However, Li Xia still received Xi Jihu's preliminary plan for Guanzhong water conservancy in the evening.
"Tomorrow is the Mid-Autumn Festival. Sir, you know I am impatient."
"I know that the king is anxious. After the war, the land conferment has been completed, and the cultivated land in Guanzhong will more than triple next year. As the population of Chang'an City increases, water becomes a top priority. It can be said that water conservancy in Guanzhong cannot be delayed."
Li Xia nodded and said: "Yes, banknote issuance and Guanzhong Water Conservancy. Most of our measures this year are centered on these two things. The newly established yamen and newly appointed officials must be able to clench them like fists when necessary.
good."
"Yes, Your Majesty's foundation has been established. Now that various official offices have been established, it is the time to work together to do things."
"I have to think carefully about this letter before I can understand it. I just have a break tomorrow, so how about we discuss it the next day?"
"yes."
Li Xia personally sent Xi Jihu off, then went back to the lobby to get Li Ye's brochures. He took two thick brochures with him before returning to the back house.
Back at the back house, Gao Mingyue knew as soon as she saw the document in his hand that he would read it tomorrow. While changing his clothes, she said: "I went to Kaifeng with you when I was sixteen. I have never seen a day when you were free."
Pass."
"After all, I'm not as busy as I used to be these days. I'm not tired from reading official documents. I can still celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival."
Li Xia thought that this was Gao Mingyue's eighth year together and couldn't help but hold her hand.
The couple hugged each other for a while, and he asked: "If I have some free time, what can I do with you?"
"It's also good to do nothing and just rest at home."
"Then if the world is peaceful and there is nothing to do, what kind of life do you want to live?"
"No matter what, it would be great if you could spend more time with us."
"Must I say one?"
"Well... Then, I hope you can take me shopping on the streets of Lin'an again. Last time I went there, I only focused on hunting and killing. In fact, I really want to see more. There are many things that I didn't have in Dali.
Saw it."
"It turns out you really wanted to go shopping at that time, why didn't you tell me?"
"I wasn't very familiar with you at that time... Well, it's not just me. An An and Nian'er said they wanted to visit their hometown in Kaifeng, but the most prosperous place in the world is Lin'an. Qiao'er also said that he wanted to go to Fengle Lou for dinner again.
, Wen Jing has never been there, and also wants to see the charm of Jiangnan. But we all know that no matter how prosperous it is, if the officials don't guard it with such difficulty, it will become empty in the blink of an eye. It's just a joke. What about the officials? What if?
Where do you want to go when you have free time?”
"It's almost the same anyway." Li Xia thought for a while and said, "When the world is at peace, we will go to Jiangnan to live for a few years."
"It's good to go and play for a while, but you might get tired of it after half a month. Under the rule of officials, Chang'an will become more prosperous in the future."
It was indeed just a joke between the couple. Gao Mingyue was actually very busy. She only chatted with Li Xia and talked about the poetic and picturesque scenery of misty Jiangnan. She had to deal with a lot of gift orders at once.
Li Xia didn't like these favors, and thought it was fine if the Qin Palace did not accept gifts, but favors were actually indispensable in this era.
When Li Xia was on his own feet but had not completely left the Song court, the attitudes of many officials and family members were very important.
For example, Lu Xiufu had just brought his wife and children from Lizhou two days ago. The first thing Mrs. Lu did when she arrived in Chang'an was to visit Princess Qin and complained that Lu Xiufu would not allow her to interact with other officials in Lizhou.
This cry expresses Mrs. Lu's position. As long as Li Xia is powerful, she can persuade her husband to surrender.
But she would not listen to Li Xia's reasons for not accepting gifts from Prince Qin's Palace. If Gao Mingyue did not reciprocate courtesy with her, she would immediately feel that Prince Qin's Palace was not close to her.
So after dinner, Li Xia sat there and watched Gao Mingyue take care of these affairs.
In the hall, his eldest son was stabbing around with chopsticks, saying he wanted to learn swordsmanship. Hu Zhen also used a chopstick to fight with him.
"Your Majesty will have a younger brother and sister next year. Aren't you happy?"
"Then compete with me, feed and feed..."
The second son, who has just turned one year old, is in Zhang Wenjing's arms, trying hard to crawl on Li Xia.
"I don't know if dad has received the letter." Zhang Wenjing whispered: "He really didn't reply to any of us."
She and Li Xia had sent Zhang Rou several letters home, but had not received any reply. As the Mid-Autumn Festival was approaching, they were inevitably a little unhappy.
"Not replying is a good result, which proves that he is still thinking about it. On the contrary, if the situation is not good, he may write a letter to sever ties with us, or the letter may fall into the hands of others and the reply may mislead us."
What Li Xia was worried about was not Zhang Rou's attitude, but the exposure of Zhang Julang's contact with him. They were far apart and in enemy territory. This kind of thing was the most uncontrollable.
"This time I sent people north, not only to bring a message to your father, but also to contact Shanxi Shihou." Li Xia added: "If we can border Baozhou, the Zhang family will really have a choice. But it may not be to open up Henan and pry
The same goes for Shanxi."
