Zhao Jiu was a man of his word. After the three of them finished their meal, they went directly to the mulberry grove on the bank of the fish pond to discuss matters related to the two armies.

"This subject is willing to write a personally signed document for Your Majesty, stating that upon my return, there will be absolutely no instances of forcing soldiers to work in the Right Army of the Imperial Guard, nor will there be any further encroachment on military farmlands. Soldiers must train every ten days, and their full military pay will be issued... As for military supplies, equipment, and the number of personnel, please forgive this subject, Your Majesty. I can only guarantee that I will not cause any more trouble for Your Majesty here, but it is truly difficult to control the lower-level generals one by one." After a brief conversation, Zhang Jun, the commander of the Right Army of the Imperial Guard, swore an oath, almost as if he were about to establish a covenant by the fish pond. "I really don't know how to control them."

"A document is unnecessary. I trust what you say, Zhang Qing."

Zhao Jiu waved his hand from afar, stopping the dozen or so palace attendants who were busy in the mulberry grove from coming forward to greet him. These people were removing some of the mulberry trees that had not survived and continuing to transplant new ones. "Everyone in the world says that you are a person who is obsessed with money, but I knew back in Huaishang that you are even more someone who understands true gains and losses, and someone who dares to go all out at crucial moments... I am willing to believe your words! As for the matters below, they are longstanding problems in the military that have persisted for over a hundred years in this dynasty. I understand your difficulties. I only ask that you be able to reach the level of Han Liangchen, and I will already be grateful."

Zhang Jun was completely relieved and cupped his fist in the mulberry grove: "Your Majesty, there is nothing extraordinary about Han Shizhong's army management. This subject will definitely be able to achieve it."

Zhao Jiu shook his head and smiled: "I also know that there is nothing extraordinary about Han Liangchen's army management, but he himself is truly extraordinary... Bo Ying, ask yourself, can you fight those godlike battles of his? Back and forth, one is a Three-Town Military Commissioner and Prince of the Commandery, and the other is a Two-Town Military Commissioner, and that has already created a complete divide."

Zhang Bo Ying hesitated to speak.

"But don't be anxious." Zhao Jiu stopped under a mulberry tree and turned around. "That day, when Han Shizhong's subordinates rioted, I went to his camp to see him, and I spoke clearly. Today, I will say it clearly to you as well... You people who follow me, the first thing is to revive the Song and destroy the Jin. If it succeeds, it succeeds, and if it doesn't, it doesn't. If you truly achieve great merit one day, the world is so big that ten Princes of the Commandery can always be supported. And as for someone like you who understands gains and losses, whether you want to accumulate wealth while alive or ensure the long-term well-being of your children after death, I can always take care of it... The key is that we, as ruler and subject, have gone through so much. What does anyone want? Why not be as frank as we are today? What you and I want, I can naturally give you what you want."

Upon hearing these words, Zhang Jun was completely at ease and prostrated himself again under the mulberry tree, repeatedly expressing his loyalty.

Zhao Jiu had always been impatient with this and became impatient after hearing only a few words. He simply called the other party up and then looked directly at Wu Jie, who had truly gained insight today:

"Jin Qing... your situation is not the same as Bo Ying's."

"This subject understands." Wu Da, known for his courage and intelligence, Wu Jin Qing, although he had been dragged into the situation as soon as he arrived in the capital, and was completely bewildered for half a day, he had understood everything he needed to understand after half a day. He quickly stepped forward and cupped his fist. "The problems in the Rear Army of the Imperial Guard are caused by the shortcomings of the Western Army... Your Majesty personally sat in Guanzhong before. Under Your Majesty's holy authority, downsizing the army, reorganizing it, and granting fields, everyone obeyed. But as soon as Your Majesty left, it can be seen from the fact that the discounted money they receive is far higher than that of other armies, that they immediately had the intention of reverting to their old ways. And this subject is incompetent and could not stop it."

Zhao Jiu stood with his hands behind his back under the mulberry tree, first nodding, but then falling into a strange silence. The spring wind was strong, and during the silence, a gust of wind blew in from nowhere, the insect noises stopped for a moment, and then the mulberry trees swayed continuously, and even the grass underfoot swayed along with the water waves in the fish pond.

Seeing this, Wu Jie couldn't help but feel a little apprehensive, so much so that Zhang Jun, who had just passed the test, had a somewhat gloating expression.

