Transmigrated into the book to become the villain prince, the son of the plane to destroy

The so-called food and grass go first before the army moves, which shows the importance of the army's food supply. It is fine on weekdays, but once it comes to marching and fighting, food becomes a big problem. Rice and wheat are fine, at least they can be stored for a long time, but soldiers If you can't eat meat for a long time, you won't be able to work hard, but how to supply meat to the army is a big problem. After all, whether it is cattle, sheep or other meat, as long as it is slaughtered, it will not last long and it will rot and stink. They can't Like the Hu people, they drove a group of cattle and sheep to march together.

If Xiao Jie really had a way, preserving meat for a long time like preserving lychee meat would solve a big problem for the court.

Although the border trade with Dihu has been released now, the border trade between the two sides has always been tepid. Daning has made a lot of money by selling special tea bricks, but because of the problem of meat preservation, he has never dared to trade with Dihu. Sheep barter, only willing to accept gold and silver from the Dihu people.

If the problem of meat preservation can really be solved, it is possible to buy a large number of Dihu cattle and sheep to solve the problem of insufficient meat supply for the army.

It's just that Xiao Ji picked up the glass bottle containing lychee meat on the table, looked at it carefully for a moment, frowned, and then raised his eyes to look at Xiao Jie.

Xiao Jie understood the meaning of his father. Although the Tao family has shipped a large number of glass products to the capital for sale, they are rare items and the price is very expensive. Xiao Ji's intention is obviously to use such expensive glass bottles to store meat, right? It's too extravagant, how can the court afford it.

Xiao Jie smiled slightly: "Father, I call this thing 'canned food'. If it's for canning fruit, it's better to use a glass bottle, but if it's for canning meat, you can use iron to make the jar."

"Canned food? Can you use iron? That's good!" Xiao Ji couldn't help but feel moved. Although the imperial court controls salt and iron, in fact Daning is not short of iron. If it is really possible to use iron to make canned meat, it would be a way to save costs. good idea.It's just that the imperial court must strictly control and must not allow these used iron pots to flow into the people in large quantities, so as not to affect the imperial court's salt and iron income.

You must know that in Daning, the annual tax on salt and iron accounts for [-] to [-]% of Daning's tax revenue, which solves many problems of "military expenses" and "national urgency".

Xiao Ji couldn't help but took another deep look at Xiao Jie, feeling that he could always create a big surprise for himself from time to time.

"It's true that you father and son have a good family dinner, and you have to talk about state affairs. I'm ugly. I'm only allowed to talk about family affairs in my Jiaofang Palace today. If you want to talk about state affairs, you father and son can go to the Imperial Study Room to talk about it." enough to go."

During the conversation, the palace people had already filled a large table full of food and wine, Empress Sun pretended to be angry and invited everyone to come and have a meal together.

Xiao Ji laughed loudly: "Since the queen has spoken, I naturally want to give the queen a face. Today in Jiaofang Palace, I only talk about family affairs, not state affairs."

Afterwards, a large table of people sat around and ate together, enjoying themselves.

After the meal, there was another exchange of pleasantries, and then Xiao Jie left, but before leaving, he handed a box to Xiao Ji, expressing that it was a New Year's gift he had prepared for his father.

After Xiao Jie left, Xiao Ji slowly opened the box Xiao Jie left for him, but was stunned for a moment. Empress Sun also came over with a curious face, and was also stunned immediately.

There is only one book in the box called "The Picture of 24 Filial Piety".

Xiao Ji picked up the book in the box, looked at the words on the cover, and sighed softly, with a complicated look on his face.

Knowing husband Mo Ruo's wife, Empress Sun also saw that something was wrong with Xiao Ji's expression, hesitated for a moment, but couldn't help but said: "Your Majesty, although the concubine is a woman, it is reasonable to say that she should not interfere with state affairs, but the king of Qi will not care about it anyway." He is His Majesty's son, so this is considered a family matter, if possible, I would like to ask what happened between Your Majesty and King Qi."

