Author: sole red

In mid-June, the second elder brother got married and officially married the second daughter of the second assistant, Lu Zongli.

When you have a wife, you have to ask for a royal title. Isn't this because the rank of the clerk has not yet been determined. Li Zhao went to his father specifically for this matter and asked him to quickly determine the rank, so as not to let his second brother-in-law do it without knowing it.

So long.

The emperor thought about it for a few days, and then sent Mr. Wu from the Ministry of Personnel to argue with the bosses of the Ministry of War. After several days of arguing, the secretary of the Firearms Camp was finally designated as a fourth-grade civil servant.

This grade is neither high nor low, but it is just right for Song Chenxu's age.

The wonderful thing is that this is a civilian position, and everyone knows that this young man with amazing talent and talent who won the title of "Tang Hua Lang" at the age of eighteen will go to the Ministry of War in the future.

The emperor has given this young man a straight path to success.

At the end of June, Lu Wenyan and Song Qianqian's decree came down together. After receiving the decree, they needed to bathe in fragrant soup. The next day, they went to the palace to pay homage to the two most noble women in Zhou Dynasty: the Empress Dowager and the Empress.

Empress.

On such a day, Song Qingyue would naturally have to attend.

Early in the morning, before dawn, Song Qingyue was woken up by Aunt Bai. After washing up and combing her hair, Song Qingyue was still dozing off.

Li Zhao helped her draw eyebrows and apply pearls. Song Qingyue suddenly hugged her husband's waist and said coquettishly: "I don't want to go to the palace! Husband! I don't want to go to the palace!"

"That's not possible. If you don't go, your sister and your second sister-in-law will suffer."

"I went with you to help them withstand the artillery fire!"

Song Qingyue sighed, and Li Zhao smiled softly for a long time, leaned down and kissed the top of her hair, and said a few words in Song Qingyue's ear.

"Really?!" When Song Qingyue heard this, she immediately stopped being depressed and instead looked at Li Zhao with some gloating.

Li Zhao smiled lightly and pinched her cheek: "How long have you tolerated them? If you continue to be ungrateful, you will have to pay a price for offending my beloved, right?"

"Father, don't you need to worry about it?" Song Qingyue asked worriedly.

Li Zhao sneered lightly: "We have to take care of them. Father, I have to take care of the mood of my eldest son."

Song Qingyue raised her head and looked at Li Zhao intently for a while. Li Zhao smiled softly, held Song Qingyue's face and kissed her heavily on the lips.

Song Qingyue laughed: "It doesn't matter if I am told a few words, but it is you. You are my husband. We will both prosper and suffer. Even if it is for me and the children, you have to think about it."

Li Zhao hummed and patted Song Qingyue on the back.

"Don't worry, I can't always make you feel wronged."

When Song Qingyue entered the palace by car, Li Zhao went to the imperial prison dungeon, where half of the officials had already been fished out after their families paid "fine".

It was Lao Qiu, the former lowly official in the Ministry of War who was in charge of meals for the workers. His family spent a full two thousand taels of silver before Jinyiwei released him.

Note that the two thousand taels of silver are only the cost of redeeming the person, and do not include the up and down payment fees.

Yu Weiliang has collected tens of thousands of taels of silver just from the relatives of criminals related to the shipyard incident.

He did not dare to hide it secretly, so he handed over all the account books for collecting bribes to the emperor.

The emperor was very happy to see the account book and asked him to keep one third of it, while he confiscated the remaining two thirds.

Of course, apart from being happy about this, the rest was growing disappointment towards Ning Yuan.

Yu Weiliang received tens of thousands of taels of bribes here, and Ning Yuan naturally received a lot of bribes, but that guy acted like a normal person and has remained silent about it until now.

The emperor's patience is always limited.

But many times, people below will foolishly regard their boss's silence as a kind of acquiescence.

After Song Qingyue entered the palace, she met the old lady of the Ou family and the two daughters-in-law of the Ou family, one of whom was Ou Shaofeng's wife.

The old lady and Ou Shaofeng's wife didn't look very good on their faces. Song Qingyue heard that the Ou family spent a total of 600,000 taels of silver to barely save Ou Shaofeng's life.

The position of Commander-in-Chief of the Beiyang Navy was still not saved. Ou Shaofeng was ordered by the emperor to go home and reflect. Then he appointed Ou Shaofeng's younger brother, who was said to be quite capable, named Ou Shaozhi, as the Deputy Commander-in-Chief of the Beiyang Navy.

When the old lady of the Ou family saw Song Qingyue in the corridor leading to Cining Palace, she immediately led her two daughters-in-law forward to salute and say hello.

"Greetings to the empress!" The three of them saluted in unison.

"Old lady, you don't have to be polite!" Song Qingyue had a very decent smile on her face.

"I heard that your Majesty said a lot of good things for our Shaofeng, I would like to thank you!"

The old lady of the Ou family looked grateful. After saying this, she was about to bow down again, but Song Qingyue reached out to support her: "Old feudal lord, you don't have to be like this. We are all members of our own family, so we will naturally have to exert our strength."

For a moment, the old lady's expression was unnatural, and the younger daughter-in-law behind her looked at Song Qingyue with bright eyes, her face filled with unstoppable joy.

The other older daughter-in-law beside her glanced at her sister-in-law next to her with resentment, gritted her teeth and lowered her head.

