old grace

The current situation is developing in a direction that no one can predict.

After Emperor Qin's sudden death, Wang Hu, who held the real power, helped the eldest prince succeed him, and honored his daughter, Queen Wang, as the empress dowager.Due to political disagreement, Wang Hu killed Prime Minister Anping at the palace banquet.The Empress Dowager Wang issued an edict to invite Lu Xuan, the former imperial servant who was at home, to be the prime minister.

At this time, Qingzhou was trying out the policy of central government consultation, and Shangguan Shiyi also took people to inspect the Jingxian area, and everything was peaceful.

But at this time, the royal capital was in trouble again.

After Wang Hu helped his grandson ascend the throne, the entire capital was actually in the hands of the Wang family.

The little emperor has not yet entered school, so he only knows how to play with mud in the palace every day.Wang, who became the empress dowager, was addicted to pleasure, and had a fierce fight with the young and handsome musician.Wang Hu's son, Wang Yun, the queen mother's brother, often went in and out of the palace, wantonly raping the palace maids, even the concubines and concubines left behind by the two previous emperors.

The Wang family held the military power of the imperial army and ran amok in the capital. The siblings of the Wang family made troubles in the palace, and there was no one to control them at all.

The unrestrained power released all the violence in Wang Yun's heart. At the beginning, he just humiliated the harem, and gradually began to kill people for fun. Seven or eight of the ten daughters were killed at night.No one can bear this kind of play, and the women in the palace are panicked.

However, facing the butcher's knife, how can a weak woman resist?

There is a concubine who thinks she is smart, relying on her acquaintance with the little emperor, and after seeking help from the queen mother to no avail, she turns to the little emperor and cries.

The little emperor didn't know anything, and was bewitched by his concubine, so he really ran to Wang Yun to speak harshly, telling Wang Yun not to bully his concubine.

Wang Yun is a muddleheaded person, and he didn't take his nephew seriously even when he was in control of the real power.In front of all the court servants and slaves, he slapped the little emperor twice, directly hitting the little emperor until his mouth and nose bleed, and he burst into tears.

The slaves dared not speak out, and hurriedly hugged the little emperor to complain to the empress dowager.

The queen mother was startled when she saw her son's face was covered with blood, and when she heard the crying of the slaves, she was furious and angrily went to find her brother to settle the score.

When the Empress Dowager arrived at Qingxuan Palace, Wang Yun was dragging more than a dozen concubines and maidservants upside down, among them were the late emperor's concubines, looking for the little emperor to find Mi Shi, the concubine who warned Wang Yun.After the slaves left with the little emperor covered in blood, Mi was bullied by Wang Yun until she was dying, leaving only one breath.

The queen mother hated her for causing her son to be beaten, so she pulled out the long sword worn by the guards on the spot, and pierced Mi's heart with the sword.

After Mi's death, the Queen Mother couldn't let go of her hatred, and chopped all the maidservants in the palace to pieces.

The most unfortunate thing is that she has been pampered all the year round, her arms are weak, and she is so tired of beating people with a long sword that weighs more than ten catties, so that she misses her head, and cuts off Wang Yun who is dangling with her sword——Wang Yun He retreated hastily, but there was still a small gash on his forehead, and blood was flowing.

This is where things go wrong.

Wang Yun covered his head and left the palace angrily. The Queen Mother cried helplessly in the hall filled with the corpses of maidservants: "Father will never forgive me!"

Those musicians who are good friends with the queen mother came to offer advice one after another, and asked the queen mother to contact the prime minister Lu Xuan immediately, and the first strike is the best.

The queen mother was so dizzy that she ordered her maid to be sent to the prime minister's mansion.

Who would have thought that the servant girl went straight to the Wang's house and handed over the decree to the angry Wang Hu.

Wang Hu was angry and angry, he was just thinking about how to beat his daughter, and he was not ready to go further.Wang's decree to Lu Xuan made him very angry-the father has a heart to love his daughter, but the daughter has no filial piety, so what else is there to say? !

