Domineering husband

Chapter 149

    When Sheng Hong lamented that the emperor was suffering, the fifth prince, who was kneeling in front of the royal case, finally recovered from the shock.

"Li Qiao donated 220,000 taels of silver to the four prefectures that were hit by the flood?"

He yelled in disbelief.

Sheng Hong glanced at him and saw that his mouth was open, and he was furious immediately. They were all born by the same father, but how stupid this fifth child is!

"Yes, that's why I sent your seventh brother to spend all of Li Aiqing's money on the common people." The

fifth prince: "..."

The balls of his staring eyes almost fell out.

The mouth also opens and closes, wanting to shout is impossible, ridiculous.

That's not twenty-two taels, it's two hundred and twenty thousand taels, Li Qiao actually donated it directly?

He is going to hate the rich!

"Why are you so surprised? What you can't do doesn't mean Li Aiqing can't do it. Since he reformed, how much profit has he given to his fellow villagers?" "How much profit has he given to me?

"

"He donated more than two hundred and twenty thousand taels of silver!"

Sheng Hong said angrily.

The fifth prince: "..."

He turned his head and gave Li Qiao a look, his hands hanging by his sides clenched into fists.

He wants silver, but can't earn it.

Li Qiao has the ability to collect money, but he just throws money around like a boy who spreads money.

He's mad at him!

"Why are you staring at Li Aiqing? Look at your worthless energy, but you only see two hundred and twenty thousand taels of silver, and you see it?"

Sheng Hong couldn't help but pat the table, so as to bring the fifth prince's attention back: " You didn't hear a word of the last sentence I just told you to do as I asked you." "

With your temperament, how can you stand up to the great prosperity? As we all know, it's me and your grandfather Taking money to support the officials of Dasheng, plus the expenses for raising the imperial army and local garrisons, together, you have to spend hundreds of millions of taels of silver every year." "

You are even paying attention to two hundred and twenty thousand taels of silver now. If you were the emperor, would you be willing to pay so much money to support officials and soldiers every year?" "

Besides, you said you didn't know that the British Duke had killed someone, so you should have guessed that his money came from a wrong source, right?"

" You can spend money that comes from bad sources with peace of mind, then if you become the emperor in the future, do you want to treat the national treasury as your own private treasury?" The

fifth prince: "..."

He stared at Sheng Hong dumbfounded, his mind It's a mess, what does his father mean by these words?

Is it disappointing him so much that he wants to kick him out completely?

As soon as this idea came out, great anger and fear enveloped him.

But now is not the time to think about this matter. Facing Sheng Hong's disappointed and angry eyes, he quickly shook his head: "Father, my son just shocked Mr. Li's courage, and has no other meaning!" "And

you My son dare not admit what he said just now, officials and soldiers are the foundation of Dasheng, how can my son be stingy?"

"There is also the use of the state treasury as a private treasury. People all over the world are watching. No matter what, my son can't do such a scandal." "My son didn't

do anything. You have already presupposed what your son will do in the future. What is wrong with your son?" It's too unfair."

At the end of the defense, his anger and fear had turned into grievances.

Listen, is this what a father can say to his son?

The fifth prince's argument really hit the point. Sheng Hong is a reasonable emperor, and his words just now wronged someone. Now he saw the grievance on the fifth prince's face, and his fatherly heart suddenly broke out.

He became annoyed, what he said just now was indeed too much.

Sighing, he stopped cursing: "Ang'er, then I take back what I said just now. You didn't do anything. I really can't wrong you.

" Just like Xiao Qi, let me know that you are reliable, stable, and able to entrust you with heavy burdens, understand?"

Li Qiao: "..."

Sheng Hong, the emperor, is really unexpected.

Many parents would not admit their mistakes to their children even if they did something wrong, let alone Sheng Hong is an emperor.

It's so rare.

He quietly went to look at the fifth prince who was kneeling beside him.

The fifth prince pursed his lips, and hummed, his face was still aggrieved.

"I know what you guys are thinking, and I also tell you clearly that it was not easy for your grandpa to conquer the world. You can also see how busy you are every day after taking on this burden."

"So, if I pass on the throne in the future, I will definitely find an heir who can take on the heavy burden of Dasheng." "I will

explain the conditions clearly to you brothers, and you can figure it out yourself."

Sheng Hong raised his head as he said . Hand, signaled the fifth prince to get up: "Tomorrow at least ten thousand taels of silver will be brought here. You must be responsible for those innocent people." "

Yes, my son has written it down.

