Zhenguan Han-in-law

Chapter 222
Chapter 218

Wei Hao heard Cheng Chusi say that Li Shimin and the others were going to come to their house for lunch, and they were very depressed. They didn't plan to open fire at noon, but now they have to cook.

"Mother, mother!" Wei Hao went outside the living room and shouted loudly.

"What's wrong?" Mrs. Wang came out from the kitchen.

"Your Majesty and some ministers are coming to our house for lunch, please arrange it quickly!" Wei Hao stood there and shouted at Mrs. Wang.

"Ah, hey, good, good!" When Wang heard this, she was stunned for a moment, and then she was very happy. The in-laws came to her house for dinner, so don't make a lot of preparations, not to mention that this in-law is the emperor of the dynasty.

After Wei Hao finished his orders, he returned to the living room.

"What are those drying outside?" Cheng Chusi looked at Wei Hao and asked.

"Snacks, when you don't want to eat, you can make this. I'll get you a bowl for lunch!" Wei Hao said with a smile.

"Do so much?" Cheng Chusi asked in surprise.

"I haven't returned the gifts from my family yet. My family can't get the small snacks sent by your house now. You also know that these snacks are available from ordinary people. There is no other way, but I have to serve them myself!" Wei Hao looked at Cheng Chusi and said proudly.

"Okay, my family has it too?" Cheng Chusi said happily.

"Yes!" Wei Hao nodded affirmatively.

"Well, if you return the gift, it would be good to send some white rice. Let me tell you, the rice I ate at your house last night is the best rice I have ever eaten in my life. It is delicate and does not stick to my throat. It’s a feeling, it’s really unforgettable, the rice you brought back from yourself yesterday was just handed over to my father, let my father take it back!” Cheng Chusi said to Wei Hao,

When Wei Hao heard it, he rolled his eyes immediately: "There's no way to return rice in return, but you also reminded me that you can send some over there at that time, so that everyone can taste it!"

"That's right!" Cheng Chusi nodded,

Soon, Li Shimin's motorcade arrived at the gate of Wei Hao's house. Wei Hao and Wei Furong came to greet him at the gate, and the middle gate was already opened!
Li Shimin got off the carriage, Wei Hao and Wei Furong immediately bowed their hands and saluted.

"Excuse me, my in-laws, I came to your house for dinner today! I want to taste your food!" Li Shimin said with a smile.

"Welcome, please, Your Majesty, please come inside!" Wei Furong said immediately, and Wei Hao was also standing there, expressionless.

"You don't welcome me, kid?" Li Shimin stared at Wei Hao and asked.

"Welcome, but it's almost Chinese New Year, father, please don't trick me again!"

"What am I cheating on you for? This kid, am I that kind of person?" Li Shimin immediately said to Wei Hao with a straight face,

Wei Hao rolled his eyes, but Li Shimin didn't care, and walked in with his hands behind his back and a smile.

"Father-in-law, please come inside!" Wei Hao saw Li Jing approaching, and immediately cupped his hands and said,

Li Shimin heard it, looked back, and then thought unhappily: "This bastard really has something against me."

"The house servant shoots, please come inside!" Wei Hao continued to greet the princes.

"Oh, uncle is here, please come inside!" Wei Hao said very enthusiastically when he saw his eldest grandson Wuji,

Changsun Wuji also nodded with a smile. When they arrived at the courtyard of Wei Hao's house, they saw a lot of white balls placed in the courtyard, but they didn't know what they were.

"I said Wei Hao, Wei Hao?" Li Shimin stood there and called out Wei Hao. When he found that Wei Hao hadn't come in, he immediately called out loudly. Wei Hao heard it outside and ran in helplessly.

"Father, what's the matter?" Wei Hao asked as he walked over.

"What are these?" Li Shimin asked, pointing to those things.

"Small snacks, I made them myself. My family hasn't returned gifts to those nobles yet. Why don't you hurry up and make this?" Wei Hao said to Li Shimin.

