After being exiled, I led my whole family to rebel.

Chapter 300 The Eyeliner in the Palace
Everyone in the room suddenly had their own thoughts.

They had to admit that the things over there in Jinzhou Mansion were good.

Not to mention the less valuable things like soap and pencils, even the pocket watch is enough to make people salivate.

But in view of the tense relationship between Qiongzhou and Jinzhou Prefecture, they naturally never dared to say good things about Jinzhou Prefecture.

Zhou Heng looked around and said in a deep voice: "Who can solve the firearm crisis for me?"

Finally, someone said: "I heard that someone in Guangzhou bought Hunyuan Pearl. You might as well ask the prefect's wife, maybe there will be clues."

Fang Ruyu interjected from the side: "Your Highness, each of these Hunyuan Pearls costs at least 50,000 taels. With the gunpowder and steel barrel, a firearm is at least 100,000 taels. If we really start manufacturing, the whole country can only make a few of them. , and it costs a lot of money, is it worth it?”

Zhou Heng frowned slightly, then showed his face, "A firearm costs two hundred thousand taels. If we build one, it can act as a deterrent to the Jinzhou government. Secondly, it can be put into the northern battlefield. Thirdly, it can be snatched back by the Jinzhou government." The Jiangling Prefecture and Xiangzhou taken away by the state capital, after all, building a firearm is worth more than raising an army of 100,000!"

Master Meng also smiled and said: "That's right, I can't bear to let the child trap the wolf. Only we have firearms, so everyone in Jinzhou Prefecture has to flee? Look at how they are attacking the city like crazy now, you know they have We are so afraid that we will make firearms. The more this happens, the more we must speed up the production of firearms. Only by making firearms can we have the power to fight against Jinzhou Prefecture. "

"Yes, we still have to make firearms. This is a matter of time. If we don't make these firearms, the Jinzhou Mansion will continue to hinder His Highness's great cause!"

This was said to Zhou Heng's heart. He nodded and said without any doubt: "Yes, this is a matter of time. We have to make it no matter what. If we can't make firearms, I will never even think about attacking Bianjing City. Sooner or later, the cavalry of Jinzhou Prefecture will break through our Qiongzhou City Gate!"

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But Wang Sanniang, who was only three or four hundred kilometers away from Qiongzhou, was waiting outside her home with a happy face.

She wore a pink cotton-padded jacket, her hair was neatly combed, and a crabapple flower hosta was inserted sideways. It was windy and snowy at the moment, and a female general under her was pretending to be a maid, holding an umbrella for her, but she didn't say anything. I didn't even feel cold, but looked at the alley entrance expectantly.

It has been almost two years since she came to Shouzhou, but she is still not used to the humid climate here.

Since coming here, her hair has grown longer, and her speech and behavior have deliberately become more feminine.

Wang Sanniang is a natural businessman. She has been exposed to how her father does business since she was a child. In addition, her parents are with her when she takes office this time. The Wang family is like a fish in water in Shouzhou.

Especially since Xu Zhenying was granted the title of King Zhao two years ago, their secret identities have become even more obvious. In addition, the goods leading to the east and north basically come out of their channels, as well as the private sale of salt and sugar. They are now making a lot of money every day, earning a lot of wealth for the treasury of Jinzhou Prefecture.

Wang Sanniang can pat her chest and proudly say that Gu Guihua and Liu Paner's salaries were earned through her hard work.

Of course, she only dared to say this at home.

The Wang family naturally knows in their hearts that without His Highness, they would have nothing.

With the repeated battles between the Qiongzhou and Jinzhou Prefectures, the situation became increasingly tense. Wang Sanniang already felt that the time for her to make a contribution was approaching.

It is conceivable that the day they return will be the time for their Wang family to confer princes and worship the prime minister.

Ok.

It's getting more and more dry these days.

When will we be able to cooperate with Your Highness inside and outside?
Zhang Wanjun can use strategies to win three cities. If Wang Sanniang can win Qiongzhou without any effort, wouldn't the two of them become the twin sisters of the founding female generals?
You still need to be good-looking and capable.

Just thinking about it makes me feel happy——

Wang Sanniang rubbed her hands with a smile, smiling like a little fox, but her eyes were fixed on the alley until the carriage appeared in sight.

Wang Sanniang immediately went to meet him joyfully and signaled with her eyes to see how Wang Yin was doing.

