After that, Qin Hui went to Zhuangzi to get some famous calligraphy and paintings, ancient books, and a set of Yunzi Go, and took away 20,000 taels of silver, after Pearl heard the report, his first reaction was not to feel sorry for money and things, but to worry that Qin Hui was coming, this time the emperor summoned him, and he didn't come back for so long, something must have gone wrong. But Pearl could only wait at home, and he believed that Qin Hui had the ability to solve the problem.

In fact, Qin Hui really ran into a problem, the four provinces in the northeast are under his jurisdiction, the power is big, there are many soldiers in his hands, there is a lot of money, and there are many subordinates who can be controlled, the imperial court divided the border and border guards of the Liang Dynasty into four towns, and sealed four governors, Qin Hui, the governor, has the most soldiers in his hands, the territory is the largest, and the income from the border city and the port, and the taxes are also a lot, such a feudal town, how can the emperor and courtiers not be jealous?

Although Qin Hui has attracted some people through the glass factory, and the gifts he gave to the emperor, the queen mother and the concubines are also very popular, there are always people who don't eat this set. For example, Song Lian, who was at odds with Xu Baojing, the first assistant, was also a member of the cabinet university, and saw that Xu Baojing's student was very unpleasant, and provoked Liu Shizhen, the stunned young imperial historian of the imperial court, and wrote a letter to impeach Qin Hui. It is said that Qin Hui used the treasury money privately to buy people's hearts, bribed the emperor, the queen mother and the concubine, and bribed the ministers, and there must be a plot.

This matter is not big or small, and it is not small to say that it is not small, and the use of treasury silver is allowed by the emperor, but the ministers don't know! If the ministers all know about it and follow suit, who knows what to do, the emperor will not dare to open this opening! So Qin Hui needs to defend himself. Of course, Qin Hui was very wronged. But it is absolutely impossible to say that this is agreed by the emperor, so he took out a lot of information, first talked about the local situation, and then said that the treatment in the army was too low, there were many people who ate empty salaries, and there were almost few young and middle-aged people, and the court could not give much pension when they were injured or killed in battle. Then there are the reasons why local merchants take advantage of the drought to raise food prices. Of course. At last. Because of the merit of suppressing bandits, the court has rewards, and because of the suppression of bandits, the treasury has been replenished. The border market was opened. Taxes have increased. In the future, it is necessary to vigorously encourage local industry and commerce. Because there was only one crop in the north, it was necessary to make war reserves.

Officials on the opposite side preach, although there is occasional friction on the border. But there has been no major war for many years, and this is clearly unnecessary. It was Qin Hui who had other intentions. Qin Hui is not to be outdone, to say that in this court, it is really important to have a three-inch tongue, or quote scriptures, or attack the other party's language problems and loopholes, in short, you can quarrel for a month for a trivial matter. This is because the emperor has already kept the matter of the firearms factory a secret, so there is less trouble.

In the end, the emperor was impatient to hear it, and heard that spring plowing was going to start in the north, and the governor Qin Hui was going to start vigorously promoting crops such as corn and sorghum this year, and he would continue to improve the water storage and drainage projects, of course, he couldn't do without him, so let everyone stop arguing and let Qin Hui go back to business first. The silver and things that Qin Hui used were used for dotting, even if they were all old relationships, but it was not the etiquette to ask for someone empty-handed.

But this time, Qin Hui is not without harvest, the emperor is very much looking forward to the firearms factory, for Yi Di will be in the bad days, come to grab food, is also very agreed, now Yi Di occupies the entire grassland, several tribes continue to grow, this is a very big hidden danger for the Liang, Qin Hui will investigate the data according to the pearl as the form of the account table, the vacancy of the army, the actual age of the soldiers, and the annual military salary are listed, at a glance. If such an army goes to war, the consequences are unimaginable, and no matter how clever the lord will be, he will not be able to achieve any effect, and the worst outcome is that they will move the capital. This is a situation that Xiao Qing is very unwilling to see.

After Qin Hui's rectification, although there are any captured military spending, but it is difficult to say in the future, it is necessary to make the grain of the four northern provinces self-sufficient, and the border cities must be opened to collect taxes, and the wharf in Zhuozhou is even more so, this is a very important place, if the four northern provinces are taken down, then the beam will be endangered. Xiao Qing still understands very well, Qin Hui has already reported these things in advance, and the news from his secret guard is also like this, so there is no reason for him not to use Qin Hui.

This time, Qin Hui is not without gain, the emperor often calls him into the palace, one is said to be two or three hours, the emperor is not only interested in the situation in the north, but also interested in the news that Qin Hui brought back from those merchants from all over the Zhuozhou wharf, in fact, Qin Hui really went to investigate deliberately, got a lot of news, through the map drawn out by the pearl, and then marked the local specialty, who is the occupation army at this time. Every year they can get from the colony of Nanyang, how many gold, silver, copper, iron and other metals, as well as all kinds of precious stones, precious wood, across the Cape of Good Hope to Africa and the Americas, where there is more gold and silver, but also diamonds, precious stones, pearls, agate, opal stones, and so on. And ivory, rhinoceros horn, that's all right, and most importantly, if their porcelain and silk brocade were exported, they could exchange it for a large amount of gold and silver, which could be used to improve the people's livelihood, train the army, and develop better firearms, and at that time, Yidi and the rebellion in the country would not be afraid. The emperor also said that if he had time, he would go to Zhuozhou to have a look!

