A trip starting from the courtyard

Chapter 676

Early the next morning, when the family was eating breakfast, Princess Pingning noticed something was wrong. The daughter-in-law was a little too quiet, and she always lowered her head, motioning for Rulan to raise her head. She said in surprise, "Rulan, why is your mouth so swollen?" gone?"

Ru Lan felt that her face was burning badly, and she secretly glared at Wang Lidong. It was all caused by this bad guy, and puffed her cheeks and said, "I was hungry last night, so I ate some small dried fish, and I was accidentally caught by a shark's fin." scratched"

Qi's father asked concerned, "Why don't you ask Mr. Guo to take a look?"

Ru Lan hurriedly waved her hands vigorously, even saying no, she quietly kicked Wang Lidong, who was eating noodles with the old god, and signaled to help quickly, never invite a doctor, in case something happened.
Wang Lidong swallowed the noodles in his mouth, raised his head and said, "Father, don't worry, I've checked it just now, it's nothing serious. It will be fine in two days."

Seeing that his son had said so, Qi's father didn't insist.Seeing that the eight-treasure porridge in his wife's bowl had run out, he hurriedly asked, "Do you want another bowl?"

Princess Pingning nodded and signaled for another half bowl.

After Qi's father gave orders to the boy, he suddenly thought of something, turned to Ru Lan and said, "Your mother is not in a good condition right now, and you won't have to take etiquette classes from today on."

Rulan glanced at her mother-in-law sitting across from her, suppressed her joy, and nodded to express that her mother's body is the most important thing at the moment. She got up and took a bag of glutinous rice chicken and handed it to Qi's mother, "Mom, eat a glutinous rice chicken, it's delicious. Waxy."

"Well, let's leave it alone." Princess Pingning said, "I heard from Heng'er that you have been with Sister Wang since you were a child, and you have learned how to be a housekeeper?"

Ru Lan nodded, "From the age of ten, my mother began to teach me how to be a housekeeper. In the past few years, I have often helped my mother to check the accounts. I also manage the accounts of the pastry shop in 'Xinghua Village' by myself."

For these two skills, she felt that she could handle them well, so she admitted them generously.

Seeing this, Princess Pingning ordered Ru Lan to go to the study with her after breakfast and help her.

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Just out of the wolf's den and planted in the tiger's den.

Ru Lan secretly complained, don't want to regret it.

Wang Lidong couldn't help laughing.

Don't worry, be silly now!

Seeing that her officials not only didn't help, but also gloated, Ru Lan almost exploded...

Princess Pingning said lightly, "Why, you don't want to?"

Ru Lan hurriedly waved her hands, squeezed out a smile and said, "No, no, I'm afraid that if I don't do well, I will make my mother angry."

Princess Pingning said, "As long as you do things with your heart, it doesn't matter if you make a mistake. Just change it! Do you think I'm a person who doesn't know right from wrong?"

Ru Lan waved her hands in fright, "Mother, I didn't mean that, I was afraid."

Princess Pingning interrupted, "Okay, I know what you mean. Have you eaten?"

So fierce!

Ru Lan felt only sixty percent full at this time, but her head still nodded uncontrollably.

Seeing that the daughter-in-law was about to get up, Qi's father hurriedly put down the chopsticks in his hand, carefully supported her, and whispered, "Slow down, be careful."

Ru Lan immediately got up and stepped forward, holding her mother-in-law's hand like a dog's leg, and walked slowly towards the study.
Entering the study room, Ru Lan saw that there was an extra size small golden nanmu desk in the study room, which was placed on the right side of the original desk.

Princess Pingning sat down and told Rulan that the nanmu desk next to her was where she would work in the future.

Ru Lan said obediently, "Yes, mother."

Princess Pingning pointed to the stacks of account books on Rulan's desk and said, "These are the account books of all the farms in the mansion. You should check all the accounts for this year, and get familiar with the properties in the mansion by the way."

Seeing that each stack was more than one foot high, after a rough count, there were at least 20 account books, Ru Lan stared round her eyes and said, "Mom, how many Zhuangzi does our family have?"

Princess Pingning said indifferently, "156 Zhuangzi."

