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Chapter 168 Gods fight
After being granted the title of Marquis of the State, Zhao Zongquan granted him a mansion, just behind Dongchanghou's mansion. It was originally the mansion of Xuanpinghou, but he rebelled with King Yan. After being questioned, the Xuanpinghou Mansion was vacated.

"Daddy." Sister Lan was carried by Qin Hao and came to play in the new house. She babbled a lot, but unfortunately for a one-year-old child, the baby's baby language is really difficult to understand, except for what Daddy said clearly , and the rest are a little bit blind.

Yu Yanran is commanding her subordinates to move things in high spirits. The advantage of living in a separate residence is that she will be the head of the house from now on. In the future, when others see her, they will call out: Mrs. Yu, or Mrs. Jinghaihou, not like Like before, with Qin Liu on her head, she could only shout: Lady Yu.

"Zihan, I said why I searched around and didn't see you, so you are hiding here quietly." Gu Tingye entered the gazebo in a hurry.

Qin Hao smiled and said to his daughter: "Sister Lan, this is your second uncle, please call him second uncle."

"Second Uncle." Sister Lan held back for a long time before she came out.

Gu Tingye was happy, and directly took out a jade pendant from his arms and gave it to Sister Lan, and it turned out to be a piece of suet jade.

"It seems that the second uncle was not called for nothing, Sister Lan, thank you for the second uncle." Qin Hao knew Gu Tingye's family background, and did not refuse, and he would just give a generous gift to Gu Tingye when he got married in a while.

"Thank you, Uncle Two." Sister Lan held the mutton fat jade pendant with her chubby hands for a while, then lost interest. Qin Hao asked the maid who took care of her to put it away. The child is too young to fall easily, and when she grows up Give her some more to wear.

Qin Hao was a little curious: "You are not at home preparing for the wedding, what are you doing here at this time?"

Gu Tingye chuckled: "A few days ago, I begged the government to give me a house. Why don't you come and see how you arrange it?"

Qin Hao nodded. Before Chengyuan was the Dudu's Mansion, which was granted the title of "Marquis of Zhongjing" by Emperor Gaozu of Taizu Gao. It is neighbor to Ningyuanhou's Mansion, so the street in front of these two houses is also called Zhongning Street. Later, the Zhongjinghou's Mansion participated in the treason case, and when the incident was revealed, the nobles were seized, the certificates were destroyed, and the family was ransacked.

Afterwards, Zhong Jinghou's Mansion was given to the famous official "Xiong Linshan" and the name was changed to "Chengyuan".After Mr. Xiong retired from his old age and returned to his hometown, he took a booklet and returned the garden to the court.

Gu Tingye did a good job this time. When Zhao Zongquan asked him what kind of reward he wanted, Gu Tingye thought of Minglan who was about to marry, so as to prevent her from being angry with Xiao Qin, so he said he wanted a separate house. .

So Zhao Zongquan gave Chengyuan to Gu Tingye.

Qin Hao hugged Sister Lan and took Gu Tingye for a walk around the yard. The area of ​​Xuanping Hou's Mansion was about the same as that of Dongchang Hou's Mansion, covering an area of ​​about 100 mu. There were all kinds of gardens, ponds, gazebos and waterside pavilions. It can be concluded that the original Xuanping Hou's family property is still very rich.

If he hadn't participated in the rebellion, he wouldn't have ended up like this.

After shopping around, it was already noon, so Qin Hao simply asked Gu Tingye to come down for dinner. After all, he just received a jade pendant from someone, so he was short of staff.

During the meal, Sister Lan kept staring at the roasted leg of lamb on the table, but unfortunately her teeth could not be bitten, so she could only drool there, which made Qin Hao's heart hurt, so she tore the lamb into strips and mixed it with rice Give her to eat in paste.

Seeing this, Gu Tingye joked, "I didn't expect Zihan to take care of the child and look good."

That is to say, the friendship between the two is deep enough, otherwise Qin Hao would not take it seriously and continue to feed his daughter rice porridge.

"You're moving out now, Madam Tai didn't stop you?"

After Gu Yankai's death, Xiao Qin's family was promoted to Mrs. Tai, and her status was suddenly elevated, but her temper became a little irritable. If it wasn't for maintaining the kind-hearted personality for many years, it is estimated that the subordinates in the mansion Everyone will suffer.

