Reborn on the day of marriage! After the marriage exchange, the elder sister went crazy

Li Jinglan is one month old.

After the full moon, the emperor held a grand ceremony to crown the king.

What surprised everyone was that Li Jinglan was wearing three翟 and three衣, which were the attire of the Crown Princess.

When Li Jinglan stood beside Lu Bozhou wearing the clothes of the Crown Princess and holding the child, all the officials understood what the emperor meant.

The crown prince claimed to be ill and was recuperating in the Eastern Palace, and did not attend Lu Bozhou's coronation ceremony.

Afterwards, many officials heard that the prince had smashed a lot of things in the East Palace.

He even smashed the rare stone that Prince Wei had just given him.

After being crowned king, the Prince of Pei's palace was crowded with people.

In comparison, the East Palace is much quieter.

Lu Bozhou ended his vacation and returned to Wenyuan Pavilion to work.

One morning during the court session, after the emperor had asked about state affairs, he suddenly called out Lu Bozhou's name.

"The cost of transporting grain from the south to the north is very high, and the national finances are overwhelmed. I remember that when you won the first place in the imperial examination, your essay was about grain... I wonder if you have any solution?"

Lu Bozhou was thinking about Wei Yan at this time. Yuan Lai had been looking for Wei Yan for nearly half a month but there had been no progress.

When he heard the emperor calling his name, he was stunned for a moment.

His mind raced.

It feels a bit wrong.

The position of editor in the Hanlin Academy was actually equivalent to the emperor's confidential secretary and was not responsible for the grain transport affairs.

Moreover, he had only been in the court for a short time and had never dealt with grain transport. Why did the emperor suddenly ask him about grain transport?

Lu Bozhou left the class and spoke very carefully: "When I won the first place in the imperial examination, my policy paper was indeed about grain, but growing grain is growing grain and transporting grain is transporting grain. After I won the first place in the imperial examination, I worked as an editor in Wenyuan Pavilion and knew nothing about transporting grain."

"Would you allow me to ask about the grain transport issue, and then answer your Majesty's question."

This is actually very pertinent.

I don’t know if I don’t know.

You can't just express your opinion just because the emperor asks.

The prince snorted, "You have been an official in the court for almost a year since you won the first place in the imperial examination. Every morning court session talks about government affairs, and even if you just listen, you will be familiar with them. Now you say you don't know?"

The emperor did not stop the prince's sudden attack. Instead, he turned his gaze to Lu Bozhou and waited for Lu Bozhou's answer.

Lu Bozhou knew the emperor a little bit.

No matter how much the emperor liked him, he would never favor him in political affairs.

The emperor even hoped that he could fight with the prince.

The emperor likes two types of people: one is extremely smart, and the other is loyal without any ulterior motives.

It is difficult to strike the balance between being smart and being innocent.

Lu Bozhou thought about it in his heart, and did not take advantage of the emperor's current love for him to get angry at the prince, nor did he fight back, but bowed respectfully:

"Your Highness, what you said makes sense. I know too little."

Then, without waiting for the prince to react, he turned and looked at the chief steward of the grain transport.

"Since your majesty has spoken, as a subject I should answer and speak with substance. But I don't know anything about grain transport. Can I go and ask for advice after the court is dismissed?"

There is nothing wrong with asking for advice on official business.

Moreover, he asked for his advice in front of all the ministers.

The Chief of the Grand Canal was a third-rank official and was also one of Lu Bozhou's subordinates.

He smiled and agreed: "Of course."

After the court was dismissed, Lu Bozhou went to the Caoyunsi Yamen as expected.

The chief steward of the Grand Canal brought a pile of things for Lu Bozhou to see.

No matter what Lu Bozhou asked, he would answer it.

The attitude is very sincere.

When Lu Bozhou was about to say goodbye, the chief steward of the grain transport department saw him out the door.

Looking at Lu Bozhou's receding back, the chief adviser of the Grand Canal Transport Manager was somewhat puzzled.

"Caotai, what does your majesty mean?"

The chief steward of the Grand Canal laughed and said, "Our emperor is suspicious by nature. I'm afraid he is suspicious of something!"

The full title of the position of the Chief of Grain Transport is: Chief Censor of the Censorate, Governor-General of Grain Transport, 'Superintendent of Military Affairs', Governor of Various Places in Jiangnan and Langzhong of the Ministry of Revenue.

But no one called him governor, they only called him steward.

Because his official position of "Governor of Grain Transport" was discounted, he had to ask for permission from Duke Wei when he needed to transport grain by sea.

There are two routes for water transport: one is sea transport and the other is inland waterway transport.

The Grand Canal Transport Manager had 80,000 soldiers under his command who were only responsible for inland river transportation.

