Chapter 279: Filling with medicine
On the twenty-seventh day of the lunar year, the imperial court began to stop writing and not attend court.

In the warm room of the Tianwu Palace, the sofa newly bought by Xiao Yingchun was soft and comfortable. The three people who would dominate the future of the Tianwu Kingdom nestled in the sofa, enjoying the warmth of the floor heating, drinking tea, eating snacks, and chatting about gossip.

Recently, the Fu family father and son are most concerned about the rebellion of the two kings.

As one of the money bags of the two rebellious kings, Duke Min's salt mine was also highly valued by Emperor Tianwu.

Fu Zhonghai talked about the salt mine: the salt field stopped production years ago.

It is said that the most skilled old worker in salt making just retired a month ago and then disappeared.

The apprentices who took over the business also died suddenly or disappeared one after another, which directly led to the suspension of production.

Obviously, Duke Min believed that the production cost of Western refined salt was extremely high and the quantity would not be large enough to supply the entire Tianwu Kingdom.

Duke Min wanted to wait until all the salt in the market was almost consumed before reporting it to the emperor, so as to catch him off guard.

Fu Zhonghai, who had asked someone to monitor the situation, already knew about it.

If you don't report it, I will pretend not to know.

Fu Zhonghai asked Fu Chenan to find information about salt making.

How to produce well salt with high purity and few impurities?
This kind of information is easy to find in modern times. Fu Chenan downloaded the information and asked someone to translate it into Tianwu language. He even began to try to make salt according to this method...

Just wait for the report from the other side, and we will immediately respond.

At the same time, hundreds of tons of refined salt were stored in the warehouse of the Tianwu Palace early on, and could be put on the market immediately as soon as the people ran out of salt.

Duke Min and the two rebellious kings attempted to use this to threaten the emperor, but their plan was doomed to fail.

You have Zhang Liangji, I have a wall ladder.

With the help of the material-rich Celestial Empire, no matter how many tricks the evil spirits and monsters use, they will be useless.

In the Ni King's fiefdom, as winter approached, more and more people were starving and clothed, and many people began to migrate secretly to the territory of Tianwu Kingdom.

They want to live.

The governors of nearby prefectures had already been notified: as long as the people came to surrender, they must be accepted.

Give them the opportunity to work and earn food and cloth, give them land, and allow them to cut wood and build houses.

Make sure they can survive this winter.

By next spring, as large quantities of seeds are distributed, more and more people will turn against the Tianwu court... and the Tianwu court will win.

They were talking about things that were settled.

There are still many possible hidden dangers in the future that have not yet been exposed and naturally cannot be solved.

Xiao Yingchun felt more and more that governing the world was not an easy task.

I still have a long way to go on this cross-time and space business journey!
The three were chatting happily when suddenly a eunuch came in from outside the door and whispered something into Emperor Tianwu's ear.

Emperor Tianwu looked at the eunuch in surprise.

The eunuch nodded and said "that's true". Fu Zhonghai pondered for a moment and looked at Fu Chenan: "Qi Rongrong is restless again..."

Xiao Yingchun and Fu Chenan were both stunned and looked at the eunuch.

Emperor Tianwu: "Tell the situation to the Crown Prince and Miss Xiao."

Anyway, Miss Xiao knows about Qi Rongrong's existence.

The eunuch received the order and reported it.

It turned out that Queen Dowager Qi actually said that she would arrange for several beauties to sleep with Fu Chenan.

Ten beauties from the Duke of Min's mansion entered the harem. Initially, they wanted to show off in front of the emperor and the prince, but later found that it was useless.

The emperor and the prince didn't even enter the harem.

They were not allowed to come to the former dynasty.

Soon, these "clever" beauties were collectively assigned to the "Chunxiao Customization Group" of the Weaving Department.

Daily work: Responsible for embroidering brocade and sewing some clothes of strange styles.

Sewing clothes, embroidering, sewing clothes, embroidering all day long, the beauties were so tired that their backs ached, their eyes were blurry, and their hearts were cold. If they entered the palace to sew clothes, where couldn't they sew clothes? !

