The Great Qi Dynasty has been inherited for hundreds of years, and many noble families and wealthy families, and even the royal family, are complicated and intertwined because of their in-laws.

In this era, marriage pays attention to the right family.

The marriage between officials, families, noble families, and nobles is naturally a matter of course.

And if the high-ranking royal family wants to firmly control the world, it must also attract and promote the huge forces that can be used.

The emperor's empresses, concubines, concubines, etc., the prince's princesses, side concubines, and princesses recruiting horses must be the right candidates from these huge forces.

Being able to marry the royal family is the royal family's favor for them.

And their glory.

It was precisely because of the huge power of her mother's family that Cheng Guifei was included in the harem by the emperor.

In this way, the problem arises.

Cheng Guifei's maiden family is King Xin's mother family, and the mother family is huge, which has both advantages and disadvantages for the prince.

The good thing is that the Mother Clan can help you fight for the throne.

The power of the maternal family is very important to the prince.

In addition, the maternal forces are also tied to the same rope as the prince, and most of the loyalty is reliable, and the loss of power of the prince means that the maternal forces behind it will be suppressed.

The relationship between the two is one that prospers and loses.

The disadvantage is that it will attract the scruples of other princes.

Even if you don't fight, people will see you as a thorn in their side.

Once on the throne, almost all the princes with huge maternal power did not end well, and the families behind them were either beheaded or exiled to the border.

Because of the above reasons, it is not possible for Cheng Guifei not to fight.

There is another point, Cheng Guifei is in a high position, and she can see the situation in Daqi clearly.

Knowing that there are many hidden dangers in the court, it is difficult to cure them at once, and even the emperor's control of the court is unsatisfactory, and it also requires the princes to fight each other, and each faction fights openly and secretly, and he has every reason to intervene and deal with some tricky enemies.

Unless the emperor is quite wise and martial, the wisdom pearl is in his hands, he is resolute, or he is cruel and unkind, or he is cruel and unkind, otherwise even if he is the emperor, he must have a legitimate reason to deal with his courtiers, not that as the son of heaven, he can really let the ministers die casually, and the ministers will die.

The princes competed with each other, wanted to succeed to the throne, won over the ministers of civil and military affairs, and rejected each other, so there was chaos.

The old emperor can fish in mixed waters.

Concubine Cheng, who understood this, knew that the emperor simply roasted her, King Xin, and his family on the fire.

If you want to fight, quit, and not be a chess piece, the emperor is the first to refuse.

These helplessness are just small problems for Cheng Guifei.

Cheng Guifei's family is powerful, there are tens of thousands of clansmen, and there are so many women who are quite old enough to enter the palace?

But why, will it be Cheng Guifei who finally enters the palace?

Because of its beauty?

Naturally not, there are too many beauties in the palace compound, even if you are outstanding, you won't feel how beautiful you are when you enter it.

Besides, Concubine Cheng was not the most beautiful among the girls in the clan back then.

The reason why she was allowed to enter the palace was nothing more than two points.

The first point is that no matter how beautiful the daughter is, it will be impossible to become a concubine because of her status.

can't even be a concubine.

The emperor's queens, concubines, and concubines are all limited in number, and it is important to arrange for the daughters of those ministers and noble families, and it is impossible to have vacancies for lowly concubines.

Of course, accidents sometimes happen, and if the concubine is beautiful and scheming, it is also possible to climb up step by step in the palace.

The second point is that Cheng Guifei is smart, she has been taken by her elders since she was a child, and she has been taught to be cunning, resourceful, and very ambitious.

is not smart, does not know how to please, even if he has an extraordinary background, it is rare to be liked by the emperor.

If the emperor doesn't like it, and if he has no ambition, how can he seek benefits for the family?

Cheng Guifei has great ambitions, which is the main reason why she has strictly taught King Xin since she was a child, and she wants her son to become the emperor of Daqi.

At that time, with the assistance of his mother's family, he can sit firmly in the country.

"We are not the most liked by the emperor, we can compete for the throne, so even if King Xiang's reputation is ruined and disgusted by the emperor, he can still peep into the throne."

"Yes, Erchen understands." King Xin replied honestly.

There is no triumph and eyebrows dancing before coming.

After Zhao Chen left, Cheng Guifei sighed lightly and stroked her lower abdomen.

She was also pregnant with a child back then, after Zhao Chen, but she was framed by someone and miscarried.

Since then, I have been unable to get pregnant.

If the baby could be born smoothly and be a boy, even if it was not the eldest son, she would definitely put all her thoughts on that child.

Zhao Chen really disappointed her!

Strictly speaking, Zhao Chen is not stupid.

But in a high position, mediocrity means incompetence, the inability to cope with and control complex situations.

Now that Concubine Cheng is the master of the harem, she has a deep understanding.

It was as if she was standing alone on the top of a mountain, and there was a crowd of people below, everyone trying to pull her down.

