Zhen Guo Princess GL

I kind of know what Li Sheng and Li Rui were like back then.One moment he was full of energy and high spirits, thinking that he could show his ambitions and try his hand at the world, but the next moment suddenly everything was empty, and he was so dazed that he didn't know what to do.

I even admire Li Sheng a little. He spent almost every day in such a daze in the last few years. If it were me, I am afraid that he would not be able to support him long ago, but he can still struggle to survive in hardship. When I left the capital, I still had the heart to ask me to take care of Li Rui.

Did he expect that Li Rui would be deposed sooner or later?Did he expect that the son of a mother would have no good end?

I didn't get along much with this former prince brother, and I didn't have a deep relationship. However, he has been dead for so many years, but I still think of him from time to time, and I feel more and more that if he can successfully ascend the throne, maybe would have made a good emperor—but his mother hadn't given him the chance.

The mother is a person who fought from the mountain of corpses and the sea of ​​blood. It is her principle to kill all threats early, even if the threats are her own son, her eldest son, and all her hopes.

But I don't know today, is it me or what I suggested that made my mother feel slightly... threatened?

I walked aimlessly in the palace, retreating from others, just like when I was a teenager.But when I was young, there were newly elected palace officials who didn’t know the rules and looked at me secretly, guessing my identity curiously. There were also people who quietly wrinkled their noses and curled their mouths when saluting, but now everyone in the palace knows me. Who am I, all the way through, I can see the servants in the palace from a distance, respectful and respectful, without any superfluous movements.I can only speculate with a wry smile, it must be the majesty bestowed on me by age.

Mostly because the road was so familiar, before I knew it, I went around to the gate of Baisun Courtyard, stood there for a moment, hesitated to go in, and suddenly saw a person flashing up inside, holding a small stove in my hand Putting it on, he said bitterly: "I can't choose a time when I'm in a daze. It's such a cold day, just standing at my door. If I'm frozen, who should I tell?"

I didn't expect that A Huan was inside, I grabbed her hand and said: "So you are here."

She gave me a blank look, and pushed me in half-pushed and half-pull, and the attendants were about to take off my clothes, but she stared at me: "Don't you see that I'm freezing? Wait until it's warmer before taking it off." "Hot some wine, not too strong" "Get some hot food", and asked someone to fetch hot water, wiped my hands with a hot towel, even my face, and put the stove in my hand again , Fang took off my coat himself: "Why, I am so annoying here, I would rather freeze at the door than come in?"

I gained strength when I saw her, and smiled: "No." After saying this, I sneezed, and hurriedly hugged the heater: "It's my fault, I shouldn't stand outside and make you worry. "

She glanced at me, waved people away, and filled a glass of hot wine for me: "Only one drink is allowed." After I drank this glass, she put away the glass, changed to a fruit drink, and sat down on the bed again. He brought a small quilt and asked me to sit on her side, lay side by side with her, took off the socks, and both of us stretched our feet under the quilt and leaned on the same pillow: "For the sake of Fengtian Bureau ?”

I nodded: "Auntie... told me to hand over this matter and leave it alone."

Her complexion remained unchanged: "It's impossible for you to manage this business for a long time."

I was not convinced: "But I just made a start." In my imagination, apart from clothes, there are also gold and silver jewelry, bags, shoes, clothing, and even perfumes, spices and many other businesses. Speaking of it, the income is considerable, and it is beneficial to the country and the people. What's more, my mother didn't seem to want to seize my power at all at first. When I talked about tax collection and other things, she nodded and smiled.

A Huan thought for a moment, then asked me: "How did you tell His Majesty in the first place?"

I said: "It's just to raise the army's salary - you also know that the local officials have asked to set up 2000 soldiers. After discussion, the thrift was reduced to 4000. Who knows that the local officials still refused, saying that it was a waste of food and salary. , It’s useless, please cut down to [-] people. I told my mother, I will raise the extra money, and my mother agrees.”

A Huan asked me: "Then how much money did you raise last year? In terms of the storefront in Shendu, how much can you get in a year?"

I said: "I didn't make much money last year, and all the money was used to fill up the new store." Seeing her stare at me, Fang said angrily: "If you don't count the machine yard and the slaves you bought, there will always be... 20 guan a year."

The price of the clothes in the first season was extraordinarily high because of my mother, and the price and quantity of the clothes in the next three seasons have dropped, but even so, the sales revenue in this year is as high as 40.The expenses in the first year were huge, but they mainly consisted of looms and other tools, as well as the purchase of slaves and maids, and venues. If it is really calculated according to daily expenses, even under my "extremely loose" employment regulations, it would cost six to seven hundred No. A skilled servant woman needs only a few thousand guan a year for food, clothing, housing and transportation. After throwing away all kinds of materials and store maintenance expenses, 20 yuan is actually not enough.

A Huan looked at me and smiled, and I was annoyed by her laughter, and said sullenly: "But if it goes on as I want, maybe there will be 200 million coins a year. This is not a small number." The income is rich, silk, rice, millet, and silk, with different values. However, even if a piece of cloth and a stone of rice are only worth 4000 yuan, the annual income is only 800 to [-] million yuan. If it is calculated at current prices, Not to mention seventy-eight million crowns, this business firm is expected to receive the taxes of several big states, which is not unreasonably high. Even if my mother is the emperor, she can't take it lightly.

A Huan slightly tilted his head: "Did you come up with some weird ideas with His Majesty again, such as your party organization, female officials and so on?"

I bowed my head guiltily: "I just mentioned to her that I want to openly recruit people in the market. Women from Xu Liang's family will be servants, sign a contract, pay monthly salary, and by the way, make a name for Fengtian Bureau."

Ah Huan laughed: "So everyone in the world knows that daughters from good families can also go out to work, show their faces like craftsmen, and earn money with their crafts? Do you want to make a special effort to publicize the generous salary so that people know that women can also be very capable? Is the money earned enough to feed a family?"

I was so angry that I crossed my fingers between her fingers, pressed my palms against each other, and shook her hand one by one: "I think so, but of course He and A Niang wouldn't say that—God City The Fengtian Bureau has already used Liangjia, and it’s not like A Niang didn’t know about it. Anyway, it’s been used secretly, and now it’s just publicizing, so what’s the matter?”

She looked at me: "You clearly know that there is a big relationship."

I lowered my head lower, finally lay down on the pillow, and looked at her angrily: "My mother is also a woman, why do women make things difficult for women."

A Huan shook his head with a smile, stretched out his hand to pinch my nose, forcing me to open my mouth, and my face naturally flattened: "Because your majesty is a woman, she has done things that no one has done before, so I can't do these things The ministers finally accepted a female emperor and a female general—these can be said to be special cases that occur once in a thousand years, but if ordinary women can stand shoulder to shoulder with men, you are a man, and you What do you think? You drove them into a hurry all of a sudden, no matter what his surname is Li or Wu, if they all come out to oppose His Majesty, where will you put His Majesty?"

I snorted and became more and more unhappy: "You just say that A Niang is a vested interest, so you don't want to take the risk to change."

Ah Huan smiled and pinched my nose: "You use the word well, Your Majesty is just a 'vested interest'. Don't talk about others, if you are there, you are willing to maintain the status quo and earn decades of money Is it easy to sit, or is it risky to change, if something happens, decades of business will be ruined?"

I frowned and looked at her: "If I'm really there, of course I'm going to change—what about you? If you're really one day, sitting...in that position, what about you?"

The smile on her face faded away, she squeezed my hand unconsciously, and then retracted it after a long while, lowering her eyes and said: "It's hard to protect myself, it's too early to talk about this."