Chapter Seventy-Three: Conspiracy I
The door of the Water God Palace on the second floor suddenly opened, and Shui Linglan Ruo walked out of the Water God Palace with the Water Spirit Bead, and with a flash of inspiration, she left the divine space in the sky???? Huo Ran?text?? w?w?w?.?
"Brother Yun, are you okay?"
Lan Ruo picked up the water spirit bead and raised it above his head, a crystal stream of water slowly injected into Yunxiao's body from the water spirit bead, at this moment, Yunxiao seemed to be dreaming, dreaming that his mother was by his side, singing beautiful nursery rhymes for him.
In the Wood God Palace, an emerald green sword in the wood spirit bead shimmered, and a green dragon on the sword body was alive and unstable, swallowing clouds and spitting mist, showing great powers, and three big characters were engraved on the spine of the sword.
In the Golden Shrine, a pair of stubborn stones faintly glowed with silver light from the inside, and a pair of white tigers with ribbed wings were faintly visible in the light. This pair of stubborn stones echo each other around the golden spirit beads, one will become larger, the other will become smaller.
In the Earth God Palace, under a Wanzhang mountain peak in the yellow Earth Spirit Bead, a golden and silver monster between the giant ape and the bear lifted the Wanzhang Mountain Peak with all its strength, and as it lifted the Wanzhang Mountain Peak by a point every time, the golden retriever on its body became more.
Originally, the Yin Yang Reincarnation Divine Tree occupied all of the divine space in the clouds, but with the appearance of four Five Elements Divine Palace, the entire space became much larger, with the Yin and Yang Reincarnation Divine Tree as the core, and the Rainbow Tree, the Spirit Tree, and the Medicine King Tree surrounded it.
The True Spirit Treasure Ding hangs above the crown of the Yin Yang Reincarnation Divine Tree, swaying out the Dao Xia Light in all directions, and the twelve-story Demon Refining Tower is suspended on the side of the canopy of the Yin Yang Reincarnation Divine Tree, forming a strange connection with the Shura Sword in the True Spirit Treasure Ding.
Yunxiao slept very sweetly, and woke up after sleeping for three days, in the three days that he was asleep, the entire Nanyang City was a sensation, just when many officials thought that Shizi Yunxiao wanted to fall into a coma like before, some relevant officials were summoned to Zhennan Wangxinggong.
In these three days, the most anxious is Princess Anle, she is worried that her nephew will not wake up, and her son will be hopeless to resurrect, fortunately, early this morning, Yunxiao came to the door in person.
"Xiao'er, you're scared to death Auntie, if you really have something, Auntie really doesn't know how to bring Yi'er back to life!"
"Auntie, don't worry, after three months, I will naturally give you a lively son, but I want him to join the army with me!"
"No problem, let him suffer some hardships in the army, save him from doing anything wrong!"
After Yunxiao met his aunt, he came to the main hall in the palace, and Han Xin, who got the news, was waiting here early.
"Han Xin has seen His Royal Highness the Prince, His Royal Highness the Prince, have you been practicing in retreat for the past three days?"
"Why, are you worried that this son will never wake up again, as rumored?"
"Exactly, His Royal Highness is related to the stability of the political situation of the Great Jin Dynasty, and recently it has been rumored that Zhao Wei seems to have ended a long period of military encounters and is ready to shake hands and make peace, and these two countries seem to be interested in the eastward expedition to our Great Jin!"
When Han Xin said this, his face was slightly red, and when Yunxiao saw Han Xin like this, he smiled and said:
"The safety of this son is also related to your future, and your ******, right, if the Gu family can't do anything in the past three days!"
"Back to His Royal Highness, the Gu family sent someone to the Cheng family today to prepare to forcibly marry Hui'er!"
"Little Gu family, I really don't know whether to live or die, this son is thinking about how to annex the Gu family, so he sent it to the door!"
When Han Xin heard that Yunxiao was going to annex the Gu family, he didn't know where to start, so he asked puzzledly:
"Your Royal Highness, although the Gu family is also a big family, it is just a wealthy merchant in Yingzhou, why would His Highness say this?"
Yunxiao couldn't say something to Han Xinming at this time, when he woke up in the early hours of this morning, the Yuan Shen went out of his body, traveled all over Yingzhou, and accidentally learned about an unknown secret of the Gu family.
"The Gu family controls the largest mines in Yingzhou and Xinzhou, which makes this prince very uneasy, in the future, all mines such as large iron mines must be in the hands of the royal government!"
Although Han Xin knew that if Yunxiao eliminated the Gu family, it would undoubtedly be the most beneficial to his marriage with Hui'er, but this matter involved many things, especially the Gu family's close relationship with many ministers of the imperial court over the years, and he was worried that if Shizi Yunxiao acted rashly, it would bring unnecessary trouble to the Zhennan Palace.
