The princess' little concubine wants to reconcile [Rebirth]

The person who was stuffed in the quilt stopped making a sound, making Jiang Changdai a little puzzled and asked: "Meier, are you feeling unwell?"

"I'm not uncomfortable." A muffled voice came from the moving quilt, but he didn't show his head.

Jiang Changdai lifted a corner of the quilt with her hand, saw the red face and smiled lightly: "Are you shy?"

The person hiding in the slightly dark bedding didn't respond immediately, his eyes dodged and he didn't dare to meet Jiang Changdai's gaze.

"Yeah." After a while Liu Mei'er's face became hot from seeing her before she responded in a low voice.

Changing clothes, wouldn't that be seen...

"What's the point of being shy?" Jiang Changdai leaned closer, and lifted some of the quilt with her fingertips to let her breathe, so as not to suffocate herself.

There was a little light in front of her eyes, and Liu Meier panicked and had nowhere to hide.

Jiang Changdai pinched her soft white earlobe hidden in her hair with her fingertips and said, "I can't let the palace servants take care of you to bathe and change clothes."

After all, Liu Mei'er was disguised as a woman to the outside world, and the palace people around her would inevitably reveal it.

"Could it be that Mei'er is embarrassed because of changing clothes?" Jiang Changdai met that timid gaze, knowing to some extent what she was thinking.

The person who would have bathed with him carelessly in the previous life, now that he is getting older, he is becoming more and more shy.

Liu Mei'er blushed and nodded, unable to say anything else.

"It's okay, Meier is very beautiful." Jiang Changdai said with a smile as she caressed her long hair and eyes, "And they are all women, Meier can't be so shy."

The words fell into Liu Meier's ears but caused a thousand waves of waves. Although they are all women, why do I feel that what sister Dai said is even more shameful.

Liu Meier buried her head in the soft pillow, her red earlobes did not subside and said in a low voice, "Sister Dai is different."

Seeing her so caring, Jiang Changdai asked curiously: "Why is it different?"

"I don't know either, it's just different anyway." Liu Meier replied softly, tilting her head to one side.

"Is Meier angry with me?" Jiang Changdai looked sideways at Liu Meier who was twisted into a ball, thinking that she really looks like the red spot on the pointed corner of a lotus in spring, gorgeous and not vulgar.

"Not angry." The light in Liu Meier's eyes was like a pool of clear springs, and she looked seriously at Sister Dai who was wrapped in plain clothes beside her, "It's too late for Meier to thank Sister Dai for taking care of her. How could you be angry with Sister Dai?"

Jiang Changdai turned to meet those bright eyes and said, "Really?"

Liu Mei'er nodded anxiously: "Really, I just feel embarrassed to trouble sister Dai to take care of me."

After all, Sister Dai has always been served by the palace people to groom and dress up, so it is Sister Dai's turn to serve others.

"It's not troublesome." Jiang Changdai pushed back the fine hair on her cheeks with her fingertips, "Meier, you don't have to be embarrassed about me."

Although there is a little age difference between the two, Jiang Changdai can be regarded as watching Liu Meier grow up.

In the two lifetimes, no one is closer to him than Liu Meier, even the current emperor Jiang Feng, although he and Jiang Changdai are siblings, but in fact the difference in temperament between the two is so great that they seldom interact with each other now.

Jiang Changdai, who is busy with government affairs on weekdays, spends most of her free time in complicated banquets with dignitaries and nobles.

But these banquets were just organized by Jiang Changdai to win over and socialize, and they were not considered friends at all.

After doing the calculations like this, Jiang Changdai realized that besides Liu Meier, she actually had no one she could really trust.

Liu Meier nodded with reddened cheeks, thinking that Sister Dai seemed to be more gentle than in her previous life.

Because of sunflower water, Liu Meier could only rest in the mansion for several days.

The days when the spring is warm and the flowers are blooming are the season of farming and spring planting, and the affairs of the Fengcheng yamen are not too busy.

It's just that the sale of illegal salt has been repeatedly banned. When Liu Meier looked through the documents, she found that not only Fengcheng, but also other prefectures had arrested several batches every month, but the illegal salt was still in circulation.

In the afternoon, another batch of private salt peddlers were caught in Fengcheng. According to Jiang Guo's laws, most of these people will be beheaded, and the rest will also be exiled.

