Author: sole red

Will Concubine Zhuang’s birthday finally be celebrated?

The entire banker family was immersed in great sorrow, hoping that Mr. Zhuang could come back to life and turn the bad luck into good luck. Concubine Zhuang was so shocked by the news that she couldn't even get sick, but it was not because of the Queen Mother in Kunning Palace who had passed away after so many years.

She is pregnant again and is overjoyed.

Jiang Zizheng and his wife even received a notice asking them to return to the capital to serve the Queen and wait to deliver her baby.

Song Qingyue had two months of confinement that time and rested for nearly two months. She gained weight because of the two women, Grandma Tong and Grandma Zhang, who had officially become doctors of the School of Gynecology.

Bu Nao was originally too thin, but now she is plump and plump, and she looks even better.

Li Zhao's mood gets better every time he sees the radiant Song Qingyue.

"Wrong, Jiang Ziqiu has left. He is going to call Meng Wanfeng over."

Song Qingyue took Li Zhao's arm and acted coquettishly.

"Then what's there to discuss?"

"There is a very good Li Wei. Now that Meng Wanfeng is here, we can't just leave Li Wei alone in the capital, right? It's been so many years, so let's let him go. Hmm? Okay?"

Li Zhao pinched Song Qingyue's face, and without rejecting or agreeing, he said he would send a telegram to ask his father.

The tumor in Jiangxi has been dug out, and my father should be very happy.

As for taxes, we have been reporting floods and droughts frequently since 20 years ago, and the grain taxes paid are getting less and less every year.

Similarly, in Jiangnan, Zhili South and Zhejiang, the taxes paid are several times that of Jiangxi.

Since the introduction of the land sales tax, the number of self-cultivators has increased even in Southern Zhili, but in Jiangxi there have been fewer and fewer self-cultivators.

The important point is not how many people and land the officials and gentry in Jiangxi hid, but how they did it.

Wouldn't it be better to rely on Mr. Zhuang to prove the concubine's father?

The matter of the monk and Taoist priest came to an end, and Xing Shangqian also returned to Taiyuan from the capital.

"Your Majesty, I have something unclear, and I would like to ask your Majesty for advice."

In the study, Xing Shangqian brought back the latest news about Mr. Zhuang.

Mr. Zhuang's body was originally salvaged by a fisherman by Poyang Lake.

The knife in his back went straight into his heart, and even the gods couldn't save him.

"Where did the news come from?" Li Zhao smiled slightly and waved his leg, signaling Lin Wanfu to give Xing Shangqian some tea.

Xing Shangqian walked east, half-assed against the chair, and said, "Eunuch Yang, the factory supervisor, gave it to me."

Li Zhao smiled and nodded: "Okay, it can be regarded as solving a serious problem. The old guy hid it deeply enough. He even suspected that someone had sent the musk-scented candle to Yue'er in the past, and the old guy was secretly fueling it.

"

"Then...Bidong thinks so too?!"

"Cocoa." Li Zhao leaned back in his chair easily. Lin Wanfu brought hot tea, and he enthusiastically promoted the good things he had tasted recently to Xie Xie Yuan: "Often, that is twenty years old?"

Pu'er, although it looks dark in color, is actually not bitter at all. One sip will make your whole body feel warm."

Xing Shangqian had no intention of sipping the tea. He took a sip in a casual manner and asked: "Logically speaking, the things Mr. Zhuang committed are enough to be beheaded and exiled. Why would Bidong secretly kill him?"

Li Zhao smiled and said: "Because the third brother is right. If the dealer and the concubine are not dealt with publicly, the third brother will definitely be implicated. Even if he is not implicated, with the temperament of the third brother, he will give up his title to protect the life of Mr. Zhuang.

.When the time comes, will my father keep the old thief's life? Rather than letting the relationship between father and son get to that point, my father would rather deal with the old man privately and leave his third brother with dignity.

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Li Zhao looked up and saw Xing Zhuangyuan's shocked expression. Li Zhao smiled calmly again: "What surprises me?"

"No, no... no... no." Xing Shangqian didn't know how to express his inner curse, and he stuttered for a moment.

Li Zhao once again seemed to have read through his thoughts and said with a smile: "Does Xing Qing think that my father is a cruel, cold-blooded, and ruthless person?"

Xing Shangqian quickly lowered his head and said: "No, I...I don't dare!"

Li Zhao shook his head: "If my father is really such a cold-blooded person, I would have been suspected for a long time. It would have been a wrong choice for me to follow him to Taiyuan."

There was a dark glint in his eyes.

If my father was really so cold-blooded, he would not have allowed Empress Dowager Meng to play happily for so long, let alone let the Ning family control the military power, and would not have been grudged for so long because of the contempt and disrespect that the emperor's grandfather had.

If it had been him, at least the old lady from the Ning family wouldn't have been able to survive until now.

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After Song Qingyue was pregnant, she began to devote herself to publishing various picture books.

In addition to the previous "Invincible Patrol" series, she is now developing a new set of animal science picture books.

