In less than two days, the news that His Majesty had canonized the daughter of the Marquis of Zhongyong as the concubine of the crown prince spread all over Kyoto, and the magnates of Kyoto sent congratulatory gifts to the Marquis of Zhongyong's mansion.

At the same time, everyone sighed at His Majesty's great love for the crown prince.

Take a look at the prince's concubines, the champion Hou holds hundreds of thousands of troops, the loyal and brave Hou holds the patrol battalion, Zhuge Yuanba commands the Six Guards Forbidden Army, and Li Mingchong is the first assistant of the cabinet, is this formation reminding the prince to usurp the throne quickly?

Of course, this is a joke, if the crown prince dares to usurp the throne, those people will not support him, they are still loyal to His Majesty.

The people and the ministers all have such feelings, let alone other princes!

For example, Xiao Feng.

He always thinks that as long as Xiao Rui does not ascend the throne, he still has a chance! Throughout history, there have been many deposed princes, as long as they continue to work hard, they will have the opportunity to drag Xiao Rui off the horse. But now that he heard that Xiao Rui was going to marry the daughter of the Marquis of Zhongyong, he directly smashed his beloved handles with fire in his heart.

The princess Cao Wan, who rushed to hear the news, comforted: "Don't be angry, don't be angry, the prince is constantly trying to win over the powerful ministers, Your Majesty won't say anything now, but after a long time, there will be suspicions after all, in this case, why not kill the prince?" ”

Xiao Feng glanced at Cao Wan coldly, and said expressionlessly: "Get out!" ”

Cao Wan's body stiffened, and her heart was instantly sad.

Since His Royal Highness came back from Yinzhou, it was like a different person, becoming cold, ruthless, and smart, completely different from the previous honesty.

And he never went into his bedroom again, leaving himself alone. If he pampered other concubines, it would be fine, and he didn't care about other concubines, practicing martial arts all day long, and seemed to be in a state of confusion.

Today, I wanted to come and give advice, but I was humiliated by him so indifferently, Cao Wan felt sad in her heart.

raised her head and glanced at the prince again, her eyes were cold, and Cao Wan hid her face and left.

"Hmph... If it weren't for the sake of hiding, this king would have married a superficial woman like you? Now this king doesn't have to hide it, and finally he doesn't have to endure it. ”

"A woman is an accessory, she loves deeply, and I will never make such a mistake! My goal is to become the emperor of Great Xia, to become the first emperor of the ages to unify Shenzhou, and no emotion can influence me, no! ”

"Xiao Rui, Xiao Rui, I will let you understand that the love between men and women is a knife, and the blood of those who can be inserted is dripping! The father was hurt by love, and you will follow his old path! ”

"Powerful! That's what I'm ultimately looking for! ”

Xiao Feng looked ruthless, and then practiced his palm technique in the house.

I saw that the palm technique was sharp, and with the pace of You Long, this set of palm techniques was even more fierce than the last time I fought against Xiao Rui.

Could it be that this set of palm techniques is called...

Among the princes, except for Xiao Feng, the others also have their own thoughts.

Xiao Ze and Xiao Yuan smiled and directly sent congratulatory gifts. Xiao Ze, the king of Wu, is a smart person and has seen through everything, while Xiao Yuan was frightened by His Majesty and the crown prince to death, and the little caution left was completely extinguished.

Xiao Jing couldn't eat grapes and thought the grapes were sour, and cursed again and again in his palace.

Xiao Yan is envious, he has just married Nalan Yanran, and he feels that his life has reached the peak, and he can finally keep pace with Seventh Brother. Who knew that the seventh brother was too violent, and he accepted four daughters-in-law at once, high, really high!

As for himself, there are two princesses who are already burning high incense, and Xiao Yan no longer dares to marry the second side concubine, because he is afraid that Kong Xun'er and Nalan Yanran will tear him apart.

