The snow never stopped.

As far as the eye can see, Shen Shen is snow-white, and there is chaos everywhere.

After being bored for several days, Bai Tao chose to leave the palace today, and is now sitting in a luxurious carriage.

Wearing two misty pearls on his ears, wearing a snow-white plum blossom mink fur, a little pink face was so cold that he couldn't help shrinking, and the cold air that rushed in after opening the silk curtain was frozen enough.

She spat out white mist: "It's really cold this year. ”

The shouting on the streets of Xianyang Qianmo also followed the cold wind.

"Qin Jiulie, the best Qin Jiulie, eat the warm kang, and have the strength to fight in the army." "Pot helmet, pot helmet, new pot helmet, the pot helmet from our Li family's shop is real, one, just half one! Stuff it in your throat! Jack out your ass hole! ”

"Come on, everyone, go outside the city to worship the water."

"Ouch, that's going to have to hurry."

"The second mother-in-law of the Tiehu family, Zhang Guizi, go to worship the water, go to worship the queen, and bless us with a good harvest next year."

"Ouch? Do you still want to worship the Queen? ”

"Worship the water must worship the queen of Qin, let's pray to her, we have been in drought for so long, as soon as she became our queen, the wind and rain will be smooth, but the moon is more, so many white particles, she is a goddess, goodbye, next year to ensure a bumper harvest, so that our old Qin people do not worry about food and clothing."

"Yes, yes, Queen Qin bless and bless."

"God bless, bless our family, my father, my mother, my melon baby."

The car is boiling, the crowd is crowded, the Qin people have been still water since ancient times, and there is a custom of worshipping water.

Bai Tao's hand froze as he lifted the curtain, but he didn't expect them to worship him too.

There are countless beliefs around him that have turned into silk threads and embedded in their blood.

The mystery of her three tails is solved.

She put down the silk curtain and whispered: "May I pray for a good year with snow, and keep spring to bring everything new." ”

"Queen, what are you talking about?"

Rui'er beside her heard her whispering and asked curiously.

"Nothing."

The white peach fox's eyes bent slightly, "I'm just praying." ”

"Prayer?"

"Just like mortals, pray for good weather and abundant harvests."

Rui'er smiled and said: "Actually, the slave maid has been blessing it, since you and the king got married, it rained heavily in the Qin country, the thunder rolled that day, and it rolled for three days, and the Weishui rose like crazy, but it was really an excellent omen, no, after the rainstorm, it snowed so much, but even the heavens are wishing you and the king to grow old together, and the Great Qin River and Mountains will be immortal for ten thousand years!" ”

Bai Tao's paws hidden in his sleeve pinched weakly.

Ignore for the time being the breaking of the tablet of the ancestor's soul in the ancestral hall of the ancestors of the Qin State that day.

Her fox eyes smiled very well, "Well, I think Rui'er said it very well, and it must be so." ”

"Uh-huh!"

Rui'er said, "But what are you here for, Queen, on this bustling street?" ”

Bai Tao looked sideways at the inn plaque where the silk curtain was lifted by the wind.

"I, for an old man."

"The deceased?"

Rui'er knows nothing but Zheng Guo, but she has never heard of her friendship with anyone. But now that Zheng Guo is still imprisoned, she is curious, "Queen, what kind of old man are you looking for?" ”

"It's not me looking for her, it's her looking for me, I've been looking for many years, and now she has finally found her."

*

The gold silk thread inscription Nanmu long case, on the desk is placed a thick and knotted plum blossom, in the warm spring, silver charcoal enough indoors, the frost on the plum blossom is melting and flowing down.

"Tick."

The fingertips of the white peach like jade caught it.

The plump droplets of water condensed but did not disperse, as if they could see through it.

The girl squinted her eyes and said to the woman kneeling down next to her: "Good sister, look at the water droplets on this, they are as cool as jade to the touch, obviously the ice and snow have just condensed and fallen off, so early to prepare, how do you know that I like plum blossoms?" ”

The woman still knelt on the ground: "Queen, please forgive your sins."

"Well, you seem to be looking forward to me coming, why did you forgive your sins as soon as I came, and made you so honestly afraid, alas, it seems that I still don't come."

Although it was a sigh, the white peach was still smiling, smoked by the indoor heating, and the pink light was greasy and beautiful.

Ba Qing was wearing a dark blue coat, which looked half bright and half dark.

She even emptied her tiara, earrings and jewelry, and only a wisp of white hair crept up her temples, and said respectfully: "The old woman did not intend to snoop." ”

"Get up."

Bai Tao held a cup of tea that warmed his hands, "What do you do kneeling, what can you do, the commercial tax of Xianyang City alone is contributed by your Ba family, and as soon as your Ba family's industry enters Qin, the soldiers who feed it are more than tens of millions." ”

She didn't move, her hands pressed against her abdomen, her back straightened, "I guess the queen also knows the old woman." ”

"Huh?"