Such a severe punishment can't stop people from breaking the law. Liu Meier decided to go to see these prisoners first, at least to find out where they got their private salt.

Since salt and iron have been exclusively managed by officials of the department set up by the court, it is reasonable that local salt mines and other production areas have been expropriated, and there should not be a large amount of illegal salt flowing out.

The dark and damp cell, the aisle is narrow and short, and the prisoners have to bow their heads to get in and out. The prison is like a small box.

"Where did you get your private salt?" Liu Meier looked at the silent prisoners and asked.

"I don't know!" The bearded man was especially muscular, "Officer dog, don't pretend to be a good person. If you want to kill us, kill us."

The jailer at the side brandished his whip and scolded angrily: "Be more honest, the old master came to ask questions, and you still don't answer well!"

When the pause came to an end, an elderly man spoke inarticulately: "These... are all from the Xishan Salt Mine, and they asked us to sell them."

"My lord, the Xishan Salt Mine is the largest salt producing area in Fengcheng. The court has assigned the local salt department to be in charge. These prisoners are clearly talking nonsense. I think they stole it!" The jailer stared at the prisoners viciously and said .

After asking this question, Liu Meier only felt very strangely nervous.

Now that there are already a lot of smuggled salt seized in Fengcheng, how could it be possible to steal so much.

And the Salt Department should not report any theft.

In the afternoon, Liu Meier visited the Xishan Salt Mine Division with officials.

When the officials of the Salt Department did not come out to receive them, they sent two small officials to come forward with a smile: "Master Zhifu, this is not the end of the year for tax payment, why did you come here suddenly?"

"This officer has a look at the salt production registration log of the Salt Department in previous years."

The duties of the prefect cover a wide range of tasks, not only government affairs and criminal law, but also taxation and other miscellaneous affairs.

"Okay." The two minor officials thought that the new magistrate was just going through the motions, so they took out the old accounts.

Liu Mei'er didn't want to be shocked when she saw it. It is really abnormal that the tax on salt has been reduced year by year.

But Liu Meier didn't say anything immediately, but instead went to the Fengcheng salt store to check the price.

In the evening, Liu Meier went back to the mansion to have dinner with Mrs. Chang and Sister Dai. During the meal, Liu Meier suddenly asked, "Mother, is the salt this year more expensive than previous years?"

If you are not in charge of the family, you don't know how expensive the firewood is, so Liu Meier always wants to ask for clarification.

Chang ate the porridge and rice and said, "It's not just expensive, this salt is almost more expensive than rice, and I don't know what happened in the past few years."

Liu Meier felt something was wrong when she heard it, the court was responsible for the production and sales of salt, the price should not be getting higher and higher instead.

No wonder there are so many private salts, the price alone is several times different, no wonder people always buy it secretly.

At night, Liu Meier carefully checked the projects in Fengcheng for the past ten years. Tai'an had implemented salt and iron monopoly in 16. At the beginning, the project prices were normal, and there were very few cases of illegal salt sales.

However, in the next few years, the output increased, and the price did not drop but rose. In the past two years, more and more illegal salt sales have been caught.

Moreover, the illegal salt that was seized was often taken back by the salt department directly, but there was never a record of theft being registered.

This is very likely to be the private sale of salt by internal officials colluding.

Liu Meier immediately took up a pen and wanted to submit the situation to the higher-level governor for instructions to thoroughly investigate the officials of the Fengcheng Salt Department.

Jiang Changdai looked at Liu Meier who was crouching in front of the desk, her brows were tightly frowned, and she seemed to be in trouble and said, "What's wrong?"

"I wanted to explain the abnormal situation of salt smuggling in Fengcheng recently, but I suddenly remembered that the officials of the local salt department seemed to be directly dispatched by the court alone.

"You want to investigate what the officials of the local salt department are doing?"

Liu Meier stopped writing, and then seriously told about the day's experience and the confusion and conjecture in her heart.

Jiang Changdai frowned slightly and said: "If the situation is true, I am afraid that the local governor has been bribed, and you will only scare the snake by reporting it."

At the beginning, Jiang Changdai pushed Li Ping's salt and iron tax, with the intention of strengthening the dynasty's control over taxation, increasing the revenue of the treasury, and expanding military supplies.

Unexpectedly, the officials in the court department are now corrupted, and most of the benefits obtained from private salt may have gone into the pockets of those officials.

