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The grass is growing and the birds are singing, and soon it is the second winter.

During this year, the lady gave birth to a fat girl weighing eight kilograms as she wished. Zhou Chenli was so happy that he set up a banquet in front of the Duke's Mansion for a month.

Zhou Chenli is now content with his daughter. He no longer drinks tea or paints every day. Except for occasionally teasing the mynah bird, he follows his daughter around the clock. He has transformed from a wife-doting man to a die-hard daughter slave.

If there was one regret Zhou Chenli had about having a daughter, it was that he had come up with a bunch of names for her in advance, but in the end, none of them were used.

On the day of the fat girl's full moon, the Empress Dowager in the palace issued an imperial decree, giving the eldest daughter of the Duke of Dingguo's Mansion a full name: Zhou Changning.

Then the emperor's edict also arrived at the Duke Dingguo's Mansion, bestowing the title of Princess Fukang on the eldest daughter of the Duke Dingguo's Mansion.

As for her nickname, the lady had already chosen it long ago: Tangtang. She said her daughter should be as sweet as honey and live a happy life.

Zhou Chenli was so angry that he stood by his wife, jumping up and down and cursing the Emperor and the Empress Dowager for a long time, complaining that the mother and son had such bad intentions. He had a bunch of children and grandchildren, and they still had time to worry about his daughter's affairs.

Thinking of leaving those names for his granddaughters, he didn't expect that not long after, the two young ladies gave birth to two little boys in succession.

All the names that Zhou Chenli had thought so hard about were rendered useless.

After the New Year, Zhou Jiyuan was sent to study at the Imperial College under the arrangement of Zhou Chenli.

Zhou Chenli: "Son, it doesn't matter whether you study well or not, the main thing is that you should go out and make some friends."

"At home, rely on your parents; when you go out, rely on your friends. You can't live your whole life without any friends."

Zhou Jiyuan nodded repeatedly after hearing this and said, "Dad, I understand. I'm going there just to hang out. Studying is secondary, making friends is the main thing."

"But making friends requires money. How can you make friends with words? Dad, please give me some money. I don't have any."

When Xu Miao and his wife heard that Zhou Jiyuan was going to the Imperial College to study alone, they were like two old hens about to lose their children.

Xu Miao had already carefully analyzed for Zhou Jiyuan the situations he might encounter at school.

"Yuan, if someone bullies you, don't bear it. Hit them on the butt. It's very resistant to beatings and has lots of flesh. It won't get hurt."

"If someone asks you to borrow money, don't lend it to them."

"I don't have any money, but I have a life. Take it."

"Also, you need to learn to refuse unreasonable requests and not always give in to their wishes. Be sure to protect yourself and don't let others take advantage of you."

If the Imperial College had not prohibited women from enrolling, Xu Miao would have wanted to go to school with Zhou Jiyuan.

The main reason is that Xu Miao thinks Zhou Jiyuan is too kind and always feels that he will be bullied.

The wife was even more straightforward: "A Yuan, just go to the Imperial College every day and go home. We have no shortage of top scholars."

Her eldest brother won the top three places in the imperial examination, and the top place was as worthless as the cabbages in her backyard.

Later, the two sons of the Duke's Mansion dragged their younger brother out to play for the whole afternoon. I don't know what they said to Zhou Jiyuan. Zhou Jiyuan happily went to school with his schoolbag on his back.

From then on, the Imperial College of the Great Zhou had a stingy and unruly man.

Xu Jingyi rushed back to the capital after the ice and snow melted after the New Year.

When meeting the emperor, Xu Jingyi tremblingly took out a stack of silver bills and a petition from the people from his pocket and held them high above his head.

"Long live the emperor. This is the silver I left over from my disaster relief work in the state capital. It totals five thousand taels."

"There's also a petition from the disaster-stricken people of the state capital expressing their gratitude to the emperor. The people are grateful for the emperor's great grace and timely assistance, which saved them from being displaced during the cold winter."

The emperor, sitting on the dragon throne, heard this and slammed the table with a loud bang: "What did you say? There are still five thousand taels left? And there is also a petition!"

