The Peasant Girl’s Splendid Manor

Chapter 1077: Educational power, pregnancy

Chapter 1077 Educational Power, Pregnancy

Yesterday, Mo Yan wrote a letter and told Xiao Ruiyuan that he was coming to the Prince's Mansion to find Chu Heng. After Xiao Ruiyuan received the letter, he immediately reported it to Chu Heng.

Chu Heng knew that Mo Yan would not meet him in person if it was not an important matter, so he still squeezed out half a day due to his busy schedule.

As he had been notified in advance, the guard at the gate verified Mo Yan's identity and politely took her to the main hall of the Prince's Mansion.

Mo Yan has been to the palace, which means she has seen the world. She walked in with the guards without squinting, and she felt that the Prince's Mansion occupies a very large area, with five steps to the first floor, ten steps to the pavilion, the corridor is winding, and the honeycomb water vortex , magnificent and elegant, just like a miniature version of the palace.

The great **** who was guarding outside the main hall had been warned a long time ago. When he saw the guard guard coming with someone from a distance, he guessed that the visitor, His Royal Highness, wanted to see Lord Hejia.

As the person approached, he glanced at her inadvertently, but when he saw that the woman was dressed in extraordinary clothes and had a noble bearing, he confirmed his suspicion and hurriedly stepped forward to say hello: "I pay my respects to Lord Hejia."

Seeing this, the little eunuchs and maids who were following the big **** also stepped forward to salute.

Even though these people are just serving eunuchs and palace maids, they are of high class. Usually, people only show great courtesy when facing the royal family. For Mo Yan, the county prince, it is enough to bow and pray. As slaves, the royal servants have a much higher status than the servants of ordinary officials. It can be said that they are the epitome of the supremacy of imperial power.

Mo Yan immediately asked them to get up and entered the main hall under the leadership of the eunuch. The elder **** did not dare to neglect, so he called the maid to serve tea, and ordered his junior **** to go to the backyard to report to the prince and the princess.

Not long after, the young **** came back, with an even more respectful expression towards Mo Yan: "Junjun, your highness has invited me, please follow me this way."

Mo Yan nodded slightly and followed the little **** to another palace. This palace was the study room of the Prince's Mansion, where Chu Heng handled official affairs and discussed matters with his staff.

The little **** actually brought Mo Yan to see Chu Heng directly instead of going to meet the Crown Princess first. Presumably it was Chu Heng who had explained it.

The little **** who was waiting at the door of the study went in again to report. Mo Yan stepped into the study and saw Xiao Ruiyuan there too, and was not surprised at all.

After the ceremony, Mo Yan went straight to the topic, briefly explained the purpose of the trip, and presented the plan he had prepared earlier to Chu Heng.

Chu Heng spent a moment reading the ten-page plan. He put the plan aside and thought about it quietly. The expression on his face did not change. It was unclear whether he agreed or rejected it.

Seeing this, Mo Yan was not in a hurry. She picked up the tea that the maid had just served and tasted it carefully. She found that it was also Yunwu tea, but not as delicious as her Yunwu tea.

Seeing Mo Yan's calm look, Xiao Ruiyuan, who was sitting next to her, became less calm and asked softly: "Why do you have such an idea? Once implemented, the national treasury will be tight. Even if His Highness agrees, the Holy Emperor and the court will Im afraid the minister wont agree.

Da Chu has a vast territory, natural disasters occur almost every year, and the borders are not stable. These two reasons directly lead to insufficient national treasury. It is obviously unrealistic to spend a lot of time supporting teaching in physics.

Mo Yan put down the tea cup, glanced at Chu Heng and said in a voice that he could just hear: "'To build a country and rule the people, teaching comes first.' Education is the foundation of the country. Letting the people practice literature and etiquette from an early age not only allows them to understand how to behave Principles can also increase knowledge and serve the country. If things go on like this, the folk customs of Dachu will become better and better, and the national power will become stronger and stronger. By then, who will not have the foresight to invade our country? If the country is safe, the family will be safe, that is what I want Its nothing more than that.

It cannot be said that she worked so hard to accumulate merit, but she also wanted national security and family security.

