The Rebirth of an Ill-Fated Consort

Chapter 110 Breaking the Game (3)

　After a while, he said to the guard beside him, "Check that woman."

"Not from the general's mansion?" Jin Yi was taken aback: "Could it be... who would do good deeds and leave others' names?" Moreover, food is scarce in the city now, a bowl of porridge a day was nothing in the past, but now it is not an ordinary handwriting.

Xiao Shao didn't say a word, but Jiang Ruan's indifferent smile appeared in front of her eyes. As early as more than a month ago, she bought all the grains in Beijing, just for this day?He had an intuition that Jiang Ruan had something to do with it, but it had only rained for a few days more than a month ago, how did she know there would be a flood?
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General's House
Sitting in the study room, Zhao Guang was in his sixtieth year, but still looked hale and hearty.

His three sons all stood in front of Zhao Guang, all with very serious expressions.

"The Duke of the county gave me a rumor yesterday," Zhao Guang said, "His Highness Eight is ready to deal with the Zhao family."

The third young master of the Zhao family, Zhao Yuanfeng, had a fiery temper, and said: "Father, we are still afraid that he will fail. If you are upright, you are not afraid of the shadow being crooked. If there is anything, just let the horse come over. The Zhao family cannot be shaken by a single prince."

"Shut up." Zhao Guang said angrily, "Your Majesty said that, because the matter is tricky. Get out of here, don't make trouble for me!"

"Third brother," said Zhao Yuanping, the second young master of Zhao, who was fair and handsome, with the appearance of a Confucian general, "You don't know who Ye Li is. He was not on his side a few years ago in the court, so he fell more or less in his hands." On? He doesn't know how to use ordinary methods of aboveboard."

Young Master Zhao, Zhao Yuanjia sighed: "Second brother is right, but why would the eighth prince suddenly want to deal with the Zhao family, the fifth prince has not fallen yet, and we are supporting His Royal Highness, how could he act rashly?"

"I'm afraid I'm ready to go to war." Zhao Guang said with deep eyes, "Your Majesty has protected the crown prince for so many years. With the Eighth Prince's intelligence, I'm afraid he has already seen it. He wants to drag the Zhao family into trouble."

"Then what shall we do?" Zhao Yuanfeng approached unwillingly: "Let him do the tricks?"

"Your majesty would rather die than reveal anything," Zhao Guang sighed, "I'm afraid it's not trivial." He changed the subject: "Nowadays, there are more and more refugees in Beijing, and the flood will not stop for a while, so His Majesty has sent the Eighth Prince I always feel that it is not that simple to manage the reservoir with the Li family."

Zhao Guang had won countless battles when he was young, and he had a natural intuition for danger, which was produced by soldiers fighting on the battlefield.

Zhao Yuanjia pondered and said: "Yi'er also said the same in the past few days, the city's garrison has more than doubled, and the capital is afraid that the sky will change."

Just as he was talking, suddenly a young servant hurried in from outside and said, "Master, something has happened!"

Zhao Guang frowned: "What's the matter?"

The young servant was also eloquent, and he articulated what he said in a few sentences: "Someone is serving porridge in the city, one bowl a day, but it is under the banner of our General's Mansion."

"What?" Zhao Guang stood up from his seat with a "squeak": "Is this really true?"

Zhao Yuanfeng said: "Isn't it? Dad, this is the Eighth Prince's idea? Is he out of his mind?"

Zhao Guang frowned and said, "Do you know that person?"

The boy shook his head: "The people in the mansion went to see it, but they didn't know each other. But they didn't do anything else, they just gave porridge."

"Father, how about I go and have a look?" Zhao Yuanjia asked softly.

"No," Zhao Guang waved his hand: "This matter is strange, wait a few days and see."

What is certain is that the person who gave the porridge is definitely not their General's Mansion. What exactly is the other party trying to do under the banner of the General's Mansion?Is it Ye Li's people or someone else?If it's Ye Li, do you have someone behind?If it is something else, what is the origin and what do you want to be able to afford so much food right now?
In any case, this matter cannot be taken lightly.

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The news of General Zhao's distribution of grain and porridge spread throughout the capital at the speed of the wind that day.All of a sudden, the streets and alleys were talking about this matter, and the Eighth Prince's residence naturally also received the news.

Ye Li smashed the porcelain cup in his hand with a "snap", although he still had a gentle smile on his face, when he looked closely, he could see that the muscles at the corners of his mouth were convulsing slightly, obviously very angry.

"What a Zhao Guang!" He said coldly.

The aide said: "Your Highness, why did the news leak out? Could it be that there are traitors in the mansion?"

Ye Li sneered: "Is there any other reason. Zhao Guang kept this hand, it really opened my eyes!" He originally wanted to use this opportunity to make an offer to ask Zhao Guang to take out the family's food for disaster relief, and then let him The people on the side followed along, and the treasury was short at the moment, and the emperor was impatient, so he would naturally agree.The Zhao family has weakened their financial resources, so it will be easier to deal with them in the future.And he proposed this method, which can also win the favor of the emperor, and the voice of the ruling and opposition parties will also increase a lot.

Now Zhao Guang offered to give porridge to him. Although the Zhao family's financial resources will still be weakened as he planned, the meaning to him is very different!Zhao Guang's active and interesting way of giving porridge not only won the emperor's appreciation, but also established greater prestige among the people. On the surface, his power seemed to be weakened, but in fact it was not weakened at all, but strengthened a lot.And this matter does not have the opportunity for him to intervene, it is just busy, it is a pity that this is a great opportunity!
"Why did Zhao Guang think of taking the initiative to help the disaster?" The staff said: "He has always had a bad temper. The family wealth accumulated by the Zhao family for several generations has been ruined like this. How can he be so cruel?" It takes a lot of courage to donate.

"He is very courageous." Ye Li said: "But it is even more difficult to stay." Even after thinking of such a method of retreating as an advance, the courtiers of the Zhao family for several generations are really not easy to overthrow.It never occurred to him that other people gave porridge under the banner of Zhao Guang. After all, food is more expensive than silver now, and no one would give up such a large sum of money to make wedding clothes for others.

"Your Highness, the traitor in the mansion..." the staff member asked hesitantly.

"Being able to spread news to the Zhao family under my nose, naturally it won't be so easy to be caught out. Kill them all and replace them with another batch," he said.

"Your Highness," the staff turned pale with shock, "these are all carefully selected people." It takes a lot of time and money to cultivate each one, so it is really not worthwhile to kill them all.

Ye Li was unmoved, with a cruel smile on his face: "I'd rather kill a thousand by mistake than let one go. Kill."

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The fact that Zhao Guang, the great general of the Fuguo, spent his own money to save the people, spread to the court at a very fast speed, and the emperor was naturally very satisfied.When Zhao Guang did this, the emperor had another reason to ask other officials, so officials from top to bottom in the court all contributed a sum of money to fill the emptiness of the national treasury.Zhao Guang received a verbal reward, and became a good name among the people, so he didn't suffer a lot.

(End of this chapter)