In fact, Wu Jie was not to blame for this, and he was naturally apprehensive.

Because no matter how approachable this Majesty behaved, how frank he was to the point of being sincere, he was still a Majesty, an Emperor, a Son of Heaven, and still a Son of Heaven with such authority... The power of life and death was just a word away.

At least Wu Jin Qing could not think of any room for resistance.

After the gust of wind passed, Zhao, the Majesty, finally spoke, but the first thing he said made Wu Jie's heart sink to the bottom of the fish pond: "I think that the Rear Army of the Imperial Guard is not so much desolate and flawed, as it is that the habits of the separatist warlords are difficult to change, and they want to return to the old separatist warlord pattern."

The word "separatist warlord" was not a groundbreaking term. During Li Gang's administration, it was once used as a national policy. At that time, pacification commissioners and garrison commissioners were flying everywhere, and the main commanders generally had to concurrently hold local official positions, and then raise their own military pay and recruit their own soldiers.

And it must be admitted that such measures were absolutely correct at the time. It allowed the Great Song Dynasty, which was in a state of exile and had only twenty or thirty thousand pitiful soldiers, to catch its breath and develop multiple field armies, providing the most basic military force for the later Zhao Song Dynasty's defense and foothold.

Han Shizhong's Left Army of the Imperial Guard, Zhang Jun's Right Army of the Imperial Guard, Yue Fei's Vanguard Army of the Imperial Guard, and Zhang Rong's Naval Army of the Imperial Guard, were all supported by their own territories and their own revenues in the early stages. Li Yanxian's troops even maintained the only salient point on the north bank of the Yellow River, and to this day they still controlled both military and political power... Even Zhao Jiu's directly controlled Central Army of the Imperial Guard had more than half of them diverted from those early 'separatist warlords'.

During that stage, these commanders collected taxes themselves, recruited soldiers themselves, and built workshops to create military equipment... The elite troops of Han Shizhong's unit were so well-known because of the iconic copper masks, and Zhang Jun's unwillingness to spend money on soldiers, which earned him the mocking nickname of 'Iron Mask', was also a thing of that time.

At that time, these commanders even appointed their own officials and generals, only routinely reporting to the imperial court.

But the problem was that that was the past.

After the victory in the Battle of Yanling, Zhao, the Majesty, returned to the old capital. The first thing he did was to gather the commanders of all units, then absorb the troops of the Tokyo Garrison Command left by Zong Ze, and then, when the finances were slightly improved, he began to rectify the Imperial Guard, not hesitating to increase taxes and duties, in order to determine the number of personnel in each unit of the Imperial Guard, thereby taking back the financial power of each unit.

From then on, the military pay of each unit had to be allocated from the central government.

Moreover, this process of taking back power, which was a turning point with the return to Tokyo, was continuous and gradual. After military pay, the power to appoint local officials was taken back, the Central Army of the Imperial Guard was constantly strengthened, Han Shizhong's conscription caused public resentment and was reprimanded, Yue Fei's request for military equipment and materials was mostly impeached by Li Guang and Li Jing, Qu Duan, the most domineering general, was escorted to the imperial court by a censor, Wang Xie, a scoundrel, was executed at a banquet, and even Zhang Rong's unit, a group of water bandits, was completely reorganized after the Battle of Dongping Prefecture.

And finally, after the Battle of Yaoshan, even the last Western Army was reorganized into the Imperial Guard system, and the imperial court also granted fields to retired and meritorious soldiers in Guanzhong and Henan.

Even now, after Han Shizhong moved to Guanzhong, similar reorganizations are being carried out in Huaixi under the direct responsibility of Liu Ji.

This central imperial court had not been idle for a single day.

So, when all the troops were being de-regionalized, what did it mean for the Son of Heaven to say that your troops actually wanted to return to the regional warlord pattern?

"This subject has received great kindness from Your Majesty and has absolutely no such intention!" Wu Jie was in a daze for a moment and could only barely cup his fist, but his slightly trembling voice clearly showed that he was already somewhat flustered and out of control.

And Zhang Jun no longer had the gloating expression he had before, but simply stood with his hands tied and watched the other party, an old acquaintance from the Western Army.

