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Yongzhou rebels, Xie Yi? !

Mu Tingxue didn't show any emotion on her face, but her heart was boiling. She glanced at the mourning hall and the courtyard outside, and said, "Master Xiao, let's talk in the hall."

The officials who came to pay their respects were many and confused.

These people come to worship in the name of Prince Ling's old subordinates and disciples of the Xiao family, but 30 or [-] years have passed. Who knows whether they are humans or ghosts?

King Qin Ling is relying on Li Dang, and this matter cannot be discussed in public.

"Elder Princess, please——"

Xiao Wangzhi led Mu Tingxue out of the mourning hall.

The ancestral home of the Xiao family is very large. After all, it was once a super powerful family that was as prosperous as the Yan family.The ancestral house consists of three parts. The front yard is used to entertain guests and work. There is a large deserted garden in the middle, which has been overgrown with weeds because it has not been taken care of for a long time. The backyard is where the family members and female relatives live, with a total of hundreds of people. between.

Liuxi Hall in the backyard, a hall with four couplets.

The two took their seats.

Mu Tingxue asked, "How did Mr. Xiao find out that King Qin Ling was planning to rebel?"

Xiao Wangzhi's expression became solemn: "In the past, Xiao used to help His Highness the Emperor to show off the emperor and put down two rebellions. Among them, the king pretended to be crazy for a year before he rebelled. And in Yongzhou, King Qin Ling suddenly changed his temperament, indulged in wine and sex, built a beast house, and had a great time with women."

Mu Tingxue was shocked: "You mean, Xie Yi is faking it? It's the same as King Dai pretending to be crazy?"

"Just speculation."

Xiao Wangzhi's eyes showed concern, "King Dai pretended to be crazy, which is much more ruthless than King Qin Ling. Emperor Xianhui once sent his ministers to investigate, but in the end, King Dai actually ate bits and pieces of dog shit in front of his ministers. I have deceived the imperial court for the time being. In fact, I secretly recruited soldiers and forged weapons. I secretly prepared for a year."

Mu Tingxue felt sick for a while, but she also really admired this acting king for being too tolerant for the sake of rebellion.

"If Xie Yi is really rebellious, I will kill his mother with my staff. He will accumulate strength and will probably attack Baidi City in the first battle."

"There are few soldiers in Baidi City, and the city walls are in disrepair. The people have just received hundreds of thousands of acres of land with the grace of His Highness, and they have planted grain and many valuable tomatoes." Xiao Wangzhi's voice was extremely stern and murderous, "It's simply It is a natural granary that can be taken by the rebels. If Baidi City is destroyed, the people in the city will have no way to survive! And the rebels can still use this as a stronghold to attack Yundu, and the mountains and rivers will fall!"

Mu Tingxue discovered that when he was compassionate, he was like a Zen master Buddha; when he was filled with murderous aura, he was like a raging King Kong.

Although Yan Yang has great military achievements, the 60-year-old veteran in front of him is too nervous to give in.

This far-sighted and far-sighted vision is not for anyone to wait for.

"Mr. Xiao is a genius like nature. I originally wanted you to stay in Yundu and serve as Zhongshu Ling."

"His Highness thinks highly of her, but right now, Baidi City is the top priority." Xiao Wangzhi was very grateful when he heard that the eldest princess was helping him fight for a position despite the pressure from the Yan Party.

but--

"Assisting His Highness is what Xiao wishes. However, the cronies are in power and there is a fire in the rear. The timing is not right."

"Mr. wronged."

Mu Tingxue sighed, having made a decision in her heart.

Xiao Wangzhi, however, was not depressed and looked at it openly: "Why is there any grievance? As the governor of Baidi City, with the support of His Highness, I can implement local government orders boldly; if I stay in Yundu, I will be honored as the Secretary of the Central Committee, no matter what Whatever you do, you will be restricted by cronies. The current situation in the government is completely different from that of 30 years ago."

Mu Tingxue understood that Mr. Xiao's heartfelt words were all bloody facts.

The reason why he was able to assist Grandpa Huang in creating the Xianhui Zhongxing was because Grandpa Huang had absolute trust in him, and there was almost no obstacle to his governance. However, the current court was in a state of chaos because he was still in his infancy and Yan Dang left the party and started to fight.The queen mother seems to be very indulgent to her, but when it comes to big things, she still acts nepotistically and does not accept her own suggestions.

Officialdom is nothing more than advancement and retreat.

At this time, he forced himself to fight with his eldest cousin's family, risked offending his in-laws, and forcibly placed Mr. Xiao in the position of Zhongshu Ling. He became a bright target and was frantically attacked by the Yan Party, and all kinds of conspiracies It is impossible to guard against evil schemes.

"The Cui family has taken a step back. Your Highness might as well take a step back."

Xiao Wangzhi obviously knew her difficult situation and took the initiative to request to retreat to Baidi City.

Mu Tingxue smiled helplessly: "The Cui family took a step back because I forced them to do so. It was not their intention."

Xiao Wangzhi praised: "Your Highness is determined to decide right from wrong. Major events in the world are nothing more than rewards and punishments. If rewards and punishments are not clear, it will lead to huge disasters. If we only punish Su Liancheng severely and let Cui Shimin go, then we will have 30 naval troops." The Su family will no longer be loyal to the royal family, and the worst result will be to separat the southeast, and under the banner of flanking the Qing monarch and attacking the Yan thieves, they will rebel with King Qin Ling."

The veins on Mu Tingxue's forehead twitched: "The prince of Shenwei Hou, Su Zixiu, is still in Yundu, so he won't..."

Xiao Wangzhi: "The Su family has many sons."

