In other words, although the Suzaku Kingdom says that its own land is not good enough to grow enough food to feed the people of the whole country, because of its power, it has never been short of food.
Just using a small amount of tax revenue to "buy" grain from neighboring small countries every year is enough to support the people's food and clothing.
Qi Bao'er and the others didn't know this before. Firstly, they were too far away from each other. Secondly, neither Suzaku nor the small countries that 'sold' grain could take the initiative to tell the outside world about this. On the contrary
It will only be hidden as a secret.
This was when Qi Baoer and Xuanqing Patriarch went to the palace to go shopping for zero yuan and went to the treasury. It happened that the Minister of the Ministry of Revenue personally went to the treasury to transport grain. He accidentally revealed the matter while chatting with his subordinates.
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Of course, the treasury of the Suzaku Kingdom has not been touched. It is the foundation of the country. The two countries are not really fighting at the moment, and it is unlikely that they will. She is not mad enough to come to Suzaku and she will give the Suzaku Kingdom to
The idea of death.
What she touched was the private treasury of Emperor Suzaku and the private treasury of her imperial concubines, and she also took some food from the imperial kitchen to take away, not much, just the dozen or so dishes on the table in front of her.
Prince Renyin: "..."
He sat over with an indignant look on his face, stuffed a large piece of food into his mouth with chopsticks, and stared at Qi Bao'er with wide-eyed eyes.
Looking at the vigorous way he chewed the braised bamboo shoots, it looked like he was chewing Qibaoer himself.
Qi Bao'er felt a little embarrassed for having bullied the child. She was afraid that he would choke, so she put a bowl of soup in front of him, "Actually, this is not unusual at all, it's just a bit jarring."
Duke Chengen is indeed not a thing, he only thinks about how to climb up, how to consolidate power and how to seize power; or to be more precise, the whole lineage of Duke Chengen thinks this way, including their ancestors.
Starting from the great-grandfathers of Cheng En Gong, when the highest position in their royal family was only the fifth-rank official, they began to think of ways to send people to the palace, hoping that the next generation of emperors would be the descendants of their family, and then the family status would follow.
A rising tide lifts all boats.
In the generation of Grandpa Cheng'en, they almost succeeded in this expectation. At that time, Grandpa Cheng'en's biological sister (the emperor was the male emperor at that time) was very favored by the emperor after entering the palace. She gave birth to three sons and two sons for the emperor in her life.
The daughter, the eldest son is even the eldest son of the emperor.
It's just a pity that the family background behind the queen at that time was too impressive, similar to the status of Duke Cheng'en now. At that time, Duke Cheng'en was only a fourth-rank magistrate of the state, and he was still an official who was not in the capital, so he could not become very big.
assist;
Therefore, no matter how favored his sister was by the emperor, no matter how thoughtful the emperor was, the final throne would still be inherited by the queen's daughter.
This is the closest the Wang family has come to the throne.
It's okay if I don't get close, but if I get close but I don't get it, I guess I won't be able to balance my mind.
After Duke Cheng'en sent his eldest son to the palace, who became the queen, and the emperor gave birth to the tenth prince for his eldest son, the ambition left in their bones by the ancestors of the Wang family grew wildly again.
This time, aren't they standing in the position of the original queen?!
If you don't give this a try, what kind of person would you be?
However, neither Chengen Gong nor the queen in the palace expected that the most important figure here was not on the same page as theirs, and that was the tenth prince.
Ancestor Xuanqing lamented: "The tenth prince is considered a good bamboo shoot. His parents are not just playing tricks, but he is dedicated to serving the people."
The tenth prince should be regarded as the only one among all the royal family members of the Suzaku Kingdom who still has good intentions in his heart and cares about the people of the world. He has a layer of golden light of merit protecting him, and he has obviously done a lot of good deeds.
But even such a tenth prince, who has the people and the world at heart, has now become so frustrated that he has imprisoned himself.
Neither Qi Bao'er nor Patriarch Xuanqing were good at telling stories, but fortunately, Crown Prince Renyin didn't expect them to really answer his questions.
After dinner, Gongsun, who was good at telling stories, came back and explained everything to Prince Renyin.
The tenth prince was the favorite of the Suzaku Emperor. He often took him with him to teach him when he was young. When he grew older, he even took him to court. It always seemed to people that this man was already her chosen heir.
The tenth prince himself also had this misunderstanding, so he has constrained himself by the 'Prince's' requirements since he was a child. He always puts the people first in everything he does, and he has always taken the lead when encountering problems.
Until four years ago, the tenth prince accidentally discovered the secret of the Suzaku Emperor.
When he was delivering medicine to Emperor Suzaku, he heard that Emperor Suzaku was having a secret conversation with the Imperial Master. The two of them probably didn't expect that someone would come to Longshen at this time, so they spoke without any scruples, so they said that they "did" many things that outsiders should not do.
Things you know.
Including but not limited to the army of one person alive and dead; including but not limited to the affair between the Suzaku Emperor and the Imperial Preceptor; including but not limited to the tenth prince who is just a chess piece used by the Suzaku Emperor to show off, and is her true favorite.
, is actually the Nineteenth Princess who is only six years old now; including but not limited to the Nineteenth Princess who is obviously the daughter of the Eleventh Prince, but is actually the daughter of the Suzaku Emperor and the Imperial Master.
After learning the truth, the tenth prince was immediately confused and was so shocked that he almost couldn't survive.
So, when Duke Chengen and the Queen set up a plot to kill the Imperial Concubine and the Imperial Concubine's daughter, the girl followed the plan and lay down with the Suzaku Emperor's favorite concubine wearing only her underwear.
While chewing dried sweet potatoes, Gongsun said: "Emperor Zhuque must have known about this matter. He has saved Chengen Gong's family. Originally, Emperor Zhuque was so angry that he said that all the men in the Wang family would be killed with a stick and the women would be exiled. Now,
It was changed to the sentence of men being punished with a cane for forty years and then exiled.”
At least in the capital, no one was killed.
As for what will happen after the exile, who can really say for sure?
"The queen has not been deposed. It seems that Emperor Suzaku still wants to use the tenth prince again."
This girl has great popularity among the people. Unlike the obedience suppressed by King Feng's power, the tenth prince really does what the people want and has done many things that are beneficial to the people.
For example, there was a snowstorm in the three northern states of Zhuque. The northern climate of Zhuque is a bit like the southern climate of Qilin, which is hotter. Even in winter, the lowest temperature may not drop to ten degrees, so no people have taken any measures to prevent cold at home.
As soon as the snow disaster came, the climate dropped to minus 10 to 20 degrees Celsius in just a few days, and nearly one-third of the people in the three northern states froze to death in less than half a month.
After the matter was reported to the court, Emperor Suzaku was away from the capital for business at that time. The court was temporarily managed by the tenth prince, who immediately went to the Northern Sanzhou in person with cold-resistant supplies.
And this is just one of the small things shown by the tenth prince's love for the people.
The common people have eyes to see, and they know better than anyone in their own hearts who is really doing good for them and who is just trying to gain a reputation.
Therefore, few people in the world would believe it if the tenth prince was said to be dirty and disorderly in the harem.
Prince Renyin didn't know what to say for a moment. He really didn't understand why he was stabbed one by one by the person he saved in the first place.
This question...
Gongsun chewed dried sweet potatoes and walked away silently.