"This, can you eat it?" Li Shimin walked over, squatted down and picked up a glutinous rice ball, and looked at it carefully.

"It's raw now, and it needs to be cooked before eating. I'll make one for you at noon. It must be delicious!" Wei Hao immediately said to Li Shimin,
Li Shimin heard it, nodded, then stood up, pointed to the dumplings in the distance and asked, "Is that for food too?"

"Yes!" Wei Hao nodded.

"You two in-laws, and everyone, go to the living room, it's cold outside now!" Standing there, Wei Furong said very enthusiastically.

"Well, let's go to the living room!" Li Shimin also nodded,

Soon, a group of people arrived at the living room.

"Hey, it's still a bit small, Wei Hao, your mansion needs to be built quickly!" Li Shimin sat down and said to Wei Hao.

"Do well next year!" Wei Hao said as he sat there.

"Well, okay, when the time comes, sit in the new mansion, it's bigger over there, and the emperor didn't give you less land!" Li Shimin looked at Wei Hao and said,

He just wanted to please Wei Hao, this kid is now angry with him.

"Come on, serve it up, your majesty, my in-laws and all the nobles, these are glutinous rice balls and dumplings made by Hao Er, you guys eat first, let's rest your stomach, the kitchen is cooking, it will be ready soon!" Wang said At this moment, Shi brought a few maidservants over, carrying glutinous rice balls and dumplings, and there were 4 in each bowl.

"Hey, it's the ones outside, you have to try it!" Li Shimin said very happily, and then Mrs. Wang personally brought it to them. Other women, but they are not qualified to bring food to His Majesty. Ordinary women, It's not enough!

"Hmm! Delicious, delicious, that, sister-in-law, get me another bowl, oh, this is delicious!" Cheng Yaojin took the bowl in his hand and quickly finished the bowl.

"Uncle Cheng, we have to eat later!" Wei Hao immediately reminded him.

"If you don't eat, just eat this, the old man likes to eat this!" Cheng Yaojin immediately said to Wei Hao.

"Okay, since Su Guogong likes to eat so much, I'll make it for you again!" Wang Shi also said with a smile. Of course she was happy that they liked the things her son made.

"Mother-in-law, bring me a bowl too, this is really delicious, better than food!" Li Jing said happily at the moment.

"Yeah, oh, oh!" Li Shimin was eating, and when he heard what they said, he immediately raised his hand, signaling that he would come too.

"No, father, father-in-law, you are here for dinner, not for snacks!" Wei Hao looked at them helplessly and said.

"I'm not going to eat, I'll just eat this!" Li Shimin said, and the other ministers also nodded.

"That's fine, I'll cook some more!" Mrs. Wang said happily, and then took the maids out.

"Well, boy, why is this so delicious? What is it made of? And it looks white and white, with stuffing in it, so delicious!" Li Shimin asked Wei Hao.

"Tangyuan is made of rice flour, and dumplings are made of flour!" Wei Hao replied to Li Shimin.

"Flour, rice noodles? Don't lie to me. It's not like I haven't seen rice noodles and flour. It's impossible for the products to be so white. How did you do it?" Li Shimin looked at Wei Hao and continued to ask.

"It's true, my family Hao'er made two what, what are they called, yes, machines, specially used for peeling rice and making flour, really, very simple, the rice is snow white, and so is the flour!" Wei Furong was very Said happily.

"Is there such a thing, a machine? Well, let me take a look!" Li Shimin immediately said, other ministers were also very interested, there is such a good thing in the world, and it can make rice and flour so white.

"Success, I'll take you to have a look, it's in my courtyard!" Wei Furong stood up and said happily, but Wei Hao didn't want to move, he was still thinking about making snacks, it's only a few days away New Year's Eve.

Soon, the group arrived at the room specially used for these two machines at Wei Hao's house, and saw horses making money around the machine, and snow-white rice came out of a small opening, not in a large amount, but continuously Ongoing.The same was true for the flour side. The snow-white flour came out of the machine, making them dumbfounded.

