Chapter 752: It's so bad

Chen Ao smiled and said, "Please tell me."

Zhao Ji closed his eyes and leaned leisurely on the back mat of the imperial bed, saying, "It is better to divide the Nanyang navy into two parts. How about the King of Xixia and King of Yue?"

Chen Ao heard this and thought to himself that before the people were settled, the family property was clean. It was not good, bad, so he immediately shook his head and said seriously: "The Nanyang Navy is from the Xixia Kingdom. Your Majesty can't speak without trust, right?"

Zhao Ji smiled faintly and said, "Of course I won't be untrustworthy, I'm just discussing with you."

Chen Ao was the kind of person who was more and more greedy in front of Zhao Ji. He immediately became righteous and said loudly: "Discuss, what can I discuss? How can I regret the promised things? You have no jokes." Chen Ao said bitterly: "How can the emperor say be a joke? If even Your Majesty has no credibility, how can people be convinced? Your Majesty please think twice."

Zhao Ji said a little embarrassedly: "Of course I keep my promise. It's fine if you refuse, but Guangnan East Road is also across the sea. How can there be no navy? Then let's get a compromise. How about the establishment of the Western Navy in the future? However, the cost of this navy must be provided by the vassal states themselves."

Chen Ao blinked, it seemed that he would not suffer any loss. Zhao Ji wanted to give him a bowl of water, but he also invisibly added the vassal states to the vassal state. Chen Ao now lacks anything, and the most important thing is silver. Isn’t it just like spending one or two fleets to play with money? With two navy troops, are you still afraid that there will be no profit?

Chen Ao spread his hands, but said innocently: "Your Majesty is too embarrassing to me. I don't know how much it will cost to build another Western naval army. Well, for your Majesty, I have to drive the ducks to the shelves. In fact... it's better to have a naval army, why do you need to build two? Alas, I always suffer a loss when I see Your Majesty, I have to pinch your nose and eat it."

After saying that, Chen Ao blinked his eyes and showed a very simple look.

Zhao Ji shook his head and said, "The Shen family has two major navy masters, and I, the Song Dynasty, are just like this. I think it's inappropriate when I think about it carefully."

Chen Ao was afraid that he would regret it, so he said, "What is your Majesty's words? One of them is Your Majesty's biological grandson. Is Your Majesty even suspicious of his grandson?"

Zhao Ji smiled faintly and said, "I don't mean this, but even if it is a vassal state, it is common to recruit military and horses. What else can I say?"

Zhao Ji no longer hesitated. The two of them hit it off. The Song Dynasty was aimed at a country of thousands of miles, while Chen Ao was aimed at a boundless ocean. The Shen family was more like the East India Company of later generations. They were granted the right to collect taxes and recruit troops by the imperial power. Chen Ao didn't know what it would become in the future.

The two sat and ate with candy, and then went to the harem together. Chen Ao went to see An Ning. An Ning's belly was getting bigger and bigger and ready to give birth at any time. When she saw Chen Ao, An Ning's eyes couldn't help but lit up, and she held his hand and said, "I still couldn't see his father when the child was born!"

The quiet pretty face showed joy from the bottom of his heart, and a thrilling flowed out of his beautiful eyes, but his plump body tried to look dignified, revealing the charm of a mature young woman.

Chen Ao accompanied her to talk to her. An Ning asked about Duke Qi Guo and said, "I also heard some news in the palace. I originally wanted to ask the Queen Mother to speak, but the Queen Mother said that even she could not make any decision on this matter, and the father was just perfunctory. Have they all gone to Dali Temple? There are so arrogant people. It would be great if I were there that day." Her chin slightly raised, and she showed a proud look, and said, "I want to see if they have great courage and dare to stop me, the emperor."

Chen Ao held her hand and said with a smile: "What are you calculating about with such a villain? Are you used to living in the palace? I originally wanted to bring you a gift, but..."

An Ning said understandingly: "But you have something in your heart. If you pray that the Duke of the People will be injured for one day, you will be in a mess all day, right?"

Chen Ao blushed and said with a pure face: "You suddenly got it right."

The two of them whispered, An Ning said, "The Queen Mother asked me to go just now. Why don't we go and ask you an ungrateful together?"

