The daily life of a science genius who travels through the book group

Chapter 510 Civil Telegraph Network

The eunuch in charge of Kunning Palace wanted to murder the personal maid next to Prince Jin's son because of personal grievances, but was killed by the emperor.

The queen was so angry that she almost fainted. Fortunately, news came from the south that King Baojun's life was saved.As if to appease the queen, the emperor said that this time Li Yi had made great contributions to the south, he was promoted to a rank of title, and became Prince Bao.

Now the Kunning Palace was swept away from the darkness caused by the eunuch in charge, and became beaming.

A eunuch is just a eunuch, and he dies when he dies. How can it be important for a son to be promoted to the title?

In the Changchun Palace, Xiuqin, the eldest court lady next to Concubine Zhuang, gently rubbed the acupuncture points on the concubine's head and sighed: "Hey, who would have thought that the person who secretly helped the little prince was actually Governor Yang, In your Majesty’s heart, it’s partiality.”

Father-in-law Tan Hongen is Factory Governor Yang's favorite apprentice. Everyone thinks that Tan Hongen's action means Yang Shun'en, and Yang Shun'en means the emperor.

Concubine Zhuang was dressed in plain clothes. The news of her father's death came from Jiangxi. She hadn't slept well for two or three months and often had headaches. Ning Gong sent him off, and also called Jiang Zizheng back from Taiyuan to serve the queen and raise her baby.

The situation in the palace really changed every day, which made her head hurt.

The noble concubine propped her head in silence for a while, then finally snorted, and said unwillingly: "I'll just wait and see how long she can be proud! By the way, Qiong Hui hasn't entered the palace for a long time, right? Call her to the palace to accompany me for a few days day."

Zhuang Qionghui's life in the Three Kings Mansion was not good.

In the first year of her marriage to Li Bin, Li Bin was still very good to her, spending almost half of a month in her room, and sometimes even lost the rule of going to the main room on the 15th day of the junior high school.

Although the concubine Guo Yuner was unhappy, she never turned black, and she never felt sorry for her, even in the morning and evening.

It's just that at that time, she was in the midst of blessings and didn't know how to be blessed. She was still thinking about the eldest prince Li Zhao, and even resented Li Bin for ruining her marriage in her heart, and she often treated Li Bin coldly.

Later...Later, Li Bin gradually lost patience with her, until shortly after Zhuang Qionghui found out she was pregnant a year ago, Li Bin suddenly let Li Bin know about her Highness Xinyue's past.

They also searched out a small portrait she had painted for Li Zhao from her study.

Li Bin pointed at Zhuang Qionghui and yelled at her, and even slapped her several times, causing Zhuang Qionghui to miscarry.

After that, Li Bin never came to her room again.

Not long after, Princess Guo Yuner was pregnant with her third child, and Li Wei met a niece of Mr. Cifu at a poetry meeting, and soon went to ask his father to carry that Miss Lu family into the palace as another sidekick. concubine.

This girl Lu is also a person who knows how to do things. She goes to Princess Guo to pay her respects every day, and also makes needlework for the little princess and the little prince, and often pushes Li Yan into the princess's room. One night, the third highness drank some wine, He dragged that concubine Lu into the concubine's room together, and then Zhuang Qionghui heard that His Highness often dragged concubine Lu and concubine Lu together to mess around in the room.

Zhuang Qionghui felt more and more that Li Tan's face was hideous, but the princess and that side concubine Lu were as good as sisters.

At the beginning of this year, the princess gave birth to His Highness's second son, and Concubine Lu was pregnant with the child.

At this time, the concubine suddenly asked Zhuang Qionghui to come to her room every day to calm down in the morning and evening. She also asked Zhuang Qionghui, a sister, to serve the decoction under the pretext that Concubine Lu was pregnant, and tortured and tortured her in a different way.

Li Yan turned a blind eye to this, and every time he looked at her, his eyes were full of disgust and contempt. .

