Have a baby before marrying

Jiang Nan is nearly fifty this year, and he has just climbed up to the position of Minister of Rites.I think he was just an unknown soldier in Qingqu County back then, and his father was a small man with no power and power, so he couldn't provide him with any help.

He was able to climb to where he is today thanks to his own efforts.

Twenty years ago, he married the daughter of a bachelor of the Hanlin Academy, and was appreciated by the bachelor.His foresight is also very good, he knows that a bachelor is definitely not just a bachelor of the Hanlin Academy, otherwise he would not send his daughter into the palace as a concubine.

Now the bachelor of the year has gradually gained power, and he is Fu Taishi, the father of the imperial concubine.

The Minister of Rites has been doing it for a long time, and he is not satisfied with it.He is more ambitious, but his position in the family is not satisfactory.Miss Qianjin, who thought she was well-educated and reasonable back then, now seems to be just a vulgar fan, gradually becoming a vulgar woman.

He also sometimes thinks about his first wife.Although she is just a low-status merchant girl, she is very gentle to him.

On the other hand, Mrs. Fu became more arrogant and domineering, and even interfered with his political affairs in the Ministry of Rites.

"Why is the master sighing? Isn't it that the emperor has a problem. I will go to the palace to drink tea with the imperial concubine tomorrow. When the time comes, I will listen to the emperor's words from the imperial concubine. The problem of the master will be solved soon."

"My affairs are not something you, a little woman, can interfere with."

The smile on Fu's face froze immediately.

"Master, what does this mean? Master, don't forget, how many of you have come to this day have been helped by your concubine. If I hadn't mentioned you often in front of the imperial concubine, the empress and the emperor would have spoken well of you, master. He couldn't get to where he is today either. Now that the master has lost his temper, he's blaming me."

Jiang Nan clenched his fists and said nothing.After all, their husbands and wives are both prosperous and hurt, and the Jiang family and the Fu family are now grasshoppers tied to the same rope. When a wave hits, everyone will die.

Bear with it.Jiang Nan avoided Fu's gaze, and Fu was dissatisfied.I cherished him for his talent back then, but now it seems that he is just an ordinary man.

Hehe, fortunately, she has two sons and one daughter. The eldest son will be able to make a fortune once he passes the exam next year, and the younger son is only 13 years old and already smart, gentle, courteous and thrifty. It is not impossible for the cousins ​​of childhood sweethearts to find a prince or concubine in the future.

There is hope for the rest of my life, and I no longer have to rely on the man in front of me.

When the two were pregnant with ghosts, Jiang Manxing broke in from the entrance.

"You're reckless! How decent are you?" Jiang Nan scolded, "I didn't wait until I saw my elders to say hello, where did I learn all the etiquette I taught you?"

"Yes!" Jiang Manxing lowered his head and lowered his voice, "I have seen my father, my mother... my mother."

He hesitated to call the word mother, even after so many years, he should have gotten used to it.

Jiang Nan agreed, but Mrs. Fu was weary and didn't make a sound.Usually, Jiang Manxing didn't think much about this situation. His father said that his mother just didn't like to talk, but today he couldn't help but think about it.

Is the mother really just not talkative?She treats her second brother, her fourth brother, and her elder sister...it doesn't seem to be like this.Once the seeds of doubt are planted in the heart, they can never be removed.

"Okay, I'm not going back to school, I don't know how to learn all day long, and I don't know how to learn from your brother. Your brother won the exam this year, and he will be a Jinshi next year."

Jiang Nan waved his hand to let Jiang Manxing go in, but Jiang Manxing, who usually runs fast when he sees him, just stood there this time, Jiang Nan frowned, feeling bored.

Even a boring gourd came to bother him.

"Father, I have something to ask you..." Jiang Manxing hesitated.

"What's the matter, tell me."

"My mother—I mean my biological mother, why did she die that year?" Jiang Manxing raised his head, with tears in his eyes.

Jiang Nan's heart skipped a beat, wondering why Jiang Manxing would ask such a question.

Jiang Nan said casually: "Don't you know? She was not in good health. She bled profusely when she gave birth to you, but she didn't get over it afterwards." Difficult childbirth was indeed the cause of her death.But exactly why the dystocia occurs, the reasons cannot be investigated in detail.

"But father..."

