Big businessman and little fisherman

Chapter 406

In the spring of the 11th year of the Great Shang Dynasty, on February [-]th, Lu Hebei died suddenly, accompanied by the queen and his younger sister.

He was still so young, and the oldest of the two young children he left behind was no more than knee height.

The great merchant's country and several women in the palace were all left behind by him and left to Lu Yange to protect.

Gongsun Wanying couldn't accept this reality and fainted at first.

Lu Yange wiped away his tears, and with the help of Eunuch Cheng, he changed his second brother's clothes, then called for Chen Xiaohu, and sent the corpse out of the capital overnight.

The funeral was kept secret in the palace, and Chen Xiaohu personally drove to escort Lu Hebei's body to Dongyang County.

The second day coincided with the Great Court Meeting.

Eunuch Cheng persuaded Lu Yange to take a break from singing. After staying up all night, his eyes were black and blue, so let's forget about the meeting.

Lu Yange shook her head, her second elder brother was so seriously ill, and still did not forget about state affairs and government affairs, if she was a little lax, she would be sorry for her second elder brother's trust.

In the court, civil servants and military commanders each hold their own opinions, one wants to increase military expenditures and raise stronger soldiers and horses.One is to reduce resources and diversify resources, and use more money and food for disaster relief.

Lu Yangge stared blankly at the people below who were arguing with red faces, but Shen Si had already followed Lu Hebei away, going down the river to Dongyang County.

Her second brother should have arrived in Dongyang County.

Last night, it was Xiaohu who came in and took the second brother's body out in a carriage.

The emperor died of illness, and the queen couldn't bear the blow, and suddenly fell ill.Chen Luming was still young, the queen was sick and had to be handed over to the queen mother to take care of her.Even Chen Luxing and Lu Yange who stayed in Renshou Palace didn't let anyone take them back to Taiji Palace.

Having two children here can somewhat reassure the Empress Dowager.

And the second brother just died, Lu Yange always felt that the heroic soul of the second brother was still there, and she didn't want to put the child in the palace.

Lu Yange thought that after the death of his second brother, she should be the strongest, but he didn't expect that it was the queen mother who gritted her teeth and held on.

In the morning, the maid in Renshou Palace brought the little prince with her arms, saying that the queen mother ordered the little prince to go to court with the emperor.Eunuch Cheng was worried, so after asking a few more questions, he realized that the queen mother had gray hair overnight and looked more than ten years old.

Hearing this, Lu Yange felt great pain in his heart.

Her brother died, and she had to bear the pain and go to the morning court.

The aunt's three sons died, and she poured all her love and hope into her second brother. Unexpectedly, this time, the aunt would send a white-haired man to a black-haired man again.

For so many years, it turns out that my aunt has been carrying it hard.

The death of the second brother was no less painful to the aunt than seeing her son die in her arms.

Yesterday, in order to prevent chaos in the palace, even though the queen mother knew that the second brother had gone, she could only hold back her grief and did not come to see him off for the last time.

This is probably due to the unbearable grief of my aunt, which made her gray hair overnight.

If possible, Lu Yange really wanted to go to Renshou Palace, hug the Queen Mother and cry aloud.

But she can't, now she is not the princess of Dashang, she is the emperor of Dashang.

Her words, deeds, and actions are watched by tens of millions of people, and she can't make a wrong step.

Even if she just lost her close relative yesterday, today she still has to sit in this golden palace and listen to a group of ministers arguing and making noise.

Increase military pay.

Ah!
Lu Yange sneered, the border is stable, and the military pay is never deducted everywhere. These people want to increase the military pay, but they want to add bricks and tiles to their own power.

When their power grows, she, the emperor, may have nothing to do with them.

The dynasty of the Great Merchant was snatched by Chen Quan, so how many people below were eyeing it, and wanted to snatch a shot from the Chen family.

It's just a pity that now this big merchant has fallen into the hands of their Lu family, even if they try their best, Lu Yange will not let this big merchant become a drag on Chen Luxing in the end.

As for what the civil officials said about increasing income and reducing expenditure, giving out more money and food to help the people, the starting point is indeed good.

It's just that the person who made this statement was not in the right mind, and it was called disaster relief. He was afraid that when the money and food fell into his hands, it would be the common people who would suffer.

Even if he could distribute all the money and food to the people who were hit by the disaster without being greedy or withholding, who would know that the money and food were allocated by the emperor.

When the time comes, let him win the hearts of the people, maybe a few years later, this person will have the idea of ​​treason.

Or because he earned his reputation with his own money.

"His Majesty."

Gongsun Xiangye took a step forward, bowed his hands and saluted, "I hope His Majesty will make a decision."

Everyone clasped their fists and said in unison: "I hope His Majesty will make a decision."

"Bang" sounded.

Lu Yange on the dragon chair seemed to have just been awakened, and raised his hand to swing the small silver pot that Chen Luxing put aside to the ground.

This small silver pot was given to Lu Yangge by Zhou Yang. Later, in order to make Chen Luxing, who accompanied her to court, unable to bear the hunger, she asked the people in the imperial dining room to fill the small silver pot with goat milk and rice soup every day.

Fragrant goat's milk, sticky rice soup, the little prince can sit on the dragon chair and drink while listening, without being noticed.

This time, Chen Luxing just finished drinking the goat milk and white fungus soup in it, and put the small silver pot on the chair, but was swept to the ground by his father.

Chen Luxing said in a low voice, "Little silver pot."

Eunuch Cheng on the side quickly squatted down and raised his middle finger, and gave a soft "shh".

Chen Luxing also realized that he shouldn't make a sound at this moment, so he quickly raised his hand to cover his mouth, his big eyes rolled around.

He wondered why his father was angry.

The small silver jug ​​rolled down the white jade steps until it came to a stop in front of Gongsun Xiangye.

The originally noisy hall fell silent in an instant. Everyone's eyes first fell on the silver pot on the ground, and then secretly looked at the emperor on the dragon chair.

Everyone speculated in their hearts, is the emperor annoyed?

Who is the emperor angry with?Are you unwilling to increase military pay?Still unwilling to help the people?

Lu Yangge sat calmly on the dragon chair, with her head raised slightly, scanning the crowd below.

After a long time, before everyone dared to take a breath, Lu Yange stood up suddenly, turned around and left without saying a word.

Eunuch Cheng hastily shouted: "Retire."

He bent down and picked up the little prince, then chased him out.

The remaining ministers looked at each other in blank dismay, but couldn't figure out why the emperor was angry.

When everyone was discussing and leaving the hall one by one, Zhou Yang slowly stepped forward, picked up the silver pot on the ground, took out a handkerchief and wiped it lovingly.

Seeing the small table sticking out, he hurriedly handed over the silver pot in his hand: "Mr. Zhuo is looking for this silver pot?"

"Exactly, thank you General Zhou."

The small table took the silver pot carefully and held it, then turned around and prepared to go to the apse.

Zhou Yang hurriedly raised his voice and asked: "But His Majesty sent eunuch to look for this silver pot."

The small table paused, then turned his head and said: "No, it's the little prince. Every day when he goes to court, there is some hot water in this silver jug. The little prince likes to drink, so don't throw this silver jug ​​away."

hot water?

Zhou Yang smiled, obviously what he smelled was goat milk and white fungus soup.

However, it was not His Majesty who asked Mr. Zhuo to look for him, which somewhat disappointed Zhou Yang.

It turns out that the princess gave this silver pot to the little prince!
I thought she liked it very much!

(End of this chapter)