When receiving the decree, Lu Jinxi had already anticipated the content of the decree.

After all, when Gu Juefei came back last night and was talking to Meng Ji in the study, she heard it clearly beside her. It was said that the old lady begged for a break, which happened to be when Gu Juefei was in the rightful position.

So she wasn't half surprised when she heard that she was given a first-rank official life.

But the last sentence of the imperial edict made her a little surprised.

Since she remarried to Gu Juefei, Lu Shi's first-rank official title given to Xue Kuang was taken back according to the law, and her official rank can only follow Gu Juefei's official rank.

And many ceremonies in the DPRK all depend on the grade of the woman.

Lu Jinxi is not good or bad, and she is still a remarried woman, her status is really embarrassing, so in the past three years, she has never entered the palace again.

Today, along with the imperial decree, he even gave a New Year's Eve palace banquet?

You must know that the New Year's Eve palace banquet is no ordinary palace banquet.

This is a banquet held by the emperor in the palace. Due to the special day, no one is invited to be a member of the imperial family, not to be an important official of the court, and not to be an important wife.

Who is still hired now, I don't know, anyway, she was hired as a remarried woman who is not so well-known outside, it is incredible!

When Lu Jinxi took the imperial decree with both hands, he only saw that the **** who passed the decree smiled into two crescent eyes, and even had a somewhat pleasing smile on his face.

There is not the slightest bit of the arrogance of the general eunuch.

"Congratulations, Madam, Mrs. Hexi, as the end of the year is approaching, this year can be regarded as your most prosperous."

Lu Jinxi said politely, "You're joking, it's because our country is prosperous in Daxia now. Dad-in-law, you're running this trip in the cold weather, but I don't know what's going on with the New Year's Eve banquet this year?"

"Haha, you may be asking the right question."

The father-in-law raised his orchid finger, his face full of joy, and there was a bit of show-off mystery in it.

"Just these days, there was a big happy event in the palace, and the emperor was very happy. No, just in time for this year's good weather, we will have a big New Year's Eve palace banquet."

"A big happy event?"

Hearing this description, and the "inside the palace", Lu Jinxi's brows moved slightly, and he guessed something, so his eyes flashed slightly, and he also laughed.

"Could it be that you are talking about the concubine Xian..."

"Shh-"

The **** was busy with a finger and smiled likably.

"You just know it in your heart. It's not two months, just after the diagnosis, the emperor will leave it until New Year's Eve."

"That's really a big happy event, a big happy event."

The expression on Lu Jinxi's face was flawless, and at the same time he gave the wind chimes beside him a look.

Feng Chi has also gone through a lot in the past two years, and has become a beautiful girl. Because of being by Lu Jinxi's side, she has learned a lot, she is also smart, and she has a calm and thoughtful feeling in her work.

When she saw her eyes, she knew it.

At this time, he rushed up and wanted to send the eunuch, and also handed over the rich tea money.

Unexpectedly, the other party would not accept it, but said: "I am lucky to be able to come to the government to submit an edict today, but I dare not ask for your reward. You have to prepare, the villain will go back to the palace first, and you will stay."

Inside and outside the words, he seemed to be extremely respectful to Lu Jinxi.

Until the wind chimes sent the person away, the person also took a penny.

How could Lu Jinxi not know the reason? This **** can be considered a conscientious person, and he will not take it indiscriminately, especially Gu Juefei is in full swing, and it is too late to try his best to curry favor.

"Alright."

She handed out the imperial edict and looked up. Gu Chengqian at the gate of the courtyard only looked at her with a blank face.

Huanhai has been ups and downs for so many years, how could he not know what happened to the top?

His time is finally over.

Gu Chengqian's body leaning on crutches looked a little hunched again, and his old eyes were a little more cloudy. He just turned around and said to Wan Baochang, "Let's go."

He still went out.

Lu Jinxi stood in the back, watching the old man who had assisted three generations of emperors, step by step, staggered onto the sedan chair, and then watched the sedan chair slowly leave the gate of the mansion, and then sighed slightly.

She turned her head and instructed: "Let the kitchen prepare the hot soup to ward off the cold first, and serve it immediately when the boss comes back later."