"I'm not talking about you, but that the Western Army was originally a regional warlord posture." Zhao Jiu certainly wouldn't let the other party misunderstand. "Moreover, I roughly know, because of the policy of guarding the interior and weakening the exterior of this dynasty, the Western Army has always appeared docile and not as rebellious as the separatist warlords of the Five Dynasties and the Late Tang... But in fact, in terms of internal systems, in my opinion, the Western Army is still a solid separatist warlord state. Otherwise, why would there be various separatist warlord methods?"

Speaking of which, Wu Jie and Zhang Jun were both old Western Army soldiers. Although Zhao, the Majesty's, words were a bit awkward and a bit too far-fetched, the two still instinctively understood, because they knew from the bottom of their hearts what Zhao, the Majesty, was talking about the separatist warlord methods.

For example.

Thanks to the long-standing military and political guiding ideology of the Great Song Dynasty, that is, the so-called military logic of guarding the interior and weakening the exterior, in theory and in practice, any Zhao Song Majesty and the central imperial court, or even the supervising military officials sent by the imperial court, could easily obtain command of the Western Army if they wanted to, or directly appoint and remove relevant principal generals.

Even the so-called Western Army general families have never dared to show any excessive domineering attitude towards the imperial court. As long as the central government wanted to, it could easily complete the rise and fall of these general families through legal means... When the Great Song was at its weakest before, Zhao Jiu could still cut off the head of Liu Guangshi, who had made contributions to his enthronement, and freeze it into an ice lump. And the only one who showed a domineering face to Zhao, the Majesty, Qu Duan, was not from a proper high-level general family, and was easily tied up by his subordinates and sent to Tokyo.

But the strange thing was that you could easily replace these general families, execute and punish relevant generals, and idle and abandon certain families, and even send trusted aides from the central government to replace them, but there was always a concept of 'Western Army general families'.

Typically, one would leave, and another would come, one generation would leave, and another would soon rise.

Not only that, Zhang and Wu had both climbed up from the bottom. They knew very well that it was not only the phenomenon of the general families at the top, but also the middle and lower levels within the Western Army that had formed unique, strange, but extremely stable internal mechanisms:

So-called, you are a ruffian from Yan'an Prefecture, he is a barbarian from a border village near Huanqing Road, this one is a good family son from Huanqing Road, that one is a distant branch of a declining general family; you have been mixing in the army for fifteen years, his patron has become a regional commissioner, this family's old friend has suddenly been convicted by the imperial court, that person has spent so much silver... Each has its own traditions and sayings.

The top is dominated by family inheritance of the general families, and the bottom is based on regional origin, forming corresponding factions and hierarchical systems. Finally, combined together, it is a complex military and political interest group with strong exclusiveness and self-survival awareness.

And this form of military and political group, even if it is not a separatist warlord on the surface, is in fact no different from a separatist warlord in terms of internal affairs and ultimate performance... When going to the battlefield, preserving one's own strength is the first priority, seizing merit is the second, and demanding rewards is the third, so the combat effectiveness will naturally be greatly reduced.

"If Your Majesty says so, there is actually some truth to it." Although he was sure that it was not directed at himself, Wu Jie spoke cautiously about this topic, because everyone could see that the Wu family obviously had the potential to become a major general family in Guanzhong. "But how should it be dealt with?"

Under the mulberry tree, Zhao Jiu also raised his head and frowned: "Actually, I have thought about it for a long time. The army is naturally a system. It is impossible to completely eliminate the shortcomings by relying on military discipline and punishment... But there are also some keys. First, do not allow soldiers to work as laborers, farmers, or merchants, that is, do not touch any silver other than national rewards and military pay, which is the first thing... Before the Jingkang Incident, the Hebei Forbidden Army was famous throughout the world for its developed handicraft industry, which could earn money for the generals. Is this a good thing?"

Zhang Jun and Wu Jie looked at each other, but neither interrupted.

"I know what you mean... It's not possible yet, because the national finances are still somewhat insufficient, and it's not easy to take away your workshops and military farms; and we will have to launch a Northern Expedition in the future, and we may have to continue to farm and cultivate land, which is also not appropriate." Zhao Jiu naturally knew the two's thoughts and spoke frankly. "Therefore, this matter should be put off until after the world is stabilized. It doesn't have much to do with you. I'm just saying it now."

Zhang and Wu then cupped their fists and agreed.

