The Grand Princess

Li Rong listened to Li Chuan babbling and comforting for a long time, she finally got tired, asked Jinglan to take away the cold egg, raised her eyes to Li Chuan and said, "Okay, don't gossip with me. If you are free, please ask me something."

Li Chuan listened to Li Rong's instructions and hurriedly said, "You said."

"Has the chief examiner of the imperial examination scheduled?"

Li Chuan did not expect that Li Rong would ask this question. He subconsciously said: "It should be settled."

"So early?" Li Rong frowned. Li Chuan thought for a while, only said, "It was not so early. After all, the imperial examinations are not always a big event. Those people who are admitted in the examination, the children of the aristocratic family have arranged for them. Yes. Either be a useless little official, or send it to the place and not come back. This is the case. In the past, it was a test of merit, and the position of the assistant was considered high. So it should be behind. The time is only set, but this year is very strange, Wang Shangshu said, this year the court is really good, and the selection of talents is the top priority. He took the initiative to say to his father that he would be the chief examiner."

As Li Chuan said, he couldn't help laughing. He took a tea cup from the side and looked at Li Rong in his hand: "He has spoken, who can say anything? Master Shang Shu is the examiner himself, who else has passed him? Although it hasn't been settled down, but it's not far from ten."

Li Rong did not speak, thinking, Li Chuan drank a sip of tea, and talked about her marriage with a heartfelt heart: "Actually, don't be too sad. The old one won't go and the new one won't come. Or I will take you to take a good look recently. Look, you have to see what you like..."

"It's all right," Li Rong frowned and interrupted him, "still worrying? Worrying about yourself. How about your marriage?"

"Can I manage this?" Li Chuan laughed. "I said, whatever they want. Whenever they want to choose the prince princess, they choose it. I don't care who chooses whom I want. The result is better now," Li Chuan came up and said mysteriously, "Sister, guess what?"

"what happened?"

"The father and the queen have made a secret agreement," Li Chuan couldn't help but pleased, "I won't choose for now."

"Don't choose?"

Li Rong said in surprise, but as soon as she uttered the words, she realized what was going on.

Now the Shangguan family has dispelled the idea of ​​marrying the prince, and after self-examination of fraud, the prince has to fight for it, and it has fallen between other families.

For Li Ming, he didn't want the position of the princess to fall into the hands of any family. This was to strengthen the connection between Li Chuan and the family. He even hoped that Li Chuan would marry some unfamiliar girls, and even Li Chuan would not marry.

After all, it is not important that Li Chuan's crown prince is stable, and he does not want him to be stable.

The two sides had their own ideas, and without the strong pressure of Shangguan family, the position of the crown princess was frozen.

"It's also a good thing." Li Rong nodded.

Li Chuan peeled the melon seeds next to him. He was not unhappy when he saw Li Rong. He was a little curious and said, "Sister, don't you worry that I will not marry a wife and the prince will be unstable?"

"If you don't marry a wife, you can make your crown prince unstable," Li Rong turned to look at him, smiling, "Then your crown prince position is really unstable."

Li Chuan frowned, seemingly puzzled, and Li Rong broke the words to him: "Chuan'er, you remember, a stable position in the court is nothing more than three things: money, soldiers, and people. You have money. , You have food and grass, soldiers and horses, and people who can help you. If you have people who can help you and speak, you can count your words. And if you have soldiers and horses, you can protect your money and your people. If You have these three things, whether you are married or not, will not affect your position. If you do not have these three things," Li Rong smiled with a little coldness, "Even if you marry many daughters of the family, in the hearts of others, You are nothing more than a puppet."

"If you need to change a puppet one day," Li Rong tapped her palm with a fan, "Do you think it's difficult?"

Just like in the previous life, when Li Chuan married five women, and Li Ming set up a supervisory department for King Su and seized the northwest military power outside, who was left beside him when the northwest military power fell in the hands of Xiao Su?

"Sister Sister said all this, but I actually understand it." Li Chuan couldn't help smiling when he heard Li Rong's words, "It's just that the queen doesn't understand."

"It's not that the mother and the queen don't understand, but people always want to take the best way. She wants you to get married, just to get these three things through marriage, which is much easier than you get directly."

Li Chuan nodded in response, turned his head and looked far away, seemingly tired. Li Rong looked at him and patted his hand: "Don't think about it, come back sooner. Let people stare at the "little cabinet" of the emperor father to see who enters the fortress. It should be stopped. , This kind of position is unacceptable."

"understand."

Li Chuan replied, he was well-measured in these matters.

Li Rong gave the order, so Li Chuan secretly left through the back door, and asked him to come less in the future.

He is too risky to come to Princess Mansion now, so it is better to come less.

