"Aunt, are you back?"

Qi Yan had just finished her work outside, and once she returned to Ye Mansion, she saw Qi Jie waiting for her in the flower hall.

"Yes, I just came back. I heard that you bought 12,000 acres of land."

When Qi Jie said this, she thought, "As such a wide land, do you plan to grow potatoes? The Duanmu family in Southern Jin made their fortunes with potatoes."

"Potato?"

Qi Yan's eyes lit up when she heard this.

Potatoes are simple to grow, have large yields and are easy to store, and are one of the staple foods.

Rice is not the only staple food, but if there is corn, it would be even better!

Qi Jie nodded, "The Duanmu family has also been to the East Region, and they have brought back corn seeds. When I was still in the Southern Jin Dynasty, I also ate corn once. It tasted good and could fill my stomach."

Good guy!

The Duanmu family had potatoes and corn seeds, which directly touched Qi Yan.

She looked at Qi Jie, "Aunt, can I buy potatoes and corn grains from Duanmu's family?"

"Buy it directly, I'm afraid it won't work."

Qi Jie shook her head. She knew very well that although the Duanmu family was a merchant, if it were put in the past, it would have been possible to coerce and induce. However, the current Duanmu Young Master directly married the Eleventh Princess, which would not be an ordinary merchant.

Even the Southern Jin Emperor looked at Duanmu family with a different look.

Qi Jie thought about it and the new news that Duan Yan told her some time ago might make Qi Yan understand, "I heard that after the beginning of spring, the young master of the Duanmu family will personally come to Jingzhou, Dayan to conduct jade trading. At that time, you might as well go to Jingzhou to see if you can meet him."

"What month is it?"

"March."

"Okay, I will go to Jingzhou in March. It happened that time, and it was Queen Duan's sacrifice to the moon."

Qi Yan agreed.

Then the aunt and nephew discussed Feng Yin's training again. Qi Yan said that they needed to consolidate their foundation and let Duan Yan take them out for training.

Qi Jie agreed to this one by one.

After buying the fields and barren mountains, Qi Yan found Leng Ci and asked her how much money she could use.

Leng Ci came over with the account book and handed it to Qi Yan, "Master, recently, the 100-day banquet was only 20,000 yuan for food, wine and water; Tai'an Yinzhuang spent 30,000 taels; you bought 12,000 acres of barren mountains and fields, and you spent 12,000 taels; and then you earned 100,000 taels of raw stones provided to Jubao Pavilion in Fengcheng. Now you still have 38,000 taels of surplus. However, it takes 20,000 to build a farm. Manager Cao came to report it. Do you think you want to pay?"

"Pay it. You give me 10,000 taels. It's the end of the year, so you have to prepare some New Year's goods. It will take a few days to welcome the New Year. Remember to remind me that to give the people in the mansion a month of silver every month."

Qi Yan ordered.

As expected, money is quick, it’s still jade.

If Jubao Pavilion in Yanjing City was not still making money, I was afraid I would not be able to save a tael of silver.

This is just the expenses in recent times. She has not calculated the expenses of Kang’s iron shop. She seems to have owed a debt?

Thinking of this, Qi Yan couldn't help but feel a little anxious.

Ye Chen could not count on him anymore. He was responsible for the city guards of 50,000 people. Just eating and monthly salary was not a small amount of money.

Qi Yan smiled bitterly, God, give her a small gold mine!

She will definitely mine every day!

Of course, I can only think about these things. If you want to live a better life, you still need to work harder.

...

Yanjing City.

After Han Feng brought the ninth prince of the Northern Xinjiang, Emperor Yan expressed a warm welcome. After meeting, he learned that the ninth prince of the Northern Xinjiang was not in good health, so he directly asked them to move from the post station to the palace to live.

Because the New Year's Eve approached, Emperor Yan made the decision and kept them in Yanjing City for the New Year.

On New Year's Eve, Emperor Yan held a palace banquet and invited adults and family members of third-rank officials and above in the capital to attend.

There is nothing special about this New Year banquet.

The only new thing is that the harem of Concubine Hui was promoted to the throne of Concubine Du because of the ninth prince Ye Bin.

Emperor Yan is an emperor who is not very close to women. He is the first queen and four concubines. Now it can be said that the first queen and two concubines are dead, and only two concubines are left.

The living were Concubine Shu Xian and Concubine Du Hui, and as for the concubines below the position of concubines, there were no one.

The so-called three palaces and six courtyards can at least ten palaces and courtyards be vacant.

Emperor Yan had few descendants, not particularly many.

There are only a few sons, including the Crown Prince Ye Chen, King Rui Ye Heng, King Xiao Ye Hao, the Eighth Prince Ye Wen, and the newly born Ninth Prince Ye Bin.

As for my daughter, there are only two for the time being.

One is the eldest princess Ye Min, and the other is the third princess Ye Zhen.

King Xiao’s biological mother had long been dead, and the eighth prince Ye Wen’s biological mother was Concubine Shu Xian. Now Concubine Shu Xian is in charge of the six palaces, so she holds the power of the phoenix.

But there are only two concubines in the harem. Qi Yan said that Emperor Yan is really awesome!

Some high-ranking officials have three wives and six concubines. When they are on Emperor Yan, there are only five women, and three more dead. He doesn't plan to choose a concubine yet! This is what makes Qi Yan admire the most.

But in this way, if the crown prince had not made a big mistake, he would have inherited the throne.

King Rui Ye Rui and King Xiao Ye Hao are now in the court. The Chu River is divided into boundaries and are invincible.

The Min family collapsed, Min Lan was Princess Rui, and was attacked by the Xiaowang Party a lot.

But Min Lan has been staying in her door and is always cautious in her words and actions. It is really difficult to catch her making mistakes.

On the contrary, Qi Yan went to Binghe City some time ago and investigated Qin Xiao's background. The case of Qiye Snake has been submitted.

After the New Year's banquet, Emperor Yan directly asked Youjiu of the Secret Spies to arrest Qin Xiao and torture the truth. Qin Xiao was a tough guy and said that everything was done by himself and had nothing to do with King Xiao.

In response, Emperor Yan directly ordered the five horses of Qin Xiao to be dismembered.

The seven-night snake case ended here.

Emperor Yan did not believe that King Xiao Ye Hao was innocent, but he did not have many sons under his knees and did not want his sons to be ill-in-law.

Dayan’s security for hundreds of years cannot be destroyed in his hands.

So he could only give this result. In order to end the emperor's dream of King Xiao Ye Hao, he even pointed out the marriage to King Xiao and asked him to marry Mei Mengying, the daughter of the Minister of Revenue, Mei Mengying, and to finish the marriage on a date.

Although Mei Du was promoted to Minister of Revenue, the real power was in Gu Nan's hands.

Gu Nan was the Minister of Revenue and the confidant minister of Emperor Yan.

He gave King Xiao a marriage, and praised him openly and secretly demoted him.

Those who can understand will naturally understand what Emperor Yan means.

What I can't understand is still flattering King Xiao.

When King Xiao was about to marry Mei Mengying from Mei’s Mansion, Prince Ye Chen felt a little complicated when he received the message and held the note in his hand.

He had hope for the younger brother of King Xiao, and he hoped that his brother would be respectful.

But in the case of Qiye Snake, he clearly understood that King Xiao wanted his life and wanted to replace him.
Chapter completed!