NFBE Chapter 90 Zhang Xiu's Divine Manipulation (for collection)
Chapter 90 Zhang Xiu's Divine Manipulation (for collection)
Chapter 90 Zhang Xiu's Divine Manipulation (for collection)
After hearing what Xiao Qi said, Zhang Xiu was not happy: "Do the officials think that Xiu'er is that jealous woman who can't tolerate others?"
How dare this Xiao Qi not explain clearly, he quickly put his arms around his little daughter-in-law to flatter her:
"My Xiu'er is a reasonable and good woman that is rare in the world, but Xiu'er can be the emperor instead.
If Xiu'er was the emperor, and today he just said that he wanted to marry his daughter to someone else, the next day that person's wife took a knife and went to find his daughter.
What would he think, Xiu'er should not be willful! "
Zhang Xiu tilted her head and thought about it. It was indeed easy to be misunderstood, so she couldn't stop laughing.
But in the end he still asked Xiao Qi to take her into the palace to see the Princess Yongjia.
Xiao Qi thought about it, forget it, the emperor should also understand that if Zhang Xiuzhen wanted to kill his daughter, there would be opportunities in the Xiao family in the future, it would be impossible to foolishly go to the palace to kill someone, so he nodded and agreed to take her into the palace.
The next day, they went to the palace together after the morning court. Zhao Gou and his son met the couple in the side hall.
After chatting a few words, Zhang Xiu took off her saber and handed it to Xiao Qi for safekeeping, and then said that she wanted to meet the princess Yongjia.
Zhao Gou and Zhao Shen saw that this was a discussion between the couple.
He quickly called a palace maid and led Zhang Xiu to find Yongjia. After Zhang Xiu left, Zhao Gou and his son were very happy.
Xiao Qi was secretly worried, he was not worried about what happened to Zhang Xiu in the palace.
Rather, I am worried that if the princess of Yongjia has been in the palace for a long time, because she is the daughter of the emperor, she will develop the same problem as those girls in her previous life who always thought that the earth revolved around her. all.
Xiao Qi was absent-mindedly chatting with Zhao Gou and his son, while waiting for Zhang Xiu to come back so he could ask what was going on.
On the contrary, Zhao Gou and Zhao Shen were very happy, and finally removed a big stone that was weighing on their hearts.
The two chatted excitedly with Xiao Qi, asking about Xiao Qi's prospecting and preparations for the new navy from time to time.
Xiao Qi has been worrying about these things all the time, and told the father and son that prospecting craftsmen have been recruited from all over the place, and they have already started sending them to three places for prospecting.
As for the naval barracks, the location has also been found, and a large number of shipbuilders are also being recruited, but the transportation of timber required for shipbuilding is too time-consuming and laborious, and it is estimated that it will take a lot of time.
In fact, after the royal family allowed him to use gunpowder, Xiao Qi has been focusing on building new types of trebuchets and experimenting with improving gunpowder. This is currently the most effective and most needed strategic necessity.
Of course, if the father and son don't ask, Xiao Qi will never take the initiative to say it, and the father and son are worried about whether their old Zhao family's country will be unstable.
Xiao Qi urged them to hurry up on another matter, which was to build a large horse farm in the Southern Song Dynasty. This thing is as important as gunpowder, and it is definitely the top strategic resource now.
The father and son didn't know where to build a horse farm, so Xiao Qi asked Xiao Qi to help them find a suitable place to raise horses.
Xiao Qi thought for a while, and felt that raising horses in the north direction was not suitable.
Because no matter Xixia or Dajin, they all have cavalry. People who build a horse farm in the north can run to your horse farm to attack you in a day or two, and then snatch the horses you have cultivated so hard.
That is equivalent to spending a long time on myself, and ended up raising a war horse for the enemy.
In the end, Xiao Qi suggested to Zhao Shen and his son that it would be better to build the racecourse in Sichuan in the west, which is the land of Shu in this era.
Find a place with a moderate altitude over there, preferably a few hundred miles away from Tubo. Although Tubo is not very powerful at this time, it is composed of small tribal kingdoms.
However, the shepherd's nature of loving horses, and his long-standing habit of grabbing and leaving, had to prevent the people there from discovering that there was a large horse farm in the Southern Song Dynasty not too far away from them.
Several of their larger tribes unite and run away to grab a grab. At that time, even if you gather people to fight to the plateau, and those tribes migrate away, you can only worry about it.
After all, the plateau environment is simply not suitable for large troops on the plains to station for a long time. After a long time, the people who go up will be embarrassed by the oxygen-poor environment there.
