Kehe County Prince's Mansion and Baohe Hall.

In the East Warm Pavilion.

The silver frost and charcoal in the cage are burning, and the incense mixed with the charcoal fire makes the entire warm trunk feel fragrant.

On the ebony square lamp holders on both sides of the corner of the wall, candlelight shines brightly on the entire room.

In the middle is a sea of ​​bluestone sandalwood round table, surrounded by three nanmu chairs.

There were twelve dishes on the table, and there was a bucket of rice...

Li Xuan performed very often. After eating four bowls of rice, he gritted his teeth and looked at Jia Qiang, and finished the eighth bowl of rice in one breath...

When he saw the princess Qiu on the side looking at Jia Qiang admiringly, he said angrily: "What are you looking at? He ate like a pig, what are you impressed with?"

Qiu smiled and said, "I invite the host, and I still think that people eat too much?"

Jia Qiang snorted and said, "He is just pure jealousy. Seeing that I have eaten so much, my erect posture is very elegant, which makes people pleasing to the eye. Look at the prince just now, he eats like a pig..."

Qiu smiled "puke", but then shut up with Li Xuan's eyes as if he was about to eat people, and said to Jia Qiang: "Ninghou, eat more. Our master is kind to everyone, but I'm afraid there is only Ninghou who can catch his eyes in his bones. Anyway, none of the people in my mother's family can make him look at them. This time, the Qiu family can come out of the mud pit, thanks to you. If it weren't for the body, I would have to toast you."

Jia Qiang smiled and said, "You don't have to be polite to the prince. With the dignity of the prince and the princess, I can only do my best. In fact, I didn't do anything."

Qiu smiled and said, "That's not what he said. Look at the royal family who has a prince and two princes, even they are like this, let alone the Qiu family? Although the Qiu family lost their jobs in the Ministry of Internal Affairs, they have escaped the disaster. Otherwise, the Third Court and the Seven Departments will be put in one slaughter today, and the Qiu family will be trapped in it."

Jia Qiang laughed and looked at Li Xuan. Li Xuan cleared his throat, "Yeah," and said majesticly: "You go and do your business. I will tell Jia Qiang some big things that the man said."

Qiu looked at him in anger and didn't force him to stay and listen. He hummed and said goodbye to Jia Qiang. Fang turned around and left.

After Qiu left, Li Xuan stopped playing. He smacked his lips and said, "Jia Qiang? What you said before? Although most of your previous words are sarcastic, some of them make sense. I didn't expect that this kind of trouble would be able to toss the Prince Duan Chong into it! When the Supreme Emperor was still there, it was something I could not imagine! However, is this effect a little better? Even if the old fool of Prince Shuncheng was holding on, you are afraid that you will still be jealous. In fact, this credit is not yours today..."

Jia Qiang raised his eyebrows and said, "In you?"

As he said that, he scooped up a bowl of purple ginseng pheasant soup and drank it all in one sip.

The two of them had something to talk about? Apart from the eunuch Lu Feng, who was accompanied by Li Xuan, there was no maid in the room.

Lu Feng wanted to go forward to serve? He was also driven back by Jia Qiang? He scooped another bowl.

Li Xuan laughed and scolded: "All the people in your room have gone to Jiangnan. Why do you eat so much purple ginseng chicken soup for? The wet nurse in my house can't give it to you now!"

Jia Qiang laughed and scolded, and Li Xuan said again: "Of course, I take up most of the credit today, and half of it? It's your husband. He doesn't give me any advice? You can't think of using the power of the Supreme Emperor to make a knife. Your husband is indeed a very powerful person? But he only points you where to go? The rest are all done under the guidance of my master... Jia Qiang, I don't advise you to ease the relationship with the royal family? You're a dog-tempered person, probably not to be able to lose your face. But what should I do? Those are the uncles and brothers of the uncles and uncles, and you can't keep going, right? You give me an idea, how can you let them hate me? You're the same, it's fine, just copy the Prince Yimin's Mansion and Duanzhong Prince's Mansion, you have to mix up the other prince's mansions and the land. You're more revenge and cheat me, and you'll kill me..."

Jia Qiang felt a little guilty and said, "Don't I want to share some of the burden for my husband? If I don't take this opportunity, I will use the banner of the Supreme Emperor, and then I will try to collect the loss when I turn around. How much effort will it take?"

"nonsense!"

Li Xuan said angrily: "I don't know this? But the more effort you save, the more aggrieved they feel, the greater the grudge! Jia Qiang, you are not talking to you, don't underestimate the royal family, they are really making trouble, my father will give me three points of decency. Over the years, my father has been less angry in their hands? But look, it's been a few years since they ascended the throne, but what good way is there to do with them? If they really make them hold grudges to death, then something big will happen sooner or later. There is no reason to guard against thieves for a thousand days, right?"

