Chapter 237 World Map
The emperor also has a wedding leave, which is three days off from court. During these three days, he will eat and sleep in the queen's palace, and then move back to his own palace. Jin Sui joked that other people have a honeymoon when they get married, but we will just have three days of honeymoon.
They were really sweet for three days. They didn't even leave the palace. They just took a walk around the palace to familiarize themselves with the harem. Many places were designed by Jinsui, but she didn't even come to see them after they were built.
In the evening, they actively performed another great ceremony, the Zhougong Ceremony. The small kitchen in Jinsui Palace had only been used to boil water for the past three days, making tea during the day and using it for after-evening meals at night.
Fortunately, Jinsui has a very good physical condition. Any weak girl would not be able to withstand Gu Changxiao's strength at night.
Gu Changxiao's way of expressing his love is to give gifts. He takes Jinsui to the private storehouse to perform treasures collected by the royal family for generations. Whichever one Jinsui likes will be moved to the Queen's Palace.
Jin Sui didn't like to use old things, he just admired them, and then he thought of something: "Is it okay for me to use them outside the palace?"
Gu Changxiao smiled and said, "Of course! Give it to Sui Sui, you can use it for whatever you want, or give it as a gift to someone else."
Jinsui plans to move some antiques to the college and build a small museum there.
After Gu Changxiao gave the gift, he looked at Jinsui eagerly and reminded him in a low voice: "I want Suisui to make it by hand."
Yes, I still remember the tea set that Jin Sui gave to Yan Jiu! How could a great emperor be so petty?
Jin Sui gave him the gift he had prepared for a long time and took him to his study: "Don't be too surprised!"
Gu Changxiao smiled and said, "There is nothing in this world that can surprise me!"
Then Jin Sui took out a globe. Gu Changxiao was not so surprised that he shouted, but he opened his eyes wide and stared at the globe for a quarter of an hour without any reaction.
Jin Sui held his hand in front of his eyes and said, "Give me some reaction? Are you scared?"
This was probably the reaction of the King of Qin when Jing Ke presented the map to him.
Gu Changxiao carefully turned the globe three times and pointed at Daxia's territory in disbelief: "Daxia is only this big?"
"My world is only this big?"
At this moment, Gu Changxiao understood the frog in the well. He did not doubt the authenticity of the map. If it was taken out by someone else, he might have doubted it, but since it was taken out by Jin Sui, he did not doubt it at all.
"That's why Sui Sui gave the Yan family such detailed nautical charts!"
"Yes, you see, this ocean current, these islands. Of course, some places are different, so you have to go and explore them in person to know."
Gu Changxiao asked thoughtfully, "Does that mean Sui Sui has never been to these places?"
Jin Sui laughed: "I am not Tang Monk. Even if I were Tang Monk, I only reached India from the Thirty-Six Kingdoms of the Western Regions. I told you that when I was a child, I had a high fever in the Taoist temple and went to a special study room, which contained this world map."
"I also doubted the authenticity of this map before, but according to the news brought back by the Yan family's fleet, the places they explored are exactly the same as those on this map, so I am sure that this is true."
"Under the whole world, monarchs of all dynasties have believed that they rule the world. Wherever the sun and moon shine, wherever the rivers flow, they are all Han territory. However, they do not know that our country is actually just a corner in the east of the world."
"If the King of Qin had this map, who knows where the Qin cavalry would go? If Emperor Wu of Han had this map, who knows where the Han lions would attack. Now I present this map to Your Majesty, and I just want to tell Your Majesty one thing."
When Gu Changxiao heard that she spoke seriously, he knew that Sui Sui was very serious, so he straightened his clothes, sat upright and looked at Jin Sui seriously.
"The world is vast, and Your Majesty has many things to do. Civil strife, harsh policies, land reform, commercial laws, maritime trade, etc., all seem so insignificant in comparison.
We should have a long-term vision and not be limited to the small gains in front of us. I would like to ask Your Majesty, seeing such a large land, don’t you want to plant our Great Xia military flags all over these territories?
Don't you want people in these places to know about the great country of the East? Don't you want to promote our national prestige? Don't you want to benefit the people? Don't you want to spread our Chinese language, Chinese characters, and Chinese customs? Don't you want all the small countries to respect Daxia as the Celestial Empire?"
Gu Changxiao took a deep breath and exhaled slowly. In a short moment, his temperament changed. The goal he set for himself a quarter of an hour ago seemed too small a quarter of an hour later.
It turns out the world is so big!
Let's put it this way, no emperor could resist the temptation of this map. For Gu Changxiao, this gift from Jin Sui was more exciting than pacifying the Sixteen Prefectures of Yan!
He rushed forward and hugged Jinsui, saying from the bottom of his heart: "Suisui is really my lucky star! No, my queen is the lucky star of Daxia and the people of the world!"
Jin Sui smiled softly: "Then let's work together as husband and wife to make our Great Xia truly the most powerful country in the world."
