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"Your Majesty has made great achievements in defending the territory, but Guo's words are indeed a bit arrogant." Xiao Gong said to Zhou Youzhou, who returned: "This move is too radical. I am worried that it will easily cause unrest in the city, and other aristocratic families will not stand by the Prince. "
Zhou Xu played with the tea cup, glanced at Xiao Gong, and said: "I treated those people with courtesy, but I didn't expect that they would drink wine as a penalty. Since they can't be used by me, I won't force them to go." Where you should be.”
If Wei Yanshan redeems people, he will let them live.
If you don’t redeem yourself, then throw yourself into the river to feed the fish.
"Then it's not the prince's fault." Xiao Gong stroked his beard and said, "They are the ones to blame for everything."
"It's rare for Mr. Xiao to come and stay in Guangling for a few more days." Zhou Xudao.
"Haha, the princess said so too." Mr. Xiao laughed.
The screen blocked the outside again, and Xiao Luolan retracted her mind: "Do you have any dishes that Grandpa likes? I'll prepare them in advance."
Mr. Xiao smiled and said, "Just make it lighter."
Sheriff Wu, who had been silent for the whole time, said: "The vegetarian dishes in Guangling are good. I will send the cook from Jinlong Temple to cook some vegetarian dishes later. Then the prince and princess can have a good taste."
"Tong Jie is right, the Suzhai at Jinlong Temple is indeed the best in Guangling." Mr. Xiao agreed.
"Then add vegetarian food." Xiao Luolan wrote down.
Xiao Qingxue watched a good show and is still in a state of excitement, but she is also a little more afraid of her father. The cold-faced father is really scary.
When leaving, Xiao Luolan lifted the curtain and felt that the carriage had hit something. She lowered her head and saw that many beaded hairpins, jade pendants, and gold hairpins had fallen from Dayanji.
The carriage ran over the blood-stained pearls.
It didn't take long before some bold pedestrians picked it up secretly, and it was quickly sold out.
"Do Madam and I have a good connection?" Zhou Xu asked, holding Madam's hand.
Xiao Luolan looked at him and knew that what Sect Leader Zhou was talking about was that they asked Duke Xiao to live in Jiangdu Palace for more time. However, it was normal for the two of them to think about this kind of thing together. Xiao Luolan felt this way and said softly: "have."
Zhou Xu suddenly laughed and wanted to kiss him, but found that he was outside and had no choice but to give up.
"Mr. Zhou, do you think Wei Guo will redeem people?" Xiao Luolan asked, expressing the doubts hidden in his heart.
Zhou Xu placed a plate of iced grapes in front of him, handed one to his wife, and said, "Wei Yanshan should be able to redeem one or two of them."
"After all, it was his son who lost Guangling. If one does not redeem himself, he will inevitably be suspected of being mean and ungrateful."
"But he is in Fengxiang now. Shi Funan can't say whether he will be redeemed or not. Maybe he will, maybe he won't." Zhou Xu always felt that Wei Yanshan was harboring evil in Fengxiang, so he paid close attention to his movements. He who was far away in Chang'an Qi Nanhua should say it or not, but it is still useful. The content of the intelligence is very different from the Xie family.
His Jinzou officer who was far away in Chang'an had not sent him any news for more than a month. Zhou Xu had a faint murderous intention in his heart. Apart from the routine written advice to him to hand over Youzhou's taxes to Chang'an, there was nothing else. The rhetoric was superficial at first, but it turned out to be like this several times in a row. It was hard not to suspect that he had been bribed by the Wei family's minions in the court.
Zhou Xu recalled his Jinzou Guan and remembered that he had not seen him for five years. Although they communicated with each other, the whip was not timely and people's hearts were changeable.
Xiao Luolan picked up a grape. The purple grape had thin skin and large flesh. It looked very juicy and sweet. It was a little cold after being chilled. She peeled a small gap and ate the grape pulp with her mouth, leaving only a complete piece. Grape skins, and finally put the grape skins on the fruit saucer.
"It's quite sweet. Do you want to have one?" Xiao Luolan peeled another grape.
Zhou Xu looked at his wife, and his thoughts turned to her side again. Her jade face was clear and beautiful, her bamboo shoot white fingertips were dyed a light purple red, and the taste of grapes was sweet and tantalizing.
"Madam's behavior is exactly the same as the vixen in the storybook." Zhou Xu laughed softly.
Xiao Luolan: "..." What is Zongzhu Zhou thinking in his mind.
So she ate the grapes.
