Chapter 60 The Great Emperor's British Capital [Jinjiang Authentic Edition Only Released · Three Generations Prosperous...
He saw all his children and grandchildren turning their eyes to him when they heard this.
In order to show his status as the head of the family, Lu Gong, who was kneeling in the main seat, put his hands on his knees and sat up straight. He turned his head to look at his second daughter sitting beside him and said seriously:
"Chi'er, since your mother has spoken, your father also wants to say something. Now that you have successfully passed the examination and become the Imperial Capital Administrative Officer, if nothing unexpected happens, you will definitely stay in Xianyang for the rest of your life."
"Your outstanding achievements are a source of pride for our family and have opened up a new path for the Lu family."
"Hmm..." Lü Gong twirled his beard, pondered for a moment, and then continued, "I have a thought. My family hastily moved from Shanfu County to Pei County in the spring to avoid disaster. While we lost a lot of our wealth during that time, thankfully we were reunited and still have some assets."
"This family's wealth can't be said to allow the whole family to take root in Xianyang City, but it can still help you gain a foothold in Xianyang."
When everyone in the room heard what Lu Gong said, their eyes widened in shock.
Lü Zhi never expected that one day she would hear her father say that he would "support" her. She looked at her father in surprise and asked in disbelief:
"Father, is that what you mean?"
Lu Gong nodded seriously and said, "Indeed, my father wants you to take 70% of our family property with you when you go to Xianyang. After all, that place is under the emperor's rule, and every inch of land there is worth a lot of money. The court is full of scheming and intrigue. Although you are smart, Chi'er, you are still too young, and you are still a woman. It will be extremely difficult to gain a foothold in Xianyang on your own. If you have money, you can make arrangements and pave the way for others, and things will go more smoothly."
It was impossible for Lu Zhi not to be moved when she heard this, but she lowered her eyes and pursed her lips. After the overwhelming joy, there was the cold reality. She understood that although what her father said was a little worrying and might even undermine her morale to a certain extent, it was indeed a thorny problem she would face after arriving in Xianyang.
The Lu family is from Qi and has no roots in the territory of the old Qin people. Even if she passes the exam and ranks first, what can she do? She is unfamiliar with the place and runs alone to the prosperous capital city more than 2,000 miles away from home. She doesn't know how many times she will bump her head and fall into many traps.
But he took away 70% of the family property by himself. Even if his eldest brother, second brother and eldest sister had no objection, his eldest and second sisters-in-law already had children, so how could they agree?
Out of the corner of her eye, she saw that her eldest and second sisters-in-law, who were sitting not far away, had begun twisting their handkerchiefs. They were obviously unhappy. For the sake of the harmony of the whole family, Lu Zhi still shook her head and said:
"Father, no need. I went to Xianyang City to edit books, just a minor official. No important person would deliberately make things difficult for me."
"I'll go to Xianyang City first and then send a letter home when I really need money."
When Lu Mu heard this, she nodded in agreement and said:
"Dad, I think your idea is good, but it's too risky."
"I have a more reliable method."
"What method?" Lu Gong looked at his wife curiously.
The others also looked at their mother/mother-in-law/elder-in-law/grandmother-in-law.
Lü looked at her two sons and said with a smile:
"I think when Zhi'er goes to Qin this time, we can let Ze and Shizhi accompany her, and let the three siblings take away half of the family property."
"After the three of us go to Xianyang, we will support each other. Zhi'er will be busy with the book editing task, while Ze and Shizhi will go to Xianyang City to find a suitable house and rent it."
"Xianyang is the imperial capital after all. It's definitely better for them to develop there than to stay in Pei County. After a few years, when the three siblings have established themselves in Xianyang, we old couple will take the rest of our family from Pei County to Xianyang to join them."
"Although our family's financial resources won't allow us to live a comfortable and lavish life in Xianyang, I think we can still afford to live an ordinary life, right?"
Hearing his wife's words, Lu Gong twirled his beard again.
The wives of the Lu Ze brothers no longer hesitated to twist their handkerchiefs.
After a while, Lu Gong finally made the decision:
"Okay, then let's do as Madam said. Liu Ji said today that there will be a caravan from Pei County to Qin at the beginning of next month. The county magistrate has connections in this area. In a few days, I will go to the county town with gifts to visit the county magistrate and ask him to pass on a message. Then, have Ze and Shizhi accompany Zhi'er to Xianyang."
"When Chi'er gets there, he'll focus on editing the book. Ze and Shizhi, you two should look around the city and find a suitable house to rent."
"After a year, when Chi'er is familiar with his job and you two brothers are familiar with the situation in Xianyang, the three of us can sit together and have a good discussion about finding a house. Even if the location is not good or the house is small, it doesn't matter, as long as it can accommodate our family."
