son-in-law

Chapter 1020
In midsummer and June, the sun was shining like fire, and the little maids were shivering from the heat.

Especially the maid standing at the moon gate, getting darker and thinner day by day due to the wind and sun.

King Qin couldn't see this kind of corporal punishment work, so he ordered to build shades for the maids; he also bought high stools for them to sit on.

King Qin not only cared about the maids, but also the guards in iron armor.Under the direct sunlight, the temperature inside the armor was almost fatal.King Qin told Wu Shajin that he did not need to train during the day, nor did he need to wear armor.

In addition, Su Yu asked Tang Cui to order sweet ice and deliver it by car every day.No, the vendor delivered the sweet ice on time, one cart to the guard of the soldiers, and one cart to the gate of the princess's mansion, and the little maids took turns to eat it.

Of course, before the maids eat, they must be delivered to the main house and then to the backyard.Not only for concubines and beauties, but also for Chen Xun and mother-in-law Niu Ma.The two old ladies love sweet ice the most. Whenever they eat it, they smile happily and jump around alternately like children.Shouting the young master's nickname.

"Xiaohuan, did you steal it again? I think you are looking for a beating. If you admit it soon, we won't go to the empress to file a complaint, or I will sue you to death."

Tang Fei and Tang Cui each held a ladle with ice in it, and hid it behind their backs so that Xiao Huan could not see it.It's obvious that they kept private work, but the villain sued first.Wearing a red skirt, Tang Fei, who is eighteen years old but already full of flair, pointed at Xiao Huan and taught her a lesson.

The handsome butler Tang Cui, who had her head tied in a bun near the clouds, echoed, "Yes, she stole it. I've seen it more than once."

Xiao Huan looked at them coldly: "I knew you two sisters when I was eight years old. They are a bad pair. God blinded you and made you grow up. If it doesn't rain this year, you two belong to each other. You should be strangled and hang them on the flagpole." Pray for rain."

The little maids bickered downstairs, and the final result was that the Tang sisters took out the embezzled sweet ice and sold it with Xiao Huan.Then don't tell anyone about your tricks.

No need to ask, those ice cubes were supposed to be given to the backyard.And Ximen Wanting was not at home, so she didn't send it out.Things like ice cubes will melt if they can't be sent out. You can't just let them turn into water.So they took it back as they should.

Usually, Tang Cui sent her little maid to deliver things, but she and Tang Fei went together to deliver ice cubes.What she was thinking in her heart was clearly seen by King Qin who was standing by the upstairs window.

If Wang Xun found out about this, he would probably rush downstairs and scold them.Because Wang Xu is that stubborn person, rules are rules and cannot be broken at all.Even if this ice cube is released, it will also be melted in the side concubine's room.

Behind Su Yu, the young Princess Jia Wanyan Qing, who wore a double ball bun, was holding a bowl of ice and feeding Zhao Tangsu and Zhao Zhen, but she was stopped by Lao Diao Temple not long after.Lao Diaosi said that children should not eat too much cold food.

The days seemed to be back to normal, King Qin seemed to be taking it easy.But this is just the appearance, all the big events are hidden in the dark.

A few days ago, he asked Meng Can and Ximen Wanting to go home with letters and gifts to meet Meng Danqing and Ximen Zhensen respectively.But a few days passed, and the two dukes didn't respond.

"It must be a disaster year."

Su Yu muttered softly and turned around.Seeing that Tang Linger was also arranging agricultural affairs.This year has shown a trend of drought, and it is said that one-third of the seedlings in the fields died of drought.

Su Yu picked up the account book of the Tang family's granary and looked through it. Tang Ling'er had two years of spare grain, and she was not panicked in the face of the drought.

But Qin Wang was not very sure, because the area affected by the disaster today was astonishingly large, and a large area of ​​Hebei Road, Henan Road, and Shandong Road was affected by the disaster.

The food problem for tens of millions of people was enough to crush the Liang Dynasty.

At this time, Su Yu was no longer thinking about fighting, but mobilizing the local government to fight the drought together.Prepare for disaster relief.What I fear most is that refugees leave their places of origin and wander around.Refugees may turn into mobs at any time, and the horror of mobs is beyond words.

Tang Ling'er put down her pen and stared at King Qin: "Did neither the Meng family nor the Ximen family reply?"

"I didn't expect them to reply immediately." Su Yu smiled wryly: "I talked to Lao Dian (Dian Gong) about this a few days ago. It will take three years..."

Su Yu concealed at least half of what he said.For example, what will he do in the past three years to make Meng Shi and Ximen Shi trust him?
Also, what is the idea of ​​Dian Gong, whom Su Yu jokingly called "Yao Guangxiao in the Liang Dynasty", for Su Yu?
I don't know what the 80-year-old Dian Gong thinks. The Dian family was originally one of the eight major families in Qinghuafang.After more than a hundred years, the Dian family has always been a vassal family of the Tang family.Although not all the people surnamed Dian became rich and powerful, at least every generation will have a patriarch who has won the title of patriarch to ensure that the family will not disperse.

It can be said that the Tang family is still good to the eight clans of Qinghuafang, but this old man only wants to let Su Yu make big things happen. He persuaded the king of Qin more than once to lead troops into the city and kill all the people of the three clans in Luoyang city.Completely breaking with the Sanmen Clan and at the same time starting a war with the Sanmen Clan, he also called it "put to death and then live".

