Red Mansion Taoist

Chapter 292 Returning to Beijing
Li Qiang was waiting for the imperial edict in Yangzhou Mansion, but she never expected that the eunuch waiting for him would be a eunuch from the Jinling Supervisor of Rites.

"I have seen the supervisor!" The eunuch named Zhao Liu knelt down and kowtowed when he saw Li Qiang.

Li Qiang was not surprised. He was now Prince Yi Zhong, a real member of the royal family.

Not to mention the eunuch stationed outside the capital, even the eunuchs in the palace need to pay him a big courtesy.

"Pingsheng!" Eunuch Zhao Liu did not call him the prince, but the supervisor, which showed that the other party was a member of the Jiangnan Supervision. He waved and said.

Eunuch Zhao Liu stood up carefully and took out a small cylinder from his arms.

Li Qiang recognized that this was a cylinder specially designed for homing pigeons. Letters were placed inside and tied to the paws of homing pigeons.

He took the cylinder, which had a tin seal mark on it. His name was also engraved on the cylinder. The tin seal mark was intact and not damaged.

"This came from the palace. If there is this mark, the inspector must open it in person. Please check it before opening it!" Eunuch Zhao Liu explained from the side.

Li Qiang found that there was no problem with the tin seal and opened the cylinder.

He knew the strength of the guards. The two thousand guards were all cavalry, and there were many warriors among them.

He Kun was slightly startled. As one of the big salt merchants, he was able to learn a lot of secret information about the salt affairs.

He didn't know what kind of major events had happened in the capital, so the Supreme Emperor urgently summoned him back to the capital.

Not long after, Tong Changshi and Commander Jiang arrived.

When Eunuch Zhao Liu went down, Li Qiang picked up the paper again, and he recognized that it was Dai Quan's handwriting.

"Slave, thank you for your reward!" Eunuch Zhao Liu completed his duties as a supervisor in Jiangnan. At this time, he changed his title to a normal one and knelt down to thank him.

He knew very well that Li Qiang's real bodyguard had always been hidden by Li Qiang's side.

"One thousand guards are enough for ceremonial purposes!" Li Qiang said nonchalantly.

He Kun didn't know that what he did today would make the He family have the same status as the Zhen family in Jiangnan in the future.

Tong Changshi and Commander Jiang stepped back. Tong Changshi didn't have to worry now.

But if he really wanted to forward this information to Li Qiang, and other people knew about it, he would be collectively excluded from the circle by the salt merchants.

"I don't know!" Eunuch Zhao Liu bowed and replied.

"Thank you for your understanding, Your Majesty!" He Kun bowed and thanked.

"Something happened in the capital?" Li Qiang looked at Eunuch Zhao Liu and asked in a deep voice.

"He Kun listens to the order!" Although he hesitated, he knew very well that he had no choice.

"You are very familiar with Jiangnan Salt Affairs. From now on, you will monitor Jiangnan Salt Affairs in my name!" Li Qiang confessed in a deep voice.

"Commander Jiang, there are two thousand sergeants left in the escort army. You also stay in Yangzhou to cooperate with Tong Changshi. Anyone who dares to resist will be arrested first. Anyone who dares to resist with force will be killed without mercy!" Li Qiang ordered with murderous intent.

With two thousand guards here, they can definitely suppress those forces with small thoughts.

There are rules for rewards. Ever since the child chief Shi from Prince Yi Zhong's palace came over, someone has been responsible for Li Qiang's rules.

You must know that the fiefdom system requires food from local forces. Although there is an imperial edict to seal Yangzhou Prefecture as Li Qiang's fiefdom, it is not easy to completely control the city.

Monitoring Jiangnan salt affairs on behalf of Prince Yizhong is just a prince's spy, but monitoring Jiangnan salt affairs on behalf of an emperor is equivalent to an imperial envoy.

"You guys go down!" Li Qiang waved his hand, and then ordered outside: "Let He Kun come over!"

He himself used Jia Gong's speed to return to the capital first.

In addition, the armies of the nine southern provinces are all under Li Qiang's control. Without dispatching a large number of regular troops, the two thousand guard troops are the strongest combat strength.

Li Qiang, Prince Yi Zhong, is sitting here. Even if someone is dissatisfied with the system of the fiefdom, they dare not come out to oppose it.

"Please invite Tong Changshi and Commander Jiang to come over!" Li Qiang ordered outside.

"Your Majesty, everything is going well in Yangzhou Mansion now, but without you here, no one can suppress the local forces anymore!" Tong Changshi thought for a while and replied.

"Tong Changshi, I will return to Beijing today. Will there be any trouble in Yangzhou Mansion?" Li Qiang asked Tong Changshi.

Tong Changshi has experience as a local official, so he knows why his work has been going smoothly in recent times.