"Here, let the millet go in here, and the rice come out here, how do you do it, by the way, here is the chaff, hey, is there such a thing?" Li Shimin and the ministers are also studying the two machines at the moment.

"Your Majesty, how did you make this?" Cheng Yaojin was looking at the flour machine, and shouted at Li Shimin.

"How do I know? That Hao'er, how did this come out?" Li Shimin immediately looked at Wei Hao and asked.

"It's made with this machine. If I explain in detail, you won't understand. Anyway, there is something inside. Peel off the chaff and grind off the outer layer of green skin. The same is true for flour. Peel off the husk. , and then began to grind and finally come out with a hundred noodles!" Wei Hao said as he looked at them.

"Hao'er, this, I always eat yellow rice and flour, what about you?" Li Shimin said to Wei Hao very excitedly.

"Father, don't worry, I will give it to you in the future!" Wei Hao said immediately.

"Your Majesty asked you to give him the machine!" Cheng Yaojin immediately reminded him.

"Then don't give it away, just kidding, a machine costs tens of thousands of pennies, and it's very exhausting to make. It took me a long time to make it, so I won't give it away!" Wei Hao immediately shook his head and said.

"I have money, why don't I buy it?" Li Shimin said, thinking that he is an emperor, if he doesn't even eat the best food, what kind of emperor is he? Besides, there are thousands of people in the palace. If there is such a machine, then I will eat such rice and flour in the future.

"No, I'm tired, I want to take a break!" Wei Hao said immediately, waving his hand.

"Hey, I'm not asking you to sell it now, but when you're free!" Li Shimin continued to say to Wei Hao.

"That's fine, but it will take a long time. I don't have the time to do it now!" Wei Hao nodded to him.

"How much?" Li Shimin just heard from Wei Hao that it would cost tens of thousands of coins, so we still need to inquire about this.

"Well, I don't know yet. I'll tell you when I figure it out. However, I guess it won't be cheap." Wei Hao thought about it, and said, in fact, it didn't cost much at all, and 10 pennies would be enough. God,

But Wei Hao still doesn't want this machine to spread, but on the other hand, if it spreads, the common people can eat rice and flour, which is also good!

"Success, success, you are still amazing, you can actually make such a thing!" Li Shimin is still studying the machine, but he can see it clearly.
Soon, a group of people arrived at the living room, the food was ready, and the glutinous rice balls were also ready, Wei Hao invited those people to the table.

"Your Majesty, come and drink! I'll have a few drinks with you!" Wei Furong said to Li Shimin.

"Come on, come on, it's mainly because this kid hasn't been crowned yet, by the way, the date of crowning is set on the eighteenth day of the first month, right?" Li Shimin asked Wei Furong.

"Yes, when the time comes, his older sisters, as well as his aunts, aunts, will all come back!" Wei Furong nodded and said.

"Well, this is a big matter, and it needs to be done. After being crowned, he needs to be an official in the court. Of course, if he doesn't want to be an official now, he can't do it now. It doesn't matter!" Li Shimin sat there, nodded and said.

"After being crowned, drink with me. I like drinking with young people the most! Drinking with your father-in-law is boring, and you pour it out after a few bowls!" Cheng Yaojin said happily, Li Jing heard it, and just stared at Cheng Yaojin, It's okay, why expose your shortcoming?

"That's great too, a few bowls!" Wei Hao said in surprise, a few bowls of wine, that's not bad, he didn't know that the current alcohol content is not much higher than beer.

After eating, Li Shimin was going to the living room of Wei Hao's small courtyard. Wei Hao asked the servants in his family to clean up his living room. They were drying the flour there before.

After arriving at Wei Hao's courtyard, Li Shimin sat down.Looking at Wei Hao, he said, "The family is very abnormal this time. You blew up so many houses yesterday, and the officials of the family dare not impeach them!"

Wei Hao was stunned when he heard it, then thought for a while, and said proudly: "They are also afraid of death, afraid that I will blow up their house!"

