Spoiling my mistress and swallowing my dowry? After my rebirth, I changed my marriage to a powerful

Everyone was stunned.

Secret report?

Duke Cheng'en's eyelids twitched.

"On September 16, an earthquake occurred, killing hundreds of thousands of people and animals. The prince arrived in Zhongzhou on September 25 and ordered the warehouses to be opened and grain released."

"Under the supervision of His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, all counties in Zhongzhou Prefecture have successively released grain, totaling 100 million shi, which is two-thirds of the new grain in the entire prefecture."

"However, very little grain reached the people. All of it was taken away by grain merchants, illegal traders, and officials. The people received less than one percent of it."

"The people of Zhongzhou had no place to live, no food to eat, and no place to bury their dead. In November, they gathered together and rose up in rebellion, and have occupied Zhongzhou Prefecture."

……

Duke Cheng'en listened to the secret report, his face turned pale, and he argued: "Your Majesty, is this news true? I wonder who spread the rumors and caused trouble?"

Emperor Hui said calmly: "You don't know? Because you are anxious to make money."

"Your Majesty, I am terrified!" Duke Cheng'en knelt down and cried, "The people of Zhongzhou are rioting, and the prince is the heir to the throne, nothing can happen to him!"

The prince's party were also horrified and hurriedly begged His Majesty to send troops to suppress the rebellion.

Emperor Hui laughed.

"Suppression? The people have nothing to eat, nothing to wear, nothing to live in, and they can't even bury their dead relatives. Why don't they rebel? If it were me, I would rebel too! How could the prince be in danger? He ran away as soon as a riot broke out. He's almost fled to the capital now, right?"

Ran?

Even the prince's party felt that the prince had violated the emperor's authority and actually ran away?

"Lord Cheng'en, the people are rioting, you are afraid, and you want to solve the problem with food? You still want me to pay you silver? I'll pay you, but you can actually offer 600 coins per pound! How dare you offer such a price?"

Duke Cheng'en knelt down and kowtowed to beg for mercy.

"No matter what, he is my son, the crown prince I personally appointed." Emperor Hui thought of the heavy troops held by Duke Cheng'en, and could only raise his head and swallow his anger. He said to Elder Liu calmly, "Draft an imperial decree to summon His Royal Highness the Crown Prince back to the court, and Zhongzhou immediately select another imperial envoy to go and appease the people."

"Grand Canal Project, Suspended"

……

In the court today, although Elder Liu reminded us to keep the Crown Prince's failure to provide disaster relief secret, how could he keep it secret?

As soon as they arrived at the court, Prince Qi and Prince Jin gathered together immediately.

Although they are rivals, fundamentally, their real opponent is the prince.

The prince's maternal grandfather, Duke Cheng'en's Wei family, was too powerful, so powerful that the two of them combined were despised for not even being qualified to be rivals to the prince.

Now, the Crown Prince's disaster relief has forced the people to rebel. Their chance has come, and they must create a wave of public opinion.

"Brother, what do you say we should do? I will listen to you this time. Once the crown prince ascends the throne, my brothers and our mother will have no chance of survival."

"First, spread the news that the people of Zhongzhou were forced to revolt by the crown prince." Prince Qi said, "The source of the price increase of rice this time was led by the Cheng'en Mansion. The Wu family and the crown prince joined forces to increase the price of rice from 3 wen to 600 wen. They are so unscrupulous!"

"Then I will send people to spread the word in Jiangnan, Zhongzhou, and around the Grand Canal project."

After the two brothers met hastily, they called together their respective confidants and made arrangements.

Starting from that evening, rumors spread throughout Daqian.

First, there were rumors everywhere that the prince forced the government to open the granaries to release grain. As a result, after the granaries were opened, the grain was not given to the people, but to his own subordinates.

His subordinates maliciously hoarded the food and then started to drive up the prices...

This wave of news exploded and the people became angry birds.

"No wonder the price of grain has increased hundreds of times, it turns out it was the prince who did it"

"Fengyu Rice Shop was opened by the brother of Duke Cheng'en, and the real owner is Duke Cheng'en's mansion."

"Wu's Rice Shop is the rice shop of Cheng'en Gong's in-laws"

"The Yangzhou rice shop was opened by the Crown Princess's brother"

The common people shared news with each other, and became more and more angry. It turned out that their crown prince was the one who started the process of driving up rice prices and maliciously hoarding grain!

