live with conscience

In the end, Xu Zhong asked the emperor to allow his daughter-in-law to run... away.

With Xu Shan, Xu Yong and his wife, as well as a bunch of manpower given by the emperor, as representatives, embarked on a journey to the sea.

Xu Shan is self-recommended.

She has her considerations.

Although it was refreshing to break out in advance, it is also true that her two daughters severed ties with their father.

In a patriarchal society where the three cardinal principles and five constant principles have become the law, even if her actions are well-founded, she can't change the consequence that her daughter's marriage will definitely be inferior to others.

In China, Xu Shan will be bound no matter what she does, but in a barbaric land where all kinds of customs are free, she can give her a place to display.

In order to endure, she never lost her skills during those years in the Zhao family.

Facing the Zhao family's group, the saints will be angry.

You can't throw fire at real people, you can only find another way.

There is nothing that can't be tolerated by beating a sandbag. If there is, then another beating?

Before the second sister-in-law and the princess did not get started, it was the old lady and Xu Lang who were in charge of her education.

Ahem... The education in the Duke's Mansion doesn't care much about gender.

Her skills are unknown to everyone...

Anyway, His Majesty the Emperor was overwhelmed by the uninhibited demeanor of this self-recommended female heroine who easily defeated more than 50 imperial guards, plus she collected a lot of official "secrets" that he didn't know about and spread all over the capital. The "Underground Party" forces in the country readily gave her a title and let her go.

It's a waste of such a talent to succumb to the backyard.

From the old lady, to the three brothers of the Xu family, and now there is this talented woman who was once famous in Jinghua, so that His Majesty the Emperor clearly knows that the members of the Xu family are all talents!

The political IQ that the brothers lacked was actually taken up by this elder sister!

Both civil and military, but unfortunately it is a girl.

Also, it is absolutely a miracle that the Zhao family can survive till now.

The old lady is still more kind. When she gets angry, at most she will be dizzy and get beaten.

But offending other people, the consequences are not so fun.

There is also Xu Cheng, who is said to be very powerful but a bit introverted, but half a month after he took office, he secretly handed him a memorial of military officer relationship and personality analysis, and by the way, a proposal for military reform.

The "introverted" Xu Yong said very bachelorly, Your Majesty, let's discuss how to strengthen our cooperative relationship.

The holes in your army are bigger than my dog ​​holes!

While the emperor was frightened, the doubts and fears that had just arisen towards the Xu family disappeared.

People are really not interested in his dragon chair.

If it weren't for this memorial, he would not have known that even the guards of the capital city had so many opportunities to specialize. He always thought that the guards were trustworthy.

Unexpectedly, it has been rotten to the point where all the military regulations and military features are gone.

It's really scary.

In short, after receiving Xu Yong's memorial, he was going to personally stare at Emperor He, who had tormented the guards in the capital, and waved his hand, allowing a group of Xu family members to go out.

When he followed the method proposed by Xu Yong and fully grasped the guards of the entire capital in his hands, and barely trained a little momentum, he received a lot of New Year's goods made by the old lady and great-granddaughters.

Food, clothing, housing and transportation are all-encompassing.

Only to find that half a year has passed.

Because too many officials were dismissed, he said that he would open Enke for three consecutive years on the grounds that he felt grateful to his ancestors and bestowed good seeds.

However, the newly appointed members of the imperial examination no longer only need to test the Four Books and Five Classics, but an official subject has been added to test the quality of the candidates.

It is worth pondering that during the three years of Enke, this department has avoided the Four Books and Five Classics in a fair manner. All the people in front of the local government take the exam, just like the imperial examination. The official low-level officials of the rank and rank nine.

It is also the same as the imperial examination, and those who are outstanding must go to the capital for a centralized examination.

The number of talents recommended by the local government is directly related to the job evaluation of officials, so that all local officials dare not be careless.

This kind of Enke immediately raised Hedi's reputation to the highest level. People in Dali felt that their majesty was definitely the wise master, so there were key ministers like Prime Minister Zhao and Prime Minister Li who came to help.

All of a sudden, the royal family's prestige soared!

Prime Minister Zhao and Prime Minister Li seemed to have good prestige, but from the fact that they did not lose their hair, and even begged His Majesty the Emperor to send someone to guard him and his family, it was clear that their situation was dire.