"It just so happens that Mr. Xiao is here. I can ask his disciples if they have any farm work tonight." Xiao Luolan was still thinking about the rice harvest in the city.
"That's good. I've asked the county to select a group of people with knowledge of agriculture and practical affairs to come here, and let them set off together." Zhou Xu didn't forget it, but the battle was ahead, and his attention was more in the direction of Xuanzhou. , Xuanzhou can be reached in more than ten days from Guangling, and he wants to arrange it carefully.
There was Guangling navy here in Guangling, and he took advantage of it. Zhou Xu also subdued them in the past two days.
Zhou Xuzheng was thinking about something when a grape appeared in front of him. The grape was half peeled and had a small opening, and it was easy to spit out the skin.
Zhou Xu looked at Madam and smiled: "Madam is so kind to me."
Xiao Luolan fed him a grape. Seeing that Sect Master Zhou was in a good mood, he thought for a moment and said, "Mr. Zhou, I just heard you say that all those people's money and property were used for military purposes."
Zhou Xu nodded and said, "This is natural."
Xiao Luolan put forward an opinion: "I heard Qinghe say before that those aristocratic families have occupied a lot of fields and kept people's fields and houses, but because of the bandits, the fields are thousands of miles away. Why don't we leave some for Commander Wu to reorganize them?" return."
Zhou Xu looked at his wife and said nothing.
Xiao Luolan saw that Zhou Zongzhu was silent, but still wanted to fight for it: "Shennong is a military town with rich granaries, and Guangling is also full of official grain granaries. If it doesn't hinder the war, Mr. Zhou, maybe we can give some benefits to the people. "
"Do you think this is good?"
Zhou Xu really didn't expect this. He thought about it carefully and felt that this move was particularly feasible. He would save the people of Guangling a lot of trouble. Under Wei Yanshan's propaganda over the years, their reputation in the north was not very good. Since If you can't win over the aristocratic family, then win over the local people's hearts. Zhou Xu will always have one of these two things.
"Madam has a kind heart, how dare you disobey your husband?" Zhou Xu said with a smile.
Xiao Luolan breathed a sigh of relief: "Then I'll tell Governor Wu."
"There's no rush." Zhou Xu pulled his wife and said, "I would like to know how she came up with this method of benefiting the people."
Xiao Luolan sat down and remembered some of the terrible things she heard about landlessness when she first arrived in this world and went to Taiyang to apply for household registration. After losing her land due to war, her land turned back into official land, and in the end she only had landless land. Can be recruited as tenants by local guest houses, with no surplus and no private property, like masters and slaves.
"Those farmers who were forced to lose their land are like duckweeds without roots. I just feel that after they have land, they will have a guarantee of survival."
Land has always been an obsession engraved in the bones of this race.
For thousands of years, it has never changed.
Xiao Luolan didn't think about giving favors, she just felt that if she could do something, and she had reasons and ability to do it, then she would do it.
But please have a clear conscience.
Chapter 221
The dinner party at Jiangdu Palace was organized by Xiao Luolan. She didn't do anything with her own hands. She just ordered the dishes for tonight's family banquet, and then watched the vegetarian dishes made by the monks from Jinlong Temple in the kitchen. I learned some secretly on the side.
I plan to let my daughter and others try it when they have time in the future.
After seeing that everything was almost ready, Xiao Luolan left the kitchen, took a shower to get rid of the smell of fireworks, and put on new clothes.
Xia He scented the new clothes that the lady will use in advance. The lady is frugal and simple by nature. With her status, the clothes should be changed every day and new ones should be bought every day. However, the lady’s clothes will be kept at home after being washed several times. Then put it on, and don't wear new clothes until you go out. I don't feel embarrassed at all.
Xia He sometimes admired his wife's calm state of mind. After giving her a hairpin on her temples, Xia He praised her: "My wife is so beautiful."
Xiao Luolan looked at Xia He, who always had a sweet mouth and loved to smile, and pursed her lips and smiled: "You are good-looking too."
After saying that, he inserted the poppy that was still on the dressing table into the edge of Xia He's hair. The little girl smiled, as if she had received some great benefit, which was very cute.
Xia He smiled even more happily. If other ladies had said this, no matter how careless she was, she would immediately kneel down and beg for mercy. The maids who serve the mistress are actually a dangerous job because they can often come into contact with the mistress. This is As a result, some wealthy women could not bear to see the maids around them being overdressed, and could not even accommodate beautiful maids.
