has already made the ministers outside quite dissatisfied, if you still obstruct Concubine Lin Zhe, it is estimated that those ministers outside will be agitated to demand that Lin Zhe be abolished.

Because this matter has nothing to do with personal feelings, but a political incident, a major event for those ministers outside, which is related to the country.

Not to mention her, even if it is Lin Zhe, if he wants to object, he can't object.

It's just that as a man, he doesn't mind having a few concubines, he used to want to find a few who look at the right eye, but now that he finds that this situation is unlikely, he will have to be arranged by outsiders, and it is a big deal that he will find a few more pleasing women from these women who have entered the palace in the future.

Looking at this husband who was teasing his daughter, Chen Jing's thoughts continued to fly, and if she thought about it too much, she would be depressed about one thing, that is, when would she be able to give birth to a son?

Half a day later, she quietly got up and walked to Lin Zhe's side, and took a few deep breaths before leaning down with a red face: "Let's go back to the room?" ”

looked up, and saw that the Chen family was already flushed, and the two had been husband and wife for a few years, just by looking at it, they knew that this woman let herself go back to the room with him, something must have happened, but Chen Jing would not have been so active in the past, not to mention that it was still broad daylight.

Lin Zhe stood up, and then teased her in a low voice: "Now is it, is it still daytime?" ”

Chen Jing's face turned even redder, but she still said, "Aren't you going to entertain the minister at night, it's too late for you to come back!" ”

said, and then added: "The doctor at the medical office said that it is easy to get pregnant these days!" ”

Lin Zhe looked at her whose face was already crimson, but it was rare to see her take the initiative like this, and she was a little moved at the moment, even the cute good daughter was not funny, and she just grabbed her waist and walked in.

It didn't take long for the room to hear a continuous wheezing and whispering, and the maids outside the room heard these voices, all of them blushed, and muttered in their hearts: It's still daylight!

However, an older woman, Chen Jing brought the old mother from the Chen family to listen to Princess Shuchun for a while, but her face was happy: "It seems that our mother is still favored, and now I am not afraid of those who come in the draft to compete for favor!" (To be continued.) )