Sensing Chu Heng's gaze, Mo Yan paused for a moment, then gave an example and continued: "Last year, we joined forces with the Kucha Kingdom to defend against the enemy. We only managed to keep out 20,000 enemy troops with hundreds of thousands of people. Why?" Is this possible? Because those 20,000 enemy troops used extremely lethal gunpowder! Where did that gunpowder come from? They made it by testing the gunpowder technique passed down from our great Chu. Just because they know more, After learning a lot, knowing the language of Dachu, and mastering the art of gunpowder, I was able to use these to create such powerful ammunition. If these ammunition were not still in the experimental stage and could not be mass-produced, who would win and lose in this battle? Its unknown!

Last year, Da Chu and Kucha's 150,000 troops jointly fought against 20,000 elite foreign troops. Although Da Chu and Kucha won the final victory, the price was too high. Only 30,000 of the 150,000 troops were left. Unexpectedly, 5,000 of the enemy's 20,000 elite soldiers escaped. Seriously, Dachu and Qiuci were the losers.

No one thought that 20,000 elite soldiers of foreign tribes would carry such a lethal weapon. Ironically, this weapon was only successfully developed after the gunpowder technique of Dachu was passed on.

Its not like no one in Dachu has thought about using it to make weapons. Emperor Taizong once gathered hundreds of skilled craftsmen to study gunpowder. As a result, no powerful weapons were developed, but these hundreds of craftsmen were killed by a big explosion overnight. Exploded to pieces. Among the dead, another was Emperor Taizong's favorite son.

Emperor Taizong suffered a huge blow when he lost his son in middle age. He believed that gunpowder was too dangerous to be used by others, and it also killed his beloved son, so he decreed that no one should be allowed to touch gunpowder.

To this day, the method of preparing gunpowder is still there, but no one dares to do research on weapons. However, the foreign tribe relied on the spread of the method to create gunpowder weapons first. Although its lethality is limited and it cannot be manufactured in large quantities, it is already the most advanced weapon in this era of cold weapons, and flesh and blood cannot stop it at all.

Although in Mo Yan's first life, the monarch was fatuous and the government was corrupt, which was the main reason why foreigners occupied the beautiful rivers and mountains of Da Chu in just a few years, without these improved ammunition and weapons, Da Chu would not have fallen so quickly. If Dachu cannot develop ammunition and weapons, no one knows whether it will repeat the same mistake twenty years later and become a slave under the iron heel of foreigners.

Fortunately, this battle woke up many people in the court. Emperor Hui'an had issued a secret order to search for skilled craftsmen, hoping that they could develop ammunition and weapons by studying gunpowder. There are still twenty years left, and it is not impossible to develop ammunition. Not to mention which country it will be used to attack after researching it, at least when the foreigners come back, they can be beaten back and defend this beautiful country.

Although he has memories of past lives, Mo Yan has never studied gunpowder, knows nothing about this stuff, and can't make any feasible suggestions. She only wanted to use this as an example to prove that the country was powerful in teaching and persuade Chu Heng to agree to her proposal and support education. No matter what, there is nothing wrong with letting people read more books.

I have to say that Mo Yans words touched Chu Hengs heart. As the next emperor, and not one of those mediocre and greedy for pleasure, Chu Heng naturally had great ambitions and wanted to be a generation of emperors who would go down in history.

It is a good opportunity for Mo Yan to present this plan to support education. It will not only benefit the country and the people, but also make him as a promoter bound to leave a mark in the history books and serve thousands of scholars. respected. From ancient times to the present, no emperor has ever provided drastic support in the field of education, and Chu Heng wanted to be the first person.

However, Xiao Ruiyuan expressed his concerns: Where does the money come from?

Mo Yan knew that money was the key to the realization of this plan, and it was unlikely that the treasury would pay for the money. Therefore, she had already thought of a countermeasure, and said to Xiao Ruiyuan: "Scholars, farmers, industry and commerce, although merchants have the lowest status, they cannot Denying that businessmen are the richest people among the four people. They dont lack gold and silver, but what they lack is the recognition of the world. If paying money to support students can improve their status, I dont think anyone will refuse, right?"

Strictly speaking, merchants in Dachu had a high status and enjoyed the same rights as the other three peoples. For example, they could also participate in the imperial examination. But among the people, they are at the bottom of the pack and will still be looked down upon. No matter how rich a businessman is, if there are no scholars in his family, he will not be able to stand up straight when he goes out, and he will be called "nouveau riche".

And if there is no backer behind a businessman, he is like a piece of delicious fat, and people with some power want to take a bite. In order to seek protection, they usually sent their beautiful daughters to local officials as concubines, and then gave them large amounts of gold and silver.

