Chu Family Traditional Powerful King
Chapter 30: The Chu Family's Traditional Mighty King
Sun Mingsi was extremely happy to have the child stay with him longer to take care of him and had no objections at all.
Thinking about cleaning out the left side room, I wondered if it would be appropriate. "Huaibei, I want to clean out the left side room for Hengheng to live in these few days. Is it convenient for me to move into that room?"
"Okay, you clean it up. It's convenient. Why not? It may be a bit messy. You should be careful. Put the things in the left ear room into the west wing. You can also clean up the west wing when you have time." Chu Huaibei thought of the things in the room and said to Sun Mingsi.
"Okay, then I'll have someone start cleaning up tomorrow." Sun Mingsi didn't know what he was about to face.
The next day, Sun Mingsi and Jin Wu pushed open the door of the left ear room. All they saw were wooden boxes of all sizes piled together in a mess. The two stood at the door and couldn't find a place to step in.
Jin Wu was deeply shocked. The servants in this palace were really lazy. Oh, I forgot, there were no servants in this palace except the two mothers...
"Master, please come in later. I will go inside and clear a way out first." Jin Wu looked around for a place to step on.
"Okay, be gentle, don't break anything."
Jin Wu used his Qing Gong skills to land on a large wooden box. He saw that this one was the sturdiest and could easily accommodate a person. He first put the crooked and tilted boxes in order, stacking those that could be stacked together to clear a path towards the main door.
Making his way out of the small path, Sun Mingsi stepped in and casually opened a small wooden box on the top of the stack. A whole box of various gems was placed there casually, without even a lock...
Sun Mingsi paused for only a moment, then began to open the boxes nearby one by one. For a moment, the jewels and treasures in the ear room almost rushed out.
Jin Wu swallowed his saliva. It was not that he was ignorant. His master also had a lot of good things, which were just piled up casually. Perhaps the prince's family was the only one in the whole Daxia who was so generous.
The warehouses of wealthy families are managed by dedicated people. All items are registered and counted every month. The sources of the items and their entry and exit are recorded clearly.
When they arrived at the palace, these valuables were not even inventoried or listed. There was only a piece of paper stuffed in each box, stating what was in the box and the year it was obtained.
Sun Mingsi looked through it for a long time and found that it was all compensation given by Mongolia to redeem people. If there were not enough horses or they were unwilling to give them, they would use these things as compensation. There were several small boxes of Dongzhu of varying sizes, not to mention various rare animal furs, piled up into a mountain.
He originally thought that the palace often had to pay out of its own pocket to subsidize the Zhenbei Army, resulting in a shortage of funds. The palace needed to cut expenses, and the daily meals were ordinary without any expensive ingredients. He didn't expect that he was overthinking it and it was not the case.
There are so many valuable items in the ear room, so there must be no fewer in the west wing that Huaibei mentioned.
"Let's put it aside for now. Let's go to the west wing."
"Yes, master." Jin Wu was in high spirits. Although he was not the master's, he would be the little master in the future. Thinking this way, he would be considered his own.
Pushing open the west wing, it was alright, at least people could enter smoothly. Opening a few boxes at random, they all contained items unique to Mongolia, and I thought they were exactly the same as the items in the ear room.
"Jin Wu, bring some paper and number these items. You don't need to break them down into individual items. Just list them by box. You can label the boxes."
"Yes, Master, wait a moment."
Jin Wu went out to get a pen and paper, and pulled Jin Si over to help him sort it out and write it. Of course, Jin Si was also a little shocked.
It took the three of them two days to tidy up the west wing and the ear room. They just had to wait for the newly customized furniture to be ready before the ear room could be used.
That day, Sun Mingsi handed the booklet to Chu Huaibei. She opened it, flipped through it casually, and then put it back into his hands. "Keep this booklet. You can use whatever you like. You don't need to customize it for me. It's not good to wear something too conspicuous. Besides, I don't like these things myself."
"Okay, I'll keep it for you."
"It's up to you. It will be Hengheng from now on anyway." Chu Huaibei said indifferently.
Sun Mingsi sat on the same couch with her, put down the book in his hand, put his arms around her neck, and pecked her lips again and again with a smile on his face. Chu Huaibei took the opportunity to put his arms around his waist and let him have fun. She found that as long as Hu Zhi was happy, he would kiss her non-stop, as cute and clingy as a one-month-old puppy.
I don't know how Huzhi developed his personality. He is usually calm and self-possessed, with very few expressions on his face. I don't know whether to describe him as not caring about anything or as a middle school student who is out of tune with the world. But he is obviously well educated. For example, he can express his thoughts in poetry, songs, classics, history, and collections of literature with substance. He is more than capable of doing Hengheng's after-school tutoring.
Either her lover sees beauty in everything, or she wants him to take the imperial examination and he will definitely pass the exam.
Daxia didn't prohibit merchants from taking the imperial examinations, but passing them received neither commercial nor land tax reductions, and the highest rank they could achieve was only the seventh rank. Officials were assigned to locations at least a thousand miles from their hometowns, and they were forbidden from engaging in commerce while serving as officials. Anyone caught doing so would be stripped of their position and given thirty lashes of the cane. While some wealthy clans still paid attention to the upbringing of their children, ordinary merchants, unable to see tangible benefits, didn't hold such high expectations for their children.
After he had kissed her to his heart's content, Hu Zhi became reserved again, which made Chu Huaibei feel like a big bone, a little puppy that would grind its teeth when it was happy.
