0p0 Chapter 444: The Prince's Life, a Small Profit
Chapter 444: The Prince's Life, a Small Profit
Ji Chuhe took a deep breath and then chuckled.
"Madam, why are you laughing?" Rong Song was puzzled.
"I laugh at how we've all become pawns."
Rong Song was even more confused.
"It's okay. You can go down and rest first. There's no need to visit the Third Prince anymore." Ji Chuhe said softly.
"Yes, I am resigning."
Ji Chuhe cleared his mind and slept well. When he woke up the next day, he went to Xiao Yanan's room.
In order to make Xiao Yanan's illness look more real, there was always a faint smell of medicine in the room.
Xiao Yan'an was looking at his "very sick" face in the mirror.
On the table in front of him were some scented powder and indigo that women usually use to dress up. Ji Chuhe and Mianzhu helped him put on sick makeup twice, and he learned it by himself.
Without waiting for Ji Chuhe and Mian Zhu to arrive, he dressed himself up.
Hearing footsteps behind him, Xiao Yan'an immediately turned around and said, "Madam, do you think my condition is worse than it looked yesterday?"
Ji Chuhe couldn't help but smile when she saw the dark circles under his eyes. She walked up to him and used a handkerchief to wipe off some of the dark circles for him.
Xiao Yanan glanced at the bronze mirror. Although the bruises had faded, he looked even weaker.
"We can stay in the inn for another ten days or so. When all the supplies are almost gone, we can go back! Madam's idea is the best. Does this count as living a miserable life?"
Xiao Yan'an lay on the bed, crossing his legs comfortably.
"Prince, I received news last night that the Minister of Agriculture was implicated in the case of embezzlement of disaster relief supplies." Ji Chuhe spoke slowly.
"Grand Minister of Agriculture?" Xiao Yan'an suddenly sat up from the bed. "What does the emperor mean by this? Do you want to use this incident to get rid of the Grand Minister of Agriculture? It must be that the emperor did not allocate enough disaster relief grain, and the Grand Minister of Agriculture tried to stop the emperor, which led to this disaster!"
Ji Chuhe nodded, agreeing with Xiao Yan'an's guess.
"I exposed him for not allocating disaster relief grain to the people, so he killed me, that's fine! But the Grand Minister of Agriculture has made such a great contribution to Daxia. The Grand Minister of Agriculture's "Summer Agricultural Records" summarized the wisdom of the predecessors in agriculture and combined it with the actual situation of Daxia, teaching the people to follow the right time and place even when farming, so as to achieve twice the result with twice the effort. If it weren't for him, Daxia's agricultural output would have been reduced by more than 30%!"
Ji Chuhe has read "Summer Farming Records" three times.
Otherwise, she would not have thought of finding barren mountains that could be reclaimed in Huaiyang.
Whether in her past life or this life, she admired the Minister of Agriculture very much.
In his previous life, the Grand Minister of Agriculture retired and returned to his hometown in glory.
So many things have changed in this life that even the Minister of Agriculture has been affected.
If no one reveals this, it will be the people who suffer.
The revelation of this matter also affected the Minister of Agriculture.
Ji Chuhe feels that the rebirth of these people is like God taking you back to the starting point from the road of life. This time, if you don’t repeat the trajectory of your previous life, all kinds of changes will happen from the first step you take.
The more different the path is from the previous life, the greater the changes will be.
"Madam, is there any way to save the Minister of Agriculture?" Xiao Yan'an asked anxiously.
"Don't worry, my prince. The contribution of the Grand Minister of Agriculture to Daxia cannot be erased. I guess the emperor just wants the position of the Grand Minister of Agriculture. The Grand Minister of Agriculture himself should not be in danger of his life. What the emperor wants is a Grand Minister of Agriculture who listens to him more."
"I think so too. However, the Minister of Agriculture is already old, and retiring from officialdom may not be a bad thing." Xiao Yan'an lay back down, staring at the roof, looking very worried.
"Prince, it is clear from this that we have all become pawns on the emperor's chessboard. If he had moved someone else, I wouldn't have noticed, but this time, he moved the Minister of Agriculture. How much turmoil would this cause in the court? If we hadn't prepared in advance and produced convincing evidence, how could we have stopped the gossips?"
Xiao Yan'an sat up with a start, "So, the emperor is waiting for someone to expose the truth about the disaster relief grain!"
"Perhaps, there are two preparations! If it can be suppressed, sacrifice the people! If it cannot be suppressed, replace the Minister of Agriculture." Ji Chuhe had seen the ending of her previous life, so she guessed that the emperor had two preparations.
"So what if he wants to kill me?"
"Consider it a small profit attached to this matter." Ji Chuhe became more and more worried the more he thought about it.
If the sorcerer in the Astrology Pavilion is also a reborn person, he will definitely tell the emperor about the situation in the previous life.
For example, Luo Heng's war against the Hu bandits was a great success.
For example, the retirement of Duke Rong.
For example, the situation in the court was firmly controlled by the emperor. Later, he easily abolished the system of enfeoffment and executed the entire Huaiyang Palace...
Comparing the past life with the present changes, even if the emperor immediately killed everyone in the Rongguo Mansion and the Huaiyang Palace, it would be difficult to vent his anger.
Under the current situation, even if the emperor wants to get rid of the Huaiyang Palace and the Rongguo Palace, he has to hold back.
So, this time, the emperor wanted to kill Xiao Yan'an.
Killing Xiao Yan'an would not only relieve the hatred in my heart, but also deal a serious blow to the Huaiyang Palace and the Rongguo Palace!
"Actually, this game of chess has one advantage." Ji Chuhe's voice rang out again.
"What's the benefit?"
"The little tricks we did with the Queen could not be hidden from the Emperor's eyes, so the Emperor issued an order to grant marriage to the Third Prince and Qingqing."
Xiao Yan'an frowned and thought, his thoughts following Ji Chuhe's words step by step.
Ji Chuhe continued, "The purpose of granting the Third Prince a marriage is nothing more than to dissolve the relationship between the Rongguo Mansion and the Huaiyang Prince's Mansion. At the beginning, the Rongguo Mansion firmly disagreed to let the Queen Mother enter the palace as a concubine, which was equivalent to getting rid of the Emperor's control. More than 20 years later, the Emperor granted Qingqing a marriage to the Third Prince, and once again tightened the control of the Rongguo Mansion."
"In fact, the investigation of corruption this time did not require the Third Prince to step in, but the Emperor sent the Third Prince anyway. He made a simple move, but it had a huge impact on us."
"If the Third Prince is eager to show off to the Emperor and gain his approval, then he must achieve the Emperor's goal and get rid of you! If you die, it will completely cut off the possibility of the Queen and the Huaiyang Palace secretly forming an alliance again. The Third Prince is engaged to Qingqing, and Qingqing will marry the Third Prince sooner or later. The Rongguo Mansion will also face a choice at this time."
"Either give up Qingqing, or completely tie yourself to the interests of the Third Prince."
"Actually, this isn't a difficult choice. You're already dead. What's the point of the Rongguo Mansion giving up on Qingqing?"
"Looking further ahead, the Emperor will never change his mind about abolishing the system of enfeoffment. He can always find a pretext to accuse someone of a crime. In his previous life, he was able to execute the entire Huaiyang Palace, so why not this time? If the Third Prince is not the crown prince in his mind, he can use the relationship with the Huaiyang Palace to implicate the Rongguo Mansion and the Third Prince and catch them all in one fell swoop!"