Chapter 314 Indecision
April 1st.
Rong Yuezheng and Su Qiyang were in the Weiyang Palace checking the increased taxes and per-acre output in various parts of Daqin since the implementation of the land reform.
This year is the 31st year of Yuantai. Since the announcement of the start of the Single Whip Reform in the 25th year of Yuantai, it took two years to survey the land. In the 28th year of Yuantai, a gradual pilot program was carried out. In the 30th year of Yuantai, the Single Whip Reform was uniformly implemented nationwide.
The people in the Ministry of Revenue spent more than two months working overtime to compile data on the changes in per mu yield and taxes before and after the national reform.
Su Qiyang couldn't help but take credit to Rong Yue at this moment, "Your Majesty, His Royal Highness the Prince of Yan is so talented that he can complete his work on time and never make mistakes." He was extremely envious, as he could get off work on time and didn't have to work overtime.
Rong Yue stroked his beautiful beard, and the white hair on his temples gradually covered his temples. He smiled and said, "Of course my son Chen'er is outstanding, but Su Ziyun, you are very resentful!" He couldn't get off work on time, and Su Ziyun couldn't either!
Su Qiyang: ...
The emperor and his ministers chatted for a while, then suddenly, Rong Yue's gaze fixed on one point. "Jiangnan?" His tone was unremarkable, and Su Qiyang's gaze subconsciously fell on the statistics from the Jiangnan Provincial Government. He pursed his lips and said to Rong Yue, "Your Majesty, I was just about to report this. The Jiangnan Provincial Government's data is incorrect. Even though Jiangnan has a small land area and a large population, after re-surveying the land, the data shouldn't be this way." Su Qiyang had actually sent someone to investigate, but the Ministry of Revenue had no control over the local provincial governments, so they could only withhold their financial allocations.
Rong Yue sneered, "You're really restless." Jiangnan is full of aristocratic families, and he has long wanted to target Jiangnan.
I didn't expect they actually dared to do that.
April 21st.
Su Zhenzhen just celebrated Rong Jinchen's 25th birthday yesterday, and Xiao Tangyuan also gave Rong Jinchen a clay figurine of a family of three that he had made himself.
He gave the first clay figurine of a family of three that he learned to make to Su Zhenzhen.
Now that Tangyuan is over one and a half years old, he is very smart, sweet-mouthed and good at coaxing people.
Rong Jinchen was coaxed into a daze by him, and Su Zhenzhen couldn't bear to watch. Little Tangyuan even climbed onto Rong Jinchen's neck and rode on him like a big horse.
She felt that she should shoulder the responsibility of educating little Tangyuan!
Otherwise, what if her good baby grows crooked?
"Mommy, Chaochao loves you, you are so beautiful." Little Tangyuan ran over and hugged Su Zhenzhen who was sitting on the carpet, and gently put his arms around her neck, "Mommy, kiss Chaochao." He pouted his pink little mouth and smiled at Su Zhenzhen sweetly and cutely.
Su Zhenzhen's heart was trembling with adorableness because of him. The three-headed glutinous rice dumpling grew up to be white and plump, with a sweet smile on his cute and delicate little face. He looked like a smaller version of her husband.
Who can resist this?
Holding the little Tangyuan in her arms, she said, "Mommy's little Tangyuan is so cute, give her a kiss." She pouted her lips and kissed the little Tangyuan's smooth and fair face, and then he bit her cheek. The soft little arms wrapped around her neck, and Su Zhenzhen felt what Rong Jinchen felt.
But she felt that she needed to be more serious with little Tangyuan, so she should be the strict mother.
Rong Jinchen looked at Su Zhenzhen and blinked, "Qingqing, where is your husband? You can't abandon your husband just because you have a son." He would also be jealous of his son.
Although it seems like he is the one taking care of little Tangyuan all the time, isn't Rong Jinchen also trying to make little Tangyuan less clingy to his mother?
