The princess is killing like crazy again

"Enough." On the throne, Emperor Xiao finally spoke, saying in a cold voice, "The counselor has offended the princess, committed treason, behaved inappropriately, and violated etiquette in front of the emperor. Fine him three months' salary, and leave."

After Emperor Xiao said this, everyone present fell silent for a few breaths.

The emperor had expressed his views, and the voices of opposition were suppressed a lot, but there were still many people who knelt on the ground, kowtowed and shouted: "Your Majesty! This matter violates etiquette and law!"

"If you ministers are unwilling to serve in the court with me, you might as well resign yourselves. Out of sight, out of mind." Xiao Yurong looked at them coldly.

Someone really bowed his head and said: "Your Majesty, please take back your order! There are countless capable people in the court, why do you have to appoint a princess? If Your Majesty insists on doing this, it means that we are not doing our job well. We can only ask Your Majesty to demote us!"

This is the threat.

Emperor Xiao had a sinister look on his face. He slammed the armrest fiercely, suppressing his anger: "Demote, demote, demote!"

"Your Majesty, we bow our heads in thanks." Those ministers who still gave advice knelt down and bowed their heads in thanks.

"Why is your majesty so angry?" Liu Pinjue, who had been watching from the sidelines, finally stood up and said, "In the past, our dynasty also had female princes and court ladies. There is a precedent, so it's okay to let the princess give it a try."

"Just as the princess said." He looked at Xiao Yurong meaningfully, "The competent ones will take the position."

Xiao Yuxie glanced at Xiao Yurong who was glaring at the court officials, and stepped forward and said, "I think what the Grand Tutor said is very true."

Liu Pinjue curled the corners of his lips and looked at the prime minister who was silent beside him, "Since the crown prince agrees with me, what do you think?"

The prime minister raised his head, which had been lowered, and said, "This old minister will obey the holy words."

"Since there are many female members of the Cui family who lead troops into battle and they have contributed to the Cui family's glorious military achievements, how can the princess not relieve Your Majesty's worries?" Cui Ci Ning looked at Xiao Yurong with a fiery gaze.

Xiao Yurong would smile at him.

"In that case, then this matter is settled." Emperor Xiao waved his hand, "Fuyang Guard will be fully under the charge of Princess Zhaoyang in the future."

When Emperor Xiao mentioned Fuyang Guard, he meant that as Xiao Yurong had said, he would hand over those imperial guards to her.

"Your Majesty..." A minister wanted to say something but was interrupted.

The eunuch has already shouted: "Dismiss the court——"

"Long live the emperor--" All the ministers bowed their heads.

After the court was dismissed and the ministers left, Xiao Yurong and Xiao Yuxie walked out of the Xuanzheng Hall side by side.

Seeing that Xiao Yurong still looked worried, Xiao Yuxie asked, "Who has made you unhappy again?"

Xiao Yurong said dissatisfiedly: "Just now, so many people in the court were willing to take the risk to stop me even if they were demoted. Is the difference between men and women really that important?"

"There have been many reports of you being extravagant and wasteful before, but you never cared about these things before. Why do you care about them now?" Xiao Yuxie raised an eyebrow. "And is this the surprise you told me about before?"

"I'm going to work with my brother. Isn't this a surprise?" Xiao Yurong curled his lips.

Xiao Yuxie patted her head. "The tide of power in the court is constantly rising and falling, with swords flashing and sabers flying everywhere. Since you have entered this vortex, you will inevitably be affected."

Xiao Yurong said: "I have made up my mind. No matter what the result is, I will accept it with joy."

She hugged Xiao Yuxie's arm and teased, "When the time comes, I'm afraid that rumors will spread among the people of Chu Le that I'm abusing my power. My royal brother, don't think about executing me just for the sake of reputation."

"Why should I sacrifice my loved ones for my eternal innocence? It is the fault of those in power if they fail to govern the country well. Why should they be pushed onto the girl?" Xiao Yuxie let out an undetectable smile.

"Brother, what you said sounds nice at this time." Xiao Yurong said with a smile.

"How could I lie to you?" Xiao Yuxie shook his head helplessly, "Since you have stepped into this situation and recruited the Fuyang Guards, you must be more cautious and stop acting recklessly. Train some secret guards to stay by your side, they will always be useful."

This was indeed true, and Xiao Yurong fell into deep thought.

She also put some thought into arranging the imperial guards. From now on, the Fuyang Guards were divided into four parts: Mirror Flower, Water Moon, and More.

The Mirror Department monitors officials at all levels, the Flower Department uses money and sex to seduce and bribe officials, the Water Department is responsible for guarding the royal family and nobles, and the Moon Department is responsible for spying and assassinating.

From the highest to the lowest, Princess Zhaoyang is the only one who obeys.

The first thing a new official does when he takes office is to remove several people who were doing nothing but filling their positions, and replace them with some capable people from his past life, and to reform the old rules.

After pacifying the country, they began to fight against foreign aggression. Fuyang Guards successively confiscated several ministers and completed their tasks well, which pleased Emperor Xiao and he rewarded him with many things.

