Cheng Ziyu was a little unclear, at the beginning of this dinner, the eight poles had nothing to do with each other, and King Xiaoyao, who had never said a few words in her previous life and this life, glanced at the corner where she was from time to time.

That's not the point, the point is that the disgust and irritability in the eyes of the Easy King are too obvious. He doesn't like her! But why did he show it? Where does this disgust come from?

When King Xiaoyao looked at it again, Cheng Ziyu deliberately looked at it, she smiled slightly, generous and natural, after the other party was slightly stunned, the corners of her mouth twitched, her disdain was revealed, and she turned her face to the other side without any response......

The dinner began with a gift from the richest man in Jiangnan, Wanjia.

The Wanjia brothers took the lead and brought a birthday gift covered with red cloth.

When the red cloth was lifted, everyone took a breath. Then there was a surprise.

In the green space in front of the main pavilion, a tree stands.

A tree in full bloom.

It's not a hundred flowers, but a hundred kinds of flowers that bloom brilliantly.

If you look closely, you can see that these flowers are made of gold, silver and gemstones.

In short, it's an eye-catching, breathtaking treasure landscape tree.

The two brothers Wan Minghui and Wan Mingyang, who were in charge of the Wan family, stood by the tree on the left and right, wishing the Queen Mother a thousand years.

Everyone stared at the tree, the emperor smiled, the queen looked envious, and even the queen mother, who was not good at gold and silver, was shocked and praised these gems.

"This ...... It has to cost hundreds of thousands of taels of silver, right? Or two or three hundred thousand taels? Gemstones, pearls, fluorite, jade, agate, it made me dizzy...... What a big deal. Cheng Ziyu, how much silver do you say there are in these ten thousand families? Wen Lan, who has always been wealthy, was also shocked when she saw this in front of her.

"Wanjia made a fortune in the Taizu period, and the two brothers in charge of their work have united over the years, one inside and one outside, which has brought the Wanjia industry to a higher level. This is their sincerity. ”

In fact, it is not only so, it is not impossible for Wanjia to say that it is a rich country.

And they can be active for decades, in addition to the outstanding business methods of the Wan family, it also comes from their inexplicable confidence.

The Wan family is prosperous, and they carry out high-profile overseas trade, and there must be collusion between officials and businessmen, and even they have some cooperation with the high-level of the royal family, but Cheng Ziyu has also thought deeply: It stands to reason that things must be opposed. Wanjia is so high, who is not red-eyed? Who doesn't covet it? And how do they maintain this incredible prosperity?

What about the Cheng family? Compared with the Cheng family and the Wan family, there is more than a little difference. However, the Cheng family was targeted by at least two passers-by by Zhu Changan and the one behind Private Salt.

Is Wanjia too large, but it's not easy to start? Definitely not! When the first emperor was in power, he once sent down the three major salt merchants, and they raided their homes and put them into storage, and the means were sharp and clean. Which of those families is weak?

So, is the Cheng family unlucky? Is it easier for the Cheng family to win?

She thought that after she had just started to do charity and took out tens of thousands of taels of silver, the Wan family immediately reacted, and they quickly sent 20,000 taels of silver tickets, 300 quintals of rice, 5,000 pieces of cloth, and promised that this amount would increase every year.

That kind of sensitivity and "sincerity" is indeed extraordinary. They seem to be preparing to show their loyalty to the Great Zhou court in various ways all the time......

Therefore, it's not whether the court can clean you up, but whether the court wants to clean you up!

This is the sorrow of being a merchant.

There are not many ways for merchants to preserve, and if they want to protect themselves, the first thing is to subdue the heart of the court.

For example, in addition to the huge taxes of 10,000 families, they also have to give a large amount of military salaries, grain and silver every year, and pay filial piety to all walks of life. Pave bridges and roads, repair yamen, celebrate a bumper harvest, and donate money non-stop during disasters and disasters. There are also festivals in the New Year, and when the autumn is long, it is even more heartfelt and lungs to express.

Such merchants, regardless of whether the court changes or is turbulent, rather than bothering to clean up, the kings are naturally happy to sit back and enjoy the success, and enjoy the long-term flow of water.

On that day, Second Master Wan admonished her to be cautious and careful, and the appropriateness of her actions benefited her a lot, and it also made her determined to give full play to the value of the Cheng family, like ten thousand families, becoming an existence that the court and the king were reluctant to dispose of, and could not bear to dispose of......

In fact, in addition to this treasure tree, they also donated 30,000 taels of silver, 66 temples, and fireworks worth 10,000 taels of silver to this birthday banquet, which can be described as an absolute generosity.

And their harvest is the appreciation of the queen mother, the emperor's commendation, two jade ruyi, a few boxes of rewards, and a piece of ink treasure written by the saint......

I didn't want to, that Second Master Wan still recognized Cheng Ziyu, and when his eyes swept over, he gently bowed his head at her.

