Minglan is reborn, this time with no regrets!

It was late at night when Minglan returned to Chengyuan.

As soon as she opened the curtain of the carriage, a cloak wrapped around her head.

Then a pair of strong hands picked her up sideways.

She pulled at her cape, revealing her head. She met Gu Tingye's piercing eyes and asked with a smile, "Why are you here?"

Gu Tingye: "If you don't come back, I will go to the Sheng family to ask for you personally."

Minglan: "Oh, I'm sorry, I had a big event at home today and left you out."

Gu Tingye: "How do you compensate?"

Minglan: "Uh...I'll make you a midnight snack?"

"You'll make me a midnight snack?" Gu Tingye thought about it and nodded, "Deal."

As he spoke, he carried Minglan like a gust of wind through the corridors and went straight into the bedroom.

"Put me down! I'll make you a midnight snack!" Minglan struggled.

"Yes, make me a midnight snack." Gu Tingye put her on the table and pulled off her cloak.

Minglan suddenly understood and pushed him away with a red face: "That's not what I meant!"

Gu Tingye: "That's what I mean!"

The big-tailed wolf had a hearty meal on the table and didn't stop until three in the morning.

After the strong wind, a drizzle began to fall outside the window, and the sound of the fine rain made the house feel particularly peaceful.

Under the brocade quilt, Gu Tingye held Minglan's snow-white hand and asked softly, "What big thing did you do today?"

Minglan's slightly damp hair stuck to her face. She didn't even have the strength to brush it away. She turned around and left Gu Tingye with her back: "Forget it! I want to sleep!"

Gu Tingye laughed, hugged the figure in his arms, and said, "Okay, you go to sleep."

Minglan closed her eyes and felt groggy, but she felt her body getting hotter and hotter, as if her lower back was being pressed by some powerful weapon. She pulled the quilt, sat up suddenly, and said, "Let's chat! Let's chat!"

Gu Tingye laughed loudly, propped up his head and crossed his legs to admire the appearance of his little wife, and said lovingly: "Oh, you are so sleepy, let's go to bed!"

"No! I'm not sleepy at all!" Minglan was determined.

Gu Tingye was even happier, and he craned his neck to move forward. Minglan slid to the end of the bed like a fish, and leaned against the bed railing and said, "Today we beat Aunt Kang."

Gu Tingye was indeed distracted by this topic, and asked with bright eyes: "So exciting?"

Minglan: "It has been found out that Aunt Kang gave my father the medicine, and she tampered with the medicine..."

She closed her eyes and told the story of what happened in the Sheng family in a clear and logical manner. At the end, she yawned and said, "Finally, this scourge has been solved."

Gu Tingye shook his head repeatedly after hearing this: "My mother-in-law is really stupid. How could she be deceived by this vicious woman again and again?"

Minglan: "If the Madam was not so confused, the Sheng family would have been free of the Linqi Pavilion family eight hundred years ago. Second brother was so angry that he ordered the Madam to go back to her hometown in Youyang to worship Buddha and repent, and he also ordered her not to return to Beijing for ten years."

Gu Tingye was shocked: "Your second brother is really a thunderbolt, even his own old mother was so cruel!"

"A good son is born out of a beating... Oh, that's not right," Minglan knocked her dizzy head, "Oh, anyway, the Madam should leave the capital and reflect on herself, otherwise, who knows what disasters she will cause in the future."

Gu Tingye: "What about your Aunt Kang? Is it enough to just send her to the inner prison? Aren't you afraid that the Wang family will find a chance to get her out again?"

Minglan: "Aunt Kang may not survive. Dongrong, who was in charge of the execution today, was a man left by my father. I heard that his ancestors had been officials in the government for generations. He has skills and knows how to beat people. The two Qi stewards who bought drugs and killed people in the Kang family were personally interrogated by Dongrong. He knew that his father was killed by this poisonous woman, so he must avenge his father. Although he was only beaten with fifty boards today, it was so bloody that flesh flew everywhere... Just wait and see, Aunt Kang's injuries will never heal. It's Aunt Kang's fault. She forced me to agree to ask for an official position for her son, otherwise I won't be able to provoke the anger of my second brother, and I don't know when the truth will come out."

Gu Tingye: "Officials today are like titles in ancient times, no wonder everyone yearns for them. Taizu established the system of favoritism in order to win over the noble families who surrendered and consolidate the imperial power. Unexpectedly, a hundred years later, it became a disaster for the country. So many officials were given away, and a large group of people were supported to eat the emperor's food. When doing things, there were people who hindered them everywhere. Not only was the efficiency extremely low, but it also emptied the national treasury."

