Chapter 148: Assassination
The Four Kings are destined to be in constant disputes, and the court every day is like a war, what Situ Jing says, Situ Xia will oppose something, Situ Xi will be on the bar with Situ Xia, Situ Yao will fan the flames, but this wind is fanned by Situ Jing and the fire is directed to Situ Xia, and Situ Xia is not completely helpless, since he came back from the fiefdom this time and took advantage of Situ Jing's time to go to the Western Regions, he arranged a lot of her mother's concubine's family to enter Beijing as officials, these people were implicated in the Yuan family, and they were extremely unkind to Yuan. Situ Xi had no choice but to transfer Yuan Heshan away from Jingshi and away from Situ Xi's mother's family, and wait for the overall situation to be decided.
Today's court, the household department played this year's harvest across the country is good, whether to increase taxes. Situ Ji said as a matter of course: "Of course it will rise, this year's king's fief will have a good harvest, and this king's increase in taxes has increased a lot of revenue for the treasury, so he was rewarded by his father and returned to Beijing, so according to his father's intention, it is to increase taxes." ”
Situ Jing frowned and said, "Taxation is the foundation of the country, how can it be changed overnight?" Situ Xuan then followed Situ Jing and said: "Yes, then according to His Royal Highness Nioh's words, increase the tax in the year when the harvest is good, then the tax should be reduced in the year when the harvest is bad. ”
"Wouldn't amnesty reduce taxes?" Situ Ji flicked his sleeves and said.
Situ Xi continued: "When has I ever granted amnesty to the world, only the previous dynasty had an amnesty when I married Concubine Zhuang, but there is more than one year of good harvest. ”
Situ Xue turned to Situ Xi and asked, "Is it wrong to increase revenue for the treasury?" How many battles Situ Jing fought this year and how much money he spent, you ask Hubu Shangshu, now the treasury is enough to support him to be so reckless. ”
Situ Xia's tone became higher and higher, and the target was directly directed at Situ Jing, who turned around and looked at him and pointed to his finger and said: "The enemy does not offend me, I will not offend people, so it is a reckless army, and this king does not know that the reckless military is explained in this way." ”
Mu Zhiyuan recently watched Situ Jing's court duel, and found that he has changed a lot in recent years, it seems to be more calm, more flexible, not as good as before, what sharpened his temperament, and who made him calm down, Mu Zhiyuan thought of Mu Yunqi, maybe only his granddaughter can really capture Situ Jing's heart and make Situ Jing change so far.
In the end, it was Mu Zhiyuan who came out and said: "Several highnesses are reasonable, but the current emptiness of the treasury is an indisputable fact, and the emptiness of the treasury is dangerous for the country, so increasing taxes to make up for the emptiness of the treasury is the top priority." Therefore, the Prime Minister agrees with His Royal Highness Nioh's proposal. ”
Mu Zhiyuan said so, His Majesty the Emperor has trusted Prime Minister Mu so much over the years, and everyone has developed the habit of pursuing him over the years, so many ministers came out to express their agreement with King Ren.
Situ Xi and Situ Jing glanced at each other, this court has formed a rule that the minority obeys the majority since the Four Kings Prison Kingdom, so they lost this argument again, this is not the first time, and it will not be the last, now it seems that their tempers have been smoothed out, and the two of them didn't say anything.
I saw Situ Mi proudly announcing his order again.
Walking out of the court, Situ Mi walked past Situ Jing and said: "Your youngest son is almost full moon, I heard that it is a normal child, it seems that it is normal for that woman to give birth, when is the banquet, this time the king must be present." ”
After saying that, he left with laughter, Situ Jing and Situ Xi looked side by side at Situ Xi, who was walking proudly in front of them, and glanced at each other and stepped down from the Dan Majesty.
At the child's full moon banquet, Mu Yunqi was still trapped in the courtyard, and Situ Jing did not say anything about letting her leave the courtyard and walk freely. Mu Yunqi took his two children in the backyard, and holding a banquet was the best time to assassinate, at this time, there were many people and messy things, and it was always easy to fish in troubled waters.