" It seemed that he had listened to Sheng Hong's words in his heart.

"Also, Li Aiqing is our Dasheng's pocketbook and our Dasheng's pillar, so don't make things difficult for him in the future." "The

grievances between him and the Lu family all started because of Lu Wenrong. Forced to fight back."

At this point, Sheng Hong stood up, walked around the imperial case a few steps, came to the fifth prince, raised his hand and patted the fifth prince's shoulder lightly, and said earnestly: "Ang'er, what about being an emperor?" , dealing with various disputes every day. Anyone who has been bullied hopes that I can give them justice. Therefore, the emperor must be impartial, hold up the mirror, and clearly distinguish rewards and punishments." "If the emperor fails the people's desire, the

consequences It is very serious, no matter who has been wronged, there will be resentment in his heart. Therefore, I let Xiao Qi go to the Ministry of Punishment in order to return justice." "Especially those who are outstanding and have the

ability People, they can't be wronged, they can't be wronged, they can't be humiliated." "

After you go back, take a good look at the grievances between the Lu family and Li Aiqing. If you can get over the step of favoritism, then you have met my most basic requirements. . "

This kind of earnest instruction can be described as open and honest, breaking apart and crushing hands and exhorting, every word contains earnest expectations.

Even Li Qiao was a little moved by his love for his son.

At the same time, he was a little ashamed, Jing Tianweidi used this word to praise him, he deserved it.

He just lived one more life, has more knowledge, has more skills, and has a supernatural power.

But before he crossed over, Dasheng was already a paradise.

If we talk about heaven and earth, it must be Sheng Hong, Sheng Jun and his son.

He's not yet in the queue.

However, he felt a little complicated.

Sheng Hong also knew that unfair punishment would make people resentful, but last time he only imprisoned the fifth prince for a month.

Moreover, did the father and son of Sheng Hong and Sheng Jun know what the British Duke had done over the years?

The fifth prince could point at his nose and call him a murderer, but the fifth prince dared not say a word about the person who really indulged the Duke of England.

Sheng Hong himself has not completely crossed the door of favoritism.

However, Sheng Hong is an emperor, and it is a miracle that an emperor who has the power to kill people in the world and can do whatever he wants can do this.

Sheng Hong may not have the ability to control himself.

But his self-control ability is perfectly close to that of a saint.

He was so stupid that he was about to say nothing about Xu Ying's punishment for being framed.

Just when Li Qiao's thoughts were running away, the fifth prince beside him also showed a moved expression: "Son, I will follow my father's teachings, and I will definitely think about it after I go back." "Okay, I'm waiting to see

your future performance."

Sheng Hong patted the fifth prince's shoulder again as he spoke, his face and tone were full of kindness.

He believed that his heart-to-heart point would definitely move his five sons and correct them.

Don't you want to be a prince?

He once again emphasized in person what to do, as long as he is not a fool, he will definitely understand.

After the fifth prince went down, he looked at Li Qiao: "Li Aiqing, you will bring the money here tomorrow too." "

Yes." Li Qiao responded, and quickly thanked him.

Sheng Hong specially called him back to the palace just to mediate the dispute between him and the fifth prince, how could he not be grateful for that.

At least, when he himself was wronged, Sheng Hong always protected him.

It is the luck of the common people, and also his luck, to have such a wise king in Dasheng.

Hmm... this time he will donate one hundred thousand taels of silver.

According to statistics, in the past four months, the Lu family's underground gambling workshop killed more than 130 people, and also broke up some families.

The statistics of human life have come out, and some families who did not die but sold their wives and daughters and separated their wives and children have not yet been fully counted, so I will donate more money first.

He and Brother Zhu donated 100,000 taels, plus the fifth prince's 10,000 taels. Sheng Hong used Lu's property as compensation, which would definitely not be less than the fifth prince's.

So, add up a total of 120,000 taels of silver.

If it is counted on the basis of five hundred households, that one household can get two hundred and forty taels of silver.

Not too much, but not too little.

After leaving the palace, it was time to get off work before returning to the Hanlin Academy to warm up my buttocks.

Tao Zhu didn't come to pick him up today, only Li Dao came. Back home, Li Xiaorui was playing with a feather shuttlecock.

Of course, there was a rope tied to the feather shuttlecock, and he held the rope with his little hands, so that he could kick the shuttlecock one by one.