"Then your father will find a way to move the rest of the family to Xianyang. As long as we're together, no matter where we live, even if it's a little difficult at first, we'll always be able to turn things around if we persevere!"
Upon hearing their father's emotional words, the eyes of the three siblings, Lu Ze, Lu Shizhi and Lu Zhi, lit up instantly.
The eyes of Lu Ai, her eldest daughter, her youngest daughter, and her two daughters-in-law also had a special luster.
People go to high places and water flows to low places.
The six states in Shandong had all been destroyed by the Qin army, and the once prosperous capitals of the six states - Xinzheng, Daliang, Handan, Jidu, Linzi and Shouchun - had also lost their splendor as capitals.
Currently, the most prosperous place in the world is the former Qin capital, today's capital of the Great Qin Empire.
As a small noble family, they all have some experience. Now that there is an opportunity, who wouldn't want to live in the imperial capital?
Almost as soon as Lu Gong finished speaking, he was greeted with a crowd of voices of support. Lu Zhi's eyes curved with a smile, and her heart, which had been hanging in the air, finally settled back into her stomach.
This big family, which had been quarreling for an entire long summer because of an unmatched marriage, finally restored its former unity and joy on a bleak late autumn night.
It was late at night, and the autumn wind outside the window was knocking against the window frame.
After washing up and lying on the bed in her pajamas, Lu Zhi's eyes were still very bright and she was not sleepy at all.
In order to pass the examination to become Zhidianlang and to avoid marrying Liu Ji, she had been suffering for several months.
At this moment, the exhausting and hard work for many days finally brought fruitful results, and Lu Zhi felt a complex and rich emotion in her heart.
Xianyang, ah, Xianyang.
She changed her fate through her own efforts, and in the days to come, she will only walk on the road of flowers.
The wind outside the window was getting louder and louder, accompanied by the sound of falling rain, and Lu Zhi's eyelids gradually became heavy.
She slept very soundly and deeply, without any dreams all night.
The next day, the sun rose and the rain stopped.
Notices are posted on the propaganda walls in every village below the Sishui Pavilion.
Under Liu Ji's deliberate publicity, when the common people of Si Shui learned that the Lu Mansion, which had just moved to Fengyi not long ago, had produced a top-ranked ceremonial official, who was still a young girl.
The Lu family instantly became the "new rich family" in Pei County.
A few days later, when the news gradually spread throughout Pei County, Lu Gong took two jars of ginseng wine and went to the county town to find the county magistrate.
The county magistrate did not expect that the second daughter of Lu Gong's family was so capable. After all, such a capable daughter-in-law could not be born into his family. Although the county magistrate felt a little regretful, he knew that the Lu family was going to rise again, so he took the two jars of ginseng wine and helped send people to the caravan to build relationships.
The last day of September.
The Lu family gathered together for a reunion dinner.
The third day of October.
Under the reluctant gaze of their entire family, the three siblings, Lu Ze, Lu Shizhi and Lu Zhi, took 50% of their family property and followed a large caravan. They braved the cold wind that had gradually turned from bleak to biting, and set out on the road to Qin, which was more than 2,000 miles away, from east to west.
Feeling the wetness on her forehead, the eighteen-year-old Lu Zhi looked up and saw the falling snow.
Xianyang, more than 2,000 miles away.
The potatoes and sweet potatoes planted in the imperial farm on the outskirts of the city have also ushered in a bumper harvest as the vines have grown.
During the cold winter when wild grass and vegetables withered, wild fruits disappeared, and there was a shortage of food and water, village heads across the country received the first notice with a picture following the first notice.
The New Year's notices issued layer by layer from the imperial capital actually asked the village heads to organize the common people in the village to take their tools and go to the mountains and fields to dig a wild vegetable called "yam" according to the pictures drawn on the notices.
Qin is a mountainous area.
The common people in Xianyang City were the first to see the notice, and they all went to the mountains and fields to dig yams under the leadership of the village head.
In the royal city, in the eldest prince’s mansion.
The little fat boy Ying, wearing a black tiger-head hat, a black mink coat and black tiger-head boots, was sitting obediently on the soft couch. He opened his little mouth showing a few small white teeth and happily ate the roasted sweet potatoes that his nurse had scraped with a small spoon and fed him for half a winter.
The sweet potatoes sold in the system mall have a very sweet taste.
After eating half a sweet potato, a tea egg, and drinking a bottle of milk powder, Qin Ying finally waved her little hand to the wet nurse to indicate that she was full.
