Pan Qiaolian was lying peacefully on a couch, holding a bowl of fragrant chicken soup in her hand and drinking it in small sips. She was also beside her two confidant maids, Xiao Ping'er and Su Ying'er, were busy serving each other. She was a good way to eat and drink and take care of the fetus with peace of mind.

In contrast, Ximen Qing has become much more "hard". She has only been stable for less than a month since she got pregnant in April. She is really a bit sorry for her.

"Eighteen, how about it?" Wu Haogu saw Pan Qiaolian's appearance and tactfully stepped forward to greet him.

Pan Qiaolian didn't get up, but gave the bowl of chicken soup to the small bottle, and then touched the belly seriously, "Well, it seems to be moving, it's so skinny, it's a boy, right?"

Move? Or embryo, how to move? The one in Ximen Qing's belly was moving very happily. Even if she was not a kid, she was still a girl as strong as Ximen Qing.

Wu Haogu sat down on Pan Qiaolian's side, reached out to touch Pan Qiaolian's slender and soft abdomen, "Well, you must be a kid... Sister, you have to take good care of me."

Letting one pregnant woman take care of another pregnant woman... it sounds like a mess. But Ximen Qing is a concubine, so it is appropriate to take care of a housewife. Moreover, Ximen Qing is also a good doctor, especially proficient in gynecology. It is best to take care of pregnant Pan Qiaolian.

"Here." Ximen Qing responded happily, as if he was very happy to see Pan Qiaolian pregnant.

Wu Haogu thought about it and said, "Sister, is it a gate of hell for a woman to give birth to a child?"

"Dalang..."

Ximen Qing and Pan Qiaolian were stunned at the same time. The two women looked at each other, and then looked at Wu Haogu with a resentful look at him at the same time.

When Wu Haogu was seen by them, they suddenly felt abrupt, but they still had to say what they should say: "Sister, do you have a good midwife in the Ximen family?"

In the Song Dynasty, midwife and doctor were two professions. Although many people in the Ximen family practiced medicine and had ancestral medical skills, no one was a midwife.

Ximen Qing shook his head and said, "But I know a few famous midwifes in Xuzhou and Haizhou."

Famous... means disobedient and self-righteous!'

Wu Haogu thought for a while and said, "Choose two not-famous people to come to Kaifeng Prefecture."

"Not very famous?" Pan Qiaolian said in surprise, "Dalang, there are the best midwife here in Kaifeng Prefecture..."

"Of course you have to use the best one!" Wu Haogu nodded, "But be careful."

"Beware of it?" Pan Qiaolian asked, "How to prevent it?"

Wu Haogu said: "I saw a midwife in a book called pliers. I looked back and drew it and asked someone to make it out of brass."

Wu Haogu has never seen what physical pliers look like. He has only seen patterns of pliers, but he can still draw them.

"Term delivery?" Ximen Qing asked, "What is it? Why haven't I heard of it?"

"It is a tool that pulls the fetus out of the uterus when the fetus is difficult to give birth," Wu Haogu said seriously, "it was created by a doctor named Han in Shaanxi during the Shenzong Dynasty.

In addition, this Han doctor also created a disinfection method to prevent the mother from getting sick after giving birth.”

Disinfection method?

Ximen Qing was stunned. Is there any method? I must learn it so that I will not be afraid that my enemies will poison him and Dalang.

Wu Haogu said: "Sister, please write a letter to your eldest father and ask him to find two young and capable midwifes to come to Kaifeng Mansion. Then I will pass on the tongs and disinfection method to them, and I will be able to go north with peace of mind."

"Going north?" Pan Qiaolian heard this, Cherry's little mouth pouted, "Where are the officials going?"

"Go to Qingzhou," Wu Haogu said, "I have decided to negotiate with the Liao people in Qingzhou... I will probably have to negotiate for a few months when I set off on the fifth day of September. In the future, I can run between Kaifeng Prefecture, Daming Prefecture and Jiehe Shangshi. I should be able to come back when you give birth."

"Oh." Pan Qiaolian pouted, looking very dissatisfied.

In her ideal, Wu Haogu should be by her side at all times. How can she run around from all over the world?

Ximen Qing's eyes were swimming on the two girls Xiaopinger and Su Yinger. Now that she and Pan Qiaolian are pregnant, it is impossible to accompany Wu Dalang. But it is not appropriate that there is no woman around Dalang to follow him, right? Why don't Su Yinger go with her?

...

"Use room..."

In the palace city and the capital of the East Prefecture, Prime Minister Zhang Dun was listening to Zhang Shangying's report. When he heard Wu Haogu's proposal to set up a spy department and send a large number of imperial spies to Jiehe City, he nodded slightly.

"This method is good." Zhang Dun stroked his beard, "Those who succeeded from others will be the prophet... Only by knowing oneself and an enemy can you win a hundred battles! Although Wu Dalang is a military official, Shang and martial artist, he has read "The Art of War" through "Sun Tzu."

"My husband, do you think this is OK?" Zhang Shangying asked again, "Who do you think it's better to preside over the spy department?"