"Your Majesty, what are your orders?" He Kun entered the room and knelt down to salute. He asked after Li Qiang waved him to stand up.

He Kun arrived very quickly. He was even in a room not far away, handling affairs while waiting for Li Qiang to call him at any time.

Although there are not many of those unimaginably terrifying powerful men, with the cooperation of Li Qiang, they can defeat ten thousand with one.

He had known before that the Supreme Emperor had ordered him to go to Yangzhou in order not to affect the competition between the three princes.

If it weren't for the sake of honor, he would have left all three thousand guards behind.

After Li Qiang arranged the affairs in Yangzhou, he ordered a thousand escort troops and 500 artillery troops to take ships back to Beijing along the canal.

"You don't have to be embarrassed. The seven major salt merchants own 20% of my shares. You will act as my substitute to check the accounts of the seven major salt merchants to see if they have misappropriated the interests that belong to me. Monitor Jiangnan Salt You don’t have to expose your affairs!" Li Qiang said with a smile.

"Thank you for your hard work!" Li Qiang said, and he greeted outside: "Watch the reward!"

He sat on Jia Gong's divine war horse and headed towards the capital as the sky was just darkening.

A piece of bright yellow paper was pulled out from the cylinder. There were only three words on the paper, "Return to Beijing quickly." There was also a private seal printed on the paper, which was the personal seal of the Supreme Emperor.

Li Qiang took a serious look at Eunuch Zhao Liu. Whether Eunuch Zhao Liu really didn't know or not, he couldn't confirm it.

"Your Majesty, you don't have many guards around you!" Commander Jiang was not worried about Li Qiang's safety. He was thinking that the remaining one thousand guards would be less of a show for the prince.

Less than half an hour later, he had arrived in the capital.

The gates of the capital were closed at night, but this did not stop the divine war horses.

Li Qiang returned to the mansion. He did not enter the mansion, but just made a gesture beside the mansion.

Soon a powerful archer walked out of the house. It was this powerful archer who was on duty here.

The eyesight of the powerful archer is extremely powerful, and Li Qiang deliberately exposed it, so he was naturally seen by the powerful archer.

"I've met the prince!" the mighty archer knelt down on one knee and saluted.

"Excuse me, nothing happened in the house?" Li Qiang waved her hand and asked.

"Go back to your lord, everything is normal in the mansion!" the mighty Archer replied.

"What big thing happened in Beijing?" Li Qiang asked again.

"The third prince, the fifth prince, and the seventh prince have been arrested and are currently being interrogated by the three divisions!" replied the mighty Archer.

Ever since Xingbu, Dali Temple and the Metropolitan Procuratorate took over the case of the three princes, the story of the three princes' rebellion spread throughout the capital.

At the same time, the Beijing Camp cooperated with the Third Division to continuously arrest people, which made people in the capital panic, especially those forces that had some relationship with the three princes. "Go down!" Li Qiang waved her hand and said.

The mighty Archer returned to his post without asking any questions.

Since everything was fine in the house, he didn't worry and summoned Jia Gong out of the capital again.

After waiting outside the capital for another two days, he entered the city with his single rider on the morning of the third day.

The speed of the divine war horse was deliberately suppressed by him, and its performance was comparable to that of ordinary high-quality war horses. However, in the eyes of others, this horse speed was considered to be full speed.

Fortunately, it was early morning and there were not many people on the streets.

He did not return home, but came directly to the entrance of the palace.

"Your Majesty is back, the Supreme Emperor is waiting for you!" Just as he got off his horse, a eunuch trotted forward and said.

Li Qiang recognized this eunuch as the eunuch of Daming Palace.

He strode towards the Daming Palace. The eunuch behind him couldn't keep up with his pace, so he could only trot all the way to follow.

"Your Majesty, my master's condition has worsened. Please take a look quickly!" Dai Quan heard the announcement, came to the door, grabbed Li Qiang's arm and said anxiously.

"Grandpa Huang's condition shouldn't be getting worse!" Li Qiang asked doubtfully.

He knew that the 'Healing Technique [Advanced]' he cast would release a bit of healing energy every once in a while, and if he was really seriously ill, the healing energy would automatically heal him.

And the energy of the 'Healing Technique [Advanced]' can be sustained for at least dozens of days. How could it possibly worsen the condition of the Supreme Emperor!
"The seventh prince was poisoned by a chronic poison. Although the master is not poisoned, his condition has worsened!" Dai Quan shook his head bitterly.

He knew that the Emperor was not poisoned and must have something to do with Li Qiang.

It is impossible for the Seventh Prince to lie. Besides, Eunuch Guiting of Shangshan Supervisor, several young eunuchs who dealt with it, and the person who made poison in the Seventh Prince's house, all the people involved in the case were arrested. We all have oral confessions, and none of these can be false.