Rulan was speechless, there were so many, even if they were all small villages of five or six hundred mu, they would still have ten thousand mu of land.Because of the appearance of cotton cloth, an acre of good fertile land near the capital can now be sold for twelve guan.
Seeing Rulan standing there stupidly, Princess Pingning frowned slightly and said, "What are you thinking about?"

Ru Lan hurriedly said that she didn't expect that there were so many Zhuangzi in the family, so she sat down on the chair in front of the desk, picked up an account book, the cover was printed with 'No. [-]——Wangjiazhuang', opened the cover, and registered A row of information, the address of the farm, the size of the farm, the number of paddy fields, irrigated fields, dry fields, and forests, the total number of Zhuangzi, the number of tenant farmers, the name of the Zhuangzi, and so on.

Turn it over again, and there are more than a dozen groups of numbers neatly arranged, which are the total grain output of the farm every year, and the average yield per mu.

Looking at last year's average yield per mu, 615 catties exceeded 6 shi. Ru Lan was extremely surprised.

She remembered that the two Zhuangzi under her name were only a little more than 2 stones when the weather was good, but in the past two years, there was either a severe drought or a severe flood, and the annual income was only more than one stone. After a while, after winter, she will buy some grain and send it to the village to help some poor tenants, so as not to cause starvation to death.

Thinking that she might have made a mistake, she looked through previous years and found that the yield per mu was more than 2 shi six years ago, and the output has increased every year in the past few years.

Glancing at her mother-in-law, who was talking to Mother Lu, Ru Lan continued to look through the ledger
After more than an hour, she put down the ledger and finally finished reading it. She rubbed the corners of her sore eyes and saw the hundreds of ledgers piled up on her left.

Princess Pingning asked aloud, "Have you finished reading?"

Ru Lan hurriedly nodded her head, "It's over."

Princess Pingning said, "Is there something wrong?"

Rulan took the account book and came to her mother-in-law, pointing out the mistakes she found one by one, "Mother, there is a mistake here, it should be 65 shi. The number of chickens and ducks is wrong, 16 chickens are missing, 26 less ducks."

Princess Pingning said, "That's all?"

Ru Lan hesitated for a moment, pointed to a reduction and exemption item and said, "Mom, the Yellow River burst its embankment twice this year, and the two villages under my name were also affected. But those two villages are only five miles away from the Yellow River, but This Wangjiazhuang is 2 miles away from the Yellow River.

I heard from Zhuangzi's steward that many Zhuangzi were affected by the disaster, but they were all near the Yellow River."

Ru Lan's performance made Princess Pingning's eyes shine.

After getting along for half a month, her daughter-in-law really can't do anything. She eats No. 1, but she didn't expect that she is a good at managing accounts.

"What does Ru'er mean, that the banker has tampered with his accounts?"

Rulan nodded slightly.

Princess Pingning said, "Since you found out about this matter, you have full authority to deal with it."

Ru Lan pointed at herself in surprise and said, "Mother, you mean let me come?"

Princess Pingning hummed lightly.

Ru Lan was eager to try, but she had never managed a house before, so she was not sure, so she whispered, "I will try this mother, if you don't do well, don't be angry."

When Wang Lidong came home, he saw Ru Lan, Big Magpie, Little Magpie, Little Dujuan, and Little Thrush gathered at the tea table, having a round table meeting. They were all so absorbed in themselves that they didn't even notice that he entered the room. I went closer and listened to it. It turned out that they were discussing how to find out a farm rat.

The little magpie suddenly felt that there was an extra person beside him, turned his head to look, hurriedly got up and said to Wanfu, "My lord."

Wang Lidong nodded with a smile.

When Ru Lan saw Wang Lidong came back, she hurriedly greeted the big magpie to serve tea, then dragged him to talk about the Wangjiazhuang, and then explained the plan discussed by several people, "Officer, what do you think?" Sample?"

Wang Lidong nodded and said, "Yes, very good."

Ru Lan's plan is to send people to Zhuangzi to find out the news first, and if it is true, the Zhuangtou will be arrested.It's quite satisfactory, as long as the people sent don't break down, sooner or later they will be able to find out.

Ru Lan got the recognition, and she was full of fighting spirit immediately, and quickly ordered the big magpie to arrange people to go to Wangjiazhuang to collect information.