In the end, it is Xiao Lie, the king of Jin.

He now has disgust and headaches when he hears Xiao Rui's name, so you can imagine his attitude.

……

Zhang Ruoxi was canonized as the crown prince's concubine and needed to hold a marriage ceremony, but Lu Pheasant, Lu Pheasant, and A Zhu were named Mrs. and Zhaoyi, so they only needed to make an order to announce the world, they belonged to the concubine room, and they didn't need to make a big deal.

Now that the will has been issued, the third daughter has changed from a female official to a high-ranking heroine. Now Zhuge Liuying and Li Ruoxue are inconvenient to sleep, so it is naturally the turn of the three daughters.

So in the past few days, Xiao Rui has been relatively busy, and he has to get rain and dew, so today, tomorrow, the day after tomorrow...

Fortunately, Xiao Rui practiced martial arts and practiced a good waist board, otherwise he would really be unbearable.

Of course, there are also awkwardness.

Ah Zhu and Lu Pheasant are in love with Xiao Rui, and now it is a matter of course. But Lu Su and Xiao Rui are not familiar with each other, and when they took a break for the first time, both of them were more embarrassed.

But it doesn't matter, after a long time, it will naturally fall in love for a long time.

According to the birth dates of Xiao Rui and Zhang Ruoxi, the Ministry of Rites and the Zongren Mansion selected the time for marriage, which was set on November 22, and there was still a month to go.

Xiao Ruigui is the crown prince, so naturally he doesn't have to do it himself, he has other big things to do, such as... Do it to Yang Feiyuan.

His Majesty ordered Dongchang and Jinyiwei to cooperate with the Metropolitan Procuratorate to thoroughly investigate the corruption of the granaries in the state capitals across the country, and the young man of Zuodu Yushi Du directly sent a henchman and Dongchang and Jinyiwei to Chang'an to investigate secretly according to Xiao Rui's reminder.

These days have passed, and the investigation has also had results, and it was sent back to Du Shao in a hurry.

When Du Shao got the incriminating evidence, he immediately asked to see Xiao Rui and presented the incriminating evidence to him with his own hands.

This thief Li Mingchong, a thief who turned the thunderbolt hand with one hand, can investigate the evidence, but he definitely does not ask the teacher to ask for the guilt.

Xiao Rui didn't embarrass him, and after a few words of praise, Du Shao left with a smile on his face.

Turning over the evidence, Xiao Rui raised his eyebrows.

Sure enough, as judged before, Xijingcang lacked a total of nearly two million stone of grain, which was embezzled by Yang Kaiyuan's younger brother Yang Kaiyuan and the officials of Xijingcang, and then sold to Qi at a high price.

The new grain discovered by the last monitoring of the imperial history was indeed urgently transported to deal with the investigation.

In addition to embezzling grain, Yang Kaifa also bought the worst grain at a low price, and then mixed it with stones, chaff, etc., to exchange the grain in Xijing Cang and sell it.

At the same time, loopholes were also found in the accounts of Xijingcang, and every year grain disappeared for various reasons, which was naturally also the work of Yang Kaifang.

Using Xijing Warehouse alone, Yang Development made hundreds of thousands of silver profits every year.

In addition, the Yang family occupied fertile land in Chang'an, and the preliminary investigation of Dongchang and Jinyiwei showed that the Yang family owned more than 10,000 hectares of fertile land, which was rented to farmers at a high price and exploited the people.

What is this concept?

The fertile land owned by the Yang family has caught up with the prince of ten thousand households!

In addition, the mansion built by the Yang family can no longer be described as a mansion, the scale is comparable to the size of two scenic gardens, there are many guards in the house, and it is equipped with Daxia standard weapons, the law of Daxia clearly stipulates that military standard weapons are prohibited from private collection and use, and those who are serious will be dealt with as treason.

Others, such as the construction of over-specification cemeteries, the carriages and horses that do not conform to the rules, etc., are not uncommon.