Wen Lan took it in her eyes and couldn't help but make a few jokes. Cheng Ziyu smiled and said nothing, if she had the opportunity, she really wanted to ask this master for a few words......

Wanjia took the lead, and the next thing is the gift of the merchant.

The Queen Mother only symbolically looked at more than a dozen pieces, and then signaled to Cheng Ziyu.

The old man and Cheng Ziyu were offered separately.

The old man represents the Cheng family, and Cheng Ziyu represents the individual.

Cheng's gift is a large set of red glaze blue and white decorative plates, the old man personally shot, since the extraordinary product, aroused the interest of all connoisseurs, just can't wait to be able to make a list immediately......

And Cheng Ziyu had already seen the Queen Mother give the emperor a look when she saluted. Thinking of the "lift" that the Queen Mother said she would give her before, she couldn't help but feel a little faster.

She knelt down and said that her gift was not expensive or luxurious enough, and the only highlight was her heart. From design to fabrication, including packaging, she does it all by herself......

In fact, she knew very well in her heart that the Queen Mother didn't care about what she gave at all. The Queen Mother just has to wait for a major occasion to find a suitable opportunity, one is to repay the grace of the "assassination" on the day of the disaster, and the other is to re-establish the value and strength of the Queen Mother by lifting her.

So Cheng Ziyu knows very well that even if she just sends a stone, she will have a big benefit. In addition, the emperor keeps saying that he owes her a favor, and I am afraid that this benefit will not be small. This guess, when the Queen Mother specially asked her to change into luxurious and bright clothes, she was probably mentally prepared......

However, Cheng Ziyu still didn't expect that this income would be so big that it scared her!

Her gift was presented in a gold-red glazed porcelain box that she had made herself.

Inside is a string of red Buddhist beads.

The whole string of Buddhist beads is not glazed, maintaining the true color of the pottery. It is made of one hundred and eight ceramic beads and a vajra bodhi. The highlight is that she personally carved the entire Heart Sutra onto the beads. And in order to blend together, each word is on the surface of the outermost third of the whole string of Buddhist beads, which shows the high difficulty.

Undoubtedly, among the birthday gifts that appeared today, her gift was worthless, but it was the most thoughtful.

And she knew that the Queen Mother believed in Buddhism, and after this string of Buddhist beads was made, she was sent to the Buddha in Qixia Temple to receive incense for 3721 days. Every day, the host personally burns incense and prays for blessings, which is the only one of all birthday gifts.

Cheng Ziyu went to Qixia Temple that day and went to retrieve this string of Buddhist beads.

She spent a lot of effort to make this birthday gift, she knew what the Queen Mother wanted, and she made it according to the Queen Mother's wishes.

The reason why there are one hundred and eight Buddha beads represents the verification of one hundred and eight samadhi, the elimination of one hundred and eight kinds of afflictions, and the realization of a state of silence in the body and mind.

The reason why the true color is used is to use the simplicity to represent the truth. She didn't use the Bodhi of the sun and the moon as the main beads, nor did she use agate jade, all to obey the queen mother's wishes.

However, despite her efforts, she knew from a few days ago that this time, her gift was not good.

In her previous life, the Queen Mother believed in Buddhism, but recently she ......

Too much has happened, and the Queen Mother's mood has changed greatly. What the Queen Mother needs most at this moment is no longer to rely on praying to God and worshiping Buddha to escape. And she didn't have time to exchange for a birthday gift.

But despite this, the Queen Mother was still moved after seeing this birthday gift.

"You have a heart, and the mourning family is very happy! This string of Buddha beads is your fist heart, and your sincere mourner feels it. Today, the mourning family will not wear it when drinking, but the mourning family will definitely keep it well. ”

Subsequently, the Queen Mother bluntly said that she would reward her well.

The Queen Mother is talking about rewards, not rewards.

At that moment, everyone in the main pavilion was stunned, and they looked at the Queen Mother with bated breath.

"Emperor, Miss Cheng's three merits are worth a reward, right?"

The Queen Mother looked at the emperor without changing her face.

Three merits?

If this birthday gift is done well, it will be a success, right?

This sentence attracted the curious eyes of everyone in the surrounding pavilions.

But what everyone saw was that the emperor waved his hand, and Father-in-law Yu stepped forward.

There was a sound of gasping, because everyone saw that there was a bright yellow letter in Yu's father-in-law's hand.

Holy Decree!

The decree was announced, and the singing and dancing on the stage also stopped.

Cheng Ziyu, who was kneeling on the ground, was a little dazed.

She couldn't hear clearly.

I almost thought it was a dream.

It's really a bounty.

Princess!

She became the county lord and was named "Jinxi", a homonym for the word Jingxi.

The gist of the decree is:

As soon as she had the heart to save the suffering, she resolutely relied on the strength of her family to set up nearly 30 charitable halls in Jiangnan in one go in a few months, so that tens of thousands of refugees could have a place to stay, and tens of thousands of people were benefited. It is a great achievement to do a good deed, and even the Liangjiang Yamen is asking for a reward for her.

