Now that Sheng Hong had rewarded a small village of forty acres, both of them were very surprised. However, until today, they had no time to conduct an on-site inspection.
Xiaozhuangzi is a good place. There are several wells in it, so irrigation is no problem. Moreover, the original tenants seem to be quite diligent and honest.
Li Qiao and Tao Zhu unanimously decided to plant watermelons on all 40 acres of land.
When the watermelon is ripe, it can not only be eaten by your own family, but can also be placed in hot pot restaurants.
Once you enter a hot pot restaurant, the price of watermelon will double.
Xiao Zhuangzi was satisfied, but the bumpy road made Li Qiao frown.
He thought that the rain last night was very light and there would be no water on the road, but unexpectedly, the road turned out to be a bit muddy as he walked along.
Moreover, it was quite bumpy and woke up the sleeping cub twice.
The little boy was very good and didn't cry when he was woken up. However, Li Qiao was so distressed that he couldn't even sleep well after going out. This damn road was broken.
It would be too high-profile if this official road was built into an adobe brick road for this Zhuangzi.
No, absolutely not.
However, Tao Zhu likes to go to the fields very much. Even if he doesn't do farm work, just looking at the crops will make him feel very happy.
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When will he be able to "research" cement openly?
Cement is widely used. It can be used not only to build roads, but also to build dams. Now the construction of the Grand Canal has begun...
Xin Zhi took a fancy to his greenhouse and planned to install a few in his own home. How about taking this opportunity to start "researching" cement?
His greenhouse is actually not perfect because the roof is cantilevered and cannot be covered with an extra layer like the walls.
Therefore, in order to maintain the temperature in the greenhouse, a lot of dry firewood is consumed every day.
His family has a big business, so naturally he doesn't care about this small amount of firewood, but due to the limitations of the roof, the greenhouse at this time cannot be compared to the heating room in his previous life.
Hmm... This year, let's quietly develop cement based on how to make the greenhouse warmer.
It is impossible to develop something like cement at once. Just like developing a keel waterwheel, he will spend a lot of time, take many detours, and then "accidentally" make cement.
Li Qiao made up his mind and took the topic in this direction after returning home.
Now that the weather is getting warmer, their family of four can move back to the main courtyard from the conservatory - the conservatory is in the side courtyard.
"No need to go back and forth, this yard is quite nice."
Tao Zhu was holding a cup specially made for drinking soy milk by Li Qiao from a ceramics workshop. While sipping the milk tea inside, he pointed at the pomegranate tree in the yard and said, "Summer is here. You can enjoy the cool air in the yard. The main courtyard There are no such big trees here.”
The previous owner of this yard loved pomegranate trees and planted eight of them in the yard, each of which was over a hundred years old.
It is full of greenery, perfect for enjoying the shade in summer.
After hearing this, Li Qiao thought for a while, nodded and said, "Okay."
If it's really too hot in summer, you can lie down in the yard and sleep.
He looked around the room a few times as he spoke, and then said: "The airtightness of this greenhouse is a bit poor. A small amount of wind leaks from the windows, and the roof is not warm. I will think about it this year and see if I can improve it."
"Huh?" Tao Zhu looked at him with wide eyes: "The greenhouse is very good. You don't have to worry about it. It's rare to take a break, so just take a rest. You're too tired on duty on weekdays."
As the saying goes, accompanying a king is like accompanying a tiger. Although Sheng Hong is a wise king, Li Qiao is a farmer. What if a word or behavior offends Sheng Hong's taboo?
Therefore, since Li Qiao became a close minister of the emperor, he would tell Li Qiao to see less, speak less, do less, and to be careful before Li Qiao went out every day.
When Li Qiao was in the palace, his nerves were always tense.
He only took a break for seven days, and Tao Zhu didn't want him to bother.
"It's okay, I'm not tired, I'm just thinking about it."
Li Qiao smiled and shook his head.
"You just can't stay idle." Tao Zhu was helpless.
"I can live here at my leisure."
Li Qiao stood up and stretched out his hand towards him: "Let's go and lie down in the yard."
It's only around three o'clock in the afternoon, so we can still get some sun.
However, while basking in the sun here, I couldn't kiss and hug Tao Zhunui on the bamboo bed like I did in Sanliu Village.
But it’s still okay to sit in chairs and cuddle up.
When Tao Zhu saw this, he raised his eyebrows, then smiled and held his hand. Yes, Li Qiao was quite at ease when he was around him.
But the days of rest are always short-lived. Suddenly, it's Li Qiao's time to go to work again.
There is no need to go to court today, Li Qiao can go directly to the palace.
Before Li Qiao went out, Tao Zhu took his hand and gave him careful instructions.
Li Qiao kept this in mind, held his cheek and kissed him on the lips before stepping out of the room.
Arriving at the palace, Li Qiao first went to Guang'an Hall, where the cabinet is located.
Guang'an Hall is the side hall of Taiji Hall, directly opposite Qiuxian Hall. This is the office space of the seven cabinet bachelors in the palace.
