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"Now that you are a prisoner, what qualifications do you think you have to make a request? Besides, many people in the imperial court already know your identity. Regardless of your original intentions, it is no one else who pushed you to where you are today. It's yourself." Shen Yu said.

"You're right," Mrs. Zeng was taken aback for a moment, before losing her momentum, "it's nothing more than to deceive yourself and others."

"The first emperor left 50 soldiers and horses, and I can only use half of them. I don't know where the rest are. I also left a lot of money and jewelry. I can only take [-]% of them. By the way, this batch of property It contains a large number of battle armor, left by the invincible Lin family army..."

Taifu Zeng explained a lot, and Shen Yu and Shang Junlin stayed in the prison for more than an hour before leaving.

Sitting on the carriage back to the palace, holding the hand stove gloomily, "Your Majesty thinks, how true and how false are Taifu Zeng's words?"

Shen Yu didn't think Master Zeng would reveal all the truth because of a whipping. If it was really that simple, Mr. Fang wouldn't be able to find any useful information after asking for so long.

"No matter how true or false, I will send people to verify one by one. Although he mentioned the arrangements left by the late emperor, he did not say where these undiscovered arrangements are. He really didn't know, or he didn't say anything on purpose. Only He knows it himself."

Nodding gloomyly: "Let Mr. Fang continue to interrogate, maybe we can find out something."

Shen Yu originally wanted to take this opportunity to meet the King of Yue, but he stayed at Taifu Zeng's side for too long, the sky was already getting dark, and Shang Junlin didn't want him to see the King of Yue, so he didn't go.

After returning to Yuzhang Palace, Eunuch Meng hurriedly ordered someone to prepare hot water. He took a bath in depression and comfort, then changed into clean clothes and came out.

Shang Junlin also changed into light clothes. If he didn't have to go to court, he would not wear the complicated imperial clothes, but preferred simpler casual clothes.

A man in black and wide-sleeved cannonballs was sitting upright on the edge of the soft couch. There was a small table in front of him with a thick stack of memorials stacked on it.

The man's back is straight, he writes down the notes, and his speed is very fast. The completed papers are put on one side, and after a few books, Eunuch Meng will take them down and put them on the table on the other side.

The bedroom was very warm, Shen Yu had just taken a shower, and was wearing thin clothes. Hearing the sound of footsteps, Shang Junlin raised his eyes.

He put down his pen, got up, picked up the cloak beside him, and walked towards Depression.

"Why do you only wear so little?"

"It's not cold." Shen Yu raised his neck so that the man could tie the cloak strap for him.

"It's not cold and you can't wear such thin clothes."

"Yes, Your Majesty."

Shang Junlin nodded in satisfaction.

Shen Yu was hugged by the man and sat on the soft couch, just in time to see the half-approved memorial on the small table.

It was submitted by the officials of Lin County. After a year of hard work, the water control in Lin County has achieved great results. This year's spring flood is the best time to accept the results.

"I got Ayu's prescription, and the people I sent to Lin County to control the water are like treasures. They have been doing according to the above content this year. Last year, several small floods survived without any danger." Shang Junlin stroked Long hair on the gloomy back.

"It's good if it works." Shen Yu rolled his eyes.

He took out these things in order to have an effect on Dahuan. In the face of natural disasters, manpower is always small, but not all natural disasters can only make people helpless. Some can be prevented in advance to minimize losses as much as possible .

After the beginning of spring, the court fell into a new round of busyness. The reform of the new commercial law was proposed at this time. Not surprisingly, there were many opposition voices in the court.

Any reform will go through this, Shen Yu accepted it well, Shang Junlin let the court quarrel for a few days, and finally agreed to the reform proposed by the Minister of the Household Department.

"Your Majesty, no, compared to the previous dynasty, Da Huan has treated businessmen preferentially enough. You can't let businessmen grow bigger."

Hubu Shangshu was dissatisfied: "Have you carefully read the method I proposed? But if you read carefully, you will never be able to say such a thing. If you want to object, I welcome it, but the premise is that your reasons for objecting must have something to say. Don’t just make assumptions about what you think.”

The official did not carefully read the new commercial law proposed by Shangshu Hubu, and was speechless after being stunned by Shangshu Hubu.

"Okay, this matter is handed over to the Minister of the Household Department for implementation. Is there anything else to start?"

Shang Junlin's attitude is very clear, since this matter has been settled, don't talk nonsense.

The first thing to do in the new year is to change the laws about merchants. In fact, there are not many changes. For example, the sons of merchants are not allowed to be officials in the court. There is no change, and some things have been added. For example, Yan Zheng sponsored the Ministry of Industry to build roads , Merchants from all over the country donated Subei materials and other behaviors, which were recognized by the court.

The imperial court will give them certain preferential treatment according to their contributions.

After a whole winter, the stone stele engraved with the contributions of the donors has been carved, and will be placed in the most conspicuous place in the capital in the future, surrounded by guardrails, and the common people can go to watch it by themselves.

The People's Daily made a special report on this matter, including the changes in the commercial law. Ordinary people did not pay much attention to the latter, and focused on the former matter.

"The people's newspaper said that the stele has already been engraved, and it will be placed on the auspicious day selected by the Qin Tianjian."