At that time, when Concubine Zhuang Gui was regaining her glory in the palace, Zhuang Qionghui wanted to go to the palace to complain to her aunt, but Li Bin used various excuses to lock her up in the yard on the pretext that she had been in poor health after a miscarriage.

Concubine Zhuang Gui, who had no knowledge of her niece's situation, even found two Liangyuans with good family backgrounds for her son, and brought them into the Three Princes' Mansion together in April.

Today, the maid next to the imperial concubine came out of the palace again and said that she wanted to meet her niece.

Li Bin pondered and agreed.

He went to Zhuang Qionghui's room and stared intently at her dressing up.

Zhuang Qionghui finished dressing up, turned around and looked at Li Bin raised her chin and said proudly: "Why, what does the lord have to say to my concubine?"

Li Yan plated the two jade walnuts in his hand, and said in a low voice: "When you enter the palace today, you know what to say and what not to say, right?"

Zhuang Qionghui smiled mockingly: "The concubine really doesn't know what to say and what not to say. Please tell me clearly, Your Highness."

"You!" Li Yan stepped forward, grabbed her delicate neck, gritted her molars and cursed: "Bitch! I advise you to be more sensible, don't be shameless! There are more than one dealer. You are a daughter! What do you think you are!"

After finishing speaking, he threw her on the ground, and took out a handkerchief to wipe his hands, as if his hands were dirty even if he touched her.

Zhuang Qionghui lay on the ground, turned her face slightly, squinted at Li Bin, and replied without showing weakness: "Li Bin, what are you? You are an idiot! An idiot who allows women to play with him!"

What she meant by this, Li Yan naturally understood.

She was scolding the concubine, concubine Lu, and they used to pretend to be gentle, courteous and thrifty, but in fact they were hypocritical and black-hearted.Her child was killed by those two together.

But so what?The women are jealous and play tricks, at least it proves that they are their husbands in their hearts!
Besides, there are two other concubines in his backyard who gave birth to him. Yun'er is not such a jealous woman who can't tolerate others. If Zhuang Qionghui hadn't disrespected Yun'er in the past, how could Yun'er tolerate her?
In the end, it was all Zhuang Qionghui's fault.

A woman who thinks about other men all day long, her child doesn't matter.

"Your father is useless. If you still want your brother to be better, then you should control your stinky mouth. Not only are you a daughter, but your brother is not the only son of the dealer. Redress the side concubine! "

Li Bin finally left these two sentences and walked out with big strides.

Zhuang Qionghui lay on the ground without moving. After a while, she let out a low sob...

The matter here was quickly reported to the main courtyard by the servants.

At this time, Guo Yun'er was looking at the account book with her pregnant side concubine Lu Wenfang.

When Lu Wenfang was not out of the cabinet, she begged her cousin Lu Wenyan to take her to do business together. The Song family has a lot of connections, and her cousin is very smart. She just needs to invest some money, and she can sit at home and wait for the dividend.

After marrying into the Three Princes' Mansion, she also knew the importance of building a good relationship with the main house, so she took Guo Yun'er together, set up a car dealership with her cousin, and specially traveled from Dengzhou to the capital. I heard that Princess Jin also participated One share, then you can't lose anything.

Sure enough, as the scale of sea trade expanded year by year, it took them only one year to earn back their capital.

From then on, the princess really treated her like a sister.

The cousin sent someone to deliver last quarter's dividends and quarterly reports. The two looked at it happily, while listening to someone report the tragedy of His Highness's cousin.

Lu Wenfang only lowered her eyes to concentrate on reading the report, pretending that she didn't hear anything, but Princess Guo Yuner taunted her in front of her face: "Thinking about that noble daughter from a noble family in Beijing back then, I wanted to ask to marry her A person who can stand around Shichahai in a circle. It happens that his heart is higher than the sky. In the past, I was also a fool, and I went to ask Jin Wangfei for advice on how to control her husband."

