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When a wife gives birth to a child, of course the father has to accompany Hou. Especially Li Chao's wife and three concubines are about to give birth, and Li Chao's father has to rush back.

Cui Yingying was the first to be pregnant, so she is the most gentleman if it is normal.

Counting the days, there is still half a month left, and Cui Yingying will reach her due date.

Although the Turkic matter is important, it is not more important than the matter of Li Chao being his father. Li Shimin was also a relatively enlightened monarch, and sent someone to Shuofang to summon Li Chao back to Beijing to report on his work.

Well, it's a debriefing, not going home to accompany his wife to give birth. There is no precedent for the Tang Dynasty court to have a wife to give birth, and the courtiers will throw away their official duties and rush home. Therefore, Li Shimin called Li Chao back to Beijing to give birth to his wife on the grounds of calling him back to Beijing to report on his work.

After reaching an anti-Jieli agreement with Yu Shot, Li Chao returned to Lingzhou by boat.

The merchants had also completed their transactions in the north of the town, and at this time they were returning with a load of fur and medicinal herbs.

It's been three years since I came to Datang.

Li Chao settled here, settled here, had a family and a wife, and now, he is about to welcome his first child.

"Congratulations Master, this time I will be a father when I return to Beijing, and I will have four children at once." Su Dingfang congratulated.

When you become a father, it's completely different, and it means that your life has reached a new stage.

This is not the same as marrying a wife and not marrying a wife, if you don't have a wife, you are always unstable. And once a father is made, a man is truly mature.

For Li Chao, he is more than him.

There are fathers, wives, concubines, and children, the Li family. Three generations are about to live together, the birth of a real family.

"Thirteen Niang's letters always say that the doctor said it was a boy!"

Su Dingfang said, "The boy is good, the eldest son in the family." ”

Li Chao doesn't care if it's a son or not, people in later generations are basically not so patriarchal, especially the generation that has experienced the family planning policy, many only children, so it really doesn't matter whether a boy or a girl is a boy. Even at Li Chao's time, women were more than half the world.

However, thinking of the agreement with Li Shimin, and thinking of the fingertip for marriage, Li Chao hoped that Thirteen Niang would have a son. Moreover, in terms of family harmony, the eldest son is much better than the eldest son, which saves a lot of trouble.

If it is really a leader, then Li Shimin's fifth daughter, Princess Changle, will marry her son. Princess Changle is Li Shimin's fifth daughter and concubine, and her identity is still very noble.

This is much better than Thirteen Niang giving birth to a daughter, and then choosing among the four princes Li Chengqian, Li Kuan, Li Ke, and Li Tai. The four blessed princes, even if they make the crown prince Li Chengqian the crown princess, Li Chao is unwilling.

Although it is said that if Li Chao's daughter is allowed to Cheng Qian, then now that Cheng Qian is so young, if he teaches him well, he may not become a bad prince and a waste prince.

But who knows what the future holds?

And the crown prince of the Tang Dynasty seems to be cursed, there are three hundred years of the Tang Dynasty, and it seems that few princes have become emperors.

Thinking that he was about to become a father, Li Chao couldn't help but feel a little excited, even more exciting than when he was sealed as a product.

Li Chao wanted to go back to Chang'an, although he was just going to report his duties and wait for his wife and concubine to give birth, but these subordinates in Lingzhou still heard the news. As soon as Li Chao returned to Ningyuan by boat, the people who gave gifts outside the Shuai's Mansion had already lined up in a long line.

The civil and military forces of Shuofang Town and the merchants of Ningyuan all had to give gifts when they heard the news.

"Gifts are OK, and the value of each person's gifts cannot exceed the consistent, consistent and more than returned."

Those ordinary soldiers and ordinary people do not accept gifts, and the money has always been a lot for them. What's more, there are so many soldiers and people, if you really want to accept it, even if one person is consistent, this gift will add up to a lot.

The Li family is not short of money, there is no need for this, and it doesn't sound good.

"Deputy Envoy Chu, after I return to Beijing, I will hand over the civil affairs of Shuofang to you, and I will hand over the military affairs to Dingfang, General Cheng and General Wei Chi. You cooperate with each other, and I'll be back soon anyway. ”

In fact, there is not much to arrange for official affairs.

Everything is very stable, Chu Suiliang just needs Xiao Gui Cao to follow.

This time it was not only Li Chao who returned to Beijing alone, the original eight chiefs, this time except for Cheng Biting the Golden Ox and entering the Dawei Chi Laogong Su Dingfang to stay, the other four chiefs all returned to Chang'an, and there were others.

A simple explanation, that's pretty much it.

Zheng Wanyan wanted to return to Beijing with Li Chao.

"The thirteenth sister is about to give birth, I will definitely take care of it."

Li Chao originally said that Zheng Wanyan would stay, and since she asked to return to Beijing together, let's go together. Zheng Hongxian also wanted to return to Beijing, but he couldn't let go of Ning Yuan's business, so he finally hesitated again and again, but decided to let Zhao Siniang stay and take care of the industry, and she went back to Beijing with her.

"Don't you care about business here, you don't have to go back."

"What did Saburo say? I grew up with Thirteen Niang, and she treated me like a sister. She gave birth, and of course I had to rush back. I hesitated, but Thirteen Niang handed over the property here to me to take care of, I was afraid that I would lose if I couldn't take care of it, and I was sorry for Thirteen Niang. Zheng Hongxian felt that Li Chao's words hurt her relationship with Cui Sanniang, and she was angry.

Li Chao chuckled.

