After being robbed by the prince of the enemy country

The efficiency of the court that was liquidated by Chu Shao was much higher than when Huaiyuan was in power.

Huaizhen approved the memorial of Qizhou Taixue, and the process of three provinces and six departments was completed within one day.

On the third day after Chu Shao received the reply from Beijing, the imperial city sent officials from the Ministry of Household and Rites to assist in matters related to the conversion of Nangong into an imperial school.

Everything went smoothly and efficiently. Three months later, the first entrance examination was over, and the Qizhou students who passed the selection were admitted to the palace-style Taixue and received an education comparable to that of the imperial city.

One year later, in spring, before the exams in Chunwei, Chu Qingxu personally went outside the city gate to send students to Beijing for the exams. Among them, the youngest student was Zhang Liyu, who was only 17 years old this year.

Before leaving, Zhang Liyu asked Chu Shao anxiously: "Is Zhongqin's imperial examination really fair to us Qizhou people?"

Song Hao's example was bloodied in front of all Qizhou scholars, and even today the case has not been overturned, and just one year can't completely eliminate Qizhou people's grudge against Zhongqin.

Chu Shao raised his hand and patted Zhang Liyu's shoulder: "If it was a year ago, I wouldn't dare to promise you, but right now, the imperial examination must be fair."

He looked in the direction of the imperial city, and said with a smile: "You have to believe that the person sitting high in the hall is a wise king."

Now everyone is willing to convincingly call the man in the palace Mingjun.

In the Qiwu Palace at the end of spring, the palace is full of strange fragrances.

Wen Yan read the list of the top three in Chunwei to the king standing under the phoenix tree, and added at the end: "The second place in the current department, Zhang Liyu, is 17 years old and is from Qizhou."

Huaizhen was a little interested, and looked back, Wen Yan understood: "Mr. Chu occasionally comes to Taixue to be a teacher for a month or two when he is in the mood. This second place is the student he taught."

A bit of tenderness faded from Huaizhen's eyes, and he reached out and plucked the evergreen branches and leaves, "The people he taught will naturally have good character. Zhang Liyu was mentioned to the cabinet, and he was named a bachelor of Zhengsanguan Wendian."

It is a matter of time for the top three in the imperial examination to enter the cabinet, but it usually takes one to two years of tempering. This time, Huaizhen obviously made an exception for promotion.

At the age of 17, the second place in the list can be described as a genius from heaven. You must know that this year's No. [-] pick is approaching thirty.Everyone in the court was convinced of this, and even if they guessed that the extraordinary promotion had something to do with Qizhou, they did not dare to speak against Huaizhen.

Wen Yan led this oral order, closed the list of the top three in his hand, looked at His Majesty's expression, and spun the words on his lips for a few rounds before saying: "Today in Concubine Ning's palace... I sent someone to persuade Your Majesty to choose concubine."

It has been a year since Chu Shao left the palace, and Huaizhen's harem has been empty for another year.

The civil servants of the former dynasty began to advise half a year ago, saying that the country should not live without children, even if it is better to accept a concubine first to block the mouths of the world.

The officials' words made their lips callous, but Huai Zhen didn't listen to a word.

The previous dynasty did not dare to persuade, so the concubine of the harem came to persuade.

After Chu Shao was abolished and left the palace, Concubine Ning regained some face and prestige in the harem. In recent months, she has been busy looking for several noble children, only hoping to put herself next to Huaizhen People, to secure their position.

Huaizhen offered her three points of thin noodles, but declined three times. Today is the fourth temptation.

The wind blows over the luxuriant poinciana that is already a person's height. The buds are not yet open but the fragrance is tangy. It is refreshing, but people are disturbing the scenery.

"The concubine has been eating fast and praying to Buddha for a long time, why is she still thinking about the mundane things of marrying me and taking concubines?" Huaizhen sighed, "It must be that the life in the palace is too good, which disturbs her cleansing. Go to Yongning Palace and let me know, if the concubine can't calm down in the palace, then I will give her to practice outside the palace."

This word spread to Yongning Palace, and Concubine Ning fell ill on the spot.

"What?" Chu Shao asked Xiangxiu at the dinner table in Anninghou's mansion, "In order not to choose a concubine, he actually wants the concubine to get out of the palace?"

While Chu Yun was scooping up soup for Xiao Shao, he listened to the gossip in the palace.

