The Promotion of Yuanchun in the Red Chamber

There are only four grown-up princes with some power and manpower, and the third prince who wants to be a good king and has always been too lazy to ask about "common affairs" between brothers has to be excluded.

Neither the eldest prince nor the crown prince thought of buying or wooing this aloof younger brother. There is no other reason, just two words: not worth it!

As for the Seventh Prince who is in charge of the army, he is the "person" who must be contested.So the First Prince went out in person—they are all brothers, and he is the elder brother. Even if the seventh brother is unhappy, he can't say anything, but if it were his subordinates, he would most likely offend the seventh brother to death.

In the eyes of the eldest prince Zhao Zhidi, even if he couldn't pull the seventh brother to his side, he couldn't let him get close to the prince.Sure enough, he only walked around a little more frequently with the seventh brother, and the prince couldn't sit still.

Afterwards, as he had expected, the elder brother of the princess concubine offended the seventh brother severely in his early years—he actually wanted to be a matchmaker for the seventh brother, thanks to him thinking of it.

Now that the seventh brother returned to the northern camp, he took a decisive action and cut off the crown prince's elder brother's financial resources... at least half of the financial resources.

After so many years, the prince concubine's brother is almost used to being the "second ancestor", and the seventh prince will definitely deal with it. He will never back down immediately. At the same time, he will definitely sue the prince... The prince and the seventh brother had a quarrel , his big brother can reap the benefits of himself!

The more the eldest prince thought about it, the happier he felt, and he was smiling for half the day.

It's just that the actions of their brothers these days, in the eyes of the Holy One, naturally have a different feeling.That night, the Holy Majesty went to Chengqian Palace to find the noble concubine to vomit bitterness.

The Holy Majesty held the concubine's hand with a long meaning, "My sons have grown up."

The imperial concubine smiled and said, "Are you not happy that the princes stand out from each other?" She dared to say this.

The Holy Majesty shook his head, "You..." After finishing speaking, he instructed again, "Let's read Lao Qi's first, and you will teach the Crown Princess after a while." After thinking about it, he felt helpless, "The Crown Prince is fine. The Crown Princess's natal family is not happy to live in peace."

The noble concubine replied, "I'll save it." But she said in her heart, "The Holy Majesty really prefers it."In the view of the Holy Majesty, the incident this time has little to do with the crown prince, it must be the fault of the crown prince's natal family.But the Holy One also supported Lao Qi... I don't care about it.

Speaking of which, the prince's brother doesn't have half an eyeliner in the imperial concubine's palace, how would he know that he has already registered in front of the emperor?

Just as Wang Ziteng said, cutting off people’s wealth is similar to killing their parents. When the princess’ brother learned that the caravan was detained, he immediately sent his confidants to the pass, and he went straight to his father’s study, straight to the point, “Seventh Prince Blame our family!"

The Seventh Prince's wife has been dead for less than a year. If you are in a hurry to protect the matchmaker, no one will be annoyed!The princess's father is more sober than his son, "There is nothing to complain about."

The family didn't know the details of their caravan. The elder brother of the princess was blocked by his father, and he didn't know what to explain for a while, so he just said angrily, "Then he won't give our family face."

"That's the son of the Holy Majesty, the younger brother of the crown prince." The crown prince's father focused his eyes, "What did your caravan sell?"

"Iron utensils," the elder brother of the Crown Princess choked, and then said again, "farming tools, not weapons."

The Crown Princess's natal family also has a big business...the population is large, and in order to marry a daughter into the East Palace, their long house almost spent all their family resources on buying dowry. Moisturizes more than ever.

Even if it was only for the sake of money, he had to protect his son first. After comforting his son, the princess's father wrote a special letter and ordered the chief follower to hand it over to General Li Jingli, who was under the command of the Seventh Prince Zhao Zhizhen.

As for the elder brother of the Crown Princess, he complained to his father, and he couldn't get over it. He tossed and turned at night and didn't fall asleep for half the night.After leaving the yamen the next afternoon, he went to see the crown prince, and he didn't forget to send someone to say hello to his sister.

