Chapter 232: The Back House

Zhang Xianzhong and Luo Rucai, who were active in Huguang and Henan, talked half-heartedly about the details of being recruited with Xiong Wencan. Li Zicheng, who was active in Shaanxi, was surrounded and blocked by Hong Chengchou and Sun Chuanting, and fought fiercely every day. The remaining small forces either failed the battle and disappeared, or took the initiative to appease the court's pacification and official positions.

The chief ministers of the imperial cabinet were frequently replaced, but the one who was most appreciated by Emperor Chongzhen recently was Yang Sichang, the Minister of War. He entered the cabinet to summon him and said everything he said was greatly appreciated by Chongzhen. Although he was not the chief minister, he was more trustworthy than the chief minister. At the same time, the eunuch Gao Qiqian was favored by the eunuch. As for Lu Xiangsheng, who was known as the pillar of the country, was because Ding You were mourning at home. As for the lords and tyrants who advocated peace talks against the Jurchens of the East and recruited rebels and rebels.

There are already rumors in the officialdom of Northern Zhili that the imperial court sent envoys to contact the Liaoxi generals who retreated into the pass and the Jurchens outside the pass, and they have begun to discuss the conditions for peace.

Except for the rumor that the caravan of Lingshan Trading Company brought back, the rest were information compiled by Mu Yunyao's three girls.

It seems that the world is full of disasters and chaos, and there is almost no positive news. The severe drought in Shandong this year is even more serious than last year. The number of people in Li Meng's village in the military farm has exceeded 150,000. Only 20% of the harvest just came into stock. The rest are used to resettle new residents.

However, these 20% are enough for Jiaozhou Camp for two years, and the military farming policy has been a great success.

Li Meng's wedding caused a sensation in Shandong, but the main reason for the sensation was the guests at the wedding and the strength that Li Meng showed during the wedding. Li Meng, as a powerful figure in Shandong, began to appear in front of everyone. As for the other protagonist, it was not so noticeable.

Yan Ruoran belongs to the traditional standards of this era. When she says that she is traditional, she means that she has always been very low-key after marriage, and everything is centered on Li Meng. When she says that she is virtuous, she means that Yan Ruoran has completely adapted to the role of this housewife and has managed Li Meng's inner house in an orderly manner.

Although Li Meng's private affairs in the inner house were simple, he was also dozens of servants, dozens of servants, Jiaozhou City, Fengmeng Town, and several houses in Lingshan Guard. Every month, caravans, private salt, and private ports specially allocated money to the inner house, and personnel, money and materials needed to be managed by Yan Ruoran.

The butler Rossi can share not much, and it is maintained in the house where Li Meng does not live for the time being, and it is arranged with some things in the house, but the personal soldiers and guards are involved in the matters in the house.

At the beginning, although Li Meng didn't think there would be any tricky or conflicts in the inner house, those servants, such as Guo Dong's wife, said to her husband several times in private:

"A young lady is such an outstanding girl. She has long been focusing on adults. There are also those two fairy-like girls. After this lady enters the inner house, she may not have any trouble. These three girls have no worry-free roles. They are smart!"

Others also have similar ideas, but in fact, this is true. Gu Hengbo and Liu Rushi have long accepted their own destiny. What they have to do is to make good housewives so that they will not suffer disaster in the future.

But Mu Yunyao's identity is much more transcendent than them. After all, she is Li Meng's sister. When Yan Ruoran was not around, Mu Yunyao was vaguely the manager of the inner house. She only learned about her appearance and felt that she was much better than Yan Ruoran. Although she had known about Li Meng's proposal for marriage for a long time, it would be impossible if she had no idea of ​​competing for a good or bad attitude in her heart.

However, everyone's worries were all lost. Yan Ruoran was indeed not as beautiful as those three girls. He was far inferior to Mu Yunyao in analyzing the situation and politics. He was far inferior to the two girls who had been professionally trained in various talents. However, Yan Ruoran had a calm, gentle and generous personality, and Li Meng's affection for her as a backing. Yan Ruoran always handled the inner house with a lukewarm attitude, and treated the three girls like her sisters and friends. This kind of demeanor was gone. Even if he was angry and thoughtful, he would release it in front of such a demeanor.

Not to mention, Mu Yunyao, Gu Hengbo, and Liu Rushi all grew up in an environment lacking care. Yan Ruoran's performance and personality made the three women feel a little dependent.

Although Mu Yunyao was born into a noble family, she had no support after losing her identity and came to Li's house. Li Meng's attitude towards her was indeed very kind, but she always wanted to go further. No matter how pure and elegant Gu Hengbo and Liu Rushi were, they were born in Qinhuai, and their posture and demeanor and skills were trained to please men. Mu Yunyao was careless in her daily life, so naturally she could not compare.

