This is not the Datang I am familiar with

At this time in Chang'an, those palaces were all members of the Li clan. Among the officials, the faction of the Li clan was the most powerful.

Let Zheng Meiren become Zheng Jieyu, but to show her favor to the Zheng family in Xingyang. As a traditional family of five surnames and seven wangs, there is no family that is not powerful.Operating for hundreds of years, the power of these families, even the royal family, is deeply afraid.

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Calculated at this time, Wu Meiniang has successively shown favor to the Taiyuan Wang family, Fanyang Lu family, and Xingyang Zheng family.

This is completely different from Wu Meiniang's previous practice of suppressing the Five Surnames and Qiwang Family.

Chen Fang guessed that Wu Meiniang saw that suppressing the family of the five surnames had no results, and at this time, when His Majesty ignored the state affairs and the prince was in charge, she would win over the family of the five surnames and let the forces of the five surnames support the prince.

Among them, the calculation is only vividly expressed from a small promotion in the palace.

There is no trivial matter in the harem, if there is any movement, it will cause many people to speculate, and the promotion of the two concubines in the harem today is enough to make the government and the public tremble a little.

Being a concubine in the harem is not a matter of one person. Which concubine in the harem does not have a deep family power behind her, even those who have no foundation in the first place, I am afraid that there will be far-fetched attachments.

In fact, many people can clearly see the two outpourings of affection towards the Li family in Longxi and the Zheng family in Xingyang.But this is paving the way for the prince, most people are sure.

The change in Wu Meiniang's attitude towards the Wuxing family may be because she has realized that suppressing the Wuxing family is not something that can be accomplished in a short period of time, but winning over the Wuxing family can allow Li Hong to make many good achievements in the early days of his administration.

The other thing is about the queen's southern tour after the beginning of spring.

The Queen's tour of the south after the beginning of spring was told by the crown prince to the officials in the court hall. Obviously this was Wu Meiniang's intention.

The prince only said that the Queen of Spring would go to the southern states to relax, and asked the officials in charge of the court to notify the officials of the southern states to make arrangements.

It was just that, without mentioning any details. When an official asked, the prince only said that this was the intention of the empress, and did not say much.

After the beginning of spring, the empress will go to the south of the Yangtze River. This is already a settled matter. The reason why it was decided so early is that the southern states have to prepare for the reception, and the news must first reach the southern states.

It is natural to inform along the way that the guards of the officers and soldiers and the arrangement of boats must be arranged in advance.

These are the two things that happened on the second day of November. The first one seems ordinary but not ordinary, and the second one just sets a framework without any details.

The queen is going to the south, when, with whom, and what to do, everyone can only guess from each other.

At this time in Tang Gongfang, Wu Meiniang pulled Li Hong, and Li Hong asked a few words, but Wu Meiniang only told Li Hong that her mother had not made up her mind.

In the end, Li Hong didn't ask anything, and went back to his yard.

At this moment, Chen Fang was fishing leisurely in the lotus pond, but in fact, it took half a day, but not a single small fish took the bait.

Hearing footsteps behind him, Chen Fang looked back and saw Wu Meiniang walking towards him.

"Did you catch any fish for dinner?"

Chen Fang shook his head.

"In the spring of next year, you will also accompany me to the south of the Yangtze River!"

"Well, the minister knows!"

In fact, when Chen Fang got the news, he knew that he was definitely going, and Wu Meiniang couldn't do without him more or less at this time.

"How about the Dunhuang branch?"

"Meng Fei has already arrived in Dunhuang. At this time, a workshop is being built there. With Meng Fei's ability and means, there will not be many difficulties."

"Well, I am also relieved of her. When you go to the southern states this time, you also choose a place to build the Jiangnan branch. After all, Jiangnan is much farther away from Chang'an. It will consume too much to transport the materials here."

"Well, I also have the idea of ​​building a branch in the south of the Yangtze River, but I didn't expect the empress to mention it first."

"Have you ever wondered where the Jiangnan Branch will be built?"

"Shangyuan County!"

"Health City is also a good choice."

"I thought my empress would disagree."

"Why?"

"After all, it was the ancient capital of the Six Dynasties, and the hearts of many southerners are there."

"Because of this, it is also a good place."

Wu Meiniang was sitting next to Chen Fang. At this time, a pond fish happened to be biting the hook. When Chen Fang mentioned it, a fresh pond fish was wagging its tail in the afternoon winter sun, throwing countless fine water droplets, which was thrown to the shore by Chen Fang. .

"Catch it, you can eat fish at night."

