There is a big problem with my harem [Qing Chuan]

Looking at Concubine Min's expression, Dong Hanshuang couldn't understand her thoughts.I'm afraid it's the same remorse as she did back then. Back then, she had the Empress Dowager as a backing to give her a way out, and Concubine Min in front of her was probably...

Dong Hanshuang observed Min's reaction, and continued: "Shunfu Building belongs to your family, that is, Shunfu Store also belongs to your family? That's really a pity, many of them have closed down in recent years..."

"Although I have entered the palace, my brother and mother are still in charge of the family, so no one has mentioned it?"

"Miss Concubine Min doesn't know." Dong Hanshuang shook his head, "The Shunfu store has been running smoothly in the past few years. That's because the products sold are precious, and most of them are rare imported products. But among them, the most profitable ones are clocks, glasses, telescopes, etc. , The technology has long been understood by Daqing, and even independently developed and upgraded, independently manufactured, and many of them are exported overseas.

The craftsmanship of these things is not in the hands of only one or two families as in the past, and almost every store in the capital sells them.In the past few years, Shunfu store still occupied the reputation of being rare and rare, but in the past two years, the price is high and the quality is not as good as other stores, so it naturally lags behind. "

"...You don't need to import it, you can make it yourself?" Min Bin couldn't hide the surprise on his face.As a concubine, I naturally couldn't get in touch with Er Niang and Ama in the past few years after entering the palace. The only concubine who can enter the palace sees herself as a thorn in her side and is unwilling to meet her. How can she tell her family? matter.

She lowered her eyes and subconsciously grasped her clothes with her hands resting on her knees.

Dong Hanshuang was keenly aware of Concubine Min's attitude change, picked up the teacup and took a sip with a smile: "It's a pity for Concubine Min, since you know little about the changes outside the palace after entering the palace, these imported products are no longer popular now. , the best-selling ones are produced by our side for overseas countries!"

"It has become like this..." Minbi was dumbfounded when she heard that, she was in prison for a few years in the palace, it was an ordinary thing that Dong Hanshuang was used to, but it made her stunned for a while.

The longer the listening time, the more sorrow Min Bin felt in her heart, and the more she envied Dong Hanshuang.

Suddenly she noticed a detail, and said in surprise: "Sister Dong, you are not married yet with this outfit?"

Dong Hanshuang in front of him was even a few years older than himself, and he was completely inconspicuous in appearance, but he looked a bit like a Mongolian woman in the capital.

Especially those eyes, the pupils are actually light brown, her hair is pulled up, and the hair coils are stacked on the top of her head, forming a high bun, and a long plain silver hairpin without flowers and patterns is inserted obliquely in the hair. In the bun.

This hairstyle is called Panhuan bun, and it has always been used only by young ladies who have not left the court—Concubine Min often wore it before entering the palace.

Dong Hanshuang nodded and smiled, "Yes."

Now, when she is considered an old girl without being married, there are people like Miss Dong who still live at ease.Not to mention that Concubine Min was taken aback, the maids serving Concubine Min raised their heads one by one, staring at Miss Dong in astonishment and panic, and some even showed contempt in their eyes.

"Sister, isn't sister afraid of other people's gossip?" Min Bin stuttered, "Is your family..."

"So what's the matter?" Dong Hanshuang said with a smile, "If you live a life listening to other people's gossip, what is your own life? I used to live in poverty, and I had to go to distant relatives to make a living, and I dare not contact them. I am a member of the family. But now I am also the teacher of the eldest princess and the second princess, and the emperor still wants me to go to the Central Academy to teach for students in the future!"

Min Bin hadn't seen the brilliance on both sides of Dong Han here for a long time. She froze on the spot, only remembering the opening and closing of Dong Han's lips, but she couldn't remember her next words at all.

When she woke up, she had already returned to the Tingzhu Pavilion.Hearing that the scenery of Zhuxuan was very good, she leaned on the window in a daze, looking at the sparkling South China Sea lake under the setting sun, and watching those free-spirited birds flying on the lake, she was filled with melancholy.

"Master, don't think about it. Miss Dong's life is so comfortable for you, young master?" Mu Mian whispered in her ear, "It's hard to come to the palace, let's have a look at the scenery and think about something good."

"A good thing? What's the good thing in this palace? After walking out of the Forbidden City and entering the Xiyuan Palace, to put it bluntly, you have entered a big cage from a small cage. What's the difference?" Concubine Min sneered Said.

"Master, what nonsense are you talking about! Ms. Dong's nonsense may be because she wants to appeal to the emperor and has no place to find a way out! You are the one who is jealous and envious of you, master! Maybe you made a mistake and escaped from home!"

Kapok didn't take it seriously, and even looked down on that girl Dong deeply: "Think about this world, how can there be a woman of this age who is not married or even wanders outside? If she speaks out of the house, the whole family will be ashamed! I'm afraid that Miss Dong didn't go to a distant relative, but eloped—"

"Shut up! You don't understand at all! Go, go! Let me be quiet!" Min Bin said angrily, and angrily sent Kapok and a group of servants out of the bedroom.

Standing alone in the hall alone, looking around at the luxurious decorations, Concubine Min only felt a sore nose, and the sour taste came to her heart: "I really... what am I doing!"

……

at night.