During the time this girl came to Ningyuan, she was worried about the industry all day long, and she didn't take care of her body very well, her hair was dry and split ends, and her face was a little haggard. I was a little negligent with her, and reached out and pinched her face.

"You just have to keep an eye on the affairs of the industry, and you have to let go of the subordinates to share them. If I had done the same thing as you, I would have died of exhaustion. There must be a division of labor. Each performs its own duties, Thirteen Niang asked you to coordinate for her, you stare at the big picture, just follow the person in charge of the ship, you are the one at the helm. There are other people who do the sail and paddle rope, so you don't have to do it all. Look at you, you're tired to death, you're tired and thin. ”

After speaking, Li Chao said almost once again to Zhao Siniang.

"Siniang, I still say the same thing, don't work too hard. If you have time, worry more about your personal affairs. ”

Zhao Siniang shook her head.

She now seems to have completely substituted herself into the identity of the Li family's housekeeper, and it is very natural for her to meet and talk to Li Chao when she usually meets.

Once, the thoughts in my heart have been slowly buried and hidden deep in my heart.

"Or, you can go back to Chang'an with us."

"There's so much going on here."

"If there are many things, you will explain them to the steward, I have always said that you have to take care of yourself. Take a trip back, relax and go to the house. ”

The Li family is in Ningyuan, and the industry in Lingzhou is indeed very large and very open, but so what. When the earth leaves, everyone will turn, and the sun will rise as usual every day. The bigger the industry, the more standardized it is, and if you can't get it, you can't turn it around, and that way is too backward.

The Li family should have a professional team, a well-coordinated management to take care of these industries, no matter who has an accident or wants to rest, the team can have a substitute and can take over.

It's also a healthier way to develop in the long run. Otherwise, if the manager of the management wants to leave one day, or puts forward some higher requirements, it will be troublesome. In fact, this is the case with many general shops, where the shopkeeper makes a request, and the proprietor can often only agree, because many proprietors actually do not manage the specific things of the shop, business, and relationships, all of which are on the shopkeeper, and the shopkeeper can even directly take away all the other guys and apprentices in the shop.

A word of resignation can make the owner sit on wax.

And if it's a good management team, the situation is much better. The team is a group of people, not one person, as long as the owner is strong, then the team as a whole will resign and run away.

This is the same as in the imperial court, if the emperor has the ability, then he will balance in the imperial court, and make two groups of people to balance, or even three or four batches, this is the imperial technique.

To put it simply, imperial art is actually human resource management.

In terms of personnel, the most taboo thing is to leave no one.

After a night's rest, Li Chao took a boat from Ningyuan to Lingzhou first.

Seven hundred miles of waterway, the cities along the road in the middle are all ashore to rest and replenish, Li Chao is not in a hurry, the boat goes upstream, slower than when it goes down the river to Fengzhou.

After arriving in Anyuan City, Li Chao changed the boat and continued to take the boat in order to make Zheng Wanyan suffer less turbulence.

Enter the tributary of the Yellow River and drive towards Xiaoguan.

Weiru water, also known as Xiluo water, originates from Pinggao in Yuanzhou, at the eastern foot of Longshan Mountain. It flows through Xiaoguan and finally flows into the Yellow River, with a total length of more than 600 miles.

The river is basically the Guyuan of later generations flowing northward through Haiyuan, Tongxin, Zhongning and other counties, and flowing into the Yellow River in Zhongwei.

This is the largest and longest tributary of the Yellow River flowing into Ningxia.

Moreover, the water flow is extremely clear, so it is also called the Qingshui River in later generations.

In later generations, the Qingshui River has become a stinky ditch and a semi-arid river. But at this time, the river is extremely clear, six hundred miles long, and the water is abundant, especially since the valley is very straight, and it happens to be on an important channel.

The Silk Road passed through this valley.

Now the trade route from Guanzhong to Lingzhou, from Yuanzhou to Lingzhou, is also taking this section.

Because the river was wide and the river was full of water, merchants also began to sail and transport goods in this river. However, this river is not as good as the Yellow River after all, so the boat in the water is a special kind of flat-bottomed boat, which is smaller, different from the boat of the Yellow River. And the boats in this river do not enter the Yellow River, and the boats in the Yellow River do not enter the water.

In Anyuan, where the mouth of the Yellow River enters, there is a special transshipment wharf.

Although the boats in the Weiru River are small, they are much more convenient and faster than the horses and camels.

Especially on the road, the waterway car is much more comfortable than the land car, no bumps, no dust, and no wind and rain. As long as you are not in a hurry, it is definitely much faster to take a boat than a carriage or horse.

The boatman shook the paddle and went upstream, and Li Chao and Zheng Wanyan said that they could still get together a table of mahjong and play mahjong on the boat. When it's time to eat, just make a fresh meal of river fish caught in the Qingshui River, and the trip will be relaxed and leisurely.

After sailing for about 200 miles in the water, he entered Yuanzhou, and then went 100 miles to Xiaoguan.

As soon as the ship approached Xiao Pass, I had already seen a group of Xiao Pass soldiers waiting there.

Qin Qiong knew that Li Chao was here today, so she sent someone to greet her early.

"Li Pingzhang, our Qin Dashuai has already prepared a banquet in Xiaoguan, waiting for you."

Jumping from the boat, Li Chao stretched.

When the boat goes here, it is not easy to walk the boat in front of it, even if it is a very small ship. Ordinary merchants also transport goods to Xiaoguan at most.

After getting off the boat and changing horses, Li Chao and his entourage entered Xiaoguan and saw Qin Qiong waiting there. (To be continued.) )