Qi Guiran was indeed holding his breath.

When Chu Qing was intercepted and killed by mountain bandits near Hushan, he asked each of the three prefectures and five counties to send troops to suppress the bandits on the pretext of uniting the three prefectures and five counties to develop the economy. At that time, he was very disgusted with Chu Qing.

If nothing else, he was very upset because a group of big men just listened to a woman talking non-stop.

At that time, he just came to express condolences to Chu Qing because he had just been promoted to Jizhou and as the highest official in Chu Qing's hometown. Although Hulin County was a border area with several state capitals, he should also come forward.

But Chu Qing is a woman after all, and for a group of officials to listen to her talk - you say it's fine if you are pretty - it's... it's really outrageous!

Because of this, he had a very bad impression of Chu Qing.

Later, when the locust plague occurred, he felt that Chu Qing's reminder was not only unnecessary, but also an interference in his role as the governor of any place.

However, the facts slapped him hard in the face. For this reason, he spent a large sum of money from the government to purchase chickens and ducks from Xingtang County and Huai'an County to fight locusts. This damaged his dignity and made him hate Chu Qing even more.

However, due to such unlucky luck, he was demoted to Yong'an Mansion and served under Chu Qing's eyes. At this time, Chu Qing was already at a height that was beyond his reach.

He also admits this. What else can he do if he doesn't?

Moreover, he also actively learned from Song Tingshan and Xu Guangze. Didn't the two uncles get promoted and get rich just by listening to Chu Qing's words? He listened too!

But look, he wants to obey, but Chu Qing won’t let him!

Chu Yuan couldn't bear to look down on it, so he told Qi Guiran in private: "Cooperation, do you understand? Cooperation, do you understand?"

Correct your own position, you still want our father-in-law to lead the people to get rich, why are you just enjoying your political achievements?"

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Kyoto, Imperial Study Room.

The emperor had not received a letter from Chu Qing for several days, which made him very uncomfortable.

He recently discovered that there were some habits that he never had, but were nurtured by Chu Qing.

For example, regular cash receipts, official work reports, and... letters.

Now, there has been no letter from Chu Qing for several days, what is she trying to do?

No wonder the emperor thought of Chu Qing, because what he was reading was a memorial from Yong'an Mansion, which requested that relief food and relief funds be implemented as soon as possible.

This incident made the emperor very angry.

More than four months have passed since the "Eight Winds" caused harm, and even the government's disaster relief food funds have not been sent to Yong'an Mansion!

However, the memorial did involve some news about Duke Yong'an: "Gong An said: 'Just because the Chu family rescued us in time, the imperial court can't stop providing relief, right?

Not to mention that Haizhou Mansion was not my duke’s fiefdom at that time, even if it was, the imperial court could not ignore it!

Who is responsible for disaster relief? I want to impeach him! Why, Daxuan doesn’t want Yong’an Mansion anymore? Yongan Mansion is no longer Daxuan’s territory?’

When Lord Yong'an said this, he was angry and indignant. The subordinates did not know how to appease him, so I asked the Holy One to make it clear."

When the emperor saw this, he felt a little complicated: "Does he want food and money, but he dare not speak out, under the banner of Yong'an Gong, or is he wearing small shoes for Yong'an Gong? This Qi Guiran is not good at anything else, but he is good at yin and yang. !”

After thinking for a while, he added: "Does Chu Qing want to take Yong'an Mansion as her own, or is she showing me that she has no intention of being independent?"

Eunuch Li stood quietly not far away, imagining himself as a candlestick stake.

When someone is around the emperor, you must always judge which of the emperor's "solomons" can be answered and which ones cannot. Now, you can't.

However, one cannot ignore the emperor. The emperor is not an ordinary person and will talk to himself casually. Since the emperor makes a voice, he naturally hopes to get a response.

If the emperor's words are allowed to fall to the ground, where will he find trouble and get angry? What can we do?

Eunuch Li was extremely looking forward to Hu Hengqiu's appearance at this time - Mr. Hu, why didn't you come when it was time to come?

"Please inform me..." A voice came from the outer hall. Eunuch Li rushed out as if he had been pardoned. Sure enough, it was Hu Hengqiu. He said hurriedly: "Hey, Mr. Hu, I will inform you!"

Hu Hengqiu: "..."

Why doesn't this look a bit like General Manager Li? Doesn't he always look at me with blank eyes? Hu Hengqiu was very puzzled.

"Let him in!" the emperor had already spoken.

The emperor also realized that he shouldn't have expected Eunuch Li to talk to him just now. That slave knew when to speak and when to shut up every day.

Hu Hengqiu entered the imperial study with a bundle in his arms. The emperor looked at it and saw that the bundle was square and he didn't know what was inside.

"Your Majesty, please take a look!" Hu Hengqiu untied the bundle and placed the contents on the imperial desk - a stack of books.

A stack of beautifully printed books.

A stack of beautifully printed books with strange titles.

The emperor read the titles of the books one by one. Some of them were familiar to him, such as "Xinlunzhou on the Bite of the Tongue". He had seen it in the Ninth Prince's, but it was not bound at that time and was simply tied with a ribbon. It was not as good as now.

of exquisiteness.

"This is...?" the emperor asked.

Hu Hengqiu: "Your Majesty, look here - Chu understands."

The emperor counted the nine books and found that they were all signed by Chu Dong.

Every few pages, there is a colorful illustration, some of which are local customs, some of natural scenery, and some of fighting: By a river, two groups of Wos and Daxuan people are fighting together, and there are baskets filled with stones on the river beach.

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I looked at the title of the book: "The Blood-Tempering Jade".

This book tells the story of the Chu family's jade mining in Voss. It is written as a series of stories. Each story has an independent title and there is a strong correlation between the stories.

The emperor read it with great interest, and Hu Hengqiu scratched his head and scratched his head anxiously: "Your Majesty, this book was not sent to me by Duke Yong'an, but from the Changguang Prefecture Board of Directors and the Jiaxing Prefecture Board of Directors!"

"What?" The emperor was immersed in the story and did not understand its meaning.

"Hey! Your Majesty, some of the illustrations here are topographical maps of the Voss country. Does that count as leaking military information? Some of the stories involve commodity transactions with the Voss people. Does that count as a violation?" Hu Hengqiu asked.

Although Hu Hengqiu admired Chu Qing very much and was willing to give her some protection within his ability, the prerequisite was that he could not affect Daxuan's safety or leak Daxuan's secrets.

The emperor finally said seriously: "Have you read all these books?"

Hu Hengqiu: "I only glanced through it briefly and did not check it in detail. I am anxious to send it to you!"

"Now look!" the emperor ordered.

Hu Hengqiu: Are you sure you don’t want to read a story?

no.

The emperor believed that Hu Hengqiu was right to remind him that he should take these issues seriously.

So the monarch and his minister spent three days, forgetting sleep and food, reading all nine books.

Rubbing his red eyes, the emperor and his ministers looked at each other with no focus, and their minds were still dreaming: This book is beautiful! There are pictures and truth!
Chapter completed!