Mu Yunqi moved Situ Leiyu's small shaker to the yard, watched Situ Leiming play, and after playing for a while, he ran to his mother's side to let Mu Yunqi wipe his sweat for him.
At this moment, the nurse beside her suddenly fell, revealing the masked black-clothed man behind her, Mu Yunqi hurriedly hugged Situ Leiming, picked up Situ Leiyu with one hand, and stared at the assassin with his eyes back.
Seeing that he had reached a corner, the Assassin raised his knife and slashed at Mu Yunqi, who raised his foot and kicked sideways at the Assassin, kicking the Assassin a few steps away. Only then did the assassin realize that it was not an ordinary weak woman, and Mu Yun took the opportunity to shout, "Qiao Lu, there are assassins."
Qiao Lu was originally boiling a decoction for Mu Yunqi in the small kitchen, when she heard Mu Yunqi's movements, she picked up the kitchen knife and ran out, seeing that the assassin was carrying a knife to cut at Mu Yunqi, Mu Yunqi pushed Situ Leiming away, and hugged Situ Leiyu to avoid the assassin's attack.
At this time, Qiao Lu ran to her side and asked, "Who is it?" ”
Mu Yunqi shook his head, seeing that the assassin's martial arts were not at the top level, and he was alone, either to die or to speculate, at this time, Situ Leiming on the side stood up, and there was no defense around him.
Mu Yunqi saw that the assassin looked at Situ Leiming, and handed Situ Leiyu to Qiao Lu, and the person rushed towards Situ Leiming, and he could block the knife with his back, Mu Yunqi kicked the assassin away again with a back kick, and picked up Situ Leiming and came to Qiao Lu's side.
Qiao Lu watched Mu Yunqi take a knife and shouted, this voice called Chu Yuan over, Chu Yuan rushed in and saw the assassin at a glance, drew his sword and fought with the assassin.
Qiao Lu hurriedly helped Mu Yunqi into the house, shouting as she walked, "There are assassins, there are assassins." ”
The guards at the gate rushed in when they heard the commotion, and the Assassin ran away as soon as he saw that there were many people.
When Situ Ying got the news of Mu Yunqi's injury from the front yard and rushed over, Qiao Lu was taking hemostatic medicine and sprinkling medicine on her back, so painful that Mu Yunqi bit the quilt and didn't dare to make a sound, Situ Leiming and Situ Leiyu had already been handed over to the maid to take away.
Situ Jing stepped forward a few steps forward and looked at Mu Yunqi's hideous wound and roared angrily: "Bastard, this king must catch the mastermind behind the scenes." ”
Situ Jing then took the medicine from Qiao Lu's hand and said, "I'll come." ”
Qiao Lu waited respectfully on the side, Mu Yunqi waved at her, and Qiao Lu reluctantly left.
As soon as Qiao Lu went out, she saw Chu Yuan standing at the door, and when Chu Yuan saw her come out, he anxiously stepped forward and asked, "Are you okay?" ”
Qiao Lu shook her head and said, "I'm fine, the princess was not lightly injured, and she was finally injured so seriously after confinement." ”
Qiao Lu glanced back, and Chu Yuan said, "It's okay, Miss Mu's body is skinny, and the injuries that were more serious than this before have come back to life, and this little injury is nothing to her." ”
Chu Yuan said easily, thinking that he could comfort Qiao Lu, but he never thought that Qiao Lu would turn around and leave angrily after hearing this, ignoring him, making his second monk confused.
After Situ Jing finished giving Mu Yunqi the medicine, he looked at her wound and said distressedly: "Why are you so careless, this wound is enough for you to hurt for a few days." ”
Mu Yunqi was sweating profusely in pain, and said weakly: "That assassin attacked Ming'er, how could I not protect him." ”
When Situ Jing heard this, he frowned, "This assassin is really hateful, it seems that he will definitely die." ”
"Who? Do you know who did it? Mu Yunqi heard that there was something in his words.
"I can't prove that he did it yet, and I won't be able to spare him when I get the evidence."
Mu Yunqi looked back at him with difficulty, as if he had a hint of understanding.