Fenghou

"I just arrived this morning, and I came as soon as I sent the salute back to the mansion."

Hu Yun's parents, wife and children are all in Daxing City, but he has an official residence in Jingzhao. His 16-year-old eldest son Hu Sheng is studying at Jingzhao Guozi Academy, and sometimes he will go back to the residence for two days.

Chen Qing nodded, "It's not too late to have a good rest for two days before reporting on your work."

"Let's talk about the humble job to His Highness briefly, and I will report on the job in two days."

"How is Yanshan Road now?"

Hu Yun shook his head, "It looks calm on the surface, but you can still feel a tense atmosphere. Someone is hostile to us. Wu Wenli, the county magistrate of Ji County, was killed on his way to Daxing City for business. His head is missing. The case is still being investigated, and this time I came to Jingzhao, I also hope that His Highness can send more internal guards, especially capable officers, and I suggest that Zhong Huan go to Yanshan Road."

A flash of anger flashed in Chen Qing's eyes. He dared to harm officials. Needless to say, he also knew that it was the powerful forces on Yanshan Road. Murderous intent arose in his heart, and he nodded slowly, "I will send Zhong Huan to Yanshan Road. .”

"Let's talk about the good things about the humble job. The people at the bottom of Yanshan Road are now very supportive of us. They have received benefits. The tax exemption has greatly improved their lives. Many farmers plan to start planting corn and pumpkins next year. This time I came back from the humble job and wanted some. Seeds, and I hope to send some capable planters to Yanshan Road to teach you how to grow corn and pumpkins.”

"No problem, you can go to Lu Canzheng later, and he will arrange it."

After a pause, Chen Qing asked again: "How is the situation of Jin Bing? Have spies infiltrated Yanshan Mansion?"

"The Kingdom of Jin sent Yan Zonghan to station [-] troops in Jinzhou to build siege weapons. The spies must have infiltrated them. There are too many powerful locals secretly supporting the Kingdom of Jin, but there is a strange feeling about being humble."

"What strange feeling?"

Hu Yun thought for a while and said: "On the surface, Jin Bing is actively preparing for the war in Jinzhou and is going south to attack us, but I feel that the attack is an illusion, and they are actually defending."

"why would you say so?"

"Xiaozhi got the news that Wanyan Wushu led an army of [-] to attack Goryeo. At this time, the Kingdom of Jin must be defending us."

In fact, Chen Qing is not in a hurry to attack the Kingdom of Jin, at least he will not think about it in the next few years. He needs time to digest the Yanshan Road, seize more court resources, and start to build his own empire. It is not so urgent to destroy the Jin Kingdom.

However, Jin Guo's attack on Koryo has aroused Chen Qing's vigilance. Jin Guo is now exhausted and very weak. He must want to annex Koryo to return blood, but it is not so easy to annex Koryo. Jin Guo also has to pay a heavy price.

Maybe the blood was not sucked, but instead fell into the quagmire of Goryeo, and the national power became weaker. It is very possible, but I can't just stand by, and the plan to seize Tamna Island will start next year.

Thinking of this, Chen Qing said to Hu Yun: "Your next task, don't manage Jin Guo for the time being, concentrate on governing Yanshan Road, win over those wealthy families who are willing to submit to us, and then cooperate with the internal guards to severely crack down on those local forces that are hostile to us. In one year next year, the cancer on Yanshan Road will be eradicated completely, and in another year, Yanshan Road will return to normal, and your term of office will be over."

"Humble job understands, humble job will not let His Highness down!"

……

At dinner, his son Chen Ji put a piece of steamed pumpkin on his father's plate. Chen Qing was startled, and it was the first time that his son picked up vegetables for himself.

Lu Xiu smiled and said, "Husband, let's taste the pumpkin first!"

With a thought in his mind, Chen Qing asked his son with a smile, "Is this the pumpkin you grew yourself?"

Chen Ji nodded, and Bing'er and Xue'er next to him became anxious, raised their hands and shouted: "Daddy, we also planted for brother, and we watered it!"

Chen Ji's face turned pale. His father had warned him that he had to plant by himself and not let outsiders help. In fact, his studies were relatively heavy, thanks to his two younger sisters who helped him water every day.

Chen Qing laughed and said, "Okay! You guys count too, Daddy will reward you."

"Daddy, I want a piece of jade with red skin."

