Film and Television Variety Show: The Jade Girl's Love Affair

I think Song Mo did a good job in his previous life, so he should have rebelled! Are the Emperor and the Crown Prince really good people? Were they wronged? They are both rulers who exploit others, there's no difference.

It seems Song Mo's life has actually been a bit more miserable, so let's continue the rebellion.

Chapter 2 Yuan Shen and Song Mo 2

In fact, the seeds of capitalism had already sprouted by the Song Dynasty. Why did it remain an agricultural society? Besides ideological and cultural issues, the reason was that it could not break through in science and technology.

Astronomy, mathematics, and even chemistry are all constantly progressing and developing.

The simplest tax calculations, astronomical calendars, and land surveying are all examples of mathematics used in daily life.

Mathematics is indispensable for everything, from craftsmen making things, to weights and measures, to water and road construction, and so on.

As for astronomy and calendar systems, these were things that every dynasty had to pay attention to, because agricultural societies needed to promulgate calendars in order to know how to produce crops.

Chemistry, of course, is the science that developed and evolved from the process of those Taoist priests refining elixirs.

However, chemical biology has not made any technological breakthroughs because it has not yet developed transparent glass.

The West has transparent glass mainly because they have higher purity sand, making it easier to manufacture glass.

Our sand is easier to use to make colored glass, and we already have enough porcelain, so the demand is too small to drive the development of this technology.

Therefore, making money from producing transparent glass is of little significance; the key is that this product can drive the development of science and technology.

Even the most basic biochemistry requires this technology to make progress.

Tang Yu certainly possesses the complete technical process, but training technical personnel and skilled workers cannot be accomplished in a year.

So it took Tang Yu more than ten years to see any initial results in this matter, by which time she was already fifteen years old.

The former Black Wind Village has been cleaned up and turned to the legitimate business of the Yuan family, now a well-known sugar merchant family in Sichuan.

That's right, Tang Yu's family has lived in Sichuan all their lives, and their village was originally built in the mountains.

Over the past few years, Tangyu has begun to take in more and more refugees and then plant sugarcane to make white sugar.

During this period, the sugar business was quite profitable. After all, sugar making was a skill, and sugar that could be made into something resembling snowflakes was incredibly popular throughout the country.

"Miss, some reckless people have opened brothels in Chengdu again. Should we take action?"

The speaker was Bai Su, the girl Tang Yu had rescued from the brothel.

Over the years, Tang Yu has become a local tyrant in Sichuan, secretly accumulating power.

Officials throughout Sichuan, from top to bottom, knew how dangerous her poisoning was, even though they had never met her.

Therefore, she could do business without any hindrance, and these officials would turn a blind eye to whatever she wanted to do.

Even if she was secretly forging iron to make weapons, no one dared to interfere.

In any case, as long as there was no open rebellion, and the taxes were paid to the imperial court every year, no one really cared what was happening in this remote place called Sichuan.

The officials even felt quite comfortable, as all the refugees had been taken away by Tang Yu, and the public order was excellent.

In addition, Tang Yu engaged in various businesses, both large and small, and provided some more advanced technological productivity, which led to Sichuan becoming even wealthier!

Only the hot-headed officials sent over each year would cause trouble, and then Tang Yu would immediately teach them a lesson.

Whether it's poisoning or coercion, Tang Yu has a million ways to deal with these people.

After she refused to bind her feet, Tang Yu not only gathered up displaced people but also cracked down on all brothels until there were no more brothels in Sichuan.

Of course, no woman in this era would want to stay in a brothel.

Aside from the women who became top courtesans, most of the women in brothels actually had very tragic lives.

They also had to bind their feet, and had to start serving customers at the age of eleven or twelve. From that time on, they had to have abortions every year, and if they didn't want to get pregnant, they would take mercury or other drugs.

Therefore, most women in brothels died in their twenties or thirties. After all, there were no birth control pills in that era, so repeated abortions would naturally lead to an early death.

Many abortions involve directly hitting the abdomen with a stick, so a significant portion of these cases result in death from massive bleeding.

The women in brothels were destitute and helpless. Because foot binding was popular in that era, they didn't even have the ability to run, as their feet had lost the ability to run freely.

Tang Yu cracked down on brothels of all sizes, and all the girls were willing to go with her because they all wanted to live a normal life.

Although some of them came to Tangyu to farm, some to pick tea, some to work as laborers, and some to weave cloth, this kind of life was the life they longed for the most.

Therefore, Tang Yu had a lot of women under his command, and these women cherished their current lives and worked very hard to learn anything.

"It seems that our newly arrived provincial governor does not yet understand who Sichuan listens to."

Have someone smash up the brothel, rescue the women inside, and while you're at it, bring our Provincial Governor a pot of tea so he can have a sip and sober up, and know whose territory this is!

"In this remote place far from the emperor's reach, tell our Lord Li, just how many officials have died unexpectedly from illness?"

After saying that, Tang Yu smiled.

I've truly been cast as a villainous and arrogant character in this life.