"Your Royal Highness, if you rashly deal with the Gu family without a righteous and bright reason, I am afraid that it will arouse the opposition of the nobles!"
"Aristocrats!"
Yunxiao couldn't help but feel a little disgusted when he heard this word, over the years, the nobles of the Great Jin Dynasty have become a serious burden on the country, these nobles not only have a certain number of private soldiers, but more importantly, these nobles enjoy the privilege of exemption from labor and taxes. As a result, a large number of people joined the aristocratic group in order to avoid labor and taxes, so that the Great Jin Dynasty had the largest population among all countries, but the taxes were the lowest in all countries.
In order to maintain the number and training of the army over the years, Wang Yunzhong of Zhennan has been unable to obtain enough food and salary from the imperial court, and the missing part has become a heavy burden on the states under the rule of this prince.
Taking Jinzhou and Southern Jinzhou as examples, in recent years, not only because of their wealth, they had to pay a large amount of taxes to the imperial court, but also had to afford part of the military expenses of the various armies under the command of the Zhennan Wangfu, which had caused the people of these two states to complain.
"This son plans to gradually change the aristocratic system of the states under his father's rule, I don't know what Han Xin thinks about this!"
Han Xin thought about it for a while, and was about to tell Shizi Yunxiao his opinion on this matter, when a guard came to tell him that the relevant officials of Nanyang City had gathered.
"Han Xin, you sort out a procedure for this matter, and this prince will discuss it in detail with you later!"
"Yes, Your Highness!"
As the relevant officials at all levels of Nanyang City walked to the main hall of the palace, the rumors about the son of the prince falling ill again were self-defeating.
"Ladies and gentlemen, this prince summoned everyone this time, mainly to tell you that the former king of Lu was corrupt and perverted the law and had been killed by this son;
Yunxiao said, suddenly his face became very cold, and his tone became stern: "What this prince wants to tell you today is that if such a thing happens again, it will be severely punished and will not be forgiven!
"The ministers must serve the court and strictly control their families!"
Just when you thought that today's events were like this, suddenly the prince Yunxiao on the throne of the main hall spoke again:
"Ladies and gentlemen, a few days ago, Han Xin, a retainer of this Shizi, privately arrested King Nalu, and this Shizi hereby stated that Han Xin is not pretending to be the will of this Shizi, but that this Shizi is a monk, although he does not dare to say that it is a thousand miles away, it is difficult for this Shizi to be a hundred miles away!"
As soon as you heard what the prince said this, you immediately understood that it was just a statement that His Royal Highness wanted to open up for Han Xin, but on the other hand, all the adults also knew that His Royal Highness the prince on the throne was indeed a powerful monk.
"However, this prince will also punish Han Xin today, in the process of announcing King Lu, he did make mistakes, so he will punish Han Xin with a hundred court rods with this rod!"
With the door of the main hall, the guards stepped forward, held Han Xin down, and began to execute, crackling and beating after a while, Han Xin was covered in blood and was helped in by the guards, gritting his teeth and stiffening.
"Five Elements Dao Method, Water Spirit Mantra, Healing Technique!"
As Yunxiao released a blue aura, Han Xin's injuries recovered in the blink of an eye, and all the adults present were stunned, and no one doubted the words of His Royal Highness the Prince anymore.
After the adults retired, Yuguan withdrew, and an hour later, all the heads of the Gu family and the Cheng family were summoned to the palace. The head of the Gu family was about forty years old, fair-skinned, very wealthy, of medium height, with a hypocritical smile, wearing a blue brocade robe, and a white jade wrench on the thumb of his right hand.
The head of the Cheng family stood in the lower hand of the head of the Gu family, his face was a little pale, with an anxious expression, he was wearing a blue brocade robe, and a sword more than three feet long was hanging from his waist.
"Gu Cheng, Cheng Ze, meet His Royal Highness!"
Gu Cheng and Cheng Ze are neither nobles nor meritorious people, so when they see the prince Yunxiao, they must bow three times and bow nine times.
"Two of you, please, today this prince invites two of you to come, there are two things to discuss with you!"
"Your Royal Highness, I don't know what you want to do, as long as Gu can do it, you must do your best!" Although Gu Cheng replied with a smile on his face, he didn't take Yunxiao's words as the same thing in his heart.
"This prince wants the Gu family to offer the mines of Yingzhou and Xinzhou with both hands!"
"What?" When Gu Cheng heard Shizi Yunxiao's words, his face suddenly changed greatly, and he couldn't say a word in a daze.
