In a small courtyard in the harem of the Zhonghua Palace, Tatara frowned, and the sound of male and female joy coming from next door made her unable to calm down and finish this snow bamboo drawing.

Putting down the paintbrush, she stood up and walked to the window, although it was snowy outside, she still opened the window, the north wind poured in through the open window, the cold air made her involuntarily shrink her shoulders, and pulled the white fox shawl on her shoulders tighter.

The whining wind drowned out the voices of the men and women next door, but they could still be heard!

That Yeh Nara clan shouted so loudly, and he was not afraid to shout hoarse, if he let others see Ye Henala clan taking the initiative to accept joy in front of Lin Zhe, and even make some movements that made him feel red and piercing in order to please Lin Zhe, who would believe that woman was the former Yi Guifei.

It's just that when he thought of this, he couldn't help but sigh deeply, how much better could she be than Concubine Yi?

Concubine Li in the past was now just an ordinary woman hidden by Lin Zhe in the Zhonghua Palace, even though she did not take the initiative to flatter like Yehenala clan, but the actual situation was involuntarily.

She didn't have the courage to commit suicide like Ci'an, so she was captured by the Chinese army along with the Yehenara clan, and then sent to the Zhonghua Palace in Nanjing, where she served as Lin Zhe's trophy.

And she, like the Yehnara clan, also has a daughter!

Just like the Yehenara clan took the initiative to curry favor with Lin Zhe in order to save the life of her son Jaechun, in the face of the safety of herself and her daughter, in fact, even if she was reluctant, she did not have any courage to resist.

In the end. She can only comfort herself, ** Yu Linzhe is not willing to do it!

Again. Although I was not used to it when I first came to the China Palace, I resisted a lot both physically and psychologically. But after living in the Zhonghua Palace for more than a year, she also accepted her fate.

Although the current situation is not very good, she is finally worry-free about food and clothing, and more importantly, her daughter Rong'an has been able to stay by her side, and she is undoubtedly much luckier than Yehenara in this regard.

The son of the Yehenara clan, that is, Jae Chun, was not able to stay with the Yehenala clan, and now this child, who is only a few years old, is under house arrest alone, although there is no shortage of food and drink, but don't count on other aspects. If nothing else, Jae Chun will always be under house arrest for the rest of his life, and compared with those criminals who have been sentenced to life imprisonment, he will at most have more room for movement, and the treatment of eating, drinking and wearing is better.

But strictly speaking, he is not much different from those who are sentenced to life imprisonment!

In contrast, the fate of his mother and daughter is much luckier than that of Yehenara mother and son, he and his mother and daughter can live together, and Yehenara took the initiative to contribute backyard flowers to Lin Zhe. Only then did he beg Lin Zhe to allow her to go to see Jae-chun once a month.

This person, no matter how unlucky he is, can always find comfort from the more unlucky person, this is what ordinary people say, more than the upper is more than the bottom!

The same is true of Tatara today!

No matter though, although the current state of life has been resigned. But this is just the helplessness of reality, and in her heart she still rejects Lin Zhe, so she will not resist anything in the past year or so. But don't expect her to come up on her own.

No, when she saw Lin Zhe push open the door and walk in. The beautiful melon seed still had the same plain expression on her face as usual, as if it was not a person who came in. It's like a gust of wind.

Seeing him like this, Lin Zhe was not angry, when he came over occasionally, this woman always maintained this demeanor, and over time she got used to it.

However, he is not interested in doing anything to move him like those who can't walk when they see the iceberg beauty, and can't wait to stick to other people's cold butts with their love and try to melt the iceberg.

From the bottom of his heart, in fact, Lin Zhe still likes her appearance, if she becomes like Yehenala and serves Lin Zhe without shame, it is estimated that Lin Zhe will not be interested in her.

Women, they have to have some personality, and it is not a good thing to be popularized, because popularization means vulgarity!

Just like those Internet celebrity faces in later generations, when you see the first Internet celebrity face, then you will be amazed, but if you see a hundred Internet celebrity faces every day, then you will vomit.

Moreover, if every woman around him is the same, why does Lin Zhen need so many women, a women's football team to replace a hundred women.

This has just come from the Yehenara clan, and Lin Zhe, who has exercised a lot, is not in the mood to continue the conquest on his Tala clan, he came over to take a sip of tea, and then look at this woman who looks like Lin Daiyu.

When a woman is stripped naked and lying in bed, her charm is far less than when she is dressed!

He Tara is such a woman!

He Tara saw Lin Zhe sitting down by himself, and then pointed to the coffee table and said, "Make tea!" ”

He walked over slowly with small steps, and then brewed tea, the whole process was extremely quiet, and it would not be full of shameful voices like when Lin Zhe was in the Yeh Nara clan house next door.

