"Envoy, born, born!"

With a cry in the house, coupled with the excited shouts of the midwife, Liu Jian, who was standing outside the door, breathed a sigh of relief.

To be honest, today's situation is really dangerous.

It has been more than two hours since childbirth, during which Wen Po and the maids were busy going in and out, and the basins of hot water were used for a while, and the blood cloth taken out of the house from time to time also made Liu Jian tremble.

In the political arena and on the battlefield, Liu Jian may be a handsome figure that is rare to see in ten years.

But outside the delivery room, he is just an ordinary man who is helpless and can only silently pray in his heart that his wife and children are safe.

The medical and health conditions of this era are very different from the era that Liu Jian traveled from.

Women who give birth to children in this era are like walking through the door of ghosts, and they are not considered to have given birth without losing half their lives.

Now, hearing that Zheng Ci finally gave birth to the child, the burden on Liu Jian's heart has finally fallen.

He hurriedly walked over to the stable woman and asked patiently, "How is my lady?" Are you okay? ”

Wen Po was a little confused by Liu Jian's attitude.

She has also worked in Yecheng for more than ten years, and there are very few people like Liu Jian.

Ordinary men, after seeing themselves, most of the first questions asked: "Men or women......"

Although she was surprised, Wen Po still replied with a smile: "Madam Antai, so that Junda can rest assured." ”

"Good, very good, come on, reward!"

"Thank you, thank you for the reward!"

"May I go in and see my lady now?"

"Yes, yes!" Wen Po nodded busily.

Liu Jian hurriedly entered the house.

Zheng Ci was lying on the bed weakly at the moment, and when he saw Liu Jian coming in, his eyes were red, as if he was about to cry.

"Husband......

Liu Jian was taken aback when he saw this.

"How can you cry?"

Zheng Ci said in a low voice: "The concubine is incompetent...... gave birth to a girl......"

When Liu Jian heard this, he didn't react at first.

Soon, I saw him smile.

"Madam, don't we already have one, son? Besides, if you still want a son and can have it in the future, why care about this child? ”

"Besides, what's wrong with my daughter? I like daughters, and women are more intimate to their parents than boys. ”

After that, Liu Jian turned his head to the maidservant and said, "Bring the child!" ”

The maid hurriedly hugged Liu Jian's daughter in front of him and Zheng Ci.

The little girl had just been born, she was thin and small, her eyes couldn't be opened, her facial features were almost screwed together, and she couldn't see whether she was beautiful or ugly, and she couldn't see who she looked like.

In this era, the variety of things that pregnant women can eat is limited, and the nutrition supplement is not so comprehensive, coupled with the relationship of evolution, the babies of this era are very different from later generations.

Being able to give birth to a child of five or six pounds is considered to be heavier and healthier.

It's like a baby in the future, just out of the vivid and immovable nine pounds and ten pounds, white and chubby very cute.

Liu Jian smiled: "Oh, if you are still so ugly when you grow up, you won't be able to marry in the future." ”

Although Zheng Ci was weak, after listening to Liu Jian's words, he still laughed and hated him.

"My husband is old, why is he so not righteous, why can't he be a good example for the children."

Listening to Zheng Ci's words, Liu Jian felt a little melancholy.

I'm only twenty-five years old, okay? How did it become Xu Da Lao?

At this time, I saw the child in Liu Jian's hand, and unconsciously reached out to clasp one of Liu Jian's big hands in a drowsy sleep.

The moment the child's little hand and his father's fingers touched, it seemed to touch something, which made Liu Jian's thoughts become a little fluctuating in an instant.

I don't know why, in contact with his son, Liu Jian never seemed to feel this way.

For a father, having a daughter and having a son are two completely different experiences.

Boys need exercise, girls need protection.

Seeing Liu Jian's distraction, as if he didn't belong to his thoughts, Zheng Ci couldn't help but wonder: "Husband, what's wrong with you?" ”

Liu Jian's thoughts flew wildly, and he said, "It's called Kou'er...... The name of the milk is buckle. ”

"Huh?"

When Zheng Ci heard this, he was a little uncalm at that time.

"Good and decent, a girl, how can you call such a milk name?"

Liu Jian smiled and said: "Look at this child, as soon as you see me, I clasped my fingers, it is really a father-daughter connection, it is just right to call Buckle." ”

Zheng Ci didn't want to agree, but looking at Liu Jian's happy face, he also knew that he couldn't resist it, and it didn't hurt to say that he was just a boudoir name.

However, Zheng Ci hoped that Liu Jian would listen to his advice and name the child Liu Li.

Liu Jian thought it sounded good, so he agreed.

As a result, Liu Li became Liu Jian's first daughter.

With the birth of the first daughter, the Liu family is happy, but this does not mean that Liu Jian's affairs at home are over, because Bian Yuer is also close to giving birth.

