Chapter 249 Little Princess (End of Text)
Regarding the subsequent governance of Nanyang County, the court argued for several days and finally formulated several items.
The civil administration was to send a large number of officials to Nanyang County to implement nationwide transformation and divide the country into detailed states, counties, towns and villages, which was no different from Daxia.
In terms of farming, cash crops such as mulberry, tea, and cotton were planted on a large scale in Southeast Asia, and a small amount of grain was planted to ensure that within ten years no descendants of local princes would be able to store food and weapons to launch a rebellion.
In terms of trade, a port was built in Nanyang County, which officially became a transit point for Daxia’s maritime merchants.
In the military aspect, the navy will move in and build a larger naval base in Nanyang County, so that it can advance to more distant seas. Daxia will not only become the overlord of the East China Sea and the South China Sea, but also the overlord of all four seas!
The mining of silver mines was under the charge of the military industry, which reported directly to the emperor. Half of the income from the silver mines was used for naval infrastructure, and the other half was transported back to Daxia.
At this time, Gu Changxiao led all the officials to look at the brand new map of Daxia. The west was incorporated into the Thirty-Six Kingdoms of the Western Regions, and the east was incorporated into Japan.
The map was twice as large as that during the reign of the previous emperor. All officials flattered him, saying that they should report to heaven and earth and hold a ceremony to offer sacrifices to heaven and earth at Mount Tai.
If Gu Changxiao had not seen the world map, he would have proudly agreed and believed the flattery of the officials, thinking that his achievements were comparable to those of the Qin Emperor and Han Emperor, and that he should be enfeoffed as a god. From then on, Daxia entered its heyday.
But he had seen the world map! After seeing it, he realized that compared with the real world, his great achievements were still too small.
He ordered a complete map of Southeast Asia to be hung up. The officials did not understand it at first, but gradually calmed down after they saw it clearly.
It turns out that the world is so big! Gu Changxiao pointed to the area in the south. At this time, there were various small countries there. Our caravan had been there and there were still some uncivilized natives.
Because the place is full of insects and ferocious beasts, and is full of miasma and swamps. It is neither suitable for marching nor of much value. Apart from expanding the territory, it is of no benefit to the country.
Although there are many precious woods, medicinal herbs and spices there, you can exchange them with the local natives for a very small amount of cloth or goods.
The merchants regarded it as a natural source of goods. Sometimes they would just give the locals some fine wine and induce them to pick spices, cut wood and mine.
Of course, this was the previous view.
After Jinsui got the rubber that Heihu found in Tianzhu, he took a fancy to this piece of land: "This is the most suitable place to grow rubber. It is connected to Lingnan and Dianzhou. I hope to get this piece of land as our back garden to grow rubber and sugarcane."
Yu Dong, Jin Sui pointed at the small territory of Goguryeo, Silla, and Baekje, and sneered, "How can I allow others to snore beside my bed?
These small countries have always been fickle. When Daxia was strong, they surrendered and became vassal states. Whenever Daxia encountered any changes, they would immediately send troops to our northeast.
Now that Nanyang County has built a naval base, they will become a major hidden danger and will also restrict our exports to the sea.
Your Majesty, a vassal state is a vassal state after all. Our generation is strong and can keep them safe. But if a hundred years later, when our military power is beyond our reach, will they still be so honest? It is better to completely assimilate like Nanyang County, which is the strategy for long-term stability. "
Gu Changxiao immediately agreed with Jin Sui's words, which made the historian who was recording on the side sweat. They all said that His Majesty was warlike, but it turned out that it was the Queen who was warlike! On the day when Hei Hu returned home with the spoils of Nanyang County, the whole country celebrated. Everyone was familiar with the style of His Majesty's celebration, which was to exempt farmers from grain taxes.
Your Majesty said that what is truly good for farmers is to exempt grain taxes. Exempting grain taxes for one season can ensure that farmers have no worries about food and clothing for the whole year. Nothing else will work.
If the imperial court gave food, it had to guard against exploitation by lower-level officials. Only by exempting taxes could the benefits really reach the people.
