Take the farm down to earth

Chapter 101 Imperial power struggle
During the New Year's Eve, all kinds of prepared gifts were handed over to Xue's and Jia's families, as well as the home of Gao Yongmin, the chief and deputy examiner of the rural examination, and the Ministry of Industry.

Afterwards, Shi Zhongkui and Yu Tongfu brothers studied behind closed doors with peace of mind, compared each other's exams, and after a while, they each gained something, and they became more confident about the exam.

Even in order to succeed in one fell swoop, not only did Yu Honggao tutor himself, but even Pang Shitong, who lived in seclusion on Mount Tai, sent someone to send several boxes of materials.

Shi Zhongkui was fine, anyway, after reading it, he could memorize it a few times and review it a few times, and even copy it once and put it in the space, it would be hard to forget.

But Yu Tongfu seemed to be under too much pressure before the exam, and sometimes he couldn't sleep all night, so he didn't have the energy to study during the day.

After a few days, Shi Zhongkui had to use words to enlighten him, and play chess with him to relieve his tension.

This method is indeed useful, because Shi Zhongkui was a stinky chess player from the beginning, and Yu Tongfu found confidence after winning for a few days.

But playing and playing, Shi Zhongkui's chess skills are growing at a speed visible to the naked eye.

If it weren't for worrying about hitting him, he would actually be confident that he could talk to Yu Tongfu in a week's time.

Later, because he had to think about how to lose chess, his chess skills ushered in a wave of growth again.

Three games of chess every day, maintaining a [-]-[-] balance every day, not only made the relationship between the two closer, but also improved their knowledge, and Yu Honggao was extremely satisfied with Shi Zhongkui.

After standing aside to look at it once, Yu Honggao returned all the fans he had accepted that night.

While Shi Zhongkui was surprised by this, after thinking about it carefully, he felt that this was normal.

The future of my son is indeed not comparable to that of a dozen fans.

But what people didn't expect was that he would be involved in the battle between the two emperors in advance.
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It has been more than two months since King Anle was detained in Longshou Palace by the Supreme Emperor. After the initial hesitation and fear, the 16-year-old young prince began to think again.

Moreover, the experience of being almost killed by the emperor this time also made him understand that when the Supreme Emperor returns to heaven, his best ending is to be locked up.

But asking him to directly alienate the relationship between the Supreme Emperor and the Emperor is not that courageous, nor is it that stupid.

After thinking about it, since the emperor was cutting out the hands left by his father, why didn't he do the same?
In the beginning, King Anle put his target on the cabinet and the six important ministers who had taken refuge in the emperor, but in the fight more than two months ago, Xiu Yiwei not only killed the people left by the former prince Yizhong a batch.

Even the inside and outside of the county palace was almost cleaned up.

In addition, he was detained in the Longshou Palace and was unable to communicate with the outside world. This made Anle County King find no one to do things.

After thinking about it for a while, I realized that my nanny had said that the Zhen family, Jia family and other honorable families in Jinling were all from my father's royal line, so I couldn't help but think of the old concubine Zhen in the palace.

And the emperor was a little complacent because he knew that there were many killers and hidden officials in the Anle County King's family.

He was really concerned about his own safety, and faintly revealed the meaning of rectifying the Beijing camp, [-]% of the soldiers and horses, and even nobles.

Fortunately for the first two, the Zhen family has always been in Jinling as the imperial envoy of the president of the Tirenyuan, which has nothing to do with military affairs.

But if the emperor intends to rectify the nobles, it will kill the Zhen family.

At that time, the Supreme Emperor traveled south seven times, and lived in Zhen's house five times, and the other two times were in Jia's house and once in Wang's house.

Glory is indeed glory. In those years, the Zhen family in Jiangnan was really a family that even princes and county kings dared not mess with.

But the money was spent like flowing water, even if the Zhen family had gold and silver, they couldn't resist it, let alone five times.

So these years, the Zhen family has been owed almost 200 million silver to the Ministry of Households, and this is still owed by the Zhen family, which has repaid 100 million.

The Supreme Emperor also knew that because of himself, the Zhen family really almost emptied the warehouse, and even cut down the expenses repeatedly during the Chinese New Year.

That's why the Zhen family has been acting as the president of the Institute of Physical Education.

The so-called Tirenyuan, in addition to reporting the Jiangnan affairs to the Supreme Emperor every month, also holds the procurement errands of the House of Internal Affairs when the Supreme Emperor was still in power, and now the Dragon Head Palace.

It stands to reason that after more than ten years, one or two million silver is repaid every year, and the 200,000 million silver that year should almost be repaid.

The Zhen family was very active in repaying the money at the beginning, and even reduced their clothing and diet for a while, and repaid 60 taels in three years.

But since the Supreme Emperor became seriously ill, she became the Supreme Empress.

The silver that was caught was not returned to the Ministry of Households, but entered the Dragon Head Palace.

In the end, the Zhen family was even involved in the matter of the Jiangnan salt tax.

So upon hearing the emperor's dissatisfaction with Xungui, Old Concubine Zhen understood that the money owed must be repaid.

But the Taishanghuang is still alive, and both sides want money. Isn't that forcing the Zhen family to death?
In this case, apart from confronting the emperor, the Zhen family has no other way out.

Moreover, throughout Jiangnan and in the imperial court, there are many officials who do not want the emperor to touch the salt tax and check the deficit in the regular year.

As soon as King Anle found Old Concubine Zhen, the two of them didn't know what they talked about. That night, the old concubine personally sent a bowl of lotus seed soup to the Supreme Emperor.

Fortunately, the emperor has not been the emperor for nothing these past few years. Not to mention that the Longshou Palace where the Supreme Emperor lives is all the emperor's spies, but it is not difficult to just keep an eye on the Anle County King.

Xia Shouzhong reported to the emperor overnight that King Anle went to see Old Concubine Zhen.

At first, the emperor and Xia Shouzhong never thought that someone would target Shi Zhongkui, after all, there are too many courtiers who are more important than him.

Even any nobleman in charge of the army is ten or a hundred times more important than him.

Moreover, the only ones the emperor was on guard against were King Anle and a few brothers. He took it for granted that this was his restless nephew, and asked the old concubine to intercede with the Supreme Emperor.

Either let him out, or go to the fiefdom.

But after thinking about it, as long as people are not stupid, everyone knows that Anle County King will be troubled by the emperor and the embroidered clothes guards when he leaves Longshou Palace, and even die of a cold, no one can find out the result.

After thinking about it to no avail, the emperor could only prepare for how to deal with the Supreme Emperor, and possibly the arrangements for Prince Anle.

When Old Concubine Zhen went to see the Supreme Emperor, she said very simple words.

One sentence: "The old sister of Laoshen is really lucky. There was a son-in-law of Tanhualang in the past, and now she has appointed a grandson-in-law of Xie Yuangong, who has won four consecutive titles." '

It sounded no problem at all, but the Supreme Emperor knew it was Jia Mu when he heard it.

And in his view, this is a bilateral bet between the Jia family and the Wang family, showing signs of breaking away from his control.

Directly reprimanding Jia's family, or removing Wang Ziteng from the position of Jingying Jiedushi, is definitely the most stupid way.

To save the situation, the easiest, most direct, and least costly way to break the situation is still Shi Zhongkui.

(End of this chapter)