Chapter 179 Is there something wrong with this guy’s health?

After Lu Chen cleaned up Wang Qingci, he threw her on another chair, and then continued to write Beijun's reform plan.

At this time, Wang Qingci slumped on the chair, staring at Lu Chen who was working seriously, and couldn't help but admire him in his heart.

Wang Qingci said quietly: "My lord, why are you so energetic? After doing bad things to the slave family, you can immediately calm down and do other things."

Hearing Wang Qingci's words, Lu Chen laughed while writing, and then said: "Just taking care of a female slave, how much energy can this king consume."

If ordinary people heard what Lu Chen said, they might be sad, but Wang Qingci didn't feel it at all. After all, her identity was that of Lu Chen's slave girl.

However, Wang Qingci was a little unconvinced and said: "Your Majesty is a master, and he always speaks forcefully. When will the slave family break through to the realm of a master..."

Hearing this, Lu Chen stopped writing, looked up at Wang Qingci on the chair and asked, "What will you do when you break through to the master level?"

"Do you still want to rebel?"

Speaking of this, Lu Chen showed a kind smile.

Wang Qingci curled his lips and then said: "When the slave family breaks through to the master level, the slave family will definitely serve the prince better."

Wang Qingci was also a little unsure. Although her strength and physical fitness would be greatly improved after breaking through to the master level, it would not be impossible for her to have a few fights with Lu Chen.

But Lu Chen can't use common sense to judge. Maybe he has more powerful moves that he hasn't used before, and he may be suppressed again soon.

Maybe by the time he breaks through to the master level, Lu Chen will already be a grand master.

There is a huge difference in strength between a Grand Master and a Grand Master.

Lu Chen is already so fierce and powerful now. When Lu Chen breaks through to the Grand Master realm, he doesn't know how powerful he will be.

Wang Qingci's delicate body couldn't help but tremble when he thought that Lu Chen's physical fitness would be greatly improved after he broke through to the Grand Master realm.

Fortunately, Lu Chen has so many women. Although she is Lu Chen's slave girl, she has her own affairs and does not need to stay in the palace to serve Lu Chen every day.

It seems that Lu Chen can no longer be provoked in the future.

At this moment, the voice of a guard in brocade came from outside the study, "Your Majesty, there is a letter from Tianguang City."

After hearing this, Lu Chen said calmly: "Xiaohuan, bring it in."

A big battle just broke out in this study, and the Jin Yiwei soldiers were not allowed to enter.

The maid at the door of the study immediately came to Jin Yiwei, took the information from Jin Yiwei's hand, and then took it into the study.

Lu Chen took the bamboo tube from the maid's hand, took out the information from it, and read it carefully.

Seeing what was written on the intelligence, Lu Chen smiled again.

He originally asked the soldiers of Tianguang City to dress the barbarian prisoners who died in the battle in Daxia clothes, mainly just as a precaution. At first, he did not think that Lin Xiuming would dig graves when he had nothing to do.

Unexpectedly, spies from the imperial army actually went to dig graves to confirm whether there were corpses of Beijun soldiers buried in those graves. ơɱ

It seems that the black cavalry will not be allowed to show up in Beijun for some time in the future. The body can only be hidden for a while. By then, other people will definitely come to Yancheng to inquire about the black cavalry.

If the black cavalry is still running around at this time, others will notice that the heavy cavalry in Beijun has not been destroyed.

Beijun is about to undergo reforms soon. In the next period of time, it must be low-key and low-key, so as not to attract the attention of the court.

As for whether Beijun's reforms would attract the attention of the imperial court, Lu Chen believed that those in the imperial court would not have the leisure to pay attention to a vassal king messing around in his own fiefdom.

Then Lu Chen put down the information in his hand and continued to write Beijun's reform policy.

In the next few days, Lu Chen basically spent time in his study. He did not practice riding a horse or practicing his spear for several days. The women in the inner courtyard of the palace noticed Lu Chen's abnormality.