Everyone began to try their best to dig up the prince's past.

More and more news came from all directions, even the story of how the crown prince was appointed spread.

"The Cheng'en Mansion was originally the garrison guarding the northwest border during the reign of the previous emperor. They colluded with the Western Xia, lied about military intelligence, and forced the previous emperor to empty the treasury time and time again."

"The Queen Mother is Wei. She poisoned the late Queen Mother to death and threatened the late Emperor to make her his successor by using military intelligence from the border."

"The Queen Mother Wei treated Your Majesty, who was still the Crown Prince, harshly. Your Majesty lives a life worse than that of ordinary people."

"After Queen Mother Wei came to power, she almost poisoned Emperor Hui, who was still the crown prince. Her own son died of smallpox, and only then did she start to support Your Majesty!"

"The Wei family supported Your Majesty and forced Your Majesty to make Duke Cheng'en's legitimate daughter the Queen, forcing Concubine Yun to death."

"Forcing His Majesty to appoint Zhou Jingrui as the Crown Prince"

"The prince is not worthy of his position"

"The prince is short-sighted"

"The prince is unkind and unjust"

"The prince is disloyal and unfilial"

"The prince is doing evil things"

"Prince..."

Then, it was said that the prince had been possessed by a demon and the dragon was reborn.

The rumor spread like a raging fire, from the capital to all parts of the country overnight, becoming more and more prevalent.

It was even said that when the prince's two sons were born, there was a dark cloud covering the city, with thunder and lightning raging. Some people even witnessed a ferocious beast with a hideous smile in the dark cloud!

The big tree in front of the gate of Huguo Temple was struck by lightning on the day the emperor's eldest grandson was born!

When the prince's two daughters were born, many people heard the shrill cries in the wild all night long.

……

Many common people were frightened by the rumors and avoided the Prince's Mansion.

Some people even secretly dumped garbage and threw manure into the shops and farms under the Prince and Duke Cheng'en's mansion.

A group of people organized monks and nuns to chant sutras to pray for the souls of the late emperor and the empress dowager.

The rumors are not just fabrications, there is also a lot of evidence posted in the form of notices, witnesses and other evidence.

The people from the Imperial City Bureau did not interfere, but they collected all the information and sent it to Emperor Hui's dragon case.

Rumors were rampant and officials from all walks of life reported them.

Some impeached the crown prince, some impeached Duke Cheng'en, and some impeached local officials.

There are so many memorials in the court that they are about to pile up like a mountain!

Emperor Hui was already ill and vomited blood again.

He weakly told people to throw a pile of memorials to the people of Cheng Engong and the crown prince's party: "Open your eyes and take a good look!"

Duke Cheng'en was overwhelmed. No matter how powerful his family was, he was still extremely troubled when facing the rebellion of the entire people.

He could force Emperor Hui, because Emperor Hui wanted to preserve his ancestral kingdom and would be cautious, swallow his anger and make concessions, but would the common people be afraid of him?

Those who are barefoot are not afraid of those who wear shoes. If we don’t let them live, the worst that can happen is that we will all die together!

Duke Cheng'en summoned all his confidants overnight.

They all knew that these rumors did not come out of thin air, there must be someone behind them.

All the rumors were directed at the Cheng'en Mansion, but it was obvious that they wanted to bring down the Crown Prince.

Who will benefit from the removal of the crown prince?

Of course it’s the other princes.

Since the Cheng'en Mansion was able to control two generations of emperors, naturally they had extraordinary means and soon found out that Prince Qi and Prince Jin were involved.

The speed at which the information and rumors spread made Duke Cheng'en wonder: When did Prince Qi and Prince Jin become so powerful?

"Submit a memorial tomorrow. Do these two little reptiles want to seize the throne? They are overestimating their own abilities!"

They ignored the national crisis and only thought about private fighting and ruining the reputation of the crown prince.

Just ask Emperor Hui to kill them with his own hands. If he cannot kill them, then at least imprison them for life.

A group of people wrote memorials overnight, preparing to present them to Prince Qi and Prince Jin the next day, making sure the two princes knew how many eyes Lord Ma had!

"Oh no, Prince. Something big happened in the Prince's Mansion!" The housekeeper in the mansion rolled over and cried to Lord Cheng'en!