“Cousin,  Have you heard about the Zhou family in Qianjie?”

     "Cousin is talking about the nephew of Shopkeeper Zhou? I heard it. Speaking of which, Shopkeeper Zhou was really wronged. He kindly took him in, but he acted like this."

    "No wonder he, who told him to read the book of sages,  a noble birth,  different from us poor people."

    "Haha, what kind of noble family is he? To say noble,  Can he be nobler than the eldest princess? The eldest princess is not as ungrateful as him! His family is like the former director The family has had a chancellor,  or the four masters and apprentices like Master Kong are reused by the eldest princess?"

    "I brought this up to you, to warn you not to trust others, not to slander others! Stop talking, be careful to be heard and accuse you of slander. These days It's getting cold,  I'm going to ask about Pankang."

     It's easy to come. We don't think it's extremely cold in winter here,  I don't really want a pankang."

     , can't be frozen,  There will be troubles in the future, it's not too much trouble to set up a kang, and we have no shortage of firewood money."

     "Hey, my cousin is right. My parents also said that the winter is cold and torturous. It's okay to give them a house."

    As soon as Yuan Niang put down the shutter of the shop, she heard two people standing and talking at the door. The sound of the shutter being opened disturbed the two of them, and they looked over together.

    Yuanniang took a closer look and saw that they were two ordinary people, one looked over twenty and the other looked like a teenager. In such a cold weather, at first glance, the two of them are wearing the same thin clothes as in the spring and autumn seasons. If they were outside, Yuan Niang might think that they were two poor people with no money to buy clothes, but in the heavenly capital, she knew that these two must be wearing cotton-padded clothes.

    She touched the soft undershirt exposed by the cuffs. Usually, her hands and feet were cold at this time, and her legs hurt every day, but now she felt like a brazier was burning beside her, very warm.

     

    "I want sweet pears and plums."

    "Cousin, why do you want sour plums? That stuff will make your teeth sore."

    "Are you suffering from amnesia? I just said that your sister-in-law is pregnant, and the doctor said that she may like to eat sour fruit."

    "Yes or yes, what if my sister-in-law likes sweet food? Spicy or bitter are possible."

    "Yeah, so I'm going to buy some back later."

    The younger man who was not married had nothing to say, he nodded and asked for a bag of sour plums.

    When his cousin saw him buying it, he felt a little strange, "No one in your family likes to eat sour, so why buy it back?"

    "Who said no one likes to eat, when my mother was pregnant with her younger brother, she always wanted to eat wild sour fruit on the mountain, but it was a barren year, let alone wild fruit on the mountain , even if there is not a single grass left. The younger brother died prematurely. In a few days, it will be his memorial day. I will buy it for my mother and make her happy. "

     

    Yuanniang quickly wrapped five bags of preserved fruit and handed them to the two of them, smiling gently: "One bag of three wen."

    "Three cents? Didn't you pay five cents two days ago? Why is the price cut again?" The boy who had just pulled out fifteen cents asked suspiciously, and his cousin was also puzzled.

    When sugar first appeared, the price in Tianshangjing was really high. A bag of preserved fruit was only five yuan, and a bag of the largest peach belly was only as much as the palm of your hand. At that time, it was sold for ten cents. bag.

    The output of sugar increased and the fruit was not enough, so the price dropped to five cents, which was still a little expensive.

    One penny and two big meat buns can buy a bag of rice, enough for a family of three to eat for five or six days, and a bag of preserved fruit sells for five cents, which is really expensive.

    Now it has been changed to three wen, Yuan Niang thinks this is the normal selling price, but for the people who are used to five wen, and the people who have never bought ten wen before, it is really cheap a lot.

    "A few days ago, Qingzhou sent a batch of fresh fruits, and a lot of fruits were planted there. The price was expensive before because there were few fruits, but now there are more fruits, so naturally they are not expensive."

    "We don't understand that, anyway, the store should not lose money."

    The young man did not understand the reason, but felt that the price was reduced from ten cents to three cents, and the store was earning a lot less.

    Yuanniang smiled and shook her head, "No, in the past the selling price was high and the cost was high, but now the selling price is low and the cost is low, I can't say which one is more profitable."

    When the cousins ​​left, Yuan Niang was cleaning the shop, and in a blink of an eye, it had been a month since she came to the Heavenly Capital.

    This month is like a lifetime.

      Adult children, and later an elderly person in the village, gave Yuan Niang a name.

    But all the people in Tianshangjing have surnames.

    The name is like Caidie, the owner of the candy shop, who came to buy candy.

    So Yuan Niang named herself Lu.

