The underworld signed in for a thousand years, reincarnated as an angry and crying empress

After speaking, Li Chen looked at Xu Changqing and said lightly: “Now the household lacks a Shangshu, the opportunity, the palace has been placed in front of you, if it is done, you will be the next Shangshu, these things cannot be done, the palace will be changed, do you understand the meaning of the palace?”

Xu Changqing’s heart was surging, and he knelt down and said loudly: “Minister, I am willing to paint the ground for His Highness!” ”

Since ancient times, the interests have touched people’s hearts, not to mention the position of leading a shangshu, and the household department is in charge of the world’s money and food, and the power is much greater than ordinary people think.

After sending Xu Changqing away, before Li Chen could take a sip of tea, Sanbao came.

“Your Highness, the East Factory has received news that the Xian Dynasty mission that came to the capital a month ago is vigorously operating at the major officials in the capital, promising heavy profits, wanting to promote the empire to send troops to the Xian Dynasty and solve the crisis of their invasion by Dongying.”

Sanbao’s report made Li Chen frown slightly.

At this juncture, the situation in the capital is already complicated, and all kinds of forces are mixed together, involving the whole body, and then another Xian dynasty mission to muddy the waters….

“How long have they been in the capital?” Li Chen asked.

Sanbao replied: “It’s been more than half a month, the reason is that Dongying attacked the Xian Dynasty half a year ago, and the Xian Dynasty was in the midst of civil strife, and suddenly caught Dongying off guard, and now that the country has lost one-third, he sent an embassy to ask the empire for help, but the emperor’s dragon body was not safe and did not summon them.”

“I think they should be in a hurry, and there is a war in the country again, so they are looking for officials in the imperial court and want to achieve their goals through bribery.”

Li Chen narrowed his eyes slightly, and said: “Fortunately, the main palace is about to cut off a few human heads, both to establish power and to collect wealth to fill the treasury, and I am worried that I can’t find an opportunity and a reason, you send the spies of the East Factory to stare at the mission, who they went to see, how much money they sent, record everything one by one, wait for a period of fermentation, save enough heads, and the palace cut it down once.”

The Three Treasures replied respectfully, “Slaves obey their orders.” Sending

away the three treasures, Li Chen drove to the Qianqing Palace.

Emperor Daxing was still lying unconscious on the dragon bed.

“How is Father’s health?” Li Chen asked the imperial doctor.

The imperial physician sighed and said: “The emperor’s body is not as good as a day now, and he could still be awake for a quarter of an hour every day some time ago, and now he may not be able to wake up once in two or three days.”

“How long can it last?” Li Chen asked bluntly.

The imperial physician immediately knelt down and said: “Your Royal Highness, Wei Chen really can’t give you an answer, the condition has reached this point, medical skills are already secondary, the main thing is to see the emperor’s willpower and… God forbid.

“Okay, the main palace knows, go down.”

Li Chen did not criticize the imperial doctors too harshly, and after letting the imperial doctors retreat, Li Chen sat down on the edge of the dragon bed.

Looking at the Daxing Emperor with a withered face, Li Chen did not speak.

He originally crossed over, and he had no feelings for the Daxing Emperor, and even in some ways, the Daxing Emperor did not die, and he could not ascend the throne… Only now, he was not thinking about the illness of the emperor, but about how to deal with the group of profiteers who stole the country with money at night.

These profiteers, taking advantage of the decline of the empire’s national strength, colluded with local officials, forcibly annexed land, and then lured those officials into their chariots with interests, and over the years, they had formed a solid and complex network of interests.

Li Chen wants to move them, it is not such a simple thing, and even a bad operation will immediately attract the court’s backlash, and then the gain will outweigh the loss.

But if they do not move, the treasury will not have money, they will not be able to provide disaster relief, and if they indulge their wanton actions, the people’s life will only become more miserable.

At that time, it is as if it is a certain dynasty before it, the people are poor, the imperial court is even poorer, but those corrupt officials and businessmen, one by one, fat and oily.