They also felt that something big was going to happen in Beijun next, otherwise Lu Chen wouldn't have been able to stay in the study for several days.

About seven days later, the Northern Palace directly issued a royal order, asking officials from Beijun to come to the Palace to discuss government affairs.

After receiving the royal order from Beiwang Mansion, the officials in Beijun were a little confused. Generally speaking, some low-level officials were not qualified to participate in political discussions. However, the North King actually asked all high-level officials to go to Beiwang Mansion to discuss government affairs.

What is this going to do?

Isn't the King of Bei going to purge the officials of Bei County?

As soon as the king's order came out, some corrupt officials suddenly became extremely guilty and panicked.

Some officials were so frightened that they fled Beijun directly, but those officials who escaped were quickly captured by Lu Chen's Jin Yiwei.

Lu Chen actually had no intention of taking action against corrupt officials. There was currently a shortage of civil servants and management talents in Beijun. If he took action against corrupt officials at this time, he would not have many people to work with.

But for some who are more corrupt, he still plans to catch a few of them and kill them as a warning to others. Those who are scared and run away are basically those who are more corrupt.

early morning.

As soon as Lu Chen got up, washed up, and finished his porridge, the maid came to tell him that Li Rui and other officials from Yancheng were already waiting for him at the door of the study.

After hearing what the maid said, Lu Chen immediately went to the study.

Seeing a bunch of people standing at the door of the study, Lu Chen said with a smile: "Master Li, aren't there still several days before the king's time to discuss politics? Why are you here today?"

Seeing Lu Chen coming, Li Rui and all the officials from Yancheng immediately saluted, "See you, Your Majesty! Your Majesty is a thousand years old!"

After Li Rui finished his salute, he said: "Your Majesty, I heard that your royal guards are arresting officials in Beijun. Now the people in Beijun are in panic. Many officials have submitted their resignations to me and plan to return to their hometowns."

Basically, the officials in Beijun were not from Beijun. Before Emperor Xia granted Beijun to Lu Chen, the officials in Beijun were all sent by the imperial court from other places.

Now everyone heard that Lu Chen was going to clean up the officialdom, and some officials were so frightened that they ran away.

According to the rules, after the feudal king arrives at the fiefdom, officials previously arranged by the court are eligible to submit their resignations, and those officials can leave the feudal king's fiefdom directly without the consent of the feudal king.

This was a trap dug by the previous Xia Emperor for those vassal kings. If a vassal king arrived in his own territory and did not arrange for his own people, the officials arranged by the court could not only monitor the vassal king, but also evade the vassal king. 6̾̾

Moreover, the imperial court could also use these officials to beat some disobedient vassal kings.

Normally, if all the officials of a fiefdom run away, the fiefdom will soon fall into chaos. There was once a vassal king who was disobedient, and then the court directly transferred all the officials, leaving the vassal at once. There is no one available in the king's fief.

Although the officials of the imperial court were transferred away, it seemed that the vassal king had gained power and the power of the fiefdom had been transferred to the vassal king. However, most of the feudal vassal kings did not have their own team at the beginning.

For example, a prince like Lu Chen who only knew about eating, drinking and having fun at the beginning did not have his own administrative team when Lu Chen came to Beijun. If the court transferred all the officials from Beijun at this time, Lu Chen could only stare. The North County he took over was a complete mess. With the few people he had at the beginning, there was no way he could make the entire North County run.

After hearing Li Rui's words, Lu Chen said with a smile: "No wonder you came to the palace early in the morning, it turned out to be for this matter."

"You don't have to worry about this. The people I asked the Jin Yiwei to arrest are all corrupt officials."

Hearing what Lu Chen said, Li Rui and the officials became even more panicked.

Corrupt officials?

In the officialdom, several of the officials present were clean. Even Li Rui himself had received money from others.

If Lu Chen really cleans out all corrupt officials, I'm afraid not many officials in the entire North County will be spared.

According to the rules of the Daxia court, the poorer the place and the smaller the population, the less the official's salary.

