In the east wing, Xie Zhou and his wife had finished lunch.
It's better to have two people.
As for the servants around them, the house is too small to accommodate them all.
Huan Yue found it funny. The house was only this small back then, so is it that the house itself is not at fault, but the people are?
Xie Zhou asked his wife, "Should we knock down the wall and expand the space a bit? We can also expand the tea room over there. The middle part isn't used much, so it can be smaller."
The palace maid glanced at him and said, "Who said the middle part isn't needed?"
However, the east and west side rooms are different; the west side room is quite nice.
If I stay at Chengen Hall, how will I eat? It's alright.
It's all about making trouble.
Xie Zhou took his wife's hand and went to the back garden to digest their food.
Wang Fengyi, Lan Fengyi, and Lu Fengyi have all been dismissed and will not be coming out for a while.
Huan Yue looked at the garden, pondered Baishi Village, and said to the dog man, "If that dragon mound gets big, it will cost tens of thousands of taels of silver."
It's about a mile or five hundred meters long. If it were just a river embankment, it wouldn't cost that much money, but this is a much larger project than the river embankment project.
Huan Yue said, "The river embankment needs to be repaired, and the village's drainage system also needs to be repaired. We can't let the village really flood."
Xie Zhou smiled and said, "A bigger one is better." The aura of a crown princess must be brought out, otherwise those people will not care about your humility. "This is a one-time use one. Besides, the dragon by the river will also block the view from outside."
On average, they are six or seven zhang high, enough to block the view from the other side of the river.
Xie Zhou said, "Blocking the fortune of Baishi Village. Baishi Village is nestled against the mountains and beside the water, but the front is too open; digging up the mountain now will not have a significant impact, but blocking the front will prevent it from feeling suffocated. The fields in front of the village can still be cultivated properly."
Huan Yue asked, "When did Your Highness become familiar with feng shui?"
Xie Zhou clung to her hand, playing with it: "You'll understand once you see it."
The eunuchs chatted behind them, saying, "If we had blocked it before, Master Yuji wouldn't have seen it."
The palace maids gossiped, "The Jade Immortal has entered the village."
The eunuch said, "The feng shui of Baishi Village must be quite good."
Huan Yue said, "Isn't it enough to have mountains, water, and fertile fields?" He then said to the scoundrel, "It will probably cost 20,000 taels of silver."
Xie Zhou looked at his wife's happy face and couldn't bear to part with her.
Huan Yue asked, "How do other villages learn from this?"
Xie Zhou laughed and said, "Why not? Taoshan occupies half of it, but Baishi Village is special after all. Other villages can dig a pond, plant a few trees, build a school and a charity hall, and also level a piece of land, depending on their actual conditions."
Huan Yue nodded; it was her own fault.
If it were done the way it was initially, with three to five acres, it would save us from taking up farmland.
Baishi Village is indeed special; even if a village produces a scholar who has passed the imperial examination, it doesn't have that much popularity.
If you don't pave the flat ground with bluestone slabs, just use mud, it will save you a lot of money.
Building some thatched huts and mud-walled houses should cost around a thousand taels of silver.
Xie Zhou said, "Although I am reluctant to spend two hundred taels of silver now, perhaps someone will be willing to do so in the future."
Every village has them, but that will be much later.
Those with favorable conditions or special circumstances should proceed gradually.
Huan Yue remarked, "In a village, the best places to go are the school and the charity hall, not the landlords' or the government offices. If everyone studies, and people use the charity hall when they get old, then no special people will be raised."
Xie Zhou nodded and pondered.
This is a matter of perspective.
The landlords would certainly not agree.
However, a school or charity doesn't actually cost that much money. Having the landlord pay half is a good idea.
Huan Yue said, "We can't turn this into a vanity project, a deception. We must make reading and filial piety the mainstream values."
Education is not a privilege reserved for the wealthy, even though you may still end up working for them after graduation.
So the wealthy have no worries at all. But their social standing is already different.