"Yes." The wind chimes blinked and answered obediently, and then reminded, "Yesterday, there was news from Shenglongchang that I had an appointment with you, and I will see you at the store at noon. There is only half an hour left, are you still going? ?"

Nowadays, it is prosperous and prosperous, and there are many more semicolons.

As the first-class metropolis in Daxia today, people and goods in the capital come and go, the news is the most well-informed, and there are many powerful people in Beijing, rich families everywhere, it is the best place for commodity dumping.

Sheng Xuan built a semicolon in Beijing as early as last year.

In the current year, he spends five months in Shaanxi, two months at the border, three months in Jiangnan, and two months in Beijing.

Looking at the new year, it is time to calculate the dividend.

Of course Lu Jinxi was going this time.

She just nodded and said nothing, then went back to the house and wrapped herself in thick clothes and a ferret-fur vest before getting into the carriage and leaving the door.

At this time, Gu Juefei was still busy in the palace and should not come back.

Therefore, Lu Jinxi said slowly, only holding the stove in his arms, and looked out through the slightly opened window.

Although it was the middle of the winter and the twelfth lunar month, after all, it was near the end of the new year, and the streets all over the capital were quite lively. Sellers of New Year's goods, jugglers, candy kneaders, crowded.

Most are children.

Not afraid of the cold at all, either holding firecrackers or holding a candy man, running around the streets.

It snowed only last night, but the snow in the middle of the street had been swept away, and the sound of the wheels rolling up was a little clear.

The houses far and near were all covered up.

Lu Jinxi looked at it, but suddenly remembered that it was time to go to Shenglongchang to settle the bill, and it was time to buy something for the children.

"Madam, look, it's the Xiongnu caravan you saw last time. They have stayed here until now. Are they staying in our big summer to celebrate the New Year?"

The wind chimes also looked outside with her, and when his eyes passed, he suddenly pointed.

Lu Jinxi also saw it.

The group of merchants were all holding high-headed horses from the Xiongnu. They were very mighty, with thickly wrapped robes and a thick mink hat.

Dressing like this always reminds her of someone.

She hugged the stove, changed her position to make herself more comfortable, closed her eyes and smiled lightly: "The Huns don't have any New Year's sayings, it's the same for them wherever they go. The weather is good in summer now, but this There aren't many goods to bring in the season, so they will stay here until the spring of next year, waiting to bring the things from the big summer back to the Xiongnu to sell. When the weather is good, they will return to the capital."

"Ah, so..."

The wind chimes nodded ignorantly, and their curious eyes still fell on those people, until the car turned the corner, and then withdrew their eyes a little reluctantly.

Although Lu Jinxi didn't open her eyes, she could guess what kind of mood she was in, and her smile deepened, she only asked, "You've been with me for more than three years, and I heard Second Master Sheng last time. I praise you for your finesse, smartness, and planning skills. It is a business material. If you are really interested in these things, it is better for me to send you to Shenglongchang to study. In the future, never doing business is the second thing. Something to eat."

The wind chimes suddenly widened their eyes in surprise, and their small mouths didn't even fit together: "Husband, madam, this..."

"You think about it first."

Lu Jinxi was just casually mentioning it, and did not force her to make a choice. For her, this is something that is absolutely necessary and not on her mind.

The Taishi Mansion is in the inner city, and Sheng Longchang is in the outer city.

Although there is a city gate in the middle, the journey is not very far. After Lu Jinxi's carriage slowly passed the city gate, it had already arrived at the place.

Someone was already waiting, put a footstool on it, and welcomed her down.

The newly built Shenglongchang Capital Branch has a brand new feeling, and everything looks bright.

Sheng Xuan, who hadn't seen her for a few months, learned of her coming and greeted her from the door.

A robe with a thick cloud and brocade face embroidered with Wanfu pattern on it, when I saw her, I cupped my hands happily: "Hello, Madam, I can say goodbye to you in the early years."

"You're welcome."

Lu Jinxi came up, nodded slightly, and returned the gift, and walked with him to the account room behind the firm.

It was lively inside, and the abacus sounded.

"I listened to the sound of the plan, as if I heard the sound of money being put into the pocket." As soon as she came in, she couldn't help but sigh, "If I remember correctly, this year was also a good year. It's a good year."

"No, it's also thanks to you."