The girl who was sent as a concubine was originally from a good family, but when she arrived in the backyard of an official, she was from a lowly family. Her status was lower than that of a concubine from a peasant family, and the same was true for the children she gave birth to.

Merchants are not stupid. If they had no choice, why would they give their daughters to others to make a fool of themselves and give up half of their family property? Precisely because they have suffered too much unfair treatment, they hope more than anyone else that their heirs can be successful and find an official position in the future so that they can change their family background.

Mo Yan's words made Xiao Ruiyuan's eyes light up. He turned to look at his cousin. Sure enough, he saw a look of appreciation on his cousin's face, obviously agreeing with this method.

In the past, when the treasury was empty, the imperial court had no idea of those wealthy merchants. These merchants did not dare to disobey even if they did not want to, so they could only offer silver and grain with both hands. However, when they turned around, they drove up prices and recovered all the losses from the people, causing public dissatisfaction and grievances to boil.

Now let those merchants voluntarily pay money to improve their status. This method seems simple and is not difficult to implement. No one has ever thought of it before.

Chu Heng looked at Mo Yan with burning eyes, and suddenly understood why his father insisted on letting him accept this woman as his concubine. If she hadn't been the one he liked and had made a marriage contract with his cousin, with this intelligence, even if he didn't mean to, he would have brought this woman into the backyard and given her the honor she deserved.

Xiao Ruiyuan suddenly felt a little uncomfortable. He unconsciously leaned forward to block Chu Heng's sight, and said coldly: "Your Highness, I wonder if you are willing to implement the plan Yan'er has drawn up?"

Chu Heng was stunned by the shout of "Your Highness". Looking at his cousin's actions, he knew what he was thinking. He couldn't laugh or cry for a moment. Don't say that he didn't have bad intentions, even if he did, he wouldn't do this.

I wanted to make a joke, but in front of Mo Yan, Chu Heng couldn't say anything. He just said: "This is not a trivial matter. I will discuss it with my father in detail tomorrow. Whether it succeeds or not depends on what he wants."

After hearing this, Mo Yan let out a long sigh of relief. As long as Chu Heng agreed to persuade Emperor Hui'an to do such a good thing that would not drain the treasury, Emperor Hui'an had no reason not to agree. This matter was more than half successful.

The matter has not yet been finalized, and it is too early to discuss the specific details. Mo Yan originally planned to go to the Zhuangyuan Mansion and then go home, but Chu Heng asked her to stay for dinner. She could not refuse, so she had to stay.

Xiao Ruiyuan had other important matters to discuss with Chu Heng. Mo Yan couldn't stay in the study, so he was led by Chu Heng's people to Princess Liang.

Crown Princess Liang is virtuous and virtuous, and has no interest entanglement with Mo Yan, so she is happy to have a good relationship with Mo Yan. After seeing Mo Yan, she did not show any pretense as a princess and personally helped Mo Yan up, who was saluting: "I have wanted to invite you to come over to play for a long time, but I gave up the idea when I heard that you have many things at home and you can't go away. In the future, If you are free, you can come over to see me, but some of the tea parties in Beijing are good."

Princess Liang wanted to make friends with her, so Mo Yan would not refuse her, so she knelt down and said, "Thank you, my dear, for your love."

A tea party that Crown Princess Liang can participate in is definitely unusual. Mo Yan knew that Crown Princess Liang's move was to help her gain a foothold among those powerful people as soon as possible. Although she is a county princess, her background is relatively low. When she marries Xiao Ruiyuan in the future, she will rarely have to socialize outside. Having the princess to lead the way will support her and elevate her status so that she will not be looked down upon by others.

This "thank you" also comes from Mo Yan's sincerity.

Princess Liang's impression of Mo Yan was already good. Now that she sees that she understands etiquette and is not a cool person, she likes her even more. However, she has only met her for the second time and has no common topics to talk about. In order to avoid being embarrassed, she took the initiative to hold Mo Yan's hand and said, "It's boring just sitting in the house. There are some nice snow scenes in the back garden. You can go and take a look with me."

Mo Yan was also worried about being left out. Seeing that Crown Princess Liang was so considerate, she felt a little more favorable to her, so she smiled and said, "It is my blessing to be able to accompany my queen to visit the garden."