"If there is one, there must be two." Zhao Jiu turned and went deeper into the mulberry grove, continuing to speak with his hands behind his back. "Secondly, I think that the promotion of army officers cannot be fundamentally controlled by the imperial court is also a major matter... If we can imitate the Three Dormitory System of the Imperial Academy and reorganize a military academy, also dividing it into three levels, then not only will those who want to become great generals come to my side to be military scholars, but also those who are promoted to general officers will come to study for a year, and those who are promoted to colonel officers will also come to study for a year. It is best if young men who want to join the army from the beginning can directly take the military academy exam. After three to five years of adulthood, they can go out and join the army, and it is okay for them to have a higher starting point."

"Your Majesty's plan is truly brilliant!" Wu Jie was a recognized lover of reading, and he understood it this time, so he couldn't wait to praise it. "If we do this, the officers will all be studious, which is naturally stronger than ordinary officers... And Your Majesty previously entered the army as a Jinshi, which can actually be considered a foreshadowing."

"It's not just like this." Seeing Wu Jie suddenly flatter him, how could Zhang Jun bear it? He also quickly followed up behind him at an angle. "When the officers leave the academy, they can also have a palace exam, ranking them into several grades. Wouldn't all the military officers in the world be like Jinshi, becoming disciples of the Son of Heaven? If they become disciples of the Son of Heaven, who would privately form cliques and curry favor with generals?"

Upon hearing this, Zhao Jiu was not happy but worried, and sighed directly: "That's what they say, but there is no money and no time... If we don't launch a Northern Expedition, based on the current financial situation, it is estimated that it will take three to five years to have enough silver to implement these things one by one. And how can the Northern Expedition wait for three to five years without taking action? And once the Northern Expedition is launched, not to mention that the officers will not be easy to transfer, even the silver will be scattered like flowing water, then what will we use to build a military academy?"

The two immediately shut up.

"Moreover, Jinshi entering the army and military officers going to school are two different things..." Zhao Jiu rambled on in front, shaking his head incessantly. "Jinshi entering the army is not to train military officers, but to have them transmit the country's and my intentions into the army, directly telling the soldiers what I want to say, such as the theory of the unification of China recently written in the imperial gazettes. Understanding this principle, the soldiers will naturally know that fighting the Jin people is necessary... Furthermore, make the logistics and document work more professional, and don't let ordinary troops worry about this kind of thing; as for military officers going to school, it is to wholeheartedly train military officers, so that the army can maintain its combat power, without errors or omissions, even when no one can have Han Shizhong's extraordinary loyalty and courage, Yue Fei's extraordinary resoluteness, Li Yanxian's extraordinary bravery, and your two's understanding of gains and losses and understanding of strategy."

The two were immediately overjoyed and quickly humbled themselves.

"But all in all, in addition to letting you two go back to pay attention, we have to take some temporary measures to prepare for the Northern Expedition." Zhao Jiu stopped again, pondered for a moment, and finally said his plan. "What I mean is, it's too late to run a large-scale military academy, but we can run a temporary training school. It just so happens that Wang Yuan and Lu Jing are now idle and can take on the task of teaching... You two go back, in addition to rectifying military affairs, you also have to send key military officers in the army to the training in batches. I and the Privy Council will talk to them and set up a special cabinet position to arrange and respond... Wu Qing, you also have to make a special explanation on the matter of discounted money, and make a list, and bring a batch of officers with bad habits here. Then I won't let them go back."

The two were once again awe-stricken and immediately agreed.

Zhao Jiu opened his mouth to speak, as if he still wanted to say something, but in the end he chose not to say more, just waved his hand: "That's all for today's affairs. You are also tired, go back and rest early... Especially Wu Qing, I bestowed a residence, but you were called over as soon as you arrived and haven't even seen the inside layout yet."

Wu and Zhang understood and immediately bid farewell, and the conversation in the mulberry grove between the ruler and his subjects came to an end.

Up to this point, the two knew Zhao, the Majesty's, intentions, and from a personal point of view, they were naturally completely relaxed, but from a duty point of view, it was not necessarily so easy. They both had to go back and take measures... Among them, Wu Jie had to go to the Department of State Affairs tomorrow to make an explanation on the matter of discounted money in front of the Ministry of War, and Zhang Jun had to go back and clean up his "helplessness", so they both walked in a hurry after leaving the mulberry grove.

However, when they reached the Yi You Gate and left the scope of the harem, seeing the Donghua Gate in front, and after the palace attendants who were seeing them off stopped, for some reason, the two suddenly slowed down as if they had a telepathic understanding.

