How could my childhood sweetheart be the current empress?

"Mr. Xu, you are a good person."

Sun Yuyi glanced at him and couldn't help but say.

Xu Chengling was slightly stunned. Was he given the nice guy card?

After feeding her the medicine, Xu Chengling helped her back to bed and let her have a good rest.

It is worth mentioning that when she met him, Sun Yuyi did not have a birthmark on her face. She must have felt that since the other party already knew it, there was no need to deceive herself anymore.

"By the way, I have something else here that should help improve your physical condition."

Xu Chengling took out a bottle from his pocket. It was filled with a turbid yellow liquid and the surface of the bottle mouth exuded a pungent smell of garlic.

This is allicin improved by Tongchuntang. Not only has its efficacy been significantly improved, but honey has also been added to it, so it doesn't taste so bad.

“Is this… allicin?”

Sun Yuyi looked at the small bottle and couldn't help asking.

"have you seen?"

Xu Chengling was a little surprised. At present, allicin is still being developed in secret, and the only people who knew about the existence of allicin were the old doctors who were invited at the beginning.

Seeing that he was a little surprised, Sun Yuyi smiled slightly on her pale face and said to him:

"I heard that Master Xu cured the little princess's cough using allicin."

"Well, but in addition to curing coughs, allicin can also enhance a person's immunity and improve their physical condition."

Xu Chengling nodded. This little princess was actually the daughter of the Eighth Wise King, Yan Ruoyao.

Speaking of which, he had seen Yan Ruoyao on the street some time ago. She looked much better than before, and was full of energy, which made him very pleased.

"Immunity? What's that?"

Sun Yuyi couldn't help but look puzzled. It was the first time she heard this word.

"To put it simply, immunity is the strength of the body's ability to fight disease. The stronger the immunity, the less likely it is to get sick. However, if the immunity is too strong, allergies may occur. The stronger the better is not necessarily true."

Xu Chengling explained to her, and then he mentioned a bunch of unfamiliar nouns, such as viruses, bacteria and so on. In order to explain one noun, he had to use more nouns.

Fortunately, Sun Yuyi was smart and remembered what he said after listening to it once.

"Mr. Xu, I didn't expect you to know so much. It seems that Yu Yi is ignorant."

Sun Yuyi said very modestly.

Xu Chengling smiled bitterly and shook his head. He only mastered modern knowledge that the ancients did not know. If Sun Yuyi were put in the modern times, she would definitely know much more than him.

The two looked at each other, and then Sun Yuyi asked him many questions.

……

Time passed slowly.

Xu Chengling stayed in Sun's house for a few more days, during which time he went to Tongchuntang several times to get medicine.

Under his careful care, Sun Yuyi's health gradually recovered and her complexion became rosy.

Early this morning, when Xu Chengling walked out of the house, he saw a white figure sitting on a stone chair in the yard, fiddling with a small gadget in her hand.

"Miss Sun, what are you looking at?"

Xu Chengling walked over and saw that Sun Yuyi was holding a round object in her hand, with many small words engraved on it and a small pointer in the middle.

When he saw this thing, he immediately thought of the compass used to detect Feng Shui.

"This is a compass. It can be used to read Feng Shui. Mr. Xu, would you like to try it?"

Sun Yuyi replied with a slight smile.

"How to try?"

"Take the compass and take a few steps forward to see."

Xu Chengling nodded and did as she said.

"Take two more steps to the left, ten steps back, three steps to the right, and then..."

Sun Yuyi directed Xu Chengling to walk around the yard. Suddenly, she shouted at Xu Chengling:

"Okay, stop here."

Xu Chengling stopped as she said. He looked at the needle on the compass, which pointed to the east, the direction of the Prime Minister's Mansion.

Sun Yuyi walked over, glanced at the compass, and then said calmly:

"Master Xu, where the compass points is the lifeline of your family. This is the hidden dragon cave in Feng Shui. A hidden dragon drinks water and becomes very rich and powerful. The descendants of this family will surely be able to hold high positions in the future."

In order for the Prime Minister's Mansion to reach the highest position in the country, it must have received help from a Feng Shui master in the past, who selected a hidden dragon cave and built the Prime Minister's Mansion on the hidden dragon cave.