One child has been born, and a second child is about to be born.

Bian Yuer is also his woman, although she is a concubine, but since she has the opportunity, Liu Jian still has to do her husband's duty to her and her children.

It's really not enough for Liu Jian to be busy.

And during this period, the situation in the north also continued to come to Liu Jianzhi's place.

Xun Yu has successfully assumed the post of Taishou of Youbeiping, and at the same time he began to coordinate the government resources of Youbeiping, and in the name of the government, began to coordinate the mining and graphite mining in Wuzhong County.

The Hebei Commerce and Trade Association began to work hard to implement mining in Youzhou.

Youzhou is now in a state of war, and all the Taishou are recruiting troops and horses, uniting major families to compete with the Zhang family, but Xun Yu is not taking the usual path, and wants to develop iron ore and graphite at this juncture.

Isn't this pure sickness?!

But as a result, when the content of endless iron ore and graphite, as well as the gossip about the industrial chain that this huge iron mine can drive, all Youzhou people were dumbfounded.

The exact number is difficult to estimate, but it is said that ...... The amount of its reserves and the output after vigorous mining - enough to support the Han Dynasty for half the day!

What a huge stake will be behind this?

But it's a pity that the pastoral office headed by Liu Jian started too quickly.

This mining right, which contains huge benefits, has now been completely owned by the Han State, both in name and in fact.

When the Han Dynasty was founded, although there were some omissions in land policy, the protection of non-cultivated land resources such as mountains, rivers and lakes was still in place.

Except for the land that could be cultivated, which could be traded privately, all the rest of the natural resources in the Han territory belonged to the Han government.

At this point, Liu Jian is still very grateful to his Liu ancestors.

Without this rule as the basis for a hundred years, some things would be really troublesome to deal with.

The development of Youbeiping Mining has made many Youzhou families see a huge chain of interests, and at the same time, the prescient families have gradually understood that industries that can break the original interest pattern of Youzhou have emerged.

However, to the surprise of all the Youzhou clans, Xun Yu actually used the sword to take the wrong way after getting the baton of interests.

Although graphite mining is led by the government and built by the Hebei Commercial Association, the downstream industry still needs many people to undertake.

To put it bluntly, the state provides raw materials and leads industrial processing, but the downstream still needs all kinds of private companies to derive industry terminals and put them into the market according to raw materials, which can achieve a hundred schools of thought, and at the same time revitalize all walks of life, promote the expansion of consumption in the industrial chain, and decentralize the income generated by this pool to the people, forming a virtuous circle.

Of course, in this era, there is no so-called company in later generations, and the capital in this era is the family.

According to the original habits of the Eastern Han Dynasty government, with good projects and good resources, it is natural to cooperate with the big family.

After all, the big family has enough manpower and resources, and the family occupies many important positions in the officialdom.

But this time, Xun Yu didn't make a deal with those big families.

Most of the downstream industries were handed over to the local Hanmen family in Youzhou to manage.

In later generations, this is called "focusing on supporting the rapid growth of small and medium-sized enterprises".

It is really a good policy.

Although it will block the production speed for a while, it can produce good social benefits in the long run.

For the Jizhou government, it is naturally a good thing for a country to be able to make the development of various private industries develop in a balanced manner and have a certain competitiveness with each other.

But for some people who habitually feel that they belong to the "priority" class, this is naturally not a good thing.

In particular, some of the wealthy right classes that have been attached to Zhang Ju and Zhang Chun have rebelled.

These people felt that Zhang Ju and Zhang Chun should send troops to attack Youbeiping again at this time, especially the mines in Wuzhong County, and they should all be taken down and controlled in their own hands.

Zhang Ju and Zhang Chun are not stupid, they can see that the reason why Xun Yu wants to focus on the development of endless mining at this juncture is to disrupt the pattern of Youzhou and create a new political and interest environment.

Because Xun Yu is an outsider after all, no matter how capable he is, his control over Youzhou and his understanding of the interests of various families in Youzhou are far inferior to the Yuyang Zhang clan that has been operating here for several generations.

Therefore, Xun Yu has to use this method to draw salary from the bottom of the kettle, directly control the largest interest chain, and squeeze the Zhang family from the top of the Youzhou interest chain.

Since he saw through the other party's methods, of course the Zhang family couldn't stand by and watch the opponent sit big.

So, Zhang Ju and Zhang Chun began to secretly gather troops and horses, preparing to storm Wuzhong County, and take the mining area to control the initiative.

According to Zhang Ju and Zhang Chun's design, although Huang Zhong could assist Xun Yu, the Yuyang Zhang family did not know much about Huang Zhong before, so Qiu Liju suffered a big loss in the hands of Huang Zhong.

But this time, they won't make the same mistake again.

(End of chapter)