Liu Mei'er did not expect sister Dai to be so deep, she couldn't hide her surprise and sighed: "This is too outrageous."

The Salt Division prohibits the sale of salt, but the officials of the Salt Division secretly flow out private salt, which is really too ironic.

"Now you should collect evidence first." Jiang Changdai actually hasn't mentioned another reason.

The Secretary of the Salt Department in the capital city is Yuan Shan, the uncle of Empress Yuan. In all likelihood, the flood of private salt in the cities of Jiang State is inseparable from him.

And Liu Meier's documents are likely to be handed over to Yuan Xing, who is also the Minister of the Ministry of Officials, that would be a new hatred and old hatred.

Salt tax is a very important part of the Jiang country's tax revenue. It is not only the daily needs of the people in the country, but also because Jiang country has so many salt mines that the other five countries have to buy a lot.

Now the Yuan family controls the salt department, and the flood of private salt trading has gained a lot of wealth every day, even Jiang Changdai can't estimate it.

As the folk saying goes, cutting off a person's wealth is like killing one's parents. If Liu Meier's document is submitted, the consequences will be unimaginable.

"Well, what Sister Dai said is true." Liu Mei'er was not suspicious, but felt that more evidence must be obtained in order to convict her.

Jiang Changdai breathed a sigh of relief, but her brows did not relax. After all, the Yuan family is too rampant now.

When the spring rain continued to fall, the news of Queen Yuan's pregnancy spread from the capital.

In the harem, it was reported that several concubines were pregnant at the same time.

The Yuan family is waiting with great anticipation for Empress Yuan to give birth to a prince, so that he will be the future Prince Jiang.

And Liu Mei'er in Fengcheng was pretending to contact those merchants who cooperated with Xishan Salt Mine.

The dancing music in the boat didn't stop, Yinggeyanyanwu was very lively, although Liu Meier was the magistrate of Fengcheng, but because she had only been in office for less than half a year, she didn't see many people.

Especially the few merchants who had close contacts with the Yansi, these people did not have an accent from Fengcheng, but they spoke the official dialect of the capital.

The servant Xiaofeng came out from the room with the wine tray in his hand and said in a low voice, "My lord, there are dozens of people here."

"Don't worry, just take care of yourself." Liu Meier pretended to be a violinist, but her fingertips were always out of control, and the sound of the violin was mixed intermittently.

The little girl on the side approached her in distaste: "Hey, what kind of ugly thing are you playing?"

amount……

Liu Meier inexplicably felt a little hurt.

"This song is called Huashangyue." Liu Meier explained seriously.

The little girl is about fifteen or sixteen years old, wearing flowers in her hair is when she is young and lovely, and her voice is also very playful and lovely.

"I think you look pretty, but how about you come to my house as a servant?"

With a click, the strings of the qin broke, and Liu Meier shook her head in response: "I'm sorry girl, I'm a luthier, not a servant."

The little girl's expression changed all of a sudden, Liu Meier was so frightened that she didn't even want Qin, and came out from the side door in a panic.

The corridor of the big boat is very spacious, and many dancers on the road looked at the little girl who had been chasing Mr. Lang, covering their mouths and laughing: "Why does Miss Jiang like to chase after Mr. handsome and pretty?"

Liu Meier fled to the stern in a panic and said, "What are you following me for?"

"I don't care, I want you to be my servant. If you don't go, I will have your feet chopped off!" The little girl was cute and cute, but her words were extremely vicious.

"How can you be so bad?" Liu Meier had no choice but to reason with her.

"Okay, you actually called me bad, then throw you down to feed the fish!"

Liu Meier had never seen such an unreasonable girl, she turned her head to look at the bottomless lake and gritted her teeth.

When the sound of splashing water sounded, Xiaofeng was in a hurry to find his son.

At dusk, when the flower garden in the courtyard of the Liu Mansion was beautiful, Jiang Changdai looked at Liu Meier who was changing her clothes, and her black hair was scattered all over the floor, sitting obediently on the bamboo couch drinking ginger soup.

"Then I jumped down." Liu Meier sipped the ginger soup and told the story intermittently.

"You are so messed up." Jiang Changdai wiped her long hair with a kerchief in her hand. When she saw Liu Mei'er coming back wet, she was still very confused.

It was a sunny day, how could she be drenched in water?