The hundreds of pieces of information that poured into the palace every day were first sorted out by the hands of the cabinet bachelor, and then handed over to Sheng Hong.
Organizing the memorials is not an easy task, but ordinary people are not qualified to read the memorials, so this work is done by seven cabinet bachelors.
Now came Li Qiao, who had clear eyes and quick thinking, so Sheng Hong asked him to also classify the memorials.
His speed was much faster than that of several elderly cabinet bachelors. He had scanned hundreds of memorials, while other bachelors had only read a dozen or twenty.
Since he appeared, the work that took more than an hour to complete every day can be completed in half an hour.
It's over here, and Sheng Hong over at Qiuxian Hall has also finished exercising and had a rest.
In the past few years, Sheng Hong did not exercise. When the academicians were classifying the memorials, some memorials would appear on his imperial papers, or officials would be summoned to the palace to discuss matters.
In short, he is also a person who can't take time off.
But since he got sick last year, the most important thing for him after getting up every day is to exercise. The imperial doctors customized a set of fitness exercises for him to strengthen his body, which is similar to Baduanjin. He does it every morning. I have to do it several times.
Li Qiao followed the other great scholars to the Hall of Seeking Xian while holding the zhezi in his arms.
His and Sheng Hong's day's work officially began.
The morning was uneventful and soon it was approaching noon.
After reading the excerpts all morning, Sheng Hong was tired. In the afternoon, he planned to summon the ministers to the palace to discuss matters, so he asked Li Qiao to have lunch and then leave the palace and return to the Hanlin Academy.
Li Qiao was about to stand up and respond. At this moment, Qian San was holding a box in his hand and was about to enter the Hall of Seeking Xian.
The box was green and black, covered with complicated patterns. It was only half a foot long and one finger high, and could be stuffed into your arms.
This is the secret box used to hold secret folds.
This secret box is made with Dasheng's current highest steel-making technology. It is difficult to destroy from the outside and can only be opened with a special key.
Only local officials, prefects and feudal officials can have such secret boxes. The local magistrates who Sheng Hong always valued have no right to use the secret boxes.
However, according to Li Qiao's observation, apart from the secret boxes on the surface, Sheng Hong should have spies secretly.
These spies are located all over Dasheng and can also use secret boxes.
Otherwise, how would Sheng Hong know the real world affairs?
Most of the memorials he read every day were beautified by officials and were inconsistent with the facts. But sitting in the palace, Sheng Hong was neither deaf nor blind, and he truly knew the world's affairs.
Apart from secret agents and secret boxes, Li Qiao couldn't think of any other way.
Qian San handed the secret box to Sheng Hong. Sheng Hong looked at the number on the lock of the secret box, then took out the corresponding key from the bookshelf, opened it, and took out a memorial from inside.
Unfolding the memorial, he only glanced at it and frowned tightly.
After reading it, his face was already clouded.
Qian San and Li Qiao immediately relaxed their breathing. It was rare for a saint to have such an expression.
"Go to the Longevity Palace."
Sheng Hong squeezed out these four words through his teeth.
Veins popped out in the hand holding the memorial.
Li Qiao became more and more respectful on the surface, but in his heart he was wondering, what happened?
In the past three months, Sheng Hong has received secret boxes every day, but he has never been so angry as today.
But obviously, Sheng Hong would not tell him the reason, so when Sheng Hong left the Qiuxian Hall, he also left the Qiuxian Hall.
Forget it, he should go back to the Hanlin Academy for lunch.
Returning to the Hanlin Academy, it was just in time for lunch. Xin Zhi saw him rarely at noon. He was very surprised and came to have dinner with him again.
Naturally, he couldn't say that Sheng Hong was angry. He only said that Sheng Hong would summon officials to discuss matters in the afternoon and there was no need for his ghostwriter.
He naturally changed the topic and discussed with Xin Zhi the progress of the Xin family's house warming.
In the afternoon, he read a book honestly, and there was no big movement in the palace.
Soon it was time to get off work, and it was still calm. Sheng Hong's anger was obviously limited to the longevity palace.
Li Qiao couldn't help but praise Sheng Hong again.
To meet such an emotionally stable emperor, his time travel skills are really awesome.
When I got home, my husband and his son were enjoying the hot bed, and they were enjoying their little life.
But when he went to court the next day, something big happened.
In front of the civil and military ministers of the Manchu Dynasty, Sheng Hong issued an edict to deprive the British Duke of his royal title and directly demoted the British Duke to a commoner.
He also listed various illegal deeds by the British government, including the British Crown Prince.
Li Qiao stood at the entrance of the palace. Because of his good hearing, he heard Qian San's voice reading the imperial edict very clearly.
In general, Sheng Hong and Sheng Jun father and son have tolerated the British male line for a long time.
But for the sake of the British Duke's military exploits and his role in rescuing the driver, the father and son endured it for thirty years, until yesterday, when the attack broke out.
Yesterday, Sheng Hong received a report from a secret box, saying that he was the nephew of the British father, who quietly opened underground gambling houses in Yuanshan Prefecture and Daze Prefecture, the British father's hometown, to make money for the British father.
