The daily life of the science master's book-wearing group

Chapter 486 Brothers and Sisters
"What kind of imperial conquest? Daddy, is he a fool? He wants me to hand over the second firearms battalion to him! He has never stayed in the firearms battalion! I also trained the soldiers! Even if you are willful, you can't be willful like this!"

"Don't worry too much. Isn't the training method of the Taiyuan Firearms Camp the same as that of the Beijing Firearms Camp? Father must often go to the Firearms Camp in the capital. Don't underestimate Father."

Song Qingyue helped pack the luggage, this time she will not follow to the capital, she will stay in Taiyuan.

Speaking of it, if Borjiji hadn't voted for Dazhou, Taiyuan City would be more dangerous than the capital city.

"Father is just suffocated in the palace, and wants to go out of the palace to have fun! He is self-willed! I don't understand yet!"

No matter how angry Li Zhao was, the matter of Yu Jia's personal conquest had already been reported nationwide in the residence newspaper.

The emperor didn't even notify Taiyuan before making the decision, obviously because he was afraid that his eldest son would object to it.

Li Zhao was depressed and swearing around in circles in the room, but Song Qingyue was in a relaxed mood.As long as her husband is not on the battlefield, she can feel more at ease.

No matter how small the danger of the coach is, after all, it is a battlefield, and swords have no eyes, and any accident may happen.

The war is about to start, and the little ghosts of Dai's family and the commander's family of the inspection department can't deal with them either.

His father is going to go to the battlefield to fight his life, how can he be cruel to other children?
Not only could they not be punished, Song Qingyue even had to take their wives and children to Taiyuan City temporarily. Compared with Shanxi Town and Datong Mansion, Taiyuan was safer.Those Mongolian Tartars were all barbarians, and they had almost no manufacturing ability, so they could only rely on robbery if they wanted to get rich.

Every time they dispatched troops, they always shouted that they would go south to rob. The various tribes responded to the call, and the organization was originally very loose. In the past, it often happened that small groups of Mongolian Tartars crossed mountains and bypassed Dazhou. The northern line of defense went directly to the countryside around Datong to plunder food, women and other property.

More than five years ago, they managed to beat them away with firearms. In the past two years, the grassland has been drought, and they probably couldn't survive, so they thought about going south to rob again.

On the tenth day of April, the first monthly exam ends.

This kid Li Kun actually took No.13, and he was still sick.

Song Qingyue was quite satisfied with him, but Li Xiaokun was not very satisfied with himself.

He never thought that there could be twelve people ahead of him!
As for the son of the general acting chief strategist, his grades were not bad, and he got No. 17 after suffering from an illness.

Song Qingyue originally wanted to send him away, but the child ran to the door of the husband's room in the middle of the night and kowtowed and begged. The husband was so entangled by him that he couldn't help it, so he brought him to see Song Qingyue again.

At that time, Song Qingyue had also learned about the situation of the Dai family from the guards, and the balance in her heart was already skewed.

The acting young master also went all out, kneeling in front of Song Qingyue with snot and tears all over his face: "Madam, Madam Wangfei, I beg you! I know I'm wrong! I'm really wrong! I don't dare to think a little bit in the future Yes! I just ask you to keep me by Your Highness’s side, my son will protect His Highness with his life and be loyal to him for the rest of his life! If my son has any bad intentions in the future, I will be struck by lightning and die a terrible death!”

After saying that, he kowtowed a dozen times in a row, as if if Song Qingyue didn't agree today, he would kowtow himself to death here.

Song Qingyue saw that his forehead was bleeding, so she asked Nanny Bai to stop it.

She took another look at the child, and after knowing what was going on in his family, she also realized that it must be his mother who wanted him to fight. If he couldn't fight here, he would suffer mental torture from his mother when he returned home.

Song Qingyue thought for a while, since the palace will definitely keep a young master who is acting as a substitute, why not give him another chance.

Song Qingyue didn't really want to accept that concubine's child from the bottom of her heart, saying that she was partial and emotional, and she accepted it.

So she said: "But the matter of your harm cannot be exposed so easily. I know that you are not the mastermind, but you did not stop it, but became an accomplice. The moment you move your mind, you are already a crime." Got it, do you understand?"

"Yes! Madam, I know I was wrong! I really know I was wrong!"

"I want the guards of the palace to punish you with ten lashes. Those whips will not only bruise you, but also leave scars on your body. I want you to always remember the mistakes you made today. Are you convinced?"

"Convince me! My little one, thank you for the grace of rebuilding the princess!" He knocked his head heavily, and as if he was relieved, he lay down on the ground and wept loudly.

Song Qingyue looked uncomfortable, got up and went back to the backyard.

Seeing that her face was a little pale, Li Zhao came over to support her: "Is it so exhausting to deal with this matter?"

Song Qingyue clicked her tongue: "I was so angry before, but I felt so pitiful when I saw the child like that. Let's find a reason for him to get off the crime. I feel so unfair in my heart!"

"You're just too entangled." Li Zhao laughed.

