The reborn worthy minister is difficult to do

That night, Yan Si and Li Haochen chatted secretly for a long time before the two returned to their resting places.

The team traveled day and night, and arrived safely in Kyoto four days later to meet the Holy One.

Because of catching the secret work of the Moon Kingdom that had been hidden for many years, Taikang Emperor Long Yan was very happy. During the entire early court, he praised the prince Li Haochen from the moment he went to court, and continued to praise him until the next court.

Now that the prince is back, he is about to prepare for the pilgrimage of the princes, and he has almost finished the trial of the important case of Yueguo in Yangzhou, so Emperor Taikang handed over the matter to the Ministry of Criminal Justice and Gongsun Yu.

As for the fate of Lin Xiao, the former magistrate of Yangzhou, he has been lurking in Yangzhou for many years, not only stealing many secrets of Dayao Kingdom, raising salt prices privately to disrupt the country and the city, taking bribes for personal gain, hurting countless lives, and even using Yangzhou skinny horses to harm the government and the public .

Which one of the crimes is taken out is a serious crime of beheading, and the crime is added to the crime. Emperor Taikang sentenced him to beheaded at the gate of the Meridian Gate half a month later.However, Lin Xiao was guilty of a heinous crime, and was sentenced to five horses to quarter his body. After dismembering his body, his body was taken to Xiguan and hung above the gate of the west city closest to Yueguo as a warning.

As for Princess Gong, Emperor Taikang did not reveal the secrets in the court because of the face of the royal family.However, he had privately conveyed the imperial decree of secret killing to Prince Gong, and attached a secret letter, which had explained in detail the identity of Prince Gong's concubine back and forth.

All the courtiers couldn't help being amazed at how quickly this matter was handled.

It stands to reason that the bigger the case, the more cautious and careful the trial must be, the longer the trial process will be dragged on.

However, His Royal Highness only took half a month to deal with the case, and Emperor Taikang even decreed that these people be beheaded for public display after half a month.

This incident shows Emperor Taikang's trust in His Highness the Crown Prince, and secondly, Emperor Taikang was really annoyed by Yueguo and planned to make an example of others.

Twenty days later, the princes came to visit, but five days before the princes came to court, they wanted to kill at the Meridian Gate. Emperor Taikang did this with the intention of warning the princes.

After this incident, Emperor Taikang was even more satisfied with His Highness the Crown Prince.

His Royal Highness the crown prince's position has once again been consolidated, and no one in the court dares to mention impeachment for the time being.

It took two full hours for the morning court to end this time. Fei Yuanzheng had a bad expression on his face, and after a morning court, he hurried away with his party members.

Xu Ci and others bid farewell to His Highness the Crown Prince, and also went to their respective homes.Although the crown prince was reluctant to let Xu Ci leave his side, he still had important matters to discuss with his father, so he had to let Xu Ci leave.

Knowing son Mo Ruofu, Emperor Taikang saw that Li Haochen had something to say early on, and without waiting for Li Haochen to ask for instructions, he called Li Haochen to his side, "I haven't seen you for a long time, my son, let's have breakfast with me first, and the big things will wait." Talk to me later."

Li Haochen had this intention, so naturally he readily agreed, and left beside Emperor Taikang.

Emperor Taikang looked sideways at Li Haochen, his heart turned a thousand times, and he sighed endlessly.

This child is the best gift left to him by his Empress Shengde. He and Shengde were not married by the emperor's father, but he asked the emperor for a gift when he was still the prince.

When Shengde looked back and smiled back then, his love has been deeply rooted since then, and he can't let her go anymore.

Since the birth of Chen'er, Shengde's health has become worse and worse, he often vomits blood and faints, and it is common for Shengde to linger on the sick bed.

Emperor Taikang searched all over the world for rare medicines and famous doctors, but there was nothing he could do. He was the emperor of a country, but he couldn't even save the life of his beloved.

When Chen'er was eight years old, Shengde couldn't hold on any longer, and finally left him cruelly to return home alone.

He wanted to let Chen'er be raised by the mild-tempered concubine Chen, but after learning about this, Chen'er, who had always been calm and silent, went to his bedroom overnight and begged him not to be raised by anyone.

At such a young age, Chen'er blurted out all the cold reality.

Now that more than ten years have passed, he still remembers what Chen'er said with a solemn face back then: "Father, even though I grew up in hardships, I don't want to be a pawn for others to fight for power."

Emperor Taikang withdrew his thoughts, and glanced at the tall, tall and handsome young man who was quietly walking beside him.

More than ten years have passed, that stubborn child has now supported a world, and no one despises his natural aura.

As soon as Chen'er's words came out, he gave up his thoughts of handing Chen'er over to others to raise him, so he could only hand him over to the nanny to take care of him.

At that time, there was a severe flood in the south, and the court was in turmoil. As soon as Shengde died, he had to deal with those humiliating ministers in front of the court again, and he had no time to take care of Chen'er.

When he turned his attention to Chen'er again, it was because of Concubine Chen's accusation two months later.

That day Concubine Chen knelt outside his bedroom, weeping and crying all night, he was so annoyed that he invited her in.

As soon as Concubine Chenfang saw him, she threw herself to the ground, choked with sobs and cried non-stop. He was concerned about the flood in the south, but he still listened patiently. After listening for a while, he realized that Concubine Chen was here to sing for her close maid. Unfortunately, Chen'er whipped the maid next to her to death with a whip.

According to Concubine Chen's words, she was very distressed when she saw that Chen'er had lost her mother.So she sent the sweet-scented osmanthus cake she made to Chen'er by the big maid beside her.

But as soon as the big palace lady delivered the sweet-scented osmanthus cake, Chen'er whipped the big palace lady to death with an iron whip without saying a word.

