Quickly wear "I am the empress"

In Prince Ding's Mansion, Mrs. Guo cried with joy when she saw her youngest son whom she had not seen for a long time, "Ah Kuang, you are finally back."

Guo Kuang stepped forward and knelt in front of Mrs. Guo, "The child is unfilial and makes my mother worried."

Mrs. Guo didn't want to let her son, whom she hadn't seen for a long time, kneel in the middle of winter. She immediately helped him up and said with red eyes: "It's good to come back safely."

Mrs. Guo started crying as she said this. Seeing this, Guo Kuang looked at Xiang Zhiyu in a hurry, "his eyes were full of begging for help."

Seeing this, Zhiyu smiled a little unkindly, then stepped forward and said, "Mom, Akuang has just come back, let him go down and wash up first."

After hearing this, Mrs. Guo reacted and hurriedly asked people to take Guo Kuang down and change into thicker clothes.

Seeing Mrs. Guo's eyes staring at the door, Zhiyu smiled and said, "Mom, Akuang will be here for more than a month this time. You don't have to worry now."

Mrs. Guo rolled her eyes at Zhiyu and said, "Ah Kuang and I haven't seen each other for a long time, how can we not be anxious?"

"I don't know if he ate well after he went out, if he was well dressed, if he got sick, if he encountered anything bad..."

Hearing this, he held Mrs. Guo's hand with a smile and said, "Mom, Ah Kuang has grown up and can take good care of himself."

"Besides, there are still people I sent. My eldest maid Jianjia had to be sent to him."

Upon hearing this, Mrs. Guo glanced at Zhiyu helplessly, "You, I feel so bad for A Kuang."

Zhiyu waved his hand, how could this not work? "

"Well, grandma, you wait here for Akuang. I'll go find my two cousins ​​first."

Hearing this, Mrs. Guo glanced at Zhiyu angrily: "If you want to be busy with political affairs, go and do it. Don't use A Kuang as a cover."

Zhiyu didn't blush even after being exposed. He bowed to Mrs. Guo and left the backyard.

In the front yard of Prince Ding's Mansion, Guo Jing and Guo Kuang were lost in thought as they looked at the fine snow-white salt in the sack. If they had not already put the salt in their mouths and tasted it, they would not have dared to imagine that it was whiter than snow and thicker than soil. The thin stuff turned out to be salt.

"First cousin, second cousin, what are you doing standing around?"

Zhiyu came through the snow and saw the two of them standing upright and motionless in the snow, so she asked a little funny.

Hearing Zhiyu's voice, Guo Kuang handed the salt in his hand to Zhiyu and said, "Azhi, this is salt."

Zhiyu nodded, "I know, otherwise my second cousin would think where the money in Prince Ding's treasury comes from."

Hearing this, Guo, who was the internal historian, pointed to the salt in disbelief and said, "Ah Zhi, Ah Kuang, is he going out to resell this kind of salt?"

Zhiyu shook his head and explained to the two of them: "I accidentally got the secret recipe for making salt from seawater in the past, so when I was preparing to revolt, I gave the secret recipe to Akuang and asked him to go to the beach to make salt."

"The manufacturing of salt has always been controlled by the state, and the interests involved are ridiculously high. How could I let it go."

Hearing this, Guo Kuang looked at the pure white fine salt in his hand and felt at a loss for a moment, "Ah Zhi, with this salt, the fiscal revenue of the Ding Palace next year will probably be 50% more than the budget."

Zhiyu shook his head, "Second cousin, this salt has been produced in large quantities, and the cost is not high. I plan to sell it to some wealthy families at a high price, and then I will lower the price, so that ordinary people can use it." Salt."

Hearing this, Guo Kuang hesitated for a moment, nodded and said, "That's okay. If you sell this salt to the people at a low price, your prestige among the people will definitely rise to the next level."

"But why lower the price?"

Zhiyu said with a smile: "I will explain it to my second cousin after the New Year."

This year's New Year is the first year after the establishment of Prince Ding's mansion, so the banquet was held very grandly. Even the great Sima Wang Jing, who had been fighting abroad, was summoned back.

However, in troubled times, the days of peace are destined to be short-lived. Just after the New Year, the spies she sent out received news that Wang Lang was secretly mobilizing troops to attack Prince Ding's Mansion from Changshan Pass.

Hearing the news, Zhiyu called out to him, "In the middle of winter, this prince is not afraid of freezing his soldiers to death. Now that the mountains are blocked by heavy snow, it is not easy to attack Changshan Pass."

After Wang Jing heard the news, he immediately asked for troops to meet the enemy. Zhiyu thought for a moment and then agreed. By the way, he gave Liu Xiu, the lucky man, to him.

After all, with Liu Xiu here, good luck must be on their side, and they are not afraid that they will not win.

Hearing this, Liu Xiu naturally would not refuse. This was his first battle after taking office in Prince Ding's palace, and he had to win it, otherwise he would not be sorry for the prince's kindness.

After sending Wang Jing and Liu Xiu to the battlefield, Zhiyu began to rectify people's livelihood, and various agricultural tools that were conducive to reclamation were promoted to various counties. For a time, the land under the rule of the prince began a wave of reclamation.

While encouraging mulberry farming, Zhiyu also did not forget to promote the development of commerce. Those who did business in the areas under the rule of Prince Ding were directly exempted from tax for one year.

At the same time, a martial arts test was held in Prince Ding's Mansion, and many knowledgeable people from all over the world came to Gaocheng to participate. For a time, the number of officials in the Ministry of War was greatly expanded.

After a literary test and a martial arts test were held, the imperial examinations of Prince Ding's Palace became famous all over the world. All three-year-old children know that the imperial examination system of Prince Ding's Palace does not distinguish between men and women or origin. As long as you are from the Central Plains, as long as you are If you have the ability, you can take the scientific examination in Prince Ding's Mansion and find an official position in Prince Ding's Mansion.

Liu Lin, the divine fortune teller, was famous throughout the world for taking the imperial examination of Prince Ding. Liu Lin was the son of King Zhao Mu. Legend has it that he was enlightened by gods and had his eyes opened, and all his predictions were accurate.

In April, news came from the north that Wang Jing and Liu Xiu had forced the enemy troops to retreat, and now it was only a matter of time before the army of the Ding Palace won the victory.

Wen Yanyu handed over the internal affairs to Guo Kuang and Deng Yu, and she took the 100,000 Guo army all the way north to attack Wang Lang's territory from the northwest.

At this time, Wang Lang had two big men attacking him from both sides. He didn't know which side to send people to support.

Seeing that he had been struggling with this for a long time, his beloved concubine Liu Ji couldn't help complaining in front of him: "The Guo family army of King Ding is just a few female soldiers composed of women. How powerful can they be."