Hearing this, Lu Wenfang finally couldn't help raising her head and asked, "What did you say?"

Guo Yun'er said: "She gave me a math book and asked me to go home and figure it out by myself."

Lu Wenfang's eyes widened, not understanding what it meant.

Seeing her puzzled face, Guo Yun'er laughed and laughed at herself: "I didn't understand at the time, but now I understand."

"My sister taught me, but my sister still doesn't understand."

Guo Yun'er snorted: "A woman can't be full of men in her heart. Whether it is her own man or any other man, once she only has men in her heart, she will become stupid!"

Lu Wenfang let out a chuckle, and waved her handkerchief: "Don't let the prince listen to my sister's words!"

"What words can't be heard by me?"

Li Yan suddenly walked in with long legs.

Lu Wenfang hurriedly stood up and saluted him, before Li Bin went to help her, Guo Yuner took the first step to support Lu Wenfang and said: "You are pregnant, be careful, you don't have to be so polite in the future."

After hearing this, Li Bin was very happy. He liked that the women in his backyard were so harmonious and loving each other.Compared with the rebellious Concubine Zhuang, the two people in front of me are more likable.

Since his grandfather passed away, he was already troubled enough.

Binfu of the royal family told him that the assassin who assassinated his second brother might have something to do with her grandfather. His death may be the emperor's warning and revenge to the banker. He asked Li Bin to keep a low profile recently so as not to offend His Majesty.

Li Yan has been troubled by this matter recently.

It's not that he doesn't know that the concubine mother has ambitions, but he always thought that he was pretending to be deaf and dumb, but he never expected that the concubine mother and grandfather are so courageous!

How dare he send someone to assassinate the prince who is born in the first place!

He was almost scared to death, if this is the case, this time the father killed his grandfather silently, just because of his son's affection, he was lenient to the dealer.

Li Bin just doesn't like to fight, it doesn't mean he is stupid.He knows the stakes here.

But the two newcomers, Liangyuan, were still two little girls who were quarrelsome and jealous. He spoiled them for a month or two just because of their novelty, and now they put on their noses and faces, and started a dyeing workshop to give them some color. , Thinking about it, it's called popularity.

I owe a lesson!

He sat down on Guo Yuner's original position, pulled Guo Yuner to sit on his lap, wrapped his arms around her waist, and rubbed her neck with his chin.

Guo Yun'er pushed him with a smile, and said, "Sister Lu is here, you are not afraid that Sister Lu will be jealous!"

Li Yan narrowed his eyes to look at Lu Wenfang, and asked, "Is Fang'er jealous?"

Lu Wenfang smiled and said, "Sister Wangfei treats me well. In this mansion, I will be jealous of everyone else, only my sister."

Li Bin took Lu Wenfang's hand, rubbed it in the palm of his hand, and said to Guo Yun'er: "It would be great if all the women in the backyard were like you. The princess has a good temper, but the rules that should be taught should be taught. Newcomers For the two Liangyuans, what should the concubine bother with, just let them be as sensible as Fang'er."

Guo Yun'er smiled, and replied neither softly nor hard: "I don't have the means to train people. Sister Lu is good-natured. As for the two new sisters, as long as the prince keeps them cold for a few months, it will be natural. Just be obedient, how can I teach you?"

Li Yan choked, and tilted his head to look at Guo Yun'er in surprise.

Guo Yun'er still smiled softly, looked back at her husband, and said, "With me and sister Lu, you are beautiful enough, and you are not satisfied. Look at your virtue!" After she finished speaking, she stood up and lifted Li Bin from the chair Pull it up, and push it out of the door.

"You hurry up, I like younger sister Lu more than you. I feel disgusted just looking at you!"

Li Bin let out a hey, shook his head and walked away with his hands behind his back, thinking as he walked, he felt that Yun'er's words were so reasonable.

