"Hey! Brother, don't be too careful, tell me, the Xiao family is now the maiden family of the prince's concubine, can you take a fancy to a girl who has just entered Beijing from the countryside for a few months? Miss Qianjin, who wants to marry the young god of war in the capital, can probably go outside the city gate in line, so Xiao Jiangbei Unless he is a fool, who will let go of the dignified princess and ask for the daughter of a petty official. Maybe as soon as the eldest brother makes a move, the Xiao family will thank us for giving them an excuse to withdraw from the marriage, and at that time, if the eldest brother can still have a relationship with the Xiao family through this matter, it will be a step to the sky. ”

"It's okay, it's okay, and it's crooked again." Atom Fei snorted coldly, but he was proud in his heart, Dark Dao Ziqi's words were right, as long as I came to the capital, as long as there was such a thing, my future would be a golden light.

With a vision for the future, the mother and son of the original family tidied up their clothes and walked towards the feet of the Son of Heaven who was full of gold in their hearts.

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"I heard that your brother-in-law gave porridge to the victims from Yunzhou at the south gate, and he has achieved remarkable results, and since he gave porridge, the victims have never starved to death, is that true?"

His Majesty the Emperor leaned on the dragon chair, leisurely drinking tea, in front of his own sons, he, who was Lao Tzu, did not need to serve the emperor's shelf, and was more comfortable.

As soon as the Seventh Prince Cheng Wang's heart moved, his eyes were slightly tilted to his fourth brother, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, thinking about the old man's intention to ask this. Then he glanced at the other three brothers, but saw that everyone was all stable. only sipped the tea in his hand, and no one was willing to talk. Cheng Wang Ye pursed his lips slightly, and scolded secretly in his heart, "They are all old foxes." ”

"Father also knows about this?" The crown prince sat at the head of the emperor. Hearing this, a look of annoyance appeared on his face, and he said hatefully: "Father doesn't know, that kid from Jiangbei came back from the border pass, and he doesn't know how much trouble he caused. There are also words to say that since those gentlemen dare to slander the Gu family girl, they should be ready to be beaten. I can't help it, who let this bastard take care of it? Later, the side concubine was really helpless. I brought the girl of the Gu family here, and the bastard boy listened to this girl's words, probably because he was afraid that his bad reputation would make Miss Gu unhappy, so he listened to Miss Gu's advice. I went to the south gate to give porridge and medicine. Thinking that he could save some reputation, not to mention, this trick was still effective, and now that Erchen went out again, he heard that the people could occasionally say a few good words about him, otherwise he would have been treated as a hell Shura before. Father, you said that if you knew that he was such a bastard, you might as well let him stay at the border. ”

The emperor laughed and said, "This is talking. The border was bitterly cold, and the child left Beijing at the age of three. has been at the border for 15 years, this is already very wronged him, you even said that it is better to let him stay there all the time, so that he is not afraid of other people's sisters and you? ”

"She's a woman, so what can she do if she complains a little?" His Royal Highness the Crown Prince assumed the posture of the head of the household, and waved his hand: "How can a son be swayed by a woman's family?" ”

"Huh!"

His Majesty the Emperor couldn't help laughing again, and said secretly! At this time, you are a wolf with a big tail in front of me, thinking that I don't know you? Don't talk about you, it's me, and from time to time I have to give your mother a smile with you. If the overall situation is good, it's okay, for the sake of your brothers being here, save some face for you, and don't pierce it.

While thinking about it, his mind returned to the matter of soup soup at the south gate, because he was afraid that his son would think too much, the old man pondered for a while before he spoke: "Have you ever inquired?" Jiangbei is giving porridge at the south gate, if you want to take care of the victims, how much money does it cost to spend a day? ”

The prince was stunned for a moment, he didn't expect his father to be so interested in this matter, because he pondered for a while, he shook his head and said, "How can Erchen have time to ask him about these things?" Yesterday, this kid came to his ministers to complain, saying that he had only been giving porridge for three days, and he had almost spent the more than 4,000 taels of silver he had saved, so this kid pondered a way and pestered me to say that he was going to hold an auction and auction off some of the treasures in the hands of those nobles he had robbed in the Northern Hun tribe a few years ago. ”

As soon as these words came out, others didn't care, but Cheng Wang Ye was the one who liked to run the most, and when he heard this, he immediately became interested, and hurriedly said: "Brother Prince, what's going on with this auction?" I've never heard of it. ”

Prince Cheng has always been favored by the emperor, and he is used to being casual in front of the emperor, so the emperor did not think it was angry, but looked at the prince with great interest, waiting for his explanation.

