newbobooks Chapter 368: The Palace Maids Are Not to Be Tried With 9
Chapter 368: The Palace Maids Are Not to Be Tried With 9
When the two of them left the space, it was still night, so it should be the next day.
The tavern owner suddenly disappeared and the tavern closed.
There are often few people in the ghost market. Although everyone feels sorry for the boss lady's coquettishness, they will forget about it after a few days, and there will be new and interesting things happening.
Zhang Xintong and Lu Yunling quietly left the ghost market.
"Xia Shaoqing, where are we going?"
"Just call me Tongtong! Xia Shaoqing feels uncomfortable with that."
"it is good"
"I want to go back to the palace, you come with me"
"Tongtong, it's so late now, how can we get in?"
"Just follow me."
"it is good"
When they arrived at the palace gate, Zhang Xintong took out a sign. The guards guarding the palace gate saw it and let her in.
Xiao Yuan was still handling government affairs at this hour and had not slept. The two of them soon arrived at the Yangxin Palace.
When Lu Yunling saw the Queen, he was about to salute, but was stopped by Zhang Xintong.
"You go sit over there, no need to bow."
Lu Yunling glanced at the Queen, and the Queen waved her hand, motioning him to come over and sit down.
Zhang Xintong and Xiao Yuan whispered
"He is Lu Yunling, the Junior Minister of the Dali Temple. Your father's soul resides in him, but he has no memories of your father, only the memories of that body."
"Mother, how can you be sure that he is the father?"
"I have my own way. He is your father."
Zhang Xintong pulled Xiao Yuan to sit down
"I have already investigated the case in the Imperial City. It was Xiao Heng who did it."
"Mother, you are amazing. You figured it out in just two days."
Xiao Heng is a mortal, unlike the tavern owner who is a tree demon. Zhang Xintong put a low-level truth pill in Xiao Yuan's hand.
"Yuanyuan, when you go to court tomorrow, call Xiao Heng to the front of the court, give him this medicine, and make him explain the case of the divine stone."
"Mother, what is this?"
"This is a truth pill. If he takes it, he will tell the truth."
"Mother, aren't you going to court?"
"Only officials of the third rank and above can attend court. How can I, a fourth rank official, attend court tomorrow? Before court tomorrow, I will ask your father to explain the case to the Dali Temple Minister. The Dali Temple Minister will report to you when he arrives. Then you can just let Xiao Heng attend court."
"Ok, I see"
"Yuanyuan, is there anything else going on in the court these past two days?"
"Except that the Ministry of Revenue always says it's short of money, there's nothing else going on."
When Xiao Yu was the emperor, he established six ministries. Now An Chao has six ministries. Zhang Xintong thought about it.
"Yuanyuan, remember the food court I told you about?"
"Remember"
"Have Chunyu and Qiuye choose a street in the imperial city and buy up all the shops there. If the Ministry of Revenue complains of being short of money again, you will assign two positions to female officials there. Have Chunyu and Qiuye create a food street. You will issue an order to hold a lantern exhibition there, and then build a Yue Lao Temple there. If anyone wants to live in the food street, the shops they bought previously can be rented out, and the rental income will be substantial. The vendors on the food street will all pay taxes, which is the bulk of the tax revenue. This way, Chunyu and Qiuye will secure their positions as female officials in the Ministry of Revenue."
"Mother, it's great to have you!"
"Be good, write me an imperial edict and send Lu Yunling and me to welcome the Qing Kingdom's marriage party. Once things are settled tomorrow, we'll set off for the border the day after tomorrow."
"Mother, there are troops at the border to welcome the marriage party. You and father don't need to go."
"Yuanyuan, if something happens to the marriage party when entering Anguo territory, it could easily lead to war between the two countries. Be obedient!"
"All right!"
Xiao Yuan wrote the imperial edict, and Zhang Xintong took it away directly. Before leaving the palace, Zhang Xintong detoxified the pond in the imperial garden and released all the fish back into the pond.
After leaving the palace, Zhang Xintong and Lu Yunling went to the residence of the Dali Temple Minister. They told him about the case, and he said he would report to the Empress the next day.
The next morning, Xiao Heng explained everything at court because he had the truth pill. He wanted his son to be the emperor, so he was doing all these things in the palace and the imperial city.
The empress stripped him of his title, Xiao Heng was sentenced to death, and the rest were exiled three thousand miles away, never to return to the capital.
Ten days later, when the Ministry of Revenue said it had no money again, the empress arranged for Chunyu and Qiuye to enter the Ministry of Revenue. The food street had been prepared, and with Xiao Yuan's support, the food street opened. The business was so good that tax money was sent to the Ministry of Revenue every day. Chunyu and Qiuye had gained a firm foothold in the Ministry of Revenue.
Of course, these are things that happened later. At this moment, Zhang Xintong went to Wangji Stone Shop and informed Wang Mingyun to clarify the matter of the magic stone in the imperial city. Wang Mingyun did so immediately.
The rumors in the imperial city died down, the people no longer spoke of divine punishment, and no one opposed the empress anymore.
After resolving the matters in the imperial city, Zhang Xintong and Lu Yunling rode all the way to the border to welcome the Qing Kingdom's marriage team.
Zhang Xintong was genuinely surprised when she saw the Qing prince. He was a tall, blond, blue-eyed man who spoke English. (The author is very patriotic, very patriotic. Please don't accuse me of being pro-Western just because I write about foreign animals or people. I was previously mauled for writing about lions, so please don't say anything this time. The author is a bit sensitive. Thank you!)
There are three kingdoms in this world: An, Qing, and Jin. An is the most powerful, Qing is second, and Jin is the weakest. While Jin is the weakest, it has the greatest ambitions. When Xiao Yu was the War Prince, he fought against Jin.
The Jin people lived on the prairie and were nomadic. They always wanted to enter the pass and occupy Anguo or Qingguo.
The reason why the Kingdom of Qing sent its prince to marry was to form a united front with the Kingdom of An and destroy the Kingdom of Jin.
The Kingdom of Qing brought an interpreter (that is, a translator), and Zhang Xintong could speak English, so she could communicate directly with the prince of the Kingdom of Qing.
The prince who came from the Kingdom of Qing to marry was the eldest prince John Wilson. John was his first name and Wilson was his last name.
The Kingdom of Qing attached great importance to this marriage. The eldest prince was not an unpopular prince. He was born to the Queen of the Central Palace of Qing and was very favored in Qing.
"Prince, the Queen has sent us to greet you. We will protect your safety along the way."
"Thank you, Queen, you are very thoughtful."
Zhang Xintong and Lu Yunling have always been protecting the eldest prince. He is a nice person and not the kind of person who is difficult to serve. Sometimes he even chats with Zhang Xintong.
"How old is your queen? Is she beautiful?"
"20 years old, very beautiful"
"She can be the queen, isn't that amazing?"
“Very impressive”
John knew the importance of this marriage and he had to accept it no matter what the queen looked like. But knowing that the queen was a beautiful 20-year-old woman and very powerful, he felt relieved.
On the third day after the marriage party entered Anguo, they encountered an assassination attempt. This assassination attempt was the same one that killed John in the previous life.
In order to succeed in killing John in one go, more than 500 people came, and each one of them was very powerful.
John brought more than 200 people to Anguo, but more than 100 of them were palace maids, eunuchs and porters who carried the dowry, and only more than 100 of them had martial arts skills.
The army of Anguo consists of 200 people, plus more than 100 people from Qingguo, a total of more than 300 people with martial arts skills.