Everyone was rushing to give gifts. Jin Sui just gave a big gift that made Gu Changxiao fall in love with it, and the next day he received another big gift from Han Xing.
At the morning court, Gu Changxiao announced that the King of Runan in Chang'an and twelve aristocratic families had joined forces to rebel, intending to send troops to the capital during the wedding of the emperor and empress.
All the civil and military officials in the court were very nervous. Such a big thing happened, but they didn't get any information at all.
Then Gu Changxiao went on to tell the result. This conspiracy was thwarted by General Han in Chang'an, and three thousand traitors were beheaded. Now their property and assets have been confiscated, and all their slaves, tenants, and followers have been exiled to the border, totaling 50,000 people.
Gu Changxiao sneered: "It seems that the population census was not done thoroughly. It is possible to support 50,000 private slaves!"
Immediately afterwards, Gu Changxiao sent officials from the Ministry of Revenue to conduct another large-scale census. The previous one was a civil check, and this time it was a military check. Anyone who kept slaves would be severely punished.
In the past, if they rebelled, these people would be implicated and beheaded. In history, there have been many cases of rebellion in which tens of thousands of people were killed at one time.
But Jin Sui and Gu Changxiao suggested that these slaves were all under the orders of their masters and had no idea what they were doing and were just being coerced.
We are so short of people now! With the opening of maritime trade, workshops are so short of people that they have to rob people. It would be such a waste to kill them!
Only the main general and his direct subordinates should be killed, and those who are unwilling to surrender should be killed. The rest can be divided and sent to various places. The northwest has been invaded by the Hu people, and the people are withered and scattered. This is the time when people are needed.
Lingnan is about to build a seaport and will also need manpower. As for Yandi, don't let them come.
Gu Changxiao agreed with Jinsui's suggestion and issued an order to Han Xing in advance, not to kill slaves and side branches, but only direct descendants.
Chang'an was crowded with people, so the loss of tens of thousands of people was not noticeable at all. But as the imperial edicts were read out at Caishikou every day, more and more people were beheaded.
No matter they were the rich and powerful, nobles, businessmen or ordinary people, they all understood that the situation in Chang'an was hopeless, because the people and troops involved in the rebellion were the strongest they could be mustered.
However, they were no match for the Black Feather Army led by Han Xing! The main leaders realized in prison that their secret collusion during this period had been clearly known by Han Xing.
It should be said that His Majesty knew this very well, and even allowed them to gather their forces just to catch them all in one fell swoop.
Even when they were taken to Caishikou to be beheaded, they did not know that a group of Prince Yu's remnants who had sneaked in among them were led by Huo Zian.
Jin Sui laughed and said that our Lord Niu was very successful as a spy! With him in Chang'an, it was like a nail embedded in the Chang'an gang, and they would never succeed.
Chang'an could no longer become a major city, and some people began to actively rush to the new capital. The gentry who had been clinging to their land wanted to join this great reform, but they missed the opportunity and became small landlords from then on, and after a few decades, they became farmers.
The gentry gradually became mediocre on the political stage, and the imperial court completely solved the problem of the gentry without bloodshed.
When the news reached him, Gu Changxiao told Jinsui that it was a waste to keep Hanxing and Huo Zian in Chang'an. He planned to transfer Hanxing back to the border city to lead the navy in a few months when the rebellion in Chang'an was completely quelled.
Jin Sui certainly agreed. To be honest, if gunpowder was deployed on the battlefield, those diehards in Chang'an would never succeed. Leaving Han Xing there would be like sending a tiger to guard the city. It was a waste of talent.
Jinsui immediately wrote a letter to Shi Er Niang to tell her the good news, because she knew that Shi Er Niang wanted to return to the border town very much. She always said that Chang'an City was like an old man and had no vitality at all.
Accustomed to the comforts of the border town, she simply couldn't adapt to life in Chang'an.
Twelve Niang's reply arrived quickly, because along the way from Chang'an to the border town there were not only express post stations, but also hot air balloon bases built to prevent bad weather from blocking the journey.
It is specially used to deliver important documents, so the news between the two cities is transmitted very quickly.
When Jinsui opened the letter from Twelve Niang, he stood up in surprise. Twelve Niang was pregnant!
She couldn't wait to share the good news with Gu Changxiao: "They are so fast! Twelve Niang is one year younger than me, and she will be a mother soon."
Gu Changxiao looked at Jin Sui's flat belly and suddenly asked in a low voice, "Is it true that I can't live in the Queen's palace during my pregnancy?"
Jin Sui rolled her eyes at him and said, "What are you thinking about? Of course you can come and stay! It's just that I can't do that at night."
Gu Changxiao immediately said: "Then let's have the baby later."
Jin Sui blushed and hit him.
Then he talked about business: "Once Twelve Niang is pregnant, she must return to the border town, otherwise she will have to stay in Chang'an to give birth. Han Xing cannot be transferred back first, so let the Yan family take Twelve Niang back first!"
