"Hu Jishao wants to welcome Chen Tianping back to his country?" Yunxi looked at the letter from the Annan envoy with a half-smile but said.
"Your Majesty, can you now allow Chen Tianping to return to the country to succeed the king?" After a while, before hearing Yunxi's next words, Chen Di, the Minister of Rites, who was standing next to Yunxi, asked.
"Didn't Hu Jiyou say more than two months ago that the country in Annan was not yet stable and that he could not welcome Chen Tianping back to the country to succeed him as king? Why did he change his tune now?" Yunxi said.
"Your Majesty, Ruan Jingzhen, the envoy of Annan Kingdom, said that before, Hu Ji Ya was greedy for profit and tried to delay Chen Tianping's return to the country, so he spoke like that. Now that he knows his mistake, he is willing to welcome Chen Tianping back as king now, and he Then he came to the capital of the Ming Dynasty and confessed his crime."
"Your Majesty wants to summon the envoy from Annan Kingdom and ask him face to face?" Chen Di said.
"No need, I won't see Annan's envoy this time. Go and tell this person from Annan that since I have decided to let Chen Tianping wait in Guangxi for domestic stability before returning to China, I will not change my mind." Yunxi said.
"Yes, Your Majesty." Chen Di bowed and accepted the order.
After he retreated, Yunxi said in an unintelligible voice: "Although it is easier to send Chen Tianping back at this time, it will make people suspicious of Daming's intentions. Besides..., so let's stick to the original plan."
Having said this, Yunxi returned to the palace where he usually dealt with memorials and continued to criticize and answer the memorials. Soon, he was sweating. It was already late May, which is the end of June when converted to the Western calendar. The weather was already very hot. However, there were many people of all kinds in the Qianqing Palace, and older ministers often came to see Yunxi, so he could not fill the palace with ice cubes. He only placed a large ice basin behind him and had a young eunuch to guard it. , when I found that the ice was too small, I immediately went to the icehouse to get ice cubes and replace them.
The time soon reached noon, and Yunxi handed Huang Fu the already completed memorial and asked him to hand it over to the General Affairs Department for delivery. He stood up, spoke a few words to the fourth auxiliary officer, and returned to the harem.
On a day like this, Yunxi didn't want to stay under the sun any longer, so he quickly walked to his destination: the courtyard of Concubine Zhongcui Gongyun.
After Li Shaer heard the eunuch at the gate of the courtyard announcing Yunxi's arrival, she was very surprised to greet him in front of her palace. Although Yunxi sometimes returned to the harem to eat and take a nap, he only went to the Queen's Kunning Palace or Miaojin's Yanxi Palace, I have never been to other people's palaces.
Therefore, in addition to the surprise, she was also a little confused. After welcoming Yunxi in, she asked cautiously: "Your Majesty, do you have anything to tell me today?"
"Don't think too much about it. You just gave birth to twins at the beginning of the month. I came to see you and the children." Yunxi said with a smile.
Li Shaer didn't think too much, accepted Yunxi's statement, and quickly asked her maid to set out another set of bowls and chopsticks, and hurriedly sent someone to the imperial kitchen to pass the food.
Yunxi hurriedly stopped her and said: "I have already asked the young eunuch to go to the imperial kitchen to tell you, you don't need to send anyone else."
With that said, Yunxi took her hand again and said to her: "It's still some time before the food is delivered to the imperial kitchen. Let's go see Wendi and Wen'er first."
When it came to the children, Li Shaer's nervousness immediately eased. While walking with Yunxi, she said: "Your Majesty, Wendi and Wen'er will be one month old soon. They are white, fat and very cute. Yesterday Wen'er was also Smiling at my concubine, Wen Di..."
Yunxi smiled and listened to Li Shaer's story. Although he is not too happy about the new child because he has more children, he was also very happy when his first child Miner was born and took care of the necessary things every day.
Then he returned to the main hall and walked around the child; if Min'er smiled, even if there was very bad news coming from somewhere that made him feel depressed, the rain would soon clear up and the gloom in his heart would disappear without a trace. So he was very happy.
Understand Li Shaer's current performance.
It was not far from the main pavilion to the side pavilion where the two little guys lived. Li Shaer quickly arrived at the two cribs. She first asked the female officer in charge a few words, then reached out and picked up her son Wen Di.
He said to Yunxi: "Look, your majesty, Di'er looks very beautiful even when she is asleep."
"Well, he is very cute. He is indeed Sha'er's child. I will definitely give him a good place in the future." Yunxi said with a smile.
However, Li Sha'er didn't react at all to this statement. She hugged Wen Di and said something, then put him down and picked up Wen'er.
Yunxi laughed in his heart. It is true that Wen Di is still too young, and it is too far away to mention the fiefdom now. 'I really have only been thinking about this aspect recently, and even when I saw my own children, the only thing I blurted out was about the fiefdom.
'
But at this moment, Wen Di, who had just been put down by Li Sha'er, suddenly opened his eyes. He didn't cry or yell, he just looked around, and after seeing Yun Xi, his eyes stopped turning in other directions.
With the corner of her eye, Li Shaer saw that Wen Di had woken up. She followed his gaze and saw him staring at Yunxi. She smiled and said, "Your Majesty, Di'er is staring at your Majesty."
