Seeing her husband pouring the broth into half the bowl of rice and gobbling it down, Jiang Yingxue couldn't help but chuckle.

"Why are you still hungry? Isn't there a special canteen over there in your public hall?"

"It's just that I haven't eaten the food you cooked for a long time. This is the taste of home, the taste of my wife!" Xiao Cheng laughed, and the earthy love words came out of his mouth.

Jiang Yingxue's face suddenly turned red.

She is four years older than Xiao Cheng, but for someone in her thirties, she is extremely well-maintained, with fair and tender skin that can be broken by blows. Even a twenty-year-old girl would be ashamed of herself if she met her.

of.

It was naturally impossible for her to cook, and only when Xiao Cheng occasionally had a meal at home would she wash her hands and make soup.

"The food I cook is far inferior to yours!"

"When I'm free, I'll cook it for you!" Xiao Cheng smiled and picked up the hot handkerchief on the plate, wiped his mouth and said, "I've been too busy lately."

"How dare you work on your job!" Jiang Yingxue said: "When will you be able to relax? I think it will only get busier and busier!"

Xiao Cheng breathed out, "I'm restless! By the way, I forgot to tell you one thing. Xiao Jing is coming over. They have already arrived at Jing Lake. It will take about ten days and a half to arrive.

Arrived in Jiangning."

"Your nephew of the Crown Prince of Daxia?" Jiang Yingxue asked, "Why did you suddenly say you were coming over?"

"Visiting relatives!" Xiao Cheng said with a smile: "I haven't seen my second uncle or your second aunt in more than ten years. Why don't you come over and have a look?"

"Do you believe it?" Jiang Yingxue raised an eyebrow: "Come here at this time, what are you worried about, right?"

"You are still smart!" Xiao Cheng said: "Now the Western Army's call for an independent country is getting louder and louder! Whether Zhang Yuan or Tuoba Yangwei who is here this time, they are all

I agree with both hands. This time, eldest brother asked Jing’er to come over, I’m afraid even Jing’er also agrees!”

"Of course. If the eldest brother becomes the emperor, he will be a ready-made prince!" Jiang Yingxue said with a smile: "Of course he agrees. The eldest brother wants you to persuade him!"

"Maybe you want me to scare him!" Xiao Cheng said angrily: "The emperor's seat is like a crater. Whoever sits on it will have his butt burned. If he doesn't do it right, he will be crushed to death.

Look at Zhao Zhe, who wanted to be the emperor, and was burned to ashes. Then think about Zhao Jing, who became the emperor. He was captured and held as a prisoner for several years and let out as a sheep for several years. In the end, he was stabbed with a knife.

My heart is cold."

"Why don't you talk about Taizu Taizong's glory? In fact, I don't understand. With the current strength of your Xiao family, this seems to be nothing, right?"

"You are thinking too much!" Xiao Cheng shook his head and said, "I am so powerful now because I am standing on the stage of the Song Dynasty. Even though I am the chief assistant, others don't know how difficult it is to do things. You won't help me."

I know. Let’s talk about Third Sister. She keeps her word, but all this is just because she is the Empress Dowager Chengtian. Without this status, do you think she still has the prestige she has now? "

"Army, in fact, the army with combat effectiveness, don't they all listen to you?" Jiang Yingxue lowered her voice.

Xiao Cheng laughed.

"If I want to be the emperor, do you think Wang Zhu will listen to me? He escaped from Tokyo with the little emperor on his back all the way! Will Gao Yingxiang listen to me? He was once the crown prince of Dali, although his father was too

He is a usurper, but he has been the emperor for several days! Will Lu Wenhuan listen to me? I'm afraid he will fight me with a knife soon! Well, the hammer will definitely listen to me, but do you think the hammer can do it?

what?"

Jiang Yingxue couldn't help but burst into laughter.

