The little fox does not want to hide the cub

Since the founding of Daheng, the trade relationship with neighboring small countries has been strengthened repeatedly.The imperial court supports merchants in order to promote trade. Up to now, the merchants are extremely powerful, and they have raised many famous families like the Su family who colluded with officials and businessmen.

Monopolizing the market, buying and selling officials, and offering and accepting bribes are common phenomena, but the imperial court has never intervened.

Many children from famous families feel that their families are rich and powerful, and their family property is like a big tree deeply rooted in the land, which can affect the whole body. The court dare not touch them, so they act more and more recklessly.

This is also the thinking of many ordinary people.

No one knows how such a big family can be rectified and how long it will take to rectify.

Prince Jiang Shen gave them the answer.

Ten days.

It only took ten days from His Royal Highness the Crown Prince mentioning that the Su family may be suspected of falsifying accounts and tax evasion, to finding out all the evidence, to seizing all the properties under the Su family, and confiscating all the Su family's homes. .

Dozens of people were implicated and imprisoned before and after this incident. The confiscated land was over 60 mu of land, more than [-] houses, more than [-] taels of silver, and countless treasures of calligraphy and paintings.

And His Royal Highness the Crown Prince who is in charge of all this has not even stepped out of the palace in the past ten days.

Thousands of miles away, but without bloodshed, a large family with a century-old foundation and a near monopoly in the industry was uprooted.

The prince's lightning method shocked everyone once again.

As soon as this incident happened, almost all the famous families were secretly beating drums in their hearts.

The Su family will suffer this time, even if they are not greedy enough and do things uncleanly, how can they be clean?Did they already have the handle in the prince's hands?

The reason why the Su family lasted for ten days was because the crown prince was far away in the capital and couldn't do many things by himself.

If it was their turn, would they survive ten days?

All of a sudden, the auditing of the accounts, the restraint of the restraint, all the famous families have their tails between their tails.

And on the second day after the Su family was seized, the Holy Majesty issued a decree.

Half of the property confiscated from the Su family was used to help the people, and the other half was directly used to support the spice industry that was implicated in this accident, breaking the monopoly of the past.

Once the decree was announced, the retail traders who complained because the court moved the Su family completely lost their opinion, and began to support the court and the prince's actions.

However, these are not what Jiang Shen should care about.

This time the Su family was disturbed, firstly because Concubine Rong plotted against him and stepped on his bottom line, and secondly, it was to beat the mountain and shake the tiger, and beat up several aristocratic families who have been restless recently.

After the matter was over, the most important thing in his heart was his little fox.

After these few days passed, Jiang Shen finally gradually accepted that even if his little fox is pregnant, he is still a great monster who has practiced for hundreds of years.You won't stumble and fall and hurt yourself and your children just because you jumped a few times while walking, or took a few steps on the high water bank.

The control over the little fox was also slightly relaxed.

Except in bed, of course.

Li Ruan didn't understand why Jiang Shen was so persistent in this regard. Several times, he had clearly seduced this person's desires, but he could still hold back.I would rather go outside to take a cold shower than touch him.

After several times, Li Ruan finally stopped making trouble.

It's not that he finally relented, it's mainly because...Jiang Shen took a cold shower and made himself sick.

Jiang Shen has practiced martial arts since he was a child, so he doesn't necessarily get sick once a year.But helplessly, the weather in spring is already changeable, and these few days just happened to catch up with the cold, taking a cold shower every night, no matter how good his body is, he can't help him tossing like this.

"Jiang Shen, it's time to eat." Li Ruan pushed the door in with a bowl of porridge.

Jiang Shen was leaning on the bed and reading letters, when Li Ruan came in too suddenly, he didn't have time to hide and was caught.

"Why are you looking at something again?" Li Ruan frowned, and walked quickly to the bed, "I told you to rest well, isn't your head hurting? Is your fever gone?"

"It's been a long time since I didn't have a fever." Jiang Shen opened his mouth, his voice was still a little hoarse, and he couldn't help coughing twice, "...just a little cough."

"That means it's not finished yet." Li Ruan took away the letter in his hand, and put the porridge bowl into Jiang Shen's hand, "Let's eat first."

Jiang Shen took a look: "Porridge again?"

"Of course it's white porridge." Li Ruan said, "The imperial physician said that sick people should eat light porridge to recover quickly."

That's what I said, but it can't be so light that there is no taste at all, and I drank it for two or three days in a row.

Jiang Shen felt helpless, but didn't say much, and scooped up a spoonful.

As soon as he took the first sip, he frowned.

Raising his head, Li Ruan was lying on the side of the bed, looking at him expectantly.

Jiang Shen understood, and deliberately put on a thoughtful look: "Is there a new imperial chef in the dining room today?"

