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Chapter 74 The First Lady Is Not Vicious 15
Yuan Qiniang laughed amused by Wushuang's words, and said: "That's right, comparing a chaffinch to that screwdriver is an insult to other chaffinches."

The mother and daughter were smiling when Bai Zhexi walked in from the outside.

Seeing Wushuang and Yuan Qiniang smiling happily, she casually said, "Mother, sister, what are you two talking about for fun? I can hear you two laughing from afar."

Yuan Qiniang recounted what she just said to Wushuang, and Bai Zhexi also laughed.

"My sister is right, the sparrow is quite innocent."

After laughing, Wushuang thought about business again.

He told Bai Zhe, "Brother, my third sister and I are going to Jiangnan this time.

You can come with us if you like.

You can go with your friends if you want. "

The Empress Dowager has not yet issued an order to go to Jiangnan to hold "Hundred Opera Competition".

When the outside world doesn't know, Wushuang can't say it clearly.

But Bai Zhexi is not stupid.

As soon as Wu Shuang said that he wanted to go to Jiangnan with his group of friends, he knew what he was going to do when he thought of the prosperity of Jiangnan.

Bai Zhexi made a lot of money in this "Hundred Opera Competition" in Beijing.

This time he naturally refused to relax, nodded repeatedly and said: "I have no problem, I am definitely willing to go.

If I ask my friends, they should all be willing to go. "

Seeing Bai Zhexi's excited face, Wushuang couldn't help reminding: "Brother, the "Hundred Opera Competition" we hold this time is different from the previous ones.

Before, we were looking for fun for Princess Ping Ning, to please Princess Ping Ning.

But this time, we are helping the empress dowager make money.

The money earned this time will be used by the empress dowager for state affairs.

In other words, no matter how much we earn this time, there will be no monetary income.

You have to think clearly, and remind your friends to see if they still want to go to Jiangnan. "

After Wushuang finished speaking, Bai Zhexi immediately said without hesitation: "Go! Whether they go or not, I will definitely go."

Bai Zhe understood clearly that if he couldn't get money, he would definitely get something else, such as the empress dowager's favor.

If you can make a good impression in front of the Queen Mother, you will be able to enter the officialdom more smoothly than others in the future.

Who doesn't know that the current queen mother is very powerful, the emperor should have been in charge long ago, but the queen mother is still in charge.

The emperor only dared to spend time and wine with his concubines in the harem, and did not dare to contaminate the government in the slightest.

Even the court ministers mostly sided with the Queen Mother.

It can be said that the queen mother is not an emperor, but she has the rights of an emperor.

It's still the kind of power that holds the emperor's right.

The Empress Dowager is in her prime, and women have always lived longer than men. Who knows how many years the Empress Dowager can remain in charge.

In this case, being familiar with the empress dowager is more important than the emperor's blue eyes.

After hearing Wushuang's words, Bai Zhe hurried to find his brothers.

Yuan Qiniang was busy giving various salutes to Wushuang to bring with her when she went out.

Although Bai Wei is an idle clan, he has gone out on several errands, and it was Yuan Qiniang who helped him prepare travel supplies.

Although the person traveling this time has changed from a husband to a daughter, the preparations for things are similar.

Yuan Qiniang only added some necessary supplies for women's travel.

Wushuang thought that if he left this time, he would not be able to see Yuan Qiniang for a long time, so he followed Yuan Qiniang step by step.

As a result, Yuan Qiniang disliked Wushuang for being in the way here, and drove Wushuang away.

Wushuang, who was kicked out, rubbed his nose bored, ready to help Bai Mengyi.

In the end, after walking a few steps, Princess Pingning's people came over and told her to follow her into the palace immediately, the queen mother wanted to see her.

Wushuang didn't even have time to wash up, so she was urged to go out, got into the carriage, and went straight to the palace.

This is Wushuang's first time entering the palace, and the entire palace is mainly built in black, white and gray.

It is solemn and solemn but at the same time generous, making people look open-minded.

The Weiyang Palace where the Empress Dowager lives is even more extravagant.

The maids and eunuchs serving in the palace stood with their hands down.

Everyone held their breath and held their voices, never looking left and right, behaved like a dummy.

When Wu Shuang saw the queen mother, the queen mother was reading the plan written by her.

Wushuang saluted the Queen Mother and said, "My daughter will see the Queen Mother, and the Queen Mother will be happy forever."

The Empress Dowager waved her hand to make Wushuang stand up, and said to her: "Come here, and explain to Aijia carefully how the methods you wrote can be used in practice."

Wu Shuang replied yes, got up and walked to the queen mother's side, and explained in detail the hastily written plan.

During the period, the Queen Mother would also ask questions from time to time, but the most frequently asked questions were related to the construction of river embankments.

Finally, the Empress Dowager raised a sensitive question: "Tell me, can one million taels of silver completely repair the embankment of the Ying Canal?"

The Yingyun River is a man-made river, similar to the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal.

The Yingyun River connects the north-south trade routes, and the commercial value brought by a river is extremely high.

However, since a major earthquake in the previous dynasty, another turbulent river suddenly changed its course and merged into the Ying Canal.

The river changed from being docile in the past, and flooded at both ends every three days.

The dykes were washed away again and again, making the people on both sides of the strait miserable.

From the previous dynasties to the present, this Ying Canal has been filled with tens of millions of taels of silver.

Only a small part of the silver was actually used to repair the embankment.

More money was taken away by officials layer by layer.

One million taels of silver is enough to repair the embankment.

But the queen mother asked so knowingly, she must hope that Wushuang can say something else.

So Wu Shuang looked at the Queen Mother and boldly said: "No matter which official the Queen Mother gives to one million taels of silver, it is impossible to repair the embankment of the Ying Canal."

What Wushuang said was extremely bold, and even more so.

For a normal boudoir woman in ancient times, this sentence should not be said.

The Empress Dowager obviously didn't mean to blame Wushuang for overstepping the rules, but she immediately said: "If Aijia gives you 100 million taels of silver, can you build a strong embankment?"

Wushuang's heart beat wildly!

Although the Queen Mother had been asking her about building the embankment before, she had already felt it.

But when the Empress Dowager really said the words she expected, there was still a sense of unreality as if in a dream.

The queen mother is not content to just be the queen mother, she wants to insert someone who absolutely listens to her in the court.

This person must have the ability to do things that others cannot, so that the ministers cannot refute her inserting this person into the court.

And at the same time, this person has to naturally stand in her position.

It would never be possible to betray her and become her absolute confidant.

Obviously, the queen mother thought that Wushuang was the most suitable candidate.

Because Wushuang is a woman, in this patriarchal society, if she wants to control her own destiny and gain a firm foothold in the court like a man, she can only cling to and be loyal to the Queen Mother.

(End of this chapter)