The First Traitor [Rebirth]

With the support of the emperor, even though the king of Qi used Zhang Songwei to bite the prince to his heart's content, the prince's status seemed to have only shaken a little.The prince who was worried that he would be involved if he lost Feng Ying could also breathe a sigh of relief when he looked at the emperor with winks.

Today's prince has Luo Laohanlin as the prince's grand teacher, Jiang Guang from the household department, Yuan Ye from the official department, and many capable ministers. His position can be said to be unshakable.King Qi gritted his teeth. He thought that without Feng Ying, the prince's position would be shaken, but he didn't expect to separate the prince from Yuan Ye, and pushed Yuan Ye to the prince's side.

At this moment, a shocking news came from the palace-the palace was flooded!

At first, the house in the imperial garden caught fire, and then the fire spread from the verandas on both sides to the nearby hall, which was closer to the emperor's bedroom, and soon spread to the bedroom.Fortunately, when the fire was discovered, Liu Xiao received the news and ordered the emperor to get up and drive to another palace to escape.

The fire burned for a day and a night, and it was only extinguished the next day. However, more than ten palaces were burned, including the emperor's bedroom, so that the emperor had to temporarily move to the queen's bedroom.

The emperor's body was already unwell, but this time he was frightened by the fire and fell ill. He angrily asked the Imperial Forest Army to trace the cause of the fire on the bed.It didn't take long to find out that a gardener accidentally set fire to the house in the imperial garden, but the sky was dry and the fire spread quickly.

Seeing that the gardener was executed, not to mention, many people were implicated and punished.In addition to caring about the emperor's body, everyone also cared about the rebuilding of the house.

Repairing the palace requires a large amount of work and costs a lot, and the national treasury may not be able to support it if there is a large-scale construction.At that time, the people will definitely be taken, and the people will complain.

The emperor was too sick to get out of bed, so he could only order the prince to supervise the government temporarily, and several university scholars assisted him.In this way, the matter of rebuilding the palace was handed over to the prince.He consulted all the officials in the court, and all the officials insisted on their own opinions: some said that the treasury was running out of silver taels, and that the rebuilding of the palace should be postponed, since it was not an important palace that was burned anyway; Because it was collected from all the officials, but this imitation of Yuan Ye's reason for building Fengtian Pavilion was opposed by all the officials, and the prince seemed a little hesitant because of this.

There is also a voice to levy taxes on the people, but this move was refuted by some pure officials who are sincere to the people: "The emperor's inner treasury should be used to build a palace, but how much can the inner treasury accumulate in a year? What is taken is not enough From the common people? Rebuilding a palace will cost hundreds of millions of taels of silver, the national expenditure has been exhausted, and the power of the people has been exhausted!"

Yuan Ye said: "It can be agreed that each of the six ministries will give [-] yuan in silver, and send the censor to check the materials and silver taels in arrears in the Ministry of Industry; as well as the salaries of the vacancies of the governors and government offices, fines for taking stolen goods; and officials in the capital. Inspect all supervisors, bureaus, warehouses, and factories, and collect and store materials that are routinely prepared by each province every year.”

The prince was in a dilemma all of a sudden, thinking about how much silver taels he took from it back then, if he wanted to check now, he would definitely have a lot of trouble.It just so happened that at such a juncture, he couldn't let the emperor know, otherwise the emperor would take his anger out on him.

So the prince ordered Jiang Guang to suggest that the emperor should go outside the palace to recuperate first and wait for the palace to be rebuilt. Although the emperor was reluctant, Qin Tianjian said that although the fire was man-made, it was also a warning from heaven.Although the emperor ordered the prince to go to Fengtian Pavilion to worship and pray for safety on his behalf, he still couldn't resist the fear of the fire in his heart, and finally chose to go to the Summer Resort temporarily.

The emperor traveled to the summer resort this time, in addition to the empress, he was still accompanied by several concubines and princesses.Most of the imperial forest army also withdrew, leaving only a part to stay in the capital.King Qi was worried that if he left, he would never have a chance to come back, so he asked for an order to stay.The emperor had some complaints about the prince's actions in his heart, so he allowed King Qi to stay to check and balance the prince.