Minglan: "The court is short of money?"

Gu Tingye shook his head and sighed, "Yes. I just heard from Prince Huan recently that the previous emperor left a mess for the government. It looks magnificent and prosperous, but in fact the national treasury is already in deficit."

Minglan: "That shouldn't be the case. The most profitable businesses in the world today - salt, mining, border trade, shipping, and grain transport - are all controlled by the court. They receive a lot of money and goods into the treasury every year, right?"

Gu Tingye: "No matter how much income there is, it can't keep up with so many people who need to eat. Even those with official positions need to receive salaries, not to mention those who hold important positions. They can ask for titles for their descendants by crying in front of the late emperor. The number of people who eat the emperor's food is increasing much faster than the business of collecting the emperor's food. What's more fatal is that those large-scale businesses are not in the hands of the current emperor. In today's world, the most important thing is money. Now there is money, but most of it is not in the treasury; the second most important thing is soldiers. Although there are soldiers, there are not many who can be deployed and obey orders. Don't look at the official sitting on the throne, in fact, many things don't make sense."

Minglan: "So you would rather offend the Queen Mother than trick the seal back from her?"

Gu Tingye nodded: "Once the imperial seal is sealed, at least those restless people will be able to calm down."

Minglan: "I'm afraid that even though we have the imperial seal, there are still some people who pretend to obey but actually disobey it?"

Gu Tingye: "The late emperor's administration was based on benevolence and kindness. He has been favoring people for decades and has nurtured the current civil and military officials. Although he is no longer with us, many important officials in the court hope that the current emperor can follow the late emperor's example and continue on his path. But the emperor is resolute and resolute and is determined to reform, so naturally some people will be unhappy."

Minglan recalled how Zhao Zongquan looked timid in his previous life when facing the blood edict tiger talisman, and said, "Brave and resolute? He should be talking about King Huan."

Gu Tingye smiled and scratched Minglan's nose, without denying: "Prince Huan has great ambitions. He has long seen that the government has deep-rooted problems and must be changed. Take the army for example. Not long after I took charge of the imperial army, I found a lot of problems. They were eating empty salaries, stealing military rations, occupying civilian land, and most of the equipment warehouses were empty. They used military salaries to lend at high interest. It was appalling. Not to mention other government offices, where people were redundant and extorting money from the people."

Minglan: "So, some people with impure minds see that being an official can bring so many benefits, and they try their best to squeeze into the officialdom. Those people become officials not to benefit the people, but just to use the power in their hands to squeeze the people's fat and blood."

Gu Tingye: "So, I don't want to help those people in the Gu family to seek official positions."

Minglan: "I understand. I won't ask for an official position for Aunt Kang's son either."

Gu Tingye: "The person I want to recommend must be someone who is beneficial to the country and the people."

Minglan: "With millions of people in this country, you will surely find people who share the same ideals as you."

Gu Tingye held Minglan's hand and said, "Isn't there a fellow traveler around? The manuscripts you wrote to His Majesty are now more valued by His Majesty than the memorials of the great ministers. In order to prevent them from being stolen by the Empress, they are now sent to the Empress' desk. The Emperor reads them every day under the guise of visiting the Empress, and can discuss them with the Empress after reading them. In short, you are now comparable to the commander of the Imperial City Division!"

Minglan smiled and lowered her head: "Don't talk nonsense, I am nothing, I just compiled the gossip at the docks, at most I am a clerk... By the way, how are you going to deal with the problems in the army? To be able to do such things in the army, the person behind it must be powerful and influential. If the game is too fierce, I'm afraid it will hurt you?"

Gu Tingye raised his lips and smiled evilly: "I will not investigate so deeply at the moment. I will just deal with these small culprits. If we want to eradicate these problems, we have to start with the military and political system and reform the system."

Minglan: "How to change it?"

Gu Tingye: "The overall framework is still under discussion, but I have already discussed with King Huan and decided to station troops on the important northwest front first."

Minglan: "In wartime, I serve as a soldier. In leisure time, I cultivate the land. If I am self-sufficient, I won't have any salary to work for."

"That's right." Gu Tingye hugged the man in his arms, "Now, the Queen Mother and Your Majesty are fighting for power. It's either about soldiers or money. It will be a fierce battle in any case. Prince Huan and his son have been kind to me. I'm afraid that our family will not have a peaceful life in the future."

Minglan leaned against his chest tightly: "The road ahead is long, I am willing to go with you."