"Your Majesty! Western Chu wants to send eighth-level warriors to assassinate His Highness the Crown Prince!"

When the messenger heard that His Majesty the Emperor was going back to Jinling, he subconsciously shouted.

After shouting this, he was stunned and fell to his knees in fear.

But he has no regrets.

His Royal Highness the Prince's urgent letter must be delivered on time and without fail!

"Your Majesty, when His Majesty the Crown Prince learned of this, he sent a messenger three hundred miles away to rush the memorial. Please check it out and make a decision!"

The messenger mustered up his courage and held a memorial with trembling hands.

Zhang Chengqian stared at the memorial for a long time, as if trying to decipher it.

It was only when Queen Chen next to him gave a heavy fake cough that he came back to his senses and his body was shaken.

Without waiting to call the chief guard to get the memorial, he jumped out of the chariot himself and took the memorial from the courier's hand.

After reading it carefully, his expression changed drastically.

"Your Majesty, is the assassin story true or false?"

Queen Chen inquired nervously from the side.

"If this Xichu assassin is real, he is here for the Crown Prince and has nothing to do with His Highness..."

"Shut up!"

Zhang Chengqian, who had never really scolded Queen Chen, suddenly became angry. Not only Queen Chen was stunned, but everyone else present was also stunned.

After a while, his expression also changed drastically.

Judging from His Majesty's bad mood, the assassin story must be true!

Queen Chen was scolded and was still thinking of something to say to ease the awkward atmosphere.

Snap!

A slap fell on her face without warning, knocking her to her knees with stars in her eyes.

"Your Majesty, calm down!"

"I don't know what I did to offend His Majesty and make His Majesty so angry. I hope Your Majesty will take care of your dragon body!"

Queen Chen has a habit of being humble and petty.

Even though this was the first time she had been slapped in these years, she still maintained her usual attitude.

She knew that as long as she admitted her mistake, was humble and obedient, His Majesty would not be angry with her.

"Calm down? Look at the good things you have done!"

Zhang Chengqian threw the memorial in Empress Chen's face.

"When I left Jinling, I encouraged everyone to donate food to stabilize the morale of the army and let the soldiers escort them with all their strength. Queen, what did you say at that time? The harvest has been poor in recent years, so I can only donate one thousand shi of food."

"I received a report from Jinling yesterday, saying that the second son promised one hundred thousand stones of grain as soon as he returned to Jinling City. I was worried about him and could not raise so much grain. I didn't expect it! Just your Chen family's granary in Jinling.

So I hoarded 60,000 shi of grain!"

No wonder!

No wonder the second child's mouth dared to blow such a big cowhide.

Zhang Junlin saw these 60,000 stones of grain. It is still unknown how much grain he had secretly hoarded.

"I asked your queen to donate food, but you only donated a thousand dan, but the Chen family hoarded a huge amount of food. The rats in the warehouse are stronger than pigs. What do you, the Chen family, want to do? Huh?"

These words are heartbreaking.

Queen Chen was so frightened that she picked up the memorial and raised it above her head, trembling all over as she answered.

"Your Majesty, Your Majesty...this matter...this matter..."

"You don't know? Okay! I'm going to ask the abbot to tell me that he has hoarded so much food that the Chen family will not be able to eat it for ten lifetimes. Does he want to hoard the food and start an army, or does he want to take advantage of it and resell it to make money for the country?"

Can't ask!

Empress Chen did not expect such a thing to happen, and did not discuss with her parents in advance how to answer the question.

Any wrong words will arouse His Majesty's suspicion.

Not only was the Chen family in ruins, but the two princes were also implicated and had no hope of ascending to the throne.

"Your Majesty, this matter is my concubine..."

"Your Majesty! You have to make the decision for me!"

Before Empress Chen could put the matter into perspective, she was frightened when she heard her father's wailing, and quickly turned her head and looked back.

I saw my father coming quickly, and Chen Da, the family's henchman, was being supported and limping over.

Both of them looked angry, as if someone had robbed them of millions of gold, which puzzled her.

Although the Chen family started from the bottom of the family, they are now the mother-in-law of the country. Not to mention being tyrannical in Jinling, even if they go north to avoid war, they are given the highest treatment from the royal family.

Why are you so aggrieved...and Chen Da.

Isn't Chen Da guarding the granary in Jinling? Why does he appear here? It looks like he was beaten?

