Li Chengqian slowly approached Li Yunrui, and the distance between the two became closer and closer. Just when they were about to have a skin-to-skin kiss, Li Yunrui pushed Li Chengqian away.
"Prince, please respect yourself."
Li Chengqian shook his head violently, woke up completely, and quickly got up from Li Yunrui's bed.
Li Yunrui also sat up and straightened his already neat hair to hide his embarrassment.
"Prince, you can take advantage of those life-hungry gangsters in Anhe. Don't get too close, otherwise it will be bad if your Majesty notices them."
Li Chengqian wiped the sweat from his forehead, nodded and said: "My aunt taught me a lesson, and my nephew should remember it."
Li Yunrui reminded again: "Although the Dark River Organization is well hidden, it was still discovered by me. They are closely related to the grassland. Now that the grassland has been established, His Majesty is suspicious. Once you find out that you have contact with them, Long Yan will be furious.
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"Did the underground rivers come from the prairie barbarians?" Li Chengqian asked in surprise.
"Yes." Li Yunrui explained: "Anhe has business dealings with many aristocratic families in the south of the Yangtze River through me. Although it is very secretive, I still discovered that they were secretly purchasing grain and grass."
Li Chengqian's eyes lit up and he said, "Could it be that the barbarians want to attack Qingguo?"
"Probably not." Li Yunrui said: "I sent people to find out that there were three years of great disasters in the grassland, starvation and death everywhere, coupled with continuous wars, the population dropped sharply. In fact, the outsiders were strong and the middle cadres had too much time to take care of themselves, so they established underground rivers to collect grain and grass.
Disaster year."
Li Chengqian said in surprise: "I didn't expect my aunt to know the situation in the grassland very well. As far as I know, even the inspection agency can't get the spies into the grassland."
"Huh, huh!" Li Yunrui said proudly: "As the saying goes, money can make the world go round. In my opinion, Chen Pingping's little tricks are not worth mentioning."
Li Chengqian flattered, "Father, I should hand over the inspection and inspection institute to my aunt's management."
Li Yunrui's eyebrows slightly raised, and he said with contentment: "A barbarian like this in the grassland is traveling to various countries as envoys. It must be that the disaster is too severe and he really can't survive, so he needs help."
When Li Chengqian heard this, he turned his eyes and said, "The prairie cavalry is unparalleled in the world. If we form an alliance with Yuan Meng and they send out cavalry, and we provide food and grass, can we form an iron cavalry?"
When Li Yunrui heard this, she glanced deeply at Li Chengqian. She understood that Li Chengqian should have murderous intentions towards Emperor Qing.
"Building an army is no small matter, and the money spent is huge. The most important thing is who will lead the cavalry."
Li Chengqian squinted his eyes and seemed to be thinking about it.
Li Yunrui laughed in his heart. The prince seemed to be the crown prince of the country, but in fact he had very little power.
The crown prince's biological mother, the queen, had her entire family slaughtered by Chen Pingping and Fan Jian due to the massacre at the Taiping Courtyard, so he had no relatives to rely on.
Due to his mediocre performance since he was young, the court officials did not think highly of Li Chengqian's talent, which was far inferior to that of the second prince Li Chengze, so there were not many officials who took refuge in him.
Generally speaking, if Li Chengqian hadn't occupied the title of prince, he would be far unable to compete with the second prince Li Chengze, so he came to Li Yunrui to communicate with him when he had nothing to do.
However, Li Yunrui also knew in his heart that if Li Chengqian was not like this, he would not be favored by Emperor Qing and appointed as the crown prince.
Li Chengqian himself may not know how he became the prince, so even after he grew up, he still did not show any extraordinary talents and chose to hide his talents and bide his time.
In other words, Li Chengqian has been acting all along, and not only deceived everyone in the world, but even deceived Emperor Qing, who claimed to be extremely smart.
There are probably only two people in the world who know Li Chengqian's true face.
One is the prince's biological mother, the queen, and the other is Li Yunrui.
Sometimes when Li Yunrui sees Li Chengqian's face, he can't help but think of Emperor Qing when he was young.
Li Chengqian is actually the one who is most similar to Emperor Qing among his many sons, not only in appearance, but also in temperament.
"Auntie." Li Chengqian saw that Li Yunrui was in a daze again, so he couldn't help but call out softly.
Li Yunrui came back to his senses and said: "In short, the prairie barbarians can use them, but don't really treat them as cooperation partners."
Li Chengqian's face was uncertain, and he said after a long time: "Auntie, can you lend me ten million taels of silver?"
When Li Yunrui heard this, he couldn't help but sigh: "Have you ever asked the leader of Anhe about the price of assassinating Li Chengze?"
Li Chengqian lowered his head silently.
