"Zhou County Order! Tell me for yourself why I want someone to arrest you! Baili Yunzheng looked at Zhou Xianling who was kneeling at the bottom with an interrogative look, Zhou Xianling looked at the emperor with a frightened face, and then looked at him with his young and handsome eyes full of murderous meaning, Zhou Xianling was so frightened that his shoulders trembled.

That week, the county commander was too scared to speak.

"Zhou County Order! The emperor ordered you to speak! You're talking! The former general of the Tiger Guard on the side asked.

"Wechen, Wechen, I don't know why." Zhou Xianling trembled in fear and replied, as long as anyone in the hall had eyes, they would know how scared he was now.

Baili Yunzheng didn't get angry immediately, but smiled, and then looked at the county order of that week.

"I know that you are very afraid of my anger at you, but I think that you are a first-time offender and can be exempted from the death penalty, if you refuse to speak out, then I will have to have people produce evidence and put you on death row!" Baili Yunzheng's face was slightly solemn, but he still said with a smile.

The civil and military officials in the audience immediately felt very curious when they heard this Baili Yunzheng questioning a county official like this, so they all looked at the Zhou county order kneeling at the bottom of the steps in a daze.

That Zhou Ling's facial features, which were distorted by fear just now, immediately leaked a hint of relief after hearing Baili Yunzheng's words.

Zhou Xianling still glanced at Lord Zuo Xiang with some fear, and then looked at the emperor's eyes looking at him It was not false, Zhou Xianling decided to confess his crimes in order to get rid of his crimes.

"Wechen bribed Lord Zuo Xiang with five thousand taels of silver, and wanted Lord Zuo Xiang to write Wechen's name into the list of this year's promotion invitations." Zhou County Ling said.

As soon as he finished saying this, there was a burst of whispering in the ranks of civil and military officials, some people pointed fingers at Lord Zuo Xiang, and some people were talking to each other.

Zuo Xiang Fang Yan suddenly glared at the Zhou County Order with some fear, and then walked out and pointed at the Zhou County Order and said: "You, the district and county official, actually dare to frame me, see if I don't knock out your teeth!" ”

As he spoke, Zuo Xiang made a gesture to rush over and grab the county official, but Baili Yunzheng immediately stopped Zuo Xiang's behavior as soon as he gave an order.

"Lord Zuoxiang! What else do you have to explain!? Baili Yunzheng asked, and when he heard this, a minister immediately relieved him of the siege.

"Your Majesty, you are aware of everything, and you must not believe the absurd words of a villain, how can Lord Zuo accept a bribe from a small county order!?" An old minister said.

But Zuo Xiang still didn't say a word, looking at Baili Yunzheng's eyes looking at him, he knew that the matter was going to be over, and his eyes looked at him without the slightest kindness, obviously wanting to tear his face with him.

Baili Yunzheng's guards saw that someone was helping, and immediately stepped forward to take out a silver ticket, and said: "This is the money ticket that Lord Zuo Xiang stored in the money village in the capital, this money ticket is the day when Zhou County ordered to enter the imperial city, and it is exactly the same as the date on this silver ticket, Fang Yan, what else can you say!?" ”

Fang Yan was suddenly shocked and was about to refute, Baili Yunzheng immediately said: "Concubine Duan is jealous, I just said a word about her, she asked you to go back to find the queen to rumor, and let people rumor bad things about the queen, most of these things are operated by Zuo Xiang, you instructed people to operate underneath, such things, Lord Fang Yan!" Do you think it or not!? ”

As soon as this sentence came out, the court suddenly exploded like a pot, and everyone began to talk about the rumors and turmoil that the queen was going to be abolished a while ago, it turned out that the reason why the market and the court could make such a fuss was that someone manipulated the turmoil behind the scenes, and all the ministers looked at His Royal Highness Fang Yan with a shocked look after hearing it.

Fang Yan's face couldn't hold back any longer, and he immediately knelt down.

"Your Majesty, what you said is true, the old minister should be damned, he shouldn't be so jealous that the queen deliberately spread those rumors! Also, no, should not accept bribes. That Fang Yan really couldn't hold on, he knew that once he was killed, it was estimated that the final result would be just a head falling to the ground.

Baili Yunzheng smiled with satisfaction and nodded, but there was still a little sigh on his face for the rest of his life.

"I now sentence you to have your official position confiscated and exiled to the frontier! Concubine Duan was jealous, and deliberately seduced me, I punished her for stripping her of her concubine position, degrading her out of the palace, and never hiring her in the future. Baili Yunzheng said, and then threw down the token in front of him.

Zuo Xiang's face was suffocated by the feeling of shame, he never thought that he would one day be torn off by Baili Yunzheng in front of the civil and military officials, it was really difficult to face those relatives and friends.

Zuo Xiang kowtowed, and then said, "The minister accepts the order." ”

In the past, those who looked down on Baili Yunzheng's management ability instantly felt that the atmosphere was afraid to come out, but they didn't expect Baili Yunzheng to be such a character, if he didn't get angry, he would be out of control when he got angry.

