The daily life of the science master's book-wearing group

The next day, in the small theater in Jiutengzhai of King Su's mansion, King Su was listening to an actor singing a ditty. Eunuch Yang came in quietly and whispered something in His Highness Su's ear.

"The imperial concubine asked Liu Jin to talk about something?" King Su asked.

"Yes, it seems to be talking about building another wool factory in the northwest." Eunuch Yang replied.

King Su smiled: "It's okay, since she chose to talk in Liuquanju, she didn't want to hide it from me."

Eunuch Yang asked again: "Then our palace wants to...?"

King Su shook his head, and said indifferently: "No need, it's probably because of Xu's kid going to the northwest to change defenses. This girl will take care of her natal sisters."

When King Su said this, Eunuch Yang immediately reacted.

King Su asked again, "Do you know where Zhao'er is now?"

Eunuch Yang shook his head: "It's been half a month since Li Yu led the troops into the grassland and lost contact. The son went to escort the vanguard army to deliver food and grass seven days ago. No one has sent a letter back yet."

Su Wang frowned, and several players were still singing along.

"What do you say that the flowers are good and the moon is full, and people live long,

How sad are the mountains and rivers!
Golden chief cavalry wolf bandit,
Where he drank horses and dyed the blood of the Yellow River.

Taste the courage to suffer,
Never bow to your strengths.

Thinking of Youyou comes to hate Youyou,
In which state is Yueming in the motherland! "

King Su beat the beat of the drum in his hand, as if he listened to it, but he didn't seem to listen to it.After a long while, he said: "Watching the people from Prince Shan's Mansion withdraw first, half of the king's secret guards stay in the capital, and the rest are all sent to meet the son. Make sure to ensure the safety of the son! Otherwise, you can come and see him."

Eunuch Yang responded in a low voice, and quietly retreated out.

In Liuquanju in the north of the city, the cooperation between Song Qingyue and the Ministry of Internal Affairs was very smooth. Eunuch Liu Jin seemed to have seen the prospect of long-term cooperation in the future, so he didn't even bother Song Qingyue on the issue of the share. I got a business of sunflower seeds, saying that the emperor intends to promote the cultivation of sunflowers in the north, and I want to try planting them in several Huangzhuang first. I want to buy the seeds from Song Qingyue, and I need to transfer some sunflowers from Song Qingyue who are good at growing sunflowers. The peasants went to Huangzhuang to guide them.

What Liu Jin meant was that if the emperor was satisfied, the emperor would reward Song Qingyue heavily.

However, Song Qingyue refused, she didn't expect the stingy emperor to "reward him heavily", but asked: "Eunuch Liu, may I ask, if you plant sunflowers, how does His Majesty plan to collect taxes?"

Eunuch Liu shook his head: "What suggestion does Shi Zifei have?"

Song Qingyue laughed and said, "Instead of taxing the farmers, it's better to directly tax the oil merchants."

Eunuch Liu's eyes lit up: "What the concubine Shizi said is wonderful."

Song Qingyue continued: "No matter how much the court plans to collect, just give me half of the oil tax for the first three years, how about it?"

It really is a girl from the Song family, look at her plan!

Half of the oil tax!
It doesn't sound like much, but in practice, isn't it more rewarding than the emperor's reward?He also asked the emperor to save the money in the old man's private treasury. The emperor would not refuse. Eunuch Liu nodded secretly in his heart, but he still said: "Our family can't be the master of this."

Song Qingyue said: "It's okay, just tell your Majesty the truth. Your Majesty is the Lord of All Ages, and my daughter-in-law will not refuse to agree to such a small request."

At the end of the day, she returned to the palace in a good mood, and after getting on the shoulder, she immediately said: "There is no rush to go back, father is in the palace, right?"

Little Eunuch Qin bowed and said, "It's in Jiu Teng Zhai!"

Song Qingyue clicked her tongue: "I'm listening to an opera again! Let's go to Jiuteng Zhai first."

Sure enough, before he went in, he heard melodious singing voices wafting from the theater through the courtyard wall.

Song Qingyue was not afraid of disturbing King Su's good interest, so she went straight into the small theater and came to King Su: "Greetings to King Father."

King Su cheerfully asked Eunuch Wang to move a chair for Song Qingyue, served tea and snacks, and said, "The eldest daughter-in-law is cute to listen to the show?"

