Princess of the auxiliary country

As soon as she said this, Princess Ningyang, Princess Qingyang and Huo Junyao all fell silent.

Naturally, they could see what the Supreme Emperor meant.

They knew very well what kind of character the current prince was, and they were so fooled by Zhao Yan'er that they no longer knew right from wrong.

If this continues, when he ascends to the throne in the future, the name of the Yu Dynasty will really be unclear.

As for the King of Qi and the King of Chu, even though these two are having so much fun now, they both seem to have brains and strength.

But the little they have is really not enough.

The water in Yu Chao Chaotang is very deep. There are not only supporters behind these two people, but also many founding nobles.

Most of these people are people who have walked through the mountains of corpses and seas of blood, and not just anyone can suppress them.

In addition to these, there is an even larger and more terrifying group, the nobles.

Even though these two people seem to have the support of noble families behind them, they are just small noble families, or they are the natal families of their mothers and concubines.

Far from representing the true gentry.

These people are all human beings. Otherwise, why would figures like the Supreme Emperor and Emperor Zhaowu be constrained by them?

Looking at the current three adult princes of Emperor Zhaowu, there is no reliable role, so the Supreme Emperor will naturally have some thoughts.

Although King Qin is not the son of Emperor Zhaowu, his reputation is very upright, and people really can't say much about him.

After all, if we really talk about it, he is the real eldest grandson.

However, it is very difficult and dangerous for King Qin to ascend to the throne. Not to mention whether Emperor Zhaowu can agree, even if he can agree, where is the queen? Where are the prince, the king of Qi, the king of Chu, and the supporters behind them?

So although the Supreme Emperor had this idea, he didn't say anything more after Emperor Zhaowu refused.

He knew very well that if he said too much, he was afraid that King Qin would have no peace in the future.

"Perhaps it's because I haven't seen him for many years and I miss him a little bit."

It was Huo Junyao who broke the silence with a smile, and then continued: "Eldest sister, second sister-in-law, it's a rare visit for you. What do you want to eat today? I'll have someone get it for you."

"I heard that there are a lot of delicious food here, little sister. You can try it out."

Princess Qingyang also spoke.

Looking at Fang Zhilan again, after asking the question just now, she saw that the three of them were silent for a while, and she immediately understood that there was something inconvenient to say.

Seeing Huo Junyao change the topic at this time, they also followed the conversation and started chatting.

In the evening, Princess Ningyang, Princess Qingyang and Fang Zhilan bid farewell to the hot spring villa and returned to the capital.

Huo Junyao returned to the room and asked Hongxiu about some situations in the workshop. According to her previous arrangement, Hongxiu was in charge of all business matters, and she would go there from time to time to take a look.

However, I have been busy with matters at Xiaohuangzhuang in the past few days, so I have no time to go and check.

"There are no problems. Daily production and income are stable."

Hearing this, Huo Junyao didn't ask too much. After all, there were only two brick and tile factories and a papermaking workshop in the industrial zone she planned. The brick and tile factory was busy with Xiaohuangzhuang recently. , temporarily halted production.

In other words, there is only the papermaking workshop that needs to be monitored at present. This is now on the right track, and a lot of paper is produced every day. Although during this period, the demand for paper in the capital has slowly tended to Saturated business has declined.

But the daily income is also quite considerable. As for expanding outwards, she has not thought about it yet. This papermaking workshop was able to be established thanks to the Zheng family. The attention of the gentry was diverted, but if they wanted to continue to expand, it would be equivalent to a comprehensive land grab with the gentry.

The last time was because she wanted to take revenge on the Zheng family. She was famous as a teacher and had received enough benefits from the noble family, so naturally she wouldn't say anything more.

But if it expands rapidly and compresses the other party's paper market in other places, it will inevitably cause some trouble.

This is the first reason, and the second reason is naturally that she still doesn't have enough manpower, and she is still completely unable to expand outward on a large scale.

Moreover, she had no intention of operating the outward expansion herself. It would be better for the emperor to do these things than for her to do them.

Anyway, everyone knew that the Emperor was involved in this papermaking workshop. Letting the Emperor expand would be a thing of the past. Secondly, she didn't want to worry about these troublesome things.

She is not the majority shareholder of the papermaking workshop either.

No, she was still busy with the harvest in Xiaohuangzhuang, and in the palace, Emperor Zhaowu had just returned to the Imperial Study Room from court that day. After dealing with government affairs for a while, he suddenly thought of the paper.

Immediately, he put down his government affairs and took Gao Fu to Da'an Palace.

He had heard earlier that Huo Junyao had sent over the papermaking workshop's first month's dividend, which amounted to several thousand dollars. However, before he had time to go there, he was invited to see the corn.

Then there were potatoes and so on. He and the ministers had been discussing these matters in the past two days. After all, food was the foundation of a dynasty, so it naturally needed to be studied carefully.

It doesn’t mean that it will be promoted immediately as soon as he makes the decision to promote it.

The territory of the Yu Dynasty was relatively large, and the new food this time, whether it was corn or potatoes, was indeed a good thing, but there was also a problem, that is, the Yu Dynasty had never appeared before.

During promotion, if you tell others that this thing can produce more than 1,000 kilograms per mu, who will believe it?

It can be said that if he hadn't witnessed it with his own eyes, and if someone else had told him about it, his first reaction would have been disbelief.

Besides, there are only a few potatoes, and the seeds still need to be cultivated.

There were many things and they were very troublesome, so he didn't suddenly remember them until today.

It was said that it was sudden, but in fact it was not sudden, but because the Yu Dynasty was very poor now. Not only that, but today I also heard that there was a drought somewhere down below and needed money and food relief.

Although there is still some money in the treasury, it is not much. He wanted to make money, so he thought of the papermaking workshop.

When they arrived at Da'an Palace, the Supreme Emperor was drinking tea leisurely and didn't say much when he saw him coming.

"Father, what happened to the papermaking workshop?"

Hearing this, the Supreme Emperor raised his eyebrows and said, "I thought you didn't want to ask questions."

Emperor Zhaowu smiled and said, "How is that possible? I'm just busy discussing the promotion of corn recently."

"Well, this is a top priority. How is the discussion going?"

"My son plans to start slowly and promote it around the capital first. Once the news about corn has spread, people around the capital have already heard about it, so it will be faster to accept it."

He really wanted to promote it comprehensively from the start, but the conditions really didn't allow for this.

Therefore, we can only settle for the next best thing and spread out bit by bit with the capital as the center. In this way, the number of people who understand it will slowly increase, and at the same time, a large number of seeds can be recycled stably to facilitate subsequent large-scale promotion.