On the occasion of rebirth Zhou Sui

Chapter 449 The Empress Dowager Is Pregnant
After returning to Luoyang after a few months, Cui Che obviously felt that Luoyang City was much more prosperous than when he left.

Of course, this is not all due to Li Jing alone, Cui Che also feels that he has made a lot of contributions.

He left [-] soldiers for Li Jing, and naturally moved the families of these [-] soldiers to Luoyang City.

Although these soldiers were not engaged in production, they were supported by Cui Che. After the autumn tax was put into the treasury, they were paid at the beginning of the new year. They were not short of money.

They live a bloody life, no one knows which will come first, tomorrow or the accident.

But even if you die in battle, there are expensive pensions for your family members.

These soldiers have no worries, naturally they are drunk now and they have just received their military pay, so they will inevitably spend extravagantly.

With these [-] main consumer groups, the merchants in Luoyang can be regarded as being taken advantage of, especially the wine shops and brothels are booming. These big players are either getting drunk or buying sex.

Cui Che has now brought another [-] soldiers to the south, and those merchants are the happiest.

However, His Royal Highness Yan Wang was not happy. The soldiers went to the market to buy things, and the merchants naturally had to pay the business tax.

But those restaurants and prostitutes obviously earn the most money, but they can't collect taxes from these people.

It's just that Cui Che still couldn't hold back his face and didn't collect taxes on the money of those whores.

When he came to Luoyang City, the first thing he did was not to rectify the city's defenses, but to order a thorough investigation of the prostitutes in Luoyang City to see if there was any chaos of forcing girls into prostitution.

Once discovered, the property of the brothel will also be confiscated while rescuing the woman who has lost her footing.

But Luoyang was just the beginning. Cui Che asked Yang Hao to strictly investigate prostitutes in various places.

At the same time, Cui Che ordered Zhao Wen, who was far away in Jinyang, to order the secret agents of the Observation Division to step by step in various places to monitor secretly. Once an official uses his power for personal gain and strictly investigates corruption and bribery in brothels, Cui Che will naturally be indifferent after the war. to be disposed of.

At that time, the officials involved will be removed from their posts and their property will be confiscated.

It not only solved the problem of redundant officials, but also increased the revenue of the national treasury. It also rescued those women who were forced into prostitution, and won their gratitude.

This is no longer a win-win or triple-win situation, it is simply a win-win situation.

As for drinks, Cui Che decided to charge them at different rates.

In wine shops, all wines made from grain are heavily taxed.

As for fruit wine, the tax rate is extremely low.

This move is also to encourage the production of fruit wine instead of using grain to make wine.

The merchants of the prostitutes and wine shops never expected that it was Cui Papi who came here instead of being taken advantage of.

On the day Cui Che ordered a thorough investigation of brothels, more than a dozen brothels were closed for forcing girls into prostitution.

Not only the owner of the workshop was imprisoned, but all the family property unrelated to the funds involved in the case were also confiscated.

His Royal Highness the King of Yan is busy with military and political affairs, how can he have time to distinguish your money, which is obtained by forcing women to sell themselves, and which is earned by serious business.

At first, the major merchants in Luoyang thought that Cui Che was going to slaughter the New Year pig.

For this reason, the market was depressed for a few days.

Until he found that Cui Che did not continue to expand the scope of the attack, he was finally relieved.

As for the shopkeepers of those wine shops, after seeing the dismal end of some brothel owners, they obediently paid taxes for the drinks in the shop, as if they were spending money to buy peace.

Cui Che is regulating market behavior in Luoyang, and is also waiting for Yang Guang to send troops.

It's just that the Western Sui Dynasty is different from the Eastern Sui Dynasty. Cui Che can recruit these off-duty soldiers at any time, but the soldiers of the Western Sui Dynasty are half soldiers and half farmers, and they have to wait until after the spring plowing to gather conveniently.