The two cubs are also holding a smaller chicken feather shuttlecock in their small hands. They can only walk on two feet now. If they raise one foot to kick the shuttlecock, their small bodies will not be able to maintain their balance and will fall down.

So the two of them didn't kick, just grabbed the shuttlecock and threw it around.

Simple little game, but a lot of fun for three people to play.

Seeing Li Qiao came back, Li Xiaorui ran over and hugged Li Qiao's leg, and let Li Qiao play shuttlecock with him.

His father played well, but it's a pity that his father had to cook dinner and didn't have time to play with him.

Li Qiao had already played a lot of small games with Li Xiaorui, and naturally he was not missing a shuttlecock kick. He led the three chubby kids to play until dinner was ready, and then he stopped.

Before going to bed, lying on the kang, he told Tao Zhu what happened in the palace today.

When Tao Zhu heard this, he was anxious, afraid and rejoicing.

The fifth prince actually made a move on Li Qiao?

shameless!

Isn't it because of his status as a prince? If Li Qiao fought back, he would surely knock this shameless villain unconscious with one punch.

Damn it!

Fortunately, the Holy Majesty was just and did not spoil his own son blindly.

He lay on Li Qiao's body, held Li Qiao's cheeks and kissed her cheeks several times. Today Li Qiao was wronged.

There are too many bad guys, they always bully Li Qiao!

"Let's donate 100,000 taels, and we will share the worries of the Holy One. Moreover, we have given more money, and those innocent family members can get more." The fifth prince must only donate 10,000 taels, he is still a prince, he can kill him

.

No, the Holy Majesty has said that the fifth prince is responsible for this matter, so he must pray carefully later, those who lost their lives should go to the fifth prince and the Lu family, but never come to Li Qiao.

Li Qiao really didn't know that the Lu family was so cowardly!

Li Qiao didn't know what was going on in Tao Zhu's mind. Hearing the number in Tao Zhu's mouth, he immediately smiled and said, "We have a good understanding, and I also want to donate one hundred thousand taels." However, seeing the pain on Tao Zhu's face

, He said again: "Don't worry about me, I'm smart. Although I can't fight back, I

can run." place."

Tao Zhu searched for the experience gained from the novels, and exhorted with a serious face.

In the storybook novels, the wells and ponds in the palace are not clean, and they are all stained with human life.

There are also various corners, people suddenly appear to put ropes around their necks, and they can easily strangle people to death!

The more he searched, the more worried he became. He couldn't help stretching out his hands to hold Li Qiao's cheeks, and seriously emphasized: "Try to go with acquaintances, go to places where the imperial guards are patrolling, and don't go to places where there are few people." "Okay, listen to Brother Zhu

. of."

Li Qiao also made a serious look, agreed with a serious face, and repeated what Brother Zhu said just now.

Brother Zhu can't be worried all day long.

Only then was Tao Zhu satisfied, and he kissed Li Qiao on the lips again, and then lay down in Li Qiao's arms as usual: "Go to sleep, and get the bank notes from the cash box when you get up tomorrow morning."

"Huh?" Li Qiao was a little surprised: "It's still early." It's

really early, it's only nine o'clock, since I didn't have a fight with Tao Zhu today.

"It's getting late, these two days your mind must be tense all day long, you need to rest well, and you have to go to court tomorrow."

Tao Zhu closed his eyes as he said.

"...Okay."

In fact, he is not tired, but it is okay to go to bed early.

So he first blew out the candles on the table beside the kang, and then he lay down on the kang and hugged Tao Zhu to sleep.

Tao Zhu waited for Li Qiao's breathing to calm down, and then opened his eyes.

Just now he purposely pulled one of Li Qiao's arms as a pillow, so he was lying on his back and Li Qiao was lying on his side.

At this moment, half of Li Qiao's body was on top of him.

He carefully and extremely slowly pulled his hands out of Li Qiao's big hands. After he pulled them out, he listened carefully. Seeing that Li Qiao was still sound asleep, he clasped his hands together, closed his eyes, and began to pray devoutly. .

When she was in Sanliu Village, Zhao Erniu caused trouble, so the god appeared and made Zhao Erniu suffer from heavenly punishment.

At that time, many people thought that God was watching Sanliu Village. Now that Li Qiao left Sanliu Village, they wondered if he could still hear his prayers to God.

But whether he could hear or not, he had to pray.

The fifth prince is so vicious, he even said that Li Qiao is a murderer, and the fifth prince is the real executioner!

