Chapter 2129 Reward

Next, there is the award based on merit.

Zhao Yuanjing said that the biggest contributor was Yun Dai, but Yun Dai was already the queen of the middle palace and had reached the top of the harem women, and there was nothing more to be canonized.

If we talk about rewards...

After half a year of consumption, the imperial treasury was very empty, and it still owed a lot of foreign debts and had no money to reward.

Zhao Yuanjing thought for a moment and granted Yun Dai's biological mother, Ming Min, who had passed away long ago, the title of a first-class lady. The brothers Gu Chengan and Gu Chengning were also given the official position of Dragon Guard.

This so-called Dragon Guard is not a specific official position, it is just a false position, fifth grade. Basically it can be regarded as an honor.

But no matter what, with the official position of Dragon Guard, he is separated from his identity as an ordinary merchant.

From then on, the Gu family was no longer a lowly merchant that was looked down upon by others.

No matter how big and profitable Yunji is under the control of the Gu brothers. In terms of social status, after all, he is still a merchant who is looked down upon by others.

The emperor gave them rewards, and the Gu family once again joined the aristocracy of Kyoto.

This was to give Yun Dai face, and also because of the performance of the Gu brothers in this war.

When the Empress Dowager sent people to make trouble in Yunji, the brothers resisted desperately and were both injured. In particular, Gu Chengning was seriously injured and it took him several months to get out of bed.

Every time the goods were shipped to Saibei, Gu Chengan was the one coordinating and busy. From the beginning of the year to the end of the year, he did not have a day off.

He knew that the business was short of money, so he used all the money he had saved in the past few years to make up for it.

They can afford the empty duties of two fifth-grade dragon guards.

When the imperial edict arrived at the Gu family, Gu Chengan was still busy in the business and came back quickly after hearing the news.

The two brothers took their wives and children to receive the imperial edict, and they were both a little confused.

None of them thought that one day they would return to the noble family in this life.

After seeing off the eunuch who delivered the edict, the whole family came around and excitedly circled around the edict.

Gu Chengning held the imperial edict in his hands and said calmly: "Is this...did the Queen fight for us?"

Gu Chengan stood up and said, "This is certain. If it weren't for the sake of the empress, how could the court care about us?"

"Brother, tell me, does this mean that the Queen has forgiven our family?" Gu Chengning asked.

"I don't know." Gu Chengan shook his head.

He was once the most passionate about fame and wealth, but now he is the calmest person in the family.

Not only is he calm on the outside, but he is also as calm as water on the inside.

He didn't care about this at all.

He is busy at the business every day and goes home to be with his wife and children. As long as his wife in the palace is safe and everyone in the family is well, he is already content.

At the age of thirty, he has lived a new life and found the true meaning of life.

If I have any regrets, it is my sister Yun Dai.

He had hurt her a lot since she was a child, and even once agreed with her father's decision to drown her.

Thinking of this, he couldn't forgive himself, let alone ask Yun Dai to forgive himself.

He felt that Yun Dai was not the kind of person who would easily forgive someone who had hurt her just because he had made some amends.

Therefore, he was more inclined to believe that this imperial edict was a decision made by the emperor himself in order to please Yun Dai, and it essentially had nothing to do with the empress.

Gu Chengan didn't even expect that he guessed it right.

Gu Chengning was more optimistic than him. He felt that this imperial edict represented the beginning of the relaxation of the relationship between Yun Dai and the Gu family.

The two brothers placed the edict in the ancestral hall and offered it to them.