Born a phoenix? The husband I picked up is the young emperor

Chapter 1217

Chapter 1217

Ye Baoer circled around the few people, very happily, and then ran into the temple with a swish.

Shi Anxia just smiled without saying anything. She got off Cen Yuan's back and just looked at her mother. Tang Chujun, who had just cried, was stunned and blushed.

Fortunately, Eunuch Qi also arrived.

When Eunuch Qi arrived, everything was fine. He winked and asked Nanny Zhong to help Tang Chujun.

In the holy land of Buddhism, in front of his children, he still has to save his master's face!

Emperor Mingde cleared his throat and said to Cen Yuan, "Let's play a game of chess?"

"We'll stick with you until the end." The two men took the lead.

Tang Chujun finally had time to explain to his daughter, "Xia'er, I was thinking that since we are coming anyway, why not stay at Baoguo Temple one night in advance?"

Shi Anxia smiled gently and said with a double meaning, "As long as the mother is happy, there is no need to explain to her daughter."

Tang Chujun was a man who could not contain his excitement. He limped along the way and recounted from the beginning what had just happened.

When Shi Anxia heard the words "Prince Anping", her eyes turned cold.

But in the middle of the night, another group of people hurried to Baoguo Temple.

The scene was quite large, with people coming and going. One of the men was topless, revealing his white and slightly fat flesh, and was carrying a thorn stick on his back, with the rope tying the thorn stick leaving red marks on his body.

The monks of Baoguo Temple were awakened and walked out of their meditation rooms, looking at the uninvited guests in surprise.

Master Jiyuan clasped his hands together, his eyes calm, as if he had already predicted that this person would come, "The emperor said that if Prince Anping comes, he will not be seen."

The person who came was none other than the Prince of Anping mentioned by the beautiful lady, Xiao Yao, the emperor's half-brother.

Xiao Yao's face changed slightly when he heard this. He did not dare to be disrespectful to Master Jiyuan, so he clasped his hands together and returned the greeting, "I really have an urgent matter to see the emperor, so I hope Master will give me some convenience."

Master Jiyuan shook his head, "Don't you understand? It's not that I'm stopping you from seeing him, but that the emperor won't see you at all."

Xiao Yao raised his eyes and saw a Buddhist temple nearby. He walked forward, knelt before the Buddha and bowed devoutly.

He was killed by his sister-in-law!

Two days ago, Prince Changping was deposed for participating in a rebellion. Xiao Yao was glad that he was smart and pretended to be sick to escape the disaster.

But he never expected that his sister-in-law would cheat him like this.

Xiao Yao felt that at this critical moment, he would be burned to ashes if he ran into the wrath of Emperor Mingde. He had to do something to make amends so that his brother would forgive him.

But he didn't know that Emperor Mingde had no intention of letting him go.

In order to win over the powerful and royal family, the Empress Dowager kept Prince Anping, Prince Changping and others in the capital.

Over the years, the princes who remained in the capital, relying on their close relationship with the Empress Dowager, not only held important positions in the court, but also accumulated huge wealth through various means.

Their mansions were decorated with gold and jade, and they reveled every night. They did a lot of dirty things in secret, and countless people died in their hands.

However, those fiefdoms that should have been governed by them were left without management for a long time, and the people lived in poverty, the fields were barren, the taxes were heavy, and there was widespread public resentment.

What is even more serious is that the princes used their power to privately reduce or exempt taxes on their own fiefdoms, and pocketed the tax money that should have been turned over to the national treasury.

They used complicated accounting operations and false account records to make it difficult for the court to detect the truth.

The treasury was empty, the financial situation of the imperial court was deteriorating, and the national defense was weakened. All these were related to these parasites.