Beijun is a poor place. After the imperial court sent officials like them to this place, they received the lowest annual salary.

Therefore, the first thing most officials have to do when they come to Beijun is to find ways to make money. The salary given is so small. If they don't take bribes, how can their life be easy?

Isn't it just for status and money that these people become officials? Now Lu Chen actually wants to crack down on corrupt officials. This means that he will put them all in the same pot.

They had been worried when Lu Chen came to Beijun, but seeing Lu Chen eating, drinking and having fun in the palace every day, they thought Lu Chen would be easy to handle.

Unexpectedly, Lu Chen's knife had been hidden all along, and now it was exposed.

Li Rui said quickly: "Your Majesty, Beijun is poor. According to the regulations of the court, the salary of officials in Beijun is more than half less than that of officials in Jiangnan and other places. The salary given by the court is difficult to support the official's family, so the officials in Beijun may be more Or at least I have collected something.”

"If Your Majesty wants to arrest all corrupt officials, then I am afraid that no one in the North County will be spared. Please think twice, Your Majesty!"

As soon as Li Rui finished speaking, the officials behind Li Rui immediately bent down and bowed and said, "Your Majesty, please think again."

Although many officials thought that the Black Cavalry had really been destroyed, Lu Chen still had a group of imperial guards in his hands.

If you want to arrest all the officials in Beijun, you don't need Lu Chen's black cavalry at all. Those royal guards can arrest them all.

There is no official in North County who is not afraid of Lu Chen.

Li Rui continued: "Your Majesty, the officials in Beijun are all officials dispatched by the imperial court. If you crack down on corrupt officials, some officials will be frightened and may flee Beijun without even submitting their resignations. At that time, some of Beijun's decrees will be very difficult." It may not be possible to reach the people at the bottom.”

"I also ask the prince to give those officials a chance and give them time to change their ways."

After hearing what Li Rui said, Lu Chen said expressionlessly: "Master Li, are you threatening me?"

Hearing that the tone was wrong, Li Rui suddenly broke out in sweat, and he quickly said: "I don't dare, I am just discussing the matter."

"Beijun is poor, and talented people are not willing to come to Beijun. If even the officials dispatched by the court run away, this may affect the prince's great cause."

Li Rui's words were not only to protect other officials in Baobei County, but also to protect himself. No one could tell whether Lu Chen's knife would fall on him.

At this time, the atmosphere in the courtyard was extremely dull, with light snow falling in the sky. Li Rui and other officials stood motionless in the courtyard.

The officials did not dare to take a breath. They only felt a chill on their backs and cold sweat on their bodies.

Now let's see what Bei Wang will do.

If King Bei is determined to crack down on corrupt officials, I'm afraid none of them will be able to escape.

Lu Chen glanced at the loyalty of Li Rui and these officials. Li Rui, the county guard, had the highest loyalty, which had now reached ninety-five. The loyalty of other officials was basically around seventy or eighty.

Loyalty is quite loyal, but everyone has their own little thoughts.

After Lu Chen pondered for a moment, he said calmly: "I have no plans to carry out any major purges. I asked you to come to the palace to discuss government affairs in a few days. It's just because I want to announce the reform plan. Some officials in North County will summon them to discuss government affairs as soon as they hear about it. , they were so frightened that they ran away overnight with their embezzled money."

"Now is the time to employ people in Beijun. Those officials have embezzled so much money in Beijun, but when something happens, they just run away with the money. It would be too merciful of me not to arrest such people."

Upon hearing Lu Chen's side, the officials were startled.

King Bei means...

They embezzled so much money, not only did they not honor him, but they ran away with the money and left him nothing, so he asked the Jin Yiwei to arrest the officials who escaped?

In this way, it seems that they have no way out.

When they go back, they will hand over the embezzled money. In this way, King Bei will not cause trouble to them, right?

At this time, Lu Chen continued: "Go back, everyone. If I wanted to arrest you, you would already be in Yancheng's prison."