In the room, Lu Wenfang looked at Guo Yun'er in surprise and admiration.Just now, he was well-measured, neither wronged himself, nor made the prince angry, which is really amazing!

Guo Yun'er lifted her chin and said, "Men are all cheap, you can't rely on them for everything."

Lu Wenfang only said softly: "My sister and the prince are husband and wife, so only my sister can say this. I wouldn't dare to change it."
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On the eighth day of the seventh month of this year, Song Qingyue’s birthday, Li Zhao gave Song Qingyue a birthday gift: one from Tianjin Port, passing through Jingshi, Baoding, Zhending, and then to Taiyuan, and then forking, one going north to Datong, and one going south Telegraph line to Binh Duong - civilian.

There are a total of five parallel lines, with 35 stations in the middle, and the total cost is nearly 13 taels of silver.

In order to produce qualified copper cores for electric wires, Taiyuan No. Arsenal even contributed an article on high-purity copper smelting methods to Science Magazine.

With a map in her hand, Song Qingyue was happy in her heart, and her face was still very arrogant, she just looked at Li Zhao and said, "I make money, doesn't that mean you make money? You are sending me to work again, right?"

Li Zhao put his arms around her shoulders, smiled and shook his head: "That's different. What's mine is yours, and what's yours is still yours."

Song Qingyue snorted, and the corners of her mouth couldn't stop turning up, Li Zhao knew that this gift was very suitable for his sweetheart.

After going to bed at night, Song Qingyue was still holding a charcoal pencil and a notebook to whisper to Li Zhao, saying that she planned to select girls with good memory from the Zhaoyue girls' school near each station to be telegraph operators in the telegraph station.

"Brother Ah Zhao, who do you think are the people who need to deliver letters? How will you set the price then?"

Li Zhao leaned on the soft satin, played with Song Qingyue's shiny black hair and said with a smile, "So happy? Did you call Brother Azhao?"

"Hmph! Do you want to hear it or not!"

"I love to hear, love to hear! How often do you yell! I love to hear you yell like that. Ever since I became a child mother, I seldom hear you yell like that." Li Zhao recalled that Song Qingyue was a teenage girl in the past. Sometimes, I can't help feeling a little bit emotional.

Song Qingyue's ears turned red quietly, and she buried her face in the pillow and said, "It's not the age to pretend to be young."

Li Zhao reached out and pulled her into his arms, leaned over and kissed her pink cheek: "My husband's baby is still fresh, why can't you shout?"

He kissed her, quietly removed the paper and pen in her hand and threw them under the bed, turned over and pinned her down.

……

In fact, Song Qingyue didn't need to worry about the business of the telegraph station at all.

At the beginning of August, when the first batch of telegraph operators started their trial operation, Mo Yun sent a telegram from the capital, saying that she had done some calculations and that Zhaoyue Bank was willing to arrange a route from Beijing to Tianjin Port at an annual price of 2 taels. access to the line.

Because of the huge volume of business between Tianjin Port and the capital, contracting a line can save the bank at least 4 taels of communication expenses every year.

This telegram opened Song Qingyue's mind at once.

Then I sent back a telegram to Mo Yun, asking her to visit Shen Xin, the president of the Royal Bank, and ask him if he also needs to charter a line from Beijing to Tianjin Port, the price is 4 taels a year.

Coming out of the telegraph room in the mansion, she turned around and went to the meeting hall in front of the palace.

This Taiyuan Palace is a small Forbidden City.

Li Zhao would discuss matters here with the auxiliary guests of the palace almost every day, and occasionally called officials from Shanxi and Taiyuan to question or explain errands.

Li Zhao allowed Song Qingyue to go to the meeting room at any time, but Song Qingyue seldom went there.Firstly, she has a lot of things to do of her own, and there is also a meeting room that belongs to her in the backyard. Second, this is always an imperial society. No matter how many privileges Li Zhao gives her, it is always based on his respect for her. On her feelings, not on an inherent system.

