Why are there no saints in the world?

Because the sage always has no intention.

A saint will not use his own emotions to decide likes and dislikes, or judge right and wrong.

No matter how powerful Zhang Xingcai is, she is far from reaching the realm of a saint, because she has always had her own likes and dislikes.

Having likes and dislikes means there will be flaws and shortcomings.

Her early experiences made Empress Zhang extremely fond of her hard-won son.

It can be said that you are afraid of melting it when you hold it in your mouth, and you are afraid of falling when you hold it in your hand.

I don't want the prince to get hurt at all.

Faced with the Queen's repeated attempts to marry the Feng family daughter on behalf of the Prince, Madam You finally couldn't help but expose a fact that Queen Zhang didn't want to face.

"When it comes to the difficulty of getting a child, can my sister be compared with the Prime Minister's wife? When Zhuge Zhan first met Feng's daughter, he was beaten."

"The Prime Minister is unrivaled in intelligence, but in the eyes of Feng's daughter, his son is nothing more than mediocre."

"How do you plan to educate the prince and make the Feng daughter surrender to the prince?"

Huang Yueying can also be regarded as a strange woman of her generation.

Over the years, Zhuge Zhan has been basically led by her.

But in Madam You's eyes, the fourteen-year-old Zhuge Zhan was already somewhat spoiled.

This son was not born in a deep palace, but he was indeed born in a woman's hands. The prime minister's wife had a son in middle age, far more so than the queen.

In the last few years of the prime minister's life, he wanted to return the old capital and did not even have enough time to deal with government and military affairs, so he naturally neglected to discipline Zhuge Zhan.

The eldest brother Zhuge Qiao has been staying in Nanzhong and is not in the mansion. He also has no way to take care of his younger brother on behalf of his father.

The consequence is that Zhuge Zhan's mind and ability are far from matching his age and status.

Zhuge Zhan has been studying in Feng Mansion for some time, and Madam You is also familiar with him.

Many times, Mrs. You always felt that Zhuge Zhan was too indecisive, unclear in judgment, and delayed for a long time, which could be described as confused.

As the saying goes, "Those who are slow-minded but unable to achieve anything, those who are soft-hearted but indecisive, and those who are undecided about likes and dislikes but have no determination will perish."

If you put this kind of character in Zhuge Zhan, the most he can do is to destroy his entire family.

But if it is placed on the prince, it may lead to the destruction of a country.

Although it is said that one can perish, it cannot be said that one must perish.

But the prince will be the leader of a country in the future, and the danger of country subjugation must be guarded against.

If you know the danger but don't take precautions, the country will be in chaos.

It was precisely because of this concern that Mrs. Right took the risk to remind the queen of this.

Moreover, given Alang's identity and background, whether it was a sect or a court, if the prince was really unlucky enough to be cheated, how could he safely marry his daughter into the palace?

If it had been someone else, the identity of the prince might still have worked.

But in the eyes of the descendants of the descendants of the Shanmen, they are really qualified and do not care about the identity of the prince.

The Queen's focus was not on this, but she frowned slightly:

"Feng's daughter beat Zhuge Zhan?"

When Mrs. Right saw her sister like this, she knew that she seemed not to have heard the point of what she wanted to say, and sighed:

"Sister, Feng Ying was born to a tiger girl of the Guan family, and she grew up in a family like the Feng family. Do you think she can be an ordinary noblewoman?"

The queen looked at Madam Right with some suspicion:

"But how come I heard that the Feng family's daughter has always been gentle and gentle, and she knows etiquette at a young age?"

The right lady laughed:

"My Alang is also very cruel and ruthless with his clever words! Does it prevent him from becoming a pillar of the Han Dynasty?"

Wenwan is for outsiders to see. That means if people don't believe you if they are willing to be Wenwan, why don't you bring Ah Chong in front of her to see?

There is nothing wrong with knowing the etiquette, but that means if someone doesn’t believe her if she is willing to follow the etiquette, why don’t you bring Ah Chong in front of her to see?

"As the saying goes, armed with sharp weapons, murderous intentions arise naturally. As both of us grow older, women's etiquette will naturally be indispensable, but I have never said that I should give up my martial arts."

If you can make sense, try to make sense. If you can't make sense, try to make sense of physics.

