Rebirth of the Merchant Woman's Revenge

Sure enough, around 4 p.m. in the evening, Prince An's Mansion received the Emperor's edict.

As Wang Zhuo expected, the emperor's edict stated that because Li Junze made a big mistake in the Jinzhou disaster relief, the emperor decided to deprive Li Junze of his title of King An. At the same time, he also conferred the title of King Duan on the fifth prince Li Juncheng and the title of King Jing on the eleventh prince Li Junsheng.

Li Junze received the imperial edict, feeling furious, and without saying a word, he came to the reception room of Prince An's Mansion.

"Zer, after what happened, you should calm down for a while and cultivate your character. Leave the rest to us."

Wang Zhuo patted Li Junze on the shoulder, with a look of resentment on his face.

"But, Grandfather, if this happens, I will become the one with the lowest status among the several princes of the royal family. I... am unwilling to accept this."

Li Junze's eyes were slightly red. From being the only prince with a title, to being the only prince without a title, how could Li Junze accept it in his heart?

"Zer, I have been secretly building up our strength. Even you don't know the relationship between some officials and us. Do you know why?"

Wang Zhuo asked Li Junze to sit down, and he sat down next to him.

"Because I'm afraid you won't be able to keep your cool. Actually, right now, we can do a lot with our relationship. Just wait and see. Starting today, I'm going to take action."

He seemed to have made up his mind, and his voice became sonorous, "Concubine Hui's child will be the first target I will take action against."

When Li Junze heard this, he seemed to understand what Wang Zhuo meant. If the first one was Concubine Hui's child, then could the second one be Prince Duan, or Prince Jing?

Is the prince next?

"One general's success is built on the bones of thousands of soldiers, let alone that position?" Wang Zhuo did not respond to his guess, but simply said this.

Then he stood up from the chair and looked at Li Junze lovingly again.

"For this month, you stay in the mansion and don't go anywhere. Do you understand?"

"Okay, Ze'er got it." Li Junze felt inexplicably excited.

After seeing Wang Zhuo off, he suddenly remembered that even if the fifth prince, the eleventh prince and the crown prince were all gone, he still had his father.

As long as my father is around, I won't be able to get to that position. Besides, in a few years, there will be other princes who will grow up. By then...

When Li Junze thought about this, he had a different understanding of what Wang Zhuo had just said.

Wang Zhuo used his decades-long official career to play a big game of chess.

Thinking of this, Li Junze felt excited but also a little scared.

But he soon let the matter go completely. He should have known long ago that Wang Zhuo could do something even crazier and it shouldn't be surprising.

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Three days passed in a blink of an eye, and it was almost August 15th, but there was still no news from Li Junhao.

Gu Xunwei no longer had the heart to make incense, and just chatted with Su every day.

Gu Ziyu also came back the day before yesterday. Nothing happened. He brought her a box of gold when he came back.

That was a secret known only to her and her.

The Gu family has been doing business for many years and has always adhered to the principle of not showing off their wealth and keeping a low profile. So when their wealth increased, they would exchange it for gold and bury it in a small Buddhist temple in the backyard of the Gu Mansion in Liuzhou.

The small Buddhist temple was located in a remote area, and Su was not one who liked to worship Buddha, so he only went there once or twice a month.

When I was young, I secretly followed my father there because I was playful, and my father even discovered my whereabouts.

Those golden things were also told to me personally by my father after he discovered me.

Once the Gu family is in trouble, these things will be life-saving, or when Da Chu is in trouble, they will donate without hesitation.

This time, my father must have heard that I was going to support the prince, so he took out such a big box.

At least a few thousand taels.

I gave it to myself quietly without telling my mother. It wasn't because I was worried that my mother would spend more money if she knew, but because I was afraid that she would worry.

This secret has been passed down orally by successive patriarchs of the Gu family, and it is impossible for anyone else to know it.

Over in Wangyu Tower, the Emperor also gave high praise for the generous act of donating food to Jinzhou for disaster relief, and personally wrote a plaque with the words "Great Righteousness" and hung it in the lobby on the first floor.

With this plaque, the status and position of Wangyulou has been raised a lot, and their order volume has also increased a lot.

Yan Nangui also came and told him about the situation of the more than 20 people who were captured alive. It turned out that they were not soldiers from the mansion, but a gang in the underworld that specialized in assassinations.

No one knows who commissioned them to do this, they just do the job for the money.

Even the gang leader doesn't know. It seems that there is nothing to be learned from this question.

At the same time, he also talked about another thing, which was the treatment of Gu Qiongsi, Hu Er and Xie Chengan.

Xie Cheng'an was the first to be released because he was not involved in the case. He has now returned to his ancestral home in Liuzhou with Qian, Nanny Li, the housekeeper, and Xi Cui.

Then it was Gu Qiongsi. Since he was charged with attempted murder, he was also given a light punishment and a severe warning. After being beaten with 20 strokes of the cane, he was also released.

It is said that she now lives with her son in a rented small courtyard in the western suburbs of Beijing.

Because Hu Er was involved in many cases, he was still detained in the Dali Temple prison until all the cases were tried.

After hearing this, Gu Xunwei could only nod her head. She once again thought that there was no need to bother with this bad couple anymore and that she should just live her own life from now on.

But Bai Zhi's words reminded her. Bai Zhi said, "Hmph, even though Gu Qiongsi is already like this, she will definitely continue to make trouble."

Yes, how could Gu Qiongsi just stay quiet like that, especially since she has already gotten together with Li Junze.

Both of them are ambitious people, and who knows what weird things they might do.

So she had to let Dark Hawk continue to keep an eye on Gu Qiongsi, and once she came into contact with Prince An, he must come and deliver the message as soon as possible.

These matters were dealt with, and Yan Nangui also interrogated Hu Er in detail. Unfortunately, he still told everything except the imperial examination.

There was really no other way, so Yan Nangui had to invite Chunxiu over in person and told Hu Er in front of him what he had said to him at that time.

Hu Er had no choice but to admit the matter.