There is no denying that some maids rely on their color to seduce their masters. Therefore, when Xia He first came to work with his wife, he was honest and cautious. He often walked with his head down and his breasts in his arms. He did not wear bright clothes or jewelry for fear that his wife would see her. She was displeased and dismissed.
Now Xia He touched the poppy and smiled sweeter than the flowers: "Thank you, madam, for the flowers."
My wife said she was pretty.
"The dinner time is almost here, let's go." Xiao Luolan looked at the sky and saw that the dinner was about to start. Tonight was a family banquet, but Mr. Xiao was there, so as a junior, she should go early.
"Yes." Xia He responded with his sleeves rolled up.
The mistress was in front, and she followed behind. Under the setting sun, the pomegranate flowers on the mistress's temples were as red as fire and as bright as the rays of the sun.
Xiao Luolan walked halfway and went to her daughter's side.
She lived in Jiangdu Palace, the second best palace, and it was not as good as hers at Sixteen. But when she arrived at her destination, she found that her daughter was not there.
Seeing that dusk was approaching, Xiao Luolan was about to ask Dongxue to take someone to find her. Xiao Qingxue jumped up and stood outside the door, looking at A Niang: "A Niang, are you looking for me?"
"Where did you go this afternoon?" Xiao Luolan walked towards her daughter.
"My sixteenth cousin and I went to see General Xu's house confiscated." Xiao Qingxue was worried about being scolded, so she quickly said: "Amu will follow us this afternoon. Aniang, you don't have to worry about my safety."
Xiao Luolan looked at his silly daughter and said, "It's almost time to eat. You freshen up and then go to Zhangtai."
"I know, grandma." Xiao Qingxue responded obediently.
After Auntie left, Xiao Qingxue quickly completed the grooming steps, put on new clothes and went to Zhangtai.
The Zhangtai is very high, and the lanterns are shining in all directions.
Xiao Qingxue saw Shiliu on the steps and waited.
After an afternoon of "friendly communication", Zhou Shiliu was so disturbed by his cousin that his ears were numb. He didn't want to pay attention to her when he saw her, and he was even more angry with his cousin for taking care of Tuoba Mu for no reason.
"Cousin Sixteen, where is Amu?" Xiao Qingxue looked behind Shiliu suspiciously. As Aniang's half-adopted son, Amu should also be here, not to mention the three of them came back together in the afternoon.
"How did I know?" Zhou Shiliu got angry when he saw Xiao Qingxue protecting the foreign son-in-law: "His legs are on his body but not on mine. Where does he need to report to me?"
Listening to Zhou Shiliu's words, Xiao Qingxue wrinkled her little nose and counterattacked sharply: "If you don't know, you don't know why you are so weird."
"Oh, it could be because Amu is now a general." Xiao Qingxue suddenly realized: "It's normal for some people not to see him. After all, there is a difference between idle people and busy people."
Zhou Shiliu's nose almost became angry, he threw up his sleeves and left without fussing with his cousin.
After he walked a few steps, he found that his cousin had come down the steps and seemed to be looking for her. He couldn't help but get even more angry. He also went down the steps and stood in front of his cousin. He said angrily: "It's getting dark soon and you haven't left the house yet." My little lady is out looking for someone, do you still want her reputation?"
Xiao Qingxue was puzzled: "It's time to eat, how can we eat when there are not everyone here?"
Zhou Shiliu said coldly: "He is just an adopted son of a foreign race. Who is he? Does he deserve to be found by you yourself?"
"You're crazy." Xiao Qingxue also got angry, why did she even attack her personally while talking.
"I'm not sick." Zhou Shiliu said. Seeing his cousin's attraction to Tuoba Mu, he felt alarm bells ringing in his heart. Tuoba Mu's status was too low. His cousin was now his uncle's daughter, even though he was a stepdaughter. , but her uncle treats her like his own daughter, and there are countless people who want to climb high. With her little scheming, without him watching from the side, there is no way she can outshine the people outside.
If he wanted to choose a son-in-law, he couldn't be like Tuoba Mu, as it would bring disgrace to his Zhou family.
Ordinary high-ranking people still have to think about it, let alone foreigners.
Tuoba Mu is really unworthy.
Xiao Qingxue pushed him away, and Zhou Shiliu directly grabbed her wrist.
"Let me go!"
Saturday turned a deaf ear.
Xiao Qingxue was angry! Just as he was about to bite Zhou Shiliu's hand to let him know how powerful he was, he felt as if some shadow fell in front of him. A faint breath of grass came from behind, and a hand suddenly grabbed Zhou Shiliu's hand. He twisted back like an eagle's claws.
"She told you to let go."
