"We need your help too." The second prince suddenly looked at Qingdi, and said such a sentence in a resolute tone.

Qingdi just replied: "If you need me, I will naturally be obligated to help you as much as I can." ”

"However, I always feel that you may leave us at any time, and at that time, you will be a formidable enemy." The second prince looked directly into Qingdi's eyes and said, "You said that you and Lu Gongzi already have a husband and wife, and you have a daughter, so you don't want to marry me, nor do you want to marry the third brother, but we don't know what else can keep you except for the promise of marriage and the queen's position." ”

Qingdi rolled her eyes silently, and finally said it, knowing that this person kept saying that he wanted to marry her was not true love, but just to imprison her with some relationships. And the second prince's idea is obviously problematic, as if she should have stayed to help them. Not to mention that she is not Chu Yaocen at all, and has nothing to do with the royal family of Wu State, even if she really has a relationship with them, just like Yaocen said, he has been in Li Country for so long, and he has no relationship with them. Help them, they should be grateful, and if they don't, they shouldn't have any complaints. Now I still want to keep her by all means, without asking her if she wants to, it's really enough.

The second prince saw that Qingdi had not spoken for a long time, and he also felt that he seemed to be angry when he spoke, so he hurriedly asked, "Did I offend you?" If so, you don't have to take my word to heart. ”

Qingdi chuckled, shook his head and said, "No, I won't take it to heart." ”

The second prince breathed a sigh of relief when he heard her say that she was not angry, but suddenly felt a little lost...... She wouldn't take it to heart, so why did he bother talking to him?

However, the second prince did not get any answer from Qingdi's mouth after all. After the emperor was buried in the imperial mausoleum, the three princes ascended the throne logically, and it took half a month to arrest all the subordinates who were left in Wu State, and did not blatantly kill them, but used the "accident" that was easy to occur in Wu State, the pest of snakes and insects, so that they fell ill and died one by one. The third prince has always been subtle and cautious, and not too many people even know about this matter.

Wu Guo seemed to be calm again, Bei Zhai categorically would not come over when facing the threat of Li Guo, and they were not threatened by anything for the escape.

On the morning of this day, the new emperor was listening to the ministers in the main hall, and suddenly, someone came in and reported: "Zhang Xiuhe asked to see him, saying that he had developed a good medicine for the disease of insects and Gu, and he wanted to present it to His Majesty." ”

As soon as they heard that there was a medicine to treat insect disease, the eyes of the new emperor and many ministers lit up, and the new emperor immediately stood up and wanted people to go out and invite Zhang Xiuhe in, but the second prince spoke in time: "Your Majesty, think about it carefully, that is Zhang Xiuhe." ”

The new emperor calmed down again. Before the old emperor died, he once explained to the queen that he must solve this Zhang Xiuhe. They all understand what this "settlement" means. But the queen couldn't catch Zhang Xiuhe's handle for a while, and she couldn't solve him, so she explained to the second prince and the new emperor, asking them not to let Zhang Xiuhe get in touch with too much government affairs.

The new emperor thought that it might be that the first emperor and his second brother were still blaming the third prince for the death of the crown prince, but he never thought so, he felt that Zhang Xiuhe was not wrong, but he was a little too enthusiastic.

What's more, today's incident is not a matter of government affairs, right? The insect disease has harmed the people of Wu for hundreds of years, and it is hated by any Wu people, and now since Zhang Xiuhe has a prescription, why not let it be used? If Fang Zi is really useful, but wasted because of him, then he will be a sinner in the Wu Kingdom.

The new emperor pondered for a moment, then raised his hand and said, "Go and bring Zhang Xiuhe up." ”

When the second prince heard this, he wrinkled his eyebrows slightly, but he couldn't stop it. His current identity is very embarrassing, as long as he goes against the new emperor's will in the slightest, it may be understood that he has the intention of rebellion.

Zhang Xiuhe came in, knelt down in front of the new emperor, made a big salute, and told him that he had a good medicine to cure the disease of worms.

The new emperor got him up and asked, "Are you sure this medicine really works?" If it is harmful to the people's health, or if it has no curative effect, you are guilty of deception, and I will deal with it according to the law. ”

Zhang Xiuhe sneered in his heart, it is estimated that the royal family of Wu Kingdom now wants to dispose of him at every opportunity.

He still had a respectful expression on his face, and said: "Back to Your Majesty, I have already tested this medicine on both animals and humans, and the animals are immediately getting better. But at that time, I didn't come to tell Your Majesty immediately, for fear that there would be any bad effects later, so after waiting for half a month, I found that the person did not show any signs of regeneration, and now he has become vigorous, so I came to offer the medicine to Your Majesty. ”

The new emperor glanced at the second prince below, didn't immediately believe him, and said, "You bring the patient you treated before to show me." ”

"It's already outside." Zhang Xiuhe said a word, and someone went out to bring the patient in.

