"Empress, according to the investigation of the old minister, Hongchen should have left Luoyang the night before yesterday, and His Majesty personally sent someone to escort her out of Luoyang, even Jiang Qiaoqing did not follow, and no one knew where she went."

Xu Jingzong looked at Wu Meiniang with a confused face, and said cautiously: "Queen, are we really mistaken?" That Hongchen is not the Wang family at all. ”

The Yang family on the side also nodded again and again, and said, "It must be like this, otherwise, why would she do this?" The current situation is so favorable to her, and if she leaves, won't her previous efforts be wasted. ”

Wu Meiniang glanced at the two of him in confusion, and said: "Wrong will not be wrong, if not, who spread those news in the first place?" ”

Xu Jingzong said: "But the people who know about this, as well as Li Feng and Quan Huaien and his wife, maybe one of them accidentally leaked his mouth, which is also very possible." ”

Wu Meiniang looked at her angrily and said, "Do you think I deliberately slandered that slut?" ”

"The old minister doesn't dare." Xu Jingzong hurriedly apologized.

Yang Shi hurriedly said: "Daughter, Xu Shizhong is also thinking about you. ”

Wu Meiniang's face softened a little, and said: "Xu Shizhong, I don't mean to be angry with you, but this matter is so strange that I thought about it all day, but I still can't figure it out." ”

"The old minister understands." Xu Jingzong said: "But the old minister thinks that since she has left, and His Majesty has decided not to blame the past, the old minister thinks that the queen should not pursue this matter anymore, and the top priority is that the queen wants to regain His Majesty's trust." ”

Yang nodded again and again: "Xu Shizhong's words are reasonable, daughter, you always stiffen with Your Majesty like this, it is not good for anyone, we don't care what they are thinking, as long as we don't mess up, then we are not afraid of them." ”

Wu Meiniang said: "Mother, why don't you understand, what I've been worried about is not that slut at all, but another person." ”

"Han Yi!"

Xu Jingzong and Yang said in unison.

Wu Meiniang nodded and said, "If it's just that slut, how can I be afraid, I'm always worried about the person behind the scenes." Hongchen must be Wang Xuan, there will be nothing wrong with this, then the person behind the scenes must also be Han Yi, and all this must have been arranged by Han Yi, what I don't understand is, what is Han Yi trying to do this? ”

Xu Jingzong and Yang glanced at each other, the confusion in their eyes had receded, but they both chose to remain silent.

If this is all manipulated by Han Yi behind the scenes, then Hongchen staying by the emperor's side is obviously more beneficial to him, which is also unreasonable!

The only explanation is that Hongchen is not Wang Xuan at all.

When Wu Meiniang said this, she affirmed what Xu Jingzong and Yang thought in their hearts.

Wu Meiniang saw that they didn't speak, how could she not understand in her heart, but her intuition told her that this matter was by no means so simple, and she faintly felt that something was wrong in her heart, but what was wrong, she really couldn't understand.

If she can't figure it out, if she can figure it out, then she is not a human being, but a god.

Because Han Yi never planned it at all, Han Yi was given full authority to Wang Xuan to deal with it herself, she only taught Wang Xuan how to hook up with Li Zhi, you have to follow the vine to touch the melon, how can you touch the melon.

At this time, Han Yi was accompanying Chen Shuozhen to Chen Shuozhen's hometown of Muzhou, in fact, he had finished his filial piety and was about to take Xiao Wuyi and them out to travel, but Chen Shuozhen couldn't go, Han Yi planned to accompany Chen Shuozhen back to his hometown first, and he always wanted to come to Muzhou to see, because Muzhou was the only thing he didn't expect, and he heard about the development of Muzhou.

As for Wang Xuan's affairs, he didn't know anything.

Muzhou, which was once burned by the war, is full of vitality at this moment, and as long as you set foot in Muzhou, you can feel an amazing energy.

Coming here is like coming to another world.

After the promulgation of Wu Meiniang's new policy, it seemed that Muzhou was completely thrown into the arms of capitalism.

