35 New Reign

Days passed quietly.

Feng Ning sat on the dragon throne and looked at the officials below her. Never in her wildest dream did she think that she would be able to sit in this seat and being the one to influence the kingdoms' politic.

And…. There were many things to do.

"Your Majesty." Prime Minister Yan bowed at Feng Ning and handed the stack of documents. "These are the things that we would like to discuss today. It's regarding the drought at the western side of Lin Tang Kingdom. Some scholars predicted that the drought might be worse this year."

In truth, the officials were in a bit of pinch too. There were no one aside from Feng Ning who was more suitable to inherit the throne. Even if they wanted her to have a child so quickly, they would have to wait for the mourning period to end.

After all, the emperor and empress were both not allowed to stay in the same palace for the night during this period.

And the doctor had told them before that Feng Ning was not pregnant yet. The officials were a bit impatient, but they were glad when the doctors said that there was nothing wrong with her body.

It was just not the time.

In that case, they should just wait half a year before urging the two of them to have children as fast as possible.

Before that, Feng Ning would naturally be involved in the court meeting.

It was just that… they were a bit worried about whether she had the necessary knowledge or not.

Feng Ning looked at Prime Minister Yan and knew that the latter was worrying about her qualification. In truth, Imperial Doctor Wu had already given her some of the brief summary about what had happened in Lin Tang Kingdom for the past few years.

She knew very well what had happened here and some of the hard to solve problems.

Taking out the map, Feng Ning drew a line there.

"Your Majesty?" Prime Minister Yan was confused.

Feng Ning took Xiao Yu's hand and write on her palm. It would be much faster to have Xiao Yun talked rather than her writing everything on the paper.

"While the situation there might be dire, it's not something unsolvable. The big river is crossing through the area at the north. In that case, what's necessary is to build a canal for the water to flow.

Some areas will be able to easily have the access of water as long as the cannals are built. And for some small areas that are rather higher, the difference in height could be solved by using this."

Feng Ning took out the scroll that she had prepared before. It contained the blueprint for waterwheel that she had thought before. Even though it wouldn't be able to solve everything, it would be able to solve the irrigation problems.

Those dry areas would have more water.

Feng Ning explained the details while pointing to the cities one by one while Prime Minister Yan listened carefully. He looked at the young Empress in front of him and felt amazed.

Was this truly the thought a mere 15 years old girl could have?

For some reason, he began to think that the Emperor's decision to have the throne passed over to Feng Ning might be the most correct decision he had made in his entire life.

With this plan alone, Prime Minister Yan was sure that the drought problem and also the farming problem that had plagued the western area of Lin Tang Kingdom could be solved.

"Prime Minister Yan, you might need to appoint someone to be in charge of this matter. Someone who can be trusted." Feng Ning smiled.

Prime Minister Yan cupped his fist. "There's no need to worry, Your Majesty. I'll make sure to do this well."

After that, they discussed the change of personnel that Feng Ning was a bit unfamiliar with. For this matter, she simply handed it to Lin Zi Xuan, who was sitting right beside her and listened to her ideas just now.

He didn't interrupt.

Not at all.

Feng Ning looked at Lin Zi Xuan and didn't notice anything strange from her husband. He simply talked about the people whom he wanted to elevate position and those whom he wanted to demote.

Many of those came from outside the Capital City.

It seemed that the days where Lin Zi Xuan spent the time to fight, he also collected people whom he could trust one by one. They were all coming from various cities and would be working under him.

"Your Majesty, it's already late. How about if you take some rest?" Prime Minister Yan asked with smile plastered on his face. It seemed that he was so delighted that he didn't know what he was supposed to do anymore.

Talking with smart people were really nice.

"I'm planning to have Minister Song as the Prime Minister of the Left." Lin Zi Xuan looked at Prime Minister Yan. "I hope you can arrange it."

"Yes, Your Majesty."

"Good."

Lin Zi Xuan then stood up and walked out of the hall with Feng Ning walking beside him. The ministers were all watching from the back with mixed expression.

"If only Her Majesty could still speak, it'll be much better," one of them said in a whisper.

The other officials didn't dare to comment, but they also felt the same thing. When they listened to Xiao Yu explaining… no, translating what Feng Ning had said, they felt that it would have been much better for the Empress to be the one to speak.

It was truly unfortunate.

Prime Minister Yan shook his head as he put away the books. He also felt that it was quite bad. But thinking about it from another perspective, the only reason why the two of them were engaged and then married was because Empress Xing turned mute after drinking poison, right?

Probably, it was already fate that brought the two of them together like this now.

Lin Zi Xuan escorted Feng Ning to her palace. He stopped in front of her room and turned his head to look at his wife. "Ning'er."

Feng Ning raised her head to look at him. She could see that he seemed to be sizing her up and didn't seem to be satisfied with what he saw. She could only pull his left hand and wrote on his palm.

"Yes?"

"My wife is very smart." Lin Zi Xuan bent down and stretched his hand. He silently caressed her hair as his eyes looked deep into the young woman's eyes in front of him. "Very smart."

His gaze seemed to be able to see through any layer of disguise, but Feng Ning stayed as calm as ever.

She smiled.

"Are you afraid?"

"No." Lin Zi Xuan's voice was a bit low. He straightened his body and moved away from Feng Ning. Because of the restriction during the mourning period, he couldn't get closer to his wife. "I'll never be."

After saying that, Lin Zi Xuan turned around and walked away. His back was straight and his steps were steady.

Feng Ning watched as Lin Zi Xuan walked away and smiled faintly.

All of those knowledge comes from her previous life. The knowledge that far surpassed the technology in this era.

But what could she do?

She just wanted to be able to change some things little by little.

"Xiao Yu, send the books that I have been writing to Prime Minister Yan. Tell him to use in accordance to the topics."

"Yes, Your Majesty."