Chapter 511 Extra Chapter: Golden Hairpin Human
Lord He, the Minister of Rites, looked at the golden hairpin and said unhappily, "Oh! It's just a golden hairpin!"
The emperor had a gloomy face. He noticed his mother's slightly raised chin and hidden pride, and couldn't help but sigh in his heart.
No one knows the mother better than her son!
During the years that the mother and son lived in the palace, they had already developed a close rapport.
Since Lady Uya had been granted a title and Duke Anguo was by her side, no one dared to challenge her openly, so they just used Song Liyun's background as a military daughter as an excuse.
He Sheng is a new official from the Ministry of Rites recommended by the Empress Dowager to join the cabinet. Now he wants to vent the Empress Dowager's anger.
Song Liyun nodded: "This lord has good eyesight. It is indeed a gold hairpin with two valuable cat's eye agates on it. It was made by Prince Di himself."
The ladies in the hall exchanged glances.
For these wealthy ladies, gold hairpins are not rare, but cat's eye agate is hard to find. If it is sold in Beijing, it is probably only available in Ruzhu Pavilion.
He Sheng was naturally not interested in the golden hairpin. He snorted coldly, "That's because King Di is broad-minded and doesn't care about family background!"
Before he finished speaking, he heard a clang and the golden hairpin fell to the ground. Song Liyun asked again, "Master He, what is this?"
The golden hairpin fell on the beautiful carpet, without detracting from the luxurious atmosphere.
He Sheng took a glance and said, "It's just a gold hairpin!"
Song Liyun picked up a bowl of shark's fin soup from the table and poured it on the golden hairpin, and also knocked over the fruit juice dishes to the ground.
The sticky paste slid down the golden hairpin, making a filthy mess on the carpet.
Several ladies screamed in fear: "What are you doing? How rude!"
Song Liyun still looked at He Sheng: "Master He, what do you say this is?"
He Sheng's forehead twitched. He was able to climb to the position of Minister of Rites, so he must be smart.
At this time, Song Liyun repeatedly asked what it was, and He Sheng understood the reason.
A gold hairpin is still a gold hairpin. No matter where it is placed or how it is stained, it cannot change its nature of gold.
He gritted his teeth and said, "It's just a gold hairpin!"
Song Liyun bent down to pick up the golden hairpin from the ground, then took out a silk handkerchief from her sleeve to wipe the soup off the hairpin and put it back into her hair.
In the light, the golden cat's eye still sparkled, and those filthy things just now did not tarnish its glory in the slightest.
Song Liyun smiled gently: "No matter what kind of injustice a gold hairpin has suffered, Lord He will still be able to recognize it as a gold hairpin.
Why should a person's value be erased just because she falls to the ground and gets covered in dust?
Is Master He too short-sighted, or is it that Master He simply lacks the ability to see the strengths of others and only knows how to follow his instincts?
He Sheng's face flushed red. "How can a person be compared to an object? Gold is so shiny that anyone can tell it's there!"
Song Liyun's voice suddenly became sharp: "Lord He is the Minister of Rites, responsible for selecting and appointing talents for the country. With your short-sighted wisdom, how can you select useful people?
I wonder how many people have lost their true potential, misled by their birth! "
She turned to the stunned emperor and said, "I hope Your Majesty will understand and not let others suffer the same fate as I did today, a daughter of a military family from the Wu Dynasty forced to go far away to display her talents."
The emperor's face turned pale. Song Liyun was obviously from the Wu Dynasty, but she only showed her talent after she came to the Di tribe.
While the world was mocking the daughter of a military family, they were also mocking the Wu Dynasty officials for being blind.
When He Sheng heard Song Liyun say that he was forced to go to a foreign country, he knew that something was wrong.
He fell to his knees and kowtowed repeatedly: "Your Majesty, I have only been the Minister of Rites for a year. What happened in the past... I don't know!"
The emperor glared at him and said angrily, "Come here, He Sheng has been disrespectful in front of the palace. He will be punished with a year's service and will not be allowed to participate in the examination next year!"
A wonderful palace banquet ended in a hurry, and the banquet at Prince Di's Mansion had just begun.
Merchants from all walks of life were waiting outside the gate, just wanting to meet Princess Di.
Cotton, furs, jewelry, wool, bitter melon, milk powder... just a little bit of it slipping through Princess Di's fingers could make a family prosper.
The emperor also arranged for him to leave the palace in private clothes. He wanted to pay a visit to his aunt-in-law Lady Uya and his third cousin Princess Di as a junior.
If he wanted to sit comfortably on the throne and no longer have to receive military reports from eight hundred miles away every few days, he had to have a good relationship with Zhao Tingduo.
Especially the fire thunderbolt and cannon created by Princess Di, which are powerful weapons for attacking cities and seizing territories.
If the Wu Dynasty fought with the Dilu Grassland again...
Haha! Even if the Zhenbei Army is also equipped with firearms, it will still be a lose-lose situation.
And there's also the gas tank that can run away... While Princess Di is in Beijing, he will definitely ask the officials from the Ministry of Works to get it out as well!
This winter, undercurrents surged in the upper class of Beijing.
Although the Queen Mother of the Di clan had close contacts with the Queen Mother of the Wu Dynasty and was summoned into the palace from time to time, the wife of Duke Anguo had lost her temper at home several times, saying that the Queen Mother of the Di clan entered the palace to have a private meeting with Duke Anguo.
When such words reached the ears of others, they would only say a few words in secret, and no one dared to reveal them openly.
Even if Madam Wu Ya and Duke An Guo rode out of the city for winter hunting, everyone who saw it or didn't had to keep their mouths shut.
Because the emperor said that anyone who dared to speak nonsense and destroy the friendship between the two ethnic groups would be sent to the newly recovered Mobei grassland to open up wasteland and cultivate the land.
Song Liyun was not idle during the few months she spent in the capital.
She helped craftsmen from the Ministry of Industry build a steam engine and create a textile factory that was similar to a modern factory assembly line.
It has to be said that the technology of the Wu Dynasty's Ministry of Industry is countless times better than that of Mida City. When spring came and flowers bloomed, the spinning machines for cashmere and cotton yarn were successfully built.
Driven by the monster-like steam engine, hundreds of textile workers shuttled back and forth in the web, spinning out long silk, cotton and cashmere threads continuously.
The second and third such textile mills soon went into production.
Song Liyun also received a reward from this, which was a similarly improved spinning machine.
In addition, he also asked the emperor for various series of books in the palace library.
People in Mida City no longer have to worry about food and clothing, but they are in dire need of all kinds of knowledge.
The Di Lu had already established their own country, and it was impossible for the Di people to continue using knotted ropes to keep accounts.
It is urgent to open schools and educate the people.
Madam Wu Ya came to the capital not only to meet Duke Anguo, but also to ask Da Di to send scholars and craftsmen to Mida City, so that Song Liyun could take them away when she returned in the spring.
These matters were previously negotiated between Zhao Tingduo and the emperor, and naturally they were agreed to.
During the winter, the whole Wu Dynasty was talking about this matter. Those with ambitions were eager to find an opportunity to bring honor to their family, while those who were afraid of the barbaric land of the Di Lu were afraid of not being chosen.
When Song Liyun returned to Mida City, she was accompanied by fifty craftsmen, ten knowledgeable lecturers, and dozens of scholars.
As for businesses from all walks of life, they flocked to the market, all wanting to open up new markets.
With the support of manpower and material resources, Mida City is like a phoenix with wings, changing in new ways every day.
Song Liyun, who was originally just a poor beggar struggling to survive in Xiaoshi Village, became an important figure in Dadi City of Wu Dynasty.
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