Chang'an is good

Chapter 668 Extra 6: Events during the Changhua Period

After three years of Changhua, the people of all quarters came to terms with the country, the country was at peace, the weather was good for many years and there were no major disasters. The country was beginning to show signs of prosperity.

Jiangdu Governor Shao Shantong has been very busy lately. In addition to his routine duties, he also has to prepare a wedding gift.

The neighboring Dong Luo King Jin Chengyuan is about to marry a queen, and the congratulatory gifts from the Dasheng court are on the way. Jiangdu, which has the most trade exchanges with Dong Luo, needs to prepare another one. This is the intention of the emperor in the capital. As for the specific gift list, it is left to Shao Shantong to draw up.

Shao Shantong had pulled out a lot of his mustache. This gift was not easy to handle...

First of all, you can't be perfunctory, otherwise it will be difficult to get the job done.

It would be best if he could demonstrate the power and magnanimity of a great country, but he should not delve too deeply into it, otherwise it would be easy for people to suspect that he was trying to curry favor with the East Roman Empire... It would be bad if His Majesty mistakenly believed that he had rebellious intentions, after all, he had a strong record in this regard.

Under the instruction of Shen Sanmao, the silk weaving workshop, the porcelain workshop and even the smelting workshop sent many exquisite items.

Afterwards, Han Zheng from the Maritime Customs also had people bring in many rare treasures from overseas.

Shao Shantong did not rush to choose, but invited Chu Changshi and others to discuss the matter together. Listening to the opinions of Chu Changshi and others, Shao Shantong nodded from time to time, or said "not bad", or responded with "hmm", or praised "Sir, you have a good idea".

If someone asks, "What do you think, Governor?"

Governor Shao smiled amiably and said, "I have no experience, so I'd like to ask for your advice."

How did he see it? He looked down like this -

From the workshop, His Majesty's man.

From the Maritime Customs, His Majesty's men.

Chu Changshi, your majesty’s man.

Those in the first seven halls are His Majesty’s men.

This is nothing. If he goes out again, he will see that the emperor’s confidants are everywhere.

Shao Shantong couldn't help feeling like he was surrounded by layers of enemies.

Surrounded to the extreme, Governor Shao lay on the couch at night, pondering over and over again, but suddenly he sat up as if he had an epiphany and murmured, "...I am also your Majesty's man!"

He is determined to look after the household for Your Majesty, and he has no intention of rebelling... He should have been able to join everyone without any obstacles!

So what has he been sneaking around and feeling guilty about for the past three years?
Shao Shantong frowned and questioned his inner self, slowly coming to the answer... His symptom was probably that his heart had been set right, but his brain had not yet been able to fully adapt to the change from rebellious to loyal, which was similar to the transformation of a living person.

Governor Shao slapped his forehead and warned his rebellious brain - stop being sneaky and give it to me openly!
The next day, when Governor Shao, whose secret feelings had disappeared due to his sudden enlightenment, met Chu Changshi and others again, he felt particularly relieved - how could these people be his supervisors? They were clearly witnesses of the relationship between him and His Majesty.

The generous governor Shao reconciled everyone's opinions and quickly decided on the list of gifts to be sent to Dong Luo. He immediately sent someone to the front seven halls to invite Qian Zhushi, who was in charge of the military affairs, to come over. To send gifts to a foreign country, troops had to be dispatched to escort the envoys. This matter needed to be reported to Kang Zhi, the general of Mingwei who was in charge of Jiangdu's military affairs, by the military department of the front yamen.

Qian, the head of the front seven halls, put down what he was doing and went to see Governor Shao immediately.

This Mr. Qian is from the Wuxing Qian family, a family of the same clan as Mr. Luo, but with different roots and origins.

It is said that when the Crown Princess's "Sacrificial Essay to Lord Luo" was published, the world was shocked and outraged, and Jiangdu was in an uproar after being shocked and outraged.

The family that suffered the most thorough attack was the Qian family.

At that time, a colleague in Jiangdu found a member of the Qian family and was amazed: "It turns out that Mr. Qian is Mr. Luo... For such a big thing, your whole family was able to keep it a secret and hide Mr. Luo's identity. It was really well-intentioned... And the courage, determination and integrity shown by this person are not comparable to ordinary people!"

The Qian family members whose three souls and seven spirits were blown away and were floating in the air, unable to tell east from west, south from north, or the way forward: [……]

Thinking back to when they came to Jiangdu to recognize their relatives, the young Qian Yu once murmured - Why does Uncle Nineteen wear a mask to show people, is he a fugitive?
Who could have thought... that this damn kid was actually right by accident!
The Qian family unknowingly became an accomplice in harboring the fugitive and forging his identity.

And the good news is... the emperor who is about to ascend the throne is also an accomplice.

