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Li Chao was blocked by Wen Po from the door.

"Women give birth, men can't go in."

Li Chao also wanted to say that he wanted to go in and give birth to a child with Thirteen Niang, but the long and stout mother-in-law directly pushed Li Chao out with force, and the door slammed shut.

"Saburo, it's the same when you wait outside." Dad came over and pulled Li Chao to the side of the porch to wait.

The intellectuals outside kept screaming, and Li Chao, who was calling, was upset.

Zheng Hongxian, who was also waiting outside, immediately shouted, "You are all dead, I don't know how to stick the cicada." ”

In the delivery room, from time to time, there is force, and then the sound of some force comes out.

Li Chao was really anxious when he heard it, and he couldn't wait to go in and hold Cui Yingying's hand and shout cheers.

It was only when he returned to Beijing that he learned that Cui Yingying was actually pregnant with twins.

The firstborn is twins, which is not good news. Cui Yingying is a little slender and delicate, not the kind with a huge buttocks. Li Chao was very worried about her first birth, for fear that she would be uncomfortable.

Fortunately, the Li family invited several stable women to deliver babies early, and even Empress Changsun sent a royal doctor to wait in the mansion. Li Chao didn't care about anything else, and personally gave a few lessons to the midwives, talking about various disinfection or something. The needles and threads for delivery should be sterilized, the scissors for cutting the umbilical cord should be sterilized, the boiling water should be prepared, and the delivery room should be sterilized.

Fortunately, the midwives are all the most famous in Chang'an City, all of them are experienced, and each of them has delivered more than 100 babies, and they are the kind of midwives who have delivered more than 100 babies and have never had an accident.

The stable wives told Li Chao that although they were twins, the fetal position was very positive, so there was no need to worry.

After waiting for more than an hour, Li Chao was already impatient.

Suddenly, the door opened.

A midwife rushed out of it and excitedly shouted to everyone, "Birth, birth, birth!" ”

Li Chao hurriedly stepped forward, "How is it?" ”

Daddy also asked, "Is it a man or a woman?" ”

"Congratulations to Zhao Guogong Congratulations to Shangluo Gong, it's a little grandfather, with a handle!"

Li Chao was still very nervous, "Why didn't you hear the cry?" ”

"How is Thirteen Niang?"

At this moment, one of the midwives in the house wiped the newborn baby clean and lifted her feet upside down. A slap on the ass.

A palm, no sound.

Two palms, still no sound.

Cui Yingying was sweating profusely, raised her head, and asked nervously, "How is my son?" ”

"Madame, don't worry, it's okay."

Wen Po didn't panic at all, and slapped the third palm without hurrying.

"Wow! ~”

The baby finally cried out loud for the first time, and then it didn't stop.

Hearing this cry, Cui Yingying breathed a sigh of relief.

Li Chao and Dad outside also smiled happily when they heard this cry.

"Crying, crying so loudly, worthy of my eldest grandson, the eldest grandson of the Li family, crying with the strength!" Daddy laughed.

Li Chao also smiled happily.

"How is Thirteen Niang?" Li Chao remembered that there was another one, and couldn't help but quickly ask.

Some twins are born on the front and back feet, while others may be born half a day apart.

The ideal is to wait for about half an hour, so that the mother can regain her strength and regenerate.

"Quick, send the prepared hundred-year-old ginseng soup in to restore Madame's strength." Zheng Hongxian commanded loudly there. Ginseng soup has been stewed at home for a long time, and it is still a century-old Liaodong ginseng, which is the most replenishing for pregnant women. Even those who only have one breath left, drinking a sip of this century-old ginseng soup can still sustain their lives.

"Yes, hurry up and send the ginseng soup in."

Li Chao wanted to deliver the ginseng soup in person, but was stopped by Wen Po.

This group of stable women, all of them are burly, and they are simply a barrel. Li Chao claims to be tall, but he is no match for these people. With them in the way, it is really a woman's pass, and it is impossible to open it.

East Palace.

Li Shimin was discussing with Fang Xuanling and other prime ministers, talking about the recent addition of a lot of taxes in the imperial court, and now there are more than one million yuan of money saved in Taicang.

I didn't have such a large amount of money before.

Not in kind, but real money, gold, silver, copper, and silk.

When you have money, how do you spend it?

Li Shimin thought that it was necessary to expand the forbidden army of the Son of Heaven again. Now the Beiya Forbidden Army has left and right Yulin Army, with a strength of 20,000 people. However, Li Shimin was not very satisfied, only 20,000 people, which was too little.

"I intend to expand another Northern Forbidden Army, which is intended for cavalry troops. Based on my Xuanjia cavalry, it was expanded to 10,000 riders. I have thought about the military number, so I will call it 10,000 horses, and the amount will be 10,000. It is subordinate to the Northern Ya, and recruits elite cavalry from the twelve guards as a standing cavalry. ”

"Your Majesty, the Yulin Army has just been expanded by 10,000, and now it has been expanded by 10,000 cavalry, isn't it too fast?" Fang Xuanling reminded.

"The expansion of 10,000 cavalry is still a standing army, and the cost of raising this army is a lot. A standing cavalry needs at least 50 mu of military expenses a year, not to mention that according to the method of the Yulin Army, it is necessary to grant 100 acres of land to each of the 10,000 cavalry passes, which can require 1 million mu at once. ”

One million acres of land, even if the court exchanged a lot of land with the nobles this year, and moved people to the frontier to vacate a lot of land, but one million acres of land is still a lot.

Last time, the new expansion of 10,000 Yulin Army was not ready, and the million acres of land were not ready.

