Chapter 56: Mountains and rain come and the wind fills the building【1】
These things that were originally only reported in the palace gradually spread, and were exaggerated among the people. Various versions emerged one after another.
As a result, the original "ordinary" favor was suddenly upgraded to the "highest level".
Together with the disagreement between the princess and the emperor, it finally became a nursery rhyme among the people - the regent, Mo Zhilan, is infatuated and gentle, throws away the country for a beauty, loves beauty, and sacrifices the world.
When this nursery rhyme was heard by Mo Nanhen, it was Mo Nanhen who accompanied Shen Zimo to enjoy the flowers in the Imperial Garden.
"His Majesty……"
Shen Zimo looked at him worriedly. He had never seen Mo Nanhen so frustrated.
"Uncle Emperor, you can really plot against me for her..." Shaking his head and smiling bitterly, Mo Nanhen was speechless.
That nursery rhyme and that favor were clearly spread intentionally by Mo Zhilan.
The purpose is to let everyone in the world know how much he loves Feng Xizi. For Feng Xizi, he would really give up everything... Such Mo Zhilan, such Feng Xizi, if he wants to force Feng Xizi again If Zi leaves, I'm afraid the people will scold him for being ruthless and unjust, and beat him up.
Mo Zhilan... finally had to fight him for Feng Xizi.
Shen Zimo also listened to the nursery rhyme. In fact, she must be extremely smart if she can sit firmly on the throne of the queen and even let the emperor only appoint her as the queen who suffers from "infertility syndrome". Mo Nanhen thought, Naturally, she also thought about it. She even thought about it more and more deeply than Mo Nanhen did.
"Your Majesty, since the Regent has already expressed his attitude, you should not embarrass Feng Xizi anymore. You know the character of the Regent. If you push him too hard, it might be counterproductive."
"Of course I know the emperor's uncle's temper..." Mo Nanhen clenched his fingers into fists and clenched them tightly, "But I still can't swallow this breath. She, Feng Xizi, is not worthy of the emperor's uncle, but she still refuses to let him go. I , we cannot allow a merchant woman to become Tianche’s future queen!”
Shen Zimo knew Mo Nanhen's temper, and as long as he recognized it, even nine oxen could not bring him back.
"Then what does Your Majesty want to do?"
"Since the emperor doesn't want me to break them up, I have my own way to make Feng Xizi retreat!" His clenched fist hit the stone table, and Mo Nanhen's eyes flashed with brilliance.
Feng Xizi didn't know that bad luck had quietly come, and she didn't have time to pay attention to what tricks Mo Nanhen was thinking.
Just the Feng family's affairs have already made her very anxious, because something happened in Tongzhou, the home of the Feng family's silk merchants.
Tongzhou is an important town in the south of the Yangtze River and one of the silk business production areas monopolized by the Feng family.
Sericulture farmers in Tongzhou draw silk for the Feng family to raise silkworms, and then turn the silk into silk and sell it. For decades, this has been the place where the Feng family has spent the most time in Jiangnan.
Feng Xizi thought that Feng Jue was in charge of Jiangnan, so Jiangnan's business would be fine, but who knew that something went wrong.
The initial loss of 170,000 taels of silver was just the beginning. As Qiu Yu conducted an in-depth investigation of the account books, a series of problems surfaced.
At the beginning of the year, the weather suddenly cooled down, and many silkworms of Tongzhou silkworm farmers died. However, the Feng family reissued a lot of silver coins in accordance with regulations, and the remaining silk was not as high quality as in previous years.
Feng Xizi made a prompt decision and classified all the original top-grade silk from Tongzhou as second-grade silk for sale. The special silk that was originally destined for the palace was produced in Gusu, another silk land of the Feng family.