"The princes of Shanxi are small and complex. I'm afraid it will be difficult to win them down in one fell swoop, right? A group of state and county officials."
"You might as well try to pry a crack first."
Zhang Wenjing said "hmm", leaned on Li Xia's shoulder, and whispered: "Actually, I'm not worried about anything, I'm just a little moody during the holidays."
"I know."
"I'm very happy if you're still willing to coax me after the baby is born."
Zhang Wenjing then smiled.
She now has a different charm, but her eyes are still as smart as when she was a girl. She leaned against Li Xia and said: "When I fell in love with you, my father scolded me. Now that you have become the king and established the country, you have to make him angry."
Okay, but I couldn’t see him blowing his beard and staring.”
The child finally climbed onto Li Xia.
Li Xia teased her children and enjoyed this rare and peaceful Mid-Autumn Festival...
~~
Shuntian Road, Baozhou.
In the first year of Zhenyou of the Jin Dynasty, the Mongolian army captured Baozhou and burned the city, leaving Baozhou in ruins. Fourteen years later, Zhang Rou presided over the reconstruction of Baozhou City.
He rezoned the market, settled residential buildings, built government offices, built temples, gardens, built city walls, and dredged the moat, making the newly built Baozhou City the gateway to the capital, and it was called a metropolis in Yannan.
Therefore, it is said that the current Baozhou is the Zhang family’s Baozhou.
Now that Zhang Rou has retired from office, she has temporarily returned to her old home in Baozhou to prepare for the Mid-Autumn Festival at home.
On the night of August 14th.
Zhang Hongyi, the twelfth son of the Zhang family, was a little surprised when he heard a report from his servant, but he still went out to greet him.
I saw more than ten riders coming from the north. The leading knight turned over and dismounted, and it turned out to be Zhang Honglue.
"Sixth brother? Sixth brother has really returned home? Isn't he staying in the capital?"
"I came back to spend the Mid-Autumn Festival with my father. If the king hadn't allowed me to rest for a few more days, I would have arrived home the day before yesterday." Zhang Honglue threw away the riding crop and asked again, "Father, have you rested yet?"
"No, I had a quarrel with my second sister in the evening and was sulking. Sixth brother came back just in time. I wanted to have a drink with him." Zhang Hongyi looked around again and asked, "Are Ninth Brother and Tenth Brother together?"
return?"
"I am going to Kaiping with His Majesty, so I have no time to spare."
As Zhang Honglue said, he sent Zhang Hongyi away and went to look for Zhang Rou.
His hometown in Baoding was the place he was most familiar with, and he knew where his father was drinking without anyone guiding him.
…
The courtyard of the mansion is spacious and grand. In the Yuying Pavilion in the backyard, Zhang Rou heard footsteps and turned around to see Liuzi coming. She casually pushed a cup to the opposite side of the stone table.
"Father."
"If you run back now, your future will be gone?"
Zhang Honglue then laughed and said: "If there is still a future, it will not be ruined by this trivial matter. If there is no future, no matter how well you do, it will be useless. The boy is pouring wine for his father."
"It's good to be back." Zhang Rou held the wine glass and said thoughtfully: "Yang Dayuan died a while ago. What do you think of this?"
"The child was shocked."
When Zhang Honglue said this, the smile on his face disappeared, and a look of worry and exhaustion appeared on his face.
"The child was thinking at that time that his father took the initiative to become an official, perhaps to avoid Yang Dayuan's disaster?"
In a word, Zhang Rou deeply agreed and said: "With such a daughter, we are too close to Li Xia. If we are not careful, Yang Dayuan will learn from the past."
"It's not like that."
"Isn't that the case?"
Zhang Hong nodded slightly and said firmly: "My Zhang family runs our family with filial piety, and we will never end up in the same fate as the Yang family."
He didn't seem to say anything, but the four words "ruling the family with filial piety" seemed to say everything.
First of all, he believed that Yang Dayuan was not killed by Li Xia, but died at the hands of a younger generation in the family, so he mentioned the word "filial piety".
Secondly, since he was a junior, why did he take action? He could also deduce that it was nothing more than Kublai Khan's "replacing the old with the new".
If the chosen heir of the Zhang family is Zhang Jiulang, Zhang Honglue's "never" is a sign of his trust in Zhang Hongfan.
Hearing this, Zhang Rou seemed to sigh and said: "I hope Jiulang will not be forced to Yang Wen'an's situation."
He actually knew everything.
"yes."
Zhang Honglue did not dare to answer more and poured wine.
"Baozhou is a place surrounded by mountains. There is no way out." Zhang Rou took the wine from her son and said slowly: "I heard that Hao Tianyi from Taiyuan is back, and I want to send someone to open a mountain road, but I'm afraid it's too dangerous.
Now that you are back, please help me think about it..."
"Taiyuan?"
Zhang Hong was slightly surprised, thought for a moment, and then whispered to himself: "If you can hide it, it can be a good escape route..."