Ning Chen Ling Xiao

The next day, Ling Xiao sent Yanran to the prepared house. The girls and women in the yard were all ready. Yanran took Ling Xiao's money and promise to live in happily, not paying any attention to the ten tall men in the yard. Maybe she was also puzzled, but she immediately explained it with the warm reason that Ling Xiao cared about her safety.

After everything was settled in the Prince of England's residence, the next thing came. Chu Yifeng went to the army to inspect his soldiers, and Ling Xiao came to the front to review Liang Qiujie's achievements for more than a month.

Liang Qiujie took care of the affairs of the fief, and the non-important matters were all in accordance with the routine set by Ling Xiao. Fortunately, there was nothing serious. Ling Xiao looked at the paperwork, nodded and smiled. "That's right, my lords have worked hard for more than a month. The prince understands everyone's hard work. From this month on, your lords' monthly salary will be increased by [-]%."

The officials were stunned for a while and repeatedly said they didn't dare, Ling Xiao smiled: "Don't worry, everyone, the extra money and food will come from the Prince of England's mansion, and each fiefdom's mansion probably has its own quota to subsidize the officials, our lord Although you are young, you still understand these things, and you must not let everyone follow the prince to suffer."

The officials declined again and then bowed to thank the prince for his kindness. In fact, everyone knew in their hearts that the King of England would never have thought of this. The man went straight to the army without showing his face when he returned to the fief. Can you still think about adding salary to them?This must be Ling Xiang's idea again.

Everyone secretly admired Ling Xiao after working with him for several months. Although it was not pleasant to say something about the matter with the prince, Ling Xiao did not take advantage of the prince's favor to corrupt the law. I can't even help thinking that it's fortunate that the prince has such a person.

"Mr. Ling." Liang Qiujie said, "Since Minister Ling's policy of only paying one tael of silver for reclaiming wasteland was issued, thousands of households have opened and opened two thousand in this month's fiefdom alone." More than [-] acres of barren land, the officials sent people to inspect it, and most of these barren fields have already been cultivated."

Ling Xiao nodded: "It's not easy for these farmers to save this money. After buying the barren land, they naturally want to take advantage of the spring to plow it out and grow something."

"Last year, more than 2000 acres of barren land were opened up, and now I have added more than [-] acres of land to my fief in one month. This is all due to Ling..." Prince Liang Qiujie laughed. Knowing that it only takes one or two taels of silver to reclaim wasteland in the past three years, many people are tempted, and there will be more land reclamation in the future."

"Then Mr. Liang will have to continue to work hard." Liang Qiujie has always been in charge of this area, and Ling Xiao is relieved, and continued, "Also, the wasteland that has just been opened up in the fief this year cannot be taxed. It is already barren and there is no time to cultivate it, so where can I collect taxes from them, this part is also from the palace."

What Ling Xiao wants is to stimulate the people in the fiefdom to open up wasteland on a large scale. The people depend on food, and if there is land, there will be food, and food is all the guarantee.One is that it can make the people in the fief rich, and the other is that Ling Xiao thinks that in the future... If one day he wants to fight against the imperial city, then the Wanshi granary in the north will be the most powerful guarantee for the rear. What is the war fighting now?Those who fight are soldiers, and those who fight are grain and grass.

Liang Qiujie nodded: "Ling Xiang really has a compassionate heart." Ling Xiao smiled and didn't care much, and said: "There is also the matter of border trade. This part of the imperial city is very strictly controlled. We can only obey orders. I also watch it on the streets of Hehesha. However, our soldiers don’t pay attention to the Huns and Tatar women, which is very good. The imperial city has banned the trade between the Huns and us all these years. It’s the same as before, we can do what the court can do with the Northland, it’s hard to tell, but if foreigners come to the Northland for a small amount of purchases in the future, we don’t have to be so tight.”

Liang Qiujie and several other officials had a strange look in their eyes when they heard the words, Ling Xiao continued with a smile: "I just feel pity for those women and children. They have no food at home, so they took some money to buy some rations in fear. It's pitiful to think about it , as long as you don’t buy in large quantities, you can sell them to them as much as you want, and it’s all about selling money, it’s different to whom, anyway, the people of our fiefdom don’t suffer a loss, that’s all.”

Liang Qiujie took the lead in agreeing, and other officials also nodded in agreement, but everyone knew in their hearts that Ling Xiao's policies were far from those of the imperial city, and the vigilant people had faintly sensed that Ling Xiang was showing favor to foreign countries, right? ?

Ling Xiao explained a few more small things, and they left when they were done. The officials had to sort out the paperwork, and Ling Xiao went back to the house.

