Chapter 110:

Concubine Xie ordered to go down, and the maid went out and asked people to bring the news to Xie Zichen. I never thought that Xie Zichen was out of the city and would not be able to come back until late at night. This matter is too private, and the maid can't ask someone to relay it. Time has not seen anyone come, so we can only turn back first.
That afternoon, Su Bai called Wang Xi and said directly: "I heard that Wei Xiong is conscripting troops in Qingzhou?"
Wang Xi was taken aback for a moment: "What's the matter?"
Su Bai looked at Wang Xi suspiciously and said, "You don't know?"
"The minister doesn't know," Wang Xi replied respectfully: "If the minister knows, how dare he expire?"
Although Wang Xi and Wei Lan have a good relationship, they are also a clear distinction, and they will not stand in the wrong position because of personal affair. Even if it was Lin Che, he was only able to help as long as it did not affect the overall situation. If it would affect the emperor's position, Wang Xi would not mess around.
Su Bai is the monarch that Wang Xi has always followed. For Wang Xi, this is his biggest bargaining chip in the family struggle. He once fought for the position of Patriarch with Wang Yuan. Wang Yuan bet Su Cheng, and he bet Su Bai. Because he was right, he sat firmly in the position of the next Patriarch of the Wang family.
He listened to Su Bai's meaning, quickly understood Su Bai's words, and hurriedly said, "I'll let someone check it."
Wang Xi came out of the palace. If he went to Qingzhou at this time, it would be too late. So he sent two groups of people, one to Qingzhou, and the other to find people from Qingzhou to Shengjing at the gate. These people came to find out the news.
The conscription must be a big deal. Those who came gave affirmative answers. As for the specific number, some people speculated that it should be 200,000, and some speculated that it should be 10,000. Wang Xi looked at the data and chose it. The speculation with the largest number of individuals sent the news into the palace that night.
Su Bai looked at the dazzling one hundred thousand soldiers and horses, and was so angry that he smashed several vases in the palace.
The palace people watched him smash something, it was already forbidden by the palace at this time, and it was inconvenient to get in and out, so they just secretly kept the matter in their hearts.
When the dynasty started the next morning, everyone felt that the atmosphere was not right. Wei Lan and Xie Zichen looked at each other before turning their eyes to Su Bai.
Su Bai supported his chin and listened to the daily routine report. After the report, he said to the person below: "Done?"
Everyone looked at each other, and Su Bai smiled and held his chin: "After talking, then I will share with you an interesting story that I just learned."
Hearing this, everyone felt a little hairy in their hearts. Su Bai smiled too weirdly, his eyes were as cold as a knife. He set his gaze on Wei Lan, and said gently: "Wei Xiang, heard of your brother Wei Xiong has increased his troops in Qingzhou, can this happen?"
"Yes." As soon as Wei Lan heard this, she understood that Su Bai was coming towards her today. After leaving the queue, he respectfully said: "Wei Taishou is conscripting and training in Qingzhou to strengthen national defense."
"Wei Xiang," Su Bai stared at her, knocking on the desk and said: "Now it's not a time of war. Di Jie has made an alliance with our Da Chu again. What does Wei Taishou mean by increasing troops at this time?"
Wei Xiong's enlistment must have been meant by Wei Lan. Su Bai didn't point out Wei Lan clearly, but he brought Wei Xiong out: "Who gave the order of Wei Prefect to ask him to enlist without authorization? "
Upon hearing this, Wei Lan smiled.
As early as when he got the Sioux City army, Wei Lan knew that there would be such a day. Su Bai was jealous of her, he couldn't tolerate her rebellious courtiers like this. But in the current situation, if the Wei family doesn't have an army of its own, then Wei Lan is nothing more than a foreigner. No one knows, will Huan Heng turn around and stab her?
Moreover, the South must have a military strength that can fight against Huanheng. Today there is only one army available in the South, Wang Ning, but if Wang Ning's army is blindly developed, who can say that it is not the next Huanheng?
Wang Ning's army is not strong enough and independent. This is the basis for Xie Zichen to control Wang Ning. If Wang Ning becomes the next Huanheng, what will Xie Zichen do?
To spend so much money to raise an army, this was originally a choice that Wei Lan had no choice.
She has been careful not to let the news of Qingzhou conscripts reach Shengjing. After all, Qingzhou is remote and conscripts were often used in the past. Merchants who come and go will not talk about a sparse and common thing. In the imperial court, occasionally when she saw the official account from Qingzhou, she also deducted everything, just thinking that it would last a day, but who knew that Su Bai knew it so early.