In fact, he doesn't really care whether the child stays or goes. It's normal for a little boy from a wealthy family to be scheming and cruel. Li Kun can't be surrounded by pure and kind people. This is not bad.

The most important thing is that Dai Zhenquan is a good person. As a general, Li Zhaoting appreciates him.As for the affairs in his backyard, only Song Qingyue would care more, Li Zhao didn't care at all.

Dai Zhenquan was relieved to learn that the princess wanted to keep the eldest son, but the premise was that he would be whipped ten times.

Without further ado, the second son stayed in the villa in Taiyuan obediently, and sent someone to Shanxi Town to bring his wife, three aunts and several children to Taiyuan.

The criminal law of whipping is much more difficult than Mr. Dai imagined.

The whip used for execution was not an ordinary whip, but a whip specially used in the barracks to punish soldiers. It was very heavy and was wrapped in thick hemp rope.

He took off his clothes and beat him, and his skin was ripped open with the lash of the whip, and blood was seen directly.

So the first time he only had two lashes, the imperial doctor came to help him heal his injuries, and when the injury healed this time, he would give him two more lashes.

The whole process may take up to half a year.

But even so, he would like to stay.

He would rather be tortured like this for half a year than being sent home.

The young master Dai who had been whipped still had to go to class every day, but he was put on a stretcher and went to class on his stomach.

Li Kun also joined in the fun and once visited the imperial physician to prescribe medicine to him.

Seeing the welt marks on Dai Shouren's back was also really frightened.

Although Li Xiaokun's personality is not good, he is still a kind-hearted boy.Every time the Palace made anti-inflammatory garlic balls, he personally sent them to Dai Shouren. It couldn't be said that he really cared about this little brother, or wanted to watch him eat those unpalatable pills with a sad face. He gloated and watched the jokes.

In short, the two brats didn't know each other, so they gradually became acquainted with each other.

On April [-]th, Li Zhao set off for the capital, and Song Qingyue took Li Kun to the gate of the city.

The fact that Li Zhao went to the capital to supervise the country without a single concubine Ji actually aroused some small-scale discussions, and even the Yushi Shangshu impeached Song Qingyue.

Li Zhao wrote a letter to defend himself this time, and he said it quite convincingly: the father is still outside the pass, risking his life to drive his own conquest, he is in the rear to supervise the country, but there are so many beautiful women around him, is this plausible?

It's outrageous to be a minister, a son of man, to do this!

But the censors still have something to say, the performance of the princes in this generation is too bad in terms of fertility!
The eldest brother Li Zhao has a child, and the second child Li Yi. I don’t know if it was too much trouble in the past or what. There were news of concubine Ji’s pregnancy in the backyard from time to time, but since the princess Meng Yuyan gave birth to a small son, there has been no more in the backyard. It's quiet, the third child has quite a lot of children, now there are five, the fourth child has been deposed by Li Zhao, and there is no one.

One of the fifth and the sixth was married for three years, and the other was married for two years, but each of them had two children.

The six married princes have given birth to eleven grandchildren in all these years, which is too few.

Especially Li Zhao, the eldest Highness, who has passed his thirties, and has been married for almost ten years, with only one child under his knees, it is simply unreasonable!
Song Qingyue, as the eldest prince's main wife, is responsible no matter what.

These days, no matter how capable you are, with the death rate in mind, it is a big deal to continue the incense and spread its branches and leaves. As a woman, if you don't have children, you will be scolded.

But Li Zhao didn't care at all, and Song Qingyue didn't even care.

However, Li Xiaokun in school was affected by some rumors.

Children always ask him if the princess is particularly fierce.

"No! My mother is the most gentle! My father is fierce! My mother never hits me." Li Kun raised his chin, very proud of this, his mother is the most beautiful mother in the world!
However, occasionally he would be so angry that he would jump, but every time he pointed at him and shouted: "I call your father to deal with you! Little bastard, wait for my mother!"

Some children asked him if the concubine never let the prince find concubines.

This question is more difficult to answer.

Li Xiaokun never thought about this problem!

He blinked his innocent eyes and asked back, "Do you have to look for it?"

Everyone: "It's true...it's not certain."

Li Kun: "Then what's the problem?"

Crowd: ...

The young master of the Zhong family was a little older and knew a little better than the other little carrots. He said to Li Kun: "In this way, Your Highness will lose a lot of younger brothers and sisters. Is there only one His Highness in the palace? We all have several of them." Brothers and sisters! Just say me, I have two older brothers, one older sister, and one younger brother and four younger sisters!"

"Really? You all have brothers and sisters?" Li Kun was shocked.

Everyone nodded, including Dai Shouren who was lying on the bed and eating cucumbers.

"You also have brothers and sisters?" Li Kun asked Dai Shouren with his head lowered.

Dai Shouren nodded and stretched out four fingers: "I am the eldest, and I have two younger brothers and two younger sisters. One of the younger sisters was born to my mother, and the two younger brothers and the other younger sister are both my father." born to my concubine."

