"I usually hug it..."

Tang Qianqian's forehead was covered with a towel wrung with warm water. She was drawing on the document while listening to the two of them talking, and she thought a little in her mind.

She felt that Chen Yuanyuan and Huazhi were too spoiled by this child... She could not stay with Xiaolang at the moment, so she might not be a good thing to let her son grow up with a woman's hand.

It seems that I have to be a strict mother...

Chen Yuanyuan had just returned from Kaifeng, teased the child for a while, and asked, "Have you thought about what this child's life experience has you said?"

"What's hard to think about? Just say it honestly." Tang Qianqian looked dismissive.

"Grand?"

"Yes, the child was born to me and Xiaolang. The son of His Highness Seventh Darui and his son-in-law Wang Xiao, I have reported to the emperor's father and ask for the title of General Zhenguo..."

“Is this appropriate?”

"There is nothing wrong. Just joke that Lang was my husband. He was captured by the Chu Dynasty in his early years and was forced to marry Princess Chu. Later, it happened to be war, because he first took care of the righteousness of the family and the country and temporarily stayed there to support the Han people..."

Chen Yuanyuan was still a little confused and asked, "Can Your Majesty let you mess around?"

"If these things are not explained clearly, others should also mutter in their hearts. It is better to say them openly. Since it is for the sake of my son, Xiaolang understands my feelings and will acknowledge this matter. Da Rui will not lose face. In terms of this, the embarrassing Princess Chunning is still the embarrassing."

Tang Qianqian said and chuckled softly, as if she was interesting.

Although he was unintentional, he really had a small problem for the other party. I guess that girl should be angry with herself again...

"The father is not a pedantic person. He wishes to be able to subdue Xiaolang, so he will agree. Although there is no precedent in this matter, it is not without reference... During the Sui and Tang Dynasties, Yu Wenshi first married Princess Nanyang of the Sui Dynasty, and later he surrendered to Li Yuan and married the daughter of the Li Tang royal family, the Lord of Shouguang County. Do you think, if someone compares Xiaolang to Yu Wenshi, who is Sui and who is Tang?"

Huazhi heard the joy and said to the child: "Little Daigua, you have to treat General Zhenguo well. If your unconscienced father doesn't do well there one day, you have to support him?"

"Go, who would like to say he has no conscience?" Tang Qianqian cursed.

...

Although the time to tease her son was easy, she was quite worried.

Nowadays, there are more and more problems in the Darui Dynasty, and the first thing that is still money and grain are still the ones that are affected.

During the Qin and Han dynasties, Guanlong was still a rich place with fertile water and soil, but over the past thousand years, the land had become very barren.

By this time, Guanlong was no longer enough to support the food needed by a capital, so the emperor often went to court officials to Luoyang to "get" it.

Recently, Tang Qianqian has read more Tang history and sometimes feels empathy.

For example, during the reign of Emperor Dezong of Tang, there was another famine in Chang'an, and even the imperial guards had to go out to beg for the streets. When the food from the southeast was delivered, Emperor Dezong of Tang ran to the East Palace and said to the prince, "Million and even if they reach Shaanxi, my father and son will be born."

The problem is that the current situation of the Darui Dynasty is even worse than that of Tang after the Anshi Rebellion.

During the Tang Dynasty, there were also Luoyang granaries; the annual grain of grain flowed from the Yellow River and the Wei River upstream. Although transportation was difficult, at least there was a supply of grain transportation; there was also the West's silk-scattered road for trade.

In contrast, the Darui Dynasty is trapped in Guanzhong, with insufficient food supply and a thick road to thick silk. In addition, after several years of war, the people's livestock products have been exhausted, and the already barren land is even more barren.

In this case, military affairs must be prepared to prevent Jiannu from attacking. In addition, the edict of "three years of tax exemption" at that time was easy to speak. Now the treasury is empty, and even the official Lumi has been owed for several months...

Even Tang Qianqian wrote to Wang Xiao this time, and had to ask for some food, saying bluntly, "If Xiaolang doesn't send some fruits, vegetables, poultry and meat, my mother and son may starve to death..."

During this period, Tang Qianqian could only follow Wang Xiao’s method of building an industrial park in Beijing, encouraging a variety of sweet potatoes, potatoes and corn in Guanzhong.

She arranged the spring farming incident here, and in the palace there, Tang Zhongyuan was furious when he looked at the plate of potatoes in front of him.

"Potatoes, potatoes, eat potatoes all day long. Are I the Potato Emperor?!"

"Your Majesty... there is really not much food in the capital..."

~~

Xuzhou.

Qin Xiaozhu woke up and became angry again, so he gently hit Wang Xiao.

"I've said that I've calculated my life. I'm prone to getting pregnant these two days. You insist on doing it. What if I get pregnant...bad things."

Wang Xiao was also very aggrieved.

——I clearly wanted to play last night, but you were very happy when you played. You praised yourself for being "very good" before going to bed, and you became a bad thing again when you woke up...

It's hard to say that. Although Qin Xiaozhu's hands are small, his fists are very hard.

"What does it matter if you get pregnant?"

"You're talking lightly. These two years are the most critical time of war. Also, how could I be born in front of Chunning..."

"Okay, okay." Wang Xiao hugged Qin Xiaozhu's waist and said, "Don't worry about who comes first and who comes later."

"snort."

"Don't worry, it's not that easy to get pregnant... Also, don't take medicine."

