"Empress, according to the old minister's investigation, Hongchen should have left Luoyang the night before. His Majesty personally sent someone to escort her away from Luoyang. Even Jiang Qiaoqing did not follow him, and no one knew where she was going."

Xu Jingzong looked at Wu Meiniang with a confused look on his face and said carefully: "Empress, are we really wrong? Then Hongchen is not Wang at all."

Yang, who was standing beside him, nodded repeatedly and said, "It must be like this, otherwise why would she do this? The current situation is so beneficial to her. Wouldn't all her efforts be wasted when she leaves?"

Wu Meiniang looked at him two times in confusion and said, "It's not wrong to be wrong. If not, who spread the news at the beginning?"

Xu Jingzong said: "But those who know about this include Li Feng and his wife and Quan Huai'en. Maybe one of them accidentally leaked his mouth. This is also very likely."

Wu Meiniang glared at her and said, "Do you think I intend to slander that bitch?"

"The old minister dare not." Xu Jingzong quickly bowed and apologized.

Yang hurriedly said, "Daughter, Shizhong Xu is also considering you."

Wu Meiniang's expression calmed down a little, and she said, "Shizhong Xu, I don't intend to get angry at you, but this fact is too strange. I thought about it all day but still couldn't figure it out."

"The old minister understands." Xu Jingzong said, "But the old minister thinks that since she has left and His Majesty has decided to leave the matter, the old minister thinks that the queen should not investigate the matter again. It is urgent that the queen should win the trust of His Majesty again."

Yang nodded repeatedly and said, "Shimaster Xu is right. Daughter, you always have sex with Your Majesty like this, it will be bad for anyone. No matter what their ideas are, as long as we are not confused by ourselves, we will not be afraid of them."

Wu Meiniang said, "Mom, why don't you understand? What I have always been worried about is not that bitch, but another person."

"Han Yi!"

Xu Jingzong and Yang said in unison.

Wu Meiniang nodded and said, "If it were just that bitch, why would I be afraid? What I have always been worried about is the person behind the scenes. Hongchen must be Wang Xuan, and there will never be any mistakes. Then the person behind the scenes must be Han Yi, and all this must be arranged by Han Yi. What I can't understand is, what exactly is Han Yi doing this?"

Xu Jingzong and Yang looked at each other, and the confusion in their eyes had receded, but they both chose to remain silent.

If this was all controlled by Han Yi behind the scenes, then it would be obvious that Hongchen would be more beneficial to him to stay by the emperor, which would not be consistent with common sense!

The only explanation is that Hongchen is not Wang Xuan at all.

Wu Meiniang said this, but instead affirmed what Xu Jingzong and Yang were thinking.

Seeing that they didn't speak, Wu Meiniang couldn't understand it in her heart, but her intuition told her that this matter was not that simple. She felt something was wrong in her heart, but she really couldn't understand what was wrong.

It would be right for her to not understand. If she could figure it out, then she would not be a human, but a God.

Because Han Yi had never planned this way at all. Han Yi was left to Wang Xuan to deal with it himself. She only taught Wang Xuan how to hook up with Li Zhi. If you follow the clues, how can you get it?

At this time, Han Yi was accompanying Chen Shuozhen to Chen Shuozhen's hometown Muzhou. In fact, he had already finished mourning and was about to take Xiao Wuyi and the others out for a trip, but Chen Shuozhen could not go, so Han Yi planned to accompany Chen Shuozhen back to his hometown first, and he always wanted to come to Muzhou to see it, because Muzhou was the only thing he had not expected, and he had heard of the development of Muzhou.

As for Wang Xuan's affairs, he knew nothing.

Muzhou, which was once devastated by the war, is full of vitality at this moment. As long as you set foot in Muzhou, you can feel an amazing energy.

Coming here seems to have come to another world.

After Wu Meiniang's new policy was promulgated, it seemed as if she had completely put Muzhou into the arms of capitalism.

Now in Muzhou, everything has been commercialized, whether it is agriculture, commerce, or animal husbandry. However, before that, Muzhou retained some characteristics of a small peasant economy. Until the new policy was promulgated, a large number of merchants poured into Muzhou with funds because they were not anti-business here and were full of respect for merchants. In the past two years, Muzhou's workshops almost doubled. The more workshops there were, the more manpower they needed. The people of Muzhou themselves did not reject business, because it was commerce that saved them, and more people came to the city to work, and the vacant land was absorbed by capitalists, and then hired people to farm.