Then the state capitals where public hospitals and primary schools were built were expanded, because the national strength was not enough to build them in all the states at once, and there was also a shortage of medical care and teaching staff.
Then we promoted it by using the county, and in the past two years, we built it in the sixteen states of Yan. Then Grandpa Ling built it in the Central Plains in a diffuse manner.
As for wealthy areas such as Jiangnan, the court built hospitals and colleges without spending much money thanks to donations from local wealthy businessmen.
The next area to be focused on for support is the Northwest, which is also the place where Your Majesty led the army when he was still the crown prince. It is really poor there, and it has also been the focus of tax exemption in recent years.
Gu Changxiao led all the officials to the East China Sea Port to pick up Black Tiger. Our Black Tiger has now become a national celebrity and the hottest upstart in the court.
Other generals' expeditions were a waste of money and manpower, but our Black Tiger expedition earned back ten ships of treasures and opened up the waterway from Daxia to Tianzhu.
He also escorted the spoils of war from Nanyang County back to the country. There were not just ten ships, but nearly a hundred ships.
The scene was so grand and unprecedented.
Gu Changxiao, Jinsui and Baozhu were all waiting for him in the capital. Heihu was originally tall and strong, and he had become a little darker after being out at sea for many days.
He was full of oppression when he walked towards us, and when his face was dark, he looked like a big bear. The onlookers didn't dare to look at him. It was estimated that from today on, the name of Zhier Yeku would become Black Tiger General.
But when he saw the emperor, he immediately grinned, showing his white teeth. Well, he was still the same silly black tiger, he hadn't changed at all.
Jin Sui and Gu Changxiao were not unkind people. After listening to Hei Hu's report on Nanyang County's battle record and awarding him rewards, they immediately let Hei Hu take his family home for a reunion.
Our Heihu was conferred the title of Earl, Baozhu received an imperial decree, and his son is the Crown Prince.
When Jinsui met Heihu alone, this guy was a little afraid to look at Jinsui. The former Boss Ji had become elegant and noble. The memories of the time when they often went out riding horses together seemed like something from their past life.
"Greetings, Her Majesty the Queen."
Jin Sui smiled and said, "It's been a few years since we last met, but General Black Tiger is still as majestic as ever!"
Hei Hu shuddered: "My lady, please don't call me like that. It makes me feel creepy."
He plucked up the courage to look up at Jinsui, and as if old friends couldn't make eye contact, their eyes met and they both laughed.
This laugh seemed to bring me back to the past, and the laugh got louder and louder.
The three little ones, Su Ge'er, An An and Black Tiger's son Little Tiger, were so scared that they kept shrinking back. Little Tiger was the biggest and was holding the hands of the other two.
An An asked in a baby voice: "Is he really your father? He looks like the Four Heavenly Kings in the temple."
The little tiger cub was a little unsure, so he looked up and asked Baozhu: "Mom, is he really my father?"
Baozhu was crying with joy. When she heard her son say this silly thing, she didn't know whether to laugh or cry: "He is your father. Go and call him daddy."
Jin Sui also waved him in and said to Hei Hu, "You can choose a full name when you come back. Your nickname is Tiger Cub. Look, after several years of expedition, your son has grown up so big."
Black Tiger stretched out his hand to the cub: "Come, let Daddy take a look."
His voice was loud and his palms were as big as a palm leaf fan. The tiger cub was too scared to move forward at first, but Black Tiger took out a photo from his arms that was rubbed to the edge and deformed, and showed it to him:
"Hey, Daddy watches this every night. I didn't expect you to be this big already."
The little tiger cub was no longer suspicious. He rushed over and shouted, "Daddy." Then he burst into tears. He missed his daddy so much.
He is almost four years old and still hasn't seen his father. Some children would even scold him for having no father. Now he wants to prove to everyone that he has a father! And he is a tall and mighty general! Jin Sui said to Hei Hu very clearly: "You are now an earl, and many dignitaries in the capital want to marry you. You should be more cautious and don't drink some wine carelessly.
Always bring your trusted followers with you wherever you go, and be careful. Han Xing is not here, so if you have any questions, please ask Master Cheng."