The full moon like a silver plate hangs high in the sky, and the silver brilliance falls on the earth.In summer, frogs and insects screamed loudly and cheerfully on the side of the road. On the empty alley, Kangxi, dressed in ordinary clothes, led Liang Jiugong and four guards to the "Meng Hui Zhai" with the gate closed.

The leading guard looked around suspiciously and vigilantly, and tapped on the door twice with his fingers. After a while, the door of Meng Hui Zhai was opened by an old woman with gray temples.

She poked her head out, hunched her back slightly, looked up at Kangxi tremblingly, her staggering appearance made people worry.She struggled to open the door, bent down silently and waved her hand to invite a group of people to come in.

"Presumptuous!" Cao Yin, who was following Kangxi, frowned when he saw that the old woman was not polite when she saw the emperor.

"Ziqing!" Kangxi shouted, shaking his head silently.This old woman was a peasant woman whom he specially searched for—dumb, unable to write, and without relatives.

The old woman stared blankly, lowered her eyes and led the way to the door of the study.Kangxi nodded, motioned for the old lady to step back, leaving Liang Jiugong outside the door, and brought the four guards behind him into the study.

The four imperial bodyguards are all well-educated people who are one in a hundred. At this moment, all of them held their breath and stared around. They couldn't help being secretly surprised. It turned out that the place they were in seemed to be an inconspicuous building from the outside, but the inside made people feel uneasy. The moving study.

Surrounded by bookshelves that lead directly to the roof, a foldable wooden ladder is placed aside. There are a variety of books, many of which are rare ancient books. What surprised the four guards was that there were not only English, Spanish, and even more books in it. They also don't know foreign language books.

So much so that the guards were so eager to try, they just wished they could take down these books and read them slowly.

Who lives here?How could it be located here in the Xiyuan Palace?Or is this actually the study used by the emperor?

A trace of curiosity arose in the hearts of the four, and they were quite puzzled that the emperor brought them here in the middle of the night.

Suddenly, there was a very slight shaking of the bead curtain, which attracted the attention of the guards. They hurriedly stepped forward carefully and surrounded Kangxi, looking at the source of the sound vigilantly.

A young servant girl came out from behind the bead curtain. She raised the bead curtain, asked Dong Hanshuang to come out from inside, then squatted down at Kangxi and retreated directly with her head bowed.

Dong Han, who was left alone, silently watched everyone present with a smile on his face.

The four guards originally thought that there would be a scribe with a beard inside, but they didn't expect that it was a woman, and they were all at a loss for a moment, and couldn't help but be at a loss.

After being stunned for a few seconds, they either took a step back subconsciously, or covered their faces and turned sideways to avoid looking directly at Dong Hanshuang, and they seemed to regain their composure after a while.They exchanged glances, and Nalan Xingde was the first to bite the bullet and cup his hands: "Your Majesty, who is this girl?"

"This one is the teacher of the four of you from now on." Kangxi said calmly, but the words sounded like a thunderclap in the ears, making the four of them feel dizzy.

"Your Majesty, you are talking about this girl?" Nalan Xingde subconsciously wanted to ask questions, but suddenly thought of what Ama had said to him the night before he left.

He kept the rest of his words on his lips but didn't spit them out. After a while of contemplation, he tentatively asked Dong Han with his hands clasped together: "The girl's surname is Dong?"

Dong Hanshuang smiled again, then nodded.

Nalan Xingde's face turned blue and white one after another, but after taking a deep breath, he was polite and bowed: "Student Nalan Xingde has met Master Dong."

"Rong Ruo?" Cao Yin was taken aback, knowing that Nalan Xingde was not so easily convinced by others, and carefully looked at Miss Dong in front of him with lonely and questioning eyes.

This Miss Dong's appearance is not outstanding, her brows are calm, but her hazel eyes are full of sharpness.She was wearing a plain long gown only for men—if it wasn't for the black hair and the bumpy figure, just judging from the clear figure like a bamboo—she didn't look like a girl in this world at all, she was a girl in the world. Literati and bureaucrats, with an extraordinary appearance.

"May I ask where your teacher is from?" Cao Yin hesitated for a moment, but he skipped asking Miss Dong how to teach as a woman, and pointed directly at the center.

"Minnv's knowledge comes from a gathering of hundreds of schools." Dong Han said with a smile, his bright eyes shining.

"Ziqing." Kangxi said beside him, "This Miss Dong is the improver of the textile machine you have been looking for for a long time."

Cao Yin was taken aback, Cao Yin's father, Cao Xi, is now weaving in Jiangning, in charge of the silk fabrics used by the court and managing the silk industry in Jiangnan for a generation.

The Jiangning Manufacturing Bureau has more than 1000 looms and about [-] craftsmen, and more than [-] ordinary people rely on the silk weaving industry to make a living. It can be said that half of the ordinary people in Jinling Prefecture rely on this for their livelihoods, and the annual output value is as high as [-] two million taels of silver.

However, since a year ago, the textile machines of Jiangning Manufacturing Bureau have been updated to a new batch. With the same machines and craftsmen, the efficiency of the new textile machines is ten times higher than that of the old ones—even, in After several replacements in a year, the latest textile machines are dozens of times more efficient than those used a year ago.

The fabrics produced by the Jiangning Weaving Bureau were originally only used by the court and dignitaries, but now it is even possible to free up some novices or artisans with lesser skills, and use them to produce cheaper fabrics. Marketed in the world to common people.

And the person who improved the loom was right in front of his eyes!