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Chapter 186 In my opinion, Your Majesty had better make a decision as soon as possible! (Please subscribe and vote)
In the inner courtyard of the imperial palace, Li Sining hadn't seen Li Chen for a long time and missed him so much.

I think about it while eating, while practicing, and even while sleeping.

Even her good sister Chu Ruoyan felt that Li Sining would not be able to survive without Li Chen.

Seeing that Li Si Ning was very depressed, even Xia Qing took a leave of absence to accompany her in refining the elixir to relieve her boredom.

But now that Li Chen is back, Li Si Ning is revived with full health on the spot, throws herself into Li Chen's arms, and frantically absorbs the "nutrients" to survive.

"Did you practice well during the time I was away?"

Hearing Li Chen say this, Li Sining felt a little guilty.

"Maybe."

"Yes, I brought you your cousin."

Li Chen was not very strict about Li Si Ning's practice, as long as she practiced it was fine.

It was at this time that Li Sining discovered that there was a stunning beauty beside Li Chen.

Her appearance is somewhat similar to Li Sining, but her figure is indeed very plump.

Because she hadn't seen Li Chen for a long time, Li Sining only had Li Chen in her eyes and didn't notice that there was someone next to her.

When Jiang Rong entered the palace for the first time, she was indeed very nervous. When she heard that there were relatives in the palace, she followed Li Chen over.

I took deep breaths along the way, afraid that I would do something wrong.

My mother told me that there are many rules in the palace and violating them will result in death!

When she came here, she saw a stunningly beautiful girl, who was said to be Aunt Yi's daughter and Li Chen's sister.

Judging from her appearance, Jiang Rong is much more mature, both in temperament and figure. She has been busy with the Jiang family's business in recent years.

On the other hand, Li Sining still has her childishness and is a pure, sweet and cute girl.

In fact, Li Sining is older than Jiang Rong, so Jiang Rong is her cousin.

Li Sining didn't expect that she had relatives besides her mother and Li Chen!
Jiang Rong's arrival made Li Sining feel overjoyed.

Li Si Ning soon came near Jiang Rong and was about to say hello when she suddenly looked at Li Chen and asked, "Brother, is this your concubine?"

Li Chen said confidently: "Of course."

Li Sining nodded with an "I knew it" look on her face, which made Jiang Rong feel a little embarrassed.

Since she is Li Chen's official concubine and also his cousin, Li Sining, as an elder sister, must take good care of her.

She has always been the one who has been taken care of. Her brothers, mother, and queen mother have all taken good care of her.

Finally, she had someone she could take care of, so she began to familiarize Jiang Rong with the harem.

Li Chen didn't care about her. He hadn't been back for a while, and there was a pile of memorials waiting for him to read in the imperial study.

These are probably the only things that can make Li Chen sigh.

After Li Chen left, Li Sining had already chatted with Jiang Rong for a while.

After learning that Jiang Rong was in charge of so many shops alone, Li Sining was very impressed. In her opinion, Jiang Rong was a strong career woman.

Jiang Rong quickly said that she was not a strong woman and it was difficult for her to just keep the family business.

When Li Si Ning heard that Jiang Rong was bullied in Shanghe City, she was extremely angry. In her opinion, the Jiang family was also her home. These people actually dared to rob the Jiang family's property. She wanted to go to the Queen Mother to complain.

The Queen Mother has been very nice to her recently, so she can still rely on her for such a small matter.

However, Jiang Rong said that Li Chen helped a lot. Now the Jiang family not only has recovered all its assets, but they are also thriving.

Hearing this, Li Si Ning breathed a sigh of relief. Perhaps in her opinion, those were her family's money and could be stolen by someone.

In fact, the people who should be most relieved should be those in Shanghe City Chamber of Commerce.

If Li Si Ning really reported this to the Queen Mother, they would be in big trouble given the Queen Mother's methods.

Li Chen is relatively merciful and is too lazy to care.

"By the way, we've been chatting for so long, but I still haven't introduced you."

Li Sining was chatting with Jiang Rong when she remembered that there were two people next to them.

As Chu Ruoyan is Li Chen's first woman and Li Sining's good sister, she is naturally introduced in detail.

To be honest, Jiang Rong was very scared when she saw Chu Ruoyan for the first time. She felt that Chu Ruoyan had the temperament of a main wife, even stronger than Wu Nanzhi.

In her opinion, Chu Ruoyan was the kind of aristocratic girl, a pampered young lady. As a country girl, she really had to know how to behave in front of her.

If you offend the queen, you will be beheaded!

In fact, she was right. Chu Ruoyan had been in the palace the longest. As the empress dowager's person, she was taught by the empress dowager herself, so she must have the aura of a queen.

