The heroine Jiangshan

Chapter 176 Alliance
It was the first time for Yun Ruochen to come back to the other courtyard of the Chu family in the capital.

Although it is a square northern house, Chu Qingbo has lived in it for several years, and the whole courtyard has added a lot of unique scenery in the south.

For example, the sparse and unique back garden, the exquisite potted plants placed on the corridor, if you take a closer look at any corner, it will be a small painting.

"Your house is really clean."

Accompanied by Chu Qingbo, Yun Ruochen played around in the front and back yards, and sighed spontaneously.

Naturally, there are eunuchs Gong'e sweeping the palace every day, but compared to the "cleanness" of the Chu family, it is still a little inferior.

The "cleanliness" of his house is reflected in the fact that the wood in the window lattices and corridors is polished to a glossy finish, and there is almost no dust in the cracks in the bluestone slabs paved in the yard. I don't know how tired his servants are.

Chu Qingbo's innocence is different from Zhao Xuan's.

Zhao Xuan likes white clothes, and his attitude is out of the world, but he is not strict about the place where he lives.Chu Qingbo seemed to be relatively casual in his clothes, but it was only when he arrived at Chu's house that he realized that his perfectionism had completely penetrated into his bones.

He must be a Virgo with obsessive-compulsive disorder... Yun Ruochen complained silently in his heart, and then decided to ask Xia Hong to urge people to clean up the Chonghua Palace after returning to the palace.

Look at others, then look at yourself, the gap!

Chu Qingbo didn't know that these insignificant contents were turning in the mind of the princess walking beside him.

Today he held a small banquet at home to celebrate his being the number one scholar and being honored to be assigned to observe politics in the Imperial Academy.In fact, this is a benefit for the top three in the first class, allowing them to observe politics in the Imperial Academy for a few years, and train well before being promoted.

The official celebration banquet has already been bustling, and today's family banquet Chu Qingbo only invited some of his companions from Qionghua Club, and Yun Ruochen was also invited.

Yun Ruochen really admired Chu Qingbo, she didn't believe him because she didn't hear those ugly words outside, saying that he flattered the princess for the sake of his future, but he still invited himself over.

He is not afraid of rumors, and he also thinks that he should not be afraid of those boring things... Well, for the sake of his courage, she is here.

I don't know if my father heard those strange words?Anyway, when she went to ask her father to leave the palace, her father had a kind expression of "Go and play, my dear", which made her very puzzled.

"Princess, have you ever heard that many strange things have happened in Beijing recently?"

Walking on the cobbled path beside the rockery in the back garden, Chu Qingbo suddenly brought up this topic.

Yun Ruochen stopped in his tracks, with his eyes bent and the corners of his mouth slightly raised, he gave Chu Qingbo a meaningful look.

"Who is Chu Hanlin referring to?"

"Oh, I also heard it from people. It is said that... many low-level officials in Beijing suddenly encountered all kinds of strange accidents."

"so what?"

"I didn't care about it at first." Chu Qingbo was also laughing: "Until I wrote down all the names of those people on a whim, and I made a new discovery."

Yun Ruochen's style of talking like this is not suitable for Yun Ruochen, so she simply sneered and tore through the window screen: "You found out that they all offended Ben Gong, right?"

Chu Qingbo didn't confirm or deny it, shook his head and smiled, and suddenly sighed: "Princess, I'm a little scared now."

"fear me?"

"That's right... so many people have accidents one after another in a similar period of time, or their reputations have been damaged, or they have physical disabilities, or their homes are not safe, or they have been investigated for corruption... But few people think that this is deliberately done by someone. I thought it was an accident. Can you tell me how many people you dispatched?"

"No."

Yun Ruochen answered very simply.

She admitted indirectly that she did it herself.But except for Ye Shenyan, she will not tell others that this is the result of her method using each of their hair.

Zhao Xuan should be able to guess, but Zhao Xuan will never reveal her secret to anyone.

No matter how different their positions were, Zhao Xuan would never betray her in this respect, Yun Ruochen had absolute confidence in him.

"Princess, I still remember that my life was saved by you."

Chu Qingbo started to walk again, and Yun Ruochen was also at an arm's length away from him, walking side by side step by step.Ji Jianing and Xia Hong followed far behind, unable to hear their conversation.

"At that time, you were still so young, but you could tell at a glance that I was poisoned, and you were able to rescue me quickly..."

"I know that there is a force behind you, which is mysterious and powerful. That's why I choose to stand by your side."

"Stand by my side?" Yun Ruochen twitched the corner of his mouth, unmoved: "Don't say it so nicely, I can guess your purpose."

"Oh?"

"Don't pretend to be stupid. The big shopkeepers of your Chu family and Zhao family from the southeast have just left the capital not long ago, right?"

A small crack finally appeared on Chu Qingbo's calm expression.He thought he did it very secretly, how could...

"The wealthy clan in the southeast are so powerful. Not only do you want to do business in the southeast, but you also want to take advantage of the chaos in the past two years to swallow up the business in the north."

Yun Ruochen said casually, as if it was an easy matter for him to see through the Southeast people's plan, and he didn't care at all how important this matter was to the Chu family and other Southeast aristocratic families.