When he saw these two girls, he immediately felt a sense of crisis. However, in the following days, Mu Yunyao found that Li Meng was still closer to her. The relationship between the two was very close. In addition to this relationship, Mu Yunyao's analysis of Di Baotang newspaper and the analysis of the information summarized from various places were indispensable. Li Meng's understanding of the general environment directly determined his decision.

Mu Yunyao was vaguely a consultant position. The girl who realized this was helpless, but she was also a little complacent. This is her advantage. If she kept approaching Li Meng, she would definitely become the second woman to become Li Meng’s wife and concubine.

After Li Meng got married, Gu Hengbo and Liu Rushi also realized their situation. Since Li Meng promised not to give them away and raise them like this at home. Then the life of the two of them staying in the door and not caring about foreign affairs, and waiting for treatment must be changed. Both of them are in their prime. If they grow old slowly, they would be too sorry for themselves.

Although Li Meng is not the kind of talented man in the Qinhuai women dream of, his actions and dealing with people have a different kind of masculinity. He treats Yan Ruoran, Mu Yunyao, and even his own attitudes, which is even more rare. Moreover, he has a high position and great foundation. In this way, Li Meng is their good match, and then there is no other choice.

Although the two women are also Li Meng's people, to put it bluntly, they are just Li Meng's property and have no status on them. They must go further to be valuable.

But Li Meng's life state is that he inspects the military camp and craftsmen outside every day, supervises the training of soldiers and horses, and returns to the inner house to fight, exercise his martial arts, checks the proclamations sent from various places, meets with envoys from officials and gentry from all over the country, listens to Mu Yunyao's excerpts and analysis of the diary newspapers and Tang newspapers and asks questions, and at night he is with Yan Ruoran.

There is almost no loophole in this kind of life. After thinking about it, the only time that can approach Li Meng is the time when Mu Yunyao analyzed the Tang Mansion. At present, the open control of Jiaozhou Camp has changed from the original one mansion to the three mansions, and the secret area is almost everywhere in Shandong.

The news sent by the government through normal channels, the news collected by Houshan, the Lingshan Trading Store, the situations learned by Huang Ping and his secret agents inquired about, as well as what the troops garrison everywhere saw and heard, some were verbal messages, and some were notices gathered one after another. Mu Yunyao alone could not be busy with it.

After discussing with Liu Rushi in private, Gu Hengbo and Liu Rushi took the initiative to make a request for help with Mu Yunyao.

I don’t know if Mu Yunyao is really careless or too busy to do it, so she agreed to the request of the two women without much consideration.

The sudden increase in the amount of information, even if the help of these two girls was increased, it did not much less. As a result, even the little maid who brought the two girls from Nanjing and had a little text was used, and they kept copying and summarizing it up every day. While doing this work, Gu Hengbo and Liu Rushi found that although they were well-read in poetry, it was very difficult to get started.

The education received by these famous women on the Qinhuai River is unimaginable to ordinary people, even children of small landlords. However, the cultural knowledge they learned is more entertaining than professional, such as poetry, songs, banquets, and women Gu and Liu. I don’t know how much better than Mu Yunyao, but they understand nothing when they analyze the political situation and express the official documents.

Mu Yunyao grew up in the palace and has a lot of knowledge and experience. After coming to Jiaozhou, she had accumulated several years of experience and asked for advice from veteran officials like Ning Qiangui. She was like a senior general and a think tank in the middle of the screen, which was not comparable to Gu Liu and the other two women.

Following Mu Yunyao sorting out these mansion reports, in a few days, Gu Liu and his two women felt that their presence in the Li Mansion had suddenly increased a lot, which was different from the situation of closing doors and separating everyone from the past. Now they have been officially integrated into this system. More importantly, they have indeed met Li Meng twice. In this job, there are many more opportunities to contact Li Meng than before.

Because he was studying with Mu Yunyao, Gu Hengbo and Liu Rushi had a much better impression of Mu Yunyao. They used to treat the girl as a competitor, but when they did things together, the other party's identity was vaguely their teacher, and they did have some strengths. Moreover, they found that Mu Yunyao had no bad intentions. If they were jealous, Mu Yunyao would not accept them so easily.

Continuous learning and continuous progress are also the lives of Gu and Liu girls. They are busy with each other every day and ignore their familiar dressings. However, they feel extremely fulfilled. Unlike the days they used to be on the Qinhuai River, although those days were luxurious, they did nothing more than romantic things to please men. Although everyone pleased and flattered them, to put it bluntly.
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