"Officer, why is your Zhuangzi's harvest so high?"

Wang Lidong said to Chunlan who was on the side, "Give the agricultural book to the lady."

Chunlan took the order, and handed the book to Rulan in a short while, "Lady, agricultural book."

Ru Lan took it. On the cover, there were four large characters 'Sihai Agricultural Book', and a row of small characters printed below the words. The author was from the Agricultural Science Class of the Four Seas Private School.

I flipped through it roughly, and it was all about teaching people how to farm.Although I know every word, Ru Lan has never planted land or done farm work in her life, so she doesn't know if what is said in it is correct, but she always feels very powerful, "Officer, if my family also follows this With the method in this book, can the harvest be five or six stones?"

Wang Lidong said, "It should be the same."

Ru Lan said in surprise, "If it is handed over to the imperial court and let the imperial court promote it, then the whole world will not be hungry."

Wang Lidong smiled, "The imperial court will start promoting it early next year. However, it will take a few years before all the farmers in the world plant according to the method in the book."

Ru Lan was surprised, "Such a good method, why don't farmers learn it?"

Wang Lidong said, "Most of the literate people don't farm the land, and most of the farmers can't read and write. Moreover, many farmers have no idea about the new farming method. If the grain harvest fails, people will starve to death." .Only seeing is believing, everyone will be at ease."

Ru Lan has decided that next year her two villages will be planted according to the book, "By the way, there are people from the family just now, and the matter of Sixth Sister and Big Brother Qi has been settled."

Wang Lidong said, "Xiao Liu agreed?"

Ru Land said, "I agree."

Wang Lidong said, "Then elder brother has got his wish."

Ru Lan gossips, "Officer, listen to what Eldest Brother means, he doesn't like the eldest wife that Eldest Aunt appointed for him very much, do you think Eldest Brother will be like my father in the future?"

Wang Lidong thought for a while and then said, "Probably not. Even if the eldest brother wants to do this, the aunt will not stand by. The unmarried sister-in-law is the niece of the aunt. If Xiaoliu dares to act like a demon, my aunt will definitely not will be soft"

At the end of November, the top ten shareholders of Song Royal Bank came to the Wende Hall of the Imperial Palace early in the morning. Cheng Guogong said in a loud voice, "Yuan Ruo, it's not yet the beginning of the month. What's the matter with calling everyone here today?"

Wang Lidong smiled and said, "I have a few things to discuss with you. The first thing is that the reorganization of the Imperial Army and the Xiang Army on Jingji Road has been completed." Then he asked Fugui to send the report of the reorganization of the Imperial Army to everyone one serving.

Everyone took the report and read it carefully.

In the entire Gyeonggi Road, the forbidden army plus the number of the Xiang army on the books, the forbidden army is 29, and the Xiang army is 33.After the reorganization, there were a total of 21 qualified soldiers, of which 41 of the remaining 35 were transferred to construction soldiers, and the remaining 6 chose to receive retirement pay. A total of 489 million guan was spent, and the average retirement payment for each veteran was 81 guan.

Duke Ling said with a little distress, "Is this retirement pay too much?"

Cheng Guogong glared at this guy and said, "If you don't give more, you think these people will be so honest, and the sky will be turned upside down."

Ling Guo is fair, "If you dare to make trouble, then you will be arrested directly and sent to the mine!"

Cheng Guogong slapped the table and cursed, "You old man! If you really want to do this, believe it or not, you will be shot in the face when you go out."

Seeing that the two were getting louder and louder, Princess Fukang hurriedly stopped her, and said to Wang Lidong, "Yuan Ruo, which channels are you planning to reorganize next?"

Wang Lidong got up and walked to the map of the Song Dynasty, took a thin wooden stick, and pointed at the three roads around Xixia, "Qinxi, Lizhou, and Rongcheng three roads."

Cheng Guogong said, "Yuan Ruo, are you going to fight Xixia?"

Wang Lidong nodded and said, "That's right. After reorganizing the imperial army on the west road, I'm going to destroy Xixia!"

Duke Cheng was overjoyed, slapped his thigh and said, "Let me go for this reorganization?"

