After rebirth, the empress was spoiled by the emperor's uncle like a little girl

Xie Wuai understood immediately and asked, "Sister, do you want to do business?"

After a pause, Xie Wuai frowned again in confusion, "But sister, you have to be busy with the affairs of the Eastern Palace all day long, so how can you have the time to worry about business operations?"

A Bao asked Xie Wuai to come over.

She whispered mysteriously in his ear, in a voice that only the two siblings could hear: "Zhao Chuan Ce."

The Zhao family, the King of Zhenxi, is quite legendary.

A hundred years ago, the first King of Zhenxi was just a wealthy businessman in Western Xinjiang.

It happened that the Mo tribe in Western Xinjiang was in rebellion that year. Da Qi's Zhenxi Army arrived at the border of Western Xinjiang, but found that the Mo tribe was good at taking advantage of the complex terrain of mountain streams and steep mountains, as well as the invisible miasma in the forest that could kill people.

In that battle, Daqi's Zhenxi Army suffered repeated defeats and was on the verge of losing.

The local nobles in Western Xinjiang all stayed indoors, waiting for the final life-and-death battle before deciding whether to join the Daqi or Mo tribe.

But the Zhao family is the only exception.

A hundred years ago, this ancestor of the Zhao family sold all his property to raise food, fodder, and horses as supplies for the Zhenxi Army, and secretly recruited many local people who were familiar with the rugged terrain of the western border.

After Old Marquis Xie led the Zhenxi army to quell the rebellion of the Mo tribe, the wealthy businessman Zhao Jia, who had provided great assistance, suddenly became the Zhenxi King appointed by the Emperor of Daqi.

Although, in the following hundred years, the tiger talisman of the Zhenxi Army fell into the hands of the Xie family.

But, the kings of Zhenxi in all generations didn’t care.

The King of Zhenxi is more like an imperial merchant with a throne in the Western Frontier of Daqi.

Thanks to the business management skills of King Zhao of Zhenxi, the Zhao family became more and more wealthy. This imperial merchant of Daqi in the western border could add huge profits to the national treasury every year.

During the East Palace election in his previous life, Abao knew it very well.

If she had not been canonized as the crown prince of the Eastern Palace, according to the old emperor's plan, when she left the palace to build her own residence, the best choice for a prince consort would not be Xie Wuai, but Zhao Chuan Ce.

In Western Xinjiang, the Xiehou Mansion and the Zhaowang Mansion compete with each other and maintain a delicate balance of power.

The old emperor was very good at weighing things.

The Xie Marquis Mansion already has Princess Huimin of the Xuanyuan clan and hundreds of thousands of brave and battle-hardened Zhenxi Army. If there is another Princess Diyang, the balance of the western border will be disrupted.

However, if Abao married Zhao Chuanze, it would be equivalent to entering the Prince of Zhenxi's Palace.

The Xie family has a princess, and the Zhao family also has a princess.

This delicate balance in the western border will surely continue for another 40 to 50 years.

So at the beginning of his previous life, Abao was always on guard against Zhao Chuan Ce.

But in their later interactions, Zhao Chuan Ce showed a pure heart.

It's always written on his face that I can't hide anything.

Moreover, he has no greed or ambition and is very content. Even if it is just a small thing, he can be happy for a long time.

At the beginning, A Bao really liked being with Zhao Chuan Ce. In her previous life, she had spent several years trying to open up a trade route, and she had discussed it with Zhao Chuan Ce.

Zhao Chuan Ce really loves doing business. After listening to her talk about the golden trade route from the imperial capital to Qingzhou and then expanding to the entire western border, Zhao Chuan Ce stayed up for two nights and wrote down their ideas and plans for this golden trade route into 13 volumes of "Records of Commercial Goods".

Originally, everything was moving in the right direction.

But that was the seventh year since Zhao Chuance entered the palace, the night she first brought osmanthus wine into the Minguang Palace.

Zhao Chuance was drunk.

He said that his father, the King of Zhenxi Zhao, had actually figured out the old emperor's plan long ago. His father saw things more clearly than the ancestors of the Zhao family. Since he was a child, his father had instilled in him the idea that he would be the princess's consort in the future.

He also talked about when he was young. Although he could only see her briefly at the banquet in the Summer Palace every year, she always followed King Feng Ran around and never even looked at him.

But he grew up listening to the words of "Princess and Prince Consort" and he actually believed in his heart that -

He wants to marry Princess Abao.

A Bao believed that what Zhao Chuan Ce said was true.

But she also felt that Zhao Chuan Ce was just misled by the words that King Zhao had instilled in him.

However, before she could explain it to him clearly, he hugged her for the first time.

In front of her, Zhao Chuan Ce has always been unreserved.

He said, if Princess Abao, you were not the crown prince of the Eastern Palace, I would not be one of your many concubines, but your only consort.

Zhao Chuan Ce didn't say anything more.

He pretended to be drunk and fell into a deep sleep; and she pretended that she had never heard those words.

In the seventh year of her reign, during the tribute ceremony on the 18th day of the first lunar month, it was discovered that King Zhao of Zhenxi had secretly traded with the Mo people in Western Xinjiang, selling horses and food.

The evidence presented by the Western Xinjiang Censor included secret letters between the Prince of Zhao who guards the west and the old chief of the Mo tribe, as well as detailed records of transactions between the Prince of Zhao's palace and the Western Xinjiang Mo tribe over the past decade. The records included what type of horses were traded, how many there were, their quality, and where the transactions took place.

Horses are military equipment, and Daqi has extremely strict management over the sale of horses.

What's more, the war horses trained in the horse farm of King Zhao of Zhenxi were directly supplied to the Zhenxi Army.

The King of Zhenxi's behavior was tantamount to treason and collaborating with the enemy, a serious crime punishable by the execution of nine generations of his clan.

Not only that, the newly married concubine of King Zhao of Zhenxi came forward as a witness to make the accusation.

There are both witnesses and evidence, and the evidence is conclusive.

At that time, A Bao remembered that Xie Wuai died at the hands of the Xisai barbarians, that is, the assassins of the Mo tribe in Western Xinjiang.

A Bao was furious and ordered the execution of the entire family of King Zhao of Zhenxi.

But after paying homage to Wu Ai, Po calmed down and felt that something was fishy.

Before the entire Zhao family was executed, A Bao went to the West Prison to meet Zhao Chuan Ce.

Zhao Chuance swore on the thirteen volumes of "Records of Commercial Goods" that the Zhao Palace would never do anything to collaborate with the enemy or sell out the country.