That night, Wang Hu led his troops into the palace, and drowned the sleeping little emperor in the basin in front of the Queen Mother.

Crying and crying, Wang tried to save her son who was pinned down in the basin by his father, but he broke his arm and couldn't get out.

That night, Wang Hu killed all the blood left by the concubine, and put all the concubine's royal family under house arrest.

The next day, Wang Hu sat on the emperor's throne and declared independence.

The news spread, the world...

Not so shocked anymore.

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Two years later.

Yan Hong bowed his knees and knelt quietly in front of the court.

It has been more than half a year since he was sent by his master to Qingzhou to listen to him. At first, Yan Hong thought that he would serve in front of Mr. Xiao Lang, but to his surprise, Mr. Xiao Lang refused to send him directly, and pointed him to Mr. Jun Jun instead. .

——How old is Xiao Langjun anyway, Jun Xiaolang is too...too young?

However, after several months of taking orders from Jun Xiaolang, Yan Hong has put away his contempt.

The curtain is raised.

Fu Chuan came out lightly, and gestured to Yan Hong to follow him to the side of the hall.

Yan Hong got up and followed, until he entered the door of the companion hall, the maid lowered the heavy curtain, and Fu Chuan said softly, "I stayed up all night discussing matters last night, so I took a break to serve the elder brother, please wait for a long time."

Yan Hong then lowered his voice: "The servant has only been here for a while."

"Please sit down." Fu Chuan greeted.

Xie Qinghe and Fu Chuan are also in charge of a separate stall, and it is not good for them to share the living room, this accompanying hall is where Fu Chuan entertains guests.

Yan Hong has been here more than a dozen times, so he is familiar with it.After Xuli was seated, Yan Hong didn't talk nonsense, and reported directly: "After the death of King Qu, Wang Hu sent poisoned wine to King Shu. Lu Xuan contacted King Li in private, split up and recruited several generals of the Imperial Army, and planned to assassinate Wang Hu .”

"Where's Pi Yu? Did you move?" Fu Chuan asked.

The capital was in turmoil one after another, Wang Hu continued to mutilate the descendants of the Yu family, and the kings of the Yu family refused to sit still. Here they bought slaves and maidservants to assassinate Wang Hu's father and son, and on the other side they colluded with the generals of the imperial army to make an appointment.After coming and going a few times, the imperial army shuffled twice internally, and it was no longer monolithic.

Pi Yu is the former subordinate of the King of Yancheng, and he made his way through his strength.What's more, the king of Yancheng is dead, Wang Hu doesn't have to worry about his heart for the old master, so he promotes him.

Who knows that Pi Yu really doesn't want to fall in love with the dead old master, and he doesn't want to hang out with Wang Hu who has no future.

"He only said that the current situation is still unclear, and that Wang Hu, Lu Xuan, and King Li will fight again before we can discuss the surrender of the city." Yan Hong replied.

Fu Chuan nodded in approval.

"Xu Kuan surrendered on his own initiative," Yan Hong said.

"Isn't he Wang Yun's confidant?" Fu Chuan asked.

"Father Wang and his son have gone against the law and have no faith at all. They are already unpopular in the capital. There are many people who betrayed the king and surrendered. However, Xu Kuan took the initiative to ask for a certificate, and he named several generals of the imperial army, saying that he would kill them for the new master. In order to eliminate the enemy, I suspect that he is spying for Wang Yun." Yan Hong said.

"You want to follow the plan?" Fu Chuan couldn't help smiling, "You can deal with this matter on your own, don't ask me again."

Yan Hongchui took the command: "Yes."

Seeing that Yan Hong didn't continue to ask for instructions, and didn't intend to say goodbye, Fu Chuan couldn't help asking, "Is there anything else you want to do here?"

Yan Hong got up and saluted: "No. I will leave."