Song Qingyue said: "Daughter-in-law likes to watch lively shows, and plays with guns and clubs. Sometimes I can't understand literary dramas."

Su Wang smiled and turned to call Wang Enlu: "Go, tell them, the princess loves to watch martial arts and wants to be lively!"

Song Qingyue stood up and blessed her: "Thank you, Father."

"But you plan to go to the northwest?" Su Wang stopped talking nonsense and asked straight to the point.

Song Qingyue didn't seem to be surprised that King Su knew that she was going to take her elder sister to build a new wool factory near Suzhou, so she nodded and said, "Well, I have an appointment with Mrs. Liu Jin today, and it's almost settled. People from the Ministry of Internal Affairs will go together."

King Su nodded, but frowned, and said: "Don't hurry, I would rather slow down, eat and sleep well. Bring a better doctor with you, and bring enough medicine. You must also bring enough clothes and charcoal. It’s cold in the northwest at night, and it snows in June on the Qilian Mountains.”

Song Qingyue knew that it was because she was worried about her body, so she replied: "Father, don't worry too much. There are many hotels on the road now, and there are not so many opportunities to eat and sleep in the open."

King Su asked again: "How many guards do you need?"

Song Qingyue thought for a while, then shook her head and said, "His Royal Highness left me two hundred guards before he left. This time, there are three hundred Jinyi guards who will go with us. In addition, Tianjin guards will also draw 500 people to follow us. We should be safe. It's no problem."

Since Taizu built Jiayuguan, there are seven guards to the west of Jiayuguan, Suzhou City is quite safe.

King Su hummed: "You still have to be careful. Try not to wear gorgeous clothes when you go, and paint your face black. Don't be afraid of [-], just in case."

"Thank you, father, for your concern. My daughter-in-law must be careful. By the way, father, I still want to tell my son about this. Do you know when he will be able to pass by Baoding? I want to meet my son before I leave."

King Su said calmly: "He has something to do and can't leave, and he can't come back for the time being."

Song Qingyue didn't feel any pity when she heard the words, and instead asked: "Father, my daughter-in-law has one more thing to ask."

"You said."

"My daughter-in-law wants to take some food, tea, salt, soap, silk and other things to the west, and exchange some cattle and sheep with people in Wala or East Chagatai."

King Su thought for a while, and said: "This is a good thing. It is in our interest to stabilize the west for the time being when there is a war in the northeast. As long as no iron is involved, the court will basically not care about it."

Song Qingyue frowned: "Refined iron is definitely not good, so is rough iron?"

King Su shook his head: "This matter is not discussed."

Song Qingyue nodded obediently: "My daughter-in-law knows."

King Su made another point: "Although only 72 merchants are allowed to come to Beijing to pay tribute each year, small-scale private bartering is not prohibited in the Hexi area. You can try to propose that the imperial court set up a barter in the Western Regions in Suzhou Prefecture." The department, which stipulates the scope of barter, manages the traders, and can also collect taxes to subsidize the Northwest Army. These years, military households have had a hard time."

The battalion and guard system of the Great Zhou Dynasty was actually a certain degree of garrison system.Da Zhou's agricultural tax of [-] per [-] taxes for ordinary farmers is ridiculously low. Such a low tax rate is actually based on the exploitation of military households.

The life of those military households was similar to that of serfs.

His Royal Highness King Su can see this. It can be seen that he is a visionary with a brain. Song Qingyue thought that the idea of ​​establishing the Northwest Barter Division and relying on North-South goods trade to subsidize military households was a great idea. She watched King Su's eyes shine with sincere admiration. .

Su Wang was amused by her admiring little eyes. In fact, he has also been friends with people like Song Jianming for a long time. He has seen and listened to a lot. Only in these years has he gained some opinions on people's livelihood and economy.

He felt that this little girl's brains were turning really fast, and she knew what kind of policies were truly beneficial to the country and the people. His tone became a little gentle, and he said: "When you need to employ people, my king has a list here. If you can Set it up as the Barter Department of the Western Regions, try to find a way to fill it with people."

Song Qingyue was not surprised that Su Wang said this: "Always use your own people. My daughter-in-law thinks, my father probably has someone who can be used."

