Chastity Layman

Chang'an.

Daming Palace, Palace of Longevity.

Princess Changle was dazed with her pink cheeks in her hand, the white snow was fluttering outside the palace, and a wintersweet was blooming in full bloom among the flowers in the palace. A snow-white fat cat walked up to the princess with light steps, jumped onto her lap, curled up into a ball, and began to sleep with squinting eyes.

Caressing the white cat with her hand, the princess suddenly couldn't help crying.

Year after year, year after year.

Spring flowers, summer cicadas, autumn moon and winter snow, but they can't wait for their sweetheart.

"Auntie, come and have a snowball fight."

King Qin Li Xiang and his two younger brothers came in laughing, wanting to take him to play in the snow. Princess Jinyang followed in wearing a mink fur cloak, and just saw her sister crying.

"Sister, are you thinking about your Saburo again?"

Chang Le hurriedly wiped away tears, "I burned incense just now, and accidentally smoked my eyes."

"You can't lie to me, sister, you always say that Qin Sanlang is good, but why does he stay in Guangnan now and refuses to return to the Central Plains? The three-year filial piety period has passed, why hasn't he come to marry my sister?"

The princess smiled a little reluctantly, yes, why didn't you come to marry her.

King Qin suddenly stuffed a ball of powder into Changle's palm, and laughed while running, "Auntie, come and play in the snow."

Chang Le clenched his palms tightly, turning a ball of snow into a piece of ice, and let it be bitingly cold.

The already slim young princess Jinyang Li Mingda looked at her sister distressedly, "Then Qin Lang is too much, even if he has great skills, he can't treat my sister like this. Baiqi went to Guangnan and tied him back to marry his sister."

Li Zhi smiled, "Men have the world in mind, which is different from us women."

"What, that didn't prevent Qin Sanlang from taking so many concubines. It is said that his famous concubines have thirteen concubines, and there are even more unnamed singers, dancers, maidservants, etc., although in the past three years Xiaoqi didn't hear that he had children with those sluts, maybe he had seven sons and eleven daughters..." Li Mingda defended his sister.

The princess looked at the three brothers of King Qin who ran back to play wildly in the snow outside the palace again in a daze.

"Sister, what exactly does Qin Lang mean?"

Changle didn't know either, the ten-year agreement had passed long ago, and she was already twenty-eight now, but Sanlang never came to marry her.

"This Qin Lang doesn't know which tendon is broken. In autumn, his sister Qin Liuniang got married and married into the East Palace as Prince Liangdi. As an elder brother, he didn't return to Beijing. Did he commit any crimes? Dare to return to Beijing?"

What can Qin Lang do? He is a hero of the Tang Dynasty.

Known by the people as the God of War to protect the country, the king of demons, the Taiwei of the Tang Dynasty, Pingzhang's political affairs, and the prince's teacher.

Saburo will send her a letter every ten days, and often send many gifts along with the letter. She will never miss her birthday and other days, and all kinds of gifts are also very thoughtful. I will find some local interesting things to send, sometimes it may be a piece of jade, or it may be just an ordinary but beautiful stone, sometimes I will even send local flowers or fruits quickly, and sometimes I will send some small animals.

All these made Changle very satisfied, but the two hadn't seen each other for more than three years.

The sage is about to return to Luoyang for the new year, and he will enshrine Zen on Mount Tai after the next year. The sage summons Qin Lang back to Beijing to restore his chancellor, and asks him to be in charge of all matters related to the enshrinement of Zen, but Qin Lang finds various reasons to shirk it, and stays in Guangnan and does not return.

The princess couldn't help but start thinking wildly.

But yesterday her aunt Princess Danyang came to see her in the palace, but intentionally or unintentionally mentioned to her that the saint bestowed her marriage to Qin Lang back then, and finally said that Qin Lang rejected the marriage, and then the saint bestowed Changle on Qin Lang, But Qin Lang was still unwilling, so the saint made an agreement with Qin Lang for ten years.

