Originally, Zhang Tao thought that these things were just the things in the car that were inconvenient to take away. However, when he opened it during the day, he was shocked to find that there were vegetables inside.
After everyone fell asleep, Wang Shiyu and the old man discussed what to leave for Zhang Tao. The two of them discussed for a while.
Five buckets of water, three bundles of steamed buns and a measuring cylinder of dry cakes were left for Zhang Tao, as well as three bundles of steamed corn bread and dry cakes, and two baskets of lush green vegetables. They didn't look like they were lacking water at all, as if they had just been picked from the ground. To be honest, these things might not be worth anyone's attention under normal circumstances, but now, they are something that makes many people jealous.
Even a lot of medicine was left behind. Wang Shiyu specially left some pills and asked the old man to mark them. He then sent them to Zhang Tao and asked him to keep close watch on them. This was also their retreat.
Zhang Tao quickly asked his sons and grandsons to cover the things tightly. At night, the old man took out half a basket of vegetables and gave it to the officers who escorted them.
Their lives are in the hands of these people, and they can only consider other things after they reach Qiong Island.
When the Wang family left, Zhang Tao gave them a small box containing 10,000 taels of silver and some gold and jade jewelry. It looked very gorgeous and valuable, and was kept by Wang Shiyu.
These days, the imperial court has been in constant turmoil, with people being constantly demoted and exile groups marching to various remote areas.
The current emperor refuses to admit that he has any moral flaws. When warned of disaster by God, he instead becomes tyrannical. If anyone says something bad, he will confiscate their property and exile them. Now, all the officials in the court are trying to protect themselves and don't want to get involved.
After all, this is a feudal dynasty and what the emperor says is the imperial edict. Even if the emperor is wrong, these people will not change their minds even if the emperor is dead. Why should they joke with their own lives?
This natural disaster lasted only about half a month, and ministers in the court died one after another. Now there are not many familiar faces standing in the court, and they are all the confidants who have just been promoted by the emperor.
The princes' men were replaced one after another. The emperor was getting older and older, and he began to suspect whether his sons were planning to usurp the throne.
The princes had to lie low and wait for an opportunity to strike hard in the future. During this turbulent time, the current Emperor began to select concubines to enter the palace on a large scale.
The daughters of these newly promoted court officials all began to look for each other. In order to avoid entering the palace to serve the old emperor, any family with some ability would not send their daughters to the palace to curry favor with the powerful.
The actions of these court officials made the emperor even more tyrannical. He felt that these court officials each had their own thoughts and were no longer loyal to him. Regardless of whether they were his confidants or not, he had begun to openly order these people to send his daughters into the palace.
Therefore, the means of punishing people became more and more severe, which also caused the current Zhou Dynasty to be in a precarious stage. Even though the prince has tried his best to control the situation, it is of no avail.
Instead, it made His Majesty even more suspicious that the Crown Prince was plotting to usurp the throne. The Emperor became more and more suspicious and had begun to support the Second Prince and compete with the Crown Prince.
Even many things that should have been done by the crown prince were given to the second prince, making the court officials think that His Majesty was thinking of changing the crown prince.
The prince's mentality became more and more relaxed, and he had begun to stop opposing the current emperor, because he felt that he was already half a prince of a fallen country. He had begun to slowly gather his property and transport his gold, silver and jewelry out of the Jinling Imperial City.
He hid it in a place where no one knew, and arranged for his confidants to do all the things, but after these confidants had done the things, their whereabouts were unknown.
The emperor seemed to have noticed his son's actions, but he had no evidence. All the people he had arranged among his son's confidants had been dealt with, and he could no longer find them.
In the past two days, the prince has actually started to agree with His Majesty. No matter what His Majesty says, he nods in acceptance and sings praises of his father.
The court officials knew that this was wrong, but they were unable to stop it. In the past, the crown prince was the vanguard, dealing with His Majesty, but now the crown prince has given up reasoning with His Majesty and talking about the people's livelihood. Without the crown prince charging in the front, the rest of the people naturally became turtles.
What could the subordinates do? They could only go with the flow, and the silver and grain they sent out for disaster relief were withheld and treated in a different way.
The truly loyal and brave ones were either killed or disabled, or even exiled. The rest were all cunning and deceitful people who could talk but not flatter, and were not worthy of standing beside the emperor.
At this time, the prince wanted to arrange for his children to leave the Jinling Imperial City, but was stopped by His Majesty, who directly asked the Queen to summon the prince's legitimate children into the palace.
The prince sat in his own East Palace, looking at the deserted East Palace. The Crown Princess cried bitterly, wanting to live in front of her.
"Your Highness, you must save our children. They have been taken to the palace and are now in the hands of the Queen. I am truly worried. The Queen is the biological mother of the Second Prince."
The current crown prince was born to Empress Yuan, and after she fell ill and died, the emperor made the second prince's biological mother the empress. Over the years, the second prince has been at odds with the crown prince and did not want the crown prince to succeed to the throne.
Who made the Second Prince also have the status of a legitimate son? As long as one has the status of a legitimate son, who wouldn't want to fight for that position, second only to the emperor and above everyone else?
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