Forced to Ascend the Throne after Transmigrating

Chapter 102: Reliable

Although Emperor Jingwen did not use much force this time, it still hurt.

Ye Shuo jumped up with a cry: “Dad, why did you hit me!”

He covered his arm, his face accusing.

Emperor Jingwen couldn’t understand no matter how hard he tried. How could he still have the nerve to feel aggrieved after doing such a thing?

It is true that Emperor Jingwen favoured boys over girls, but he was also very patriarchal.

Since he would not pass on the family business to his daughter, he naturally would not think about letting the princess do anything.

Although he kept saying that it was natural for princesses to marry off to other countries, in fact, none of his own princesses were sent to marry off.

This kind of thing, if you can avoid it, try to avoid it. If you can’t avoid it, then we’ll talk about it later.

Emperor Jingwen would not pass the heavy burden to the princess. In his eyes, the princess only needed to be loved and pampered, and then wait until she reached the age to find a good family to marry.

In Emperor Jingwen’s mind, it was natural for a brother to protect his sister, as if it was as normal as the laws of nature and ethics.

All the princes who had younger sisters were very considerate of them. Emperor Jingwen had never heard of anyone like Xiaojiu who would resort to such “poisonous actions” against his younger sister.

“She is not as old as you are, and you didn’t know how to control her strength. What if she gets hurt?” And the imperial concubine was the same. Didn’t you see that the little princess had difficulty turning over? Don’t you know how to take care of her?

They are all his own children, and the back of his hand is also his flesh. How could Emperor Jingwen not feel sorry for them?

Even if I didn’t feel sorry for her before, I couldn’t help but feel sorry for her now when I see what kind of life the little princess is living in the hands of her brother.

But in fact, Concubine Rong is not stupid. How could she not see that the little princess is really upset?

Shuo’er seems absurd on weekdays, but he is actually very sensible.

Besides, isn’t it normal for siblings to fight and quarrel with each other? In Concubine Rong’s opinion, it is abnormal for them to be cold and polite to each other. They don’t look like a family at all.

That would only prove that the brother doesn’t take his sister seriously at all. He calls himself humble, but in fact he just treats his sister as a dispensable thing.

It’s just like treating a pet. You won’t get angry if you don’t take it seriously.

That’s why the imperial concubine never cared about it.

Ye Shuo looked at his hands and thought to himself that he didn’t use much force just now, so why did his cheap father get so angry?

Besides, Jianjian’s arrival disrupted his peaceful life and forced him to prepare for Jianjian’s future early on, and he is not allowed to collect some interest?

Loving and caring for her does not mean giving in to her in everything.

So Ye Shuo thought about it and said, “Dad, I wonder if you have heard that saying?”

What is that little bastard going to do now?

Emperor Jingwen frowned: “What?”

Ye Shuo’s face was serious. “If brothers and sisters are not for ‘playing’, then it will be meaningless.”

Emperor Jingwen: “…”

“You call this playing, you call this playing!”

After realising what was happening, Emperor Jingwen could no longer bear it and snatched the cane from Wang Ziquan’s hand and tried to beat him.

Why does Eunuch Wang bring his own rattan stick now?

“Daddy, daddy, please show some mercy, daddy!”

However, Emperor Jingwen was so angry at his fallacy that he could not possibly stop.

When Emperor Jingwen left Qiuwu Palace the next day, he was so worried that it was beyond words.

In his eyes at this moment, being born into the imperial concubine’s belly was no longer a way to enjoy happiness, but a way to suffer.

How could there be such a patriarchal mother and such a bad brother?

Emperor Jingwen’s mind quickly played out a scene of how Xiaojiu would bully her when he was not around, and how the imperial concubine treated her coldly from the sidelines, and he couldn’t help but feel a little pity for her.

Poor Jianjian…

the other side.

After his adoptive father left, Ye Shuo finally rubbed his sister happily.

Jianjian is four or five months old and she is already stupid. Not to mention when she just wakes up, no matter how you rub her, she won’t get angry. By the time the poor little girl reacts and is about to get angry, Ye Shuo would have stopped in advance, so basically there will be no trouble.

The little princess didn’t want to cry or anything, she looked so pitiful.

If this scene was seen by the wet nurse nearby, what else could it be but abuse?