"I think Feng Shui depends on the person. As the saying goes, God rewards hard work. If a person does not work hard, no matter how good the Feng Shui is, it will not change his fate. He will just be a lazy person until he dies."

"Do your best, leave the rest to fate, have a clear conscience, and have no doubts about your emotions."

Xu Chengling said in a deep voice that he only believed in science and did not believe in such feudal superstitions.

As long as people do what they are supposed to do, the rest can be left to God.

Xu Chengling looked at the plain-clothed woman in front of him and saw that her complexion had recovered well, so he couldn't help but say:

"Miss Sun, since your body has recovered, I will go back too."

"Mr. Xu, are you leaving?"

When she heard that he was leaving, for some reason, Sun Yuyi felt a little reluctant.

After all, she has lived alone for a long time. Once he leaves, the yard will become deserted as before, with only her left.

Sun Yuyi nodded slightly and said to him:

"Well, Master Xu, thank you very much for your care these days. This way, we won't owe each other any favors."

Then, Sun Yuyi hesitated for a moment and said to him:

"Please remember my words, seeing is not necessarily believing."

"Okay, I'll remember that. Let's say goodbye now."

Xu Chengling nodded, took note of this sentence, and then left the Sun Mansion without looking back.

Looking at his departing figure, Sun Yuyi couldn't help feeling a little lost, and her heart became empty, as if she had lost something.

Sun Yuyi placed her slender hands on her face, and the red birthmark reappeared, and she murmured:

Master Xu... are you the destined love star for me?"

Chapter 249: This smile is breathtakingly beautiful

Capital city, Daxia Chamber of Commerce.

After the empress issued a decree, any businessman who wanted to do business in Dayan had to go to the Daxia Chamber of Commerce to register his identity, pay a registration fee, and register a personal property report.

Moreover, the empress established a rule that if someone committed fraud and deliberately lied about their property, the informant would be rewarded, while the liar would have all his property confiscated.

In this situation, the cost of falsely reporting property is extremely high, but some businessmen still take chances and deliberately falsely report their personal property.

The reason they do this is simple, because the Chamber of Commerce collects a certain percentage of taxes every year based on personal property reports. Simply put, the more property you have, the more tax you pay.

After all, businessmen are all profit-seeking. As long as they report less property, they will pay less tax.

However, the empress had long anticipated that there would be concealment of information during the implementation of government orders, so she sent people to investigate the personal property of wealthy businessmen from time to time.

Once any fraud is discovered, all personal property will be confiscated and taken into custody.

After making an example of others, those businessmen who had hoped for a lucky break no longer dared to conceal their personal property and they all honestly confessed their personal property, which was then registered and recorded by the Chamber of Commerce.

Of course, in return, the Daxia Chamber of Commerce will also send personnel from the Tianjian Division to escort the caravans, so that merchants can trade with confidence.

At the same time, the Chamber of Commerce also set up money shops where merchants could exchange silver for silver bills and use the silver bills in transactions. This was not only convenient to carry, but also eliminated the worry of the silver being stolen.

Even if the robbers stole the silver bills, if they couldn't match the secret code on the bills, they would not be able to take the silver, and they might even be arrested and questioned by the government.

The most important function of a money house is certainly not to save money, but to raise a large sum of money in a short period of time. The money temporarily deposited in the money house can be invested to make money, or used in water conservancy projects and solving people's livelihood issues. In any case, it can be used in any way.

The biggest problem with silver bills is, of course, counterfeiting. As long as there is profit to be made, someone will counterfeit silver bills, causing a huge impact on the national economy.

In order to prevent the silver notes from being counterfeited, the empress summoned the best painters in Dayan to draw the silver notes. However, ordinary people simply do not have this ability, and it is basically impossible for them to copy them.

Moreover, even if you find a top painter to copy, large-scale copying requires various tools. These tools are strictly controlled by the court, and once someone buys a large number of them, the government will notice it.

The most important point in anti-counterfeiting of silver bills, in addition to the special official seal, is the string of numbers in the lower right corner. Don't underestimate this string of numbers, they play a big role.

Each silver note has a unique number and is registered. Even if you want to forge it, if the numbers don't match or if there are duplicates, it will be searched by the government.

