Empress Industrial Project

Chapter 452 Finale ([-])

The people of Yanjing are even more grateful to the current emperor.

Of course, the electric lights are not installed for free. The royal family charges for electricity, and the money is calculated according to the movement of electricity.

Moreover, it was announced in the imperial city that if ordinary people save electricity, thirty to fifty cash a month is almost enough.

If the common people didn't see the goodness of the electric light, they would definitely not install it. For a month, who knows how much it costs, and who knows what the hell it is.

But I saw the benefits of electric lights, so bright, how many candles would it take to have such an effect?

And the emperor also said that if you save it at night, instead of using it all night like in the imperial city, it is as cheap as thirty to fifty cash a month.

With such a small amount of money, I don’t know how much it saves compared to the monthly candles. There are so many schoolchildren in Yanjing City. With such a good electric light, their children can spend less time staying up late with candles at night, and the eyesight is I don’t know how much better.

There are also those peasant women who embroider something after finishing their work at night, sometimes their eyes are burnt out when they look at the candles, let alone the embroiderers in the workshop, they are all in the dark at night facing the dim candle lights. While doing work, how many people's eyes are almost completely blind at the age of forty because they are exhausted.

The most important thing is that those civil servants have to deal with all kinds of official documents and files all night long. If they have money, they can light more candle lamps, but the cost of candle lamps is a lot every month. What a waste of extra money to light so many candles.

Not at all.

Countless people went to Shuntian Mansion to sign up, regardless of the rich and powerful, whoever signed up first, whoever recorded first, would be the first to install the lights.

The whole Yanjing is noisy and lively.

Of course, some people wait and see, wanting to know whether the installation is good or bad, whether it saves money or not.

No matter how.

The imperial court spent ten days counting the households, and stopped registering after ten days. Then it took almost two months to build the telephone poles, install the wires from house to house, and install the lights.

Not to mention that on the main streets and alleys of Yanjing City, all the street light poles are poured, row by row, which looks very strange.

The people in Yanjing City looked at the standing electric poles with special curiosity. They looked at the white woven lamp made of a special thing on the top of the electric pole, and they knew at a glance that it was exactly the same as the electric light in the imperial city.

The electric lights in the imperial city were installed on the side of the road like this, and turned on at night, and they were still right in front of their house.

Thinking that the door of their house could be as bright as day in the imperial city, the people of Yanjing City looked at the street lamp, their faces became excited, and they waited, waited, waited, and finally waited until Emperor Mingren announced the day when the lights would be switched on.

The time announced by Emperor Mingren Qiao Yurong is to light up at Mao at night.

That is, the modern lights are turned on at seven o'clock.

In the past, people who might be busy just had dinner at seven o'clock. In order to see the lights in Yanjing City turn on, many people finished their work and had meals early. At around six o'clock in the evening, the people in Yanjing City were waiting for the lights to be turned on.

People who turned on the lights were looking forward to it.

Especially some of the royal family and nobles, the meritorious families of the Hou family, all of them are waiting for the lights to turn on in the mansion.

Not to mention that those ordinary people rushed out of the street one by one, waiting to see the countless lampposts standing upright on the street light up at the same time, then this street is not as bright as the day in the imperial city.

Everyone felt excited and happy when they thought about it.

Maoshi time finally came.

The people of Yanjing City saw with their own eyes that rows of street lights were lit up, like stars shining in the darkness, lighting up the night of Yanjing City, bright and dazzling.

As the street lamps were turned on at the same time, the lights in the countless high-rise private houses in Yanjing City were also shining, and the sky was full of stars shining brightly, making the entire Yanjing City a modern city that never sleeps, brightly lit.

The people of Yanjing cheered excitedly one by one, and they all rushed to bid farewell, enjoying the light brought by the lights, with joy on their faces.

Just like a carnival, the entire city of Yanjing was filled with cheers and the sound of firecrackers for celebration, one after another.

……

At this time, in the Mu residence.

The people in the whole Mu Mansion were happy to see the lights lit up in the mansion, especially the little maidservants who were all smiling. Woke up, feeling very happy, the old matriarch likes to reward this kind of joy, even the lowest servant girl in the entire Mu residence has rewards.

The servants were even more happy, looking at the electric lights as if it was a festival.

The only person who was unhappy in her room was Mu Yingying.

What Emperor Mingren, what kind of wise emperor, that is a liar!fraud!

The handkerchief in Mu Yingying's twisted hands was about to be torn to pieces.

How can such a liar be able to sit on the throne aloft and enjoy the love of the people and the care of that person...
At this time, the door of Mu Yingying's room was pushed open, and it was her concubine sister Mu Lingling who came in.

"What are you doing here?" Mu Yingying looked cold and arrogant.

Mu Lingling casually found a chair and sat down, and said slowly and calmly: "Father betrothed me to the son of Han Yuanfeng."

what!
Mu Yingying's eyes widened. How could this lowly concubine marry the son of Han Yuanfeng?

In the entire Yanjing City, apart from the Regent, the most honorable person is that Han Yuanfeng.

"Impossible!" Mu Yingying's face twisted: "You are just a concubine, how could you marry Han Yuanfeng."