The money was irrelevant; the key was the thank-you letter. This was beyond the emperor's expectation.

Xu Jingyi was so frightened that he immediately burst into tears. He gritted his teeth and said, "Long live the emperor. I only have five thousand taels left."

Xu Jingyi...his crime of embezzling 12,000 taels of silver has been exposed?

Upon hearing this, the Emperor laughed heartily. "Master Xu, well done. You have done a superb job, truly a role model for the officials of the Great Zhou Dynasty. I will immediately promote you to a higher rank. How about the position of Left Vice Minister of the Ministry of Personnel?"

Xu Jingyi didn't even have time to wipe away his tears before he kowtowed and obeyed the order. He jumped from the Ministry of Finance to the Organization Department.

The emperor felt that court officials should take Xu Jingyi as an example, and that officials who could get things done without paying were the most suitable for assessing cadres.

Later, the emperor asked Xu Jingyi how he had accomplished the disaster relief without spending a penny of the court's money.

Xu Jingyi looked at the emperor with an apologetic look on his face: "Long live the emperor, it's not that I didn't spend the money."

Xu Jingyi...Your Majesty, please don't make things difficult for me. How can I get things done without spending money?

"The money for disaster relief was donated by wealthy merchants in the state capital. I held a charity sale in the state capital, and your calligraphy sold for 2.5 million taels of silver."

"Later, all the silver was used to help the disaster victims. I originally wanted to leave some for the court. But there were so many victims, so only the last 5,000 taels were left."

"Your Majesty, we are a family now."

Xu Jingyi felt that he was now the emperor's relative and could get close to the emperor.

"Your Majesty, please do not refuse me. Give the wealthy merchants in the state capital some plaques and let them hang them on the doors of their shops. This will remind them every day to be grateful for the emperor's great grace."

After Xu Jingyi finished submitting his memorial to the emperor, he began to feel annoyed. Why had he forgotten to ask the emperor for money? Without money, how could he use it for disaster relief? And his determination was useless.

Xu Jingyi wandered around the state capital with his entourage and found that although the people in the state capital were poor, the rich businessmen in the state capital were extremely wealthy.

Later, Xu Jingyi and the city lord held a charity sale for these wealthy businessmen.

At the charity sale, Xu Jingyi assured the wealthy merchants, "I am a doctor in the Ministry of Personnel of the Great Zhou Dynasty. Most importantly, I have an amazing in-law."

"My father-in-law is the renowned Duke Dingguo, the current emperor's cousin, and a close friend of the emperor since childhood. He is an absolute royal relative."

"I can ask my in-laws to ask the emperor to write an inscription for you. With the emperor's calligraphy, your business will be taken to the next level."

At that time, Xu Jingyi didn't know that he had become the emperor's relative, so he didn't dare to ask the emperor for help. He felt that it would be more feasible for Zhou Chenli to ask for help.

Xu Jingyi talked a lot at the charity sale, but the core purpose was pre-sale.

When the wealthy businessmen heard about the pre-sale products, they became interested. They had traveled far and wide and of course knew who Duke Dingguo was.

If the emperor had an inscription, it would be equivalent to getting a golden medal of immunity from death for the family. Such a good thing doesn't come every day.

So, Xu Jingyi managed to scam people out of 2.5 million taels of silver at the charity sale, and all the money was used to build new houses for the victims and buy food and medicine.

Later, a small-eyed, sparsely browed old man quietly approached Xu Jingyi and handed him a 10,000-liang silver note: "Sir, my family is just a small timber shop, and I also want to contribute a little to the disaster victims."

"But I really don't have the strength to compete with those wealthy merchants. I thought that Your Excellency would consider my sincerity. I can just ask the Emperor for a small note."

The old man said that their shop had a small frontage and there was no place to put a large inscription, so just two words would satisfy him.

Xu Jingyi tearfully said to the emperor, "Your Majesty, the old man from the timber shop donated even the coffin materials he had prepared for his mother in order to build houses for the disaster victims."

"Your Majesty, in view of the old man's sincerity, must write two words for him."

This is the most important thing for Xu Jingyi to meet the emperor.