“…… Why did you sneak away last night? "With an official identity, she immediately changed her attitude on Monday and Sunday, as long as the eldest princess did not object, it was no problem to serve her husband with a few wives and concubines.

Hong Tao is not so greedy, most of the time he just likes to hug left and right, and his body can't bear it with too many actual actions. After staying at home for less than three months, fat has already appeared on the stomach, and it seems that the arms and legs, which are not very strong, also have a tendency to degenerate.

"It's inconvenient for the slave family......"

"Inconvenient! How so? Hong Tao actually mentioned it in passing, but he didn't expect to ask about the hidden secret.

"I'm afraid it is...... With ......" Zhou Ri's voice became even more hoarse, like a leak in his throat and eyes, and he couldn't hear it if he didn't listen carefully.

“…… Does Madame know? "This is good news, whether it is a man or a woman, there will be one more person in the Pony Mansion.

The prosperity of the people was an advantage in itself in ancient times, especially for large families. Although the princes of the Song Dynasty could not be inherited, their children and grandchildren could all sprout into the office, and the huge family had many benefits.

"I didn't know...... The slave family does not want to recuperate in the mansion like Mrs. Lian, and is willing to accompany the officials to be born and die. "It's true that Monday is different from women in this era, and she actually concealed her pregnancy for work.

"Don't worry, you don't have the treatment of Mrs. Lian, and you have to work for this official today if you give birth to a child tomorrow. Many things leave you, and the official will also be blind. ”

To deal with Lian'er only need to say that her children can inherit the family business of the Horse Mansion in the future, and it is useless to deal with Zhou Yiri and say that these are useless, and they have to be coaxed in another way.

"The slave family heard from the eighteenth in the daimyo's mansion that the officials were proficient in medical skills, and they were better at delivering babies, and they could cut open the belly of a pregnant woman and take out the baby. At that time, can the slave family enjoy the magic skills of the officials once, people are afraid of pain...... "Zhou Zhou is indeed a strange woman, and she secretly made up her mind to try a caesarean section."

"Didn't Eighteen mention that caesarean section is just an experiment, and so far there have been no cases where adults and children are safe?" Getting yourself to be an obstetrician and gynecologist? Don't be funny, if you have that ability, what kind of test will you do with Wang 17 and Wang 18, how good it is to teach it directly.

"Eighteen naturally can't be, but officials can definitely do it." If a strong woman who is usually unsmiling and serious is coquettish, she can't be perfunctory, because when they are coquettish, they also calculate the front and back and left and right clearly.

“…… This is it...... When the time comes, not every woman is suitable for caesarean section, and the birth is not very painful. Lian'er, you say...... And what do you eat? Okay, no wonder the official made you exercise not only to lose weight but to get fatter, stop, show me what you have in your pocket! ”

Say you won't, I'm afraid I don't believe it every day, and it's really helpless to brag about it. At this point, the best thing to do is to interrupt and avoid the topic.

Hong Tao did even more desperately, and ran away under the pretext of chasing Lian'er. I can't take care of those compassionate feelings just now, and I can block as many boats as I like on the river, and I forgot about it.

Tongji Canal, connecting the Bianhe River and Huaishui, from the eastern capital of Luoyang to the Jiangdu Yangzhou for more than 2,000 miles, is the only channel for grain and bulk goods to go north and west.

It was also known as the Grand Canal of the Sui and Tang Dynasties in later generations, and it still carried the burden of freight transportation from north to south until after liberation, and it can be said that several generations of dynasties have relied on it to maintain.

It's just that the person who built it, Emperor Yang of Sui, has become a famous faint monarch in history, which makes Hong Tao very puzzled. He lost the emperor's throne, but the Grand Canal built during his tenure has been used for thousands of years, and both the ruler and the people should read his good talents, how can he be evaluated as a faint monarch because he lost the throne? Is the throne important, or is the canal important?

To put it to the extreme, with this canal, even if Emperor Yang of Sui eats people's brains every day, it is also an emperor who has made great contributions to the nation and the country.

As for saying that the canal was also dug by the people and had little to do with the emperor, this statement is simply nonsense. From ancient times to the present, what to do has nothing to do with the leader, the leader does not nod the people, and the people have nothing to do to dig the canal to play?

If this is the case, most of the world's inventions and creations are not the work of scientists, and there is no Nobel Prize, because these inventions and creations are made by the people.

After hundreds of years, in addition to the official name of the Tongji Canal changed to Bianhe, most of the main structure is still the foundation of the Sui Dynasty, the Tang Dynasty has been repaired, and the Song Dynasty has basically followed, at most it is to clear the silt.

Over the past few hundred years, the embankments made of rammed earth have become significantly old, and many places have been invaded by the river and collapsed, which not only affects the smooth flow of the river, but also tends to burst when the water is abundant.

"Daddy, the situation is not good, there are too many places that need to be repaired, there is not enough cement, and there are not enough manpower......" In order to inspect the river situation along the way, Hong Tao deliberately transferred Wang Qi back from Mingzhou.

As soon as the fleet arrived at Yingtianfu, Wang Qi boarded the ship with a notebook to complain. By his standards, the canal was not viable, and it should be overhauled from start to finish. If possible, the river bank should be paved with stone, and if there is no condition, it should be fixed with wooden piles.

