The Heavens: From Knowing Whether You Rule the World

Chapter 84 The Emperor patrols the sky!

study
Zhao Zongquan's face looked quite ugly.

"The Duke of Ying has been in the army for four generations, and has been in charge of the army since the time of Taizu. His prestige in the army is extremely high! What do you think we should do about this matter?"

Speaking of this, Zhao Zongquan also sighed slightly.

The influence of the Duke of England is not small. If this person turns to the Queen Mother,
Although the dispute between the Queen Mother's party and the New Emperor's party is gradually coming to an end, if the Duke of England shows any intention of surrendering, who knows whether the Queen Mother will have other ideas?
He really can't sleep now.

Zhao Zongquan couldn't help it, and threw the book in his hand hard at his uncle Shen Congxing.

"I'm asking you to favor your concubine and kill your wife. Do you look like a royal uncle?"

Shen Congxing lowered his head and said nothing.

Gu Tingye thought for a moment and took a step forward. "The Duke of Ying is also an old minister with high prestige. This matter must be appeased."

Chu Hong looked at Shen Congxing who seemed to be trying to escape, and then looked at Zhao Zongquan. "The one who tied the bell must be the one who can untie it. The Duke of Ying's family wanted only two things: the Zhang family's reputation and Zhang Guifen's stable life.

"Xiao Zou is the only imperial concubine in the world. In the eyes of others, she is even backed by His Majesty. With such a person in the house, Zhang Guifen will definitely be bullied."

Zhao Zongquan thought for a moment and then nodded. He really didn't expect that the queen had accidentally created such a big mess.

"In that case, then..."

"I, Shen, am guilty of failing to discipline my child properly. I have come to Your Majesty to apologize."

Outside the study, Empress Shen, dressed in plain clothes, knelt down quietly and came to apologize.

Zhao Ceying, Chu Hong, and Gu Tingye hurried to the diagonal side, bowed slightly, and waited quietly.

The king's uncle, Shen Congxing, walked to his sister's side and knelt down as well.

Zhao Zongquan sighed twice, looked at Shen Congxing deeply, and strode out.

"You guys, come to Wende Hall to accompany me in handling state affairs."

"Yes!"*3
Chu Hong and the other two immediately walked out of the side door and quickly approached the emperor.

Chu Hong looked back quietly and shook his head slightly.

Shen Congxing still hasn't figured out how to deal with this matter.

What he should do is show his determination.

Or he could resolutely tell the emperor to revoke the imperial edict for little Zou, send her to Yuzhou to be well raised, and have no further contact with her from then on.

Either let little Zou catch a cold and take the blame alone, or at least keep her in good health, even if he doesn't love Zhang Guifen.

As a result, when the queen came to apologize, he went up to her and bowed?

The Queen was not aware of the situation in the court, and with Prince Huan as her son, it would naturally be useful for her to plead guilty.

As the king's uncle, you should solve the problem if you caused the trouble. What's the use of apologizing? Shen Congxing didn't even say a word to Xiao Zou, who was the key to the trouble.

Theoretically speaking, the empress's apology in plain clothes was already quite humiliating, and the emperor should have stepped forward to help her up, and the couple lived in harmony.

When Shen Congxing knelt, the emperor became angry and the empress also had to kneel for a long time.

Gee
Hall of Wende

Zhao Zongquan gave seats to several people and asked the eunuchs to pass on several memorials for his review.

Chu Hong took a quick look at it and saw that it basically talked about two issues.

One is that the salt affairs were unclear, and a large number of officials were making a lot of money from it.

One is the issue of official appointments. Some corrupt officials took advantage of the political struggles in Bian Jing to amass huge wealth and appoint people based on personal connections.

Chu Hong understood immediately and looked towards the throne. "Uncle, are you planning to inspect the salt industry and the country?"

"Exactly."

Zhao Zongquan looked towards the study, feeling somewhat disappointed.

"Now, the Queen Mother intends to live in Nanjing and spend her remaining years in peace. If it weren't for this incident of favoring a concubine and killing a wife, you would have been inspecting the country and the salt industry."

“How could I have expected that?” Zhao Zongquan shook his head helplessly. It was really a stupid teammate holding us back. “However, it is only a matter of time before we inspect the world and the salt.

Let's see what the Queen Mother is doing this time. If the Duke of England's issue is resolved and the Queen Mother goes to Nanjing, then you can inspect the country and the salt industry."

Chu Hong nodded slightly, "Uncle is very observant. Since ancient times, salt tax has always been an important source of taxation.

Nowadays, most of the salt affairs in our dynasty have problems. Salt inspection is imperative. As for inspecting the whole country, officials are rampant and cannot be tolerated. "

During the reign of Emperor Renzong, some things fell into the hands of the common people, and even important matters like salt administration involved the participation of many local clans.

Now, it seems that the general direction is to pay attention to salt and iron taxes.

Salt and iron affairs are also the places where collusion between officials and businessmen and greed for money are most likely to occur.

Chu Hong narrowed his eyes slightly, fearing that he would have to send a letter to Hangzhou and Yangzhou later.

Don't get me wrong, we're just chatting about family matters.

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As for inspecting the country, this is actually more important than inspecting salt.

Patrolling the country is the foundation for maintaining a secure position in power.

The essence is to eradicate the rebel party and replace some important official positions with people from the new emperor's party.

The old emperor inspected the country once every few years, and all the people there were already his own people, so there was naturally no need to make major changes.

But the new emperor is different, not to mention that he has no blood relationship with the emperor, and the new emperor does not inherit the throne through a normal father-son relationship.

If this is really serious, the list of officials to be replaced will be huge!

The successful candidates in the imperial examination for the new emperor basically had to start from the three major officials: county magistrate, county assistant, or county lieutenant.

At the very least, occupy an official position that carries a lot of power.

"So uncle wants me to patrol the world?"

Since they are going to touch an official with real power, the governor is definitely going to have to deal with this hurdle.

If you want to move to the position of a second-rank provincial governor, a high-ranking official from a frontier province, you must at least be an official of the same rank in Beijing.

If safety is taken into consideration, his dimensionality reduction and crushing from a first-rank elder is undoubtedly suitable.

As for the salt inspection?

Although it is important, some of the big families in those places may fight to the death, which is really dangerous.

However, most of the people we met were state and county officials, who were representatives of local big families.

The risk factor is high, but the difficulty is not great.

Officials at the level of provincial governor seek stability in their official duties and do not lack a little salt tax.

Of course, both he and King Huan were qualified to inspect the world.

But King Huan did not have that ability.

An official at the level of a provincial governor could even make King Huan unable to distinguish between good and bad and make him run around in circles.

In addition, if King Huan was really asked to replace officials, the emperor would probably not be able to sleep well.

Who else but him can take on this task?

Zhao Zongquan nodded and looked at his nephew and eldest son. "Hong'er and Minister of Rites Liu Shi'an are going to inspect the country. General Duan will lead 5,000 soldiers to escort them. Ce Ying and Zhong Huai will also lead 5,000 soldiers to protect them."

"Yes, uncle!"

"Yes, father!"

"Yes, Your Majesty!"

The next morning, Shen had someone deliver the phoenix crown top bead that was used when the empress was crowned to Zhang Guifen, and she personally summoned her to comfort her.

As for Mrs. Zou, it was said that she drank cold wine and caught a cold at night.

So, everything ends!
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