And the most unreliable thing in this world is love.

But today's incident was a little special, and she also wanted to let the circle of close officials around Li Zhao listen to what she had to say.

So Song Qingyue went directly to the meeting room in the front yard.

It just so happened that the Chief Secretary of Shanxi Province and several officials from the Yamen of Taiyuan Prefecture were also there today, and they were a little surprised to hear that the guards standing at the door suddenly ran in and said that the empress had come.

Immediately afterwards, they saw the legendary and unparalleled princess walking in with swift strides, and sat down on a mahogany embroidered plinth next to Li Zhao's gold-lacquered chair with a python's head carved on it.

Wait, is that mahogany embroidered pier placed there all the time?
How did they never notice it before?

Could it be that it was specially prepared for the princess?
Song Qingyue didn't want to be polite to these adults when she came, and said straight to the point: "I'm interrupting everyone's discussion, and I'll leave after I finish speaking. I came here today to talk about the civilian telegraph line."

Li Zhao put down the booklet in his hand, turned to look at Song Qingyue: "It's okay, Yue'er, let's talk first."

"Your Majesty, you must quickly ask His Majesty to add a clause to the Great Zhou Law. Private individuals are not allowed to set up telegraph lines without the permission of the court. If necessary, you must apply for permission from the court. In the future, this permit can be used like Yanyin It’s the same for money! I didn’t think of it before, but I suddenly thought of it today. If everyone builds telegraph lines privately in the future, it will be a mess.”

When she said that, everyone was shocked.

Li Zhao's expression became even more serious.

"Yue'er is right, this matter is really important."

He thought for a while, and then said: "After Yue'er said this, the king thought of something that needs to be added: it is forbidden to set up private telegraph lines in the barracks of the guards and frontier fortresses. If there is a need to set up private telegraph lines, it must be done by The communication company licensed by the imperial court undertakes the construction and operation."

Song Qingyue added while thinking: "Individuals and commercial companies only have the lease and use rights of the lines, but no ownership of the lines. All lines must be unifiedly owned by the imperial court."

"Yes, the communication network is an important thing, and it must not be left in the hands of individuals." Li Zhao nodded.

Song Qingyue reminded again: "My lord, I feel that it is very necessary for the imperial court to set up a communication department in advance. And it is best for the lord to go to the capital to discuss this matter with the emperor face to face. The line we have in our hands will be used in the future. The Communications Department paid for % of the shares, and we will help with the operation here, and when the time comes to divide the accounts between the two parties, it is not a violation of the rules."

After finishing speaking, she glanced around at everyone present, making the group of elders a little nervous for no reason, and subconsciously straightened their backs.

She said: "Everyone here has put in a lot of effort to build this line before, right? My princess is very grateful to you all. But I also hope that everyone needs to have a string in their minds and some rules. Whether it is the palace , or an important minister in the court, no one can destroy it."

After some words, the mouths of the old men were dry, and the empress almost said that she hoped that they could accept their selfishness in the future.

Li Zhao looked at Song Qingyue and smiled, thinking that it's no wonder she came here suddenly today, she came to beat up the group of people under his hands.

She came to stand up for him, and sang this good face for him, Li Zhao felt inexplicably being protected by his own lady behind him, and his heart was a little sweet.

As the confidant of the prince, Xing Shangqian now also feels a little like a needle in his buttocks.

It's not that I don't think well, but that I am too selfish.

He knows better than anyone the deep considerations behind the construction of the civil telegraph network by the Prince Jin's Mansion.

And this matter is subtle because they all acquiesced that His Majesty would not mind it, let alone suspect His Majesty because of this matter.

But why do they acquiesce like this?Based on the father-son relationship between His Majesty and His Majesty?
"Your Majesty is far-sighted and considerate, and my subordinates are ashamed." Xing Shangqian stood up and cupped his hands towards Song Qingyue.

(End of this chapter)