Of course, there are countless people who are careless of human life and hegemony and bullying the people, and once Dongchang and Jinyiwei launch an investigation, it is easy to collect evidence.

It seems that the Yang family is used to being the emperor of the soil in Chang'an, and they feel that the emperor is far away, and the emperor can't manage it, and the people in the Metropolitan Procuratorate don't dare to take care of it.

Xiao Rui put this heavy incriminating evidence on the table, touched his chin, and copied the Yang family, can he scavenge all the silver out?

He Shen was greedy for hundreds of millions of taels of silver in his life, and the Yang family has a long history, will there be less silver?

However, Xiao Rui also understands that it is not so easy to move the Yang family this time. The Yang family has existed for so long, there are too many officials involved, and there are many connections with other gate valve families, and a tough move is likely to affect the whole body!

Even if Great Xia is under His Majesty's control, he has to rely on the family and the gate valve, and it is very happy to destroy the Yang family directly, and it is likely to make enemies with other families, which His Majesty does not want to see.

Therefore, His Majesty wisely handed over this matter to Xiao Rui.

Xiao Rui didn't want to be a gun, but the matter had come to this point, and he had to do it. Therefore, Xiao Rui needs to grasp a measure, that is, to achieve his own and His Majesty's goals, and to knock on the mountain and shock the tiger to make other families and gate valves panic, without causing their disgust and evil.

My purpose is for money, not too much, 50 million taels is enough, which is completely enough to subsidize the people and buy new crops during the harvest next spring.

As for His Majesty's purpose, it is natural that Yang Feiyuan need to leave the cabinet, or even be unable to become the secretary of the household department.

Case...

Xiao Rui had an idea.

The day has come again.

Xiao Rui slept until he woke up naturally, looking at Lu Pheasant beside him... Eh, it should be Lu Su, well, he often recognizes the wrong person, who called the two sisters look almost identical, it is difficult to distinguish the real from the fake. If it weren't for the mole on Lu Su's chest, he wouldn't have recognized it.

After breakfast, Xiao Rui left the palace and went to Yang's mansion.

Xiao Rui is going to talk to Yang Feiyuan to see his attitude, if he is obedient and willing to cooperate, Xiao Rui gets what he wants, and he is willing to keep his Yang family alive, just need to break his wrist.

But if he takes action and decides to hit the stone with an egg, then Xiao Rui can only take a tough approach.

This time he came very suddenly, Yang Feiyuan was surprised when he heard the news, and then his face was full of condensation.

Beside Yang Feiyuan, sat Yang Qing, the princess of Jin. She has been living here all this time, but she didn't expect to meet Xiao Rui today.

"Why is His Royal Highness the Crown Prince here?" Yang Qing asked.

There is no impermeable wall in the world, although the Metropolitan Procuratorate, Jinyiwei, and Dongchang sent people to Chang'an, although it was very hidden, he also heard the rumors, and Chang'an's own family also sent people to send news that someone was secretly investigating, and the official in charge of managing Xijingcang disappeared for no reason, and he was afraid that he had been arrested.

Yang Feiyuan knew from beginning to end that when His Majesty asked him to clear the grain fields and count the granaries of the world, his family would fall into turmoil. He wrote many letters to persuade the elder and younger brothers of the family to stop it, but they were so greedy that they thought that they could protect themselves because they were the head of the household and the cabinet scholars, and they thought that they had no idea how close they were to destruction.

Now, it seems, the time has come.

However, he didn't expect the prince to deign to come to the mansion, which was a good signal that Yang Feiyuan saw the only chance in the dark.

"Daughter, you stay away for the time being, as a father to welcome His Royal Highness the Prince." Yang Feiyuan said in a deep voice.

Yang Qing sensed her father's worries, she nodded, and did not leave, and when Yang Feiyuan went to meet Xiao Rui, she hid in the side room next to her.