If God is alive, he must let those hundreds of lives find the Fifth Prince!

He prayed silently in his heart for a quarter of an hour before he stopped. It stands to reason that he should kowtow to God.

But right now he was lying in Li Qiao's arms, in order not to wake Li Qiao, he kowtowed several times when he prayed in the morning.

After finishing the work, I felt a little more relaxed, and listened carefully, Li Qiao's breathing was the same as before.

Very good, Li Qiao was not woken up.

He carefully put his hand back again, and after holding hands with Li Qiao's ten fingers, he closed his eyes in satisfaction.

At this moment, Li Qiao's head was full of question marks.

Ever since the Seventh Prince fainted at the door of his house, he was much more vigilant than before, and could wake up whenever there was a sign of trouble.

Tao Zhu made such a big move, he woke up long ago.

But he was lying on his side, with his head against Tao Zhu's, he didn't know what Tao Zhu did just now.

Brother Zhu actually has something behind his back?

curious.

The next day, Li Qiao brought one hundred thousand taels of silver bills with him when he entered the palace. When he arrived at the palace, he first sent the money box containing the silver bills to the Qiuxian Hall, and then returned to the Taiji Hall to wait for the court.

Sheng Hong was very efficient and issued an imperial decree in the early court.

In this edict, Sheng Hong first scolded the Lu family, then expressed his regret for the innocent people, and finally pointed out the imperial court's appeasement measures.

He took out 20,000 taels of silver from the Lu family's property, 10,000 taels from himself, 10,000 taels from the fifth prince, and 100,000 taels from Li Qiao, making a total of 140,000 taels of silver.

The 140,000 taels of silver will be distributed to those innocent people according to the degree of victimization of each family.

As soon as the imperial decree came out, all the officials were stunned.

ah?

Why did Li Qiao pay so much money?

Sheng Honggao sat on the dragon chair, seeing the astonishment of some ministers who were close to him, he explained: "Li Aiqing is a farmer, and he knows the difficulties of the people at the bottom. Donated 220,000 taels of silver to help the disaster-stricken people overcome their difficulties." "

This time, he has nothing to do with a penny, but he didn't want the people to suffer, so he donated another 100,000 taels." "

But It is not easy for him to earn money, and if he encounters similar things in the future, he will donate or not." "The reason

why he donated money quietly at the beginning was because he didn't want to force other officials to donate because of him, so who will donate in the future?" Don't use his two donations to force him to donate money."

After Sheng Hong finished speaking, all officials felt mixed feelings.

Your Majesty is protecting Li Qiao like an eyeball.

The Fifth Prince had a conflict with Li Qiao yesterday, and the Holy Majesty hurried to mediate in person.

Today, everyone is deliberately not allowed to force donations to Li Qiao.

If they didn't know Li Qiao's footsteps, everyone would think that Li Qiao was the Holy Majesty's own son.

These officials have different ideas, but on the surface they naturally want to obey orders obediently, and by the way, they also have to praise Li Qiao. Lord Xiao Li is dedicated to the people, generous and selfless, which is really admirable.

Li Qiao stood at the gate of the Tai Chi Hall, and was very moved when he heard Sheng Hong's words.

Sheng Hong, the emperor, was too considerate, and even solved the troubles he would encounter in the future in advance.

Regarding the verdict of Xu Ying being framed, he really has nothing to say.

Although he earned a lot of money for Sheng Hong, Sheng Hong really had nothing to say to him.

He really wanted to shout out that he was willing to do his best for Dasheng!

After Sheng Hong's edict was proclaimed at the court, Sheng Hong asked people to copy a few more copies, and then posted them in front of the doors of the royal shops under his name.

This imperial decree is to appease the innocent victims of the Yuanshan Mansion and Daze Mansion, and it is also to appease the people of the world.

The British government acted insolently and disregarded human life, which must have terrified ordinary people.

Therefore, if Dasheng is to be stabilized, it is not enough to punish the people of the British public lineage, and it is necessary to give substantive compensation to the people.

Only silver can soothe the heart.

Only silver can dispel the fear of ordinary people and dissatisfaction with the imperial court.

Sheng Hong's move did get cheers from the people of Shengjing.

Although the people of Shengjing ran to the front of the British government to watch the excitement, they were shocked by the crimes committed by the British government.

This time it was the people from Yuanshan Mansion and Daze Mansion who were victimized, so it might be their turn next time.

