Chapter 124: Light Punishment
Gu Mingchao almost didn't stabilize his figure, he slowly stood up with the bed in his hand, walked out with Yoda on his hand, and said in a low voice, "Do you know how his body is?"
Yoda shook her head, "Not really."
Gu Mingchao moved his ankles, "You go and allocate some of the people in the market to the pavilion where he stays, and you must ensure that he is all right."
Yoda advised him, "Childe, you don't have to give away the few people you already have." Yoda held down Gu Mingchao's hand, "Childe, do you want to, Master Hou is here, how could Lin Shuai let him come alone, there will be more or less people around him, and they must be good sons and daughters who fought on the battlefield."
Gu Mingchao glanced around, "I don't worry about the people next to me, my people are cultivated by myself little by little, they can all be trusted, I can rest assured that I can use them."
Yoda knew their current situation, and also believed that Lin Huchen would take care of Xie Song, and he would persuade him again, "Childe, the meaning of the Hou Ye and what the name is, we don't know, you are concerned now."
Gu Mingchao lowered his eyelids and said softly, "He came all the way here, and he still doesn't trust me in the end."
Yoda was shocked by this change, and didn't know what expression to make, "Childe......
Gu Mingchao rubbed his wrist and looked up at the bleakly red palace wall, "You prepare first, after he comes, no matter what method he uses, he must call two people over, he must be safe."
Yoda saw that he persuaded him not to move, so he had to say euphemistically: "Childe, you really don't need it, you can really rest assured that the people under Lin Shuai have already been laid out, and you have changed suddenly, this is ......
Gu Mingchao's eyes were lowered, and his heavy gaze cut off Yoda's words, "Why don't you want to call people over?"
Yoda explained to him with great difficulty, "Childe, the bureau has been laid out, and now the action is too obvious, now Empress Dowager Yang and Gu Changkan are competing against each other, you are the target, Hou Ye has always done things thoroughly, you really don't need to worry so much."
Gu Mingchao suppressed the uneasiness in his heart, "I want to ensure that he can't do anything at all, and even if he does, he must be able to get out of the way."
Yoda felt like he couldn't make a gesture with two more hands, "Childe, I really don't need it. Why can't Master Hou get out of the way? You should worry more about yourself. There are wolves in front of you and tigers in this palace, how can you still ......?"
Gu Mingchao raised his hand to stop him, "There is no need to say anything about this matter, you can arrange it now, and the time will be almost when he comes."
Regent's Palace, Shu Yao Yuan.
Wen Gujiang picked up the tea residue and said, "He's back?"
Ye Chao smiled and said, "Yes, the prince invites you to finish your meal."
Wen Gujiang blew the leaf residue on his hand, "He eats and eats, and he calls me over, what tricks did he think of?"
Ye Chao considered the words, "The prince and you are a serious couple, where can there be these things......" Ye Chao said that he didn't believe it, lowered his head and stopped talking.
Wen Gujiang brushed his sleeves and swept away the tea set on the desk, "Don't go."
Ye Ban breathed a sigh of relief, and ran faster than anyone else, "Yes, princess, retire from your position."
Shocked Que knelt to the side and sighed, "Princess, this is not only your favorite phoenix single fir, but also your state of mind over the years, how can you ...... it?"
Wen Gujiang looked at her frantically, "Mood? I really touched the threshold this time, and in this house, only crazy people have a way to live. You believe me, Gu Changkan, I will definitely come over later, and I look like a half-truth and half-truth......
Shocking magpie picked up the tea dregs, Wen Gujiang reached out and twisted a little, "Just put it here, good things are just spoiled to look good."
Wen Gujiang was not feeling self-pity, he just said this tea lightly, but he was shocked and full of tears.
"What do you like to spoil? Tear Shu brocade or what?" Gu Changkan wanted to tell her a joke.
Wen Gujiang glanced at him, "I'm not a compliment, what are you doing tearing cotton silk."
Gu Changkan tried his best to pretend to be the same as usual, sitting beside her, "What do you want, when have I not given it?"
Wen Gujiang pointed to the phoenix and said, "I like it
I like to spoil it, can you give it?"
Gu Changkan chuckled, "It's not a difficult thing, I'll ask someone to send it over for you to play."
Ye Chao appeared under the pavilion at the right time, "Lord Wang, Princess, the kitchen has prepared tonight's meal, ask Lord Wang, where are you eating?"
"Put it on." Gu Changkan praised Ye Mixed in his heart.
Wen Gujiang ate comfortably at this meal, but Gu Changkan was sweating profusely after eating, put down the silver chopstick, and said a little embarrassed: "I still have some folds to see, you ...... yourself."
"I can't do anything in here, you don't pretend." Wen Gujiang didn't give face at all, and intercepted his seemingly gentle words.
Gu Changkan shook his head in a panic, and walked so fast under his feet that his left and right feet almost tripped over each other.
When he returned to the study, Gu Changkan sighed, "I overestimated myself."
Ye Ban felt that there was a string in his head, and he didn't notice that this was a sharp weapon for his life, "Lord Wang, you are holding a sincere heart, naturally trembling......
Gu Changkan shook his head, "No, I'm afraid, if she finds out that I care about her, then I'll ......."
Ye Chao didn't dare to say that he looked at her today, it was simply a hairy boy who had just fallen in love, not to mention that others couldn't see it, but if Wen Gujiang who was in it didn't feel anything, then he had to wonder how Wen Gujiang had survived all these years.
Gu Changkan seemed to suddenly wake up, and said with his head propped up, "The soldiers who died in battle on the border of the Zhou State, have their relatives settled?"
Ye Chao touched his sleeve, and presented his hands to him, "It's all settled."
