After receiving the letter, the emperor looked at the salt stones presented and immediately ordered them to be boiled using the method described in Gu Shouxin's letter.
Okay, the fine salt has come out.
He took a bag of fine salt to the Empress Dowager.
Upon hearing this, the Empress Dowager exclaimed, "Oh, my great-granddaughter has done another good deed! Good, very good, excellent!"
She no longer regrets that her son's family went to Kuncheng.
After discussing it, the grandfather and granddaughter decided to bestow the title of Princess Rouxuan upon Gu Xin. The next morning after the court session, the Ministry of Revenue officials went to Kuncheng that evening with the imperial edict.
Salt was a matter of vital importance to people's livelihood, and many other matters concerning people's livelihood were managed by the Ministry of Revenue.
After the incident with the King of Qu, the emperor had dealt with many of the King of Qu's people. Now, many of them are loyal to him, and even the small number who were disloyal are under his control.
After the imperial edict was taken out, the emperor came to the Empress Dowager's place for a free meal. The Empress Dowager then had her people cook in the small kitchen using salt boiled with salt stones brought from Kunzhou.
It tastes pretty good.
The grandfather and grandson chatted casually, and the conversation turned to the Gu family's daughters.
The two of them talked about Gu Nian the most.
The Emperor intended to pair Xue Qianyu and Gu Nian together, but the Empress Dowager told him to give up on that idea and let the Gu family decide their own marriages.
The emperor was unhappy and decided to make the decision himself? He almost married off his good daughter, Niannian, to Li Muyan back then!
In the emperor's heart, Li Muyan was not as good as Xue Qianyu. Of course, in his heart, Xue Qianyu was the best among children of the same age, even Lu Zheng could not compare. After all, Xue Qianyu was someone he had watched grow up. From the age of ten, he knew to come to his uncle for support and trusted him completely!
The Empress Dowager laughed and said, "Then why did you tell me back then that you wanted to compete with Lu Zhenyuan and steal his wife?"
emperor:"……"
He touched his nose, feeling somewhat embarrassed.
He did indeed like Zhou Jiayu, who was Lu Zheng's mother.
But at that time he was not yet of marriageable age, and he just felt that a woman like that could not be with that fool Lu Zhenyuan.
However, that was just youthful affection. As Zhou Jiayu got married and had children, and Empress Xue grew up and appeared in his life, he stopped thinking about it so much.
Therefore, the Empress Dowager meant that Gu Nian's feelings for Li Muyan were probably similar to the Emperor's feelings for Zhou Jiayu.
The Empress Dowager also analyzed for the Emperor that the reason Gu Nian liked Li Muyan was because Gu Nian liked to tinker with new gadgets, and Li Muyan liked them too. They had common interests and common topics.
Unfortunately, life isn't just about having shared interests and topics of conversation.
The emperor said somewhat dejectedly, "Although Niannian is my niece, and I like her very much, the thought that she almost married Li Muyan makes me feel that Xue Xiaoer was at a disadvantage. I've watched Xue Xiaoer grow up, and he's never been interested in any girl before; his mind is completely blank!"
The Empress Dowager glared at him and said that the children's affairs should be resolved by themselves. You think Xiao Er is at a disadvantage, but what about Xiao Er's own opinion? When it comes to matters of the heart, no one loses and no one gains.
She even scolded the emperor, telling him to stop thinking about trivial matters and focus on important things, such as the situation in the southern border regions.
Gu Nian reminded Yan Mo about the Mei Ren Jiao incident last time. Luckily, she knew in advance, otherwise, who knows what kind of trouble it would have caused.
Speaking of Yan Mo, the emperor felt sorry for Xue Qianyu again, as he remembered that Gu Nian seemed to have liked Yan Mo.
He sighed and rubbed his forehead. If only Gu Nian were a man, he could have just decided to give her the book she liked!
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