Queen Mother Dou smiled, and said: "The prince is very good, and Gillian from the Aijia family is not bad. The prince has a gentle personality, and Gillian is lively, cheerful and scorching the sun. She is still and moves, and she is a perfect match. But Gillian, you have to be appropriate. Keep your temper, you can't rely on the prince's gentle temperament, you have to be bothered."

Chen Ajiao acted like a baby in disobedience: "Grandma, there is no reason for others to be unreasonable."

Queen Mother Dou smiled and said lovingly: "It's everywhere. Look now, isn't it just reasonable and unforgiving?"

Chen Ajiao’s temper is neither good nor bad. It is always the princess Guan Tao, Queen Dowager Dou, and so on. There must be arrogance, and a lot of them. Unless you meet a husband who can tolerate her little willful husband, you can marry. The emperor is actually the next move.

Fortunately, Ji Yanzhi’s Liu Rong was evaluated well by the Queen Mother Dou and Emperor Jing of Han. Even if it was because Li Ji was upset and almost denied the marriage, Princess Tao Chang had to admit that Ji Yan was gentle and moist. Ruyu is upright and square, broad-minded, and will never give up and ruin once he has gained power. He is not the kind of hypocrite who can only share adversity but not wealth.

"Grandma, you say that Gillian again, Gillian won't follow it!" Chen Ajiao put his arm around the Queen Mother Dou's arm, and smiled like a flower. "The prince brother said that Gillian is true and unpretentious. This kind of disposition is very good, and he fits him as a gentle and elegant person."

Empress Dowager Dou shook her head and said with a smile: "Did the prince really say this?"

Chen Ajiao: "Okay, okay, this is what Gillian said, but the prince brother didn't praise him wrong, Gillian himself is true and not artificial."

"Not ashamed."

The Queen Mother Dou made fun of Chen Ajiao, but the conversation turned around and talked about how to manage the palace affairs. At the end, he said: "According to Guan Tao's meaning, I intend to marry Gillian into the Prince's East Palace at the age of fourteen (virtual years). The Aijia thinks about it and thinks I still have to ask Gillian for your opinion on this matter. Jiao, what do you think? There are only our grandparents and grandchildren here. The Aijia always loves you, so you don't have to worry about it. If you have any ideas, just say it boldly."

Her cheeks immediately became blushing, Chen Ajiao was a little embarrassed, but she still resisted the shame and said: "Just follow the mother's wishes, and when Ajiao is fourteen, she will marry the prince brother."

"How old do you start to hate marrying?" Empress Dowager Dou shook her head again and laughed, but she said loosely: "Okay, just follow Guan Tao's intentions. Later, the Aijia will send someone to remind the prince to wake up and let him deal with trivial matters. Don’t forget to accompany Gillian during the event."

Chen Ajiao isn't embarrassed anymore. It is too busy to say that Ji Yanzhi is so busy. She has to go to the Prince's East Palace for a while, lest Ji Yanzhi forgets to eat while he is busy.

"This girl." Feeling Chen Ajiao leaving, Empress Dowager Dou couldn't help crying to the servant maid beside her and said: "Just say that I miss the prince, and I don't want to accompany the horrible old lady of Ai's family. Prince Dong Gong is running?"

The slave servant lowered her eyebrows and said smoothly: "The owner is the most filial to the queen mother, and he and the prince are childhood sweethearts. Naturally, while filial to the queen dowager, he also has to worry about the prince."

"Perhaps you can talk."

Empress Dowager Dou thought that Chen Ajiao was born for love at a young age. She didn't know whether she should laugh or say, but she should sigh. Fortunately, the prince is a good person, not such a cold hearted person, otherwise. what……

"Go and invite Guan Tao to enter the palace. If Guan Tao asks, it will be said that the Ai's family invited her into the palace to discuss the marriage of the prince and Gillian."

Chen Ajiao is now twelve (imaginary years old). Since Princess Guantao intends to let Chen Ajiao marry at fourteen, she must prepare now.

As for why Li Ji was skipped directly, and the Queen Mother Dou and Princess Guan Tao discussed the details of the wedding, the main reason was that after Liu De and Liu Yan's perseverance and publicity, Li Ji’s stupidity had already been confided by the big man. The most powerful mother and son in the DPRK are well-known. If Li Ji is allowed to take charge of the prince’s wedding as the biological mother, it will be true that not only the Emperor Han Jing is afraid of making jokes, but even the Queen Mother Dou, the old Taishan who is no longer in charge. afraid……

After all, no matter how good Kung Fu is, you can't guard against being a demon.

