Traveling to an ancient peasant family: I got rich by doing business

Because Emperor Tianyuan abdicated in September, the crown prince did not change the reign title after he ascended the throne.

It was not until the first month of the following year that he changed the reign title to Chenghe.

That year was the first year of Chenghe, and the new emperor was also called Emperor Chenghe.

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Emperor Chenghe was a diligent and decisive emperor. After he ascended the throne, he quickly eliminated the remnants of Prince Hui's followers and promoted a group of officials with both moral integrity and talent.

Among them is Han Zheng.

Last year, when Han Zheng and Master Jiang returned from disaster relief in Nanzhou Prefecture, Emperor Tianyuan wanted to promote him. However, at that time, Emperor Tianyuan was in poor health, Prince Hui rebelled again, and with so many things to do, Emperor Tianyuan put the matter on hold and never carried it out until he abdicated.

However, Emperor Chenghe remembered this incident, and after he ascended the throne, Han Zheng was relaxed and did a lot of things with some small results. So after considering the opinions of several important officials such as Jiang Taifu, Emperor Chenghe transferred Han Zheng to the Ministry of Justice as the Minister of Justice. As for Minister Pei, he was promoted to the Minister of Justice.

The Vice Minister of the Ministry of Justice was of the third rank, and Han Zheng was originally of the fifth rank. This time it was equivalent to jumping several levels at once. For a time, many people complained about it, and some even said that Han Zheng was relying on Li Yu's fame.

In fact, this is not the case. The reason why Han Zheng became the Minister of Justice was because Emperor Chenghe felt that he was capable of doing the job.

Moreover, he cooperated well with the former Minister Pei and the current Shangshu Pei. They investigated the case in Donghai Prefecture together, and they also cooperated to capture Prefect Hong of Nanzhou Prefecture when they went to Nanzhou Prefecture for disaster relief.

Both of them are upright people, so it is perfect for them to manage the Ministry of Justice together.

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The person who was most happy about Han Zheng's promotion was Han Xiaomei.

Li Yu was a little worried. In fact, she thought the Imperial Academy was pretty good, and generally they didn't have to work overtime. The Ministry of Justice was different. When encountering a major case, they basically had to try the case overnight, which was bad for their health.

But Han Zheng seemed to like the Ministry of Justice very much and could read files until late at night. She thought about it and did not express her concerns.

Just arrange for someone to take care of him privately.

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After moving into the princess's mansion, more than a dozen maids and servants were added to the house.

Li Yu arranged for a young, honest servant to follow Han Zheng, doing small things like running errands. In addition, the two brothers Miao Da and Miao Er also followed Han Zheng, and they would be responsible for protecting Han Zheng's safety in the future.

Han Xiaomei also found a clever-looking little girl of eight or nine years old to follow her.

As for her, she was not used to having outsiders coming in and out of her room frequently, so she just did it the same as before, without being served by anyone. She did what she could do herself, and assigned other people to do what she could not do or did not have time to do.

Usually when she goes out, either Lu Xuan or Si'er follows her. When they are busy, she will find a guard to follow her.

There were many rooms in the Princess's Mansion, so she called back all the guards she had trained. However, the one who went out with her most often was Lu Xuan.

Lu Xuan was given to Li Yu by the county magistrate's wife the year she left Jiangyang County. She said he was a bodyguard, but in fact, she had not treated Lu Xuan as an outsider over the years, and he knew some things earlier than Han Zheng.

During the Chinese New Year, she gave Lu Xuan his indenture. She had given it to him during the Chinese New Year last year, the year before last, and the year before last, but Lu Xuan refused. This time, she took a firm stance and Lu Xuan took it back.

She thought that Lu Xuan was old and should consider his lifelong affairs, but Lu Xuan took back the indenture but did not leave.

He still went to the store to help out or went out with her as before. When he had nothing to do, he would teach people martial arts in the mansion.

As for Si'er, he had his own ideas and seemed to be very busy all day. After Li Yu was sure that he had done nothing wrong, he let him go.

At this time, she was a princess to the outside world, but internally there was actually no change, and everyone was the same as before.

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At the hot pot restaurant and barbecue restaurant, the helpers each performed their duties under the arrangement of Nanny Tian and Madam Yan, and everything was in order.

After Prince Hui was arrested last year, all the helpers who had left the capital came back. They came to Li Yu and begged him to work in the store in the future. Li Yu thought that they had performed well in the past few years and did not refuse their request.

Anyway, the store had been closed since they left, and when they came back, the store had almost just opened. They didn't delay anything at all, so there was no need for her to blame them.

In addition to these two stores, Li Yu plans to open a few more stores in the future, and then let the old people in the two stores take care of the others. Especially Pei Mingzhu and Han Rong who followed her from Huangmei Town. In a few years, they have taken root in Beijing. In the future, she wants to lead them to live a better life.

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That day, after taking a walk outside, Li Yu returned to the Zhuangyuan Mansion where he used to live.

The Zhuangyuan Mansion is under renovation.

When Prince Hui died, Boss Bai and his family, who lived next door and were responsible for protecting Li Yu's family, moved out, and the three-story courtyard was handed over to Li Yu. This courtyard was given to Li Yu by the Crown Princess a few years ago, and the title deed had long been in Li Yu's hands.

Li Yu thought that the two courtyards were adjacent to each other and it would be inconvenient to go through the main gate, so he asked someone to open a door on the wall that spans the courtyards of Zhuangyuan Mansion and go through the door from now on.

Just as he was telling the bricklayer his request, the gatekeeper, Mr. Fang, came running over and said someone was visiting.

Li Yu thought it was another official's wife, but when he went out to take a look, he found out that it was the brother and sister Yue Ji and Yue Xiang.

Although Yue Ji had done a lot for Prince Hui in the past few years, his hands had never been directly stained with blood. In addition, he assisted Prince An in capturing Prince Hui last year, which was considered a great achievement. Therefore, his merits and demerits offset each other, and neither Emperor Tianyuan nor Emperor Chenghe punished him.

Li Yu had seen the brother and sister go to the Sheng family.

After a fire broke out there thirteen years ago, no one has taken care of it and it is now in ruins.

"I heard you rebuilt your house." Li Yu asked, "Are you going to live in the capital in the future?"

"I can't stay here anymore." Yue Ji said, "We are leaving the capital, so we came here today to say goodbye to Princess Li..."

Yue Ji didn't know why he came here. After returning to the capital for revenge, he had not made any friends. Every day he thought about how to help Prince Hui win the position of crown prince.

Now that he was about to leave, he thought about it and realized that apart from his former neighbors, he could only say goodbye to Li Yu.

In fact, Li Yu shouldn't care, because he is not a good person and he even tried to find fault with her before.

From Li Yu's perspective, his actions at that time were really unpleasant.

Li Yu didn't know what Yue Ji was thinking, so she followed up on what Yue Ji had just said and asked, "Where are you going?"

"Let's go to Beizhou Prefecture." Yue Ji said, "Beizhou Prefecture is close to the capital. We can often worship our parents in the future."

Li Yu: "Very good."

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They were not very familiar with each other, and after a few words, they had nothing more to say.

Upon seeing this, Yue Ji picked up his bag and formally said goodbye to Li Yu.

Li Yu nodded and said, "Have a safe journey."

Watching the two figures getting farther and farther away, Li Yu returned to the yard and continued talking to the bricklayer.

After a while, someone else came to visit.

Li Yu had to go out again.

This time there were two girls coming. Seeing the appearance of the girl in front, Li Yu was surprised and asked, "Miss Xie, when did you come back?"