Fu Guogong said, "You kid has never been to the west to lead soldiers, and you are not familiar with the situation there. Even if you go there, your eyes will be smeared. With your bad temper, you will definitely make a fuss. Or else I'll go. I've been there for eight years, and I've dealt with the Western Army."

Cheng Guogong sneered, "In the past, I wouldn't dare to go there, but now we have musketeers in our hands, if they play tricks."

Seeing that the two were about to quarrel again, Wang Lidong decided, "This time, I will work hard to assist Duke Guo and Duke Cheng. You two should be in front of each other, and you will bring three regiments of guards with you when you go."

The Northwest Forbidden Army has maintained a strong combat effectiveness for a long time because of its strong folk customs in Shaanxi and its long-term war against Xia. However, the military discipline of the Western Army is poor.Moreover, the generals of the Western Army are generally inherited from generation to generation, and several relatively powerful local warlords have formed, such as the Fuzhou Zhejia Army, Linzhou Yang Family General, Qingjian City Zhongjia Army, etc. who often appear on modern TV. In the past, the golden rice bowls of these vested interests were knocked out. If the two of them were allowed to go there naked, it would not take long before they would have to arrange funerals for them.

Fu Guogong heard that there were [-] musketeers in the formation, and he was determined, and he made a promise that the entire Western Army would be fully reorganized within three months.

Princess Fukang said, "Then how much will it cost in total to reorganize the Western Army and send troops to Xixia?"

Wang Lidong said, "There are 43 troops on the roster of the Imperial Army and the Xiang Army in the third route. There are wars with Xixia all the year round, so the number of people who are paid is estimated to be around 15%. Those who can pass the assessment must be higher than those in the capital. , It is estimated that there will be about [-] people.

There are 17 pieces of equipment for a musketeer, including steel helmets, battle robes, boots, 5 grenades, and 1 98K rifle, totaling 560 pieces.

The equipment needed by 15 people will cost a total of 8400 million guns! "

"Cough, cough, cough!" Princess Fukang was drinking tea, and choked when she heard such an astonishing number, and the son-in-law quickly reached out to help his daughter-in-law!
Ling Guogong said, "This is only the equipment of the soldiers. If you add the reconstruction of the barracks, the rations of the soldiers and horses, etc., the cost should not be less than 15 million guan."

Wang Lidong nodded.

Princess Fukang said with a bitter face, "The court doesn't have that much money, so is it necessary to borrow money from the royal bank?"

The old emperor's funeral was very beautiful, and the reputation of the new emperor's filial piety spread throughout the world, and the common people praised him.Now if a public opinion survey is conducted, the support rate of the people in Bianliang City for Princess Fukang is at least [-]%.

Such a good effect cannot be achieved in a few days by the tabloids, it is all made by tens of millions of copper coins.

The rewards for veterans, sergeants and millions of Bianliang people alone cost 4000 million yuan. The treasury has long been wiped out in order to build the imperial mausoleum for the old emperor. Princess Fukang’s private money is also all After subsidizing it, there was still a shortage of 3000 million guan. In the end, I had to borrow a large sum from the Royal Bank, which was not repaid. If I borrow again now, when will I be able to repay it.
Lord Lian frowned and said, "Most places in Xixia are yellow sand, and only a few salt fields are worth a little money. This battle is a bit too expensive. Why don't we wait until the court has money?" "

Make the country fair, "This is not counting the soldiers' salaries and expenses, at least four to five million guan."

After all the calculations, the atmosphere in the hall suddenly became dull.

Wang Lidong picked up the teacup and drank two sips of tea, then said loudly, "I sent troops to capture Annan a while ago, everyone knows, right?"

The crowd nodded.

Wang Lidong said, "Do you think I have won or lost this battle?"

Everyone thought about the place in Annan, the backcountry was still full of miasma, they couldn't figure out what Wang Lidong was doing to occupy that place.

Cheng Guogong asked curiously, "Where the birds don't shit, Yuan Ruo, are you still making money?"

"That's right, I don't earn much." Wang Lidong stretched out his palm and pointed three fingers up, "This time we sent troops to Annan, we only occupied the Thanglong Mansion in the Gyeonggi area, and we earned this amount!"

(End of this chapter)