Considering that the customs of the Great Zhou Dynasty were not as open as those in Jinzhou Prefecture, it was inevitable for women to be high-profile and attract attention when walking outside. Therefore, in Shouzhou, it was almost Wang Yin who was outside and was responsible for things on the surface, such as sugar.

As for the smuggling of salt and the secret intelligence, Wang Sanniang was in charge in secret.

Even though there was no one around and there was only a vast expanse of white, the Wang family was cautious, so they entered the study together without saying a word.

The study uses a small amount of cement paste in the middle of the wood, so the sound insulation effect is very good to prevent people from eavesdropping outside.

When Wang Sanniang saw her father coming back, her expression was very strange.

As the leader of the Shouzhou branch, even Wang Yin can be regarded as Wang Sanniang's subordinate. Naturally, he knew what her father was worried about. He immediately said with a smile: "Did you see Fang Ruyu?"

Wang Yin sighed, "That traitor, I really can't kill her on the spot! That Fang Xun, Fang Ningmo, and the rest of the Fang family, who are not the most capable and loyal people, yet they were harmed like that by Fang Ruyu? It's a pity that Minister Fang is young and promising, but now he has become a commoner. I'm afraid that His Highness will never think of him again. It's a pity that Fang Ruyu has a large number of followers when he comes in and out, and our status is sensitive, otherwise I really want to kill her!"

Wang Sanniang also sighed, "Now that she holds the firearm blueprint in her hand, Zhou Heng is afraid that it will be too late to treat her as a treasure, and we are afraid that we will not be able to get close. Father does not have to worry about these things. Since His Highness asked us to stand still, he will naturally have her My own plan. But father, how was your conversation with Prince Ming today? "

"Prince Ming didn't see it, but he met a few masters and generals. After all, it's the same thing as last time. He just asked me if I could get gunpowder and steel?"

Wang Sanniang squinted her eyes, "There is some scrapped steel at the research institute. We might as well sell it by the meter, for ten thousand taels of silver per meter. Aren't they anxious to make firearms? Let's give them the raw materials."

Of course, Wang Sanniang didn't mention the secret letter from Xu Zhenying.

The secret letter said that the price of raw materials will increase in the near future. If the people from Qiongzhou Prefecture are chasing after him, they can give Jinzhou Prefecture some unwanted things and save up for next year's military expenses.

Although Wang Sanniang didn't understand why Xu Zhenying seemed not worried about the stolen firearms in the letter, since His Highness had the order, she could only obey it.

"Oh, by the way, there is also the Tian Yuan Pearl." Wang Yin mentioned it again, looking a little confused, "Does the Tian Yuan Pearl need to be included in the raw materials of firearms?"

Wang Sanniang immediately gave her father a wink, signaling him not to interfere with matters in Jinzhou Mansion.

Wang Yin naturally understood.

"We have channels from Jinzhou Prefecture, and we are deep into the enemy's territory. We must be careful in everything we do, and we must not expose our feet."

"It's natural. The identity we created is perfect. Especially this time, if they want the raw materials for Jinzhou Prefecture's firearms, they can only come from us. In the blink of an eye, they can get hundreds of thousands of taels of business, so they have to be careful. cautious."

Wang Yin himself said that his eyelids were twitching. Although he had made a lot of money by smuggling things from Jinzhou Prefecture in Shouzhou over the years, but such a transaction would be a business of hundreds of thousands of taels. In his life, Never mind that I've seen it, I've never even heard of it.

"I'm not afraid of anything else. I'm just afraid that King Ming will directly steal our materials or refuse to pay. After all, a military expenditure of several hundred thousand taels is not a small sum. And Prince Ming's father is a master who likes to renege on debts. Otherwise, during the four to five years The previous timber case will not cause the Jiang family to be destroyed."

Wang Sanniang shook her head, "That's not the case. Can dad stabilize them as we said before?"

"Of course. I told them that small people like us can't make much money. The big boss still has to smooth the relationship. Jinzhou Prefecture won't deliver the goods without money, so we have no choice. Even if we are asked to advance the money, we will advance it. Not coming out.”

Wang Sanniang smiled and said, "So they believed it?"

"I guess...I'm afraid I believe it."

"So, these hundreds of thousands of taels of silver will soon flow to Jinzhou Mansion?"

Wang Yin also showed a smile on his face, "This time we have ripped off King Ming so much that we will have to pay for next year's military expenses. In addition, King Ming's bleeding will not be relieved for a year and a half. Next year is the time What a great opportunity for Your Highness to attack Qiongzhou!”

