On the occasion of rebirth Zhou Sui

Chapter 449 The Queen Mother is pregnant

After a few months, Cui Che returned to Luoyang again. He clearly felt that Luoyang city was much more prosperous than when he left.

Of course, this is not all due to Li Jing alone. Cui Che also feels that he has made a considerable contribution.

He left 30,000 soldiers for Li Jing, and naturally moved the families of these 30,000 soldiers to Luoyang City.

Although these soldiers are not engaged in production, they have been favored by Cui Che. After the autumn taxes are put into the treasury, they are paid at the beginning of the new year. They are all masters who are not short of money.

They live a life of licking blood from a knife's edge, and no one knows which one will come first, tomorrow or the accident.

However, even if he died in battle, he would still receive a high pension for his family.

These soldiers have nothing to worry about. Naturally, they are drunk now and have just received their military pay, so they will inevitably spend a lot of money.

With these 30,000 major consumer groups, the merchants in Luoyang have been taken advantage of, especially the wine shops and brothels, which are doing a booming business. These big bosses are either getting drunk or buying sex.

Cui Che has now brought another 70,000 soldiers to the south, and the happiest people are those merchants.

However, His Highness King Yan was not happy. The soldiers went to the market to buy things, and the merchants naturally had to pay commercial taxes.

But those wine shops and brothels clearly make the most money, but they cannot collect taxes from these people.

It's just that Cui Che still couldn't lose his face and didn't tax the prostitutes' flesh money.

When he came to Luoyang City, the first thing he did was not to reorganize the city defenses, but to order a thorough inspection of all the brothels in Luoyang City to see if there was any chaos in forcing girls into prostitution.

Once discovered, while rescuing the fallen woman, the brothel's property will also be confiscated.

But Luoyang was just the beginning. Cui Che went to Yang Hao and asked for a strict investigation of prostitutes in various places.

At the same time, Cui Che gave orders to Zhao Wen, who was far away in Jinyang, and ordered spies from the Observation Department to be stationed in various places to secretly monitor. Once an official exploits his power for personal gain and strictly investigates corruption and bribery in brothels, Cui Che will naturally be the leader after the war.

to be disposed of.

When the time comes, the officials involved will be removed from their posts and their property will be confiscated.

It not only solved the problem of redundant officials and redundant personnel, but also increased revenue for the national treasury. It also rescued those women who were forced into prostitution and won their gratitude.

This is no longer a win-win or win-win situation, it is simply a win-win situation.

As for drinks, Cui Che decided to charge them at different tax rates.

In wine shops, any wine made from grain will be heavily taxed.

As for fruit wine, the tax rate is extremely low.

This move also encourages the production of fruit wine instead of using grain to make wine.

The merchants in brothels and wine shops never expected that the person who came was not the one who had been taken advantage of, but Cui Bapi.

On the day Cui Che ordered a thorough investigation of brothels, more than ten brothels were closed down for forcing girls into prostitution.

Not only was the owner imprisoned, but all of his family property that had nothing to do with the funds involved was confiscated.

His Royal Highness, King Yan, is busy with military and political affairs, so he has no time to distinguish between your money, which is earned by forcing women to sell themselves, and which is earned from serious business.

At first, major merchants in Luoyang thought Cui Che was going to slaughter the New Year pig.

For this reason, the market was inactive for several days.

Until I discovered that Cui Che did not continue to expand the scope of the attack, I finally felt relieved.

As for the owners of the liquor stores, after seeing the dismal fate of some brothel owners, they obediently paid taxes on the drinks in their stores, as if they were spending money to buy peace.

Cui Che was regulating market behavior in Luoyang and was also waiting for Yang Guang to send troops.

It's just that the Western Sui Dynasty is different from the Eastern Sui Dynasty. Cui Che can recruit these off-duty soldiers at any time, but the imperial soldiers in the Western Sui Dynasty are half soldiers and half farmers, and they have to wait until spring plowing before they can be easily assembled.

