Chapter 281 – The Stubborn Old Man Who Loves Beef

The man’s gaze stared at her face for a moment, and his brows tightened, “They’ve arrived, but the dart we were entrusted with has been hijacked.”

Having stayed in the border camp for years, his voice was slightly raspy, causing him to display a few vicissitudes that did not quite match his age, as well as a bit of fatigue.

“Hijacked?” The young girl’s face changed when she heard this, “How could someone rob this? Who did this? That was clearly just a piece of the mother’s remnant armor ah, don’t they know that it’s our Weiyuan Marquis’ dart?!”

“I still don’t know why. Nor did I expect something like this to happen. Just now I thought about it for half a day here, our Huo family, it seems like we don’t have any enemies, I can’t guess the identity of this person.” Huo Xiu’s brows are locked tightly, “Before the messenger came with the letter, Duan Shu and the others have been checking for days and have no clue, and now they have reported to the court.”

“Then what to do? Where are we going to find this thief?” Yanping anxiously walked up to him.

“They told me to return to the capital to deal with it.” Huo Xiu handed her the letter, his brows staring tighter, “When I first sent the dart board to escort it, it was for fear of delaying the military opportunity. I didn’t expect it to go wrong after all. –I must go back together.”

“But, does the Emperor promise?”

“Promise, the letter is accompanied by a document approved by the Emperor.”

Yanping lifted his gaze from the paper and was silent for a while then said, “Then I will also go back with you!”

“You’re going back?”

“It’s about mother, how can I not go?”

Huo Xiu looks at her for a moment, then nods, “That’s fine. I don’t feel comfortable leaving you here.”

“Then when do we leave?”

Huo Xiu looks at the moonlight in the sky: “No matter what, we have to leave some time to organize the tasks at hand, and leave early in the morning of the day after tomorrow. You bring some people to pack some traveling clothes. Let’s go faster on the road, and if things go well, we’ll be able to enter the capital in a month.”

……

Although usually meet less, but the emperor is not in the capital, or seem to be a lot of empty.

The plan of the Flower Moon Society must be implemented.

Fang Qingxue recently got the paperwork from the local area, went to the palace to discuss with Empress Dowager Lu, and began to organize women’s schools in the capital counties. Of course, this move has been challenged and opposed by various forces, but through hard work, there are still three counties that have started women’s schools, and they are trying to figure out how to hire teachers to teach them.

Naturally, hiring men directly is not an option, but the reform must be gradual.

This period of time on the plan to invite the past literary leader to teach, really can not, then hire female teachers, but to go through the examination.

Zhao Su look at him well organized, and do not need to personally do, waiting for the two Tang Cheng side of the news.

This day, but received a letter from Wu Lanfeng, so that she remembered earlier to ask her to arrange some errands for female workers to the matter, did not expect to delay until this time to have a letter, she hastily opened to see, it is indeed Wu Lanfeng’s reply. “The dockyard currently has female laborers doing work, although they are all strength work, but each dockyard to be vacated again or to increase the number of places to not impossible.”

Zhao Su read this paragraph three times, although Wu Lanfeng did not mention where there are difficulties, but Zhao Su also figured out that this matter is not so good. He Zong the other day back to the words in fact also makes sense, the existing types of work how to replace the workers for women, then the unemployed men are not again have to worry about their livelihood?

Directly replace men’s jobs with women, not scientific at all. And the dockyard to increase the number of workstations, which in fact is in the difficulty of the two women, even more unnecessary.

Thinking about it, it is still necessary to expand industrialization, in order to fundamentally solve the employment problem.

But this era of the state of the country and the Ming Dynasty, similar to the agricultural suppression of commerce, minerals, shipyards, smelting these large industries are almost in the hands of the government, and all male workers, female workers do not want to think about it, there is that technology does not have the physical strength. Silk weaving industry are all women, but after all, there are not many, and has long been saturated. Other than that, there is basically no industry.

In order to provide the production place, can only develop industry, open up the workplace. Simply put, you have to run a factory and be the factory manager!

After all, it is industry, this aspect is definitely He Zong more skillful.

Think of that day Mrs. He also went to the palace to the Empress Dowager Lu to ask for peace, it must be He Wanyu that matter has been turned over, she turned over a can of tea from the desk to the Ministry of Industry.

To the Ministry of Industry to ask, HeZhong but not in, said on the south door of the garden over there to inspect the porcelain factory.

This is not exactly what they want?

Zhao Su and carry tea to the porcelain factory.

Not yet to the door of the factory it, see a street full of colorful snack stores in front of the door, He Zong is back in front of the stalls patrolling. Occasionally try to eat one or two bites, and frowned, shook his head and went to the next.

Zhao Su watched for a few moments, walked up with small steps and poked out his head in front of his eyes: “Mr. He?”

He vertical just take bamboo stick fork up a piece of marinated beef, see here, marinated beef also fell down: “How are you here?!”

Zhao Su heatedly smiled, “I have nothing to do, I went to the Ministry of Public Works to look for you to drink tea, you were not there, said you came here, I’m not also looking over it? –How, Mr. He wants to eat snacks?”

He Zong usually has a serious look everywhere, when has he ever been broken through this kind of image? Immediately embarrassed, and even a little annoyed, face a plate, said: “Nonsense! I’m just the old lady at home craving, I brought for her!”

“Yo, I did not expect so maintain the etiquette of the Lord He you still fear it?”

He Zong was out of temper by her, put his hands in the air and said, “Why are you looking for me?”

Zhao Su put up the tea: “Didn’t I say, looking for you to drink tea ah.”

“Not that work!”

“Then you take me to visit the porcelain factory to visit it?”

“What are you going there for?”

“They say I’m uneducated, I’ll follow you to learn from you.”

He Zong stepped down, “Let your father take you there!”

“My lord, I know thirteen ways to cook beef!”

He Zong’s steps abruptly stopped, and also turned around quite indisputably.

Zhao Su smiled and said, “You just need to take me in to see, tonight, I’ll personally make you iron plate beef. I thought that the Emperor was impressed by me because of a meal of roast beef, would you be interested in trying it?”

She had noticed clearly that every dish he tasted earlier was a beef product! She didn’t believe that he wasn’t good at it!

Under her smiling eyes, He Zong’s heart is really shaking ah, she can do food, with a hand of cooking skills to the Empress Dowager and the Emperor to coax obedience, he has long known, to say that the refusal, of course, can be effortlessly refused. But she did not mention any excessive requirements, young girl, no, a soon to be the mother of the world’s prospective empress, care about people’s livelihood is also very normal ah!

It was she herself who offered to make it for him to eat, the emperor had eaten the dishes, so what if he tasted it?

Want to go around the bend again, to talk about, but also think that other people are just, in front of her – what kind of bad luck they have not let her see? Lazy mouth, said: “Follow up.”