In fact, the quality of life of the people in Muzhou has surpassed Chang'an now, but the frogs in the well in Chang'an don't know. Muzhou is very cheap, and the most expensive thing is manpower. Because there are too many workshops, Chang'an has moved here, and manpower is tight, so rare things are expensive.

Nowadays, Muzhou and Yangzhou are all covered with stone slabs. The best roads are here, which are better than Chang'an.

The people of Muzhou don’t worry about life at all. It doesn’t matter whether they store grain at home or not, because they can be bought at any time. Muzhou not only produces its own grain, but also constantly imports grain, because 70% of its goods are used for export. People in many places are so poor that they only have food left and can only exchange for their grain.

However, the people of Muzhou have a strong idea of ​​being prepared for danger in times of peace. They were not blinded by wealth. Their nerves were still tight and they worked very hard. They would never say that they were fishing for three days and had two days of drying the net. Nowadays, people like this are looked down upon in Muzhou. This is because they lived a hellish life before, with natural disasters and man-made disasters, and later they caused an epidemic. This generation has a great shadow on this, so they all cherish their current life very much.

Although they worked very hard, most of the money was made by the merchants.

But they would not think so, thinking that this is unfair. They are all very open-minded. If there were no merchants, they might have starved to death. Now our wealthy life is brought by merchants, not by landlords, not by emperors, so they all think that I should work hard with the salary paid by merchants.

Muzhou's products are very fine and of good quality because they have the best workers in the world.

Respect is always mutual.

The merchants in Muzhou are not stupid either. They can't tolerate them today. They are fighting against merchants everywhere. Only Muzhou can provide them with such a good environment. The people here respect them very much, and there are such good employees, and they don't need anyone to supervise them. This is much better than the environment in Chang'an at the time. If even Muzhou cannot tolerate them, then they have no way to go.

These merchants had no way out. In order to win over the people of Muzhou, they also established a chamber of commerce. The merchants themselves determined the price system, with the purpose of ensuring low prices in Muzhou. They revised the Labor Act several times to increase the treatment of employees step by step. In short, they wanted to make the people of Muzhou live a very happy life, so that they would support merchants.

But then again, merchants are profit-oriented and not good people, so they are just good to the people of Muzhou. It doesn’t matter if they make less money in Muzhou. Let’s go to other places to make money. Aren’t those people opposed us? We make money from those people. Their export volume has exceeded that of Chang'an at the time, but only a small part of them is subject to tariffs, and a large amount of goods are transported out by smuggling, because smuggling is cheap, so that they can become competitive in other prefectures and counties.

Nowadays, due to the existence of tariffs, Chang'an has collapsed and Luoyang is almost the same. Muzhou is the only source of production. No one competes with them, resulting in a large amount of wealth pouring into Muzhou.

The government knows, the people know, and even the officials sent by Li Yi Mansion know, but no one cares. Can the people sent by Li Yi Mansion be a good person?

The upper beam is not straight and the lower beam is crooked.

The merchants either bribe them or give them shares. With their virtues, they have been in the court for a lifetime and are not as much money as they have made in this year. They have never even seen so much money. Everyone seeks money, and the government makes money, and the tariffs imposed are all made to Li Yifu, and they can't divide much. The combination of officials and businessmen is quite close. You have me and I have you.

There was no corruption before the Tang Dynasty, and there were very few corruption. Li Yifu was an alternative, but this time, corruption began to spread.

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On the wide road, a carriage was moving forward slowly. It was obvious that the owner of the carriage was not rushing to the road, but more as if he was visiting the scenery along the way.

"Do you know what made me let go of my hatred for you?"

Chen Shuozhen suddenly asked Han Yi beside her.

Han Yi said: "Isn't it because of love?"

Chen Shuozhen immediately spat and glared at Han Yi.

Han Yi laughed and said, "How come I don't know? It was because you decided to let me go when you saw that my policies benefited Muzhou."

Chen Shuozhen nodded softly, "I remember you told me that you didn't want to see the next Chen Shuozhen again, but I didn't care at all. It was not until I returned to Muzhou that day that I realized that maybe you were not lying to me, so I chose to believe you. If it weren't for this, I wouldn't have done my best to save you."

Han Yi asked again: "When did you fall in love with me?"

Chen Shuozhen gave him a blank look and turned his head aside.

