Although the girls of the Li Wu family are unwilling to become a small talent in the palace in the end, there is no room for this matter to turn around after Zhao Tiannan made the decree, and they can also see the advantage of entering the palace before the crown princess, so the mood is not bad when they enter the palace today.

At the beginning, they knew that there was only a roadblock on the way forward, and Li Shenglan and Wu Yuerou didn't pay much attention to it.

The two of them have the same idea as their grandmothers, and everyone can see that they are destined to be ordinary in the future, is there anyone who doesn't want to think about whether they will be hated by them in the future, and is reluctant to retreat for such a long time?

Besides, in the realm of the capital, everyone lives with masks, even if they hate someone to death in their hearts, they have to smile on the surface, and then stab them in the back.

For Li Shenglan and Wu Yuerou, the two of them are not afraid of Feng Zhige's hatred or not, and they believe that Feng Zhige will not find a chance even if he wants to stab the knife.

So the two of them never thought that Feng Zhige had a reason not to back down.

It's just that what they didn't expect was that outside of their lives, there were really such people who would rather let everyone tear their faces for such a trivial matter than back down.

Li Wu and the others hated in their hearts, and they almost didn't wring the silk handkerchief in their hands when they sat in the sedan chair.

But no matter how much they hate in their hearts, the first thing they have to consider is to deal with the problem in front of them first.

The auspicious time is calculated by Qin Tian, it is said that it can benefit them and their heirs, although this kind of thing can not be believed, but it must not be believed, if it delays the auspicious time in the future heirs, then it is useless for them to cry at that time.

One side cannot delay, and the other side refuses to give in.

So, the end result. The only ones who retreated were Li Shenglan and Wu Yuerou.

This street leads directly to the imperial palace, and it is already very wide, if it weren't for the large column of face-supporting servants behind Li Wu and the others who occupied too much space, even if two more carriages came side by side, it would not seem crowded.

The crowd of onlookers waited for a while, and then saw the subordinates of the Li Wu family, who had put on a domineering posture before, after a while. All of them were crowded to both sides. Instead, there was a passage in the middle that was large enough for the carriage to pass through the guò.

There was an uproar among the large crowd of onlookers.

Ordinary people may not understand the entanglement between the various families in Beijing, and they can't figure out whether the Anguo Mansion is powerful, or the Zhenxi General's Mansion or the Wuning Marquis Mansion is powerful. But they know one thing very clearly, that is, these two girls from the Li family and the Wu family are going to enter the palace to be mothers.

This lady of the prince of the Anguo Mansion can actually let these two mothers-to-be make way for her?

Many people thought it was a little incredible.

After the subordinates of the Li Wu family gave way to a road. Feng Zhige was not ambiguous at all, and immediately ordered the carriage to move forward.

Thereupon. In the eyes of others, the huge team of Li Wu's two families seemed to be deliberately escorting Feng Zhige's carriage.

Even if they didn't have to watch this scene, Li Shenglan and Wu Yuerou couldn't help but burst into flames in their hearts.

The two of them were pampered when they were at home. Now that he is fortunate to be behind the prince, it is not impossible for his mother to sit on the phoenix chair with his son in the future, but he has not officially entered the palace yet. I hit a nail here in Feng Zhige first.

These two people can be regarded as completely hating Feng Zhige.

Feng Zhige didn't know what the two of them were thinking at this time. Of course, even if she knew the hatred between the two of them, she wouldn't take it seriously.

Life in this deep palace is not as easy as these two people think, even if they have an identity background, they may not be able to live long if they are not smart enough, after they live like this for a period of time, there is still a big problem whether they have the time to find Feng Zhige's stubble.

This chance encounter was just a trivial matter that was not worth caring about for Yu Fengzhige, but it unexpectedly set off a lot of waves in the capital.

Li Wu and the others were originally going to stay in the East Palace to be concubines for the prince, and the news naturally reached the crown prince Zhao Zaicun first.

