Chapter 403: Just promote me to a marquis?

Li Yu looked at General Qin who was stunned and shouted twice again;

"Uncle, uncle, do you still don't believe in the child? I can try to plough it on the spot..."

Qin Qiong, who came to his senses, waved his hand;

"No need, I am the most clear about what you did. I believe that what you said is, but when you go out in the future, you must not tell others that you will work hard to create this new plowshare in order to improve your title.

You have to tell others that it is to serve the king faithfully, to solve your problems, to ensure that your Majesty's eternal country, and to prevent your Majesty's people from starving, so you have to think hard to create such a powerful weapon. Do you understand what I said?"

How could Li Yu not understand these official words? He knew better than anyone else in his heart, so he quickly agreed;

"It's my uncle. I remember it. If anyone asks me again in the future, I will tell you what my uncle taught me."

Qin Qiong walked back and forth in the study twice before stopping to look at Li Yu;

"When did you create it? Why don't you say it earlier? Tell Your Majesty earlier, so you can also make Your Majesty happy earlier. If you say it too late, your Majesty will suspect that you want to hide your own private interests and don't want to offer it to Your Majesty."

"Reply to my uncle's words, it was only made on the day before I came to Chang'an City. It has only been four or five days since then. The child has also written a letter and wants to ask his uncle to hand it over to His Majesty.

I just want to present this new plow to the court and His Majesty, how can I hide my private life? The child’s letters were sealed with paint, and the signature was still kept in my room three days ago. When I go back, I will ask the servant to take it and hand it over to my uncle."

Qin Qiong was excited and walked around the house several times, muttering;

"Well, that's good. With letters as evidence, you can tell everything clearly. When I was first created, I immediately thought of His Majesty and the court. That way I would be fine.

After you go back, you will ask someone to quickly bring it over. I will go to the palace tomorrow and report the good news of Your Majesty in person, so that Your Majesty will be happy. I have too many worries recently, so Your Majesty must be very melancholy."

Li Yu looked at Qin's gate god and finally stopped again, and hurried up to ask;

"Uncle, I can give me a better title for my contribution this time. After all, this is not a trivial matter. Your Majesty has clear rewards and punishments, so I can definitely give me a suitable title! Right, uncle?"

Qin Qiong looked at Li Yu with a strange look;

"These contributions of yours are combined, even if there is no new plow, it is worth at least one county duke from the second rank. If you change the generals who have military merits do these things, you will be a national duke from the first rank.

But you are too young and have no military merits, so Your Majesty keeps suppressing your title and never let go.

The new plow you created this time will have to make more contributions. There are horse hoof boots in front to solve the problem of replacing war horses, and there are half of the white wine behind to solve the crisis in the imperial court's major events.

With this contribution, it is said that you are a Duke who is equal to me, and you have no problem. However, you have not yet become an official, have no official position, and are too young, so I guess it is still difficult.

Your Majesty... Maybe you will continue to suppress your title and refuse to let go, but you don’t have to worry. If Your Majesty suppresses it, this credit will be put in a grand and open manner.

If you don’t upgrade to you this time, it will be difficult to block the mouths of the people in the world. Therefore, at least you can upgrade to one level. There should be no obstacles to getting a third-rank marquis.”

Li Yu was disappointed when he heard this, and said unhappyly with a long donkey face;

"Uncle, this Majesty is too stingy. For such a great contribution, I'll give me a marquis?"

Mrs. Qin stood up with a smile;

"You guys are really unsatisfied. Those generals have been fighting for ten years and have been injured and unable to get a county marquis. You are still picky and unhappy.

Even the third-rank county marquis don’t know how many people will die. How noble it is. Isn’t it good that you little bastard become a marquis so young?”

Qin Qiong next to him also nodded heavily;

"Your aunt said it right. She became a marquis at such a young age. You are the first person in the previous dynasty or in our dynasty. From the third-rank marquis, no matter where they went, they have enough status. They are extremely noble. Even if they are old, they will be pleased with you."

Li Yu said reluctantly;

"Okay, the county marquis is the county marquis. Whatever your Majesty is granted is just something. Report to uncle and aunt, it's too late. The child has surrendered. Please allow my uncle and aunt."

"allow."

"Uncle Xie, aunt, please leave."

Li Yu shook his head and left the study room, and Mrs. Qin's voice came from behind;

"Husband, look, this is not as good as he thinks, so I'm not happy. This child is really. If something unpleasant in the future, then that's OK. Can you bear it..."

"Don't worry, Madam, Yu'er has a strong ability to withstand it, Madam doesn't have to worry too much."

Li Yu left the study room and came outside the yard to find that Yingxiang and a few first-class maids were talking quietly outside the yard. When everyone saw that the noble county uncle had come out, they saluted and greeted each other, and Li Yu said calmly;

"You can go in, Yingxiang, let's go back."

"Yes, husband."

Along the way, Li Yu didn't speak even though he was thinking about his thoughts. Yingxiang followed quietly. Suddenly, Li Yu stopped and twisted her body. Yingxiang bumped into Li Yu's arms;

"I deserve to die, please forgive me."

"You are not wrong, what crimes are you guilty? There will be no outsiders now. Let me ask you, if I want to take in a few small portals of your Han family and be my second wife, will you Aye and the others agree to it?"

Yingxiang felt that happiness came too suddenly and could not believe it;

"Why are you saying true?"

Li Yu nodded and said seriously;

"It's true. I think Li's servants are not enough, so I want to recharge some, so I'll ask you first and see the situation. I'm afraid that the prodigal households will not agree, and I will have no place to put my face."