Han Yi laughed and took her into his arms, saying, "Because you no longer hate me and fall in love with me, then I will tell you frankly. In fact, the changes in Muzhou are the most surprising to me. If this is Yangzhou, I can still accept it if you praise me a few words. But the biggest hero in Muzhou is not me, but themselves. All of this is exchanged for hard work and sweat by the local people in Muzhou. No one helps them, they are all won by themselves."

Chen Shuozhen looked at the people walking quickly outside the window, nodded slightly, and said, "Maybe you are right, they all fought for it themselves."

After three days of walking, they came to a towering mountain, but they saw that the mountain's connections were intermittent, ups and downs, strange shapes, millions of changes, and accumulated thinly, clouds emerged from it, like a fairyland.

Han Yi looked up at the mountain and said, "This really means a fairyland. No wonder you chose this place to practice and become an immortal." As he said, he saw that there was no response on the side. He turned around and saw that Chen Shuo was really facing him, but she was wearing a black veil hat and could not see any expression. However, Han Yi had already reacted and said, "Don't look at me like this. I'm not mocking you, I'm analyzing it from a professional perspective."

Chen Shuozhen hummed softly and walked straight forward.

Han Yi quickly followed.

This is Tiewei Mountain, where Chen Shuozhen rose up.

After entering the mountains, Han Yi was surprised that he had seen many people along the way, and what made him even more curious was that when these people saw them, they all covered their faces.

“What’s going on?”

Han Yi asked Chen Shuozhen in a low voice.

Chen Shuozhen shook her head and said, "I don't know either."

The two walked along the mountain road and climbed for more than an hour before they arrived at a mountain peak.

"I was here!"

Han Yi stopped halfway through Chen Shuozhen's speech and looked at her curiously. Chen Shuozhen looked ahead and said nothing. Han Yi followed her gaze, but saw a small pavilion on the mountain with green smoke swaying in the pavilion, and a stone tablet was erected in the pavilion.

Chen Shuozhen came here a few years ago, but there were no pavilions here.

"Oh, I understand, those people came here to worship God. What kind of god is it that makes these people willing to climb so high to worship. Moreover, why do you hide the worship of God?" Han Yi said thoughtfully.

Chen Shuozhen seemed to have not heard it and walked towards the pavilion.

"Wait for me!"

Han Yi hurriedly followed him and came to the pavilion. Han Yi looked shocked, "Why are there no words in this stone tablet?"

But Chen Shuozhen muttered to himself: "It's true."

As expected? Han Yi frowned slightly and said in surprise: "Can it be--!"

Chen Shuozhen nodded and said, "I was seriously injured by a villain, so I fled here to recuperate. My brother-in-law and others took the opportunity to promote that I was practicing here to become an immortal."

"So that's it!" Han Yi nodded and said, "This can explain why the people who came to worship were hiding, and there were no words engraved on the stone tablet, because they worshiped a rebel leader."

Chen Shuozhen turned to look at him.

"Uh, sorry, it's the fastest, when I haven't said it, I haven't said it." Han Yi smiled embarrassedly.

Chen Shuozhen sighed: "Why are they so stupid? They haven't woken up yet."

Han Yi said with a serious face: "From my professional perspective, this lie is a lie after all. Even if it can be concealed for a while, it cannot withstand the scrutiny of time. The lie will be exposed sooner or later. I think those people worship not the Nine Heavens Xuannv, but Chen Shuozhen."

Chen Shuozhen smiled bitterly and said, "Thank you for your comfort."

"Someone is here, someone is here, wait, I will confirm this immediately."

Chen Shuozhen turned her head and saw a woman walking up with a bamboo basket. She heard a thump again. When she turned around, she saw Han Yi kneeling in front of the stone tablet and said in surprise: "What are you doing?"

"Shut up first."

While talking, the woman had already come over, and Chen Shuozhen hurriedly stood aside.

The woman looked at them and saw that they were here to worship, so she didn't care. She lit three incenses and bowed to the monument. Suddenly, she heard the little brother beside her muttering, "No nameless god, you must bless me to pass the imperial examination this time, get rich, get rich, get promoted and get rich."

The woman turned her head and looked at him in surprise. She stuttered twice, but she still held back and didn't make any noise. She stood up, inserted the incense into the incense burner in front of the monument, folded her hands together, and then planned to turn around and leave, but she still heard the young man muttering, "Get rich when he gets promoted, get rich when he gets rich." Her eyes were closed, as if she was in a devil.
To be continued...