The husband who forced her to marry her couldn't keep her warm, and she didn't want him to

It was freezing cold outside, but warm as spring inside, with a faint scent of ambergris in the air.

The huge temperature difference makes one's scalp tighten.

After Jiang Nansheng entered the Southern Study, he saw Emperor Jianyun sitting behind a long desk. Sitting on the official hat chairs on both sides below him was the Minister of Revenue Fu Chi.

Jiang Nansheng bowed respectfully and then stood up.

Emperor Jianyuan looked at him and nodded slightly, then asked someone to serve tea to Jiang Nansheng. He turned to look at the Minister of Revenue Fu Chi and said with a smile:

"Minister Fu, the national treasury has been full recently, and Nan Sheng's contribution is indispensable!"

Upon hearing this, Fu Chi quickly put down the teacup in his hand, and said in compliment, "Sir Jiang is indeed from the Duke of Dingguo's Mansion. He has the uprightness and decisiveness of the Duke of Dingguo, and the respect for etiquette and law of the Dean Chang. He is a role model for the younger generation in the court!"

Jiang Nansheng, the Shaoqing of the Dali Temple, is not only a role model for the younger generation, but also a figure that makes old ministers like them retreat.

Hearing this, Jiang Nansheng stood up and bowed again, saying, "These are what I should do."

Emperor Jianyuan stroked his beard lightly, with a hint of admiration in his eyes.

The reason why the emperor mentioned that the treasury was full was because when the Dali Temple retried the Shen family case, all the officials implicated were raided by Jiang Nansheng and his men.

Among them were the former Right Vice Minister of the Ministry of Revenue Cao Heng and Grand Tutor Gao Tai.

The properties of these people were confiscated and put into the national treasury. In addition, the donations from the Zhou family, the maternal family of Concubine Jing, greatly expanded the national treasury storage.

Jiang Nansheng was like the sharpest blade held in the palm of Emperor Jianyuan's hand. He charged forward bravely and ruthlessly eradicated those corrupt officials in the court.

However, this move also made Jiang Nansheng many enemies in the previous dynasty.

The Dali Temple Minister was seriously ill and unable to handle affairs personally, so the case files he was responsible for investigating and handling were handed over to Jiang Nansheng, who presented them to the Nan Study.

The Minister of Revenue accompanied Emperor Jianyuan. After the Ministry of War and the Cabinet came over, they discussed matters such as military pay and supplies, which was naturally not suitable for Jiang Nansheng to hear.

Before he had time to completely leave the Southern Study, the Vice Minister of the Ministry of War, who had been summoned, hurried in with big strides.

Upon seeing Emperor Jianyuan, the Minister of War immediately knelt on the ground and spoke with a heart full of grievances:

"Your Majesty, please do this for me! Princess Yongle abandoned me after having an affair with me, playing with other people's feelings... causing my youngest son to become the object of everyone's ridicule..."

Behind him, the Minister of War was making tearful accusations, but Jiang Nansheng did not pause at all.

After coming out of Qianqing Gate and boarding his own carriage with green curtains, He Youcai said softly, "The Second Prince seems to be dissatisfied with Chen Zhengde, and even the superficial efforts are almost difficult to maintain."

Jiang Nansheng took a sip from the teacup and whispered, "I also want to thank Imperial Concubine Chen. If it weren't for her, Huang Tong wouldn't be someone the emperor trusts."

Emperor Jianyuan was the eighth son of the late emperor. His mother was just a little palace maid. After one night of favor, she became pregnant with the emperor's fetus.

The mother and son had no maternal family to rely on, and Emperor Jianyuan suffered a lot in his childhood. Therefore, he studied very hard, hoping that one day he would be favored by the late emperor.

The thing that this harem of flowers and splendours lacks the most is beauties. Princes and princesses are born one after another, and it is not easy to stand out among so many princes.

In order to win in this fiercely competitive environment, two prerequisites must be met: one is to have a strong maternal family in the former dynasty and the harem as a backing; the other is to have a mother who is good at pleasing the emperor and is good at networking to maintain one's image and status.

However, Emperor Jianyuan at that time did not have any of the prerequisites.

After the crown prince of the previous dynasty was deposed many times, the issue of establishing a crown prince became the focus of the previous dynasty and the harem, and various forces launched a fierce competition over this matter.

At this time, Emperor Jianyuan was already over 20 years old, just like a breeze, his youthful face vaguely revealed a transcendental temperament, and he appeared in front of the previous dynasty and the former emperor.

Later, he got to know the concubine's daughter from the side branch of the Duke of Pei. At that time, due to the death of the Duke of Pei, the Cao family had lost its value to several princes.

Emperor Jianyuan, the eighth prince, happily married the current Empress Cao, a move that only made the late emperor look at him with admiration.

The step that brought him a big step closer to the throne, and was also a key step towards the throne, was that he married the legitimate daughter of the Chen family as his concubine.

At that time, Imperial Concubine Chen could have become the principal wife of any prince, but unfortunately, all the adult princes had already found marriage partners.

Therefore, rather than saying that Your Majesty was the biggest winner in the fight for the throne, it would be better to say that it was the Cao family and the Chen family at that time who silently supported and helped behind the scenes that enabled Your Majesty to successfully ascend to that supreme position.

What helped him to secure his throne was that after he ascended the throne, he took the youngest daughter of Duke Dingguo into the harem, who was the eldest princess's biological mother, Concubine Shu.

Jiang Nansheng secretly guessed that perhaps it was because the emperor had experienced many hardships in his early years that he deeply realized that in order to climb to that position he had to step on the corpses of many people.

He planned all this for his beloved son with his exhausted body.

I just don't know if the prince who is living among the people can become the one entrusted by the emperor to rule the country...

……

When Gu Jinchu returned to Duke Dingguo's Mansion, snowflakes were falling from the sky, covering the garden in the courtyard with a layer of white, like a beautiful painting in winter.

When we reached Miaoyin Hall in the center of the lake, we saw servants walking back and forth in a hurry in the pavilion and corridors not far away.

They were too far away, and snowflakes kept falling. For a moment, it was impossible to tell which courtyard the servants were from, or why so many people were mobilized.

Bai Shao supported Gu Jinchu and asked softly beside her, "Madam, do you want me to go over and take a look?"

Gu Jinchu shook his head. “If it was about Yuanyuan Hall, Mother Cheng should have come out to greet them long ago.”

Sometimes knowing too much can hurt the relationship between each other.

When they returned to Yuanyuan Hall, Mother Cheng came over from the veranda and whispered in Gu Jinchu's ear, "Madam, the Ninth Young Master is missing. Now the people from Songtao Garden are searching everywhere in the mansion and are almost going crazy."