Dressed as the prince's substitute? I took the throne

"Haha, you actually dare to address the Prime Minister by his first name? Do you really think you're the Crown Prince?"

Li Feng sneered, his eyes were extremely sharp, as if he was going to tear Zhou Chuxuan into pieces in the next moment.

Zhou Chuxuan remained fearless. Under Li Feng's astonished gaze, he reached out and removed the sharp blade stuck in the table. "If Li Nian had sent you to kill me, there's no need to speak like that! This room would have been covered in blood!"

"But you didn't, which means Li Nian didn't send you to kill me!"

Li Feng stared into Zhou Chuxuan's eyes for a long time without seeing any fear in them. Suddenly he laughed: "Prime Minister, you really didn't make a mistake in choosing me!"

"Tell me about your plan! The Prime Minister wants to know what confidence you have to fight against the real Crown Prince!"

Li Feng sat down slowly, put away the murderous look on his face, put the sharp blade back into the sheath, put it at his waist, and a faint smile appeared at the corner of his mouth.

"Plan? What kind of plan is needed to deal with him?" Zhou Chuxuan looked relaxed. He walked to Xu Hanyan and gently untied the rope that bound her hands.

"What? You don't even have a complete plan? You want to bring down His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, who has deep roots in the Wu Dynasty? This is wishful thinking!"

Li Feng frowned and immediately stood up from the chair. The faint smile on his lips had disappeared, replaced by a frosty face.

"Prince Xiang has been planning this for so many years, it must be foolproof!"

"You are not smart enough, so you have to go back and find another smart person to talk to!" Zhou Chuxuan waved his hand and pointed to the door.

"you can go now!"

"you!"

Li Feng's face darkened with anger as he spoke word by word, "The Prime Minister sent me here to give you a chance, but you don't cherish it. Aren't you afraid of incurring the Prime Minister's wrath?"

"Li Nian sent you here just to test me! He's a smart man, so he'll definitely understand what I mean!"

"Okay, very good! I hope you can always be like this! I will go back and report to the Prime Minister!" Li Feng looked at Zhou Chuxuan hatefully, turned around and left.

"Sister Hanyan, have you been wronged?"

Zhou Chuxuan turned around and saw Xu Hanyan sitting alone on the bed with her side, her eyes lowered and her hands folded together, as if she had a thousand words to say.

"It's nothing to me, but now the Prime Minister has really set his sights on you. He has clearly given you a chance, so why did you send Li Feng back?"

Xu Hanyan looked at Zhou Chuxuan with a burning gaze, her face full of confusion: "I've already told you, the Li family is extremely powerful, and we must not take it lightly!"

"I've already said that Li Nian is a smart man and will definitely understand what I mean. Send someone smart to talk to me!"

Zhou Chuxuan paused as he picked up the teacup, then smiled and said, "Maybe, there's nothing more we need to talk about!"

"Are you so sure that Li Nian can trust you? Before, you were just an unknown little person, insignificant in the Wu Dynasty!" Xu Hanyan frowned, obviously worried.

"Of course! He's the Prime Minister. To have been in this position for so long, he must have something extraordinary!"

When Zhou Chuxuan was in court, he observed all the civil and military officials in the court. There were many people who were hiding their talents and had their own thoughts, which led to the current situation where no one was available in the court of the Wu Dynasty.

"I was able to gain the attention of my father in such a short time, and also received the recognition of many generals, and captured Erhu and others. Isn't this enough?"

Zhou Chuxuan walked over to Xu Hanyan and pushed her down on the bed in front of her astonished gaze. "A smart person will definitely draw conclusions from the clues!"

"If you don't believe me, we can take a gamble!"

Xu Hanyan was shocked and quickly pushed Zhou Chuxuan's dishonest hands away: "Ahem, I believe you!"

Every time she gambled with Zhou Chuxuan, she always lost, and every time after losing, Zhou Chuxuan would have that...

Zhou Chuxuan left the palace with a smile on his face and ran into Erhu: "How is the preparation of the silver going?"

"There are only more than two hundred taels of silver left in the Eastern Palace! Is this enough?" Erhu felt a little guilty. Most of the gold and silver in the Eastern Palace were embezzled by people like them.

"Of course it's not enough!" Zhou Chuxuan frowned slightly: "Those soldiers, each of them needs ten taels of silver as resettlement allowance, plus twenty taels of silver as military pay!"

"So much!" Erhu was shocked. "Spending so much money to support a bunch of old, weak, and sick people? Are you planning to use them to fight against His Royal Highness the Crown Prince?"

"Haha, that's not entirely true! They will follow me to Liang Country and be responsible for protecting my safety there!"

Zhou Chuxuan took out a musket from his waist, and Erhu immediately took a few steps back as if it was a conditioned reflex, with the hair on his body standing on end.

"What's more, what if each of them holds a musket? How powerful would it be?"

Looking at the black muzzle of the gun, Erhu swallowed his saliva: "It's enough to kill an elite imperial guard!"

Erhu has a deep understanding of the power of the magical weapons in Zhou Chuxuan's hands, and it can even be said that he has a psychological shadow.

"Haha, isn't that settled?" Zhou Chuxuan weighed the two hundred taels of silver in his hand, shook his head, and then looked towards the bedroom.

"Forget it, just give this money to those soldiers first as resettlement allowance! I'll figure out the rest now!"

Xu Hanyan, who was deep in thought in the room, was startled again by Zhou Chuxuan pushing the door open. She quickly turned around to look. Could it be that he wanted it again?

"You...what do you want to do now?" Xu Hanyan's nervous look made Zhou Chuxuan smile slightly: "Sister Hanyan, why are you so nervous?"

Under Xu Hanyan's astonished gaze, Zhou Chuxuan slowly sat down beside her and put his arm around her waist. "Do you have any money?"

"what?"

Xu Hanyan looked at Zhou Chuxuan in surprise. After understanding the cause and effect of the matter, she finally couldn't help but roll her eyes at him: "You...ah!"

"Thank you, Sister Hanyan... Oh no, Crown Princess!"

Not long after, Zhou Chuxuan walked out the door with a stack of banknotes in his hand and a smile on his face, looking satisfied.

At this time, behind the bedroom, a group of soldiers looked at the silver in their hands and shed tears of gratitude.

"I've already said it, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince will never lie to us!"

Old Sheep held up the ten taels of silver in his hand and said, "Finally, my three children can have a full meal!"

"Yes, even after all these years in the Imperial Guards, I've never seen ten taels of silver!"

Another veteran with a broken left arm sighed and said, "In the barracks, the military pay always has to go through layers of exploitation before it finally reaches us!"

"I've never received ten taels of silver at once in my entire life. My family can finally find peace! Just for this, my life will belong to His Royal Highness the Crown Prince from now on!"

"Everyone, your lives are your own!"

As he spoke, Zhou Chuxuan strode in.

"May I ask Your Highness, when will our military pay be distributed?"