Mu Tingxue realized that she still underestimated the cruelty of these powerful people.

Why does tiger poison not eat its seeds?

Xiao Wangzhi thought she didn't believe it, so he gave another example: "The Beiyu Emperor also asked his own son Yuwen Xiuzhu to be held hostage in Yundu, otherwise he would continue to cause trouble in the north."

This time, Mu Tingxue was completely convinced.

Because she was in the Imperial College and had seen with her own eyes how miserable Beiyu's protégé Yuwen Xiuzhu was, and how miserable his life was.

"If we go to Baidi City, do we need to build a city wall?"

"This is a top priority. We can summon the people in the city to serve as corvees..."

"No!"

Mu Tingxue interrupted him with a serious face, "The last time I went to Baidi City, I announced that I would be exempted from ten years of corvee service. How can I change my order overnight?"

The two big mountains that faced farmers in ancient times were taxes and corvee.

In addition to farming, you are also forced to do unpaid labor by the government. This is a very cruel system of oppression. You work for the court for free. You can often hear how many people died building palaces, building the Great Wall, and building mausoleums. How many people died, and what was even more frightening was that they had to provide their own food, not caring about food at all.

Endless labor and hunger will lead to a vicious cycle of expropriation, death, expropriation again, and death again.

Huangzhu's father died in corvee labor.

Xiao Wangzhi sighed: "I understand that Your Highness wants to rest with the people, but the city wall is low and dilapidated. If it is not rebuilt, there will be no resistance!"

Mu Tingxue pondered for a moment, then took out five silver notes from the Cangbi Vase space: "In this way, we will adopt an employment system. As long as they are willing to come to build the city wall, they will pay wages and have three meals a day."

Xiao Wangzhi looked at the huge denomination of 10 taels and a total of 50 silver notes that the eldest princess thrust into his hand. He was so shocked that he could not speak incoherently: "This...this..."

"Don't worry, it's not personal embezzlement of public funds."

Mu Tingxue hurriedly explained, "I paid it from the private treasury, and the shop's business has been booming recently. By the way, the governor of Baidi City should be responsible for collecting the monthly food income, so you don't have to hand it over to me. Take it from the people and use it for the people.”

The money earned in the shop is more than the food of ten thousand households.

She couldn't watch the fief in person. At most, she would go back to Baidi City to harvest when the tomatoes were ripe.

All other matters must be left to trustworthy people.

"Three meals a day are provided and wages are paid." Xiao Wangzhi's eyes were a little red. Throughout the ages, no emperor, no prince, no frontier official could change the corvée system to a wage system!

Emperor Xianhui was already a wise master, but the eldest princess was still more wise than him.

"Well, it's just three meals a day, one bowl of rice and one vegetable." Mu Tingxue thought to herself that if she got the same treatment as the Jian Barracks, she would go bankrupt.

"It's too extravagant." Xiao Wangzhi disagreed. "Most farmers can't afford two meals a day, and most of them are wild vegetables and rice bran. The conditions you offered are so generous, I'm afraid the farmers will not be willing to farm, and they will all run away." If we come to build the city wall, it will affect the autumn harvest food production."

"Then - change it to two meals a day, rice porridge and pickled mustard."

Mu Tingxue couldn't help but spit on herself.

In modern times, it would be a real estate owner who would give porridge and pickled mustard twice a day to the old guys who were engaged in civil engineering. This would be exposed by the media and would be reviled by hundreds of millions of netizens!

"What is mustard?"

Xiao Wangzhi looked confused.

"Have you ever eaten pickled mustard?"

"No."

"It's my problem. In three hours, I'll send you some pickled mustard to try."

Only then did Mu Tingxue realize that in ancient times, there was no mustard!

*. *. *

Mu Tingxue traveled back to modern times.

She went to the drugstore to refill [-] bottles of Jiangxue, the whitening and hydrating product.

Immediately afterwards, I drove to a rural area outside the city and found a mustard factory.

The factory looks simple from the outside, with truckloads of green cabbage, mustard greens, and mustard raw materials being transported into the factory.

"Girl, what's the matter?" the guard asked enthusiastically.

"I want to wholesale pickled mustard, which is salty and not spicy."

There were no chili peppers in ancient times.

She plans to make more tomatoes this year and promote chili peppers next year. Pickled mustard, a universal food, will not be spicy.

"This mustard factory is run by my wife."

The old doorman enthusiastically invited her in, "Xiankouer pickled mustard, 200 kilograms per box, high quality 75 yuan, ordinary [-]. The minimum order is ten boxes. The girl will try it first, and then decide whether to buy it or not."

Mu Tingxue entered a room full of pickled mustard, with more than 20 flavors in total.

There are only two types without adding chili.

Mu Tingxue picked it up with disposable chopsticks and tasted it. One was very salty, crunchy, full of spices and oily; the other was just salty and less oily.

"If you want this kind of salty and high-quality food, get ten tons."

"How much?!" The old guard was so shocked that his dentures almost fell to the ground.

"Ten tons, twenty thousand kilograms."

Why didn’t she pickle mustard in ancient times?

Because salt was a luxury product in ancient times, ordinary people were reluctant to add salt when cooking at home.

Some people even use "vinegar cloth" with a fishy and sour smell fished out of the sea instead of salt.

When running a small business, you should also consider the cost. If you make your own mustard and canned vegetables, you don't even consider how much salt is needed for pickled vegetables and fruits. You are just acting like a rogue. In ancient times, salt was more valuable than your life!

In the Tang Dynasty, a bucket of coarse salt cost four to five hundred yuan, while refined salt was dozens of times more expensive and was exclusive to nobles.