Chapter 1213 Su Changan has become a 'jealous woman'!
Su Changan seldom comes to the imperial study. Firstly, he never has the chance to come here. Secondly, since this is where his wife works, why would he come here often? He would just disturb others.
Aunt Sun, the Shang Gong Bureau, was standing quietly outside the hall with an irritable look on her face. When she saw Feng Chun inviting the empress in, she hurried forward, bowed her hands and bowed to show her respect, and then quickly invited Su Chang'an into the hall.
The imperial study is connected to the morning court hall. Right now, inside this hall, people's minds are filled with mixed feelings and undercurrents are surging.
The emperor was furious.
Especially when the empress of the current dynasty was furious, it was really hard to predict what the consequences would be.
At this moment, in the hall, most of the officials above the fourth rank knelt down, and the rest stood in place with their heads lowered.
Noticing Su Changan's arrival, many people breathed a sigh of relief.
Su Changan noticed that Su Wenqing, Mu Xu and other old officials were also standing, but Li Jiulang, the Minister of Revenue Zhang Gu, the Minister of Rites Wei Jiu, and the Vice Minister of War Mao Xiaoxian were all kneeling.
Even Prince An stood in the middle of the hall with his head bent.
At first glance, all you see are purple court robes.
This made the officials in green and light crimson court robes, who were kneeling with their foreheads touching the ground, look particularly eye-catching.
Su Changan looked at them, and many of them were also looking at Su Changan.
The queen is finally here.
But if the Queen comes, can His Majesty calm down?
Su Changan withdrew his gaze. On the way here, he heard Feng Chun's general description. It was a serious matter, so it was natural for Xia Fengxiang to be angry.
And it wasn’t just one thing that happened, but several things that were linked together.
Su Changan walked through the corridor connecting the main hall and the imperial study, looking at the tightly closed windows. Some palace servants standing on both sides were sweating profusely from the heat but still dared not move.
Under normal circumstances, the palace servants would have opened the windows long ago.
But it was obvious that today he saw that the empress was angry and dared not move at all.
Su Changan whispered to Aunt Sun to open all the windows so that the palace servants, who were overwhelmed by the heat, could have a rest.
Aunt Sun nodded immediately.
Under the current circumstances, even she didn't dare to tell His Majesty about this, so only the Queen could tell it.
When he arrived at the imperial study, Su Changan saw Xia Fengxiang sitting on the dragon-shaped steps in the middle of the imperial study.
In front of her, a man and a woman dressed as Hu people were kneeling on the ground, not daring to move, with their foreheads touching the ground, not daring to look up.
Yan Yunxiao stood on the side of the dragon bed.
Li Xizhi and Alia stood on either side of the two Hu people.
Seeing Su Changan, Xia Fengxiang couldn't help but frown, but she was not surprised. When Feng Chun suddenly left just now, she thought that he was going to find Su Changan.
Su Changan couldn't help but smile when he saw Xia Fengxiang's unhappy expression. To be honest, it was quite cute when he saw his wife's expression for the first time.
And when Xia Fengxiang saw Su Changan smiling, he became even more annoyed!
"My lady."
Yan Yunxiao and others saluted Su Changan.
The two Hu people felt that someone was coming, but when they heard the name, their hearts immediately skipped a beat.
I wanted to look up, but I didn't dare.
However, the Hu man immediately turned his palms upwards and changed his way of worship.
The posture of Zoroastrians praying for blessings.
"You all go out first." Xia Fengxiang looked at Su Changan and said.
Upon hearing this, everyone bowed immediately.
When Achari and Li Xizhi stood up to leave with the two Hu people, they saw Su Changan standing there in a red dress.
The Hu man among them had a look of surprise on his face. The next moment, he moved his lips and knelt down and bowed to Su Changan again.
Acharya did not try to stop him.
In the eyes of some Zoroastrians, the Queen was already the incarnation of the God of Fire. However, this matter seemed to be of little concern in the capital because all the believers had returned to the Western Regions or went elsewhere to spread the news.
These two Hu people were Hu merchants who came to the capital.
Such things are good things for Daxia and there is no need to stop them. Besides, these two Hu people have not committed any crime, so naturally they do not need any special treatment.
When only Su Changan and Xia Fengxiang were left in the imperial study.