"That's right. I guess... His Highness will arrive in Qiongzhou soon -"

The father and daughter looked at each other and smiled, saying nothing.

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In the deep palace of the Zhou Dynasty.

It was night.

The first snow of winter has just fallen, and the sky is filled with bright moonlight.

There was no sound at all in the palace, only the wind blowing and the trees shaking, and it was freezing cold. Even so, a small group of people gathered in the name of Sasao in the side room of the concubine's palace. They gathered around the stove with the light of candles and talked about the letters sent by their families recently.

It was the first time for Jingbi Wang Qiu Shuang to participate in such an event.

After hesitating for more than half a year, and with Eunuch Yang's hints and explicit instructions, she seemed to realize that the minions of Jinzhou Mansion had already reached deep into the palace.

There are quite a few people joining this so-called Datong Club, and this time there were more than a dozen people who came when they had time. At first, these people were a little frightened when they saw Jing Bin, but under the comfort of Eunuch Yang, these trembling sheep Only then did we reluctantly connect the words "Jingpin" and "Datong Gang".

Even so, Jing Bin also knew that everyone seemed a little uncomfortable because of her arrival, including herself of course.

Making the decision to join Datong Society can be said to be quite risky.

Once discovered, no one in the room could run away.

The respectable concubine is a fair person. She is not favored in the palace, not to mention that there is a rather overbearing emperor who controls the government. Not to mention that she is an unpopular concubine. I am afraid that both the emperor and the empress will be in trouble. By yourself.

The Great Zhou Dynasty was torn apart, and the harem was full of swords and swords. She had to make more plans for herself.

As the vice-president, Eunuch Zhou naturally has the right to speak. Seeing that everyone was a little uncomfortable because of the arrival of the concubine, he smiled and said: "Now that you have joined the club, no matter what your previous status was, no matter what the purpose is, then everyone We will all be brothers and sisters who will work together from now on.”

Everyone could only nod, and some even boldly looked at Jing Concubine's appearance.

In the past, the concubines were all aloof, but now they are sitting with a bunch of scornful people like them, and they even call each other brothers, sisters or comrades. This feels really weird.

Concubine Jing had just joined the club, so she couldn't say anything, so she just curled up in the corner and looked at everyone with a smile on her face.

The leading eunuch ordered everyone to sit next to each other and share letters from their families. At first, everyone was a little embarrassed, but after encouraging each other, they gradually became bolder.

Concubine Jing listened silently the whole time.

Somehow, as she gradually listened to this, she felt a little excited.

An older eunuch flipped through the letter and said with a proud smile: "Hey, my little sister is about to graduate from medical school. She was assigned to our village for internship. My parents are very happy. It’s broken. Although there are cement roads and public carriages in Jinzhou Prefecture, it’s not easy to go to the city. How can it be convenient for the little girl to just stay in the village? "

Concubine Jing couldn't help but be surprised. She didn't know when these eunuchs and maids could also read and write?
But when she glanced over from the corner of her eye, she saw that the letters from Jinzhou Mansion were all filled with ghostly symbols. She was secretly surprised. Could it be that there was her own writing there?

Eunuch Zhou immediately said: "Friend Wang, this is the pinyin from Jinzhou Prefecture. You only need to know more than sixty characters to form the pronunciation of all words. It is easy to get started, so most people in Jinzhou Prefecture can Barely literate.”

It turned out to be the case.

She had heard Eunuch Zhou mention it before, but she seemed particularly curious at this moment.

Letters from home are still being shared.

Someone else looked worried, "My second brother joined the army the year before last, and now he has been transferred to the west to fight against the King of Zhoushan. I don't know what the situation is like there."

Someone sighed: "In these troubled times, the Zhou Dynasty has been fighting every year in the past few years. There are wars everywhere. Nowhere is safe. We can only have a moment of peace in the palace."

"That's right, being a soldier in Jinzhou Prefecture is not bad. I heard that the treatment of being a soldier there is extremely good. There are fields and grain, and it is not a problem for a soldier to support his whole family!"

The man's face softened a little, "No, if you change to another place, you will die. If the soldiers of Jinzhou Prefecture die, at least they will receive high pensions, and their children and examiners will also receive preferential treatment. It is pretty good."

Another person said happily: "Oh my god, my sister has actually been admitted as a civil servant in Xiangzhou!"

"Your sister? Isn't your sister married? How come a married woman can take the civil service exam?"

