Uncle: "Is the girl a foreigner?"
Princess Qinbao nodded. "right."
"Everyone living near Nancheng now knows that if they want to live a good life, they have to run to Nancheng. Our family came here relatively early. I heard that it is not easy to register in Nancheng now." The uncle was a little happy. proud.
Princess Qinbao was surprised, "They are all running to Nancheng, so they don't want their original home anymore?"
The uncle said cheerfully: "Wherever you can have enough food and live a good life, your family will move there. Houses and land in Nancheng used to be cheap. Later, the emperor gave this place to Princess Che as a fief. The princess came to Nancheng to build a river crossing. After the dam, Nancheng is becoming more and more prosperous. The number of people on the street is dozens of times more than before. "
"It is said that Princess Che cares about the people in the fiefdom and wants us to live a good life. Last year, there was a flood across the river. Many people were displaced and were so hungry that they dug tree roots to eat. As soon as the princess came, everything was solved. The girl can go to Yuehe University. Look at it, it’s magnificent.”
Princess Qinbao nodded subconsciously, staring at the wontons in the bowl, losing her appetite.
The cross-river dam, which took tens of thousands of people half a year to build, is like a ravine cut by the gods.
It is a smooth trapezoidal cement building. When you walk up the stairs, you can see the yellow water flowing across the river.
The north is about to enter a dry period, and the water in Yuehe River is not that rough. Railings have been built on the side of the river to prevent people from going down.
Walking along the cross-river dam, huge waterwheels are built on the river bank. Looking across the dam, you can see the head of a one-meter-wide cement ditch leading to the fields.
There is water flowing slowly in the ditch.
Princess Qinbao stood on the dam and looked at the endless wheat fields in the distance. The golden wheat ears were slowly swaying in the wind.
Farmers carry shovels on their backs and walk along the field roads, greeting passers-by from time to time.
Princess Qinbao stopped and did not move forward. She seemed to be in a daze.
Along the way from the capital, she had seen many things, including bustling streets, hungry people without enough to eat, and beggars begging on the streets with broken bowls.
The thirteen cities in the north are not as prosperous and prosperous as the capital city. They suffer from droughts and floods all year round and are sparsely populated. All of these are correct.
But the closer to Nancheng, the situation began to change.
The second sister-in-law's fiefdom is better than the capital. Every citizen on the street praises Princess Che and looks up to her with admiration.
"Lu Yebai, what kind of person do you think the second sister-in-law is?" Princess Qinbao raised her head and looked behind her.
Lu Yebai lowered his head, and it was not difficult to find that something was wrong with the princess' mood. She was filled with a sense of decadence. "If Princess Che was not a woman, maybe the current emperor of Linyue Kingdom would not be Wen Mingting but her."
Princess Qinbao's eyes widened.
Lu Yebai walked aside and sat down, and slowly said: "No matter where Princess Che goes, the local people will eventually believe in her. This kind of love and praise is not because of her status as a princess, but because of her outstanding talents. and a good heart for the people.”
Princess Qinbao hugged her knees with both hands and murmured in a low voice: "In the future, I will also have my own fief like the emperor's aunt and second sister-in-law, but I don't seem to be able to manage it as well as Nancheng."
She has never seen the hope in the eyes of the people in Nancheng. She is also a princess, but she seems to be inferior to Wen Jinhe.
Lu Yebai was a little surprised. He didn't expect Li Jinshu to be troubled by this. "The emperor loves the princess, so the fiefdom he will grant in the future will naturally not be a land of barren mountains and rivers. Princess Changping's Bianyun City is very wealthy."
This sentence did not comfort her.
Princess Qinbao looked at the wheat fields and houses in the distance, "You mean I can only be a princess who eats and waits for death and enjoys happiness all my life, right?"
Lu Yebai frowned, "Then what does Your Highness think you can do?"
Princess Qinbao choked, pursed her lips, turned her head and stopped talking.
In the evening, Princess Qinbao discussed her thoughts with Wen Jinhe.
Wen Jinhe raised his eyebrows, "Wouldn't it be better to enjoy a lifetime of happiness? No worries, no worries about food or clothing, and be happy every day." In modern times, that is the ideal life for many people.
Princess Qinbao stared at the rice grains in the bowl, "I just suddenly felt a little boring. Why don't the second sister-in-law enjoy a happy life? The second emperor brother can afford to support you."
Wen Jinhe raised the corners of his mouth, with a look that was half self-deprecating and half smiling, "Your second brother is too poor to support me, and a woman's status is not only dependent on men and children, but also on yourself."
Princess Qinbao stared at the cup pushed over by Wen Jinhe for a long time without reaching out to take it.
"Cough, puff." On the dragon bed, Li Jingxing spat out the decoction he had just drank and gasped weakly.
Concubine Wei, who was sitting aside with a medicine bowl, had tears in her eyes and gently stroked the emperor's back.
Li Jingxing raised his eyes and looked at her, "Go and bring Prince Xi to me."
Concubine Wei nodded and immediately stood up and went out.
Not long after, the Western Prince, who was sleeping soundly, was carried to the bed by Concubine Wei, "Your Majesty, the Western Prince is here."
Li Jingxing put his eyes on the baby's little face. He was a little more affectionate in his old age than when he was young.
"I can't wait until he grows up."
Concubine Wei wiped her tears sadly, "Your Majesty is talking nonsense, and our prince hasn't even opened his mouth to call you father yet."
Li Jingxing motioned to the chamberlain to help him up and slowly walked to the desk, "I want to leave him an imperial edict to ensure that he will be prosperous, wealthy, and safe for the rest of his life. This can be regarded as fulfilling the love between father and son."
Concubine Wei knelt down in front of the desk with Prince Xi in her arms, her expression unbearable, and even the child in her arms began to cry.
Concubine Wei left the palace openly and openly holding the imperial edict.
Returning to the palace, she put the child in her arms into the crib. When the swaddling clothes fell, there were two blue marks on the white and tender arms of the Western Prince.
Concubine Wei opened the imperial edict on which the ink was not completely dry, and the corners of her mouth slowly raised.
She used tea to wash off the decoction on her hands. Li Jingxing would die in a few days.
The Ministry of War received urgent military information from eight hundred miles east of the border, and the memorial was written by Li Junche himself.
The Minister of War stared at the words "Conquered ten cities in a row" on the memorial and sighed heavily.
It’s time for King Heng to give up.
This memorial was quickly handed to Li Jingxing. He stared at the familiar handwriting on it and said three good words in a row.
Finally there is good news.
Su Qingli and Prime Minister Mu looked at the emperor who was dying day by day, wondering whether King Heng was dead.
It was already the first day of July when He Shi's letter was delivered to Wen Jinhe.
Song Zhiyuan, Mu Mingqian and Fei Yi were called over by Zhao Bi.
Fei Yi held up his hands and said, "The gunpowder made by the princess's subordinates has been prepared and can be taken out of the warehouse at any time."
Mu Mingqian: "There are ministers and Lord Song in Nancheng, so the princess can rest assured."
Song Zhiyuan's eyes darkened, "I have received the Emperor's secret message. The princess can go ahead and do it. Someone in the court will take care of it."