"There is also the emperor..." Empress Dowager Dou thought slightly: "Forget it, the emperor will not call for now. At this moment, Li Ji is always entangled with the emperor. Calling the emperor is not equivalent to letting Li Ji know that the Ai family intends to make a formal decision. Let’s go about the wedding of the prince and Gillian. That’s it. First go to invite Guan Tao to enter the palace, and you will go personally."

Gong E who was waiting next to him led the order, and immediately withdrew from the inner hall. When the other palaces entered the house to wait for the invisible Queen Mother Dou, they hurriedly left Weiyang Palace and went to Tangyi Hou Mansion to invite Princess Tao Chang to enter the palace.

Not to mention that Princess Tao Chang rushed into the palace to discuss the wedding with Queen Mother Dou. Let's talk about Chen Ajiao's side. Before, she left Ganquan Palace and went straight to the Prince's East Palace. When I went there, apart from Gong E and the **** who served in the entire East Palace of the Prince, there was only the master Ji Yanzhi.

In the past, Liu De and Liu Yanyu, who always liked to come to the Prince’s East Palace to eat and drink, can’t even see any figures today.

Chen Ajiao was a little bit curious and couldn't help but ask: "Brother Prince, where are the King of Hejian and King of Linjiang!"

Ji Yanzhi: "A trip out of the palace for me."

Chen Ajiao: "Is it something from the workshop?"

Ji Yanzhi nodded: "That's right, but there really is no shortage of people in the workshop."

Chen Ajiao tilted her head and thought for a while, but she didn't think of the deep meaning of Ji Yanzhi's words. Just tell Ji Yanzhi what the Queen Mother Dou told her in private.

After careful consideration, Ji Yanzhi realized that Queen Mother Dou was a circumstantial reminder to herself, do not let the princes go to the **** lightly, lest the emperor of Han Jing, who is not in good health, die, and staged the original "scourge of the seven kingdoms".

Chen Ajiao didn't really want to understand. Seeing that Ji Yan's expression had not changed, she hurriedly asked: "Does the prince elder brother come up with the meaning of what the emperor grandmother said?"

"Someone in the harem was not convinced that I became the prince by virtue of the identity of the eldest son!" Ji Yanzhi said to Ajiao Chen with a faint smile: "Grandma, this is to remind me that I must do things for Ajiao!"

Chen Ajiao uttered a mouthful of Ji Yan. "What is it for me, can't the prince brother be for us?"

"Yes, it's my fault." Ji Yanzhi couldn't laugh or cry but apologized in good faith. "You shouldn't talk to Gillian like that."

Chen Ajiao snorted proudly, with the arrogant appearance of the prince's brother, so Ji Yanzhi didn't know what to say, so she had to change the subject and said: "A few days ago, King Huainan offered a recipe for tofu. It says that beans are ground into soy milk with water, and gypsum can be made into tofu. Not now, let the chef in the kitchen make a tofu."

"Isn't it said that tofu tastes like a bey-like smell?" Chen Ajiao pinched her nose a little disgustedly: "Would you like to stew a bamboo shoot soup and roast deer legs?"

"The master chef in Donggong has a good craftsmanship, and the tofu made doesn't have any beany flavor. Gillian can try it." Ji Yanzhi said with a smile.

Chen Ajiao is arrogant and arrogant, but there is a good point that she is very smooth, as long as Ji Yanzhi speaks well, she will basically be obedient. This is not what Ji Yan said, Chen Ajiao no longer insisted on seeing her, and she happily said that if the tofu made by the chef of the Prince Donggong's spoon still tastes tofu, then Ji Yan will not be allowed. Arrange meals at will.

Ji Yanzhi nodded his head in obedience, and said with a smile: "Well, let Gillian arrange it in the future."

At this moment, no matter how generous and uncomfortable, Chen Ajiao blushed with a pretty face.

"The prince brother is really true!" Chen Ajiao said lovingly: "you will say good things to coax me, and then, I have to take everything the prince brother said seriously."

"It should be so!"