But it had been not long since her transformation, and she was born into a family of cultivators. There were definitely family rules, but not as many as those of the children of aristocrats, and she was not a pampered young lady. In fact, she was similar to Jiang Rong.

Chu Ruoyan told her not to be nervous and acted very friendly.

As the main wife, she naturally has to maintain good relations with Li Chen's other women, so that Li Chen will have the energy to care about state affairs.

The next person Li Sining introduced was Li Chen’s prospective concubine, Xia Qing.

Xia Qing was too lazy to explain now, since everyone treated her as a concubine anyway.

But she is not. According to her, Jiang Rong's identity is much more positive than hers, so she told Jiang Rong not to be afraid. She should be afraid of Jiang Rong.

This statement made all the women nearby burst into laughter.

When she learned that Xia Qing was a genius in alchemy, Jiang Rong sighed, "My sisters are really versatile, but I can't do anything."

Not sure if it was because she saw Jiang Rong looking a little disappointed, or if she had already had this idea, Chu Ruoyan suggested to them that they should do business together.

In Chu Ruoyan's view, her family has connections, Li Sining is from the royal family and has prestige, Xia Qing is a powerful alchemist with the identity of a sect, and with Jiang Rong's business acumen, they can indeed start their own business.

This proposal immediately received the support of Jiang Rong. She was afraid that she would be unable to do anything in the harem, but she was still good at doing business.

Li Sining thought it sounded very interesting, which meant she could earn money to spend.

Xia Qing thought this was a good idea. She could try out the imperial capital's medicine market. If the effect was good, she could sell the medicine from the sect and earn more profits.

The four women started working together.

Chu Ruoyan didn't expect that the plan she casually mentioned would grow and develop in the future.

Because she seized the opportunity.

Li Chen is now going to take action against a behemoth. As long as this behemoth falls, many monopoly industries will be vacant.

Then countless families and forces will step up to fill the gap and reap the benefits.

As the saying goes, when a whale dies, all things come to life. That's it.

With the return of Li Chen, the harem gradually began to become lively.

Concubine Yi's palace has always been deserted, and few people go there except Li Sining and Li Chen.

There were very few palace maids in the palace, and few people talked to her, so she just stayed there, not fighting or competing.

But today was different. Three people came to her palace, two acquaintances she hadn't seen for a long time, and a young woman.

Jiang Ningyue is Concubine Yi's sister, she must know her. Xie Minjun is her sister-in-law, she has also met her. They used to be a family.

This is the young wife named Dong Zhiqing whom I have never seen. I heard that she is Jiang Ningyue’s daughter-in-law.

"Sister, sister-in-law, why didn't you tell me in advance that you were coming to the palace so that I could entertain you."

Concubine Yi doesn't have much power, but she still has this ability. She just needs to say a word to the imperial kitchen.

"How dare I trouble my sister? I will need her to take care of me in the future."

Jiang Ningyue took Concubine Yi's hand and said with a smile.

In fact, at this stage, Concubine Yi thought that Jiang Rong was going to enter the palace as a concubine, so they followed her. She didn't know that they also came to curry favor with Li Chen.

Jiang Ningyue's words made Concubine Yi think that her sister was asking her to take good care of Jiang Rong.

As for the other women, they were all arranged by Wu Nanzhi.

Chu Ruoyan took Wu Nanzhi through the selection of the bedroom and some other things to pay attention to. Wu Nanzhi naturally remembered them. Now it was her turn to lead the new concubines in the palace.

She took great care of Wang Yueyao and chose a very good palace for them, mainly for the convenience of Li Chen.

After finishing the work, Wu Nanzhi also breathed a sigh of relief.

In fact, being busy with these things has its benefits. After all, these women are new to the palace and are very dependent on her, so she can establish a good relationship with them.

Wu Nanzhi does not have the support of the empress dowager and can only rely on his own efforts in the harem.

However, as long as she can get Li Chen's favor, her position will be very stable.

After leaving the palace chosen by these women, Wu Nanzhi came to a rather strange place, because this place seemed to be guarded by powerful palace maids.

Wu Nanzhi curiously asked the palace maid, "Who is inside?"

The maid replied: "Your Majesty, the woman inside is from the north."

I originally wanted to build a good relationship with him, but when I heard that Li Chen hadn't favored him yet, I thought about it and gave up.

There was one thing that Wu Nanzhi found very strange, because when she saw the looks and figures of these two women, coupled with their mature charm, they should be the types that Li Chen liked very much.

Is there something special about them?

