It's just that he was angry and couldn't find anyone, so Huang Qiong could only stare and do nothing. But what Huang Qiong didn't know was that just when he was complaining and feeling sorry for Yi Ying. Thousands of miles away, in Liaoyang Mansion, Tokyo, Beiliao, in the backyard of an inn. A very beautiful young woman was flipping through the account book in her hand while picking up the abacus in her hand. On one side, a boy who looked almost exactly like Huang Qiong was reading a book in his hand. This woman is none other than a famous rich woman in Daliao today.
Every year, they buy ginseng, various rare furs, sea greens, precious medicinal materials, and Dongzhu from the Jurchens and sell them to Daqi. Selling porcelain from Daqi and smuggling rice and tea by sea can be said to be a huge profit. Today, he is still the largest grain merchant in Beiliao, and he also runs dozens of inns, pawnshops, and antique shops in Shangjing and Tokyo cities in Beiliao. He also controls several gold mines in the Jurchen region of Bei Liao. The royal family of the Liao Dynasty liked gold jewelry very much and purchased a large amount of gold and silver jewelry from her every year.
The entire Northern Liao Dynasty knew that this widow of the Han family named Ying had enough wealth to be called the richest woman in the Liao Dynasty. Even the richest man in Daliao is not an exaggeration. Because compared to the Liao people who always use cattle, horses and sheep as a measure of wealth, real money and silver are not very popular. Even gold, they have always treated it as jewelry. It is said that holding a jade is a crime. Logically speaking, a widow with a large amount of wealth in her hands, or a Han with a low status in the Northern Liao Dynasty, cannot keep this wealth at all.
But in the entire Northern Liao Dynasty, whether they were Khitans, Bohai people, Jurchens or Han people, they all knew that this woman who moved from Daqi three years ago must not be messed with. Not only did she have a good relationship with the Queen Mother, but she had always treated her like a sister in private. He also controlled a large number of horse bandits in his hands. The entire Liao Dynasty stretches from the Liao River Basin in the south to the Hun Tong River in the north. Starting from Yuerhai in the east and all the way to Jinshan in the west, 50% of the fierce horse bandits roaming the white mountains, black waters, grasslands and Gobi are in the hands of this woman.
Without her, those Jurchens who mainly fish and hunt would not be able to sell a pearl, a ginseng or two, or a fur. Without him, none of the grain grown by the Bohai people and Han people could be sold, except for what was handed over to the government. Offended her, your caravan, ranch. Even the land and women will be robbed by those brutal horse bandits. Not to mention the Khitan nobles in Northern Liao, even the Jurchens who were tough by nature were unwilling to offend, or simply said they did not dare to offend this woman.
She was a Han woman with a low status in Northern Liao and a widow with a child. She still looked like a beautiful woman, but no one in Bei Liao dared to offend her. You must know that within the Northern Liao Dynasty, the status of the Han people is the lowest. Although there are also a large number of Han people serving as officials in Northern Liao, and their official positions are even quite high. For example, the Empress Dowager of the Northern Liao Dynasty, her childhood sweetheart and now semi-public lover who now holds military power, was of Han origin. But the status of most Han people is still low.
Not to mention, they are far inferior to the Khitans, who are called Chinese, and even in the eyes of the Khitans, they are inferior to the Jurchens who are barbarians. In the eyes of most Khitan people, the Han people were just slaves who farmed the land and harvested food for them. Even if a Khitan kills a Han, he only needs to pay for the cattle and horses. But this woman, in the eyes of the Khitan people, was a lowly Han, or even a widow, and reached such a status, amassed huge wealth, and became the guest of the Queen Mother of the Northern Liao Dynasty. The difficulty can be imagined.
But at this time, this female Rakshasa in the eyes of the people of Bei Liao was settling accounts with a gentle look on her face while looking at her son who was studying. At the same time, looking at his son's face that didn't look like him at all, but was very similar to that man, his thoughts drifted south from time to time, thinking of that man who was both arrogant and unreasonable, but also fascinating. In order to avoid him, I hid further and further from Qingyang Mansion to now Liaoyang. Now that Da Qiyuan does not have the strength for the Northern Expedition, I am afraid that I and that man will never see each other again in this life.
Thinking of the past, the woman couldn't help but feel tense. She put down the brush in her hand, sighed softly, and withdrew her eyes that drifted southward. It's time to stop thinking about it. He is now the number one person in Daqi, and he is just a remnant of the King of Shu. This status gap is even wider. If you continue to think about it, you will be in danger for yourself, your child, and him. Thinking of this, he walked to his son, faced his curious gaze, and gently stroked the top of his son's hair, but said nothing.
Thousands of miles away, he didn't know that the woman he had been thinking about had now hid in Beiliao in order to avoid him. He became a guest of the Queen Mother of Northern Liao Dynasty and got himself a very hard amulet. Coupled with the previous use of the Qingyang County Government's connections, relying on his innate talent, and after nearly ten years of hard work, he has become the real richest man in Beiliao. Almost at the same time, I also thought of myself. The two people seemed to have a tacit understanding, looking at each other across thousands of miles of time and space.
It was just the busy government affairs that made Huang Qiong miss him for a moment. Huang Qiong put down the pen in his hand and rubbed his sore eyes. Although Huang Qiong slowly but surely regained his heart. Compared to missing someone, things at the Imperial Tomb went relatively smoothly. After completing a series of preliminary work on site selection and acupoint determination, a so-called auspicious day was selected, and the construction of the mausoleum officially began in an orderly manner. As for the first step, the underground palace was naturally built first.
