Chapter 75 Is he still Lin Baige?
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During this period, everyone was waiting for Lin Baige to leave the palace. If he could not recover from his illness and the factory was not open, the imperial examination would be delayed.
Even Lord Zhang came over to persuade him to stop, and everyone took a step back.
Lin Baige originally thought that the matter was over, but when he heard Master Zhang say that they should each take a step back, he became excited again: "If I take a step back, others will think I'm easy to bully."
Lord Zhang looked at him as if he were a rebellious child. "You're so easy to bully? Anyone who says anything bad about you will be beheaded now. You're on par with His Majesty. His Majesty is just short of making you the Queen."
"Your Majesty, why didn't you make me the Queen?" Lin Baige asked Master Zhang angrily, "It was you, Teacher, who stopped Your Majesty. Otherwise, I would have been the Queen long ago."
Zhang's face darkened with anger. "How could I possibly persuade the Emperor? It was the Empress Dowager who stopped me. Back then, His Majesty had a huge argument with the Empress Dowager over this matter, which caused a rift between mother and son. The Empress Dowager has been living in the temporary palace for several years now."
"Ah?" Lin Baige didn't expect that the real rebel was Fu Jiangyu. He thought Fu Jiangyu still had some rationality. The ministers opposed him to make a man the queen. He listened to the ministers' opinions and only let him be a concubine. As a result, Fu Jiangyu had a big quarrel with the queen mother?
It is hard to imagine Fu Jiangyu arguing with his mother. When Lin Baige was a child, he would pull his parents' arms and cry when he begged his parents to buy him toys, but he would not cry out loud or lie on the ground to act like a spoiled child. His parents would feel sorry for him when they saw his pitiful appearance and would buy him toys.
When he was a child, he used this trick to trick his parents into buying toys. Now he uses this trick to trick Fu Jiangyu. Now he has eye drops, which makes it easier.
But Fu Jiangyu definitely wouldn't cry. He might even have a gloomy face and be competing with his mother.
If the Queen Mother had insisted a little longer and not allowed the original owner to become a male concubine, and had secretly sent the original owner out of the palace or ordered her to be executed, the State of Jin would not have been destroyed.
No matter how much Fu Jiangyu loves, he would never kill his mother. At most, he would just be angry with her and refuse to see her like he is now.
He remembered that the original text mentioned that Fu Jiangyu could not leave the original owner for a moment. The original owner was Fu Jiangyu's tranquilizer. When the original owner was not around, Fu Jiangyu would become very irritable and might even become a tyrant, and the State of Jin would be destroyed by him.
"The State of Jin would be broken up without me." Lin Baige couldn't help but sigh.
This made Master Zhang's beard stand on end in anger: "How shameless!"
"Teacher, don't be angry. I brought you a gift to calm you down." Lin Baige handed the wine and sugar brewed by the winery to Mr. Zhang. "Even the emperor hasn't tasted them, so I'll give you a portion first."
"Are you apologizing?" Lord Zhang thought that things had gotten to this point. As long as Lin Baige bowed his head and gave him a way out, he would come down. After all, he still had to make sure that Lin Baige didn't cause any big trouble.
"I did nothing wrong, so why should I apologize? This is the sugar and wine produced in my three factories. Let the teacher taste it and see how capable my students are. Once the factories are built and mass-produced, they can be sold to the other three countries. Our fiscal revenue will increase several times over. The country will have money, and the people will not suffer. The emperor will also have money to strengthen the army. Only when the country is stable can the people be at peace. Don't you agree?"
After hearing what he said, Mr. Zhang looked at him with a higher opinion: "I didn't expect you to have such awareness."
"Of course, I'm much more conscious than you old stubborn people. All you think about all day is rules and male superiority over female. Do your rules, other than locking everyone up in cages, earn you money? Do they make the country stronger?" Lin Baige touched his chin, pretending to be shrewd. "That's why I said that without me, the State of Jin would fall apart."
Mr. Zhang waved his hand and said, "Alright, go away now. Don't make me angry here. If I say a few more words to you, I'll lose a few years of my life."
After Mr. Zhang and Lin Baige left, the servants in his house came to ask him what to do with the things Lin Baige had sent.
The servants in the house just saw Lord Zhang and Lin Baige arguing. Under normal circumstances, Lord Zhang would definitely be furious and ask them to throw the things out.
Of course they wouldn't really throw it away, as such good things have already gone into their pockets.
They were waiting eagerly at the side, wanting to see what the good things that the imperial concubine was talking about that even the emperor had never enjoyed were, so that they could open their eyes.
Unexpectedly, Lord Zhang not only did not let them throw the things away, but also asked them to open them.
"I want to see what good stuff he has produced after making such a big fuss." Lord Zhang has lived to this age, and it's not like he hasn't eaten sugar and drunk wine. The sugar here is mostly brown sugar, and the wine is fruit wine, which is simply fermented and looks very turbid. He doesn't like to drink it very much.
I heard that the wine this time was fermented from grain: "What a waste of grain."
He had barely finished speaking when the lid of the wine bottle was opened, and he was overwhelmed by the aroma, which made his head dizzy. The servants around him were also drooling at the fragrance and kept glancing into the jar.
They poured out the wine from the jar and exclaimed in amazement, "It's so clear."
They opened the sugar wrapper again, and it was crystal white. "Why is this sugar like snow?"
The servant who opened the sugar wrapper secretly used his fingertips to pick up a little and put it into his mouth. The texture was delicate and the sweetness was much better than what they usually ate.
"This is really good stuff," Master Zhang said, nudging the sugar with his fingertips and scooping some into his mouth with a spoon. "No wonder he's trying so hard to produce this stuff. Am I really too old-fashioned?"
Over the past year, since the emperor was assassinated and Lin Baige sewed stitches for him, the state of Jin has indeed changed. Counting the things Lin Baige did, including arresting corrupt officials, making farm tools, running schools, digging salt wells, and making paper, in just over a year, he restored the state of Jin from its paralyzed state to its heyday, avoided war, and made the state of Jiang take the initiative to negotiate cooperation with them.
"This Lin Baige is indeed something," Lord Zhang wondered. "Is he still Lin Baige? Could it be that some immortal couldn't bear to see the turmoil in Jin and came down to save it?"
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