Do you really think that everything will be safe under the feet of the world?

No, the British government is also quite unscrupulous in Shengjing.

Occupying teenage girls, robbing other people's properties, and opening underground gambling shops outside the city, which of these has nothing to do with ordinary people?

Therefore, although the people in Shengjing watched the excitement, they still felt a faint sense of sadness in their hearts.

But now that Sheng Hong's imperial decree came out, they felt a lot more at ease.

In the future, when the powerful and powerful do evil and the Holy One can't bear it, at least their families can get compensation money.

Having money to take is definitely better than nothing.

However, Li Qiao is so rich that he donated 100,000 taels directly!

Moreover, last year, he donated 220,000 taels to the people who suffered from the floods, which is too generous.

Li Qiao had no time to pay attention to the turmoil of the outside world. After he left the early court, he first read the memorials in the Hall of Qiuxian, and after Sheng Hong and other ministers finished discussing the state affairs, Sheng Hong began to approve the memorials, and he began to write contemporary pens.

For Sheng Hong, the matter of the British public is over.

The government affairs are busy, so Sheng Hong will not allocate too much time to the British official, and besides government affairs, he also has to do business.

He has to support the officials and soldiers of Dasheng, and the annual expenditure is hundreds of millions of taels of silver. His burden is very heavy.

However, Li Qiao's appearance greatly relieved his pressure.

Whether it's the commercial tax Li Qiao pays every year, or the few royal shops in the capital, the smile on his face has increased a lot.

Among the royal shops, the most profitable one is the Royal Dim Sum Shop—not counting the gambling house, all kinds of desserts produced by the Dim Sum Shop are very popular.

The most popular of these is the cake.

In the beginning, there was only the most basic cream cake, a small one. He priced it at twenty taels of silver, and only one hundred per day.

Later, this cake had more tricks, sprinkled some nuts on top, and put some fruit on it, then the price could be doubled.

But the daily 100 cream cakes were still quickly sold out.

One is forty taels, one hundred is four thousand taels, one day is four thousand taels, then one month is one hundred and twenty thousand taels.

Of course, this has to deduct costs, not pure profits.

However, the cost of cream cake is nothing compared to its profit.

He could earn 120,000 taels of silver a month just by relying on the cream cake, plus other snacks, the final figure shocked him.

Huge profits, proper huge profits.

That being the case, then he has to open branches in various prefectures in Dasheng.

There is no way, there are too many people to support, and he has a heavy burden, so he has to spend more money.

If you want to open a branch, you must listen to Li Aiqing's opinion. As the purse of Dasheng, Li Aiqing must have unique insights.

So, Sheng Hong looked at the booklet, and his thoughts went away. He asked Li Qiao's opinion on the opening of a branch of the dim sum shop.

open a branch?

Li Qiao really didn't have much opinion, the most valuable point was to cultivate the habit of eating cakes for the rich and noble.

Therefore, it is necessary to give the cake a good meaning.

For example, if the cake is round, it symbolizes family reunion.

The cake is sweet, which symbolizes the sweetness of life.

In short, it is to let those rich and noble people with money remember one thing: it is a festival, happy, unhappy, and want to celebrate...Anyway, it is right to eat cake if you have nothing to do.

In this way, the cake should be more popular.

After hearing Li Qiao's words, Sheng Hong felt that it was reasonable, that's right, the rich and noble should be made to think about eating cakes no matter what they are doing.

Most of the money in this world is in the hands of those nobles and rich people. If the cake can hold the money of these people so much, it must give the cake more auspicious meanings.

He supported the officials with money, and the officials gave him money. With this kind of virtuous circle, the prosperity of the country can last for a long time.

Li Qiao worked as a ghostwriter for a day, and when it was time to get off work, Sheng Hong asked him to leave the palace.

But Sheng Hong himself is obviously very concerned about the branch of the Royal Dim Sum Shop. Before Li Qiao left, he was looking at the map of Dasheng and inquiring about the actual situation of each prefecture one by one.

Li Qiao had only one feeling about this:

being an emperor was indeed not easy. After dealing with government affairs for a day, he still had to think about how to make money.

This emperor is a bit like being taken advantage of.

After returning home in a carriage, he was still more than 20 meters away from the door, when he heard Li Xiaorui's clear and loud laughter.

In the middle, Zheng Qianqian told him to slow down.

When we reached the door of the house, we pushed open the door, and the purpose of entering was the scene of Li Xiaorui holding his scooter and circling in the yard.