    "Yuanniang, the winter is bitter and cold, you don't have to get up so early." Yuanniang was thinking about the boss, and the boss came over. As soon as she saw Yuan Niang cleaning, she hurriedly stepped forward to stop it, "Look at your face, the tip of your nose is red from the cold, the Zhou family restaurant on the corner of the street should have opened its doors, and I could smell the aroma of braised ingredients from a distance. Yun likes tofu brains, Ah likes to eat soy milk, please come back to Yuanniang and buy some breakfast."

    A Yun means a big baby, he has a big name, called Lu Yun. Ah Qing was talking about the daughter of the proprietress, named Meng Qing.

    The proprietress said, and took out five copper coins from the money bag.

    Yuanniang didn't answer, "Now I have twenty copper coins a day for wages. You provide me and Yun'er with a place to live without food."

    "That's not good. Food and lodging are written into the labor contract. If I short you and I'm found, I'll have to pay a fine to the government."

    Yuanniang couldn't beat the boss, so she finally took five copper coins to buy breakfast. Fortunately, the proprietress didn't give too much money for breakfast, otherwise Yuan Niang would feel more uneasy.

    Yuanniang always thinks, how can there be such a good place in this world as Tianshangjing, maybe it really has such a name, this is the city of heaven.

    On the other end, Huarong was carrying bamboo slips and skirts and ran through the princess' mansion. When the two maids saw her, just as they were about to salute, they felt a black wind blowing in front of her, and Huarong was stunned. run away.

    "You are not allowed to rush around in the house, do you need to inform the lord of the house?"

    "Sir Huarong is the head of the private government, and only the eldest princess can be held accountable. Hurry up and send the cloth to the warehouse. Don't meddle in your business."

    "Okay. But this is the first time I see Lord Huarong so anxious. She runs so fast that I didn't even see it clearly, so she ran past. Sister, what do you mean by Lord Huarong? Isn't it like a chivalrous person in the book, who can fly over the eaves and walk around the wall?"

    "You are peeking at the script again! Inspector Zhang teaches you to read, so you can take care of the warehouse, not some idle books."

    "Yes, yes, what my sister said is, I will take a peek next time and never let anyone know."

    "You bastard!"

    The two maids whispered and walked away.

    On the other side, Hua Rong finally ran to Qianyang Palace, Jiang You was correcting documents at the moment.

    The Qianyang Hall was not originally called this name. Later, Jiang You often corrected documents here, so it was called Qianyan Hall, and later changed its name to Qianyang Hall.

    "Princess! The princess is in trouble!"

    Jiang You heard Hua Rong's voice, and when he looked up, he saw a black shadow suddenly appear in front of him.

    "Why did you suddenly use a ghost trick to come here? Didn't anyone see it?" Jiang You was startled, not by the sudden appearance of Hua Rong, but afraid that Hua Rong would be caught people found.

    "No, the slave ran all the way." Hua Rong shook her head, her body was full of ghosts, her face was blue and gray, very scary. She eagerly handed the bamboo slip in her hand to Jiang You, "Princess, take a look."

    Jiang You took the bamboo slip and glanced at the content on it. With just one glance, she made her pupils shrink and her brows furrowed.

    After carefully reading the content on the bamboo slip, Jiang You took a deep breath, "Who else knows this news?"

    "What you should know, I must have known it. After all, our heavenly capital is too far from Jinlin. After the caravan got the news, they rushed back without stopping, but Xuan Guo and Lu Guo are now in a mess. , there is still a lot of delay on the road.”

    Hua Rong breathed a sigh of relief after sending the news. After Jiang You knew about it, it didn't seem like a big deal.

    As long as the eldest princess is here, the sky will fall and someone will bear it.

     

    "Since everyone who should know knows it, then don't worry." Jiang You thought about it carefully, put the bamboo slip aside, "Go and call the former director, Kong Zhifu, and General Jiang. come over."

    These three refer to Yuan You, Kong Zhi and Jiang Zhen.

    After Yuan You was appointed as the director of the Supervision Department, he has been busy screening cases in the heavenly capital. Zhang Qi, as his deputy, served as the inspector of the imperial censor to supervise the security issues in the heavenly capital. Kong Zhi was recognized as the prefect, and to put it bluntly, he was the mayor of Tianshangjing and managed the official yamen of Tianshangjing.

    Jiang Zhen is the leader of the military. Whenever there is a major event, he must be present.

    The bureaucratic system in Tianshangjing is very chaotic now. Jiang You has no experience, and can only establish any official position if he can think of it, but in general, there are already three prototypes.

    Yuan You is one party, including Zhang Qi. The Supervision Department they belong to is responsible for supervision. Whether it is administrative marching and law enforcement, it is all within the scope of their supervision.

    Kong Zhi's family, including Zhu Ling, Zhou Xuan, Wei Cheng, etc., is one of them. He is nominally the prefect of the heavenly capital, but in fact he is doing the position of prime minister.

