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Chapter 890 Storing Mineral Resources
Because Suning and the Ningyuan Army used thunder-like means to eliminate all the descendants of the Zhao clan, Empress Huirou and Crown Prince Zhao Chen naturally sat firmly on the throne. They also frightened Empress Cao, who was already the Empress Dowager, at the first moment. Then, they did not do anything behind the scenes like in the original drama, otherwise Empress Dowager Cao was sure that Suning would make her lose her reputation in her later years.

However, Suning and Empress Huirou did fulfill their original promise. They still allowed Empress Dowager Cao to participate in daily political affairs with great respect. She was not locked up in the imperial palace as Empress Dowager Cao had worried. They also took relatively good care of Empress Dowager Cao's family members. There were not many restrictions on whether the Cao family members were in the military or in politics. This made Empress Dowager Cao and her family feel much freer than during the Renzong period.

"Prince Ning, I heard that you recently got two beauties?" Queen Mother Cao looked at the powerful Su Ning in front of her and asked him in a very cautious tone.

"Empress Dowager, how could these little things reach you?" Su Ning knew that she was talking about Zhao Zongquan's wife and sister-in-law, and then she looked at Empress Dowager Cao with a meaningful smile.

"Prince Ning, you are now an important official in the court of the Song Dynasty. Your every word and action attracts great attention. It is really not good to treat these two beauties with such special identities." Seeing that Su Ning in front of her was not angry about this, Queen Mother Cao carefully expressed her advice.

"Haha, does the Queen Mother have any good suggestions?" Su Ning looked at the Queen Mother Cao in front of him and asked without comment.

"Prince Ning, it's better not to keep such special women by your side. Just let these two poor women leave the palace and become ordinary people. I will personally organize a beauty pageant for you, Prince Ning, and guarantee that all the beauties in the world will be admitted to Prince Ning's palace." Then the Queen Mother Cao expressed her proposal, or it could be said that it was the idea of the ministers of the previous dynasty.

"My Lady, do you think I am a lustful person?" Suning did not agree to Queen Mother Cao immediately. Instead, he looked at her and asked.

"Huh? Not really! It's just that doing this is not good for your reputation, Your Highness." Queen Mother Cao really wanted to say, "Aren't you just that kind of person?" but she said it with an embarrassed smile.

"Grand Empress, thank you for your concern for my personal affairs, but I took these two beauties not just for their beauty, but mainly because of the personal grudge between me and Zhao Zongquan and his son."

"Ah?" Empress Dowager Cao looked at Su Ning in front of her in surprise. She didn't expect that Su Ning was so disgusted with Zhao Zongquan.

"Also, please tell the minister who asked you to deliver the message, don't focus on my personal affairs, but focus more on state affairs." Su Ning knew that many people were dissatisfied with him for forcibly marrying the Shen sisters. After all, such behavior reminded them of the last emperor of Southern Tang. They all believed that this was a humiliation of the royal family of the Song Dynasty by Su Ning.

"Huh? Okay! Okay." Queen Mother Cao nodded in surprise, realizing that Suning would not compromise.

"Your Highness, there are so many beauties in the world. I have no interest in beauty pageants, so let's just give up on the matter." Then, Suning also rejected Queen Mother Cao's proposal to select a beauty pageant for him.

"Okay! I understand."

Su Ning knew that he could not hide the fact that he had forced Zhao Zongquan's wife Shen Congying and the two sisters of the Shen family to stay from the people in the court. Although the royal family of Zhao Song had been completely wiped out by Su Ning, there were still some fools who wanted to show their loyalty in front of Su Ning, but their loyalty was shown to the wrong target.

"Prince Ning, did the Queen Mother talk to you about Shen Congying and Xiao Shen?" Empress Huirou soon learned that Queen Mother Cao had found Su Ning, and then she went straight to Su Ning and asked.

"Yes! Huirou, you also heard the news?" Su Ning admitted it without hiding it, realizing that Queen Huirou also came to persuade him.

"Well, Lord Han came to me specifically and said that killing people is not enough and there is no need to humiliate the Zhao royal family too much." As expected, Empress Huirou looked at Su Ning in front of her with a wry smile and explained.

"Huirou, what do you think?" Su Ning asked Queen Huirou with a playful expression on his face.

"Uh?"

"Hui Rou, I just be myself. I have my own standards when dealing with people and things. No one can interfere with my preferences."

"Okay, I understand." Empress Huirou looked at Su Ning thoughtfully, then looked at him puzzledly and asked, "Your Highness, I heard that the soldiers who went on the Western Expedition have stockpiled a large amount of minerals and oil?"

