Although there was no milk powder or bottle, Wushuang was able to drink milk in the end.
The wet nurse fed her one spoonful at a time. Of course, it was Zhou Yunhuang who fed her at first, but later he handed it over to the wet nurse.
Chief Steward Lu Ping quickly returned to report the incident.
Wushuang was listening nearby and couldn't help but interrupt.
[Xiao Zhaoyi was jealous of my mother's title of imperial concubine. She, the legitimate daughter of the Xiao family, was only a Zhaoyi.]
[She was thinking of getting rid of my mother. After she was banished to the cold palace, she, the head of the nine concubines, could be given the title of consort like my mother.]
[Tsk tsk tsk, does Xiao Zhaoyi have this kind of hobby? ]
Xiao Zhaoyi likes to eat placenta? Is that the placenta?
[Because she likes to eat, she had Xiao's people keep an eye on the women who had given birth, so that they could find the deformed baby and replace it with my mother's?]
[Eh~] Wushuang couldn't help but boo.
Although she knew that some people liked to eat placenta to maintain their beauty and "health", she just felt that it was not a good idea.
Anyway, her unparalleled beauty was obtained through her own practice, and she did not need to use placenta to maintain her beauty.
Zhou Yunhuang raised his eyebrows after hearing Wushuang's thoughts. Xiao Zhaoyi actually has a hobby of eating placenta?
Although he knew that placenta was also a medicine, Zhou Yunhuang still found it difficult to accept Xiao Zhaoyi eating it so frequently.
[Wow, because Xiao Zhaoyi likes to eat placenta, the Xiao family has actually developed an industrial chain?] Wushuang was stunned when he saw this news.
Because she wanted to eat placenta, Xiao Zhaoyi's family found a large number of women and impregnated them. Most of them then had miscarriages. They only wanted the placentas, not the aborted fetuses.
[Eh, is this murder?] Wushuang's little face was filled with disgust, feeling nauseated.
Zhou Yunhuang originally didn't care much about Xiao Zhaoyi's love for eating placenta. Since it was a medicine, then others could eat it if they liked.
If the placenta is obtained normally, people can eat it however they like.
But Zhou Yunhuang was very dissatisfied that Xiao Zhaoyi's family had done such a thing.
It would be fine if they just found a large number of women and made them pregnant, it would be fine if they just wanted the placenta, but at least they should be able to give birth to the children.
For an emperor, population is the most important thing.
A large population is the proof of a country's strength.
Only when the population is large will there be people to do anything.
After all, farming requires people, fighting wars requires people, digging canals and building tombs, and all kinds of things require people.
What made Zhou Yunhuang angry was not that the Xiao family had made so many women pregnant, but that they had not allowed those women to give birth to children.
According to his beloved daughter, the women hired by the Xiao family gave birth to very few children, and miscarriage was the norm.
How could Zhou Yunhuang accept this?
The Xiao family actually built a large manor in a town thirty miles outside the capital, where the women who "brought" placenta to Xiao Zhaoyi were kept.
[Eh, the Xiao family is truly sinful.]
Wushuang complained in his heart while drinking milk, and he really looked down upon the Xiao family's actions.
"Lu Ping, go to Tongyuan Town and check out the Zhao family manor." Zhou Yunhuang said to Lu Ping.
[Huh? How did Father know about this Zhao Family Manor?]
[Could it be that Father learned about the mass production of placenta from Xiao Zhaoyi's confidants?]
Wushuang's heart was full of doubts, and Zhou Yunhuang looked at his precious daughter with tenderness on his face.
If it weren't for his own daughter, he wouldn't have known that there was someone like Xiao Zhaoyi in his harem.
I didn't even know that the Xiao family had done such a thing.
Is this persecuting innocent women?
No, the Xiao family was persecuting the people of his Great Zhou and persecuting his Great Zhou.
Zhou Yunhuang doesn't care about anything, but it is impossible for him not to care about the Zhou Dynasty.
[As for Xiao Zhaoyi's love for eating placenta, it's probably because of my mother... No, what does it have to do with my mother?]
[I need to find out why this is related to my mother.]
Zhou Yunhuang was curious when he heard his daughter's exasperated voice. What did Xiao Zhaoyi's love for placenta have to do with Concubine Li? Did Concubine Li let her eat it?
Is Concubine Li such a smart person?
[Found it! Concubine Li's favor has remained undiminished since she entered the palace, and her beauty is unrivaled in the harem, making Concubine Xiao jealous... After hearing that placenta can be used for beauty and nourishment, she became obsessed with it...]
"No, what does this have to do with my mother? My mother is naturally beautiful. She was born beautiful!"
Zhou Yunhuang nodded in agreement, feeling a little uncomfortable that Xiao Zhaoyi could be so stupid.
Placenta is a medicine, and it may have some beautifying effects that he doesn't know about, but it can't make a person go from being just average-looking to being extremely beautiful.
As for the appearance of Concubine Li and Concubine Xiao, although it cannot be said that the difference is like heaven and earth, the difference is not very small either.
Isn’t it wishful thinking for Xiao Zhaoyi to use the Purple River Chariot to surpass Concubine Li’s beauty?
[As expected, there is no harm without trade. Because Concubine Xiao Zhaoyi wanted the purple river placenta, the Xiao family created an industrial chain.]
[What a pity for those pregnant women and those children who had to be aborted...]
[And Xiao Zhaoyi's brother is also a bastard who bullies men and women and levies heavy taxes! ]
He even forced people to buy and sell, annexing a lot of their land! Wow! What a jerk!
He owns tens of thousands of acres of land, and he doesn't even have to pay taxes!
[If tens of thousands of hectares of land don't need to pay taxes, what will happen to the Great Zhou's tax revenue?]
[Wow, my father can't be a pauper, right? Could it be that I, a princess, can't eat as well as a brother of a Zhaoyi?]
"This is so pitiful. Can I stop being a princess? Can I be the daughter of a wealthy landowner?"
Hearing his daughter say this, Zhou Yunhuang's expression immediately became serious.
Land annexation: tens of thousands of hectares of land are exempt from taxation...
If you think about it this way, there are really a lot of nobles in the Great Zhou Dynasty. Most of them do not need to pay taxes and have a lot of land under their names.
By this calculation, his Great Zhou had lost so much land tax.
Every time he looked at the empty treasury, he felt heartbroken. He couldn't understand why the Zhou Dynasty was still so poor despite his efforts.
Now, after his daughter reminded him, he realized that it was because a lot of the land in the Great Zhou was in the names of people who did not need to pay taxes, so the national treasury did not collect much tax.
Zhou Yunhuang's expression was solemn. Perhaps he could take action against Xiao Zhaoyi's brother.
Killing a chicken to scare the monkey is a good method, so now he plans to try it out by using Xiao Zhaoyi's brother as the "chicken".
Wushuang complained in his heart while looking at Zhou Yunhuang's expression, knowing that he was satisfied after listening to him.
After drinking the milk, she closed her eyes, shut her mind and went to sleep.
Hey, newborn babies just sleep a lot~
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