Su Bai deliberately mentions Wei Xiong because Wei Lan is not moving. Wei Xiong is okay. If Wei Xiong recruits without authorization, he should be punished and withdrawn, but if it is ordered by the prime minister, it is different. Up.
Su Bai forced Wei Lan to pull the matter onto herself. Wei Lan sighed, and this matter is not a big deal on her head, so she said: "Shen, please calm down, this matter is ordered by the minister. Yes, it has already been reported to your Majesty. Your Majesty probably forgot."
"Oh?" Su Bai sneered: "When did you report to me?"
"When Wei Taishou took over Qingzhou, the minister told His Majesty about this."
At that time, Wei Lan and Su Bai agreed that she would come out with money, she would raise the soldiers, and she would fight, and then return them to Su Cheng in three years, and Su Cheng had no trouble with the army.
This made Su Cheng choked. He did promise Wei Lan back then, but he never thought that Wei Lan was so rich that he could raise the army for conscription!
Su Bai was itchy with hatred, and said coldly: "That's why I was surprised. At that time, Wei said to me that the army of Qingzhou is fully supported by the Changxin Hou Mansion. Now it can actually recruit 100,000 soldiers. Is there so many?!"
As soon as the words were spoken, the whole hall was full of noise.
Changxin Hou's Mansion is no more than a district, and it is completely incomparable to those first-class families. It's nothing for a first-class family to raise a mansion army. But it's just that the Changxinhou Mansion, which started with military exploits, had such a wealth of wealth, that would be abnormal.
"Wei Lan," Su Bai stood up and said angrily: "Where did your silver come from?!"
"Your Majesty, although Qingzhou conscripts, but the soldiers conscript, they are all cultivated land on weekdays, and do not need too much silver. In addition, the Weichen grandmother is good at doing business, so Changxin Hou's Mansion has spare capacity to conscript. Half farming, half soldier, so. Coming, there will be a hundred thousand troops, which is not too expensive."
"Good... good..."
Hearing these remarks, Su Bai obviously didn't believe it, and said angrily: "Come here, pull Wei Lan down, Wang Xi!"
"The minister is here." Wang Xi came out, and Su Bai raised his hand and nodded: "You will be interrogated by the Dali Temple Secretary and the third secretary of the Yushi, and thoroughly investigate the accounts of the Changxin Houfu. I want to see it. How much money does Hou Mansion have to support so many people!"
"Yes." Wang Xi took the order decisively, but the rest of them did not dare to move, and no one even dared to come up and pull Weilan down.
Wei Lan was holding the wat board, and her expression was flat: "Your Majesty is planning to copy Changxin Hou Mansion? Then dare you to ask your Majesty, what crime did the minister commit?"
Su Bai choked, Wei Lan smiled calmly: "It's just because your Majesty doesn't believe that the Longxin Hou Mansion can have so much money, so you can investigate the minister's family at will without proof. Why is he raising this army? Isn’t your majesty unclear? In order to resist Di Jie, to contain Huan Heng, and for the court of the southern aristocratic family, my Wei family paid for it to raise an army. I was so jealous that I would end up like this. I dare to ask everyone in the court today. , Dare to do anything for this court?!"
Hearing this, Su Bai's face changed. He has always paid attention to his reputation. When Wei Lan said this, it seemed that he was not the one. So he softened his face and said slowly: "Wei Aiqing need not be wronged. If Wei Aiqing is really innocent, he will not be afraid of being investigated. You will cultivate at home these few days and wait for the results of the investigation of the third division. If Wei Aiqing is innocent. Yes, I personally apologize to Wei Aiqing. If Wei Aiqing is not innocent, I believe that Wang Shangshu will give Master Wei a fair ruling."
"Heh." Wei Lan raised her chin slightly, and sneered: "If you want to add a crime, why don't you worry?"
"Wei Lan, are you questioning me?" Su Bai looked coldly.
Wei Lan sneered coldly, but turned around and left without answering Su Bai.
"Look at..." Su Bai shook his hand, pointed at Wei Lan's left back, and tremblingly said: "Look at her like this! Is she really an emperor for me?!"
No one spoke.
In the age of the emperor with the iron-struck family and flowing water, imperial power is certainly important, but when the family is humiliated, the imperial power does not seem to be so inviolable.
Everyone knows Wei Lan's character. She built such an army and paid for it herself, and her intention was very obvious. First, he wanted the Wei family to squeeze into the first-class family; second, he wanted to contain Huan Heng.
Everyone tacitly knew that they were not so sensitive to Su Bai's excitement. Whoever changed it would seem to make the same choice as Wei Lan.
Although Wei Lan's enlistment seemed to despise Sioux City, everyone knew in their hearts that the South needed an armed force that could compete with Huan.