In the following days, Concubine Duan was degraded out of the palace by Baili Yunzheng, and Li Chuxia's life returned to that kind of purity, and no one came to make friends with her or disturb her.

Of course, Li Chuxia felt very bored, and when he didn't disturb Baili Yunzheng, Li Chuxia often went out to take care of the business of the Chinese restaurant in the capital.

The business of the restaurants in the capital is getting better and better, and sometimes Li Chuxia is too busy to rest in the restaurant and does not return to the palace.

Baili Yunzheng is also used to Li Chuxia being so busy, when she is busy, Baili Yunzheng corrects the recitals in the imperial study, or reads some books to increase knowledge, in case of future needs.

Li Chuxia looked at the account book of the restaurant and laughed happily, just one capital, this profit is thousands of taels of silver every month, think about it, if the restaurant is opened to the whole country, then the daily income is not better?

Li Chuxia was not satisfied with just thinking about it, she sent people to find a place to open a restaurant in a better place for the country's economic development on the second day, and soon, the people she sent out found a few very good places, Li Chuxia was not at ease, and found some people to open a restaurant for herself.

Slowly, the restaurants she opened all over the country began to operate slowly.

Li Chuxia asked someone to write a lot of recipes in the capital, and then asked someone to use it in his restaurant, but in just a few months, Li Chuxia's restaurant made a lot of profits, and she soon became a rare rich man in the country.

Li Chuxia got the silver and didn't do anything else, what she wanted to do most and what she was most concerned about was to replenish the silver taels to the treasury, so that Baili Yunzheng could use the silver to benefit the people.

Baili Yunzheng quickly said this in front of the civil and military officials and commended Li Chuxia's great achievements, and no one in the court dared to come out to say that the queen was not the queen mother.

Even those ministers who used to like to look for Baili Yunzheng's stubble, at this time, they didn't dare to say that the queen was not, thinking that no one could make such a big sacrifice if they handed over tens of thousands of taels of silver a year.

And Baili Yunzheng also made good use of the silver, built reservoirs in many places to benefit the people, and also used the money to buy seedlings for the poor people, so that they could eat and have a full stomach.

Baili Yunzheng likes Li Chuxia more and more, because her cleanliness and intelligence are incomparable to ordinary women.

Now those palace concubines don't dare to run out boldly to compete for favor even if they know that Baili Yunzheng is not going to pamper them, because they know that they don't dare to compare with Li Chuxia, and they will make money and take care of men's minds.

Suddenly, countless good news and bad news came at the same time, that is, it was rumored that there were many robbers in Kansai who suddenly appeared on the road to rob passing merchants, Baili Yunzheng was very angry when he heard it, and then immediately ordered someone to go to Kansai to check the truth, if it was really a robbery, then he immediately led the troops to exterminate the robbers.

Two days later, the minister sent out to report that the robbers were really terrible, and that anyone passing by would be robbed. Moreover, those bandits also threatened to rise up and dominate the world.

Baili Yunzheng was very angry when he heard this, you must know that Kansai is the only way to pass through the northwest border, whether it is a business or a pedestrian, as long as you go to the north, you will almost always pass there. There are a lot of robbers here, doesn't that make him have to take care of it? Not to mention having said something like that.

Baili Yunzheng received the minister's news and immediately sent troops to Kansai to arrest those robbers, or to exterminate them.

That night, Baili Yunzheng was very happy again, because it was rumored that Jiangnan had built its own water conservancy this year, so many people had become extremely convenient for farming, and the grain handed over by the state treasury had a bumper harvest.

Baili Yunzheng was happy, and specially came to Li Chuxia's palace to drink and admire the moon with her.

"In the early summer, this time I owe you to open a restaurant to make money to subsidize the treasury, otherwise I would not have such outstanding achievements." Baili Yunzheng smiled and poured another glass of wine for himself and Li Chuxia.

Baili Yunzheng toasted Li Chuxia, and the two clinked glasses to each other and drank down.

"Your Majesty, you are polite, we are a family and don't talk to each other, since you are the king and I am the concubine, I will naturally try my best to assist the emperor. You can say that it is not yet. Li Chuxia said with a smile, the red color on his face was not good-looking.

Baili Yunzheng stretched out his hand and pinched Li Chuxia's tender face, which didn't look old at all, and then smiled with a doting look.

"I like your intelligence, and I haven't changed in my life. Perhaps this is where my blessing lies. Baili Yunzheng said with feeling. Thinking about it over the years, if it weren't for Li Chuxia by his side to assess the situation and help him make suggestions, maybe he would not have sat on the throne so smoothly and governed the country smoothly.

Just as Baili Yunzheng was looking at Li Chuxia obsessively, perhaps because of the effect of alcohol, he was actually a little obsessed, and at this moment, a man in black suddenly broke in outside the door of the open hall.

The man in black moved quickly, and came to the emperor's side in a few flashes.

Li Chuxia was startled, and suddenly turned the cup in his hand towards the man's face.