These 80,000 grain transport soldiers were actually strong laborers who could only carry goods. They could not even steer a boat and had no combat capability.

The 40,000 soldiers sailing the ships were from the Duke of Wei’s navy, and the grain ships also belonged to the Duke of Wei.

It was not until three years ago that Duke Wei handed over the three shipyards to the Caoyunsi Yamen.

Just tell me, is it embarrassing for him as the governor?

The Duke of Wei and the Duke of Xu were the founding dukes.

The ancestors of both men had made great military achievements.

The Duke of Wei was good at naval warfare, and the Duke of Xu was good at infantry sieges.

The navy evolved into canal soldiers and canal soldiers, who transported food and supplies in peacetime, and immediately transformed into the navy in wartime to suppress pirates.

All the descendants of Duke Wei served in the navy.

All the descendants of Duke Xu served in the nine frontiers.

Now the several armies of Duke Xu's lineage have been almost dismantled by the emperor.

The Crown Princess's father, Lord Lu, and Xu Jingchen's family were all forces that split off from the lineage of Duke Xu.

But the Duke of Wei’s navy has not been successfully split up until now.

The chief steward of the grain transport went over the matters of grain transport and sea transport in his mind.

Found out he wasn't dangerous at all.

"Anyway, it has nothing to do with this province." He turned and went back.

At worst, I can just take him home and let him farm.

Whoever wants to be the steward can do it!

……

After Lu Bozhou returned home, he showed the things he had sorted out to Li Jinglan.

Zhou Jin was there too.

Drive all the servants out and let Lu Guanyu and Lu Zhongyu sit at the door to eat.

The three of them sat around a small round table, eating and discussing things.

Zhou Jin had long known that Lu Bozhou would tell Li Jinglan about court affairs, and he had become somewhat accustomed to it.

Li Jinglan flipped through the things Lu Bozhou brought home, listened to Zhou Jin's analysis for a while, and then thought about her past life.

expressed his opinion.

"More than a thousand ships were damaged during the grain transport from the south to the north. This accounts for one-fifth of the total number of ships of the Grain Transport Bureau. The damage was huge."

"Combined with the account book of the river works payment in the past ten years sent by Wei Yan, I feel that the flood of Huaihe River this year should be very serious."

"Otherwise, so many ships wouldn't be damaged."

"But until today, no official has discussed the flooding of the Huai River in public, and there are no civilians fleeing from the Yellow River and the Huai River in the capital, which is enough to prove that this matter has been kept very secret."

"Should we send someone to investigate?" Zhou Jin suggested.

Li Jinglan thought for a moment and said, "I'll send Zhao Zhengyi and Lu Sheng out to find out later."

"Your Majesty asked me today about the transportation of grain from the south to the north." Lu Bozhou repeated the emperor's words.

Zhou Jin thought for a moment, "Your Majesty, do you want to investigate the grain transport?"

A strange idea came to Li Jinglan's mind.

Does the emperor want to entrust the investigation of the grain transport to Lu Bozhou?

It's indeed very possible.

Lu Bozhou has not yet made any real political achievements.

If we can investigate the canal transport this time, it will indeed be a great political achievement.

But canal transportation is extraordinary and if it is not handled properly, it will result in bloodshed.

The most important thing when investigating canal transport is to resist temptation.

We cannot be like the prince, who, seeing that the salt permits can be sold for more than 10 million taels every year, was tempted to withhold the money from the sale of the salt permits.

As a result, he fell flat on his face.

Thinking of this, Li Jinglan's thoughts jumped.

What does the prince need so much silver for?

Just like Lu Bozhou.

All his food, clothing and daily necessities were provided by the palace.

The slaves and servants in the house are now also paid monthly wages by the palace.

The subordinate officials were all ministers who received salaries from the court and did not need Lu Bozhou to give them extra money.

According to today's living conditions, spending forty or fifty thousand taels a year is quite a luxury.

Unless Lu Bozhou needs to make friends with various forces, it will cost a lot of money...

Is the prince making friends with various forces?

Does the prince need to do this?

If Lu Bozhou cannot be found, then the prince will be the legal heir.

He can inherit everything from the emperor intactly.

Why should we make friends with various forces?

The emperor was in his fifties and his life was almost over.

The profession of emperor is a short-lived profession, with the average age being around forty or fifty years old.

Only one Qing emperor lived to be eighty-nine years old.

Li Jinglan was thinking about something when she heard Lu Bozhou calling her.

"...Jinglan, Brother Zhou and I want to find a more cost-effective way to transport grain."

Saving money on water transport, isn’t that easy?

Li Jinglan's mind hadn't come to its senses yet, so she said casually, "We're using transshipment now, so we can just change it to exchange."

Having said that.

Li Jinglan's expression changed slightly.

broken!