Hearing Nangong Shouzhong's words, which were like announcing the funeral arrangements, his wife immediately panicked and said hurriedly: "Master, if the capital is so dangerous, don't go there."
"Do you think I want to go?" Nangong Shouzhong said, and he sighed again: "I can't help myself with many things. This trip, not only the prince asked me to go, but also the prince, in order to find out more about the prince
My true intention is forcing me to go, where can I hide?"
"Don't waste time now, hurry up and pack some clothes for me, hurry up."
Seeing his wife leaving, Nangong Shouzhong turned around and squatted under the bed cabinet and took out a simple black box from it.
After carefully wiping the dust on the box, Nangong Shouzhong stuffed the box into the closest place in his arms and hid it.
After doing this, he turned around and left the house.
After a while, Nangong Shouzhong came to Jinyiwei with two servants carrying some luggage and said: "It's ready, we can set off."
Jin Yiwei stood up, looked Nangong Shouzhong up and down, and then waved, "Let's go back to Beijing."
Just when Nangong Shouzhong was about to leave with his servants, his wife suddenly shouted: "Master, you must come back safely!"
Nangong Shouzhong said with a carefree smile: "His Royal Highness the Prince invited me to a banquet, and he did not ask me to behead him. I will naturally come back safely."
Nangong Shouzhong set out from Jinling. At the same time, many people in the Gyeonggi and Jiangnan areas, like Nangong Shouzhong, under the guard of Jin Yiwei, rushed towards the capital together, traveling day and night.
In the East Palace of the capital, in the newly renovated Xi Zheng Palace, Li Chen was still busy.
Recently, government affairs have become more and more arduous. The three provinces were first established. Although the power of the cabinet was successfully divided, it also greatly increased Li Chen's workload. Most of the government affairs in the three provinces are still unable to operate independently and can only be handled by Li Chen himself.
If you want to make the three provinces fully operational, this is not something that can be accomplished overnight.
Then there are the large number of East Palace officials who have just been dealt with, and every position needs to be filled.
How to determine the candidates, who should be promoted and who should be dismissed are all extremely energy-consuming things.
In addition, the vacancies in Beijing were filled by local officials, and this matter did not go smoothly.
Many officials are used to being chicken heads and don't want to be the phoenix tail.
After Li Chen severely dealt with several local officials, although the situation became better, most of them still followed the rules and found various excuses to avoid taking up their posts in the capital.
Unfortunately, this is not just one or two officials, but the vast majority of officials do this.
Even if Li Chen wanted to deal with it, he couldn't allocate all these people.
In that case, there really will be no one who can step up to fill this vacancy.
People, in the end, it’s all about people.
At this time, Wan Jiaojiao came over to report that the maid in charge of the Yi Palace was here.
"Let her in."
After a while, a palace maid came in from outside the store.
He knelt down in front of Li Chen respectfully and said, "This servant has come to the Yi Palace to take charge of the palace maids. Please see His Highness the Crown Prince."
"What's going on?" Li Chen asked.
"My servant was ordered by the Crown Princess to come to ask His Highness the Crown Prince for a list of merchants and landowners who will attend the banquet in the future, as well as their detailed information. The Crown Princess said that the more details the better. Only by knowing yourself and the enemy can you win every battle."
