Although the old man cursed, he did not stop Zhao Hao from going to the Princess's Mansion to report the good news.

Upon hearing the good news that her godson had come to report that Zhao Lang had won the top spot in the imperial examination, the princess specially took a seat in the main hall and dressed up in her best to meet Zhao Hao.

Naturally, Lady Liu and Eunuch Ji also had to dress up to help increase the sense of ceremony for His Highness.

Just looking at Zhao Hao's sincere admiration, the two elders couldn't help but murmur in their hearts:

"Mr. Zhao is so pitiful. I thought Your Highness cared about his father because he loved his father. Little did he know that it was almost the other way around..."

“Ohhh, ohhh…”

"I've been busy with the imperial store recently and haven't bothered to ask about this matter." The eldest princess used her slightly exaggerated acting skills to cover up her guilty conscience and embarrassment, "I went to the palace to pay my respects to my brother yesterday, and only then did I know that my brother actually won the top spot in the imperial examination. It was such a surprise, hehe..."

This was the second time the mother and daughter met after the Lantern Festival.

It is inevitable that Liu Shanggong and the other two, who are unaware of the situation, privately lament that this plastic mother-son relationship will be ruined once it loses its function...

The eldest princess could frankly announce to the emperor and everyone else that she and Zhao Shouzheng were a match made in heaven, but she could not face her three children with confidence.

Especially Zhao Hao, who had run into them.

Therefore, the princess has been avoiding meeting her son for a while now, because it is too embarrassing...

Fortunately, at the end of last month, Zhao Hao came over specially and took the opportunity to give money to tell his godmother that he didn't mind her being with his father at all.

Otherwise, the princess' face would probably be so hot that it could boil water.

"This is a great happy event, we must celebrate it well... But it's such a beautiful spring season, sitting in the house eating and drinking is a waste." The eldest princess suggested incoherently:

"Why don't we go for a spring outing? Yes, the cherry blossoms are in full bloom at Yuyuantan. Let's follow the example of the ancients and hold a Qushui banquet to celebrate for your father. How about that?"

"My father and I will naturally listen to mother's arrangements." Zhao Hao nodded obediently, thinking to himself that as long as my grandfather doesn't object, no one will stop you.

Of course, we should try to keep the fact that the old man came to the capital a secret...

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Zhao Hao's touching attitude finally made the princess gradually calm down, and her face was not so red.

She became proud again and smiled at him:

"Oh, by the way, son, I met with my brother yesterday, and he praised your father's policy paper very much. Especially the part about refugees, my brother praised it highly, and told me to study it carefully when I get back."

As she spoke, she nodded to Eunuch Ji, and Ji Sizheng handed a copied policy paper to Zhao Hao.

Zhao Hao took it and pretended to read it.

In fact, these were all his ideas, and he just expressed them through his father's pen.

After a while, Zhao Hao put down his essay and boasted: "This article is well written. If we follow it, we can achieve three goals at once and benefit future generations."

"You are so lucky, you actually have a father who is the top scholar." The eldest princess said with a proud look on her face: "My royal brother, what you mean is, can our Xishan Company handle this matter?"

Zhao Hao thought to himself that it was too powerful, otherwise why would I say it. However, he still pretended to think for a while, then slowly said:

"My father hopes that the royal family will take the lead and open large-scale mines in Xishan to achieve the three major goals of resettling refugees, relieving the court, and training miners. The first two are not a big problem, but the latter is not something I can comment on."

"I forgot to tell you that the second item can be removed. My brother doesn't plan to invest in Xishan anymore." The princess patted her forehead. Oh, love makes people stupid. They even forget such an important thing.

"Why?" Zhao Hao looked at the eldest princess in surprise. If the emperor did not get involved, how could he handle such a big mess?

"Don't worry. We can still use the name of the emperor brother, and everything will be fine. The only difference is that the emperor brother will not invest, and will not share the profits." The princess hesitated for a moment, and told Zhao Hao the truth:

"This is my mother's compensation for withdrawing from the imperial estate."