After a year of basic training, Hengheng had made significant progress, now able to sit on the plum blossom pile for an hour without falling. He had also inherited the Chu family's powerful bloodline, often breaking his own small wooden spear and sword.
Once, when she was angry, she broke the weapon in her hand into two pieces with her bare hands. Seeing this, Chu Huaibei couldn't help but think that she had super powers. This was much stronger than when she was a child. Of course, Chu Huaibei used force to forcibly change this bad habit of destroying things when she was angry.
Hu Zhi was angry with her for three days because of this. He thought that these were worthless little things and he could just break them and buy another batch. Why was she so harsh? The child couldn't sit on the stool properly for three days.
Chu Huaibei had his own aspirations. If he could survive four years later, Hengheng would be the future King of Zhenbei. As a frontier commander, how could he show his emotions? That was how his father taught him. Besides, the child was still young, and it was just a small wooden sword he broke. What if he grew up and started tearing down the house? With his strength when he grew up, chopping off a beam would be a simple matter. He couldn't just clean up the mess all the time.
Those videos of dogs destroying houses in past lives might have been fun for outsiders, but as someone involved, she had never seen anyone else feel amused. This had to be prevented sooner rather than later.
Chu Huaibei also took Hengheng's problem into consideration, so he went to the Sinong Office in person in advance and asked the skilled craftsmen there to make a stone spear and a stone sword. It took a lot of effort to make them. There were no cutting machines in ancient times, so the craftsmen used chisels and hammers to chisel them out one by one.
On the fifth day after Hengheng was beaten, Chu Huaibei put the newly made stone spear and stone sword in his hands. The naughty child burst into tears for a rare time. After crying, his mood was obviously much better, and he practiced harder afterwards.
She didn't know if he was practicing with the ultimate goal of defeating Chu Huaibei. In any case, Chu Huaibei's ultimate goal was to defeat his father. He would practice tirelessly, regardless of the seasons, hoping to one day defeat his father and avenge the beatings he had received for so many years. She felt that she was gentler than her father. The little Chu Huaibei always had bruises on his body...
After seeing the stone spears and swords Chu Huaibei had prepared, Sun Mingsi felt embarrassed and apologized for his earlier anger. Chu Huaibei pressed him down and kissed him hard several times before letting him go. "Hmph, am I really that inconsiderate of my children?"
"I was wrong, you're the best."
After saying that, he raised his head and pecked Chu Huaibei's lips dozens of times in a row. Only then did Chu Huaibei let him go with satisfaction.
There is a reason why iron tools are not used.
Iron ore was scarce in Daxia, and quantities were limited in each location. For example, every prefecture and state registered a list of blacksmith shops and their personnel. Each shop could only purchase a specified amount of iron ore each year, which was distributed at a fixed price by the imperial court. The curved plows and harrow carts she had previously commissioned from the Minister of Agriculture only required a layer of iron sheeting around the key parts. By the time all the tools were completed, three years' worth of iron ore had been used up.
Iron needs to be used on the blade, and Chu Huaibei doesn't want to use it for personal gain. However, this makes Chu Huaibei want to control the mineral vein herself even more. Perhaps, her exploration career should be prepared.
There were a lot of iron ore resources in the northern region in the previous life. The geographical location here is similar, so there might be some. Even if I am unlucky and there are none, I can give up the idea and think of other methods or ways out.
Chu Huaibei first went to Du Jiping and borrowed all of his travel notes. Du Jiping was puzzled by the King of Zhenbei's interest in travel notes, but he didn't ask any more questions. He took down a dozen books of varying thickness from the top shelf and handed them to her.
Chu Huaibei noticed Du Jiping had this hobby and quietly gave him a thumbs-up. She had previously sent someone to the city's largest bookstore to buy all the travelogues they had, but there were only three. She had already read them all and found no useful information, so she decided to try her luck with Du Jiping. She hadn't expected there to be any.
He studied it day and night, and even asked Hu Zhi to come along and look through it together. He searched for people and events recorded in travelogues of the North and further north, looking for direct or indirect descriptions of minerals.
In a book titled "Travels to Mount Yan," the following sentences are recorded: "I traveled to Qizhou, a place bordered by Mount Yan to the north and the vast sea to the south. It is rich in products, and the seafood and mountain delicacies are exceptionally delicious. To the north lies a mountain range, which, under the rosy clouds, casts a vermilion hue across the ground, a beauty beyond words."
The phrase "red everywhere" wasn't illuminated by the sunset, otherwise it wouldn't have been written down. It's most likely hematite, and it's already exposed on the surface. Don't worry if the specific location of the mountain isn't specified; we can always find it by sending someone to climb it.
Chu Huaibei grabbed Sun Mingsi, who was sitting nearby reading a travelogue, and kissed him on both cheeks before sucking hard on his beautiful red lips. "Haha, I found it!"
Sun Mingsi let her hold him, and he was happy to see that she had finally made some progress after reading the travelogue for half a month. Actually, there was an iron mine in his fiefdom, but it was guarded by the imperial court, so even if he wanted to help, he couldn't.
"Huaibei, who are you going to send to investigate?"
"This is a problem. Personal soldiers are not suitable. There are too many people watching. The palace guards have already sent fifty people to guard the two workshops. If more are sent out, the aristocratic families will find out." Chu Huaibei smacked his lips. These stalkers were so annoying.
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