This is something that Li Chen absolutely does not allow to happen.

The scene that Li Chen pondered, in the eyes of others, thought that the prince was worried about the emperor’s body.

“Imperial Physician Chen, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is really filial piety.”

A imperial physician whispered to his colleagues.

Imperial Physician Chen was the imperial doctor who answered Li Chen’s question before, he sighed and said: “Who said no, since the ancient imperial family is the most ruthless, but I see that the prince’s solemnity and worry at this time is not disguised, the emperor has many heirs, but in the end, only the prince really cares about the emperor’s body.” The

companions next to them all nodded one after another, thinking that they had spied the secret of the prince’s heart.

Just when Li Chen was thinking in the Qianqing Palace, the outside of the palace was also not calm.

The death of Reynolds Mountain caused waves like throwing a stone into the situation in the capital, which at least seemed calm despite the turmoil.

The wind and waves brought by this stone instantly affected the situation in all parties in the capital.

Zhao Xuanji was the first to receive the news.

“Lord Shoufu, after Reno Mountain was beheaded by the prince, Hube Zuo Shilang immediately went to the East Palace, according to the news from our eyeliner, Xu Changqing and the prince talked for nearly half an hour before coming out, but what exactly was discussed, I don’t know yet.”

The one who reported to Zhao Xuanji was Qian Han, the official of the capital Tongzheng Shi, the official rank of the real power and the third grade of the Zheng’er Eight Classics, and when he arrived at the local level, he was a member of the government of the place, but in front of Zhao Xuanji, Qian Han’s posture was very low, and he bowed his head to make a report.

Zhao Xuanji picked up the teacup and shook his head gently, blew away the tea leaves floating on the tea soup, and said: “First kill Wei Xian, and then cut Leno Mountain, one is the eunuch who has been deeply rooted in the inner palace for more than ten years, and can faintly compete with the Three Treasures, the other is Hube Shangshu, leading one, when the dynasty is the second product, our prince, the means are very bloody.”

Qian Han hesitated for a moment and said: “Reno Mountain is not only dead, now the people of the East Factory are raiding the house, his family members are all beaten into slavery, men are charged with the army, women are in official skills, this is equivalent to destroying the door, such a thunderous means, so that many people on our side are a little panicked, Lord Shoufu, do we want to go to the imperial court and let the prince converge some?” ”

Convergence?”

Zhao Xuanji shook his head and said, “He can’t converge at this time.”

“The prince has just imprisoned the country, it is precisely when he is in a state of anger, and anyone who wants to stop him, he will desperately remove the stumbling block, and it is not rational to act against him at this time.”

Qian Han said respectfully: “The humble position is stupid, the prince is still only a prison state, and he has not ascended the throne, how can he confront the Manchu Dynasty?” Even the emperor sometimes had to compromise with Shoufu.

Zhao Xuanji put down the teacup and said: “The compromise between the emperor and me is just a political game, and the concessions and trade-offs that have to be made in order to take care of the overall situation, but the prince is different, the prince oversees the country, his temperament is fierce, he is in power at this time, who can listen to it?” ”

What’s more, he has not yet ascended the throne, it is his disadvantage and his advantage, when things are out of control, he can push the emperor out, but he does not have to bear a lot of responsibilities, if once he ascends the throne, he will have no backers behind him, and he can only stand in the front by himself, but it is not beautiful.”

Qian Han seemed to understand and asked, “Then how do we deal with it?”

“Do nothing and wait and see.”

“He wants to kill the minister, as long as it is not our core person, let him kill, if he wants the recital, give it to him, govern a country, it is of little significance to see the recital, that is, he gave the order, the prince’s order does not leave the capital, and no one carries it out is just a joke.”

Zhao Xuanji said lightly: “The more he kills, the heavier the dissatisfaction of the court against him, and when the time comes, no one from the civil and military officials will support him, how will he ascend the throne?” If you cannot ascend the throne, once the emperor dies and returns to heaven, the throne will be variable. Now in order to seize power, he is afraid to kill people, seemingly refreshing, but in fact, he is digging his own grave, losing people’s hearts, and wants to abolish him, just turning over his hands.