This time the seventh brother suddenly became "stern and selfless". In the prince's view, it was the elder brother-in-law who provoked him: both the seventh younger brother and the eldest brother-in-law were under his command, so he couldn't be too partial to one side, so naturally he should focus on mediation.

The prince put down the teacup, and said in a calm manner: "Since the manager under his command is not in the right order, stealing and selling ironware, it is natural to hand it over to Lao Qi to take care of it."

How familiar is the prince's elder brother with the prince?As soon as I heard this, I knew that this person was going to make a big deal out of it first, and told him not to show up indiscriminately... The elder brother of the princess said anxiously: "Who knows what that person said?!"

The prince looked at his brother-in-law without saying a word.

The room was terribly quiet for a moment, and the elder brother of the Crown Princess frowned and added another fire, "You have a good temper!"

The prince closed his eyes and opened them again, his momentum suddenly changed, "You only smuggled iron wares to the north?"

The elder brother of the princess concubine lowered his head and did not answer: He also sold some news...

The prince continued: "Lao Qi has always been cautious, he must be sure to make a move. If you rely on yourself alone, it may not be easy for your subordinates to escape."

The elder brother of the crown prince said with difficulty: "The crown prince has learned a lesson."

"You get something if you give it up." The prince made a point, and then he served tea to see off the guests, but he also secretly made up his mind: he will not let the big brother continue to be proud.

That night, the prince slept in the study and never went to the apse to see the princess.

However, Zhao Zhizhen, who was more than 200 miles away, slept soundly several times in a row. Ever since he was enlightened by Yuan Chun, he planned to keep his heart: ignore the open and secret fight between the eldest prince and the prince for the time being.Because his words and deeds are not to please any brother, but everything is left to the father to judge.

However, General Li Jing received a distress letter from the princess's father, and immediately encountered difficulties: the princess's natal family was originally from a noble family in the north.Before Zhao Zhizhen's arrival, many people in the army had received the favor of this family.

This is a bit of a long story.

However, at the time of the first emperor, although the northern army was ordered to resist the Beidi people and guard the northern gate, they did not receive enough military pay, food and weapons for many years.It was not easy to wait until the Holy Majesty ascended the throne, and the situation improved somewhat, but because there were not many wars with Beidi, the Holy Majesty did not put much of his mind on the north, so even if the situation of the Northern Army improved, it was very limited.

Knowing that the officers and soldiers of the Northern Army had a difficult life, the caravan of the princess's natal family took the initiative to offer gold and silver as bonuses to the generals and their lieutenants.Everyone took advantage of his family. When his caravan cleared the customs, they always turned a blind eye and closed their eyes. Occasionally, there was a small amount of salt and iron, and they pretended not to know.

Over the past few years, the officers and soldiers guarding the customs took his family's bribes with peace of mind, and at the same time other businesses had to follow suit. In the end, the trend of extorting bribes became more and more serious, and it almost became a rule.

At this time, the war between Benchao and Beidi finally resumed.And Zhao Zhizhen, who is known as the "cold face king", took command and took command of the Northern Army to control the generals, and the small movements of the officers and soldiers had to be gradually restrained.

Zhao Zhizhen's reputation of "high rules and strict discipline" is also resounding, and he...is indeed enough to convince the public.

First, he came with the elite of the Chinese army, and at the same time, he brought sufficient military pay: all the owed salaries of the officers and soldiers were also reissued, and there was no need to worry about food, grass and weapons.

Secondly, and at the same time the most important thing, Zhao Zhizhen is known as upright and never greedy for merit.The military judges around him were even more stern and selfless. After cutting off the heads of a few veterans who were mixed up with the school lieutenants and lieutenants, how could anyone dare to pretend to claim military exploits?

Everyone has money in their pockets, and the way to get in is smoother than before. The officers and soldiers of the Northern Army are much more comfortable. With the lessons learned from the past, there are very few people who dare to know the law and break the law: when the two armies are at war, they dare to release the caravan Smuggling ironware to Beidi——Such a resource to the enemy, if found out, he will definitely lose his head!

With the arrival of Zhao Zhizhen, the atmosphere of the Northern Army also took on a new look, but some veteran generals in the Northern Army still remembered the help given by the Crown Princess' natal family.