Jia Qiang looked at Li Xuan sideways and said, "Not to say it, once or twice, the prince is really wiser than me..."

After laughing and scolding, Li Xuan urged, "Stop talking nonsense! I don't know how wiser it is than you, so you should tell me? Think of a solution!"

Jia Qiang said with a sneer and said, "The prince is still afraid of them?"

Li Xuan said seriously: "Jia Qiang, as the saying goes, "Those who are poor clans will have no good children and grandchildren! You are not stingy with your Jia family and have put a lot of thought into that clan. You are like this, you can't be worse than you? Besides, you are not just for yourself."

He eased the relationship between the royal family, and to some extent, it also meant that Jia Qiang eased such a bad relationship.

Jia Qiang thought for a while and said, "Actually, I had said a way before, just to tempt it..."

Li Xuan was very smart and thought of it at once, saying, "Are you talking about the stocks of the money house of the Ministry of Internal Affairs?"

Jia Qiang nodded and said, "The prince can go door to door and make it clear that this stock is worth ten thousand gold! The emperor took out 20,000 taels of silver per share. It turned out that I insisted that it was necessary to reduce it to ten thousand taels of silver per share. And I can guarantee that in three years, the dividend will be 3,000 taels of rice per year, and in five years, the dividend will be 5,000 taels of rice per year! If it cannot be achieved, the Ministry of Internal Affairs will make up for it!"

Li Xuan took a deep breath and said, "Jia Qiang, are you crazy? You are paying such a big price? Three years later, where will we get 300,000 taels of silver to give them dividends? Five years later, we will be paid 500,000 taels a year? No, there is still 10% of it, and we will be paid 600,000 taels, one million taels?!"

Jia Qiang waved his hand and said, "Your Majesty, don't worry about making money. After I deliver the errands of the Embroidered Uniform Guard next year, I will do my best to get the affairs of the Interior Ministry. With the conditions of the Interior Ministry, it is really not difficult to earn money. If you don't say anything, use the money from the Interior Ministry Money House to expand coal mine production. Selling coal in a year is a huge wealth. I have other ways to make money, especially overseas... The prince, don't tell you and me. The biggest purpose of letting them invest is to let them deal with those sour and corrupt scholars. They can explore overseas and not be constrained by domestic constraints. Only by letting them taste the sweetness can they block the hidden arrows behind us!"

Li Xuan stared at Jia Qiang and said, "Do you really want to go out to the West?"

Jia Qiang nodded and said, "I am really impatient in the Shenjing City, fighting openly and secretly with my own people for power and profit. Moreover, my relationship with Prince Kehuai is really hard to describe. Even if it is not him in the future, if I offend so many people with my personality, it will be difficult to tolerate the world. Therefore, it is better to go out and be quiet. However, it is not the case in the past three or five years. I will always realize my husband's lifelong ambitions."

Li Xuan looked at Jia Qiang, sighed and said, "You are so fucked, why are you offending so many people? I want to help you, but where can I help you? Forget it, just listen to you. Then you go out to sea first and gain a foothold outside, I have to go to find you to play!"

Jia Qiang laughed and said, "Don't worry, there will be good things that will be stubborn at that time."

Li Xuan shook his head, not knowing what he was thinking, his face was not very good-looking, but he didn't say anything else. He paused and said, "This is the case with the royal family, how are you going to deal with the nobles?"

Jia Qiang laughed, but did not hide it, saying, "The prince wanted to ease his relationship with the royal family, so he naturally used this kind of temptation. I am different. If I come to coax the heroes of Yuanping, not only will they not subscribe, but they will ridicule and ridicule, but will actually bring shame to themselves. Therefore, I must come to the door by themselves."

When Li Xuan heard this, he immediately smiled and asked, "What are your bad ideas?"

"Bad idea? Is this called Gao Ming?"

After Jia Qiang responded unhappily, he smiled and said, "When the prince goes to the royal palaces to talk about things, he will say one more thing, and I will leave 10% of the money in a single door, and I will sell it to the founding heroes, and only give it to the ten families of the founding descendants, and the rest are not paid. I will complain again, saying that this is the reward the emperor gave to all the heroes... Finally, let them not speak out. After the prince finished speaking, it will not take more than three days, and someone will come to the door!"

When Li Xuan heard this, he took a deep breath and cursed: "What a vulgar seed! You asked me to run from house to house, are you waiting for them to come at home?"