"Chu Hanlin... Well, I'm still not used to calling you Qingbo, I'll call you Qingbo, don't you mind?"

"Thanks to the princess' love."

"No, I don't love you very much, it's just that I'm used to calling familiar people like this... And you, you are really uplifting. Whether it's you, or those Qionghua Society companions who passed the exam with you, can you They all entered the court with the hope of the family."

"At present, none of the big bosses in the imperial court is from the southeast, half of them are from the north, and half from the south of the Yangtze River. Therefore, no good things in the court will be able to turn to the southeast, and even such a big thing as the eradication of Japanese pirates is delayed, dragged, and dragged to the southeast. It has become the base camp of Japanese pirates. I am right, right?"

"People from the southeast need to regain their former prestige in the imperial court and squeeze into the inner circle again...Is this how Zhao Xuan persuaded your father to send troops?"

"Now there is Zhao Xuan among the nobles, and you are among the officials. Of course, it will take you more than ten years to really play a role... You still want to get me."

"You know that those big bosses from the north don't want to see me, they just want to hold the eldest prince in their hands. Everyone knows who Empress Chen sent to the palace and who she wants to do for. I just can't Let these people bring up my only younger brother, so they must have the whole palace..."

In the middle of Yun Ruochen's speech, he suddenly waved his hand and took a passing pink butterfly into his hand.

She flipped her palm up and down, and the movement was not too big, but the pink butterfly couldn't fly out of the range surrounded by her palm.

Chu Qingbo watched Yun Ruochen Xidie fixedly, many thoughts flashed through his mind.

The princess spoke so thoroughly, maybe today can have a good result?

If she didn't have the sincerity to cooperate, she wouldn't even bother to say anything, oh... Maybe she wouldn't come back to the banquet at all.

So whether she is disdainful or beating now, she is just trying to manipulate them.

Then let her handle it.

Yun Ruochen had played enough, he blew lightly and sent the pink butterfly into the air.The white butterfly was finally free and flew away fluttering.

"Princess is good at tricks." Chu Qingbo made a pun.

"It's just a small skill." Yun Ruochen chuckled, "It's okay, those big bosses from the Northern Shang Dynasty eat too much fat. It's time for us to play!"

"If you don't play again... my Yun family's world will be hollowed out by these moths."

Her tone gradually cooled down, and the murderous intent flashed in her eyes.

Don't think that she returned to Beijing and stayed in the palace for a year or two, eating, sleeping and doing nothing.She has never slacked off on the information that needs to be collected and the situation that needs to be analyzed.

Beishang is the collective name of the four provinces in North China during the Qing Dynasty.The history of the Northern Shang Dynasty is longer than that of the Qing Dynasty, and their primitive accumulation began since the former Tang Dynasty.When the monarchs of the Tang Dynasty founded the country, Beishang was the biggest sponsor.

During the Tang Dynasty, Northern Merchants received long-term preferential policies and developed rapidly.In the Song Dynasty, it was already one of the largest financial groups in the country.They bought and sold war horses, food, cloth, and even smuggled private salt and weapons secretly, making huge profits and becoming rich in the world.

In this dynasty, the northern merchants began to pay attention to infiltrating the civil official group.They tried their best to encourage the children of the clan to study, and finally after several generations of hard work, many of the children of the direct line became the mainstay of civil officials and scholastic groups.Many of the policies of the imperial court are tilted towards the four provinces of North China...

If it was just like this, Yun Ruochen would not kill Beishang.

But they were so complacent, they actually wanted to control her father, making him their exclusive puppet, and now they want to control her Xing'er!

They are not the royal family, but their incomparable wealth and complicated connections give them the power to control the world.

The rise of the Destiny Sect was also secretly supported by some northern merchants, because they wanted to make war fortunes.King Cheng's military expenses can be paid for by King Cheng himself and the Heavenly Mandate Sect alone?The Northern Merchants also secretly engaged in border trade with the barbarians outside the Great Wall, selling precious horses and grain to the enemy—this is capitalizing on the enemy and betraying the country!
They only have the interests of their own group in their eyes, not the country, and they don't care which family sits on the throne.

Too dangerous.

Relatively speaking, she is more willing to choose the milder Southeastern wealthy family to cooperate with.

"Qingbo, we have a common enemy, so...the alliance was established."

Yun Ruochen casually folded off a new apricot blossom and sniffed the fragrance lightly.The faint scent of flowers was refreshing, which made her face a little warmer.

Hearing Yun Ruochen's affirmative answer, Chu Qingbo heaved a sigh of relief.Just about to say something, but heard Yun Ruochen say: "However, I don't need your son-in-law of the Chu family to marry."

"Chu Zhen is very good, but he is not worthy to be my husband."

Xinghua was discarded by her casually, with an indifferent attitude, just like she treated the somewhat lovable Chu Zhen.

Chu Qingbo was not surprised.

But...the princess, she is going to marry after all.What man would she choose for herself as her husband?
No one knew that the most honorable princess of the Daqing Empire once "proposed" to a man who was born as a beggar.

Yun Ruochen thought of Ye Shenyan's frightened expression in Chonghua Palace that day, and suddenly felt very good.

Be careful...you have to calm down.

(End of this chapter)