Jiangdu, Changle Palace in the northern suburbs.

Zhang Ji rode into the palace gate with the sound of the ox cart, she stroked her upright belly and slowly got off, and walked to the main hall under the guidance and service of the palace people and servants.

At the end of each year, various banquets are held in the palace; There are not only the emperors who receive the children of meritorious courtiers, but also the queens who receive the relatives of ministers and hundreds of officials.

If there is a marriage between two families, the queen will also be asked to match it on this occasion.

During this time, the ministers and dependents of the court and the Chinese government all entered the palace to accompany the queen to chat, expand contacts and knowledge, exchange information and form friendships.

Now that the wind direction of the government and the opposition has changed, the queen is naturally rising here.

After all, he has a crown prince in his hand, and if there are major changes in the situation in the future, there will be an advantage here after all.

Therefore, when Zhang Ji came, the queen was having a banquet with several princesses and wives, and she could not receive her at the first time.

There may also be other factors that make other officials and their relatives who are queuing up and waiting to meet consciously alienate Zhang Ji.

Zhang Ji didn't care, sat in a corner of the side hall, and flipped through the books he brought.

In her ears, she could vaguely hear the whispered communication of the women around her, this intermittent communication made her unhappy, and it was difficult to express it, so she couldn't help but sigh.

Not long after, the wife of Yang Yi, the young prince, entered the palace with her seven or eight-year-old daughter, and after greeting everyone, she asked Zhang Ji with concern: "Your Royal Highness the eldest princess, what does Duke Qin say?" ”

Other female dependents also looked at it, and they were also more concerned about what happened to Zhang Ji.

Xiahou Xian was originally a county marquis, and there were 1,800 households before and after the accumulation of food; But now Xiahou Xian has no children, and after his death, he will naturally be closed and abolished.

This matter is currently in charge of Taichangqing Qin Mi and the Ministry of Rites Shangshu, and Xiahou Xian's fiefdom has been removed.

But Zhang Ji, the eldest princess of Beihai, is pregnant, and if she is a man, she should inherit Xiahou and offer the country food; If it is a daughter, she should also ask for a suitable title.

Now that the situation is clear, the great general Song Gong has bowed his head, but the great Sima Wei Gong still has to fight for a chance...... Naturally, who would dare to speak for Zhang Ji at this juncture?

It is one thing for Zhang Ji and Guan Ji to have a good relationship, but Wei Gong and his family have already stood on the opposite side of the imperial court.

No one knows how the new court will deal with the current disputes after the imperial court moves back to the capital.

More things are better than less, just do things according to the law, and there is no need to do special things for the Sanke family like before.

Asking for the title that the child in her womb deserves has become Zhang Ji's recent life goal, and she often walks around to ask for relationships.

Zhang Ji smiled wryly and confided in Yang Yi's wife, Liu: "Duke Qin is sensible and persuasive. But I can't let go of it after all...... Until now, he can only listen to the opinions of Duke Qin. ”

"If that's the case, the concubine doesn't have to worry about it."

Liu took Zhang Ji's hand and asked softly: "My husband thinks the same way, and now it is not the princes of the court who have fallen into the well." After all, Song Gong is a person who misses the old, and no matter how bad the situation is, it can't implicate His Highness. Although this matter is small, it is the basis for the princes to express their stance over there. In the spring and summer of next year, when the clouds are cleared and the world is cleared, he will return justice to His Royal Highness. ”

Zhang Ji still looked a little unwilling, and reluctantly laughed: "Although I understand this truth, I don't want to accept it." I am the adopted daughter of the first emperor, and I am the daughter of Sanke, but I have been so wronged, it is really unbearable. ”

Liu just patted the back of her hand to appease, and asked instead: "I heard that at the end of the winter month, a boat gang arrived in Nanyang and transported a lot of sulfur?" ”

The sulfur soap with a unique smell is actually more profitable than the soap, but the sulfur mining is not easy, and it is one of the typical mountain and forest mineral deposits, so it is naturally the monopoly of the Shaofu Bureau.

Traditionally, it has been the Jingba mountain people who have mined this kind of mineral, so the sulfur in the Jingyi area is mostly in the hands of the mountain people, except for military and medical use...... That is, in the hands of Beifu.