Chen Ao carefully helped her and went to Jingtai Palace together. He first asked Jingde to inform him, and then he heard the Empress Dowager happily call them in the palace. Chen Ao entered the fragrant and powdery palace, and first helped An Ning to sit down before saluting the Empress Dowager, saying, "I have seen the Empress Dowager."

The Queen Mother seemed very energetic, holding a flower in her hand, and smiled at him, "I finally came back. You are so incompetent as a husband. You left your wife and children here, but let our family take care of you, but you went to meet your lover."

Chen Ao said in his heart, am I wronged? This lover was forced by your son with a knife. If he didn't go, he would lose his country and his seeds. If it weren't for me to betray my beauty, would there be such peace in the world? Now he says I have a private meeting with a lover. Do you think I am happy? But after thinking about it, I feel that I am quite happy to go to Xixia to see Miaoer. He smiled bitterly and said, "The Queen Mother is so serious."

In fact, the Empress Dowager was just a person who was not worried. She just scolded her and then said happily: "Chen Ao, come and see this flower, it looks so beautiful."

Chen Ao thought to himself, how could I understand this? It’s almost the same to ask me to identify the authenticity. It would be better to defile me if I asked me to evaluate its style. I would rather defile me. I was whispering in my heart, but my legs were unconsciously approaching. The beads were indeed dazzling. The silver hairpin was dotted with a few pearls. The pearls were extremely round, each of which was the same size, forming a lotus pattern. Chen Ao couldn’t help but say: “Good thing, at least 700 stakes can be sold on the market.”

When the Empress Dowager heard Chen Ao talk about the market, she immediately showed displeasure on her face and said with a calm face: "You are also a talented man, why are you full of money?"

Chen Ao couldn't help but smile bitterly and said, "The Empress Dowager really wronged me. The Empress Dowager thinks about it. If I can't put it down when I see this pearl flower and can still show a pleasing look, then wouldn't I be a perverted child?"

The Empress Dowager couldn't help but smile and said, "Okay, what you said is reasonable. This pearl flower was given to the Ai family by Concubine Zheng, and it's hard for her. Finally, she still cares about the old woman of Ai family. Every three or five days, there are always some gadgets to be filial to her. She only has so many monthly routines every month. The Ai family is really afraid that her cost is not enough."

Chen Ao heard the word "Person Zheng" and became deeper, and said with a smile: "When I am outside the palace, I often hear the name of Virtue Zheng."

Speaking of Concubine Zheng, the Empress Dowager said happily: "Yes, the women in the palace want this."

Chen Ao said lightly: "But the Empress Dowager doesn't have to be afraid that Concubine Zheng's expenses are not enough."

"Oh?" The Queen Mother couldn't help but say, "Why is this?"

Chen Ao said sinisterly: "I heard that the Zheng family in Huaizhou has a property of 100 million yuan, and even the servants in the gatehouse are all dressed in bright clothes and angry horses. It is said that the Zheng family in Huaizhou once fought for wealth with others. Guess how the Queen Mother won?"

The Empress Dowager had a good impression of Zheng, so she smiled and said, "You said that, why are you keeping me in hiding all day?"

Chen Ao said lightly: "Zheng found a big pig and fed it with pearl powder."

The Queen Mother couldn't help but say, "Will that big pig be poisoned to death?"

Chen Ao shook his head and said, "It will naturally be poisoned to death, but the pig has a very good appetite and the pearl powder is not very toxic, so before the poisoning, this big pig can eat at least dozens of kilograms of pearl powder..."

"Double kilograms..." The empress dowager couldn't help but smack her tongue and said, "Even the palace is not so popular. Ai's family uses pearl powder to apply noodles, so they are all used carefully."

Chen Ao smiled and said, "So the Empress Dowager doesn't have to worry about Concubine Zheng. No matter how precious it is, she will not be able to lose Concubine Zheng."

This example of fighting for wealth was really done by the Zheng family in Huaizhou. However, this happened decades ago. At that time, I was afraid that Concubine Zheng had not yet been born, but it was enough to show that Zheng family was rich enough to rival the country.

