Chinese dining table

Chapter 494
Wu Mei's family has the most titles of all kinds of wives, including Mrs. Dai, Mrs. Han, and Mrs. Wei, who can be said to be honored for a while.

On the [-]th day of the first lunar month, when Jinchangfang stopped the lantern show performances, stopped various commercial transactions, and began to clean up the mess left by the lantern festival and chamber of commerce performances, Mrs. Dai's [-]th birthday came.

It is also very miraculous to say that Mrs. Yang of Daiguo married the warrior Xun at the age of 44. After getting married, she gave birth to three sisters of the Wu family.

Not to mention that such things are rare in Datang, even in the world before Yunchu was very rare.

Now that she is 80 years old, she can be called Renrui, and she is the queen's mother, so there are huge crowds of people who come to pay their respects.

He Lanminzhi also came with a Tubo girl, Dunzhu. The gift they brought was a pair of very beautiful light yellow agates, which seemed to be good things from Tubo.

Mrs. Yang also heard that He Lanminzhi had become better now, so she specially called He Lanminzhi and Miss Dunzhu over to talk.

He Lanminzhi's legs hadn't grown well yet, and the plaster cast on her legs hadn't been removed yet, so she was sent in by Miss Dunzhu in a wheelchair.

Seeing He Lan Minzhi sitting in a wheelchair, Yang began to cry for some reason. She also said that she had dreamed of He Lan Minzhi's father, He Lan Yueshi last night, and said that today's He Lan Minzhi and his father Helan Yueshi really looks more and more like him.

Hearing that her grandmother talked about her father, He Lan Minzhi couldn't help but burst into tears. The way the grandparents and grandchildren were hugging each other and crying made the people who stayed by the old lady's side couldn't help but also burst into tears.

After crying, Yang told He Lanminzhi repeatedly that he must change his mind and be a good person, so that he could be worthy of his second aunt's painstaking cultivation.

He Lanminzhi also held Yang's hand with red eyes and swore that he would not disappoint the expectations of the elders. Once the leg injury healed, he would take on the important task of revitalizing the Wu family.

With this revelation of true feelings, even his mother, Mrs. Korea, was sobbing that she could hardly stand still.

Yang's [-]th birthday was extremely warm and lively, and Wu Mei, who couldn't come, also sent palace flowers and a lot of silk to her mother.

When everyone thought that Zhou Guogong would really take on the important task of rejuvenating the family, the Yang family passed away quietly before dawn.

Zhou Guogong, who broke his leg, cried twice and fainted, wishing he could replace it with his body.

Miss Dunzhu was also crying miserably, but in her big black eyes, there was a trace of excitement, madness, and even satisfaction.

Because Yang was already 80 years old, no one felt that her death was inappropriate.

Seven days after the death, he was buried in Hongduyuan, Xianyang. The original lady of Daiguo, Mrs. Jin Rongguo, allowed the queen to go to sacrifice in person.

When Wu Mei came to Hongduyuan to worship her mother, she saw the lame He Lanminzhi living in a thatched hut to keep watch for her grandmother.

Because of not being allowed to shave during the vigil, a thick beard grew on He Lanminzhi's barren face, which seemed to have grown a lot overnight.

It was because of this that Wu Mei was willing to sit down and have a good talk with her nephew.

"You really fell in love with that Tubo woman, Dunzhu?" Wu Mei never believed that He Lanminzhi would really become a decent and good person.

He Lanmin shook his head and said: "I'm looking at the Xiangxiong tribe. If I regard Miss Dunzhu as the Xiangxiong tribe, I'm really in love with Miss Dunzhu."

Wu Mei sighed: "All your changes come from your ambition for power?"

He Lanmin nodded and said: "At a certain moment, I suddenly discovered the benefits of power, that is, I can do whatever I want."

Wu Mei looked at He Lan Minzhi in surprise, because Li Zhi said the same thing not long ago.

"Why don't you seek power in Datang?"

"I tried, but my second aunt took away every bit of my power with a wave of your hand, and I was always in danger of my life."

"What will you do when you arrive at the Shangshung Department?"

"All I can do is to help the Xiangzhung Division grow stronger."

"and then?"

"As long as the Zhangzhung tribe grows stronger, the Zhangzhung tribe will definitely not tolerate a young boy as their king."

"and then?"

"In the war between the Xiangxiong tribe and the Tubo Prime Minister, try to strengthen your own strength, and then use the power of the Tang Dynasty to pacify Tubo and become the real king of Tubo, a king who can truly dominate one side."

Wu Mei laughed loudly and said, "What next? Come down from the plateau and compete with me, Tang Dynasty?"

He Lanmin shook his head and said: "At this time, the Tang Dynasty is indestructible, I cannot shake it, whether it is Xue Rengui, Pei Xingjian, or Yunchu, I have no chance of winning against them.

So, my goal is mudra!I heard that the climate there is humid, which is good for farming, and that Nibera is westward, and there are countless countries that I can conquer.

