The Six Palaces of Favorites: The Black-bellied Emperor's Cold Concubine

Chapter 1111 The Intentions Are Sinister (27)
Xue Yan also nodded and said: "Isn't that right, I have never seen the imperial concubine speak so mercilessly before, maybe she is really afraid that the emperor will blame her, so she wants to push the blame on the empress?"

Concubine Ning sneered and said: "She is naturally afraid. If the rights she has obtained are taken away by others before they are warmed up, then she will lose more than just face. Your Majesty, is he really I really didn't see how Bengong worked so hard to take care of the harem for him. Since he doesn't remember how good Bengong is, let him see how heavy the burden is on the shoulders of her beloved woman, but I hope that when he sees the hardships of the imperial concubine in the future, he can also understand the difficulty of this palace. When he understands, sooner or later, this palace will take back the rights of this harem!"

Xueyan sighed softly, knowing that her master was not happy, the jade concubine had three princes, and the imperial concubine was favored by the emperor, but what does Concubine Ning have besides the power in her hands?After working so hard for so many years, but now they are empty-handed, who can understand this kind of loneliness?With no sustenance and no emperor's favor, how can I survive these days...

Everyone in Qixiang Palace was still waiting, Qingchen changed the hot tea for the emperor, and softly persuaded: "The emperor is tired, why don't you go back to rest earlier, leave this place to the ministers and concubines, and wait for the emperor to come and go tomorrow morning." In the early court, it is the same for the courtiers and concubines to report to the emperor."

Xiao Jun held her hand across the table, and said gently: "With you by my side, I don't feel tired. If I'm by your side at this time, wouldn't you feel more at ease?"

Although she felt sorry for his hard work, what he said was right, with his trust, she would feel more at ease in her heart.

His palms have always been warm and dry, whenever she felt his warmth in adversity, Qingchen would feel extremely comforted in her heart, it gave her so much courage invisibly, to be able to face all unsatisfactory with strength.

"The concubine thanked the emperor for his sympathy, how about the emperor take a nap, wait for General Fufeng to come back, and then the concubine wakes the emperor up?"

"No need, I also want to take this opportunity to talk to you. The south is entering the rainy season, and I have to be busy arranging flood control and disaster relief, while the northwest is a year of severe drought, and I still have to think about distributing disaster relief in autumn." Things. This year’s early rice harvest in the south is bumper, and the price of rice has been falling again and again, and people’s complaints are overwhelming, but in the northwest, the price of grain has only risen, and there are also people’s complaints. I am also very busy. I think It was purchased from the south and transported to the northwest for disaster relief."

Qingchen thought for a while and said, "It's a good thing that the weather in the south is good and the early rice harvest is good in the first half of the year. It's a pity that the low price of grain hurts the farmers, but it dampens the enthusiasm of the rice farmers. The meaning of the concubine is that the emperor can formulate a clause to see if the harvest year and the price of rice in the disaster-affected year, and then find an equilibrium point. Even if the rice harvest is bumper in the future, the purchase price cannot be lower than that point. Huge profits. The same is true in the Northwest, even in a catastrophic year, there must be an upper limit for food prices, otherwise the people will suffer, and the traders will profit."

Xiao Jun nodded thoughtfully and said: "These two days I have been discussing with the courtiers how to deal with this matter. In the northwest, there will be drought for eight out of ten years, and we have to rely on the court for relief every year. Once there is a shortage of grain in the official warehouses, the rice prices of those grain merchants will immediately rise, and sometimes the imperial court cannot compete with them when they harvest grain from the south.”

This Qingchen is not surprising, "Once the price of rice purchased by the imperial court is fixed, it will naturally not be changed easily, and the grain merchants are much more casual. As long as a bucket of rice is a few cents higher than the imperial court, the common people They will sell all the surplus grain to them, so it is nothing new that the imperial court can’t snatch the grain merchants.”

"It sounds like a good idea to set a balanced rice price as you said. In this way, the rice price will not fluctuate too much, and it will be difficult for grain merchants to make huge profits from it. The most important thing is The people in the south don’t have to worry about a year of hard work in vain, and the people in the northwest don’t have to worry about not being able to eat. And in the long run, this is a good way to implement it.”

Xiao Jun suddenly looked at her with an inconceivable gaze, and asked with a smile as if she wanted to see through something: "I have discussed with the courtiers for a few days, and only made a decision on the issue of grain transportation, but no one has ever made a decision." Can you come up with any long-term plans, how did you come up with them? Sometimes I also feel curious, why some difficult problems come to you, and you can always solve them in a few words. Is it because you are born out of blue, or you are sent from heaven to assist My servant?"

People who have come from thousands of years later are naturally aware of the shortcomings of the imperial court. It is because many shortcomings have been eliminated that later generations will continue to progress to her era. Rather than saying that it is her idea, it is better to say that it is all from the past. She just borrowed human wisdom.

But how could she say such things to the emperor, so she just said in panic: "The concubine should die, I shouldn't talk nonsense and interfere in politics, and I ask the emperor to forgive me. Everything the concubine knows is taught by the emperor, and the world still knows Gu Yunfeng's medical skills Excellent, who knows that Qin Zishuo still has a female student? It's a blessing that he didn't insult his husband's reputation, so there's no such thing as being young. Is the emperor deliberately trying to humiliate his concubine to death? Besides, the concubine...doesn't want it No matter what kind of minister or not, the concubine only wants to be the emperor's pillow."

Seeing her frightened and then coquettish look, the emperor was happy and couldn't help laughing out loud, "That's not what I mean, you can share my worries, I am happy to praise you, why are you so concerned?"

"If a concubine is a man, she will definitely not become an official in the court. Maybe she will travel around the world with a medicine gourd on her back like the ancestor." You can be smarter than many people in this world, but you must never be in front of the emperor. There is no sense of propriety, especially for women, even if they are really talented in economics, they must restrain their edge, otherwise it will make many people feel uneasy.

Qingchen didn't know what she was afraid of. She used to be able to play tricks in front of Qin Zishuo unscrupulously, but now she no longer has such thoughts. The emperor has always had such a domineering temper, and now the power is in his hands. Whether it's a man or a woman, whoever dares to overpower him, isn't he seeking his own death?In front of the emperor, how dare she admit that something is better than blue?
After thinking for a while, he added: "The concubine doesn't know how to govern the country, but once wanted to be a small shopkeeper and do business to support the family, but the emperor also knew that at that time we were running around, and the concubine was in the hands of others. I don't have much money, so I always plan carefully. Even if I buy and sell medicinal materials, what I earn is the difference in the middle price. Therefore, when the emperor said it, the concubine found the crux of the problem. , Your Majesty, don't make fun of your concubines."

(End of this chapter)