Gu Tingye curled his lips disdainfully when he heard the words: "Naturally, I won't let me go so easily. I cried and complained to the Queen Mother a few times, but I pushed them back."

Qin Hao reminded: "You still have to be careful with my aunt, she is not a cheap lamp."

"Yes, I was bewitched by her when I was young, which caused my reputation to be ruined. Otherwise, I wouldn't be married now. This poisonous snake is the deadliest when it is hidden in the dark." Gu Tingye sighed.

The days passed quickly, on June [-]th, the day of Gu Tingye's wedding, Qin Hao was also dragged to work as a coolie, along with those people from Yuzhou.

The nobles in Bianjing City somewhat looked down on the Yuzhou group, thinking that they were just lucky enough to get the title from the dragon, and the Yuzhou group also thought that the nobles in Bianjing City were all vegetarian meals on the corpses, lying on the merit books of their ancestors. A dude who eats and waits to die.

In fact, Qin Hao didn't think highly of these people in Yuzhou, especially Shen Congxin, who made a mess of his hard-working management, and finally asked him to wipe his ass.

But for Gu Tingye's sake, Qin Hao didn't make it too obvious.

Beating gongs and drums all the way to the door of the Sheng family, at this time the Sheng family is also decorated with lights and festoons, Gu Tingye is now a celebrity in front of the official family, and has the title of Marquis of Ningyuan, how many people want to marry him, but they are picked up by the Sheng family In order to save money, Sheng Hong would wake up laughing at night from his dreams now.

With Sheng Changbai as the internal support, Qin Hao and his team successfully passed through the middle gate, and Gu Tingye finally received the bride. Minglan in green looked extraordinarily beautiful, which made Gu Tingye feel excited.

Wang Ruofu was a bit sour, but such a good husband and son-in-law took advantage of Minglan, a concubine girl, and her Rulan didn't know what kind of family she would find in the future.

Sheng Hong told Minglan solemnly as before: "When you marry someone else's wife, you must respect your elders and be friendly to your sisters-in-law. Don't make people laugh at the Sheng family's lax family education."

Minglan leaned slightly: "Thank you father for teaching, Minglan will keep it in mind."

Just when Minglan turned around to leave with Gu Tingye, the old lady Sheng grabbed Minglan's hand, tears streaming down her face.

After finally stopping her tears, Old Madam Sheng let Minglan go: "Go, go, live a good life."

Ming Lan also burst into tears and her makeup was gone.

The banquet that followed was rather boring. Gu Tingye’s popularity in Bianjing was not good, and he was relatively close to the people in Yuzhou. A congratulatory gift.

Instead, King Huan came in person, and Gu Tingye also helped Qin Hao introduce him.

King Huan Zhao Yingce was a very capable and ambitious person. At first Zhao Zongquan didn't want to accept the blood edict, but he persuaded Zhao Zongquan to take the soldier talisman and transfer troops to serve the king.

However, Zhao Zongquan did not canonize Zhao Yingce as the prince, but gave him the title of King Huan, which is very interesting.

Zhao Yingce stopped Qin Hao, who was about to salute, and said with a smile, "Zihan doesn't need to be too polite. Since you are Zhonghuai's cousin, you are also one of your own. Just be casual."

Qin Hao understood that the reason why Zhao Yingce was so polite to him was mainly because of the auspicious white tiger, which helped Zhao Zongquan occupy righteousness and made their father and son's political status more stable.

Afterwards, Zhao Yingce asked Qin Hao about the overseas situation. Qin Hao did not hide any secrets, and recounted what he had seen and heard about the Spice Islands in detail.

Zhao Yingce was amazed when he heard it: "It turns out that there is such a vast territory outside the Central Plains. In the future"

Zhao Yingce paused at this point, further down, he would be suspected of coveting the throne, even if it is a father and son, this is very taboo.

While talking, Gu Tingye was a little drunk, but Qin Hao knew how much he was drinking, this guy was obviously pretending to be drunk, probably rushing into the bridal chamber.

Gu Tingye, the rightful lord, left, and Qin Hao also withdrew, returning to the Xuanpinghou Mansion, oh, it has been renamed "Jinghaihou Mansion" at this time.

However, when Qin Hao came to the main house, he found that the door was closed. Yu Yanran said to Qin Hao through the door.

