The emperor's scheming: alluring the world

Chapter 138 The beginning of defeat

The people in Xijiang knew such violent news, how could they retreat as they said, because Wei Jinyang, the god of war, suppressed them before, and they had to submit to Empress Wu and work for Empress Wu in secret. Now those who can guard Xijiang The God of War is already unable to get up, so they should take the opportunity to attack the city and plunder the land.

What the Xijiang people didn't know was that Li Sister-in-law ordered Xueyin to pass the news to Xijiang, Wei Haoyou woke up from a coma, and then he dragged his sick body and led the troops to Saigon, regardless of Empress Wu's stop.

Li Sister-in-law didn't make a fuss about this, because she knew that Xijiang would suffer a lot from the news she passed on in the name of Empress Wu, so she would naturally hate Empress Wu, and the covenant between the two parties ended here. decide.In order to retaliate, the people of Xijiang will definitely harass Saigon constantly, and Wei Haoyou has to deal with Saigon, so he probably won't be able to spare the energy to care about the situation in Beijing.

On the other hand, after many days of investigation, Prime Minister Zhong found that Mr. Ding’s food poisoning was caused by excessive consumption of monkey brains. In fact, monkey brains are not poisonous, but An Guogong did not buy monkeys through normal channels in order to squeeze high profits.

There are a lot of wild monkeys on Qifeng Mountain outside Xindu City. In order to have enough monkey brains for the wealthy guests to eat, An Guogong hired several hunters to catch wild monkeys in Shanzhongpu, but the wild monkeys are wild and difficult to tame. Familiar with the terrain in the mountains, it is not so easy to catch. In order to ensure a sufficient supply of monkey brains, An Guogong specially consulted the doctor in the mansion. It is short that after an animal eats the poison, it will kill you on the spot. Affecting the monkey's brain, the worry in the heart disappeared, An Guogong asked the hunters to smear poison on the fruit that the monkeys often forage, so that a large number of monkey corpses can be harvested every day, and the hunters quietly sent the monkey corpses to Jinyumantang, The chef full of gold and jade will take out all the monkey brains and hide them in the freezer. When they need to use them, they will go to the freezer to get them. Originally, after the launch of this super brain-boosting holy product, it sold very well. It happened, Mr. Ding was gluttonous, and his luck was really bad. There was a small amount of residual toxin in the brain of the monkey he ate. Afterwards, the imperial physician deduced that it was very likely that the monkey did not die on the spot after eating the poisonous fruit, so that The toxin circulated through the whole body with the blood, and finally died of the poison, but Orion didn't think so much, and the chef didn't know how to test the poison, which led to Master Ding's food poisoning.

In order to confirm the words of the imperial physician, Prime Minister Zhong ordered people to take out all the monkey brains refrigerated in the Jinyu Mantang Freezer, and asked the imperial physician to test the poison one by one. The final result was that 30.00% of the monkey brains contained trace amounts of toxins. You will not die from poisoning, but you will experience symptoms of food poisoning.

In the face of the physical evidence, the testimony of Orion, the chef and others, An Guogong couldn't get rid of it anyway. When Emperor Cheng learned what happened, he was very angry. He wanted to remove An Guogong from his post and put him in the prison. It was Empress Wu. Kneeling outside the imperial study and begging bitterly, and pleading for mercy with Wu Shaoyou's military achievements, finally Chengdi let go, An Guogong suspended his post and thought about his mistakes at home.

In order to compensate Concubine Liang, Emperor Cheng gave many treasures to Concubine Liang. Lord Ding was also promoted to a higher level. Emperor Cheng also married Lord Ding's daughter to the son of Prince Wenhua County as his concubine.

In fact, Concubine Liang is not reconciled to not being promoted in her position, but her brother and niece have received generous rewards. If she still shows a dissatisfied look, I am afraid that Emperor Cheng will hate him. Obviously able to overthrow the Wu family, the situation was finally reversed by Empress Wu. Concubine Liang hated Empress Wu even more in her heart, and always secretly made some small obstacles to embarrass Empress Wu.

On the other hand, An Guogong was thinking about his mistakes behind closed doors in the mansion, and it was difficult for him to take care of the property under his name, so he had to hand it over to Wu Haolong who was idle at home.

Wu Haolong is also quite talented. Although his family suffered repeated blows, he stopped the loss after taking over the family business, and the grain ship that was stranded on the river due to the mid-autumn rainstorm finally arrived at Xindu Port after Wu Haolong's various negotiations.

When ten boatloads of rice were transported into the Wu family's granary, Wu Haolong came to inspect the goods and found that all the rice had become moldy and rotten. This batch of rice lost more than 30 taels of silver to the Wu family.

The loss of rice is undoubtedly worse for the Wu family. The Wu family can no longer spend any extra money to buy rice. In desperation, Wu Haolong can only rent out part of the rice shop and charge a small rent.

Regarding the situation of her natal family, Empress Wu was already unable to deal with it, because the trivial matters in the palace had caused her headaches and exhaustion. In the end, Empress Wu only gave one sentence to An Guogong's request for help, and the marriage obtained financial support.

Half a month later, Wu Haolong married the imperial merchant Zheng's daughter as his wife. The wedding ceremony was very grand, and Li Sister-in-law just laughed it off.If the financial crisis can be solved through marriage, will she let the two marriages be negotiated so easily?

The next day, there were rumors that the bride stabbed Xinlang with a step on the head during the wedding night in the An Guogong's mansion. Although the Wu family tried their best to cover up and deny it, Wu Haolong even showed up together with Miss Zheng's family who was already Wu's wife , also failed to quell the rumors, because Wu Haolong's face was extremely pale, and although Miss Zheng's face had a smile on her face, the smile was too stiff, and all kinds of loopholes not only failed to quell the rumors, but even made the rumors spread even worse. It was rumored that the Wu family owed huge foreign debts, used their power to threaten Mr. Zheng to marry his beloved daughter, and so on.

The rumor finally made Empress Wu unable to just sit idly by. This afternoon, it was easy to relax, and Empress Wu issued an order to summon Wu Haolong and his wife to the palace for an audience.

When Wu Haolong and Miss Zheng entered the main hall of the Central Palace together, Empress Wu could see the awkwardness and coercion between the two at a glance.

"Greetings to the empress, may the empress be blessed and safe." Both of them knelt down to salute, while Miss Zheng's movements were a little slow.

"Let's get down without courtesy!" Empress Wu was sizing up Miss Zheng at the same time she spoke.

It is undeniable that Ms. Zheng is an outstanding beauty, with delicate and fair skin, beautiful eyebrows and phoenix eyes, a straight nose, a rosy cherry mouth, and a small face with melon seeds. She is a very attractive beauty embryo.

After the two got up, Empress Wu ordered the maid to take the seat. The two thanked them before taking their seats. When they sat down, Miss Zheng's movements were obviously slow, and her hands instinctively supported her lower back.Empress Wu keenly noticed this subtle movement of hers, and her eyebrows frowned unconsciously. Miss Zheng was wearing a breast-length skirt, and her waist was not visible at all.

Although she had doubts in her heart, Empress Wu didn't show it, she only said to the official Su beside her: "For tea, you go to the small kitchen to have a look and prepare some delicious snacks, I want to talk to my nephew and nephew-in-law .”

(End of this chapter)