The babies around basically sleep however they want. She’s just a baby, what else can she do if not sleep?

But the Ninth Prince just wouldn’t allow it.

He would control how long the princess slept during the day, and if necessary, he would even wake her up from her sleep, which made the wet nurse beside her so angry that she dared not say anything, and was particularly sad.

But in fact, Ye Shuo didn’t want to do that, but there was nothing he could do. Who asked Jian Jian to still stay in his mother’s room? It would be too tiring if he couldn’t sleep through the night, right?

If a baby is not controlled and is allowed to sleep when she is sleepy, how can she develop the habit of sleeping through the night?

Ye Shuo also felt that he had a special sense of accomplishment that Jian Jian could stay awake all night under his training.

But soon Ye Shuo no longer had time to care about these trivial matters.

Now that he has returned to Shangjing City, it is time to make arrangements for the follow-up.

The problem was how to arrange to contact my grandfather.

This result was reached by Ye Shuo after careful consideration and weighing.

Otherwise, no matter how great Ye Shuo’s abilities were, he was just a child now and couldn’t even leave the palace, so he couldn’t display his abilities.

We can only see if we can start with our grandfather for this matter. From what his mother has said over the years, it can be seen that our grandfather’s side should be stable.

Otherwise, if we really wait until the day when he leaves the palace to build his own residence, it will be too late for the opportunity.

He is nine years older than Jianjian. He would leave the palace and set up his own residence at the age of sixteen. Jianjian would already be seven years old at that time.

Seven years old seems very young, still just a child, but this was in ancient times when people were engaged at the age of fourteen and would get married as soon as they reached the age of sixteen.

Although judging by the attitude of my cheap dad, if nothing goes as expected, Jianjian should be kept for two more years.

But the same thing goes, if, if, you can never pin your hopes on if.

What Ye Shuo wanted was a foolproof result.

However, if you want to have a seat in the court and be able to influence the emperor’s decision, it is not something that can be achieved overnight.

Old ministers like Taifu and Prime Minister He must not be touched. Once they are touched, my cheap father will immediately notice it. My cheap father, the emperor, is not a pushover.

Ye Shuo didn’t believe that his cheap father, who had so many secret guards, would be unaware of the little actions of the princes under him.

Ye Shuo never looked down on anyone, and he didn’t think he had the ability to influence this group of important officials.

Without sufficient benefits, no matter how powerful Ye Shuo is, people will not be willing to work for him!

Those people are so smart. If he is not careful, he might be played to death by others before he can play with them.

Li Yuheng and Ye Shuo had no plans to move. Oh, by the way, I forgot to mention that because his mother suddenly became pregnant, his return to the palace was naturally delayed.

She was also afraid that they were too anxious and that sending Suxin and Suqiu away in a hurry would make Li Yuheng and Zhang Yuan look down on them, so her mother insisted on keeping the two girls until two months before the birth and then married them off.

The guard of honour set out from the palace at that time. Although it was not as glorious as that of a real noble, it was also very respectable at that time.

Because of the master-servant relationship that had accumulated over the years, the imperial concubine gave the two of them a lot of favours. Judging from the letters that Su Qiu sent from time to time, her married life with Zhang Yuan should be pretty good, and the words between the lines occasionally revealed the sweetness of the newlyweds.

As for Su Xin, Ye Shuo had never paid special attention to her, but Su Xin was a girl with a strong sense of purpose and she was also smart, so she should be good too.

Ye Shuo had said at the beginning that he did not need Li Yuheng’s loyalty, and naturally he would not change his words now.

Su Xin’s marriage and Jian Jian’s future are two completely different things. One more Li Yuheng won’t make much difference, and one less Li Yuheng won’t make much difference either. There is really no need for that.

Moreover, for a person like Li Yuheng, using favours to blackmail him will only backfire. If he is willing to repay the favor, then it can be called repaying a favor; otherwise, it would be making an enemy.

Ye Shuo thought about it and felt that there was only one way to avoid his cheap father noticing –

Start cultivating from scratch.

Starting from scratch, even the cheap dad would never think of this situation, because no one would do this unless they are fools. The cost is too high, and there are too many uncontrollable factors.

What Ye Shuo needs to do is to turn the impossible into possible.

This is not something that can be accomplished overnight, so time is so important to Ye Shuo.