"What else?" Jiang Nan scolded impatiently.

"No, it's nothing." Jiang Manxing hurried back to the room, his face still pale.

When Jiang Mantian came to look for him, he still couldn't recover.

"Man Xing, have you made up your mind? If it is decided, I will sign the contract tomorrow. The second uncle will be waiting very anxiously."

"Second...Second brother." Jiang Manxing swiped the card, always feeling that the second brother's voice was awkward, "I don't want to rent it to him anymore."

"Don't rent it anymore?" Jiang Mantian's expression was not good, "Okay, why not rent it anymore. I have already agreed with the second uncle."

The location of Jiang Manxing's restaurant is particularly good, and the place is spacious, so the second uncle fell in love with it and wanted to build a restaurant.However, Jiang Manxing had been unwilling to sell it, saying that Jiang Manyue wanted to investigate him and could not lose money.

That's why he came up with the idea to sabotage the business of the store on purpose. If the business can't continue, if he doesn't want to continue to lose money, he can only rent it to others.

Didn't think about it, why did I change my mind.

"It can't be done. My elder brother gave it to me, and... my sister-in-law is going to open a shop, so I'll give it to my sister-in-law." Jiang Manxing has already handed over the store contract to Yan Cai without delay.

Originally, he didn't like that second uncle very much.That person is very annoying, and he was bullied when he was a child.

"You! You really pissed me off."

Jiang Mantian really didn't expect this result, because he was too angry, it took him a long time to react suddenly, "Jiang Manyue has arrived in the capital? He has come to the capital? He is here for the exam!?"

Jiang Manxing looked at him very strangely: "Brother's legs are healed, don't you know? Since the legs are all healed, why don't you take the exam."

But he...Jiang Mantian didn't speak, and secretly mocked in his heart. He hasn't studied for so many years, how much do he remember?

Damn it, as the Minister of Rites, doesn't my father know about this, or did he say he knew but didn't tell.But this time it was Jiang Mantian who was suspicious.

According to the usual practice, the Minister of the Ministry of Rites presides over the affairs of the general examination, and the list of applicants for the general examination from all provinces has long been in his hands.

But this year his own son took the exam. In order to avoid suspicion, he deliberately avoided the exam and let other people preside over it. In order not to make the emperor suspicious, he didn't even ask questions.

You must know that the emperor is getting older and more suspicious.For example, recently, he raised a question without saying what he thought, as if he wanted to test all the officials.

Jiang Mantian knew that the store was in Yan Cai's hands, and he deliberately wanted to cause him some trouble.

Yan Cai asked in disbelief: "Can't it be opened? Why can't it be opened?" He has never been in a business before, so he doesn't know about these twists and turns.

How can there be so many troubles in the last days.

Lin Shu shook his head, no way.

"We don't have a backstage. Do you know who's backstage are the shops around us? This is the business and that is the Marquis's. Our shop is being targeted by big shots."

It stands to reason that this shop was originally named after the Jiang family, so there should be no problem, but the trouble encountered this time has a higher status.

"Oh? Who?" Jiang Manyue was not involved in the business between Yan Cai and Lin Shu. If he intervened, it would be counterproductive and destroy their cooperation.

Seeing that they seemed to be in trouble today, Jiang Manyue only asked a few questions.

"Fourth Prince." Lin Shu touched his head, feeling a little distressed. He really couldn't imagine why the Fourth Prince would deliberately make things difficult for them. "Why did we ordinary people offend him?"

"He..." Jiang Manyue felt that the trouble was caused by him, "You are not offended, but I seem to have a problem with him. To be precise, I have a problem with them. The fourth prince and Jiang Mantian are cousins. "

Lin Shu glanced at Jiang Manyue coldly, he said how could he get into such trouble, it turned out to be "stained".

"Then how does this store open? Our arms can't twist our thighs, and this royal relative can't afford to mess with it."

"It's not impossible." It seems that the third prince Xia Jue has returned to the capital for some time.When he left, he owed himself a favor.

How to get in touch with Xia Jue, I finally went through the route of Wang Xieyi who had already returned to the capital.

It was two days after I saw Xia Jue again, after listening to their request, Xia Jue was willing to help them.First of all, the grace of speech can save his life, and secondly, if he can cause trouble to the fourth prince, there is nothing he would not like.