Ji Yanzhi squinted and smiled, then led Chen Ajiao into the study, spreading paper and ink with great interest, and drew a picture of fishing with ink and green mountains and green water.

The painting is very beautiful. Chen Ajiao looked at it and liked it, and immediately entangled Ji Yanzhi to make him draw a picture of a beautiful woman sleeping in spring.

"Beauty? Spring Sleeping Picture?"

Ji Yanzhi glanced at Chen Ajiao with a weird expression. It was not Ji Yanzhi who killed Chen Ajiao, but mainly because Chen Ajiao can only be regarded as a loli now. What kind of beauty is a childishness? However, since Chen Ajiao had already raised her eyebrows because of his hesitation, Ji Yanzhi could only try her best to follow the convulsive (not speechless) style of painting to paint Chen Ajiao as a fairy, and at first glance she was not herself.

It’s just that Chen Ajiao may not have a deep understanding of her appearance, or Chen Ajiao’s filters for her appearance are too thick. Anyway, when the fairy tale beauty spring sleeping picture was drawn, Chen Ajiao admired Ji Yanzhi’s paintings. resembles.

Ji Yanzhi calmly echoed: "It's quite similar, but Gillian himself is much more beautiful than the "Beauty Spring Sleeping Picture" I drew."

Chen Ajiao's eyebrows are crooked, and she must have eaten honey at this moment, which is sweet to her heart.

Ji Yanzhi said something more earthy to coax people, so Gong E came in to the study and told that the meal had been prepared, and asked Ji Yanzhi and Chen Ajiao to go out of the study to the main hall to eat.

Edible crops in the pre-Qin and Han Dynasties were actually quite abundant. Food crops included wheat, rice, sorghum, soybeans, etc., and vegetable crops included radishes, celery, taro, leeks, green onions and garlic. Even the palace has a special greenhouse for growing vegetables in winter.

However, due to limitations, the output is not high, so the noble and wealthy local gentry still eat more meat, and most of them are game. In addition to the now-named pigs, only chickens, ducks, cows and horses are raised in captivity. However, cattle and horses belong to the main force of transportation and farming and cannot be sold and killed by themselves. Therefore, only chickens, ducks and pigs and sheep are commonly bred by the people.

Chickens, ducks and sheep are okay, but pigs, to be honest, in the Western Han Dynasty were generally only eaten by ordinary people. Most nobles ate lamb or captive elk meat. After all, in the public's perception, pigs are domestic animals It's very dirty, dirty.

Anyway, Ji Yan said that this person likes to eat pork very much, and the pig-killing dishes of later generations are very famous. It's just that Ji Yanzhi is now the prince, and everything must not be too aggressive, and there are Liu De and Liu Yanyu, this kind of eating limelight is due to them, and Ji Yanzhi only needs to take advantage of the fishermen.

Most gossip said that the meal prepared by the master chef this time was very rich. Eight dishes and two soups were all served in large thick porcelain. Most of the food is grilled. Some are grilled elk meat that is grilled and thinly sliced, there is roast duck with its skin turned out and browned and crispy, and there is a grilled fish that is about a catty heavy. The rest is Boiled green beans, radishes, and roasted chives and leeks.

Oh, the two soups are chicken skin and bamboo shoot soup, and cabbage tofu soup.

There is also an oral narration of Ji Yan, which is a tofu mixed with shallots made by the master's ingenuity. There is indeed no beany taste, and it is salty, fragrant and tender.

Ji Yanzhi glanced at the table full of meals. He had only one thought. Now that the ship is going to North America to collect seeds such as peppers and corn, I don’t know if it’s too late. If it’s too late, will he create a miracle? A grain seed blessed by God.

If the second method is adopted, it is obviously not suitable now. The most suitable time should be the day when he successfully ascended the throne. After all, if the ‘man-made miracle’ is handled properly, the king can be mythical.

Ji Yanzhi is this person. He is careful. In the case that Emperor Han Jing has thirteen princes besides him, he will definitely not give up the opportunity of the "Mythology of Kings" to Emperor Han Jing, but he will definitely leave it to himself. Therefore, at this stage, it is really inappropriate, that is to say, it will be about ten years before he has the perfect opportunity to let the people of the world grow the soul of barbecue-chili.

