After the wedding date is set, the next step is to prepare for the wedding.
When Xu Ying saw Meng Yue, she couldn't help but pull her to the corner and hit Meng Yue hard several times. Over the years, he and the eldest brother and sister-in-law of the Meng family had been getting angry, but it turned out that Meng Yue had already had an affair with the seventh prince!
Li Qiao also pretended not to know anything. After being shocked, he denounced and condemned Meng Yue.
The same goes for Zhuang Wen. He didn't expect that Meng Yue would accomplish such a big thing quietly!
Meng Yue laughed and responded with her fist and condemnation. The reason why she hid it from everyone in the first place was out of necessity!
Finally, all the hardships came to an end.
Compared with the shock of Xu Yingli and Qiao Zhuangwen, the Meng family was stunned by this big surprise.
Over the years, they had had countless arguments and shed tears over Meng Yue's marriage, and they even suspected that Meng Yue had a health problem.
As a result, Meng Yuezhao had an affair with the extremely noble Seventh Prince?
This this……
Even the seventh prince will ascend the throne and become emperor in the future. Will their family become relatives of the emperor in the future?
The Meng family was in a daze, and it wasn't until the wedding day of Meng Yue and the Seventh Prince that everyone really felt relieved.
It’s true, their Xiaoyue really married the future emperor of Dasheng!
The life-long event is finally settled!
After Meng Yue got married to the seventh prince, Sheng Hong began to make arrangements for his abdication and handed over various government affairs with the seventh prince.
The seventh prince moved to the palace, and Meng Yue naturally moved in as well.
Because Sheng Shiyu will be the one to ascend the throne in the future, Meng Yue does not have to be the man behind the seventh prince. Meng Yue can "do politics". Sheng Hong gave him a special official position: Liubu Shilang.
The official position is one level lower than that of Li Qiao, and he can get involved in various affairs of the six departments, so that he can get along with the seventh prince more easily.
After returning home from get off work, Li Qiao told Tao Zhu the good news. Tao Zhu was happy for the seventh prince Mengyue and at the same time happy for Li Qiao.
With Meng Yue here, Li Qiao will be much more relaxed in the future, right?
For example, when it comes to correcting memorials, it will definitely not be Li Qiao's turn in the future.
If the contemporary pen can always be with the emperor, Meng Yue will definitely compete with Li Qiao for this job.
After the New Year, on the Lantern Festival, Sheng Hong passed the throne to the seventh prince.
The seventh prince Sheng Ye ascended the throne and became the third emperor of Dasheng, changing his reign name to Sheng Ning.
Li Qiao and Tao Zhu said they would prepare a big gift for the Seventh Prince, which was really a big gift.
The three little guys, Li Xiaorui, Li Changfeng and Li Yunfan, were addicted to working and wanted to make more money. Together with Sheng Shiyu, the three of them decided to open a ceramics workshop.
The four little guys were at the age where they were curious about all kinds of things. They happened to see a pottery wheel and learned that ceramics were made by spinning in circles. They were very interested and wanted to make it themselves.
Because Li Qiao was "developing" cement, there was a kiln built in the west courtyard, so the four little guys simply used the old kiln to bake the pottery they made by themselves.
The pottery they make is not exquisite, but it has the liveliness and childlike charm of their age, which is very eye-catching.
The four little guys went to the downtown entrance to set up a stall that day. These ceramic products were inexpensive and unique in shape, and they were sold out in less than two-quarters of an hour.
The four little guys immediately became excited and discussed building a ceramics workshop.
And Li Qiao planned to take this opportunity to make glass.
Last autumn, Jibei Province did not experience the severe drought that even domestic water shortages mentioned by Gao Zhiyuan, but unfortunately, drought occurred in Xishan Province.
This drought is quite serious. Although it does not lead to a lack of domestic water, it has caused a reduction in autumn grain production.
Afterwards, he discussed the matter with Tao Zhu, and they both felt that disasters had happened too frequently in the past two years.
A once-in-a-century snowstorm in Yuanhe Province.
A typhoon swept through half of Zhehai Province.
Plague spread to three provinces.
Severe drought in Xishan Province.
These disasters are not only intensive, but also wide-ranging. The arrival of each disaster is a huge hemorrhage for the national treasury.
The treasury needs silver.
If that's the case, then he might as well research the glass. This time it's real research. He hasn't made the glass himself, he only knows how to do it.
The income from glass is definitely greater than that of bicycles and soap. He directly donated the glass to the treasury, so the Seventh Prince and Meng Yue could save a lot of worry.
The seventh prince himself did not have strong financial resources and was unable to support the imperial army and officials. After Sheng Hong decided to abdicate, he slowly handed over many of his businesses to the seventh prince.
But Sheng Hong had been worried about money for a long time. Sheng Hong's financial resources could not withstand so many disasters.
So glass is definitely a great gift.
Li Qiao and Tao Zhu spent half a year researching the glass. Once the glass came out, the rich and nobles went crazy.
Glass can also be used as a mirror. Once a clear mirror appears, beauty lovers all over the world will go crazy.
With these two items, the treasury was filled to the brim.
But there are many places to spend money.
Li Qiao and Tao Zhu didn't understand why the disasters were different from what Gao Zhiyuan said. In Gao Zhiyuan's description, those natural disasters lasted for more than ten years and did not occur every year.