Su Changan sat down next to Xia Fengxiang and pinched Xia Fengxiang's cheek: "If you have this expression, what will we do if our child is born with this expression?"
Xia Fengxiang rolled his eyes at Su Changan and said, "Why are you here if you don't stay in Lingqi Pavilion?"
Su Changan took out fried lychees from his sleeve.
After seeing this, Xia Fengxiang took it and started eating, and said, "Did Feng Chun tell you?"
Su Changan nodded.
Xia Fengxiang glanced at the memorial on the steps and said, "Take a look."
When Su Changan went to get the memorials, he also brought a cushion for his wife to lean on.
Xia Fengxiang said, "The officials in Jiangnan saw that we didn't kill enough people there before, so they had their own ideas. They actually exchanged low-quality and cheap rice seeds soaked in water for high-quality grains for Yandi, Liaozhou and other places, and then sold the grains to Luzhou, Xiangzhou, and even went through Lingnan to sell them to Yizhou. After being discovered, in order to destroy the evidence, they dumped all the grains on fifteen ships into the rivers and even hunted down Gu Gangmin. A dignified sixth-rank official had to disguise himself as a beggar to enter Jiangling to save his life!"
Bang!
When he said this, Xia Fengxiang became more and more angry. He grabbed the tea bowl that Su Changan had placed aside for Xia Fengxiang to drink and smashed it to the ground, shouting angrily: "This is the person chosen by your Ministry of Revenue, Ministry of Personnel, and Ministry of War!"
In the main hall, one could not hear ordinary conversations in the imperial study, but everyone could hear the emperor's angry roars clearly.
Zhang Gu, Mao Xiaoxian and others hurriedly lowered their heads.
And those men in red and green official uniforms began to tremble even more.
"There was a war going on in the north and west. Yang Guofu, Qian Long and others were desperately trying to gather military rations. In addition, Liaozhou and Yandi were waiting to plant the seeds so that they could harvest in the fall. As a result, fifteen ships of food were lost! Fifteen ships!"
Xia Fengxiang was indeed angry. He held the lychee pancake he had taken two bites of in his hand and looked towards the corridor leading to the main hall!
Su Changan quickly reached out to help him calm down.
It was clearly written in the memorial: 80,000 taels of silver.
Gu Gangmin, also known as the second son of the Gu family, is Gu Chiyu's second uncle and the son of Master Gu.
The memorial clearly stated that the officials who did this deceived their superiors and subordinates, and in the name of forcibly collecting taxes, they took high-quality grain from the homes of ordinary people and rich farmers in the name of the emperor and the empress. They then colluded with some grain merchants to send the soaked rice on ships to Yan and Liaozhou at a low price, and then sold the grain using the merchant ships and trade routes of Western Regions merchants.
The biggest sellers were some wealthy businessmen in Yizhou.
After the Jiangnan incident, Xia Fengxiang appointed him as the prefect of Jiangling, where the Ouyang family had originally occupied.
As a result, the matter was discovered. It turned out that the prefect was assassinated during the salvage operation and had to flee all the way to Jiangling.
No wonder Xia Fengxiang was angry.
Or, in other words, this is already a good temper.
Emperors of all dynasties had known about this and would have killed people long ago.
Su Changan put his hand on Xia Fengxiang's back, helping him to breathe smoothly, without saying a word.
Xia Fengxiang looked at Su Changan, took a deep breath, shook his head to indicate that he was fine, and then said: "Xu Zuiyin's son, the one who was left by Li Heng in Jiangnan to help manage the Dianjiangchun shop, do you still remember him?"
Su Changan nodded. He remembered that his name was Xu Lezhi.
Xia Fengxiang took out a booklet and said, "Those two Hu merchants came to Quyang to do business. After they met Xu Lezhi, Xu Lezhi learned about it from them."
Su Changan took the booklet.
But after seeing some of the expressions in front of him, he was stunned. "Yizhou is still using Hu merchants to purchase weapons."
But just as he finished speaking, Su Changan looked at the very detailed account contents.
