Chapter 266: Favors
As soon as the emperor interrupted, the topic of the Wei Yuan Marquis House was interrupted.
Luo Yi, who had been surveying their side, had beads of sweat on his forehead growing denser and denser, a pair of sleeves wiping his head again and again, and within a moment he was soaked through. Han Jun glanced at him with cold eyes, not speaking or showing any expression. A moment in the distance, hooves ringing, to the front, the light illuminates the face, Han Jun that the face of the ice years have a little fluctuation.
“Han …… guard, where is our girl?”
Hua Wanyong went directly to stand in front of him.
Han Jun raised his chin toward the front, then led his horse and said, “Let’s go, it’s almost time to go back to the city.”
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It was nearly midnight when they entered the city gates, and the Luo family lived in the outer city, so Han Jun didn’t move to follow him when they parted ways while the emperor and the others continued on their way.
Needless to say, this must be to seal Luo Yi’s mouth. Luo Yi is also the son of an official family, so a trip down, he just can not guess the emperor is the emperor, but also at least can guess that he can not afford to mess with the character.
The emperor sent Zhao Su to the door of the Marquis of Qingyun, watched her enter the door, before changing the carriage to sit in.
The quiet night of the capital city returned to silence after this brief commotion.
After returning to the mansion, Zhao Su listened to Hua Wanyong finish inquiring about the matter before going to sleep, in bed for half the night with eyes open, the things in his head turning back and forth, the rooster crows before vaguely falling asleep.
Suddenly saw a face of the prima donna trapped in the siege to kill, that hoarse voice shattered the sky, knives and spears stabbed in her body, but the pain is generated in their own bodies, a heart clenched up, want to shout but how can not shout out.
After dawn she sat for a while, and rubbed her heart for a while before getting up, packing up to go to the Yamen.
Look at the morning court ministers began to retreat, she folded to the Ministry of Industry.
He Zong into the office, not yet had time to take a seat on the call for people to assign tasks, outside the person to inform that the Ministry of Rites Yamen Zhao Su arrived, He Zong words stop abruptly, and then reached out and pressed the temples, said: “Please come in.”
Zhao Su thinking about the recent things around, specially first come to the Ministry of Public Works to turn around. Brush shoulders with the officials, and then into the threshold, she grinned and He Zong performed a million blessings: “Lord He long time no see, recently well?”
He Zong inhaled deeply and said in a faint voice: “What is the important matter of Lord Zhao?”
Zhao Su walked over to his desk and said, “I’ve come to ask you about the shipbuilding. How is it going now?”
He Zong held his tea and sipped, “The emperor asked you to ask?”
“No. I asked.”
“Then the old man has the right not to answer.”
Zhao Su as if accustomed to his temper, said: “I do not inquire about the secrets, just want to ask the Ministry of Industry under the jurisdiction of these workshops, dockyards and so on, in addition to shipbuilding shipwrights, how many people to do odd jobs?”
“What are you inquiring about this?”
“Useful.”
He Zong also knew that being pestered by her would not be good, so he might as well get rid of her. “For a shipyard like the Wu family, there must be at least two to three hundred people working inside and outside.”
There are two to three hundred odd jobs, plus the shipwrights, that’s not thousands of people? It’s no wonder that Wu Lanfeng and her daughter were desperately seeking an heir to keep the family business. If they fall, then thousands of people will lose their jobs. As long as the dockyard is run by people from generation to generation, there will still be jobs for them.
Zhao Su thought for a moment, and then said: “These two or three hundred handymen, how many of them have to do heavy work?”
“Since it is a handyman, naturally, it is only in charge of food, delivery of tea and rice, cleaning and other duties. How can there be any heavy work?”
“That’s it,” Zhao Su didn’t continue to sell him on this, “since it’s not heavy work, that means that healthy women and girls are also perfectly capable of doing it?”
He Zong paused, his face full of vigilance: “What do you mean?”
Zhao Su smiled sweetly, “Lord He, since women can do these jobs, why don’t you suggest to the court that some of the jobs under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Public Works be distributed to women?”
“What kind of behavior is this?” He Zong immediately stared up, “If the work is distributed to women, then these men will lose their jobs, they have families and children to feed. They still have families and children to feed, this is not nonsense!”
“Why is it nonsense? If they don’t do it, they can have their wives or daughters do it, and then they can learn the trade and do those more skillful jobs that are only suitable for men, isn’t that better? Allocating all manpower in the right places will give more value to people’s livelihood!”
“You’re really a believer!” He Zong pointed at her and said, “Since ancient times, men have been in charge of the outside world and women have been in charge of the inside world, are you trying to go against the grain? You even ignore the rules set by our ancestors!”
“The old ancestor also said that a family’s prosperity is equal to its loss, do you remember that? If you do, why did you kick your granddaughter out on the spot for making a mistake? You just pick up the old ancestor that you like to listen to ah?”
He Zong choked. Then brush his sleeve: “Really only small people and women are difficult to raise! I don’t want to talk to you, there is something else, you go.”
Zhao Su is also not angry: “Since only small people and women are hard to raise, then why is it that recently everyone is against me becoming the Queen, but Lord He didn’t say anything?”
Zhao Su violently stabbed out this sentence, negative hand plate face He Zong also can not help but look at her.
Zhao Su stood up: “Lord He strictly adheres to etiquette, insisting that a woman should follow the three virtues, while people outside have criticized me as worthless, according to them, not to mention being the Empress, even being a clan wife of a large family is difficult enough, it is logical that Lord He should start opposing me, so why didn’t you intervene this time?”
These words are obviously not very euphemistic, let a person is surprised, He Zong heard but not more angry, but the face also gradually calm down ……
The key to clearing up the wrongdoing of He Wan Yu lies in the woman bought by Yu Qingping, and that woman appeared outside the door of the Wu family strangely, who in the end is sent over? He Zong pondered for a long time.
And with the woman’s appearance is also strange, Zhao Su in front of the mansion’s appearance is also strange, the things before and after careful speculation, it is not difficult to speculate that this favor is who sent.
Zhao Su a so out of tune girl, actually will do things so smooth, even never in front of the He family to take credit, mentioned, this is He Zong did not think of. It must be said that while thinking of this favor of hers, he invariably also had some change of opinion about this little girl that he himself did not expect.
So for the emperor to find such an empress, he didn’t feel that there was anything particularly wrong.
“Lord He?” Zhao Su poked her head in front of him again.
When He Zong saw the smiling face that had suddenly enlarged in front of him, he suddenly developed two points of irritation, “That’s naturally because I’ve been busy lately!”
“Then why don’t you take some time out of your busy schedule to send a proposal to the court?” Zhao Su said, “Miss He was raised in the Shangshu Mansion, adults can’t even send her to the palace to serve the driver, I don’t think they really want to see her die.
“If the court has set a precedent of letting women share some of the errands, then maybe in the future you can also enter the Yamen to deal with some of the affairs that you can, with Miss He’s knowledge, there must be a chance to also have the ability to do.
“Pity your loving heart, don’t you look forward to your granddaughters?”
“All day long you think of some uninspired ghost ideas!” He Zong looks serious, “Is etiquette a child’s play? Can we set a precedent for this? Hurry up and go about your business!”