"Are you here to see Eldest Brother?" Fu Chuan asked suddenly.

Yan Hong didn't deny it, and turned around to salute, "Servant will come to pay homage to Mr. Xiaolang tomorrow."

He obviously has something to ask Xie Qinghe alone, and Fu Chuan can't force him to confide.After thinking for a moment, Fu Chuan asked, "If you're in a hurry, I'll ask my elder brother to get up."

Yan Hong hurriedly said, "Don't dare to disturb Mr. Xiaolang's rest."

"Then you can come back tomorrow." Fu Chuan no longer insisted, and went out with him.

Not long after Yan Hong left, a big black dog galloped out of the yard and circled around Fu Chuan.Fu Chuan played with it for a while, the big black dog wanted to bark excitedly, but Fu Chuan grabbed the dog's mouth and warned in a low voice: "Brother is resting, don't bark."

The big black dog made a coquettish sound, and wandered around Fu Chuan again and again.

Fu Chuan saw that it was pitiful, so he took it to the open place: "Don't bark, let's go further away to play."

One person and one dog ran briskly into the garden. At this time, it was freezing cold, the flowers and trees were withered, the pond was frozen, and the ground was covered with snow.Fu Chuan didn't bring the big black dog's toy, so he took off a jade pendant from his waist and threw it far away. The big black dog immediately chased after it.

Not long after, the big black dog ran back with the jade pendant in its mouth, and Fu Chuan patted it as a reward.

The big black dog liked this game very much, and kept rubbing Fu Chuan's hand holding the jade pendant with the dog's head until Fu Chuan threw the jade pendant again.

They walked and played, farther and farther away.

Unconsciously, he came to Yushan Palace, and Fu Chuan wanted to go to Xiang Fei for tea and talk.

He put away the jade pendant and patted the big black dog's head. The big black dog understood his intentions and obediently followed him along the gravel road towards Yushan Palace.The big black dog kept running forward and back, and it was rare for Fu Chuan to go out for a walk alone, so he lowered his head to play with the big black dog.

"Huh?" Hearing the sound of sword fighting in Yushan Palace, Fu Chuan couldn't help raising his head and looking into the distance.

Layers of rockery on the palace wall blocked the view, and Fu Chuan didn't see any tricks.The sons of his uncle Chen Xiu and Xiang Fei, the adopted son of Chen Qi, lived in Yushan Palace, and Fu Chuan felt ashamed to spy on them casually with his ears.

He continued to walk forward with the big black dog, and after stepping into the palace gate, he happened to see Chen Qiu holding a wooden sword, forcing Xiang Fei to retreat steadily.

"Brother is very interested." Fu Chuan greeted.

Chen Qiu and Xiang Fei turned their heads at the same time, Chen Qiu reacted quickly, and took advantage of the situation to slash Xiang Fei's left shoulder with a sword, making a muffled pop.

The wooden sword actually broke.

Fu Chuan looked at Xiang Fei with a smile, and said, "My brother is not good at learning."

Xiang Fei forced a smile, turned around to say goodbye to Chen Qiu, picked up the clothes hanging on the rack, and jumped off the martial arts stage: "Why is Brother Jun here? Dahei, hey!" He bent down and stretched out his hand to greet The big black dog approached.

The big black dog rushed up very affectionately, and Xiang Fei hugged Mao Mao on his chest, panting excitedly.

"Accompanies the big black dog to play, walked over unknowingly, and asked for a glass of water from my brother." Fu said.

The two of them entered the house while talking.

From the beginning to the end, Fu Chuan seemed to have never seen Chen Qiu, and turned a blind eye to him.Xiang Fei is also used to it.

Fu Chuan looked at Xiang Fei's living room and said, "It's too plain. My parents give things every New Year's day, so you just keep them and don't want to put them away. Why are the things my brother gave you gone?"