The man seemed to be just an honest peasant, kneeling under the main hall, the new emperor asked him to speak, and he said: "That medicine is really useful, Caomin was sick more than ten years ago, and has been tortured, and now he is finally cured, thank you for the blessing of the saint, thank you for the elixir of Lord Zhang." ”

After hearing this, the new emperor believed Zhang Xiuhe's words and said happily: "Since this is the case, then quickly develop a large number of this medicine and distribute it to all patients." ”

"Yes." Zhang Xiuhe agreed, and planned to retire, without the slightest expectation of a reward or anything. But as the previous emperor said at the time, Zhang Xiuhe had the intention of interfering in the government early on, and he also made friends with a lot of ministers in the court, and these ministers also understood that Zhang Xiuhe actually wanted to enter the court as an official, and now with such a great merit, some of them seized this opportunity and came out to speak: "Your Majesty, Zhang Xiuhe saved the people of Wu and caused a big trouble in Wu Guo's heart, and he should be rewarded for his meritorious deeds." ”

As soon as these words were spoken, many people responded one after another.

The second prince frowned lightly in the audience, and immediately said: "Your Majesty, the ministers are right, such a great merit, it is indeed unreasonable not to reward it, and Zhang Xiuhe is also our royal heir, but because he has always been uninterested in court politics, he chose to do business." The minister suggested that His Majesty might as well canonize Zhang Xiuhe as the king of Shenjiang, and divide Zhang Xiuhe to Shenjiang, which is not only the place where hundreds of rivers meet the sea, but also the place where our Wu country and Neon and other places trade and enter the customs. ”

This idea is really good, since ancient times, the emperor wanted to drive away his relatives who would threaten his status, and he used the trick of sealing and dividing. However, the entire territory of Wu is not very large, and it can't be like Li Guo, where a prince can be assigned to southern Xinjiang, so it will take him two or three months to go back and forth, and it is estimated that he will have to go for half a year if he is not in a hurry. Although Shenjiang is a remote and relatively backward place in the country of Li, it is actually not far from Jianye. That's no way, who made Wu Guoxiao.

The new emperor nodded, and canonized Zhang Xiuhe according to the proposal of the second prince, and now he is the king of Shenjiang.

Zhang Xiuhe didn't say anything, thanked the new emperor, and then retired and left.

Out of the main hall, he laughed, in fact, he had expected the new emperor to have such a move, but it was not in the way, it was a little farther away, which was more conducive to the development of the next plan.

Qingdi is now the new emperor's private adviser, and many people don't know that Qingdi has made a lot of decisions for this Wu country. Chu Yaocen took advantage of Qingdi's advantage and had his and Qingdi's courtyard in the palace of Wu Guo, and now he is bored raising flowers. The flowers and plants of Wu are indeed beautiful, as if this watery Jianghuai can grow any strange flowers and plants, and some of them can't even be named. Just when he was holding a small shovel to loosen the soil for Hua, Zhang Xiuhe's people came over to inform him, saying that he wanted to develop a large number of that kind of medicine, which could really cure the disease of insects.

Chu Yaocen threw down the shovel in his hand, stood up and hammered his back, and went to get down to business.

Chu Yaocen's medicine is not complicated, and it doesn't require a lot of money, and the herbs used are all local herbs. It's just that because the amount of demand is large, there are more people who need it. Zhang Xiuhe gave Chu Yaocen the manpower he needed, and within three days, they had prepared a sufficient amount of medicine.

Soon, Wu Guo was suffering from the disease of worms, and those who had endured the pain for several years or even more were relieved overnight. The whole country remembered the name Zhang Xiuhe, and after he arrived in Shenjiang, all the local people came out of their homes and took him to his house from the boundary of Shenjiang. This mansion has also been collectively repaired by the people of Shenjiang, and the degree of refinement is no less than his mansion in Jianye.

Only then did the new emperor realize that he had buried a huge hidden danger for the sake of the people.

In the imperial study, the second prince said with a straight face: "Third brother, I said that day, that person is Zhang Xiuhe, my father told him before his death, he must be solved, and the queen mother also said, even if he can't find an excuse to solve Zhang Xiuhe, he must not be allowed to interfere in the government, and now he has made such a great merit, he is even more loved than you, the new emperor, in the mouth of the people, think about it, if he rebels, what should we do?" ”

The third prince wrinkled his brows and said, "Then in order to ensure the stability of my throne, do I ignore the comfort of the people, knowing that there is a way to save them, but I don't save them?" ”

"But that's what you want to see now? Zhang Xiuhe is now a god in the eyes of Wu people, do you think this is good? The second prince clenched his fists, his angry muscles exposed, and said, "You should kill him!" As early as when he took the initiative to see Tokhtar, I knew that this kind of person was definitely not a good thing! ”

"Alright, don't make any noise!" After all kinds of things, the queen's hair has turned a lot gray, and she coughed heavily twice after she finished speaking.