The Fuyang Guard's move frightened the ministers who had made some small moves. They withdrew their hands fearfully, gave up their little thoughts, and became much more obedient.

As a result, Xiao Yurong, who was already notorious, became even more famous and became a topic of conversation among literati and poets.

Princess Zhaoyang was favored by the emperor. She left the palace and established her own residence. She was granted the land of Yangling and a fief of 5,000, with the same status as the crown prince.

Now that he is in charge of the Fuyang Guard, he is able to get things done effectively and has won the emperor's favor, becoming even more powerful.

Naturally, these news also reached Li Yaozhi's ears. As the person who gave advice to Xiao Yurong behind the scenes, he was naturally considered to be the first in the Wanli Tianti.

Li Yaozhi was not surprised to hear the news and nodded with a smile.

"Sir, the Prime Minister is here." The servant outside the door reported.

"Please let father in." Li Yaozhi said, turning to nod at the subordinate who was kneeling on the ground to report the news, "I know all this, go down."

"Yes." The subordinate clasped his fists and said, "Greetings, Mr. Prime Minister."

The prime minister nodded slightly, walked into the door, and saw Li Yaozhi greeting him politely.

Li Yaozhi faced the prime minister, smiled but said nothing. He did not speak actively, but waited for the prime minister to explain his purpose.

The prime minister looked around. Li Yaozhi's study was as neat and elegant as ever. The incense burner was emitting faint smoke. The smoke was floating and refreshing, which made the worldly thoughts disappear and the spiritual heart open.

It looks like he is burning incense and reading at night, but there is a scroll spread out on the desk. The people in the painting are expressing their feelings with their eyes and eyebrows, which shows that the painter put a lot of thought into it.

Seeing that his father had noticed the painting, Li Yaozhi did not hide or evade, but was frank and allowed the prime minister to continue looking at it.

"What are you doing..." The prime minister looked at Zhilan Yushu's son in surprise and suspicion.

The person in the painting is clearly Xiao Yurong.

Li Yaozhi remained calm and just smiled slightly.

When choosing a study partner, Li Yaozhi was actually on the list of study partners chosen for Xiao Yusheng. However, even for the third prince, the Li family did not want Li Yaozhi to be a study partner.

They did not want to involve Kangzong's son in the possible internal strife among the royal family, so the portrait of Li Yaozhi was not a complete picture.

When entering the painting, Li Yaozhi bowed and lowered his eyes, seemingly observing etiquette, but in fact it was obvious that he did not want to be selected.

At that time, Xiao Yuxie was already a teenager, and he followed Emperor Xiao to help him choose a study partner for Xiao Yurong.

Emperor Xiao originally selected several ladies from aristocratic families to be Xiao Yurong's study companions. He put a lot of effort into it, and they were all children from different aristocratic families.

This is also for long-term planning, so that Xiao Yurong can maintain relationships with different families.

Unexpectedly, when Xiao Yurong looked through the scrolls of candidates for Xiao Yusheng's study partner, she picked Li Yaozhi, who looked handsome even at a young age.

Xiao Yuxie had originally looked down on him, and was even more displeased because the Li family avoided the issue of him being a study partner. He said, "Although this child is young, he already looks like a girl. He has a boy's appearance but a girl's, and his manner is evasive. How can he be a study partner for Rongrong?"

"I think she is pretty and elegant, how can she be so bad? She is just good-looking. If Rongrong likes her, you can give her to her." Emperor Xiao said so, and Li Yaozhi became Xiao Yurong's study partner.

His intention was also to warn the Li family. The Li family was unwilling to let Li Yaozhi be a study partner in the first place, but they did not expect that in the end he would not only become a study partner, but also a study partner for the princess.

Xiao Yurong did not want the group of study companions that were originally planned, and Emperor Xiao let her do as she pleased.

So Li Yaozhi spent year after year as Xiao Yurong's study companion.

The princess was spoiled and willful, and Li Yaozhi often suffered from her temper. In addition, she was playful and naughty, so Li Yaozhi was always punished. Everyone said that Li Yaozhi was wronged.

In fact, Li Yaozhi suffered more punishment at the beginning. At that time, Xiao Yurong was indulged and became lawless. He studied under Liu Pinjue, but secretly asked Li Yaozhi to help him skip classes and go out to play.

At first, he was punished to copy books. Li Yaozhi helped Xiao Yurong to copy the books. However, Xiao Yurong did not change his behavior and would still run away to play after being punished.

Later, Liu Pinjue stopped spoiling her and taught her according to her aptitude. Whenever Xiao Yurong made a mistake, Liu Pinjue would punish Li Yaozhi.

Xiao Yurong was initially angry but could not speak out due to his guilty conscience, but later he could no longer tolerate it and stood up when Li Yaozhi hit him with a slap on the shoulder again.

She angrily asked, "Why does the master always punish Shao Yan every time I make a mistake?"

"As a study partner, this is the responsibility." Liu Pinjue's expression did not change at all. Instead, he leisurely patted Li Yaozhi's shoulder with a ruler, "The son of a rich man is a disciple of the Tang Dynasty. He is your study partner, so naturally he will be punished for you."