Walking into the door, Li Qiang saw the Emperor. There were two doctors beside him who were treating the Emperor.

"Okay, please leave the two imperial doctors!" Dai Quan ordered directly.

"Xiang Dai, the Emperor's condition still needs treatment. It will be very troublesome if it takes too long!" An imperial doctor replied with some displeasure.

The two imperial doctors were studying how to treat the Emperor. The Emperor only thought of inviting them over after his illness worsened.

They were having headaches at the moment, and Dai Quan's words made them all wonder if Dai Quan wanted to harm the Supreme Emperor.

Li Qiang ignored the two imperial doctors. He saw that the Emperor's body was extremely weak, and the healing energy he had left in his body had been exhausted.

He tapped his fingers on the Supreme Emperor's body a few times, as if he was treating the Supreme Emperor.

"Your Majesty, you must not..." The doctor had just finished speaking when he saw that the Emperor had opened his eyes.

The Supreme Emperor was a little groggy, but suddenly he felt a warmth flowing through his body. His brain suddenly became clear and his body regained strength.

A moment ago, he seemed to have no strength to even raise his eyelids, but now he just felt like he was waking up from a big dream.

"You are back!" The Supreme Emperor saw Li Qiang. He knew the reason for his recovery and said with a smile.

"Grandpa Huang, I have made you suffer!" Li Qiang bowed and said.

"It's only been three days since the news spread that you're back. Thank you for your hard work!" The Supreme Emperor shook his head and said.

When Li Qiang came back, it only took Li Qiang two days to travel from Yangzhou Mansion to the capital.

In other words, Li Qiang was able to do this without stopping and riding a BMW.

Li Qiang didn't say much. He wouldn't say that he waited outside the capital for two days before coming.

"Let the imperial doctors go down!" The emperor noticed that the two imperial doctors were still standing aside, and he waved his hand and said.

The two imperial doctors were stunned at this moment. The medical skills they had learned all their lives seemed to have become a joke at this moment.

With a few taps of her fingers, Li Qiang restored the dilemma of the two imperial doctors in an instant.

"Your Majesty, can you let me take your pulse?" the imperial doctor asked unwillingly.

The Emperor smiled and stretched out his hand to signal the doctor to take action.

The doctor who spoke quickly stepped forward and put his hand on the Emperor's wrist, and then his eyes widened.

The other imperial physician hesitated for a moment, then took over from the previous imperial physician and took the Emperor's pulse.

"How is this possible!" the two doctors said in disbelief.

"This matter cannot be mentioned to the outside world!" The Supreme Emperor just confessed without explaining anything.

The two imperial doctors lowered their heads and left the Daming Palace in confusion.

The Supreme Emperor stood up, walked a few steps back and forth in the Daming Palace, stretched his arms, and shook his waist.

The weakness these days made him depressed.

"It's good to be alive!" he said with a smile.

Dai Quan was also laughing beside him. Seeing that the Supreme Emperor recovered made his recent worries disappear.

"Li Qiang, you will move into the palace from now on. The East Palace is already vacant, so you can move into the East Palace!" After a while, the Supreme Emperor came to Li Qiang, patted Li Qiang on the shoulder and said.

Li Qiang was stunned. He didn't understand what the Supreme Emperor meant.

It took him a moment to react.

What does it mean to move into the palace or move into the East Palace? Doesn't this mean making him the emperor?

"Grandpa Huang!" He wanted to ask more, but saw the Supreme Emperor wave his hand.

"The edict is in the cabinet. From now on, you will be the crown prince of Da Gan. The prince will do it first. I still have some time to live. I will guide you how to manage Da Gan first. After you can take over, you can then ascend the throne as emperor!" The Supreme Emperor smiled. He told me his arrangement.

He suddenly arranged for Li Qiang to be the emperor, and the court still didn't know what the reaction would be, so it was necessary to let him become the prince first, which would provide a buffer.

When it comes to the future of Daqian, the Supreme Emperor has to be more cautious.

"Why don't you go to the cabinet? Don't let the two central ministers come to me again!" Seeing that Li Qiang was still there, the Supreme Emperor pointed at the door and said.

Seeing this, Li Qiang could only bow and exited the Daming Palace.

"Dai Quan, serve me wine and food, as well as songs and dances!" Seeing Li Qiang leaving, the Supreme Emperor immediately ordered Dai Quan.

Li Qiang's return and recovery from her illness made the Emperor finally let go of everything. He wanted to drink, watch singing and dancing, and enjoy himself.

Dai Quan also smiled and went to make arrangements. After a while, the food and wine were on the table, the singers and dancers also started performing, and the Daming Palace returned to its previous state.

(End of this chapter)