Li Zhi was too lazy to move again, so he directly received Wang Qi in the living room next door to Wu Zhaoyi, and seeing his embarrassed appearance, Li Zhi frowned: "Prince, you are also an important minister of the court, you must pay attention to your manners." ”

Wang Qi's old face turned red, he just came out of Li Dongsheng's house and went straight to the palace to complain, forgetting that he had just burst into tears, he looked at Wu Zhaoyi next to him, hesitated for a moment and did not speak.

Wu Zhaoyi was unhappy in her heart, but there was no displeased expression on her face, and she got up and said, "Your Majesty's concubine has returned to the palace first." ”

Li Zhi saw that his woman was wronged, and his face was not good, and he said, "What's the matter at such a late hour?" ”

"Your Majesty, Weichen impeached Li Dongsheng for raising his own dignity in the city and conniving at pirates to rob merchant ships." Wang Jue said righteously: "Please ask Your Majesty to send Dali Temple to review." ”

Li Zhi listened to him, resisted the urge to smash the teacup in his hand on his face, suppressed his anger and said, "That's it? ”

"Your Majesty, the City Shipping Division is the important financial and tax area of my Datang, and the presence of pirates poses a serious threat to Datang's trade. I, Datang, must nip this danger in the bud. Wang Qi said loudly.

"Is there any evidence for what you say? How do you know he's self-respecting? Li Dongsheng is also a minister of the imperial court, and if he wants to send Dali Temple to investigate, there must be evidence. Li Zhi had already held the teacup hard.

"Your Majesty, this is the loss of merchant ships counted by Wechen." Wang Jue took out a piece of paper from his arms, on which the name of the ship, the amount of cargo loss, and casualties were densely written. . .

Li Zhi took it and looked at it, and asked without raising his head: "Is the date of the attack on the merchant ship on this right time?" ”

"Yes, this is Weichen's family statistics in Guangzhou, it must be accurate." Nonsense, can it be inaccurate, it's all your own boat, the first time, the second time I thought it was an accident, bad luck, the third, the fourth... At the same time, only their own boat was attacked, and the rest of the ships were fine, and they knew that someone had targeted their own home.

Li Zhi was furious: "Prince, you are a veteran of the Three Dynasties, I shouldn't have said such heavy words, but what are you showing me?" You said that Li Dongsheng colluded with pirates and raised his own respect, but the date on this is after Li Dongsheng has stepped down as the city shipping department, he was not a city ship envoy at that time, how to instruct pirates, I have not been on the throne for a long time, but I am not a fool. ”

Wang Qi never thought that Li Zhi would be so careful, he hurriedly said: "Your Majesty, it is mainly the investigation of the new city envoy Liu Zheng, Li Dongsheng is afraid that there will be errors in the accounts, so he specially attacked my family's ship to threaten." ”

"Enough, don't say it!" Li Zhi slammed the teacup on the ground: "What are you doing?" Dedicated to helping you out? You are doing your own sea trade, and your ships have been attacked by pirates and have come to me? Am I very foolish in your eyes if you also falsely accuse the minister, and just take some false things? ”

Li Zhidu is going crazy, this old thing has nothing to do, delaying his rest time, just for the sake of his own ship being attacked, what's the use of telling me? I'm going out to help you fight pirates?

The most hateful thing is that he still thinks of himself as a fool and doesn't tell the truth. Wang Jue was dumbfounded, the emperor was too young to fool, and he played himself off.

He hurriedly admitted his mistake: "Your Majesty, Weichen is wrong." ”

Looking at his gray-haired appearance, his cloudy eyes were full of sadness and despair, Li Zhi originally wanted to take advantage of the situation to be furious, but when he saw his eyes, he couldn't bear it, and waved his hand and said, "You go back." ”

After seeing him leave, Wu Zhaoyi went to the living room again, stood behind Li Zhi, and gently pressed his head for him. said softly: "Why is there such a big fire, do you know if you hurt your liver?" Stop your anger later. ”

Li Zhi told Wu Zhaoyi what happened just now, and Wu Zhaoyi pouted and said: "These families are just because the first emperor was too good to them, so they will develop this bad habit. If it were me, I would remove Wang Jue's position first, so that he would have personal pain. I'll slowly concoct him later. ”

Li Zhi said: "No matter how you say it, you are also a patriarch, and you must always give him a little face." ”

"Hehe, Your Majesty, the concubine is afraid that someone will take the benefit but don't take it to heart at all, maybe she will still be jealous of you. Blame you for not taking Li Dongsheng out of prison. Wu Zhaoyi talked eloquently: "Blocking people's money is like killing people and setting fires." Now what they are thinking about is how to get Li Dongsheng down, and it seems that they have suffered a lot of losses this time. ”

Listening to Wu Zhaoyi's words, Li Zhi nodded and said: "Such a person is actually the head of the family with five hopes and seven surnames, such a quality is worrying." ”

"Your Majesty, from small to big, there are relatives in our palace." Wu Zhaoyi mentioned lightly: "Is the quality also worrying?" ”

Li Zhi knew that he was talking about Queen Wang, after this incident, Li Zhi's impression of Queen Wang was even worse, and the more important thing was that she had been married for so many years without children, and she was unfilial and had no queen, and the reproduction of royal heirs was even greater, and now that Wu Zhaoyi has a son, is it not for her to be the queen?

This thought can't be stopped, the more Li Zhi thinks about it, the more appropriate it is, but what a big deal it is after the abolition, it is still necessary to wait for a suitable time, otherwise all the ministers will definitely oppose it en masse, Li Zhi is really afraid.

Li Dongsheng didn't go to the court for the past few days, so he stayed in the backyard of the house, accompanied his wife and concubines, and enjoyed the joy of family.

However, there is already a storm outside, Wang Qi has been suffocating in Li Dongsheng and Li Zhi in a row, with the identity of his own family, when did he say so low and there was no result, since you don't accept my friendship, that is my enemy, although my Wang family is no longer good, but our family is an alliance, everyone is united, I don't believe that you can't be killed.

Wang Jue came forward to set up a wine party, and the place to treat him was his private house by the Qujiang Pond, this garden was exquisitely made and beautiful, but all the people were cowering and did not dare to speak loudly, and the atmosphere was very depressing.

Wang Jue sat on the main seat, there was no longer those frustrated looks on his face, he was promoting with the guests around him: "Now we are not united, then Li Dongsheng's family will account for fifty percent of the sea trade, and his family's things are all the hot goods of the sea trade, as long as he is knocked down, those things are all ours, and when the time comes, I only need cotton cloth, and you can divide the rest of the things yourself."

"Hehe, what the prince said is really polite, and all you need is cotton cloth, who doesn't know that this is the largest and most profitable one in it, do you take us for fools?" A white-faced scholar said politely: "It's not that you take the lead to get the most, it depends on who contributes the most." ”