System, help me become the empress

Chapter 177

In the first year of God Bless, the twelfth day of the twelfth lunar month.

Before Xu Youxi left Guangzhou, he selected elites from the Shipbuilding Bureau and brought them to Shanghai, where they set up the Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau, which mainly focused on the 'steamboat' manufacturing industry, supplemented by steel and firearms manufacturing.

Southern Zhili's Yin Tian Fu Yin Su Xuan was directly responsible for the Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau, and the Jiangnan governor regularly supervised and reported the progress to the court.

There is no need for Xu Youxi to worry about the next thing. When she goes to Guangdong next time, she can drop by here to express condolences.

The railway from Shuntianfu to Guangzhou is divided into several sections to be built at the same time. Along the way, young and middle-aged people with different appearances can be seen working hard in many places.Xu Youxi paid attention to what these people ate, they could guarantee hot meals and hot dishes, and they could still eat meat dishes every few days, so she felt relieved.

These young and middle-aged people thought that they came to Dagan to be slaves, and no matter how many beatings, scolding and insults they had to endure, they could not hurt their relatives far away in their hometown, so that these people even entrusted their funeral affairs to them before leaving the country up.

It wasn’t until after they came to Daqian that they discovered that, in addition to working harder, the food, clothing and housing conditions here are even better than when they were at home. After a few months, each of them saved A lot of money.

When Xu Youxi rode his horse back to Shangjing unhurriedly, the sacrifice was over.

After Yu Xuejing waited at the door of the imperial study room until Xu Youxi came back, he reported to her in detail the current situation in Shangjing and Xu Xiaoxiao's performance during this period.

"Your Excellency has worked hard during this time, please rest more after you go back!"

In just over two months, a few sporadic white hairs could be seen on Xue Jing's head, and Xu Youxi couldn't help feeling a little guilty.

"I thank your majesty for your concern. If your majesty has nothing else to do, I will go to deal with Jin Yiwei's affairs."

After Yu Xuejing finished speaking and was about to step down, Xu Youxi also asked Xu Ling to go home and rest for a few days.

"Your Majesty thanked you for your kindness." Xu Ling was a little flattered.

After thanking him, Xu Ling hurriedly followed Yu Xue Jing, and looked at Master Yu's white hair in a distressed tone: "My lord, you have gray hair."

As he spoke, Xu Ling stretched out his hand to help Lord Yu pull out his white hair.

"Don't touch."

Yu Xuejing said in a low voice.

Xu Ling moved too fast, and soon he looked at the white hair lying in his palm with a confused face. How could the white hair fade?
Yu Xuejing took a deep look at Xu Ling, but didn't say anything, and ran away at a faster pace.

Xu Ling looked at Lord Yu's back in a hurry, and then looked back at the closed imperial study room, suddenly he was stunned.

Master tricks?

Dare he be the only one who is innocent? !
……

When Xu Youxi pushed open the door of the imperial study room, Xu Xiaoxiao was lying in front of the desk in the imperial study room, half asleep and half awake. After seeing that it was Xu Youxi who pushed the door and came in, her sleepiness disappeared in an instant!

Xu Xiaoxiao's first renewal time was half a year, and now it's more than half a year, Xu Youxi plans to renew for a few more months, after all, it's a great thing to have a free labor force to attend the morning court and approve memorials for him.

However, this plan was dismissed under Xu Xiaoxiao's extremely condemning eyes.

"Xixi, my current cornea attrition rate is 10%; liver attrition rate is 6%, bilateral kidney attrition rates are 18%, 15% respectively, and brain attrition rate is 14%. If Xixi renews my fee now , will cause the heart loss rate to exceed 25% in an instant, and at the same time, the failure of multiple organs in the whole body will be accelerated."

"Ah? What does the attrition rate represent?" Xu Youxi asked in confusion.

Xu Xiaoxiao has a serious face: "Once the loss rate of my organs exceeds 80%, the success rate of our two organ transplants will be less than 50%; once the loss rate exceeds 95%, there is no way to perform organ transplantation for you." Transplanted!"

?

Why do I want your organ transplant!

"Smile, I won't take your organs."

"No! Xixi needs it!" Xu Xiaoxiao covered his ears and knelt down, "This is related to the dignity of a stand-in."

"..."

At the same time, the system also sent out a message reminder, Xu Youxi clicked on the message to check.

【Stand-In Doll Xu Xiaoxiao】

[Mood value: 20 (frightened)/100 (your doll hopes to be recycled into the backpack immediately)]

"I know you've worked hard, otherwise I arranged for you to go out of the palace for a stroll? Are you having fun?" Xu Youxi patted Xu Xiaoxiao's head.

Xu Xiaoxiao changed her posture and covered her ears and squatted.