After dealing with the newly arrived provincial governor, Tang Yu set off for Futing, which is now Fujian, the following spring.

Maritime trade was already very developed from the Song Dynasty onwards, and it was naturally very prosperous in the Ming Dynasty as well, with ongoing business dealings with Western countries.

To resolve the current predicament of extreme involution, we must continue to develop maritime trade and sell domestic goods abroad.

Therefore, Tang Yu attached great importance to maritime trade.

She spent the previous few years working in Sichuan to build up her strength, and in recent years she has started to lay out her plans for maritime trade.

However, due to the weak foundation, they first placed an order with Futing to build several ships.

With trading ships at sea, everything else could then proceed.

As for the pirate problem around Futing, it seems to be the Dongyu pirates, but actually some of them are hired by Jiangdong Jerry himself to cause trouble and try to engage in maritime trade and smuggling.

Because Fujian is a mountainous region with little arable land, farming simply cannot support a population.

So the people here were forced to seek a way to survive at sea.

Tang Yu's original purpose was to see what the ship he had built looked like and, incidentally, to hire some sailors and shipwrights to go to sea.

Who would have thought that when Tang Yu secretly met with several boatmen, she was surrounded in the restaurant?

"Does Miss Yuan know what a serious crime it is to collude with pirates?"

Among the more than one hundred elite soldiers, a young general stepped forward, revealing a cold and dignified expression to Tang Yu.

His brows were furrowed, and his eyes shone with a sharp light that pierced the heart like cold stars. His lips were slightly downturned, conveying an undeniable seriousness.

His scrutinizing gaze seemed to see right through Tang Yu's soul, and he exuded a chilling aura honed by years of battlefield experience.

In such a serious setting, the people around Tang Yu panicked, but Tang Yu herself suddenly burst into laughter.

"You...you were a general in your life!"

If Cheng Shaoshang and Huo Buyi were here, the couple would definitely laugh out loud with Tang Yu.

[Although it's not finished yet, I feel like Song Mo is going to be manipulated into becoming a loyal subject of the royal family for the rest of his life. The emperor in the TV series is clearly not a good person.]

Chapter 3 Yuan Shen and Song Mo 3

"Do you think you can seduce me with your beauty?"

After Tang Yu laughed out loud, her radiant smile, as beautiful as a peach blossom, left Song Mo in a daze for a while.

When he came to his senses, Song Mo clenched his fists and said these words in a cold voice.

Tang Yu was overjoyed; she truly hadn't expected to have such a reunion.

"I find the green hills charming, and I suppose the green hills find me just as beautiful. What is your name?"

Song Mo never expected that the woman in front of him would say such bold words.

He wanted to scold him angrily, but he stammered as soon as he opened his mouth.

"I...I'm warning you, this is Futing, not a place where you can run wild! Guards!"

Just as Song Mo was about to detain the person, Tang Yu waved his hands, and a layer of pink mist instantly enveloped the entire restaurant.

In an instant, all of the more than one hundred soldiers collapsed to the ground unconscious.

Although Song Mo had not fainted, he could no longer see the people around him, and could only see the beautiful woman in front of him approaching him step by step.

"You...who are you?"

Song Mo possessed a photographic memory, and he was certain he had never seen this girl before, yet he could clearly see longing and joy in her eyes.

Tang Yu smiled softly, then walked up to Song Mo and reached out her hand. Her slender fingers lightly brushed across his cheek, then slowly moved downwards, gently caressing his hair.

Then, slowly moving upwards, gently stroking along the contours of the eyebrows and eyes, the fingertips seemed to carry an electric current, causing Song Mo's heart to tremble slightly.

Song Mo felt his breathing quicken, his mind in turmoil, his reason resisting, but his body involuntarily leaning towards this tenderness.

Then, Tang Yu tiptoed forward and gently kissed the corner of his lips.

Song Mo's eyes widened instantly, revealing an expression of disbelief, and the tips of his ears turned bright red.

She had never seen Yuan Shen so shy before.

This life is really interesting; I actually got to see him as a teenager.

Tang Yu felt a surge of joy and realized that her life had become much more interesting.

Thinking this, Tang Yu stood on tiptoe and bit Song Mo's lips hard.

The sharp teeth pierced the skin, and beads of blood seeped out, staining the slightly trembling lips with a breathtakingly vibrant color, instantly filling the air with an ambiguous and alluring atmosphere.

Song Mo winced in pain, but just stared blankly at the person in front of him, his eyes filled with astonishment and complicated emotions.

"You are crazy!"

"What you just said means that you won't be seduced by beauty. I'm a stubborn person by nature, and I want to see if I can seduce you with my beauty in this lifetime!"

After saying this, Tang Yu took a step back, her smile bright and captivating.

Her voice, like a gentle breeze in the night, carried endless tenderness and allure, lingering in Song Mo's ears and causing ripples of romance to spread across his heart.

"It's okay if you don't want to tell me your name, I'll find out soon enough."