When he heard the name "Mrs. Anguo Gongzi", Zhao Zaicun didn't remember who it was for a while, but then he suddenly woke up, and the one who married Anguo Gongzi was not Feng Zhige who left a heavy mark in his heart.

Since the last time I knew that Feng Zhige was married, I went to see her once, Zhao Zaicun had never seen Feng Zhige again, and now when he suddenly heard her news, the girl's cold eyes seemed to appear in front of him, even if the girl was not in front of him, Zhao Zaicun couldn't help but feel a little more ashamed in his heart.

His concubine appeared in front of her in advance, and wanted to use his power to force her to back down.

I don't know what she was thinking at the time.

Will you think of him because of those two people?

Thinking of this, Zhao Zaicun smiled bitterly and shook his head, in fact, he knew very well that the biggest possibility was that Feng Zhige would not have any thoughts about Li Wu and the others at all, let alone think of him because of these two people.

He remembered that at the beginning, he also had the idea of confronting his father in order to make Feng Zhige his crown princess, and now that he thinks about it, he knows how ridiculous he was at that time, and in the eyes of Feng Zhige, who has long known him and Hanyue's background, was he like a funny clown at that time?

Zhao Zaicun closed his eyes and shook his head, forcing himself to stop thinking about these doomed questions.

He has long been no longer qualified to think about these things, and now what he should do most is how to continue to hide his and Hanyue's life experience, or arrange a way out for himself and Hanyue and his mother as soon as possible, so as to accept the worst.

And before that, he had to think about who he should spoil first about the two concubines who would live in the East Palace tonight.

……

If it is said that in this Manchu Wu Dynasty, the most hopeful prince Zhao Zaicun can leave an heir for the royal family as soon as possible, it must be Zhao Tiannan.

Zhao Tiannan can clearly feel that his body is much worse than usual, and with his current state, he can still last a few years in the army, and even he doesn't know it.

If on the day he closed his eyes, he couldn't see Zhao Zaicun leave his bloodline with his own eyes, but I was afraid that even if he went underground, he would not feel at ease.

Out of this eager mentality, coupled with the fact that Li Shenglan and Wu Yuerou were both personally selected by Zhao Tiannan, he inevitably paid a little more attention to the situation of Li Wu's second daughter entering the palace.

The sedan chair of the two met head-on with the carriage of Mrs. An Guogong's wife. In the end, it was the prince and wife of An Guo who forced Li Wu and the others to make way for them.

Hearing the news, Zhao Tiannan was slightly stunned.

Mrs. An Guogong, isn't this Xiao Jingbei's newlywed wife Feng Zhige.

It seems that recently, he has often had the opportunity to hear the news of this Feng Zhige.

At the beginning, in Cining Palace, the green clothes and delicate chin, the daughter that Old Man Han valued, the newlywed wife who could make Xiao Jingbei worry about his stomach, knew that Li Wu and the others would be in a high position in the palace in the future. But she still forced the two to make way for the powerful Mrs. Anguo Shizi.

These images kept appearing in Zhao Tiannan's mind. Then they gradually became one, so that he had a vague understanding, but let him think whatever he wanted. Unable to lift the veil that covers them, they cannot see its essence clearly.

Remembering that he personally married Xiao Jingbei and Feng Zhige, Zhao Tiannan suddenly had a strong feeling at this time, he liked. Without knowing it, I did a stupid thing.

The feeling came so suddenly. Even Zhao Tiannan himself didn't know why he thought so.

"Phoenix Song ......"

Zhao Tiannan muttered the name.

He had to meet her.

He thought so.

……

The month after Li Shenglan and Wu Yuerou entered the palace was the day of the wedding of the prince and Chen Shuyi.

At the beginning, they were both candidates for the crown princess, but now, Li Shenglan and Wu Yuerou have become concubines in the East Palace first. And Chen Shuyi, the person with the worst identity background among the three, was able to successfully overpower the two and finally became the candidate for the crown princess. was able to marry the prince in the midst of all the attention.

The gap between them is that irrelevant others think. I have to shake my head and sigh that the world is unpredictable, let alone the parties involved.