"Yuan Siye." The curtain of the carriage was lifted, and a head protruded from inside and shouted at Yuan Jing who was riding a horse ahead.

Turning around, seeing Nan Consort Ma, he slowed down the pace of the horse so as to keep pace with the carriage.

"What are your orders, my lord?"

"I heard that Yuan Siye's aunt is about to give birth, why did Yuan Siye choose to accompany the emperor to the Summer Resort?" Nan Consort asked.

"This matter can't be decided by the lower officials." Yuan Jing laughed.

When the emperor went to the Mountain Resort, he did not let go of his power and went to the Mountain Resort alone. In addition to the concubines, princes and princesses, some civil and military officials also followed him to the Mountain Resort.Any important matters need to be reported to him every day, so as not to lose power.

In the Guozijian, except for some Tai students who accompanied Yuan Jing, the rest stayed in the Guozijian and were still taught by Luo Qilang.It turned out that it was just before departure that Nan Lian and Princess Cheng Ya also went to the summer resort together. However, Nan Lian could not travel far because Yuan Li's funeral had not yet passed, and she could help Yuan Jing see her in the mansion. with.

Nan Lian was coquettishly under Yuan Jing's body, she suddenly grabbed Yuan Jing's hair, groaned and ordered: "This time, my parents will also go to the summer resort, you have to take care of them for me."

"Yes, yes, the next official takes orders." Yuan actually took the time to finish speaking, and buried himself in the nectar again.

It turned out that she was immersed in the lively and fragrant scenery of last night, and she didn't come back to her senses until Nan's son-in-law called her twice.When she saw Prince Nan, she felt a little guilty. After all, recalling the happy scene with his daughter in front of his father, it was really...

Prince Nan chatted with her for a while, seeing that she didn't have any concubines with her, he couldn't help but look at her differently.Talking to Princess Cheng Ya: "It's a pity that our Lian'er married Yuan Li, and now she is going to be a widow at such a young age..."

Princess Cheng Ya didn't take it seriously: "How can my daughter be like an ordinary woman? If she wants to remarry, no one can stop her."

"I see Yuan..." Princess Cheng Ya frowned before the concubine Nan finished speaking, "It's not impossible, it's just that we are both in the Yuan family, so I'm afraid there will be a lot of gossip, and Yuan Ye's stubbornness may not agree. .”

"It's a pity, I think this Yuan is a clean man, and he didn't bring any concubines or housemates with him when he went to the Summer Palace this time."

"She already has two concubines. In the eyes of you men, is this self-cleaning?" Princess Cheng Ya gave Nan Concubine a sideways look.

"That's not the case with scoring. If you don't look at Yuanjia..."

"Yuan actually followed his father. Didn't Yuan Ye talk about being devoted when he was young? Didn't he marry Luhou's daughter in the end! Sometimes you men are superficially affectionate, but you don't use it when you are actually looking for a new love An excuse for being forced to do nothing?"

Nan Consort hurriedly defended himself: "My Royal Highness, I don't have one!"

"It's just that you don't have the guts. If this princess learns that Yuan Lu's incompetence and doesn't care about things, you are afraid that you will find me a "true love" and come back the next day!"

Yuan, who hadn't gone far outside the carriage, heard the couple's "whispering" and was very speechless: This carriage is different from the house, and the partition has ears. You still talk so loudly, are you afraid that I won't mind?

A young eunuch hurried over and said, "Master Yuan, the emperor has called you over."

It turned out that it was only then that he rode his horse to the side of the emperor's driver in front.

The emperor's health is much better than the previous days, otherwise he would not be able to bear the exhaustion of traveling in the summer resort.At this time, joyous laughter was coming from the emperor's driving car. According to Yuan Jing's knowledge, King Liang, King Zhao, and Princess Luohua were all accompanying the emperor inside.

It turned out that Princess Luohua got out from inside, snatched a horse from the guard at the side, and wanted to learn how to ride the horse forward.

"Yuan Erlang, Luo Hua said that staying in the carriage was boring, so I let her ride a horse. I know you are a good equestrian, so you help me watch her, don't let her fall and get hurt." The emperor said.

