The corners of the other ministers' mouths twitched slightly.

It seems that the reason why the saint is so fond of Zhen Guogong is that he has such a mouth that can always say things that make the saint happy, and it also has a lot to do with it.

After laughing, Emperor Jingwen asked Jiang Heng to give him a seat, and said, "Jiang Aiqing will wait by the side for a while." ”

Then speed up the process and discuss with several ministers.

After a short time, the discussion between the monarch and the ministers ended, several ministers retired and left, and only Emperor Jingwen and Jiang Heng were left in the imperial study.

"Jiang Aiqing, how is the situation at the border recently?" Emperor Jingwen asked.

Although every once in a while, the border pass will send a battle report to the palace, but how can those few words be compared to Jiang Heng, a big living person, Emperor Jingwen is naturally more inclined to ask Jiang Heng.

Jiang Heng said: "Back to the saint, the border pass has been calm in the past year, but the heart of the border barbarians who invaded the Jing Dynasty is not dead, although it is not a climate in a short time, but it is also necessary to prevent the barbarians from taking this opportunity to recuperate and invade my Jing Dynasty again in the future." ”

Regarding Jiang Heng's words, Emperor Jing Wen naturally couldn't believe it.

Therefore, Emperor Jingwen nodded lightly: "Jiang Aiqing's words are reasonable, if he is deceived by the illusion of surrender of the barbarians now, and the barbarians will attack again in the future, I am afraid that he will be caught off guard." ”

If it is not my race, its heart will be different, and Emperor Jingwen, as an emperor, can no longer understand this truth.

It is precisely because of this understanding that Jiang Heng has had such a pivotal position in the Jing Dynasty for so many years.

After that, Emperor Jingwen asked about some border passes, and Jiang Heng answered them one by one.

After asking about political affairs, Emperor Jing Wen's expression became a little lighter, with a smile on his face, and said a little jokingly: "I heard that Jiang Aiqing is about to return to Beijing, and she was injured at the hands of the Duchess of Zhenguo?" ”

As he spoke, Emperor Jing Wen's gaze fell on the scar that Jiang Heng's neck could not hide, and the smile in his eyes deepened.

Jiang Heng's originally calm face was a little embarrassed, and he seemed to be a little embarrassed, "Even the saint knows about it, and the ministers are incompetent, and even the women in the family can't control it." ”

Speaking of this, he seemed to remember all the absurd actions of "Wei Fu" over the years, and Jiang Heng looked a little ashamed.

Seeing this, Emperor Jingwen shook his head again and again, as if joking and sighing: "A man like Jiang Aiqing, who stands up to the sky and the earth, would be so embarrassed in the matter of the back house, it can be seen that the affairs of this world are really one thing and one thing." ”

This is clearly making fun of Jiang Heng.

Jiang Heng was ashamed and said: "Holy Lord, it is the incompetence of the ministers. ”

Emperor Jingwen waved his hand and said with a smile: "How can this be regarded as incompetent, Jiang Aiqing just doesn't want to deal with the Duchess of Zhenguo, the iron man in the drama is tender, but it is just like Jiang Aiqing." ”

As he spoke, Emperor Jing Wen also found it interesting, and laughed several times.

With a few jokes from Emperor Jingwen, this matter can be regarded as completely over.

Then, Jiang Heng seemed to have thought of something, first wrinkled his brows and wanted to say something, but only opened his mouth and quickly closed it, and so on several times, looking very embarrassed.

Although Emperor Jing Wen has passed the age of knowing the destiny of heaven this year, his eyes are still very good, and it is naturally impossible not to find the embarrassment on Jiang Heng's face.

With a slight movement in his heart, Emperor Jingwen said, "What is Aiqing's trouble?" ”

Jiang Heng hesitated again, and then gritted his teeth and said: "Back to the saint, the minister does have something important to report, but it's just ......"

Emperor Jing Wen slowly collected the smile on his face.

can make Jiang Heng hesitate like this, it can be seen that what he is about to say must be extremely important, and it also involves some people with special status, otherwise, how could Jiang Heng, as the prince of the country, have such a performance?

"Jiang Aiqing doesn't have to worry about anything, just say anything, no matter what, I trust Jiang Aiqing." Emperor Jingwen said.

Jiang Heng listened to Emperor Jingwen's words, and then he breathed a sigh of relief and said, "Back to the saint, what Weichen wants to say is related to the eldest princess of Changning. ”

Changning?

Emperor Jingwen's heart moved slightly.

"When Weichen returned to Beijing, he passed by Yongning County, rested at the post station in Yongning County for one night, and overheard the people at the post station talking about Yongning County's repeated tax increases in recent years, and the tax was thirty percent higher than the tax levied by the imperial court...... It is rumored that the people in Yongning County are complaining, and there are faint signs of being unable to suppress it" Jiang Heng said this, paused slightly, "The saint also knows that Weichen's wife and the eldest princess of Changning have always had grievances, and Weichen was only embarrassed before, and if you want to tell the saint about it, you are also afraid of ......"

Emperor Jingwen naturally understood what Jiang Heng meant.

is nothing more than afraid that he will think that Jiang Heng said the matter of Yongning County in order to help Wei Fu take revenge on the eldest princess of Changning.

"Jiang Aiqing is too worried, I know Jiang Aiqing's personality, and when it comes to such an important matter, how can Jiang Aiqing arrange it indiscriminately because of the unhappiness between women." While Emperor Jing Wen was talking, anger gradually grew in his heart.

Jiang Heng naturally can't lie about this matter, because what the hell is going on, you only need to let people go to Yongning County to find out clearly, no matter how stupid Jiang Heng is, it is impossible to make up such a lie that can be easily exposed.

So......

There is no doubt that this is the case.

At the thought that the eldest princess of Changning actually collected heavy taxes in Yongning County behind her back, Emperor Jingwen was furious.

Tax is an extremely important source of income for the imperial court, how much tax is levied by the imperial court on the people, which is carefully considered, although the world is now peaceful, but in the first two years there were two natural disasters that affected a wide range, under the natural disasters, the people's lives are naturally not good, in order not to make the people cornered, Emperor Jingwen ordered to reduce the tax twice.

Under such circumstances, the eldest princess of Changning dared to raise taxes in Yongning County without permission?

Yongning County is the fief of the eldest princess of Changning, and the tax and silver received from Yongning County do belong to the eldest princess of Changning, but it is the responsibility of the imperial court to formulate taxes, it is said that the eldest princess of Yongning cannot interfere at all, but she did it anyway, and if Jiang Heng didn't come to report, Emperor Jingwen didn't even know when he would know about it.

And the eldest princess of Changning was able to do this, and she didn't show the news at all, it is conceivable that the officials in Yongning County must all know about it, and they also helped the eldest princess of Changning to hide this matter.

Thinking of this, Emperor Jingwen launched a real anger.

As an emperor, the most taboo thing is that others want to move their own country, although the eldest princess of Yongning only added taxes in Yongning County, but for Emperor Jingwen, this is no different from moving his country.