"Master Hou, it's inconvenient today, please trouble Master Hou to go to Qingmei and Feicui to have a rest."

Well, it is obvious that he is not allowed to rest.

Ever since Qingmei lifted her aunt, she has the qualification to live alone in a small courtyard. This time she moved, and she was allocated a pretty good courtyard. This is also the reason why Qin Hao only has two concubines. You can live in any arrangement.

"Master Hou." Qingmei wore a silk blue wide-sleeved shirt today, looking at Qin Hao with a charming face.

Originally, Qingmei's figure was quite attractive, but in recent years it has grown in size.

Qin Hao walked up to Qingmei, and rubbed the back of his hand on her smooth face. Qingmei's breathing became short and she closed her eyes.

"Miss me?" Qin Hao leaned into Qingmei's ear and said.

There was nothing to say all night, the next day, when Qin Hao woke up, Qingmei was still asleep. Last night, she also tried her best to cater to Qin Hao, but she drank alcohol last night, and her fighting power increased greatly, and Qingmei was quickly defeated.

Qin Hao was about to get up, when Qingmei hugged his waist.

"So it was pretending to be asleep." Qin Hao pinched Qingmei's face.

Qingmei grabbed Qin Hao's hand and rubbed it: "Master Hou, can I have a child?"

Qin Hao was stunned for a moment, and then he remembered that because Yu Yanran had never had a child before, Qingmei and Fei Cui had to take Bizitang. After all, it is very troublesome if the eldest son is not born.

"Of course." Qin Hao agreed with all his heart. In fact, Yu Yanran also told him about this when he was in confinement, but after Qin Hao went to sea for more than a year, he didn't have time to have sex with Qingmei and Feicui, so naturally shelved.

Qingmei wept with joy. In ancient times, the status of a woman was closely related to children. If Qingmei could give birth to a son and a half for Qin Hao, even a concubine would have a secure life in the future.

"Don't take Bizitang from now on, take good care of your body." Qin Hao wiped away the tears from the corners of her eyes, and said softly.

"Thank you, Lord Hou, for your pity." Qingmei said gratefully.

In the next few days, Qin Hao barely rested, spending the night alternately in the rooms of Qingmei and Feicui every day, thanks to the secret recipes of tonics made by the nobles in ancient times, otherwise he really couldn’t stand it .

Qin Hao suddenly had some admiration for the ancient emperors. How did the 72 concubines of the Sangong and Six Courts change one every day? Qin Hao also deliberately wrote down the secret recipe of the Hou Mansion. In the future, this thing in the modern age will be a priceless treasure. Ah, it works much better than sildenafil.

A week after Gu Tingye and Ming Lan got married, Yu Yanran and Qin Hao went to Cheng Garden, but it was mid-sun and Ming Lan was still sleeping.

Yu Yanran jokingly said: "It seems that Gu Hou really dotes on you, how can a bride not wake up after sleeping until this point?"

Ming Lan murmured in a daze, "That's because of him too, last night I was so late, how can I not be sleepy."

Danju on the side blushed when she heard this, and quickly pushed Minglan, signaling her to pay attention to what she said.

Ming Lan also came to her senses, blushing and turned her back, and covered herself with the quilt.

Yu Yanran lifted the quilt with a smile, and pinched her face: "There's nothing to be ashamed of, we're all married as wives now, and we're no longer little girls in the boudoir."

Minglan was so sleepy by Yu Yanran that she could only get up and make up while yawning.

Yu Yanran looked at Minglan's delicate and beautiful face and couldn't help secretly envious: "Gu Hou is really lucky to be able to marry such a delicate and beautiful lady as Minglan."

Ming Lan said coquettishly: "Sister Yanran is really talking more and more presumptuously now, so it's time for Qin Hou to discipline you."

While the two were laughing and laughing, Qin Hao and Gu Tingye also came over. The two of them just strolled around Chengyuan. The scenery here is more elegant than Jinghai Hou's Mansion. It is not so luxurious, but it has a unique flavor. The former residence of the husband.

Ming Lan suddenly asked curiously: "Why didn't Sister Yanran bring Brother Ming and Sister Lan today?"

Yu Yanran explained with a smile: "The mother-in-law said she was missing the child, so she took her back to the Dongchang Hou Mansion to take care of her for a few days, and we will have a leisurely time."

