Chapter 37: Trouble in the Imperial Capital

Thousands of miles away from the East China Sea, on a seabed plain more than ten miles deep, there is a magnificent city. The city is ten miles wide, completely surrounded by a dome, and there is not a drop of water in the city. But there is a strong aura of sunflower water in the city, which makes the life of the sea people carefree.

The city is as bright as daylight and full of tourists, but these "people" are all weird, such as turtles that can walk on two legs, Yakshas that patrol the sea with a height of three feet, clam girls with pearls on their heads, mermaids with fishtails and human bodies, and only one. A jellyfish with a head like a wandering ghost...

Anyway, it's just weird.

In the center of the city, there is a resplendent and resplendent palace covering an area of ​​about three miles, with the inscription "Yingzhou Donghai Dragon King's Mansion".

At the gate of the Dragon King's Mansion, a charming mermaid girl kept wagging her tail and jumping around, "Why don't you come back, why don't you come back, the princess is waiting impatiently. This Wei Zhe has never been late before; Once it was a quarter late.

Have you encountered any problems? "

Just when the mermaid girl was anxious, there was a mess of footsteps in the distance, and then Wei Zhe was seen leading the way, followed by the shrimp soldiers and crab generals busy clumsily.

"So many boxes?" The mermaid girl exclaimed, "1, 2, 3... 1421 boxes! How could there be so many? Wei Zhe, you didn't mean to rob that Li Xian?"

Wei Zhe smiled and said, "Zhu'er was joking, how dare you rob on land. These are all New Year's gifts from Li Xian to Her Royal Highness the Princess."

"A gift? Then carry it to the main hall quickly, the princess is waiting impatiently." The mermaid girl Zhu'er swam towards the Dragon King's Mansion with her tail flicking.

Wei Zhe took the lead, and a group of shrimp soldiers and crabs laboriously carried the more than 1,400 boxes and five three-foot-long tridents inside.

After walking not too far to the front hall, Princess Ao Qingxue was already in a hurry; after the deal with Li Xian, Her Highness the Princess has tasted the sweetness. But the previous transaction was only a small transaction, but this time, there are 1 million jin of stainless steel weapons!

"Princess, princess, Li Xian gave you a New Year's gift." Zhu'er bounced and came to Ao Qingxue—it seemed that there was only one fish tail, and she couldn't do without bouncing.

"Yeah, what did you send?"

Wei Zhe has already led the way, "Your Highness, Li Xian asked me to say hello to you. In addition, Li Xian sent a lot of New Year's gifts."

And Wei Zhe waved his hand, and the shrimp soldiers and crab generals hurriedly opened the box. Exquisite and different styles of mirrors, crystal clear glass containers with many bright colors, and glass balls one meter in size attracted the attention immediately. It caught the eyes of all the Sea Clan in the front hall.

When the stainless steel weapon, which was brighter than a mirror, was displayed, many guards couldn't take their eyes off it.

"Wow, so many babies!"

A cry of exclamation came from the apse, a blue dragon flew over, and a spell swept all the objects on the ground.

"How dare you!" Ao Qingxue was furious, and with a wave of her hand, a water cloud sleeve flew out and grabbed the blue dragon in the sky.

"Sister, beautiful elder sister, beautiful elder sister, generous elder sister, you should take pity on my little brother, the only poor people in my place are rusty scrap iron."

"Xiaohan, be good, my father said that the boy must be raised poorly, so that he can become a hero who stands up to heaven and earth." Ao Qingxue tapped the blue dragon's eyebrows, bound the blue dragon and threw it aside.

"I do not want."

"You're a boy, how can you be so lacking in ambition. How about it, my sister has a few broken mirrors and I'll give them to you. Isn't my sister generous enough?"

"Sister, you are really generous, I am so touched. But..."

"It's nothing 'but', let's go." Ao Qingxue threw the blue dragon aside, restored her serious face, and looked at a Yaksha patrolling the sea beside her, "Ye Li, how about trying that trident?"

"Yes!" This night, Ye Li's eyes were already bright; as soon as he grabbed the trident, he was about to dance wildly, but in the end he slipped away!

Plop! The trident flew more than ten feet and plunged into the city wall, causing the entire city wall to shake.

Wei Zhe's face was pale, and the three souls and seven souls almost went on strike, the trident flew over Wei Zhe's head just now.

"This... Your Royal Highness, I'm guilty!" Xunhai Yacha Yasha knelt down tremblingly, but luckily he didn't fly towards the princess just now.

Ao Qingxue is a princess after all, suppressing her anger, "Why?!"

"Too... too... slippery... can't hold it."

The trident was originally as smooth as a mirror, but when it entered the sea and condensed a layer of fine, imperceptible water droplets, it was even more slippery.

Ao Qingxue stepped forward to look at the trident, she frowned beautifully, but the corners of her mouth were upturned, she was not just angry or funny, "Wei Zhe, the hilt of this knife is engraved with patterns, why is there no pattern on the trident?"

Wei Zhe is still trembling now, "Princess...Princess...then Li Xian said that he didn't know the habit of Yasha, so he didn't engrave the lines."

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When the Hai Clan was making jokes, the Emperor of Great Xia was also not calm. It's the Chinese New Year, officials and princes are coming back, the name is: report on work; one can imagine the excitement of the imperial capital.

Those who ran away from relationships, scolded, clashed, and made small reports were continuous.

But there were two most serious incidents, one was not directly related to Li Xian, but had a serious impact, and the other was personally led by Li Xian.

The first thing is that because the emperor of the Great Xia Kingdom doted on Concubine Hua, he decided to remove the youngest son of Concubine Lihua who had just turned ten years old as the crown prince, and removed the original crown prince. I don't know how much political turmoil this incident will cause.

Every act of abolishing the elders and erecting the younger may lead to the subjugation of the country. But this time, it naturally caused a huge shock in the political situation of the Great Xia Kingdom.

And Li Xian's second elder brother, Li Wei, was serving as a general next to the eldest prince, the prince whose position was in jeopardy.

To be precise, Li Yulong supported the current crown prince; so although this incident had no direct relationship with Li Xian, it had an extremely serious impact.

The second thing is the problem of cloth.

After Li Xian adopted the concept of hunger marketing, of course he was happy; but after being happy, the consequences were also very serious!

The Caiyi Cloth Store affiliated to the Brilliant Star Trading Company sells more than a thousand pieces of cloth at a low price every day, and it continues every day, which leads to a phenomenon-people would rather go to the Caiyi Trading Company to wait in line than go to other cloth stores to buy cloth.

The result is that other cloth shops can hardly sell cloth, and both the Wang family's cloth shop and other cloth shops have been severely impacted.

In this way, it will inevitably affect people's livelihood, commerce, and the stability of the imperial capital. The Wang family finally made a counterattack against this, and jointly signed a letter with many cloth merchants, requesting the emperor to punish the Caiyi cloth business—it is a disaster for the people's livelihood, and must be sanctioned. He even said that the price of cloth is so low that investigation must be done!

As for the Wang family's proposal, Prime Minister Ouyang Wubing also fully agreed, and even took the initiative to write a letter stating that this matter must be investigated.

But the Li family, the Yuan family, the Shangguan family, the Zhang family and related personnel made a sharp counterattack-we call it Yimin.

For a while, everyone was in a mess. The emperor gave an order, "Stop arguing, all officials come to the court to discuss."