manynovel Chapter 2200 Eat the Seal
Chapter 2200 Eat the Seal
"Calm down." Li Shen immediately called out. "Xuan Ce, don't worry."
"But Your Majesty, if they find out, it will be a serious crime." Wang Xuance said anxiously.
"Don't worry, they can't tell. With their status, they can't have seen the prince's handwriting.
Not to mention the prince's personal seal.
If you go there in such a hurry, it will make them even more suspicious.
You don't need to worry about this. Even if it is discovered, I will take the responsibility for you."
Li Shen calmly took a sip of tea and comforted Wang Xuance.
"Your Highness, this matter is of great importance and cannot be treated lightly. If those people from the noble families find evidence of this, Your Highness will probably not be able to escape the blame.
Even His Majesty will not be overly partial, after all, this matter cannot be condoned. . "
Seeing that Prince Ji didn’t care, Wang Xuance immediately began to persuade him.
Based on his understanding of Prince Ji, if he dared to forge the prince's letter today, he would dare to forge the imperial edict tomorrow.
"Okay, I know you're worried, but don't worry, nothing will happen.
We are working for the Crown Prince. I will explain this to him when we return. By then, it will be useless even if the noble families obtain evidence.
As long as the prince says it is true, he will make it true even if he knows it is false.
You just wrote a letter for the prince, it has nothing to do with you."
Li Shen waved his hand. He had already thought about this matter a long time ago. He was doing this for Li Chengqian. All he had to do was to say hello to him.
This letter is not real but it is also true.
"Your Highness, the letter can be explained, but what about the seal?" Wang Xuance asked.
"The seal... oh, the seal! Shitou, tell the kitchen to cook the seal into a dish at noon, and I will eat it.
If you don’t eat it, it will go bad. Don’t waste it.”
When Li Shen was reminded by Wang Xuance, he immediately remembered the prince's seal that he had carved out of a radish.
It has been left out for a whole night and I don’t know if it is still edible. This can be considered as destroying evidence.
Seeing that Prince Ji didn't care at all, Wang Xuance could only shake his head helplessly.
Since ancient times, who has had the courage to forge the prince’s seal and personal seal?
Prince Ji is one of them.
When Prince Ji wanted to carve the crown prince's seal, the craftsmen were so frightened that they shook their heads repeatedly.
Some even knelt down before King Ji and begged him to spare their lives.
Carve the prince's private seal? Isn't that courting death? They are not fools. If they carve it, they will be killed if they are held accountable in the future.
But even if the truth had not been discovered, Prince Ji might have killed the person to silence him.
Seeing the craftsmen begging desperately, Li Shen had no choice but to do the work himself.
I don't know how many radishes I wasted before I could barely carve out one that was similar.
Among these people, only Li Shen had seen the prince's private seal. Fortunately, he had seen it, otherwise he would have wanted to put his fingerprint on it.
"Xuan Ce, this matter has been resolved. We must restore the operation of Xizhou Prefecture as soon as possible. You will have to go to the border with me in a while."
"Going to the border? Why is your Highness going to the border?"
When Wang Xuance heard Prince Ji say that he was going to the border, he opened his mouth to ask.
"That's right, I sent someone out to find out the news..."
At that moment, Li Shen briefly recounted the information he had discovered, and then continued:
"This time, I am going to the border to investigate who has dishonest conduct at the border.
Secondly, as soon as I leave, those hiding rebels may come out to act, and this will give us a chance to detect them.
Otherwise, there will always be a hidden danger here, and I will feel very uncomfortable."
"But Your Majesty, it is too dangerous to go to the border. Please think twice." Like Xue Rengui, Wang Xuance also dissuaded Li Shen from going when he heard the officials were going.
"Don't worry, I'm not going to the battlefield. I'm just at the border. The Western Expedition Army has already begun to move westward.
There won't be any danger in this area.
You will go with me then."
Hearing King Ji’s determination, Wang Xuance said no more and bowed to accept the order.
Just hearing Li Shen talk about that mysterious rebel group made him frown.
Despite such a massive encirclement and suppression, it is not an easy thing for some rebels to escape and exist safely.
"Your Majesty, should we ask the Xizhou Army to pay more attention to this rebel group? Or send troops to look for them?"
“No need, they are well-equipped, and the Xizhou Army will only cause casualties if they go. Once our plan is completed, I will send Li Jian out to gather information.
Don’t I believe they can go up to heaven or down to earth?”
Li Shen was very confident in his troops, and the border troops were just better equipped palace soldiers, and could not be compared with his own guard battalion.
The two began to chat about some details of Xizhou, and the servant reported that it was time to eat.
Li Shen then took Wang Xuance to have dinner together.
In the evening, when Li Shen was enjoying the rare coolness, a guard outside reported that Pei Ziyu and his companions had arrived with a number of carriages.
Li Shen immediately sent someone to notify Wang Xuance and asked him to go and take an inventory.
As a prince, he naturally could not do such rough work himself, as it would make others think that he was too greedy for money.
After a long while, as Li Shen was eagerly waiting, Wang Xuance brought Pei Ziyu and General Li to the garden.
"Your humble servant greets His Royal Highness Prince Ji." The two men came forward and bowed.
"No need to be polite." Li Shen's expression became indifferent at this time.
"Thank you, Your Highness Prince Ji." The two men looked a little nervous after they stood up.
"Your Majesty, Pei Changshi and General Li have brought your punishment. A total of 330,000 strings of cash."
Wang Xuance on the side reported.
"Ah."
Li Shen nodded gently, looking as if he regarded money as dirt.
"Your Highness Prince Ji, we both know we were wrong, and we will definitely change our ways from now on."
Seeing Prince Ji's expression, the two men hurried forward to admit their mistakes.
"Forget it." Li Shen sat up and said to the two of them earnestly:
"This matter is over now, and I will forgive you for the crimes you committed.
You should know that fining you money is not the purpose. The purpose is to let you learn a lesson and not make the same mistake again in the future.
I am a wealthy man, so why would I be interested in your little money? Do you really think this money is for me?
You are wrong. I am not asking for your money. I want to use your money to do your business.
Do you think that this matter is over after I have said it? How can I have such great power?
I still have to take care of everything for you. Now you say you can do it for free, but who will do it for you?
Especially since such a big thing as yours will alert the Censorate and the Ministry of Justice, I can only go to His Majesty.
Only Your Majesty can save you from the hands of the Censorate and the Ministry of Justice.
What do you think? Should we spend this money? Is it that His Majesty is helping us for nothing?
This king asks you what should be spent and what should not be spent. I tell you, as long as it is money from your hands, it should be spent.
This is the money that buys your life.”
(Some people speculate that carrots were introduced to China during the Yuan Dynasty, but I think it was during the Tang Dynasty, after all, this was the time when exchanges with West Asia were most frequent.
Just like cotton, it is not grown on a large scale.)