Xiao Ji had nothing to hide from Empress Sun, and told Empress Sun what happened at the banquet on the second day of the first lunar month.

Empress Sun couldn't help frowning when she heard the words, she couldn't believe it and said: "Your Majesty suspects that He Yi was ordered by the King of Qi to openly speak nonsense at the banquet and force the emperor to make him the crown prince?"

Xiao Ji shook his head and said: "Ju'er is my son, I still know his character, he can't do such a stupid thing like forcing the palace to commit crimes."

Empress Sun secretly breathed a sigh of relief. After all, she did not believe that Xiao Jie would do such a stupid thing, so she smiled and said, "Since Your Majesty knows that this matter was not done by King Qi, why do you still have to hold grudges?"

Xiao Ji gently opened the "24 Filial Piety Pictures" in his hand, and said in a deep voice, "Does the queen still remember the matter of the emperor's brother Xiao Qiu?"

Upon hearing the name Xiao Qiu, Empress Sun's heart sank.

Xiao Qiu is the eldest son of the late emperor, who was named the crown prince, but he couldn't wait for the late emperor to die, so he used the means of appointing officials and making wishes to win over the court officials and generals of the imperial army, intending to empty the late emperor and force the late emperor to abdicate early. The first emperor Longyan was furious, and he was deposed as a commoner and placed under house arrest for life, so that Xiao Qiu finally died of depression.

"Your Majesty is worried that King Qi will be the next Xiao Qiu?" Empress Sun looked at Xiao Ji with worried eyes.

Xiao Ji closed the book, shook his head and said: "I know that Yu'er's temperament is quite different from that of the emperor's brother, but I am worried that some courtiers will encourage him from the sidelines for the sake of supporting him, and if he is a little careless, he may die. If a big mistake is made, the father and son may be at odds, or even fight each other."

Empress Sun shook her head: "I don't think so. King Qi's behavior is seen by his concubines. He is definitely not like the emperor's brother. Your Majesty might as well think about it. I died, but he never had the slightest resentment towards me, and he still thinks about me everywhere, so it can be seen that King Qi is also a sensible person, and he will never be easily provoked by others."

Speaking of Concubine Wang, Empress Sun couldn't help sighing again: "Actually, King Qi is also a poor person. The matter of Concubine Wang has nothing to do with him, but he was implicated in this matter and sent to Jiaozhou. Now it is clear that He Yi's matter was not ordered by him. , but he had a grudge with His Majesty for no reason... Hey! Your Majesty also came from the prince back then, so you can understand King Qi's mood at the moment."

Empress Sun's words brought back memories of Xiao Ji. Not long after Xiao Qiu was abolished, because the late emperor was old, all the ministers wrote letters to persuade the late emperor to establish a new crown prince. In the end, the first emperor adopted the minister's opinion and made Xiao Ji the crown prince.

The first emperor was only under the pressure of his ministers to make him the crown prince. In fact, he was not very optimistic about his son. Be careful, like walking on thin ice.

Letting oneself push others, Xiao Ji naturally thought that the pressure Xiao Jie faced now would probably not be lighter than himself.

In fact, the most difficult thing in the world is to be a prince. If you do nothing, you may be regarded as incompetent by the emperor, but if you perform too well and are supported by your subjects, you will be jealous of the emperor, worrying that your imperial power will be threatened.

Xiao Ji gently stroked the word filial piety on the cover, and it seemed that through this word, he also felt the uneasiness and anxiety in Xiao Jie's heart.

As Empress Sun said, he was obviously just doing his own thing well. Although he got the support and support of the ministers, he was suspicious of himself for no reason. He was indeed a little too sensitive.

Xiao Jie is his own son, who has made great contributions to the court time and time again, if he can't even trust him, who else can he trust?

Thinking of this, Xiao Ji suddenly smiled and said, "Queen, haven't you always wanted to adopt King Qi? I will prepare it with Zongzheng Temple in a few days."

Empress Sun was naturally overjoyed when she heard the words, which was actually the reason why she specially called Xiao Ji over for dinner today.