Nowadays, everything in Muzhou, whether it is agriculture, commerce, or animal husbandry, has been commercialized. But before that, Muzhou also retained some characteristics of the small peasant economy, until after the promulgation of the new policy, a large number of businessmen poured into Muzhou with funds, because there was no anti-business, but also full of respect for businessmen, in the past two years, Muzhou's workshops have almost doubled, the more workshops this workshop, the more manpower is needed, and the people of Muzhou themselves do not reject commerce, because it is commerce that saves them, more people come to the city to work, and the vacated land is absorbed by the capitalists, and then hire people to farm.

In fact, now the quality of life of the people in Muzhou has surpassed that of Chang'an, but the frogs at the bottom of the well in Chang'an do not know, everything in Muzhou is very cheap, and the most expensive thing is manpower, because there are too many workshops, Chang'an has moved here, manpower is tight, and this thing is scarce and expensive.

Nowadays, Muzhou and Yangzhou, all the cities are paved with stone slabs, and the best roads are here, which is better than Chang'an.

The people of Muzhou don't worry about life at all, and it doesn't matter if they have grain at home or not, because they can buy it at any time, Muzhou not only produces its own grain, but also continues to import grain, because seventy percent of his goods are used for export, and the people in many places are so poor that they only have grain left, and they can only exchange their grain.

However, the people of Muzhou have a very strong idea of being prepared for danger in times of peace, they are not carried away by wealth, their nerves are still tight, and they work very hard, and they will never say that they fish for three days and dry their nets for two days, and now this kind of people are looked down upon by everyone in Muzhou, this is because they lived a hellish life before, natural disasters and man-made disasters, and later caused epidemics, this generation has a great shadow on this, so they cherish the current life very much.

Although they worked very hard, most of the money was earned by the merchants.

But they don't think so, they think it's not fair, they all think very openly, if there were no merchants, they might starve to death, now we live a rich life, it is all brought by the merchants, not the landlords, not the emperor, so they all think that I take the wages paid by the merchants, then I should work hard.

Muzhou's products are very fine and of good quality, because there are some of the best workers in the world.

Respect is always mutual.

Muzhou businessmen are not stupid, such as today can not tolerate them, everywhere is anti-business, only Muzhou can provide them with such a good environment, and the people here are very respectful of them, and there are such good employees, there is no need for people to supervise, this is much better than the environment in Chang'an, if even Muzhou can't tolerate them, then they have no way out.

These businessmen have no way out, in order to envelop the people of Muzhou, they also set up a chamber of commerce, the businessmen themselves determined the price system, the purpose is to ensure the low prices of Muzhou, and several amendments to the "Labor Act", step by step to improve the treatment of employees, in short, to make the people of Muzhou live very happy, in that case, they will support the businessmen.

But then again, businessmen are mercenary, not good people, so they are just good to the people of Muzhou, and it doesn't matter if they make less money in Muzhou, let's go to other places to make money, aren't those people against us? Let's make money from those people, their export volume has exceeded that of Chang'an, but only a small part of the tariff, a large number of goods are smuggled out, because smuggling, the price is cheap, so that it can be competitive in other states and counties.

And now because of the existence of tariffs, Chang'an has collapsed, Luoyang is similar, Muzhou is the only source of production, and there is no one to compete with them, resulting in a large amount of wealth pouring into Muzhou.

The government knows, the people know, and even the officials sent by Li Yifu know, but no one cares, can the person sent by Li Yifu be a good person?

The upper beam is not correct and the lower beam is crooked.

The businessmen either bribed them or gave them shares, as far as their virtue is concerned, they have been mixed in the court and China for a lifetime, and they are not as much money as they have made this year, and they have not even seen so much money, everyone asks for money, the government earns money, and the tariffs levied are all earned by Li Yifu, and they can't share much, the combination of officials and businessmen is quite close, you have me, I have you.

Before the Tang Dynasty, there was no corruption, and there was very little corruption, and Li Yifu was an alternative, but this time, corruption began to spread.

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On the wide road, a horse-drawn carriage swayed forward, and it was obvious that the owner of the carriage was not in a hurry, but more like he was visiting the scenery along the way.

