On the carriage, Wen Jinhe stared at Li Junche, "I heard that Princess Lin had been interested in the prince?"
Li Junche looked at Wen Jinhe in surprise, "Her wishful thinking has nothing to do with me."
Wen Jinhe already knew the fact, but she still had questions in her mind that she wanted to confirm.
"As Princess Lin is the daughter of Zhongshu Ling, the prince has never thought of taking the opportunity to win over her?"
For the royal family, women were tools to carry on the family line and contain the courtiers. She wanted to know what Li Junche was thinking.
Li Junche recalled what Wen Jinhe said about dependence that day, and what he said about concubinage at today's birthday banquet, "The man is the master of the outside and the woman is the master of the house. I will take the throne by myself, not by taking concubines."
Li Junche's character was relatively upright in this era, and he had no prejudice against women.
No matter what Wen Jinhe does, as long as it does not threaten Beidi Country, he will support it.
The night was sultry, and Wen Jinhe, who was leaning on the couch, was killing time with a storybook in his hand, "Man Qiu, have you been in the palace long?"
Man Qiu: "Back to the princess, this servant and Man Dong were bought into the mansion by Butler Li when they were young. They were nine years old when they entered the mansion."
Since time traveling, Wen Jinhe has always wanted to live his whole life comfortably.
I didn't have much love in my previous life, but now I am married to a man who has excellent conditions in all aspects.
I hold the idea that if I don't eat free things, I won't get anything, as long as I feel comfortable.
Now think about it carefully, is it too monotonous if the communication is just physical? "What kind of person do you think the prince is?"
The two were completely stunned, not expecting the princess to ask them this question.
How the prince is doing is not something that servants like them can judge.
Seeing the hesitation of the two of them, Wen Jinhe urged, "Just tell me briefly how you two feel."
There are not so many flowers in the winter. Since Wen Jinhe asked, she answered straightforwardly: "The prince is both civilized and military, and his appearance is extraordinary. Many young ladies from Beidi Kingdom want to marry him."
Seeing that Wen Jinhe's expression did not change, Man Qiu said, "The prince is very self-sufficient and never goes to the Fireworks Alley and Willow Land. Since the princess married into the palace, the prince seems to have become a little gentler. As long as he is with the princess, he never I'm angry, I've never seen him treat other women so well."
Wen Jinhe remained silent. She would not be sure that Li Junche liked her just because of Man Qiu's few words.
The probability of cheating is very high under modern moral condemnation, not to mention the ancient times when there were three wives and concubines.
Man Qiu raised her eyes to look at her princess's face, wondering if what she said was right.
During the mid-month report, Wen Jinhe left Butler Li alone this time.
"Starting tomorrow, I will take turns inspecting the shops and farms under the prince's name." After half a month, the time is almost right.
Butler Li's face was full of joy, "How does the princess need my cooperation?"
"If someone comes to find you, just ignore them." Wen Jinhe can determine who are useless from the ledger, and the on-site investigation only makes the situation clearer.
The next day, Wen Jinhe took Man Qiu and others out of the house.
Man Qiu: "Princess, this bookstore is located in the center of the west of the city, but its monthly profit is only a few dozen taels of silver."
Wen Jinhe sat on the carriage and looked through the window towards the door of the bookstore.
After staring for a quarter of an hour, only one person walked in.
There are more waiters than customers, and the shopkeeper's attitude is very perfunctory.
There is another bookstore opposite the bookstore. It is frequented by literati and poets in the city, and its reputation has long been established.
"Write it down. When I go back, I will close the store and switch to other businesses."
Li Junche has eighteen shops under his name, selling a wide variety of products, but in fact they are not competitive at all.
After looking around, Wen Jinhe decided to close half of the stores.
In the afternoon of that day, He Shi took the servants of the palace and came to inform them one by one.
According to Wen Jinhe's request, all the items in the shop were sold in a clearance sale in one day.
Then the craftsman responsible for the decoration came to the door and started the renovation.
The clerk and shopkeeper were all fired.
The one who had signed the death contract came back for training, and Wen Jinhe took the lead in answering.
If the training results are not satisfactory, the first recipient will be sent to a farm to farm.
Some of them were indeed old people who had been in the palace for many years, and they went to Butler Li to plead for mercy.
But he didn't want to get an answer like, "The prince ordered the princess to make the decision, he has no right to interfere."
All the small shops have been converted into restaurants. If you put in one or two snacks in Yunxi Restaurant, you won't have to worry about lack of business.
The shopkeepers of the remaining nine shops are worried that they will be next.
They were called to the palace with uneasiness.