"Fortunately, the servant found out early, otherwise you would have swam back?" Jiang Changdai sweated for her the more she thought about it.

Liu Meier looked at the somewhat indifferent Sister Dai, feeling a little lost in her heart, "Is Sister Dai not happy?"

Jiang Changdai combed her soft long hair with her fingertips and said, "I'm not unhappy, I just think you're taking too much risk, it's not safe."

I didn't expect Liu Meier to still investigate the matter of private salt, and sooner or later she would be exposed.

"Sister Dai, don't worry, there won't be a next time." Liu Meier didn't expect to meet such a little girl, but fortunately, she has already seen the faces of those merchants.

At night, Liu Meier roughly drew the portraits of these people, and Jiang Changdai looked sideways, and recognized them as the famous big salt merchants in the past.

"I guess they gathered together, there should be a big deal recently, maybe they can catch some stolen goods and get it." Liu Meier said when she stopped writing.

"If they are caught, what will Meier plan to do?" Jiang Changdai fed the brown sugar water in the cup to Liu Meier's mouth with a porcelain spoon.

Liu Meier obediently swallowed the brown sugar water and responded, "Let them confess and plead guilty first, and then hand over the documents directly to the Ministry of Punishment."

"I'm afraid the Ministry of Punishment is wrong." Jiang Changdai saw that she seemed to like drinking brown sugar water, so she simply gave her a drink. "It might be more effective to give it directly to Dali Temple anonymously."

After all, the Secretary of the Ministry of Punishment was afraid that he would not dare to accept the case related to the Yuan family, so it would be better to submit it directly to Dali Temple for safety.

Moreover, being anonymous would also protect Liu Meier from retaliation.

"Okay." Liu Meier nodded in response.

However, contrary to expectations, accidents always come too suddenly.

There will be occasional thunderstorms at the turn of spring and summer, but this year there is a lot of rain, and many farmlands in Fengcheng have suffered.

Therefore, Liu Meier not only had to inspect the disaster situation during the day, but also had to send someone to watch the Xishan Salt Mine to report the situation at night.

In May, more than half of the prefectures and counties in Jiang country were flooded, but only Fengcheng had no civilian casualties because of its early preparations.

Most of the Jiang country was flooded. Although Fengcheng resisted the flood for a short time, it turned Fengcheng into the only isolated island.

Early in the morning, Liu Meier stood on the city wall and watched the flood that was almost the same as the moat, feeling a little worried.

If the rain doesn't stop, the moat won't be able to withstand it like this, and Fengcheng will be submerged by then.

At this time, the court was also in chaos, and the houses in the prefectures and counties where the flood hit were all destroyed, and even many local officials had no news.

The emperor reprimanded the minister of the Ministry of Industry for negligence. The flood should have been dispersed through the newly built dam. He did not expect this to happen now because the Ministry of Industry delayed the completion of the project for more than half a year.

The minister of the Ministry of Industry knelt in the hall, but he couldn't tell the pain. In the past two years, who didn't know that the Yuan family ransacked money wantonly, and the treasury was almost used as their own flower.

How can the project be completed if the Ministry of Accounts has not allocated the money.

"Come on, drag it out, cut it off!"

"Your Majesty, you are wronged!"

In this early court, there was nothing to do except to vent their anger. The emperor also realized that he had no power, which led Yuan Xing and others to control the government.

No one understands the current situation of the disaster.

What's more, the allocation of funds for disasters is a large amount of money. The emperor didn't know that without Yuan Xing's approval, it would be impossible for the treasury to take the money.

This dragged on for half a month, Liu Mei'er wanted to wait for the court to send troops to rescue, but she didn't expect that the food in the city was almost finished and there was no one there.

The only good thing is that the rain has stopped now.

When the flood outside Fengcheng receded in June, leaving behind a large swath of silt, the officials didn't want to move it, so Liu Meier had no choice but to call for it herself.

There are many corpses of domestic animals mixed in the flood silt, and the stench is more likely to be emitted when the weather is hot.

Liu Mei'er couldn't help throwing up several times before she finally got used to it.

Compared with other prefectures in Fengcheng, which were too late to prepare for the flood, most of them were submerged, and the people learned something one after another.

"The cities around here are in dire straits. The old people often say that there must be a plague after a catastrophe. If we don't deal with it now, it will be a disaster."