"The military generals are like this, and the civil servants can't help but say it!" Xiao Cheng said: "All my abilities are displayed on the platform of the Song Dynasty. Many people say that I started from scratch, worked hard to build the Guizhou Road, and laid the foundation for success.

Yunnan Road, but they forgot that when I arrived in Qianzhou, I was wearing the official title of Qianzhou’s judge, and I still had the aura of being the son of the third envoy."

"If you say so, Third Sister's life in Liao Kingdom may not be easy, right?"

"Of course!" Xiao Cheng nodded and said: "In the Liao Kingdom, the only one who can really be called his confidant is Yelu Min! Others like Yelu Zhen and Yelu Huan don't count at all. The third sister has been a bit nervous in the past two years.

She is eager for quick success, and she probably wants to take advantage of the fact that she can still have absolute control over the situation in the past few years, so she can concentrate on competing with me!"

"is that so?"

"It should be like this!" Xiao Cheng continued: "According to the custom of the Liao Kingdom, the emperor can get married at the age of sixteen, and after the marriage, the queen mother should return to power. The imperial party in the Liao Kingdom has already prepared for

Yelvxian has found a girl from the Xiao family, and this has already made it clear. In two or three years, internal disputes will inevitably arise again in the Liao Kingdom."

"So, as long as we survive these two or three years, we will have enough time!"

"So my current overall strategy is just one word, defend!" Xiao Cheng said: "Wang Zhu and Gao Yingxiang are also moving. They all want to take back Tokyo City this year, but I have suppressed them all. What are they doing to take it back? Kaifeng

That place is easy to attack but difficult to defend. If we really want to take it back, we will have to defend it with all our strength. It will be like a millstone of flesh and blood. No matter where we defend, I don’t know how many heroes I will lose!"

"So it's better not to take it back!" Jiang Yingxue understands this truth. Tokyo City is the old capital of the Song Dynasty. Fighting back to Tokyo is one of Xiao Cheng's slogans.

Once we fight back and take back the city of Tokyo, if we cannot hold it and lose it, the political impact will be huge. At least it will give the Northern Expedition a heavy blow.

And if they were to compete with the Liao people in a terrain like Tokyo, the Jiangning New Song Dynasty who were also there were really no match.

At least it's a very uneconomical thing.

He is a billionaire, and losing a thousand or eight million is nothing.

You are just a multi-millionaire and you have lost hundreds of millions, but you are bankrupt?

"You're such a careless girl!" Jiang Yingxue said.

"She is trying so hard to defeat me!" Xiao Cheng said angrily: "She just taught me to look like a wolf."

Jiang Yingxue sighed: "It's hard for us to imagine how she survived these years. With these experiences, it's no wonder that she wants to stand on top of everyone's heads and defeat the person she once admired most, but she

The first step in what you want to do, right? The person she admired most in the past was Wu Zhao."

Xiao Cheng's eyes flashed and he just shook his head without saying anything.

"It seems that the past two or three years must have been very difficult. The Western Army is in such a situation now!" Jiang Yingxue frowned.

"We can't count on more of them!" Xiao Cheng said: "My eldest brother held back the Yelvmin Group for me, and also held back half of the Yeluhuan Group on Xijing Road. It has already been of great help to us."

"Can eldest brother completely suppress the Western Army?"

"This is not a question of whether the suppression can be suppressed, but a question of internal coordination! If there is a problem within the Western Army, then they will not be able to withstand the Liao people's attack. The eldest brother sent Tuoba to show off to them.

, and it is precisely for this reason." Xiao Cheng said: "So next, we need to make the Western Army feel not only the strength of our force, but also need to give them more support economically, so that they can

Only by understanding and following us can you get more and better rewards."

Jiang Yingxue suddenly understood: "So, you need to unseat Li Chun! If Zhang Cheng can do this, then we can completely connect with the Western Army as a whole. In this way, even Li Chun on the Yizhou Road

It is bound to be difficult for Shilong to be alone. Apart from bowing his knee to Jiang Ning, he can no longer maintain his current state of detached and watching the good show."