Li Ruan looked a little nervous: "What, what's the matter, is the taste much worse?"

"No, it's not bad, it's great." Jiang Shen took another sip and laughed, "I've never tasted porridge with such a special taste. Which imperial chef made this, and His Highness wants to reward him well."

Li Ruan looked at him suspiciously.

Jiang Shen's appearance of telling nonsense is too obvious, and Li Ruan has been with him for so long, and has become much smarter than before, so he will no longer be so easily deceived by him.

"Is it unpalatable?" Li Ruan was a little discouraged, "Did you guess it after one bite?"

Jiang Shen insisted: "It's not bad, it's just special."

Boiling a simple white porridge can produce such a strong paste flavor, can it be special?

Li Ruan: "..."

He snorted and got up from the bed: "You just find it unpalatable, I won't do it in the future."

"Nothing." Jiang Shen hastily pulled him back, "I like everything you make for me, really."

His little fox has never touched these things before. For him, he started to learn how to cook and how to take care of people. Could he not like it?

Jiang Shen put the porridge bowl aside, Li Ruan didn't resist much, and was gently pulled into his arms by him.

He rubbed the back of his neck.

Jiang Shen asked: "There is so much oily smoke in the dining room, it didn't smoke you, did it?"

"No." Li Ruan rubbed against his neck and asked him in a low voice, "Do you still feel uncomfortable?"

Jiang Shen's illness is really recovering.

It was just that when I came out of the cold shower that day, there was a bit of cold wind, and I accidentally caught the wind and cold, and burned repeatedly for two days.His health is not bad, he took the medicine and stayed in bed for a few days, and his fever was gone last night.

It's just that Li Ruan was still not at ease, and insisted on holding him to rest on the bed.

Jiang Shen could tell that this person felt a little guilty.

He probably felt that it was because he kept making troubles that Jiang Shen fell ill.

Jiang Shen tilted his head and kissed Li Ruan's cheek, and wanted to go further, but stopped: "Are you sure that the Yaozu won't get over the sickness of mortals?"

"No." Li Ruan raised his head slightly, his eyes bright, as if he was also looking forward to it, "Only mortal bodies are so fragile, and a little cold wind can't stand it. As long as the monster race doesn't hurt the spiritual power of the bones, it won't hurt." will get sick."

"That's good." Jiang Shen had a smile in his eyes.

He lowered his head slightly, and before he could touch those soft lips, there was a knock on the door: "Your Highness, are you asleep? Your Majesty asked this old servant to come and see you."

Jiang Shen: "..."

Li Ruan reacted surprisingly quickly at such times, he quickly kissed Jiang Shen on the lips as if stealthily, and broke free from his arms.When Jiang Shen came back to his senses, the bright red figure had already walked to the door and opened the door.

Outside the door is Eunuch Chang.

Eunuch Chang bowed to Li Ruan, and Li Ruan led him into the house.

Li Ruan led Chang Eunuch into the house, but saw that the person who was able to sit up and talk to him just now lay down again for some reason. A little sluggish.

Li Ruan was startled, and hurried over: "What, what's going on, are you feeling unwell again?"

He was about to help Jiang Shen up, but the latter gave him a look.

Li Ruan blinked and understood instantly.

Behind him, Eunuch Chang asked worriedly, "Why is His Highness still in such a serious condition?"

"Cough cough... Eunuch laughed, I'm fine." Jiang Shen's voice became much weaker, and he coughed a few times before speaking, "Eunuch came to me, what's the matter?"

"It's His Majesty's intention." Eunuch Chang said fairly, "This trip to the palace has been nearly half a month, what His Majesty means is that we should bring everyone back to Beijing tomorrow. No, His Majesty specially sent this old slave to see His Highness recover. How are you?"

"Going back to the palace?" Jiang Shen coughed twice, and said weakly, "But your Highness's situation...cough coughcough...I'm afraid it's not suitable for traveling."

Li Ruan cooperated and said: "Then we won't leave, we will leave after recovering from illness."

Eunuch Chang: "..."

He was silent for a moment, and then said: "Actually, His Majesty just made it clear to the old slave that after returning to Beijing this time, he intends to retreat to the harem and order His Royal Highness to officially assist the government. Alas, His Majesty has been getting worse and worse recently. Reviewing the memorials is a bit difficult, if His Royal Highness can relieve His Majesty's worries..."

Jiang Shen suddenly coughed more violently.

He coughed very badly, and his untwisted hair fell from his temples, looking a bit haggard: "I didn't expect my father to trust me so much, but I look like this now, ahem... I'm afraid I can't relieve my father's worries." ...cough cough cough!"

Eunuch Chang: "..."