"The spy department is not in a hurry. This matter is not serious," Zhang Dun shook his head, "It's better to recruit spies under the name of the Military and Education Department first."

The Privy Council is now the Twelve-Board and Second Division, one of which is the Military and Education Division that has just been opened. If another spy department is added immediately, it would be too much of a reform step. And what kind of yamen is the spy department? That is a bit similar to the Imperial City Division, but the Imperial City Division is internal and mainly operates in the Kaifeng Prefecture Realm. However, the spy department may not be used within the Song Dynasty.

So it is inappropriate to place this yamen under the Privy Council, and the government may not be relieved...

Zhang Shangying said: "Zhang Rongxi's grandson Zhang Shuye has just been promoted to Xuan Fenglang and is about to go back to Kaifeng Prefecture. It is better to let him be a doctor of the Military Science Department and manage the intelligence in advance."

Although Zhang Shuye was an official who entered the officialdom of the school, he was both civil and military. He had been struggling on the Shaanxi front for many years and had accumulated rich military experience. At the same time, because he was a Kaifeng general, he was very familiar with the Kaifeng Imperial Guards and could control them. Moreover, he was also a civil servant, and was fully qualified to seek a doctoral assignment in the Military Science Department of the Privy Council.

"Well," Zhang Dun nodded, "This Zhang Shuye is good... It's him. He gave the doctor of the Military Science Department and added a dispatch that was also in charge of intelligence. If he could do it well, he could replace Mr. Murong in the future, and it would be appropriate to be the commander of the Northern Expedition."

Zhang Dun was thinking a lot and was already thinking about the commander of the Northern Expedition! However, he looked down on eunuchs like Tong Guan, but Zhang's generation of ministers seemed too old and could not become the commander in ten or twenty years. And Zhang Shuye, 34 years old this year, is obviously a suitable candidate. He is both literary and military, and is a general of Kaifeng, and he performed well in Shaanxi. If he could manage the Military and Educational Department and the espionage work against Liao, he would be a commander of the Northern Expedition who knew himself and his opponents in the future.

Zhang Dun thought about it and said, "The palace has always been involved in the affairs of the north, so let the Guoxin Institute intervene in the intelligence matters."

"The Transportation Office of Hebei East Road can also be in charge of some intelligence matters," Zhang Shangying said at this time, "Now the grain officials of Hebei East Road have the responsibility to collect intelligence from the Liao Kingdom."

Zhang Dun nodded and smiled, "That's natural. When you become the Caoshu minister on Hebei East Road, you will add the title of being in charge of intelligence affairs, and then let the Jiehe Maritime Bureau also take care of some intelligence affairs... The cost of intelligence affairs is so much that the Jiehe Maritime Bureau takes it out."

This arrangement was simply nonsense to the big spies in later generations. The secrets of intelligence work were the first priority, so how could so many yamen jointly manage it? How could they keep it confidential? However, in this way, the matter involving military and national affairs was multi-headed management. Foreign intelligence matters were naturally no exception.

...

"The day is set?"

"It's decided that we will leave on September 5th and we should be able to return before the end of the year."

At this time, Wu Haogu had returned to the Wu family mansion in the west wing of Kaifeng Prefecture City. He came to report the good news to his father Wu Chengzhi (Pan Qiaolian is pregnant), and at the same time he also told Wu Chengzhi the date of his departure from Beijing again.

"Have the matters at home and in the business bank been arranged?" Wu Chengzhi asked.

"It's all done." Wu Haogu said, "The reorganization of the commercial bank will be completed before the end of August. Starting from September, the inner accounting will give the family a thousand coins every month. Is it enough to spend?"

This thousand silk is not used to maintain the cost of the "small family" of the pear blossom villa outside the city and Wu Haogu, Pan Qiaolian, Ximen Qing, but is used for the flowers of Wu Chengzhi and the Wu family in the city.

"Enough, enough." Wu Chengzhi smiled, "How can I spend so much at home? Besides, your father is still the number one calligraphy and painting guy at Kaifeng Mansion."

Wu Chengzhi's official teeth card was not lost. Now his son is the "first person in the painting" and founded Christie's and the Courtesans. He naturally benefited from it, and there were so many customers who looked for him and bought paintings. How could he have one or two thousand pieces of money for the monthly input?

"I can't spend much now," Wu Haogu said with a smile. "When my second brother passes the Jinshi, he will have to spend money like water... I can't save the money I should spend!"

After you pass the Jinshi, you can "earn" or "spend" and each has its own ways, and your future in the officialdom will be different.

If you want to "make money", it means taking the route of catching a son-in-law below the list and marrying a rich woman to enter the house. However, a rich woman who pays the wrong person generally cannot become a helper for a Jinshi husband in the officialdom.

If you want to "spend money", of course you have to go to You Shilin and find a big civil servant to be your father-in-law. The knowledge here is so great!

Wu Chengzhi heard the profound meaning of Wu Hao's ancient sayings and immediately asked with interest: "Brother, are you going to be a matchmaker for the second brother?"
Chapter completed!