"There is this consideration!" Xiao Cheng said: "It's just that my plan is based on Li Chun's own laxity. If he doesn't compromise with the Liao people this time and doesn't surrender to Tokyo, I naturally have no reason to take action. Heaven.

If there is a road, he will not walk. If there is no door to hell, he will rush up happily. Who can blame him?"

"It seems that everything is connected and mobilizes the whole body!" Jiang Yingxue sighed: "It's too complicated. My head can't hold all these things. Just listening to you say it makes my head tremble.

It’s buzzing.”

"You are already amazing!" Xiao Cheng smiled and gave her a slap on the head: "Under your control, the Federation of Commerce has become more and more influential. The fiscal and tax revenue in the first quarter of this year has been

It exceeded 30 million taels, of which commercial taxes contributed a full 60%."

"That's all I can do." Jiang Yingxue was a little unhappy: "When I do other things, I have more than enough energy but not enough energy."

"Where did you get angry? Is there anyone in Jiangning who dares to make you angry?" Xiao Cheng was a little surprised.

"It's not a girl's school thing yet!" Jiang Yingxue sighed: "We started planning it at the beginning of this year, and the students we can recruit so far are basically from the families of merchants. None of the daughters of officials and officials are sent here. Ordinary people

There is no one who is willing to send their daughter to go to school."

"Take this matter slowly, don't rush it!" Xiao Cheng said: "The daughters of officials and officials are naturally well-educated. How can they be willing to let their daughters show up in public? When the daughters of ordinary families are that old, they have to

If you make money by doing work at home, how can you have the spare money to send it to your girls’ school in your free time? Only merchants’ families have money and don’t care much about appearance. If they can support you, they will feel that they have earned back their money. In fact, their own family

They simply don't care what their daughter can learn. What they care about is actually that their daughter can call you sir."

"I hired the best gentleman." Jiang Yingxue said angrily: "Erlang, please agree first. When these people graduate in the future, you have to make arrangements for them. These people will have a good future.

, I will naturally not worry about no one coming in the future. Especially the daughters of ordinary families, when they see these role models, they will definitely become enthusiastic."

"Changing concepts takes a long time and cannot be achieved overnight." Xiao Cheng said: "Take your time and don't rush. Talented people are like a cone in a bag, and they will eventually stand out."

"This is only for men, right? There are many talented women, but how many can get ahead? As you said, without that platform, they will be buried in the end!"

"If your girl's school student wants to stand out as quickly as you want, I suggest you start medicine and put other subjects first!" Xiao Cheng suggested: "The Song Dynasty is short of doctors, don't say that.

There are very few good doctors, even ordinary doctors. There are not even enough doctors who can even treat women, and there are even fewer doctors who can treat women. Many women are sick, and they basically have to survive.

It's life. If you can't survive it, it's your fate, so you might as well start from this aspect."

"This is a solution!" Jiang Yingxue said thoughtfully.

"Once everyone sees that women start working and do well, some prejudices will naturally be slowly abandoned."

"That's good, but it's so difficult to train a doctor!" Thinking of this, Jiang Yingxue became a little depressed again.

"What you want to do is something that will last forever, why should you care about the immediate interests? Doesn't it mean that the success does not belong to me?" Xiao Cheng said with a smile.

"That's what I said!" Jiang Yingxue sighed: "It's just that if you can see actual results, you will always feel more relieved. Erlang, can these female doctors be officials by then?"

"If you have been trained, it is not a bad idea, but even now, our Imperial Medical Bureau of the Song Dynasty has a strict assessment system. If a woman takes the exam, I am afraid that the questions given by the officials of the Imperial Medical Bureau will be more difficult.

A few, but as long as you can pass the exam, I can support giving them corresponding official positions!"

"Okay! It's a deal."
To be continued...