Fortunately, although His Majesty the Emperor really wanted to give them small shoes, he also saw their usefulness and did not give up on them. He let the Imperial Forest Army, who had been barely trained by him, go to the homes of the two prime ministers for "training" in batches.

To some extent, the two prime ministers contributed a lot to the fact that the strength of the guards of the capital city can be improved so quickly.

There were two villainous prime ministers who "cooperated seamlessly" and wanted to maintain their own rights and status despite the great displeasure of the world. The emperor still couldn't bear the death of two officials who had no integrity and could gather fire and take the blame.

His Majesty the Emperor ate the New Year's goods made by the old lady himself, touched his fat belly again, and thought about the inexplicably smooth major reforms now, and a strange idea came to his head inexplicably: Could it be that, in the past dynasties, The reason why all kinds of major reforms have not been successful is that those emperors use gentlemen and capable ministers, not villainous ministers?

After all, compared to the gentleman who has the world in his heart, the villain who is trapped in a ring and has a beheading knife on his head, the latter is more able to appreciate his intentions...and cherish his life.

"Southeast Frontline Alert...Your Majesty, the three generals Xu have brought down Lu Song!"

Because of Xu Shan's fierce performance before leaving, the emperor named her a general.

"Cough cough cough..." He Di was almost choked to death!

Just kidding!

No auditory hallucinations!

However, the [-]-mile Express Express showed that this is really not the case.

Luzon has indeed been assigned to the Dali territory,

The Xu family, with Xu Shan as their brain trust, united the manpower and forces he gave, and with the help of the chieftain, under the slogan of helping the allies to "expel" foreigners, and with the help of the local people who were very exploited, they drove the invading foreign All of them were expelled from Luzon and successfully defended their sovereignty, but the descendants of the king's line were unfortunately wiped out by the frenzied "foreigners".

The emperor and his ministers: ...

No no no, we still don't believe it, how is this possible.

Although they don't know the situation overseas, they still know about Luzon, which has a sense of existence in the past dynasties. Although it is a little backward, it is not a small place in terms of territory!

But seeing the various "facts" sent back by the Xu family who were one step behind the messenger, as well as various requests for help, they had to believe it.

Especially after seeing the Xu family donating a batch of good breeds to Luzon, and the local surrendered people in Luzon "giving" five boats of gold to Dali, they all trembled!

Five boats of gold are enough to earn the national treasury for three years!

Money is what drives people crazy.

Even His Majesty the Emperor saw that the Xu family sent them a total of twelve ships of gold. The chieftain asked for one ship, the Xu family and the frontline staff and the navy who secretly helped them divided up one ship, and the treasury five ships, and the rest went to him. After the private treasury, he was moved!

Terrible profiteering.

He took direct action on the various precious timbers that were smuggled back one after another, and they tacitly divided up.

A decree was issued to several navy generals to expand the navy!

He wants to use Luzon as a base to vigorously develop overseas trade.

The officials who were originally pedantic and wanted to oppose, after seeing the astonishing profits, all tacitly shut up, and turned into mobilization of various departments.

Because His Majesty the Emperor said: "Everyone, I intend to let the elite navy go overseas and prepare to build a fleet to test the waters. Do you want to join forces?"

The ministers: Your Majesty, this is the first time I realize that you are such a Majesty!

"Your Majesty is wise!"

Therefore, under this huge temptation, whether it is official reform or military reform, some voices of dissatisfaction that began to emerge were reluctantly settled down.

After all, no one will have trouble with money.

You said that the Navy secretly reported that the Xu family brought a group of soldiers and horses, pretended to be Dongyi people, and killed all the kings who were licking foreign enemies to survive and wanted to betray Dali?

Is there such a thing?

The ones that didn't, and even if there were, were "accidentally" burned.

What is left behind is a secret document about Dongyi's intelligence, and the "bright face" memorial of the Dongyi people's frenzied sneak attack that wiped out the Luzon royal family. From the secret report, the white flowers hidden on Dongyi Island After the mine, they tacitly discussed how to seek justice for the Luzon royal family!

Under normal circumstances, this kind of robbery would be shameless for any official.

However, who is in power is the two prime ministers who have no integrity, Hedi and villain attributes.

The three of them have no sense of shame at all for this behavior of robbing other houses under the banner of integrity.

The leader has this kind of virtue, what can the people below say when there are indeed interests in the bag?

After various arrangements, one year later, the harvest brought back by the two short-distance fleets of Dongyi and Luzon also made people in the whole Dali boil, not only the upper class, but also the grassroots, because the one who left the ship Thousands of people became rich almost overnight.