"Your Majesty, the eldest princess' belly is getting bigger and bigger"

"I know, just take An'er with me when the time comes."

"Thank you, Ma'am, for your understanding!"

"Well, you will also go to see Concubine Shu when the time comes. After all, you have married Concubine Shu's two daughters, but you have never seen her mother-in-law."

"Actually, I saw it once, in the East Palace."

"This kid, Hong'er, is just a little too kind."

"Your Majesty, wouldn't this be better, the prince is benevolent, and the world will return to his heart."

"Your mouth!"

Wu Meiniang was obviously in a good mood today, she sat with Chen Fang for a long time, during which time she wondered if her mind was not on fishing at all.Chen Fang caught more than a dozen fresh fish one after another. At this time, the wooden barrels he brought were all full, and he returned with a full load.

As the sun sets, the workshop workers in the workshop have already come off work. In the current Tang Workshop, after the workshop workers get off work, it is not like before that everyone rushes to the cafeteria. At this time, there are many people, especially the clean and beautiful little Zhinuxiu Niang I will go to the bathhouse to take a bath when I come back.

The bathing place is located, shrouded in the heat aroused by the carbon fire earth dragon, and it is an excellent place in winter in the workshop.

Chen Fang carried the harvest and walked towards his courtyard. At this time, there were many embroiderers and weaver girls along the way. Some were carrying wooden basins, some were carrying clothes, and most of them just walked into the bathing place in random groups, talking and laughing.

There was a glimpse of the prince, who was staring at the flow of people.

Chen Fang was a little far away from him, but the prince did not see Chen Fang.

Chen walked towards his yard, when a little weaver girl suddenly ran to the prince and gave the prince a purse.Chen Fang saw it, and smiled in his heart, Li Hong likes Little Weaver Girl after all, and his skill of hooking up with Little Weaver Girl is also very good.

The little weaver girls in the workshop are all from the south of the Yangtze River, with pure minds. Since they have been in the Tang workshop, there are less natural barriers between classes. After all, in the workshop, class is difficult to reflect here. He humiliated himself in front of himself, which seriously distorted the values ​​and class concepts of the people in the workshop.

Little Weaver Girl gave the prince a purse. In this era, it is self-evident what is in the purse.

Chen Fang glanced at it and entered the courtyard gate of Fangzhu's courtyard.

"That little Weaver Girl looks familiar. She gave herself two lotus seeds, and now she gave the prince a purse with a strand of black silk."

Chen Fang put down the wooden barrel in the kitchen, and Dingyu and Qian'er took a look at the wooden barrel.

"Master has gained a lot today!"

"Well, let Wanqing, Birou and the others come to the courtyard later, I have something to say."

"For their homework?"

"If you don't learn calligraphy, you will go to work in the workshop in the future. Naturally, some people in the workshop are willing to learn from Yang Jiong."

"My son-in-law, it would be best for you to be as lenient to them as you are to us."

"Qian'er, you speak for them, but I heard that Yang Jiong threw the inkstone in anger."

"I didn't even want to learn at first!"

Chen Fang pinched Qian'er's cheeks, and lightly scraped the bridge of her nose.

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"Okay, I'll listen to you! But you and Bai Ya must study hard, and you can't let this son-in-law down."

"Well, Qian'er knows, and sister Bai Ya knows too."

Chen Fang left the kitchen, where Qian'er looked at Dingyu.

"Sister Dingyu, why the son-in-law?"

"Master doesn't want you to be maids for the rest of your life."

"But Qian'er is willing to serve the son-in-law for the rest of her life, and has always been a maid for the son-in-law."

"Silly sister, you are young now, when you get older, can you still stay here and stay by his side as a maid?"

Qian'er pursed her mouth, and a hint of sadness came to her heart. When she got older, the son-in-law would indeed not allow herself to serve her. Don't all the princes and young masters in Chang'an like young people, older ones, who wants them?

"Learn to read well. The master said that I don't want you to be maids for the rest of your life. You should think about it later. When you have learned something in the future, you can also manage the workshop like Tao Hongyinye, or even like Meng Fei. That way, he directly controls a sub-workshop in Dunhuang."

"Qian'er doesn't want to be like Sister Meng Fei, because that's too far away from the son-in-law. Chang'an and Dunhuang, it will take a long time to ride a horse."

Dingyu glared at Qian'er angrily, and patted the girl on the cheek.

"Holding a sub-workshop in your hand, what's wrong with it? You have the final say on all the big and small matters in the workshop, and you can also share the worries for the master."