It turns out that she vaguely knew what the emperor was thinking, and didn't resist the order, so she went aside to help Princess Luohua hold the reins.After getting a little farther away from Yujia, Princess Luohua said: "You must know what the father thinks. In this case, this princess wants to see how you want to marry Xiaojiao."

Yuan actually glanced at her: "Could it be that the princess came here to do these things?"

Princess Luohua sneered: "Of course not! But, you are right, if this princess will only act capriciously without the ability to do things, then I will not be able to decide anything in the future."

"Then what can the princess gain by following here?"

The corner of Princess Luohua's mouth twitched: "The princess is going to ask, what can I get if Brother Liang and Brother Zhao come here!"

It's not that she is ignorant of the world in Luohua, she only knows how to rely on the favor of her father, queen and queen to be a willful, savage and confused princess.The prince supervised the administration, and when the emperor was on the hospital bed, he vaguely revealed his worries about the prince and he allowed King Qi to stay in the capital. His intentions were clear.

But Liang Wang and Zhao Wang volunteered to follow, nothing more than to win the emperor's favor and trust.Although she is a woman, she can't get anything because of it, but at least she can get something from Yuan Jing.

"Princess, this is..." Yuan Jing squinted his eyes, "What do you want from this lower official?"

"You know." Princess Luohua's hand slowly rested on Yuan Jing's hand holding the rein, and Yuan Jing kept looking at her until Princess Luohua took the rein out of Yuan Jing's hand and returned it to her own.

"The horse still has to be ridden by itself. Yuan Siye can help me get started, isn't it?" Princess Luohua said, clamping the horse's belly, waving the whip, and galloping away.After a while she turned around and said with a smile, "I didn't expect Yuanjia Erlang's hands to be quite delicate!"

"..." Yuan was speechless, but the emperor behind him laughed happily.

After the emperor and some civil and military officials were not in the court, the burden on the crown prince was much lighter.Now that he is in charge of the country, King Qi is suppressed by him, so it can be said that he has let out a lot of anger.He ordered people to convict Zhang Songwei as soon as possible, but also tried to collect charges everywhere in an attempt to participate in Qi Wangyi while the emperor was away from Beijing.

Naturally, the king of Qi would not sit still and set up a trap to wait for the prince to make a mistake at any time so that he could participate in the prince's book first.But when the courtiers saw that the emperor was not there, not only did the court not have a moment of peace, but another storm arose.

Before making a decision on raising money to rebuild the palace, they began to fight for power and profit. Luo Lao Hanlin severely criticized the prince for this.The prince didn't dare to confront him because he was a highly respected veteran, so he could only pretend to think of ways to raise money.

After discussing for half a month, they finally decided to follow Yuan Ye's proposal.The king of Qi seemed to feel that it was not enough, and urged the courtiers to report that they should stop working everywhere, and their labor service should be applied to idle sergeants such as the battalions, the imperial guards, and the imperial forest army.If the number of people is not enough, it will be recruited and the hard labor of the prefectures and counties near Gyeonggi, and the number of people will be determined according to the size of the county.

The prince thought to himself that although it was proposed by King Qi's people, it could save a lot of expenses for expropriating the people, so he agreed.It's just that he didn't expect that not long after the decree was made, some convicts would escape, and he raised money from various ministries, which was equivalent to reducing the expenditure of each ministry in a disguised form.

There are still many water conservancy projects in the Ministry of Industry that have not been completed, so they have to suspend and take out the materials; the Treasury of the Ministry of Finance is also in short supply, and has to find a name to collect taxes from the people; the Ministry of War also has to reduce military pay to make up the 10 Two...the rest of the ministries need not be said.The Ministry of Officials is responsible for the salaries of hundreds of officials, and it is equivalent to deducting their salaries in a disguised form, so that every official has misery.

However, there are policies and countermeasures. When the emperor oppresses them, they can search for silver from the people, and they still use the imperial decree to search.In the end, they still benefit.

After half a month of planning, the palace began to be rebuilt, and Yuan, who was far away in the summer resort, also received a letter from his family saying that Pingyao was born.