Unable to figure it out, Wu Nanzhi asked the imperial kitchen to prepare some things and took them to the imperial study. As soon as she came in, she saw Li Chen buried in a pile of memorials, which made her feel distressed.

She first took good care of Li Chen and massaged his shoulders.

"Your Majesty, you have been exhausted all the way here. Have some porridge first."

Wu Nanzhi's words were gentle and full of love.

Even though she usually likes to talk back to Li Chen, it's only because they have a good relationship.

After Li Chen agreed, she sat in Li Chen's arms and began to feed Li Chen.

When they were almost done eating, she asked Li Chen, "Your Majesty, is there anything bothering you? Can you tell me about it?"

Wu Nanzhi knew that she couldn’t help with many things, but she could be a listener, and she also hoped that Li Chen would not keep it to herself.

It's better to speak out some things than to keep them to yourself.

While enjoying the warmth, Li Chen said, "The battle in the north was a great victory, and the city of the Ice Bear Tribe was breached. This is indeed a good thing, but the strong men of the Northern Royal Court began to appear, creating all kinds of bad weather to block the Northern Army's advance, and the progress began to slow down."

According to the commander-in-chief of the three armies, Guo Poyun, the army of the Tiance Dynasty could not fight in a weather where it rained, snowed, and hailed.

The best way to solve this problem is to send a Saint Realm warrior to find the location where the opponent's strong man is setting up his formation, and then attack the Saint Realm warrior on the opposite side.

That is to say, some assistance is needed.

The individual combat capability of the Saint Realm is the strongest, and there is indeed no such person in Guo Poyun’s army.

This is not a big problem. Li Chen can ask several saints from the Jiuyuan Holy Land to take action.

In addition, there were incidents of sea beasts attacking merchant ships in the eastern waters of the Tiance Dynasty.

According to the memorial submitted by the admiral of the navy, it should be a sea creature, not a sea monster.

Sea people and sea beasts are different. Sea people are an alien, intelligent race, while sea beasts are just monsters in the sea.

Because many of the troops in the eastern part of the Tian Ce Dynasty were under the command of the third prince Li Yu, he led his troops south to attack the Prince of Zhennan.

The eastern front of the Tiance Dynasty is a bit weak, and additional manpower is needed to prepare for emergencies.

The admiral of the navy felt that just because the Tiance Dynasty had not encountered an attack by the sea tribe in the past five hundred years did not mean that it was impossible this time.

This is not a big problem. Li Chen asked the Ministry of War to temporarily transfer part of the troops from the central part of the Tiance Dynasty.

The biggest problem is the various impeachments of court officials and local officials, which require evidence to be verified and handled.

It sounds like this is nothing to be afraid of and is not as serious as the previous problem.

But there are so many impeachment memorials!

There are a lot of impeachments and denunciations.

Then Li Chen needs to assign some officials to investigate.

In fact, Li Chen really wanted them to find evidence before submitting the report, but if they did that, they would not submit the report without evidence, which would result in some harm not being dealt with in time and would also dampen the enthusiasm of the ministers to submit the report.

Ever since Li Chen ascended the throne, the ministers felt that the new emperor was impartial and would deal with anyone who broke the law.

So they were very diligent in submitting their memorials.

Especially those imperial censors, who finally met such a wise ruler, and they caught Li Chen and made fun of him.

All the things that the previous emperor and other emperors could not handle were thrown to Li Chen.

Li Chen wondered if they were so idle that they even wanted to dig up old cases from a long time ago.

Li Chen even wanted to beat them up.

But the problem is that some unjust, false and wrong cases were really discovered for Li Chen.

As soon as Li Chen handled it, those who submitted memorials would think: Your Majesty can also handle this, and more and more people would want to overturn the verdict.

Li Chen now felt that he had to find a few experts in handling cases and let them handle these things.

If I were to do everything, I would be exhausted to death.

Perhaps at this moment, Xiao Ming, who was drinking with Lin Mo, did not expect that work would come soon.

In the imperial study, Wu Nanzhi felt comforted when he heard that Li Chen had so much work to do.

In the past, she thought that the emperor only attended the morning court and had nothing to do, and usually just had fun.

Now that I'm an imperial concubine, I understand how hard the emperor works.

She couldn't handle Li Chen's backlog of official business, but she could handle other backlogs.

When Chu Ruoyan entered the imperial study, she was very confused. She had heard that Wu Nanzhi was here, so why was there no one there?

All I saw was Li Chen sitting at a table covered with a tablecloth.

However, Li Chen's expression seemed slightly relaxed and comfortable at this moment, which made her feel a lot more at ease.

After all, deep down in her heart she didn't want to see Li Chen looking sad all day long.