"Yes! These things are of great use to me. Minerals and resources are the upper limit of a country's development, so I will do everything possible to collect mineral resources in my lifetime." Suning's plan to transform this world is huge. In order to keep China's leading position in this time and space, Suning is ready to exploit a large amount of mineral and oil resources from all over the world, and at least take into his pocket some of the most famous mineral deposits in the world.

"Your Highness, the army has captured so many laborers from all over the country, and they are now working hard to mine mineral resources in various places. Where will all these things be stored after being transported back to the Song Dynasty?" Empress Huirou naturally did not know Suning's true purpose, but was puzzled about how to store them.

"Stock up on the spot! I will naturally make arrangements." Suning smiled somewhat disapprovingly. What was difficult for others was nothing to him.

"Huh? Okay." Although Empress Huirou did not understand Su Ning's behavior, she knew that she could only choose to support him.

Suning's arrangement was of course to personally go to the storage places in various places to collect various minerals and oil into the space world. In order to quickly collect various resources in this space and time, Suning took out a lot of advanced mining equipment from the space world. For example, oil pumps extract a large amount of oil every day, and many railways are laid for transportation. Then, they will be collected by Suning and stored in the space world. As for the world's major gold, silver, copper and other minerals, they naturally became Suning's personal property.

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Suning's Ningwang Mansion has now become the number one family in the Song Dynasty. Everyone with a discerning eye knows that after Crown Prince Zhao Chen ascends the throne, the Song Dynasty will directly belong to the Su family, and the Zhao Song will naturally become the Su Song. Therefore, countless people come to the Ningwang Mansion to give gifts every day, and Suning naturally accepts them all and puts them into the space world.

Because Suning, the King of Ning, started his career by rebelling against the imperial court, he was ruthless in dealing with the rebellions that had occurred one after another. After several uncompromising and forceful suppressions, many people saw that the Song court no longer had any strategies for appeasement, and they became fearful of the court and the Ningyuan Army and became obedient. Naturally, this led to a period of real peace in the Song Dynasty, which was once full of war.

Ning Wangfu, Shanshuiju, Sheng Molan was arranged to live here by the palace's housekeeper Su San since she drank the "safflower soup". Although she felt very sorry that she had lost her fertility, she could only muster up her strength and try her best to cater to Su Ning's preferences. Fortunately, Su Ning was very fond of her in the following days, so that Sheng Molan did not feel too aggrieved. At the same time, she and her mother Lin Qinshuang also got the expected glory.

"Ugh..." Sheng Molan suddenly felt nauseous in her stomach, and then vomited uncomfortably.

"Mrs. Mo, are you feeling unwell? I'll call the imperial physician for you right away." The maid beside her looked at Sheng Molan nervously and asked.

"Okay! I've been feeling poor appetite these past few days, so it would be nice to ask the imperial physician to come and take a look." Sheng Molan nodded and agreed without any refusal.

Soon, the full-time imperial physicians of the Ning Prince's Mansion came to Shanshuiju. These full-time doctors were all Suning's AI robots. While they usually treated Suning's family, they also absorbed as much Chinese medicine as possible from the Song Dynasty. With the support of the Ning Prince's Mansion and the entire Song Dynasty court, they quickly absorbed the most advanced Chinese medicine skills.

"Mrs. Mo, congratulations! You are pregnant." The AI robot acting as the imperial physician looked at Sheng Molan in front of him and said with a smile.

"Ah? What? I'm pregnant?" Sheng Molan immediately looked at the doctor in front of her with a look of surprise. "Yes! It's been almost three months. I can't be wrong."

"Ah? This is impossible?" At this moment, Sheng Molan immediately thought of the safflower soup she had drunk, and realized that the safflower soup might have been a trick by Suning.

Puzzled and surprised, Sheng Molan immediately came to Sheng Hualan, then looked at Sheng Hualan in front of her and asked, "Big sister, where did the safflower soup that the prince asked me to drink come from?"

"Haha, fourth sister, the prince was just trying to scare you. What he asked someone to give you to drink was not safflower soup." Sheng Hualan looked at Sheng Molan with some amusement and explained.

"what?"

"Fourth sister, it's mainly because the prince was very prejudiced against you and Lin Xiaoniang, so he had to deliberately scare you."

"big sister……"

"Fourth sister, you are also a smart person. Don't be too clever for your own good." Sheng Hualan then looked at her fourth sister and persuaded her.

