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On the rosewood crabapple table, there is an eight-inch agate plate filled with fresh lychees.

The sweet and smoky fruit aroma is stimulated by the warm charcoal fire in the room, lingering in the nose.

Like a delicate girl dancing with light gauze, pure and endearing.

King Huaiyang never liked to burn incense. He only kept fresh seasonal fruits in his house, decorated with the fragrance of melons and fruits.

Everyone around the prince knows that what he loves most is the fruity aroma of lychee, but such a fruit is never easy to come by, let alone it is already October.

The lychees placed on the plate are each the size of an egg.

The skin color is vermilion, with green leaves.

The lychee has always been cut with the branch, otherwise it will lose its color and flavor within a long time.

This plate of lychees is worth more than a healthy cow.

It was specially bred by a special person in Lingnan, and it took no more than six hours to transport it to Chenzhou by fast horse.

Yao Zheng glanced at the lychee on the plate, and couldn't help but think of his queen sister, it's all her filial piety!

"Have you read the Queen's letter?" King Huaiyang sat on the soft couch. He was already thin, but now he looked even shriveled with age.

The clothes on his body were extremely expensive, even under the candlelight, they shone like jewels.

And the brighter the clothes, the more old he looks,

It's like a piece of rotten wood wrapped in silk.

Only those eyes are as deep as lacquer, which makes people dare not look directly at them.

People who know him say that his eyes look exactly like his mother's eldest princess.

That is, the aunt of Emperor Xuanqing.

"My son has seen it." Yao Zheng said respectfully. His father was too serious, and he was the person he feared the most.

Yao was by his side, and he had never felt the warmth between father and son.It's more like a superior and a subordinate, as if everything has to be done in business.

"Now those people from the Cen family are having a lot of fun!" King Huaiyang said in a slow voice. Reuse it again, don’t you understand the meaning here?”

"Of course it's because the emperor loves the noble concubine so much," Yao Zheng said, "But even if the members of the Cen family are reused, there are still more people on our side in the court."

"You are such an idiot! Don't blame me for keeping you by my side. With your head, sending you to the capital is also giving someone a handle." King Huaiyang sneered, "Tell you, if the Chen family If it really gets going, you and I will die without a place to die!"

Yao Zheng was naturally afraid in his heart, but he knew that his father never liked showing a timid look in front of him, so he tried his best to calm down and said, "The Cen family really has to guard against it. There are many children in their family, and now the concubine has given birth again. Fifth Prince, I heard that His Majesty has become more fond of their mother and son."

"The life of the queen must be difficult." Huaiyang King sighed, "She still misses us now, and reminds me to be careful of Zheng Wuji and his wife."

"Zheng Wuji has done a lot of things since he came here, but he has also offended many people." Yao Zheng said, "Take the matter of digging the river channel as an example, all the gentry and merchants in Chenzhou do not blame him.

It was said that he was really overjoyed, but he dared not speak out. "

"Zheng Wuji is by no means as simple as these people seem on the surface." King Huaiyang smiled, and his tone was a little appreciative, "He is already so sophisticated and cunning when he is not yet 30 years old. I still don't know how!"

"Then what should we do according to father's wishes? Still like before?" Yao Zheng asked cautiously.

King Huaiyang took a look at him, as if looking at a piece of trash: "You and your sister really deserved to be crawled out of a mother's intestines!"

Yao Zheng blushed a little. For so many years, he tried hard to become mature and deep, but he was still always looked down upon by his father.

"Before I said that I would report Zheng Wuji for abusing people's power and seizing people's wealth, didn't my father say that I would not do anything with them?" Yao Zheng became more cautious, for fear of saying the wrong thing.

"Before was before, now is now." King Huaiyang leaned back to make himself more comfortable to sit, "The canal has not been dug before, so suing him is not the point.

Now the canal has almost been dug, and it will be usable by then.

What's more, people's grievances are getting deeper, even if someone from above comes to investigate, there will be thousands of mouths waiting. "

"Father is really scheming." Yao Zheng nodded repeatedly, "Then the son will know what to do, write a secret report overnight and send it to the capital.

It is said that Zheng Wuji, the magistrate of Chenzhou, abused his official power and drove the people to make great achievements, laboring the people and wasting money. "

"Who are you going to keep secret?" King Huaiyang asked with a glance at him.

Yao Zheng didn't dare to answer immediately, but after thinking about it in his heart, he said: "Of course we can't report it directly to the emperor, so let the elder brother do it! Let him figure it out."

"Over the years, you have improved a bit, but not much." King Huaiyang snorted through his nostrils, "You are not as good as a housekeeper."

After speaking, he asked Yao Zheng to call the housekeeper.

The housekeeper, Yao Yi, had been waiting outside, and when he heard the greeting, he hurried into the room.

Greetings to the king of Huaiyang: "What is the order of the prince to greet the little one?"

"If you want Zheng Wuji to capsize, what should you say?" King Huaiyang asked directly.

Yao Yi rolled his eyes, then cupped his hands and said: "The servant probably thinks wrong, I just said it for you to listen to.

This Zheng Wuji is having a lot of trouble now, it is actually not difficult to catch him.

But, he is sent by the emperor, and his wife has a close relationship with the imperial concubine.

So we have to first think about avoiding suspicion, otherwise, as long as the emperor knows that we participated in him, then the matter will most likely fail. "

When Yao Yi said this, Yao Zheng's face turned red, and he felt ashamed in his heart.

What the butler said was right, the purpose of the emperor sending Zheng Wuji here was naturally to deal with them.

At this time, no matter whether they directly submitted the memorial or handed over the matter to Yao Hu, it was tantamount to the impeachment of Zheng Wuji by King Huaiyang.

How can the emperor believe it?
It is possible not only not to believe it, but to blame them even more.

At that time, it will inevitably end up in the end of stealing chickens but not getting a lot of rice.

The butler continued: "It's better to ask a certain local squire or merchant to come forward, unite everyone, write a joint letter, and go to the capital to sue the imperial court.

It is none of our business for the common people to come forward on their own.Of course, if the lord wants to make this matter bigger, he might as well inform the officials in the capital a little bit so that they can take the opportunity to join Zheng Wuji.

If this happened, Zheng Wuji would naturally have to leave this place.

If it doesn't work, it has nothing to do with us, and we can still communicate with him.

The so-called being able to advance and retreat, even if Zheng Wuji suspected in his heart that we were manipulating it behind the scenes, he still couldn't come up with a real reason in the end.

What's more, even if you can't sue him, you will definitely show him some color and make him afraid. "

After the steward finished speaking, King Huaiyang nodded appreciatively, without saying anything, just looking at his youngest son.

Yao Zheng immediately understood, and quickly said: "My son understands, let's do it now."