【Mood value: 19 (depressed) / 100 (your stand-in baby feels wronged and just wants to put it in the backpack)】

"Could it be that Lord Yu bullied you when I was not around?" Xu Youxi thought of Lord Yu's white hair, as if she couldn't bear to say that Lord Yu was wrong.

"How is it possible, there is nothing!"

Xu Xiaoxiao pointed the back of his head directly at Xu Youxi this time.

[Mood value: 14 (shame and anger)/100 (your stand-in doll has a stronger desire to return the backpack)]

Xu Youxi knew that she couldn't continue teasing Xu Xiaoxiao, so she chose to take her back, and then Xiaoxiao's mood instantly soared above the passing line.

After coming to the imperial study room, Xu Xiaoxiao finished approving the batch of memorials within three months, and the rest that needed her to deal with were the year-end summaries handed in by officials big and small, as well as everyone's New Year plans for God Bless for three years.

Xu Youxi made himself some tea, and watched while drinking. Because of the experience of rewriting last year, the officials this year have no major problems with the format, but the goals proposed by many people are too conservative.

For example, if the per capita GDP of a certain place is 100 yuan this year, then these local officials often plan to strive for 99-105 yuan next year.

The officials made their plans only thinking of guaranteeing the bottom line, but Xu Youxi was not willing to push these officials too hard. If the time came to come up with a muddled policy of deceiving the top and the bottom, the most unlucky ones would be ordinary people.

Only a small number of officials' exaggerated plans were sent back and rewritten.

Xu Youxi felt tired before finishing the plan, so she closed her eyes and rested her mind for a while, and began to flip through the recently missed issues of Gan Bao.

One issue of the newspaper was devoted to the introduction of 'corn'. The content ranged from the planting method of corn to the processing method of corn after harvest.

It is very practical for farmers who grow corn or plan to grow corn.

The author's signature of this article is that the names of the three people in charge of the experimental field of the Shengong Bureau are placed in the front, and Du Zhiyi's name is specially added at the end.

Xu Youxi found a memorial recently submitted by Du Zhiyi, which mainly wrote about the corn harvest in the second half of the year. This memorial analyzed in detail the advantages and disadvantages of planting corn on a large scale.

The main advantages include that corn can be grown in the same species as sweet potatoes, and has a large yield, is not difficult to plant, and is more drought-tolerant than other crops; but there are also many disadvantages, not cold-resistant, and the acceptance of corn by the people in many places is far lower than that of rice and rice. wheat.

Xu Youxi took out a pen and paper, wrote a reply on the memorial, asked Du Zhiyi to try to process 'corn' into 'cornmeal', and let the people make cornmeal into various foods, so as to increase the acceptance of the people.

'Corn' can also be processed into 'popcorn', corn cobs can be processed into poultry feed as much as possible and stored, and it will be able to play a role in a short time.

After the spring of next year, I will redistribute the proportion of cultivated crops according to the amount of dry grain reserves.

After Xu Youxi finished approving the memorial, he put it aside, and after the eunuch in charge of ceremonies saw it, he would distribute it to several ministers.

Only then did Xu Youxi remember that Zhou Huixue seemed to have been transferred away by him to accompany the Supreme Emperor and Empress Dowager.The two old men seemed to be enjoying their life outside the palace. For three whole months, they didn't mention going back to Beijing.

"It's almost Chinese New Year, remember to ask the Supreme Emperor and Empress Dowager when they will return to the palace."

Xu Youxi looked at the somewhat familiar eunuch waiting at the door, thought for a long time, and found that he still couldn't give his name, and it was really easy for Zhou Hui to learn and use.

"The servant complies with the order." The little eunuch lowered his head vigorously, even speaking cautiously.

Xu Youxi pushed open the door.

It wasn't dark, but it had started to snow outside the house, and the flakes were of different sizes. After a while, the red walls and blue bricks were covered with a white veil.

Xu Youxi immediately closed the door to prevent the cold wind from blowing in. By the way, she put on an extra padded jacket, but found that it was still too cold, so she went to the nearby palace to find a cloak to wrap herself up.

Ugh.

Zhou Huixue was absent, and there was no one in the palace who would take the initiative to light the stove for her.

It started to snow outside the palace, and Xu Youxi's plan to leave the palace was also temporarily cancelled, so he could only go back to read the memorial unwillingly.

The sky gradually darkened, and the wind outside the imperial study room became louder and louder, constantly beating on the doors and windows.Xu Youxi wrapped herself tightly, but when she went out, she was still shivering from the cold wind.

Standing in front of the palace maid holding the lantern, she couldn't even stand still, so Xu Youxi had to support her.

"Fortunately, the snow didn't fall until after I came back, otherwise this road would be difficult."