There are also well-informed people who like to explore gossip have already found out, Li Shenglan and Wu Yuerou in the East Palace are really not in a good mood these days, I heard that Li Shenglan has "missed" broken tea cups in the past few days, and there are more than one dozen, and Wu Yuerou, although she did not break anything, it is said that she has been sick for several days.

The crown princess has not yet entered the East Palace, and there is already this good show in the East Palace.

It's a pity that the East Palace is located within the palace walls, even if you know that there are a lot of good shows to watch, the palace walls are enough to block the sight of many people, which is undoubtedly a sad fact for the gossip.

The day of the prince's wedding was a sunny day, although the weather was already very hot, but the summer heat obviously could not stop the people's enthusiasm for the prince's wedding.

According to the etiquette system of the Dawu Dynasty, when the crown princess gets married, she can let the prince go to the princess's maiden home to welcome her.

The people almost all the way to the Chen family surrounded the prince's car, and followed the princess's sedan chair all the way to the root of the imperial city, until the prince welcomed the princess into the palace, and the people gradually dispersed with some unfinished feelings.

Behind the appearance of the prince's wedding, which was a splendid and prosperous world, on the same day, Zhao Tiannan received a return from the officials he sent to recover the stolen goods.

Although he had long expected that the recovery of stolen goods would not be smooth, even Zhao Tiannan did not expect that it would be so unsmooth.

Most of the official grain that was stolen and sold from the granary fell into the hands of the local wealthy merchants, and for these people, the grain was bought by them for money, and it should have nothing to do with them whether the grain seller used any inappropriate means.

Under this cognition, suddenly an official was sent by the current emperor to find them to recover stolen goods, and these local wealthy businessmen naturally would not buy it.

If they confess to the stolen goods, wouldn't it be that they, the merchants, would have to pay for the stolen and sold official grain?

The nature of businessmen is to chase profits, they only recognize the silver in vain, as for whether the common people in the world will be in trouble because of the lack of food, forgive them for not having such a compassionate and kind heart.

Therefore, those officials who go to the local government to recover stolen goods will naturally not be able to achieve any results.

These officials came by order of the emperor, and because the case of stealing and selling official food caused a lot of trouble, they were always under pressure from the palace.

After a long time when things did not progress, there were naturally more radical officials who simply used violent means to force those businessmen to cooperate with them.

In the absence of any other way, this mention was also agreed by everyone.

In the minds of these officials, the people have always dared not fight with the officials. Even if these businessmen have a few dollars in their hands, they may not dare to confront the officers and soldiers head-on, and if they are frightened first, wouldn't it be easier to talk about other things when the time comes.

However, to everyone's surprise, the result of this incident surprised them.

Jiangnan and other places were the richest places in the Dawu Dynasty. The merchants there feared that their silver would be coveted by unscrupulous people. Therefore, among the wealthy merchants, there was often a tendency to cultivate skilled guards.

Although those officials who went down to recover the stolen goods were able to mobilize some local officers and soldiers, as soon as these local officers and soldiers moved, the local rich businessmen seemed to have rehearsed a long time ago. The guards in each person's hands twisted into a rope as quickly as possible, and they were able to confront the officers and soldiers and gain the upper hand.

Fortunately, those merchants also knew that they could not rely on these guards to oppose the imperial court, so although they sent their guards to block the officers and soldiers. But it didn't really get people to do it.

At this point, the recovery of the stolen goods was at a complete impasse.

Those officials who went down from the capital did not have enough manpower to cope with the current scene. Second, in the final analysis, some of their stolen goods are still unknown, and even if there are enough manpower, they will never dare to forcibly expropriate the assets of these merchants.

To know. The current prosperity of the Dawu Dynasty has a lot to do with the fact that the Dawu Dynasty has always encouraged trade, which also leads to the fact that the merchant status of the Dawu Dynasty is not low. If one of them did not handle it well, it would cause the local merchants to confront the imperial court. That's not going to be a good deal.