It is also possible that someone will find an opportunity to sneak attack, and if they fail, they will all explain where they are.
Xiao Qi suggested that after building a racecourse in a suitable place, station the Song army on the hundreds of miles between the racecourse and Tubo, preferably a few of those camps in Shu.
In that case, even if the Tubo people wanted to grab the horse, they would worry that even if they rushed to grab the horse, they would not be able to take it back with those troops stationed there.
In addition, there should not be too many horses there, and the usable war horses will be taken away from there every once in a while. This will not only allow the Song army to always have horses to replenish, but also reduce the chance of the horse farm being targeted.
As for the specific location of the racecourse, Xiao Qi asked the emperor to hand over the matter to Yu Yunwen, the new left minister. After all, he had been working in Sichuan and Sichuan before entering Beijing, and he was very familiar with it.
The three of them chatted for two hours in the side hall, Zhang Xiucai came back and ate a royal meal with Xiao Qi.
After eating, Xiao Qi planned to have a sip of tea, and after a few chats, he took his wife and left, so that he could go home and ask Zhang Xiu who he had been seeing for so long, what he was talking about, and if there was any other situation.
As a result, he just took a sip of tea here, but Zhang Xiu stood up and saluted Zhao Gou and Zhao Shen, saying that she had talked a lot with Princess Yongjia and felt that Yongjia should not be allowed to marry so vaguely.
Xiao Qi was dumbfounded, what kind of trouble is this bastard daughter-in-law going to do?
The royal family had declared Yongjia dead a few years ago!
Could it be that they slapped themselves in the face, saying that they were afraid that the Jin people would snatch the old Zhao's daughter away again, and let the child feign death?
Before Xiao Qi could stop her, Zhang Xiu told Zhao Gou and his son her idea, whose faces turned ugly.
Xiao Qi was startled when he heard this, and thought that his daughter-in-law was about to turn the world upside down!
It turned out that Zhang Xiu had heard Xiao Qi's account of the reason why Princess Yongjia faked her death the other day, and she also understood that Yongjia could not restore her status as princess, but she thought of a very naive method that left others speechless.
That is, she and Xiao Qi first quietly brought Yongjia back to Zhenbeihou's mansion, and said to the outside world that Zhang Xiu had found a new wife for Zhenbeihou, and Zhang Xiu took Yongjia to ask the emperor for a reward in a few days.
Then the emperor felt that the girl looked like his daughter Yongjia, so he just recognized her as a princess or something.
Zhang Xiu assured Zhao Shen that if the court ministers objected at that time, the emperor would not care, and she would beat him up on the grounds that someone was jealous of their sisters.
Both Zhao Shen and Xiao Qi were sweating profusely when they heard this, although your method is good, but the court hall is not a vegetable market after all, it's too childish for you to make such a fuss.
On the contrary, Zhao Gou clapped his hands and agreed, but Jiang was still too old, so he proposed not to go to the court to look for Zhao Shen, but to lead Yongjia into the palace directly to ask for a reward.
In the end, he met himself. He saw that the girl looked like his granddaughter who died young, so he insisted on recognizing him as a grandfather and giving her the surname Princess Zhao Feng!
Zhao Gou slapped his hands and said, "Anyway, I have already abdicated. At worst, those ministers will call me stupid behind my back, but the current emperor is my son, and he has to fulfill my wish."
Zhao Shen and Xiao Qi looked at each other, and felt that this method was better than what Zhang Xiu said, and even if those ministers opposed it, it was impossible for them to be too violent.
After all, no one can be more serious with the decision made by an old man who has abdicated because he missed his granddaughter who died young too much. Besides, if he is a princess, the treatment and money he gets are also paid by the royal family (tang third tone) .
Now Xiao Qi can't talk about going back, the four of them, one elderly, one middle-aged, two teenagers, murmured all afternoon in this side hall.
In the end, Zhao Gou made a decision and chose a method that several people studied for several hours.
After making the decision, Zhao Gou was in a happy mood. Finally, his precious granddaughter could see the light of day again. He didn't say to keep Xiao Qi and his wife for dinner, and urged them to go home and get ready, and secretly sent Yongjia to their house tomorrow.
Xiao Qi was speechless, so he could only lead his wife home and prepare to go.
Zhang Xiu was very excited, and happily took the two little maids to clean up the other houses, so that Yongjia could live with those who served her.
Looking at Zhang Xiu whose face was flushed with excitement because she wanted to marry the princess, Xiao Qi really couldn't understand what she was thinking!
It's a bit late today, so I'll catch up with Chapter 2 and deliver it right away.
(End of this chapter)