From the information fed back by this group of people, we know: "Overseas, there are a lot of good things, but those people are not enlightened and don't know good things. Can you imagine that the group of natives used hundreds of years of agarwood as firewood?" Is it a wasteful act of burning? We also found a large natural golden nanmu forest."

Agarwood, that is!

Something comparable to gold!

The golden nanmu is even more, it is for the royal family!

So the pressure for reform disappeared immediately.

Because, if you want to develop everything overseas, you can't do it without manpower.

Change it, change it, it must be done!

After knowing all this, Lin Lan, an old lady, summed up silently in her heart: This is directly transforming domestic conflicts into foreign conflicts!Unexpectedly, this little emperor's methods are also very powerful.

But Lin Lan, as an old lady who doesn't know a single word, absolutely doesn't have such insight, she only serves the fields.

Ever since he was tied up by the emperor and thrown back to Xu Guogong's mansion (His Majesty the Emperor specially decreed that the old lady is still there, this plaque can continue to be hung), the old lady (Lin Lan) took the opportunity to beat him up with her own hands. Didn't even bother with these things.

After Xu Zhong was rescued by Xu Shan who came here, and after the brothers and sisters discussed the development plan of the Xu family, the old lady (Lin Lan) became the head of the children, taking care of the left-behind children and living together.

There is no way, the situation in Xu Guogong's mansion is like that, an adult girl and two men and their daughter-in-law have gone out to fight, and Xu Yong and his daughter-in-law who stayed behind need to take care of a lot of affairs in the back. It was handed back to the old lady, and the only one left to take care of the baby was the old lady.

The old lady used domineering pampering behavior towards her fourth-generation baby.

It is simply asking for the stars but not the moon.

Gold, silver, jade, silk and satin, except for gold, are almost sent in boxes.

These things, in the old lady's storeroom, there are several large boxes covered with dust, all of which are gifts she has received throughout her life.

In the words of the old lady, the babies in their family are all good babies, with good roots and red roots, and their growth is not crooked.

Looking at the two oldest sisters who are sensible, one knows that they can still grow upright in the mud like the Zhao family, let alone in the Xu family!

After seeing the education of Zhao Zan and Zhao Zan, two model sisters, the old lady felt more at ease.

With the two of them as role models, the children will not be crooked.

After giving several large boxes of money to the wolf's daughter-in-law and asking her to pass it on to the queen mother to help choose suitable teachers for the children, she completely let go.

The old lady believed in omnipotent development.

Except for the red culinary skills of piano, chess, calligraphy, painting and calligraphy, as long as it is something her granddaughter wants to learn, she will not stop her.Even riding, archery, sculpture, business management, or planting flowers and vegetables, as long as the children are interested, she will fully support them.

Of course, for the granddaughters who liked that item last, she was a favorite.

Because this teacher is her.

The old lady who is a good teacher is very happy, because it took her five years to teach seven brilliant apprentices. That's right, the old lady's seven great-granddaughters all like to farm with her. This made her even more happy.

Seeing the children growing up under her upbringing, the old lady is proud and satisfied.

However, the old lady did not expect that the cabbage she grew up would be targeted by a pig.

And the "pig" who fell in love with cabbage, Xiao Hedi, was in contact with Xu Cheng, the only male who stayed in the capital.

There's no way, if you fall in love with someone else's daughter, you always have to be humble.

He also wants to marry a wife and have a baby.

That's right, for so many years, His Majesty's knees are still empty. If it weren't for the occasional pregnancy in the harem, some people would suspect that something was wrong with His Majesty the Emperor.

It's just a pity that none of Hedi's children could be born smoothly, which shows how terrible the battle in his harem is.

Of course, among them was the Queen Mother and him, as long as they did not affect themselves and the situation could be controlled, neither of them had any relationship with ruthless control.

However, when he was free and wanted to think about major issues in life, he realized that it was time for him to tidy up his harem without a single child.

The harem has become chaotic to a certain extent, but both the empress dowager and the emperor are at a loss.

In order to maintain the political power, the sequelae of compromising and accepting the harem emerged.

Every concubine represents a faction of strength. Although he is already in power, if he makes a quick one-size-fits-all, the consequences will be very serious.

Especially now that all aspects are developing steadily, and when the emperor has nothing to do except the general, the harem sees the right time to compete for favor, and it becomes even more chaotic.