Huan Yue thought, "Studying won't turn them bad. They'll have enough to eat and wear and live a good life. Who would want to rebel?"
The palace maids and eunuchs all nodded.
Rebellion can lead to execution if it goes wrong; people only do it when they can't survive.
The rebellions of ordinary people are far less harmful than those of the imperial court or nobles.
Huan Yue casually remarked, "The people suffer whether the country prospers or falls. All the struggles the people endure are in vain. If they have enough to eat, they won't want to struggle. Only when life gets better do they want more. Their desires are insatiable, and they even want to sit on the dragon throne. No matter how well the common people live, they are still at the bottom of society and can't afford to be arrogant."
The eunuch seemed to understand something: "The common people refer to the masses; in the end, it's all about who suffers."
Huan Yue, blowing in the autumn wind, rambled on: "The scale is too large. If you win the fight, the reward is one hundred, which is divided among ten thousand people. If a few individuals take advantage of the common people and secretly take fifty or even eighty, they are the ones who profit. Therefore, it is destined that a few people will be the winners. The few are more flexible and have more methods."
Although this is just one scenario, Huan Yue isn't a sociologist: "When there are too many people, it's hard to coordinate. If things aren't handled well, they'll fall apart and start fighting amongst themselves. The cost is too high."
Xie Zhou is holding his wife; he's amazing.
The palace maids were all influenced by the empress: "Those who incite the common people also don't have a good life. As for the particularly fierce ones, there aren't many of them."
Everyone was fierce, so they fought each other and neutralized each other's strength.
Therefore, ordinary people are not scary.
It's still quite complicated in practice.
Xie Zhou held his wife's hand and looked at the beautiful garden.
A eunuch rushed over with something to report: "The Shi family has given Pei Yuannu to Lian Qing, a fierce general under General He, and has also announced that she is dead and that a funeral will be held."
Xie Zhou and his wife looked at each other.
So what's Marquis Weiwu up to today?
Xie Zhou knew Lian Qing because he was lawless and dared to offend even the King!
Therefore, Xie Zhou's verdict on Lian Qing was: "A beast."
If Xie Zhou were to face Lian Qing now, he certainly wouldn't be afraid of him. I still need to practice martial arts diligently so that one day I can personally kill him!
Huan Yue was carrying the Phoenix Mace in his hand.
I brought some with me when I went to the Zichen Palace today.
Xie Zhou said to his wife, "That beast has no humanity."
Huan Yue nodded, meaning that if Lian Qing dared to offend her, she would kill him on the spot.
Huan Yue had another thought: "Although we are enemies on the battlefield, we are all human beings and should have basic respect. If we lose our humanity, even winning a battle will sow the seeds of disaster. Even if we kill the enemy and make meritorious contributions, we should have reverence for life."
Xie Zhou nodded.
The eunuch behind him was also thinking.
Many people do not respect life.
Human life is as worthless as grass.
Of course, that's just an excuse.
What will happen if Pei Yuannu and Lian Qing get together?
Huan Yue didn't want to think about it. Thinking too much would make it less innocent.
Xie Zhou thought. The military power of the He family and Lian Qing must be dealt with, and Lian Qing is just one person after all.
As his wife said, there's no shortage of people in this world.
Holding imperial power, if there is no one to rely on, one will lose everything.
As I came out of the garden, I saw someone watching me.
Huan Yue, look, the beauties of Anxiang Courtyard are working so hard?
That beauty only wanted to steal a glance from His Highness.
Xie Zhou picked up his wife and left.
Luo Yaohui sneered from the side.
If only Your Highness were that easy to seduce.
The beauty looked at her and thought she was ugly. She then looked at Chang Fengyi, who was not present in the far west.
Luo Yaohui scoffed. Chang Ziyu's ability to deceive His Highness back then is another matter entirely.
These chrysanthemums are blooming beautifully, even in this remote corner.
Actually, it's not biased at all; there are no bad locations in the East Palace. And no bad flowers.
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