Overlord's Road to Ancient Emperors

Just after looking at the corpse, the emperor was not in a good mood. He walked out along the street with an angry face on his face. He was about to teach his son a few words when he saw a girl coming with a few yamen guards escorting her. The girl was neatly dressed. With a good face, he looked like a child of eleven or twelve years old.

When they walked away, they could still hear someone shouting from the place they just passed: "Look, the murderer has caught..."

The emperor's face was flushed with anger. If it wasn't for his identity, he would have rushed over to ask: Is this the murderer?Where do you look like a murderer?He questioned Li Xu, "Is this what you call being upright and clear?"

Li Xu was also surprised, but how the government decides the case is not his business, and they don't understand anything, so it's not good to intervene rashly, so he said: "If the father wants to know the case, I will order someone to submit the case file later. .”

The emperor said coldly: "What to submit, it must be that the witnesses and material evidence are sufficient. The government is incompetent, so they can only arrest this kind of child to take the blame?"

Li Xu disagreed, "You and I don't know the facts of the case, and we don't know what happened. If we are afraid of being fooled by the officials, we can secretly attend the trial tomorrow."

The emperor flicked his sleeves, and didn't want to do what he wanted, so he turned his head and went into a small teahouse by the side of the road.

The small teahouse is really small, and the people sitting there are either idlers with nothing to do, or passers-by who are thirsty and drink a glass of water and leave. It is incomparable with Ruyi Teahouse, but there is also a storyteller, who is talking about "Three Kingdoms" Romance", when the guests were excited, they even got up and gestured a few times, and said: "I am Changshan Zhao Zilong!"

Liu Shu wiped the two chairs and let the two masters sit down. The tea doctor at the side was timidly afraid to come over with the teapot, so he took his job and made tea for the masters himself.

"I heard that someone died in the next street. Who is so unlucky?"

"Who else is there, Zhao Tiesan, good death! Haha!"

"It's him. I thought he was dead long ago. This scourge has lived long enough."

The emperor frowned, picked up the cup and sniffed it, then put it down, but Li Xu didn't mind the mediocre tea, he was a little thirsty after walking for a while.

"Isn't the girl arrested by the yamen servant just now the daughter of Zhao Tiesan? Why did you arrest her?"

"Murderer."

"I can't, that's still a child."

"This daughter of the Zhao family is not an ordinary child. She is a child who can kung fu. It is not difficult to kill someone. Moreover, Zhao Tiesan beat and scolded her mother and daughter since she was a child. Not only did she drink and gamble, but she also owed debts everywhere. Forcing his mother-in-law to sell herself, such a father would have been beaten to death by me."

A guest at the side interrupted and said: "This time he owes a lot of money again, and he has no wife to sell, so he mortgaged his daughter. The girl looks pretty good, and I heard that she sold it for a good price." He laughed obscenely, and his mouth was full of obscene words, which made Li Xu take a few more glances.

Li Xu and his party were noticed as soon as they entered the door, but there are many rich and noble families in the capital, and it is not surprising that a pair of phoenixes come to the chicken coop occasionally, but when Li Xu looked at them coldly, the man consciously stopped talking.

It didn't take long for the updated news to spread. The girl pleaded guilty. The murderer was indeed a homicide, and the motive was pure. She just didn't want to live anymore. If she wanted to die, everyone would die together.

The emperor became furious and cursed: "Hmph, there is such a scum under the emperor's feet, and he deserves it if he dies. Go, let someone let that girl go, I forgive her for her innocence."

Dayan's laws do not include the Law on the Protection of Minors. No matter how young the girl is, she is still a murderer. As for how the government will punish her, Li Xu does not want to interfere.

"Father, the law is above, and the government will judge according to law."

The emperor refused to agree, he would not let her die if he wanted to live alone, so he sent Eunuch Zhao to ask for someone with his seal, Li Xu didn't stop him, but he didn't know if he did it for himself on purpose, or Pure nature.

An old man who has been emperor for decades is pure in nature?Do not make jokes.

After drinking a few cups of tea, the emperor got up and left. Li Xu followed him and walked two streets, and then entered a restaurant. Hastily invited the person to the upstairs box.

Liu Shu ordered a few dishes according to the tastes of his masters. He reckoned that the emperor would not eat such outside food, so he selfishly ordered a few more dishes for his prince that he liked.

The downstairs was noisy, Li Xu might not have experienced such an experience for a long time, and the emperor seldom got in touch with this kind of people's livelihood. While leaning on the window sill and looking at the street downstairs, he didn't know what he was thinking.

Eunuch Zhao was on his side, seeing him staring at the road, he said with a smile: "This road is a cement road, right? I heard that the cement road is flat and spacious, and it is indeed so when I saw it today."

The streets in Beijing have been rebuilt into cement roads since the year before last. Now, the main street has completely changed. Not only is the road smooth and spacious, but it is also extraordinarily clean. There are trash cans on the side of the road at intervals. It is not that the people consciously throw rubbish into the trash can, but that there are cleaners who come to clean up from time to time. It is not so easy to change the living habits of people in an era.