Xiangxiu sighed: "The last thing your majesty wants to hear is the word "concubine selection", but the concubine has always mentioned it in the past two months. There is a famine in Yuzhou recently, and your majesty is already in a bad mood. His Majesty was probably annoyed by hearing that day, and sent someone to warn Dowager Ning, saying that if she dared to raise the matter of choosing a concubine again, she would be asked to eat vegetarian food outside the palace and chant Buddha, in a disguised form, she would drive Dowager Ning out of the palace."

Chu Yun, who had nothing to do with himself, watched the excitement and said: "At any rate, the concubine has raised him for several years. Wouldn't she be called unfilial if she did this?"

"Hey!!!" Chu Shao put down his chopsticks, sighed, and said worriedly, "Isn't this giving someone a handle?"

That day Huaizhen had sworn that he would never take concubines and concubines, Chu Qingxu just thought he was talking nonsense, after all, even if the emperor simply wanted to balance power, he would have to accept a few concubines as a show, unexpectedly Huaizhen would not have any Willing to!

So what he said that day was not nonsense, but serious!

Xiangxiu: "My lord, why not write a memorial to persuade him? It is only useful for you to talk about things that cannot be persuaded by others."

In the past year, everyone in the Hou Mansion knew that the Second Young Master and the one in the palace regarded the memorial as a love letter, one letter in two or three days, one back and forth for more than a year, and now Chu Shao's study has piled up. Memorials like two hills.

Chu Yun had time to read a few books, and the content in them was gaudy, with words and pictures, such as "my dear" and "my dear", the wording was disgusting and insulting to politeness!He was so ashamed that everyone who came here felt hot.

Chu Shao drank up his brother's fish soup in two or three gulps and was about to go back to his study. Chu Yun pressed Chu Shao and reminded him: "Today is the time to drink medicine."

Chu Shao has stopped other decoctions now, and only drinks a bowl of poinciana flower juice at the beginning of the month. In the past year, his body has become much stronger and he has never had any illnesses.

Si Yun brought the hot concoction carefully, not daring to spill a drop.

Chu Shao was used to drinking medicine at the beginning of the month, so he raised his hand to pick up the jade bowl and drank it slowly.

This medicine is sweet to drink, not bitter at all, and the smell is also fragrant, but the color is as bright as fresh blood. Every time I take it, there are always strands of warm currents in my heart, which makes Chu Qingxu mistakenly think that she is It's like drinking someone's heart blood.

He drank all the medicine in a bowl, and a few drops remained at the bottom of the bowl. Si Yun easily mixed warm water into it, and Chu Shao followed the usual practice and drank the bowl of white water as well.

In the past, it was not necessary to drink those expensive medicines without leaving a drop. Although Chu Shao had doubts, but thinking of the miraculous effects of this medicine, he could understand why it was so expensive that not even a drop was wasted.

Xiangxiu accompanied him back to the study. While she was grinding for Chu Shao, she said on behalf of the miserly man in the palace: "Your Majesty has gotten angry recently, and has been coughing for several days."

This was revealed by Murong when he came to deliver the medicine two days ago, Xiangxiu naturally knew that this would be passed on to Chu Shao.

Chu Qingxu frowned as expected: "Why does he not cherish his body so much?"

"Your Majesty is not to blame. There has been a famine in Yuzhou recently, and it has not been resolved for a long time, so Your Majesty is so anxious."

Chu Shao's writing hands paused, "Famine? The treasury of Zhongqin is abundant, so it is good to allocate funds for disaster relief. Is there any difficulty?"

Xiangxiu said truthfully: "Young Master, I don't know. It takes at least two days to transport grain from Kyoto to Yuzhou. Now it is the rainy season. No matter how careful the escort soldiers are, it is still inevitable that the rice noodles will become moldy. Last month The officials who escorted the food were so confused that they boiled moldy rice into porridge for the victims, causing Yuzhou to suffer from natural disasters and man-made disasters, His Majesty was furious because of this, and dealt with a lot of officials."

Chu Shao frowned, he didn't know about this, Xiangxiu is now a little bird in the palace and Qizhou, he has no reservations about Huaizhen, but he reports good news but not bad news to Chu Shao.

"This rainy season will last for two months, and the people of Yuzhou cannot be allowed to endure another two months." Chu Shao thought for a while and said, "Qizhou is only half a day away from Yuzhou. If you choose a On a sunny morning, it may be possible to send it quickly.”

