Chapter 244: The family helps each other
She regretted driving His Majesty away that day. If her words had not angered His Majesty that night, I believe she would not be so cold with His Majesty today.
Only now did she understand what the dignity of an emperor meant.
Every time she thought about the scene that night, she felt very regretful. She felt that she had challenged the emperor's dignity.
Just when she was feeling a little depressed again, she suddenly heard a voice coming from outside her palace, "Your Majesty is here!"
Then, the waves of sound came one after another, shocking everyone in Wang Zhaojun's palace.
Especially her.
I hurriedly came to the bronze mirror, only to find that my makeup was not very good, but at this critical juncture, it was too late to touch up my makeup.
Her maid hurriedly looked at her and asked: "Your Majesty, please kneel down to greet me. Your Majesty will come in soon."
These words made Wang Zhaojun even more frightened. He quickly led everyone in the palace to kneel at the entrance of the palace, waiting for His Majesty's arrival.
After Zhao Changqing came in, Wang Zhaojun bowed down and said: "I pay homage to your Majesty!"
After she finished shouting, the eunuchs and maids bowed in unison and said, "I will pay my respects to Your Majesty."
Zhao Changqing personally lifted up Wang Zhaojun, who had been lowering her head, lifted her chin, and took a closer look at her face.
I am used to seeing women with heavy make-up, but occasionally I feel a little moved when I see such fresh and fresh make-up.
He took Wang Zhaojun's hand and sat on the chair, while the latter poured water for his cup of tea.
While serving him tea, Wang Zhaojun saw his sad face and asked with concern: "Your Majesty, what is it that makes you so distressed?"
What other things can trouble Zhao Changqing? It is nothing more than the construction of the canal that was mentioned to the officials in the Xuanzheng Palace today.
He still hasn't figured out why those people didn't stand up and oppose it?
Are you afraid of my overbearing aura?
He looked at Wang Zhaojun, shook his head and smiled bitterly: "Things in the court."
Wang Zhaojun nodded upon hearing this. Since it was a major matter for the court, as a woman, she knew that she could not interfere.
It's just that I can't share my worries for him, which makes me feel a little distressed.
Zhao Changqing stared into her eyes and smiled: "I have been so busy recently that I forgot to ask you, are you still used to living here?"
Wang Zhaojun said: "Thank you for your concern, your majesty. Everything will be fine for me and my concubine here. But your majesty, please remember not to injure yourself by working on state affairs."
When Zhao Changqing heard these words, a warm current rose in his heart. He said: "I have been thinking these days whether it would be better if I was not the emperor. After all, after becoming the emperor, I don't feel any freedom at all.
arrive."
Wang Zhaojun said with concern: "Your Majesty, all the people in the world have seen everything you have done. Now everyone in the world believes that you will lead the Wei State to become strong and prosperous. If the current Emperor of the Wei State were not you, I'm afraid
The land of our Wei State has long been divided up by other countries. How can we, the people of Wei State, live and work in peace and contentment as we do now?"
These words were quite heartbreaking for Zhao Changqing. He didn't know how to answer. He paused for a long time, then talked about other topics and said: "It's late at night, let's take a rest."
The sun has just set over the mountain now.
Wang Zhaojun blushed, wasn't this what he expected?
Then...
Something indescribable happened.
Early the next morning, Zhao Changqing left here.
Wang Zhaojun sat at the desk and wrote a letter,
"My father personally declares:
Your Majesty wants to build the canal to strengthen our country's economy, which requires countless manpower and material resources. The entire royal family has relied on your majesty's blessing. In order to express gratitude for the emperor's great kindness, my daughter specially asked my father to devote all the efforts of the royal family to help your majesty build the canal.
This move will be of benefit to the present generation and will be of great benefit to the future. I hope my father will think twice and approve it."
After writing this letter, Wang Zhaojun smiled.
There isn't much that can be done to help him, but this is my own intention.
For Wei Guo, but also for him.