Xia Fengxiang said, "Xu Lezhi risked his life to find out, and was rescued by the God's Strategy Mansion. This method is not the work of the King of Shu. He would not leave such a tail when doing things. Moreover, Luzhou is not an iron bucket. It is not Uncle Eleven's fault. It is normal that it has been hidden and cannot be found. The two Hu merchants helped Xu Lezhi to investigate and made great contributions. In the letter sent by Zhao Wuxiu before, it was written that many soldiers and horses of the Zoroastrianism disappeared in the desert after he led his men to bombard the Zoroastrianism headquarters. There is no trace of the soldiers and horses that were originally ambushing them. Now it seems that they are probably following the path of Tuyuhun and entering Yizhou. Isn't that Lushan in Yizhou?"
Su Changan looked at the accounts in his hand and could tell that he was in a hurry, because some of the items were completely in high prices, and were even purchased from people in the martial arts world. They pretended to be people in the martial arts world, escort agencies, caravan mercenaries, etc. It was even written on them that they were purchased from the Forging Soldiers Mountain, but were rejected by the Forging Soldiers Mountain. However, some people in the Forging Soldiers Mountain still stole the items, but after being discovered, they were killed by the people in the Forging Soldiers Mountain.
Su Changan looked at Xia Fengxiang: "Food, weapons, and Zoroastrian soldiers, have they finally lost their patience?"
Xia Fengxiang nodded.
When talking about this matter, Xia Fengxiang was obviously in a much better mood than when he was feeling sad about the fifteen ships of grain just now.
Xia Fengxiang said: "Zhu Huang, Wen Daoji and Xia Tingyu are here for Yizhou's affairs. Although they are worried, the latest news from Yizhou will be delivered soon, so there is no rush to make a decision now. Moreover, all the remaining gangsters who wanted to enter the no-man's land have been killed by Yu Taohua and others."
Xia Fengxiang took out another letter and gave it to Su Changan, "Wan'er is fine, but Yuan Ruxi is still unconscious, but he is on his way back."
Su Changan took the letter and read only a few lines.
After Xia Fengxiang finished eating the fried lychees in his hand, he continued, "I was going to wait for me to go back and tell you, but since you're here, I'll tell you. Even though you didn't show it, I know you've been worried about Wan'er."
As he spoke, Xia Fengxiang took out two more slips of paper and handed them to Su Changan: "We found out, but we are still investigating the details."
Su Changan took it and opened it, and there was just one line of words.
"The emperor and the queen are destined to have no heirs. Xia Yaomo, the son of Prince An, Xia Yuanyuan, the daughter of Prince Chu, and if Prince Shu is alright, Xia Tingyu, Xia Ruoyun and others will be the candidates for the future crown prince of Great Xia."
Su Changan was stunned when he saw his expression, and then looked at Xia Fengxiang with a strange expression.
Xia Fengxiang gestured to Su Changan to look at the second one.
Su Changan opened it and saw the same line of words.
"Su Changan forbids your majesty to take concubines into the harem, and strictly forbids others to contact your majesty, cutting off the emperor's bloodline. What a jealous woman! How can you be called virtuous!"
Su Changan looked at Xia Fengxiang: "Those people who said that we couldn't have children are starting to spread rumors like this?"
Xia Fengxiang was about to speak, but he couldn't help but frowned and touched his belly.
Su Changan was startled, with a rare anxious look on his face. He looked towards the door of the imperial study: "Aunt Yan! Hurry and find Mr. Mo and Mr. Zhang to enter the palace!"
Xia Fengxiang frowned: "I'm fine! It just hurts a little."
Su Changan supported Xia Fengxiang and frowned as he said, "Whether there is anything wrong or not is up to the doctor, and a little pain is nothing."
After saying that, Su Changan added: "You have the final say on other matters, don't argue with me about this matter!"
Seeing Su Changan's sudden serious expression, Xia Fengxiang didn't say anything more, but just nodded obediently.
But the ministers sitting in the hall outside were looking at each other.
Especially watching Commander Yan leaving.
How many people in Daxia can be called Mr. Zhang or Mr. Mo by the Empress!
Naturally, there are only two contemporary miracle doctors: Zhang Wenjing and Mo Jingchun.
But the Queen asked these two to enter the palace, and her tone was anxious.
Doesn't this mean that something has happened to His Majesty?
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Ps: It’s hot! Too hot! Everyone, please take care of yourselves! I’m so hot that I have no strength at all, and the house is so humid that I’m going to explode!
(End of this chapter)
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