Anti-Qing: Starting from the Jintian Uprising

Chapter 187 Li Yi: She couldn’t be more virtuous!

Li Yi couldn't help but raise his eyebrows when he heard this.

"Why, did you catch a big fish?"

Small matters like smuggling cases would generally not be reported to Li Yi.

Li Yi has a lot of things to deal with every day, and his main energy must be used to deal with important military and political affairs. He does not have much time to waste on such trivial matters.

But since Li Liang came to report it specifically this time, and also specifically stated that many people were involved, it means that there is a high probability that a big fish has been caught.

Li Liang heard this and nodded.

"Your Majesty is wise."

Li Yi nodded slightly and asked in a slightly annoyed tone.

"Tell me, who is involved in this betrayal?"

Upon hearing this, Li Liang responded with a "yes" and then began to report.

"Your Majesty, this case of smuggling tea seedlings was first discovered by the Guangzhou Wharf Police."

"After the incident was exposed, the police department arranged to arrest people while reporting the matter to the Ministry of the Interior's Department of Justice, requesting the Department of Justice to issue a subpoena to summon the officials involved in the case."

"The Department of Justice joined forces with the Military Intelligence Department's Guangzhou branch to investigate the case. In a short period of time, they arrested Yang Cai, deputy director of the Guangzhou Customs Inspection Department, Wang Qiang, director of the Patrol Bureau branch, and other officials involved in the case."

"We interrogated him overnight, and later implicated many people. We are undecided whether to continue investigating, so I came to ask for your instructions."

After that, Li Liang handed the case file to Li Yi.

Li Yi flipped through the file, and the veins on his forehead were throbbing.

"Haha, these are some really big fish!"

"It has only been a short time since the founding of the Tang Dynasty, and already so many people have started to betray us! It is really rotten."

Li Yi now even has some doubts as to whether he is too generous to his subordinates!
To the extent that they now dare to take advantage of others and do such treacherous things.

Li Liang asked.

"Your Majesty, do we need to continue investigating this smuggling case?"

Li Yi heard this and said in a cold voice.

"check!"

“Why not check?”

“No matter who is behind this smuggling case, don’t have any scruples.”

"Let me get to the bottom of this!"

"Because, behind you is me, the hundreds of thousands of Tang troops, the entire Tang Dynasty!"

Li Yi was really annoyed this time, and was ready to use this smuggling case as an excuse to take drastic measures to rectify the chaos within the Tang Dynasty.

This smuggling case involved so many people that Li Yi was almost angry to death.

What made him angry wasn't that someone violated the rules, but that someone was betraying his own people!
Although the Tang Dynasty is now encouraging industrial development, as of now, the main products exported by the Tang Dynasty each year are still silk, tea, and porcelain.

The export of these three products brings huge financial revenue to the Tang Dynasty every year.

But if the tea seedlings were smuggled out and foreigners mastered the technology of growing and making tea, it would definitely have a huge impact on China's foreign trade.

It even further affected the financial revenue of the Tang Dynasty.

Those bribed officials turned a blind eye to the smuggling of tea seedlings. Isn't this just undermining the Tang Dynasty?
It sounds good to say that they are treacherous.

To put it bluntly, these guys are just a bunch of traitors!

Now is the early stage of entrepreneurship, and Li Yi does not actually have high requirements for his subordinates.

He can allow his subordinates to commit corruption and fraud, he can allow his subordinates to deceive their superiors, he can allow his subordinates to abuse their power for their own personal gain, as long as they do not cross the line.

Because that's human nature.

In addition, now is the early stage of entrepreneurship, and what we need is to unite all the forces that can be united to fight against common enemies together.

As for internal conflicts, now is not the time to settle them.

But, you can't betray your own people!
This is Li Yi's bottom line. Li Yi has absolutely zero tolerance for betrayal.

Upon hearing this, Li Liang immediately understood what was going on and spoke.

"Don't worry, Your Majesty. I understand!"

After hearing Li Yi's statement, the Military Intelligence Department no longer had to worry about anything.

Then, this matter can be thoroughly investigated!

……

After a brief rest, the main force of the Tang army began to move southward.

Soon, he returned to Guangzhou in early November.

After Li Yi arrived in Guangzhou, the people inside and outside Guangzhou, who had been feeling uneasy due to the Military Intelligence Department's strict crackdown on smuggling cases, instantly calmed down.

With Li Yi's current prestige in the Tang Dynasty, no one dares to offend him.

No matter what little thoughts those people had before.

But after Li Yi led his troops back to Guangzhou, all these little thoughts had to be restrained.

After returning to Guangzhou, Li Yi went back to the palace immediately.

After sending away the visitors, Li Yi went straight to the backyard of the palace.

"Your Majesty, I pay my respects to you and congratulate you on your victory and triumphant return!"

Luo Caiyu stepped forward to pay her respects. Perhaps due to childbirth, her chest, which used to be of average size, had now become noticeably larger and was trembling.

The whole person has become much more plump, and a faint milky fragrance emanates from her whole body. The charm of such a young woman makes Li Yi's index finger twitch slightly.

Li Yi reached out and helped Luo Caiyu up, then spoke.

"Queen, please excuse me!"

