Outside the Lianggong Star Gate, a team of ox carts lined up to enter.

The car was filled with various colors of white linen, silk and cloth. After the faces of the gate guards were seriously inspected, they were released into the room.

After entering the door, the convoy turned directly to the north and walked along the area between the palace city wall and the Linzhi Hall. It was obvious that he was heading to the big warehouse near the Xianju Hall.

Although they had no news, they guessed everything.

The streets outside the palace are bustling.

In recent years, more and more people have been in Bianliang, and they have been building better and better. Wealth flows here in ships, and the vitality of the whole city is becoming more and more prosperous. In the Xianju Hall, two old people who have experienced the chaos since Sima Pu are about to die.

Maybe it’s not a bad thing. People who come through the troubled times have left one by one, and gradually they are all born in peaceful times.

After Shao Xun left Xianju Hall, he came to Hefengyuan for dinner.

Princess Jingling, Shao Shu, also came, holding her seven-month-old daughter. In July last year, she gave birth to a daughter, Miao Xie, the first child with her son-in-law and the son-in-law, the Miao Association.

"After the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, the disciples are so busy that they don't touch the ground. The prince-in-law stays overnight in the government office every few days." When he said this, his daughter looked at Shao Xun.

"It's true." Shao Xun put down the bowls and chopsticks and said.

He ate the slowest. After eating, Le Lanji asked the palace servants to come and clean up and rinse his mouth with tea soup.

"What are you thinking about all day long?" Shao Xun asked.

"Wasn't you just trying to be good at choosing a prince-consort at the beginning? Who knew that she was so busy?" Shao Shu said, "My daughter is also worried about the prince-consort. She runs errands every day, travels between various government offices, presents memorials, announces decrees, and receives guests. He has no time to study."

Le Lanji gently pinched Bushu's ears.

Shao Xun was a little "sad".

The daughters were still cute when they were young, but when they grew up, they turned to their husband's family and children.

After Miao Xie tried to pass the two scriptures, he held a very leisurely position in Taichang Temple literary anecdotes, so he had a lot of time to prepare for the "on-service exam". So last year, he successfully passed the three scriptures and went to the Ministry of Education to be a member of the Tongshi Temple.

This position is quite busy.

Simply put, if Shao Xun did not draw an edict personally or asked his modern ministers to draw an edict, most of the edicts were from the Secretariat. This means that Shao Xun expressed an intention and an idea. The Prime Minister asked the Secretariat to implement it. The Secretariat began to draft a policy edict on this intention, and then sent it to the Menxia Province for review. After it was approved, it was sent to the six ministries of the Secretariat for implementation.

The public affairs servants come and go between various government offices. Sometimes the decrees drafted by the Secretary of the Central Committee will be rejected, and it is not surprising that they will be exchanged many times. Moreover, there are many general affairs, which have documentary decrees that need to be uploaded and issued by the public affairs servants.

The most edict that Miao Association comes into contact with every day should be "", which is a daily government affairs signed by multiple yamen. It is not a big deal, but it needs to be implemented.

In fact, this is also due to the booming development of the papermaking industry. Nowadays, very cheap yellow paper was used as paper for imperial edicts in the Cao Wei era. Can you believe it?

At this moment, the imperial edicts generally use silk and honey-scented paper, and ordinary official documents mostly use rattan paper, and the lower yamen are cheap white paper and yellow paper mixed with yellow paper. Thinking of using bamboo slips and reading wood thirty years ago, Shao Xun couldn't help but feel very moved. He stepped on the accelerator on the papermaking industry of this era. There are a bunch of papermaking workshops in Xiangyang, Jiangxia, Jingling, and Nanjun. Almost every manor needs to be built, either big or small. Even Wuchang, Baling, and Wuling began to rise at this time.

The increasing production of paper has greatly facilitated the dissemination of knowledge. Otherwise, even if you want to promote education, it would be very difficult to prepare tea soup. After rinsing your mouth, Shao Shu said, "Grandma, I brought you some Shuzhong tea just now, which is much better than Zhongwu tea in the palace."

Le Lanji sat down and asked, "Where did you get the tea?"

"My grandma, my daughter is sending her family to Shuzhong to sell tea." Shao Shu said, "The best teas in Daliang are produced in Shuzhong. I left Mengding tea to honor you. Hehe, if my grandma thinks it is delicious, he can ask Hanjia County to list it as a tribute. They must be happy. There are too many good teas in Shuzhong, but unfortunately they are not famous enough. If they are rated as tribute, the amount given for free every year is really nothing."

"There is Mengshan in Hanjia County——" Shao Xun said.

Shao Shu was a little surprised: "Grandpa, do you even know this mountain? Mengding tea is produced from the top of Mengshan."

Hanjia County, Hanjia County was the Qingyi Qiang Kingdom in ancient times. It was destroyed and Qingyi County was established. Later Han Dynasty was changed to Hanjia County. To this day, it is generally located in the famous mountain in Ya'an and Lushan area of ​​later generations.

Mengshan is located in this county. According to legend, people tamed the wild tea trees on the top of the mountain in the pre-Han period, and it has been hundreds of years since then.

In fact, the ones who can grow tea, produce tea, and sell the most are Shuzhong, Jingzhou and Jiangdong, but their overall scale and fame are still not as good as Shuzhong.

Their first-mover advantage will last for hundreds of years until it is finally overwhelmed by the Jiangdong region.