This kind of mineral deposit is jointly operated by the mountain people and the Shaofu Bureau, and the Shaofu only takes a share.

Now the news of the discovery of many sulfur deposits in the Nanyang Islands in Lingnan has arrived, and there are many cattle and sheep in Guanlong.

With this batch of sulfur arriving in the South Seas, a large amount of sulfur soap will be on the market next year when Wuguan Road can travel smoothly...... The Jiangdu sulfur soap market may be over, and this queen's important profit channel will collapse.

Liu asked in a low voice, and Zhang Ji also replied in a low voice: "It is true." However, sulfur mining is not easy, and Lu Boyan's operation in Nanyang is becoming shallow, and he thinks that there are only twenty or thirty barrels at most. This time, it is still sea salt. ”

She lowered her voice very low: "Although Qingzhou boiled salt is profitable, the salt and iron official camp can meet the needs of the Central Plains...... It can't sell salt to Hebei, and there are only 20,000 salt households. I heard that Lingnan is exposed to seawater to obtain salt, and the salt produced by 100 households can reach 1,000 households in Qingzhou. I'm still worried about the price of salt. ”

The salt and iron official camp, the Zigong salt well in Yizhou, and the three salt ponds at the junction of Jingyixiang and Hunan are the most important financial revenues of the Han court...... When the share is the highest, it accounts for more than 20% of the fiscal revenue of the year; Counting the iron industry franchise, salt and iron can account for a little more than forty percent of the total income of the imperial court.

In order to obtain higher salt production in salt wells and salt ponds, they would send prisoners, slaves, and prisoners to work in salt ponds to increase the labor force; Cooking salt to make salt, fuel is a problem, and the prime minister began to use natural gas to cook salt in Yizhou.

The salt ponds and salt wells in the three prefectures of Jingyi and Hunan have gathered too many laborers, and these sturdy laborers who are separated from agriculture will consume grain; The woodcutters who raise fuel for boiling salt are also not farming.

Then count the miners and smelters related to iron smelting...... Although salt and iron are profitable, they are all industries that continue to consume grain.

If Lingnan has a mature method of drying salt and making salt, then the traditional economic advantages of Jingyi Erzhou will be gone.

Liu silently kept the news revealed by Zhang Ji in his heart, no matter how unlucky the Zhang family was, it was also one of the three ke.

If others don't know the secret information, Sanke will know.

As for this batch of things transported by the Beifu Ship, she only knew that there was sulfur from Nanyang, but she didn't know that there was also a large amount of sea salt.

Since the full-scale confrontation, the Hanjin tax customs, which were under the control of the imperial court and directly under the central government, have been abolished.

The boats and boats in and out of Beifu no longer pay attention to the Hanjin tax customs...... What was carried in the ship was known to the people of Beifu themselves, and outsiders had nowhere to find out.

When Zhang Ji and Liu exchanged in a low voice, Hu Shi, the wife of Liu Yan of Ting Weiqing, entered the palace with a maid.

Liu Yan is widowed, and Xu Xian's wife Hu Shi is from Yizhou, who is a small but graceful person, with delicate skin, ruddy and translucent, and delicate facial features...... In Zhang Ji's eyes, this is also a very delicate young woman.

Hu was a cheerful person, and since he entered the temple, he walked around and met the women of each family in turn, and the atmosphere in the hall was immediately lively.

She had a bright smile and bright eyes, and she came to Zhang Ji's side and called her sister again and again, which was very intimate.

Time flies between talking and laughing, and it doesn't take long to approach noon.

The queen also sent away a group of princesses' families, and was about to receive these, when she saw the emperor's confidant Ma Bing in the palace.

Since the prime minister entered the court, Ma Bing is no longer the son of the criminal official who confiscated the court, and naturally regained his freedom and still stayed in the palace to serve.

Ma Bing stepped forward and handed over the post: "Empress Qiqi, Your Majesty has heard that the eldest princess of Beihai has entered Changle Palace and wants to have a banquet together to inquire about the marriage of His Royal Highness King Qi." ”

"King Qi?"

The queen was puzzled, beckoned to stand side by side with Zhang Ji, who got up and walked over, and frowned: "Has King Qi's marriage changed?" ”