Traveling to an ancient peasant family: I got rich by doing business

In the capital, there are only a few types of people who can make unified and powerful voices - imperial guards, officials, and soldiers.

King Cheng felt uneasy when he heard this sound.

He stood up, walked to the window, opened it and looked out.

However, as soon as they stuck their heads out, the door of the room they were in was pushed open from the outside.

Eunuch Zhao, the eunuch beside Emperor Tianyuan, stood at the door, looking at everyone in the room with an expressionless face.

Finally, his gaze stopped at King Cheng, "Your Majesty, His Majesty has summoned you. Please come with me."

Then, he looked at the other people sitting in the room and said, "Your Majesty, please give your order. All the people at the banquet today, except King Cheng, will be detained and are not allowed to resist!"

After saying this, he moved aside to let the imperial guards behind him enter the house.

King Cheng was shocked. He didn't care about anything else and rushed forward with a few big steps: "Eunuch Zhao, what does this mean?"

Eunuch Zhao remained calm and said, "I don't understand what your majesty means. Your Majesty, it's getting late, please leave now."

King Cheng turned his head to look at the other people who were held down by the imperial guards, his legs so weak that he could hardly stand.

Such a big fuss can't be a good thing. Could it be that the Chamber of Commerce's affairs have been discovered by my father?

"Your Majesty." Eunuch Zhao raised his arm and made a gesture of invitation: "His Majesty is waiting for you in the palace."

King Cheng realized that he could not escape, and he raised his foot fearfully. Before leaving, he glanced at the Minister of Personnel who was being held down by the imperial guards, and felt very confused.

*

Half an hour later.

Royal study room.

The originally clean ground was now a mess, with several memorials sandwiched among the broken cups, plates and bowls.

Emperor Tianyuan had a gloomy face and stared at King Cheng.

Among all his adult sons, he loved King Cheng the most and trusted him the most. So after the third son, Prince Hui, went to the imperial mausoleum, he brought King Cheng up.

I didn't want him to achieve great achievements, I just wanted him to understand some court affairs so that he would not be so confused in the future.

He positioned King Cheng as an idle prince.

However, King Cheng was an absolute fool, he was even worse than the third brother.

The third brother has been in power for several years. Not to mention the most recent two or three years, he did not dare to act rashly in the first year.

Let’s look at Cheng Wang again.

After working for less than a month, they actually set up a chamber of commerce and forced merchants in the capital to pay money.

He is really good at making money. He has been emperor for so many years and has never thought of this way to make money.

*

The more Emperor Tianyuan thought about it, the angrier he became. He couldn't help but pick up another pile of memorials and threw them at King Cheng.

King Cheng dodged subconsciously.

Emperor Tianyuan didn't expect him to dodge, so he didn't throw anything. He just stood up, walked to King Cheng, and kicked him.

He kicked and cursed: "As a prince, are you short of money? How dare you ask merchants for money in such a high-profile manner? Do you think that no one dares to do anything to you because you are a prince?"

Before today, King Cheng had never been treated like this. Now that he felt pain in his body, he couldn't help feeling a little wronged.

He looked up at Emperor Tianyuan and said pitifully, "Father, I am not asking for their money for nothing. I also said that as long as they join the Chamber of Commerce, I will protect them in the future."

Emperor Tianyuan laughed in anger, "You still think you are doing a good thing? I used to think you were simple-minded, but now it seems that you are just stupid.

Suppose the Chamber of Commerce can be established, and you say you will protect those merchants, but there are good and bad merchants. If the bad merchants hurt others because of your protection, what will you do? "

This question is not difficult. If Li Yu were to answer it, her answer would be "deal with the bad merchants, compensate the victims, and then change the Chamber of Commerce rules and establish a supervision mechanism to ensure that such things will not happen again in the future."

But King Cheng opened his mouth several times but could not utter a word in answer.

*

After slapping him on the face, Emperor Tianyuan said, "You can't even answer such a small question. What do you usually do?"

King Cheng covered his face, stammering and unable to speak.

Emperor Tianyuan roared, "Can't you say anything?"

King Cheng shuddered and finally managed to utter, "I didn't want to build a chamber of commerce at first. It was Lord Zhang who gave me the idea."

Prince Cheng thought that if he told Emperor Tianyuan, Emperor Tianyuan would not blame him too much. After all, everything he did was instigated by others. Even the people who communicated with the merchants and asked them to pay money were servants of several wealthy families and had nothing to do with his Prince Cheng's Mansion.

However, Emperor Tianyuan looked at him with increasing disappointment.

Although he was very dissatisfied with the behavior of the Minister of Personnel, from the perspective of King Cheng, everything the Minister of Personnel did was for King Cheng, and King Cheng should protect the Minister of Personnel.

As a result, when the matter was exposed, King Cheng pushed the blame onto the Minister of Personnel without even thinking about it.

There is absolutely no sense of responsibility.

*

Many thoughts flashed through his mind, and finally only one sentence remained in Emperor Tianyuan's mind: Fortunately, King Cheng is not the crown prince, otherwise the Dayu Dynasty would be in danger.

"Father." Prince Cheng carefully watched Emperor Tianyuan. At this moment, he finally remembered what he should say: "Your Majesty, I know I was wrong."

Emperor Tianyuan lowered his head and looked down at him condescendingly.

If King Cheng had admitted his mistake right away, he wouldn't have been so angry.

But King Cheng said this only after he had done all the things he hated.

He was extremely disappointed in him.

After closing his eyes and taking a rest, Emperor Tianyuan said, "You should continue to be an idle prince in the future. You should stop attending court and handling government affairs."

King Cheng was suddenly struck by lightning.

If it were him in the past, he wouldn't think this was a big deal. He would even be excited because he didn't have to deal with all those messy things. But he can't do that now. He has tasted the feeling of using power to control people and no longer wants to be a transparent person.

"Father, I really know I was wrong. Please give me a chance and I will solve the problem right away." King Cheng looked anxious and tried desperately to keep his job.

This was a reasonable statement. Emperor Tianyuan was moved and asked slowly, "What are you going to do?"

*

King Cheng looked left and right, but could not come up with an answer.

What he just said was just a casual remark. He was so nervous at the moment that he couldn't think of any good solution.

Emperor Tianyuan knew King Cheng very well, so there was nothing he didn't understand at this moment. The little hope in his heart disappeared in an instant.

This son is a fool, he just treats him like a fool, there is no need to let him do things that are very reluctant for him, otherwise when he is instigated by others, who knows what irreparable things he will do.

*

That night, many people saw King Cheng being taken away from Danyun Tower by eunuchs.

In less than an hour, all the officials in the capital knew about this.

Those who were close to the palace immediately sent people to wait there and inquire about the situation. Those who were far away, especially the officials of the Huijun Prince Party, were extremely anxious.

They also hope that King Cheng can fight with the Crown Prince and weaken the Crown Prince's strength, so King Cheng must not lose.