The soldiers of the three clans add up to 45, while the royal family only has 20. If they really start fighting at the same time, the Xuanjia army will be defeated on three sides and will undoubtedly be defeated.But Dian Gong said that he could let Gongsun Xiong return to Yanyun and support the male King Jia in recruiting troops.At the same time, the Khitan people were introduced to help eliminate the Sanmen Clan.

Dian Gong's statement was categorically rejected by Su Yu.

Su Yu said, no matter what time it is, you can't lure wolves into your house.Otherwise, it is easy to ask God, but it is difficult to send God away.

Later, Dian Gong suggested that Su Yu join forces with the Tang family to eliminate the Meng and Ximen families.

Su Yu asked Dian Gong, if the world is won, how will the Zhao family and the Tang family be divided?

Dian Gong said that the Shu Han was destroyed first, and then the Southern Jin Dynasty was destroyed. When the Southern Jin Dynasty fell, it was the time for the decisive battle between the Zhao and Tang Dynasties.

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Cao Yuzan was in charge of the Ministry of Rites, while the Liang Dynasty worshiped the sky and prayed for rain under the management of the Ministry of Rites.Although the little widow is not as motivated as before, she is still willing to share the burden for Su Yu. She knows that at this time, she should "toss and toss".

But she successively invited several "experts" and tossed for several days without a single drop of rain falling.

It seems that it failed to impress the gods, so Cao Yuzan planned to make a big show, ordering all the entitlements to come to the rain prayer ceremony in the middle of this month.Unless you are in the year of the Zhang Dynasty, or you are not in Luoyang, or you are seriously ill, you must be present.If you don't come, you will be exempted from the title.

At the same time, Grand Master Mingde was invited to practice the Dharma, but the Grand Master said that he had consumed a lot of mana when he went to the Xian Wang's mansion a few days ago, and now he is like an ordinary person, or even worse than an ordinary person, so he dare not accept the task of asking for rain at this time.

Master Mingde's words made Cao Yuzan speechless, and he couldn't be blamed for wasting mana in the Xian Wang's mansion.So he sent eunuchs to come to King Qin to complain.

"My lady said that this time it will be a big event, and the canvas in the warehouse of the Ministry of Rites is old and should be replaced. It is estimated that it will cost 80 yuan. The clothes of Wang, Gong, Hou, and Bo should be replaced with new ones, which is estimated to be 170 million; The bricks and stones of the Temple of Heaven are rotten and loose, and the ceremonial officials have written a letter requesting repairs. According to preliminary estimates, thousands of corvees will be needed, and the money will be 500 million..."

"Go back and tell the queen mother, save yourself." Su Yu threw a stack of documents to Cao Xiaobao: "You give these documents to her to see. The high temperature and no rain will inevitably lead to a catastrophe. The people are starting to smash the Dragon King Temple. Why are you pretending to be confused? The top priority is to dispatch the granaries in various places. I need a group of censors to supervise and dispatch affairs. How can I spend money on sacrificial activities? On the day of No. 15, let all the nobles prepare their own sacrificial attire. If not, wear whatever you want Anyway, the Ministry of Households doesn’t have a penny. Tell the Queen Mother again, I’m going to open Enke again, this time Enke must be fast, and only young people will be selected to be officials, and all will be arranged to the disaster-stricken area to supervise the food work. Otherwise, it will be so big Scale scheduling, originally enough food for two years, at most one and a half years left. The more links, the more food lost. The more departments, the lower the efficiency."

While talking, King Qin stood up: "It was necessary to establish many departments at the beginning. But time has passed, but I never thought about removing those outdated departments. There are so many evils everywhere."

King Qin got angry, knocked on the table and said: "It's all a group of bastards who are playing tricks. They put their useless relatives in and eat the royal food for nothing. Some don't even go to work. What's more, they are dead and still claim Monthly salary. This time when young students are selected to become officials, these issues must be investigated. Aren’t they willing to eat a vegetarian meal in the corpse? Then I will give them a blessing and let them go as corpses.”

It's unbelievable to be angry, Su Yu can't really kill people on a large scale because of this kind of thing, according to his consistent "waste utilization" thinking, he will definitely send those people to the frontier to reclaim wasteland, or simply serve as slave soldiers.

However, the king of Qin has been a little upset recently, because this catastrophe will cause a severe reduction in grain production in the Liang Dynasty, and it will also greatly reduce the people's newly born willingness to "have babies", and a group of people will definitely starve to death.This is not much different from the damage to the Liang Dynasty encountered in a war.

In other words, if the emperor wants to do a great job, he must have the right time.

Qin Wang Yingzheng, Hanwu Liu Che, which one is not supported by generations of blessings?

Qin Shihuang fought the survivors of the sixth generation, unifying the world.However, Liu Che, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, had the rule of Wen and Jing in front of him, and the two emperors Wen and Jing endured humiliation and accumulated a solid family background, so that Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty had the confidence to expand the territory.

On the other hand, the king of Qin in the Liang Dynasty, what kind of mess was left by his ancestors. He finally had two years of surplus food, which was accumulated after two tax reforms, and he suffered another catastrophe.

It is said that the locust plague has started again in the Longyou area, and I don't know if it will spread...

(End of this chapter)