It was already late at night and Zhao Kang had not yet fallen asleep. Qin Yufeng walked into the study carrying a bowl of soup.
With a charming figure, looking at Zhao Kang's back, he felt distressed, and hurriedly came forward: "Sir, it's almost the third night, let's take a rest."
Zhao Kang put down his pen and laughed, "It's still early, why don't you go to bed?"
Qin Yufeng put down the dinner plate: "I cooked some pigeon soup for the young master."
"Thank you, I can just let my servants do this kind of thing from now on." Zhao Kang took a sip of the steaming pigeon soup that night.
He has been writing steelmaking plans since he returned home, and he is really hungry until now.
"I don't worry about others. How does the young master taste?" Qin Yufeng looked at Zhao Kang's reaction with some anticipation.
Zhao Kang hesitated for a moment before speaking: "Do you want to hear the truth or a lie?"
Qin Yufeng's eyes dropped, a little annoyed that her craftsmanship was not good, and said: "You can lie."
Zhao Kang nodded: "It tastes good."
The woman curled her lips: "To be honest, it just doesn't taste good."
Zhao Kang laughed loudly: "To be honest, it tastes very good!"
Immediately, Qin Yufeng's worries turned into joy, and she stomped her feet in embarrassment: "Young master, you really know how to tease people."
Zhao Kang smiled and drank the pigeon soup cleanly. He hugged Qin Yufeng tightly and smelled the fragrance.
Qin Yufeng did not ask what Zhao Kang had been writing after a busy night. She just gently put her head on Zhao Kang's shoulder and spoke softly.
"Prince Ning came here once when the young master was away some time ago."
Zhao Kang smiled: "This guy is getting restless again. What did he say?"
"I didn't say anything, it was like just visiting." Qin Yufeng recalled.
Zhao Kang squinted his eyes. It is true that a person like Xiao Feiyu is good at hiding his clumsiness. Even if he is facing his own chess pieces, his subordinates will not reveal their true thoughts.
Such a person is a poisonous snake, and those who are watched secretly by him will always have trouble sleeping and eating.
Thinking about it, Zhao Kang sighed. If the other party didn't have this intention, Zhao Kang would still want to be friends with him.
pity.
"It's okay. Don't pay attention to him. You can just be your mistress in this Imperial Master's Mansion. I will deal with him on my own."
The secret joy on her pretty face came from the bottom of her heart. The word "mistress" mentioned by Zhao Kang gave Qin Yufeng, who had always felt her humble status, great satisfaction.
With her background, she doesn't expect to get any status from Zhao Kang in the future.
After all, today's Zhao Kang is indeed one person inferior to ten thousand people in Daqian. If such a person really marries a woman with a pure family background.
Even if Zhao Kang himself doesn't care, others will look down on him from the bottom of their hearts.
Qin Yufeng knew this very well, so she didn't ask for anything extravagantly.
A person like Young Master should have deserved a better daughter of heaven!
The two lingered for a while, and Qin Yufeng did not disturb Zhao Kang again and left obediently.
It wasn't until late at night that Zhao Kang wrote out the steelmaking plan from his memory. There might be some omissions in it.
But Zhao Kang doesn't care either. Science only progresses through constant exploration.
After tidying up everything and resting briefly until dawn, Zhao Kang changed into his official uniform and went straight to the palace.
Hundreds of officials come to court.
Xiao Linglong looked at Zhao Kang who had appeared, feeling somewhat satisfied, and asked about the flood situation in Jiangzhou as usual.
This matter is a commonplace, because with Zhao Kang's strong secret support, the disaster in Jiangzhou has been contained.
After the people had food to eat, they had hope for life and began to rebuild their homes one after another.
Seeing that there were no more officials to report, Her Majesty the Empress looked at Zhao Kang, who was sitting upright today.
It was a bit abnormal. He usually dozed off or had his ears picked out. It was as uncomfortable for him to go to court as to go to the execution ground.
Unusual today, Xiao Linglong knew that Zhao Kang must have something to say.
"Do you have something to report, Master Imperial Master?"
Zhao Kang then stood up and saluted: "Your Majesty, I do have something to report."
Xiao Linglong said hurriedly: "Master, please speak."
The surrounding ministers also pricked up their ears, wondering what trouble this guy was going to make.
Zhao Kang said softly: "Now that Qian and Jing have formed an alliance, I would like to ask your majesty to issue an order to send people to mine the Yunshan mineral veins with Jing."
Xiao Linglong also didn't expect that Zhao Kang was talking about this matter. It was not a trivial matter. She raised her spirits and said, "Please tell us in detail what the Imperial Master has planned."
Zhao Kang nodded and stood up. Without any foreshadowing, he said straightforwardly: "Your Majesty, when I was in Jingguo, I made a verbal agreement with the king of Jingguo. The Yunshan mineral veins throughout the two countries will be jointly mined by both countries."
"The obtained iron ore will be divided equally between the two countries..."
"How is this possible!"
Someone interrupted Zhao Kang before he could speak. Zhao Kang looked over and saw that it was Lin Yu, Minister of the Ministry of Industry.
I saw the other party come out and said hurriedly: "National Master, according to the previous Wen Dou agreement, this Yunshan mine already belongs to me, Dagan. How can we share it equally with Jingguo?"
"Does the Imperial Master know how much profit this will cost me?"
Zhao Kang looked at him calmly: "Qian Guo does not have the ability to mine the Yunshan mineral veins alone."
When Lin Yu heard this, he frowned and said in a cold voice: "What a joke, I work in the Geography Department. There are many government miners, all of whom are good at it. Mining is as simple as eating and drinking for them. Why don’t we have the ability to mine Yunshan Iron Ore?”
"Could it be that Na Jingguo promised the imperial advisor some benefits, which made the imperial advisor do such a thing of collaborating with the enemy and betraying the country!"
The surrounding officials took a deep breath when they heard this. This guy stopped pretending and dared to say such things directly!
Sure enough, as soon as Lin Yu finished speaking, an official stood up and said in a cold voice: "Your Majesty, I do not agree with joint mining with Jingguo. The Yunshan mine is my big business, how can I do anything to harm myself and benefit others?" ?”
"I don't agree with it either."
"Zhao Kang, what is the difference between your actions and betrayal of your country!"
Officials came forward one by one. Yesterday, Xiao Linglong killed Yan Guan Chen Bing and others for Zhao Kang.
These people are not like Zhao Kang alone, the forces behind them are intricately connected.
Zhao Kang was killed yesterday because he offended them. Zhao Kang had already formed a grudge with them invisibly.
Besides that, there is mining of mineral veins, which is a lot of money.
If we mine together with Jingguo and share it equally, then we will definitely have a clear account of the situation.
So how can they make money from it?
Therefore, Lin Yu jumped out decisively, not only because of his grudge against Zhao Kang, but also because Zhao Kang's proposal was no different from cutting off their financial path. This matter must not be tolerated.
This time there were far more officials than yesterday, more than twenty in number.
People who don't know the reason will only think that these guys are so brave. Someone died yesterday, but today they dare to jump out and go against Zhao Kang.
However, several old officials in the officialdom ignored the matter and ignored it. Even Li Yuan, who was optimistic about Zhao Kang, chose to remain silent.
Just because what Zhao Kang wants to touch this time is not just a cake for two people, but probably a dozen families!