"During the time when I was away from Guangzhou, you had to take care of giving birth and managing the harem. It was really hard for you." Upon hearing this, Luo Caiyu just shook her head.

"Your Majesty, I am not suffering."

"It is my concubine's blessing to be able to give birth to a child for the king."

Li Yi didn't say anything, just spoke.

"Come on, take me to see our child."

Luo Caiyu nodded, led the way, and led Li Yi into her bedroom, and then was brought to the bed.

On the bed was a swaddling cloth wrapped in silk.

There is a tiny baby lying in the cradle. Unlike the ugly appearance when he was just born, the almost three-month-old baby has grown up.

The cheeks are chubby, the lips are pink, and there is a tiger-skin hat on the head. The whole body exudes the fragrance of milk...

Li Yi's heart melted by the cute little appearance.

The moment he saw the child, Li Yi only had eyes for him.

Even the previous annoyance that someone was betraying him disappeared quietly and was put behind him.

Li Yi subconsciously reached out to pick up the child and touch his little face.

But he was stopped by Luo Caiyu who was standing by.

"Your Majesty, please be careful. Little Ping An just finished his feeding and went to sleep."

"Don't wake him up, or he'll be in trouble."

Li Yi withdrew his hand somewhat awkwardly, but his eyes never left the swaddling clothes on the bed.

Li Yi's mother, Zhao, who was standing by, spoke up and gave some advice.

"Xiao Ping'an and Yi'er looked like you when you were a child."

"Not only do they look alike, but their temperaments are exactly the same. As long as they are awake, they must be held by their mother. They will cry if anyone else holds them."

"He is restless when he sleeps at night and cries when he wakes up."

"Caiyu has suffered a lot during this period. You must not do such a heartless thing and forget the old one when you have a new one."

Li Yi knew that Zhao was talking about Fu Shanxiang.

It was no secret that Li Yi had been favoring his female secretary Fu Shanxiang during this period, and Zhao had also heard about it.

When it comes to appearance, this beautiful girl named Luo Caiyu is obviously not as beautiful as Fu Shanxiang.

Therefore, Zhao was somewhat worried that Li Yi would favor his concubine over his wife and depose or enthrone the emperor on his own accord, so she spoke up to give him some advice.

It is obvious that Zhao is on Luo Caiyu's side.

The reason was that during the defeat at Dahuangjiang, Luo Caiyu had saved her life from the chaos and even recognized her as her godmother.

The second reason is that Luo Caiyu gave birth to the eldest grandson of the Li family.

These two points combined made Zhao decide on Luo Caiyu as her daughter-in-law.

Li Yi was not annoyed when he heard this, he just nodded and said.

"Don't worry, mother. I understand!"

"He then ordered people to prepare the imperial edict and ceremony for the enthronement of the crown prince."

Li Yi has indeed been somewhat attracted to Fu Shanxiang's beauty recently.

But this does not mean that he has plans to appoint another queen.

As the saying goes, marry a virtuous wife and take a concubine who is beautiful.

The reason why Li Yi married Luo Caiyu had little to do with Luo Caiyu's appearance.

What he valued more was Luo Dagang's influence in the Tiandihui.

You must know that the current Tiandihui is an extremely important faction in the Tang Dynasty court.

Luo Dagang is now the leader of the Tiandihui faction in the Tang Dynasty court.

With such a good father, isn’t Luo Caiyu virtuous enough?

She couldn’t be more virtuous!
No matter how lustful Li Yi is, as long as the influence of the Tiandihui still exists, Luo Caiyu's status and position will be as stable as Mount Tai and cannot be shaken.

As for Fu Shanxiang’s beauty?
Let’s put it this way, beauty has never been a scarce resource for rulers.

Li Yi just didn't want to waste his precious energy on this, not that he couldn't find a beautiful woman.

Hong Xiuquan was able to get himself two or three hundred queens and thousands of female officials to fill his harem, and Li Yi could do the same.

It's just that he doesn't want to do that!

Luo Caiyu on the side spoke up.

"If Your Majesty really likes Fu Shanxiang, then take her into the palace and give her a proper status."

"She has been walking outside the palace without any official status. It won't be a big deal after a long time."

As Li Yi's wife, Luo Caiyu naturally knew that it was impossible for her to be the only woman in the heart of King Li Yi.

Therefore, she took the initiative to propose to take a concubine for Li Yi in a very ladylike manner and brought Fu Shanxiang into the palace.

"Also, now that our Great Tang has just been established, the royal bloodline is weak. This is the time when Your Majesty needs to work harder to expand the royal family."

"I think the king can hold a beauty pageant to select women with clean family backgrounds and good looks from the people to fill the harem."

Luo Caiyu continued, saying that she even took the initiative to propose the idea of ​​letting Li Yi select a talent show to expand his harem.

Luo Caiyu’s thoughts now are very simple.

Question: If a man is lustful and his mistress wants to come into the house, what should he do?
The answer is simple, wouldn’t it be better to just find a few more men?
Mistresses No. 4, No. 5, No. 6...if they are all pretty enough, the man's attention will inevitably be distracted, and he will no longer be able to favor the mistress exclusively.

By then, how could the mistress be able to defeat me, the first wife?

(End of this chapter)