Everyone knows that there is a map of Youzhou hanging on the entire wall in the princess's study, but that map is very different from the current Youzhou City.

If you say that Youzhou City on the map is a towering tree, it is a magnificent city that has never been seen before. So the current Youzhou City can only be regarded as a small seedling, a small border town that is in ruins and waiting for new things.

It is true that the current Youzhou City can be said to be the largest state city in the north, but it is still far from the princess's ideal state city.

In addition to the whole map, the princess also had a sand table made for the whole city. Except for the days when she gave birth, the princess would come to the study to look at the map and sand table almost every day. She could not leave the house, but in this way, she could become familiar with the whole city.

Every plant, every tree, every brick and tile is under the control of the princess.

In order to make the sand table more realistic, Shen Dongsu also asked people to sprinkle salt on the sand table to replace the snow.

The amount of 'snow' in a certain place was high, and people were immediately sent to the corresponding area in the city to check. Half of the houses in the city were still old and could easily collapse under the weight of the snow.

The role of the sand table is mainly for urban planning. She built Youzhou based on a century-old city. Naturally, she would not be short-sighted and only focus on the present, and had to reserve space for city expansion.

Separate industrial areas from commercial areas, residential areas, administrative areas, and military areas consciously in advance. In the past, when officials saw this map, they not only felt that the princess was far-sighted, but also felt that she was a little too farsighted and too arrogant and confident.

There was no way around it. Even having a full meal was a luxury in Youzhou at that time. The main city was dark and dilapidated, and it could barely defend itself against the Tatar attack.

The picture on the princess's map is just like the legendary Kingdom of God. How could a border city become such a Kingdom of God?

But now, officials gradually believe that in a few years, Youzhou will really turn into the Kingdom of God on the princess's map.

The towering city walls, the row upon row of brightly colored houses, and the clear and wide moat seemed to be flowing with milk and honey.

Towering workshop chimneys and large areas of workshops. The large and majestic Municipal Square can accommodate tens of thousands of people to participate in festival ceremonies.

The wide road can accommodate eight carriages running in parallel, and tall trees are planted on both sides to provide a layer of green shade for the sidewalk.

The terraces are like a dragon's spine, with waterwheels arranged from the highest point to the lowest point, and the golden rice seems to be able to touch the grains.

Large areas of plains are planted with wheat, beans, rapeseed, hemp...

On the rural roads with heavy traffic, there are cheerful yellow dogs running, shepherd boys playing flutes and riding oxen, and old farmers pulling curved shaft plows. At the intersection of the countryside, there are small schools, medical clinics, and markets.

The more remote Gobi Desert is not blank, but covered with cumin and fennel.

Further away is the territory of Northern Xinjiang, but now it is the pasture of Youzhou, where foreign herdsmen are grazing, sheep like white cloud dumplings, and tall and handsome horses.

The continuous mountains seem to extend the picture to a farther place, unconsciously attracting the attention of the viewer, wondering where is that place? Can we turn that place into our pasture?

To the east, half of it is a dense forest where aliens live, with huge blue-black trees and winding rivers.

Half of it is the boundless sea, where there are wide docks and ports, large tracts of snow-white salt fields, and on the sea are sailing fishing boats and sailors pulling nets full of fish.

Not knowing what the princess wanted to express, she drew a small black insect farther away in the sea, and heavily drew a red hairpin on it, and drew a shadowy Youzhou flag next to it.

Dots are used to indicate the direction of the ocean current, as if to remind everyone that they must go to this place and put the Youzhou flag on it!

This map of Youzhou, which occupies one wall, has everything that can be marked except for the locations of military bases and gunpowder workshops.

Every official who comes to the princess's study will look at the painting for a long time. The exclamation from the beginning: "I wonder if my grandson's generation can see Youzhou City on the screen?"

Then: "Maybe my son's generation can see the scenes in the painting."

While Princess Ling was giving birth to a child, she also controlled and defeated the Tatar attack. She completely seized the most fertile pasture in the northern border closest to Youzhou and gave it to the foreigners for grazing.

These officials changed their words again: "Perhaps I will be able to see Youzhou in the painting before I die."

Well, people have to have dreams, what if they come true one day?

Our Princess Ling is best at two things, one is shedding wool, the other is drawing pie...

"This is red bean cake. The baby can't eat it yet, but he can watch his mother eat it."

Shen Dongsu pointed it out to the two babies while eating. The younger sister's eyes were wide open with a dazed expression of confusion.

But the brother looked at his mother's chewing mouth and cried loudly.

Yue Jian came over to coax the baby in a speechless manner. Now she was holding the baby in a more familiar posture than Shen Dongsu. She was supporting her neck with her elbows and holding the baby in her arms, coaxing softly:

"Don't cry, Dabao. Let's not look at mother. When the baby grows up, he can eat cakes!"

Shen Dongsu looked at it with a smile and said, "Crying is exercise for children. It's better to cry more."

At the same time, I was filled with emotion. Who would have thought that the cold-faced Yue Jian back then would turn into the gentle and watery person she is now!

In addition to her two babies, she was also so gentle to the group of cats, dogs, and rabbits.

However, those little guys have grown into little dumplings, and most of them have been adopted, leaving only a small yellow dog and a civet cat.

As for rabbits, well, rabbit mothers are too fertile. To prevent inbreeding, Yue Jian was sent to the medical school to raise them. The medical school needed a large number of rabbits and mice for experiments.

Shen Dongsu felt that if Jia Si confessed to Yue Jian now, the girl might agree. But A4 didn’t know why, but he just didn’t take action.

There is also the eldest brother and Chen Luoxue. They definitely have a crush on each other, but they also don't act. The eldest brother insists on waiting for King Ling to come back before considering life-long matters.

Needless to say, Chen Luoxue was now preoccupied with the business of cooperating with nobles from various states, and was afraid of messing up the plan that affected the princess.

Besides, after finally escaping from the fate of family marriage, it would be a waste of time if we don't learn more experience while we are young and then go to the place where our children love each other.

Shen Dongsu found it strange, why did everyone, no matter what their original status was, turn into workaholics when they were around her?

I’m not a workaholic myself, am I? Well, it must be that my technique of painting the pie is so good and the pie is so delicious that they took the initiative to work hard to make the pie in the painting a reality!

It's the end of the twelfth lunar month and the new year is coming. Since the princess came to Youzhou, she has been short of food, clothing and firewood since the first year.

In the second year, they have enough to eat, in the third year, they have enough food to wear and burn coal, and this year, every family has enough money to buy new year's goods, and they no longer have to worry about the Tatars attacking at any time.

Even the villagers near the mountain forest laughed and said that in the past, they were afraid of wolves and wild beasts in winter, but now that soldiers help hunt wolves and catch wild boars, it is difficult to see wild wolves.

Some children did not believe that wolves would come to the village at any time in the past.

In the past, children in the village rarely went out because they had no warm clothes. They huddled on beds made of straw and covered with sheepskin or dog skin. Even those with an old cotton quilt were considered well-off families.

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