These years of being the queen mother!

When Empress Dowager Yang returned to the Cining Palace, it was already dark.Chunlai ordered the palace people to hang up the lanterns early, and then dressed in plain palace clothes, stood on the steps, and waited with a trace of grace on his face...

After Empress Dowager Yang came back, Chunlai smiled lightly, and greeted her with a smile. "Mother, Dongguo has sent a letter, saying that the manpower of the ocean-going merchant ship has been prepared. He also said that he was reluctant to leave in the summer time, and wanted to ask the deputy to work with the summer time."

"This girl..."

Empress Dowager Yang shook her head, but after entering the inner room, she sat down on the beauty couch in the outer room.She acquiesced in the matter of Dongguo, and instead asked Chunlai about Qiuqu.

"Let's go in autumn, it's not like releasing Bao'er in Yikun Palace again!"

"Why did your mother say that? Could it be that your mother scolded the second princess again today?" Qiu Qu suddenly walked in from outside the hall with a small plate of preserved fruit.Putting a small plate of preserved fruit on the table, Qiu Qu took a piece and handed it to Queen Mother Yang.Empress Dowager Yang took it, took a bite, and waited for the sweetness of the preserved fruit to spread in her throat, and said with a smile behind her.

"That girl is too courageous. She dared to tell the Ai family directly that she yearns for Li Dingguo and wants the Ai family to let Li Dingguo become the princess. Although the Ai family also thinks that Li Dingguo is a talent, it is good to be the son-in-law of the Ai family, but as a daughter-in-law My child, you should be more reserved, so Aijia gave her a hard time and asked her to stay in the palace for Aijia recently. You and Chun came from the small and brought up Bao'er and Belle. Belle's personality is not bad. One point, Bao'er is a master who can't stand it, and is usually the most impatient to stay in the palace, so he is suddenly grounded, and he is not full of grievances!"

When Empress Dowager Yang first entered the palace, in order to protect her from danger, Wei Zhongxian privately appointed four subordinates in spring, summer, autumn and winter. Except for Xia Shi and Dongguo who were a pair, the other two, Empress Dowager Yang, when the little emperor Zhu Cilin ascended the throne, I once asked them if they wanted to get married, even if they were ordinary ladies, it was better than staying in the deep palace and spending their time with her. It turned out that they didn't want to leave when spring came and autumn went, and even Queen Mother Yang asked again In the end, the two of them chose to be the aunt in charge by themselves.

Empress Dowager Yang selfishly acquiesced to the two's actions because she also wanted her confidant to stay by her side. During the years when she was busy with court affairs and teaching at the same time, Empress Dowager Yang had no extra time to care and take care of her. two daughters.Empress Dowager Yang knew that she owed Zhu Shuxie and Zhu Shuxie, so she entrusted her two daughters to Chunlai and Qiu to take care of them.Speaking of it, Chunlai and Qiuqu's motherly love for Zhu Shuxi and Zhu Shuwan is not much less than their own, so after hearing what Queen Mother Yang said, Chunlai and Qiuqu were a little nervous, especially Qiuqu was still muttering.

"Hey, that servant girl is going to Yikun Palace tomorrow to accompany the second princess well, at least to avoid her being instigated by the third princess to vent her depression on the needlework girl, so as not to get the eye of a needle. Not only the two of us are distressed, but even you, the empress, must be distressed too!"

"But it's good to let the second princess take care not to run wild outside." Chunlai interjected. "Although Xueyan is loyal, she is not as stubborn as the second princess. Instead, she has become more and more lively and quarrelsome. Of course, the servant said this, not to suggest to the empress that Xueyan should be replaced, but the servant is worried!"

"Aijia understands what you mean. Bao'er's character is a bit of a headache, but if she is said to be bullied, Aijia won't be worried, but worried that others will be bullied by her!"

After all, Zhu Shuxie has a strong personality and cannot bear the slightest grievance, mostly because she puts her main energy on Zhu Cilin and court affairs.Zhu Shumei has a gentle personality, except for the reason of stuttering, she is rarely worried. Together with Zhu Shumei, she is often ignored, but in truth, compared with Zhu Shumei who has a perverse personality, Empress Dowager Yang is more worried about Zhu Shumei, because With Zhu Shuxie's temper, she would not swallow it in her stomach after being wronged.Just wait, Empress Dowager Yang predicted that as early as tomorrow, the girl Zhu Shuxie will get her place back from Zhu Cilin.

Empress Dowager Yang is too lazy to take care of her children's love of pinching, internal confrontation, and the principle that quarrels are healthier and relationships will be better.Sure enough, one day later, Zhu Shuxie, a timid little girl, really interrupted to vent the depression she suffered at Queen Mother Yang's place to Zhu Cilin, so a scene I liked to hear happened, but Queen Mother Yang didn't have the time and energy to go to the theater , because the household department and the disaster situation in the areas that will be hit by hail were reported quickly.

Empress Dowager Yang handed over the little cockfighting Zhu Shuyu to Zhu Shuyu, Chunlai, and Qiu to control, and then took Zhu Cilin, who was enjoying watching the play, together with ordering the household department to work overtime, prepare the things needed for disaster relief as soon as possible, and let the military department Recommend who can serve as an imperial envoy for disaster relief.