With the help of a virtuous and virtuous demeanor, the queen drew hatred with one hand, and the other concubines were not good at it. Under the combination of vertical and horizontal, the harem drama was staged every day, which made the queen mother and him dizzy.

After this kind of cruel mutual harm, there are almost no concubines in the harem who can still have children.

The empress dowager and the emperor who finally found out what happened: ...

The emperor had his eyes on none other than Zhao Zan, the elder of the fourth generation of the Xu family.

Her mother is in trouble now. She has been at sea for five years, and the best girl is this heroine. She is now the queen of the country. She is in charge of all the military affairs of the country and has a team of 10 people. elite navy.

She gets along very sweetly with her new husband, His Majesty Louis, who loves flowers and paintings, and whose lifelong wish is to become an outstanding artist.

From the letter of credentials written by His Majesty to Emperor He, it can be seen that if the war at sea had not continued, His Majesty would have been eager to come to Dali to learn advanced art and culture and meet him The lovely daughter in the mouth of his two wives who have never met!

There have been too many changes in five years, especially the emperor. No one knows how much power can corrupt a person's character.

Anyway, even if the Queen Mother dotes on her son again, she finds that her son is starting to float, and the arrogance and vanity of controlling power for a long time began to emerge in him.

It's time for him to see the truth.

Ever since the old lady opened her mouth to break the deadlock, he has become the emperor in power. In addition, in the past five years, with the continuous help from the outside and inside of the Xu family, his throne has become more stable.

Apart from having no children, I have no regrets.

However, this stupid son has inherited the vision of his father, grandfather, and great-grandfather, and has a good vision for his wife.

Although he has a utilitarian vision, he has to say that he has a unique vision in picking Xu Shan's eldest daughter, Zhao Zhan!

That girl, besides not being able to be a queen, was definitely a winner if she was brought in to be the mother of the next heir.The old lady trained her own daughter, not bad.

Coupled with the loyalty of the Xu family, what could be more suitable to give birth to the next successor of the Dali than Zhao Zan, who can represent Xu Shan, the Xu family, and Prime Minister Zhao?

Knowing her son's plan, the queen mother of course raised her hands in agreement.

She loves her son as well as her grandson.

Although Zhao Zan's surname is not Xu, the Xu family indeed regards her as the daughter of the Xu family, and her status in the Xu family is completely that of the eldest daughter.

As for the Zhao family, even though there are still no descendants, there can still be a granddaughter of the imperial concubine, why not do it?

Ok……

Don't get me wrong, it was really not Xu Shan who made the Zhao family die. Although she really wanted to do this, Prime Minister Zhao did it before she could.

It was that time, the time when he pretended to be dizzy after beating his son.

Prime Minister Zhao, who was in charge of the new cane, beat his son lying on the bench until he had no future.

The Queen Mother only recently found out about this through a secret channel. Anyway, for Prime Minister Zhao, the Queen Mother and the Emperor, who originally hated him, really don't hate him now.

It's not that I don't report, it's not time.

Mrs. Zhao, who learned of her son's injury, concealed the fact and even tampered with Prime Minister Zhao.

Anyway, the Zhao family father and son may let women have children in this life.

In order not to make the still struggling Prime Minister Zhao go crazy, it is imperative to make Zhao Zan the imperial concubine. It is best to have two hugs in three years, and it would be even better to give birth to the crown prince.

He can give birth, and having a prince and grandson is enough for him to support him!

Not long ago, in order to allow Zhao Zan of the Xu family to enter the palace smoothly, the queen mother directly lifted the layer of thin paper that the concubines in the harem could not conceive, but the news was only known to people with channels, and it was not widely publicized.

Many Buddhist halls were built in the harem, and everyone in the harem, including the queen, who was jumping very hard, was ordered to recite the Buddha's name and meditate.

Whether they were disheartened or calmed down and prepared for follow-up revenge, the Queen Mother didn't care.

The queen mother is also a person who stands out from the strife in the harem, knowing how to put an end to all this, and directly cut off their protruding hands and feet.

In order to better clean up the miasma in the harem, the Queen Mother directly released a large number of court ladies and eunuchs.

The maids let them go home to get married, and the eunuchs arranged for them to board a boat to go out to sea, and let them cooperate to find another livelihood. Anyway, the sea trade is always short of manpower.

Not to mention, eunuchs with disabilities are more enthusiastic about overseas life than ordinary people. It is said that it is because their seniors have gone to sea several times to show their country's prestige?