"I've seen it too. Counting the days, it's only ten days away. I must go and see it. I donated a lot of things when I donated. It's really exciting to think that my name can be engraved by the court."

"Yeah, we are just ordinary people, who would have thought that this day would come?"

For a while, the hot topic of the people turned into a stone monument that was about to be completed. They followed up on the Subei disaster and saw that Subei, which they contributed money and efforts, became better and better after the disaster. Everyone felt a burst of satisfaction in their hearts.

Who doesn't want to be rewarded for their efforts. Although this reward is not something substantial, it can give people great spiritual satisfaction.

"By the way, today is the day when Jing'an News is published. Are you going to buy it?"

"Go, of course, this newspaper is cheap, and there is a special literacy section, not to mention, I can barely understand it now."

"Me too, if you buy ten newspapers, you can also get a Mongolian book, and if you buy it tomorrow, I can get one. My kid is about to get enlightened, so he can just use it."

"I never thought before that I could be literate one day."

"Maybe in the future, His Majesty will organize a large-scale elementary school, and every household will be able to read and write."

In the past, the common people didn’t think much about literacy. Since Min Pao came out, they have gradually felt the disadvantages of illiteracy. Now there is a way of literacy, and the price is not expensive. People with some spare money are willing to learn it. .

The Jing'an Newspaper that the common people speak of is a newspaper jointly run by the bookstore under the name of Shen Yu and the imperial court. The price is cheap, and an issue is published every ten days. It's not big, and some basic words will be placed for buyers to learn.

The ministers of the aristocratic family are busy with various affairs in the court, and have not noticed any changes in the people for the time being. When they find out that what should be paved has already been paved, no matter how dissatisfied they are, they can't do anything.

The king of Yue was dreaming again.

He knew that he was dreaming, because the development in the dream was completely different from the reality. In the dream, all his plans went smoothly. Under his plan, Shang Junlin's reputation became worse and worse. The most important point is, Shen Yu did not enter the palace, it was Shen Qingran, the concubine son of Marquis of Zhenbei who entered the palace.

No one in the palace was named noble from the beginning to the end.

In this dream, he was the one Shen Yu fell in love with, and he was also the camp he chose.

Shen Yu returned to the fief with him and took care of everything in the fief for him. Under Shang Junlin's tyranny, a steady stream of people came to join him, and they brought a lot of money and soldiers.

In his dream, if he had divine help, everything would go smoothly. He watched Shang Junlin lose little by little, the prestige of the court collapsed, and his power grew stronger and stronger.

In the dream, time progressed very quickly. He saw a catastrophic flood in Lin County. He stepped forward at a critical moment. He saw a plague broke out in the south. He led people to eliminate the plague, and the hearts of the people gradually shifted to him.

The northern bandits rebelled, and Shang Junlin led his troops to the expedition, and died in the battle at the last stand, and the world has been in chaos ever since.

Surrounded by everyone, he ascended the throne as emperor.

Then woke up.

On the night before his enthronement, he was woken up by the jailer.

For several days afterwards, he had the same dream over and over again, and without exception, he woke up on the eve of his enthronement.

The dream was vague at first, but then it became more and more real, so real that he couldn't help but wonder if things would develop just like what happened in his dream if depression didn't enter the palace.

The jailer who guarded King Yue found that King Yue started talking nonsense, which were all rebellious words, so he didn't dare to hide it, so he reported the matter to the higher authorities.

King Yue went crazy.

"People who don't know think how I abused him." Shang Junlin sneered after hearing the report.

Shen Yu sat on the side playing with the chess record. The game record was found from the library in the palace. Seeing that Shen Yu was interested, Shang Junlin gave him the game record.

"What did he do?" Shen Yu put down the chess record and asked.

"Responding to what your lord said, the prisoner has been talking nonsense in the prison, saying," the Minister of the Ministry of Punishment glanced at Shang Junlin, and continued bravely, "saying that he is about to ascend the throne or something like that."

"Your Majesty forgive me, I'm just repeating..."

"I didn't do anything, what are you so afraid of doing?" Shang Junlin was displeased.

The Minister of the Ministry of Justice said in his heart: You didn't do anything, but with that cold air, I believe that you will drag me out and chop me up next time.

"Be specific."

"Yes, some time ago, King Yue's behavior was not right. The jailer didn't take it seriously. In recent days, the jailer found that he often talked nonsense, such as floods in Linxian County, plague in the south, and rebellion by northern bandits... Finally, he said that it was him. After all of this is over, he should be Da Huan's chosen Lord..."

Shen Yu didn't take it seriously at first, but the more he listened to it, the more he felt that something was wrong. A single event can still be called a coincidence. What if everything can be matched with the previous life?

My heart sank unconsciously.

What the king of Yue said, is it something from his previous life?He was reborn too?

"Your Excellency, do you know why the King of Yue would say such a thing?" Shen Yu slowly clenched his hand hanging by his side.

"It's because of a dream. I have confirmed that what King Yue said was all in his dreams. He seems to be unable to distinguish between dreams and reality," said the Secretary of the Ministry of Justice.

Was it a dream of a previous life?

Gloomy fell silent.

According to Shangshu Xingbu, he didn't seem to have dreamed about the ending of his previous life, otherwise it would be impossible for him to be immersed in a dream and not wake up. Should he tell him to turn his dream into a nightmare?