Jia Qiang laughed and said, "I don't need to ease the relationship! The prince promises the benefits of going out. In the future, Xiao Wuer, who is loved by everyone in the royal family, can I sell the shares or the Jia family that everyone hates? "

Li Xuan raised his eyebrows and said, "You have to be someone who offended you all? You can't learn from the master, give him a smile and say something soft. Why don't you listen to you?"

Jia Qiang said "tsk" and shook his head, "The prince has no disputes with the royal family and is also a prince, so those people are unwilling to form mortal enemies with the prince. If they supplement it with benefits, they will naturally be resolved. However, the founding heroes lineage, the founding heroes lineage, the Yuanping heroes, and especially the people from Duke Zhao, are almost incompatible with the people. If you really want to impress them by giving away money for free, it is purely a delusion. Therefore, the founding heroes lineage, the founding heroes lineage, can at most seek coexistence in struggle and not break through the bottom line."

After saying that, he raised his glass and said to Li Xuan: "No matter what, being friends with people like the prince is the greatest honor for the prince!"

Li Xuan smiled and said, "You kid knows the truth!"

After clinking glasses with Jia Qiang, after drinking it all, I suddenly came back to the taste and looked at Jia Qiang with a bad look and said, "Whose honor do you think is it?"

Jia Qiang laughed, took out the rice in the bowl for a few bites, and stood up and said, "No matter who is honored, it's very happy! It's getting late, prince, say goodbye!"

Li Xuan asked, "What should I do tomorrow?"

Jia Qiang thought for a while and said, "I have to make a lot of play. I will take people to greet a few more days in the past few days, but there is no need to search the houses, just interrogate a few words to scare. The prince will blush and pick the innocent ones, and start to comfort each other ones. There are only a few routines left and right, and I will finish it early and get down! After this, I will go to the village outside the city to hunt for a few days?"

When Li Xuan heard this, his ears thorned up and grinned, "Okay!!" Then he raised his eyebrows and reminded, "Don't forget, the Yun family..."

Jia Qiang pulled the corner of his mouth, looked at him like a fool, turned around and walked away.

Li Xuan laughed and shouted behind her back: "Be careful! You have too many enemies..."

Jia Qiang didn't know whether he heard it or not, and waved his hand without looking back, then strided out of Baohetang and left the palace.

After seeing his figure disappear at the door, Li Xuan sat down with a "tsk" sound, and thought of the appearance of her sister in Yun Guiren, and he was very happy.

But suddenly, his right eye twitched, making his brow slightly frown...

...

Imperial City, Daming Palace.

In the Hall of Yangxin, Emperor Long'an sat behind the imperial case and discussed the political affairs of today with Lin Ruhai, the Grand Secretary of the Cabinet who stayed tonight.

After two hours of talk, Emperor Long'an asked the imperial kitchen to have medicinal food. After he and Lin Ruhai shared the food, the two of them had to take a breath and relax for a little while.

After drinking the medicinal food, Emperor Long'an suddenly looked at Lin Ruhai and smiled and said, "I heard that my dear guest and Doctor Dou have some unhappiness in Wuying Hall today?"

Lin Ruhai said in shame: "This kind of thing has actually been passed into the emperor's ears..."

"Hey!"

Emperor Long'an laughed and said, "Everyone has seven emotions and six desires, but he is not a sage. There are always some people who like and some people who don't like, which is ordinary. Why do you have to do this?"

Lin Ruhai shook his head and smiled bitterly, and said, "I have no selfish grudges with Doctor Dou. Speaking of which, Doctor Dou was still a superior official at that time. I admire his integrity and integrity. However, I am a little reluctant to agree with his views on the Internet..."

Emperor Long'an naturally understood what Lin Ruhai said, and he smiled helplessly: "There are only a handful of children of aristocratic families in the world, and those with noble families who can be like their loved ones. Most of them are unsightly. It is no wonder that Doctor Dou hates the children of aristocratic families so much, and he doesn't want to see that the children of aristocratic families are too close to the Tian family. But he may have forgotten that the Tian family is the largest family in the world, and my prince is also a child of aristocratic families, but he is only a Tian brand... I will tell him back, don't be angry with him. Although Doctor Dou's words are often depressed and angry, there is no shortage of such people in the court. It's still pretty good, and Han Aiqing can control him..."

Lin Ruhai nodded and said, "This minister naturally understands, and I have also reflected on it... Although using the case of the Supreme Emperor can reduce too much resistance, using this method is injustice and will be of limited help to the implementation of the next new policy. The policy of governing the country must be upright. After all, it will be a bit arrogant. Taking a different approach, it seems a bit petty... This is also the gap between the minister and the Duke of Banshan, which makes people laugh."