While eating, Gu Tingye suddenly said to Qin Hao: "The government is going to reform the salt tax in the near future, does Zihan think this method is feasible?"

Qin Hao paused for a while, the Song Dynasty was a dynasty with an extremely well-developed monopoly system, and many things had exclusive operations, which was actually a monopoly.

Among them, salt and mines are the big ones, and they also occupy the main source of tax revenue. According to the Renzong period, the annual salt tax revenue is 340 million guan.

However, the monopoly also led to a very bad phenomenon, that is, tax evasion. The salt tax in the Song Dynasty exceeded 33%. In addition, salt imports also need to be purchased through relationships.

Over time, merchants who operate salt have changed their minds. Anyway, they want to bribe officials, so they simply bribe more. As long as the tax rate does not exceed 33%, it is profitable. A large amount of private salt has turned into official salt. Tax revenues are greatly affected.

Zhao Zongquan didn't dare to move the salt tax before, because the salt tax accounted for about 6% of the entire Song Dynasty's finances. If the salt tax reform is not done well, his dominance may be shaken.

Now that there is a shipping office, and the annual income from overseas business tax alone is no less than 1000 million yuan, Zhao Zongquan naturally has the confidence to lift the lid.

Of course, the salt tax reform involves all aspects, and the relationship inside is intricate. It is definitely not easy to reform.

Qin Hao thought for a while, and said in a low voice: "Actually, the salt tax reform is not about matters, but about people. Are the officials going to tear themselves apart with the Queen Mother?"

The Empress Dowager's maiden name is Cao, she was born in the general family, and her grandfather is Cao Bin, a famous general, from the official to the privy envoy, the Cao family is very powerful, which is why Emperor Renzong arranged for her to restrain King Yong with Han Daxianggong and others. It is undoubtedly a dream to limit an emperor's strength.

Gu Tingye's complexion changed, and he nodded heavily: "It's hard to say that you will tear your face, but the Queen Mother will definitely not let go easily."

Zhao Zongquan is actually very smart. The first choice for reform is coinage, which does not involve the interests of the Empress Dowager Cao, so as long as he gets the support of the current minister, it can basically be done. fame.

Qin Hao's offering of the white tiger this time further consolidated Zhao Zongquan's position, which is why Zhao Zongquan had the confidence to challenge the Empress Dowager Cao. The reason why those salt merchants dared to be so ruthless must have something to do with the Cao family.

Qin Hao didn't intend to get involved in the dispute between Zhao Zongquan and Empress Cao. With his current status, there was no need to get involved. No matter who wins in the future, Zhao Zongquan or Empress Dowager Cao will be inseparable from the huge profits brought by overseas.

"You have to think carefully about this matter, push it if you can, the Cao family is not a soft persimmon to be manipulated by others!" Qin Hao urged.

Minglan stopped her chopsticks when she heard the words, and looked at Gu Tingye worriedly.

Gu Tingye shook his head at Minglan, then smiled and said, "I should not be needed for this matter, there is a high probability that General Duan will be sent there, not to mention that the anti-smuggling office cannot do without me."

At a court meeting two days later, an unknown censor really proposed a proposal to reform the salt tax.

In an instant, the atmosphere in the courtroom became weird, and none of the ministers spoke, that is, no one objected, and no one agreed.

Everyone is not stupid, this censor is obviously pushed out as cannon fodder, like Sheng Hong who is trembling there, praying that the gods will not accidentally hurt him, a mortal, in a fight.

Sure enough, an angry shout came from behind the curtain: "Bold, the salt tax is the foundation of the country, how can it be changed just by changing it!"

Soon, people from the Empress Dowager Cao's faction stood up and reprimanded the censor for being whimsical, and they all said that the censor should be brought down and punished.

At this time, Zhao Zongquan said: "Why do you gentlemen do this? The original intention of the imperial court to set up a censor was to spread the word. I think there has never been a precedent in the Song Dynasty to convict for words."

Now the originally noisy court hall became dead silent again.

Although the bill on salt tax reform was not passed, all North Korean and Chinese officials knew that a storm was coming.

The confrontation between Zhao Zongquan and Empress Dowager Cao will also intensify.

　Alas, I deleted some content after working all morning, let's make do with it.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)