In the previous battles of Hebei, Hedong and Central Plains, the Western Sui Dynasty was always the side with superior military strength.

However, the disastrous defeat in all three battles also made Yang Guang realize that the number of troops is not as good as the quality.

Yang Guang plans to follow Cui Che's example and recruit an elite team as off-duty soldiers.

Yang Guang even thought of a name, so he called him Xiaoguojun.

Yang Guang was impatient and would do what he thought of. He issued an edict to recruit courageous people in Guanlong, Shu and even Jingxiang, Huainan, Jiangnan and other places.

It's just that the formation of this army and its combat effectiveness did not happen overnight.

At least it will be useless in this battle, and the main force must be the government soldiers.

On February 24, the first year of Zhenyuan (AD 606), Cui Che did not wait for news of Yang Guang sending troops. Instead, a messenger came from Jinyang.

Fang Xuanling informed Cui Che in the letter that after the imperial doctor diagnosed her pulse, it was confirmed that the Queen Mother was pregnant.

Bingzhou, Daming Palace.

The young emperor Yang Hao got up early again and went to Jinyang Palace to pay homage to the Queen Mother.

He has been rejected for several days in a row.

After serving Yang Liang, the old eunuch of two generations, Yang Hao and his son, advised:

"Everyone, please don't go any further today. The Queen Mother is ill. Even if she goes to Jinyang Palace, the Queen Mother will not go out to see her."

Throughout the ages, there have been many interesting names for emperors, such as county officials in the Han Dynasty, saints in the Sui and Tang Dynasties, and officials in the Northern Song Dynasty.

As for everyone, it was the name used by the eunuchs to the emperor during the Sui and Tang Dynasties.

The old eunuch had followed Yang Liang for many years and had many eyes and ears in Jinyang Palace.

He was well aware of the scandal between Cui Che and the Queen Mother, and knew that the Queen Mother was hiding behind closed doors not because she was ill, but because she was pregnant and was shy to see people.

But he couldn't bear to tell Yang Hao, who was only eight years old, about this.

However, Yang Hao refused to listen. He was worried about his mother's condition and even wanted to visit her.

Jinyang Palace, outside the Queen Mother's bedroom.

Yang Hao cried loudly, begging his mother to let him in to visit the patient.

This made Queen Mother Doulu suffer so much that she begged the female official:

"Can you ask the imperial doctor to prescribe a dose of Luozi Decoction for me? After a while, I will really be able to keep my stomach secret."

This female official was the maid who originally carried Queen Doulu to the Prime Minister's Mansion with four maids. Now she was sent to Queen Doulu by Cui Che to serve as a female official.

Every time Queen Mother Doulu had a private meeting with Cui Che, she would check whether she had any sharp weapons.

Being able to take on this task, the female officer is naturally a candidate that Cui Che can trust. In fact, this female officer is also a child of the same family. She has served Cui Che's family for three generations. She was one of the slaves who followed Cui Che to study in Chang'an when he was young.

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"I am not the one who can make the decision in this matter. Please don't make things difficult for me."

The female officer also sympathized with Queen Mother Doulu's situation, but what the Queen Mother was carrying in her belly now was Cui Che's flesh and blood. Whether to keep it or not could only be decided by Cui Che. Neither Queen Mother Doulu nor she could decide on her own.

After the diagnosis of Ximai, the Queen Mother asked the imperial doctor for Luozi Decoction, but the imperial doctor did not dare to prescribe it to her.

Queen Mother Doulu had no choice but to hope that Cui Che would reply to her letter soon.

Yang Hao cried outside the palace for a long time, which made Queen Mother Doulu very upset. She shouted through the door and window:

"Hao'er, there's nothing serious about being a mother. I'm just infected with the cold. I'm afraid it might harm you, so I'm avoiding you. You should go back to Daming Palace as soon as possible."

The fourth update was brought, but it is no longer available today.

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