Chapter 83: The Matter of the Harem
"Your Majesty is far-sighted!"
Fa Zheng and Xi Zhicai glanced at each other and bowed in unison.
Seeing this, Li Zheng laughed, pointed to the two of them, and said, "You have already had a plan, right?" ”
Xi Zhicai nodded: "Your Majesty, since the situation of the army is stable now, with the help of the second-order war horse, it is natural to speed up the pace a little." ”
"In addition, we must adhere to the policy of steady and steady development." Fa Zheng Zhengse said: "Although it seems to be a qiēshun lì at the moment, who knows if there will be a stronger evolutionary beast?" Just like so many evolutionary beasts suddenly appeared before, we must learn from them. ”
Li Zheng bowed slightly.
Although he holds the system map in his hand, there is a little chubby girl monitoring a qiē. But before getting the specimen, it is impossible for the little chubby girl to give the specific number of many fierce beasts out of thin air. You can only observe it through guò, look at its appearance, and get some crude numbers.
And these numbers are not used as standards.
Just like this evolutionary beast has sprung up, the little chubby girl failed to give a hint before this. Because she can't just look at the appearance of guò to know how strong these fierce beasts are, and how they are different from ordinary fierce beasts.
The three monarchs and ministers discussed with each other for a moment, settled on some details, and set the tone.
The next day, Li Zheng summoned Zhou Fei, Minister of Communications.
Zhou Fei was one of the first old men to follow Li Zheng, this person was just a mere Fu family in charge of affairs, although he had some ability, but who would have expected that he could be the head of the empire today, and take power?
As Li Zheng's old subordinate, Zhou Fei acted cautiously.
Now that he is the Minister of Transportation, he is also obedient and cautious, without the slightest relaxation.
Last year, Li Zheng placed the gate of the plane, and planned to build a road connecting the empire and the gate of the plane. The shortest straight line is from Jincheng County, down south, through the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, to the place where the gate of the plane is located.
But in this area, there have always been a large number of fierce beasts entrenched.
And now the armies of all fronts are advancing forward, although they are mainly in the direction of Jizhou, but the rest of the fronts are not left behind.
Now the southwest front of Liangzhou has advanced to the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau for hundreds of miles. So Li Zheng called Zhou Fei and asked him to start cleaning up the transportation system on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau.
The transportation system in this area has already been built with a large frame when the terrain conversion drawings were used.
What Zhou Fei has to do now is to follow the pace of the army, sort out these transportation systems that were originally occupied by fierce beasts, and prepare for the construction of a road to open the door to the plane.
After getting Li Zheng's edict, Zhou Fei naturally didn't dare to slack off, so he went down in a hurry and prepared immediately.
In the imperial study, after Zhou Fei left, Li Zheng stretched his waist, got up slowly, turned into the back hall, changed into light clothes, and then entered the backyard.
Before you get close to the back garden, you can hear the intoxicating sound of silk and bamboo.
In the harem are ten concubines, who are at ease, and once they have nothing to do, they gather in the garden, singing and dancing, and they get along very well.
However, these concubines of Li Zheng are not all vases.
Among them, there are heroic women who are good at martial arts and have always wanted to go to the battlefield. There are also talented women who are knowledgeable and proficient in piano, chess, calligraphy and painting.
Xun Ying and Sun Ren are the representatives of the first type.
Xun Ying has also been in charge of the security of the grassland, as well as part of the training of recruits in Baishuichuan. As for Sun Ren, this woman from Jiangmen is not inferior to Xun Ying in this regard. A few days ago, she begged Li Zheng to give her some soldiers and horses.
was rejected by Li Zheng on the grounds that she was still young, but she also promised that after she was ready, she would let her lead a team of war horses to protect the safety of the pasture.
Among the concubines, the most talented is Zhaoji Cai Yan. This talented woman is a well-known existence in later history. I followed Li Zheng early this morning, and there was no so much torture, and there was no such grievance in her works, but there was more warmth.
Over the years, this talented woman has written a lot of popular literary works against the background of the grassland and the folk customs under Li Zheng's rule, especially some long poems of Yuefu, which have been spread out and sought after by many literati.
And another talented woman who is only slightly inferior is Zhen Mi.
This Roselle, at a very young age, showed something extraordinary. Now it is moving closer to Cai Yan.
In addition to these few, there is also Mi Huan, a strange woman from a big businessman, who has an amazing intuition about business.
Li Zheng was already thinking about whether to hand over the Shenzhou Commercial Bank to Mi Huan to deal with.
In the early days of Shenzhou Commercial Bank, it contributed a lot to the development of Li Zheng's power. However, with the gradual growth of Li Zheng's power, the country has now been established, and public and private should be separated.
Therefore, this large commercial bank, which can be regarded as the first commercial group in the empire, has been spun off from government affairs and has become Li Zheng's private commercial bank. For the time being, Zhou Lin is still the chief treasurer of the firm.
However, Zhou Lin, as the Minister of Commerce of the Empire, is also a private trading house, which is somewhat unruly, even if this trading house is owned by Li Zheng, the Son of Heaven.
On both sides, he focused more on the financial aspects of the empire.
So Li Zheng had long been thinking about appointing another person to take the helm of the firm.
So Mi Huan appeared in the list of candidates.
With this in mind, Li Zheng walked into the garden.
