The palace is the place where power is most concentrated in the world. It is also the most snobbish and the most oppressive place in the world.
The emperor just asked Qiao Gui to rest and did not convict him of any crime. However, everyone in the palace tried to guess the emperor's intentions from his behavior and understood many different meanings.
When a factory manager falls, who wouldn’t want to take advantage of the situation, swoop in, win his heart, and become the next factory manager?
All the evil spirits in the palace were pursuing profit, and each one acted according to his own ability, so Qiao Gui's life became difficult.
In the following days, news kept coming from the palace that the factory manager had lost power, was being pushed down by everyone, and was having a miserable life, and was about to die.
Qiao Gui had his job taken away and was injured. He used to be the center of attention, but now he is miserable. Only Xue Yu is left by his side, and sometimes he can't even get a hot meal.
Even Captain Zhu, seeing this, secretly came to ask Su Fengyi for instructions, eager to try:
"Your Highness, would you like me to add fuel to the fire? Take advantage of the situation to get rid of him?"
Su Fengyi stopped him:
"No, on the contrary, you should help him secretly so that he will remember your loyalty and kindness."
Captain Zhu was still unwilling to accept this:
"Your Highness, I really don't understand. He has already fallen, why do you still want to help him?"
When people are blinded by appearances, they are always blind and impatient, and Captain Zhu is no exception.
Su Fengyi reminded him:
"If you don't want to die, don't join in the fun.
Qin Hui still has a few good friends. The factory owner has been entrenched in the palace for many years and has deep roots. Now there is not even one person who supports him and speaks for him?
If you think about it, why is this?
It can only be that Qiao Gui did it intentionally and deliberately asked them not to speak to create this situation.
Whether the factory falls or not does not depend on you or me, but on the emperor.
As long as the emperor still has him in his heart, he will not fall. Everything he is doing now is just a self-torture trick he is playing to make the emperor pity him.
If you jump out now, when Qiao Gui turns over and settles the old accounts, what will you do then, Captain Zhu? What about your wife and daughter at home?"
After hearing this, Captain Zhu was so frightened that he broke out in a cold sweat. He was glad that he had come to ask the princess for instructions, otherwise he would not even know how he died this time.
Captain Zhu thanked the princess profusely and left the princess's mansion. That evening he arranged for the imperial kitchen to secretly deliver food and medicine to the factory manager at his own expense.
Su Fengyi judged that with Qiao Gui's ability, it was only a matter of time for him to regain favor.
The border trade issue must be settled as soon as possible during this period of silence, the policy must be finalized, and the imperial edict must be issued to prevent Qiao Gui from making a comeback and causing trouble.
Therefore, Su Fengyi only gave Pei Yu half a month.
Su Fengyi asked Pei Yu:
"Within half a month, come up with a feasible plan and submit it to the emperor. Sir Pei, are you sure?"
The time is very tight. Su Fengyi originally wanted to add one more sentence, even if it is not possible, just try your best to avoid putting too much pressure on Lord Pei.
As a result, Lord Pei had no pressure at all and even took out a memorial on the spot:
"Pei Yu has written a memorial regarding border trade. Your Highness, please take a look at it first."
It took such a short time and it was already written?
Su Fengyi took it with surprise, and the more she looked at it, the more surprised she became.
Based on her years of experience in preparing reporting materials for migrant workers, she knew that Lord Pei's report had clear arguments, rich evidence, and detailed data. Such high-level reporting materials could not be produced in just a few days.
Su Fengyi smiled and said:
"Great minds think alike. It turns out that Lord Pei has been planning border trade for a long time."
Pei Yu sighed as if he was reminiscing about the past:
“To be honest with you, Your Highness, this is not just Pei, this is something that all the Pei family heads of previous generations have wanted to do but have failed to accomplish.
When Taizu and the late emperor were in power, the Pei family had submitted petitions to open border trade, but the time was not right at that time, so Taizu and the late emperor kept the petitions and nothing came of it.
Now the time is finally ripe. I hope that what all the previous heads of the Pei family have failed to accomplish can be accomplished by Pei. "
If two countries want to start border trade, first of all, both sides must reach a peaceful situation. Otherwise, why spend money to buy when the other party can just rob?
At the beginning of the founding of the country, the Northern Tartars were strong in both military and military power, and were eyeing the Great Mu covetously.
Taizu gained the world by force, and his strategy towards the northern barbarians was to end the war with war.
Taizu made six northern expeditions, and General Shen made a heroic feat of running thousands of miles to capture the enemy's leader, which severely damaged the Northern Tartars' vitality.
After the late emperor ascended the throne, he rested and recuperated at home, and tried to sow discord among the Northern Tartars, causing the Northern Tartars to fight among themselves. The Northern Tartars were divided into pieces, and their strength was not as good as before.
Thanks to the efforts of Taizu and the previous emperor, and the death of the little prince of the Northern Tartars, the strength of the Northern Tartars has been continuously weakened. Now, it is possible for Su Fengyi to start border trade. This is what Pei Yu called the time is ripe.
The Pei family had been thinking about this matter for so many years, so the memorial they wrote was naturally good, but in Su Fengyi's opinion, it was not enough.
Although the Pei family is a noble family, they have never personally fought for the world, so they still think like landlords rather than monarchs.
The landlord’s mindset is to have more land, more food, more silver, and the more material possessions the better.
As for the monarch, what is deeply engraved in the bones of every monarch is that I am the best in the world and anyone who dares to threaten me will die.
The monarch's first priority is always to eliminate all threats to imperial power, no matter what means are used.
The goal is to be the most powerful person in the world, and all material possessions are necessary in the process of achieving the goal.
Money is important, but not the most important thing.
Su Fengyi returned the letter to Pei Yu:
"Master Pei, the conditions for the Northern Tartar merchants to come to my border to do business are wrong. You can reconsider and recalculate them."
Pei Yu was very stunned. He could conclude that every number on the memorial had been carefully calculated by successive masters of the Pei family and there was no way it could have been wrong.
Moreover, the princess only took a quick look. Unless she had calculated it herself, it would be impossible for her to tell right from wrong at a glance.
So what is wrong is not the number, nor how much silver the court needs to collect when the Northern Barbarians come to our Great Mu Dynasty to do business, but the silver itself has problems.
Pei Yu looked at Su Fengyi and pondered in his heart, "Why must His Highness open border trade? If it's not for money, then what is His Highness seeking from the Northern Tartars?"
Seeing his puzzled expression, Su Fengyi asked:
"Master Pei, what do you think is the biggest reliance of the Northern Barbarians in fighting?"
After hearing this, Pei Yu thought about it from Taizu, the late emperor, to the eldest princess, in order. Suppose Taizu, the late emperor, and the eldest princess all did the same thing?
what is that?
That is, weaken the Northern Tartars! Eliminate the threat!
Be it the use of force, alienation, or border trade, three generations of royal families are all working for the same thing!
Pei Yu suddenly opened up the situation and said with a smile:
"I see, your highness is right! Of course, Pei is wrong!"
In the evening, Pei Yu submitted another memorial to Su Fengyi. It was written in such a short time, so it was naturally simple and crude compared to the previous one, but Su Fengyi was extremely satisfied.
In Pei Yu's memorial, he wrote that the only condition for the Northern Tartars to do border business was to exchange for horses.
The Northern Tartar Cavalry was very famous, but the eldest princess wanted to use border trade to destroy the Northern Tartar Cavalry's foundation and drain its assets.
The Northern Tartar war horses are the eldest princess's ultimate goal.
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