Gu Changxiao nodded: "I will tell Yan Jiu."
Xiang Xiang said, "If you are worried that I haven't explained it in detail, then summon Yan Shiyi to the palace and explain it to him in detail."
Jin Sui chuckled twice. It would be better to talk to Yan Shiyi than to Yan Guanjia! Really, is it necessary to prevent me from meeting Yan Jiu? Our marriage is settled. The Yan family has loyally built a seaport for you. What are you still fussing about? What a narrow-minded man! Yan Shiyi came with Jin An. He felt that it was very dangerous to enter the palace alone. He didn't care what his elder brother and younger sister said about the queen, and didn't care what the officials and the people thought about the queen.
In Yan Shiyi's eyes, Jinsui has always been the Prince Li who robbed people from the Zheng family's ancestral tomb, chopped off Zheng Yun's head with a knife, hung the bodies of horse bandits in the woods to dry, and burned a city to burn the Tartar army to death...!
She was fierce, cruel, savage, cruel, cunning and unreasonable. No matter how beautiful she looked, her heart was black. Anyway, he didn't dare to come to see Jin Sui alone, and he wanted to find a companion but couldn't find a suitable one.
Men could not enter the palace without an imperial edict. If he just found a woman at random, he would probably have to marry her afterwards. In the end, he chose a good helper, which was the case with Jin'an.
Jin Sui was very happy to see the two of them coming together, and immediately invited them to order hot pot: "It's too boring for me and Your Majesty to eat hot pot alone."
Yan Shiyi: ...No, you are the queen now, why are you still so casual?
He reminded quietly: "Your Majesty, is there anything you want me to do when I come to the palace?"
Jin Sui smiled and said, "Your subordinate? Are you an official now?"
Yan Shiyi blushed, then straightened his back and said, "His Majesty personally appointed me as a navy lieutenant!"
Jin An spoke up for Yan Shiyi: "Brother Shiyi has passed the training of the new recruit camp, that's amazing!"
Gu Changxiao was paving the way for the navy in advance, and he probably recruited quite a few young masters like Yan Shiyi. Jin Sui nodded in understanding.
"Congratulations, Master Turtle! There is no other reason why I summoned you to the palace today, it is for Twelve Lady."
Then she told him about Twelve Lady's pregnancy and the emperor's previous arrangement for Han Xing. Yan Shiyi didn't react at first, until Jin An pushed him: "You are going to be an uncle!"
Yan Shiyi touched his chin and said, "Uncle!" Then his eyes lit up, "I'm going to be an uncle!"
Jinsui: ...I said we should ask Butler Yan to come.
However, Yan Shiyi was still very concerned about his sister's affairs. After returning home, he prepared the courtyard for Twelve Niang to live in, and also asked the imperial physician about things to pay attention to during pregnancy.
There are rumors that the son of the Yan family is going to be a father? The good news from Han Xing made Gu Changxiao happy for several days. Before the discussion about the affairs of Chang'an in the court subsided, another good news came.
This is what our Master Liuyun brought back. Yes, Liuyun has returned to Border Town. But seeing his senior sister become the queen, and Wuzhao still can't see her, makes him feel very sad.
And I just can’t understand why someone would not want to cultivate immortality and get married?
Well, as for the noble status of the queen, in Liuyun's opinion, how can it be compared with the immortal who chases the wind and the moon?
Although Liuyun did not meet Jinsui, he met Gu Changxiao as soon as he came back. The news he brought back to Northern Frontier did not make Gu Changxiao curious at all.
Because Gu Changxiao knew everything. In order to prevent Bater from taking over the entire Northern Frontier smoothly this year, he used many methods to sow discord among the powerful people in Northern Frontier. As a result, Bater and Toya were still busy taking back power and had no ability to cause trouble for Daxia at all.
The news that Liuyun brought back to make Gu Changxiao happy was about Heihu. He learned from a merchant from the Western Regions that Heihu, this fool, pursued the Hu army and killed his way through the twelve countries in the Western Regions.
And he had no intention of stopping, and continued to kill westward. The merchant brought a letter written by Heihu, and exchanged it with Liuyun for 100 taels of gold.
At this time, the letter was on Gu Changxiao's desk. He looked at the words written like a black tiger and a dog crawling and laughed uncontrollably. He was truly a fierce general!
Looking at the route of Black Tiger's march on the world map, Gu Changxiao felt that Black Tiger was a lucky general. He didn't get lost in the Western Regions without this map! He immediately discussed with Jin Sui to send someone to deliver weapons and military supplies to Black Tiger. Regardless of whether they could catch up with Black Tiger, at least Black Tiger would not be attacked from behind.
Jin Sui of course agreed, and invited Bao Zhu and her son to the palace, telling Bao Zhu the news about Hei Hu. She also wanted to "paint" a picture for the mother and son and give it to Hei Hu.
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