Wen Jinhe handed over the improvement plans for the nine stores to them, "I will give you two months to adjust the store's business methods according to the above plan. When the time is up, if the store's profits have not doubled, you can pack up your things and go to the farm to work. Farm work, the palace does not support useless idlers.”
The nine people lowered their heads and replied: "Yes." Then they hurriedly left the palace with the plan.
Wen Jinhe leaned on the couch tiredly and closed his eyes to rest.
After Man Qiu and Man Dong saw this, they consciously went up to give Wen Jinhe a massage.
It was the first time since the princess entered the palace that she was so tired.
There have been more things in these three days than in the past two months combined.
Wen Jinhe felt so comfortable that he fell into a deep sleep.
When Li Junche stepped into the backyard, he felt very quiet. He saw Wen Jinhe lying on her side on the couch. After staying there for a few seconds, he reached out and picked her up and placed her gently on the bed.
Although he has been busy these days, he also knows about things in the house, and he seems to be exhausted.
After two days of rest, Wen Jinhe started working on the farm under Li Junche's name.
Although no one in the palace is good at farming, there are quite a few fields.
In total, the western farms have more than 700 acres of land.
Half of the land is farmed out to collect rent, while the other half is planted with rice and wheat, and the harvest is very average.
Since they were all outside the city, Wen Jinhe planned to watch one a day.
Butler Li knew that the princess was leaving the city, so he specially arranged for more escorts to escort her.
It takes two hours by carriage to get from Prince Che's Mansion to the nearest farm outside the city.
Wen Jinhe got up early in the morning and set off to catch up on his sleep in the carriage.
By the time the manager of the farm received the news, Wen Jinhe had already arrived with someone.
The farmers working in the fields looked at the gorgeous carriage and the strange woman in the carriage with some curiosity. Is this someone from the master's family?
Wen Jinhe was wearing a curtain hat. According to the records in the account book, this field should be planted by the farm itself. "Are you farmers hired by the farm?"
The woman who had been pulling weeds just now had her hands full of dirt. She wiped them on her side in a panic, then bent down and said, "No, we are tenants."
Wen Jinhe raised his eyes.
Man Qiu immediately stepped forward and asked, "Isn't this the land of Prince Che? The rented fields are over there. Why are you working here?"
The woman's eyes were evasive and she was about to speak.
A sharp male voice came.
The steward of the farm hurried over with his people, cupped his hands and said, "Greetings to the princess."
The farmer who was still busy knelt down quickly and said, "Greetings to the princess."
Wen Jinhe took off his curtain hat and said, "Get up."
The manager of the farm said with a smile: "Princess, you must be tired after traveling and traveling. I will take you to the farm to have a rest."
"Since they are tenants, why do they work here?" Wen Jinhe asked the steward first.
The manager immediately replied, "After the farmers have taken care of their own fields, if they have extra time, we will hire them because they are close and convenient."
"That's it." Wen Jinhe nodded, and there was indeed this expenditure in the ledger.
"The princess came in a hurry. After I received the news, I immediately asked someone to arrange lunch. The items in the village have been prepared. There are many insects and ants in the fields. Please move the princess."
"We just confiscated the manager's money. If the work is not in vain, he will not rent the land to us."
Just as he was about to get in the car, a young man not far away shouted loudly.
Wen Jinhe stopped and turned around to see that the young boy who had made the noise was being covered by the woman.
"He Shi, go and bring this person over."
Wen Jinhe saw that the manager of the farm had a strange look on his face, and immediately guessed that something was going on here.
The woman was trembling all over when she was brought over, "I made a mistake, please forgive me, Princess."
On the contrary, the young man looked at her with a straight face.
"What's your name?" Wen Jinhe asked, bending down and staring at him with a smile.
The young man replied: "My name is Wang Niu Yao."
"Is what you just said true?"
Wang Niuyao nodded sharply, "I listened to what my parents said. This year my dad was going to send me to a private school, but the steward of the farm raised the rent by another 10%25, and the family had no money."
Wen Jinhe frowned. Judging from the account books, the rent of the fields had never increased.
She originally thought that the harvest was low, resulting in the farm's meager profits, but it seemed that was not the case at all.
"Princess, please forgive me, but the harvest in the farm has been poor in the past two years, so this villain came up with this plan."
Wen Jinhe's eyes were like a razor blade scraping his face, and he asked ridiculously, "Why didn't I see the extra rent in the account books for the first half of the year?"
The manager still wanted to make excuses, but Wen Jinhe didn't want to listen at all.
First, Man Qiu and Man Dong interrogated the farmers present and compared them one by one with the accounts.