Xiang Fei didn't want to talk about it, but it happened that the maid came to deliver the food, so he changed the subject: "I heard that Baizhou is in chaos, are you okay?"

Fu Chuan fed water to the big black dog first, and said, "It's also Liu Quan's unlucky luck. When he was chasing Lin Bai, he happened to meet Zuo Shui, under the command of Shan Fu, leading the recruits to learn how to swim near Baizhou, and led them to kill Lin Bai directly. After returning to the carbine, it was flattened in less than half a day. The eldest brother and uncle were busy wiping Liu Quan's ass, and transferred food from Shuzhou to appease the refugees..."

Fu Chuan shook his head, and commented on Liu Quan: "The brain is not good."

There is chaos in the capital, and abnormal things often happen under the rule of the Chen family.For example, the Baizhou Rebellion that just happened.

Mu Liuquan of Baizhou was born in Shanyin with a surname, and married a daughter of Chen's family. She was Xie Qinghe's cousin-in-law who separated from Fu Chuan.Not a bad family background, of course he has studied, and with the family power behind him, it is not uncommon for him to be a shepherd of a state.

In the past, Chen Qi was busy fighting wars, and he only had two requirements for local civil affairs. First, food should be collected.Second, stability and no chaos.

In the past two years, Zhan Xuanji has been in charge of civil affairs in Qingzhou, and if someone with the right has time, he has given the local government a bit of a rein, drawing rules and regulations for compliance.The most important thing is that Zhan Xuanji gave a note early on, and Qingzhou will send supervisors to inspect the place from time to time.

Lin Bai who was hunted down by Liu Quan was the supervisor and counselor Zhan Xuanji sent to Baizhou, which shows how daring Liu Quan is.

"Wealth has always touched people's hearts." Xiang Fei followed suit with a sigh.

The Chen family only needs two things from the local area, one is food, and the other is servants.He is easy to talk about other things, except that food and servants cannot be recruited. No matter who is in charge of local civil affairs, he will immediately turn his face.No one dared to provoke Chen Qi's temper on this matter.

In the past two years, Shen Yu implemented a new agricultural law in Xiangzhou, irrigation, fertilization, and new farm tools. The multi-pronged approach increased the production by four times in the first year.

This made Xiangzhou have a lot of surplus food besides self-use and taxation.If Chen Qi was still there, most of this batch of grain would have been taken into the private treasury, but Shangguan Shiyi and Xie Qinghe were not people who exploited the people, and they would not touch anything except taxes.

It just so happened that other prefectures and counties had poor harvests due to bad weather, so Mushou paid for the grain out of his own pocket and transferred it to Shen Mata.Shen Yu helped Xiangzhou connect with the other party, and after several negotiations, they sold it at a price that both parties were satisfied with.

Liu Quan was deeply moved by this.

He thinks he is very smart, how can he make money by growing food and medicinal materials?Tell the people under the rule to change to plant medicinal materials, and spend money to buy grain in Xiangzhou when tax is collected. After the medicinal materials are collected and sold every two years, they can exchange the money for buying grain back, and they can make a lot of money.

However, his luck was not good.

The common people planted the medicinal materials. The weather was not good this year, and the grain harvests were in short supply everywhere, including Xiangzhou.

Liu Quan immediately realized that it was not good. By the time the tax was paid, Xiangzhou might have no food to sell.He didn't want to lose his position as Mushou, so he simply wrote a letter to Chen Qi, saying that the disaster in Baizhou was serious and the people had nothing to love about, and he was afraid that it would be difficult to pay taxes this year-can you pay the tax to deduct it?

In times of war, food is the hard currency.No gold, silver or cloth is worth as much as food.

But isn't it a temporary truce?

These days, the rivers and lakes are far away, and it is inconvenient to transmit information. No one secretly reported to Qingzhou about the things Liu Quan did in Baizhou.With the old fox's sense of smell, Zhan Xuanji faintly sensed that something was wrong, and took Lin Bai for a trip, already knowing that he had turned all the cultivated land into medicine fields.