What is the significance of their entering the palace?
Someone wanted to pass a message to Duke Min, but the next day he found that the eunuch and the nanny who were supposed to deliver the message had disappeared.

Fu Chenan had been waiting for them to contact him, and he arrested the man without saying a word.

After a round of interrogation, all the eunuchs and palace maids bribed by the Duke of Min's Mansion in his early years were caught.

I thought that all the problems were solved. Duke Min was temporarily safe, the Weaving Department had a few more cheap laborers, and a few thorns in the palace were removed.

Who would have known that Qi Rongrong would find out about the beauty entering the palace.

Qi Rongrong was worried that these beauties were sent by the emperor for his own enjoyment, so what hope did she have then?
In panic, she took the initiative and said she would pick out a few for Fu Chenan.

After all, she is my mother. As a son, I can’t let this affect me, right?
Fu Chenan looked at Xiao Yingchun helplessly: "How about I go take a look first? You wait here for me?"

Xiao Yingchun couldn't ask to go and watch the fun, so she could only nod helplessly.

Fu Zhonghai suddenly interrupted: "If Miss Xiao wants to go, you can go with me."

As a family, there is no need to avoid these dirty things.

Xiao Yingchun's eyes lit up and she looked at Fu Chenan: "Is it okay?"

Fu Chenan squeezed her little hand helplessly: "Okay."

So the three of them went to the harem.

The carved beams and painted buildings in the harem still reveal the extravagance of the past.

But now many courtyards in the harem are locked, and the valuables inside have been cleared out and put into the warehouse.

There were only two palaces that were not locked up, one was the Cining Palace where the former Empress Dowager and the deposed Crown Prince lived, and the other was the Qinghui Palace where Empress Dowager Qi lived.

The remaining underage princes had been sent out of the imperial city to feed the cattle.

The group took many turns and arrived at the Qinghui Palace. When they entered in a grand procession, the Queen Mother Qi and Prince Ping'an were already kneeling by the door.

When Empress Dowager Qi saw that Fu Zhonghai and Fu Chenan had both come, and brought a girl with them, a look of panic could not be suppressed in her eyes.

Is there someone around Fu Zhonghai already?
Is this the young girl?
She had been kept in captivity for a long time and had no idea that this person was the famous Miss Xiao in the capital.

However, Prince Ping'an knew of Xiao Yingchun's existence.

He lowered his eyes to the ground, but his eyes moved left to right very flexibly, and it was unknown what he was thinking about.

Fu Zhonghai sat down directly, and all the palace maids and eunuchs left. He motioned Xiao Yingchun and Fu Chenan to sit down as well, then he looked at Qi Rongrong and started to mock her.

"I didn't know you were the one in charge of the harem?"

Qi Rongrong reacted when she saw Xiao Yingchun sitting next to Fu Chenan.

This woman is not Fu Zhonghai's, but An'er's.

Since she could follow here, it means that this woman knows that she is An'er's mother.

The emperor and the crown prince could be so arrogant in front of him, so shouldn't this woman, who was still dressed as a girl, be polite when she saw him? !
He is so unruly, just relying on An'er's favor.

Coupled with Fu Zhonghai's ridicule, Qi Rongrong felt indignant and started to talk back.

"I'm An'er's mother. He's still unmarried at this age. What's wrong with me arranging a few girls to warm his bed?"

Fu Zhonghai sneered and looked at Fu Chenan: "An'er, what do you say?"

Fu Chenan held Xiao Yingchun's hand and said, "Mom is still too idle. Why don't you go visit your old sisters?"

Fu Zhonghai looked at his son in surprise.

Qi Rongrong was horrified: "An'er! I'm your mother! What are you doing..."

She thought Fu Chenan wanted someone to kill her.

He actually wanted to kill his mother?!

Fu Chenan waved his hand, asked someone to bring a bowl of water, sprinkled a packet of medicine powder into it in front of Qi Rongrong, and asked his personal guards to give it directly to Qi Rongrong.

(End of this chapter)