Ten years later, if Qin Lang is still unwilling to become the princess, the marriage will be regrettable.

My aunt said that Qin Lang didn't want to marry the imperial princess at all, so he rejected her Danyang first, then Changle, and now he has been refusing to return to Beijing because he just doesn't want Princess Shang.

As for the reason, my aunt said that Qin Lang wanted to marry a woman with five surnames, and that it was rumored that Qin Lang had an affair with the queen of Linyi, and had an illegitimate child. In recent years, she also gave birth to another illegitimate daughter. He was reluctant to part with Fan Lin, the queen of Linyi, and said that Qin Lang is still the regent of Linyi, and he wants to keep him as the king of Linyi...

These words made Chang Le unavoidably start to think wildly.

The ten-year agreement is too early, is Saburo really unwilling, but why he has never revealed it to himself, but he is still so gentle and considerate, giving various gifts and writing so many letters.

Jin Wang Li Zhi came.

Mingda complained to his elder brother that Qin Lang made his sister sad.

Li Zhi has grown very tall, although he is still a little frail, but after completing the coronation ceremony, he is already an adult.

After the new year, he will go to his fief to become a vassal. Although the sage is very reluctant to leave this third son who he has brought by his side for several years, the system is there and cannot be destroyed.

Li Shimin chose and re-elected the fiefdom of King Jin, and it was difficult to make a decision. Finally, after thinking twice, he chose the fiefdom for Li Zhi in the north of Jizhou and Tanzhou, Hebei, outside the Great Wall, Yukumo In the Raole Dudu Mansion in the land of Xiren, the Chengde Dudu Mansion was established on the banks of the Luan River.

Li Zhi, the King of Jin, was conferred the title of the hereditary governor of Chengde, Yongzhen, and the former Junmi County of Han outside the Great Wall, which belonged to Jizhou, was also included in the Chengde Governor's Mansion for Li Zhi.

To the north of the Great Wall of Jizhou, it reaches the Luan River, hundreds of miles from north to south,

It reaches Lulongsai (Xifengkou) in the southwest three hundred miles from east to west.

Although this place was originally occupied by the Kumoxi people, since Zhenguan, the northern border has been stable, the border market has flourished, and the Xi people have attached to it. The Tang Dynasty established many border cities on the border of Youzhou. The surname of the country is Li, the state is set up and the county is set up, and Jimi is ruled. The border between Tang and Xi is very safe.

Many Xi people also began to build cities and settle down. Even the Jingsai Army and Lu Long Army of the Tang Youzhou Frontier Army also set up town fortresses, post road beacon forts, and garrisoned troops outside the Great Wall.

Even because of the prosperity of the border market, many people from the Tang Dynasty came to Xidi to recruit people and shop, and supply the border market vendors and Xiren on the spot. For more than ten years, the land allocated by the emperor to Li Zhi is hundreds of miles away. The land is already a matter of physiological farming and mulberry, and tens of thousands of people gather together.

Although Chengde is to the north of the Great Wall, there is no great plain in Hebei, but there are many small valleys and small basins in the hilly area, and it is close to Youzhou. The governor's mansion where the three princes were entrusted is closer to the capital.

However, the emperor let Li Zhi be granted the title of Xidi, and forcibly established a new Chengde Mansion, not all because he was considerate of his son, which also implied the imperial court's intention to further control the Xi people. In recent years, Xi and Khitan's attachment to the Tang Dynasty has developed rapidly. From the chaotic alliance era of the original tribes, it has gradually been unified under the two governors of Rao Le and Song Mo who were conferred by the imperial court. Leveraging the authority of the central government of the Tang Dynasty, he quickly unified the ministries and established himself as the king of Xi and Qi.