After hearing what Lu Chen said, Li Rui seemed to understand what Lu Chen meant. Lu Chen was planning to scare the monkeys.

Catch a few and intimidate other officials in North County.

Then he is probably fine. When King Bei came to Beijun, he immediately handed over all his power. Although King Bei only took over the military power at that time, his attitude at the beginning must have satisfied King Bei.

The power he holds now was given to him by King Bei. If King Bei wants to attack him, he can easily crush him to death. He is not a threat to King Bei, and King Bei will most likely not deal with him.

Thinking of this, Li Rui finally breathed a sigh of relief.

Then Li Rui saluted and said, "I'll take my leave."

After Li Rui and a group of officials left the palace, one of the officials immediately asked: "Master Li, is it true that the prince will not liquidate the officials in Beijun?"

Li Rui replied: "Didn't the prince just say that the reason why he asked the Jin Yiwei to arrest those people was because they wanted to escape from Beijun with the embezzled money, so the prince arrested them."

"If you don't have such thoughts, the prince will most likely not care about you. If the prince wanted to liquidate the officials in Bei County, I am afraid that everyone present, including me, would have been arrested long ago."

Having said this, Li Rui glanced at the officials and then said: "Your Majesty is going to reform Beijun next. You should be more agile in your actions from now on. Don't just mess around like in the past."

"The prince has great ambitions. If you are still holding the prince back, even if the prince does not liquidate you now, sooner or later you will go in."

At this time, an official asked in a low voice: "Sir, what should we do with the money we collected before?"

Since King Bei has already said that he will definitely arrest anyone who escapes with the money, then there is a high probability that they, the officials in Yancheng, will not be able to escape.

The county magistrates in those small places were arrested by the Northern King Jinyiwei. How could they, the officials under the Jinyiwei's nose, escape.

Since they can't escape, the money they embezzled in the past may be a bit hot to hand. No one knows whether the money they embezzled will one day become evidence for their imprisonment.

Li Rui said: "This is simple. When you go back, send all the money you have received as gifts over the years to my mansion, and I will send them all to the Beiwang Mansion."

"By the way, I want to remind you that the prince's royal guards are very powerful. If the prince wants to check how much money you collected in the past, it can be easily found out. I still advise you not to take chances."

After hearing what Li Rui said, some officials who wanted to hide money secretly gave up the idea in an instant.

They have had a lot of dealings with Jin Yiwei, and they know how terrifying Jin Yiwei is. Li Rui is right. If Jin Yiwei really wants to investigate them, they may really be picked clean.

In the dead of night.

Lu Chen was still busy in the study.

The lights in the study were brightly lit. After Chu Qingli patrolled to the door of the study, she found that the lights in the study were still on. She suddenly felt incredible.

Some time ago, Lu Chen did bad things with the woman in the palace every day. Why has he suddenly become so honest these days? It seems that she has not seen Lu Chen doing bad things with that woman for several days.

Could it be that this guy has a physical problem and is dying?

Actually, with his character, if he doesn't do bad things with women one day, he will definitely feel uncomfortable.

Um! He must be in bad health!

So what if he is destined to be a fairy? After all, he is still a mortal. Being obsessed with beauty every day would be intolerable to anyone.

This guy comes to the study every day, most likely to prevent his women from seeing that he is no longer good. For the sake of his self-esteem, he hides in the study every day these days and does not go back at night.

Just when Chu Qingli was looking at the bright light in the study and thinking wildly, a gentle voice appeared behind Chu Qingli, "Qingli, what are you looking at?"

Chu Qingli came back to her senses instantly. She turned around and saw that it was Chu Yuqin, so she immediately said, "I didn't see anything. I was just thinking about something."

At this time, Chu Yuqin also looked at the study where Lu Chen was. Seeing that there was still light in Lu Chen's study, Chu Yuqin said to herself: "Chen'er has indeed grown up."

After the words fell, Chu Yuqin couldn't help but blush, and she suddenly remembered what happened in the study not long ago.