To tell the truth, generally speaking, imperial envoys are mostly literati, but whether it is the Empress Dowager Yang or Zhu Cilin, they are all afraid of this group of civil servants who become greedy and have no lower limit. The Ministry of War recommended a military attache as an imperial envoy.After all, apart from being hereditary, military officers are mostly promoted through meritorious service. Presumably, they should be able to guarantee that the disaster relief money will not be attacked by rogues.

As expected and unexpected, Lu Xiangsheng, the current minister of the Ministry of War, invited himself to be an imperial envoy to go to the disaster-stricken areas to provide relief and appease the people.Empress Dowager Yang resolutely agreed to the matter, and also agreed that Li Dingguo and Qi Sichang, who were appointed generals of Wuyi, would be the deputy logistics officials who escorted the relief money and went to the disaster-stricken areas with Lu Xiangsheng to relieve the victims.

Not long after Lu Xiangsheng, Li Dingguo, and Qi Sichang rushed to the disaster area with a large number of troops and banks to help the victims, Houjin sent a more tactful letter of peace. Regarding this, Queen Mother Yang still refused.Just kidding, it has nothing to do with her whether the people under your Tartar rule live or die. Empress Dowager Yang has such a big heart, she can't hold anything else except her relatives and the people of Ming Dynasty, so she chooses to watch the Tartar struggle in the face of natural disasters with cold eyes. Swamp Li will never soften his heart and do stupid things like saving wolves and being hunted down.

"Let the guards at all the checkpoints on the Great Wall pay attention, don't let the food in our territory flow into the outside of the pass easily. Aijia knows that it is difficult to really stop this, but at least we must minimize the occurrence of this situation as much as possible. Also, The foreign merchants don’t care about Aijia, but if the merchants of Ming Dynasty sold the grain that the common people had so hard to grow to foreigners, it would still be a small punishment to copy and sell the food, and the Aijia would definitely make an example to the barbarians.”

The murderous words have deterred the people of the world very well. Under the "prostitution~prestige" of Queen Mother Yang, and the lessons learned by Shanxi merchants, no one dared to commit crimes against the wind, risking the danger of the Yi tribe, for [-]% Bai made huge profits by selling grain to foreigners. Even in the transaction with Hongmao Fanzi, when the other party asked to buy some grain, the merchants would stop the transaction even if they were desperate to lose money. They would not dare to sell a single grain.

However, the Ming Dynasty strictly forbids trading grain with foreigners. However, even though the Tatars paid a lot of gold and silver treasures, some grains continued to flow into the Tatars. Some of them were sold by Ming merchants who dared to sacrifice their lives for money, and some were willing to take risks for etiquette. The food sold by Hongmaofan merchants, these food from various sources greatly alleviated the various natural disasters that came along with the Little Ice Age, allowing most of the Tartars to survive in the extremely harsh climate.The tenacity of vitality disappointed Empress Dowager Yang, who had always been a bad-hearted Tartar, for a while!Well, let's continue to step up efforts to adopt the blockade policy. She doesn't believe that if this goes on year after year, the Tartars will not be exhausted.

The time came to February in the ninth year of Taichang. A few days after the large-scale hailstorm hit, there was another news of drought and insect disasters in Shanxi. Because the agricultural taxes in Shaanxi, Shanxi, and Gansu provinces were exempted, the Shanxi people who suffered from drought and locust attacks this year had food reserves in their families. Therefore, the governor of Shanxi did not urge the court to distribute relief food, but arranged for the people under the rule of Shanxi. State and county officials organized manpower to capture and exterminate locusts.

As the three provinces of Shaanxi, Shanxi and Gansu encounter locusts crossing the border from time to time, coupled with the long drought and lack of food, the people in the three provinces have given full play to the infinite command of the working people, and they have invented a few locust-based foods that taste good. side dishes.After learning the news, Empress Dowager Yang asked the chefs in the imperial dining room to cook a few dishes based on locusts out of curiosity. Whether it was deep-fried or stir-fried with big ingredients, the taste was extremely delicious, and it was close to some dishes in previous lives. Insects are the main dishes, which made Empress Dowager Yang feel sad for a while, who almost forgot about her future life.

"Send a copy to Bao'er, Bei'er, and Tianlin each, and let them often have this meaningful special dish!"

Empress Dowager Yang calmly picked up a crunchy fried locust, also known as a grasshopper, and threw it into her mouth. After chewing, she swallowed a mouthful of sweet rock sugar pear, and then she met the waiter Chunlai, Qiu went to tease him.

"The Ai family told you that according to this way of eating, you don't need to organize people to catch and destroy the locusts. Believe it or not, the locusts will be eaten to extinction in a short time."

"Why don't you believe it? Maybe tomorrow there will be news that the locust plague is under control!"

While Chunlai was talking, Wang Tiqian hurried into the hall, and reported to Empress Dowager Yang in a high-pitched voice. "Your Majesty, the governor of Shanxi has written a booklet, and Lord Long Live asked his servants to bring it to your Majesty, please take a look at it."

Empress Dowager Yang took a look and immediately laughed.

"Chunlai, your mouth is so clever. Isn't that what the governor of Shanxi said in the brochure? After the people in the prefectures and counties under Shanxi actively hunted and killed them and fried them for food, the fierce locust plague has disappeared. I think it will take a few days It is also possible to plow the soil deeply and replant crops.”

The author has something to say: One more, what?~~ Haha, do you guys know how I escaped the vigil, ahhh, here comes my aunt. According to the custom, you can’t guard the elders to avoid collisions, ε= (?ο｀*))), honestly, am I lucky or lucky!