Gu Changkan glanced at it casually, and the moment he put it down, he raised it to his eyes, "What is this? Thank...... Xie Song has arrived?"
Ye Chao exclaimed, "Huh? Yes! This, this, this is the arrangement of the soldiers' relatives, please take a look at it." He smiled again, "Lord Wang, Xie Songzhao has indeed arrived, but he is still on the border, and he will only be able to reach the outside of Linzi City tomorrow."
Gu Changkan hissed and knocked a few times: "Tomorrow? So fast? Didn't you say it wouldn't be until the end of the month?"
Ye Chao sneered, "Lord Wang, this report below is not clear...... But Lin Huchen is indeed Chen Liu, who sent him out this morning."
Gu Changkan sighed, "Let's go, enter the palace."
Zhou Guoyandu, East Palace.
The throne is empty, and there is a crown prince and eunuch seat below the left head, and the ministers are already familiar with such a scene, and they all bow slightly to the upper left.
The crown prince glanced at the expressions on the faces of the people below, "There is a great drought this year, and I am afraid that the people will not have much harvest, so this palace has ordered Shen Yan to be appointed as the governor of the nine counties of Jingxiang, and he will go to inspect it, and he can pay a light amount as appropriate."
Xu Yanzheng thought about it, and still said, "Your Highness, the minister thinks it's inappropriate. The harvest of the people of Jingxiang is not yet known, and it may be unsafe to rush to reduce taxes now."
The prince waited for him to continue, but saw that he stopped talking, "Doctor Xu, the king is sympathetic to Li Shu, and the people will serve the king." There is a famine today, why does this palace sit idly by?"
Xu Yanzheng stepped forward and said, "Your Highness, I'm afraid you said it too early, and the harvest will not be bad after that, those Diao people ......."
"Doctor Xu, this is inappropriate." Meng sent a message to quickly stop him, "Wei Chen believes that His Highness is wise in this matter. This year's drought is in a panic among the people, and His Royal Highness is saying that the tax will be reduced, and the desire of the people in the world is in His Highness, and if the harvest is good and slightly reduced, the people will definitely ......." z.br>
Xu Yanzheng refused to let him go at all, arguing with reason, "Nonsense! Your Highness, you are merciful and obedient, this is true, but I have been fighting for many years, and the treasury is empty, and I am counting on this autumn harvest to fill it!"
Qi Xin frowned habitually, "Doctor Xu, my country didn't lose any money and food in the first war, how can it be said that the war caused the treasury to be empty?"
"Qi advises, why don't you eat minced meat! You only saw the victory of Wata, and forgot that the Duke of Wuning defended the northern frontier for half his life, the stalemate between Chen Liu and Chen Guo, and the confrontation between Fuyang and the southern country, these places, they have their own victories and defeats, but the loss of money and food is huge." Xu Yanzheng swallowed his saliva and continued, "Your Highness, not increasing taxes is already lenient, and tax reductions are absolutely unacceptable!"
The prince listened to their quarrel for a long time, grasped the thoughts in everyone's hearts, and gently whispered to the hundred officials: "This palace has made up its mind, this year's drought has made the people's hard work, and the palace has taken pity on their hard work, and has reduced the tax by 20% this year. The extravagance in the palace has been around for a long time, so I will take this opportunity to put it in order."
When it came to rectification, the prince was surprised to see the painful expressions on the faces of many people, and the prince said in a deep voice, "Transporting the saved money and silk to the frontier, you must not starve the soldiers in the cold."
The words have come to this point, what else does everyone not understand, this is to find a way to rule the extravagance in Yandu.
When Qi Xinzhi and Xu Yanzheng walked out of Hanyuan Palace, they couldn't help but look at the sky, and Qi Xinzhi sighed, "The prince is beginning to show his edge."
Xu Yanzheng narrowed his eyes, "I have the feeling of Emperor Zhaolie."
Qi Xinzhi lowered his head and shook it, "Kind, virtuous ......."
As soon as the prince returned to the study, he saw someone reading a book inside, and shouted tentatively, "Qi Shuying."
"What?" Qi Shuying reluctantly replied, her head still buried in the book, obviously she liked this book very much.
The prince smiled slightly and walked to the side and sat down, beckoned Wan Shen to come over, and whispered in his ear, "Bring the fold, I'll look at it here."
Wan Shen was expressionless, kept lowering his eyelids, hugged the fold to the prince, and brought him a cup of tea by the way.
At the end of June, the thick colors of the dusk faded, and they folded in through the window and laid a shallow layer.
"What a good book!" Qi Shuying couldn't help but close her eyes and sighed, "Guiguzi...... If people don't read Guiguzi, they will live in vain."
The prince echoed, "It is indeed a good book, and everything in life and everything in the world is in it."
Qi Shuying looked at the prince at his side, and said in amazement, "Your Highness...... Concubine ......"
The prince said indifferently, "Isn't Fang Cai very experienced?"
Qi Shuying blinked, "The concubine just had a chance to see this book, and she lost her mind."
The prince smiled dumbly, "You didn't read these books when you were at home?"
Qi Shuying's eyes drooped, "No, what women have learned in their lives is just some privet rings, no matter how much, it's just a book."
The prince was slightly stunned, he knew that women were in a difficult situation and had been confined to the Quartet Mansion all their lives, but he never thought that they couldn't even study.
Suddenly, he remembered Yun Wan, when he was young, the grandmother of the inner palace always told the queen mother that she was stubborn and refused to study hard.
Is that because this book is not meant to be read?
Seeing that he was silent, Qi Shuying kowtowed and said, "Your Highness, rest assured, the concubine will never ...... in the future."
"You can watch it if you want, and take it back to see whatever you like."
Qi Shuying was stunned in place, not knowing what year it was.
Note: Emperor Zhaolie: Liu Bei