Li Rong listened to Li Chuan's ramble and comforted her for a long time. She finally got a little tired, so she asked Jinglan to remove the egg that was about to cool, and looked up at Li Chuan and said, "Okay, don't talk to me here, If you have time, help me inquire about something."
Li Chuan listened to Li Rong's instructions and hurriedly said, "You say it."
"Has the chief examiner of the imperial examination been decided?"
Li Chuan didn't expect Li Rong to ask this question, he subconsciously said, "It should be settled."
"So early?" Li Rong frowned, Li Chuan thought about it, and said, "It's not so early, after all, the imperial examinations are not always a big deal, those people are admitted, and the children of the aristocratic family have arrangements, those poor families have arrangements. Yes, either to be a useless petty official, or to send it to the place and not come back. In the past, it was the test of merit and the main thing, and it was considered high to let the position of the servant be in charge. So it should have been the latter. The date has only been set, but this year is very strange, Wang Shangshu said that this year, the court is really good, and recruiting talents is the top priority.
Li Chuan couldn't help laughing as he spoke, took a teacup from the side, held it in his hand and looked at Li Rong: "He has spoken, who can say anything? Lord Shang Shu himself is the chief examiner, who else has passed him? So Although it has not been decided, it is still inseparable."
Li Rong didn't speak, she thought about it, Li Chuan took a sip of tea, and then said bitterly about her marriage: "Actually, don't be too sad, the old won't go and the new won't come, or I'll take you to see each other recently. Look, you're going to see what you like..."
"Okay, okay," Li Rong interrupted him with a frown. "You're still worried? It's almost like worrying about yourself. How is your marriage?"
"Can I manage this?" Li Chuan laughed. "I said it all, whatever they want, they can choose the crown princess whenever they want, and I don't care who they want to choose. The result is good now," Li Chuan came up and said mysteriously, "Sister, guess what?"
"What's wrong?"
"The father and mother have made an agreement in secret," Li Chuan said with uncontrollable joy, "I won't choose for the time being."
"Don't choose?"
Li Rong cried out in surprise, but as soon as the words came out, she realized what was going on.
Now that the Shangguan family has given up the idea of marrying the prince, and after self-examination, the prince concubine has to compete, and it falls between other families.
For Li Ming, he didn't want the crown prince's position to fall into the hands of any aristocratic family. This was to strengthen Li Chuan's connection with the aristocratic family. He also hoped that Li Chuan would marry some poor women, even if Li Chuan didn't marry him.
After all, it doesn't matter whether Li Chuan's crown is stable or not, he doesn't want him to be stable.
The two sides have their own ideas, and without the strong pressure from the Shangguan family, the position of the crown princess is now frozen.
"It's a good thing." Li Rong nodded.
Li Chuan peeled the melon seeds next to him, and seeing Li Rong was not unhappy, he asked curiously, "Sister, are you not worried that I won't marry a wife and the crown prince will be unstable?"
"If you don't marry a wife, you will make your crown prince unstable," Li Rong turned to look at him with a half-smile, "Then your crown prince position is really unstable."
Li Chuan frowned and seemed puzzled, so Li Rong broke the words to him: "Cuan'er, you remember, the position in the courtroom must be stable, there are only three things, money, soldiers, and people. You have money. , you only have food and grass, soldiers and horses, and people who help you do things. If you have people who speak for you, your words will count. And if you have soldiers and horses, you can protect your money and your people. If You have these three things, whether you get married or not will not affect your position. If you don't have these three things," Li Rong smiled coldly. You are just a puppet."
"If one day you need to change a puppet," Li Rong tapped her palm with a fan, "Do you think it will be difficult?"
Just like in the last life, Li Chuan married five women, and Li Ming set up a supervisory department for King Su and seized military power in the northwest. When the military power in the northwest fell to Xiao Su, who was left by his side
"Sister said these things, in fact, I understand." Li Chuan couldn't help but smile bitterly after listening to Li Rong's words, "It's just that the mother doesn't understand."
"It's not that my mother doesn't understand, it's just that people always want to take the best way. She wants you to get married because she wants to use marriage to obtain these three things, which is much easier than getting it directly."
Li Chuan nodded in response, turned his head to look into the distance, and seemed a little tired. Li Rong looked at him and patted his hand: "Don't think about it, go back sooner. Let people stare at the 'little cabinet' of the father and see who enters his fortress. You have to stop the ones who should be stopped. , this position is unacceptable.”
"clear."
Li Chuan responded, he has a sense of these things.
Li Rong ordered Li Chuan to leave secretly through the back door, and told him to come less in the future.
It is too risky for him to come to the Princess Mansion now, so it is better to come less often.