Concubine Jing took the initiative to move closer to Jinzhou Mansion, naturally for the sake of her own future.

At this moment, the person came to the key point, and she immediately looked at the person who spoke.

The man said proudly: "Of course it is! My sister was smart when she was a child. My father said that if she hadn't been a girl, she would have returned to the family with a top score. Now it can be regarded as a green smoke coming out of the ancestral grave. It's really Let my sister pass the exam!"

Concubine Jing couldn't help but ask: "Can a married woman be an official? Will her husband's family allow her to show her face? This woman can only go out to do things, but being an official will inevitably involve dealing with men, and she may even have to Doesn’t his husband mind if he’s in the same room with a man?”

When the concubine Jing suddenly asked the question, the man subconsciously shrank his shoulders, and a flattering smile appeared on his face: "Mother, even the emperor in Jinzhou Mansion is a woman, so naturally there are many female officials under her. They have My thoughts are different from ours. Is it possible that when a man and a woman are in the same room, there is nothing else to do besides doing that dirty thing?"

"But...but..." Concubine Jing rarely showed a hint of eagerness on her face, "But what if rumors spread?"

Eunuch Yang on one side slightly raised his lips.

As expected, Concubine Jing still only cares about being a female official.

"This... this..." The eunuch touched his head and smiled honestly, "My lord, you really asked about your slave. My sister never mentioned this in her letter!"

Someone immediately said: "There must be strict control over there. If someone talks nonsense, they might be arrested and do hard labor!"

"I think the people over there are different from what we think. Things that we think are immoral may be commonplace to them."

The leader, Eunuch Luo, slapped everyone, "We are all on equal terms in the club. From now on, we can only call ourselves comrades or club members. Haven't we already read the study materials sent from Jinzhou Prefecture? The common people value equality between men and women. Even His Highness King Zhao never allows people to kneel down and worship, and even allows people with low status to take the imperial examination. We can’t lag behind in our thinking, otherwise we will be laughed at if we speak out!”

Although Concubine Jing was fine hearing these words from Eunuch Yang on weekdays, now that she had joined the Datong Club, she still felt a little uncomfortable hearing these words.

I'm afraid her privileges will no longer exist once she enters Jinzhou Mansion, right?
Like the group of people in front of her, she will work hard with her own hands.

On the one hand, she longs to break through the privileges of equality between men and women, but on the other hand, she longs to enjoy the privileges brought to her by the order of superiority and inferiority.

Sure enough, there are gains and losses.

Concubine Jing adjusted her mentality very quickly. She believed that she had read a lot of books with her father since she was a child. It was because of the unfairness of the world that she did not have the opportunity to make a contribution. She was even given as a gift by her father who was a relative of the emperor at the time. His Majesty is my concubine.

Even so, the sisters at home kept saying that she was high-spirited.

But no one ever asked her if she was happy.

The young couple of the emperor and the empress were a married couple. They, the concubines, tried their best but could not get in between them. In desperation, the concubines gave up and could only live their lives guarding the flowers and plants in their own yards every day. .

As for her, apart from reading some story books to pass the time, she had no other use.

She is just a walking corpse between heaven and earth.

Therefore, when Eunuch Yang talked about those things in Jinzhou Mansion, especially women becoming officials, she seemed to come alive instantly.

Things she had never seen or heard of captured her heart at once.

In particular, the portrait albums that Eunuch Yang sent over one after another later included portraits and deeds of various female generals, female doctors, and female officials in Jinzhou Prefecture.

When she heard that Zhang Wanjun used a surprise attack strategy to go around the rear of King Ming and defeat three cities in a row, Concubine Jing almost jumped up with excitement!
Later, she saw that Qiu Ju Niang was kicked out of her husband's house and even ostracized and suppressed by her colleagues in Lan County because of her love for medicine and provided free medical treatment to women in Lan County. She burst into tears and even inexplicably felt a kind of sadness and despair that she could empathize with.

But later Qiu Juniang opened a medical school, recruited countless female students, led people to develop the cowpox vaccine, and even trampled on the men who had spurned her by everyone. She just wanted to clap her hands and applaud!
The stories about the women of Jinzhou Prefecture were far more worrying to her than those stories about crazy men and women in story books!

Forgive her.

Even though she felt like she had spent decades in the palace, in the end, she was just a woman in her early twenties.

Therefore, even at the risk of confiscating her family and exterminating her family, Jingbin still did this.

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