Whether it was the Hebei War, the Hedong War, or the Central Plains War, the Western Sui Dynasty was always the one with the superior force.

But all three battles were defeated, which also made Yang Guang realize that the number of soldiers is not enough.

Yang Guang plans to follow Cui Che's example and recruit an elite team as full-time soldiers.

He even thought of the name Yang Guang, so he called him Xiaoguojun.

Yang Guang was impatient, and he wanted to do it when he thought about it. He issued an edict to recruit courageous people in Guanlong, Shu, Jingxiang, Huainan, Jiangnan and other places.

It's just that it didn't happen overnight from the formation of this army to the formation of combat effectiveness.

At least this battle is useless, the main force has to be Fubing.

On February 606, the first year of Zhenyuan (AD 24), Cui Che did not wait for the news of Yang Guang's dispatch of troops. Instead, a messenger came from Jinyang.

Fang Xuanling told Cui Che in the letter that after the imperial doctor's pulse diagnosis, it was confirmed that the queen mother was pregnant.

Bingzhou, Daming Palace.

The little emperor Yang Hao got up early again, and was going to visit the Queen Mother in Jinyang Palace.

He has been shut down for several days.

The old eunuch who served two generations of Yang Liang and Yang Hao's father and son persuaded:

"Everyone, don't go any more today. The queen mother is in poor health. Even if you go to Jinyang Palace, the queen mother will not go out to meet you."

Throughout the ages, there have been many interesting titles for the emperor, such as county officials in the Han Dynasty, saints in the Sui and Tang Dynasties, and officials in the Northern Song Dynasty.

And everyone is the eunuch's name for the emperor during the Sui and Tang Dynasties.

The old eunuch has followed Yang Liang for many years and has many eyes and ears in Jinyang Palace.

Regarding the scandal between Cui Che and the Empress Dowager, he was well aware of it, and he knew that the Empress Dowager was not seeing her behind closed doors because she was sick, but because she was pregnant and ashamed to see others.

It's just that he couldn't bear to tell Yang Hao, who was only eight years old, about this matter.

However, Yang Hao didn't listen. He was worried about his mother's condition and wanted to visit her even more.

Jinyang Palace, outside the Empress Dowager's bedroom.

Yang Hao cried out in a crying voice, only begging his mother to let him in to visit the sick.

This made Queen Dowager Doulu suffer a lot, she begged the female official:
"Can the imperial doctor prescribe a dose of Luozi Tang for me? After a while, I really can't hide my stomach."

This female official was the one who brought Queen Doulu to Xiangguo Mansion with four servants, and now Cui Che sent her to serve as a female official beside Queen Doulu.

Every time Empress Dowager Doulu had a private meeting with Cui Che, she had to check to see if she was carrying a sharp weapon.

Being able to undertake this task, the female officer is naturally a candidate that Cui Che can trust. In fact, this female officer is also a child of a family. She has served Cui Che's family for three generations. She was one of the servants who followed Cui Che to study in Chang'an when he was young. .

"This matter is not up to slaves to decide. Please don't embarrass slaves, the Queen Mother."

The female officer also sympathized with the situation of Empress Doulu, but now the Empress Dowager is pregnant with Cui Che's flesh and blood, whether to keep it or not, can only be decided by Cui Che, neither Queen Doulu nor herself can decide on her own.

After the Ximai was diagnosed, the Empress Dowager asked the imperial doctor for Luozi Tang, but the imperial doctor dared not prescribe it for her.

Empress Doulu had no choice but to hope that Cui Che could reply to the letter sooner.

Yang Hao cried for a long time outside the palace, which made Empress Doulu very upset. She shouted through the door and window:

"Hao'er, there's nothing serious about being a mother, it's just that I've caught the wind and cold, and I'm afraid it will hurt you, so I avoid it. You should go back to Daming Palace as soon as possible."

　The fourth one was brought, but it is gone today.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)