After discussing with Xie Qinghe, Zhan Xuanji decided to stand still and let Liu Quan go.

Worried that the people in Baizhou would have no food to eat after planting medicine for a year, Zhan Xuanji allocated some food to Baizhou for Liu Quan's emergency.

What people never expected was that Liu Quan actually sold the food allocated to him by Qingzhou for disaster relief to the local people at a high price.

This matter is simply beyond the scope of normal people's comprehension.Xie Qinghe has experienced countless famines, and he is also accustomed to all kinds of coquettish manipulations by corrupt officials during the disaster years, similar to Liu Quan who is not afraid of death-this is the first time he has seen it.

If the people can't survive, there will be chaos. Baizhou is like a warehouse burning on all sides. Liu Quan cares about one thing and loses another.

Zhan Xuanji sent Lin Bai for the second time, intending to collect evidence and to question Liu Quan.

Liu Quan was so brain-dead that he chased and killed Lin Bai.

He ran into Shan Xugang's new recruits who were training in the field, and directly killed the whole family.

Xie Qinghe and Zhan Xuanji stayed up all night, trying to find food everywhere, trying to use food to stabilize Baizhou, where Liu Quan made the people panic. It was clean, not a single grain was left.

Fu Chuan glanced at the empty room, and asked again: "Is your brother in need of flowers?"

Xiang Feicai simply explained: "My father's guard left orphans and widows, and my mother has been taking care of them all these years. This year's weather is bad, and the price of food has skyrocketed, so I can't help it for a while. This makes Brother Jun laugh."

Fu Chuan frowned and said, "Is the compensation for the fallen soldiers paid in full? Why is it Madam who has been taking care of Zhou Ji?"

Xiang Fei stuttered.

Seeing that Fu Chuan got up aggressively, as if he wanted to question the matter, Xiang Fei had no choice but to say: "Just...they all...have a bit of love for sex..."

Fu Chuan turned around: "Huh?"

"In the early years, I fought with my father, and everyone was very rich. Xiangzhou's hometown has wives to support parents and raise children, and there are some... outhouses outside." The group of people Xiang Fei mentioned were obviously not ordinary soldiers. They are all high-ranking generals, so they have this privilege. "After the accident, those who did not have children were dismissed, and those who had children... My mother couldn't bear it, so she raised them."

Therefore, there is really no way to go to whom to complain about these things for help.

Fu Chuan couldn't laugh or cry when he heard it, and he said after a while, "I will ask my uncle to send some money to my brother the next day."

Xiang Fei asked embarrassingly: "If it is convenient, can I exchange the food?"

"It's a day late. I was recruited by the elder brother last night, and there was no more beans." Fu Chuan was also a little startled, "Is there such a shortage of food in the market?"

Xiang Fei nodded: "It's not easy to buy."

"It shouldn't be." Fu Chuan got up with the big black dog, "Brother, I have to take a step ahead."

Xiang Fei got up and said, "I'll see you off."

Fu Chuan waved his hand: "No need." He had already gone out with the big black dog.

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Xie Qinghe only felt that he had just fallen asleep, and the little junior was buzzing beside him: "Big brother, big brother!"

Opening his eyes, a huge dog's head was stuck on the pillow.

Xie Qinghe pushed the dog's head away, stroked it casually, and then disliked the stickiness on the dog's head: "Where did you go to play?"

"You have to go to Wangyue Palace." Fu delivered a towel to wipe Xie Qinghe's hands, "Mrs. Jiang is buying grain in Qingzhou. She collects as much as she has, and she doesn't care if the price of grain soars--everything is spent my money!"

These two sentences made Xie Qinghe wake up from his sleepiness.He just emptied the junior brother's granary yesterday, and Mrs. Jiang moved his treasury again?

Most importantly, what is Mrs. Jiang doing with the food?Taking advantage of the fire?