Qin Hui came back and brought a lot of supplements, all of which were sent by relatives and friends, everyone knew that Pearl was pregnant, giving Qin Hui face, and now it was the time for Qin Hui to be favored, so there were naturally a lot of gifts. If new tricks are popular in the capital, Qin Hui bought a lot of them for his wife and children, plus the ones given by others, there are more than 80 horses. There are palace satin palace silk, silk brocade, shiny silk and so on. Qin Hui also bought toys for the child. The emperor rewarded Qin Hui with a jade ruyi. A pair of polychrome porcelain vases. The Queen Mother and the Queen also had rewards, all of which were in-house jewelry and palace silk and satin, with bright colors, not much worse than the cloth dyed by chemical dyes. There are also the latest popular cloisonné bracelets, enamel porcelain, internal dotted cui and other jewelry, ruby jewelry, pearl jewelry and coral jewelry four sets, Qin Hui went to the treasure building in the capital to buy a single piece of red gold inlaid treasure bracelet for his wife, red gold inlaid seven treasures gold Tian, sapphire earrings, red gold lantern earrings, Chaoyang five phoenix hanging bead hairpin, amethyst step shake, tassels and so on.

In addition to buying jewelry for pearls, he also bought the finest colorful satin in the old store in the capital, which was recently designed and spun, and it was not even in the palace! There are other silk, cloud brocade and Shu brocade, etc., and I also brought a lot of the best dim sum in the capital to pearls and children.

At first, Pearl only suspected that Qin Hui was in trouble, but who would have thought that it would be such a big trouble, fortunately, Qin Hui was careful enough, otherwise, he would be used as a tool to attack Xu Baojing's faction, and it would be really wronged. When Qin Hui was about to get home, Jade's letter had already arrived first, and Pearl knew what kind of big test Qin Hui had experienced in the past month or so, and when Pearl saw Qin Hui, she was distressed, she had lost weight!

"Look at your thinness, you must not have rested well, nor have you eaten well, but you have to make up for it, by the way, have you eaten the essence nourishing pill I gave you?"

Qin Hui didn't know how to answer, he would want to do bad things after eating, this was absolutely intolerable to his wife, and he didn't dare to eat it despite his hard work. Pearl didn't know what he thought, but he was too lazy to take medicine, and he was determined to make up for the fallen meat as soon as possible.

After a long time, Pearl learned from his guard Liu Qing what kind of attack the lord was attacked in the capital, Liu Qing was both civil and military, the brothers and sisters were all from everyone's background, and they also knew about the affairs of the imperial court, and they said things in detail and thoroughly, Pearl listened, and was even more distressed, the lord came back but didn't say a word, and said that the firearms factory in the capital had something to deal with, and the glass factory over there also had to discuss with several shareholders, and the mother's family didn't say it, this was for fear that her pregnancy would be stimulated, so she didn't say it. Pearl sighed in her heart, the official is bigger, and it is more dangerous, so she should be careful in the future. On the other hand, he was even more worried, and said to Liu Qing,

"How many of the trained Dark Guards have been released now?"

"There are five hundred people, all of whom have already gained a firm foothold, and now they have not been moved, I wonder what Madame thinks?" Liu Qing said,

"There are still too few of these people, only to install eyeliner in the major families in the capital, and to install eyeliner in the palace, which is not enough, and in various important places, people must also be sent over. How many people are in the next batch? ”

Liu Qing said, "There are 600 people this time, all of them are trained, some of them know martial arts, and some of them know other skills, so they are waiting for Mrs. to arrange." ”

Pearl thought for a moment and said, "These people are sent to the south and the other three towns to the general army, important posts must be obtained, and loyal Gu must watch them eat." Carefully sweep the tail, don't let people catch it, and track it down to our Zhuangzi. ”

"Madame rest assured, I have thought of this step a long time ago, these secret guards have been selected, they are all unrelated, usually learn skills in Zhuangzi, and do not contact others. And they usually wear masks, that is, they don't know each other when they see each other, at most they know each other. These men and women are young and old, and Madame can rest assured. "Liu Xuan went to Hetian Yu in the northwest, and now Liu Qing is in charge.

Pearl asked the secret guard arranged in the Qin Mansion in the capital again, this is a bit embarrassing, the people who go in are some small characters, and they will not be reused, but it is not impossible, Pearl asked Liu Qing to directly find the old lady and the people around the third wife Yue who lives in the mansion, or seize their handles, or bribe, or make a fuss about their most important people, or even poison them, after some operation, it is finally done. The Tang brothers who were recruited in the previous life have also arrived in Zhuangzi, and they are helping pearls to refine medicine at this time!

When Liu Qing went down, the pearl entered the space, printed out a copy of the mercury mirror making method in English, and had his own translation at the bottom, and when Qin Hui came back in the evening, he would hand it over to him, just the flat glass and the production of glass furnishings could not make those people make a fortune, but this mercury mirror, at this time, is only available in the West, and it is secret, and now that it is taken out, those people are going to make a fortune with the glass factory. (To be continued......)