Favors owed must always be repaid.

Li Jing thought over and over again about the character of the seventh prince, and then weighed his own weight, thinking that his back molars started to hurt.The general who had just passed the age of forty wandered around the desk several times in the tent, and finally made up his mind and decided to invite two more friends—the generals who received the "filial piety" from the caravan of the princess's natal family back then. Let's go and beg the Seventh Prince together.

And Zhao Zhizhen in the big tent was holding the prince's personal letter in his hand: He told the seventh brother not to be embarrassed, but to do business as usual.

Zhao Zhizhen read the letter three times over and over again, he couldn't help laughing in his heart and said: If you really want me to do business, why do you write the letter specially, Brother Prince?

He shook his head, put the prince's letter aside, picked up a pen and wrote on the top-quality paper: Chen Wen... As soon as he wrote these two words, Li Jing and others came to see him.

Li Jing and the others are actually doing their best: they are smuggling ironware at the time of the battle with Beidi... Although they are all agricultural tools, they are also taboo.

After hearing a few words from Li Jing and the others, Zhao Zhizhen knew they were here to intercede.He thought about it, and felt that he should reveal a little bit, "If it's just a smuggling of ironware, the death penalty can be avoided, and the living crime cannot escape."

Li Jing was taken aback for a moment, then hesitated, "What do you mean?"

Zhao Zhizhen waved his hand, "Occasionally ignorance is also a blessing." This is already a very real reminder and warning, don't ruin your official career for favors.

Li Jing and the others could hear the murderous spirit in these words, they were silent for a moment and then exchanged glances, Li Jing, who had the best personal relationship with Zhao Zhizhen, said, "I beg your lord to show you the way." After speaking, several people stood up together and bowed to the end.

Looking at the generals who bowed and couldn't get up, Zhao Zhizhen said in a very low voice, "Imperial criminal."

In the ears of Li Jing and the others, these two words were no less than a thunderbolt.After a few breaths of silence, the few people retreated willingly...

Speaking of which, the elder brother of the Crown Princess naturally knows that his caravan smuggles salt and iron, and occasionally spreads some "innocuous" news, but...he has never been to the pass after all, so he really doesn't know that his caravan sometimes also serves as human teeth and bodyguards .

What they brought into the gate were not only people from other races who wanted to come to the dynasty to beg for a living, but also spies from various tribes; as for what they brought out... there was often only one kind, that is, fugitives.

In order to save their lives, they left the Central Plains and fled outside the customs. These people did not hesitate to lose their families.Therefore, this transaction is the real "huge profit", which is more profitable than several times of smuggling salt and iron!

Of course, the caravans that dare to do this can be counted on one hand in the whole north, and the caravan of the princess's natal family is obviously among them.

Zhao Zhizhen seized the caravan and showed the iron objects found in the carriage in front of the caravan steward, also to prevent the steward from taking risks if he thought the real crime had been exposed.

Apart from waiting quietly for the concubine's natal family to send someone to deal with the matter, Zhao Zhizhen also had to welcome his father's confidants, and silently sealed the folder and put it in a special secret box - the Highness in the south, and his wife and concubine Although everyone's surname is Zhao and their blood relationship is not too far apart, Zhao Zhizhen has never met any of them.

Thinking of this, Zhao Zhizhen rarely smiled: Liu Huan really helped a lot this time!

He was in a good mood here, and the soldiers who were very good at observing words and expressions dared to step forward, and at the same time handed over a letter with both hands, "My lord, Mr. Jia, the secretary of the Governor's Mansion at the pass, has sent a letter."

In other words, Jia Lian also put his heart on hold this time, thinking that if he told the whole story, the prince might still mention something for the sake of his sister Yuan Chun?

A point is of course affirmative.Zhao Zhizhen had already taken Yuan Chun into his heart, as long as it didn't make things too difficult for him, he would support Yuan Chun's natal family appropriately - Yuan Chun didn't even know about this.

However, the lord's suggestion... Jia Lian found that he couldn't figure it out at all: the reply letter only had four words, so he could cultivate himself quietly.

The author has something to say: It's a little earlier than yesterday, and it's improved... Let me boast first hahaha.