Emperor Long'an waved his hands repeatedly and said, "It's a pity! As long as the country's governance is beneficial to the country and the people, it can achieve results, how can it be stingy?"

Lin Ruhai smiled and said, "The emperor does not need to comfort me. I can still reflect on myself at this age, but it is probably difficult to change. Perhaps it is a family born in aristocratic family, and I have been kind to the emperor since I was a child. I have been frugal since I was a child. In the past twenty years after I entered school, I have been smooth sailing and almost never suffered any setbacks... Compared with the poor family like Banshan Gong and others, the difficult and bumpy roads along the way, it is much worse. After all, great husbands are all tempered by setbacks. As for me, I am used to enjoying it, and I can find simple methods to do errands and save labor. But this method often has big flaws and is not solemn and upright. Occasionally, it is possible once or twice, but if it is often the wrong way."

Emperor Long'an smiled and said, "You are so harsh, you are far from as unbearable as you said. If you don't have your clever tricks, it's difficult for the royal family, and you don't know how much energy and time I will spend with the cabinet. And it's not that there is no way to remedy it. Just discuss it slowly... You are so rare to have a quarrel with Doctor Dou for a few words, but you have reflected so much? You are so humble... Jia Qiang is not like you in this regard!"

Lin Ruhai's heart was thrilled when he heard this, and then sighed and said slowly: "Jia Qiang is still too young and aggressive. I have taught me several times to restrain my sharpness. Even if I am right, I should not be aggressive, but he still can't do it. When I get excited, I feel a little rude... Emperor, although Jia Qiang is very smart, if I don't know how to hide my strength and keep a low profile, I will not have a good end. Previously, the emperor promised him a year as the commander of the embroidered guard. When he arrived, the emperor would still have to be kind!"

Emperor Long'an also sighed and said, "I am really reluctant to let go of such a loyal and capable minister... With his age, what he did was like the Han Dynasty Huo Piqiu and the champion of Han Wu."

Lin Ruhai became more shocked when he heard this and said with a smile: "Is the emperor so arrogant? How can Jia Qiang achieve the merits of Huo Piqiu? "

Seeing Lin Ruhai so cautious, Emperor Long'an suddenly burst into laughter and said, "My dear, do you also have the fear of being with me like a tiger? But a smart boy, although he is more bold, is loyal. The people of Dayan are 100 million. I am the common ruler of the world, and I can't tolerate a smart child? What's more, that kid is determined to go out to sea!"

Lin Ruhai shook his head and smiled, "The emperor is so generous to his ministers, even if he is famous in ancient times, he is beyond the reach of the emperor. But the more he is, the more he should respect the emperor. If he develops a slight arrogance and negligence, he will lose his duty as a minister and let down his benevolence."

Emperor Long'an smiled and said, "Your dear and I don't have to be so restrained... How many people have Jia Qiang offended for the errands I have given him regardless of his own gains and losses? If you look back, because you are too smart, you will be suspicious of me. Then, the emperor, the situation is limited and the new policy is destined not to go far. If you want to believe in me, it is like I trust my master and disciple..."

Lin Ruhai was shocked when he heard this, his face moved, his eyes were faintly wrong, and he stood up and bowed deeply, "The emperor knows that he is trustworthy, but I can only devote myself to it until I die!"

Emperor Longan laughed and shouted repeatedly. Just as he was about to say something else, he suddenly saw a large eunuch in red python robe coming in from outside and bowing to the hall.

Lin Ruhai stood up and wanted to leave. He was stopped by Emperor Long'an, so he sat down again, raised the teacup to eat tea to block the eyes and ears...

Seeing that he was so cautious, Emperor Longan smiled and asked, "What's the matter?"

If there are any shameful private matters, they must be written into a secret copy.

Sure enough, the eunuch in red heard the screaming eunuch: "Long lively, one hour ago, Ninghou Jia Qiang returned to the mansion after dinner with the prince's mansion. When he passed through Yanshoufang in Xicheng, he was ambushed by an assassin with a powerful crossbow in the army..."

With a "bang", the sound of tea cups breaking sounded in the direction of Lin Ruhai on the side, and Emperor Long'an's face suddenly became gloomy and his eyes were stern.

The eunuch in red immediately speeded up his speech and said, "Fortunately, the personal guards around Ning Hou fought to death. Although more than half of the casualties were killed or injured, Ning Hou was not injured. After returning to Ning Mansion, he immediately summoned people to pursue..."
To be continued...