"This paragraph is not under our control, just take a look. I can't eat hot tofu in a hurry, it's okay to slow down, be sure to consider Zhou Xiang. This is a great project that has been passed down through the ages, and it will not be bad for 500 years from the beginning. I'll take care of the material matter, and you just need to explore. In addition, go and tell your tenth sister that she can contact the former engineer and recall as much as she can. ”

Hong Tao did not have a complete solution to the problem raised by Wang Qi, and it was not difficult to build a lime kiln and recall some engineers, but it was impossible to repair the canal quickly.

However, Wang Qi ignored an important issue, the river repair system is just a disguise, hanging mutton to sell dog meat, from the emperor to the minister, I am afraid that I don't expect King Liang to be able to manage Huaishui and even Bianshui, so Hong Tao is not in a hurry, and it is enough to make some achievements every year.

Yingtianfu, the capital of Nanjing in the Northern Song Dynasty, is probably near Shangqiu in later generations. The question is, there are so many prosperous big cities in the south, why do you want to set Nanjing in the small Shangqiu?

It's really not too much to say, where did the Song characters of the Song Dynasty come from? It is the predecessor of Ying Tianfu. In the Tang Dynasty, the area of Shangqiu was called Songzhou, and Zhao Kuangyin, Taizu of the Song Dynasty, was the official to supervise the inspection point in front of the palace, and it was under the jurisdiction of the German military envoy of Songzhou.

That is to say, the place of Songzhou is the land of Longxing in the Song Dynasty, so it took the Song character of Songzhou as the country name, and it was renamed Xingqing Mansion and set as Nanjing in the Zhenzong Dynasty. The fire god Yan Bo was also a native of Shangqiu, so the Song Dynasty belonged to fire, also called Huo Song or Yan Song.

Originally, Hong Tao did not plan to land in any city along the way, and the living conditions on the ship were no worse than those on the shore. For a person with a mild cleanliness fetish, it takes several teeth to go to sleep on a mattress prepared by someone else.

But Ying Tianfu had to go ashore, and the reason for this was the trouble caused by this broken mouth. Empress Pang once came to the house and wore a set of golden gowns and skirts, and the fabric was decorated with gold flakes from a distance, and only when she looked up close did she know that it was a golden ornament.

The eldest princess is not only kind-hearted, but also a housekeeper who doesn't pay much attention to food and clothing, and she wears a few clothes all year round, most of which are rewarded by Emperor Shenzong and Empress Dowager Gao.

Hong Tao got a few fur coats for his daughter-in-law when he was serving on Ganliang Road, but they were all given to relatives and friends by the eldest princess, saying that he didn't go out much, and it was a waste to eat insects and rats at home.

In the past, he was too busy to come home, but now that he is not busy, Hong Tao decided to dress up his daughter-in-law. All the high-end materials popular in Kaifeng City must come to two sets of each color, find the best tailor to make, even the clothes worn at home must be bright and high-grade. Don't be afraid if it's dirty, we have money, buy a new one!

However, compared to each other, all the clothes of the eldest princess are not as good-looking as Queen Pang, Hong Tao was tempted, and asked Queen Pang privately to know that this kind of fabric is called Jin Jin.

The pattern on it is not embroidered with gold thread, but cut into filaments with gold leaf, which is then woven into brocade with silk threads. It's certainly not cheap just to hear about this manufacturing process, but there is no place to buy it if you have money.

The gold brocade is a special offer for the royal family, which can only be made by the inner palace workshop, and the people do not have it at all. And because the process is too complicated, there is only such a little output every year, and the queen and the queen mother are not enough, and they can't turn the eldest princess who has already married.

In fact, with Emperor Shenzong's love for his sister, it is not a big problem to get some gold brocade. It's a pity that Emperor Shenzong didn't like extravagance very much, and as soon as he took office, he abolished the gold brocade weaving workshop.

This thing is expensive and laborious to make, and eighty percent of the waste products are tossed for a year, and the cost is quite large and the results are very small. According to the emperor's wishes, just don't do it, wouldn't it be good to save the money and do some serious things.

Zhao Hao and his brother have different personalities, when he ascended the throne, he wanted to wear a golden brocade dress, but he searched through the inner palace, not to mention the ready-to-wear, and he couldn't even find a piece of fabric. At that moment, Long Yan was furious, and ordered the restoration of the Jinjin workshop, which was still woven in the inner palace of Nanjing, and Queen Pang's clothes were made from the first batch of finished products.

Originally, Hong Tao was already dead, and he couldn't go to grab the cloth with the emperor, even if he wanted to rob it, there was no hope, and the weaving things in the inner palace couldn't flow out at all, unless he sent the Shanchuan Supervision Institute to rob it in the inner palace workshop in Nanjing.

But the situation changed a few days before the trip, and when Queen Pang visited her sister-in-law in the house, she privately gave Hong Tao a name. The other party is the head of the left-behind officials in Nanjing, surnamed Li, and has a small amount of gold brocade finished products in his hand, although the price is not low, but the horse can definitely afford it.

Why is the queen so eager to help? She is not for any Jin Jin, but for Hong Tao to arrange things in the future. As a queen, she can't go to Yangzhou to discuss things with her brother-in-law, this Li Zhonggui is the queen's agent, responsible for contacting all related matters, and these golden brocade rights should be a gift.