Hei Hu was very confused: "I already have a wife, why do they want to marry me?"
Jinsui felt a bit of a headache. These two people were very naive. If he didn't explain things clearly, he would be taken advantage of by someone with ulterior motives, which would be very troublesome.
She waved her hand and said, "Go talk to Master Cheng and go home to be with your wife and children first. You will be the protagonist at the palace banquet tomorrow."
Rather than looking for Cheng Yu, Hei Hu wanted to find Yan Shiyi more, but he found out that Yan Shiyi had gone to Northern Xinjiang and had not returned yet.
It goes without saying how warm and sweet the family of three was after they returned home. Heihu's attitude also made Baozhu feel relieved. Heihu is not a lustful person, he is loyal.
On the day of the palace banquet, Jin Sui entertained the female guests, and Baozhu was the guest of honor. Since she became the queen, she had very few palace banquets due to her many affairs.
It is said that when in Chang'an, there were several flower-viewing banquets in the palace every month, which were large-scale blind date banquets for all the powerful men and women in Chang'an.
Jinsui's banquets are always used to "promote goods". All the tableware is from new kilns, with all kinds of new tea sets and tea pets, as small as napkins, tablecloths, chair mats, dishes, fruits, snacks and so on.
It can be said that anything that appears at the banquet, including the toothpicks used after the meal, is a "commodity". After every palace banquet, the same items will be sold out.
It is not easy to promote clothes. After all, there is only one queen in the harem, and palace maids cannot be used to promote the goods. Once the palace maids wear the clothes, the noble ladies will not buy them.
Chen Yunniang led the female officials to wear them. They were all new styles from the Shi Er Niang store, and their makeup was also new products from Yan Zhi Zhai.
Jinsui's aim is to increase the sales of its subsidiaries tenfold every time it holds a palace banquet, otherwise the banquet will be in vain.
There was no online live streaming these days, so fashion items were spread through palace banquets. They first became popular in the capital, spread to Jiangnan a month later, and spread throughout Daxia in three months.
Then there are the northern frontier and the sea. Jinsui has learned the sales method of electronic products in the future. The update and replacement must be fast! Every new product and every popular element are silver! We make money with one hand and run hospitals and primary schools with the other. No one can accuse the queen of extravagance.
As the capital prospered, various competitions increased. In addition to the various examinations in physics and mathematics held by Jinsui to recruit talented young men, there were also sports competitions held by wealthy young men.
Because gambling is strictly prohibited in the capital, only polo matches can be openly bet on. The two events every spring and autumn have become the most anticipated and favorite events for young men, even more exciting than hunting.
In the autumn polo match of that year, Black Tiger led the Black Feather Battalion to play. The other teams said that this was cheating. Who could beat General Black Tiger? As expected, Black Tiger won first place. During the championship match, Gu Changxiao and Jin Sui brought Shuo'er to watch. Black Tiger held the trophy in one hand and the little tiger cub in the other, just as proud as when he held the pearl.
When Jinsui returned home that night, she felt unwell and thought it was because she had been caught in the cold during the day. She checked herself in her space and found that she was pregnant again.
Gu Changxiao was overjoyed and hugged Shuo Ge'er and said, "You are going to be a brother. Do you want a younger brother or a younger sister?"
Shuo Ge'er clapped his hands and said, "I want a sister! A sister as pretty as mother."
Unexpectedly, the next day after the pregnancy was diagnosed, Liuyun brought back good news that the civil unrest in the northern border had been settled and Bater was preparing to move the capital further north.
The Hetao Plain was completely incorporated into the Daxia plate. The local herdsmen followed Bater to the north, and the farmers who stayed behind became registered as Xia citizens.
General Huang led 50,000 troops to garrison the border. Gu Changxiao laughed and said that the baby in Jinsui's belly was a lucky star and brought him good news while still in his mother's belly.
Jin Sui was speechless. Could this be considered as something brought by the child? Originally, news from the Northern Frontier had been coming in. Liu Yun and the others had brought gunpowder to help. It was only a matter of time before the civil unrest was quelled.