Ji Yanzhi said a pity in his heart, it was natural for Ajiao Chen to pick up vegetables on the face. Chen Ajiao likes to eat meat, so Ji Yanzhi mostly picks up boiled vegetables, but she says plausibly: "You should not only eat meat, but also vegetables, so that your body can be healthy..."

Chen Ajiao doesn't care too much about Ji Yanzhi in this respect. There is a kind of fanciful thinking about Ji Yanzhi, who feels that Ji Yanzhi's words are a bit unpleasant, but they are all right. Obediently ate all Ji Yanzhi's dishes.

After eating meals, Chen Ajiao stayed in the Prince's East Palace for a while, and was invited back to Ganquan Palace by Gong E, who was sent specially by the Queen Mother. After Chen Ajiao left, Ji Yanzhi started to be busy again. About the time he was holding the lamp, Liu De with a good skill over the wall and entered the Prince's East Palace.

"Brother, you can expect one thing wrong." Liu Dexing rushed.

Ji Yanzhi still held a book that had just been printed and flipped through it, and replied without raising his head: "Oh, is it?"

Liu De: "Brother, don't you ask me about the situation?"

Ji Yanzhi still didn't look up, and said perfunctorily: "What's the situation?"

Liu De: "...It's about someone secretly trying to figure out what they want to do with the relationship between the three brothers. I found out... and..."

"It's related to Wang Nan?" Ji Yanzhi closed the book and finally looked at Liu De with his straight eyes. However, Dan Feng's eyes, whose corners were slightly raised, showed no mood swings. "Wang Dan was involved in it, but it should have only contributed to the flames. I want to fight for the holy favorite, but also want to avenge the Nangong princess and the Xiongnu."

Liu De was stunned: "...You guessed it with your eldest brother, but you have not said it in your heart? However, this fight for the holy favorite is better to say, after all, our mother and concubine, it is the standard to eat meat by yourself and not give it to others. Drinking soup, but where does this Nangong princess and the pro-Western feud begin? It was the Emperor of Han Jing who made the Nangong princess and the pro-Xiongnu stand alone. It is a matter of the three of our brothers."

"Emperor Han Jing dare not hate, but can only hate us who are already capable." Ji Yanzhi said calmly: "When Emperor Han Jing sent the princess and the pro-Hungry to Shan Yu, I once persuaded, but unfortunately I did not persuade him."

Ji Yanzhi’s philosophy has always been that “the emperor guards the gate of the city, the king dies, and he does not pay tribute”, but sometimes he can only lead by example, starting with him to make rules. So to be honest, Ji Yanzhi persuaded a few words about the Nangong princess and the pro-Huns Shanyu, but didn't persuade Emperor Han Jing.

Of course, there is another reason for this because it is not a sister of a female compatriot. If Princess Nangong was born to Li Ji, he would use some means, even if he didn't dispel the idea that the Emperor of Han Jing sent the princess and the pro-Hongnu Shanyu, he still wanted to make the princess Nangong live a little more comfortable after marrying the Xiongnu.

It's just that Princess Nangong was born by Wang Lao. Even without Ji Yanzhi's instruction in recent years, Liu De and Liu Yanyu have always been defensive and even Wang Lao. If Emperor Han Jing was only pitying the matter of maintaining the short-term peace between the two countries, he would be suspected of conspiracy. It's just that Ji Yanzhi didn't expect that a few words of his persuasion would cause Wang Nan to hate him.

Ji Yanzhi really couldn't even get angry.

Liu De said in a little astonishment: "So Wang Meiren hates you, eldest brother because of this? There is no reason. Princess Changle, who was the same year as her, stays in the big Han, and she should not hate Princess Changle and her beloved mother. Concubine?"

"Do you need a reason to hate someone?" Ji Yanzhi still said with a steady voice: "Compared to Chu Liangren who only gave birth to a daughter, obviously our mother and concubine are more hateful."

"The mother concubine was the first woman of Emperor Han Jing, and gave birth to the three of us in succession for Emperor Han Jing? The weight can be the same." Liu De contemptuously said: "In other words, Emperor Han Jing doesn't dare to hate, so I can only choose to hate Emperor Han Jing. The mother and concubine who was completely occupied and the eldest brother of the prince who was born to her have been established again."

