Chapter 5: The Country, the World, and the World (5)
Jing Yi smiled while hiding her mouth on the side, and quipped: "My sister is so anxious to weigh people, could it be that she wants Mrs. Ling to know that our emperor has not treated your sister poorly?" Hehe......"
I was anxious and embarrassed when I heard this, and pulled Bao Yuan to ask him to comment.
Bao Yuan smiled at Xinning on the side, and asked her to call me well for a while, and write down two catties in case it is verified next year, but it is a disadvantage for me to go.
Before the words fell, the room was full of laughter, and I could only cry and laugh and let them make trouble.
Subsequently, the Ling Xuan brothers accompanied Bao Yuan to see the Ling family's newly opened pharmaceutical factory, and I went to the inner courtyard with Xinning, Ji'er, Jingyi and others to play the game of the scale man.
It's really an eye-opener, such a big scale hangs on the beam, a little like a scale, and everyone weighs it while tasting fat and thin. The former dynasty and the harem, the past and the future are all temporarily left behind in this hip-hop fight.
I suddenly remembered that I had read a poem "Wu Cha" written by the Qing people, and it turned out that the situation was referring to the drama of the Lixia scale people!
Poetry Cloud:
The wind opens the embroidered pavilion Yang Luoyi,
I think it's a swing play, but it's not.
For the hanging amount to go to the official scale,
Evaluate Yan thin and ring fat.
I'll wait until I've had enough fun and go back to the front hall, and Bao Yuan and the Ling Xuan brothers will also return to the mansion.
Bao Yuan heard that Ling Rong had just returned from selling tea in Kaifeng, so he deliberately left him to interrogate, and I sat with Xinning on the side.
Ling Rong said what he saw and heard all the way to Kaifeng, Ji'er sent refreshments, and he also echoed her, and Bao Yuan heard it, so he also left her.
Ling Rong said that now Kaifeng Mansion is very different from the past, in the past, due to the division of feudal towns and continuous wars, the Grand Canal flowing through Kaifeng has long been impassable, and the Yellow River is constantly flooded, often to transport goods by land, extremely inconvenient and expensive.
Since Chai Rong ascended the throne, he ordered people to control the canal, the Yellow River and the Bianhe River, plugged the Yellow River breach, repaired the Yellow River embankment, and also set up a doumen at the mouth of the Bianhe River to control the water potential of the Yellow River to ensure the safety of the capital.
At the same time, in order to restore the waterway transportation network centered on Kaifeng, he also ordered people to build water conservancy, dredge the water transportation, and successively dredged the Hulu River, the Bianhe River, and the Wuzhang River, and finally "diverted the river to reach the Huai, so the Jianghuai boat began to pass", so that the grain and goods of Shandong and Jianghuai can go directly to the capital by the waterway.
Jill interjected: "When I was in Kaifeng Mansion, I heard rumors that the new emperor was still very concerned about the people's welfare, and at the beginning of his ascension to the throne, he ordered the abolition of all taxes except the regular tax, and also forbade the local officials and gentry to pass on their taxes to the people. He encouraged the cultivation of wasteland, allocated unclaimed wasteland to fugitive households for cultivation, issued uniform taxes on land plots, and even the Qufu Kong clan, who had enjoyed preferential treatment in previous dynasties, was stripped of their privileges. ”
"Oh? In this way, this Zhou Tianzi cares about the people. Bao Yuan sighed, thoughtful on his face.
Ling Rong said on the side: "I also heard that the Zhou Dynasty promoted many generals in the first battle with Gaoping of the Northern Han Dynasty, one of them is named Zhao or something, I heard Ji'er say that it seems that he knows Concubine Hui. ”
"Brother, his name is Zhao Kuangyin. Concubine Hui, do you remember? He's the purple-clothed brother! Jill said displeased.
"Oh, yes, it's called Zhao Kuangyin, look at my memory." Ling Rong didn't mind Ji'er's attitude, and smiled casually.