Seeing this, the wet nurse let the little guy rinse his mouth with warm water, and then took a warm handkerchief to carefully wipe the hands and face of the little prince, and then let the little guy play by himself.
The chubby little boy who had learned to walk slowly stood up on the soft couch, holding on to the windowsill. With sparkling eyes, he used his little hands to hold on to the wooden window frame, and happily looked at the first snow falling in Xianyang through the gap in the opened window.
The first snow of the new year began to fall late last night. After only two hours, the entire eldest prince's mansion was already covered in white.
The little guy looked at the white snow falling from the sky outside through the open window and was very excited.
At this moment, a mechanical electronic sound suddenly sounded in the little fat boy's mind:
Congratulations to the incredibly powerful host! Within six months, they successfully won over Li Si, instilling in him the deepest desire that the emperor's eldest grandson could become the Second Emperor of Qin! Successfully completed the temporary mission—"I'm the coolest guy on this street!"! The host will be rewarded with a blind box draw!
"Huh?"
Hearing the sudden electronic sound of the system announcement, the little fat boy was so shocked that his beautiful almond-shaped eyes widened - Old Li, whose favorability had been climbing up at a snail's pace by adding one more decimal place throughout the summer, finally got hit by a thousand knives when the first snow fell today?
Surprised, Qin Ying quickly called up the system panel and skillfully switched to the taskbar.
In the summer, I was so angry with Li Si that I blocked the task bar for three months, but it was successfully unlocked at the end of late autumn.
See the blue task bar on the taskbar that keeps jumping.
Not only did Li Si's favorability become "100%".
Even the favorability of Cai Ze, Wei Liao, Feng Quji, Zhang Han, and Chunyu Yue, who are worthless and only worth "0.5 blind box coins" when "sold" in a bundle, have all increased by "30%", and the task bar has moved forward a lot.
The little guy subconsciously glanced at the time displayed on the system panel. It was half past nine in the morning, two quarters past noon, which was the time for the court meeting. What happened in the court meeting today that caused the strategy tasks of these six people to usher in a qualitative leap?
Heavy snow flakes fell from the gloomy sky, swirling one after another.
From the eldest prince's mansion to Zhangtai Palace, the three-mile road was covered with white snow.
The towering and majestic Xianyang Palace complex appears even more solemn against the backdrop of the white snow.
In the outer hall of Zhangtai Palace, red-hot charcoal basins were placed in the four corners of the east, south, west and north.
The hall was packed with people except for Chief Justice Li Si, who was standing on the smooth waxed wooden floor holding a jade sceptre in his hand. He spoke passionately to the First Emperor, who was kneeling at the large black lacquer table at the top. He talked about seeds, books, and book control orders in the summer, the major upgrade of iron smelting technology in the autumn, the production of paper, the advent of printing, and the three-piece suit of horse riding to glass, porcelain, and farm tools.
With his excellent memory, the Lord Chief Justice recounted in detail the great contributions of the Emperor's eldest grandson Ying, who was only a month old, over the past six months at the first court meeting of the new year. Not only did his face turn red and his forehead sweat from talking about it, but all the officials who were listening nodded their heads repeatedly and became uncontrollably excited.
At the end of his speech, the court judge, with a slightly hoarse voice and all his strength, shouted the loudest voice of the era to the First Emperor sitting at the top and his colleagues around him:
"Your Majesty, as the saying goes, a child's character can be seen at the age of one, and his character at the age of three. From your perspective, Your Highness Changsun, at just a few months old, possesses the same qualities as Your Majesty. He is the closest person to Your Majesty within the three generations of the royal family!"
"The tremendous contributions made by Changsun alone last year have already brought about tremendous progress for the Qin Empire!"
"The position of crown prince in the imperial family concerns the lifeblood of the Qin Empire and the stability of the country. The eldest grandson has the ability to carry on the throne for another generation. I, this old minister, propose that Your Majesty appoint the one-year-old eldest grandson as the Crown Prince!"
"The Holy Grandson has arrived, and the Second Emperor will take over. This will ensure the prosperity of the Great Qin for three generations!"
As soon as Li Si said this, the whole hall fell silent. The eldest prince Fusu, who was sitting beside him, turned around and looked at the chief judge Li Si in astonishment.
[No, Li Si, are you serious?]
He—the chubby son who stayed at home, still wearing diapers all day, with a bottle in his hand—had the potential to be a second emperor. Please make him the crown prince!
After looking at Li Si, Fusu looked at the ministers. Most of the ministers looked at each other in strange silence.
Even Chunyu Yue, the teacher who always raised objections after the Minister of Justice's advice, was a little flustered when he met his eyes, and he looked up at the beams and down at the wooden floor.
Fusu: " "
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