    Jiang Zhen is a party, representing the army.

    These three parties, in addition to Yuan You's Supervision Department, the other two are common people of the poor family.

    Only Yuan You's Supervision Department, which is full of Jiang You's people, no matter what their background, they all belong to Jiang You.

    Jiang You explained the current form of Xiatian and Shangjing, and according to the composition of the three parties, roughly determined the orders that the three parties would issue after they came over for a while.

    When she was able to sort it out, Kong Zhi and Yuan You arrived. Jiang Zhen was on his way here. He had nothing to do during this time, and he often accompanied his clan brother around Tianshangjing. Because the city management army was too short of people, the official soldiers would help out after completing the training.

    "General Jiang seems to be helping a family dig a well. He went down and dug it himself. He might not be able to make it in a while." The maid who went to deliver the message lowered her head and forcibly held back her smile. .

    General Jiang Zhen went to dig a well on a whim, but was covered in mud, just when the princess was summoned. If something like this happens, General Jiang may be punished by the eldest princess this time.

    He must be the first general in history to be late because he was too obsessed with digging a well.

    "Dig a well?" Jiang You was amused, why is each of her subordinates more strange, or is it that the ancients let themselves go like this?

    "General Jiang, who is so carefree on weekdays, who is in a high position and goes to dig wells himself, misses the important matter of the eldest princess, the eldest princess must punish him severely and let him know how great he is! "Kong Zhi seems to be expressing his dissatisfaction with Jiang Zhen, but he is actually saying good things for Jiang Zhen.

    Jiang You heard the meaning of this and looked straight, "Mr. Kong is in a good mood recently? But you have a good drink? Speaking of nonsense, when did I say that I would punish Jiang General."

    Kong Zhi remembered a few jars of good wine hidden at home, he smiled and said no more.

    Jiangyou gathered a group of people to help her make wine. Many people in Cheongju have planted fruit trees, and now they are all fruiting. The fruit there is sold to the heavenly capital, and the good ones may directly become seasonal The fruit, or the preserved fruit, after being pecked by the birds a few times, turns into jam and fruit wine, and the fruit wine is sold to ordinary wineries in the heavenly capital.

    Kong Zhi loves to drink fruit wine, fruit wine does not need food, it is a thing of love for the people, and the wine brewed by the eldest princess is stronger than the wine he used to drink, which makes him very addicted.

    Jiang You did not make grain distilled liquor, that is, liquor , Some people look very serious on weekdays, and they can do any kind of sand sculpture with a glass of white wine.

      Now that the world is so chaotic, she still needs a normal Mr. Kong, and she should wait for the world to be at peace and then let Kong Zhi enjoy sand sculptures.

    "Princess, I don't know that the princess has called us here, but there is something important to talk about?" Yuan You, who was kneeling beside him, envied Kong Zhi a little. He had just come to work under Jiang You. , never dared to be presumptuous towards Jiang You.

     

    "There is indeed something, this bamboo slip, the two of you will take a look first, and then talk about it in detail when General Jiang arrives." Jiang You restrained her smile, her expression instantly solemn, she handed the bamboo slip to Kong Zhi, Kong Zhi also took it seriously.

    Kong Zhi and Yuan You also exchanged glances and saw the cautiousness in the other's eyes.

    It must be no trivial matter to make the eldest princess take this seriously.

    Jiang Zhen didn't make Jiang You wait for a long time, Yuan You hadn't finished reading the bamboo slips, he came in with wet hair, striding faster than the trotting maid next to him.

    "The last commander pleads guilty, let the eldest princess wait for a long time, please punish the eldest princess!" Jiang Zhen came in and knelt on the ground, his movements were very smooth, his knees directly hit the ground, making a muffled sound, making people feel It is suspected that he had broken his kneecap.

    Jiang You saw his face ashamed, his wet hair was still dripping, and even the crown was worn crookedly.

    "Get up, next time you dig a well, don't do it yourself. If there is an urgent matter, I will pull you out of the pit." Jiang You waved his hand and told him to come here , "Bai Jin is almost finished, you should take a look too."

    Yuan You nodded and handed the bamboo slip to Jiang Zhen.

    Jiang Zhen grinned embarrassedly, walked over and greeted the three of them before taking a seat. He had both the neatness of a soldier and the observance of a literati, so that people could not pick out mistakes.

     

    "Since you've read it all, let's talk about your thoughts. It's impossible to hide the fact that Tianzi Wei got the wind."

    "The Son of Heaven is not on Double Nine this year, how did he get this disease? Is there a cure for this disease?" Jiang Zhen doesn't know about this. When I was young, I didn't have a daughter-in-law, so every day I was energetic and went to dig wells for others.

    Kong Zhi shook his head, Yuan You also shook his head.