Bao Yuan glanced at me meaningfully, with great interest: "This Zhao Kuangyin has been to Shudi, and he does have several connections with me and Rui'er, at that time he was just a civilian, traveling around, I don't know why he joined the army later?" ”
Jill hurriedly interjected: "A good man has ambitions in all directions, and joining the army is naturally the best choice." ”
Ling Rong said: "We have also heard some rumors in the market, and we can't believe it. ”
"It's okay, the storytelling in the market is also very interesting, what do you hear to relieve the boredom with me and Rui'er." Bao Yuan seemed to be very interested in this Zhao Kuangyin, but I was listening to it with cold sweat in my palms.
Ling Rong thought for a while, looked at Ji'er, and replied: "The minister only cares about doing business every day, but Ji'er likes to listen closely, she has to go to the teahouse to listen to books almost every day when she is Kaifeng, let her talk!" ”
Subsequently, Jill told me and Bao Yuan about the many heroic deeds she had heard about Zhao Kuangyin in the First World War of Gaoping, in the teahouse, and from the storyteller.
It is said that Zhao Kuangyin was still an ordinary general of the forbidden army of the Zhou Dynasty at that time, and when he accompanied Chai Rong to conquer in person, when the war was in trouble, he and Zhang Yongde, the commander of another forbidden army, each led 2,000 men and horses to break through with Chai Rong and attack......
He took the lead in the soldiers, faced the enemy's bloody battle, and led the soldiers to fight desperately with the courage of the main general, and each battle was a hundred, until later the soldiers of the Northern Han Dynasty heard the wind and collapsed. He often rushed to the front, shooting with a strong bow and prancing horse, each time he could kill dozens of enemy soldiers in a row, for which the morale of the Hou Zhou army that followed him was high and invincible.
After the first battle of Gaoping, the emperor of the Zhou Dynasty, Chai Rong, promoted Zhao Kuangyin to the Marquis of Yu, the former capital of the palace, and led the history of Yanzhou.
Oh, it turns out that he has been the Marquis of Yu in front of the palace all these years! I sighed softly in my heart, sure enough, the years are like weaving, recalling the first acquaintance, he and Chai Rong walked in the morning light of the Emei Golden Dome one after the other, smiling so straightforwardly......
"Rui'er, Rui'er." Bao Yuan called me a few times, and Fang came back to his senses from the old memories.
Seeing him staring at me with concern, he asked, "What do you think?" It's so distracting. ”
I hooked the corners of my lips and said softly, "I remember some old things...... By the way, Your Majesty, how did you go to the pharmaceutical factory just now? ”
"The Ling family's newly built pharmaceutical factory is really good and well organized." Bao Yuan said, looking back at Ling Rong and said, "How can I see that there are so many medicinal materials in the courtyard that are used to prepare Jinchuang Medicine?" ”
"Back to the emperor, in recent years, several big medical halls and pharmacies in Kaifeng in the Zhou Dynasty have been buying medicinal materials in the four places, among which the raw materials for this golden medicine are the most in demand, so I am thinking about making more of them, maybe they can be sold at a good price." Ling Rong said seriously.
"Oh, I see." Bao Yuan thought for a moment and said to Ling Xuan: "Imperial Doctor Ling, last time I told you that I wanted to make a batch of excellent Jin Chuangcheng medicine, but I have already started to do it?" ”
"Back to the emperor, it has already begun to be made, all of which are the best selected medicinal materials, and the recipe used is the ancestral secret recipe of my Ling family."
"Well, that's good." Bao Yuan nodded in approval.
I was shocked to listen, could it be that Bao Yuan noticed something? Or does he also have the heart to dominate the Central Plains? Otherwise, why would the Ling family be allowed to prepare Jinchuang Medicine, but how to ask these words, even if they asked, Bao Yuan would not necessarily tell me!
There is something in my heart, and my spirit is a little trance, Bao Yuan saw the inquiry, I only said that I was a little tired after playing in the morning, and I wanted to go to the inner hall to rest.
After leaving everyone, I went to the inner hall hand in hand with Xinning. Along the way, Xin Ning told me about the recent situation of the Compassion Courtyard, and said that the swallow is now grown up and can manage the affairs of the Compassion Courtyard independently.