And just after this incident came out, I don't know how the news spread so quickly, but in just three or two days, the news that the court officials intended to forcibly force serious merchants to hand over grain had already spread all over Jiangnan and other places.

This news obviously aroused the dissatisfaction of many merchants in Jiangnan and other places, and many powerful wealthy merchants were ready to unite to resist the recovery of stolen goods by the imperial court.

In a short period of time, the situation became so serious, and those officials who recovered the stolen goods were also a little helpless.

If it was just one or two thorns to stir up trouble, they could have suppressed their dissatisfaction with the officers and soldiers in their hands, but when the matter evolved into a rope in Jiangnan and other places to confront the imperial court, those officials did not know what to do.

Out of this embarrassment, the officials quickly delivered the news back to the capital.

After Zhao Tiannan read the urgent letter, he almost didn't drop all the twists and turns on the imperial case.

Those vampire-like merchants, if it weren't for the fact that he, the emperor, has been committed to improving the status of merchants all these years, I am afraid that they are still the same as in the previous dynasty, even if they have a lot of silver in their hands, they would not dare to spend it in the open, let alone openly confront the court officials like now.

They are decided, he, the emperor, doesn't dare to do anything to them?

Tearing the secret letter in his hand to shreds, Zhao Tiannan gasped a few times, and in the end, he had to admit that even if he was the master of this great martial dynasty, but in this matter, he really couldn't do anything to those merchants.

He had to admit that if he really held these merchants accountable, I was afraid that the foundation of the Great Wu Dynasty would be shaken because of this.

If the merchant can't even protect the property in his own hands, and can be expropriated by the imperial court at will, then how can there be people doing business in the future, the trade route is not passable, how can the people of the Dawu Dynasty talk about wealth, the people live a hard life, naturally there is no so-called people's strength, and there will be no national wealth.

Thinking of this, Zhao Tiannan felt a little big for a while.

He remembered that when the Dawu Dynasty was first established, it was still Han Su at that time who proposed to improve the status of merchants.

At that time, he actually didn't think much of Han Su's move, but in the end, thinking about Han Su's idea, although it didn't look obvious at first, it was later proved to be extremely reasonable, so he did it according to Han Su's proposal.

Over the years, he has indeed seen the fruits of Hansu's idea, and the current prosperity of the Dawu Dynasty is inseparable from the original Hansu.

However, the problems he is facing today also come from this.

If the status of a merchant was still as low as it was in the past, how could he have such troubles now?

Thinking of this, Zhao Tiannan frowned fiercely.

According to the officials of the above performance, the wealthy merchants in Jiangnan and other places are now full of complaints, and if they cannot come up with a solution as soon as possible, I am afraid that in a few days, not only these businessmen, but also ordinary people will fall into panic because the autumn harvest is approaching.

Now that things have evolved to this point, those who are chasing stolen goods must be put aside in advance, and the first thing to do is to calm down the people's hearts.

But how do you appease it?

Zhao Tiannan frowned and thought for a while because of this question, and then an idea suddenly came to mind.

Xiao Jingbei was indispensable in this incident, from the investigation and trial after the discovery of the case of stealing and selling official grain, the disposal of corrupt officials, the recovery of stolen goods, etc., and if it were not for Xiao Jingbei's Jianyi, he would not have thought of sending someone to recover the stolen goods.

If Xiao Jingbei is pushed out at this time, and then spread some news that the current emperor is deceived by traitors......

After a long time, Zhao Tiannan shook his head slightly.

This method seems to be good, but it can't hide it from the eyes of those who have a heart.

No matter what Xiao Jingbei did, he was ordered by him, the emperor, and never did anything privately, let alone favoritism in any part of the official grain case, and even the 500,000 taels of silver given to him by the Zhou family were honestly handed over.

If it is said that Xiao Jingbei is blinded by him, who is the emperor, even if he is an old and dizzy person in the court, he should know that Xiao Jingbei is just a scapegoat.

As an emperor, if he pushes out his loyal courtiers in case of trouble, how can any courtiers dare to show his loyalty in the future? (To be continued.) )