After Wei Lan walked out of the hall, she calmed down and said directly with the ink, "Go to the palace and ask, who leaked the news."
Ran Mo also made a cold face, nodded, then turned and walked into the palace.
Wei Lan left the palace and waited for Xie Zichen in the carriage. She closed her eyes and thought about the accounts. The money was indeed from Su Cheng. She concealed the money and did not tell Su Bai. Now Su Bai is coming to check the accounts, and the expenses of the Changxinhou Mansion are only scattered to some. Wei Xiong, she had asked Wei Xiong to launder the money before using it quickly, but she didn't know whether to leave a handle. She had to go to the trial to feel at ease.
But now that the Sansi will be tried, she must be put under house arrest, and only Xie Zichen can do this.
She squinted her eyes and thought, and the ink-dyeing curtain jumped up: "My son, I'm going to ask, you can never think of who leaked the news to your majesty."
"Who?" Wei Lan opened her eyes, her eyes full of coldness. Ranmo said a name: "Xie Xue."
Wei Lan frowned. Seeing that Wei Lan had no impression, Ran Mo reminded: "It's my uncle's half-sister, and I especially admire my uncle."
Hearing this person, Wei Lan was stunned, but she was a little surprised. Then she was even more surprised: "Why would she do this?"
Obviously she and Xie Zichen have formed an alliance, and the Wei and Xie families should be one.
"The person who gave me the news said that Miss Xie came to the palace that day and told Concubine Xie for a long time whether you were wrong. You said that you stopped your uncle and prevented him from marrying a wife and having children. You killed him for the rest of his life."
"absurd!"
Wei Lan shouted angrily and wanted to curse: "Women's views." But then she remembered that this was a woman.
She suffocated and suffocated. She hadn't come into contact with this idea that would be ruined for a lifetime without a child.
She was dizzy with anger and never thought that she would capsize in the gutter and fall into the hands of such a person. She felt that her original mother was right. To be a good politician, first of all, the family must be safe.
What is it like to have a horribly stupid little sister?
Wei Lan felt it.
She resisted the urge to kill Xie Xue and waited until Xie Zichen returned. Xie Zichen came out in a hurry. Seeing the carriage from a distance, he almost ran over, jumped into the carriage in three or two steps, and said hurriedly: "What are you planning now?"
"Sucheng thirty thousand taels of silver, I will let Wei Xiong wash it off before using it. I'm afraid he will be unstable. You can help me go to Qingzhou to check it again."
"Okay." Xie Zichenguo broke, Wei Lan finished talking about the business, and said coldly: "Before you go to Qingzhou, take care of another matter for me."
"Huh?" Xie Zichen was a little puzzled, Wei Lan hooked her mouth: "Today's matter was reported by your good sister Xie Xue. Xie Zichen, if you don't clean up your family, don't blame me for doing it yourself. ."
Xie Zichen looked terrified, and heard Wei Lan say: "Give them face, I'm afraid I will die in their hands sooner or later!"
"No." Xie Zichenguo cut his mouth and said coldly: "Let's go back to the Hou Mansion first. I'll go to Xie's house."
After speaking, Xie Zichen jumped out of the carriage and left.
Wei Lan closed her eyes and dyed ink through the curtain of the car and said, "My son, isn't your majesty going to put you under house arrest? Why don't you send someone now..."
"Who dares to come?"
Wei Lan sneered: "I want to see, who would dare to come under house arrest? Is it Wang Xi, Xie Zichen's master Wang Nan, or the Dali Siqing I pulled up with one hand?!"
Wei Lan opened his eyes and said angrily: "He Su Bai wants to fight with me, okay, I want to see, how can he turn this yellow-mouthed kid on this day!"
Ran Mo listened, silently.
She really wants to remind her master, son, you are only in your early twenties?
The author has something to say:
【small theater】
Mo Shubai: "Wei Lan, why don't you want to be the emperor?"
Wei Lan: "What do you think is the most dangerous profession in the world?"
Mo Shubai: "The glass-cleaner of tall buildings?"
Wei Lan: "What is that?"
Mo Shubai: "Oh, this is not important, what do you think it is?"
Wei Lan: "You know that in more than 30 years of political career, there have been five emperors, three Liang, two Da Chu, and there will be a sixth. Do you think the emperor is dangerous?"
Mo Shubai: "Danger..."
Wei Lan: "I can't afford to sit on such a dangerous profession... Whoever loves to do it, I just want to be a prime minister for the country and the people quietly."
With that, Wei Lan raised her hand and pulled her hair behind her ear: "It's cold, it's time to change the emperor."
Mo Shubai: "..."
Don't pretend to be forced, please, don't pretend to be forced!