Overlord's Road to Ancient Emperors

Kou Xiao's departure did not cause a shock in the government and the public. Firstly, he is the confidant and ambiguous object of King Shun, and it will be a matter of time before he becomes successful. Secondly, after the evils of Northwest were exposed, there are very few people who can take over this mess.

Even if Li Xu had full confidence in Kou Xiao, he was still worried that he would be plotted and hurt by others, so on the second day after Kou Xiao left, he established a new department called "Firearms Camp". It's research or something.

However, civil and military officials and the common people did not understand the meaning of these three words. They could only guess that they were supplying weapons for the army. The beauties of His Royal Highness King Shun had all gone to the battlefield. He wanted to establish a new weapons department in the court. It's not unusual, so all the officials turned a blind eye and no one objected.

Winter in the capital came very early. When Li Xu discovered the colorful fallen leaves, he could already feel the chill when he got up and went out in the morning. He asked Liu Shu in the carriage: "How is the output of the wool factory in the northwest? When you come back next time, you can put Bring me the account books over there to have a look."

Liu Shu seldom took care of the accounts outside the palace. He nodded and said, "The slave will let someone sort it out in a while. Manager Jin will send over the account books every month, but why do you suddenly ask this?"

"It's winter, and I want to know if there are enough warm clothes in the northwest. If there is not enough, I have to send a batch there earlier."

Liu Shu guessed that he was trying to make Kou Xiao perform faster, so he said sourly: "If the prince is so considerate of General Kou, he will definitely be able to reorganize the Northwest Army soon and improve the lives of the people in the Northwest."

"Kou Xiao is a general, and only the Northwest Army can manage it. The issue of governing the people should still be left to the civilian officials. Have all the reserve officials selected this time been checked? I will send the roster to the king for review later."

"In the past few months, dozens of people have been promoted intermittently. The second place has been released as a parent officer, and Tanhua has filled in the vacancies in the work. The rest of the people are after all selected from the rest, and there are very few outstanding ones, but our number one scholar. He has not been assigned an official position yet, presumably Wei Cheng has already made arrangements for him."

Li Xu's eyebrows twitched, "Wei Lan, he is a suitable candidate. He has enough background and means. He is the only one."

"But... my lord, can Xiangye agree to send his most valued eldest grandson to the northwest? That's a place that eats people but doesn't spit out their bones."

Li Xu waved his hand nonchalantly, "Young man, when you first enter the officialdom, you should go out and practice for a while. I think the Prime Minister can understand what this king is thinking."

"No! I can't agree, and please ask the lord to ask you to be wise. Wei Lan is young and inexperienced, and he is really not qualified for such an important position." Wei Xiangye rejected Li Xu's proposal without thinking.

If it was someone else's child, Li Xu didn't need to discuss it with his parents at all, he would go to even the most difficult place under an imperial decree, but Wei Lan was a child of the prime minister's family, so naturally he couldn't deal with it arbitrarily.

He persuaded earnestly: "I understand Xiangye's love for his grandson, but do you think it's okay for Wei Lan to stay idle like this? All the capable people in his same batch of reserves have been promoted. , Mr. Xiang, have you ever thought about whether it is really good for Wei Lan in the past?"

Prime Minister Wei's expression was a little uneasy. Of course he knew the seriousness of the problem, but wouldn't it be embarrassing if the starting point for the eldest grandson that the Wei family had cultivated with all their strength was too low?Too high a position is not suitable for him, a young man who has just entered an official position, and there are dangers, Prime Minister Wei must be worried about sending people there.

"This king knows that Xiangye is worried about the safety of his eldest grandson. Fortunately, there is Kou Xiao in the northwest, so he will be able to protect him. Moreover, this king did not let him go to the northwest to go to war. He only needs to mediate the conflicts between the people and the government, and cancel some important things. He is the most suitable candidate for the harmful policy."

Prime Minister Wei thought about it, and it was a good thing for King Shun to think of Wei Lan. The capital is much stronger.

And what Li Xu said is right, there is Kou Xiao in the northwest, even for him, King Shun would not be able to cause chaos in the northwest. It is also more convenient than in other places when you want to borrow troops.

"My lord, I need to go back and think about it for a few days. After all, this matter is related to the fate of my grandson. Forgive me for not making a decision immediately."

Li Xu saw his looseness, and said with a smile: "This is what it should be, and the prime minister can ask Wei Lan for his own opinion. After all, he walked the road by himself, and it is not good for his family to interfere too much. What do you think?" ?”

"Yes, you are quite right." Wei Xiangye responded obediently, but thought in his heart: Without the intervention of the prince, how could Kou Xiao become the commander-in-chief of the thirty armies?

After talking about this matter, Wei Xiangye raised his mouth again: "Yesterday, the emperor told his ministers that he wanted to choose a woman of the right age for you to enter the mansion. I wonder what requirements you have for the woman's appearance, temperament and family background? The minister will order someone to choose a suitable woman for you to have a look at."

Li Xu expected this to happen, and he also thought of a countermeasure, "Don't bother the Prime Minister, this is my king's private matter, and this king will handle it according to his discretion."