Once it falls, it will be the end of being crushed.

can only rely on his own cronies, as well as the open and secret struggle of all forces, consolidate himself, and skillfully guide and maintain the balance of forces of all parties.

In this way, you can always stand at the top.

Chen'er ...... Even if Zhao Chen can inherit the throne in the future, I am afraid that he will not have the ability and scheming.

Fortunately, there is still a mother's family.

Cheng Guifei breathed a long sigh of relief.

Entering June, it is already summer, and the weather is getting hot.

The sun hung high in the air, like a furnace, and the roasted grass blades hung low and wilted.

Outside the city, although the people were tired and hot, no one dared to be lazy.

Otherwise, if they are discovered, they will be expelled by paying their wages.

A few days ago, there was another posting of a list of women.

So the people who were working immediately ran home and brought their daughters-in-law with them.

The work here is hard, but it is enough to eat.

It's much better than staying at home and running around digging wild vegetables, cooking some coarse grains, and barely eating half full.

Exertion cannot be compared to hunger.

As a result, the population of Lingtong County grew rapidly again, and in just a few days, it almost doubled.

In a few days, many people are not worried about the elders and children in the family, and bring all the family members again, so now the streets in Lingtong County are bustling with people, lively, stalls, juggling, carrying burdens and selling, rubbing shoulders.

Xiao Fan counted it last night.

The number of new populations in Lingtong County is already nearly 40,000!

Among them, there are about 18,000 people who dig the river.

Fortunately, Jiang Long asked the black-clothed guards to help buy and transport grain worth 50,000 taels of silver, otherwise it would definitely not be possible to buy grain just in the surrounding counties.

It will also raise the price of nearby food.

It will make life even more difficult for the people who are already hungry.

With a population, the economy will naturally develop rapidly, and the people's wages will be paid day by day, and if they have money in hand, they will also eat some meat, buy some toys and candy for their children, and the circulation of money will accelerate economic development.

However, all this silver is subsidized by Jianglong.

Is it just that Jiang Long is so selfless?

No, of course not!

Such a selfless thing, Jiang Long can't do it, but he can't do it.

There must be a rule for everything, and the same is true for business transactions, there must be an entry and exit, otherwise sooner or later the family property will be squeezed clean.

So how can Jiang Long get the capital back and even make a big profit?

It's very simple, just rebuild it in the city.

In the past, the houses in the county town were not planned at all, and they were built randomly, and there was no city here until the population was enough, and the imperial court allocated silver taels and built tall walls on all sides.

Without planning, there will be a lot of waste of land.

Although Jianglong has increased the area of private houses, there will still be many empty houses that can be sold.

In the past, this little house could not be sold for money.

But now, the population in Lingtong County has skyrocketed, the economy is becoming more and more prosperous, and the price of private houses is rising rapidly.

The private house alone can make a lot of money when it is sold after the renovation is completed.

Of course, Jianglong has no plans to sell it now, and the current residential prices are far from the peak.

When it is built, it can be rented out first.

In addition to private houses, Jianglong also has to rebuild the street-facing shops in the city, and commercial housing is the most profitable.

On both sides of the street, there are two rows, all of which are covered into three floors, one of which is left to the original shopkeeper to choose, and the remaining two floors are used for sale.

This amount of money is definitely not a small amount.

Also, in addition to the reconstruction, Jianglong has also added several other streets in the planning.

Naturally, shops and storefronts should be built on both sides of the street, which is another large amount of silver.

In short, Jianglong will not trade at a loss.

It's just that Lingtong County is too poor now, so he just took out the silver first and used it as working capital.

When the time comes, more money will flow into his pocket.

He was an official, and it was not easy for him to make money directly, so he signed many contracts with Hou Jiang, and now the bricks and cement used to build the house were fired in the cave that Hou Jiang bought, and the silver would be transferred from Hou Jiang to his wallet.

The time when housing prices really rise to the peak should be the moment when the farmland is cleared.

At that time, no one will doubt it anymore.

Lingtong County is the largest granary in northern Xinjiang!

After a few days of busyness, Jiang Long had already drawn the route of the river, and left the rest to the officials to do.

It's rare to have a free time today.

He took Tudu and the others to a field nearby.

The fields are very fertile, and green vegetable seedlings grow in between.

Jiang Long squatted down, and on his tanned and blackened face, he smiled because he saw the vegetable seedlings.

In the summer, the temperature is a little higher, so the peppers sprout and break the ground, and the growth is gratifying.

Thinking that it won't be long before he can eat fresh chili peppers, green or red, Jiang Long is drooling.

"This ghost weather, it's too hot during the day, I can't wait to take it off, but it's still cold at night, and I can't sleep without wrapping myself in a quilt." Tudu wiped the hot sweat from his forehead and complained.

When Jiang Long heard this, he couldn't help but laugh.

Wear a leather jacket in the morning, wear yarn in the afternoon, and eat watermelon around the stove!