Su Zhenzhen couldn't help but reveal a happy smile, "My husband is the most important. You and little Tangyuan are the most important people to me." He was very satisfied. He leaned over and kissed her cherry lips, and took a light bite. Little Tangyuan tilted his little face up and looked at his father and mother biting their lips again. He seemed to be thinking about something.
"Daddy! Chaochao wants a kiss!" He tugged at the corner of Rong Jinchen's clothes, signaling Rong Jinchen not to be partial.
The man lowered his eyes to look at his fair and tender son, chuckled, then lowered his head to kiss his little baby fat. Unexpectedly, the little Tangyuan suddenly tilted his head, "Kiss~" He held Rong Jinchen's cheek and kissed his thin lips with his little mouth.
Su Zhenzhen:!!!
Rong Jinchen subconsciously moved the small dumpling away. He frowned and before he could say anything, Su Zhenzhen got angry first.
"Rong Yuchao! Who allowed you to kiss my husband!" Su Zhenzhen felt a little sour, and she also leaned forward and kissed little Tangyuan's little mouth.
Rong Jinchen:???
A world where only little Tangyuan is happy has been achieved.
Rong Jinchen directly supported the back of Su Zhenzhen's head and leaned over to kiss her.
After a long time, the man chuckled and said, "Qingqing, I didn't expect that there would be a day when we would both be jealous of Chao Chao." Little Tangyuan was still young, at the age of learning the behavior of his parents. It was not the case that Rong Jinchen cared a lot.
After all, he is his and Qingqing’s biological child, and his only child.
Su Zhenzhen couldn't help laughing. She leaned her little head on Rong Jinchen's strong and hot chest. Little Tangyuan also imitated her movements and hugged his father's waist.
Rong Jinchen looked at the two in his arms, one big and one small, with a soft and doting look in his eyes.
May 7th.
It was a rainy day, and the Jinyiwei who went to Jiangnan to investigate had already returned to Beijing.
After Rong Yue met the commander-in-chief of the Embroidered Uniform Guard, Lu Feng, he stayed quietly in the Weiyang Palace for half a day.
When the lights came on in the evening, Yu Fuhai was asked to go to the East Palace to invite Crown Prince Rong Jinyou.
Crown Prince Rong Jinyou arrived soon.
"Your son pays homage to His Majesty." He bowed and Rong Yue replied calmly, "No need for formalities. Come and see this memorial." He handed the memorial to the Crown Prince Rong Jinyou.
Crown Prince Rong Jinyou couldn't help but shrink his pupils when he saw it for the first time. He asked Rong Yue for confirmation in shock, and after seeing him nod, he read the memorial at a glance.
After a moment, he said: "I don't know why my father called me here." Prince Rong Jinyou never thought that he and Achen's uncle, Duke Dingguo Ye Jiaping, would secretly obstruct his father's reforms.
Duke Dingguo's ancestral home is in Jiangnan. In addition to owning farmland in the capital, he also owns thousands of acres of fertile land in Jiangnan.
Crown Prince Rong Jinyou couldn't understand why his uncle had to secretly conceal the yield and quantity of land when it was obvious that he had already obtained a lot?
Rong Yue clenched the agarwood and agarwood bracelet inlaid with gold beads in his hand. He said lightly, "Prince, I want to know what you think." He did not forget why he deposed the prince.
Rong Yue thought about it for a long time. Has the prince really made any progress in the past two years?
It’s not that he wants to be so pessimistic, but Rong Yue is really scared.
He is already fifty-seven years old. If the prince still can't figure it out, can Rong Yue really hand over the Qin Dynasty to him?
For the first time, Rong Yue felt distrust towards the prince whom he had trained for more than thirty years.
Crown Prince Rong Jinyou paused and said, "Duke Dingguo's action goes against the reforms of my father, and he should be dealt with according to the laws of the Qin Dynasty." Thinking that his father might be waiting to kill the chicken to scare the monkey, Crown Prince Rong Jinyou couldn't say those words.
Blood is thicker than water, he is his biological uncle.
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