Listen to my heart in the morning and eat melons in the afternoon.

Chapter 124 Time flies so fast

During the confinement period, Tian Xixi only liked Lin Yunzhi and Tian Xiaoxiao. Whenever she heard Tian Xiaoxiao calling her mother, she would grin.

After the Chinese New Year, Shengjing City seemed more lively.

Tian Xingjian also began to handle official business, writing various booklets, and scheduled to go to Xijing to report on his work in early April.

The Ministry of Works has already compiled a list of the clothes, shoes, armor and weapons needed by each garrison, and the Ministry of Revenue has distributed the list to professional workshops in various cities for production.

This is a major project and one that particularly tests the national mechanism.

After the Chinese New Year, Nangong Rui dealt with several ministers who were on both sides with thundering means. He selected a group of daring and daring Jinshi from the candidate list of last year's new Jinshi, and appointed them to important positions.

Some officials who had no real power but only nominal positions and who were causing trouble were also given warnings.

Afterwards, Nangong Rui went on a secret visit and spent two months visiting the noble families of Mingning Kingdom.

Before leaving the palace, Nangong Rui arranged for the clan office to help him find a candidate for the Crown Princess.

The clan government received the order and displayed the portraits of all the women of marriageable age in Xijing, but the clan government was not satisfied.

Finally, the region was relaxed, and girls of marriageable age from aristocratic families across the country were included in the selection range.

During the days when Nangong Rui was not in Xijing, Nangong Qi could not resist the temptation of young flesh and was swayed by Feng Yingyue's pillow talk into doing several things that lost her favor.

The first thing was that Nangong Qi gave the position of Shaoqing of Dali Temple to Feng Yingyue’s brother Feng Zhiheng.

However, Feng Zhiheng was a nobody who couldn't even pass the examination to become a scholar, so how could he be capable of becoming the Shaoqing of the Dali Temple?

The second thing was that Feng Changji was appointed prime minister. During his decades of official career, Feng Changji had never been a man who got practical work done.

The government and the public were in an uproar.

The order of the court that the prince had just put in place was thrown into chaos again.

The third thing was to arrange a marriage for Nangong Rui, and the woman he was going to marry was the eldest daughter of the aristocratic Li family, the one that Tian Xiwen had originally planned to date, and she would be awarded the position of the Crown Prince's concubine.

The ministers could already foresee the storm that would come with the crown prince's return, and it was possible that they would simply ask Nangong Qi to give up his throne.

Nangong Qi was still feeling complacent, thinking that he was finally not a cowardly emperor anymore and could finally make the right decisions.

When the prince, who was on patrol and visited the aristocratic family, learned about this, he almost vomited blood.

I remember Tian Xiaoxiao once said, "I'm not afraid of god-like opponents, but I'm afraid of pig-like teammates."

After visiting all the major families, the prince went to the Li family in person to explain his wishes and took out the late emperor's edict, which stated that only the prince had the final say on the prince's marriage and no one else's words were valid. The Li family was furious.

The prince was not afraid and said that since Li Ruoshu already had someone in her heart, he would not be the one to ruin her marriage.

The Li family then wrote a letter to the emperor, saying that the Li family was grateful for the emperor's grace, but according to the Li family's ancestral precepts, it was forbidden to send a legitimate daughter to the royal family as a concubine, so they rejected the emperor's kindness.

Nangong Qi was furious and wanted to punish the Li family.

But the Li family is a noble family with generations of connections, financial and material resources. If they stomp their feet, Ming Ning Kingdom will shake three times.

The ministers stopped Nangong Qi, hoping that the prince would come back sooner. If it was any later, Nangong Qi might lose the throne.

At the beginning of March, Nangong Rui returned to Xijing. In the court, Nangong Rui took out the late emperor's will.

All the court officials heard it clearly.

From then on, no one dared to mention the matter of arranging a marriage for His Royal Highness the Crown Prince.

This incognito visit allowed Nangong Rui to meet a girl who had the courage to be the mother of the country, with a distinguished family background and good upbringing.

Nangong Rui gave the girl's information to the clan office, and the clan office immediately sent the portrait information and asked the prince whether it was this girl.

The joy in the prince's eyes could not be hidden from the old man in the clan house.

However, Nangong Rui instructed the clan house that since they also felt that this was a suitable candidate, then they did not need to worry about it, and he would make the girl willingly marry to Xijing.

Two days after the prince returned to Xijing, Zhan Qingyang and Shu Tangyin also secretly went to Xijing.

Nangong Rui settled them in a small house at the foot of the palace.

Nangong Rui had bought this two-story house a long time ago and built a secret passage so that it would be convenient for him to leave the palace and investigate the people's conditions in the future.

Shu Tangyin also brought along the "Records of Strange Stories from Western Continent" written by Tian Xiaoxiao.

This is the version copied by Shu Tangyin. She refused to give it to Tian Xiaoxiao who wrote the one herself.

Nangong Rui read it all night and took notes.

When the cock crowed three times, Nangong Rui closed the book. He also wanted to reform, but he would never be reckless.

Reform requires money, and Mingning's economy must develop. When the country is rich and the people are strong, promoting reform will not shake the interests of the privileged classes.

But who is suitable to be the big knife of economic development? Tian Xingjian?

Would his frequent transfers allow someone with ulterior motives to discover something?

He was also vigorously developing the economy in Shengjing, including agriculture, handicrafts, animal husbandry, forestry, and all industries in which Shengjing had resources were now being developed.

When he comes to Xijing next month, I will ask him for advice.

At the beginning of April, Tian Xingjian packed his bags and went to Xijing to report on his work.

Tian Xingjian originally wanted to take Tian Xiaoxiao with him, because she had said before that she wanted to go to Xijing, but Tian Xiaoxiao said that she would not go this year. She wanted to wait for Daju in Shengjing. No one knew where Daju had gone. What if Daju came back and couldn't find her and left again?

In addition, my mother had just finished her confinement not long ago, my younger brother was still young, and my older brothers were not at home, so she had to stay at home to help.

In this way, Tian Xingjian only took Feng Lei Feng Yu to Xijing. Tian Xiaoxiao begged Tian Xingjian to bring back news about Shu Mo when he arrived in Xijing, so that Ade would give up.

It's already April, and Shumo hasn't written to Ade, nor has he returned to his brother. Ade is still waiting for Shumo.

Tian Xiaoxiao felt that she had to let Ade know that the man was not worthy of her love.

In mid-April, Tian Xiaoxiao received a letter from Tian Xingjian, saying that he met Shu Mo in Xijing on a prison van.

He married into the Ouyang family and bribed the Ministry of Rites, but was caught red-handed when the prince was rectifying the court.

So he was thrown into prison.

When Tian Xingjian arrived in Xijing, the Ouyang family opened a casino and gathered people to smoke opium, and their house was ransacked.

After Nangong Rui arrived in Shengjing for the first time, he realized that opium should be banned because he had heard Tian Xiaoxiao say that opium could lead to the destruction of a country.

In today's Mingning Kingdom, you cannot gamble or take drugs, otherwise you will either be killed or exiled.

After Shu Mo married into the Ouyang family, he found out that the Ouyang family had been using his status as a noble family to do things that harmed the country and the people, but it made money very quickly and easily.

The life of decadence and luxury is dazzling.

When he was in shackles and chains, Shu Mo introduced himself and said that he was the book boy of the eldest son of Shengjing prefect Tian Xingjian.

No one cares about him.

That day, Shu Mo happened to see Tian Xingjian passing by on horseback while in the prison van: "Master Tian, ​​save me, I am innocent!"