Since the establishment of a zoo in Beijing, various parts of the country have successively sent some species that have never been seen before to Beijing, such as gibbons, nine-jointed wolves, red pandas, and a kind of dwarf bear called the sun bear in modern science.

Song Qingyue sent three people to the Beijing Zoo to copy those animals, and then sent three people south east to Guangdong to find his fourth brother and beg them to copy some sea creatures.

The third team set off to Sichuan to look for giant pandas, and the last team went to Guizhou and Yunnan.

Each team was given a thousand taels of funding and a seven-person bodyguard team.

Of course, the bodyguard team was obtained from Li Zhao, and it was expensive. The average cost of each team was about two thousand taels of red silver, which added up to eight thousand taels!

Li Zhaoxiao and Song Qingyue started to engage in loss-making business again, and Song Qingyue punched him in the fist: "What do I know? If he doesn't spend that kind of money, no one will spend it! Those kind of popular science books are just like what the father is building

Are the telegraph lines the same? It looks like they can compensate for the transaction, but it actually has a big effect! You know what the heck!"

"Okay, okay! My wife is wise! Are you being short-sighted?"

He put his arms around Song Qingyue's waist, rubbed her neck with his clean-shaven dongba, sprayed hot air on Song Qingyue's face, and asked: "Have you rested yet?"

Song Qingyue was teased until her ears were red, she turned her face to kiss him: "Wait for another month." She grabbed Li Zhao's belt with her legs behind her back, skillfully pulled it off and threw it to the ground, then followed it along

The man's waistline slowly moved to the east: "If I behave better, I'll be rewarded with something sweet..."

Li Zhao buried his face in Song Qingyue's neck and groaned.

Needless to say, doing that kind of thing in the study is very interesting. Without Li Xiaokun, the couple would not be able to have more fun.

Last night, he hugged his wife and said he missed his son. At that time, Li Zhao hoped that the brat would come back later.

The "Invincible Patrol" comic series was sold out as soon as it was published, especially in areas with relatively high literacy rates: Beizhi, Shanxi, Nanzhi, Jiangxi and Zhejiang.

Is it really a new thing that everyone has never seen before?

It is a book as big as the palm of your hand, with sixty to seventy pages. Each page has a picture and a sentence at the beginning. As long as you can recognize a few words, you can basically see the red.

Even if you can't recognize all the characters, you can still make some guesses just by looking at the pictures.

The story of "Invincible Patrol" was performed by the cultural and publicity troupe, and the storyteller also told it. After knowing the story, I read the little book with pictures, and I still read it with gusto.

Moreover, picture book printing is more labor-intensive, and the price of the little book is extremely cheap. Depending on the number of pages, it ranges from 60 to 80 yuan per book, which is much cheaper than ordinary text books.

Such cheap pricing was not a unilateral decision made by Taiyuan's Zhaoyue Printing Factory. The Royal Printing Factory in Beijing originally wanted to set a higher price, but it couldn't stand the fact that Taiyuan was selling cheaper, so people from the bookstore came to Taiyuan to purchase the goods.

But the Royal Printing Factory spent so much money on plate making, and the cost couldn't be wasted. Mr. Song had no choice but to keep the price consistent with Taiyuan.

In this way, although the little book was selling like hot cakes, the printing house would not be able to make much profit.

There are no complicated relationships in the Taiyuan Printing Factory, and the boss does not accept the maids brought out by Song Qingyue. No one has any objection to earning less, but it is different in the capital.

The human relations in the Royal Printing Factory are complicated. Mr. Song doesn't care about being tight if he can't make money, but he will get angry if his colleagues can't make money.

Well, those troubles were related to Song Qingyue, and she had no obligation to help the emperor clean up the corruption within the company.

Anyway, because genuine copies are sold so cheaply, pirated copies may not even be able to get their copies back, resulting in very few private copies.

Is the comic strip "Invincible Patrol" not losing money?

Moreover, the popularity of the comic book has actually stimulated the popularity of free literacy classes in various places.

In May, county magistrates from areas other than Taiyuan Prefecture in Shanxi Province wrote to the Taiyuan Palace, hoping that Song Qingyue could allocate funds to help them build literacy classes.

Song Qingyue took the letter and asked Li Zhao: "Why do you come to see him? Did the princess' money come from the strong wind? What do the local gentry do for food?"

Li Zhao was planning to go to Jiangxi to clear his father. When he heard Song Qingyue's question, he laughed: "Those people don't necessarily want their tenants to be literate. Don't count on it. You have to pay for the money."

"Huh! So, the court must be rich! Money cannot be hidden in the legs of those gentry who don't pay taxes. Everything I do should not be done by the court! Stop laughing, it's not funny at all!"

Li Zhao immediately stopped smiling obediently and stared at Song Qingyue very seriously, as if he was willing to accept the instruction.

Song Qingyue rolled her red eyes angrily and was too lazy to preach. She waved her legs and said grandly: "Anyway, he will do those things first. When I become the emperor, I will ask for funding from the Ministry of Household Affairs. Otherwise, he will not die.

of gods."
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