Qizhou is not the only prefecture near Yuzhou, but most of the prefectures and counties surrounding Kyoto are populous cities, and there are not many grain depots that can be used for relief. It is a drop in the bucket to solve the famine, and the symptoms are not the root cause, so we still have to rely on The treasury of Kyoto.

But Qizhou is an exception. Now Qizhou has few people, rich land, sufficient grain depots, and was once a land of fish and rice. As long as the people save a little on weekdays, as far as Yuzhou is concerned, Qizhou can be a temporary substitute for the national treasury.

It is impossible for Huaizhen not to have thought of this, but he did not order Qizhou to help, probably because he did not want to worry Chu Shao, and there is another layer to guard against people saying that the emperor treated Qizhou harshly and exploited Qizhou, so he restrained him in every way.

Chu Shao worked on the book by candlelight all night, and advised him.

Two days later, Qin Zhizhou went to the Marquis Mansion to see Chu Shao as usual, but was told that the second son was in the peach forest.

Qin Zhizhou was lured to the peach orchard of the Hou's mansion by the servants of the Hou's mansion, and saw that the peach trees in the garden were full of big and red peaches.

Chu Shao wore a light uniform and was picking peaches in the forest. He rolled up his sleeves and held a peach that was so big that it overwhelmed the branches and leaves in his plain white hands. He twisted it skillfully and picked one off. The whole peaches were then put into the basket in Si Yun's hand.

Qin Zhizhou saw it, how could he let the second son do such rough work himself!Getting ready to help.

Chu Shao had already put down his sleeves, and the basket was also full of plump and juicy peaches. He straightened his sleeves and walked out of the peach forest, and said casually, "Qin Zhizhou, you are here."

Qin Zhizhou made a bow to Chu Shao, and said respectfully: "As usual, I came to get the love letter, ah no, it's to get the memorial!"

Chu Shao: "......"

Qin Palace, Heyang Palace.

"Your Majesty, the memorial from Qizhou is here." Wen Yan reported outside the hall.

The listless Huaizhen immediately regained his spirits, "Submit it quickly."

Wen Yan was a little embarrassed: "This time it's not just a memorial."

Huai Zhen watched Wen Yan lift a basket of peaches to the table, and a sealed memorial was pressed under the top peach.

The iced peaches were sent from Qizhou Kuaima to the imperial city all the way, intact.

"Young Master Chu said, the peaches are out of the fire, let His Highness calm down, the peaches were grown by the Hou family."

Huaizhen's brows twitched: "He picked it himself for me to eat?"

"Yes! Young Master is thinking about His Majesty."

Huaizhen couldn't hide his smile, and solemnly picked up the top peach, smelled it, the peach picked by Qingxu was extraordinarily fragrant, and the heart that had just been blooded did not feel any pain at all.

He put Tao Zi by his hand, took down the memorial, and began to read it carefully.

In the letter, Chu Shao mentioned the matter of asking Qizhou to relieve the famine in Yuzhou, and he knew what Huaizhen was worried about, so this memorial also contained a neatly folded petition, which was as big as a table, and it was densely signed The name of the people of Qizhou.

Huaizhen's heart warmed, Chu Shao always knew where his dilemma was, and always knew how to resolve it for him.

It is not that the emperor cannot order Qizhou to rescue Yuzhou, but he must take into account the public opinion of Qizhou.

After all, Qizhou has only just been freed from the shadow of subjugation, and finally regained some vitality. The court is eager to suck its blood to help other states and counties. Bow your head, it is inevitable that you will feel chilled.

The only appropriate way is to let the people of Qizhou help Yuzhou spontaneously.

Chu Qingxu knew that the crux of the matter was here, and he was also the only one who could break through the invisible ice wall between Qizhou City and other states and counties.

It took him two days to win this petition for Huaizhen. The people of Qizhou asked for food relief to Yuzhou.

The people voluntarily watched and helped each other, and Qizhou truly became a bond with Zhongqin, and the old state of Nanqi completely became a thing of the past.

It only took Chu Shao two days to firmly hold the people's hearts of Qizhou in his hands for Huaizhen.

At the end of the memorial, it was signed by Chu Qingxu himself:

"My husband is a big idiot Jiugu, may you sit firmly on the bright hall and enjoy the splendor of the society."

The author says:

Jiu Gu: He still loves me! ! ! ! ! !

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