Historically, Li Ji was deposed because of a brain problem that caused Prince Liu Rong to be deposed, and he died of depression and illness. But the tomb of Emperor Jing of the Han Dynasty had her place, and she and Wang Nan occupied the left and right sides. Empress Bo, who was abolished because of childlessness, was only buried in a remote corner. It can be seen from here that Li Ji actually occupies a certain position in the heart of Emperor Han Jing. If she was a little smarter, if it weren't for Wang Nan and Princess Guantao to join forces, Liu Che might not be in the position.

"Wang's most powerful assistant has been cut off. She is now just a deep palace woman who is not favored. Even if the second daughter, Princess Nangong, was singled out by the Han Jingdi and the pro-Hun, she won a little pity, and she has a mother and a concubine. One day, she doesn't have a day in her early days."

As for Empress Dowager Dou’s mention of letting the princes return to the feudal vassal, it is undoubtedly a way to return to the mountains, fearing to stage the "Seven Kings Rebellion" that occurred when Emperor Hanwen succeeded to the throne. Ji Yanzhi was not at all worried. . Speaking of arrogance, Ji Yanzhi has nothing to fear about it.

Not to mention Ji Yan, there was an early plan like the Qing Dynasty to ban the emperors, divide the world and divide the Han Dynasty into independent small kingdoms, change them to idle princes, county kings, etc., and use their money to support them; Even if there is no such plan, even if the tiger returns to the mountain, he will not have the ability to kill the tiger?

If Liu Che really dared to recruit soldiers in private, he would dare to let Liu Che die too much.

"Has Emperor Han Jing ever revealed that he asked the princes to preside over the feudal clan in advance?" Liu De asked thoughtfully.

Liu De, including Liu Kaiyu, knew that Ji Yanzhi effectively imitated the Qing Dynasty's idea of ​​withdrawing the vassal and restoring the royal clan. Both Liu De and Liu Yanyu have no intention of opposing. After all, in their opinion, they can only stay in Chang'an and be an idle prince, do not bear the burden, and walk the dog and fight **** all day. .

So to withdraw the domain, you must withdraw!

Ji Yanzhi smiled and replied, "Emperor Han Jing is calm about this aspect. I think that the princes will have to do with the Fan, probably when he is really ill, and the new emperor will come to the throne. The prince has happened to Fan."

"That's good, it saves them the advantage of going to the fiefdom to operate for ten years."

Liu De also knew the life span of Emperor Han Jing, and because this was a private conversation, he spoke more casually.

Liu De is not like Ji Yanzhi, who has thousands of twists and turns in his heart but likes to strike with straight punches. He simply feels that no matter how other people jump, Ji Yanzhi is also sitting firmly on the Diaoyutai. In fact, the same is true. In the following time, Ji Yanzhi still looks like a warm tuon on the surface, but he can't talk about politics too much. Basically, what Han Jingdi says is what he said, but in fact, Ji Yanzhi has been secretly secretive. Accumulate power.

And since the Han Jing Emperor’s birthday Ji Yanzhi presented the white as snowy rice paper and the "Spring and Autumn" books printed on rice paper, as well as the various wolf pens that can be used to write, Ji Yanzhi He began to focus on people's livelihood and water conservancy.

You know that engaging in people's livelihood and water conservancy was never a simple matter in ancient times. Especially in the pre-Qin and Han dynasties, it was really any change, and it was considered a major breakthrough. At this time, ordinary people at the bottom of society were still using wooden farm tools, so really, Ji Yanzhi said. Most of the energy was wasted on it, like glass making and cement manufacturing, Ji Yanzhi was handed over to Liu De and Liu Kaiyu to manage.

Well, the only thing that I care about and do it myself is that apart from the people's livelihood and water conservancy, there is only one gunpowder made.

However, Ji Yanzhi’s gunpowder production is carried out quietly, so that even Liu De and Liu Yanyu are not sure how much gunpowder has been hoarded by Ji Yanzhi. Liu De and Liu Yan did not know how much gunpowder had been hoarded in private. Without thinking about it, I always felt that the amount of gunpowder that Ji Yanzhi hoarded could probably blow up the entire Chang'an City.

"Your guess is a bit exaggerated!" Liu Yanyu raised an objection: "At most, the entire Weiyang Palace will be blown up. How can you blow up the entire Chang'an City!"

Liu De rolled his eyes: "Don't worry about my exaggeration. Anyway, my eldest brother has a weapon to conquer foreign races and recover the countries of the Western Regions."