Chapter 33 Falling in love with His Majesty is a very...

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Fu Jiangyu picked up Lin Baige and said with a hint of boasting, "Why is my little imperial concubine so clingy? She can't stand me leaving her even for a moment. No wonder she always insists on going to court with me. It turns out she wants to keep an eye on me all the time."

Eunuch Chen beside him immediately expressed envy and said, "Your Majesty and the Imperial Concubine are so harmonious and harmonious. It's really enviable."

"Oh, no! I'm telling you something serious, can you please listen to me?" Lin Baige was so angry that he wanted to hit him: "Lin Xing ran away!"

As the two were talking, they entered the hall and saw their cousin being pinned to the ground by Seventeen.

The cousin is about 70% similar to Lin Baige, but the cousin is smarter than the original owner. Unlike the simple-minded love-brained girl, Lin Xing prefers smart people. He looked down on the original owner, but had some appreciation for the cousin, and finally took him into the harem.

Seeing Lin Baige and the emperor so close, the cousin's eyes widened in shock. No, didn't Lin Baige love Lin Xing to death? Didn't he hate His Majesty the most?

"It was him who let Lin Xing go. Your Majesty, arrest him immediately and interrogate him strictly to find out the route of Lin Xing's escape. Don't forget to search for Lin Xing while interrogating him. We must not let him escape from Jin State." Lin Baige said anxiously.

"Brother, I am so disappointed in you. You actually gave yourself to him just to save your life? You even betrayed Lin Xing? You even wanted His Majesty to arrest your own cousin? Are you still a human being?" When the cousin heard him say that he wanted the emperor to arrest him for interrogation, he knew that he would not survive. He cursed indignantly before he died.

Lin Baige was indeed trying to survive, but Fu Jiangyu was much better than Lin Xing: "Falling in love with His Majesty is a very easy thing. His Majesty is so good to me, handsome and has a good figure. What does Lin Xing have? He is a hostage, not even as good as an ordinary prince, stupid and dumb, and not as good-looking as His Majesty. He is a thin dog. I must have been kicked in the head by a donkey to like that kind of man? Do you think everyone is like you?"

His last sentence was extremely damaging. His cousin had always felt that he was smarter than the original owner. So why was the original owner able to live in the palace, grow up like a prince, and be loved by the emperor?

He was obviously smarter than his cousin, and better in every way than his cousin who couldn't even recognize all the words, just because his cousin's parents got lucky and risked their lives to save the late emperor.

Jealousy made him resent his cousin, and he wanted to destroy everything his cousin had. When Lin Xing found him, he immediately agreed to cooperate. In his previous life, he was Lin Xing's concubine, and he felt extremely happy when he saw his cousin being pushed to the guillotine.

But in this life, he was the one who went to the guillotine.

"Not only him, but also my uncle's family, they are all Lin Xing's followers. Your Majesty, don't worry about my feelings. The country is the most important." Lin Baige lay on the emperor's chest and acted coquettishly: "My uncle must have plundered a lot of money over the years. All this money should be used to fill the national treasury. A rich national treasury is more important than my family's own wealth."

Seeing him lying in the emperor's arms like a little fox and acting like a spoiled child, his cousin was so angry that his eyes almost popped out: "How can you be so shameless!"

"Break his mouth." Fu Jiangyu looked at his cousin with dissatisfaction, "Do you think you can slander my people at will? I don't want to hear anyone slander him anymore."

"Yes!" Eunuch Chen went over and slapped his cousin hard, until his mouth was bloody, and then he was dragged away.

From then on, no one in the palace dared to talk about Lin Baige casually. Even if Lin Baige's cousin said something bad about him, His Majesty ordered him to have his mouth smashed. What about others? Wouldn't they have their tongues pulled out?

Fu Jiangyu looked at Lin Baige in his arms, feeling lucky that his choice in life was right. It turned out that his imperial concubine loved power, and the more power he had, the more his little imperial concubine liked him.

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After the cousin was imprisoned in the Sky Prison, he told Lin Xing's escape route after an hour of interrogation, but it was too late. Lin Xing had already fled back to Jiang State.

Although Lin Xing had lost his hands and tongue, he learned to write with his feet and reported the news about his time in Jin State to his father, who then stopped disliking him.

The Jiang emperor, taking advantage of Lin Xing's tragic situation, rescinded the previously agreed-upon cheap salt policy and threatened to double the price of salt for Jin. He also told the other two countries to increase their salt prices by 20 percent, urging them to blame Jin for their involvement, attempting to sow resentment against the other two countries.

For a while, people across Jin State were in panic and started hoarding salt. Many people also scolded Lin Baige, thinking that he had helped Lin Xing escape and that they would have to eat expensive salt in the future.

But soon, imperial edicts were posted all over the country, informing the people of the country to control the price of salt. Not only would the price of salt be several times cheaper than before, but there would also be official salt stores in every region.

Those who hoarded salt were relieved when they found that they could not buy out all the salt in the store even if they spent all their money.

The State of Jiang was still waiting for the other two countries to please them and form an alliance with them to attack the State of Jin together in order to obtain salt at a normal price. However, what they got was the decision of the other two countries to no longer import salt from them.