The little princess' mind was read, and the court and harem were eating melons

In the evening, Li Qingyi heard from the system that Li Qi was stripped of his prince status by the emperor and demoted to a commoner.

Li Qingyi: [It seems that my father is really angry this time. I thought that with my father's temper, he might give Li Qi a chance. After all, he always thinks that my second brother is still young and a child.]

Li Qingyi was not speaking without reason. The emperor's requirements for the crown prince were different from those for other princes.

This is actually normal. One is going to inherit the family business, so the requirements are naturally stricter.

As for the others, those who have the conditions can help and assist, and those who don’t have the conditions should not have any ambitions and cause trouble for the prince.

If he had a crueler father, it wouldn't be impossible for him to train his other sons into mediocrity and fundamentally solve the problem of possible conflicts among brothers, right?

But that would mean the prince is useless. If he can't even control his brothers, how can he control the ministers?

The prince made a mistake and the emperor disciplined him severely.

But when Li Qi made mistakes, most of the time the emperor would gently pick it up and put it down, and a phrase he often said was "The second prince is young."

Li Qingyi witnessed it several times with her own eyes. Mainly because the emperor and the empress had a good relationship, he would come to Kunning Palace to talk to the empress about previous events and the affairs of the princes whenever he had time. She had heard such words with her own ears.

Li Qingyi didn't know what the queen was thinking.

Anyway, she herself felt that the reason why Li Qi was so stupid and had no self-awareness was probably because the emperor's attitude gave him the wrong message.

System: [Liu was sentenced to death.]

Li Qingyi was silent for a moment and said nothing.

After all, she was a girl who grew up in the modern world. Although she knew that Liu's death was justifiable under the circumstances, she still felt...

System: [Host, are you unhappy? I see that this cheap mother and son are very hostile to the Queen and the Crown Prince. They have been doing a lot of small things behind their backs. They are not very harmful, but they have done a lot of things that are annoying.]

Li Qingyi: [Why should I be happy?]

System: [Oh…]

Li Qingyi curled her lips and didn't want to hear any news about Li Qi and the others. As for how Li Qi would live after being demoted to a commoner, that had nothing to do with her.

With this free time, she might as well take care of her own business: [How much merit do I have now? ]

Should it be 97.48?

System: [Host's current merit is 192.48. Wow, host, you have made some money. ]

Li Qingyi was stunned.

The emperor and empress, who had been eavesdropping from the corner after hearing the news, stopped at the same time and looked at each other.

Li Qingyi: [Is there an account statement? ]

System: [Yes, yes, host, do you want to see it? I’ll read it to you.]

There is no way. Although the system can project directly to the host, that costs money. The host Li Qingyi is obviously a stingy person and will definitely not be happy.

Li Qingyi: [Read.]

System: [There are two large sums of money coming in. I won't tell you about the small details. These two sums were provided by the weavers in the Jiangnan area. Let me see... Oh! Host, when did you ask someone to put up the spindles of the looms? ]

Li Qingyi was puzzled for a moment, then dug out the incident from the previous year from the corners of his memory, exclaimed, and said after a while: [It should be last year. My brother carried me to see the loom in the inner factory. I heard that someone below had improved the loom and wanted to send it to my father for him to see. ]

【Then I subconsciously felt that the weaving efficiency was still a bit low, so I asked my brother to add more spindles. 】

【My brother said there is no way to add it. 】

【I said add vertically. 】

Li Qingyi thought of this and scratched her cheek with her little hand, feeling a little embarrassed: [It seems that they really did figure it out, but from what you said, it doesn't seem like my brother asked someone to do it. ]

System: [Let me check.]

After a while, the system came back with a clatter.

System: [Host, host, the prince still dotes on you. Although you just mentioned it casually at the time, you still wanted to appease your sister and asked the Internal Manufacturing Department to study how to add ingots and make them stand upright. However, the prince took you seriously, but the people in the Internal Manufacturing Department did not take your words seriously and perfunctorily dealt with it.]

【Later, the prince was busy with other things, and you forgot about it, so the internal production department simply stopped this work and did other things.】

[However, a weaver girl who was also present at the scene, after demonstrating the improved loom to the emperor, remembered your words and tinkered with it at home and achieved results.]

Li Qingyi: […Forget about this internal creation. It’s not that I can’t understand it. After all, I’m still young.]

The queen looked at the emperor, and the emperor's expression was not very good.

For the emperor, the Neizaochu were the servants who worked for the royal family. Although Li Qingyi was young, he was still their master.

By doing this, they not only showed no respect to the young master Li Qingyi, but also showed disrespect to the crown prince. After all, the crown prince had given the order directly.

The emperor turned his head and glanced at Eunuch Huang beside him.

Eunuch Huang bowed quickly to show that he understood, then he retreated quietly to deal with those daring servants in the inner chamber.

The Queen lowered her voice and said: "I wonder how useful the loom this system is talking about must be to bring merit to Yi'er."

She didn't forget the point.

The emperor also thought of this, his eyes flickered slightly, and he whispered back: "I will ask the Qingyi Guards to go to Jiangnan. If they are really effective, I will reward that Weaver Girl."

Meeting the Queen's gaze, the Emperor smiled and added, "I won't forget Yi'er either."

At that time, the emperor still thought that this newly invented loom was at most just an improvement on the previous one.

Looms and spinning machines have been continuously improved from ancient times to the present. Every generation has made progress, which is a happy thing, but the progress is not too much. They are all accumulated bit by bit.

Then, the emperor and the empress heard a shocking statement.

Li Qingyi: [Compared to traditional textile machines, after improvement, one more spindle normally doubles the output. As long as the technology is up to standard, it would be a great achievement to directly make a textile machine with 32 or even more spindles.]

Li Qingyi: [I vaguely remember that before the Spinning Jenny, my country also had similar textile machines that were more efficient than the Spinning Jenny.]

Li Qingyi: [But I didn’t study this, and I don’t know how to make this thing, what a pity. ]

System: [Host, you are talking about the textile machine recorded in "Wang Zhen's Agricultural Book", right? I saw it, it is about 6 meters long and 1.5 meters wide, and can spin 32 spindles at the same time. It can use human or animal power, and can produce 120 kilograms a day. Compared with the production capacity of most textile machines now, it is really amazing.]

The system was delighted: [Host, don't worry, this spinning machine has not been lost here! ]

The emperor felt like he could hardly breathe!