"Do you know what made me let go of my hatred for you?"

Chen Shuozhen suddenly asked Han Yi beside him.

Han Yi said: "Isn't it because of love? ”

Chen Shuozhen immediately snorted and glared at Han Yi.

Han Yi laughed and said, "How could I not know, it was because you saw that my policy benefited Muzhou, so you decided to let me go." ”

Chen Shuozhen hummed softly, "I remember you told me at the beginning that you didn't want to see the next Chen Shuozhen, but I didn't pay attention to it at all, and it wasn't until I returned to Muzhou that day that I realized that maybe you weren't lying to me, so I chose to believe you, if it weren't for that, I wouldn't have tried my best to save you." ”

Han Yi asked again, "Then when did you fall in love with me?" ”

Chen Shuo gave him a blank look and tilted his head to the side.

Han Yi laughed, took her into his arms, and said: "Since you no longer hate me and fall in love with me, then I will tell you frankly, in fact, the changes in Muzhou are the most surprising to me, if this is Yangzhou, you praise me a few words, then I can still reluctantly accept it, but Muzhou's words, the biggest hero is really not me, but themselves, all of this is the local people in Muzhou with hard work and sweat in exchange, no one to help them, they are all won by themselves." ”

Chen Shuozhen looked at the people walking briskly outside the window, nodded lightly, and said, "Maybe you're right, they won all this by themselves." ”

After three days, they came to a majestic mountain, but they saw that the mountain was intermittent, undulating, strange, changing, pounding and piling up, and the clouds came out of it, like a fairyland.

Han Yi looked up at this mountain and said: "This really has a bit of a fairyland meaning, no wonder you chose this place to cultivate into an immortal in the first place." As he spoke, he saw that there was no response on the side, and when he turned his head, he saw that Chen Shuo was really facing him, but she was wearing a black gauze hat, and she couldn't see any expression, but Han Yi had already reacted and said, "Don't look at me like that, I'm not sarcastic, I'm analyzing it from a professional point of view." ”

Chen Shuozhen snorted lightly and walked straight forward.

Han Yi hurriedly followed.

This is Tiewei Mountain, where Chen Shuozhen rose in the first place.

Entering the mountains, to Han Yi's surprise, he saw many people along the way, and what made him even more curious was that these people covered their faces when they saw them.

"What's going on?"

Han Yi asked Chen Shuozhen in a low voice.

Chen Shuozhen shook his head and said, "I don't know either. ”

The two walked along the mountain road, climbing for more than an hour, before they came to a mountain peak.

"I was here!"

Han Yi stopped halfway through Chen Shuozhen's words, and glanced at her curiously, only to see Chen Shuozhen looking ahead, dumbfounded, Han Yi followed her gaze, but saw a small pavilion on the mountain peak, the pavilion was full of green smoke, and it was faintly visible that a stone tablet was erected in the pavilion.

A few years ago, Chen Shuozhen had been here, but there were no pavilions here.

"Oh, I see, those people came up here to worship God, what is the god that makes these people willing to climb so high to worship, and why is it hidden to worship God?" Han Yi said thoughtfully.

Chen Shuozhen didn't seem to hear it, and walked towards the pavilion.

"Wait for me!"

Han Yi hurriedly followed, and when he came to the pavilion, Han Yi's face was shocked, "Why is there no word on this stone tablet!" ”

But he heard Chen Shuozhen muttering to himself: "Sure enough." ”

And so it was? Han Yi frowned slightly, and said in surprise: "Could it be ---! ”

Chen Shuozhen nodded and said, "At the beginning, I was seriously injured by a wicked person, so I fled here to recuperate, and my brother-in-law took the opportunity to publicize that I was cultivating here to become an immortal. ”

"I see!" Han Yi nodded and said, "This can explain why the people who came to worship were secretive, and there was no word engraved on this stone tablet, because they were worshipping a rebel leader." ”

Chen Shuozhen turned his head to look at him.

"Uh, sorry, for a while, the fastest, when I didn't say it, I didn't say it." Han Yi sneered.

