Mengyue thought that the court would not provide disaster relief, but she didn't know that something big had happened in the court.

When Emperor Wu Wen learned that Prince Chen had resettled the disaster victims in Guangping Prefecture, he was very pleased during the morning court session. He praised Xie Ruiyuan and hinted at the idea of ​​making Prince Chen the crown prince.

However, Emperor Wu Wen was not a fool. Although he was not a wise ruler, he knew what would happen if he rashly appointed a crown prince.

It happened that at this time, the Grand Commandant Zhong proposed that the disaster victims in Guangping and Yongkang needed disaster relief and should not be allowed to run around.

Once a large number of disaster victims are truly left with nowhere to go, they will definitely rise up in rebellion.

Many officials agreed with Zhong's statement, but some also felt that Zhong was exaggerating.

The Minister of Revenue cried poor, saying that the national treasury had no grain or money and there was no way to allocate grain for disaster relief.

Emperor Wu Wen thought about it and came up with a plan that was not a good idea but a bad one.

He also issued an edict to assign the disaster relief task to Prince Chen. As long as Prince Chen could handle this matter well, he would be the well-deserved crown prince.

All the officials who could enter the imperial court were old foxes. The officials of the first and fourth princes all knelt on the ground and shouted that our emperor was wise.

Just like that, this extremely difficult mess was thrown onto Xie Ruiyuan.

They knew very well that it would be a pipe dream to properly resettle tens of thousands of disaster victims without the imperial court providing them with money and food.

Even if the emperor still asked the Ministry of Revenue to allocate 100,000 kilograms of grain, it would be like a drop in the bucket for the tens of thousands of refugees and would not solve the problem at all.

Once Prince Chen fails to complete his mission, the people who support Prince Chen to become the Crown Prince will probably be extremely disappointed.

This way, it will be beneficial to both the eldest prince and the second prince.

However, when Concubine Rou learned that Emperor Wuwen had made the matter of establishing a crown prince public and was still partial to Prince Chen as always, she became resentful and began to place pawns around Emperor Wuwen and secretly drugged him.

As a result, after Emperor Wu Wen caught a cold, his body became increasingly weaker and weaker. The entire Imperial Hospital could not find the cause of the disease and just told him to take good care of himself.

When Emperor Wuwen was too weak to attend court, the eldest prince and his followers came to the emperor's rescue, asking him to issue an order allowing the eldest prince to help with the affairs.

Emperor Wuwen's health could not sustain the long hours of reviewing memorials, but he could not miss a single day of court attendance, so he had no choice but to compromise.

However, the eldest prince was not asked to handle the task alone, but the eldest prince and the second prince were asked to handle it together.

As a result, the eldest prince and the second prince were busy contacting court officials and accumulating strength, and had no time to take care of Xie Ruiyuan for the time being.

Anyway, they both agreed that it would be impossible for Xie Ruiyuan to properly resettle the victims.

Even if they knew that Xie Ruiyuan had countless assets and no shortage of money and food, after the consumption of Guangping Prefecture, there must be not much left, and it is not worth their attention at all.

The two of them didn't care about Xie Ruiyuan, and didn't even regard him as an opponent, but there was one exception, and that was Concubine Sheng who lived in the deep palace.

Concubine Sheng, who came from a poor family, was able to stand out among the three thousand beauties in the harem. She was a concubine second only to the queen and on par with Concubine Rou. She was equally smart and resourceful, and even better than Concubine Rou.

Otherwise, she wouldn't have survived the cannibalistic harem and successfully given birth to the second prince.

The Imperial Palace, Yonghe Palace, the residence of Concubine Sheng.

Concubine Sheng lay comfortably on the beauty couch, enjoying the massage from her maid.

"Zhou Ying, do you think Prince Chen can properly accommodate the disaster victims?"

"My lady, I dare not say it."

"Oh, and you dare not say it."