Li Yaozhi was a good student with excellent character and academic performance. He had never made any mistakes and never complained even when he was punished for Xiao Yurong. He never even said a word in front of Xiao Yurong.

He was punished because of Xiao Yurong. After being punished by Liu Pinjue, Xiao Yurong restrained himself a lot, also for Li Yaozhi.

They are childhood sweethearts and have been together for more than ten years.

Everyone said that being Xiao Yurong's study companion was an injustice to Li Yaozhi. He had to endure the princess's spoiled temper and be punished for her misbehavior.

But for Li Yaozhi, he was very happy. Only he knew that he was very happy to be with Xiao Yurong.

"When Princess Zhaoyang asked Your Majesty for military power earlier, I already had a guess. I collected evidence and traced back to the source. You didn't even think of hiding any traces." The prime minister looked at the child in front of him who already seemed a little unfamiliar to him.

He asked: "Even so, I still don't believe it, so I came to ask you, but I didn't expect you really have this intention. So you really admire the princess and want to marry her?"

"Yaozhi doesn't dare." Li Yaozhi said.

The Prime Minister looked Li Yaozhi up and down, "Don't dare? Then what do you mean? At that time, His Majesty expressed his intention to arrange a marriage for him, and your family asked you to claim illness and avoid the matter, but didn't you agree?"

The father and son faced each other, the father did not know the son, and the son did not know the father.

Li Yaozhi lowered his eyes, "At that time, I actually thought about it."

"What?" The Prime Minister was surprised and confused.

"I did think about it the night before I entered the palace to be His Highness's companion." Li Yaozhi's dark blue eyelashes fluttered up and down. "What will His Highness think when he knows about this? Will he be willing to recruit me as his consort?"

Ignoring the Prime Minister's expression, he continued, "Will Your Highness like the Li family? She likes me, but will she like me as a member of the Li family? Will Your Highness be willing? Will she be happy?"

The Prime Minister asked: "And then?"

Li Yaozhi lowered his eyes and chuckled: "Of course not, and then I dare not think about it, as long as Your Highness is happy."

"Fool!" The prime minister didn't expect Li Yaozhi to think like this. He might as well really want Princess Shang if he was so foolish. "So that's why you help Princess Zhaoyang? Have you ever thought about whether she is deliberately seeking power or just doing it for fun!"

He pointed at Li Yaozhi and cursed: "You don't even know what she's thinking, but you put yourself in danger? And you even brought the entire Li family with you for this? If the truth comes out one day, you will implicate the entire family. The family gave birth to you and raised you, don't you care? "

"Father, your words are too kind. The family has made every effort to cultivate me, and Yaozhi will never forget it." Li Yaozhi regained his calm expression and said with a smile.

The prime minister felt as powerless as if he was punching cotton.

He was once very satisfied with Li Yaozhi's strict observance of etiquette and proper behavior. The clay figurine of the Bodhisattva cultivated by the big family was placed high above as a symbol and an exquisite mannequin.

The image of the family, the hope of the family, and the future of the family should be like this.

But now the Prime Minister doesn't think so. Li Yaozhi's behavior makes him have no place to vent his anger, so he can only hold it in.

"If Your Highness is just joking, then let her do what she wants. If Your Highness really wants to rule the world, then I will do my best to help you," said Li Yaozhi.

He said, "I want to assist her."

"She is a princess! How do you know she will be a wise ruler? She might just be doing this for fun, like a girl playing house! This is not a joke!" The prime minister was so angry that he slammed the desk.

Even the paperweight moved a little, and Xiao Yurong's portrait shook.

Li Yaozhi put away the portrait without changing his expression, and said with a cherished attitude, "Maybe she is not a wise ruler, but if she wants to, she must be a natural ruler who can pacify the troubled times."

"I said, if she likes to make trouble, then let her make trouble. If she really wants to, I am willing to assist her." He smiled and said arrogantly, "My Lord will surely be famous for thousands of years and go down in history."

It's over. It's over.

The prime minister staggered back a step as if exhausted, bumped into the bookshelf behind him, and looked forward in a daze.

Li Yaozhi has grown up to this point but still has this idea in mind. Now he can only make plans early and prepare to train children who can take on important responsibilities.

The prime minister knew Li Yaozhi's personality. He was not the kind of person who said, "My heart is as hard as a rock and cannot be changed." In fact, he would compromise after the elders threatened and refused him a few times, fasted and confined him a few times, and used family rules a few times.

Li Yaozhi had made up his mind not to turn back until he hit the wall, and he would keep hitting the wall, and no one could make him change his mind.

His heart is as pure as stone, and its truth is hard to destroy.

The good situation suddenly turned into a dead end with no choice but to face the dilemma. All the years of hard work were ruined by Li Yaozhi's heart.

But think about it carefully, which move went wrong, which move was wrong in this game? Why did Li Yaozhi become like this?

The prime minister racked his brains to recall, but vaguely realized that this move had been a dead end since Li Yaozhi entered the palace as a study companion.

The Prime Minister gritted his teeth and said, "If I had known this was going to be a dead end, I would never have let you study with me!"

"Although it is a dead end, I have no regrets." Li Yaozhi lowered his eyes.