Jiang Shen coughed so badly, Li Ruan looked at Eunuch Chang guiltily while helping him.The latter had no choice but to say "His Royal Highness, please rest well", and then walked away in despair.

When he left, Li Ruan didn't even go to see him off.

After the door was closed again, Jiang Shen breathed a sigh of relief and stopped coughing.

He rubbed his coughing throat, took the warm water from Li Ruan and drank it, then hugged him back into his arms.

"Why are you pretending to be sick?" Li Ruan asked him.

"Don't pretend to be sick, why don't you go back to assist the government?" Jiang Shen coughed until his voice became hoarse than before, unable to exert any strength, he said softly, "You don't even know how tired that is."

Li Ruan said: "But didn't you always want to be the emperor? If you start assisting the government now, after a while, the Holy Majesty should give you the edict as a matter of course."

"It used to be, but it's different now." Jiang Shen's palm slid down the young man's thin back and landed on the other's abdomen, "I still want to spend more time with you."

During the past two years of Emperor Chongxuan's illness, all the affairs of the imperial court were in the hands of Xiangguo. If he started to assist the government from now on, he would first regain the power of the government and face all kinds of hidden dangers left by Xiangguo's control of the government.

This daily toil is probably more serious than the few years when Emperor Chongxuan first came to the throne.

Where did he get the time to spend with the little fox?

Li Ruan asked: "Then don't care?"

"It's not that I don't care, it's that I'm not in a hurry." Jiang Shen gently touched his stomach, and said in a low voice, "As the king of a country, my father can hide in the palace and don't want to criticize sons, why can't I stay sick for a few days? "

Li Ruan was silent for a moment before he understood: "So you two are trying to shirk each other now?"

Jiang Shen said seriously: "There is no shirk, His Highness really needs to recuperate from illness, and..."

He paused, and then said: "Little fox, do you know what will be the biggest change in the capital after the collapse of the Su family?"

Li Ruan: "What?"

"The matter of the Su family is actually to scare the chickens to scare the monkeys. Many aristocratic families are worried that they will be the next one. For this reason, they must take countermeasures." Jiang Shendao, "Some aristocratic families know that they are not powerful enough, so they may behave for a while, but there are others. Some are the exact opposite."

It can be seen from the imperial examination that Jiang Shen is not partial to famous families.They are reluctant to part with their little money and power, and they dare not easily attach themselves to Jiang Shen, so they will speed up the process of seizing power.

But unfortunately, they chose Xiangguo, who was most feared by Emperor Xuanxuan.

The Xiangguo, who already controlled the government, now coupled with the financial support of the aristocratic family, has actually endangered the imperial power.

"My father said he wanted me to assist the government, but he actually wanted me to deal with the Prime Minister." Jiang Shen said calmly, "I won't go."

Suppressing rebellious ministers and thieves is what the emperor should do.Emperor Chongxuan had asked Jiang Shen to help him with many things under the pretext of being sick and choosing the prince.

Now Jiang Shen's reputation among the people is not small, and Emperor Chongxuan has no more suitable candidates for the heir apparent, so it will be a matter of time before Jiang Shen succeeds him.Now that everything has almost settled, and Emperor Chongxuan's health is much better than in winter, it doesn't hurt him to pretend to be sick and return the things that should be done to Emperor Chongxuan.

Of course, more importantly, he wants to spend more time with his little fox.

Didn't the little fox say it a long time ago, when the fox is pregnant, he needs the father of the child to be by his side the most, he can't leave for too long, it's too irresponsible.

Li Ruan was dazed when he heard it, and after a while, he sighed: "You are really father and son..."

This idea of ​​calculating others and shirking responsibility can be said to be exactly the same.

But Jiang Shen was still better, he dared to plot against the emperor.

Jiang Shen smiled without saying a word, bowed his head and kissed Li Ruan.

"Anyway, I should be able to stay with you longer this time."

Jiang Shen's kisses have always been very gentle, as if treating something fragile and cherishing it extremely.The kiss went from shallow to deep, and Li Ruan's breathing gradually became rapid.

Suddenly, Li Ruan pushed him away forcefully.

His cheeks were already flushed, and even the fair skin around his neck showed a faint pink.Li Ruan took a deep breath, as if he was talking to Jiang Shen, and also as if he was talking to himself: "Ordinary people can't do this kind of thing when they are sick, they can only do it when they are sick."

"...I'm going to make medicine for you!"

"You..." Jiang Shen raised his hand to pull him, but only touched the cool hem of his clothes.

Li Ruan turned around, ignored him, and left the room quickly.

The door was closed forcefully, Jiang Shen leaned back on the bed, lifted the quilt and looked down, a little helpless.

His little fox...wouldn't be going to another extreme, would he?

If not once, how would you live this day?