The roadside is full of small stalls and hawkers, selling everything. This is also a manifestation of the prosperity of the capital. Things from all over the world gather together. Especially this year, Li Xu pays special attention to commerce. There are many imported products in the market, with a wide variety , so that pedestrians linger.

"If you open up the country so much, aren't you afraid of being taken advantage of by the enemy?"

"That's better than closing the door and defending the country. Only by making continuous progress and standing at the top of the world, they dare not attack Dayan. Otherwise, even if the border is strictly guarded, it will not be able to prevent foreign countries from staring at them."

It was getting dark, and lanterns were hung in the market. The emperor once stood on the highest point of the palace, looking down at the entire capital. At that time, he saw the lights shining brightly, and the capital was as lively as a city that never sleeps.

"Many of your ideas are very strange. I don't know if they are good or bad, but you are too impatient. You can't wait to change the rules left by your ancestors. You know that you may be backlashed?"

"This is inevitable. There must be a running-in period for any new thing to appear. Not every policy proposed by Erchen is applicable, but you can try it little by little. History is progressing, and there will be progress only when there is change. "

"Do you think policy changes in a big country are so easy to implement? You have good ideals, and the ministers also think it is feasible, but the people who can implement it are the officials at the bottom. The news is passed on layer by layer. What does it look like, if the target is ordinary people, it will be even more difficult, they may not understand what you mean."

These are indeed problems, but Li Xu is prepared and will not stop the pace of reform because of this.

After the sky completely darkened, there were more and more people on the street. The dishes in this restaurant were barely edible, and the special dishes were imitated from Fulai Restaurant. After taking a few bites, I don't move my chopsticks.

"I'm old and conservative in thinking, and I'm not as aggressive as young people. I originally thought that you were the king of success, but I didn't expect that after you went to South Vietnam for a few years, your thinking will change so much, and you will show your sharpness. That's fine. In the past, I was always worried that you were too weak." The emperor was a little tired, he got up and walked out of the restaurant, and stepped into the continuous stream of people. The guards guarded him tightly, and they were immediately blocked as soon as the people approached.

When the common people saw these tall and burly guards, they dared to be angry and did not dare to speak out, and they all avoided them.

The emperor stopped in front of a stall, which was a stall selling glass products. He took a glass wine glass of the same style from the palace banquet during the Chinese New Year, and asked the price: "How much is this?"

"Master, this one only costs ten cents a piece."

The emperor frowned and looked back at Li Xu, "Why is it so cheap?" He didn't believe that such cheap things would appear at the palace banquet.

"Hey, have you bought this kind of wine glass before? To be honest, this thing was a rare commodity last year, and there were not many in the city. But last month, a whole ship of glass was shipped from the sea. The merchant is said to be from South Vietnam. These are all defective products produced by the factory, and they are all sold cheap. You see, the wine glass in your hand can be seen at night. If you look at it during the day or against the light, it will be fine. You can see air bubbles inside, and it is not of the same grade as the ones sold in Liji’s grocery store, so the price will be much different.”

"I see, you are honest."

The stall owner said with a naive smile: "You look like a rich man, and you will definitely not buy things from my stall. It's okay to tell you."

The emperor was overjoyed, and he signaled his followers to reward him with silver. If he just made a move, it would be worth the goods on the entire stall, and the stall was overjoyed.

"In the past, Nanyue was a barbaric place in the eyes of everyone, but now it has become a fragrant bun. How many stores on this street sell Nanyue products?"

Eunuch Zhao followed beside him, bent down and replied, "My slave's eyesight is clumsy, I only saw four or five."

Liu Shu retorted: "My Majesty, there are more than a dozen of them at random, all of which are cheap and practical."

The most important thing in the palace is good things. The emperor eats and wears the top-notch clothes. He never thinks that the things here are practical, but it is a good thing that the common people like them and can afford them.

"These things are just dispensable things. The greatest good thing you have done is to improve farm tools and farming methods. In the past two years, the national grain production has increased a lot. With surplus grain, people have the opportunity to pursue it. Other dispensable things, in the final analysis, agriculture is the foundation of the people. I heard that you want to encourage commerce, establish factories, and recruit workers. I don’t understand these things. For a long time, the foundation of a country has been destroyed by you."

Li Xu argued: "Father misunderstood. Although the number of people working in agriculture has decreased, the area of ​​cultivated land has not decreased. The grain output will only increase and not decrease. You can rest assured."

After walking down a street, the emperor's mood calmed down a lot. As a person in power, he must like the people under his rule to live a good life. Li Xu didn't mention other aspects, and there was nothing to be picky about in government affairs. Thinking about the people, following him, you don't have to worry about starving.

"Let's go, go back to the palace." The emperor returned to the palace with a complicated mood.