Chapter 30: Forced to Abdicate Again
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Lin Baige felt a sore back the next day: "I didn't do it, but it was more tiring than if I did."
After he finished complaining while patting his back, he hurriedly looked around nervously and found that Fu Jiangyu was not in the room. He breathed a sigh of relief. If Fu Jiangyu heard him, he might ask him, "Do you know what it feels like to have done it? Who did you do it with?"
Lin Baige felt that Fu Jiangyu was clingy and pretentious, so he should stop being an emperor and become a princess instead.
He was complaining in his heart when he saw Fu Jiangyu coming back, followed by two palace maids and eunuchs. They didn't bring too many palace maids and eunuchs with them this time to avoid having their identities discovered, and the palace maids and eunuchs were also disguised as ordinary maids and servants.
When Lin Baige saw someone coming in, he quickly wrapped himself in the quilt. He didn't have time to put on his clothes.
When he first came through, some palace servants came to him and wanted to dress him, but he was not used to it, so he refused in panic and dressed himself.
Later, Fu Jiangyu dressed him personally. He also heard palace servants whispering that he was becoming more and more arrogant and even asked the emperor to change his clothes personally.
He thought to himself that it wasn't that he was being arrogant and asked the emperor to change his clothes. It was clearly that the emperor was treating him like a warm toy, changing his clothes and even combing his hair.
He couldn't help but retort to the palace maids: "I have my own hands and feet. How could I possibly resist the will of Your Majesty?"
The palace maids were terrified. Thinking of the palace maid whose face was scratched by the original owner, they were so scared that they trembled all over and begged for mercy.
"It's okay, you just said a few gossips, you won't die." Lin Baige waved his hand and let them go.
They were also wondering why Lin Baige seemed like a different person? Why was his temper so gentle now? If he had been like before, he would have tortured them to death.
But Lin Baige felt strange. Shouldn't the palace people be afraid of the original owner who was so tyrannical? Instead, they were talking about her behind her back. Not only the palace people, but also the ministers could call her a witch concubine at will.
Later, Fu Jiangyu severely punished those palace servants who gossiped about Lin Baige. From then on, no palace servant dared to say bad things about Lin Baige.
Lin Baige was even more puzzled. According to the rules and regulations of the feudal dynasty, palace servants were forbidden to freely discuss their masters, yet everyone was allowed to curse the original master. Although the original master was indeed hateful, how could these people dare to speak ill of her so brazenly? It seemed as if someone had instructed them to deliberately provoke the original master, make her furious, and torture these palace servants, spreading her bad reputation.
Judging from the original owner's IQ, he suspected that someone had deliberately guided him to develop a violent temperament.
After that rumor, Fu Jiangyu also realized that he didn't like others dressing him, so he stopped helping him dress.
This morning, Fu Jiangyu brought in palace maids. He thought Fu Jiangyu felt that he had no strength and asked people to help him put on his clothes. Fortunately, the palace maids just put down breakfast and left.
Fu Jiangyu carried Lin Baige out of the bed. He felt warm and comfortable. "This morning, I asked the Marquis of Nan'an to dispatch a team of soldiers to surround your potato patch and prevent anyone from getting close to destroy it."
"I thought, after they harvest the potatoes and sweet potatoes, we can sell them to the nearby villagers. The yield will increase year by year until the whole country is planting potatoes and sweet potatoes." Lin Baige thought, it is indeed safer to have the army watching over it. "After a few years, when the potato and sweet potato harvest is good, let Jiang Erwa open a vermicelli factory and a starch factory to boost the local economy. Then, that factory can also provide starch, vermicelli, and rice noodles specifically for the palace..."
When mentioning these, Lin Baige couldn't help swallowing his saliva. He loved eating vermicelli and rice noodles the most. Since there were no rice noodles here, he could only eat shark fin as a substitute.
When they left, many disaster victims came to see them off, and many of them cried, reluctant to see them go.
Jiang Erwa, a 5'9" tall man, cried with tears and snot streaming down his face. "Lord Lin, you are a good official. If it weren't for you, we wouldn't have such a peaceful and happy life now. Please stay and be an official here."
"It's okay. I believe in you, and you have to believe in yourself too. Giving the people a good life is what you're good at. Otherwise, you wouldn't have led them in the uprising." Lin Baige believed in his leadership ability, and his status would convince the public: "If there's anything you don't know how to do, just write to me and I'll give you some advice. If you need my help, I'll also provide you with people and resources."
Their carriages had already gone far out of the city, and many people were still crying as they ran.
Lin Baige was also infected by this sentiment: "Time flies. A few days ago, I was working with them in the fields, and now I am leaving. I hope that next time I come here, this place will have undergone tremendous changes."
If the people are prosperous, their country will be prosperous and powerful, and he will not have to worry about being conquered by the Jiang State, nor will he die.
As a result, before they entered the capital, they received news from the secret guards that the capital was under siege and several noble families had united to force the emperor to abdicate.
Those noble families were dissatisfied with the upcoming imperial examination system, so they killed several of Lord Zhang's disciples. While the emperor was recuperating in the palace, they led their troops to force the emperor to abdicate. They also took away the fifth prince's child, intending to nominate the three-year-old child as the new emperor.
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