After Li Chuan left, Li Rong returned to the courtyard and lay down on the rocking chair for a while, when she suddenly felt that the courtyard was empty.
She turned her head and asked Jinglan, "Have the concubine's things been moved?"
"The concubine didn't take anything with me." Jinglan put away the things, and Li Rong turned to look at her, "What's the matter? Are you planning to buy them all again?"
"The concubine said it," Jinglan crouched down and whispered, "He has to come back sooner or later, so he won't move."
When Li Rong heard Jinglan's message, she didn't know why, but she felt that the desolate atmosphere in the yard just now disappeared.
She couldn't help but ask a few more questions: "Is the concubine moving back to Pei's house?"
"Not at all."
Jinglan shook her head: "Pei Xiangye originally had a mansion in Beijing, and the concubine moved there."
Li Rong nodded, she lay on the rocking chair for a while, then got up again, and instructed: "You find Tuobayan, let him go to the mansion next to the concubine's mansion and ask to see which family is willing to sell the house, It doesn’t matter if the price is higher if you want.”
When Jinglan heard Li Rong's words, she couldn't hold back her smile. She glanced at Li Rong and said with a smile, "Didn't Your Highness say not to spend money indiscriminately?"
"Buying a house is buying a property," Li Rong said confidently, "How can you call it a waste of money?"
Jingmei, who was beating Li Rong's leg next to her, couldn't hold back, and burst out laughing.
Li Rong raised her eyebrows to look at her, and Jingmei quickly apologized with a smile: "I'm sorry, Your Highness, this servant didn't mean to laugh at you."
There was no need to explain anything, Li Rong knew what they were laughing at. She raised her hand and tapped Jingmei gently with her fan, and said softly, "Arrogant girl."
The three of them were playing around in the yard, and after a while, the chief guard of the Inspectorate came in.
After leaving Huajing from Xunchuan, the head of the bodyguard of the Supervisory Division was changed to a person named Zhao Chongjiu. This person was brought up by Xun Chuan, and Li Rong used it after several tests. He was holding a scroll of paper in his hand, which was all news sent from all over the world.
When Li Rong came back from rebirth, she began to let Pei Wenxuan rebuild the darknet of the previous life, but in addition to the darknet established by Pei Wenxuan, she also had a set of backup people.
She is not used to betting all important things on a possibility. Pei Wenxuan is easy to use, but it does not mean that he is the only one.
Later, after she established the Supervision Department, these dark nets were directly incorporated into the Supervision Department. When Xun Chuan left Huajing, he started to tour her and build the Supervision Department. The speed of laying out these news networks was doubled. Especially in the northwest and southwest.
With Qin Lin in the northwest, Xun Chuan's establishment of the dark web was almost unimpeded. And although Lin Feibai in the southwest had not shown signs of improvement, there was no strong family official there, and it was much more convenient for Li Rong to send someone over there.
Of course, at the same time, the corresponding consumption is money.
The inspector had the money given by Li Ming, but it was far from enough, so she had to fill her small treasury as a last resort. But at the current consumption rate, she can't last for long. Fortunately, last year, Pei Wenxuan made a series of layouts in the industry, from inviting Gu Chenzi to her fief Qingzhou professor to farm to the acquisition of real estate, and various industries. She also recovered Tuobayan to help manage the money. This year, her accounts were barely enough to operate.
Zhao Chongjiu came up with the message and said respectfully, "His Royal Highness, this is the message sent from various places recently."
Li Rong responded and took the information to quickly read it.
As she flipped through the information, she listened to Zhao Chongjiu: "Your Highness, the matter of Heli has probably been checked."
"Go ahead."
Li Rong's voice was quiet, and she scanned the situation in the Northwest written by Xun Chuan on the paper.
There is no war in the northwest now, but this winter is very cold, and many cattle and sheep are frozen to death outside the summer defense line, so there have been several small looting battles, targeting a certain city alone to fight the autumn wind, and run away after robbing.
Qin Lin was sent to the front line to defend the city alone. Qin Lin temporarily recruited the people in the city who had been robbed of food to become an army. In addition, the army originally controlled by the Qin family filled a lot of people. The biggest problem now is lack of money, so Li Rong can find a way to help get money.
"Last night in the palace, Su Rongqing and His Majesty had a secret conversation, and then His Majesty made a decree to reduce the cost of the Inspector Division and to hand over half of the Qingzhou tax to the imperial court to support the Northern Army's salaries."
Hearing this, Li Rong paused, and after a while, she took out Lin Feibai's news from the southwest.
There have been several major battles in the southwest this year. Lin Feibai has risen rapidly, and now he is also facing problems. On the way to promotion, he needs to bribe officials.
The summary is also two words, lack of money.