Chu Yifeng hadn't returned from the army yet, so Ling Xiao went directly to the outer study, where Qin Long waited for a long time, saw Ling Xiao coming and saluted, "Master, I wish you a letter."

Ling Xiao took it, opened it, and read it again. He couldn't help standing up, frowned, and read it again carefully. He said angrily: "What's the reason?! General Fu had just returned to the imperial city when the crown prince was assassinated. Captured?!"

Qin Long hurriedly persuaded Ling Xiao to appease his anger, picked up Shi Pei's letter and read it again, and couldn't help but feel angry. The emperor had already arrested enough people in the Xuandemen case, and now he said that someone had identified Fu Jieqin. A few days ago, Fu Jieqin was taken to Shuntian Mansion for interrogation.

"General Fu was a meritorious minister during the reign of the late emperor! How dare the emperor..." Ling Xiao and Fu Jieqin also worked together, and he admired his character in his heart. Knowing that he was humiliated and tried, he couldn't help being angry, and said coldly , "How will General Fu survive after being detained in the court? I don't know if he will commit suicide in fear of crime or die suddenly in prison..."

Ling Xiao was also talking about Qin Long's concerns, and bowed his head and said: "Master... Your Majesty has always been suspicious of the military generals who held great power during the reign of the first emperor. Go to the fief, or you won't be able to escape."

Ling Xiao sneered and burned the secret letter, and said lightly: "If I want to move, I have to see if he has the ability. The first emperor Wei Qi just passed and he will kill the heroes of the former court. Okay, he is so eager to ruin himself. We also need to help with reputation..."

"What's more..." Qin Long lowered his voice, "The spies who came also said that the emperor is infected with some kind of disease, and he is plagued by nightmares every night. Now the Chengqian Palace is brightly lit day and night, and they all say...the emperor is Haunted by a ghost."

Qin Long himself also found it ridiculous when he said it, and shook his head with a smile: "So it's normal for the emperor to have a bad temper now. Of course, these are all rumors. The palace even killed a few talkative palace people because of this, but the emperor is now mentally ill. It’s true that you can’t sleep well at night, and you don’t fail to review papers during the day and go to court in the morning, and you can tell that the face is bad, and speaking of it, the emperor is diligent.”

"I have waited so many years to sit on this seat. How can I not be diligent enough to live up to the expectation of more than 40 years." Ling Xiao spoke unforgivingly, writing a letter while satirizing the emperor, and handed it to Qin after a few strokes. Longdao, "Tell him to be careful in everything. You don't need to send people to Xisi Hutong. It's too late. The emperor is not stupid. If he keeps him alive, it will be over. Let's talk about the rumors that the virtuous king wants his life." It’s already spread, it’s ok.”

Qin Long bowed: "Yes."

Chu Yifeng came back at noon. He followed Ling Xiao's rules. He finished all the things in the morning and had to eat lunch together. Chu Yifeng took a bath before eating. Ling Xiao couldn't laugh or cry: "Are you in such a hurry? Are you hungry? "

Chu Yifeng sank into the water, his mouth sank under the water, and he spat out bubbles in a murmur of speech: "I've been busy all morning and sweated a lot, I'm afraid I'll burn you."

"I..." Ling Xiao turned around the screen angrily, and was about to say something, but seeing Chu Yifeng's appearance, he forgot, and laughed, "Why don't you just dive into the water?"

Chu Yifeng smiled and continued to spit bubbles: "Then I won't be able to breathe. What's for lunch?"

"Have a meal."

Chu Yifeng paused: "Is there only food?"

"Of course not." Ling Xiao simply took off his coat and rolled up the cuffs to help him wash his hair, slowly rubbed Chu Yifeng's scalp with his slender fingers, and chuckled, "What's the matter? I asked them to fix it in the kitchen The sac pit has already been made, we will have a makeshift meal at noon, and I will bake buns for you at night."

Chu Yifeng squinted his eyes comfortably, and whispered: "What are baked buns?"

Chu Yifeng seemed to like this way of spitting out bubbles while talking, but Ling Xiao couldn't hear anything clearly when his voice subsided, and Ling Xiao simply took Chu Yifeng's arm Lift him up: "Speak well!"

"Well... I asked you what baked buns are." Chu Yifeng patted the water slowly, and smiled, "Bake buns before eating? It's the same as fried dumplings, right?"

Ling Xiao couldn't help laughing: "Who told you that baked buns are baked buns, and you can bake them directly with the raw buns, and you'll know when you eat them, the taste is different from the one baked over charcoal fire , you should like it."

