reborn monarch

Within a few days, Xie Jiuyuan's memorial was passed into the palace through Su Wei's secret thread.

Gu Zhen took the memorial sent by Sanbao and put it on the case. Instead of checking it immediately, he paid attention to the commander of the guard who sent the memorial, Haitu.

The second guards of Jingsu, although they are all guards from aristocratic families, but after all, Jingwei still has to practice and train every day, which is not too slack, and there are only about [-] guards in total. The training is all three days of training and one day off, which is much more than that of Jingwei.

The commander of Suwei is tantamount to a dandy head, whose family background and martial arts are the best among the Suwei. People from Chu, Haiti is quite tall and mighty|mighty, to the point where Emperor Qi Yuan stared at him until his head was sweating.

Emperor Qiyuan hadn't paid much attention to their guards since he ascended the throne, why did he become interested now?Could it be that they bet with Shang Fang's sword?

"The commander of the sea."

Emperor Qiyuan finally opened his mouth and brought back the thoughts of Haiti running endlessly, Haitu immediately responded respectfully: "The minister is here."

"It must be very hard for the guards to guard the palace every day."

He didn't dare to accept this high-profile hat, and hurriedly lowered his hands and cupped his fists: "Your Majesty's absurd praise, what is the duty, what is the duty."

"Commander Hai is too modest," Emperor Qi Yuan said with a smile, "I thought the guards were only in charge of the defense of the palace city, but this time the secret line outside the palace was activated for the first time, and it was done so quickly and properly, which really impressed me."

But Haitu also calmed down at this time, thankful that he had made preparations, and said frankly: "The guards dare not take credit for it. The hidden thread is the hidden pile left by the late emperor. The ministers are just maintaining and preserving. It is the ministers who can come in handy. pleasure."

As he said that, he knelt down, took out a blueprint from his sleeve, raised it above his head, and offered: "All the hidden stakes are recorded in this picture. I finally got to see Your Majesty today. Please look into it clearly."

When he received the order, Haitu wondered how Emperor Qiyuan would know that there was a hidden thread in the hands of the guards. This dark thread was left by the late emperor. It is possible to tell anyone, but only Emperor Qiyuan, who was rejected by the late emperor and rushed to the Buddhist hall Eighteen princes, impossible.

It stands to reason that he should have dedicated this blueprint to Emperor Qiyuan long ago, but although he had no objection, he secretly had a sense of self-preservation. Excuse, never said.

San Baofu took over the blueprints and presented them, but Emperor Qi Yuan put them on the case like a memorial, without opening them, and asked, "The twelve hidden piles in the south of the Yangtze River, how many people have been dispatched there?"

Did Emperor Qi Yuan know about it a long time ago? !Now not only his head, Haitu was completely covered in cold sweat.

Could it be that the late emperor's so-called abandonment had other secrets behind it?Story books like to say that the emperor put the people he really valued into the sidelines. Is this the truth?

Haiti drank and listened to too much music. At this time, all kinds of guesses were running wild in his mind, and he was completely stunned.

"Commander Hai?" Father-in-law Sanbao reminded him displeasedly that it would be disrespectful for him to be distracted when His Majesty was asking questions!

Haitu realized that Emperor Qiyuan was still waiting for his answer, so he was excited and replied more respectfully: "The officialdom in the south of the Yangtze River is complicated, and there are many people but it is easy to mess up. Therefore, only three people are assigned to each hidden stake, and they can be flexibly mobilized."

"Very good." Gu Zhen boasted flatly, then suddenly changed the subject and asked, "Commander Hai is young and promising, but has he experienced the rebellion in Emperor Xian's last years?"

Haitu: "Weichen is thirty-five this year, and during the chaos of seizing the throne, he served as the deputy commander of the guard."

"Oh?" Gu Zhen seemed very interested, and then asked, "What kind of meritorious promotion did you achieve?"

Haitu: "Ashamed, I didn't do any meritorious service. It was His Highness the Ninth Prince who beheaded the former commander and said, 'Then the deputy commander will take over'."

"So that's it." Gu Zhen nodded, without making a comment, just said: "Then, Commander Hai must understand the truth that 'people in troubled times are not as good as Taiping dogs'. Drinking flowers and wine and listening to music can only be done in a peaceful and prosperous age."

These words meant something, but Hai Tu didn't dare to speculate, he only said cautiously: "My minister is terrified."

Emperor Qi Yuan seemed to sneer, did not continue, and ordered: "Go down, find someone to get my reply in the afternoon, remember, find someone who has good ears and eyes and doesn't talk too much."

"Minister, take the order!" Haitu kowtowed, took the order and hurried away.

Gu Zhen closed his eyes and rested his mind, guessing that Haitu would definitely find someone to inquire about the late emperor's true attitude towards him, the eighteenth prince. Once this news leaked out, it would definitely cause waves.

And what Haitu could find out would only confuse him even more.

This is what it should be, and even Gu Zhen can't understand why a man, an emperor with a harem full of beauties, insists on torturing a kind-hearted woman in every possible way, and even the son born to him by a woman becomes his domination over a woman Tool of.

All of this is just because this woman doesn't love him.

She was just on the way to worship Buddha and met the late emperor who was still a prince. She couldn't bear to see the group of people who were said to have met bandits hungry and thirsty, so she ordered the guards to share some food and water.

One act of kindness doomed her to a miserable life.

On the day the first emperor disappeared, Tanlin Hall caught fire. When he heard the news at Xiuyun Temple, his mother and concubine had already been buried in the imperial mausoleum according to the order left by the late emperor.This matter was handled by the Ninth Prince.

He was separated from his mother and concubine at the age of six, and hadn't seen each other for ten years, so he couldn't even be buried.