That was someone she didn't want or even looked down on before, and it was only because of the jewels like Xiao Yuanming in front of her that she was honored, and the palace with the most valuable status in Yanjing City is Hanwang's Palace.

Mu Lingling smiled and stood up, her eyes were contemptuous, and she looked at Mu Yingying with ridicule: "How can it be impossible, there are only a few female heirs in the Mu family, except for you who are the first daughter, only me who is the second daughter, you are thinking about that People who could possibly do something that would insult the current Emperor Mingren... The Mu family's hundreds of families must marry to ensure that the status of the family will not be shaken. Otherwise, we will be hated by Emperor Mingren. Idiot, did the hundred-year-old Zanying family be destroyed in your hands?"

"You're talking nonsense." Mu Yingying argued with a distorted expression: "I didn't destroy the family, and the emperor is a woman. I didn't lie at all."

During the Spring Festival of Qiao Yurong's first year in office, she hosted a banquet for the relatives of civil and military officials to show the emperor's great grace, but when Mu Yingying saw Qiao Yurong, she became emotional and lost her manners.

Even Emperor Ming Ren is a woman, not a man at all, and not worthy of being an emperor at all.

All of this was seen by Tang Moming below. At that time, Tang Moming looked at Mu Yingying like an idiot. This stupid woman, if she wanted to kill herself, it would be fine if she questioned the emperor on such an occasion, wouldn't it implicate the entire Mu family?

Tang Moming couldn't believe that the Mu family, who was a noble family with hairpins for hundreds of years, would raise such a stupid daughter.

At the end, Xiao Yuanming was furious, and Old General Mu panicked. He immediately slapped Mu Yingying twenty and ordered Mu Yingying to be imprisoned for three years.

Yes, three years of confinement and strict education.

For the past three years, Mu Yingying has stayed in her yard and never came out. It can be seen that during the state banquet, the heart of Old General Mu was really chilled.

"My silly sister." Mu Lingling chuckled lightly, mocking her: "Haven't you figured it out yet? It doesn't matter if that person is a man or a woman, that person is willing to protect, spoil her, and let her stand high there In this position, who can do anything to her? Why are you trying to stroke that unshakable tiger beard, aren't you courting death?"

Mu Lingling played with her slender and white nails, and said, "Do you think that the regent is tolerant to you because you are alive? Wrong, it was Emperor Ming Ren who said that you were young and ignorant and admitted the wrong person. Grandpa will not blame you." I will only ground you for three years, if not..."

Mu Lingling's expression turned cold: "You've long since died, and the position of this daughter-in-law is also mine. How I wish that Emperor Ming Ren could kill you, so that I can become the most honorable daughter-in-law of the Mu family. "

Mu Yingying's face was dull, obviously she felt that it was impossible for Qiao Yurong to let her go, yes, she always felt that the person who let her go must be Xiao Yuanming, it was because of the love between the two young sweethearts that he didn't kill him own.

But according to Mu Lingling's words, that's not the case at all.

"You lied!" Mu Yingying's eyes were full of horror.

"Cheat you?" Mu Lingling laughed: "What is there for you to lie to? Look at yourself, do you think you are fighting with such a person?"

"You are not as good as her in appearance, and in talent? The concrete floor, reservoir, heating, and electric lights in Yanjing City, such a person with both talent and appearance, how can you compare with her? You can't even match her with a single finger. "

Mu Lingling looked at Mu Yingying's pale face with joy: "Besides, Emperor Mingren implemented all things such as heating and electric lights at a low price, all for the sake of the people, such an emperor who is dedicated to the people, whether he is male or female How much does it matter?"

After a pause, Mu Lingling raised her voice; "Do you think grandpa hasn't investigated the emperor? Do you think no one has investigated the unusual relationship between the emperor and the regent?"

Mu Yingying's disheveled expression shook, and she looked at Mu Lingling.

Mu Lingling smiled complacently: "The civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty need such a wise and powerful emperor, and the entire Great Zhou also needs such an emperor who is dedicated to the people. Do you understand? My silly sister, as long as she is a good emperor, she is male or female. Everyone turned a blind eye, only you, an idiot, would expose it in public, you are simply an idiot."

"Why do you think I'm here to tell you this, my good sister, now I will be the wife of the prince, just like you, after you get married, you still have to salute me, think about it, my sister will be happy in her heart."

"Hahahaha!"

Mu Lingling smiled triumphantly and left. Mu Yingying's face was pale, without any expression. After a long time, she suddenly burst into tears.

why!
why!
why!
Obviously she has watched him since she was a child, why doesn't he like her!

She was just not reconciled. The person she liked since she was a child fell in love with someone else. She was just not reconciled...not reconciled to that person seeing her with such cold and indifferent eyes...so heartless and heartless.

.......
Yanjing City was buzzing with the connection of the wires, and the news quickly spread back to the palace.

Palace of the Emperor's Heart.

The previously deserted courtyard has been completely renovated, and the dilapidated imperial palace also exudes a magnificent and magnificent scenery, where there is still the dilapidation and desolation of three years ago.

Qiao Yuhe had already moved outside to live in the Wangfu Yamen, which is now Qiao Yurong's residence.

In three years, the palace has regained its royal splendor and vitality.

(End of this chapter)