Qian Han smiled and said, “Lord Shoufu Zhizhu is really smart.

“There is another matter, the prince is banishing the three major grain merchants in the capital tonight in the East Palace, do we want to intervene in this matter?”

Qian Han arched his hand and said with a gloomy smile: “As long as we continue to speak, those three grain merchants will ignore the prince, and when the prince is disgraced, he will be embarrassed.”

Zhao Xuanji did not treat this matter as a major matter, and said casually: “You just look at it, Hengzhi is just a few businessmen, it is not a big deal, and the majesty of killing the prince is good, at least let him understand who is in charge in the court today.”

Qian Han threw up his hand and said, “This will be done for the humble position.”

“Go, the old man is tired, there are no other important things, don’t disturb the old man to rest.”

“Then resign from the humble position, Lord Shousuke, rest well, don’t work too hard.”

……

Li Chen sat in the Qianqing Palace until the evening before leaving.

Back in the East Palace, estimating the time, the three grain merchants should have almost arrived, but when Li Chen asked, he knew that the three grain merchants actually didn’t mean to come at all.

“His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, among the three major grain merchants, the head of the Chen family said that he was recovering from illness and should not walk around in the wind, and the Hu family said that their family master went to the field to check the accounts, and he was not in Beijing, and there was only one Liu family left, and he simply closed the door.”

Xu Changqing’s face was embarrassed, and he knelt in front of Li Chen with sincere trepidation and said.

Li Chen’s face could not see joy or anger, but his eyes were gloomy.

“Okay, since the main palace can’t move them to come to the East Palace, then the main palace personally goes to their palace.”

After speaking, Li Chen waved his sleeve robe, “Three treasures, with a hundred brocade clothes guards, follow the palace out of the palace.” ”

The prince goes out of the East Palace, like a hidden dragon on patrol.

Sanbao did not dare to slacken, and immediately ordered the most elite hundred brocade guards at the headquarters of the East Factory in the capital, and he and the two brocade guards Qianhu personally led the team.

There are twenty brocade guards on the left and right of the front team, one thousand households pressing the formation, the same twenty brocade guards on the left and right in the back are pressed by another thousand households, and in the middle are the remaining twenty most loyal and best brocade guards who are personally led by Sanbao to guard Li Chen’s safety.

More than a hundred horses left the East Palace and went straight to the nearest Chen family mansion.

Along the way, Li Chen did not keep a low profile, but followed the system with great fanfare, took the royal road in the middle of the road, and traveled on the clean street.

The people on both sides, whoever heard that Prince Luan had arrived and did not bow down, was punished with great disrespect.

Without saying a word, Li Chen passed through the most lively East Avenue, and in the attention of hundreds of people and spies and eyeliners from all sides, he came to the gate of Chen Mansion, which occupied a large area of land in the most prosperous area of the capital.

The Great Qin Empire had strict rules on class.

There are four grades of agriculture, industry and commerce, and merchant is the lowest grade.

No matter how rich a merchant is, he can only wear clothes made of coarse cloth, not even silk, and in places like the capital, it is not necessary to have money to buy a house, and many lands have identity regulations, not agricultural or scholarly status, and they are not eligible to have a mansion in the capital.

But the Chen family has obviously made an exception.

When Prince Luan drove outside the Chen Mansion, the Chen Mansion had obviously received the news earlier.

The gate opened, and more than ten people from the Chen Mansion were already waiting outside.

“Caomin Chen Jingchuan, with his family, see His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, Prince Chitose, Chitose, Chitose.”

In the sound of a thousand-year-old mountain, Li Chen stood on the palanquin, looked at Chen Jingchuan who was kneeling in front of him, and said lightly: “Aren’t you sick?” Why, now I see the wind again, and I am not afraid that the disease will worsen? ”