The empress dowager recalled this sentence carefully, suddenly lost interest, and even her face became straightened. She threw the pearl flowers aside and said, "It's because the Ai family is self-indulgent, and they worry for her for nothing." Thinking that the servants of the Zheng family were all furious and angry, and they used pearl powder to feed the pigs. Now, after savoring it, they suddenly felt a little disgusting. The Zheng family could spend a lot of money to fight for wealth, but they took a pearl flowers of seven hundred to coax her, the old woman. To put it nicely, this is a waste; to put it ugly, in Zheng's eyes, the empress dowager was really inferior to that pig.

When Chen Ao saw that the Queen Mother threw the beads aside, he couldn't help but say, "Why don't the Queen Mother wear it on? I think this beads are very good for the Queen Mother."

The queen mother pursed her lips and thought to herself, this little confused, dozens of kilograms of pearl powder complemented the big pig, does this big bead flower complement me? But Chen Ao looked very sincere, and the queen mother naturally did not doubt that she had him. She just pretended that he hadn't thought deeply, and said, "There are so many beads like this in the Ai family, and it's useless to keep it. After all, the things outside the palace are not as good as the imperial objects in the palace. The Ai family only looked at it for a while, and they didn't like this freshness once it passed."

Chen Ao followed the trend and said, "This is true. Although the things outside the palace are so valuable, the real good things are all in the inner treasury. The Empress Dowager knew that the imperial objects in the former Tang Dynasty might be just an inkstone, and the value is only a few dozen cents, but how much can it be sold now?"

The Queen Mother said, "How did the Ai family know?"

Chen Ao stretched out three fingers and said, "Three Thousand Steels."

The Queen Mother couldn't help but smack her tongue: "So many?"

Chen Ao laughed and said, "This is quite a small amount. If you meet someone who knows the goods, it is not difficult to get five thousand guan. Does the empress dowager know why?" He asked and answered himself: "Because this thing was used by noble people in the palace, this is enough. The value of the item is not only him, just like this pearl flower, which is only seven hundred guan in Zheng's hands. But if the empress dowager wears it, it will take it out at least five thousand guan. The most precious thing in the world is not the pearl powder feeding pigs, nor is it a slave in fresh clothes and angry horses, but the Majesty and the Empress Dowager. This is what the so-called body of a thousand gold is."

This sentence made the empress dowager amused, and she covered her mouth and said, "When you say that, is it like seeing a golden man when you meet the Ai family?"

Chen Ao smiled and said, "The Queen Mother is more precious than gold."

The Empress Dowager said, "What you said makes sense." She became cheerful again, and said with a hint of sarcasm in her words: "It's ridiculous that some people think that their family will fight for wealth with others. Such people are most despised by the Ai family. No matter how rich he is, he can compare with the inner court? Even if his slaves are dressed in a furious manner, they can determine the honor and disgrace of his family if they continue to do so. He is just a pearl powder of ten thousand dollars, and he should flatter the Ai family? Everyone knows this principle, but some people always pretend to behave, but they don't know that the wealth of the family is given by the palace, and their honor, disgrace, life and death are all in the palace."

Chen Ao couldn't help but raise his thumb and said, "The Empress Dowager's words are really thought-provoking. I must write them down. I get up early in the morning every day to recite them so that I won't let myself be proud in the future." He thought to himself, I am so shameless, I am a fucking master who sows right and wrong, but I can't help sighing. On the road to sow discord, my family is really a bit arrogant and hard to find a soulmate.

However... this Zheng family... Chen Ao couldn't help but sneer when he thought of Zheng. There was never any sow discord in the world for no reason. If they hadn't had affair with the Jurchens, they had made money from the national crisis, and even framed Zhou Zheng, they would have had their share, Chen Ao wouldn't have the time to do such a bad thing. Since they wanted to play, Chen Ao wouldn't mind staying with him to the end.

The Empress Dowager chuckled and said, "What you said is like the words of the Ai family and His Majesty, and it is a golden word! But since you have returned from Xixia, have you not prepared gifts for the Ai family? Judging from the Ai family, you are no different from some people, you just like you will be pleased with your mouth."

Chen Ao smiled faintly and said, "The Empress Dowager has wronged me again. The gift has been delivered. Has the Empress Dowager not received it?"

The Queen Mother was stunned for a moment and said, "Where is the gift? When did the Ai family receive it?"

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Chapter completed!