The more Chu Yifeng listened, the more interested he became. After washing up, he hurriedly ate his meal and was about to go to the kitchen to look at the pouch. Ling Xiao stopped him quickly, and said with a smile, "Let's go together at night, and then you can help me, so that you don't worry about it." Eat and sleep first."

After a busy morning, Chu Yifeng felt a little sleepy after eating, so he nodded and followed Ling Xiao to sleep. After waking up, the two of them went to the garden to enjoy it for a while, and played a few games of chess in the lake pavilion. It was just getting dark Chu Yifeng was very excited: "Aren't you talking about baked buns?"

Ling Xiao smiled: "Go, let's bake the buns."

In the big kitchen, Ling Xiao's instructions had already been received, and they all retreated after the nang pit was burned. Chu Yifeng touched this and that, raised his head and said to Ling Xiao: "What am I doing?"

Chu Yifeng didn't get offended by the pedantic attitude of a gentleman who is far away from the cook. Ling Xiao liked him like this, so he brought him a ponytail to sit down, and gave him a few bulbs of garlic: "Peel the garlic, and I'll do the rest."

Ling Xiao rolled up his wide cuffs, and took a porcelain basin to knead the flour. Chu Yifeng stared blankly at Ling Xiao's slender fingers kneading the dough and thought it looked good, and smiled naively: "How did I hear... this bun is ...you have to use hair, you are dead like this."

"Yo, I also know how to make dough with dead dough." Ling Xiao smiled, "We have to use dead dough for this steamed stuffed bun." While talking, he had already kneaded the dough, covered it with a cloth and put it aside, then took onion and ginger and chopped it , took the fine diced lamb leg and mixed it evenly, added salt, sesame oil, sheep tail oil, fragrant ingredients, etc., and mixed it well. Honestly peeling the garlic, Ling Xiao was amused, in fact, this does not need garlic at all, he was just afraid that he would be idle, so he said with a smile: "Come on, you are with me."

Chu Yifeng hurriedly put down the garlic basket and came over. Ling Xiao divided the dough into balls, rolled it into skins, put meat stuffing on it, brushed it with egg wash, folded it up and kneaded it slightly, and said with a smile: "Do you understand? Just do it like this .”

Chu Yifeng nodded with great interest, and started to follow Ling Xiao. After a while, he wrapped all the preparation materials. Ling Xiao opened the pocket and put the buns in, and said with a smile, "Just wait, it will be done in a while."

Ling Xiao took Chu Yifeng who had been guarding Nangkeng to wash his hands, and after washing, he was Mr. Pianpianjia again. Ling Xiao tidied up his robe and looked at Chu Yifeng with a smile: "Look at this greedy..."

Chu Yifeng stared at the sac hole without squinting: "I can already smell the fragrance."

Ling Xiao hugged him and waited for a while, and when the time was up, he called someone in, then ordered the cook to make some soup, and then followed Chu Yifeng to the front. After a while, Bihe and the others brought up the baked bun soup, and Chu Yifeng couldn't wait. He grabbed a steamed stuffed bun and ate it. The steamed stuffed bun was still hot just after he took it out of the pouch. Chu Yifeng took a breath and laughed, "Okay... delicious, be careful..."

Ling Xiao smiled, both of them had good appetites at night, but Ling Xiao stopped Chu Yifeng when he ate the sixth bun, and said with a smile: "That's what you like to eat, and you can do it again if you like it, eat so much at night I can't digest it, that's fine."

Chu Yifeng put it down reluctantly, and when Ling Xiao wasn't paying attention, he quickly picked it up, took a bite and put it down. Ling Xiao was taken aback for a moment, but seeing Ling Xiao's expression, Chu Yifeng didn't dare to chew, and looked at Ling Xiao with his mouth puffed out. Ling Xiao couldn't help laughing: "Forget it, let's eat."

Chu Yifeng swallowed the soup in his mouth, took a few sips of the soup Ling Xiao handed him, and smiled: "It's a bit too much..."

Ling Xiao chuckled: "You know that too."

The maids brought tea and rinsed their bowls, and some cleaned up the tables and other things. Chu Yifeng went to touch Ling Xiao's stomach. Ling Xiao raised his eyebrows and took Chu Yifeng to rub his stomach. Chu Yifeng couldn't help laughing, Bi When He saw it, he quickly lowered his head and packed his things.

Embarrassed and ticklish, Chu Yifeng said with a smile, "I can't do it...I'm really holding on..."

Ling Xiao chuckled: "I'm helping you digest your food, come..."

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