After a dozen years, this group of people will have established a firm foothold in the court, and should be just in time for Jianjian to get married.

At that time, no matter who Jianjian wants to marry, or whether she wants to stay single for the rest of her life, she can make her choice freely, and no one will say anything.

If you only use this method, you can’t take the path of imperial examinations. First of all, Ye Shuo doesn’t have the ability to train so many top scorers.

You have to know that the top scholar is the first in the national imperial examination. There are always people who are smarter than Ye Shuo. Maybe it would be possible for him to take the exam on his own, but if he is asked to train himself, and he has to train more than one person, Ye Shuo can’t do it even if he is beaten to death.

Second, even if there are so many people who pass the imperial examination and become the top scorer, only a few of them can rise all the way to the top.

After layers of screening, the chance is lower than winning the lottery, so this method is completely unfeasible.

But as a modern man, Ye Shuo always has the advantage of standing on the shoulders of giants.

He planned to use what he had learned, take a technical approach, and rely on technology to help these people get promoted to higher positions.

Ye Shuo had been under his cheap father’s watch for so long, and it wasn’t for nothing after all, so he naturally knew what was bothering his cheap father every day.

It’s no wonder that there are only a few things that my cheap dad has to worry about. If it’s a natural disaster, it’s flood conservancy, if it’s a drought, it’s water diversion and irrigation, if it’s people’s livelihood, it’s textile machinery, and even refined salt purification. If he wants to improve the combat effectiveness of the army, it’s ?? transformation, iron smelting technology and steel smelting.

These are all things Ye Shuo has thought about carefully, and after careful consideration, he found that they can basically be achieved under the current circumstances.

It’s not just a marriage for Jian Jian, it can also benefit the people. It’s a complete win-win situation. Why not do it?

Ye Shuo didn’t care whether he would get all the credit in the end. As long as everyone was happy, it would be fine. All Ye Shuo wanted was a stable life. If all the credit fell on him, he would be in endless trouble.

Of course, the above only applies to Jianjian’s free choice issue, and only allows her to freely choose her own husband.

If one is really unlucky and ends up marrying a foreign prince, having these people supporting him from behind is far from enough.

At that time, he would be the enemy of the entire Great Zhou. If he wanted to turn the tide by himself, he would need something decisive——

food.

No matter where or what dynasty, food is the lifeblood of a country.

Exchanging food for a mere princess is naturally a win-win situation.

Ye Shuo was clear about the principles of hybrid rice. Moreover, the selection of the male sterile line, male sterile maintenance line and male sterile restoration line in hybrid rice was basically done manually until modern times. My grandfather had a lot of people at his disposal, so if he invested a lot of money, he should be able to do it.

But it is useless without matching fertilisers, especially without the indispensable nitrogen fertiliser, hybrid rice still cannot produce that much grain.

The development of agriculture and science and technology have always been complementary to each other. Only when the level of science and technology is reached can the level of agriculture be improved.

Fertiliser sounds simple, but it is not easy to make, especially nitrogen fertiliser, which requires synthetic ammonia technology. Ye Shuo knows the principle, but he simply cannot make it. It is really like a good cook without rice.

If we can crack the technology of synthetic ammonia, we can also make aeroplanes and cannons, and we will no longer need food. We can just defeat the other two countries directly, and there is no need to make any alliances with them.

Even in modern times, many countries still have to rely on imports for fertilisers, not to mention now.

However, if it is just to increase the grain production slightly, Ye Shuo can still do it.

If it really doesn’t work, just see if there is a plate corresponding to South America here. Then we can dig some potatoes or something like that to solve the food problem.

And the Champa rice that amazed the ancients in history, if there was also Champa here.

There are many methods, as long as one of them can solve the problem, then the problem will not be a problem. Ye Shuo doesn’t even need to worry too much about it. He just needs to pass on what he has learned.

As long as there is a reliable person on my grandfather’s side who can cooperate with me, it will be fine.

The other party provides the people and he provides the knowledge, so the crisis of Jianjian and her grandfather’s family can be completely resolved, and they don’t have to worry no matter who comes to power in the future.

This is definitely the simplest of all the links.

He has a grandfather who is the Duke of Zhen, six brave and warlike uncles, and eighteen cousins. He can’t be so unlucky that he can’t find anyone he can trust… right?

That’s impossible.