Not to mention, the eldest princess is a female generation, and it is impossible to hold too much power, let alone become the emperor. If you come forward to bet your treasure on this person, isn't that asking for trouble?
King Xiang is different. He is the third prince, and he is still a strong contender for the crown prince's position. Behind him, he is supported by King Qi, a vassal king with military power. Who can guarantee that he has no chance of ascending to the throne?
Although even if King Xiang ascends the throne, it will be difficult for the relationship between them to ease due to the past between them. But this time, King Xiang did not offend him. Instead, he ruined other people's good deeds. If it is reasonable, If you don't forgive others, you will really drive Prince Xiang into a panic. Who knows what he can do to him?
The best way is to hand over the conflict. He only needs to tell the emperor in this way that the eldest princess was wronged. It can be considered that he has done his best and has an explanation to the eldest princess who has always supported him. As for the matter How the emperor wants to deal with it is his business. It is an internal matter within the royal family. As an outsider, Shen Ao does not want to participate and will not participate.
In a short period of time, Shen Ao thought of so many things. It must be said that his political wisdom has improved significantly compared to before, and he knows how to advance, retreat and make trade-offs.
Yan Fu was just about to wait for the emperor to go to bed when the eunuch below reported that Duke Zhongguo was here again. This made Eunuch Yan stunned. At the same time, he could only apologize to Emperor Qianwen and walked out of the palace. go.
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I have never felt the sun be so warm.
When the eldest princess came out of the prison, she looked up at the sky and had many thoughts.
Although it only lasted a few days from the beginning to the end of entering the heavenly prison, for the eldest princess, it really felt like days and years, and it also made her think clearly about many things.
If before, the eldest princess only wanted to do something to help the royal brother, and then she wanted to take control of power to achieve better results. Now her mentality has changed. She is thinking that taking power is not to be bullied, and she wants to take revenge on those who want to deal with her. Those who wanted her dead.
She wanted to tell those people that women are very vindictive and should not be offended.
Zhuyun was already waiting outside the prison with a soft sedan. When she saw her master coming out, she wanted to rush forward. But when she saw the eldest princess seemed to be deep in thought, she stood still. Just watching quietly, she had a feeling that something had changed in her master, but she couldn't tell what it was specifically.
The eldest princess finally finished her review and saw Zhuyun, with a satisfied smile on her face.
"Master, are you okay in there?" Zhuyun came trotting over, ran to the eldest princess and asked with concern.
"It's okay. Let's leave here first. By the way, let me tell you what happened outside these days." Looking back at Tianlao, the eldest princess promised that she would not appear here again, and then she stepped forward He walked towards the soft sedan calmly.
And just near the Tianlao, Liu Xiong was executed by beheading, ending his disgraceful life.
Because they were suspected of falsely accusing the royal family, Liu Xiong's family members were all assigned as slaves and sent to the slave market. As you can imagine, what they had to go through next was a long process that was worse than death.
Almost at the same time, Yan Fu came to Prince Xiang's palace and rebuked Prince Xiang privately. He didn't say anything about the eldest princess from beginning to end, but he reminded Prince Xiang to be more honest. If you have time, do more practical things and make some achievements instead of just fighting among yourself. Daqian cannot withstand too much trouble.
Yan Fu came on behalf of his father. Faced with the rebuke, King Xiang rarely argued. Instead, he lowered his head and said nothing, as if he was wrong and would change it in the future. But in his heart, he hated it to death. Shen Ao, Duke of Zhongguo.
King Xiang had his own sources of information, and there were many eunuch informants in the palace. He soon found out about Liu Xiong's arrest, and he felt something bad. Just when he was thinking about how to put aside the relationship with When the relationship between Liu Xiong and Liu Xiong was irrelevant to the matter, Yan Fu came.
Eunuch Yan didn't mention the eldest princess at all, so King Xiang naturally didn't need to explain. But through those scolding words, King Xiang could feel that his father already knew everything. But fortunately, there was no punishment. What I mean is just to remind myself to be more honest.
Over the years, Prince Xiang, who had learned a lot about his father's temperament, knew that his father was angry. This time he was reminding him that if there was a next time, he might deal with him just like the former prince.
Thinking of being sentenced to death, or possibly being removed from the throne, King Xiang was not afraid, so he decided to become more honest during this period, and no matter what, he could not make his father angry. At least not for now.
King Xiang was scolded and that was the end of the matter. But as the executor, Han Ce did not have it so easy. King Xiang suddenly shut himself up and thought about his mistakes. He told the outside world that he was not in good health and needed to rest for a while. He hid in Prince Xiang's mansion and could not leave. Others were But he couldn't.