The two walked hand in hand on the long veranda, chatting while admiring the snow scenery. Because their actual ages are similar, their interests and hobbies are quite similar, and they ended up talking about the same thing. In the end, admiring the scenery turned into just chatting, but we just changed the place, from indoors to the warm pavilion in the back garden.

During the period, two concubines were also visiting the garden. When they heard that Princess Liang was entertaining guests in the Nuanting Pavilion, they hurried over to salute her, acting very respectfully.

After the ceremony, Crown Princess Liang sent them down. The two of them did not dare to say a single word, and hurriedly left with the accompanying maid. One look revealed that Crown Princess Liang was very skilled in the affairs of the Crown Prince. In the backyard of the mansion, he has accumulated a lot of power, and is far from being as gentle as he appears.

There are time limits for three meals a day in the Prince's Mansion, and dinner is ready at the end of Shenshi. Because there were two outsiders, Mo Yan and Xiao Ruiyuan, there were two tables in the dining room, one for the prince and Xiao Ruiyuan, and one for Mo Yan and Princess Liang, with a translucent screen blocking the middle.

The table was filled with all kinds of delicacies, and Mo Yan couldnt even see the ingredients for some of them. What's rare is that on such a cold day, there is still fresh fish to eat. Although it is just an ordinary crucian carp, it is still rare. You must know that since the Great Cold, the moat has been frozen.

The crucian carp was made into a milky white fish soup. Princess Liang seemed to like eating fish. There were several soups on the table, but the maid serving her meal served her a bowl of fish soup first.

Mo Yan also likes to eat fish, but there is a fish pond in the space, and she can eat it anytime she wants. Therefore, when Princess Liang invited her to drink fish soup, she excused herself that she didn't like it and asked the maid to serve her a bowl of black-bone chicken. Ginseng soup.

Seeing Princess Liang pick up the soup bowl, Mo Yan also picked up the delicious and nourishing black chicken and ginseng soup. However, this time she was destined to have no luck, because Princess Liang suddenly vomited the moment she entered the fish soup.

What happened?

The sound of the soup bowl being knocked over alarmed Xiao Ruiyuan and Chu Heng on the other side of the screen. They both stood up and came to the screen side of the screen. Seeing Crown Princess Liang leaning against the maid with a pale face, Chu Heng was furious and yelled at the shivering maid.

Princess Liang opened her eyes and looked at her, and said to Chu Heng who came to help her: "Your Highness, it's my concubine who is unwell. It's none of their business."

Chu Heng looked at the fish soup splashed all over the floor, but thought there was something wrong with the fish soup, so he ignored Princess Liang and ordered the guards who rushed in: "Quickly go to Dr. Xuan."

Xiao Ruiyuan had the same idea as Chu Heng. He came to Mo Yan and asked nervously: "Are you feeling uncomfortable in any way?"

Mo Yan was watching Princess Liang in a trance. After hearing Xiao Ruiyuan's words, she didn't react for a moment and said inexplicably: "How can I feel uncomfortable?"

Hearing this, Xiao Ruiyuan breathed a sigh of relief. But looking at Princess Liang's weak appearance, he frowned again and stepped forward to check the fish soup on the table.

Mo Yan saw this and quickly understood. Just when he was about to say that the problem was not the fish soup, he saw Chu Heng ordering the maid serving Princess Liang to be pulled down and locked up.

She was anxious, worried that the imperial doctor would not be able to arrive in time and the maid would be punished innocently, so she quickly said: "Your Highness, can you allow me to check your empress's pulse?"

When Chu Heng heard this, he suddenly remembered that Mo Yan had studied medicine. Although he didn't know what her medical skills were, just checking the pulse would not hurt anyone, so he said hurriedly: "Let Wanqing have a look quickly."

Wanqing is the maiden name of Princess Liang.

With permission, Mo Yan immediately stepped forward to take the pulse of Princess Liang, whose wrist was exposed. As soon as she put her finger on it, she noticed that the pulse condition was unusual.

Chu Heng looked at his knotted wife nervously and saw a layer of sweat on her forehead. He became more and more worried and unconsciously looked at Mo Yan's face. But a happy smile appeared on Mo Yan's face.

Confirming that he had not made a mistake in diagnosis, Mo Yan took back his hand and stood up and said to Chu Heng: "Congratulations, Your Highness, your Majesty has a happy pulse. Your Highness has been pregnant for more than a month."

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