When Li Chuan left, Li Rong went back to the courtyard and lay down on the rocking chair for a while, and suddenly felt that the courtyard was empty.

She turned her head and asked Jinglan: "Have you moved all the stuff from the horseman?"

"The Madam didn't take anything with him." Jinglan picked up the things, and Li Rong turned to look at her, "What's the matter? Are you planning to buy them again?"

"My husband said," Jinglan knelt down and whispered, "He has to come back sooner or later, so he won't move."

Li Rong heard Jinglan's message and didn't know what was going on. She felt that the bleak aura in the yard suddenly disappeared.

She couldn't help asking a few more words: "Is the husband moved back to Pei's mansion?"

"Not really."

Jinglan shook her head: "Pei Xiangye used to have a house in the middle of Beijing, and he moved to live there."

Li Rong nodded, she lay on the rocking chair for a while, got up again, and ordered: "You can ask Tuobayan to ask him to ask at the mansion next to the mansion to see which family is willing to sell the house. It doesn’t matter if the price is more expensive if you like."

Listening to Li Rong's words, Jinglan couldn't suppress her smile. She glanced at Li Rong and said with a smile: "Didn't Your Highness say not to spend money indiscriminately?"

"Buying a house is buying an industry," Li Rong said righteously, "How can I be called to spend money indiscriminately?"

Jingmei, who was beating Li Rong's leg next to her, couldn't hold back, and laughed out loud.

Li Rong raised her eyebrows and looked at her, and Jingmei hurriedly smiled and apologized: "Excuse me, my maidservant didn't mean to laugh at you."

There was no need to explain anything, Li Rong knew what they were laughing at. She raised her hand to tap Jingmei with a fan, and whispered: "Arrogant girl."

The three people were playing around in the yard. After a while, the chief guard of the inspectorate walked in.

After leaving Huajing from Xunchuan, the chief guard of the Supervision Department was changed to a person named Zhao Chongjiu. This person was brought by Xun Chuan, and Li Rong only used it after several tests. He was holding a roll of paper in his hand. This was all news sent back from the sky.

After Li Rong came back from her rebirth, she began to ask Pei Wenxuan to rebuild the dark web of her previous life, but apart from the dark web established by Pei Wenxuan, she herself had a set of backup people.

She is not used to betting important things on one possibility. Pei Wenxuan is easy to use, but it doesn't mean that she only uses him.

Later, after she built the Supervision Department, these dark webs were directly merged into the Supervision Department by her. When Xunchuan left Huajing, she began to travel around to build the Supervision Department for her, and the speed of spreading these news networks was doubled. Especially in the northwest and southwest.

With the presence of Qin in the northwest, Xunchuan’s establishment of the dark web is almost unimpeded. Although Nanxi Lin Feibai hasn't noticeably improved yet, there are no strong family officials there, and Li Rong's past layout is much more convenient.

Of course, at the same time, the corresponding consumption is money.

The Superintendent had the silver given by Li Ming, but it was far from enough, so she had to fill her small vault as a last resort. But at the current rate of consumption, she could not last too long. Fortunately, Pei Wenxuan made a series of industrial layouts last year, from inviting Gu Chenzi to her feudal Qingzhou teaching farming to purchasing real estate and various industries. Tuobayan was recovered again to help manage the money, and her accounts this year were barely enough for operation.

Zhao Chongjiu came up with the message and respectfully said: "Your Highness, this is the news sent back from various places recently."

Li Rong responded and took the information to read it quickly.

While flipping through the information, she listened to Zhao Zhongjiu: "His Royal Highness, about the matter of Heli, I have probably checked it out."

"Say it."

Li Rong's voice was very low. She scanned the situation in the northwest that Xun Chuan wrote on the paper.

There is no war in the Northwest now, but this winter was severely cold, and many cattle and sheep were frozen to death outside the Daxia line of defense, so there were still several small raids. They were fighting against a certain city in autumn and ran away.

Qin Lin was sent to the forefront to defend the city alone. Qin Lin temporarily recruited the people who had been robbed of food in the city to become an army. Together with the army controlled by the Qin clan, many people were filled. The biggest problem now is lack of money. Let Li Rong find a way to help make money.

"In the palace last night, Su Rongqing and His Majesty had a secret discussion. Then, His Majesty made a decree to reduce the cost of the inspectorate department and to hand over half of the Qingzhou tax to the imperial court to support the northern army."

Hearing this, Li Rong paused. After a while, she took out the news of Lin Feibai from the southwest.

There have been several major battles in the Southwest this year. Lin Feibai has risen very quickly, and now he is also facing problems. In order to promote his way, he needs to buy officials.

The summary is also two words, lack of money.