King Su took a sip of tea: "You can figure it out yourself. But don't mention the establishment of the yamen yourself, let the Xu family boy or his father mention it as much as possible."

Song Qingyue nodded in agreement.

At this time, the actors on the stage changed their costumes, and with a bang, two generals came out from behind the scenes with their guns raised.

King Su said: "The martial arts show you want to watch is here, sit down and watch it with me, and have dinner together later."

Song Qingyue obediently agreed.

After a while, two rows of small soldiers came out from behind the scenes. The drums and gongs in Jiutengzhai were loud, and the two generals were playing guns and somersaults, and they fought lively.

Both of them stared at the stage and watched the play.

Song Qingyue applauded at the right time, and King Su took the opportunity to lower his voice and said, "Lao Yan has already made the smooth-bore flintlock gun you gave me last time. It's easy to use!"

Song Qingyue clapped harder: "Good! Good!"

Su Wang continued: "Unfortunately, there is a problem."

Song Qingyue leaned forward.

Su Wang said: "When you reach a certain distance, the bullets will fly randomly."

Song Qingyue thought for a while, took out a small notebook and charcoal pencil from the lining pocket on the side of the hedging skirt, drew a diagram of the structure of a conical bullet, and handed it to King Su: "Change the shape of the bullet, the round one is easy to fly around, It should be better to change to a tapered one."

Su Wang stretched out his hand to put the bullet-shaped piece of paper into his sleeve, and seemed to ask casually: "This king has always been curious, where did you learn these ideas, or is our eldest daughter-in-law born with a good brain? "

Song Qingyue also joked casually: "She is a little fairy who grew up eating nectar and drinking dew."

King Su looked at Song Qingyue's profile, raised his eyebrows slightly, and said nothing.

After the play was sung, Song Qingyue seemed to be very happy watching it, and took out a few golden beans from the pocket sewn on the skirt, saying: "Reward them!"

King Su glanced at Eunuch Wang and said, "Singing well, I will reward you too."

Several actors received the rewards from Eunuch Qin and Eunuch Wang respectively, and retired with gratitude.

Afterwards, Song Qingyue had dinner with King Su before leaving.

Because I wanted to digest the food, I didn't sit down and walked back slowly.

The women in King Su's backyard were not so calm.

When Princess Xiaoning heard about this, she asked in disbelief: "What did you say?! The princess stayed alone with the prince in Jiutengzhai for more than an hour, and even had dinner together?"

Her eldest girl, Yunxiu, dared not say anything more.

Xiao Ning's eyes suddenly lit up, looking extremely excited.

"You said in the past, why didn't I think of it, so that's the case! I said, why does the prince value the concubine so much? It's because he hides such dirty thoughts! Haha, hahahaha!"

Xiao Ning hurriedly paced back and forth in the room, and sneered for a long time: "This friend, the older he gets, the less shameful he is! What do you think is so good about that Song San? He deserves the pampering of the father and son?" Her face turned angry and happy for a while, her facial features were distorted, and she stared at her nurse: "Mom, do you think Li Zhao knows about the prince and concubine?"

Mother Ren frowned and thought for a while, and then persuaded: "Princess, you need to be cautious about this matter!"

"Of course! This princess will naturally be cautious. It's not urgent. It's better to let that kid see it with his own eyes. Otherwise, wouldn't he live up to his father's love for so many years? This princess also wants him to try it. What is it?" Heart-gouging pain!"

Mother Ren hesitated and said, "Maybe... Maybe it's not what the princess thinks?"

But Xiao Ning was so excited that she couldn't listen anymore: "Why not! Besides that face, what else should the father and son value? It's just a little girl. Could it be that the prince is still talking about military affairs with her?"

Mother Ren had no choice but to shut up, she couldn't think of what Shi Zifei could talk to the prince.

They only knew that since Miss Song San married into the palace, the prince has valued her very much, and it is unreasonable to value her.

I can't find a reason, it seems that I can only think about picking up ashes.

But Mother Ren felt that it was impossible to be so simple. The prince looked lustful, but in fact he was extremely cold and rational.The prince has always relied heavily on the son, and the son is capable. Even if the prince really has something in mind for the concubine, he will never do anything to hurt the relationship between father and son at this time.

But what secret is hidden between the prince and the concubine?