One Piece: My Son is Garp

Half an hour later, Tobe Shangshu Renault Mountain was late.

Coming to the Xi Hall of the East Palace, Renault Mountain arched his hand and said to Li Chen casually: "Chen Renault Mountain, see His Royal Highness the Prince."

Li Chen looked at Renault Mountain expressionlessly, and said: "You are a courtier, why don't you kneel when you see this palace?"

Reno Mountain sneered, and said confidently: "The minister is naturally a courtier, but the ancestral family rules and regulations, the courtier can only bow down when he sees the emperor, the queen, and the queen mother, and only need to bow to the prince." "

Bang.

The piece in Li Chen's hand slammed heavily on the desk, "Since this palace is a prison country, seeing this palace is like a father and the emperor coming in person, this palace is now in front of you, it represents your father, and you don't worship when you see the king, it is a crime of rebellion!"

Mount Reynolds was taken aback.

He didn't expect that Li Chen had just started to supervise the country, and he would not play cards according to the routine.

This directly uses imperial power to oppress people, which is equivalent to completely overthrowing the rules of their court.

Lei Nuoshan was shocked and angry, in his opinion, even the emperor had to balance politics with their ministers in the court, and where did he get the courage to challenge the rules of the game?

"Prince, are you going to kill Wei Chen?"

Lei Nuoshan stared at Li Chen, thinking that Li Chen could not have the courage to move him.

Otherwise, the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty will riot in an instant and put the prince in the air.

"His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has to think about it carefully, once you do this, it will make the civil and military officials chill, but no one will dare to do anything for the prince.

Such a naked threat made Li Chen laugh angrily.

"Drag this disobedient minister down to the palace and cut it down!" Li

Chen ordered, it doesn't matter who you are in the Jinyi Wei of the East Factory, the officials of several products, and the education method of brainwashing in the East Factory for many years has already made them engrave the concept of the supremacy of imperial power into their bones.

A few wolf-like brocade guards came up, erected Mount Renault on the left and right and were about to be dragged away.

Mount Renault was really panicked this time.

He found that his reliance and determination were like a bullshit joke in front of Li Chen.

Li Chen didn't intend to play according to the so-called rules of the game they had set from the beginning.

"Prince, you are so brutal, how can you convince the hearts of the hundred officials?"

Li Chen said coldly: "The head of a scholar of Wenyuan Pavilion is not enough to make you afraid of this palace, so with the head of a household scholar, this palace wants to see whether it is you literati whose bones are hard, or whether the knife of this palace is sharper."

"Do you think that this palace will play the so-called compromise and balance with you, and slowly fight for power? You think too much, Zhao Xuanji may have this qualification, but you are just an ant, a small household Shangshu, and dare to enter the struggle for imperial power, this palace will let you see what the fate of making a wrong choice will be.

Li Chen's words fell to the ground, his sleeves and robes waved, and Jin Yiwei didn't say a word, regardless of Renault Mountain, who was struggling and shouting frantically, he dragged it up and left.

The screams came to an abrupt end outside the temple gate.

A moment later, a brocade guard returned to Li Chen, still carrying a bloody human head in his hand, which was none other than Renault's, only to see his eyes wide open, and there was still unparalleled horror and regret on his face.

"His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, the rebel minister Renault Mountain has been subdued. "

It happened that the treasury was empty, and I went and copied the house of Mount Renault, within the three clans, but the adult males were all reduced to slavery and filled into the army, and all the women over fourteen were sent to be official and female branches, and the rest of the old and weak women and children were expelled from the capital and were never allowed to enter the capital. "

Summoning Xu Changqing, the left attendant of the household department, to take a look at the palace, this household department has to cut off a few heads today to pick out someone who can do things for the palace." "

Hubu Shangshu is a second-grade official of the imperial court, and he leads the first one, so it can be said that he is definitely one of the participants in the core of the imperial power.

But Mount Renault was cut down like that.

The turmoil caused by this incident quickly fermented, and the first time most people heard the news, they thought that they had heard it wrong, or that the prince was crazy.

Li Chen didn't care much about how the outside world reacted.

He was looking at Xu Changqing, who was hurrying from the household in front of him, panting and not having time to breathe slowly.

"Weichen Hubu Zuo Shilang, Xu Changqing, see His Royal Highness the Prince, Prince Chitose, Chitose, Chitose. "

Compared with Renault Mountain, Xu Changqing has to understand too many rules.

After entering the main hall, he bowed his head, his hands drooped, he didn't dare to look at Li Chen's face, and he knelt down directly and called Chitose.

At this time, Xu Changqing only knew that his immediate boss Lei Nuoshan was called to the East Palace by the prince, but he didn't know what he was doing and where the person was.

It's just that on the main hall, although it has been cleaned, it may be obvious that there are stains from blood, which makes him feel a little uneasy.

"Excuse me.

Li Chen said lightly: "Renault Mountain is dead."

"His head, where it was a quarter of an hour ago, should be visible if you look closely.

The corners of

Xu Changqing's eyes jumped, and he was so frightened that he didn't dare to breathe.

His mind raced and he realized that this was a big crisis, and likewise, a big opportunity for him.

