Medicine Girl Jingjing

Chapter 424
"The fief autonomy that His Majesty bestowed on the two princes is only ten years."

"According to the court regulations, the prince's fief autonomy can be hereditary for life. This time, His Majesty gave the two princes a fief, but it only lasted ten years, and they were still in the remote and extremely cold north."

"Except for the relatively large population of Qingcheng, the rest of the northern cities are sparsely populated and very poor. If the two princes want to benefit from the fiefdom, they will have to use tyranny to deduct money from the people."

Li Jingjing's hearing is better than ordinary people's. Hearing everyone's discussion, she thought to herself: It seems that my fief Lintong County is not bad.

Suddenly He Dong called Li Jingjing's name, and said: "The fief Liuyang County that I gave to Princess Huguo before, Princess Huguo returned it to the court after five years."

Li Jingjing quickly raised her head and glanced at He Dong, thinking: I was forced to return Liuyang County.

He Dong looked around at all civil and military officials, and said loudly: "I thought this county was poor, and Princess Huguo gave it back to me if she didn't like it. I specially sent an imperial envoy to visit Liuyang County incognito, but found that the county government's granary was full enough to After eating for three years, the local people live better than the people in the surrounding counties of Chang'an, and all the people who asked about it praised Princess Huguo for her kindness and generosity!"

Li Jingjing felt countless gazes coming from behind her, and secretly scolded He Dong for seizing everything that could be used to prove that it is quite generous to give ten years of autonomy.

Li Bing received Li Jingjing's complaining gaze, coughed dryly twice, and said, "Your Majesty, Liuyang County is a land of fish and rice. It just so happened that there were no natural disasters in those years and the grain harvest was bumper."

He Dong nodded, and said slowly: "I know, so I gave Rong Wang and Hai Wang ten years, which is twice as long as five years. I don't think that the results of Rong Wang and Hai Wang's governance of the four cities will be as good as Princess Huguo's governance. Liuyang County is bad."

The civil and military officials were all dumbfounded. Just in the poor place of the Northland, you still expect everyone to live the same life as the people in the surrounding counties of Chang'an?

Those noble ladies who understand political affairs understood it, and they all made up their minds to tell their husbands immediately after leaving the palace and returning to the mansion that they must never be sent by the two princes to manage the feudal city.

He Rong's complexion changed, and he hurriedly said loudly: "Your Majesty, I only need one fiefdom, and the other one will be returned to the court."

If he didn't want to help his beloved wife rejuvenate his mother's Deng family, he wouldn't even want a fief.

Princess Niu was in a hurry, and snatched what He Jinghai should say, and said loudly: "Your Majesty, I don't want any fiefdoms in Haiwang's Mansion, and I will return them to the court."

The city in the Northland had to rely on the imperial court to send food relief in winter. It used to be the Xiongnu King Chou, but now it should be He Dongchou's turn. Unexpectedly, he assigned the matter to the two younger brothers' families.

Princess Niu is very clear about the foundations of Xiawangfu and Haiwangfu. She has saved the two northern cities for more than ten years.

The fiefdoms of the two city mansions in the north are really unacceptable, if you want the two prince mansions, you will be poor and crazy.

He Donghu narrowed his eyes slightly, and said with an extremely firm attitude: "This is not allowed. Since I became the throne, I have received hundreds of memorials for granting you fiefdoms. Today, I must give each of you two cities as a reward." manor."

He Jinghai knelt down and said, "Uncle Emperor, my nephew has never thought about fiefdom, please take it back, my nephew is dedicated to guarding the southern border."

He Yiyang said: "Father, my son thinks that there are too many fiefdoms in two cities, so it's better to change to one."

He Dong supported He Jinghai with both hands, sighed, and said, "Then change it to a city. I will give each city a land of ten thousand stones of grain and 2000 taels of gold every year."

Princess Niu let out a sigh of relief, with the court's relief, she finally didn't have to pay too much money to go in.

Since then, civil and military officials have brought up the matter of granting fiefs to the prince in memorials. It is not He Dong's headache, but the prince who wants to get the fief.

"Mr. is now a word-to-shoulder king. According to the regulations of the court, there should be a fief. I have asked you several times, and you don't need a fief. Today, I decree to give a thousand acres of land in the outer suburbs of Chang'an and some houses to the husband and wife's natal family. Clan." He Dong said vaguely.

How did the civil and military officials know that the house and land that He Dong bestowed on the Qu family were the land and house of the Ouyang family.

The Qu family benefited from the Qu family's glory, and relied on Li Bing to reach the sky in one step.

He Dong issued a few more edicts, all of which were personnel transfer orders from the Ministry of Officials. The officials who were promoted and their families were naturally beaming, but the officials and their families who were transferred to poor places all looked gloomy.

Compared with the previous three edicts of bestowing marriages, dispatching troops, and fiefdoms, these can no longer cause waves in the court.

Li Jingjing was distracted when suddenly she felt someone was staring at her for a long time, she turned her head to look, and it was indeed He Jingyan, who blinked and smiled at him, saw that he also smiled and said four words in colloquial language: big marriage fiefdom.

She replied in spoken language: It's early.

Before noon, the state banquet officially began, and the empress ordered all civil and military officials and noble ladies to be seated.

Dozens of eunuchs and court ladies poured fine wines from various countries for everyone in an orderly manner.

Even Li Jingjing could feel the aroma of the wine. Dingchao's wine was not mixed with any chemical ingredients. The wine for the state banquet was either from a foreign palace or brewed in the country for more than ten years. Even she couldn't help but drink three glasses.

The melodious palace music played, and more than forty beautiful court ladies in gorgeous long dresses filed in, and floated to the central open space like clouds, waving their long skirts and dancing gracefully, which was beyond words.

Since He Dong ascended the throne, the Ding Dynasty has been at war with the Xiongnu. In the past few years, he has kept filial piety for the Empress Dowager and the Empress Dowager. There has never been a maid dancing at a state banquet. This is the first time this year.

Some officials got drunk and got drunk, and when they saw the beautiful maids, they couldn't help drooling and turning into nympho, showing their ugly faces.

Their first wives happened to be sitting across from each other, seeing this scene completely in their eyes, they were angry and angry.

Seeing that Li Laoshi, who was sitting across from the crowd, had closed his eyes and fell asleep watching the maid dancing, He couldn't help but chuckle.

Di Yumin thought that Mrs. He was laughing at her, so she quickly blushed and explained in a low voice: "Sister-in-law, Qu Bing just told me to eat less cold food, nothing else."

He patted Di Yumin's hand to reassure her, then went to look at his eldest son, saw him toasting with Qin Wanjing, and was glad that neither her husband, brother-in-law, nor son was a womanizer.

All the court ladies danced two songs in a row, sweating profusely, replaced by ten beautiful court ladies playing guqin and pipa, ten children and ten little girls dancing, and then twelve court ladies performed superb and extremely difficult dances. Soft skills.

Old Princess Niu had something on her mind, and her thoughts drifted away, but she didn't notice that Princess Deng sitting next to her was lying on the table.

It was the first time for Kong Ye to see so many people performing soft skills. He could not take his eyes off him, and he never noticed that there was something strange about Princess Deng sitting next to him.

"Ah." Princess Deng couldn't bear the pain and cried out, her face was pale, she held Kong Ye's right arm with her right hand, and cried weakly: "I'm going to die of pain, call the imperial doctor for me."

(End of this chapter)