Traveling through ancient times, I led my family to prosperity

"Her fourth aunt, let's have dinner together as a family today. We should eat and drink." Seeing that Liu was a little reserved, Zhang picked up a piece of pork ribs and put it in her bowl, and said to her.

Since Liu married into the old Sheng family and met a mother-in-law like Cui, she has developed the habit of not daring to pick up chopsticks when eating. Now that she has separated from the family and lived a few days, her habit has not changed and she still habitually does not pick up food.

About half an hour after dinner, the moon was already high in the sky.

The family moved to the yard, brought out the tables and chairs, and placed fruits, snacks and moon cakes on them. They sat around the table and chatted and admired the moon, and deliberately avoided the topic of the old Sheng family.

After dinner was digested a little, Xiao Lan started cutting the mooncakes. The reason why she didn't let everyone hold a mooncake and eat it was because if they cut it into pieces, they could eat more flavors, so that everyone could taste several flavors of mooncakes.

As the saying goes, the more you try to avoid something, the more it will come to you.

On the second day after the festival, the county government sent someone to notify Xiaolan's family to go to the provincial capital to pick her up.

Because the notification was done by police officers, they were all wearing the same yamen uniforms, which really scared Xiaolan's family, as they thought that their family had committed some crime.

When Xiao Lan heard that they were asked to go to the city to pick up someone, she was completely shocked. Her whole family was together, so who were they going to pick up in the city? She really couldn't understand.

However, she was very cunning, so she asked around, but the yamen runners said that they had only received a notice asking her family to pick someone up, but they were not sure who it was.

After sending the bailiff away, Xiao Lan started to think about it at home.

Her family had only been involved with Shen Liu in the ice-making business, but that was a few months ago. Now it was the end of summer. Could it be that Shen Liu didn't make enough money, so he sent them to the provincial capital on purpose just to blackmail her family?

Random Xiao Lan shook her head and rejected this idea. Shen Liu was not a person who would make fun of ordinary people for his own selfish interests. After all, he was the general of the city, and he was also the Queen's brother, a person of status and position. He should not be able to do such a thing as getting her prescription for free.

However, these are just Xiaolan's predictions. After all, the truth of the matter can only be known after they go to the provincial capital.

But the only thing Xiao Lan can guarantee is that Shen Liu made a lot of money this summer. She heard from Zhao Dongjia last time that although the city was stable, Shen Liu was not idle. Instead, he was clearing out bandits everywhere under the pretext of training troops.

At that time, Xiao Lan realized that something was wrong, but she didn't think much about it at the time. After all, Shen Liu's life was too different from hers. But now she came to her senses and was afraid that Shen Liu was using war to support war.

Tax laws are the foundation of the imperial court. At that time, Shen Liu had to rely on selling ice to maintain the normal operation of the army. It can be seen that there were problems with the country's taxation at that time.

In peaceful times, the collection of taxes should have been smooth, but in the past two years of famine, not to mention the grain tax, even food and clothing became a problem, and they had to rely on the state to distribute relief grain. How could there be any extra grain to pay taxes?

"My girl, stop thinking about it. You'll tire your brain out." Sheng Xuan said, "Let's go to the city tomorrow and see what's going on."

Xiao Lan could only nod in agreement.

Xiao Lan was a person who couldn't eat or sleep well when she had something on her mind. In order to reduce her internal friction, she went directly to Mr. Huang to answer her questions.

Since Mr. Huang from the prefecture city moved to their home, Mr. Huang accepted Xiaolan as his disciple. Although she was a female disciple, Mr. Huang was a man with a deep understanding of the situation. He did not hide anything from Xiaolan because she was a girl, nor did he teach her in a serious way. On the contrary, he taught Xiaolan very hard and said that Xiaolan was very talented, and if she was a boy, it would be easy for her to get the first place in the exam. He used Xiaolan as an example to teach his children to study hard.

"Although the Hu people have paid money to the court, the border is still not completely stable, and there have been constant wars these days," said Mr. Huang, stroking his beard.

The war hasn't stopped? Xiao Lan's smile froze. Don't tell her that the war can start at any time.

Mr. Huang seemed to know what Xiao Lan was complaining about, so he smiled and added, "Don't worry, the Lakers have been hurt this time, so they won't be able to fight for a while."

"So what you just said..." Xiao Lan quickly understood and clapped her hands, saying, "Fight to support the war."

"Yes, fighting to support fighting." Mr. Huang looked at Xiao Lan deeply. He once again admired the intelligence of his only female disciple. If she was a boy, she would be able to become the Prime Minister in due time.

Mr. Huang saw that Xiao Lan understood everything immediately, so he explained it to her again, "The emperor said that only soldiers who have seen blood are real soldiers, and only generals who have led troops in battle are real generals. It is not enough to just talk about military affairs in meetings, you must practice them yourself. And this year, the soldiers led by Shen Liu suffered heavy casualties, so he recruited new soldiers this year, and the old soldiers led the new soldiers to harass the Hu soldiers or suppress the bandits. In fact, General Shen has only one intention, which is to respond to the emperor's call. He can do things for the people and train the soldiers at the same time, so why not do it?"

"Listening to your words is worth ten years of study." As Xiaolan and Mr. Huang got to know each other better, she admired him more and more. Mr. Huang knew everything from astronomy to geography, and now he could even analyze military operations. Xiaolan really admired him more and more.

"Then Mr. Huang, who do you think Shen Liu is going to take over this time when he asked us to go to the provincial capital?" Xiao Lan asked.

Mr. Huang lowered his head and thought for a while, then raised his right arm and pointed his finger in the direction of Lao Sheng's house.

This coincided with Xiao Lan's thoughts. She had been wondering who Shen Liu wanted them to pick up in the city. She thought about it for a long time and thought of various possibilities, but one possibility was the biggest, that is, the person they were going to pick up in the city was from the old Sheng family.

Once she got to the government office in the prefecture, everything would be revealed. Now that she had listened to Mr. Huang's analysis and added her own thoughts, she had a rough idea in her mind.

Tomorrow, August 17th, Xiaolan and Shengxuan will load up their dry food and water and drive their carriage to the provincial capital.

Before leaving, brothers Zhang Qingfeng and Zhang Qingnian both expressed their desire to go with Sheng Xuan, but were rejected by Sheng Xuan and Xiao Lan. Now her eldest uncle and second uncle are both busy with their own affairs. Her eldest uncle is in charge of the tofu workshop, and her second uncle is watching over the construction of the soap workshop, and they are both busy.

The provincial capital was far from Shengjia Village, and the father and daughter walked for two full days before they reached their house in the provincial capital.