"People who seem to be fleeing come to our Fengcheng to find food. The court has not distributed food to the disaster. It is really crazy."

"Who says it's not? Fortunately, our prefect of Fengcheng has opened a granary, otherwise we don't know how many people will starve to death."

While the people of Fengcheng were discussing it hotly, a large number of disaster victims had already approached the capital frantically.

In the afternoon, Jiang Changdai in the pavilion looked at the map of Jiang country in front of her alone and said: "Order to do it."

The dark guard came quietly and replied: "Yes."

The humming of cicadas was particularly loud in the midsummer afternoon, and Jiang Changdai tapped her fingertips on the table, thinking that this was an excellent opportunity to gouge out the rotten flesh of the Yuan family.

The rumors of the disaster victims' uprising became bigger and bigger. When the emperor first heard about it, he hurriedly dispatched soldiers and horses from all over the country to escort him.

However, Yuan Xing dismissed it and said: "Your Majesty don't have to worry about the rebel army."

When the victims of the disaster were approaching hundreds of miles away from the capital, a large number of local troops suddenly turned against each other.

[Punish the Yuan thief to calm the wrath of the sky! 】

The rebels shouted that Jiang's disaster was due to Yuan Xing's corruption of the fatuous monarch, as well as the local army.

Only then did Yuan Xing realize that the rebel army was never targeting the emperor, but himself.

By the time Yuan Xing was in a hurry to ask His Majesty to order the mobilization of the army, it was already too late.

At the beginning of August, the situation in the court has been reversed. The aristocratic family and the gentry condemned Yuan Xing for his crimes.

The emperor didn't expect the situation to change so quickly, and he was still thinking that the rebel army didn't come to rebel.

When the whole Jiang country was in turmoil, Liu Meier was picking lotus seeds in the lotus pond in Liujiayuan wearing a bamboo hat.

Jiang Changdai sat quietly at the other end of the light boat, the gauze hanging around her like a lotus flower, her plain hands fiddled with the water surface, causing little wrinkles.

"Meier, aren't you tired?" Jiang Changdai looked at the person wearing a bamboo hat and holding a light boat.

"Not tired." Liu Meier shook her head and took the boat leisurely, looking at the leisurely sister Dai with reddish cheeks.

Because she was too busy a while ago, Liu Meier didn't have time to stay with Sister Dai.

Jiang Changdai raised her eyebrows to meet the shining eyes and asked, "Does it look good?"

Liu Meier shyly tilted her head and responded obediently: "It looks good."

There is no one more beautiful than Sister Dai in the world.

When the lotus leaves were deep, Liu Meier stopped, carefully picked the lotus pods and said: "These can be used to make lotus seed soup for sister Dai."

Jiang Changdai folded a lotus flower between her fingers and said, "Meier, do you know that there is honey in lotus flowers that can be eaten?"

Liu Meier tilted her head to look, her eyes were a little dazed and she shook her head in response: "Really?"

"Of course, it's still very sweet." Jiang Changdai's eyes flashed teasingly, and she handed a lotus flower that was bigger than her face to her, "Meier, do you want to taste it?"

The innocent Liu Mei'er really didn't have any doubts, she obediently lowered her head to look for nectar.

When the pink cherry lips bit the lotus heart, it really showed how a person is more delicate than a flower.

Looking at the face with lowered eyebrows, Jiang Changdai's heart suddenly dropped.

Before Liu Meier tasted the nectar, the lotus suddenly moved away.

"Fool." Jiang Changdai put the lotus into the pool of water, her fingertips fell into the water, her eyes fell on the blushing man, and she smiled with her lips raised, "The lotus is about to wither at this time, where can I get the nectar for you?" eat."

Probably only Liu Meier can combine the purest and the most desire without being obtrusive.

When the breeze came slowly, Liu Meier greeted that warm smile, and felt that Sister Dai's smile was sweeter than honey.

Jiang Changdai looked at her motionless and silly appearance, pressed her fingertips against her cheeks, moved from the tip of her eyebrows to the corners of her eyes, and the water droplets sliding with her fingertips fell on her fair face.

The face touched by her fingertips was tender and warm. Jiang Changdai looked at the obedient and still girl in front of her, and leaned slightly in a daze to kiss the drops of water that fell on the corner of her lips.

When Jiang Changdai realized her absurd behavior, she realized that some things had quietly changed their appearance.

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