After the two of them did something unspeakable last night, Zhao Changqing accidentally revealed to her about the construction of the canal, so Wang Zhaojun wrote this letter.
Then, when this letter reached the Wang family, it caused a great shock.
Wang Ye, the head of the Wang family, called all the people in the family who could take charge of the matter together, thinking of discussing this matter together.
However, everyone was only talking about it for a while, and they were completely undecided.
Seeing this, Wang Ye couldn't help but frown.
He sat on the chair and waited patiently for everyone to finish their discussion.
When everyone's voices became smaller and smaller, he didn't hear a reason, so he couldn't sit still. He stood up and said to everyone: "Your Majesty's construction of the canal is actually an opportunity for my Wang family. Everyone, you know
Once there is a river that can connect the north and the south, what will it bring?"
People were confused and asked for answers.
Wang Ye said seriously: "Once the canal is completed, water transportation will rise. At that time, we can transport things that are not available in the north to the north through this canal, and our Wang family's silk business will be on the rise.
Steps. After all, we have not yet fully explored the environment in the north. We can take advantage of this opportunity to make a lot of money from him.
We can also use water transportation to distribute things in the north and sell things from the north to the south of the Yangtze River. Interoperability between the north and the south cannot be done without our Wang family. After all, closely following the court's policies is the foundation of our Wang family."
Some people were still very confused and asked: "The construction of this canal cannot be built in one or two years. The manpower and material resources consumed during this period are really too great. Moreover, there is no official document from the court asking our Wang family to work hard."
Help each other, why do we have to do this?
Wouldn’t it be nice to just wait for the completion of the canal construction?”
Wang Ye heard the sound and sneered: "It's pedantic. If you don't take the initiative to help the court build the canal, do you think that after the canal is completed, our Wang family will be able to make money as we please by water transportation?"
Do you still remember how our Wang family became an aristocratic family? It was because the previous emperor wanted to open the Silk Road that our Wang family seized that opportunity and jumped into the ranks of aristocratic families. This time the construction
Regarding the canal, we must also seize the opportunity, because this opportunity is no less than the feat of the previous dynasty that opened the Silk Road."
Everyone was persuaded by Wang Ye.
I started planning this matter one after another.
How to help the court in order to preserve the family's interests to the greatest extent is what they should consider most now.
But the Wang family's internal actions were soon caught by various aristocratic families in the world.
They believed that because the daughter of the Wang family was a concubine, she must have obtained some secret from the imperial court, which made the Wang family respond to the imperial court's canal-building policy at the expense of people and money.
When they thought of this, they began to seriously analyze the pros and cons of building the canal.
Then, it was basically consistent with what the Wang family thought.
As a result, the aristocratic families in Shannan Road, Longyou Road, Hedong Henan Youyun and all the important towns in the north began to respond to the imperial policy.
As for how to respond?
It means donating money, materials and people.
And it’s a free donation.
This shocked the remaining aristocratic families.
Since they have all done this, they are both from aristocratic families, so they can't stay out of it, right?
After all, the imperial court has just entered the world. At this time, you can't offend the imperial court, otherwise you will not have a good year.
As a result, all the aristocratic families in the Wei Kingdom expressed their willingness to contribute to the construction of the canal.
The officials of the Sixth Ministry were very happy when they learned the news.
This is a good thing!
With the help of these aristocratic families, money is really not a problem.
After that, the six agencies coordinated with each other, started to work actively, and began to prepare all the things that might be used to build the canal.
At the same time, Huang Cheng also wrote a special article praising the family's feats in detail, and also wrote about the benefits of building the canal.
In order to fear that the common people would not understand, he also deliberately wrote in vernacular the benefits of building canals and promoting water transportation.
What a vernacular!
All of a sudden, people all over the world knew that building the canal was a great thing that would benefit future generations.
Some young people even volunteered to go to the local government to express their wish to participate in the construction of the canal.
Chapter completed!