The two cubs were also wandering around the yard holding a scooter that was about their size.

The two cubs are too young to play on scooters, so they can only push the scooters to play.

Seeing Li Qiao at the door, Li Xiaorui shouted loudly for uncle and father, kicked his calf on the ground, and the scooter ran towards the door.

When he came to the door, he jumped off the scooter, hugged Li Qiao's legs skillfully, then raised his head and asked, "Uncle, look at me. What's the difference between me today and yesterday?" "Huh

? Hearing this, Li

Qiao raised her eyebrows, knelt down and looked at him carefully, and then smiled: "The little clothes and shoes on your body are new." "Yes! Uncle is so smart!" Li Xiaorui was very

happy

, He stretched out his hand to tug on the brand-new cotton bunt on his body, and then supported Li Qiao to raise a chubby leg to show off the tiger-head shoes on his feet: "Grandma made it!" "Did your grandma write?"

Li Qiao let out a sigh , picked him up and carried him into the yard.

He has already seen it, because Wang Guihua made exactly the same tiger-toed shoes for Li Xiaorui when he was in Sanliu Village.

Black bottom, red edge, like a work of art, beautiful and durable.

Now Li Xiaorui is wearing slightly bigger tiger-toe shoes.

"Yes, the Han family caravan came back today and brought some things. My mother made clothes and shoes for Xiao Rui and Chang Feng Yunfan. Everyone has several sets."

"The people in the village also made a lot of small clothes for the three of them, and sent them over."

Zheng Qian said with a smile.

Tao Zhu was sitting on the porch, with a sewing basket beside him, and he also said, "Yes, the vermicelli silver from last winter is back." He also came back with things from the villagers

.

The specialties in Sanliu Village are all made by Li Qiao. Now that Li Qiao is in the capital, he naturally has everything, so the folks in Sanliu Village made some clothes, shoes and socks that Li Changfeng, Li Yunfan, and Li Xiaorui could wear. come over.

There are also three Baijia clothes inside, very beautiful little jackets, but unfortunately the weather is hot now, so they can only be worn in winter.

Li Qiao was very moved by the kindness of the villagers.

And Wang Guihua, Li Dashan is her eldest son, and Li Xiaorui is her eldest grandson. She must want to wipe her tears quietly on weekdays, but because of the many things in Sanliu Village, she can't come to visit until now.

At this moment, Li Qiao hoped that the Grand Canal would be repaired soon, so that it would be much easier for the relatives in Sanliu Village to come to Shengjing again.

Soon it was time to go to bed. Although Tao Zhu was lying on the kang, he was holding a pair of exquisite tiger-head shoes. He didn't know how to make such shoes before, so that he only let the two cubs wear relatives today. Made of tiger shoes.

At night, Li Qiao didn't let him use the needle or thread for fear of hurting his eyes, so he just held it to observe and wait until tomorrow to do it.

However, tiger-toed shoes are not as important as praying, so he quickly lay down in Li Qiao's arms again, urging Li Qiao to go to bed quickly.

Li Qiao: "..."

Brother Zhu really has something to hide from him.

So, this time, when he hugged Tao Zhu and closed his eyes, he deliberately turned most of his face to Tao Zhu's stomach.

He wants to see what Brother Zhu is going to do.

Soon he discovered the truth.

Now the condition of the house is good, and there are lanterns hanging on the porch at night, and the faint light of the lanterns shines into the room through the window paper, almost like nothing.

But Li Qiao has good eyesight, he can see Tao Zhu's movements clearly.

Hands together?

Is this praying?

He was a little dumbfounded at the moment, Brother Zhu was too superstitious, he must be afraid that it would not work if he said it, so he prayed secretly without telling him.

Don't think about it, Brother Zhu must be praying for him.

His heart softened, but on the surface he pretended not to know anything, and he waited for Brother Zhu to take the initiative to tell him.

Soon the holiday will come.

Li Qiao has set up barbecue stalls and hot pot stalls at home. Although the weather is hot, it is still some time before the real midsummer.

Place these two stalls under the lush pomegranate tree, the shade of the pomegranate tree can just cover the two stalls.

He was too busy before to celebrate the end of the British Duke with Xu Ying, Meng Yue, and Zhuang Wen, but now that he is taking a rest, it is natural to have a good celebration.

Meng Yue is surrounded by the Seventh Prince, and has more information than Xin Zhi. The life of the Fifth Prince has not been easy recently.