"Keqian'er is reluctant to leave the son-in-law!"

"You're getting old, you're old, it's better to be kicked out of the workshop, or to help master manage a branch workshop?"

Qian'er pursed her lips, biting her teeth lightly.

Dingyu looked at her and smiled.

"Don't worry, Master has a good heart and will not drive you away, but if you really want to help Master relieve his worries, you should learn more. Master is not short of people to serve him, but he is short of capable people."

Qian'er didn't speak, but looked at Dingyu.

Dingyu looked at her, and lightly rubbed Qian'er's shoulder.

"Sister, this time Master asked Meng Fei to go to Dunhuang to open a Dunhuang branch. Have you ever thought about it? If the branch continues to open in the future, such as opening to Youzhou, Yizhou, and Jingzhou, who will manage it? "

"Aren't there so many officials in the court?"

"Master will not let people from the imperial court intervene in the affairs of the branch workshops. All branch workshops must be in charge of master's confidantes."

"That Ziwuling Fenfang is not from the imperial court, the officials there are all descendants of the imperial court officials."

"Ziwuling branch workshop is special. It only produces cement, and it is very close to the main workshop. No matter what happens in Ziwuling branch workshop, Master can control it immediately. Even so, Ziwuling branch workshop also has soldiers from the original oil workshop. Look, those are all master's confidantes, just in case."

"However, the branch workshops opened in other places are different. These branch workshops are far away from Chang'an, and they produce almost as few things as the main workshop. They may print books, make soap, and make clothes. In the future, these branch workshops may produce things made by the main workshop. Do it. Qian'er, you said that if these branch workshops are not managed by trusted confidantes of the master, the master will rest assured."

Dingyu said, seeing Qian'er's expression was a little gloomy, and patted her shoulder lightly.

"Sister also knows that you only have Master in your heart, and you want to serve him and be with him. But think about it, if you can help him, it wouldn't be better."

"Qian'er also wants to help the son-in-law, but she is still reluctant to leave his side."

"Silly girl, even if you really go to other branch workshops in the future, it's not like you won't be able to see him. Master's thoughts are in Tang Gongfang, and he will go to various branch workshops in the future. And you have done well elsewhere, so you can't say You transferred back to the headquarters!"

"Study hard. As a maid, you can only serve the son-in-law, but if you really learn some skills, you can really help him. Master usually doesn't talk about it, but by his side, my sister can feel that he really needs help."

"Well, Qian'er will definitely study hard, and she will be able to help the son-in-law when the time comes."

Dingyu put her hands on Qian'er's shoulders and nodded vigorously.

At dusk, Chen Fang was sitting in the courtyard, and in front of him were all the maids in the courtyard. In fact, they were Gao An's five maids, Wanqing, Birou, Qing'er, Xue'er, and Bing'er.

"I went to Tangquan Palace for a month, and you all studied calligraphy and calligraphy with Yang Jiong in the workshop. You should have learned well. Today, my son-in-law will test your homework. When I see the paper in front of me, write my name on it. "

Chen Fang pointed, and the five maids showed ugly faces.Write your own name, don't know how to write it!

Looking at the five maids, Chen Fang suddenly wanted to play a prank.

"Oh, what are you doing in a daze, write!"

"My son-in-law, Wanqing can't write!"

"Where are you four?"

The remaining four maids shook their heads vigorously, like rattle drums.

"After studying for a month, I can't even write my own name. Well, I will test you tomorrow. If you can't write your own name, I will sleep with you at night."

When the five maids heard this, cold sweat came out of their brows. The last time the five of them served the son-in-law together with Ding Yu, the five maids all left a psychological shadow.

At this time, after hearing the words "sleep with you", the legs of the five maids began to shake. The last experience is still vivid in my memory. They can't walk well for a few days. They don't want to serve the son-in-law, the son-in-law is too powerful up.

Chen Fang waved his hand and told them to disperse.On the second day, the test of these five maids was really continued. This time, all five of them were able to write their own names correctly, and they were all correct, without any typos.

This is how he doesn't want to sleep with him, sister, if it's Tao Hong and the others, they will probably rush to sleep with him.

It seems that after eating Hele Pill, these girls were really scared.This is bent, how can I straighten it!

In the past few days, Chen Fang had a leisurely life. He spent every day with Wu Meiniang and his two wives, practiced knives, and tried every means to force Gao An's five maids to learn to write.

The concrete road in the workshop has already started to be built, and the people who will be in charge of the prison are rushing to work, so Chen Fang is naturally relieved.