Turn forward like the wind, advance and retreat freely.

After all, who doesn’t know that Feng Mansion’s knowledge is unfathomable?

Just like Feng Mansion.

The left and right ladies are both civil and military, and can talk about both reason and physics.

Therefore, the notorious Feng Guiwang, when facing his own wives and concubines, always only talks about reason and clever words, which will eventually prove useful.

If the prince really marries Feng's daughter, and he can't control her, then he will be able to reason with him if he wants to, and he can talk with physics if he wants to talk to him.

Based on the queen's doting on the prince, should she interfere in the affairs between the prince and his wife?

If you really want to take care of it, how do you plan to take care of it?

What does Feng Mansion think?

The queen finally fell silent after listening to Madam Right's words.

After a long time, he said:

"That's why Feng Mingwen said that he should let his daughter choose the person she likes?"

Seeing my sister like this, Mrs. Right nodded quickly and said:

"If a woman really likes someone, no matter how powerful she is, her attitude will still be different. My sister knows this best."

The first half of the sentence makes some sense, but...

"What do I know best?"

The queen immediately became angry again, "What do you mean?"

"Okay, okay," Madam You said with a smile, "Just like the tiger girl of the Guan family, okay?"

Empress Zhang glanced at Mrs. Right, but said nothing.

I don’t know if I am weighing the pros and cons, or if I really listened to Madam Right’s reminder.

In June of the third year of Yanxi, various places began to collect summer grain and put it into storage.

For the first time in so many years, Shu and Liangzhou have seen a year-on-year decline in grain output due to a reduction in cultivated land.

However, the output did not decrease much and the impact was not significant.

Because the southern part of Shu has begun to promote double-cropping rice in the past two years, part of the reduction in production has been offset.

However, the emperor of the Han Dynasty took pity on his people's misfortune and ordered to reduce the taxes collected in the first half of the year.

This move was greatly praised by the officials and the people, who praised Adou as a wise king.

Especially in Shu, many people said that Your Majesty will never forget the folks who were the founding land of Ji Han!

It just so happens that we can sell more to Wu Guo this year. Do you think you can give me compliments?

It's just that after three years of rectification in Guanzhong and other places, people's livelihood has begun to recover.

The taxes collected by the imperial court as a whole did not decrease, but actually increased.

Compared to Ji Han, who was calm, Wu Di was wailing.

To the south of the Yangtze River, most people grow millet and rice, and some plant rice, but rarely wheat. In other words, in the land south of the Yangtze River, there is very little summer grain.

Whether it is millet, rice, or bean sprouts, most of them start in April, and are harvested in August at the earliest and in October at the latest.

(Note: During the Three Kingdoms era, double-cropping rice had not yet spread, so rice in the south of the Yangtze River could only be harvested in one season, while the Central Plains could harvest wheat in the summer and millet in the autumn. This was also the reason why the north was relatively developed in ancient times.)

Now, from Jingzhou to Jiangdong, you can see acres and acres of fertile farmland in the past, which was not abandoned because of the drought and failure to sow in time.

Even the crops that were forcibly sown grew short due to lack of water and could not grow fruit at all.

After sowing precious grains, this is the result.

Many farmers squatted in the fields, looking at crops that were half smaller than in previous years, and finally couldn't help holding their heads and crying.

Zhuge Jin, who was guarding Nanyang County, knew that the situation was urgent, so he quickly went to Wuchang and suggested to Lu Xun, the pastor of Jingzhou:

"The grain harvest in Jingzhou has become a fact. It will be difficult for the people to feed themselves this year. I would like to ask the general to petition Your Majesty to exempt Jingzhou from taxes and find ways to provide disaster relief."

Unexpectedly, when Lu Xun heard this, he sighed:

"How could I not know what Ziyu said? Before this, I had already written to Your Majesty to explain the situation in Jingzhou this year."

"It's just that Your Majesty has not responded. It's just that Your Majesty is in trouble. As far as I know, this year in Wu, both Jingzhou and Jiangdong, there is insufficient food."

"Nowadays, let alone disaster relief, it is already rare to be exempted from taxes."

"What I'm most worried about is that taxes will still be collected based on the share from previous years."
To be continued...