In order to successfully marry the future child's mother, the emperor is trying his best to please the future child's mother's elders. He has nothing to say and complains to Xu Cheng about the gossip he has heard.

It's just that Xu Cheng, the only one who stays in the capital, not only holds an important position, but also has to work on how to stabilize the rear and make the overseas front line smoother, really doesn't have so much time abroad.

He was so busy that he was not polite to His Majesty the Emperor at all, and went back directly: "Because they think that money is more attractive than you! They have been in the palace for so long, and they who are knowledgeable can't find a way out with you. Of course we have to find another way!"

Especially recently, due to the expansion of the navy, the opening to the outside world has become more frequent, and good and bad things have poured in. Recently, it has been discovered that foreign forces want to use smoke to corrupt the people, soldiers and civilians of Dali. All departments are busy to ban smoking!

As for His Majesty the emperor who wants to expand the harem, he is (relatively speaking) the most free.

If you don't hate him, who will you hate?

"If your Majesty is so free, can I trouble you to help with these memorials? The smoking ban in various places is not optimistic. I personally think that more batches of imperial envoys and military deterrence are still needed." More importantly: "My niece dragged The Jiji Ceremony, which has been going on for two years, is going to be held this year, and our family plans to hold it together today, when are you willing to let sister Xu Shan and brother and sister-in-law come back?"

The most hateful thing is that this guy obviously has no one in his hands, but he is oppressing their Xu family to work!

Their Xu family originally planned to make some extra money and earn a name, but now they have become desperate.

In particular, sister Xu Shan, who no one expected, married a troubled Prince Li in a foreign country, and by virtue of her status as a princess, she became a queen who could directly control the military and political power of a country in a legitimate way!

The eldest brother and sister-in-law, the granddaughter of the royal family and the general's son-in-law, together with the navy and the heads of the big commercial firms sent by the country, played around among several countries, and after constantly sowing dissension, several countries fought against each other. It's fun.

Dali also plans to send a well-trained navy to take advantage... No, after participating in the war!

The sea became even more chaotic. They took advantage of the thrilling and exciting fishing, and the harvest was very rich. The whole family was very happy and devoted. The warehouse at home has been updated three times. Although it is a small advantage, the harvest It is definitely enough for the Xu family to lie down for a dozen lifetimes without having to do anything.

However, no matter how high the income is, it cannot change the fact that they are all working for the emperor!

Oh, I forgot to say, the reason for the war is for their "humiliated" royal princess!

There is an emperor who dares to use a villain as a prime minister, and the benefits of the Dali should not be too much!

Don't be afraid of the despicable and shameless villains, but be afraid that the despicable and shameless villains not only have power and culture, but there is even an acquiescing emperor behind him.

Every year when the income from foreign trade was more than their corruption and bribery, the two prime ministers who loved money and power bought their morality.

If you play hooligans internally, you will worry about the gate knife falling randomly from above, but there are no external ones!

In addition to being considerate and sympathetic, you can also increase your reputation and enrich your treasury!

Why not?

Xu Cheng felt that, in fact, it should be his ancestors who played the biggest role in it.

If it hadn't been for these years, her old man had provided several kinds of high-yielding and easy-to-plant seeds one after another, which would have completely freed Dali from the food crisis.

If they can feed more people, they don't dare to make such a fuss.

Can Quan Dali go overseas without worrying about being hungry?

The more Xu Cheng thought about it, the worse his mood became. He didn't hide anything on his face: "Or is His Majesty going to deal with the official documents that Prime Minister Zhao and Prime Minister Li are going to hand over?"

emperor:……

I always feel that the fate of this man who knows that I am hitting on his niece is worrying!

In fact, the emperor also guessed right.

When he was ready to make the 17-year-old Zhao Zan the imperial concubine, the old lady took her faucet stick and hand-beating board, called Xu Cheng, and went straight into the palace.

Under the cover of the queen mother, the "pig" who coveted the cabbage was caught by Xu Cheng, and was beaten by the old lady for life!

"Xiaohedi, you have so many wives in your family, and you still have ideas about my baby? I have never seen such an unkind person like you, old lady! I don't agree, I absolutely don't agree!"

After the beating, the angry old lady sat on the ground, howling and playing tricks.

His Majesty the Emperor: ...

The empress dowager turned a blind eye to this and looked at the emperor gloatingly.