"Hmph, I know."

"Speaking of this, it would be nice if Xiao Zhu could have a daughter..."

"You go away." Qin Xiaozhu gently pushed Wang Xiao, but in fact he stayed in his arms again, as if he thought having a daughter was really good.

As expected, she was still easy to coax. She became happy again at this time and asked, "Will we go back to Jinan the day after tomorrow?"

"Yes, I'll send Your Majesty on a tour tomorrow. We'll set off the day after tomorrow. I'll arrange the matter in Xuzhou in the next two days, and you can prepare the guards."

"Okay." Qin Xiaozhu responded with a smile.

This is the tone of Wang Xiao’s occasional jokes with her. She is the best at learning from others.

...

When the two of them were having breakfast, Wang Xiao peeled an egg and gave it to Qin Xiaozhu and asked, "Do you know how much an egg costs?"

Qin Xiaozhu shook his head and said, "I don't know."

"In Shandong, you can buy more than 1,300 yuan in one tael of silver, and in Jiangnan, you can only buy more than 700 yuan in one tael of silver."

Wang Xiao said, pondering: "Food is the most important thing for the people. To attract the population from Jiangnan to Xuhuai, food is the most important thing. However, I asked many officials yesterday, but few people knew the price of eggs."

"Um?"

"Tell me a story to Xiao Zhu. There was an emperor who had to eat four eggs a day. The price of the Ministry of Internal Affairs was thirty-four taels of silver. Once, the emperor chatted with the emperor's teacher and asked, "This thing is delicious, but it is really expensive. Can the teacher afford it?", and replied, "Sometimes I encounter sacrificial ceremony at home, I only use one or two, otherwise I would not dare to buy it."

"Ah, is there such a stupid emperor?"

Wang Xiao chuckled softly, and didn't say anything, but thought of something.

Someone complained yesterday, saying that Song Xin said something to Zhou Yan.

"Your Majesty, why did King Jing'an ask His Majesty to visit Henan? Is it really for Your Majesty's reputation? King Jing'an had long wanted to reform the official system. Now that Your Majesty has ascended the throne, he was originally to reward the ministers, consolidate his status, and get back the power to criticize the redemption. If you go to Henan and return to the court for a year and a half, the reform of the official system has been completed, who will still recognize Your Majesty's orders..."

Actually, Song Xin said it well.

The arrangement of Zhou Yan to go to Henan was to regain Henan more smoothly by using the imperial power, and the other was to take the opportunity to reform the official system.

In Wang Xiao's eyes, the Chu Dynasty's official system was extremely efficient, and its power was not in the countryside, so it could only manage gentry. In other words, the people outside the city were basically managed by the gentry representing the court. The court's low control over the entire society would easily create a situation for the gentry to "explore the people downward and deceive the court upward"...

Wang Xiao didn't plan to pursue Song Xin. With his current strength, no matter what Song Xin said, even if he wanted to rebel, he would not be able to change anything.

It is always difficult for a minister to tell the truth. Some emperors may not know how much an egg costs until they die. If Song Xin is willing to tell the truth, then tell it.

——It should also leave some loyal and usable ministers for Your Majesty, although they provoke me and Your Majesty every day...

However, Song Xin was not stupid either. He also knew how to capture the financial power first. He knew that the emperor's personal visit to Nanhe could not be changed, so he immediately asked Wang Xiao for silver to supplement the emperor's treasury.

It is indeed unreasonable that the emperor has no private money.

Wang Xiao wanted to give Zhou Yan the decent he deserved, but now he has no money to manage the Yellow River, so he definitely can't afford to spend the money to fill the treasury.

In addition, even if there is money, Wang Xiao was a little worried, afraid that Zhou Yan would use the money to train private soldiers or use it for personal enjoyment, or afraid that those in charge of the treasury would be greedy for Zhou Yan's money, such as four eggs, thirty-four taels...

The money collected by Wen’s family was used to practice a useless Wuxiangwei, and I still feel a little distressed when I think about it.

——Anyway, I’m quite worried about being a brother-in-law…

While eating, he was thinking about these things, and suddenly a maid came over and said, "Report to King Jing'an, the prince has arrived in Xuzhou..."

~~

Wang Qi was picking up Wang Xian at the city gate, but was sad to think that he would set out to Henan tomorrow...

He no longer has much impression of his elder brother.

When Wang Xian went to the south to do business, he was only six or seven years old.

Wang Yun only remembered that when he was at his home in Beijing, because Wang Xian’s yard was empty, he took Bipiao there to "study", and later his front teeth were knocked off...

When we met at this time, he saw Wang Xian's appearance and thought to himself: "Ah, my elder brother is involved in this kind of actor in Jiangnan. When he turns around, his father and uncle are going to be furious again... Oh, it's all because my father used to carry my elder brother to listen to the opera... I don't care, I can't go back."

"I've seen my elder brother."

"Is it Brother Yi?" Wang Xian said, "You were changing your teeth when I left home. Why have so many years passed and your teeth have not yet grown up?"

Wang Xian was speechless, and then met his sister-in-law and little nephew.

My sister-in-law is a virtuous person, but the little nephew giggled when he saw him.

"Do you know? You have to be naughty anymore. When you grow up, you don't have front teeth like Uncle Wu."

"Qi'er knows that Uncle Fifth is a naughty man!"
Chapter completed!