However, the historian must record the emperor's words. If this baby is really a girl, then the history books will record something like the princess is a lucky star.
Ever since Jinsui became pregnant with her second child, Gu Changxiao liked to take Shuoge'er to the imperial study to prevent him from disturbing Jinsui's rest in the harem.
Whenever he had some free time, he would hold Shuo Ge'er and look at the world map. When he learned that our Great Xia only occupied a small part of the world, Shuo Ge'er was very disappointed.
"Everywhere the sun and moon shine is Han territory. Father, are there no sun and moon in these places? Why are they not Daxia's territory?"
The child's words were innocent, but they made Gu Changxiao fascinated. If all these places were planted with the military flags of our Great Xia, then I would be worthy of going to Mount Tai to offer sacrifices to the gods! When Liuyun led the troops and Beijiang to return to the capital to express his gratitude, Jinsui was six months pregnant and saw that her senior sister's belly was bulging again.
Liuyun admired her very much. Senior Sister was really trying her best to cultivate immortality for merit! Your Majesty is so lucky to have a fairy give birth to children for him.
Gu Changxiao had long noticed that Liuyun looked at Jinsui with a strange look in his eyes, which made him very unhappy. Yan Jiu had been placed in the East China Sea by him, and he could not see Suisui more than three times a year.
As the leader of the imperial guards, you could meet Sui Sui every day, and now you are becoming more and more unscrupulous.
Gu Changxiao immediately gave Liuyun a mansion and let him leave the palace. If he hadn't been adamantly opposed and Jinsui didn't support his random marriages for his subordinates, he would have wanted to give Liuyun a wife.
Liuyun was also funny. He didn't live in the mansion he had, and instead ran to Grandpa Ling's Taoist temple after court. He called himself Taoist Ling's eldest disciple and asked Jin'an to call him senior brother.
Grandpa Ling likes Liuyun very much and says that he has the ability to understand and will achieve success in time.
Han Xing brought the navy back, and Jin Sui was just due. She gave birth to her second child in the hospital, and it was a baby girl, just as Shuo Er wished.
Gu Changxiao once again issued a general amnesty, this time exempting agricultural taxes in half of the states. The entire capital celebrated for three days, with singing and dancing, and officials and students were given a holiday.
Everyone joked that the princess had won three days off for us. Our little princess has been blessed by people all over the country since she was born.
Heihu succeeded Hanxing as the governor of Nanyang County for three years. Heihu took Baozhu and the tiger cub with him.
Grandpa Ling also wanted to go, he said the people there needed our orthodox Taoist teachings. But how could Jin Sui let Grandpa go! It was so far away, and the risks at sea were great.
Liuyun asked to go on behalf of Grandpa Ling as the eldest disciple, and Gu Changxiao approved it immediately. He was the first general who also served as a Taoist priest, and he was the only one in history.
When the little princess was one year old, Gu Changxiao and Jinsui took the two children to climb the Great Wall and reach the highest peak. The family of four looked at half of the capital in the south and the scenery outside the Great Wall in the north.
Gu Changxiao felt a sense of pride and said emotionally, "Since my mother passed away, I have suffered a lot and thought that I would never be happy in this life.
Fortunately, I met Sui Sui and I am lucky to marry her! "
Jin Sui also said softly: "It is my life's fortune to marry you. Because my heart is too big and I want to do too many things. If I don't have the support of Your Majesty, I can't accomplish anything.
Thank you for your tolerance and support. I still have a long life ahead of me, and I hope you will continue to support me."
Gu Changxiao said solemnly: "Everything you do every year is beneficial to the country, the people, me and the world. I will naturally support you with all my strength!
The world is so big and we still have a lot to do.
I have always remembered Sui Sui's words, let's create a new era of peace and prosperity together, and make Da Xia civilization the top of the world!"
Jinsui held his hand and smiled gently. She thought she was an outlier in this era and had tried very hard to play the role of Ling Jinsui.
Fortunately, you allow me to be myself.
Looking at the daughter in Gu Changxiao's arms and the son beside me, I will use my whole life to leave my own legend on this land and in this time and space.
(End of text)
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