The people of the Fifth Prince's family still did not give up, even though Zhao Cun had gone to Yuanshan Mansion and Daze Mansion with money, they still went to Sheng Hong to intercede with the Duke of England.

Because the British Duke is really important to the Fifth Prince.

Although the mother and concubine of the fifth prince is a noble concubine, the mother of the third prince is a queen.

Moreover, the Dong family does not have much influence in the court.

Coupled with the fact that the fifth prince framed Xu Ying before but was imprisoned instead, and suffered two blows in succession, the aura of the fifth prince had already been suppressed by the third prince.

The hearts of the fifth prince's side are about to disperse.

None of the officials in the court is a fool. After experiencing these two incidents, it is enough to see that the fifth prince is not capable of handling affairs -

even if he did something that violated the laws of Dasheng, it would be fine. Who is innocent? But the key is not to be found out.

But these two times, the Fifth Prince was discovered.

Moreover, the fifth prince's temper was too impatient, and he wanted to beat Li Qiao directly at the gate of the palace. Isn't this a blatant gift of his head?

In addition to being anxious, there is also some stupidity.

With such impulsiveness, who would dare to follow the fifth prince to seize the throne?

As a result, some officials who originally stood in line with him wanted to run away and switch to other princes.

Under such circumstances, can the fifth prince not be in a hurry?

He was in such a hurry.

It's not enough to just be anxious, you have to find a way to solve it.

Thus, the Fifth Prince set his sights on the Duke of England again.

There are really not many people available on his side. After careful review, the British public is the most reliable.

Duke Ying had saved Sheng Jun and made great achievements in battle, and from the imperial decree, it can be seen that the father and son of the Sheng family still miss their old friendship.

Otherwise, the British Duke would have been ransacked and beheaded by now.

Therefore, these people imagined that the father and son of the Sheng family could soften their hearts so that the Duke of England could restore his title.

Once the Duke of England's title is restored, the fifth prince will surely continue to keep pace with the third prince.

"But the third prince doesn't want the Duke of England to get up again. He found the family of the little girl who was taken over by the Duke of England in the past few days, and asked the family of the little girl to go to the Lu family to make trouble, so as to make the Lu family more embarrassing." "

Lu The family is now a commoner, but it can't stop the family of the little girl from making troubles, so now the Lu family has fun every day."

Meng Yue took a bunch of pork belly and laughed and told jokes while eating.

Zhuang Wen and Xu Ying had no news. There was originally a Xin Zhi beside Li Qiao, but Li Qiao went to the palace every day and stayed by Sheng Hong's side all day, and rarely went to the Imperial Academy. Therefore, he was the one who had the best news .

After Meng Yue's words fell, Xu Ying immediately picked up the strawberry juice in hand, wanting to have a drink with Meng Yue.

He loves to hear this joke, especially.

Meng Yue picked up the bowl and touched him lightly, drank the strawberry juice in the bowl in one go, and then said: "The third prince will definitely continue to make moves, let's wait and see.

" I will definitely not miss this opportunity.

Li Qiao was holding a string of baked tofu, nodding while chewing.

He knew that people from the fifth prince's family went to Sheng Hong to intercede. On that day, Sheng Hong asked the fifth prince to seriously consider the grievances between him and Lu Wenrong. In the end, the fifth prince went to intercede with the Duke of England again, although he admitted that Lu Wenrong was wrong. He also punished Lu Wenrong, but what's the use?

Pleading for mercy to the British Duke is enough to show that Sheng Hong's heart-to-heart teaching is in vain.

As for the third prince's move, he had indeed never heard of it before, and he had no time to listen to gossip in front of Sheng Hong.

Now that I know, he gave a thumbs up to the third prince!

This not only embarrasses the Lu family, but also reminds Sheng Hong, Sheng Jun and his son, what kind of scandalous things an old British man has done.

When Zhao Cun returned to Beijing, he handed over a more detailed investigation report to Sheng Hong. With Sheng Hong's benevolence to the common people, his aversion to the British Duke would only increase.

The British Duke is just a useless old man Lu in his life.

I am eighty years old, how many more years can I live?

However, this matter is not over for him.

He told Xin Zhi to be magnanimous and not to bully the common people of the Lu family, but he hadn't finished avenging Lu Wenrong's revenge for insulting him and Brother Zhu.

As long as he meets Lu Wenrong next time, he will definitely let Lu Wenrong have some accidents.