"Huh?" Yunxi raised his head and looked over, just in time to meet Wendi's eyes.
He stepped forward and hugged Wen Di, who chuckled.
"Your Majesty, look how close Di'er is to Your Majesty." Li Shaer smiled again.
Yunxi also put aside other thoughts for the time being and looked at his son intently. But Wendi seemed sleepy and closed his eyes again. Yunxi then gently put him back on the crib and let him sleep.
After a while, a little palace maid came over and said softly to the two of them: "Your Majesty, your Majesty, your Majesty, your Majesty, your Majesty, your Majesty and your Majesty are invited to have a meal." Li Shaer then put down Wen Er and followed Yun reluctantly.
Go and have a meal.
"Sha'er, you can see Wen Di and Wen'er at any time in your palace, why are you still so reluctant to leave them?" Yunxi joked.
"Your Majesty, I wish I could spend twelve hours a day with the two of them. However, the imperial doctor at the Imperial Hospital said that I am giving birth to twins, and it is also my first child. Giving birth requires a lot of effort, and I should rest every day.
, If not, I will definitely stay with them all day long." Li Shaer said.
"It's better to take good care of yourself first. Then it will be time to accompany Wen Di and Wen Er." Yun He said.
"Yes, Your Majesty." Of course Li Shaer understood this and agreed.
Afterwards, they chatted casually while eating. As they were talking, Yunxi suddenly asked: "Did Li Jiqian ever go to the Beibu Gulf area when he was a pirate?"
Because Yunxi occasionally asked her about things when they were pirates, Li Shaer didn't think much about it and said: "Beibu Gulf? Is it the bay to the west of Qiongzhou?"
"Yes, that's the bay."
"I remember that my elder brother seemed to have been there when I was very young, but I have never been there since I grew up."
"Then you went to do business with the Annan people?"
"Of course we go to do business with the Annan people. The people in Lianzhou Prefecture on the north side of the Beibu Gulf are very poor, and there are no local goods that can be sold to other parts of the Ming Dynasty, so the merchants there do business with the Annan people to the west. "Li Sha'er said.
"At that time, were you doing business at the port approved by the Annan government, or were you doing business privately with the local people."
"Of course, uh, Your Majesty, people who make a living at sea rely on their subordinates' martial arts skills, and those who are physically strong want to make more money. In a place like Ming Dynasty where the navy is very powerful, naturally they dare not disobey the government's orders, but in other places It's different in China. Unless it's something that is difficult to sell, goods are usually traded privately and are not allowed to be handled by the local government." Li Sha'er said after considering it.
Yunxi smiled. In fact, even in the Ming Dynasty, private smuggling could not be completely banned. Fishermen in Caojiang, Yongjian, and Guangdong coastal areas had many private transactions with maritime merchants, and the local navy could not control them at all, and some The navy generals also accepted bribes from some maritime merchants and turned a blind eye to this. Yunxi and the local government could only arrest the big ones and let go of the small ones, and let the large and medium-sized maritime merchants go to the Municipal Shipping Department to start operations. The small sea traders risking their lives to smuggle goods in a broken ship with dozens of materials can only be let go.
However, Yunxi was not chatting with Li Shaer today because of maritime business. He continued to ask: "Then you should have someone familiar with you on the Annan coast, and you should know a few harbors suitable for ships to berth."
"Of course there is, but we haven't been together for so many years, and the relationship has become estranged." At this point, even Li Shaer, who was very slow after giving birth to a child, felt something was wrong, but she opened her mouth but did not ask the question.
Yunxi did not ask any more questions, but suddenly remembered something and said to Li Shaer: "By the way, I plan to set up a guard on the coast of Beibu Gulf, called Haikang Guard, to take charge of Yong'an Office of Lianzhou Prefecture, Leizhou The Yuemin Office, Haikang Office, Hai'an Office, and Haikou Office in Qiongzhou Prefecture will be able to better combat pirates in the Beibu Gulf and calm the sea."
"It just so happens that your brother Li Jiqian has been applying to be transferred to the Nanhai Navy's guard station. Since he joined the Ming Dynasty Navy, he has made great contributions and worked hard. I have decided to appoint him as the commander of the Haikang Guard and concurrently as a member of a thousand households. The head of a thousand households.”
"Thank you for your grace, Your Majesty." Li Shaer put aside what she had just thought of and thanked Yunxi. A person like Li Jiqian who was a pirate would definitely have been ostracized if she hadn't been in the palace, even if he wasn't accepted in a few years. Even if you are tortured to death, you won't get a promotion, unless you make a huge contribution when a war breaks out.
"I'm not giving him the favor for your sake, but because he has the ability." Yunxi said.
Li Shaer thought that Yunxi just said this because he didn't want ministers from other dynasties to know that he was admonishing him for his nepotism, so she smiled sweetly.
After the meal, Yunxi wandered around the courtyard to eat, which made Li Shaer very envious. She was still in confinement, and according to the custom of confinement, she could not leave the palace, let alone practice martial arts. She had not practiced martial arts for a long time I've passed martial arts.
'When you are out of confinement, you must take a good bath and do some boxing.'
'And send someone to send a message to my sister-in-law so that she can prepare in advance.'