At that time, I can really live according to my desire. "

Wu Mei laughed loudly and said, "So, your ultimate goal is still Datang, right?"

He Lanmin smiled and said: "As long as the second aunt is still the queen of the Tang Dynasty, my nephew will never step into the territory of the Tang Dynasty."

Wu Mei smiled and said, "How do you realize your ambition?"

He Lanminzhi knelt down on his knees, put his head on the ground and kowtowed to Wu Mei: "I have a second aunt who can do anything."

"How do you want me to help you?"

"I need a dowry that can be obtained, such as gunpowder."

Wu Mei smiled and said, "Do you know how to use it?"

He Lanminzhi said: "My nephew heard that the people in the gunpowder workshop are good at using gunpowder, so I ask my second aunt to order someone from the gunpowder workshop to be my gunpowder master."

Wu Mei frowned and said, "The gunpowder workshop is the most important weapon of the Tang Dynasty, how can you easily leak the gunpowder method to others?"

He Lanminzhi kowtowed again and said, "Please let the queen do it."

Wu Mei said: "Success or failure is up to Your Majesty."

After speaking, he went to visit his mother's tomb again, and then returned to Beijing with a large group of people.

Watching the queen go away, Dunzhu came to He Lanminzhi and said, "You said that if you kill your grandmother, your second aunt will meet you. Have you got her support?"

He Lanmin frowned and said: "She is not an ordinary woman, she is not so easy to be fooled, and we have nothing now, if we want her to express support for us now, we have to do more things."

Dunzhu laughed and said, "It's like suffocating your grandmother with a pillow? Such an interesting thing, do you want to continue?"

He Lanminzhi smiled and said: "My second aunt killed her two elder brothers and killed a group of relatives of the Wu family, but left behind a lot of descendants of the Wu family, who are going to be cultivated and used later.

If we kill a few more relatives of the Wu family whom the Empress values, maybe she will value me.

Dhondup, we still have a long way to go, you have to be prepared. "

Dunzhu nodded repeatedly and said: "I will help you kill people in Chang'an, and you will help me kill people when you arrive at Zhang Zhung, and finally kill them all. The two of us will become the most honorable king and queen on the plateau and under the snow-capped mountains!

Come on, who are we going to kill next? "

He Lanmin put his arms around Dunzhu's slender waist and smiled, "Of course my second aunt hates the person most, my mother!"

"Continue to suffocate her with a pillow? When your grandmother was smothered to death, she kicked her hands and feet for a long time before she died, causing quite a commotion.

Your mother is young, maybe she will be stronger. "

He Lanmin shook her head and said: "She is a stupid woman, she must die from her own stupidity."

Dunzhu wondered: "Can people be stupid?"

He Lanmin nodded and said, "Yes!"

After the end of the new year, the breath of spring is slowly approaching. Although the city of Chang'an is still cold and windy, the spores on the branches of the weeping willows beside the Baqiao have begun to slowly swell.

This kind of cold can't last long, so the people in the Wannian County Government Office have already started to get busy.

The most important thing is to cultivate cotton seedlings.

After several years of cotton planting, the agronomy doctors of Sinong Temple discovered that if the cotton seedlings are cultivated in advance and planted in the field after the weather is warm and the field heats up, it will not only help increase the production of cotton, but also advance the maturity of cotton period, so as to avoid the rainy autumn days.

At this time, the climate in Guanzhong is humid and mild. As long as a wooden house is built in a sunny place with peach blossom paper to insulate the cold, the cotton seeds can germinate in advance and grow leaves.

The income from growing cotton is almost three times that of growing food. Therefore, people in Wannian County today have no resistance to planting cotton, and begin to regard cotton planting as the most important thing in a year.

As in previous years, within half a month after the Chinese New Year, Wannian County will definitely mobilize a large amount of grain and distribute it as rations for the cotton-growing people.

The purpose of doing this is to prevent the common people from suffering disasters after the cotton is damaged.

I have to admit that the advantage of doing this is that the government can take away almost all the profits from growing cotton, and the common people can also get a year's rations in advance, and they can also get certain labor services in the process of planting cotton cost.

The common people keep their harvest in drought and flood, and while the government enjoys big profits, it also bears the big risks that arise in the process of planting cotton.

The source of food in Wannian County does not come from the southeast, nor is it high-priced food transported through the canal.

Part of it came from Qishan, Zhouzhi, and Shanyang counties, some of the major grain-producing counties in Guanzhong, and the rest came from Longyou Road.

Half of the grain in Wannian County was bought with money, and the other part came from exchanges, most of which were cotton cloth.

As a result, the price of grain in Wannian County is far cheaper than that in Chang'an County.

However, these cheap grains are limited to cotton farmers and women textile workers involved in the cotton textile industry. They can use the brand issued by the government to purchase a fixed amount of cheap grains at designated grain stores.

With this provision, the cotton planting and cotton weaving industry has become the most enviable business in Chang'an City.

And this year, Yunchu is going to make great efforts to bring the lives of the people in Wannian County to a new level, and make preparations in advance for taking Chang'an County.

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