Li Kun was shocked again. It turned out that the concubines were used to give birth to younger brothers and sisters!
He actually knew this for the first time!

In the palace, the family of three has always lived together. The father and the concubine sleep together every night, and he sleeps in the wing room.Except for the servants in a yard, there are very few creatures like "little concubines" in Wufangzhai.

He knew that the father had a concubine room, but he didn't know exactly what the concubine room was for.

In Li Xiaokun's vague concept, the so-called concubines are "people who live in other courtyards".

Now he has a new understanding of the "concubine's room" - it turns out that they are used to give birth to younger brothers and sisters!

But there are so many concubines in my family, why can't a single brother or sister be born?

From then on, there was a lot of doubt in her little head, so half a month later, Song Qingyue was questioned by her son with her hips on her hips: "Mother, why didn't my concubines give birth to a single brother or sister for me? "

Song Qingyue: "Huh?!"

Li Kun: "Students at school said that my father's concubine is used to give birth to brothers and sisters. Don't we have several in our family? Why don't I have any younger brothers and sisters? Everyone has them! Only I don't!"

"Because..." Song Qingyue blinked and didn't know how to answer such a question for a while, but she suddenly changed the subject, looked down at Li Xiaokun, and asked, "Do you really want younger siblings?"

"Of course I want it!" Li Kun replied loudly.

"Then have they ever told you that younger siblings are annoying sometimes? They even fight with them? Eat their snacks and spend their pocket money?!"

"Yes, will it be like this?"

"Of course! If you don't believe me, go to the school and ask them. Mother is also to make you live more comfortably, so that you don't let your father and king's concubines give you younger brothers and sisters. But if you want to have younger brothers and sisters, mother will I can also promise you."

Li Kun then went to school to ask about his younger siblings.

Sure enough, it's just like what my mother said!
Siblings aren't all likable, either.

For example, Dai Shouren, he hated his two younger brothers to the core, and said that his father liked those two younger brothers more than himself, if he wanted anything, he knew he could find his mother, but his two younger brothers You can act like a spoiled child to your father at will.

"My father is not good to my mother. He only comes to her yard three or four times a month. Every time he sees me, he just asks me about my homework, and his face is always cold. When he sees his younger brother, he always smiles happily. !"

Li Kun was frightened by what he said.The father is always cold-faced to himself, and he will not kiss his mother anymore. Just thinking about this scene makes me feel scared.

He muttered: "My mother said that she didn't let the concubines have younger brothers and sisters just to make my life better. So it's all true!"

"Your mother told you so?"

"Yes!"

"Then you are really lucky."

"Really? I also feel now that it's fine even without brothers and sisters." Li Kun is more and more able to comfort himself.

"But my younger sister is still very cute." Dai Shouren said again, "It's the younger sister born to my mother. She's only four years old this year. She's so cute. She's fragrant and soft, and I like her as soon as I see her. "

"Really……"

Having said that, Li Xiaokun was shaken again.

"Although there are times when crying is more than annoying, but every time I see her laughing, I feel warm in my heart. After this is over, your highness will come to my house, and I will take your highness down to meet my Yaomei."

"Okay, okay! It's a deal, I will remember this!"

……

After Li Zhao left, Song Qingyue also took over the arsenal with full authority, and temporarily converted all the civilian lines to military lines, working at full capacity to prepare for the upcoming war.

Now steam-powered drilling machines, cutting machines, and grinders have all come out. Although these machines often have various problems, such as the drill bit of the drilling machine is greatly lost due to the lack of suitable materials, but the production efficiency is lower than It has been greatly improved since the manual era.

Take the gun barrel as an example. Originally, it took at least two days to make a gun barrel, and even three to four days for unskilled workers, and the overall failure rate was around 30.00%. Now it only takes two days to make a gun barrel. In less than an hour, the unqualified rate dropped to less than [-]%.

Wars require money. In order to earn more money, Song Qingyue launched a "comprehensive shopping mall" project in Taiyuan City.

The plan is to build a four-story circular stone-concrete building similar to a bank building, with a huge patio in the middle, so that each store can be guaranteed to have two sides of lighting.

The first floor sells hairpin jewelry, rouge and gouache, the second floor sells fabrics, leather materials, clothes and shoes, and the third floor sells washbasins, kettles, and furniture. If you want to build your own house, the building materials here are also complete, and there are even The two mule companies can help solve the transportation problem of building materials.

Finally, a stage was built in the middle, and the publicity team came to perform "model plays" for free every day.

News came from Li Zhao, saying that the imperial court had sent envoys to discuss cooperation with the Jurchen of the West Sea, and that they might send a lot of business documents to the Jurchen tribe of the West Sea.

Soon, many Jurchens may come to the Central Plains to do business.In addition to fur, the Jurchen tribe also had a lot of high-quality ginseng and medicinal materials. He asked Song Qingyue to prepare it. The wine in Shanxi was good, so they could focus on doing business with the Jurchens.

(End of this chapter)