"Wu Da, known for his courage and intelligence..." On the empty road, the two walked side by side, and Zhang Jun suddenly sneered. "Old Zhang remembers that when you, Wu Da, were a general officer, I was just a small school officer and only met you a few times in Jingzhao."

"A close school officer under the command of Old Chancellor Zhong is much stronger than the preparing generals on Jingyuan Road." Wu Jie was entering the palace for the first time, so he couldn't help but look around at the shapes of the palace walls and doors. "And what are you saying this for at this time? Didn't His Majesty say that it's just a matter of whether you achieve great merit or not? If you do, this great contribution will be shared down, and one of us will always be a Prince of the Commandery... What about the past?"

"That's right... But can that Qu Da, who is so domineering and mean, also become a Prince of the Commandery in the future?" Zhang Jun became more and more emotional.

"No merit is greater than saving the Emperor..." Wu Jie blurted out.

"That's true."

"But Grand Commandant Zhang." Wu Jie suddenly withdrew his gaze from the eaves of the surrounding palaces and spoke solemnly. "His Majesty seemed to have unfulfilled intentions just now?"

"Yes."

"What do you think it is?"

"You are known for your courage and intelligence, why don't you ask His Majesty directly, and instead come and ask me?" Zhang Jun sneered and directly flung his sleeves, and was the first to walk out of the Donghua Gate.

Wu Jie laughed behind him, but didn't take it too seriously.

Just as the two commanders from the Western Army reunited after many years, but then showed some routine unhappy parting attitudes inside the palace gate, Zhao, the Majesty, finally strolled out of the mulberry grove as well.

In fact, the three rulers and subjects all knew, and Zhao Jiu himself knew even better, that he had not excessively discussed a topic that should have been discussed, that is, the so-called general families.

He wanted to run a military academy and disliked the Western Army's separatist warlord status. Zhao, the Majesty's, attitude towards the general families was self-evident.

Of course, Wu and Zhang could also understand Zhao, the Majesty's, attitude.

Think carefully and you will know... During the Jingkang Incident, the great waves washed away the sand. In the six years before and after, Zhong and Yao lost their teachers and lives, Liu Guangshi was executed, Liu Xi was demoted, Zhe Keqiu surrendered, Miao Fu and Liu Zhengyan were marginalized, Yang Weizhong died of old age, Wang Yuan was obviously civilized and marginalized after losing his last chance in Guanzhong, and the Xin brothers also roughly left the army, replaced by Han Shizhong, Yue Fei, Li Yanxian, Zhang Rong, Qu Duan, Liu Qi, Li Shifu, Li Qiong, Wang De... and Wu and Zhang.

And among these people, except for Liu Qi and Li Shifu, who barely counted as the inheritance of general families, the rest all rose from humble beginnings... Han Shizhong was a ruffian from northern Shaanxi, Li Yanxian was a local strongman, the Wu brothers and Zhang Jun and Wang De were all good family sons, Qu Duan was an orphaned heir, Zhang Rong was a water bandit from the Central Plains, and although Li Qiong and Yue Fei had a huge gap in their origins at the beginning, they were both refugees from Hebei who had lost their homes in the current environment... Whether it was from the perspective of emerging from bottom to top, or from the perspective of observation from top to bottom, Zhao, the Majesty, had no reason to have good intentions towards any general families.

But the problem was that once you continue to discuss this topic, coupled with the previous promise of a Prince of the Commandery, then whether people like Han Shizhong, Zhang Jun, and Wu Jie will have their sons inherit their father's business in the future after becoming commanders, so that new general families will be formed, must be said.

And this topic is too far away for the present, even to the point of being inappropriate.

Therefore, the three stopped tacitly.

"How many people were captured?" In the evening, in the pavilion that had been cleared, Zhao Jiu sat by the railing, and when he saw Yang Yizhong come back, he directly turned his head and asked.

"More than 500 people from six families... According to Your Majesty's instructions, we did not capture women, children, or servants. In fact, we captured about thirty or forty people."

"How much money was confiscated?"

"The gold, silver, money, and silk can be counted, about more than 100,000 strings... The rest of the utensils and cultural relics are hard to say... According to Your Majesty's instructions, we did not move the ordinary furniture and utensils, and all the floating wealth and people were sent to Kaifeng Prefecture. And the 60,000 strings of national bonds were also specially brought by this subject after they were copied out, according to Your Majesty's instructions." As he said this, Yang Yizhong carefully presented the six national bond documents wrapped in hardwood shells, each worth 10,000 strings.