Yingxiang was so happy that she quickly squatted and thanked her;

"Thank you for your care, I will definitely serve you for the rest of my life."

"Don't worry..."

Yingxiang, who never rushes to speak, was really anxious this time. Aye and the others thought about it for many years and finally realized it. Now the husband is like this again. Yingxiang couldn't help but interrupt Li Yu's words;

"How can you do this... You just said that you want to accept the four portals of our Han family. How can this not count?"

Li Yu looked at Yingxiang and said strangely;

"Why don't you count? Of course, what I said counts. I just want you not to worry. I want to ask you something, but I didn't say I won't let you come in."

Yingxiang heard the affirmative words, then she felt relieved and said happily;

"My husband forgives the crime, I am too anxious. If you have any questions, please ask me. I will speak out and say everything I know."

"Well, if Yingxiang is taken in by me as a slave, then you will have no land and no good household registration. The court will take away your land. Why are you sure that Aye can agree?"

Yingxiang replied suddenly:

"Langjun, you said this. Normally, land is the lifeblood of the people, and no one can bear to throw it away, but have you ever thought about it?

No matter how much land you have, you have to eat according to the weather. It is better when the weather is good. If you are a little harder and tired, you can have enough food. But what about the year of famine?

When the particles are not harvested, they will starve to death. That's no joke. Many people in our family used to be. When I was young, I encountered a severe drought that lasted for two years, and half of the tribesmen starved to death.

The elderly have gone to the mountains themselves and cut them off themselves. They can’t afford to buy coffins. The adults only eat a few bites of food a day, so they can’t starve to death. They keep food to feed their children. Have you ever thought about the horror of that kind of life?"

How could Li Yu think of these things? He could describe it simply in his mind when Yingxiang said it. He thought it was terrible. He couldn't eat less, so how could he eat a few bites of rice a day?

"I haven't experienced these things before. I can't say much, but I also know that if I don't have anything to eat, I'll starve to death."

Yingxiang said very seriously;

"Your husband, you can't feel it. No matter how serious the disaster is, you can't feel it. Not to mention you, even the hundreds of servants in our village, can't understand it. They can eat enough at any time, how can they know the feeling of hunger?"

Li Yu said proudly;

"That's right, when the disaster is coming, our mansion will open warehouses and release grain. Haven't you seen the big grain silhouette behind? It's almost half-large that other small villages are. How can you tell the servants to starve to death?"

"Yes, my husband, it is because I followed the mansion that I will never be afraid of not having enough food, nor will I be afraid of starving to death, so I, Aye, agreed.

Do you still remember that when I was very young, I fled with my whole family. When I came to Lantian, I met Lao Alang on the way. I, Aye and his brothers wanted to sell myself as slaves.

Old Alang just smiled and said yes, and gave me Aye and the others the money to sell themselves. What's strange is that he has not mentioned the matter of slaves for a long time.

Later, we followed Ah Lang and came back to the village to divide the house and lived there. We gave us several trucks of grain. I, Ah Ye, was five-foot tall man, was so happy that I cried when I saw so much grain, and knelt down to Old Ah Lang on the spot.

Since the day we met Alang, we have never been hungry again, and we have never starved to death. However, we have also taken the money for selling our goods, and we still live in the house allocated in the mansion, and we also feed food like a slave. Alang just doesn't talk about being a slave.

After living there for several months, I, Aye and the others realized that compared with the servants in the village, they were like calling a flower girl. They were all wearing good clothes and had no patch.

Our family is so hungry that they are touching their backs, but looking at the children who have children, they all eat very strong foods and have to eat four or five Hu cakes at a meal. They are really so angry that people are so angry that they can't compare.

Even at that time, even with the food given by Alang, I, Aye and the others were reluctant to eat more. They were all afraid of being hungry?

As a result, looking at the food of the slaves, the corn porridge was thick and there were bumps. At that time, I said that those families had children and did not know the preciousness of food, so they were wasting food like this.

I also said that you will suffer from the disaster year, but I even had a fight with that family. They didn’t know me, Aye, this foreigner, and they yelled me, Aye several times:

We have been eating like this since we were young, and we have to take care of it. We are not afraid of any disaster year. The grain in our big granary is full, and we can eat enough without farming for three years.

I, Aye, was not convinced. I thought that the family was so arrogant that they could still have enough food without farming for three years?

Until later, one time, I, Aye and the other four brothers, felt that they were just eating but not working, and felt very uneasy like being an old man, so I went to the front mansion to find Alang and said that I would arrange some work to repay Alang.

Later, Alang arranged for me, Aye and the other brothers to go to the Houtou Granary Courtyard to attack the craftsmen who repaired the courtyard wall.

I, Aye and the others looked at the rows of houses, full of food, and were stunned. Then they believed that what the person who quarreled with him was not a singular swearing. They did eat like that since they were young, and they didn't tell lies.

I said that even the group of evil dogs in the granary compound were specially cooked by servants, so my third uncle always said that the refugees in the disaster year were not as good as those dogs in the granary compound.

Aye, I, was not attentive to work that day, and I felt so uncomfortable. I thought that more than a dozen people starved to death on the way when our family fled. If these dogs could eat evenly, they would not starve to death.”

Li Yu said awkwardly;

"They have tall bones because their ancestors are all big men in the northwest, so they are tall. However, they are strong and they can really eat them. Anyway, they are not poor, and we are our Li family. Besides, if you don't ask for a full meal, what's the point?"
To be continued...