    "What does shaking your head mean? Help, or not?"

    Jiang Zhen doesn't understand.

    A kind of shame appeared on the faces of Kong Zhi and Yuan You at the same time, Jiang You grinned, looking like a good show, which made them even more uncomfortable.

    There are several unmarried maids in this room, as well as an unmarried master of Yun Ying, how can they tell such secrets!

    "Even if they are rescued, most of them will be abandoned. If they can't be rescued, some will die on the spot. According to the booklet, the emperor had a stroke at night, and no one knew about it. It's not optimistic." In the end, Yuan You took up the conversation, he broke the jar, and with a red face, he said solemnly: "No matter what the situation is, Jin Lin will definitely be in chaos."

    Originally, the situation of Jinlin was very bad. The royal family of the gentry was lavish, regardless of the life and death of the people. Chaozheng, but got this disease again.

     

    

    The choice of the royal heir to succeed the throne depends on the blood relationship. Now that the royal descendant is withering, among the closest relatives of Wei Tianzi, there is no choice but to choose Nanchuan, the uncle of Wei Tianzi.

    But this Nanchuan is a fool!

    Nanchuan came from a royal family, his father was King Weiliang, and his mother was an ordinary musician.

    Because of her very low birth mother, Nanchuan was left unattended after birth, and her sense of existence was extremely low. One year after he was born, King Weiliang died, leaving only two children, Nanchuan and King Weiwen. At that time, everyone was shocked that Nanchuan looked like a dementia and was a fool.

    Nanchuan was raised by his elder brother, King Wei Wen.

    The King Wei Wen was in poor health. His favorite thing to do was to read books. He stayed up all night reading books every day.

    

    The Wei Dynasty has lasted for more than 600 years. It has experienced prosperity and war, and the ceremony has collapsed. Now, this behemoth will eventually be unable to hold on.

    Jiang Zhen looked at Kong Zhi left, looked at Yuan You right, scratched his wet forehead, "No matter who the new Emperor Wei is, it doesn't seem to have anything to do with us, right? If he is not named king, it is not the prince appointed by the Wei Dynasty, or the emperor Wei ignites the beacon, and the eldest princess does not have to bring troops into the Jinlin."

    Kong Zhi's hand holding his beard stagnates, Yuan You is also stunned.

    Yes.

    Before they were worried that after the new Emperor Wei ascended the throne, there would be absurd things. At that time, Jiang You, because of his identity, would definitely accompany the nonsense, not only Jiang You, but all princes in the world. Let's make a fool together, and now I want to come. If you want to make a fool of yourself, it's the monarch of Meng Guoguo who is going to make a fool of yourself. What's the matter with them going to the capital?

    "If the world is in chaos, it will not be a good thing for the Heavenly Capital." Jiang Youcai has been in the Heavenly Capital for a year, and she still wants to work hard for a few more years to lay a solid foundation. Lin's aristocratic family can be more sensible, even if they help a fool, don't be fooled."

     

    Jiang You asked Kong Zhi to comfort the clan and the common people. Sooner or later, the incident of Wei Tianzi's stroke would spread all over the world. She was afraid that people would fluctuate and cause trouble. On the other side, she asked Yuan You to assign people, be optimistic about those big clans, and the people in the city, and work with the intelligence bureau to screen for people with dissent in the heaven and the capital, keep an eye on them, and prevent other countries from making trouble at that time.

    As for Jiang Zhen…

    After Kong Zhi and Yuan You both left, Jiang You asked Jiang Zhen to send his subordinates to practice digging wells and dig wells, and then make a stone tablet engraved with the world will be in chaos and the gentry will be in trouble. Order, don't let others know.

    Jiang Zhen took the order and left.

    Jiang You picked up a booklet from the desk, and on it was written the number of new people in Zhongzhou. In just one month, there were nearly 100,000 more people in Zhongzhou.

    The situation of the Meng Kingdom is so bad that the people are fleeing.

    Jiang You was thinking, should she expand her territory? In the chaos of Jinlin, her money bag is about to be empty. Just relying on the three places of Zhongzhou, Qingzhou, and Shangba cannot make the people live a good life.

    "Go and find Master Lu."

    Hua Rong was quick in her hands and feet, and soon, Lu Yu came.

    "I have seen the eldest princess."

    "Well, I heard that the copper mines near Shangba have limited output, and the quality of copper coins produced varies. There is a mountain outside Zhongzhou called Daheishan. There may be copper mines, you and General Jiang will go check it out. If necessary, you can buy this mountain with gold, silver, jade, silk, brocade, salt and sugar."

    Shangba territory is rich in copper mines, and copper coins are made using special stoves and methods.

    Lu Yu didn't think much about it, saluted and promised, and responded directly.

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