Although Xi and Qi are still loyal and obedient, the imperial court must have checks and balances. They cannot rely solely on each other's loyalty. Before, the frontier troops were allowed to patrol the Great Wall and guard them. Now they have further sealed off the prince's clan and established a government directly under the imperial court. Zhengzhou and Dudufu further built cities and garrisoned troops, and even immigrated to farmland, which is also an active intervention and control over them.

In the next year, Li Zhi will officially enter the feudal state and go to Chengde Governor's Mansion, and he will no longer take the post of Governor of Bingzhou from afar. About to leave the capital and leave his father's wings, the young Li Zhi was still a little worried.

But it hurts to see my sister like that.

"I also don't understand why the Taiwei refuses to return to Beijing?"

"Forget it, let's not talk about this for now, Ninth Brother, you will go to Chengde to become a vassal state in the next year, but are you all ready?"

"Father and Emperor have already made arrangements for me. In the autumn, they sent general supervisors and people from the Ministry of Industry to Chengde to build the city, and asked Youjitan and several prefectures to assist. I heard that Chengde City has almost been built. The palace has also been completed, the place is said to be very good, it is just outside the Great Wall, very close to Youzhou, and I heard that it is very cool in summer, my sister can come to my place to escape the summer heat in the future."

"Okay, my sister will definitely go then."

Over the years, Changle has been taking care of her younger siblings, especially her brothers and sisters who are of the same father and mother. When her mother was seriously ill, this elder sister was like her mother. After her mother died of illness, Changle became even more like her mother.

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Guangnan.

Wu'an Taiping Port, this seaport is becoming more and more prosperous now, and it doesn't even lose to Jiaozhou Port at all. Among the three ports in Lingnan, it only loses to Guangzhou Port, and it is tied for second place with Jiaozhou Port.

If you don’t come to Taiping Port, it’s hard to imagine that ten years ago, it was just a small and unknown fishing village and water village, but now there are more than 10,000 households here, not to mention that it is the largest sugar, perfume, Candle trading distribution center.

At the same time, shipbuilding, wine making, salt making, paper making, book printing, etc. are also very famous here. There are also many industries such as porcelain, pottery, glass, gold and silver processing and manufacturing, all of which are very large-scale.

With hundreds of thousands of dollars in his pocket, he dare not claim to be rich in Taiping Port.

There are countless ships entering and leaving Taiping Port every day. At the same time, there are countless inland river boats going upstream, arriving at Jiaozhou, and heading for the sea. It has been doubled, and countless Southwest specialties have gone down to the sea along the Henan River, and countless Central Plains goods have also begun to arrive at Taiping Jiaozhou along the coast and then go up by water.

All kinds of commodities such as silk, porcelain, iron, tea, sugar and wine from the Central Plains were sent to inland wharfs along the waterway by ships, and then transported to various places through those caravans over mountains and mountains.

There is another business in Taiping Port that is very prosperous, and that is the financial industry.

There are countless banks and bank accounts gathered here, and a large amount of gold and silver are gathered here. Merchants can not only borrow money to buy goods and operate here, but even have futures trading. Shops, ships, etc. can recruit shareholders here, and stocks can also be bought and sold here.

Even many shipowners are now accustomed to borrow money from banks before going to sea, and then use the loan money to purchase goods. Even many merchants in Taiping Port are now popular in lending goods to those shipowners, agreeing on interest, etc., let them take the goods first, and repay the loan with interest when the ship returns.

Common people or businessmen can also buy shares in various shops or ships, lend their own funds, and get back the principal and then earn interest when it expires, or transfer and sell it in the middle, etc. These are now very mature in Taiping Port. , very mature.

Prosperous commerce has given birth to commodity futures trading. Taiping Port has the first formal Taiping Exchange in Datang, with standardized contracts and a margin system.

Taiping Harbor is full of businesses, guild halls, and teahouses.

Business was being talked about everywhere, and great deals were made over tea and wine.

Recently, the whole Taiping Port is talking about one thing.

Treasure Island.