Han Ce is different. He is just a staff member. He cannot stay overnight at Prince Xiang's Mansion unless there are extremely special circumstances. He can only return to the yard he bought in Chengdong District. As soon as he returned here, he found that the street Some unknown burly men appeared around. They didn't even make any evasive moves. They stared at me fiercely, as if to tell themselves that you were being watched and you should be careful.
When the servants at home were being watched when they went to the street to buy groceries, people in the entire Han Mansion were panicked. Some people who were not servants in the manor also left one after another. If not for the fact that some of the slaves had already been captured by Han Mansion, If Ce buys the deed, he may not even be able to find a cook.
These people who were staring at him were naturally sent by the eldest princess. She had no way to deal with King Xiang, but he was just a staff member. Even if he was named as the chief staff member, he was just a minister and sent people to keep an eye on him. The eldest princess There is no pressure at all.
People can't live without a little privacy and free space. After being stared at for a long time, Han Ce not only felt awkward all over his body, but also had bouts of heart palpitations. No one knew whether these strong men would have One night, he suddenly burst into his own house. What would happen to him?
This kind of fearful life became unbearable after only three days. Even if King Xiang could not count on him, Han Ce could only solve the problem on his own.
After all, he was also a staff member and the chief. Han Ce, who had always had many ideas, thought of a way and put his hope in the loyal Duke Shen Ao.
This time the eldest princess was able to escape without guilt, and Shen Ao played a big role in it. Based on this, the eldest princess will accept this love. Once Shen Ao opens her mouth and speaks for herself, the eldest princess will sell it. Face. But the problem was how to let Shen Ao speak for himself. Han Ce fell into deep thought.
Time came to the first month of the seventeenth year of Hanchang. Shen Ao was seventeen years old, and his height reached 1.74 meters. From the looks of it, he should be able to grow a little longer this year. When he is eighteen years old, he must have exceeded one meter. Mi80 is not a problem.
As he grew older, Shen Ao's whole body became calmer. With the arrival of the new year, he was in a good mood. After King Xiang stopped causing trouble and King Qing took the initiative to settle the old feud with him, he let it go. What you want to do.
It seemed that right now, he was listening to Chang Hong's report on the affairs of Daqian Bank.
Chang Hong helped Shen Ao buy the Leng family's Xishan, which can be said to have made a great contribution and successfully entered Shen Ao's sight.
Then he first managed the briquette business. With his efforts, he promoted it to the entire Daliang City and squeezed out the coal in Yuzhou. Now in winter, both the rich and the common people in the city use most of the briquettes. They are all made of briquettes, and his contribution to them can be said to be the greatest.
Even though he was a talented person, especially someone who knew everything about him, as he was an old friend of his mother's family, the Zhao family, Shen Ao naturally entrusted him with an important task and gave him a job as a manager in Daqian Bank.
Daqian Bank is different from ordinary businesses. It is an existence that even the emperor attaches great importance to. It is not wrong to say that he is an imperial merchant. Being able to become a steward here, with such qualifications, his status has undergone tremendous changes.
No matter how rich a businessman is, it cannot change the fact that his social status is low. But becoming a manager of Daqian Bank is completely different. Once something is done well, he may be banned at any time, which will change his life. .
In order to become a master and to honor his ancestors, Chang Hong put all his energy into Daqian Bank. Especially the loan business was his main focus.
With the emperor's open support, the help of Prince Qing and the eldest princess, and the leadership of the Su family and the Fan family, the money stored in Daqian Bank is increasing, which means that the interest paid is increasing. The more money there is, the smoothness of the lending business will be directly linked to whether the bank can make money.
For this reason, Chang Hong worked very hard. Whenever anyone came to the bank to borrow money, especially those who borrowed heavy sums, he would try his best to talk to him in person to ensure the deepest understanding and to prevent Daqian Bank from showing up. A bad debt and bad debt.
It is a pity that some things cannot be done by hard work. The people who actually come to borrow money are not very qualified. Even if some people have some property, the amount of money they want to borrow has already exceeded Their net worth. As a result, the loan business is not developing as expected. Now more and more money is piled up in the warehouse. If this continues, the bank will eventually make money, so I feel sorry for Mr. Zhongguo's treatment of him. of trust.
After much deliberation, Chang Hong finally found Shen Ao, took the initiative to report on his work, and took the initiative to review his work shortcomings.
The emergence of any new thing will cause waves and various opinions, and Shen Ao is well prepared.