Prince please enthrone

Chapter 543 Winning the King's Heart①

Seeing the happy old butler with a happy face, King Xiao frowned slightly:
"Where there is no wind, there is no wave. Although this competition between me and my second brother is not a secret, but it has been spread like this. It is obvious that someone secretly guided it..."

But no matter who it is, the purpose of this person doing this at this time is for his own good.

Xiao Wang was thinking about the person who would do such a thing for him, when he saw Ye Lizhi walking in with a red lacquered tray with gold and rich flowers, and there were still a few plates of soft and delicious snacks on the tray .

As soon as he entered the door, Ye Lizhi met his gaze. Ye Lizhi was still a little surprised. After properly placing the things on the tray on the table, he came to him respectfully, blessed his body, and asked :
"Does your lord have other orders?"

"Have you heard the recent rumors?"

Facing such an abrupt question from King Xiao, Ye Lizhi's reaction was to smile slightly, two sincere dimples appeared on his rosy and tender cheeks, and he responded without hesitation:
"The servant has heard about it. And, one of these rumors was released by the servant."

King Xiao and the housekeeper were all taken aback!
"You?" King Xiao felt a little flattered: "Which one did you release?"

Ye Lizhi drooped his head slightly, and confessed: "The one that the late emperor manifested."

The housekeeper immediately gasped, pointed at her and said, "You? You actually spread the word? You, you..."

It was probably the first time to see such a daring little maid. The old butler was a little at a loss for a while, not knowing whether to scold her first or praise her.

After all, it is true that this rumor has brought great benefits to King Xiao.

He has been "you" for a long time, but in the end he couldn't say a single useful word, so he couldn't help but cast his searching eyes on King Xiao——

First, the king of filial piety refused to accept the reward, forcing the sage to cancel the competition—or cancel the plan to seize the military power in his hands first, and then there were rumors that the emperor had appeared, and the king of filial piety was moving the foundation of Changping!
Thinking about it, his eldest brother, who sat firmly in the dragon chair and always said nothing, was already so angry that he was so angry.

Thinking of the shrunken look of the son of the man who killed his mother and concubine, King Xiao couldn't help laughing.

He looked at the person in front of him seriously, and asked with indescribable hope:

"Why did you spread this rumor?"

Ye Lizhi replied bluntly: "For the sake of the filial king."

"Oh?" Xiao Wang smiled slowly: "This king would like to hear the details."

Ye Lizhi said as a matter of course: "Since King Liang gave the servant to you, King Xiao, then the servant will be yours in the future, so naturally he should think of his master and help him a lot."

King Xiao frowned slightly, and said with some dissatisfaction: "Just for this?"

Ye Lizhi looked up, with doubts in his eyes, as if to say: Otherwise?
A sense of frustration crept into my heart.

King Xiao waved his hand, and changed the subject with interest: "I am very curious, I heard from the housekeeper that this rumor is spreading all over Changping... How did you, a powerless little maid, do it? "

Ye Lizhi smiled, glanced at the starling who was eating carefree in the cage, and said:
"Actually, people are just like that starling. They like to learn their tongues the most. As long as a piece of sensational news is released, it will spread far and wide within a day, without any effort at all."

The starling seemed to know that someone was talking about it, and immediately raised its head, proudly showing off its newly acquired vocabulary:

"Gong Xi Fa Cai! Gong Xi Fa Cai!"

Xiao Wang, a "great lady" who was "raised in a deep boudoir and unknown to everyone", finally knows how terrible the gossip is for the ordinary people outside after tea and dinner.

With a low cough, he believed her words, and then said:
"The matter of defeating the king of Liang, this king has never figured it out. How did you do it? Don't tell this king such nonsense as 'the first emperor appeared'. Father really has a preference for this king. Plus, but the second brother is also his son! Would he foolishly help one biological son deal with another biological son? Thinking about it, you know it's impossible?!"

Ye Lizhi chuckled, and joked: "The world doesn't care about this, as long as they know that the emperor's favorite son was you, that's enough."

"... Let's get to the point."

"Okay," Ye Lizhi thought for a while, and felt that it was a bit credible to say it now, and said:
"Before, the servant asked the prince to treat those who participated in the competition favorably, in order to prevent those people from being exposed to lead."

"Lead?" The old butler was the first to call out, "What's wrong with lead?"

Ye Lizhi's expression immediately became serious, looked around and found that there were only three of them in the room, and then continued:

"Lead, it's not right anywhere. After painstaking research by the servants, it was found that after a long period of use, this thing will cause people's physical strength to weaken, and... gradually become infertile."

When the old butler heard this, he immediately showed a disbelief expression of 'you are kidding me, little friend'.

Xiao Wang also felt a little unbelievable, and said in a deep voice: "But... we Changping people have been using this kind of thing for hundreds of years, and we haven't heard from our ancestors what's wrong?"

Ye Lizhi spread her hands innocently: "But facts speak louder than words. Those people did recover their strength slowly because they didn't use lead products anymore. The effect... Hasn't the prince seen it with his own eyes?"

Thinking of that unforgettable scene on the martial arts field, King Xiao suddenly fell silent.

The old butler looked at this, then at that, and said with a trembling voice, "Could it be that we won this time because of..."

"That's right," Ye Lizhi nodded, and added for him, "It's because we didn't use lead products anymore and consumed most of the physical strength of King Liang's soldiers in advance, which led to the absolute victory in the end."

The housekeeper was shocked at first!Then he murmured in a daze:
"If this, this secret is spread, when the common people stop using lead products and gradually become as strong as people in other countries, our Changping will not always be crowded and often beaten. The state... At that time, not only will the common people benefit, but even our entire Changping will have a new look! God! If this credit can be attributed to the prince, it will be... the support of all people and the aspiration of the people!"

Until then, until then, who would dare to touch a single hair of King Xiao?I'm afraid that the spittle of the people can drown him!

The butler was so excited that he didn't know what to do.

Ye Lizhi bowed his body and bowed his head, and said calmly: "This was originally discovered by the prince."

King Xiao was shocked, looked up at her, and subconsciously said: "Obviously it's you..." The idea that came up and the problem that was discovered!

Ye Lizhi shook his head resolutely and said, "No. It's the prince, you are right."

He understood the meaning of Ye Lizhi's words in an instant, and for a moment he was like the old housekeeper, stunned and unable to speak for a long time.

(End of this chapter)