A day of sleep and mu ended in a lively dinner, and before going to bed, Li Qiao habitually talked to Tao Zhu about the court affairs.

To be honest, he was a little surprised by the current situation of the Fifth Prince.

Originally, he thought that the fifth prince was a high mountain, which would be difficult to overthrow, but in fact, the fifth prince was a paper tiger, which looked fierce, but in fact could be broken with a single poke.

Neither the Lu family nor the Dong family has real power in their hands.

too weak.

Strong on the outside but dry on the inside.

As for the third prince, the third prince is not much better than the fifth prince. Although the mother of the third prince is the queen, this is only a successor. The Peng family of the third prince's mother is not strong overall.

There are several members of the Peng family who are officials in the court, but the highest is the third-rank Dali Siqing.

Dali Siqing, the trial case, what's the use of this?

It's not as good as Dong's family, the soldiers and horses still have some manpower.

Although the third prince's current momentum is fierce, he is also a bit strong on the outside and capable on the inside.

After listening to Li Qiao's words, Tao Zhu thought about it carefully, and then said: "Don't look down on these two princes, the seventh prince is far inferior to them." The Shen family, the mother's

family of the seventh prince, was originally just a merchant Later, when the Seventh Prince's father entered the palace, Sheng Hong got rid of the Shen family's business status.

Now, there are people from the Shen family who are officials in Shengjing, but they are only minor officials of the sixth rank.

The father of the Seventh Prince is just a beloved man who is expected to be a concubine, let alone a noble concubine, not even a concubine.

"I don't look down on it, I'm just a little surprised. The Holy Majesty probably doesn't want to have the power of foreign relatives other than honorable ones, so the mothers of the princes are actually not very good." "Except for the eldest prince." The eldest prince's mother Home is Zhou Dingshan, Duke of Yasukuni.

Zhou Dingshan is also a military hero

   He's old Duke, and although the old Duke Zhou has retired, there have always been people in the Zhou family who have served as officials in the court, and there were at least three people in the Zhou family.

At this time, the person with the highest official position in the Zhou family was the eldest prince's uncle, Master Zhou, Shangshu of the Ministry of War.

"The grand prince is too mysterious. I haven't seen him yet."

However, it doesn't matter if you see him or not. The eldest prince is weak and has a limping leg. No matter what, Sheng Hong will not choose the eldest prince to succeed him.

"It's a pity that Meng Yue is not the seventh prince's concubine, otherwise, we would know who the seventh prince is assisting."

He sighed.

Tao Zhu was amused by his words, Seventh Prince and Concubine?

Tao Zhu poked his nose: "Don't let Meng Yue hear this, otherwise he will definitely be anxious with you." "Don't worry, it's just for the

two of us to talk about it." Li Qiao grabbed him with a smile put his finger on his mouth and kissed him, then hugged him tightly and said, "Forget it, don't think about it, anyway, we have the Seventh Prince and the Holy Majesty as backers, so we can do things down-to-earth." It's getting late, it's time to go to

bed up.

Brother Zhu has to wait for him to fall asleep and pray for him quietly.

If you don't sleep anymore, it will affect Brother Zhu's sleep.

"Yeah!"

Tao Zhu nodded immediately upon hearing this.

Before that, he and Li Qiao only dared to say that the Seventh Prince was the backer of their husband and wife, but since Sheng Hong's edict to appease the people came out, no one in the Manchu Dynasty knew that Sheng Hong protected Li Qiao closely.

With Sheng Hong as his backer and the Seventh Prince around, he and Li Qiao can sit back and relax.

Ah no, there is still worry, the hateful fifth prince actually said that Li Qiao is a murderer, he has to continue to pray, lest those innocent victims come to Li Qiao.

He has been praying for several days, and he doesn't know if God has appeared, let alone if the fifth prince can sleep well at night.

However, many officials who support the fifth prince now want to back down. In this situation, even if those innocent souls don't go to the fifth prince, the fifth prince will definitely not be able to sleep well at night.

deserve it!

Hmm... Tonight's prayer is one more thing, I hope those officials who stand in line with the fifth prince will quickly switch to the third prince.

Although the third prince is not very good, but those who can fall in love with the fifth prince must not be very smart.

These unintelligent officials should go to the third prince.

As for the Seventh Prince, although he already knew that the Seventh Prince was not alone, but the Seventh Prince was so easily injured, he should also pray for the Seventh Prince.

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