Chen Shuozhen sighed: "Why are they so stupid, they haven't woken up yet." ”

Han Yi said with a serious face: "From my professional point of view, this lie is a lie after all, even if it can be concealed for a while, it can't withstand the scrutiny of the years, and the lie will be exposed sooner or later." I think that those people worship not the Nine Heavens Xuannu, but Chen Shuozhen. ”

Chen Shuozhen smiled bitterly: "Thank you for your comfort." ”

"Someone's coming, someone's coming, you wait, I'll confirm it right away."

Chen Shuozhen turned her head to look, only to see a woman walking up with a bamboo basket, and heard a plop, she looked back, only to see Han Yi kneeling in front of the stone tablet, and said in surprise: "What are you doing?" ”

"Shut up."

As she spoke, the woman had already walked over, and Chen Shuozhen hurriedly stood aside.

The woman glanced at them, saw that they had come to worship, but she didn't care, lit three incense sticks, and bowed in front of the stele. ”

The woman glanced at him in a little surprise, and smbabbed twice, but she still endured it without making a sound, stood up, inserted the incense into the incense burner in front of the monument, put her hands together, bowed, and planned to turn around and leave, but she still heard the little brother still chattering, "Get promoted and get rich, get promoted and get rich." His eyes were closed, as if he had gone mad.

The woman couldn't help it and asked, "Little brother, what are you doing?" ”

Han Yi opened his eyes and said, "Oh, I'm praying to this nameless god!" ”

The woman giggled and said, "What nameless god, who told you this?" ”

Han Yi said: "I was going to Beijing to catch the exam, and on the way, someone said that there was a nameless god in this Tiewei Mountain, which was very effective, so I came here to worship, hoping that the nameless god could bless me in the imperial examination." ”

The woman laughed and said, "Little brother, you have been deceived, there is no nameless god here. ”

"How is that possible?"

Han Yi said: "I saw a lot of people come up to worship, you look at the incense on it, if there are no gods, how can so many people come up to worship." ”

The woman said: "The people who come here to worship are all from our Qingxi County, and we are not here to worship God, but to worship a benefactor of our Qingxi County." ”

Chen Shuozhen on the side suddenly trembled slightly.

Han Yi said: "Benefactor? ”

"Hmm."

The woman nodded.

Han Yi said bitterly: "No, dare to love me for nothing!" ”

The woman laughed and said, "Who made it so easy for you to trust others?" Alright, I'll go first. ”

So saying, she took the basket and left.

After the woman left, Han Yi stood up and said to Chen Shuozhen, "You heard it." ”

"How do you know that--- you?"

Han Yi said with a smile: "If you are just a god who pretends to be a ghost, then nothing can happen between us, I will not have any sympathy for you, I remember that I heard that in order to save the people of Qingxi County, you did not hesitate to steal the food of the government, but you were beaten all over your body, and it was the local people who secretly rescued you, and then you came here to recuperate, right?" ”

Chen Shuozhen nodded slightly.

"That's why they're here to worship you."

Han Yi gently grabbed Chen Shuozhen's shoulder with one hand, and said: "Actually, this is also the most contradictory place for me at the beginning, on the one hand, I think that you raised the army and killed many innocent people, but on the other hand, I understand you very much, sympathize with you, and admire you, after all, in terms of your IQ, the situation at that time was not to think of any better way except to rebel." But once you start to rebel, many things are out of your control, but your original intentions are always good. ”

"You're the smartest in the world."

Chen Shuozhen shook off his hand and walked out of the pavilion.

Han Yi hurriedly chased out, and in a few words, he coaxed Chen Shuozhen to stop being angry, in fact, Chen Shuozhen was grateful to Han Yi in his heart, it was because of Han Yi's temptation that she understood that the people of Qingxi County not only did not hate her, but regarded her as a benefactor, which made her feel relieved.

"Yikes! It's getting late, and I don't know if there are caves nearby. Han Yi looked left and right.

As a veteran driver, I love to drive on this mountain trail.

"Caves?"

Chen Shuozhen was stunned at first, and then stepped on it.

"Oops!"