"Ah? Thank you, big sister! Molan got it."

Suning doesn't have too many women now, namely the five women of the Sheng family, Hua, Ming, Mo, Shu and Pin, as well as Empress Huirou, Shen Hezhen and the two sisters of the Shen family. This can be said to have caught all the beauties who can see the past in "The Story of Minglan", so Suning did not continue to expand the size of his harem.

Because giving birth in this era was like walking into the gates of hell for women, Suning not only took out various medical skills from the space world, but also various Western medicines for preserving the fetus and calming the nerves. In addition, Suning paid special attention to the health of his women, so every woman gave birth to at least two children for Suning, and soon the Su family became a large family.

After Su Ning agreed to accept Sheng Molan, he did not reject her too much. Instead, he treated her equally and loved her equally. When he heard that she was pregnant with his child, he immediately arranged for the housekeeper Su San to take out a lot of gifts from the treasury and send them to her.

"Molan, from now on, just stay in Shanshuiju and take care of your pregnancy."

"Thank you, Your Highness! Your Highness, I want to go back to the Sheng family to see my mother."

"No! The most important thing for you now is to take care of your baby. I'll bring your little mother over to talk to you later."

"Yes! Your Majesty."

In fact, Su Ning didn't want Sheng Molan and Lin Qishuang to have more contact, but Lin Qishuang was Sheng Molan's biological mother after all, and she was also worried that blindly refusing would make Sheng Molan frightened, so she took the time to arrange for someone to pick Lin Qishuang up.

Lin Qinshuang and Sheng Molan finally reunited, and naturally they hugged each other in surprise and cried bitterly. Lin Qinshuang looked at her daughter with pride and said, "Mo'er, I didn't expect you to really succeed."

"My dear, the prince is very good to me now, and he is planning to send Brother Changfeng to serve as an official in a remote place." At this time, Sheng Molan looked at Lin Qinshuang with great satisfaction and explained.

"Oh? Did the prince say where to send your brother away?" Then Lin Qishuang looked at Sheng Molan in front of her with excitement and asked.

"I don't know! I also heard it from one of the Queen's maids. You don't know how strict the rules of Prince Ning's Mansion are. Servants are not allowed to talk nonsense among themselves."

"Well, I don't worry about your brother's affairs. If you can give birth to a son for the prince in the future, my grandson will at least be named a prince."

"My dear mother, now that the eldest lady has been sent to her hometown in Youyang to eat vegetarian food and chant Buddhist scriptures, my father should treat you better, right?" Sheng Molan knew that the rules in the palace were strict, so she didn't want to discuss this issue with her mother, and then deliberately changed the subject to talk about the Sheng family.

"It's okay! But there is a little girl named Wei who is getting in the way, and I always feel uncomfortable." When Lin Qinshuang mentioned Wei Xiaoniang at this time, she couldn't help but reveal a vicious look on her face again.

"Young lady, don't do anything out of line to Madam Wei. Think about the retribution that Madam and Lady Kang received. If you were caught by the prince, you might not be able to escape unscathed like Madam." Sheng Molan heard from Lin Qinshuang that she still wanted to get rid of Madam Wei, so she hurriedly tried to persuade her.

"Huh? That's because Madam Wang Ruofu is too stupid. She ruined such a good plan. If it were me, I would have succeeded long ago." At this time, Lin Qishuang retorted with disdain, and her words revealed her disdain for Wang Ruofu and the Wang Ruo sisters.

"My dear, it is simply that the prince has been letting the Imperial Guards monitor the Sheng family. Have you forgotten that the prince gave the Sheng family many servants, and those servants are the spies of the Imperial Guards." Seeing her mother's face full of disapproval, Sheng Molan smiled bitterly and shook her head.

"Ah? That shouldn't be the case?" Only then did Ringo Shuang come to her senses a little.

"My dear, the prince actually hates you and me. That's why he doesn't want me to enter the palace. So I hope you can live a stable life in the future."

"This……"

"Little girl, now we have the glory and wealth we want. There is no need to continue to struggle."

"..."

To be honest, Lin Qinshuang now wished she could get rid of Wei Xiaoniang immediately, so that the entire Sheng family would respect her. You know, the eldest lady Wang Ruofu has been driven back to her hometown in Youyang, so the position of the wife of Sheng Hong, the head of the Sheng family, is in name only. However, Sheng Molan's warning to her today was very effective, and Lin Qinshuang couldn't help but completely give up her plan.

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(End of this chapter)