Fast time travel: The villain male god keeps flirting

Chapter 128 "Xiangguo was originally a daughter (7)"

The sandalwood in the house is scented, and the hot weather also exudes bursts of cool air because of the preserved ice.

Layers of curtains undulate slightly with the wind, and following the direction of the wind, there are more than one memorials placed on the table, stacked one upon another, almost covering the table.

A man in a dark gold robe buried his head in handling it, rubbing his temples with his fingers from time to time, pursing his lips tightly, and his aura became more and more serious.

This majestic man was the new king of Yan Kingdom, Yue Qun, who had succeeded to the throne not long ago, with handsome features and pale skin.

However, this kind of fairness is caused by being dragged down by the disease, the root cause of the disease brought from the mother's womb, and he has also suffered from this disease for more than 20 years.

He coughed, and the maid who was waiting on the side immediately stepped forward and respectfully served a lotus leaf porridge with rock sugar in a small bowl shaped like a gilt double lotus. He only took a small spoon to taste it, and then let the maid go .

He continued to deal with official affairs. Not long after he came to the throne, the situation was unstable. Wu and Chu formed an alliance through marriage, which became more and more unfavorable to Yan. He has not had a good rest for several days.

The issue of government officials in the DPRK and China, the issue of official factions, the issue of disputes among the Three Kingdoms, the issue of people's livelihood...

All kinds of problems are entangled together, which is quite taxing and exhausting. Even a strong man can't bear such exhaustion.

What's more, the new king, who was originally frail, suffered from heat and cold after suffering for the past few days.

Frowning for several days in succession, after revising a memorial, he looked at the next one, followed by the stern memorial.

The things he did in Ancheng, Yue Que already had a plan in mind, flipping through the memorial with his pale fingers, he sighed in his heart, it really was so.

[The king is safe, God bless my king:

Thanks to the blessing of the king, he blesses his ministers to turn bad luck into good fortune. The minister once encountered misfortune. The stone from the sky destroyed the vitality, made the animals unhappy, and the house was restless. Fortunately, a hermit helped him. This person is quite talented and temperamental. Gentle, calm and reliable... I hope the king will consider this person, if this person enters the court and becomes an official, it will be a great help.

The minister is overwhelmed by the fear of dogs and horses, and I would like to ask you to hear about it. 】

He has long heard that Ji Zhou, the young master in Tsing Yi, who is very popular in Ancheng, wants to see what kind of talent this son has, which can be appreciated by the straight-tempered General Longhu.

With his mind moving, he swiped the pen and wrote vermilion on the memorial.

"Xuan Ji Zhou went to Beijing and interviewed in person in the Wenhua Palace alone."

This memorial was sent to the Ministry of Rites urgently, and the minister of the Ministry of Rites was shocked, this Ji Zhou had a great luck!

"Princess, servant girl, I really can't move anymore." Calligraphy tugged at Zhou Meng's sleeve, unwilling to take another step.

She followed the princess around the big and small places in Ancheng, and today the princess took her to the field, the dirt road was difficult, the bugs were annoying, she just walked out of the city, and she couldn't walk.

Zhou Meng saw that her forehead was sweating, and she herself was very tired, so she simply found a meadow and laid out a bundle, while they sat down in a slumped manner.

At this time, the sun was blazing at noon, and it was so hot that people's skin hurt. They found another shade and gnawed on dry pancakes.

Seeing the princess who has always been well-clothed and well-fed sitting on the field and eating pancakes, the calligraphy and painting couldn't help feeling extremely distressed, her eyes were flushed, and she couldn't stop crying, "Princess, it's all because of the slaves, how can the princess eat such rough dry food, the princess , you should go back to Chu, you are the princess of Chu, and you are blessed by the witch god, the king will be very happy to see the princess back."

Calligraphy and painting thought about it, looked at Zhou Meng with burning eyes, and wanted to urge the princess to return to Chu.

Zhou Meng didn't answer, just shook his head.

She took a mouthful of pancakes silently, picked up the water bag to drink freely, looked at the hard-working farmers not far away under the scorching sun, and murmured in her mouth: "...the steaming summer is rustic, the back is scorched by the scorching sun, and the heat is exhausted." , but it’s a pity that the summer is long... the family’s land is exhausted and the taxes are exhausted, so I pick up this to satisfy my hunger..."

Calligraphy and painting didn't quite understand, she turned her round eyes, "Princess, what do you mean?"

"Look over there—" Zhou Meng motioned her to look, and not far away happened to be farmers working in nearby farms, she said, "What did you see?"

Shuhua's eyes widened. Unfortunately, she couldn't see anything except those scenes. She was extremely disappointed, "Princess, I only see the peasants working and the children around them."

"Not necessarily," Zhou Meng's enchanting fox eyes were flickering heavy at the moment, "What I see is the increase of land tax, the appearance of natural disasters, the tyranny of officials, the situation where farmers can't eat enough, uprisings, and the turmoil of the current situation. , and it is still the innocent people who suffer in the end.”

"Princess..." The little girl was a little frightened by what the princess said, she bit her lower lip and said nah na.

Zhou Meng's slender waist was straight now, like a vigorous green pine on a high mountain. She smiled, "Do you know why I don't want to go back to Chu?"

Without waiting for the calligraphy and painting to answer, she said to herself: "Because I want to be an official, I want to make the people no longer hungry, and I want to reform, and reform is like cutting flesh from a sick body. Only then does this strong man have the determination to sever his wrist, and the state of Chu..."

Looking at the far south, where the land of water and water is rich in fish and rice, it is a pity that she is addicted to the gentleness of the water village and has no courage and determination to reform herself. Besides, the old king of Chu who is doting and trusting and treacherous, her father in name, He couldn't see her shake his world at all.

After she finished speaking, Shuhua's eyes were already full of tears. After wiping her tears with her sleeves, she was sobbing and choked, "Princess, princess, this servant has no idea that you have such great ambitions. You, don't worry, this servant will never drag you back, you It must be no worse than those men!"

Zhou Meng nodded with a smile, and echoed, "Yes, women are as good as men, and even better."

The little girl didn't know what kind of magic medicine she had taken, and she insisted on resting for a quarter of an hour from the calligrapher who was crying and sore just now, and dragged her princess to the field, her mobility more than doubled.

"Brother, may I ask how many acres of land you rented, and how much is the land tax?"

"Sister-in-law, is there anyone in your family who has been dragged into the military service?"

……

As the sun was setting, the two walked slowly to the city gate with their burdens on their backs.

"Princess, it turns out that the peasants are so miserable, they are not as good as me as a maid!"

"Yeah——" Zhou Meng's worry deepened. Only by practicing it herself did she know that the peasants at the bottom of the ancient society had such a hard life without guarantee.

Land tax and corvee are heavy, although they are asking about the villages near Ancheng, where local officials are relatively clean, but land tax and corvee are still two shackles that bind the people.

Presumably, other regions are not much better.

The two of them were dusty and dusty, and the butler hurriedly took them to the lobby as soon as they entered the door.

"The king has a decree, Ji Zhou obeys orders, General Dragon and Tiger recommends him, Ji Zhou is a man of outstanding talent and integrity...Xuan Wenhua Palace obeys the king's decree, and can only enter the court as an official after being tested by the king. .”

Zhou Meng was dizzy, this, this is going to Dajing, the capital of Yan Kingdom?
　The few lines of the heroine's poems come from Bai Juyi's "Guan Mo Mai".

　　My heroine is an aspiring woman. If she wants to do it, she must be the Xiangguo who has power over the world, and not a little girl who is jealous behind the King of Yan~
　　
　
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