Lin Zhe didn't stay long with his Tala clan, and left after drinking tea, and added a few more strokes to his Tala's unfinished snow bamboo diagram.

turned the proud bamboo on the isolated snow on the painting paper into a withered bamboo, which made him frown, and wanted to open his mouth several times to stop Lin Zhe's painting snake action.

However, in the end, he still couldn't say it, but the eyebrows were always slightly wrinkled, so that Lin Zhe, who turned around, couldn't help laughing when he saw it.

He just likes her reluctant but can't resist!

After coming out of the small courtyard where the Yehenara clan and the Tatara clan lived, Lin Zhe returned directly to the front hall, this afternoon's rest time was over, and there was still a lot of work waiting for him to deal with today.

After returning to the office on the second floor of the Xinhua Palace, Lin Zhe first reviewed more than a dozen reports submitted by the cabinet, which were all fragmentary state affairs.

Two of them are related to the resettlement of immigrants, and one is about the immigration affairs of Liaoyang. One is about immigration in the Northwest, and the two reports generally summarize the effects of this year's immigration.

In the past 1861 year. It is led by the Reclamation Department of the Ministry of Civil Affairs of the Empire, with the cooperation of local governments. The military also gave some help, and after the initial experiments of resettlement at the end of 1859, the empire began large-scale resettlement in 1860.

It was mainly to recruit landless peasants from the provinces of the Central Plains, where there were many people and little land, and then organize them to take them to the three provinces of Liaoyang, Jilin, and Heilongjiang in the northeast, as well as Gansu, Qinghai, and Xinjiang in the northwest, and also to migrate some migrants to Wutai (Outer Mongolia).

When these migrants arrived at the resettlement settlements, they were able to obtain cheap land for sale by the Imperial authorities, which was sold at very low prices and had been developed in well-established areas. For example, the land price in Liaoyang and Shenyang is more expensive, but in some bitter cold places, such as the Waixinganling area in Heilongjiang Province, those places are honestly free of charge, and there may not be immigrants willing to go there.

In addition to the very low price of land, the way to repay the land payment is also very favorable, if you have the ability to pay in a lump sum, if you really have no money, then you can also pay in installments over ten years, and the way of repayment can be directly offset by the harvested crops.

Furthermore. Newcomers are fully exempt from agricultural taxes for the first two years and for the second three years, for a total of five years.

In addition to these big policies, basically the official empire would also cover the cost of their travel from their hometowns to the settlements. When they arrive at the resettlement sites, they are provided with seeds, farming tools, cattle and other production materials at low prices, and help them build simple houses.

The above support is not all free. However, the fees are also extremely low, and it is still possible to pay for the harvested crops over many years.

These initiatives have been implemented. In addition, many places in the Central Plains provinces are crowded and have little land, especially in Shandong, Henan, Shanxi, and some areas of Zhili. These places are famous for their large number of people and few lands, so many people grit their teeth and leave their homes when they hear that they can get a land and family business that can be passed on to their children and grandchildren.

In 1860, the empire emigrated about 800,000 people to the three northeastern provinces, most of whom were settled in Liaoyang Province, especially in some plains near Shenyang, and also tried to send about 50,000 people to Jilin and Heilongjiang.

In the same year, the empire also migrated about 100,000 people to Mongolia and Wutai, the two steppe provinces, most of which were concentrated in the areas with abundant water and grass in the steppe area, and immigrated to the steppe, mainly to balance the problem of too few Han people in the steppe area.

Although the empire gave preferential treatment to some of the Mongol princes in the early stage and promised to retain some of their titles, this system could not continue forever, and it was impossible for the empire to watch the steppe region still maintain the system of aristocratic serfdom with real power.

Therefore, after the initial suppression of the princely rebellion, the empire announced that the Mongolian nobles of Mongolian Sheng and Wutai Province would also be included in the imperial aristocratic group, and this was not a good thing for those Mongolian nobles, because they instantly went to the noble titles of prince, khan, and county king, although the empire selectively named several Mongolian nobles with a good cooperative attitude as barons, viscounts, etc., but there was no nobleman above a count.

At the same time, more importantly, although some of them retained the titles of the lower nobles, they lost vital real power.

However, at this time, the empire has firmly controlled the prairie region militarily, and in order to control this steppe, the empire has stationed an infantry division all year round, and there is also a cavalry brigade and more than a dozen garrison cavalry battalions, with a total strength of more than 20,000 people, including more than 10,000 cavalrymen.

Although these former Mongol nobles who had lost their power could not afford to turn the tide militarily, they still continued to cause problems for the empire in some small aspects.

In order to completely solve the problem of the Mongolian steppe, the Ministry of Civil Affairs is preparing to implement a huge plan, that is, to continue to move a large number of Han people to the steppe. (To be continued.) )