The queen is sober in the world, and she is winning every step of the palace fight.

Cao Bin quickly lowered his head and pretended to be invisible.

Queen Yan opened her eyes wide, her face flushed instantly, she felt both embarrassed and angry.

After the lion popped out, the base of the box suddenly sank, and two little men suddenly appeared, lying on the lion's body.

Two people, a man and a woman, hugged each other, and the way their bodies were intertwined was indescribable.

They lay on the lion's back, moving up and down with the clicking sound of the mechanism, actually doing something about the bed curtains.

The woman in red was pressed down by the man, her waist raised, her body arched, and her neck stretched back in a very crazy posture.

boom!

Queen Yan swept the box to the ground.

The delicate mechanism hit the hard floor tiles and broke into pieces with a loud crash.

The two men were thrown from the lion's back, unable to move, but still entangled. Queen Yan stepped on them and separated them. Their arms and legs were crushed, and Queen Yan angrily kicked them away.

Cao Bin knelt silently on the ground, lowered his head and said nothing.

Fei Wan stood aside and watched indifferently, with a cold smile on her lips.

"Your Majesty truly is... quite leisurely and at ease."

She helped the emperor review memorials in Chenqian Hall, and after reviewing them, she handed them to the emperor for review. While reviewing, the emperor made advances, but Feiwan cleverly resolved the situation by bringing up Empress Yan.

Her words were clever and aroused the emperor's affection for Empress Yan, so the emperor asked Cao Bin to send something to Empress Yan.

He muttered a few words, but I don't know what he said.

Since she couldn't hear, she took the opportunity to use curiosity as an excuse to get away and followed to Fengming Palace to watch.

At that time, the emperor wanted to refuse and keep her, but suddenly a strange light flashed in his eyes, and then he agreed.

Now Fei Wan understood.

The emperor wanted her to see what this damn thing was!

Speaking of which, she hasn't served him once since he regained his favor. He was so hungry that he wanted her and Queen Yan to watch the filth together.

"Sister, let's look at this thing together. Later, shall we serve His Majesty together?"

"You still have the mind to joke! He brought this kind of filthy thing to me. What does he think of me?"

"Sister, why are you so angry about such a small thing? Eunuch Cao, please get up."

Fei Wan called Linglong and Xiangyi in to clean up the debris on the floor.

He took Empress Yan's hand and sat down together. "It's a rare opportunity for us to gather together publicly. Wouldn't it be a good opportunity to make things clear? Eunuch Cao, you sit down too."

"The servant dare not."

"If you don't even dare to do this, I won't dare discuss anything more outrageous with you in the future."

Cao Bin paused.

The silence was only a moment.

He bowed and sat down on the stool beside him with his body leaning sideways.

"Eunuch Cao, how do you feel about helping His Majesty manage maritime trade these days?" Fei Wan asked directly.

Cao Bin thought for a moment, then bowed. "I serve Your Majesty all day long, so I can't handle specific matters myself. I've assigned reliable and competent people to oversee matters. But even as someone in overall control, I understand the complexities of maritime trade, and it shouldn't be taken lightly. Another thing I've noticed most is... this business is truly lucrative. It's no exaggeration to say it's a highly profitable business."

Fei Wan nodded. "You are right, eunuch. However, if there is a huge profit, many people will want to get involved. If you help His Majesty manage it, others will not dare to interfere, but they will definitely keep a close eye on everything. If there is any loophole or flaw, they will attack you and try to snatch this job from you."

Empress Yan was distracted, and her anger was temporarily put aside. She said, "Let's not talk about others. The original owners of these ships might be waiting in the dark for an opportunity to avenge the seizure of the ships."

The three of them looked at each other.

Everyone knows that they must not let anyone take advantage of them.

Cao Bin did it for money, Yan Hou did it for power, and Fei Wan did it for his ideal after rebirth - to overthrow all those who oppress the lower classes and live off their power.

The purpose is different.

But in short, we are all in the same boat.

Fei Wan said, "Sister, Eunuch Cao, we manage five ships for His Majesty, but in fact, we have eleven ships joining the merchant fleet. If this is exposed and His Majesty knows that we secretly divided the money with him and deceived him like a fool, none of us can guarantee that we can escape unscathed."

The emperor would be concerned about the huge profits being taken away by them. But he was even more concerned about the fact that the people he considered most loyal to him were colluding to plot against him. With his magnanimity, it was hard to say what he would do.

Cao Bin said: "I will be extremely careful not to let anyone see any problems."

Queen Yan subconsciously asked Fei Wan: "Do you have any good ideas?"

Fei Wan smiled: "Whether it's good or not, it's hard to say. The risk is huge, but it's real."

She lowered her voice and spoke slowly, "The best defense is offense. Instead of being cautious and retreating, why not do the opposite and be bold and outward-looking?"

The emperor asked Cao Bin to manage the ships. Simply put, he took out hundreds of thousands or even millions of silver from his private treasury to purchase goods, plus the expenses of maintaining his subordinates. Then, when the sea trade made money, he would deduct the cost and put the profit back into the treasury.

He gave money for managing five boats.

Cao Bin now manages eleven boats, and the other six belong to Queen Yan and Fei Wan.

Under the imperial banner, the ship merchants assumed it was Cao Bin's private property, a place where the nobles and dignitaries could profit from it. This was perfectly normal; the ship merchants, armed with the imperial prestige, would not expose the issue, but instead helped to conceal it, satisfying Cao Bin and encouraging him to speak well of it to the emperor.

But it cannot be protected, because the real princes and nobles will be jealous and will cause trouble.

In that case, why not get everyone to join?

We make money together and are family now. Who would stare at you and find fault with you?

"...Not only relatives and nobles, but also civil and military officials in the court, and provincial governors everywhere, anyone who is willing and can keep their mouths shut and make a fortune can be brought in. What do you think, sister and eunuch Cao?"

Queen Yan's eyes suddenly lit up.

All the anger I had just felt about the reward for that broken box disappeared.

"Sister is right! The more people join us, the more people will cover up for us. If anyone wants to find fault with us, then they are finding fault with everyone. We don't need to do anything. Someone will take care of the blind man."

There are no fish in clear water.

The water is muddy, so it's easy to fish.

But Cao Bin was different from Queen Yan, he felt a lot of pressure.

His feelings about boarding this pirate ship were actually very complicated.

The eunuch was certainly interested in money, but without children and hope, what else could he be interested in if not money and the comforts of life? But he also understood that if he refused the money and the job, the Empress and the Imperial Noble Consort would treat him as a dissident and get rid of him, replacing him with someone else.

Half voluntarily and half forced, coupled with a slight sense of pleasure in venting his anger at betraying the emperor and the sense of control over his own decisions, drove him and the two ladies to form a secret alliance.

But now, the Imperial Noble Consort wants to make things bigger.

If it was just a minor incident, he would only lose one head. But if so many people were involved, and they all hid their involvement in maritime trade without His Majesty's knowledge, if something happened, he would probably lose more than a hundred heads.

"Empress Zhao, this matter..."

Cao Bin wiped the sweat from his forehead and said, "Isn't it better to take a long-term view..."

A cunning and cold light flashed across Fei Wan's eyes.

You don’t have the chance to make long-term plans now!