"Oh...ah?" Zhao Hao asked in increasing surprise, "Why did mom quit just like that when she was fine?"

Upon hearing this, Liu Shanggong and Ji Sizheng both lowered their heads, obviously filled with indignation.

"Don't be like this. I did everything of my own free will. No one forced me." The princess said calmly, "In fact, if I don't want to, Concubine Li can't do anything to me."

Zhao Hao thought to himself, it turns out that the Li family’s greed disease began to act up at this time.

He smiled and comforted the princess, saying, "Mother, this move of retreating to advance is extremely smart. After all, the Imperial Concubine has the support of the Crown Prince, so there is no need for us to compete with her. If we give up the imperial property early, we can sell it to her for a good price."

"That's right." The princess rolled her eyes at Eunuch Ji and Concubine Liu and said, "Listen to what my son says, and then think about the two of you. You are worse than a child!"

"Yes, yes..." The two of them hurriedly smiled and accepted the advice, thinking that even if we tied ourselves together, we couldn't compare to a child like Young Master Zhao.

Thinking of being tied together, the two of them quickly stood a little further away with disgust.

"Yesterday when I came out of the Qianqing Palace, the imperial concubine asked someone to invite me to the Chuxiu Palace." The princess turned to Zhao Hao and smiled, "She even stood at the palace gate with her big belly to greet me. I've never seen her so enthusiastic before."

"I guess the queen is fed up with her weird father and brother." Zhao Hao smiled sympathetically.

When it comes to weirdness, Concubine Li's father and brother are definitely not inferior to Empress Zhang's pair of funny brothers.

"Even you, a foreigner, have heard of the reputation of the father and son?" The princess couldn't help but laugh and said, "It's really hard to describe how the imperial concubine has such a family."

However, after the conflict of interest was resolved, she did not want to frame the imperial concubine's family, so she returned to the main topic and said, "As for the third article, 'military miners', you don't have to worry about it."

The princess glanced at Eunuch Ji and said, "Your Majesty has ordered him to concurrently serve as the eunuch commander of the Imperial Horse Administration and the commander of the Xishan militia. Just let him do whatever he wants."

"Oh, it couldn't be better to have someone from our own family. Congratulations, Eunuch Ji." Zhao Hao was overjoyed when he heard that and hurriedly congratulated Eunuch Ji.

Although the eunuch admiral was only the third-ranking person in the Imperial Stables, with two big bosses above him, the eunuch in charge of the seal and the eunuch in charge of supervision, but being able to take back the twelfth bureau from the princess's mansion was something that other eunuchs would not even dare to dream of.

Eunuch Ji naturally would not be happy in front of His Highness. He smiled bitterly and said, "Your Highness is really forcing me to do something. I am good at running errands, but I am not good at training soldiers."

"Wasn't Feng Bao just a nanny originally? Now isn't he in charge of both the East Factory and the Imperial Stables?" The Princess said with a heroic wave of her hand: "No one can do it right away. Just learn!"

"Hey, I will try my best not to hold your Highness and the young master back." Eunuch Ji nodded in response.

"Your Majesty means that we should hang up the sign as soon as possible." The princess asked Zhao Hao again, "How are your preparations going?"

"Sun Dawu started early and has been buying for almost two months." Zhao Hao smiled bitterly, "Although he has tried to keep a low profile, he still doubled the price of the waste coal mine. If he wants to buy the original amount, he will probably have to add another 100,000 taels of funds."

"That's 250,000 taels..." The princess felt a headache. Zhao Hao had told her that she couldn't start the work until the acquisition was completed.

Otherwise, if people knew that Xishan Coal Industry had a secret weapon for pumping water, the prices of those abandoned coal kilns would definitely increase tenfold or even dozens of times.

How can you let others eat the fat meat that is right in front of you? ?

"Mother can start raising funds now." Zhao Hao said with a smile.

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