But now, all kinds of disasters are rushing to the land of Dasheng, just like rushing to reincarnate.
So the advent of glass helped a lot.
Glass took money and food away from the hands of the rich and nobles and used it on ordinary people. Many officials from various places also actively provided disaster relief——
When Sheng Hong saw corrupt officials, he would only wield a butcher's knife, but in order to frighten the officials, the seventh prince not only wielded a butcher's knife, but also used torture. Only after experiencing the torture thoroughly would he really feel pleasure.
With such ruthlessness, which official would dare to slack off?
Therefore, with sufficient money, materials and food, and local officials actively appeasing them, even if natural disasters occurred one after another, there was no trouble in Dasheng.
In the winter of Shengning's fifth year, the severe cold that made people unable to go out on the streets did not appear again.
In the winter of the sixth year of Shengning, the Grand Canal did not freeze until the eleventh month of the lunar calendar.
In the spring of the seventh year of Shengning, Li Qiao, the head of the six tribes, and Tao Zhu left the capital for Xishan Province.
After the seventh prince ascended the throne, the post of ghostwriter slowly moved to Meng Yue. Meng Yue naturally wanted to take this good position that was inseparable from the seventh prince.
Li Qiao has been much freer since he stopped writing. Now that the weather has warmed up, he can leave Beijing with peace of mind.
He wanted to do the big thing he had wanted to do for a long time:
Manage the Yellow River.
Gao Zhiyuan mentioned in the pamphlet that the Yellow River would burst its banks in Dongshan Province and flood countless fertile fields. However, after the Ming Governor went to Dongshan Province, he attached great importance to drought control and the Yellow River.
Governor Ming ordered people to inspect the Yellow River embankments in Dongshan Province every month, and reinforced the embankments with cement, bricks, stones, etc.
With the attention of the Ming Governor, the Yellow River has not yet burst its banks.
But Li Qiao was always thinking about this mother river. His superpower had reached level ten, and now that the government was stable and the world was at peace, it would be the same whether he was in Shengjing or not, so he informed the Seventh Prince that he wanted to leave the capital to control the river.
The Seventh Prince didn't understand that it was not Li Qiao's turn as the head of the Sixth Department to do it himself.
However, after hearing Li Qiao's explanation, he was immediately convinced.
Li Qiao wanted to take Tao Zhu to see the scenery outside while regulating the river.
This reason made the Seventh Prince unable to refuse. Li Qiao had been an official for more than ten years. He had worked hard and fulfilled his duties, so he asked Sheng Hong for a month's leave. Now Li Qiao was not just having fun, but wanted to regulate the Yellow River.
There was no reason for him to refuse.
The moment he left Shengjing, sitting in the carriage, Tao Zhu couldn't help but look back from the window at the Shengjing Tower behind him.
The spring sun was shining brightly, and the city tower looked particularly tall and majestic in the sunlight. Li Qiao passed the exam in the ninth year of Shengping. In the blink of an eye, he and Li Qiao had stayed in this city for sixteen years.
"What are you looking at?"
Li Qiao and Tao Zhu were close to each other. Seeing Tao Zhu's head sticking out of the window, he hugged his waist and stretched his head out too.
Tao Zhu suddenly laughed, took his head back, and wrapped his hands around Li Qiao's neck: "I'm a little emotional."
"What are you feeling?"
Li Qiao looked at his bright and curved eyes and couldn't help but kiss him on the lips.
This kiss made Tao Zhu smile even more. He leaned over and kissed Li Qiao hard on the lips, and then said with a smile: "I feel that time flies so fast, we have lived here for sixteen years. "
"I'm leaving now. I don't know when I will come back. I just want to take a look at it a few more times."
"We have to come back by the end of this year at the latest. Why is this guy Sheng Shiyu willing to let Yunfan leave for a year? He will definitely call us back to Beijing."
Li Qiao said as he hugged him and fell on the soft mattress behind him. The two of them lay on their sides, their legs intertwined, both smiling.
"That's right."
Tao Zhu became even happier when he thought of Sheng Shiyu's possessiveness towards his own Yunfan.
He stretched out his hand and intertwined his fingers with Li Qiao's. The reluctance for Sheng Jing disappeared in his heart, and he began to think about the way forward.
This is a new beginning.
In the past, Li Qiao was busy studying and busy with world affairs. Twenty years later, Li Qiao and he were finally able to unload their burdens and start a new stage of life.
He had many thoughts in his mind. One moment he thought of Li Qiao's words about taking him into the water and climbing the mountain. The next moment he thought of Li Qiao's words about planting trees by the Yellow River. The next moment he thought of Li Qiao...
Li Qiao, Li Qiao, Li Qiao... Countless thoughts ran through my mind, and finally they all turned into two words:
Li Qiao.
He put his thoughts back and looked at the person in front of him quietly.
This man was also looking at him, his eyes as gentle and full of affection as ever. When their eyes met, the man raised his head slightly and moved closer to him. When the familiar lips fell, he closed his eyes and felt at peace in his heart.
With this person here, this person has always been here, no matter what the future holds, he is looking forward to it.
The author has something to say:
After writing for so long, the main text is finished. Next, there will be a small side story about the current situation of everyone in the text, and then a big side story where Li Qiao wears Tao Zhu's previous life.
Thank you all Baozi for your company and tolerance. Thank you very much. I hope to see you often in Jinjiang Literature City in the future~