"The old woman is clear, married to the young master of the Ba family, a rich and noble family who has been running Dansha for several generations, and became a wife, but the young master of the Ba family has a short life, and she can't suppress the life of the old woman, and she died without drinking the wine. Nuoda's family business also fell on the shoulders of the old woman, and the side branches were eyeing each other, and the slightest mistake was about to collapse, and the old woman never remarried, only to support the Ba family industry. ”

"Shu is full of cinnabar, the old woman was selling cinnabar in Shu to make a fortune, the family is quite thin, and I don't want to get involved in the green line of the human market, but there are many trivial matters, and the old woman has to gamble for it."

Bai Tao drank tea and moistened his throat.

"When the old woman was young, she also traveled with the elders of the family to go through business, and it was because of many years of fluttering, swaying wind and rain, the old woman saved the family, saved the family business, sparse the wealth, and expanded the family property."

She raised her eyes to look at the white peach, "But the old woman also knows that climbing high will fall heavily, tall trees have many sad winds, and the sea water will raise its waves." The old woman is just a businessman, and the businessman is both the lowest and the lowest, even if there are countless gold and silver treasures, she can be pressed down by casual power, and she will instantly raise her powder. Fortunately, the former prime minister appreciated that the Ba family was able to enter the Qin land, which avoided encroachment, and the Ba family only obeyed the law and took root in Qin for ten years, allowing the rest of the business houses to covet it, but no one dared to move. However, the change of power in the Qin State was turbulent, the high platform collapsed, the flagpole was broken, and the old woman was afraid that the Ba family would have no one to rely on. ”

"So you found me?"

White Peach's white fingertips pointed at himself.

"The old woman didn't expect the queen to become the mother of Great Qin in the future."

Ba Qingdao said: "Even, the old woman didn't expect the Lu family to fall so quickly, but the husband is innocent and knows that he is guilty, the Ba family is rich and noble, the canopy is ostentatious, and he has the secret of dansha refining." The Six Nations Commercial Banks were eager to swallow it, and saw the end of the road. The old woman knows very well that clinging to the grass is not immune to the sun, and only the big tree can take advantage of the shade. ”

"It's cool under the big tree."

Bai Tao's brows furrowed and loosened, and she sighed, "Although this old saying is old-fashioned, it is not wrong in any way, but why are you looking for me to introduce a harem woman instead of King Qin." What if one day my pet is not there, you fall from a high platform, you play in the gutter and capsize, and make a loss-making deal. ”

"Wealth and wealth are in danger, no gambling is not a business, the old woman will give up the entire Ba family to accompany the queen to gamble."

Ba Qing's eyes were unwavering, and his expression seemed to be indifferent: "The old woman has recently stored food and wealth in the Qin State, and she has given it with both hands, and the millet money supplied can feed the millions of people in the Qin State for more than half a year, and she also asks the queen to protect the Ba family!" ”

"Long live Great Qin, long live the king, long live the queen!"

She slammed her head on the ground, her voice hoarse.

*

It's night.

Bai Tao returned to the Changle Palace, and the palace maids took the hot water bottle and scalded the couch, and as soon as they lay down, the pores of their bodies were ironed and obedient.

The light of the pearl shrouded in.

She was leaning on the pillow and looking at the bamboo slips, her long eyelashes hanging down like butterfly wings: "Salt and iron are abundant, rainfall is abundant, and Shu is the first-class granary in the world today." ”

Shu is the granary of the world, and she has known it for a long time.

Nowadays, the construction of canals consumes countless manpower, material and financial resources, coupled with the great drought, locusts, and the confusion and guarding.

After two years of suffering, the state of Qin ran out of food, and the treasury could not support it.

She knows it, too.

Yes, even if Ba Qing doesn't look for her, she will find Ba Qing, and now Ba Qing woman takes the initiative to offer the granary that the Ba family has accumulated for decades with both hands, just for the sake of the Ba family's business route.

Saying that he was forced to a dead end, Bai Tao just listened to it as a deaf ear, and never put it in his heart.

Ba Qing is very smart and can climb Lu Buwei, which shows that she is not without roots in the officialdom of Qin State, but now she is begging her with her family background, not only because the law of Qin State has always suppressed business, but also that she has mastered a skill that is desired by the gentry and can make the whole family stand on the precipice.

And that's—

Mining and refining dansha.

Purified mercury has a wide range of uses, and "three drops of mercury and one tael of gold" is never just talk.

But the Ba family is not the only one who controls the "Dan Acupoint Industry", if you want to hold such a secret and stand tall, what is more stable than relying on a powerful kingdom.

The couch next to him sank, and Bai Tao noticed that someone was coming.

She put down the bamboo slip and turned over.

