Your Majesty's only favorite to marry Xiao Tianshou

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Ye Jiangyu marinated the salted duck eggs. He had no experience and only watched how others did it, so he didn't do much at first, and he would do more after he succeeded.

Li Jinchen can eat more than he imagined, and he cooks less food, which is not enough for Li Jinchen to eat.

When he first entered the palace, he saw that Li Jinchen's appetite was very small. At that time, he thought that the emperor did not usually exercise in the palace, so his appetite was very small.

It was only later that he found out that the emperor didn't have a small appetite, but he disliked the meals in the imperial dining room. Later, he explained that the emperor ate a lot of the meals made in the small kitchen.

He was a little scared, the emperor's body is so good now, if he eats too much, he will gain weight, and become a fat orange cat like Shiro.

He will not be tempted by such a fat emperor like Huanhuan.

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At night, Li Jinchen summoned Shadow, handed him the recipe for making salt, and asked him to build a salt farm.

There were severe disasters in the past few years, but in recent years there have been no natural disasters. The Empress Dowager has increased the taxes on the people. Many people have been planting the land for a year. In the end, the harvest is not enough to pay taxes, let alone food and clothing for the family.

People who are not enough to pay taxes will be taken away by the government as slaves to build temples for the Queen Mother.

The queen mother believed in Buddhism, but many people died of exhaustion because of the construction of temples and the carving of giant Buddha statues on the mountain.

In order not to be taken away by the government, these people simply sold their land. They thought they could avoid the fate of being slaves. The difference between being a servant and a coolie for the court.

The lives of those who sell themselves are no longer their own, and their masters can kill them at will without any reason.

Shadow and the others adopted many children who were about to starve to death, and later bought many children from many people who sold their children.

These children were raised by Shadow and the others. Not only did they not beat or scold them, but they also cultivated them carefully. When they grow up, they all regard Shadow as their godfather and are very loyal in their work. Therefore, Li Jinchen asked Shadow to let people run the saltworks, and he was not worried about it being leaked. secret.

After Li Jinchen explained about the saltworks, he asked Shadow about the recent movements outside and what happened to the people they sent to take part in the imperial examination.

Shadow: "Returning to Your Majesty, the champions and the second places are all our people. The king regent and the queen mother sell the exam rankings privately. these rankings."

Hearing this, Li Jinchen frowned, "They might as well sell their officials directly. The queen mother and regent of a country actually do such a dirty deal in private. It's really disgusting."

Shadow: "Your Majesty, the Empress Dowager also sold other things."

"What else did you buy?" Li Jinchen felt that no matter what he heard now, it was very reasonable.

"The Empress Dowager announced that she will be drafted in the second half of the year, and that she will sell the places for entering the palace privately. From top to bottom, even the status of imperial concubine can be bought, and the price is very high. Even the children of businessmen can enter the palace as concubines."

Throughout the dynasties, the status of merchants was the lowest. Their children, not to mention entering the palace as concubines, were not allowed to be regular wives even if they were married to officials. Their children were also not allowed to take the imperial examinations and enter the court as officials. There were many restrictions .

But now the Queen Mother actually cares about nothing for money.

"Very good," Li Jinchen laughed angrily, "My queen mother never misses any chance to take advantage of me."

Li Jinchen has experienced too many such things since he was a child, and he is used to these despicable methods of the Queen Mother, which also made him firm in his idea of ​​seizing power from the Queen Mother.

If the queen mother just let him be a puppet, but let the country's rich and powerful people live and work in peace and contentment, he might be a salted fish and not compete with the queen mother, but in these years, the queen mother and the regent have gone too far. Now, this country will be destroyed by these two people sooner or later, Li Jinchen thinks that his plan must be accelerated.

Shadow handed a box to Li Jinchen, "The task His Majesty assigned to his subordinates last time has already started, but it will be completed next year."

The start of construction mentioned by the shadow is the place where the "treasure is hidden".

Li Jinchen told Yingying that he should not just release the lie that there is a map of the late emperor's treasure, but also make a real map.

So he asked Shadow to order people to create a decent treasure place, which was designed full of traps, and drew two maps. The first map was from the imperial city to the place where the treasure was hidden, and the Chapter 2 map was how to avoid it. organ.

Of course, these ways of how to avoid the mechanism are correct, and the key point is the last step.

What the shadow gave to Li Jinchen now was the first map. The first map was hidden in Li Jinchen's bedroom, and the regent's people were invited to steal the map.

The second map is hidden elsewhere. It is more realistic to find the second map through the clues on the first map.

Li Jinchen finished talking to Shadow, and when he returned to the bed, he woke up Ye Jiangyu.

In the past, Ye Jiangyu couldn't wake up no matter what, but tonight he opened his eyes in a daze.

Li Jinchen was glad that he went out to talk to the shadow tonight, if he was in the dormitory, he would definitely be exposed in front of Ye Jiangyu.

Ye Jiangyu woke up, but he didn't wake up completely. He dazedly grabbed Li Jinchen who had just been lying on the bed, as if talking in his sleep, "Your Majesty, have you gone to find the imperial concubine?"

His words were filled with grievances, which made people feel distressed.

Li Jinchen pulled him into his arms and rubbed his head, "You slept so lightly because you were afraid that I would go find the concubine?"

"Your Majesty, don't go to other people's side, you are my Majesty alone." Ye Jiangyu finished speaking in a daze, and fell asleep again.

Li Jinchen never thought that his little queen could rely on him so much.

When Ye Jiangyu woke up the next morning, he didn't remember what he said to Li Jinchen last night, but he still remembered the tofu he made.

When Li Jinchen woke up early in the morning, he saw his little queen jumped out of bed with bare feet and ran away excitedly.

Li Jinchen rubbed the center of his brows, said several times that he didn't have a long memory, that's all, when Ye Jiangyu ran on the ground barefoot like this when it was cold, he would have a long memory when he caught a cold and had diarrhea.

Just thinking about this, his little queen ran back again, holding a plate in her hand, and brought it in front of him as if offering a treasure, "Your Majesty, taste it quickly, how does it taste!"

"What is this?" Li Jinchen put the realization on the plate, and there was a white and tender thing on the plate, sprinkled with fine salt and some emerald green shallots.

"Tofu mixed with shallots!" Ye Jiangyu raised his head, his face full of pride, "I made this dish myself~ I didn't guide others to make it. Although it looks simple, it is delicious."