The damned Qian Yu once again made a shocking statement at that time: [According to this statement, does this mean that our Qian family is in league with the emperor? ]

Qian Yu then sighed, thinking that it was at most a picture of "rich people in remote mountains have distant relatives" that was true to human nature, but who knew it was actually a bloody pursuit of wealth and fame...

This can be described as a very optimistic approach.

The adults in the Qian family couldn't help but feel worried and confused. Could this wealth and honor really fall into their hands?
And then, this wealth and honor really fell firmly on their heads.

Granny Jin sent a message from the capital and prepared generous gifts to the Qian residence in Jiangdu to express her gratitude for their "protection and help".

After the news spread, the Qian family was praised everywhere. Mr. Luo's noble character of dying for his country and his people also made the Qian family's reputation bright and noble.

Everyone regarded them as people who shared the joys and sorrows with Mr. Luo.

But only they knew in their hearts that it was not bitter at all. At the beginning, they were like a nest of ants, smelling the sweetness and coming directly to eat it.

Three years passed in a blink of an eye. With this relationship and good reputation, the Qian family has taken root in Jiangdu. They often interact with the Qiguogong Mansion in the capital. Granny Jin is generous and transparent, and never mentions their selfish desire to go with the flow. Luo Ze and Qian Yu have also become good friends like brothers.

If someone tries to inquire about the inside story of how Luo Gong entered the Qian family tree, they can only sigh and say, "It's all about chance..."

Apart from this, there is really nothing else to say.

The Qian family was secretly grateful to the Luo family, but they also felt ashamed. They could only do their best to repay the Luo family and serve the court and the monarch.

After meeting with Governor Shao, Chief Qian quickly returned to the front office to draft a document requesting instructions.

In the third year of the new monarch's accession to the throne, official affairs in various places were adjusted and settled, and everyone performed their duties in an orderly manner. The chaotic scene in the first seven halls where people were busy all the time was basically gone.

But the academic officials in Jiangdu are becoming increasingly busy.

Wu Er Hospital was going to build several branches, and all kinds of complicated trivial matters divided Zheng Chao and others into two categories: one category was so busy that they wanted to hang themselves, and the other category was so busy that they had no time to hang themselves.

This busyness did not affect the students, and their studies continued as normal.

On this day, as noon approached, the bronze bell for the end of classes rang, and the students from various schools in Wu Er Academy came out in groups, chatting and laughing, like birds leaving their nests.

In a classroom of the Medical Museum, a teacher in charge of teaching also came out. The medical students all politely avoided him and did not dare to approach him to talk. This teacher, who always had a numb and cold face, was named Fan. He was very good at toxicology and never interacted with others.

It was the Emperor's will that Fan Ou was thrown here.

As for how to deal with Fan Ou, who was not used as intended but had been used repeatedly, Li Suining had a casual idea: it was okay to kill him or not.

Fan Ou is proficient in poison techniques, and medicine and poison are connected. Just as snake venom that can kill people can also save lives, a top poison master like Fan Ou is, in some ways, a very rare talent.

Then let's take it to the medical clinic and try it out, just in case it works.

Fan Ou's attitude is also very casual.

In the past few years, he tried to escape and seek death more than once, but was always suppressed by Li Suining, who would drag him out and exploit him whenever he had the chance. After so many times, Fan Ou became numb even to hatred.

But Fan Ou always cared about his old master Li Yin.

Until Li Yin's crimes were made public, Fan Ou was initially unperturbed. However, the more he listened, the more he felt something was wrong. He knew about things like killing the King of Huainan and secretly helping Xu Zhengye, but... collaborating with the Tubo enemy?

Are you so crazy?
Fan Ou believed that he had no sense of right and wrong. Although he did not hate his former master to the point of hatred, he was inexplicably disenchanted with him.

Li Yin was executed last autumn. Fan Ou was at a loss for a while, in a state of mind between being able to live or die.

As for escaping? The world belongs to that person, what's the point of escaping?

It’s a numb life, let’s just stay numb for now.

Unlike Fan Ou who has a dead smell on his body, it is spring now when everything is flourishing, and the students of the Agricultural College are the busiest group of people in all the colleges.

Yuan Hao, who has grown into a real teenager, is taking a group of students to check the growth of wheat in the farmland outside the city.

At the end of last year, Yuan Hao said to his students: [Looking through the history books, the years of disasters were half war and half famine and cold. Dasheng was lucky to have a wise ruler, but now the war has ended, but famine and cold have not been eliminated. This is a long battle for us farmers.]

Such words aroused the enthusiasm of many students who had to temporarily enter the Agricultural College because other academies were full so that they could read the books in the academy. They gained a new understanding of the word "agriculture", which did not sound elegant or noble at all.