"You should know that Li Chengze was promoted deliberately by His Majesty to restrict the rights of your crown prince in the East Palace. Without Li Chengze, there will be others." Li Yunrui advised.
"I know, but the second brother has become more and more active recently. In order to win the position of Privy Council, he is shameless and makes it clear that he wants to compete with me!" Li Chengqian said unwillingly.
"As the prince, when you sit in that position, you will face the challenges of all your brothers." Li Yunrui said:
"Just relying on a killer organization cannot help you sit on the throne."
"My nephew knows." Li Chengqian sighed.
Li Chengqian stayed with Li Yunrui for a while and then returned to his East Palace. After all, the people in the palace were chatty, so it would not be a good idea if any gossip reached Emperor Qing's ears.
After Li Chengqian left, Li Yunrui's maid came over and said in her ear: "Your Highness, the second prince sent someone to send a message. He wants to see you."
Li Yunrui's lips curled up slightly and he said, "Does he have no money to win over the ministers again?"
The maid said: "We conspired with the second prince to smuggle Northern Qi, and the second income this year was delayed by a month and was not given to the second prince."
Li Yunrui sneered: "If we delay it for another ten days, we will say that Northern Qi has strengthened border defense and it will take time for our goods to be smuggled across."
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"Isn't there any movement from Prime Minister Lin?" Li Yunrui suddenly remembered something and said, "His second son has just died, and he should be attending a funeral. You send someone to send money there, just say it's my kindness."
The maid wondered: "His Majesty sent someone over a few days ago to ask for money. He said he wanted to expand the number of guards in the inner palace. We don't have enough money in our account."
Li Yunrui said in surprise: "Didn't you still have a balance of three million taels last month?"
"You forgot that ten days ago you gave the prince one million taels to pay the bill of the underground river."
"These barbarians are asking for higher and higher prices now. It's not just a ninth-grade Qin Ye, but it costs one million taels to kill him." Li Yunrui said dissatisfied:
"You go to Wang's Clothing Factory, I want to kill someone."
The maid bowed to Li Yunrui and took a piece of paper with the name "Fan Xian" clearly written on it.
"Your Highness the Princess, the last price offered by Underwater River was 10 million taels!"
Li Yunrui said with a cold face: "Inform the Jiangnan Ming family that I need money and ask them to send some up?"
"The Ming family sent a letter a few days ago, saying that the harvest in Jiangnan has been reduced by 30% recently, and they hope to reduce some of the offerings." The maid said.
?Li Yunrui glanced at the maid coldly and snorted: "How much did you charge the Ming family to speak for them!"
?The maid knelt down and kowtowed in fear: "I don't dare, I have never accepted money from the Ming family."
"Huh, huh, don't think that I don't know anything after living in the palace for a long time. I know exactly how much money the Ming family has made in the grassland barbarians in the past few years. It's time to spit it out!" Li Yunrui said lazily.
said:
?"If I can help one Ming family rise, I can help another one."
The maid shivered and felt a chill in her heart. She quickly bowed and left, heading to Wang's Cloth Shop, not daring to slack off at all.
?After Wang Gang received Li Yunrui's "order", he burned the note directly in front of the maid.
"Go back and tell the eldest princess that Anhe has accepted this order. Fan Xian will die within ten days, but this order requires half of the deposit first."
?"There was no such rule before!" The maid did not dare to breathe in front of Li Yunrui, but in front of Wang Gang, she became arrogant and haughty.
?"Fan Xian is not an ordinary person. Behind him is the Siman Hou Mansion and the Inspection Institute. It is easy to kill him, but it is too difficult to escape unscathed in Kyoto, so I want half of the deposit to be used as the killer's settlement fee." Wang Gang said.
"Five million taels is too much." The maid said coldly: "What if you can't complete the task?"
?Wang Gang said confidently: "There is no one that Anhe can't kill. If Fan Xian doesn't die, the deposit will be returned three times."
The maid frowned and said, "A deposit of one million taels, plus an additional five hundred thousand dans of grain, will be paid within three days. Okay."
?Wang Gang shook his head and said: "Since the eldest princess is not sincere, then the maid sister please come back!"
?The maid was furious and said coldly: "Shopkeeper Wang, don't forget who has been taking care of the underground river business these years. If you offend the eldest princess, you don't want to stay in Qingguo."
?Wang Gang chuckled and said, "Sister maid, please come back."
?The maid didn’t expect Wang Gang to be so disrespectful. Her silver teeth were almost broken and she was about to have a seizure.
?Wang Gang glanced coldly and with a bad face. The maid suddenly felt a heavy hammer on her chest, and a trace of blood spilled from the corner of her mouth.
?The maid did not dare to stay in Wang's cloth workshop anymore and quickly returned to the palace to make trouble with Li Yunrui.
?Li Yunrui finally said coldly: "Give him five million taels, but I want to see Fan Xian's body in person!"