Ying Zheng, who had just been lying down next to him, was very tired, and there was a faint black blue on his eyelids, it seemed that he was extremely tired from the trivialities of state affairs, and when he saw her leaning over, he just raised his hand and patted her back.

"Brother Zheng, but you have worries in your heart?"

Bai Tao lay on him, his long hair like a waterfall wrapped around him, and he said softly, "If you are worried, Tao Tao will come to relieve your worries, okay?" ”

"I heard the palace maid say that you are out of the palace again today, and you have played with all your heart."

He closed his eyes and pinched her back with his big palm.

Bai Tao looked at him and didn't speak.

Then when he opened his eyes and looked over, the tail of the girl's eyes hooked, and under the pearl, there was a three-point charm into the bones, and said with the temperament of a little girl: "Hmph, what is playing, I really went to relieve my brother's sorrows." ”

He still lifted his eyelids to look at her.

"Don't you believe it?"

So Bai Tao leaned into his ear and told him what Bai Riba Qingnu said.

Ying Zheng sat up suddenly.

Qin's economy and people's livelihood, internal and external troubles, drought for many years, although the sky rains, irrigation of the soil, but also only spring sowing, in the middle of the months, the warehouse is empty, how can we feed the millions of migrant workers who dig and dig canals.

"What Tao Tao said, can you be serious?"

Bai Tao blinked and said: "Really, this Ba Qing woman is afraid that she has been planning for a long time, and now she mentions it, but it is just to find a place for their Ba family to rely on, the Ba family has been passed down for several generations, monopolizing the mining of Dansha in Shudi, and the wealth has accumulated countless under it, we might as well let her work for Daqin, enter the treasury army, and these giants will serve Qin, so as to promote the national prestige of my Daqin." ”

Ying Zheng was stunned.

The great drought has entangled him for more than two years, but the ministers will not fail to understand the method of letting the merchant and the gentry invest in Qin, but they are also afraid of the Qin law, afraid of the Shang Jun, and in view of the mirror of the former prime minister Lu Buwei.

More often than not, they are afraid of themselves.

No one dared to mention it.

Qin Zhizhao, and only Bai Tao was not afraid of him, he hugged Bai Tao, the little fox, and said, "Lonely peach is better than ten thousand cities." ”

*

A few days later, the snow fell like a huma wind.

Bai Tao was surrounded by the palace people, standing under the oil-paper umbrella, watching Ba Qing slowly walk into the Xianyang Hall with his footprints.

Ba Qing, who was walking on the white steps, seemed to feel something, and looked back at the shadow beyond the wind and snow at the moment he was about to enter the hall, even though his eyes were blurred by the snow curtain, he could still recognize the elegance of the country in the wind and snow.

After bowing his head in gratitude.

Ba Qingnu walked in.

The moment the door of the hall closed, Bai Tao said to Rui'er beside him, "This is an old friend of mine, Bashan widow Qing." ”

"Bashan widow Qing!"

Rui'er was surprised, "Could this be the widow of the Ba family who has countless treasures and is in charge of the Ba family, the slave maid heard that she lost her husband just after she got married, and then supported the Ba family alone and guarded the virgin body for decades." And said with pity, "After decades of loneliness, cold tea and sleeping, a young woman was boiled into an old woman, and when she felt sorry for herself in the mirror, did she ever regret it?" Just to keep this unwarm family business, she is really amazing, and it is really not easy. ”

"yes."

Bai Tao stepped on the snow in front of him, crunching, "Brother said that it is extremely difficult to be a mortal. ”

The Warring States were turbulent, but also businessmen.

Ba Qing was able to rank among Fan Li, Zigong, Bai Gui, Yidun, Guo Zong, Wu Shilu, and the rich as a woman as a woman, which shows how bad the road she has come has been.

She has riches, but she is not arrogant.

Instead, he was in the Qin State, and in more than ten years, he sacrificed countless treasures and granaries, laying the cornerstone for the great cause of the Qin State.

She was even given the title of "virgin".

At this time, the white peach was appreciating the plum blossoms, and when the people below said the word "Zhen", their hearts chuckled.

Brother Zheng's mother, Aunt Zhao, is entangled with Lu Buwei and Chang Yu.

Coupled with the harm inflicted on him and the humiliation it brought him, he hated adulterous women so much.

The word "chastity" is also more adequate.

This is already an indelible scar in his heart, and it is also the source of his lack of kindness and distrust for his subordinates.

Just ask.

Even your biological mother wants to harm you, who else can you trust in the world?

The cold wind was howling in his ears, and Bai Tao stepped onto the stone steps.

However, governing the country pays attention to the unity of the monarch and the minister, and there is no doubt in employing people, and there is no need to use doubtful people. Don't be like Zheng Guo, imprisoned while letting him make good plans for his water conservancy.

How to untie Brother Zheng's heart knot?

Looking at the impenetrable wind and snow ahead, her apricot eyes were hazy and she felt deeply confused.

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