Seeing the money, Li Rong felt a headache. When she thought that Li Ming's first imperial decree was to ask her for money, she felt fortunate. She didn't look up at the news and said, "Who asked the father to change the news?"

"Your Majesty went down to the Concubine Rou's wife," Zhao Chongjiu answered plainly, "I changed my mind when I came back."

Hearing this, Li Rong laughed: "It seems that Pei Wenxuan is doing well."

The cooperation between Concubine Rou and Su Rongqing is indeed cracked.

Otherwise, Su Rongqing had already given the plan, and Concubine Rou should try her best to help advance, instead of changing Su Rongqing's intention halfway now.

This made Li Rong relieved.

Su Rongqing still knew too much about the family of the princess mansion. He asked Li Ming to cut her income, which really hit her weakness. Fortunately, Concubine Rou didn't listen to him, and miscalculated the relationship between her and Pei Wenxuan.

It's just such a coincidence, probably not too much.

Su Rongqing must realize that Concubine Rou has a grudge against him this time. Since he intends to use Concubine Rou, he will not let this grudge. He will definitely do something to restore the cooperation between Concubine Rou and him.

And Li Rong could not give him this opportunity.

Li Rong was thinking, and then thinking about the chief examiner of the imperial examination, she suddenly thought of someone.

She hurriedly raised her eyes to Zhao Chongjiu, and ordered: "Go and help me contact Cui Yulang, and you will ask him, do you plan to continue what he told me the last time?"

Zhao Chongjiu respectfully raised his hand and said, "Yes."

Zhao Chongjiu was very efficient. He found Cui Yulang in an alley that night.

Cui Yulang had just finished drinking the flower wine and went back. He walked awkwardly on the road. He chanted poems while walking forward. Halfway through, he saw someone standing in the middle of the alley.

Zhao Chongjiu was dressed in the inspector uniform with a knife on his waist. Cui Yulang frowned, leaned against the wall, and drank a drink and said, "What this adult is doing here is that Cui has committed an offence and is about to enter the inspector ?"

Zhao Chongjiu's expression was still, but he said, "His Royal Highness asked the humble post to ask Master Cui."

Hearing this, Cui Yulang raised his head, his eyes were slightly cold, and then he listened to Zhao Zhongjiu: "The last time you told her, do you plan to continue?"

As soon as these words came out, Cui Yulang was stunned.

The expression on his face changed a few times and seemed to be extremely struggling. Zhao Chongjiu frowned. Seeing that Cui Yulang didn't answer for a long time, he couldn't help but urged: "Master Cui?"

"My lord," Cui Yulang hesitated for a long time, drank a sip, and finally said, "Then I can't help you to ask for Cui, if you follow the princess, can the princess guarantee my life?"

Zhao Chongjiu nodded: "Is there anything else I want to ask?"

"There is also," Cui Yulang replied solemnly, "Will your Royal Highness agree to help Cui investigate the case and give Cui's friend justice afterwards?"

Zhao Chongjiu responded and confirmed again: "Any other questions?"

"If your Highness agrees, the lord will tell you that it will be the next one." Cui Yulang looked dead on his face, "After three days, I will rest in the private room on the top floor of Deshun Inn, waiting for my highness to drive. But before coming, please confirm your Highness and don't let the horses know. ."

"Weichen is better than a horse, but an ant," Cui Yulang saluted respectfully, "I hope your Royal Highness will pity you."

Zhao Chongjiu: "..."

He didn't know why, he always felt that there was something mysterious in this matter. But he still nodded, seeing that Cui Yulang had nothing else to say, he turned back and conveyed Cui Yulang's meaning.

Zhao Chongjiu repeated Cui Yulang's words almost sentence by sentence. Li Rong listened while soaking her feet. Jingmei listened to Zhao Chongjiu's report and couldn't help but said: "Your Majesty, what is he doing so well? What does he want his Highness to cherish?"

Li Rong glanced at Jingmei indifferently, and said in a tolerant tone with a bit of pity: "He is sick, we must tolerate him."

With that, Li Rong turned around and told Zhao Chongjiu: "Go back and tell him, let him wait for me in Qingyue Teahouse in three days."

Zhao Chongjiu nodded and stepped back to pass the message. As soon as he turned around, Li Rong couldn't help adding: "Also, tell him, let him stop thinking about it every day and be normal!"

Zhao Chongjiu agreed with this, and he also felt that Master Cui's mind was not very good.

Li Rong's words were sent to Cui Yulang. He heard that the location was at Qingyue Teahouse. After a brief stunned, he couldn't help but sigh with emotion: "His Royal Highness can really play."

Zhao Chongjiu raised his eyes to look at him, and said calmly: "His Royal Highness still said," Cui Yulang became nervous again by these words, "Make you normal."