Moreover, the empress also issued a decree for silver bills, which was to print four big words on the silver bills - Counterfeiters will die!

That’s right, in Dayan, counterfeiting banknotes is a capital crime.

With the support of this decree, counterfeiting silver bills is not only extremely difficult, but also a capital crime. Basically no one is willing to take such a big risk to counterfeit silver bills, which also ensures the authenticity of the silver bills.

Such detailed and careful arrangements were naturally proposed by Xu Chengling.

He had only proposed a general direction for reform before, but more detailed and careful arrangements are still needed when the reform is implemented.

As a result, after the empress issued the decree, the Daxia Chamber of Commerce quickly raised a large amount of silver and deposited it into the national treasury, solving the urgent needs of the national treasury.

Looking at the gradually filling treasury, the empress naturally smiled broadly.

Only by laying a solid economic foundation can we build up Dayan. War requires a lot of manpower, material resources and financial resources, among which financial resources are the most important. Only with money can we fight a war.

Therefore, the importance of economic development is self-evident.

In addition, other reform plans proposed by Xu Chengling are also being implemented in an orderly manner.

I believe that it won't be long before Dayan will be able to get rid of the problem of treasury shortage, and then no one will stop the empress from expanding the army.

But at the same time, these changes were gradually noticed by the separatist princes and neighboring countries.

Now Dayan is gradually getting better, the national strength and economy are beginning to rise. Not long ago, the empress urgently expanded the army by 50,000, and it will be able to be trained in time.

Currently, the empress has control over 300,000 troops. Excluding 50,000 new recruits, there are still 250,000 Dayan soldiers with good combat effectiveness, but most of them are stationed on the border to resist foreign enemies.

Once something happens in the capital, these reinforcements will take several days to arrive, and the nearest one will take a day to reach the capital.

There are only a thousand elite soldiers guarding the capital city. Compared with a head-on confrontation with the empress's army, the cost of taking the capital city directly is the lowest.

But the empress had already noticed this, otherwise she would not have urgently recalled some of the soldiers stationed on the border. The Eighth Wise King also took the opportunity to recall 200,000 border troops and stationed them a hundred miles away from the capital.

Although this could deter those princes who were ready to make moves, it also made the war on the front line extremely tense and difficult to resist the invasion of foreign enemies.

It can be said that internal and external troubles are the biggest challenges currently faced by the empress. If she is not careful, Dayan may die in her hands.

The only person the empress can rely on and trust completely is the current prime minister, Xu Chengling.

What worries the empress the most at the moment is not the vassal kings or the foreign enemies who are eyeing her covetously, but the loyal Eight Wise Kings.

In the name of protecting his master, the Eighth Wise King called back his soldiers and stationed them a hundred miles away from the capital. They would be able to provide support to the capital within a few hours.

Doing so can indeed deter those princes who are ready to make moves, but at the same time, if the Eighth Wise King wants to rebel, his soldiers will be able to arrive at the city walls within a few hours and take the capital directly.

If the Eighth Wise Kings were allowed to withdraw their troops, the vassal kings might take action. If the Eighth Wise Kings were not allowed to withdraw their troops, they would have to be on guard against the Eighth Wise Kings' rebellious intentions at all times.

But at least according to the intelligence sent back by our spies, the Eighth Wise King spends his days walking his birds and watching operas, and there is no sign that he has any intention of rebelling.

Tonight, a dinner party will be held at the Prince Xian's Mansion, and all the major families in the capital will be invited to be guests.

If nothing unexpected happens, Xu Chengling will go with Yan Jixue.

Of course, their purpose of attending the dinner was to promote perfume and bras.

As for national affairs, he doesn’t care. He just wants to reap the benefits.

In the blink of an eye, the sky gradually darkened.

"Madam, are you ready? We are going to the Xianwang Mansion tonight for a dinner."

Xu Chengling stood outside the house and shouted to Yan Jixue who was changing clothes inside.

After a long while, the door was opened and Yan Jixue came out wearing a beautiful blue skirt. She exuded a fragrance like orchid and musk, which was fascinating.

"Ma'am, are you wearing perfume?"

Xu Chengling couldn't help but ask. He smelled it and found that the lady had a pleasant fragrance that was intoxicating.