Song Qingyue had a panoramic view of the expressions of several people.

My father-in-law is really ruthless.

On the surface, he showed favor to the Ou family, but in fact, he provoked internal conflicts within the Ou family. He abandoned Ou Shaofeng, a greedy person, and supported another bastard who was capable but could not display his talents due to his status.

In this way, he is really grateful in his heart, but he is not much more loyal to the emperor than his brother?

Song Qingyue smiled and continued walking in the direction of Cining Palace, thinking about the recent events in the court.

I feel strange in my heart. Logically speaking, a big family like the Ou family attaches great importance to the education of their children. After reading so many history books, have they all been read into the belly of a dog?

In the final analysis, you can't fight against the word "greed" deep in your heart.

For example, the Shen family is much better. The eldest son of the Shen family is serving as the commander-in-chief of the Dongyang Navy. The rest of the family members basically hold some insignificant and small positions in the Dongyang Navy and no longer try to interfere in other places.

The Dongyang Navy was also managed very securely. It had repelled several Japanese pirate raids and wiped out two groups of pirates in the East China Sea who had been fattened by the Chen family. It never missed a critical moment.

The girl from the Shen family, Shen Weige, is also very stable in the backyard. She has never acted like a monster so far... but she is not at all as arrogant and brainless as her sister Shen Baozhen.

Fortunately, it was not the backyard where the "Queen Shen" from the novel came.

As she was thinking this, someone suddenly called out from behind her to stop Song Qingyue.

"The Queen of Jin!"

Song Qingyue stopped, turned around, and stared blankly at the plump-faced lady behind her.

The visitor smiled slightly: "Your Majesty, you are such a noble person who forgets many things. She actually doesn't remember my wife at all."

"Who are you?"

"Shen Baozhen, from the Shen family! You really don't remember me at all?!" The visitor stared at Song Qingyue.

Only then did Song Qingyue suddenly look on her face: "Hello, Miss Shen! It's been a long time since I last saw you, so it's hard to recognize her after her appearance has changed."

Shen Baozhen snorted: "Now she is Mrs. Hou Shizi of Chang'an!"

Song Qingyue thought for two seconds about who the Marquis of Chang'an was. This was a noble family whose presence was not very strong. However, this family was also one of the founding heroes. It had managed to survive several coups and was even married to the Shen family. , presumably not much different.

At least several generations of Chang'an Marquis were not incompetent.

"Since we are old acquaintances, let's go together." Song Qingyue laughed.

Originally following Song Qingyue were the three imperial wives of the Ou family, but the Shen family suddenly stepped in, making the old lady of the Ou family look even more ugly.

However, Song Qingyue obviously had no intention of continuing to talk to them, and Shen Baozhen's husband was the heir apparent of the Hou family. In terms of imperial rank, he was indeed higher than those of the Ou family.

The three members of the Ou family had no choice but to slow down unwillingly and let the two of them go ahead.

But Song Qingyue and Shen Baozhen had nothing to talk about.

The two walked in silence for a while, and Shen Baozhen finally couldn't hold back her thoughts and said, "Hey, do you still remember what happened in the embroidery class?"

"Madam, are you saying that you don't want to sit with me and my second sister?"

"You... the queen is indeed a vengeful person!" Shen Baozhen pouted, still having the temperament of a child.

Song Qingyue laughed, feeling a little happy for Shen Baozhen.

Fortunately, she didn't marry Li Zhao, otherwise she would have been ruined for the rest of her life. Things are really unpredictable.

When she first entered this novel, she never thought that everyone's fate would change so much.

When Shen Baozhen saw that the expression on Song Qingyue's face was very calm, and she openly talked about the little awkwardness she had when she was a girl, she felt relieved.

Things that can be expressed verbally are not big things.

She suddenly remembered that she was Liang Yuan's cousin in Prince Jin's Mansion, and wanted to ask if her sister was doing well in the Prince's Mansion, but remembering the task given by her mother-in-law today, she shut her mouth tightly.

Now that the generals of the Beiyang Navy have been laid off in large numbers, it is a good opportunity to find a job for my husband.

If her cousin was favored, she would go directly to Shen Liangyuan.

But since my cousin is not favored, I have to go to Song Qingyue for this matter.

So she came here today just to say hello to Song Qingyue and to reminisce about old times and establish friendship. It was very inappropriate to mention Shen Weige.

"I heard that the empress has built almshouses and schools in Beizhili, Shandong and Shanxi. Have they almost started enrolling students?" Shen Baozhen suddenly changed the subject.

"Yes, we plan to start teaching uniformly in August this year."

Shen Baozhen said: "Do you have any plans to continue building a school elsewhere?"

Song Qingyue glanced at Shen Baozhen and said with a smile, "Madam, are you interested in this matter?"

Shen Baozhen said: "You also know that my brother is in the East China Sea. If the empress wants to build a school in the Jiangnan area, our Shen family is willing to help. My husband also said that if the empress does not dislike it, our Chang'an Marquis Mansion is willing to work for the empress."

Well, another one is here to show courtesy.

It seems that I have something to ask for.

However, Song Qingyue only cares about collecting money and not doing anything.

Besides, it is obligatory for rich people to do charity.

Of course, this is not the case in this era.

But she can lead the trend of charity.
Chapter completed!