Concubine Chen Lihua looked at him rainingly, accusing the prince of a big change of mind, and often took pleasure in punishing the servants. She just asked the maid to send the prince a plate of sweet-scented osmanthus cake, and was beaten to death.

Emperor Taikang didn't say anything in front of Concubine Chen, and persuaded her to go back, but afterwards ordered the secret guard to investigate the matter secretly.Chen'er was raised by him and Shengde. Although he has a cold temper, he is by no means a person who has lost his heart.

He never believed that Chen'er would beat that maid to death for no reason.He didn't know if he didn't investigate this matter, but he only felt angry when he checked it.

It turned out that these servants thought that Chen'er had fallen out of favor when they saw that they hadn't visited and summoned the prince for a few days, and hadn't found a concubine to raise the prince again.People in the harem have always stepped on the high and flattered the low. Although he knew it before, he turned a blind eye to it.

He was busy in the court, but he didn't know that those servants who were overbearing and flattering him had already looked down on Chen'er, and under the order of the master of the other palace, he was crowding out and making things difficult for him.

As for Concubine Chen this time, that maid deserved it.

Chen'er is the prince of a country, and this court lady actually ate half of the sweet-scented osmanthus cake before sending it to Chen'er. What's even worse, she saw that Chen'er was young, and she had no respect for him, so she ate it in front of him. speak wildly.

In order to establish his prestige, Li Haochen immediately whipped the maid one whip after another until she was beaten to death.

It was precisely because of Li Haochen's continuous assertion of prestige that the people in the harem no longer dared to despise him.

He always thought that Concubine Chen was gentle and kind, but only after that incident did he know that Concubine Chen had ulterior motives.If it wasn't for Concubine Chen secretly acquiescing or even implying that these servants could insult the prince at will, how could this court lady dare to steal the prince's imperial food, and even speak out without choice!

Shengde was sick all year round, so he gave the harem phoenix seal to Concubine Chen.In this harem, apart from Shengde, Concubine Chen is No. 1 in the harem.

Concubine Chen has been the dominant family in the harem for these years, and she is content to realize that she is boundless now, and she no longer knows her identity and position.

Emperor Taikang's eyes froze, and he had made a decision.

Not long after, he summoned the three concubines, Concubine Chen, Concubine Hua, Concubine Li and all the other concubines.Explain clearly the cause and effect of concubine Chen's concubine oppressing her master regardless of their superiority and inferiority, and point out that concubine Chen is incapable of discipline.

For this reason, he took away the phoenix seal of Concubine Chen.Concubine Li and Concubine Hua are in charge of the Phoenix Seal, and the two have always been at odds with each other. In this way, they restrain each other, and the harem can be somewhat clear.

He stripped off Concubine Chen's phoenix seal, and demoted her from concubine to concubine.Since then, she has never been lucky enough to be with her again. Since then, Concubine Chen has been in a slump, and has no glory in the past.

From this incident, Emperor Taikang suddenly realized that he should not only care about the court, but ignore the order of the harem.

As the former sage said, how can he sweep the world if he doesn't sweep a house? If he doesn't clean up the harem, how can he stand in front of the court and deter the officials.

In this way, he took Concubine Chen to kill chickens and monkeys to warn the whole harem.He is kind, but not merciful.

Everything about the women in the harem is bestowed by him, who is favored by him, and who is also out of favor. After this incident, the harem has been peaceful for a long time at least on the surface.

Because of this, he felt a lot of guilt towards Chen'er, and it was precisely because of this guilt that Emperor Taikang left Li Haochen to decide on many matters.

At that time, Chen'er's companion was the youngest son of King Zhennan, who suddenly contracted smallpox and went home sick.He planned to let the son of the king of North China County come to be a companion for Chen'er, but Chen'er had his own ideas, but he refused and insisted on choosing a companion for himself.

He also had no choice but to let Chen'er make his own decisions and gather all the courtiers and sons of the fourth rank or above for Chen'er to choose.But so many talents were not selected there, but they chose a stubborn kid who was famous all over the capital.

His secret guard system is huge, and he has placed them in the homes of various ministers to monitor their every move.Emperor Taikang didn't say anything, but he did have some understanding of the situation in the minister's family.

And this time it is to choose a companion for Chen'er, so it should not be underestimated.He has already had a clear understanding of the conduct of these sons of officials above the fourth rank.

Seeing that Chen'er chose Xu Ziqing, he was very reluctant, so he even changed Xu Ziqing's name and gave him the word "ci", in order to imply that the Minister of Rites should take his naughty son to leave early and leave early.

But which Chen'er tried his best to fool him by saying, "Speech, the tongue is hard. The father wants this child to urge the son to study."

Now that ten years have passed, Xu Ci has grown to such an extent, which really surprised him.

Emperor Taikang broke free from his thoughts again, and looked at Li Haochen with admiration in his eyes.Chen'er has a unique vision, she really found a treasure.

The two stopped and went, and had already had breakfast in the side hall of the imperial study.

Li Haochen took a mouthful of sweet-scented osmanthus and hazelnut stuffing, chewed a few mouthfuls for a moment, and then took another mouthful.

Emperor Taikang saw Li Haochen's strange behavior, and smiled lightly, "But the smell is very familiar?"

Li Haochen swallowed the sweet-scented osmanthus and hazelnut stuffing, wiped the corners of his mouth with a handkerchief, and then replied, "Father, why is this taste so similar to the sweet-scented osmanthus and hazelnut stuffing made by my mother?"

Emperor Taikang nodded, with a deeper smile in his eyes, "Not long after you went to Yangzhou, an old eunuch in the imperial dining room suddenly made this breakfast dish, and I was also very surprised."