However, because of the death of Mrs. Li, she was still waiting to be laid to rest. Also started at the same time as the underground palace was Huang Qiong's concubine's garden dormitory. Compared with the future residence of the emperor and empress, even the emperor's concubines, the process and requirements of mausoleum construction are naturally much simpler. As the first occupant of Huang Qiong's mausoleum, Li's mausoleum was completed in less than two months. Another auspicious day was chosen for a smooth burial. As for the underground palace of Huang Qiong's mausoleum, the process was much more complicated, and Huang Qiong also put forward some new requirements.
Even during the construction period, there were no underground water pipes gushing out, and there were no setbacks such as digging out large rocks. But it took more than half a year from the beginning of the construction of the underground palace to the final closing of the Dragon Gate. After the underground palace was completed, Huang Qiong named Chen Yao, whose coffin had been stored in Wuliangguan for more than ten years, as Queen Xiao Shurui. Huang Qiong was the first person to move into the underground palace. At the same time, Chen Yao also discovered that she had not been named a concubine during her lifetime, and did not even have the status of a concubine to the crown prince. Not only was she not the crown prince’s mother, she did not even give birth to a son and a half daughter to Huang Qiong.
According to the rules of the Tian family, the true identity is, at most, a woman who is directly conferred the title of queen. This is something that has never happened in all dynasties. As a result, before Chen Yao was laid to rest, perhaps he hadn't reacted yet, but the court didn't say anything. The Minister of Rites, who originally disagreed, was forced by Huang Qiong to handle the matter. But on the second day after Chen Yao was buried, the Qingliu and some officials in the court were like waking up from a big dream, and memorials like snowflakes kept flying into the palace.
Most of them accused Huang Qiong of violating etiquette. Throughout the dynasties, there was a woman who was favored by the emperor, but she did not give birth to a prince during her lifetime, and she was posthumously named a queen without even having a title. This is all unheard of. What's more, that woman was not even the concubine of the King of England. In the eyes of some civil servants, this is really a major violation of ancestral rules and etiquette and must not be allowed. What's more, Huang Qiong's mausoleum was not chosen in the ancestral mausoleum area, but found another auspicious site, which violated the ancestral system.
The two things combined made the officials very excited. Not only did Zhezi fly into the palace like snowflakes, but some people even wanted to fight at Li Zhengmen. Of course, the superficial reason why these people are so crazy is that they hope that the Holy Emperor will rule without any flaws in his personal morality. To put it more bluntly, they asked Huang Qiong to become a famous king through the ages, serve the public whole, and not have the slightest selfishness. But in fact, all fools know that except for a very small number of these people, they really have such thoughts.
Most of them have their own thoughts. Some took this opportunity to give eye drops to Fu Yuanshan, Lu Duan, and Lu Mengzheng, who were the prime ministers and deputy prime ministers, and some even took advantage of the situation, seemingly admonishing the emperor, but in fact they targeted the three prime ministers. I want to pull down one of the three people in the name of remonstrating unfavorably. There are even some who do it purely for their own purposes. He wanted to take advantage of this opportunity to force Huang Qiong to marry his daughter into the palace. These quotes appear to be the same on the surface, but the meanings behind them can be described as diverse.
But more people believe that the series of changes implemented by Huang Qiong have harmed the interests of the civil service group. Or the group interests they represent behind each other. Some of them want to take advantage of this opportunity to cause trouble. Through this incident, the emperor was forced to admit his mistake, and then further isolated the emperor, forcing the emperor to do nothing and ignore everything. Let them, these civil servants, control and handle government affairs. In order to achieve the goal of the Holy Emperor's rule as soon as possible, and to ask these wise men to govern the world, the weather will be smooth and the country will be peaceful and the people will be safe.
As for Huang Qiong, who clearly saw the purpose of these people, he ignored all the tricks. The ministers went to the General Affairs Department to inquire, but the answers they received were all the same. The emperor should carefully read these criticisms of himself so that he could reflect on his own shortcomings at any time. The ministers who originally received no answer were filled with indignation, and some even planned to cause trouble at Li Zhengmen. But as soon as they heard that the emperor was staying in Zhong and had to look carefully, many people couldn't help but think about Xiao Jiujiu. Look carefully so that you can reflect on your shortcomings.
No matter how you hear this, it doesn’t sound right. For an emperor, there is certainly nothing wrong with this. But if you listen to it the other way around and think about it, it also indicates another meaning. That means you are really making trouble now, so I will ignore it for now. When the limelight is over, I will settle accounts with you one by one. Thinking of this emperor, from being the king of England and serving as the envoy to Zhengzhou, to the prince of Bingzheng, to the prince of the country, to the prince, and to the heir to the throne, when did this emperor care about the opinions of his ministers?
Back then, he was just a prince, but he killed more than a hundred officials in Zhengzhou without asking for orders, and he didn't care about the opinions of the officials. In Longyou, when the rebellious Tuoba tribe was exterminated, they ignored the opinions of the officials. From the time he oversaw the country's administration to the time he took over the throne to suppress rebellions and promote reforms, he never cared about the opinions of his ministers. Why do you care about the opinions of the ministers on this matter? Is this a plan to settle accounts in the future? Being remembered by the emperor is what most officials look forward to.
But no one wants this kind of grudge-like care. Don't look at these people, jumping up and down just like the crowd. Keren's natural tendency to avoid harm made their arrogance disappear completely after they learned that they were noticed by the emperor. What surprised them even more was that after the person they regarded as a strong figure was transferred to the Yushitai, he directly took over a minister and five ministers.