Thinking of the fire in Fengtian Temple in the 19th year of Qiyuan, Gu Zhen frowned. Most of their mother and son were involved in the fire.

"Your Majesty, do you want a cup of ginseng tea?" Seeing that there seemed to be hatred between Gu Zhen's eyebrows, Sanbao was very worried, and suggested.

"Ah."

Gu Zhen responded softly, drank a few sips of ginseng tea, looked at the layout of the hidden piles first, and then opened Xie Jiuyuan's memorial.

Xie Jiuyuan played because private merchant ships have to pay shipping fees at every water transport port. Compared with the unimpeded official ships, he expressed his feelings. After thinking about it, he thought that private traders were already heavily taxed, and the burden of shipping fees would be increased. It is very unreasonable, and should be appropriately reduced or even not charged. In this way, the cost of merchant ships will be lowered, the speed will be faster, and the tax will naturally increase. It is the best of both worlds.

Gu Zhen listened to the memorial.

In the previous life, he lived in the deep palace of the Buddhist hall for a long time, and he didn't understand the twists and turns. It was Xie Jiuyuan who guided him patiently and explained the reason to him.

Now, it was his turn to teach the young Xie Jiuyuan.

Gu Zhen curled his mouth and wrote a reply in lower case. Thinking of the episode of Xie Jiuyuan boarding the ferry, he raised his eyebrows, changed a piece of paper and added a few more strokes. I picked a wooden box from the tray and packed it.

Father-in-law Sanbao slandered inwardly. After this set up, how could it be a reply to the memorial.

In ancient times, there was a word called Hongyan Passing Books.

"What are you quietly arranging for me?" Gu Zhen picked up the memorial and knocked on the head of Sanbao who was distracted.

Sanbao covered his head, knelt down, seemed aggrieved, and pleaded guilty: "How dare this servant have the guts to arrange for the Holy Majesty, this servant is thinking that the Majesty has not seen the prince for two or three days."

It really is.

Gu Zhen nodded, "Pass it down, let the son share the dinner with me at Dongnuan Pavilion."

"Yes." Eunuch Sanbao agreed with a low eyebrow.

When Xie Jiuyuan received Gu Zhen's reply, he was already approaching Jinling, and he would be able to board the ship in two days.

Most of the chief examiners on the ship got seasick, and those who didn’t didn’t feel very uncomfortable. They lost the interest in talking and chatting, and they all laid their bodies in their own cabins. The guards were better than the officials, but they weren’t much better, except Xie Jiuyuan As if nothing happened, the guards remembered that this imperial envoy had real skills, and they respected Xie Jiuyuan more.

Su Wei sent the reply by catching up with the official ship in a fast boat. Not only Xie Jiuyuan was surprised by their sudden duty, but even the Su Wei who followed Xie Jiuyuan were surprised. They sent it quickly and had no money to take, so they sent it to Jinling. Just wait on the shore, and you can take the opportunity to stroll along the Qinhuai River. What's going on?

"I'm sorry, little brother Suwei. Please wait for a moment, and I will know if you need to play back after reading it." Xie Jiuyuan took the wooden box and said politely.

Su Wei, who delivered the letter, hurriedly bowed and said, "My lord is your duty, please be polite. Please, I'll just wait for you. It's nothing to bother you."

The attitude is also a lot more polite.

Xie Jiuyuan didn't think about it, he cupped his hands casually and went back to the room to check. As soon as he entered the door, the guard who delivered the letter was dragged aside by the guards who were becoming more and more suspicious and whispered.

Opening the wooden box, Xie Jiuyuan took out the wax-sealed reply. Before it was unfolded, a black thread fell from the rice paper.

Xie Jiuyuan twirled the blue silk, wrapped it around his fingers a few times, stared at it for a moment, and put it into the black brocade pouch around his waist.

Gu Zhen's reply was written in an easy-to-understand manner.

"The shipping fee is collected by the water transport port. The original intention is to subsidize the local expenses for hiring water workers and maintaining the river. The commercial tax is collected by the place where the merchant is doing business, based on the tax policy of Dachu. The shipping fee is abolished, and then by The imperial government allocates funds to hire water workers and maintain rivers. Locals are also greedy. Foxes steal chickens, and tigers eat sheep. If the fox’s chickens are taken away, and the tiger is given an extra sheep, how can the fox sit and wait for death? The tiger’s appetite has been eaten for a long time, and the tiger eats the sheep again. How can we be satisfied with just one more sheep? In this way, the tax revenue will not increase but decrease.”

"Aiqing will cry out if she is not fair, and I am very relieved. It is just that the plan of abolishing the shipping fee is not feasible. Since Aiqing has a heart, she must see, listen, and think more in Jiangnan."

Xie Jiuyuan was taken aback, he traveled all over the world and worked as a local official, but he was not as far-sighted as Emperor Qi Yuan who had lived in the deep palace for a long time.

The letter paper in his hand wrinkled, and Xie Jiuyuan realized that there was another one underneath.

"Hearing about Aiqing's heroic rescue of the beauty at the ferry, I thought of the day when the king of the Miao people went to the palace to congratulate me, but I felt pity for it."

Xie Jiuyuan broke out in a cold sweat.

Then, I found a little interest in it.

He wrote a reply letter, stuffed it into the memorial written in the past two days, and went out to the guard to take him back to the capital. The guard didn't wait to go ashore, jumped on the fast boat, turned around and left.

The guards who followed Xie Jiuyuan became more respectful towards Xie Jiuyuan.

Guessing about what Emperor Qiyuan did in the capital, Xie Jiuyuan put all these aside and thought about the Jiangnan examination room over and over again.

Two days later, the official ship approached one of Jinling's busy ferry crossings.

"Big brother!"

A surprised boy waved his hand, avoiding the people coming and going, and ran towards the official ship.

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