Perhaps from the second in 10,000 years, crossing the hurdle that has made countless officials sigh all their lives, achieving the second grade and leading the first book, it depends on this opportunity.

Just after weighing the pros and cons briefly, Xu Changqing immediately said: "Weichen doesn't know what crime Renault Mountain has committed, but even if it makes His Royal Highness the Crown Prince angry, he must be guilty of ten thousand deaths."

Li Chen laughed and said, "You are smarter than him."

Xu Changqing lowered his head, not daring to look at Li Chen, he said: "Weichen only knows that the emperor is now in poor health and cannot handle state affairs, and the prince is the supervisor of the country, so everyone in the world must listen to the prince."

Li Chen became more and more satisfied.

Now he has no foundation in the imperial court, and it can be said that there are people from Zhao Xuanji everywhere.

And he urgently needs to form his own team and take control of his own power.

So for the selection of these teams, the first thing is to be smart and ambitious enough, and the second is ability.

People who are too smart will not follow him at this time.

Only a smart and ambitious person will follow him when his foundation is weak, so that if he wins in the future, he will be rewarded more.

As for ability, after scientific research and years of ups and downs in the sea, if you can climb to one of the six departments and become the second-in-command, where will such a person be?"

Li Chen no longer mentioned the matter of Renault Mountain, but threw the Nanhe Provincial Concert in front of Xu Changqing.

Xu Changqing respectfully picked up the piece with both hands, and then carefully flipped through it.

As soon as he looked at the content, he knew what the prince was doing.

Xu Changqing put down the recital and said cautiously: "Your Royal Highness the Prince, the disaster in Nanhe Province has already happened, and in the past two months, more than ten recitals have been submitted, each one is more serious than the other. "

Then why don't you provide disaster relief?" Li Chen asked.

"The treasury is empty.

Xu Changqing arched his hand and said honestly: "Now the national treasury is only 3.7 million taels, even if it is used to pay for the world's officials, it is no longer enough, not to mention disaster relief, Nanhe Province wants disaster relief, it can't be fought without five million taels, it's a drop in the bucket, His Royal Highness the Prince." "

This palace remembers that the treasury has a tax revenue of 60 million taels a year, why is it so empty?" Li Chen asked with a frown.

Xu Changqing said with a wry smile: "Officials from all over the country, the great drought in the north has lasted for more than a year, the floods and floods in the south have already begun the year before last, and the expenditure on military salaries has gradually intensified, and..."

Speaking of this, Xu Changqing realized that he had mentioned something that should not be mentioned, and he immediately did not dare to say it.

"You say, this palace will not condemn you. Li Chen said calmly.

Xu Changqing gritted his teeth when he heard this, and said stubbornly: "Starting from this year, the vassal kings such as King Han, King Chu, King Zhao, and King Jingyang have all begun to not pay their annual contributions for various reasons, and this piece has lost most of their income.

Li Chen narrowed his eyes slightly.

Under the Great Qin State System, after the vassal king became a vassal domain, he had the right to military power, political power, and taxation in his territory, and only needed to pay a certain amount of annual contributions to the imperial court every year, which was equivalent to a country within a country.

Two hundred years after the founding of the Great Qin Dynasty, these vassal kings were already a huge cancer.

"Hongu knows. Li

Chen didn't say much about the vassal king.

Now that the emperor may die at any time, the empire is in turmoil, Li Chen doesn't want to cut the domain, his uncles, don't want to wait for the emperor to die, it's not bad to hold high the banner of King Qin to overthrow him.

Therefore, if you want to target the vassal king, you must wait for the actual enthronement.

At this time, it is still necessary to start solving the problem of the domestic disaster first.

"The disaster has been going on for many years, and the imperial court has allocated a lot of money to go down for disaster relief, the palace knows that the officials below, after a hand, it is impossible for them not to get a little oily, you report the names of several corrupt officials you know to the East Factory, and the East Factory will deal with it.

Li Chen, who was short of money, paid attention to the corrupt officials.

The poorer the country, the richer both groups of people become.

One is a corrupt official, and the other is a businessman.

"Also, in the market today, what is the price of grain, oil, rice, noodles and other necessities of life?"

Xu Changqing was shocked because of the word Dongchang, and subconsciously replied when he heard the words: "Prices are soaring, the price of rice has risen to an outrageous level, at the beginning of the year, 5 copper plates can buy a pound of good quality new rice, but now, even if it is moldy old rice, if there are no 30 copper plates, it is not expected to be bought." "

Most of the grain in the market is concentrated in the hands of those big grain merchants, and they combine to raise prices; earlier this year, the household department borrowed grain from the three major grain merchants in the capital in the name of the imperial court, but they not only did not pull out a dime, but also cried out for injustice, which is really hateful!"

"You go and gather all the people in charge of the three major grain merchants in the capital, and say that the palace will hold a banquet in the East Palace tomorrow to entertain them."

Li Chen sneered and said: "National disaster wealth, but not so easy to make money, these businessmen, on weekdays, wantonly accumulate wealth, when it comes to the national crisis, they still want to make this kind of ill-gotten wealth, really when the swords of the court can't fall on their necks?"