"But holy orders are difficult, not to mention that the emperor is doing it for the sake of the prince. Now everyone knows that the emperor waits to have a grandson before he can register as a prince. He doesn't even ask to be a son. This is a good thing for you. Pick a woman." Your position will be more secure after giving birth to the eldest son." Wei Chengxiang's words are reasonable no matter who listens to them, but unfortunately, Li Xu doesn't want to appreciate it.

"Let's discuss this matter again. If the emperor brings it up again, Xiangye may push it on me. The emperor is anxious to hug his grandson, but this king is not in a hurry to have a son at this time."

"You are not young this year, and it is too lonely to have only one daughter under your knees." Wei Chengxiang could only say clearly: "My lord, you only have one daughter when you are so old. This is going to be unprecedented."

Li Xu refused to accept the move, and retorted: "The blood is connected, these brothers and sisters are all in the palace and outside the palace, the little princess does not feel lonely, not to mention that the father is going to give her a little uncle soon, she is talking about the future. I want to play with my little uncle."

Sometimes Li Xu felt that he was a crow's mouth. He had just finished talking about the unborn child during the day, and at night, bad news came from the palace. The Mrs. Wang who was pregnant with the dragon species died suddenly. In anger, he beheaded many people, and blood flowed in the palace.

Li Xu didn't bother to find out the truth about this matter. He had always kept that Mrs. Wang at a respectful distance. She was able to give birth to a child smoothly because of the idle princes in the future.

But he didn't inquire, but someone passed the news to him, and the eldest prince who lives next door came angrily and told Li Xu, "Do you know that Mrs. Wang's belly is a wild species?"

Li Xu was taken aback, "Why do you say that? Who spread the rumor?"

"Hey, there's no need for someone to spread rumors. The emperor personally caught the adulterer, and Mrs. Wang also admitted it. Otherwise, how do you think she died?"

Li Xu took a deep look at the Eldest Prince, "Brother Eldest Prince is very well informed, even the flies surrounded by the Habayashi army in the Imperial Palace tonight can't fly in, how did you find out about this news?"

"Huh, this king naturally has his own way. I just told you to be vigilant, and don't talk nonsense and get into trouble." The first prince walked away swaggeringly after speaking, and he didn't seem to be bothered by what happened in the hall that day. frustrated.

This is also a strange person, obviously it is a terrible matter, but he is not worried at all that the emperor will settle the score after the autumn, and he has the intention of breaking up with the Northwest.

And how kind of him to come to tell himself the news?Li Xu didn't believe it at all, maybe this person just wanted to watch the excitement.

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The next day, when the emperor dismissed the court, Li Xu took a few ministers to the side hall to handle official business. In fact, it was beneficial for the emperor not to attend the court early. Li Xu could review the memorials for two more hours, otherwise he would not be able to finish his official business every day when it was dark.

The news in the palace has never been concealed. At this time, the officials have already guessed what happened in the harem, and they can understand why the emperor wants to stop the court.

That is the little prince that the emperor has been thinking about. A son who is old is a big treasure. The emperor has sent her rewards over the past few months, and even thought of making her queen, but this kind of thing happened. I have to say Well, this game was done really well, it didn't happen sooner or later, and it happened when Li Xu was in trouble.

The child's premature death also made the emperor see the reality clearly. He would no longer have the opportunity to cultivate a qualified heir. Who else could the crown prince be handed over to besides Li Xu?

After noon, Li Xu learned the whole story. The reason was that a little imperial doctor came to Mrs. Wang to check her pulse, and said a few words that Mrs. Wang didn't like to hear. It basically said that Mrs. Wang should not take supplements all the time and move around more. , lest the child is too big to be born.

This is normal, but Mrs. Wang came from a humble background. Once she is favored, of course everything will be good. In order to give birth to a healthy child, she has to make a lot of supplements.

As a result, in the evening, when Mrs. Wang went out for a walk, a lady satirized her. This belly didn't look like it was seven months old. Don't someone deliberately collude with the imperial physician to hide the truth?The subtext is to say that Mrs. Wang's stomach is a wild species.

Mrs. Wang felt guilty, thinking that her affairs had been exposed, she immediately reprimanded the lady, and secretly wrote to the adulterer after returning home at night, asking him to come.Mrs. Wang thought simply at the time that as long as the adulterer died, it would be impossible to find out the truth. In order to make the adulterer die quietly without attracting attention, Mrs. Wang decided to do it herself.

At night, the adulterer came according to the appointment, and saw Mrs. Wang dressed radiantly, because she was very gentle and amiable because she was pregnant, so naturally she couldn't hold it back. In order to comfort him, Mrs. Wang let him hold her for a while, but she didn't know that she was in the middle of the night. When the two were inseparable, the emperor came.

This is the real catching adulterer on the bed, she couldn't allow her to justify a word, the emperor was furious immediately, the adulterer was chopped up and thrown out to feed the wolves, Mrs. Wang was also given to death after finding out that she was a bad bastard Even the maids and eunuchs of the entire palace were all killed with sticks.

Now that the palace is talking about "king", no one dares to mention this word in front of the emperor. Li Xu wanted to leave the palace after lunch, but Eunuch Zhao ran in in a panic and shouted: "My lord, it's not good!" Yes, Your Majesty has fainted!"