When Yuan Hao and his party were walking out of the fields, a minor official ran over and said to Yuan Hao, "Lord Han Zheng from the Maritime Customs has sent someone to invite us. He said that the merchant caravan that went out to sea a few years ago has returned and brought back new seeds. Mr. Yuan and others are requested to go and identify them!"

Yuan Hao's eyes lit up when he heard this, and he ran quickly.

The spring sun is high in the sky, and the wheat fields sway in the wind like waves on the sea.

"Look at this field. It's really strong. I wonder how much manure was used to irrigate it?"

A group of carriages heading south arrived outside the city of Jiangdu. An old lady in the carriage looked out the window at the neatly cut wheat fields and could not help but sigh.

The young woman in the same car said helplessly: "Grandma...please don't mention these two words anymore."

On the way south, whenever her grandmother saw something that looked good, she would inevitably say, "It looks like it's been covered with manure." She was afraid that when she met someone from Jiangdu later, her grandmother would say the same thing. If she did, she would really want to find a crack in the ground to crawl into and sneak back to Yingzhou overnight.

"So what?" Old Madam Shi smiled and said, "Isn't it good enough to be praised?"

Yueshi, who was feeding snacks to her two-year-old granddaughter, just smiled.

Shi Wen lifted the car curtain and looked out: "It's time to get here!"

Shi Wen was very anxious - she wanted to see with her own eyes what the "one of the best fiancée" mentioned in Kang Zhi's letter looked like, and whether Kang Zhi was just bragging.

At this moment, Kang Zhi from the Jiangdu Military Officer's Mansion was sitting in the hall, frowning anxiously and holding his chin with his hand, thinking hard.

Ever since Kang Cong and Shi Wen got married, and following the ascension of the new king to the throne, Kang Zhi settled down in Jiangdu. Yueshi began to take care of her daughter's life-long affairs from afar, and from time to time had people send many portraits for Kang Zhi to see.

Kang Zhi was fed up with it. She just couldn't get enough of the men in those portraits. After having seen the likes of the Prince of Guardian Saint and Prime Minister Wei, she now found these ordinary men hard to approach. She had a feeling that she would be in big trouble if she let them get close to her.

Kang Zhi always strives for the best in everything, and because Shi Wen provoked her in the letter, she lied in her reply that she had found a handsome man who was as handsome as Pan An, and that they didn't need to worry about it.

Who would have thought that a month later, when she received another letter, her mother actually said that she was ready to leave for Jiangdu... Shi Wen had also come! Old Madam Shi had also come, and enthusiastically said that she would help her get married!

Old Madam Shi had long been eager to go to the capital to meet the Emperor, and this time she planned to arrange Kang Zhi's marriage and then go to the capital from Jiangdu.

When Kang Zhi received the letter, the three of them and their children were already halfway there.

Fortunately, they came here to travel around, otherwise they would have arrived even faster. I'm afraid that Xin would arrive right after him, and Kang Zhi would be caught off guard.

But even so, Kang Zhi was still not fully prepared. Knowing that A Niang and the others were going to enter the city today, she was now worrying about what excuse to use so as not to be exposed and ridiculed by Shi Wen.

Just at this moment, a female soldier entered the hall and said that Gu Erlang had arrived.

Gu Erlang is still in charge of Jiangdu's external reception affairs, but he has been promoted and is now the head of Jiangdu Tongguan.

Gu Erlang, still dressed elegantly, walked into the hall and handed Kang Zhi two documents with a smile. One was from the Seventh Hall in front of the Governor's Mansion, which he brought with him. The other was a request from his Huitong Hall, saying that the Inspector Tang Xing would come to Jiangdu, and Huitong Hall was going to meet him, and the Military Office would need to dispatch troops to accompany him.

They were all trivial matters. After listening to him, Kang Zhi did not rush to look at the document. She raised her chin and motioned him to put it on the small table beside her.

Gu Erlang did as he was told, only to see Kang Zhi staring at him up and down.

Gu Erlang felt a little frightened, but couldn't help straightening his sleeves. Well, he knew that this new robe would suit his looks very well.

The next moment, Kang Zhi slowly stood up from the chair.

Although Kang Zhi was not as tall as Gu Erlang, an adult man, she had an imposing aura and wore a short knife on her waist. Gu Erlang often witnessed her power and could not help but feel nervous at this time.

"You...what are you doing?" Gu Erlang asked as he backed away.

As he was backing away, he bumped into the armchair behind him with a sharp sound. Gu Erlang's feet became unsteady and he almost fell backwards. Kang Zhi quickly leaned over and steady the chair.

Gu Erlang fell into a chair, with Kang Zhi half-circling him. He couldn't help but widen his eyes and clasped his hands in front of him: "Kang Ani, you..." (End of this chapter)

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