Xu Youxi returned to his palace with great difficulty, and finally picked out a few burly Jinyi guards, and asked: "Inform the court officials on my behalf, it is difficult to travel in snowy weather, and tomorrow morning will be avoided for the time being, and we will talk about it when the weather stops. Start the early morning, and wait for my further notice."

"Subordinates obey."

"After you have informed, you should go home early to rest, and you don't have to go back to the palace."

Before closing the door, Xu Youxi asked all the palace guards and guards in charge of the night watch to go home. If they didn't plan to go back, they could find an empty room to rest by themselves. There was no need to stay in the snow all night.

The stove was fired in advance in her palace, which was much warmer than outside.

I don't know how many days it will snow.

……

The heavy snow continued to fall continuously, and by the next day, Xu Youxi had already noticed that something was wrong, and the snow on the ground had already covered her ankles.

On the morning of the third day, although the snow stopped, the snow was already close to Xu Youxi's knees, and it was not known whether it would continue to fall.

Xu Youxi couldn't stay in the palace any longer, but with such thick snow, it was almost impossible to get out of the palace.Xu Youxi put on a raincoat and rain boots over his padded jacket, and began to try to walk outside the palace.

"Master Du, are you at home?"

Xu Youxi's attendants knocked hard on the door of Du Zhiyi's house, only to be told that Master Du left for Jing Zhaoyin early in the morning.

Xu Youxi ran to Jing Zhaoyin to find someone again, and happened to meet Du Zhiyi and Jing Zhaoyin on the way. Behind them were many men dressed as peasants, and a group of people were shoveling snow hard on the road with shovels.

Jin Yiwei, who followed Xu Youxi, also brought a shovel to clear the snow: "Master Du, give me the key to the tax treasury."

"Yes."

After Xu Youxi took the key, he first went to Shenjiying to open a 'digger' for farming. Because the weather was too cold, the materials in the steam boiler failed to ignite after several times, so Xu Youxi added a lot of water to it. With less combustion accelerant, it was difficult to start the car.

"Your Majesty, why did you come out in the snow?"

Wen Deyi looked at Xu Youxi's red hands from the cold, and asked anxiously.

"I'm not worried."

The 'digger' started to shovel the snow off the ground as soon as he left the Shengong Bureau. Xu Youxi drove the excavator and asked Jin Yiwei who followed behind to ride a tricycle to load the goods.

When the people from Shenji Camp saw Xu Youxi coming, they all asked what happened to Wen Deyi.

Wen Deyi understood Xu Youxi's plan. After watching her leave for a long time, she suddenly turned her head and asked the workers of Shengong Bureau, "Is there anyone going out with me to shovel snow?"

It is not easy to implement the method of driving the "digger" to shovel snow, and it is also stop-and-go along the way.

Xu Youxi drove a big machine, finally arrived at the tax warehouse in the city, and asked Jin Yiwei to move the food like 'potatoes' and 'sweet potatoes' stored in it to the tricycle, and took away dozens of thick padded jackets along the way.

After the supplies were loaded, Xu Youxi led the group of Jinyi guards to shovel the snow while knocking on doors from door to door asking everyone how much food was left in their homes, enough for a few days, and whether they had enough clothes and quilts.

"There are not many emergency supplies. If you need them, take them. If you don't need them, leave them for those who are more in need."

The snow only stopped for one morning, and in the afternoon, the whole of Shangjing...or maybe the whole of the north began to snow again.

Xu Youxi was exhausted to the extreme against the wind and heavy snow. She originally thought that this was just a very simple thing, just sending some supplies to people who lacked food and clothing. She never expected that it would be so difficult to do it.

She actually naively thought that it would be enough for her to bring a few people to work for a few hours.

Snowflakes floated in the sky again.

Xu Youxi didn't feel the slightest bit of happiness, and even some hopeless thoughts appeared in her mind.

She probably won't finish clearing the snow.

It was as if she could never save everyone in the world.

……

"Your Majesty, look behind!"

Xu Youxi turned around and found that they were knocking on the door just now to ask people in need of help, they all put on the thickest clothes at home, and spontaneously went to the side of the road to shovel snow.

Because I feel the care brought by others, I hope to do my best to help others as well.

Her eyes couldn't stop being sour, and Xu Youxi felt a warmth surge in her heart, as if someone had told her suddenly that you were not fighting alone.

At the corner of the intersection ahead, a group of very familiar faces suddenly appeared. They were Teng Xuesheng and Meng Zhiqian who were shoveling snow with shovels...

The road ahead of Xu Youxi was completely cleared by another group of people when she didn't know it.

Snow will always fall.

however.

People are here, home is here, and country is here.

(End of this chapter)