"I want yellow skin!"

When the two little guys heard that there was a reward, they immediately thought about the reward. Chen Qing said with a smile, "Okay! Dad will reward you later."

The two daughters ate happily, and Chen Qing smiled at Chen Ji again: "I said I don't want help from outsiders, but my younger sister is not an outsider. Brother and sister work together to plant pumpkins and corn. Daddy is even happier!"

Chen Ji heaved a sigh of relief, and asked again: "Daddy, four vines have grown in one piece, and 24 big pumpkins have grown. Is this a good harvest?"

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"This harvest is not bad! Where's the corn?"

"We collected 350 catties of corn."

Chen Qing asked: "The 350 catties is with corncobs, right?"

"Yes, it hasn't been peeled off yet!"

Chen Qing nodded and said with a smile: "The normal corn kernels are more than 100 catties, and one mu of land costs more than 1000 catties. Think about it, how much wheat can be harvested per mu of land?"

Chen Ji thought for a while and said, "It weighs more than 300 catties in the field, but only 100 catties in the field."

"That's right. You have more than 100 catties of corn per share, which is equivalent to the wheat yield per mu. They are all food, and corn is more drought-tolerant. Do you think we should vigorously promote the cultivation of corn?"

Chen Ji nodded, "We must vigorously promote it!"

"But we have to divide the problem into two. Although corn is good, it can only be grown for one season. In the south, rice is grown twice a year, and the total annual output is almost a thousand catties. Winter wheat can also be grown twice a year. Season, one season of wheat, one season of rice, although the total annual output is only seven to eight hundred catties, but the taste of flour and rice is better, it belongs to fine grains, corn is still a bit coarse, it can only be regarded as coarse grains, and the price cannot be sold, so Rice should be promoted in the south, wheat in the upper fields and corn in the middle and lower fields in the north, and where there is only one crop a year, try to grow corn as much as possible, no matter what, we must first let the people have enough to eat, and then consider other things.”

"The child understands that filling the stomach is the most important thing!"

"Yes! Next year you will plant two more pumpkins, and the corn will take time, so you will stop planting them."

Chen Ji nodded, "Your child must persevere!"

The two young ladies raised their hands together, "Let's help my brother grow together too!"

"That's right. Next year, I will help my brother plant the land. If the planting is done, Daddy will definitely reward you a lot."

……

At night, Chen Qing had sex with his wife. Lu Xiu had finished her confinement and her body had recovered. This year was the first time she had sex with her husband. It was only two times, and the two had a great time.

Lu Xiu lay in her husband's arms and said: "Today I suddenly found that the children have grown up, especially Bing'er and Xue'er, who used to be mischievous, but now they can take the initiative to help my brother with things, which really makes me gratified."

"Yes! The children have grown up and become sensible."

"But... I'm getting old."

Women's thinking is always jumping. Fortunately, there are many women around Chen Qing, so he is used to this kind of thinking.

Chen Qing caressed his wife's still tender and fair skin and said with a smile: "Such delicate skin is still called old?"

"Then I take good care of myself, then tell me, who has better skin, Amei or I?"

It was another unanswerable question. Seeing her husband embarrassed, Lu Xiu couldn't help but chuckle, "Forget it, don't embarrass your husband, you really postponed going to Fujian Road until next year?"

Chen Qing nodded, "There are a lot of changes this year. I need to stay in charge and I can't leave. I will wait until next year to stabilize before starting."

Lu Xiu hugged her husband tightly, her whole body became hot again, and whispered in her husband's ear: "Husband, I want it again, what should I do?"

"My wife has orders, I dare not disobey my husband!"

Chen Qing turned over with a smile and put his wife under him, and began to plow the fields like a scalper.

……

In late autumn, there is no sunshine in Lin'an Mansion, and the weather is cloudy and rainy. It is cold and bleak inside and outside the city.

An incident happened in the Lin'an Palace two days ago, a guard was executed. This incident has no influence in the court, and the officials don't care about such trivial matters.

But this matter was followed by Lin'an's "Anecdote News", which specializes in publishing lace news. With their professional sensitivity, they all realized that there must be a mystery and a story in it.

In a tavern in Zhongwazi, a fair-skinned middle-aged man sat at a small table in the corner and ordered a jug of wine and a few dishes of side dishes, but he obviously had no intention of eating and drinking, and basically did not move his chopsticks. He kept looking out the door, looking a little restless.