In order to encourage such good deeds, and to thank Cheng Ziyu for his great compassion in helping the world, he must be commended.

Second, in the face of the crisis, he was not afraid, put his personal life and death behind, protected the queen mother, blocked the crisis, and made wisdom in an emergency, so as to ensure the safety of the queen mother to the greatest extent, reduce losses, and resolve the crisis. Such charitable deeds should be carried out.

The combination of two works is already a great achievement. And Cheng Ziyu is neither a royal family nor a national relative, just a small common man, but he can bring goodness and truth to the extreme, and it should be used as a flaunt of folk virtues.

The decree ended with a round of praise and agitation.

Cheng Ziyu heard vaguely, lying on the ground, her heart trembling.

She just didn't think something was right. It's not right, it's just not right!

Like her, she thinks it's not right, and the Queen Mother.

She was close, and seemed to hear the Queen Mother whispering to the emperor, saying that there was something missing in the holy decree?

Less?

She looked quietly, she heard it right, the Queen Mother was looking at the emperor, but the emperor only said:

"Queen Mother, I have my own opinions!"

She was kneeling facing the emperor in the center of the main pavilion, so almost everyone in the pavilion was in her line of sight. At that glance, she saw Li Chun smiling lightly, Zhu Changan flipped over the wine glass, the queen laughed far-fetched, and Zhu Changzhe smiled heartily.

In her sluggishness, her father-in-law came up to remind her of her gratitude.

After kneeling, the holy decree arrived, but she was still in a trance.

To be honest, she was a little excited, but she was more panicked.

That's not right!

There are rules for everything, and her identity is not qualified! The lord of the county must be a prince's daughter, or a courtier who has made great achievements to have this honor. Even if she opened a good hall, even if she saved the Queen Mother, she was not qualified! If she is a noble daughter of a big family, then she can still be reluctantly embarrassed. But she's a businesswoman, it's unreasonable!

It's like climbing a mountain, you have to go up step by step. Suddenly, someone reached out and pulled you, saying that they would pull you across two levels. Then the initiative is not in his own hands. It's done, naturally she was dragged up, but what if the other party grabbed her and pushed her hand?

It's not that she's suspicious, it's that she's panicked! ……

The Emperor got up and walked up to her in person, facing the crowd.

"Today's decree is a decision made by me in consultation with the Queen Mother. You don't need to be surprised. Originally, King Xiaoyao asked me to accept Miss Cheng as a righteous daughter. But I don't think it's necessary! ……”

Cheng Ziyu understood.

Therefore, this is the source of the evil spirit of the King of Escape. It's the Queen Mother! The Queen Mother's initial idea was only to let the king go to the two virtues above, and first begged to accept herself as a righteous daughter. Then the emperor pushed the boat down the river, and made a decree to make himself the lord of the county......

After all, that's what makes sense.

The King of Freedom was naturally not happy. His reaction is reasonable and real! Naturally, he would not want an inexplicable righteous daughter. A businesswoman who doesn't know the details and climbs the dragon and the phoenix is her daughter.

No matter how angry he is, he won't get anything, but if he makes some mistakes, he will still be implicated. No wonder his previous look of disgust couldn't be stopped.

However, the emperor made a new decree without telling the queen mother.

So the Queen Mother just reminded him of what was missing......

Civilians are crowned county lords, which is unprecedented!

What is the emperor going to do?

This is a question that the Queen Mother also has at this moment.

Cheng Ziyu quietly looked at the King of Joy again.

She saw that the King of Ease's face was much more relaxed, as if relieved, and never looked at her again. So, she guessed right.

The Emperor was still talking.

"It is the three merits, it is the commendation, and it is the queen mother, so I will give a generous grace. Miss Cheng will be the first civil county lord in this dynasty. The so-called folk county lord is not only that she comes from the people, but that she represents the people.

Miss Cheng, no, it should be the county lord of Jinxi, she is loyal to Da Zhou, from the queen mother to the refugees, she dedicated all her sincerity to Da Zhou. Having such a person is a blessing for my Great Zhou! What I need most in Da Zhou is a person like the county lord of Jinxi who is willing to dedicate himself to Da Zhou.

I only hope that Miss Cheng is just the beginning, and there will be a second and third folk noblewoman and noble son in the future. Born in the Great Zhou, as long as you are loyal to the court and willing to contribute, all the people will have a bright future! ”

The emperor raised his arms, and everyone shouted long live.

So, she was just a hope that the emperor erected for the commoners and the lower classes? Is it a means by which he unites the classes? Is it a dream that he created for the people at the bottom with his own hands? ……

Perhaps!

Maybe she's too careful!

But the uneasiness in her heart still did not dissipate.

With her understanding of the emperor, the emperor is definitely not such a generous person, he has a backhand!

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