Hey! Host! I asked you to have a child, not to have a strategy.

Xiao Huanzhi used a little force and pushed Zhu Baishao against the round table. Fearing that she would hurt her back, he hooked a cushion from a chair nearby and placed it behind her.

This posture makes Zhu Baishao's chest look more plump.

"Don't move, let me check again to see if there is any bleeding."

He picked up the wine jug beside him with one hand, flicked off the lid, tilted it and poured the clear wine into his hand, then put the jug back on the table.

The bony fingers exuded the scent of wine. When they touched her face, he couldn't help but press Zhu Baishao's lips first, then reached into her mouth for a careful examination.

His fingers brushed across the small canine tooth on the left side of Zhu Baishao, and he pressed it subconsciously. Zhu Baishao made a "hmm" sound, and her eyes became more and more as if covered with a layer of mist and rain, wet and misty, and her snow-white face turned as red as a fragrant peach.

It is a charming look that is ready for you to pick.

Xiao Huanzhi's mouth became increasingly dry, but he couldn't help but press it again.

Zhu Baishao opened her eyes wide in disbelief and began to struggle violently. She raised her foot to kick him, but was restrained by him. She could only watch the man with red eyes as he moved his face closer and closer, and his hot breath hit her face.

"No~"

The soft lips attacked, and then the red mouth was attacked. Xiao Huanzhi actually went for the fangs, causing Zhu Baishao to tightly grasp the clothes on the man's chest, and her slender shoulders trembled with his invasion.

After a while, the two separated, panting.

Their lips shone brightly under the flickering candlelight.

Gazing at the beautiful woman's stunning beauty, Xiao Huan's Adam's apple rolled. He picked up Zhu Baishao and carried her sideways, heading towards the inner room.

The bed curtains fell, swaying gently and violently as the movement inside continued.

……

While the Zhu family in the small town were enjoying a warm night, the major salt merchants in the south of the Yangtze River were also taking action.

During the day, they entertained Xiao Huanzhi's stand-ins and their entourage, and at night they specially selected the skinny horses that they had carefully trained and raised and sent them to the beds of the ministers and other people.

In a waterfront attic, the lights were on brightly. At this moment, all the big salt merchants gathered together. The house was full of people. At a glance, the Governor of Jiangnan and many high-ranking officials in Jiangnan were present.

The governor of Jiangnan was dressed in a silk shirt, with gray hair but a vigorous spirit. He put down the teacup in his hand and said solemnly: "The emperor today has a strong character and makes decisions arbitrarily. He came here, but he may have arranged for the secret guards to visit privately... The sale of illegal salt should continue to stop. The right thing to do is to send the emperor away first."

"Send away? Send whom away?" The salt merchant who answered the question was only in his early thirties, but he had a pair of narrow eyes, which kept flickering.

"Little Li, if you don't want to live, don't drag all of us to be buried with you!" The salt merchant sitting next to him immediately frowned and said unhappily, "Everyone in the world knows that the emperor today can't tolerate even a grain of sand in his eyes. Do you want to send him away or send us away?"

"I'm afraid that everyone present, including their ancestors, will be sent away!"

As soon as these words were spoken, everyone in the audience had different expressions and thoughts.

The salt merchant surnamed Li sneered, with a murderous look between his eyebrows, "Then what do you say we should do? Just sit here and wait? Once the evidence is found and the emperor is ready to kill us, not to mention our eighteen generations of ancestors, even our ancestral graves will be dug up!"

"It's safer to just wait than to assassinate the emperor."

Seeing that they were going to continue arguing, the governor of Jiangnan slammed the table and whispered, "Don't panic! This time, as long as the officials and businessmen in Jiangnan unite and hide their tails, the emperor can't do anything to us!"

"The sky is not about to fall yet..."

……

Day two.

When Zhu Baishao woke up, she spent a long time choosing in the closet. By the time she finished washing and left the room, it was already noon.

In the yard, Xiao Huanzhi was playing with Xiao Siyan in his arms. The atmosphere around the father and son looked exceptionally warm and peaceful.

Zhu Baishao's curved eyelashes trembled, and her heart was touched. She stood under the eaves and stared at him in a trance. Her eyes were tender and affectionate on her beautiful face with a little bit of makeup on.

Bitao had also arranged the food and came over to invite people, only to see Zhu Baishao with a dazed look on her face, staring blankly at the father and son playing together.

"lady……"

As soon as Bitao's voice rang out, Xiao Siyan looked over, and then he raised his lotus-like arms and waved at Zhu Baishao, "Mother!"

A fair and tender little face with a bright smile was particularly brilliant in the morning sunshine.

Xiao Huanzhi also saw the radiant and beautiful woman, and walked over directly holding Xiao Siyan.

Today, Zhu Baishao is wearing a white dress with clusters of red plum blossoms embroidered on it. She looks like the red plum blossoms on the snowy ridge appearing in the vast sea of ​​smoke, making her look unforgettable at first sight.

The surprise in Xiao Huanzhi's eyes was particularly obvious, but considering the presence of Bitao and the child, he just looked at her passionately.

"Are you hungry? Let's eat together first."

During the meal, Xiao Siyan was still more attached to Zhu Baishao, who coaxed him with soft words, which made Xiao Huanzhi, who was picking up food for the mother and daughter, jealous.

He never thought that the ice-like person would turn into melted snow water after giving birth to a child, still slightly cool but already exuding the warmth of spring.

After the meal, just after rinsing my mouth, a guard brought me a letter.

Xiao Huanzhi carried Xiao Siyan to a chair beside him and opened the letter. After reading it ten lines at a glance, he chuckled, with a dark light flashing in his phoenix eyes.

"What's wrong?" Zhu Baishao saw that he looked strange, so she put down the teacup and asked.

Xiao Huanzhi naturally had nothing to hide, so he handed the letter to Zhu Baishao to read.

Zhu Baishao's beautiful eyes flickered slightly, "Is this the arrangement you mentioned before? They probably didn't expect that so many of them had already apologized to you before you arrived in Jiangnan..."

It is true that a person's reputation is like a tree's shadow. Xiao Huanzhi's political tactics directly scared some people into "surrendering without a fight."

At the gathering of Jiangnan officials and salt merchants yesterday, there were actually quite a few of Xiao Huanzhi's people present. They recorded everything that had happened in detail. After comparing various things, they naturally knew what had happened last night.

"Because the Jiangnan officialdom is also divided into different factions, there are also infighting among them, and there are conflicts of interest among the salt merchants. Everyone is not of one mind. Naturally, there are salt merchants with ideas who surrendered to me in order to get a lighter punishment. There are also those who want to climb up... Well, of course, he has to pull down the ones above so that he can take the position."

Xiao Huanzhi gently grabbed Zhu Baishao's jade hand, and seeing that she was interested, he immediately explained in a low voice.

Zhu Baishao listened quietly, corroborating what she had learned in previous dimensions, and gained some new insights.

If you want to control the overall situation, you can't be enemies with everyone.

Similar to how Xiao Huanzhi dealt with the Jiangnan Salt Administration later, the measures he took were nothing more than winning over a group, dividing a group, and suppressing a group. As for those who surrendered and admitted their mistakes, he would deal with them as appropriate and give them a break.

After all, modern criminals who surrender themselves can also have their sentences mitigated or reduced.