"That's good." Zhao Jiu took the national bond documents wrapped in hardwood shells and put them on the stool behind the stone table, then faced each other solemnly. "You have worked hard, Zhengfu. There is nothing to do today, go and rest."

"Yes." Yang Yizhong lowered his head and responded, then went to do his business.

However, when Yang Yizhong turned around and had not yet reached the Yingri Gate, he ran into Consort Pan holding the Princess of Yi You, and he quickly avoided and saluted. Consort Pan only glanced at Yang Yizhong, but ignored him, and hurried to the pavilion.

"Greetings to the Brother." Consort Pan hurried to the front of the pavilion and directly bowed slightly, holding the little princess, and used an interesting address in a gentle voice.

"Wife, are you here to seek intercession for someone from the Emperor?" Zhao Jiu got up and took the sleeping Yi You and also used an interesting address.

Hearing this answer, Feng Yi, Feng Erguan, and several palace attendants standing far away took a few steps into the mulberry grove.

"That's right." Consort Pan, who had made the first trouble, was a little unaccustomed to it. After a pause, she stood with her hands tied in the pavilion. "So that Brother knows, among them, there are two families who took care of me a lot in Yangzhou back then. Just now, the wives in their families rushed to this concubine in a panic, crying and wailing, and this concubine really couldn't refuse..."

"So that Wife knows." Zhao Jiu looked at the little princess in his arms and couldn't help but sigh. "Although Brother is a good brother who is full of human kindness, the Emperor is a petty-minded bad Emperor who has no human kindness... Alienating the relationship between ruler and subject, especially when one of them is a general commanding the army, this matter is not easy to handle!"

Consort Pan was in trouble for a while and really didn't know how to continue to deal with it.

"But Brother can't make Wife feel embarrassed. Just now, I used all my thoughts to seek intercession from the Emperor and asked for a little something back. Wife, take it over and make an explanation!" As Zhao Jiu said this, he just nodded towards the back of the stone table, pointing out the six national bond documents.

Consort Pan stepped forward and opened it, and was relieved to see that it was a full 60,000 strings of national bonds, but she burst into tears while holding these national bonds for a while: "This concubine thought that Brother was getting tired of this concubine day by day... This concubine's family is just a family of medical officers for generations, how can I compare with Consort Wu's family? And this concubine can't read or practice martial arts, can I accompany Your Majesty into battle, and what *Journey to Subduing Demons Miscellaneous Records* can I record for Your Majesty?"

"*Journey to Subduing Demons Miscellaneous Records* is nothing... Writing code is the hardest job in the world, without exception!" Zhao Jiu helplessly advised, with heartfelt sincerity.

"But this concubine wishes she had this hard job." Consort Pan temporarily put down the national bonds and took out a handkerchief to wipe the tears from her face. "Does Your Majesty know that a few days ago, the actors came to perform the *Cangtou* opera. The *Cangtou* (straight man) said that the author of this *Journey to Subduing Demons Miscellaneous Records* was a Heavenly Man of Blue Bridge, but the *Cangtou* (comedian) said that the author was Wu Cheng'en... At that time, the whole palace laughed, and this concubine also laughed, but after laughing, I wanted to cry."

Speaking of this, Consort Pan, who had just wiped her face, shed tears again.

Zhao Jiu, holding his little daughter, was really helpless, so he had to reluctantly comfort her: "It's just a joke... You must know that old is better than new with clothes and familiar is better than new with people. The kindness of skin and the affection between husband and wife are there, and you have added such a cute princess to me, how could I say that I am tired of you and then get tired of you? But Wife, since you understand Brother's thoughts, you should still move forward and do some new things... Look, even someone like Zhang Jun knows to keep up with the times, let alone someone as clever as you?"

Consort Pan became even more tearful upon hearing this: "This concubine really doesn't know what Your Majesty wants... Since returning from Yangzhou, I do everything, but everything is wrong."

Zhao Jiu finally laughed, but he pointed to the mulberry grove with one hand holding his daughter: "Alright, if it really doesn't work, how about raising silkworms?"

ps: Thanks to the 115th Alliance Leader, Great Boss Wei Xiao Wang... An old familiar id... Xiao Jiu always bullies Xiao Yu... I've been breaking my heart these past two days...