The 30,000 Son of Heaven pro-army will set aside 3 million acres of land in Gyeonggi.

What's more, it costs at least 20 yuan a year to raise a Beiya Yulin, which is still a small amount, and to raise a Beiya Wanqi, it takes at least 50 yuan a year.

20,000 Yulin, a year is 400,000 military expenses, 10,000 horsemen, a year is 500,000 military expenses, just these 30,000 Beiya forbidden army, a year will be at least 900,000 yuan.

This is not counting the rewards, all kinds of annual rewards, etc., if there is a war, mobilize these Beiya forbidden troops, then the expenses will be even greater.

In addition, you have to raise horses, and every cavalry must have horses, even if it is Yulin, there are many cavalry in it, and they also have to raise horses.

The cost of raising war horses is more expensive than raising soldiers.

After calculation, the 30,000 Beiya forbidden army will have at least more than 1 million yuan in military expenditure a year, and if you calculate more, 2 million is not too much.

Even if you save a little, you can spend 1 million a year on the military, plus 3 million acres of Gyeonggi fields, the expenses of the Beiya Forbidden Army are really not small.

"It's not much, Li Chao told me that just the two taxes of salt and tea can get at least five million yuan a year. What's more, there are also sugar and wine mining taxes, as well as commercial taxes, and additional taxes, which are all taxes in addition to the regular tax and rent, and in addition to the regular tax in a year, the commercial tax can even reach nearly 10 million yuan. ”

"10 million guan, can't I take out 1 million guan from it to raise 30,000 Beiya forbidden army?"

Of course, Fang Xuanling and other prime ministers also knew about this.

Li Chao is a pervert, almost out of thin air, he asked Datang to increase taxes by tens of millions of dollars every year, which is not a harsh tax or a looting of people's wealth. Although the salt tax has a little impact on the people, it seems that the ten taxes are not much. After all, the people eat salt in a year is also limited, which is no more than grain, how many stones a person needs a year, and a person can eat a few catties of salt a year.

However, the prime ministers have already been eyeing the tens of millions of new revenues.

There are many places in the world where money is needed.

Some proposed to raise the salaries of Beijing officials, some proposed to pay salaries to officials from other places, and some proposed to withdraw the money from the public party and lend money, and then the imperial court would pay for the office expenses of the yamen.

Of course, there are many places to spend money on water conservancy, roads, rivers, post stations, schools, etc.

Don't say 10 million, no matter how much you spend, it's not enough to spend.

Anyway, the prime ministers have taken a fancy to the money, and they are even discussing how to distribute it and live within their means. You can do as much as you have.

Now that the emperor suddenly wants to divide two million, how can everyone be willing, even if he shares one million, it will hurt.

Is it necessary to build the Northern Yaban Army, and to build so many more, and to build a standing army. Even cavalry was built, and after these 10,000 cavalry were built, could they be transferred out to fight?

"Your Majesty, the Beiya Forbidden Army, as the Yuan of the Son of Heaven, guards the palace ban, and the cavalry must be unnecessary. Even if you want to build it, it's good to build a thousand rides, and it's really unnecessary to ride ten thousand. ”

The left servant shot Xiao Yu very unceremoniously objected.

Xiao Yu Xiao Shiwen, the son of Emperor Ming of Liang in the Southern Dynasty, the younger brother of Emperor Jing of Western Liang, and the younger brother of Empress Xiao of Sui. His wife is also the maiden niece of Empress Dugu of Sui and the niece of Li Yuan's mother, so Xiao Yu's wife is also an uncle and cousin with Li Yuan.

Not long ago, Li Shimin also gave his eldest daughter, Princess Xiangcheng, to Xiao Yu's eldest son Xiao Rui, and Li Shimin and Xiao Yu became in-laws.

With such a noble background and such a prominent position as prime minister, he is still very prestigious in the new dynasty.

Xiao Yu said at an emperor's banquet not long ago, "The minister is the son of heaven of the Liang Dynasty, the younger brother of the queen of the Sui Dynasty, the left servant of Shangshu, and the son of heaven." ”

Awesome to the extreme.

"I only need a million!"

Li Shimin didn't expect his in-laws to be so faceless, and his face was a little dark. I had to lower the requirements and ask for 1 million more.

"Your Majesty, it's good to build a thousand horses, but it's really unnecessary to have ten thousand horses. 20,000 feathers, 1,000 cavalry, 500,000! Xiao Yu counteroffered and directly reduced it by half.

Li Shimin still had to fight, and at this time, the waiter came over and whispered to the side.

"Your Majesty, the Duchess of Zhao Guo Cui has just given birth to a son, four catties and six taels, and the mother and son are safe!"

Li Shimin listened and nodded.

"The eldest son, good. went to report to the queen and sent congratulatory gifts to the Li family. Also, the Li family will be passed on, I will fulfill my previous promise, and give the eldest son of Li Chaoyan, the Duke of Zhao, the Duke of Lintao County, the Duke of Lintao County, and the actual seal of 300 households, and reward 100 horses for Shumian!"

"Ladies and gentlemen, I want to tell you good news, the Duchess of Zhao has just given birth to a son." Haha laughed a few times, "In case of such a happy event, it is better to stop here today, I and Qing and others will go to the Zhaoguo Mansion of Wubenfang together to congratulate Li Chao, and by the way, ask for a cup of happy wine to drink!" ”

Hearing this news, Fang Xuanling and the others were also happy for Li Chao.

"Go together, go together!"

The emperor and the prime ministers then stopped discussing state affairs, and went out of the palace together to the Li Mansion! (To be continued.) )