"Meng Tong, search his body immediately, I think soon the Gu family master will agree to this Shizi's proposal!"
While Yunxiao ordered Meng Tong to make a move, he secretly transmitted a message to Meng Tong and asked him to bring Gu Cheng's wrench. Finally, Gu Cheng saw Meng Tong take off his wrench, and his face suddenly turned ashen, knowing that everything was over.
Yunxiao took the wrench from Meng Tong's hand, and with a slight force on his fingers, the wrench suddenly cracked from the middle, and a scroll as thin as a cicada's wings fell out.
"Master Gu, what's going on?"
"The grass people are guilty, ask His Royal Highness the Prince for mercy!"
Gu Cheng didn't expect His Royal Highness the Prince to find the secret in the wrench so easily, and immediately knelt down in panic and begged for mercy. With a hint of luck, Gu Cheng still wanted to be able to survive.
"Come on, pass on the word of the prince, and immediately detain the Gu family and others, and then sentence them after everything is understood!"
After Yunxiao made the verdict against the Gu family, the 3,000 forbidden troops secretly dispatched by Yue Zhonglin, the commander of the forbidden army, surrounded the Gu family's residences, shops, and mines outside the city in Nanyang City;
"Cheng Ze, this son is in charge of marrying your daughter to Han Xin, are you willing!"
"This!" Speaking from the heart, Cheng Ze didn't look down on Han Xin at all from his heart, in fact, the reason was very simple, Cheng Ze, who was not born in the aristocracy, had relied on his family's great business over the years and cultivated a lot of aristocratic style, so he looked down on Han Xin, who was born in a declining aristocracy, and Han Xin himself was a cousin in his restaurant.
"Well, Cheng Ze, are you really unwilling!"
"The grass people don't want to!" Although Cheng Ze is not very good, he also has a bit of backbone, and he said what he meant.
"Haha, good, happy!"
Yunxiao got up from the throne, came to Cheng Ze, and said with a smile:
"This son originally didn't like the difficulties of strong people, come, please Princess Anle and take Cheng Hui to the palace!"
After Princess Anle went to the palace, she was followed by Cheng Hui, Cheng Hui originally heard her father's answer, and couldn't help but be very sad, but when she heard that Princess Anle wanted to accept her as a righteous daughter and personally officiate her marriage, she burst into tears and laughed.
"Cheng Ze, go down to the palace, from now on, Cheng Hui is no longer your daughter, but the righteous daughter of Princess Anle, and her affairs have nothing to do with you from now on. In addition, the Inviting Moon Restaurant has been sealed, what have you done, you know in your heart, if it weren't for Han Xin and Hui'er's face, this Shizi would definitely want your head to fall to the ground today!"
After listening to the words of Shizi Yunxiao, Cheng Ze was immediately frightened, although the Yueyue Restaurant is the property of the Cheng family, in fact, the Gu family accounts for a large share, and secretly does some shady transactions, so Yunxiao has this to say.
What Cheng Ze didn't expect was that ten years later, the Cheng family got into a big trouble and almost broke the family, if it weren't for the mediation of Han Xin and his wife, who had been named the king of Chu, the Cheng family would have disappeared completely. Since then, Cheng Ze has realized that Shizi Yunxiao valued Han Xin for foresight and regretted what he had done at the beginning.
"Hui'er, from today onwards, you are the daughter of Princess Ben, and you will marry Han Xin in three days!"
Princess An Le said, turned to look at Han Xin, and suddenly said coldly to Han Xin:
"Han Xin, this princess wants you to take out 100,000 taels of silver as a dowry within three days, otherwise your marriage with Hui'er will be mention-free, and this princess will marry Hui'er to the eighth prince at that time!"
There was a sudden silence in the main hall, and the eighth prince suddenly saw his aunt, squeezed his eyes at him, suddenly understood, walked up to Hui'er and said:
"Miss Hui'er, this prince has not yet married, if Han Xin can't get a dowry of 100,000 taels of silver, this prince will marry Miss Hui'er to be my wife!"
In fact, all this is what Yunxiao and her aunt meant, they are worried that Hui'er will be poor and love rich, after all, the current status of the Cheng family is much stronger than that of Han Xin, a declining nobleman in Korea.
"Eighth Prince, thank you for your kindness, if Han Xin can't achieve his mother's wishes, Hui'er would rather die!"
When Han Xin heard Hui'er's decisive words, his heart was immediately moved, he walked up to Hui'er and took Hui'er's hand and said:
"Hui'er, thanks to your love, although the letter is in the middle of the road, it is not difficult for Han to be a mere 100,000 taels of silver, even if it is a million taels of silver, it is just easy for Han!" (To be continued.) )