She is different from the empress in the history books

Chapter 8 Departure
Early on the next morning, before daybreak, the entire princess mansion woke up from the silence and quickly started to work together with the other two families in the alley - one was Pei Peng's second sister, the other was Pei Peng's second sister. Duke Cheng Guo and the masters of the family also woke up and ordered several servants to inquire for information at the gate of the princess's house.

Although Pei Peng had already made up his mind to leave, there were always people who didn't believe her, thinking that she was retreating, or planning something. After all, the imperial capital is so prosperous, who would be willing to leave?
Pei Peng doesn't care about these people's inquiries, and even cares about the concierge revealing some news—for example, there are only a few rooms left in this huge house for people to guard the door, or the warehouse has been packed and emptied, or the emperor cares about the emperor's sister. Pei Peng had no manpower available, so he specially selected a senior female officer to assist...

The news may be true or false, but it spread in the sky of the entire imperial city, and this kind of excitement was discussed in the mouths of the people for several rounds, and quickly spread into the palace.

The young emperor inherited his father's preferences - he didn't like to go to court, and he used the name of "the mourning period has not passed, and he will not change his father's way for three years", and directly pushed the court meeting held every five days in the former emperor's time to the present day. Opened in half a decade.

However, this does not mean that he does not pay attention to the development of the court, on the contrary, he is very keen to plant eyeliner in the various government offices, and grasp some information that the courtiers and dignitaries would never open their mouths.

"My sister is really witty, so witty that people can't start."

The young man lying lazily on the floor of the palace sighed after hearing the report from his subordinate in black clothes.

"That's all, she gave me face, and I don't want her to leave in such a miserable state. You go and ask someone to give her a phoenix carriage that looks like an eldest princess, so that I, the imperial sister, can live more comfortably on the road."

Pei Peng took his husband and daughter to the farewell pavilion outside the city gate to say goodbye to relatives and friends. He might as well have received a "generous gift" from the emperor's brother.

Fengjia regulated by the eldest princess is not uncommon in Beijing.

Although the two generations of emperors of the Pei family were stingy with their brothers and sisters, to the extent that several generations of princesses and hundreds of people could not pick out ten eldest princesses.

However, the world has been at peace for a long time, and the dignitaries in Beijing especially love to show their status by overriding the system.

Especially the princesses and princesses who are both close and far away from power. As long as they are not involved in the struggle for imperial power, the emperor has to grit his teeth to support them, so everyone likes to do some extraordinary things, such as custom-making the eldest princess. Feng Jia.

Of course Pei Peng also has one, but she doesn't use it very much. She just follows the trend started by her aunts and sisters.

But at this moment, the phoenix car that the emperor personally rewarded represents a very profound meaning.

The people around them had already focused their attention on Pei Peng's family of three, and now they were even more focused, with a hint of envy, jealousy, and suspicion.

Pei Peng felt like she was carrying a thorn in her back. Although she wanted to blur the rift between the siblings and did not hesitate to release false news, she did not want to be truly regarded as the emperor's ally in the public hall.

Especially when she knew that her younger brother was not sincerely allied with her.

Unfortunately, only Pei Peng and her confidants understand this subtle resistance. Others, even Xu Shu, are proud of it.

Until she embarked on the journey, Xu Shu felt a little proud and said to her cousin, Cheng Sanniang:
"Cousin, you see, they still think that if we leave, my mother will never be famous again. Huh, that's too narrow-minded. So what if we leave the capital? How many princesses can get the eldest princess Feng Jia given by the emperor?"

Cheng Sanniang's political sensitivity is much lower than that of this cheap cousin who has lived in the center of power since she was a child, but she can see things from a broader perspective, so she doesn't think the emperor's behavior is a kind of show of favor.

Cheng Sanniang looked at Xu Shu with some inexplicable words. It was hard to imagine that such a naive girl would become the future...

However, it may also be a family background.According to Cheng Sanniang's understanding, the former emperors of the Pei family and her cousin Pei Peng, although there is a big gap between being diligent and wise, they are all first-class in their ability to exercise power, so Xu Shu's talent is also reasonable. .

Whether it's true or false, Pei Peng can't do anything now.

She just sat down on the newly sent phoenix carriage from the palace, and called Yang Luo and Xu Zhao in to talk.

These two young men met for the first time at the princess mansion with their luggage and servants today, and the atmosphere was quite friendly.

Although there is not an obvious competitive relationship between them, there is more of a sense of closeness that they are in the same boat.

After all, given the size of Pei Peng's food city, let alone a few people, even a dozen or so people would join him. As long as they can help Pei Peng hold the food city in their hands, then everyone has room to play their strengths.

At this time, the two were summoned by Pei Peng alone, and they became closer to each other.

Pei Peng lowered his head and drank tea, listening to two young people with good looks and good voices reading aloud the news about Taizhou that she had asked to find out. He felt that the complicated information was also pleasant to his ears.

After they read a round separately, Pei Peng asked:

"What do you think? When we first entered Taizhou, where should we start?"

Xu Zhao glanced at Yang Luo, saw him frowning in thought, thinking that he was a relative of His Highness after all, although the distance between the Princess Mansion and the Xu family had grown deeper in recent years, they had never done anything bad in this house.

Therefore, he spoke first:

"Your Highness, although your food cities are distributed in most of Taizhou, Chengyang County belongs to you earlier, and it must be easier to get it. What's more, there are not many wealthy families in Chengyang County. As long as you can grasp the county magistrate, then Everything fell into place."

Unlike Xu Zhao, Yang Luo knew more about Pei Peng's food town. He had just read a round of information, but he didn't construct an effective plan in his mind.

This was his disadvantage, so he could only find another way and use his experience of watching the game of local forces in his hometown for many years:

"Even if there are no well-established big families, there must be local rich families. Moreover, the farther away from the central rich families, the more out of control and difficult to control, because they don't need to think too much about the higher-level development of their clansmen."

Xu Zhao turned his head and glanced at him, thinking to himself, good boy, are you starting to tear each other down now?

(End of this chapter)