Experienced people can recognize it at a glance. This man is a eunuch. He is white and fat, beardless, and has no Adam's apple. At this time, a tall and thin man in his 30s walked into the tavern quickly and saw the eunuch sitting in the corner. Hastily walked over.

The tall and thin man sat down and asked eagerly, "Where's the news?"

The middle-aged eunuch patted his head, "The inside story you want is in me, but I have to see your sincerity!"

Sincerity, of course, refers to money. It is not easy to go out of the palace. Who would come here if there is no profit?

The tall and thin man took a small ingot of silver, put it on the table and pushed it over, "Two taels of silver, that's enough!"

"It's only two taels of silver, not even enough for tea!"

"It's quite a lot. Two taels of silver can be exchanged for sixteen coins in the black market. If you don't do it, I'll find someone else."

Perhaps this scandal has already spread in the palace, and its value is the time difference of these few days, so the so-called inside story is worthless afterwards.

The eunuch was upset, but he still accepted the money.

Seeing that the other party took the money, the tall and thin man immediately said: "I want to make it clear first, since you have received the money, you can't hide anything, you have to tell me the whole thing."

"Don't worry, I still have this credit."

The thin and tall man immediately took out a pen and paper and said, "Say it!"

The middle-aged eunuch lowered his voice and said, "The bodyguard who was executed two days ago was called Jiao Dahong, because a concubine of the official family was pregnant..."

"Ah! What's the name of the concubine?"

"Xu Cairen is the daughter of Xu Haocai, the former servant of the Ministry of Industry. She contacted the imperial physician privately to try to have an abortion, but was reported. The officials were furious. The officials did not favor her for at least two years. How could she be pregnant? After a lot of torture She had no choice but to confess that it was the guard Jiao Dahong who did it, they hooked up half a year ago, the officials were furious and killed Jiao Dahong, and Xu Cairen was thrown into limbo and never returned."

"Then what about the fetus in Xu Cairen's stomach?"

"Of course it was destroyed. Although the official family has no heirs, they will never accept other people's seeds."

The thin and tall man hesitated and asked: "Is it true that the official family can no longer have sex?"

"This news is not within the range of two taels of silver, we have to add money!"

The thin and tall man said displeasedly: "You man, selling things must be a little bit of trouble! This news is a bit of trouble, otherwise I really won't look for you next time."

The middle-aged eunuch had no choice but to say: "Of course the official family can have normal intercourse. The imperial doctor said that his seeds are too few, and the concubines can't conceive. The medicine that has been taken for more than ten years has no effect. It is estimated that the offspring is really dead."

"Didn't the official family have children? How did it become like this?"

The middle-aged eunuch gave him a wary look, "You ask too many questions."

"Okay! I won't ask, that's all."

The tall, thin man got the inside story of the scandal he wanted and hurried away.

The middle-aged eunuch paid for the food and drink, and then went back to the palace worried.

He knew that the emperor would never read that kind of vulgar tabloid, and that kind of newspaper would never appear in the palace. In fact, even if he knew it, he would not be able to find out who leaked the news. This is why he dared to betray the news.

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Chen Qing's step-by-step arrogance and upgrade are like boiling frogs in warm water. The people in the south of the Yangtze River and the gentry are accustomed to it, but the emperor Zhao Gou knows it well. He is afraid of everything that will happen. If he does not become emperor, he feels that the sky has not fallen.

At this time, he was extremely sensitive and easily raged, as if a slight disturbance could knock him down, but he encountered something that broke him down. One of his talents actually cheated on a guard and became pregnant.

Since his son died in the first year of Shaoxing, he has no heirs anymore, but having no heirs does not mean that he cannot have sex. In fact, he still has the ability to have fun in the harem with concubines , just lost fertility.

When Zhao Gou heard the news that the concubine of the harem had cheated on the guard and became pregnant, the anger that Zhao Gou had accumulated for more than a year erupted at this moment. He ordered the guards to beheaded, and the body was thrown out of the city to be fed to the wild dogs. He also ordered Cairen to be fed with tiger medicine, aborted the fetus in her womb, stripped of all titles, thrown into the cold palace, and never allowed to come back.