Seeing the money, Li Rong felt a headache. When she thought that Li Ming's original decree was to ask her for money, she felt fortunate. She didn't look up at the news and said, "Who told the emperor to change the news?"
"Your Majesty went down to Empress Roufei's place," Zhao Chongjiu replied flatly, "I changed my mind when I came back."
Hearing this, Li Rong laughed: "It seems that Pei Wenxuan has a good calculation."
There is indeed a crack in the cooperation between Concubine Rou and Su Rongqing.
Otherwise, Su Rongqing has already given a plan, and Concubine Rou should help advance it with all her strength, instead of changing Su Rongqing's meaning halfway now.
This made Li Rong breathe a sigh of relief.
Su Rongqing still knew too much about the family background of the Princess Mansion. He asked Li Ming to cut off her income, which really hit her weakness. Fortunately, Concubine Rou didn't listen to him and misestimated her relationship with Pei Wenxuan.
It's just such a coincidence, it probably won't happen too much.
This time, Su Rongqing must realize that Concubine Rou has a grudge against him. Since he intends to use Concubine Rou, he will not let this grudge, and he will definitely do something to restore the cooperation between Concubine Rou and him.
And Li Rong couldn't give him this chance.
Li Rong thought about it, and then thought about the chief examiner of the imperial examination. She suddenly thought of a person.
She hurriedly looked up at Zhao Chongjiu, and instructed, "Go and contact Cui Yulang for me, and then ask him, do you still plan to continue what he told me last time?"
Zhao Chongjiu raised his hand respectfully and responded, "Yes."
Zhao Chongjiu was very efficient in his work. That night, he found Cui Yulang in an alley.
Cui Yulang just finished drinking the flower wine and went back, and he was walking on the road. He walked forward while chanting poetry. Halfway through, he saw a person standing in the middle of the alley.
Zhao Chongjiu was dressed in the uniform of the inspector general, with a knife on his waist, Cui Yulang frowned, leaned against the wall, took a sip of wine and said, "What is this lord standing here for? ?"
Zhao Chongjiu's expression remained unmoved, and he only said, "His Royal Highness asked Bieji to ask Lord Cui."
Hearing this, Cui Yulang raised his head, his eyes were slightly cold, and then he heard Zhao Chongjiu say, "Do you still plan to continue what you told her last time?"
As soon as these words came out, Cui Yulang was stunned.
His expression changed a bit, and he seemed to be struggling. Zhao Chongjiu frowned. Seeing that Cui Yulang didn't answer for a long time, he couldn't help but urged, "Master Cui?"
"Sir," Cui Yulang hesitated for a long time, took a sip of wine, and finally said, "Then please ask the Lord to ask for Cui, if I obey the princess, can the princess guarantee my life?"
Zhao Chongjiu nodded: "Is there anything else to ask?"
"Also," Cui Yulang replied solemnly, "After the incident, will His Royal Highness promise to help Cui Mou investigate the case and give justice to Cui Mou's friend?"
Zhao Chongjiu responded and confirmed it again: "Are there any other questions?"
"If Your Highness agrees, the lord will tell you that it will be the next time." Cui Yulang looked at death as if at home, "After three days, I will rest in the private room on the top floor of the Deshun Inn, waiting for His Highness to drive. But before coming, please confirm with Your Highness, and do not let the concubine know. ."
"My ministers are nothing more than ants to the concubine," Cui Yulang respectfully saluted, "I hope Your Highness has pity."
Zhao Chongjiu: "..."
He didn't know why, but he always felt that there was something mysterious in this matter. But he still nodded, and seeing that Cui Yulang had nothing else to say, he turned back and conveyed what Cui Yulang meant.
Zhao Chongjiu repeated Cui Yulang's words almost sentence by sentence. Li Rong listened while soaking his feet, and Jingmei listened to Zhao Chongjiu's report and couldn't help but say, "His Royal Highness, what does he do with his concubine? What does he want Your Highness to pity for?"
Li Rong glanced at Jingmei lightly, and said in a tolerant tone with a bit of pity: "He is ill, we have to tolerate him."
After speaking, Li Rong turned her head and instructed Zhao Chongjiu, "Go back and tell him that he will wait for me at Qingyue Teahouse in three days."
Zhao Chongjiu nodded and stepped back to spread the word. As soon as he turned around, Li Rong couldn't help but add: "Also, tell him, let him stop thinking about it every day and be normal!"
Zhao Chongjiu agreed with this. He also felt that this Master Cui's brain was not very good.
Li Rong's words were sent to Cui Yulang. He heard that the location was Qingyue Tea House. After being stunned for a while, he couldn't help but feel a little emotional: "Your Highness really knows how to play."
Zhao Chongjiu looked up at him and said indifferently: "His Royal Highness said it," this made Cui Yulang nervous again, "Let you be normal."