The prince said: "This auction is also the idea that the girl from the Gu family came up with, in fact, after I heard about it, I felt that it was a bit similar to the occasional sale carried out by the Internal Affairs Office. The difference is that when the Ministry of Internal Affairs is busy, it has to hand over matters such as brewing or engineering to the imperial merchants, and let them bid, and the highest bidder wins. This auction is an auction of some treasures and antiques, and everyone can come and participate in the same bidding, and the highest bidder wins. When I heard this, I thought it was quite a novelty, so I borrowed a few of his people to do it, and I didn't know what it would be like. ”

"This is interesting, and on the day of the auction, the prince's brother will also take his younger brother to open his eyes, and maybe he can learn something from it." The Seventh Prince Cheng Wang Ye is a different kind of prince, he has no intention of politics, but he has an innate fanaticism for business, and he likes to accumulate money the most in his life, so much so that the emperor and his biological mother Concubine Liang have joked, saying that he is probably born from Pixiu. Therefore, the emperor never listed him as a candidate for the crown prince, but he handed over the transactions of the Internal Affairs Office and the royal grange to him to take care of.

"Okay." The prince is naturally willing to have a good relationship with the seventh brother of the God of Wealth, Cheng Wang Ye is a slippery loach, and he maintains a good relationship with several princes, but he is outside these forces, and because he is deeply favored by the emperor and controls the internal affairs office, no one wants to offend him, including the prince.

"These are thousands of victims, and three days' worth of porridge costs four thousand taels of silver."

The emperor didn't pay attention to the novelty of the auction, he muttered to himself, his eyes were a little stunned, and after a long time, he asked the prince a sentence: "You said, this time in Yunzhou, I allocated 100,000 taels of silver, 100,000 stone of grain for disaster relief, that is, the capital, in order to appease the affected people, also allocated 20,000 taels of silver, 10,000 stone of grain down, how come before the Jiangbei porridge, there are still many victims starving to death?" ”

The prince was stunned, he never expected the emperor to ask such a sentence: Why are there still victims starving to death? Does this need to be asked? It must have been the money and grain that were divided among corrupt officials.

To be honest, the prince has some resentment against his father's so-called benevolent government: the old man has been benevolent and virtuous for decades, and he has not seen the officials below who are grateful and loyal to the monarch and patriotic, but has raised groups of rats. It's a pity that he can't express this grievance, who made the old man value the reputation of the eternal Renjun more than his life?

loves fame and benevolence, but it doesn't mean that the emperor is an old fool, so now that he asks this sentence, the prince will be surprised. Because this is a tacit thing that everyone knows, unless the emperor is determined to rectify it, otherwise, this kind of thing is naturally good to pretend to be confused. But remediation officials? Isn't this what the old man has always been reluctant to do?

"I can't bear to bear the suffering of the people after the disaster." His Majesty the Emperor shook his head and said to the prince in a deep voice: "You go and investigate this matter, and then report it to me." Hum! Because of my kindness, some officials probably regard me as a fool, and those filthy things in the local area are just that, and now under my nose, there are people who dare to disobey the yang and the yin, do they still take me as the emperor in their eyes? ”

His Royal Highness the Crown Prince only then understood: It seems that the unscrupulousness of some officials can no longer stand even the emperor, and the reason why I mentioned the matter of my brother-in-law's soup soup today is just to bring up this topic. At the moment, I was secretly happy in my heart, but after thinking about it, I couldn't help but sigh, and secretly said that although the old man was angry, but in the end, I was afraid that he would still have to open the net, or not, it was better to clean up than not to clean up, and it was also a wake-up call to those officials who were becoming more and more lawless.

Coming out of the Palace of Cultivating Hearts, Prince Cheng deliberately took a few steps behind, and when the rest of the princes left first, he came to the side of the prince who came out at the end, and said with a smile: "Brother Prince, your brother-in-law is really mighty, I heard that even the brother-in-law of the third brother was beaten, and that is a master who walks sideways in the capital." ”

The prince smiled and said, "Hey! You still said that when I learned about it, I reprimanded him severely. But he didn't subdue him. Speaking of which, it's no wonder that Guan Shanba is not angry and robs a scene, and he is not afraid of embarrassing the third brother, but he is not beaten in vain? So even with Jiangbei's bastard thing, it was all vibrating in front of me. Originally, if you want to say that you go sideways, that bastard has been in the border for fifteen years, not to mention anything else, just that he led men and horses, ran thousands of miles to the grassland, and robbed those noble tribes of Northern Hungary, you say, only this one, can the mountain tyrant pass him? ”

"Hahaha! What the prince's brother said was. Lord Cheng laughed, then rolled his eyes, and said, "Brother Prince just said that Xiao Qianhu was going to take out some of the treasures he had stolen for auction, but he didn't know what it was?" Did you see that? ”

The prince untied a purse from his waist and handed it to Prince Cheng, and said with a smile: "Brother, take a look, these are two good things that he gave me filial piety, you give me a palm." ”

Cheng Wang Ye took it, opened the purse and looked at it, then reached out and took out a piece of dark wood from the purse, his eyes narrowed slightly, and he put it under his nose and sniffed it gently, and then Fang exclaimed: "This ...... Is this 10,000-year-old agarwood? Sure enough, it is a good thing, that is, in the palace, although there are many objects of agarwood, but the real 10,000-year-old agarwood, there are very few, in the folk, such a period of 10,000-year-old agarwood, that is a priceless treasure. (To be continued......)