"Okay, then I will list Mengshan tea as a tribute." Shao Xun said.

At present, the "only designated" tea used in the palace is Zhongwu Tea, which is the tea produced in Zhongwu Long Mansion. The tea tree may not have been cultivated well and its taste is average, but Shao Xun has been working hard to sell goods, which has made Zhongwu tea much more famous and its output soared. Zhongwu Long Mansion suddenly made a fortune.

But to be honest, the quality cannot support him in selling goods so hard.

If I opened a live broadcast room to bring this kind of tea in later generations, I would probably be scolded to death by my family.

"Taipu, your father promotes tea for no reason. You should think more about it when you are feeding. Don't use inferior products as good ones to ruin your reputation for trading." Le Lanji said earnestly.

Shao Shu nodded repeatedly, then looked at her father again.

The father smiled and said, "Your mother is right. Tea and wine are called "drinks". The two are actually competitive. Reception of guests, welcoming and seeing off, gatherings and chatting. Since the Wei and Jin Dynasties, wine is often inseparable from wine. If tea can be used instead of wine, there will be many benefits. The grandpa is now essential for guests to meet, and he also uses tea to treat guests in public and private places. It is necessary to make a good arrangement for this trend of drinking and drinking too much. You do it well, it is best to build a tea garden yourself, and don't just make a profit. If you can promote tea to the grassland in the future, it will be a good thing."

"Grandma, you think so much." Shao Shu sighed, then smiled and said, "Is this a mandate for the order?"

"Look, it makes you beautiful!" Shao Xun said helplessly.

Le Lanji gently hugged her daughter and looked at Shao Xun with a smile.

Shao Xun also looked at the mother and daughter and smiled.

Under the dim halo, the family of three was having fun and laughing non-stop.

Some things are ultimately cured by family affection.

After dinner, Shao Shu was like a lark, chattering about her experiences outside until she was a little sleepy, and she pestered her mother to sleep with her.

Shao Xun put his hands behind his back and went to another house to stay in Mrs. Wang's room.

*******

In mid-February, the weather is slightly warmer.

Shao Xun is basically not out of the palace.

If there is a court meeting, I will go to court, and then move to Guanfeng Hall Lichuntai to review memorials or summon ministers to ask questions.

There is no court meeting, basically I will review memorials in the Dragon Scale Palace and the Huangnu Palace, or ask questions about close ministers such as the Censor, the Huangmen Assistant, the Sanqi Officer, and the Central Officer.

Every morning and evening, he would basically go to Xianju Hall to see his mother's condition.

In fact, he had been mentally prepared for a long time, and now he is just waiting for the day that will come.

In late February, in addition to the rapid rise in temperature and the day after leaving the palace to work, he had moved to Xianju Hall.

At the twilight of the day, Shao Xun was sitting in the corridor examining the Jiangnan field sent by the governor of Yangzhou. Empress Yu Wenjun and the prince and his wife came.

Shao Xun nodded and signaled them to enter directly.

My mother, Liu, was less awake and more drowsy in the day, so she could hardly say a few words.

The light has been lit.

After reading the last word, Shao Xun wrote annotations, closed the file, and handed it over to the clerk Huan Wen to take it away.

A moment later, the palace servants brought dinner.

It is lighter, just chestnut rice porridge, and it is salty and sweet and sour and refreshing with the salty and sour ones made by my mother.

After eating, he went in to visit his mother.

My mother woke up and saw Shao Xun, her eyes kept falling on him.

Wherever he went, his mother's eyes fell, until Shao Xun came beside her.

Lu quietly moved out of the position.

Shao Xun noticed that Yu Wenjun seemed to have given a bracelet to Lu.

The bracelet was given to Yu Wenjun by his mother, and Yu Wenjun gave it to Lu again.

Lu may have never worn cheap bracelets with such poor material and such rough workmanship in her life, but she cherishes them in the most conspicuous position.

From the daughter-in-law to the daughter-in-law, Yu Wenjun's role is also changing.

Shao Xun sat down, Yu Wenjun glanced at him, his eyes slightly red.

Shao Xun held her hand tightly.

Lu lowered his head and said nothing. The prince stood very close to her, but did not hold her hand.

Shao Xun turned his head and looked at the prince and his wife, and said, "You guys go back early and come again tomorrow."

The couple responded and bowed.

"You go back to Ganlu Palace too." Shao Xun patted Yu Wenjun's hand and said softly.

My mother is in this situation every day, and she doesn’t say a word a day. I don’t know if there is an hour when I wake up. “I’ll accompany you.” Yu Wenjun said.

"Go back." Shao Xun advised again: "Come with me tomorrow."

The palace servants have already started to clean up the bed.

Shao Xun asked someone to add a couch next to him, and he stays here every night now.

The father slept next door. The palace servants regularly scrubbed his mother, which easily woke him up, so Shao Xun asked him to sleep in the side hall.

Now, there is no more sadness, only company.

Yu Wenjun stood up reluctantly.

Shao Xun nodded and signaled her to have a good rest.

After everyone left, the mother seemed to be asleep again. Shao Xun simply sat on the couch and picked up the memorials on the table next to him to review them, just as he passed the time.

One of the memorials about the construction of Haipu in Donghai County made him quite interested and took a few more glances.

As I looked at it, I remembered the years I spent in the East China Sea when I was young.
To be continued...