Time Travel: I am the idle king Li Shen and Li Shimin in the Tang Dynasty

Half an hour later, the three of them gathered in Li Shen's study.

After the greetings, Li Shen asked them to sit down.

"Just now, His Royal Highness sent someone to inform me of the morning court... so I asked you to come and discuss it.

What do you think about this? "

At that moment, Li Shen repeated what Wang Zhong had said and then asked the three people.

"Your Majesty, this matter has nothing to do with us, so let them investigate it."

Wang Hongfu spoke first, saying that he was the one who released the news, wasn’t the purpose to let the court know?

Wang Xuance was deep in thought, and Li Shen did not interrupt him. After a long while, Wang Xuance raised his head:

"Your Majesty, if His Majesty said this matter is not simple, then it must be not simple. We should think about whether this matter has anything to do with us."

"That's what I mean, but I don't understand this matter very well, so I don't know what Your Majesty means."

Li Shen nodded in agreement.

I thought the person behind the murder wanted to silence the witness and keep the matter quiet, and didn't want anyone else to know.

That's why I wanted to make a big deal out of it and release the news.

Li Shen meant that he didn't want the people behind the scenes to live too peacefully, and the imperial court would definitely investigate such a big matter thoroughly.

Li Shen would be very happy if the person behind the scenes could be implicated by then.

But unexpectedly, something went wrong and the aristocratic families also got involved.

"Your Majesty, it seems we have done something wrong."

After thinking for a long time, Wang Xuance suddenly spoke.

"A wrong thing? Are you talking about the fact that I asked people to spread rumors?" Li Shen immediately realized something.

Wang Xuance nodded:

"Yes, Your Majesty, I was just thinking that if the court sent someone to investigate the truth behind the official's death,

The first thing to do will be to find out about Wang Wencheng.

These people are all in collusion with Wang Wencheng.

Wang Wencheng is the chief treasurer sent by our Ji Wang Mansion. Everything he does will be blamed on our Ji Wang Mansion.

Colluding with tribal leaders to persecute the people, bribing local officials, exploiting laborers, forced buying and selling, killing and looting, all of these will be said to be done by my Ji Wangfu.

Now the tribal leader is dead, more than a dozen officials have been killed, and the local governor has been poisoned. This is murder to silence witnesses.

Your Majesty, this is a serious crime of treason. If it is proven true, Prince Ji’s Mansion will no longer exist.

Even if His Majesty favors the prince, he will be severely punished in front of the court officials, at least exiled. "

"Fuck..." Li Shen cursed and jumped up from the couch. It was too explosive.

This is putting yourself to death.

After being reminded by Wang Xuance, Li Shen suddenly realized that this was really possible.

How could I have forgotten about Wang Wencheng?

“That’s right, I thought from the beginning that Wang Wencheng’s matter was a conspiracy that killed three birds with one stone.

You can make money, frame me, and collude with the Western Turks.

Now it seems that they have made enough money and are starting to frame me."

Li Shen recalled his original judgment. He once said that this was a good idea, but his father helped cover it up at that time.

Wang Wencheng's affairs had not been leaked, and he could also blame Wang Wencheng.

But I didn't expect that the other party had a backup plan. If I killed him to silence him, there would be no evidence, so I would be the biggest suspect.

"Your Majesty, this is just my guess, it may not be what we think.

Maybe it wasn't someone behind the scenes who did it?" Wang Xuance hinted.

Li Shen came to his senses immediately, realizing that this was somewhat different from his judgment from the previous few days.

If it was really done by someone behind the scenes, why didn't the court receive any report?

Thinking of this, Li Shen lay down again, thinking continuously in his mind.

"Xuan Ce, you are right. I need to think about it carefully."

Looking up, Li Shen fell into deep thought. Wang Xuance spoke again:

"Your Highness, if my guess is correct, it won't be long before someone uses the incident of Northwest Prince Wencheng to impeach you in the court.

We have to plan ahead.”

"Your Highness, do you think this was done by Prince Jin?" Wang Hongfu interrupted.

"That's not necessarily true. Does Li Zhi really have such courage and insight?

Persecuting the people is fine, bribing local officials is fine, but killing an official appointed by the imperial court will not be easy even if he is the legitimate son.

The key point is how could he possibly let Guo Xiaoke, the Grand Protector General, fail to report to the court.

Even if he has the ability, I don’t believe that Guo Xiaoke has the courage to betray Your Majesty.

That's not how you fight for the throne. Unless... there's someone else."

Li Shen touched his beardless chin. He didn't think Guo Xiaoke had the courage to hide this matter.

The consequences of betraying Li Shimin are very serious. All the old ministers and founding heroes will be killed by you.

"Your Highness, will Wang Wencheng's family be sent away?" Wang Hongfu raised a new question.

Li Shen had told him at the beginning that he could spare Wang Wencheng's family's lives and send them back to their ancestral land.

Wang Hongfu stayed at his home, preparing to be sent back to his hometown after the New Year.

"What's the point of sending it back? Of course, we can't send it back. If we go to court in the future, she will still be a witness.

At least it proves that I have nothing to do with what Wang Wencheng did."

Although Wang Wencheng's wife's confession may not be useful at that time, it is better than nothing.

"Your Majesty, now we can only wait and see how our opponent attacks, and then we will respond accordingly."

Wang Xuance reminded.

Li Shen sighed:

"Alas, this is all I can do. If enemies come, I will fight them with my army. If water comes, I will block it with earth. Why do these bastards always want to harm me?

I didn't provoke them, isn't it good to live a good life with wine and meat every day?"

Li Shen became more and more excited as he spoke, and suddenly sat up with a fierce look in his eyes:

“Rengui, Li Jian will cancel the field training from today onwards and be ready to wait for my order at any time.

Xuan Ce, send someone to inform Roger's pirate group to stop shipping spices back to Tang Dynasty and only sell them to other countries. Tell Zhao Laosi to rob all the ships carrying spices in Malacca.

Old Wang, all the existing spices should be stored and not sold to the outside world. Release the news to the outside world. Even if the sea god gets angry, he will send all the ships carrying spices into the sea.

As long as there are spices on the market, they will be recycled at high prices.

Bastard, if I'm feeling bad, no one else will feel good, so I'll just let you drink plain water."

Li Shen became angrier the more he spoke. He just wanted to make some money, live happily, and play with beautiful women every day.

It's such a good thing that he can do whatever he wants, but there are always people who don't let him do what he wants.

If that's the case, then forget it.

Because Li Shen has been transporting large quantities of spices over the years, the price of spices has remained stable, with no price increase, and has even become cheaper.

Because the prices were cheap and stable, over time, fewer and fewer Western merchants wanted to make money with spices.

Only some merchants who engage in sea transportation will ship some here to sell, but the cost of land transportation is too high and no one is willing to transport it.

"I obey your orders."

"I accept your order."

The three of them stood up and saluted at the same time. They knew that King Ji was angry, and they didn't know how many people would be unlucky this time.

(I will have a stomachache in the next two days. If I don’t update on a certain day, I will have a stomachache on that day. I will not send out a notice asking for leave.

Thank you, thank you.)