"Biography."

The emperor had just come back from the morning court, and he didn't expect Yu Zheng to come over, but it happened that he was fine at this time, and it didn't hurt to see him.

Emperor Anqing will rest for half an hour every time he finishes the morning court, and then begin to review the day's recitals, which is not unknown to the people in the palace, but this will come to ask for a meeting, whether Emperor Anqing will see it or not, it depends on how he feels today.

But Yu Zheng has to see Emperor Anqing today.

"Lord Yu, please."

"Thank you, Grandpa Mao."

Yu Zheng said that he handed over a purse and stepped forward while no one was paying attention, and Grandpa Mao naturally put it into the cuffs.

"Lord Yu is polite."

Yu Zheng followed Gonggong Mao into the imperial study, bowing his head the whole time.

"See the emperor."

"Get up."

"Your Majesty."

"Tell me, what do you want to see me?"

"Back to the emperor, Weichen came here today because he wanted to show the emperor something, but before that, the minister wanted to ask the emperor to see a knife, and this knife is now in the minister's attendant."

"Bold!"

Gonggong Mao, who was standing behind the emperor, shouted loudly after listening to Yu Zheng's words.

"It's okay, that's right."

The emperor was interested in this year's new champion, and Gonggong Mao knew it, but he didn't expect that the emperor would agree to Yu Zhuangyuan's request, but this is not a good rule. But at this time, Gonggong Mao didn't dare to say much and withdrew from the imperial study.

"Mr. Mao."

The little eunuch who was waiting at the door of the imperial study, as soon as he saw Father-in-law Mao coming out, he knew that something was wrong, and immediately stepped forward to salute.

"You go to the palace gate to find the attendant of Lord Yu's family, take a knife from him, and the emperor will wait here."

"Yes, slave and maid will go."

The little eunuch didn't dare to let the emperor wait for a long time, he used to run back and forth, and soon took the wooden box containing the knife.

Father-in-law Mao has been standing at the door of the imperial study and waiting, and when he saw that the little eunuch had brought a knife, according to the rules, Father-in-law Mao had to check it first.

When the sun just came out when the wooden box was opened, the sun shone on the knife, Mao Gonggong's eyes were shaken, and he couldn't help but secretly praise a good knife, he has been with the emperor all the year round, and naturally he has seen a lot of good things. After checking the wooden box to make sure that there was no mechanism, Grandpa Mao took the wooden box into the imperial study.

Gonggong Mao walked to the emperor's dragon case, put the wooden box on the table and opened it, Emperor Anqing looked at the knife in the wooden box and felt that the knife was okay, but the knife maker was a little rougher.

"Your Majesty, what the minister wants to say is related to this knife, not long ago, the minister's last wife accompanied his eldest brother to Kyoto, she didn't like to live in the city, so she went to Jinjia Village outside the city to buy some fields, and accidentally found that the material smelted out of the stone in the field is more similar to iron, she had a whim, I want to see if this thing can make a knife, and then I can't interview it, but the minister's fiancée still doesn't give up, and fuses it with iron to fight, and then finds that the knife is beaten, The quality of the knife is much better than that of the past, and the knife in front of the emperor is made of stone iron and pig iron fused together. ”

The emperor touched the knife in his hand and was amazed that someone would come up with such a method.

"Mao Zhe, you call two people to come in and try it."

"Yes, Your Majesty."

Soon Gonggong Mao called in two brocade guards, brocade guards are the only people in the palace who can walk with knives, and the two brocade guards were called to the imperial study by surprise, and they were a little panicked.

"See the Emperor."

"Get up."

Father-in-law Mao held the knife in front of one person.

"You two try this knife."

The two of them were relieved, one of them picked up the knife handed by Father-in-law Mao, one pulled out the knife on his waist, the two of them swung the knife at the same time to slash at each other's knife, the place where the knife peak touched sparked, and after the spark, the Jinyiwei holding the knife, the knife in his hand has been cut into half an inch, and then look at the knife handed over by Father-in-law Mao just now, although it looks rough, but the knife is unscathed, the two secretly praised in their hearts, good knife.

"Go down, all of you."

The two brocade guards saluted and retreated.

"Aiqing, do you know how many of these stones are?"

"Back to the emperor, the minister sent someone to check yesterday, and there is only Jinjia Village near Kyoto City, as for other places in Dazhou, the minister doesn't know."

"I don't know what rewards Yu Aiqing and your fiancée want?"

The joy in the emperor's tone can be heard by everyone, and he is not in a good mood now.

"Back to the emperor, this is what the minister should do, the minister just told the emperor what the minister's fiancée found, and there is no credit. As for the minister's fiancée, the minister asked her yesterday, she said that she had no requirements, she bought more than 300 acres of land in Jinjia Village, more than 700 acres of land, and only hoped that when the emperor sent someone to buy stones, the price would be slightly raised, so that she could earn more silver. ”

This amused the emperor, and for the first time he heard that his fiancée liked silver, the girl was really interesting, and she didn't want to reward it, but only made such a request.

"When did Aiqing have a fiancée, why didn't I know?"

"Your Majesty, Lord Yu said during the Qionglin banquet that he has a fiancée in the countryside."

As soon as Gonggong Mao said this, the emperor also remembered that Yu Zheng had indeed said it.

"Didn't you hear you say that they were in their hometown, why did they come to Kyoto?"

"Back to the emperor, this matter has to blame the minister, the minister has some friendship with the Liu sacrificial wine of the national prince, the brother of the minister's fiancée, who was admitted to Xiucai this year, the minister begged the lord of the sacrificial wine, and added his name to the admission quota in Xingyang Mansion."

This kind of thing is not uncommon in Kyoto, and the emperor doesn't care.

The emperor chatted with Yu Zheng for a few more words and asked people to retreat, but soon the imperial study passed the book of the military department.

After staying in the imperial study for half an hour, the military department Shangshu hurried out of the palace and transferred two battalions of men to Jinjia Village.

The imperial palace, especially the emperor's imperial study, is a place of special attention to the ministers and harem concubines, and the courtiers saw that the emperor was so abnormal, which naturally attracted the attention of the ministers, but no matter how much they inquired, they couldn't find out what the two people inside said, but they heard that the emperor met this year's new champion Yu Zheng before seeing the military department.

The villagers of Jinjia Village were all frightened, and some villagers who planned to leave tomorrow regretted it in their hearts, knowing that they would leave this morning, but it was too late to say anything now.

Su Yu's newly bought subordinates were even more panicked, they had just experienced the raid, but they didn't expect to encounter this again.

Soon, the village chief of Jinjia Village was brought to the head of the military department.

Village Chief Jin looked at the second-grade court clothes on the adult in front of him, and knelt directly on the ground with weak legs.

"Grass people, meet your lords."

"Get up."

"Thank you, sir."

"You count the people in your village who now have land and land, how many acres of land there are, and report to me after you are done, and the rest of the people in the village stay at home, and they are not allowed to leave the house if they have nothing to do."

"Yes, the grass people will go."

Seeing the village chief of Jinjia Village, the military department Shangshu looked at a large area of farmland in front of him, most of which were white flowers and stones, as for the low yield of millet in the field, it was basically negligible, but thinking of the emperor's frugal style, he originally wanted to directly ignore the grain of the military department, and immediately asked people to collect the grain in the field.

(End of chapter)