Thinking about it now, Sheng Xuan is also glad that he chose to cooperate with Lu Jinxi at the beginning, not only earning back Sheng Longchang's family business, but now he has become the leading big business in Daxia.

The smile on his face couldn't be hidden.

In the back room, a heated Kang was installed, and the guys had already brought hot tea, Lu Jinxi sat on the left, and Sheng Xuan sat on the right.

The calculated accounts are presented one by one from the side.

Show the first one to Sheng Xuan, and then pass it to Lu Jinxi for verification.

As Gu Juefei once said at the beginning, Sheng Xuan has no great ambitions, and his business acumen is not particularly good, but he is better than integrity.

There have been no errors in the accounts for the past three years.

So now Lu Jinxi is just taking a look at it and taking a form.

She leaned back lazily on the back of the chair, and swiped her fingers over the 13,000 taels of money, but she asked: "This year's money has already fallen into the bag, I don't know if Second Master Sheng is here, next year there will be What plan, how are you preparing?"

"With the foundation of business cooperation in previous years, next year's affairs are almost fixed. It's just..." He hesitated for a while, Sheng Xuan looked at her complexion before continuing, "It's just that I heard recently that the Xiongnu side It doesn't seem very peaceful."

The fingers that were slowly stroking suddenly paused.

The fingertips stopped on the word "two" and pressed it firmly.

Lu Jinxi raised her brows slightly, her brows twitched a little, but she raised her head with a smile and asked him, "Where did you hear the news, Second Master Sheng?"

Hearing her rhetorical question, Sheng Xuan guessed that the news was probably true.

He didn't hide anything from Lu Jinxi, his face became vaguely solemn, and said, "When I went to the Xiongnu last time, one of my cargo escorts heard from a man who worked as a clerk in the Xiongnu royal court. So I am old, but after all, people are still alive, so the infighting in the royal court has been serious these years, and the situation is still stable. But a few months ago, there were rumors that Lao Danyu was going to die..."

Infighting in the Xiongnu royal court was serious, and Lu Jinxi knew it.

She even knew that it was all about Gu Juefei.

Everything stemmed from the meeting in the Golden Palace three and a half years ago, when Gu Juefei came up with a poisonous plan—

Extending the power of Daxia, infiltrating the Xiongnu royal court, on the one hand showing favor to Lao Shanyu's favorite Princess Lanqu, while secretly supporting the third prince Yi Xian, so that the Xiongnu royal court is always in conflict.

As a result, the Huns were always at war with each other, and each had its own government, each with their own plans.

They can't even unify their own strength. Even after two years of negotiation and recuperation, they can't concentrate their forces, and they will never be able to cause war again.

Gu Juefei's plans are made by Gu Juefei, and things are also done by Gu Juefei.

In the past two years, his official position has been promoted so quickly, half of it is because of his ability in internal affairs, and the remaining half is because of foreign affairs.

This is what the Lifan Academy manages. You can see how many achievements in foreign affairs.

There were the Xiongnu in the front, and the Uighurs and Xianbei in the back. Gu Juefei's methods and strategies can be said to be endless.

However, it is exactly as Sheng Xuan worried: the Xiongnu have not been very peaceful recently.

Once Lao Chanyu dies, a war will break out between Prince Ixian and Princess Lanqu, who are already incompatible.

At that time, no one knows what will happen next.

But what can be known is that the border trade between the two countries is bound to be temporarily interrupted due to the war, and even the original peace agreement between the two countries may not be counted.

For half a month, Gu Juefei stayed in the palace longer and longer, and he was always thinking about things when he came back.

If you don't know what he is...

Lu Jinxi thought to herself, maybe she would suspect that he was messing with Wei Yi, the concubine who loved him and hated him in the palace.

Thinking of this, she remembered the decree in the palace just now, only that the current situation of the Daxia royal family and the Xiongnu royal court is really in a double world.

One is that the favorite concubine is pregnant, and the emperor is about to give a feast to the ministers;

One is that Shan Yu will go, and the siblings will fight against each other in the same room.

Lu Jinxi looked at the ledger, pondered for a while under Sheng Xuan's gaze, and finally said, "I don't know the latest situation on the Xiongnu side. Let's do things safely, and we'll focus on next year's plans first. Press. After a while, the eldest son will return to the house, and I will ask clearly before making plans."