Quick Wear: The heroine is a top-level boss

While Su Xing was busy controlling the flood, Mu Beixiao finally recovered from his injuries and reunited with Zhao Yanzhen, who was tortured and looked haggard.

Zhao Yanzhen was so excited that she thought Mu Beixiao would be heartbroken to see how she was suffering and marry her as queen immediately.

What Zhao Yanzhen didn't expect was that Mu Beixiao's current situation was not much better than hers.

The empress dowager is becoming more and more powerful. Originally, the emperor Mu Beixiao needed to use his seal to issue imperial edicts, but now the empress dowager has completely ignored Mu Beixiao and only recognizes the empress dowager's seal for imperial edicts.

Normally during court sessions, Mu Beixiao had no say at all, as the Queen Mother had the final say on everything. The ministers had also become accustomed to the Queen Mother's suddenly increasingly assertive attitude, and began to intentionally or unintentionally ignore Mu Beixiao.

Mu Beixiao was simply unable to fight against the Queen Mother. He felt more and more pressure from his mother. The only way Mu Beixiao could think of to fight against the Queen Mother was to take the Minister's daughter as his concubine.

So in just half a year, Mu Beixiao's empty harem was almost full, filled with the daughters and sisters of various ministers.

As the queen is the most honorable position in the harem, Mu Beixiao would naturally sell it for a good price. It was impossible for him to give it to Zhao Yanzhen, a woman with no background at all.

Mu Beixiao was even reluctant to give Zhao Yanzhen the position of imperial concubine. After much deliberation, he finally gave Zhao Yanzhen the position of concubine with great reluctance.

Zhao Yanzhen, who was arrogant and had always aimed at the position of queen, never expected that in the end she would become an ordinary Concubine Yan among the many concubines in Mu Beixiao's harem.

In order to maintain balance in the harem, Mu Beixiao didn't even dare to show his favor to Zhao Yanzhen too much. In fact, compared with other concubines, he was even colder when facing Zhao Yanzhen.

This result was something Zhao Yanzhen had never expected. She clearly remembered that Mu Beixiao was devoted to Zhao Suxing and even left a harem for Zhao Suxing. Why did it become like this when it came to her? !

No matter how dissatisfied Zhao Yanzhen was, there was nothing she could do. Mu Beixiao was her last resort.

Zhao Yanzhen could only comfort herself that she and Mu Beixiao were truly in love. Even if there were other women, she would be able to become the queen sooner or later. She just had to wait for Mu Beixiao to take power.

Zhao Yanzhen's expectations were doomed to fail, because with the full support of the Queen Mother and the hard work of the island slaves, the water conservancy project, which was expected to take more than ten years to complete, was completed by Su Xing and the Minister of Works in three years.

Of course, it was not a big deal if some slaves died of exhaustion in the process. Su Xing felt that as long as he fed and watered them and let them work, it was by no means abuse.

Once the huge water conservancy project was completed, it directly solved the problem of flooding in several southern continents that were most seriously affected. It also made the mother river change from being violent to being gentle, truly becoming a mother river that nourishes the people on both sides of the strait.

The most important thing is that despite the fact that such a huge water conservancy project was being completed so urgently, the people not only did not suffer, but everyone made a lot of money, and went home with smiles on their faces, reluctant to leave but contentedly.

Zhang Erniu was the happiest one among them. He was very lucky as he was among the first batch of people selected to perform corvee labor. After one month of corvee labor, Zhang Erniu stayed to work directly.

For the next three years, Zhang Erniu ruthlessly refused to go home and worked with the construction team every day. Except for one month of corvée labor every year when he did not earn any money, he saved the rest of the money he earned every month and did not spend a single penny.

After returning to his hometown, Zhang Erniu saw from afar his clean and tidy yard and the three large houses that were obviously newly built.

Although the house was made of adobe bricks, it was so spacious and tall and expensive that Zhang Erniu was a little reluctant to recognize it.

When Lin saw her husband whom she hadn't seen for three years, she rushed over excitedly, tears streaming down her face before she could say a word. She said, "Boss, you're back!"

Zhang Erniu grabbed Lin's hand, and was so excited that he didn't know what to say, but what came out of his mouth was: "Why did we build a new house?"

Lin wiped away her tears of excitement and said, "The Queen Mother is so kind that she exempted taxes for several years in a row and ordered the establishment of markets in various places to encourage people to trade with each other.

Every year I go to the mountains to pick wild fruits and mushrooms, dry them and sell them at the market. In addition, our land has been doing well in the past two years, and the yield has increased. I saved some money and built a new house this year. "

Zhang Erniu nodded excitedly: "Okay, okay, thank you for your hard work over the years. I also made a lot of money this time. Our lives will get better and better in the future."

Countless families are seeing the reunion of Zhang Erniu and Lin. Everyone has a smile on their face and their hearts are filled with anticipation.

While the people were happy, they did not forget that their good days were brought by the Queen Mother. The Queen Mother's status in the hearts of the people was rising day by day, to the point where they knew the Queen Mother but not the Emperor.

In particular, the Empress Dowager has been tough on officials who oppressed the people in recent years. All officials who made mistakes were severely punished and replaced by officials from humble backgrounds trained by the Empress Dowager.

Nowadays, the people no longer have to panic and not know what to do when facing oppression from officials, because the Empress Dowager has abolished the rule that people who sue officials must be beaten with a stick.

Nowadays, when people sue officials, unless the accusation is false, they will not be beaten, and the case will not be dealt with perfunctorily. The accused officials must be thoroughly investigated.

This right is very small, but it does give the people the courage to fight to the death when facing oppression from officials, and it also prevents officials from continuing to bully the people to death unscrupulously.

Su Xing had almost no rest. As soon as he finished flood control, he immediately led his troops to attack the State of Qi. In the past few years, Su Xing was busy with flood control and had no time to spare. The State of Qi had always been restless and had invaded the border every year.

Now that he had finally freed up his hands, Su Xing took Chang Ninghai to attack the Qi Kingdom.

With his amazing record of leading troops last time, even if all the officials in the court were dissatisfied this time, they could not stop the Queen Mother from insisting on letting Su Xing lead the troops to war.

Su Xing did not disappoint the Queen Mother's expectations. After arriving at the border, in just three months, he had conquered half of the Qi Kingdom and seized countless gold, silver, treasures, and a large number of cattle, sheep, and horses.

The Qi State was close to the grassland and was originally a nomadic people. Later, they took advantage of the chaos of the previous dynasty to seize land and establish the Qi State. They also learned to farm like the people in the Central Plains.

However, there were many grasslands in the territory of Qi State, and not all land was suitable for farming, so it became a semi-nomadic and semi-agricultural country.

The looted war horses were sent to the cavalry camp by Su Xing, and most of the sheep were kept by Su Xing as snacks for the soldiers. The remaining cattle and sheep were sent to the capital by Su Xing, and the empress dowager sent people to distribute them to counties and prefectures across the country.

Su Xing robbed half of Qi's cattle and sheep. The number was large enough for him to distribute among the officials in the capital, and there were still quite a few sheep left.

The Queen Mother listened to Su Xing's advice and decided that the families of all the soldiers who died in the battle, as long as their parents, wives and children were still alive, could receive a cow and a sheep as a subsidy.

All wounded soldiers who were disabled on the battlefield could get a cow as a subsidy. With the property of the cow, these wounded soldiers would have a way to survive and would not be despised by their families.