"Your Majesty, I pay my respects to you. I wish your Majesty good health and everlasting happiness." Chu Ruoyan's voice was very soft.

"Oh? What's the matter with you here, my beloved concubine?" Li Chen's gaze shifted from the memorials on the desk and looked at her, with a hint of inquiry in his eyes.

"Your Majesty is busy with affairs of state and works hard for the country and the people, but you must also take care of your health. Now is dinner time, and I have come here specially to invite Your Majesty to have dinner." Her words were filled with concern and thoughtfulness.

"Okay, if you hadn't told me I would have almost forgotten about it, but wait until I finish these books, and you can go with Nan Zhi first."

"Where is Sister Nanzhi?"

"You'll know when you come over."

The next day, Li Chen also went to court after a long absence. The most active person was changed from Pang Jin to the Minister of War.

The new Minister of War stated that the empress of the Sassanid Empire had accepted the declaration of war from the Tiance Dynasty, and the two countries officially entered a state of combat.

There is also the former Minister of War, and current Vice Minister of War, Zou Chong, who has "completed his mission" and returned to the imperial capital.

Because Li Chen was the one who issued the task, Zou Chong did not capture the third prince, but let the third prince fight the Prince of Zhennan.

Whether the mission is completed or not depends on Li Chen.

Hearing that Zou Chong had returned, Li Chen asked where Zou Chong was.

The assistant minister of the Ministry of War could attend the court. After hearing what Li Chen said, Zou Chong stepped forward and bowed, "Your Majesty, I pay my respects to you."

"My dear Minister Zou, you have persuaded the third prince not to rebel as he wished, which is indeed a great achievement. I am very pleased." Li Chen said slowly.

Hearing this, Zou Chong was delighted and quickly thanked him: "I am very humbled. This is my duty, so I dare not talk about my merits."

That being said, he knew he should be rewarded.

Li Chen smiled slightly and continued, "A contribution is a contribution, and I will reward you accordingly. How about this, I will promote you to the position of Left Censor-in-Chief of the Censorate, in charge of supervising all officials."

The Left Censor-in-Chief of the Censorate was a powerful position in the court, in charge of supervising all officials. It was an extremely important position in the court.

Hearing this, Zou Chong was overjoyed and immediately knelt on the ground, thanking the emperor loudly: "Thank you very much, Your Majesty, for your grace. I will definitely fulfill my duties and live up to your high expectations."

This is one level higher than the original position, and Zou Chong will definitely agree.

He had originally planned to impeach the Minister of War and have himself reinstated, but now he has temporarily given up the idea. It is indeed not a good idea to impeach other colleagues just after being promoted.

After feeling satisfied, Zou Chong returned to his seat.

Because there have been many wars recently, the Minister of War also reports very seriously.

After he went back, Pang Jin stood up.

Whenever this person stands up, people nearby feel a little uneasy.

Because if the Minister of Justice stands up, it will probably not be a good thing, or someone will be in trouble.

However, this time Pang Jin only reported on the issue of Sassanid spies, which made people feel relieved.

The Sassanid Empire demanded that the Tian Ce Dynasty release the people, believing that the Tian Ce Dynasty was targeting the legitimate merchants of the Sassanid Empire and asked the Tian Ce Dynasty to stop such behavior.

This is normal diplomatic rhetoric, and Li Chen doesn't need to pay attention to it. We have to fight anyway, so why bother with you?

After the court was dismissed, Pang Jin came to the imperial study.

Eunuch Cui knew at a glance that he had to avoid it again, so he took the eunuchs and left the vicinity.

After everyone left, Pang Jin handed the information he had found in recent days to Li Chen.

In other words, there is solid evidence that the Wang family is harboring remnants of the previous dynasty.

According to Xiao Ming's investigation, the Ministry of Justice even found some places where the remnants of the previous dynasty were hiding.

As for how the prince died, this is not known yet, but Pang Jin is sure that as long as the Wang family and the remnants of the previous dynasty in the imperial capital are captured, he will be able to find out.

The crime of harboring the remnants of the previous dynasty was enough to get the entire Wang family executed.

As long as it is found out that the prince was attacked, all nine generations of the family will be punished.

"In my opinion, Your Majesty had better make a decision as soon as possible, because the Wang family seems to have been restrained recently, perhaps because they heard the news from Shanghe City."

In his opinion, if he wanted to take action, he had to act quickly and not wait for Wang Tengfeng to run away, otherwise there would be endless trouble.

"Then let's do it tonight. You go and make the arrangements, and I'll show up naturally then."

As Li Chen said this, Pang Jin knew that God's City would be a river of blood tonight!
(End of this chapter)