"I can be your guarantor."

"Thank you very much, and that..."

"Don't mention those three words."

Xia Jue's forehead is protruding, can he not mention the 1 taels?As if he would owe money and not pay it back.

It's strange to say that other people at least have a little respect and fear for him. After all, he is also a dignified prince. He only has words, and there seems to be no respect at all.

He didn't even see the distinction between high and low status in his eyes.

Such a person is very strange.But also fun.

He has seen the duplicitous appearance after he became the queen's son-in-law.On the contrary, it is much more comfortable for such a clean person without any impurities.

There was no respect or fear in Jiang Manyue's eyes either.

But that is a different meaning.That seems to be the arrogance and arrogance that has been in the ll position for a long time, and it is completely different from Yan Cai's true nobility and no baseness.

He has high and low, but in his opinion, he is noble enough, so he doesn't need to look up to others.In terms of mining, everyone is equal.

He sees himself the same as he sees the candied haws seller on the road.

Xia Jue was a little curious about the environment in which this person lived, as if he had always been curious about Yan Cai's strange life-saving means.

"Third prince." Xu Shi Xia Jue looked at his words for a long time, and Jiang Manyue reminded him dissatisfied.

"Both of you, I can help you, but I hope you can help me answer a question." Xia Jue paused for a moment, and then brought up a question that was recently debated between the court and China.

"There is something brought by a foreigner, and now the DPRK and China are arguing endlessly whether it should be promoted."

"Oh?"

"Father didn't say anything, just let us express our opinions. Some people think that it is a waste of money, and now the treasury is empty. Some people think that if it is done well, it will be a major event that benefits the country and the people. Some people think that although it is good Things, but it can’t be done in one step, it needs to be pushed forward steadily.”

"The emperor didn't say anything, he just wanted to listen to the opinions of all the officials."

"I know, but... I can't guess what answer Father wants. As the saying goes, the heart of a dragon is unpredictable, and I can't guess Father's thoughts."

Yan Cai didn't care about the emperor or the emperor, he wanted to know what the alien brought.The world he came to may be the era of communication with other nations.

Must be something good.

"It's a kind of flower, and it's white."

"Cotton?! It must be cotton! It's a good thing. This must be spread across the country." Yan Cai said immediately.

Jiang Manyue nodded: "Caicai's idea is my idea."

"But most people in the court are against it, saying that it is enough to try planting in a few counties." Xia Jue hesitated.

"Caicai made it very clear. This is a good thing. Why don't you promote the good thing? The most important thing is, what does the emperor think?" Jiang Manyue laughed, "Can the emperor's most beloved courtiers express their views?"

"No." Xia Jue gradually realized something.

"The third prince also said that most people in the court are against it. Under such circumstances, the emperor still allows you to continue to discuss, isn't it because the opinions of the majority do not conform to his mind?"

The third prince suddenly became enlightened, bowed quickly and returned to the palace.Yan Cai found it both funny and miserable when he saw how he was in such a hurry that he immediately forgot about the 1 taels of silver.

It's so miserable, and I can't get back 1 taels.

"Caicai is still the smartest, the entire civil and military affairs of the Manchu Dynasty are full of idiots."

"Huh?" Yan Cai couldn't understand, a pair of clear deer eyes stared at him.

The purer you are, the clearer you think.The deeper the distracting thoughts, the more I don't understand.This is the situation in the whole court, everyone is guessing what the emperor thinks, trying to please the emperor.

Jiang Manyue vaguely remembered that in her previous life, the emperor tried his best to overcome all opinions and promoted the cultivation of cotton despite the opposition of many people...

The author has something to say:

Sorry, it's much later.Happy Tanabata everyone.

In addition, regarding the promotion of cotton planting, I checked the information. This should be Zhu Yuanzhang's deeds. In fact, cotton planting had already begun in some places at that time, but it was only under his insistence that cotton planting was promoted nationwide.

Although the history of cotton in our country is short, it has replaced the old hemp and silk by virtue of its proud advantages and has become the most widely used fabric.After all, it is cheap, soft and comfortable.

A few days ago, my mother watched a TV series about picking cotton, and I followed it for a while. Picking cotton is hard work. When I was studying, I thought about going to Xinjiang to pick cotton for a part-time job during the summer vacation.