Queen Chen is one of two older girls. She hasn't solved the matter that His Majesty asked her about, and her father is here to cause trouble again. It's really...

"What happened to the father-in-law and he asked me to make the decision for you? Let me tell you."

Zhang Chengqian asked with great interest, but there was suppressed anger in his eyes.

When Empress Chen saw this, she was about to remind her father to speak less and make fewer mistakes.

But I saw my father was howling at the top of his lungs.

"Your Majesty, that Zhang Junlin went too far and robbed all the food from my Chen family. Your Majesty has to make the decision for me!"

What?!

Queen Chen's breath was suffocated, and her blood surged.

How dare the third prince, who was submissive in front of her, do such a bold thing?

She subconsciously blurted out and complained directly.

"Your Majesty! His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is incompetent..."

"Is he innocent? Didn't he write an IOU to the Chen family on my behalf? Does the state leader not know about this, or is he pretending not to know about it?"

Zhang Chengqian kicked the memorial in Queen Chen's hand, knocking Queen Chen to the ground.

"The Chen family has a grain store of 60,000 dan. After His Highness the Crown Prince learned about it, he wrote an IOU for me in order to stabilize Jinling. It is clearly stated in the memorial."

"Also, the second prince promised in public to donate 100,000 stone grain, and also bought all the Zhang family's medicinal materials at 10% of the usual price!"

"Yesterday, I praised the Second Prince for his abilities, but today I understand that the Second Prince's ability is actually greater than mine! The Chen family only has 60,000 shi of food, and I don't know whose 40,000 shi he will borrow to make up for the 100,000 shi.

"

Everyone, treat him as a dead person, right?

He hasn't even gone to Hexi yet, but he has already begun to unite with the Chen family to gain the support of the people?!

Zhang Chengqian's angry eyes swept across the powerful families present, and he stared hard at the head of the Zhang family, the Minister of Household Affairs, Zhang Fang.

Zhang Fang had just learned about this, his head buzzed, and his body fell to his knees faster than his thoughts.

"Wei Chen doesn't dare! Wei Chen... Wei Chen went north with His Majesty, and there is only one son in the family... It should be that child who is eager to save the people, so he serves the royal family. It is definitely for the sake of the second prince's face."

During the war, selling medicinal materials at 10% price was tantamount to cutting off flesh.

Zhang Fang didn't know what happened in Jinling, but he knew that his son was as good as his father.

Zhang Wen boasted that he was making a lot of money in Haikou. If the second prince hadn't gone to Zhang's house to ask for medicine, this would never have happened!

Second prince!

Chen family!

He took note of this account!

"Your Majesty! I have 60,000 shi of food stored in my house. I want to solve your Majesty's crisis in times of crisis. I have no evil intentions!"

"Really? But I just listened to the father-in-law's complaint..."

"My father expressed something wrong. He wanted to say...His Royal Highness the Crown Prince forcibly issued an IOU, which was an injustice to our Chen family. These 60,000 stone grains were originally intended by the second prince to be donated to the people in the name of His Majesty! That's right!

Donated!”

Even though I was forced to donate food, my heart was bleeding.

But Empress Chen could only suffer the loss of being dumb.

The food had already been taken away by Zhang Junlin, so it was impossible for her to really ask His Majesty to issue an IOU again.

I can only swallow this bad breath and calm down His Majesty's anger... and tell His Highness, even if the assassin doesn't come, Zhang Junlin, the broom star, will be poisoned to death!

"Prince, is the Queen right?"

Zhang Chengqian did not forget to behave well when he got an advantage.

"If the Chen family is not interested in donating food, I will personally type an IOU to you."

"...No, no, no."

Under the gaze of Queen Chen, Chen Guozhang shook his head like a rattle.

Dare you ask His Majesty the Emperor to write an IOU to the Chen family?

I'm afraid that the Chen family will be confiscated and exterminated, and they will never have to pay it back again.

Zhang Chengqian was satisfied when he saw that the Chen family was quite obedient, and looked at those powerful and aristocratic families.

It is true that the powerful family cannot be offended, but the imperial power cannot be offended either!

"The 100,000-strong army that is escorting everyone heading north is still short of food and grass. I have been having a headache thinking about this problem in the past few days. This eighth-level warrior from Western Chu is chasing after me. If there is no food and grass, how should the chariots and horses move forward?"
Chapter completed!