Zhao Gou was still angry, and dragged several eunuchs and maids around Xu Cairen down and beat each of them with a hundred sticks, killing two of them on the spot, and the rest of them didn't heal their injuries, so they rushed directly to Ye Ting Palace to serve as rough envoys. Palace people.

Zhao Gou was furious in the palace, but he didn't know that the scandal in the palace had already caused a sensation in Lin'an. "Anecdote News" reported in detail on the headline "He slept with the emperor's woman" on the front page. The scandal, for a while, people in Lin'an snapped up newspapers. A piece of "Anecdote News" sold for five pennies. For the first time since its inception, its daily circulation exceeded that of "Beijing News". The whole Lin'an street was talking about it.

Unfortunately, "Anecdote" made a fatal mistake. They took it for granted that "Beijing News" was safe and sound because the court was tolerant, but they didn't know that the court did not dare to touch "Beijing News" because of the powerful Yong Kingdom As a backing, otherwise the "Beijing News" has died countless times, but how could the emperor tolerate a tabloid using his privacy as a selling point.

Even if the emperor didn't know about it in the palace, the emperor's minions would not ignore it. Just after dark, five hundred Plum Blossom Guard soldiers surrounded the "Anecdote". The soldiers rushed in and arrested all the newspaper staff who were editing the typesetting , All printing machines and other materials were confiscated, and finally the seal of Plum Blossom Guard was affixed, and the newspaper was completely sealed off. Other relevant personnel who were not in the newspaper were also arrested by Plum Blossom Guard overnight.

At noon the next day, Wang Mu hurriedly found Lu Gang in Xinfeng Teahouse. Like Hu Yun, Lu Gang ate and drank tea at Xinfeng Teahouse every day to learn about various situations in Lin'an. Of course, he also met Wang Mu every day. .

It's just that Hu Yun and Wang Mu's noon tea drinking is a kind of personal friendship, but it has become a system when it comes to Lu Gang's place, which can be heard from their mutual address.

"Special Envoy Lu, I heard that "Anecdote" was blocked by the Plum Blossom Guard last night?"

"It's true, but don't worry about the owner of the palace. Meihuawei will not touch the "Beijing News" newspaper office. As long as there is no personal attack, we report the current news in an open manner. They can't find an excuse. Of course, unless they are prepared to Completely turn against the Yong Kingdom, otherwise you and I will still be able to drink tea here every day."

"I'm not worried about myself. I just feel that Plum Blossom Guard has gone too far this time. Arresting people without the emperor's will and closing down the newspaper is a worrying situation..."

"Aren't they always like this? If they dare to talk about the current situation in a teahouse, they will be arrested and beaten half to death, and then let their family members use money to redeem them. I don't know how many people have been arrested. To them, nothing is more normal."

"That was not what I meant!"

Wang Mu said in a low voice: "Often at the end of the dynasty, various high-handed controls will appear. This is the manifestation of the emperor's loss of confidence. He can only achieve rule by oppressing the people."

"You're right, this is indeed a sign of the end of the dynasty."

"The Plum Blossom Guard is here!"

A clerk shouted, and the tea drinkers who were chatting were suddenly silent, and everyone was drinking tea in silence.

At this time, five or six Plum Blossom Guard soldiers walked in, and they glanced fiercely at everyone. Many people were afraid of their gaze, and lowered their heads one after another.

The shopkeeper Dong An sat aside, ignoring these bastards. At this time, the leader, Plum Blossom Wei Yuhou, stepped forward and knocked on Dong An's table, and said viciously: "We have received a report that someone is talking about the imperial court here. No such thing?"

According to the market situation, the shopkeeper should come out with a smile on his face to explain, and then put some money in, say a few nice words, everything will be good, even restaurants and teahouses run by officials dare not provoke Mei Huawei.

Dong An ignored him, and said with a half-smile: "Brother, you have just been promoted! Don't you know who opened this teahouse?"

This Plum Blossom Guard Yuhou is really newly promoted. His name is Zou Shuan. He was originally a local rogue in Lin'an. She was accepted as a concubine and doted on her a lot, and her family was naturally honored. Her father was a toothman who worked as a tent in Plum Blossom Guard, and her elder brother was Zou Shuan, who became a Marquis of Yu in Plum Blossom Guard. .

Extorting merchants has always been what Zou Shuan has been doing for these years. He used to do it as a rogue, but now he does it as Meihuawei Yuhou. Of course, he is more prestigious now, and he has extorted more money.