When the others heard it, they laughed. It is true that this reason cannot be ruled out.

"Well, what do you plan to do with those people?" Li Shimin then looked at Wei Hao and asked.

"They want to assassinate a county prince. Although they are the heads of the aristocratic family in Chang'an, they are also white. Such people, shouldn't they die?" Wei Hao looked at Li Shimin and asked.

"Well, damn it, no matter from which point of view, they should be damned, but there is no full evidence now!" Li Shimin looked at Wei Hao and said hesitantly.

"Then I'll kill them, I don't need evidence!" Wei Hao immediately looked at Li Shimin and asked.

"Huh?" Li Shimin was a little shocked at this moment, and the others were also a little surprised. Wei Hao must let them die.

"Father, they want to kill me, can I keep them? They are too deceitful, several families, it is shameless to deal with me as a kid, since they want to kill me, they have to do it well Awareness of death, otherwise I would be worried, the aristocratic family is thinking about killing me every day! After all, this time, I have touched their great interests! Hey!" Wei Hao sighed as he spoke,

Li Shimin and other ministers of course knew why Wei Hao sighed. Originally, Wei Hao didn't want to go and was forced by His Majesty.

"Well, come on, they use the shops to pay dividends to those officials. I can define those officials as corrupt and accept bribes, and those in charge, they are the officials who have wooed our dynasty, damn it!" Li Shimin heard Wei Hao say so. Said, nodded, and said,
Wei Hao has already achieved this level, and he will definitely not let Wei Hao kill people, this is still a matter of himself.

"By the way, next, what do you think about the Ministry of Civil Affairs?" Li Shimin asked Wei Hao.

"I, what can I think, father, I don't know about the Ministry of Civil Affairs!" Wei Hao said a little surprised when he heard Li Shimin's question, worried that he would arrange for him to take up an official position in the Ministry of Civil Affairs.

"Your Majesty means that you are very familiar with accounting, but there is a way to avoid letting those aristocratic families transfer money out like before!" Fang Xuanling immediately explained to Wei Hao.

"Oh, this, yes, bidding plus supervision!" Wei Hao said immediately after hearing this, relieved.

"What? Bidding? What?" Li Shimin and the ministers looked at Wei Hao incomprehensibly.

"That is to say, what the Ministry of Civil Affairs needs to buy will be announced to the world, and those who are capable of providing such materials will come to sign up. After their quality passes the inspection of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, they will start bidding. If the price is low, the court will buy it. " Wei Hao said to them.

"Oh, that's fine too! But you don't have to do this for everything, right?" Fang Xuanling asked, her eyes lit up when she heard it, looking at Wei Hao.

"Of course, I'll buy the small things directly, I said they are big things!" Wei Hao nodded and said.

"Well, it's feasible, but there is also a problem. If people from the aristocratic family come to supply the goods, they can collude!" Changsun Wuji said while stroking his beard.

"The officials of the Ministry of Civil Affairs won't investigate the price? Besides, if you invite bids, you must have three companies to sign up. Otherwise, the bid will fail, and you will continue to invite bids, unless you are sure that only one family in Datang can produce, such as paper, then There is no other way but to buy it from the paper workshop, besides, their aristocratic family has colluded, so it is time to monitor and establish a department to monitor all officials!" Wei Hao said looking at his eldest grandson Wuji.

"There is Dali Temple!" Fang Xuanling said.

"It's useful. The Ministry of Civil Affairs has been doing this for so many years. Dali Temple has not played a certain role. Return Dali Temple!" Wei Hao rolled his eyes and said,
Li Shimin heard it, but he didn't make a sound, and knew in his heart that it wasn't that Dali Temple didn't work, but that there were many people from aristocratic families in Dali Temple.

"But the establishment of the supervision, how should it work, what do they mainly investigate?" Fang Xuanling continued to ask, and they didn't realize that a group of veterans actually asked this young man who had not yet been crowned how to deal with the affairs of the government.

(End of this chapter)