The garden has been systematically upgraded and now covers several acres. In the past six months, all kinds of exotic flowers and plants have been transplanted in, and there is the influence of the origin tree, which makes this garden compete for beauty, it is gorgeous in all seasons, and flowers are always there.
Among the flowers and plants, there are stone tables, stone chairs, and stone benches, and various leisure facilities.
From a distance, Li Zheng saw that in the middle of the garden, Cai Yan, who was wearing light makeup, was stroking the qin, Zhen Mi, Xiao Qiao, Wu Amaranth and Dong Bai's five daughters danced when they heard the sound, competing with the flowers, which was very eye-catching.
On the side, Xun Ying, Sun Ren, Mi Huan and Cao Ke were watching intently.
Sun Ren clapped her hands and cheered from time to time, and she was very lively—she was only a twelve-year-old girl.
"Lang Jun!"
Seeing Li Zheng coming, the singing and dancing stopped, and a group of women with a beautiful color and fragrance came up together.
Although they get along well, they inevitably compete for favor in front of Li Zheng.
Li Zheng was surrounded by a wife and concubine with a smile, looking at their delicate faces, his heart was very comfortable.
"Why didn't you go to drill the soldiers today?"
Li Zheng hugged Sun Ren over, and the two were together, and it seemed that the gap was not small.
The two youngest in the harem, Sun Ren and Zhen Mi, and Li Zheng couldn't bear to do it. Cultivate it first, and when the time is almost there, it's not too late to take a bite.
As for the other concubines who were at least already in order, they were naturally eaten and wiped clean by Li Zheng.
"I don't want to go today."
Sun Ren fell into Li Zheng's arms and said coquettishly: "The singing and dancing of my sisters are better." ”
When Li Zheng heard this, he couldn't help laughing: "It's really better-looking." ”
After chatting with the concubines for a while, Li Zheng smiled and said, "Come, sit down." ”
patted the stone bench and stone chair, Li Zheng hugged Xun Ying with one hand and Dong Bai with the other, and kept a faint smile on his face: "You are the closest people to me, and I don't have any rules here, as long as you get along harmoniously, everything is fine." ”
"It's a little boring to be in this house all day. So, let me ask you, is there anything you want to do? ”
"Yes!"
Sun Ren jumped up first: "I want to lead the troops to fight!" ”
On the side, Cai Yan gently knocked on Sun Ren's head, making her mouth curl.
Li Zheng laughed: "You are still young, do you know what it means to lead troops to fight?" Are you still not satisfied with going to drill soldiers with your sister Ying'er every day? ”
"I'm going to take command of the Knights!" Sun Ren's little head was raised.
"Okay, okay, when you're ready, I'll let you lead a team of war horses, okay?"
"Two teams!" Sun Ren didn't do it: "The day before yesterday, I said that there was one team, and today I want two teams." ”
Li Zheng smiled: "Two teams are two teams." ”
"Words count!"
"Count!"
"Yay!"
All the wives and concubines laughed.
"Ying'er is not idle every day, so I won't talk about it. Zhao Ji likes to read, likes to be quiet, likes piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, and I won't say much about it. ”
"Our family's Shenzhou Commercial Bank has always been managed by this kid Zhou Lin. However, he is also a big member now, so he is not very suitable, so I want to ask, which of you has the confidence to take the helm of the first trading house in the empire? Huan'er, Mi'er, you are all from businessmen, especially Huan'er, who has an amazing intuition for business, and I want you to master the business. As he spoke, he looked at the two women.
Zhen Mi hesitated for a moment and said in a low voice: "Lang Jun, I don't want you to let Sister Huan do it, I like to study with Sister Zhaoji." ”
Li Zheng bowed slightly, and looked at Mi Huan again.
Mi Huan smiled and said: "What Lang Jun asks the concubine to do, the concubine will do it." ”
"Okay, it's you." Li Zheng waved his hand and said with a smile: "The Shenzhou Commercial Bank is related to our family's future food, clothing, housing and transportation, Huan'er must be good at living, lest I, the emperor, and you mothers of the country, can't eat, so it's fun." ”
Hearing this, they all giggled.
"Alright." Li Zheng said: "It's decided." Huan'er, from tomorrow, she will be the big shopkeeper of the firm. There is no need to go out of the grassland, let the people below gather all aspects of the information of the business bank, hand it over to the chubby girl for classification and analysis, and Huan'er can grasp the overall situation. ”
"What about the other thing?"
Li Zheng beckoned to Cai Yan, took her and Xun Ying in his arms, and said, "Both of you are pregnant, Ying'er won't go out during this time, stay in the palace before giving birth, and be with Zhaoji as her companion." Our children are about to be born a few years ago, and I, as a father, have to give them a little gift. ”
As he spoke, he looked at the rest of the concubines and said, "The Shenzhou Commercial Bank is our family's property, so I will give each of you five cents of dividends as your own private money and children's pocket money." ”
"Pocket money!"
Sun Ren jumped up again: "I also have pocket money!" ”
When Li Zheng heard this, his face immediately drooped, and he was speechless.
"Langjun Langjun, I have pocket money, can you let me go shopping in Jiuzhou City?" Sun Ren's big eyes were dark.
"Yes." Li Zheng said helplessly: "You can do it at any time, but you have to bring a guard, do you know?" ”
"Not good."
Sun Ren was immediately upset. (To be continued.) )